Princess Yongmu looked at the bus through the window. There were many people on the bus, and she was happy.
"Li Lang, it's hot at night. With so many people coming out, the number of people riding the bus will increase as well. We can earn back the money spent on the bus in the middle of the night."
"The bus in the middle of the night will be subsidized by the imperial court. It won't be included in the profits of the bus in the day."
Li Yi emphasized the difference between the two parties.
When the bus leaves every 30 minutes, the additional wages and materials will be calculated.
"The money is given directly by the imperial court?" Princess Yongmu was not clear about the details of the operation.
"It will be deducted from the profits. The Li Family Zhuangzi's share must be given to us, and the rest to the Ministry of Revenue will be deducted from the imperial court."
"Isn't it because the imperial court earns more money?" Xiao Lan was puzzled.
"If we earn more, our profits will be deducted. In fact, the Ministry of Revenue should be responsible for collecting the full amount, and the other department should be subsidized.
It's just that Old Bi thinks it's troublesome. When the scale is bigger and we reach the local area, he will know. It's more troublesome if he can't figure it out. "
Li Yi was speechless at Bi Goo. Bi Goo was busy now. Fortunately, Bi Goo had Zhang Shuo to keep an eye on things.
Xiao Lan rolled her eyes. She did not quite understand. "Is it worth spending so much money just to get people to the pharmacy faster?"
"The imperial court's money is to be spent. The bus can run empty, and the credibility of the people will not be lost.
Now, the imperial court is saving lives and gaining recognition from the imperial court.
In the future, the imperial court will issue a trustworthy currency, and the people will still recognize it. A country without a stable currency will not be able to rule for long. "
Li Yi believed that not every sum of money spent would result in a profit in the end.
Money was spent as long as there were benefits. Benefits were not just money.
If the imperial court prioritized making money, it could only mean two things.
One was that the international competition was fierce. The external environment was like this, and the imperial court followed suit.
The other was that the domestic revenue had decreased, and they could not achieve their goals.
The good thing was that the people would think of ways to improve social production technology and productivity in order to earn more money.
The bad thing was that the people only had money in their eyes. As long as they could earn money, they could laugh at the poor.
The most important thing for the Chinese people was their tradition. If they lost this tradition, it would be difficult to get it back.
He had memorized poems and ancient prose since he was young, and he even had to take exams. In the end, he couldn't understand a simple essay. Whose tragedy was that?
In fact, the Tang dynasty did not have good control over the local areas. They also used force to suppress them.
The local clans were higher than the local yamen. If the yamen wanted to sentence someone to death, they had to report it up the hierarchy and finally report it to the Ministry of Justice.
When the local family sentenced a person to death, they would immediately announce it and execute it. There was no need to report it to the government. The government would tacitly approve of it.
So when he looked at it, he realized that Golden Age only had a dozen death sentences in a year.
These dozen or so people had passed through the Ministry of Justice. How many of them hadn't?
Li Yi wanted to turn things around and change. He had the ability, and he did not have any selfish desire for profit. It was easy to make money in the Tang dynasty.
Li Yi was lost in thought, and the carriage became quiet again.
Princess Yongmu stretched out her hand and pushed Li Yi's frowning eyebrows aside. "Li Lang, is it true that with credit currency, there won't be a situation where money is worthless?"
Li Yi's eyebrows relaxed. "How is that possible? As long as the logistics are not fast enough, there will definitely be problems."
"What problems?" Xiao Lan couldn't figure it out herself, so she asked.
"For example, if I go to Yuezhou, there is Dongting Lake and the scenery is beautiful. I have money, and I can bring a million … "
Li Yi began to tell the two of them what he would do if he wanted to do something bad.
At the same time, he would send many people to various places to buy pigs, both big and small.
After spending hundreds of thousands of yuan, basically all the pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, and geese in that area would be bought.
After spending hundreds of thousands of yuan, it would not only be in Yuezhou, but also in several surrounding states.
Then he would continue to raise the price to buy. Before new livestock and poultry could be shipped in, the price of such goods in several states had skyrocketed.
More people wanted to raise them and sell them.
The commoners did not know anything about economics, so they were easily tricked by others.
Li Yi would sell the goods he had bought at a high price, and then secretly buy food.
The commoners bought the livestock and poultry, hoping that they would raise the price and sell them to make money.
Li Yi kept on speculating, and every day was more expensive than the day before. The commoners also raised the price to buy and sell with each other.
When it was about time, Li Yi would sell all the goods he had bought before, and then turn around to buy food in large quantities.
The entire area would immediately experience rapid inflation.
Everything would increase in price. When the livestock and poultry from outside arrived, the commoners already had no money to buy them.
The people who had bought the livestock and poultry before were crying and selling them at a lower price. There were also those who had borrowed money to buy them. They could not afford to pay back the money, so they gave their land and houses to others.
The goods from outside could not be sold at all. Even the goods from these states were taken out, and the prices were getting lower and lower.
Li Yi only needed to spread the word: The imperial court's money was worthless, and it was useless to take it. Everyone should hurry up and buy things, and things were more important at home.
The commoners who had a little money would spend it, and the sellers would not accept paper money.
At this time, Li Yi had earned a lot of money, and in the surrounding areas, who still accepted paper money, he would go and buy food like crazy.
With the movement to reject paper money and truly feel that paper money was worthless, more and more people did not want paper money.
"Did it affect our credit?" After Li Yi finished speaking, he asked the two of them with a smile.
Princess Yongmu and Xiao Lan were already dumbfounded when they heard this. They admitted that Li Yi had no problem throwing out hundreds of thousands of yuan.
It was not an armchair strategist. Li Yi was rich, and some of the prices in the capital office were actually controlled by the Li Family Zhuangzi.
The Li Family Zhuangzi used the prices of goods in the southern part of the city to adjust the prices of goods in the capital office. This was the power to set prices.
No wealthy merchant found any opportunity to promote something. If he dared to make a move, Li Yi could slap him to death without an administrative order.
There would definitely be people who dared to buy pigs, and they would do their best to raise the price of pigs in the capital office.
If Li Yi had a bit of conscience, he would say: the price of pork is too high, and it must be lowered.
The other party would quickly stop and would rather lose some money to bring down the price of pork.
If Li Yi was very angry, he would let the other party know that pigs could not be bought out. At the very least, the other party did not have enough money, and they could not sell the pigs.
"Li Lang, if there really were people who joined forces to do this, you, can you deal with it?"
Princess Yongmu was worried for her imperial father. The imperial court would definitely issue credit.
At that time, if there were people causing trouble, what would they do?
"I'm not afraid, there are many methods. One is to arrest people and accuse them of hoarding and inflating prices.
But I don't like to do that. Bullying people will make the imperial court look incompetent.
Another is to transfer things from the side. They would rather lose money and quickly transfer things over. Then, every household will be given a daily quota of meat.
The last one is even simpler. If they dare to spread news, I will also spread news. I will say in the newspaper that those things that were bought are harmful to the body. "
After Li Yi finished speaking, he laughed. He was not afraid of people spreading false news. He controlled the power of public opinion.
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