Molested Zulong at the beginning

Just now she saw that this thing was a bit like salt, but she didn't think about it.

Even the tribute fine salt from Qidi is mostly blue in color, and the grains are not so fine, but the salty taste in her mouth now really tells her that this thing is salt.

But how can salt be so white and so delicate?

Bai Su looked at Sister Zheng's surprised eyes, and explained with a smile: "Your Majesty, it's fine salt, but it doesn't come from Qidi, but from Xianyang. I fiddled with it..."

He took a deep breath and explained how he purified coarse salt into fine salt.

Sister Zheng couldn't believe it when she heard it for the first time. After all, the price difference between coarse salt and fine salt can be said to be one sky, one underground, and they are not the same thing at all.

If someone can turn the cheap coarse salt into fine salt, what is the difference between finding an inexhaustible gold mountain.

But when she thought that this person was Bai Su, she wasn't too surprised.

After all, Bai Su brought her too many surprises on weekdays.

Compared with the old days of reaching out to pick up the stars and riding the clouds to the sky, this thing is really nothing.

A gleam flashed in Sister Zheng's phoenix eyes, and she asked, "What's the cost?"

Bai Su replied with a smile: "The cost is almost negligible."

After listening to Bai Su's words, even the usually calm and calm Zheng Jie's heart couldn't help beating at this moment.

She glanced at the unremarkable salt in her hand. The originally inconspicuous thing seemed to have instantly become a priceless national treasure, which made her very hot.

If silk and tea are hard currencies that can fill the national treasury and benefit the people's livelihood, then bronze, iron smelting, and salt are the foundation of the country.

In order to ensure long-term peace and stability in the world, in addition to unifying the writing, weights and measures, and county and county systems, all the things of people's livelihood in the world should be brought back to the imperial court for unified control.

At the beginning, she wanted to do it, but she was powerless.

After all, the world has just been unified. Just stabilizing counties and counties, unifying the language, building infrastructure in various places, building the Great Wall, and dealing with the Xiongnu and Baiyue are enough to exhaust her, and she has no energy to take care of these.

Because she collected all the soldiers of the world in Xianyang, the imperial court had a monopoly position in bronze and ironware, but it relaxed a little bit in the management of salt.

Therefore, most of these salt ponds are controlled by the nobles of the six countries, especially the Tian family of Qi State.

In the beginning, sister Zheng gave them all the business of the salt merchants in order to show that they surrendered the city. Although the later sister Zheng was greedy for Tian's income, she couldn't find an excuse for a while.

After all, there are quite a few people from the six kingdoms in the court. If Tian's family is rich, they will do something to the meritorious officials who have rewarded them, what will many ministers in the court think.

Coupled with Tian's fine salt management, keeping them alive would do more good to Daxia than harm, so Sister Zheng has been slow to do anything.

But now that Bai Su actually found a way to purify fine salt better than Tian's from coarse salt, then the value of Qi Guotian's status in the mind of Zheng Jie dropped rapidly.

After the harm this brought outweighed the value, the Tian family in Qi State naturally had no meaning of existence.

Sister Zheng played with the things in her hands and said with a smile: "Your small handful of salt is enough to make those people panic."

Bai Su said: "This salt and iron have been the lifeblood of the country since ancient times. At the beginning, His Majesty had no choice but to temporarily hand over the salt business to them."

"Now that the imperial court is becoming more and more stable, with enough energy to turn around, these people don't want to be a man with their tails tucked up, but one by one relying on the huge profits brought by monopoly business, they are extravagant and extremely arrogant."

"There are even some people who disrupt people's livelihood, drive up prices, intend to join forces with the thieves from the six countries, and fund and plan illegal things."

"The power of such an important thing, which can be called a divine tool, is not suitable for private control. It is only suitable to be held in the hands of the court."

Bai Su talked eloquently, and Sister Zheng nodded lightly.

Of course she knew what Bai Su meant, this salt is so profitable, and it is a thing of people's livelihood, if you are not careful, it will easily cause troubles in the world, and with such an important material, it is also with some remnants of the Six Kingdoms who intend to overthrow the Great Xia, flirt.

If this continues to stay, no matter how you look at it, it will be a disaster.

Sister Zheng's slender eyebrows frowned slightly, and she looked at Bai Su with her phoenix eyes: "What are you going to do, this Tian family is not a fool, let alone whether you can catch them, even if you do, I'm afraid it won't help."

"This group of aristocratic families has been planning to divide their bets since ancient times. Even if you get caught with some crimes in the end, I'm afraid it's just a matter of individual family members."

"As long as they quickly part with these scapegoats, they can still get away with it."

"I'm afraid it's difficult to beat them to death all at once."

"Besides, I can't help you on the face of it. When the Qi State surrendered to Xianyang, I made a promise to them, and I openly regretted it."

Hearing this, Bai Su couldn't help smiling.

He said: "Leave this to me. Let alone they have done a lot themselves. It is not difficult to collect evidence for things that are outraged."

"Even if they didn't do anything wrong, I can still cover them with a big hat and let them throw mud into their crotches. It's either shit or shit."

"It's fine if one of us sings a bad face and the other sings a red face. Your Majesty just needs to pretend that you don't know anything, scold me with righteous indignation, and help Qi Guotian to speak. In the end, under the evidence I presented one after another, he sighed helplessly. Can."

"In this way, the ministers from the six countries in the court will not have any opinions on His Majesty. Even if they are annoyed, they are annoyed by me, and they will not think of His Majesty."

Sister Zheng's slender eyebrows frowned slightly: "But this way, isn't it too wronged for you."

Bai Su couldn't help laughing and said: "When did I care about other people's thoughts? As long as His Majesty has me in his heart, that's enough. At worst, I will be demoted, resigned from the position of Daliang Zao, and sent to the remote Western Regions for a period of time. as punishment."

"Firstly, it can calm down the resentment of those who are close friends with the Qi Guotian family. Secondly, I can also travel around at public expense and go to the Western Regions to learn about the situation."

"After all, as the caravans from the Western Regions set off for the Maurya Dynasty one after another, many aspects need to be prepared slowly."

Sister Zheng stroked her clean chin, and gave Bai Su a weird look with her phoenix eyes: "You care so much for me, it was touching at first hearing, but after careful consideration, why do you feel that it is fake for you to share my worries? , go to the Yuezhi Country in the Western Regions, and see the daughter of that foreign land is true."

"I heard that Queen Yueshi has a close relationship with you..."

Facing Sister Zheng's gaze, the smile on Bai Su's face was slightly stiff.

He coughed lightly: "Ahem, your majesty, how can you defile someone's innocence out of thin air."

But this voice sounded guilty for a while.

Chapter 290 Three, Your Excellency Hasn't Forgot Me

Sister Zheng stared closely at Bai Su's with her phoenix eyes, watching him sweat profusely.

Her vermilion lips couldn't help but slightly curled up: "I just asked this casually, why are you so afraid?"

Bai Su's expression turned strange: "That...that..."

Sister Zheng waved her hand lightly, interrupting Bai Su's speech: "Okay, there is no need to say more polite words. I still don't know about you, a courtier."

"Gold and silver things will not shake your mind, and fame, fortune and status will not affect your thoughts, but in terms of beauty, it is not necessarily the case."

"In the face of a beautiful woman with outstanding charm, come to sweep the couch to greet her, with your character of a courtier, how can you be indifferent."

Bai Su scratched his cheek with his fingers, looking a little embarrassed.

After all, everyone has their own weaknesses, and it's a bit overwhelming to test him with beauty.

Sister Zheng sighed slightly: "If you really had no desires, I wouldn't dare to use you. It was because of your obvious weaknesses that I trusted you so much in the first place."

The thoughts in her mind at this moment are very complicated.

If it is a subject who has no desires and is comparable to a saint, or has great ambitions, and wants to become a subject like Lu Buwei who has all the power.

She didn't dare to trust easily and give him a lot of attention.

Only a lustful person like Bai Su who has absolutely no thought about the throne can put her mind and body at ease and completely trust her.

But here comes the problem, since Bai Su is a womanizer, she must be outside, and it is easy to hook up with other women, which makes her feel a little uncomfortable.

Bai Su coughed lightly, and said with a straight face: "Weak water is three thousand, I will take a scoop straight away, prosperous three thousand, I will drink all the joys and sorrows for one person..."

"How can I believe your mouth?"

Sister Zheng rolled her eyes involuntarily, and her white jade hands raised the black hair between her eyebrows, but the corners of her lips could not help but curl up slightly.

Even though she knew that Bai Su was talking nonsense, she still couldn't help but feel happy in her heart.

She coughed lightly, suppressed the smile on her face, and looked at Bai Su with her phoenix eyes: "The matter of the Qi Guotian family is left to you, be careful..."

Bai Su responded, "I...take orders."

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Xianyang, Xicheng.

In the Zhangfu.

As a rookie of today's younger generation, Zhang Han has already been appointed as a lieutenant at a young age, and is responsible for the defense and safety of the capital. He is young and promising.

At her age, there are only a handful of people in Xianyang who can sit in this position.

If it were someone else, he would definitely decorate his mansion magnificently.

Even if it is not carved with painted columns, at least it is extravagant.

After all, isn't this young and vigorous, is it still called a young man?

But Zhang Han's is just a weird person, she was summoned by His Majesty and got a valuable opportunity, but she didn't have the slightest pride or excitement.

Instead, be more restrained, cautious, and never make any mistakes.

Even her mansion is very simple, forming a strong contrast with the glamorous mansions around the street.

If it weren't for the plaque with the word "Chapter" hanging in front of the mansion, I'm afraid it would have been the mansion of a certain Sesame Mung Bean, a small official.

in the courtyard.

A heroic woman was standing in the courtyard with a sword in both hands.

She seems to have just practiced martial arts, and the black robe on her body is soaked in sweat, outlining a bumpy figure. The loose collar is slightly opened under the distance movement, revealing her chest tightly wrapped with bandages.

The sweat on the forehead slid down the cheeks and dripped into the collar. On the tight wheat-colored skin, there were little crystal beads of sweat, giving people a wild and heroic feeling.

Zhang Han tried his best to calm his breath, glanced at the blue sky with his beautiful eyes, and couldn't help being slightly distracted.

Ever since she had the opportunity to enter the sight of Zheng Jie under Bai Su's recommendation, she has been silently preparing while doing her duty every day.

While practicing martial arts hard, he continued to study the art of war, and waited for the opportunity that belonged to him in the future to show his talents.

After all, everyone knows that Daliang is His Majesty's right-hand man who created Bai Su, and that many important policies in the court and country are all from the hands of Lord Bai.

The two Mengshi sisters got the opportunity to make contributions because of their friendship with Bai Su.

Now, one of the two is worshiped as the Protector of the Northern Court, and the other is appointed as the Protector of the Western Regions. It can be said that they have suddenly become the chief officials of the frontier, and they are very prosperous for a while.

This made countless generals in the court envious.

Right now, the two Meng sisters are stationed at the border gate outside the Great Wall, and the general Wang Jian has been promoted too quickly because of the too many contributions he made at the beginning.

Therefore, as long as it is not a last resort, Wang Jian should have no chance to go out to lead the army. Wang Jian himself will stay in the mansion every day, watering flowers, growing vegetables, playing chess with others and so on.

The veteran retired, and the key generals went out to garrison the border. For a while, the court lacked people who could carry the tripod.

It can be said that in the current Great Xia court, it is a good opportunity for the new generation of young talents to show their talents.

As a person who came from a poor background, Zhang Han climbed to this position step by step by her own ability. Her concentration and goals naturally far surpassed those of her peers.

Faced with such a good opportunity to make contributions and make great achievements, she relied on God's favor to make a white su with Daliang, so she won't easily miss this opportunity to perform.

In order to be able to enter Daliangzao's Dharma Eye and let Bai Su reuse it, she has been silently honing her abilities.

"General... General."

A maid came over suddenly and said in a low voice.

Zhang Han's slender black eyebrows frowned slightly, and asked, "What's the matter with you?"

In the past, she was rarely disturbed by anyone here. Even the maids in the mansion would come over after her martial arts training, and would not interrupt her rashly, unless there was something very important.

Facing Zhang Han's displeased gaze, the maid's forehead was slightly sweating. She also knew that her general hated being interrupted the most.

But there is no way, because the status of the distinguished guests who came this time is too prominent, and there is really no room for neglect.

Just when she was about to speak, a hearty young voice came.

"General Zhang hasn't seen him for a long time, but he still looks the same."

As the voice fell, a refined young man in a white robe came in from the outside.

The young man wears a jade crown on his head and a gold silk belt around his waist. He has a slender figure and his eyes are like stars. Just by looking at his appearance, he makes people feel good.

The maid at the side couldn't help but secretly heaved a sigh of relief, since the boss came out, there was no need for her to explain.

Zhang Han looked stunned for a moment, and hurriedly cupped his hands in salute and said, "The last general, Zhang Han, pays homage to Daliang Zao."

The person who came was none other than Bai Su who had just come out of the palace.

After seeing Bai Su coming, she felt a surge of joy in her heart.

After all, since Han Di came back, she hasn't seen Bai Su for a long time, and sometimes wonders in her heart whether Daliang Zao will forget her as a nobody.