"Tingshuo ah, don't compare yourself to Xiao Yi, even though you are already very formidable." Bi Goo tried to discourage Su Yi.
Bi Goo wasn't wrong. Su Yi's information was: Su Yi, Tingshuo, weak and agile. He can read a thousand words in a single glance and can recite them over and over again.
The translation was: Su Yi has been smart since young. He can read a thousand words in a single glance and recite them out.
He is a character like Zhang Song. Theoretically, he should know how to memorize images.
"When have I ever compared myself to him?" Su Yi rebutted. I don't want to compare myself to that inhuman thing.
He then laughed, "Li Yi doesn't have it easy. It's even more tiring than being the Prime Minister. He has to manage everything."
"He doesn't need to attend court. He can sleep for as long as he wants. He can eat whatever he wants. He knows how to cook it himself.
Before tonight, the Li Family Zhuangzi will send razor clams over. The three of us will each have two catties. We should cook them once we get home. We can't stay overnight. "
When Bi Goo talked about Li Yi, he thought of something happy. There was seafood to eat.
Real seafood, alive.
When he was in Henan Prefecture, he had never seen any live seafood. Who would have thought that seafood could be kept on a ship all the way back?
"They are selling it outside. It costs one catty per catty. There's no guarantee that they are all alive. However, even if they are dead, they will die on the same day."
Song Jing raised the price, but they couldn't afford it. There weren't many of them per catty. They had to be scooped out of the water.
Thankfully, King Song was selling them and giving them to those who were qualified to eat them for free. For example, the three of them.
Bi Goo smiled, "It's time to pay taxes. King Song took the initiative to pay taxes. He said that he would help the Ministry of Revenue gather 30 million this year.
This is because King Song needs to give them to the concubines in the palace, the members of the royal family, and us officials.
Only one ship brought back forty thousand catties and sold twenty thousand catties. There will be more to come. Conch shells are the most expensive. The Ministry of Revenue can get more than four thousand catties from a single ship. "
Bi Goo was happy. He liked to make money, even if he could not use a single cent of that money for himself.
He had the opportunity to get a portion of it. For example, if there was a project grant, he could get a rebate.
The more he understood, the more he did not do anything. His family sold pencils and made a lot of money. Sometimes, he would even donate money to Grief Field Workshop.
If he was greedy, it wouldn't be worth it to covet hundreds or thousands of carvings. He sold hundreds of carvings of pencils a year.
If he was greedy for tens of thousands of taels of silver, money would burn his hands, and he would definitely be found out. At that time, how would he face the Emperor and Xiao Yi?
His Majesty would probably give him a cup of poisoned wine and leave his corpse intact for the sake of their old friendship. As for Xiao Yi, she probably would not see him for the last time.
"Has this year's thirty million arrived?" Song Jing still didn't know that King Song was willing to pay the taxes. If he didn't, what could he do?
"I won't have 30 million in savings, and I've been spending a lot recently. Zhigu has been asking me for money almost every day and sending it to various places to build roads and irrigation works.
I pondered that I would have twenty million yuan by the end of the year.
I'm worried about making money, so I want to take out everyone's money to complement each other. I'm worried about spending money, so how am I going to spend the remaining twenty million yuan? "
Bi Goo was indeed worried. In the past, the rent was less than ten million yuan a year. He had to pay the salaries of the officials and provide supplies to the army. He was a little stretched.
This year's rent was more than enough, and he had an extra pile of money. He had never used it before. Oh my god!
Su Yi smiled, "You can ask Li Yi. He will tell you how to use it."
"I'm worried now. I'm worried that he will covet the surplus of the Ministry of Revenue." Bi Goo was even more distressed.
… …
"Big Brother, the Ministry of Revenue has a lot of money this year. Take out another ten million yuan to build the navy. Next spring, the fleet will sail far away and many ships will be thrown away. It will be fine in the future."
The thing that Bi Goo was afraid of appeared in the Li Family Zhuangzi. It was just like Murphy's Law.
Li Yi complained that Li Chengqi's speed of making money and building ships was too slow. The key was that the money was too little and the investments were too big.
This included raising pearls, planting peppers, seaside business development, Tang dynasty fund expenditure … …
Potatoes and corn were really good things. Tomatoes, kidney beans, sunflowers, sweet potatoes, and big apples.
Rubber could be planted in Yunnan, Southwest, and Qiongzhou.
There was also a lot of gold and silver there. There was also a lot of silver in Europe.
As long as there were enough precious metals, the Tang dynasty could issue non-credit currencies.
As long as there were enough non-credit currencies, they could become stable credit currencies.
For example, in the Li Family Zhuangzi, even if the Li Family Zhuangzi did not use collateral and directly printed money, the people would still accept it, and they would not take the money to the Li Family Zhuangzi to exchange for gold, silver, and copper.
Li Chengqi had heard about all kinds of things outside. He had also seen the pictures drawn by Li Yi.
He said that potatoes and corn had a high yield and were easy to feed.
Especially corn, it could be extracted from oil and could be planted casually. People and livestock could eat it.
"I will ask Bi Goo for it. I can't pay taxes for nothing." Li Chengqi decided.
"It has nothing to do with taxes. When the things are brought back, won't the Ministry of Revenue increase? When the gold and silver are brought back, the Ministry of Revenue will issue banknotes.
When the time comes, I will mark out which mines are good to mine and mark the coal mines. They will be refined locally and then transported back. "
Li Yi knew that the Americas had a lot of gold and other things.
As for oil, there was still the Middle East. It was difficult to drill oil wells in the Tang dynasty, but there were places in the Middle East where oil could be mined.
Then they could ship it back. It was useful.
"Yes, I will go there in the afternoon and give them razor clams." Li Chengqi thought it through.
After eating a big bowl of cold noodles, Li Chengqi left with razor clams.
Li Longji came back. He had lunch with Wu Jieyu. Wu Jieyu was about to give birth.
"Brother Yi, I heard that the Ministry of Revenue will have a lot of surplus this year?" Li Longji got the news. He was also worried about how to use the money.
"When my brother came, I said that we need 10 million to build more boats. There are still about 10 million left. It's not enough."
Li Yi brought a plate of fruits and said worriedly.
"Not enough?" Li Longji felt that there was too much money. How could it not be enough? He was also rich. Very rich.
"Tomorrow, my steam engine will be ready. It will be a mature one. It will be able to produce trains directly. 10 million is no more than 10 billion to build and pave the tracks.
After the tracks are finished, we will pave the tracks to Luoyang. That's it. 10 million is enough. We will dig and smelt the mines ourselves.
We will also build the cement blocks for the tracks ourselves. The gravel will have to be transported from elsewhere.
The money in the Tang dynasty is more valuable. I will pay for the train. 10 million is enough. Maybe it is not enough. "
Li Yi shook his head. It was too difficult. He wanted to spend money, but he could not spend it.
He had not built the tracks to Shu Di yet. If he said that, Old Bi would have problems.
How much manpower and material resources would be needed to build a railway? Is 10 million enough? A hundred ten million yuan coins were thrown in just like that.
"Can't we transport goods without the tracks?" Li Longji was distressed.
He had seen the wooden tracks. It was horse-drawn and needed a lot of money.
"Not really. I will build the steam engine for the boats first. I will also throw away the sail powered boats. If we meet the natives, we can sell them to them."
Li Yi thought for a while. He felt that the tracks and trains in the Tang dynasty were not very useful.
From Chang 'an to Luoyang, then to the coast of Shandong. It was still useful. When the time came, he would let the boats in Guangzhou unload the goods in Shandong.
In the middle, he would need to build the railway bridge, including the bridge over the Grand Canal. Is 50 million enough?
At that time, his country was frantically building roads. This was not an ordinary plan. The leaders of each generation insisted on it.
Then, there was the result of the regular delivery within 72 hours. Railway, land, prosperous road.
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