"Is there still any man-made evil money nowadays?" Li Yi took a sip of wine to wash away the unpleasantness from his practice.
"Even the imperial court doesn't give out copper coins, who would make evil money?" Song Jing wiped his forehead with a handkerchief. It was too spicy.
If not for Li Yi's permission, he would never dare to eat such spicy food.
Huang Li ate casually. He didn't like spicy food. He was a native of Guangzhou. If not for the Li Family Zhuangzi's people bringing him chili sauce, he wouldn't even know how spicy chili was.
His attention was on everyone, including Princess Yongmu, who was munching on pig trotters.
He knew about evil money, but it didn't circulate in Guangzhou. There was silver in Guangzhou, and large transactions were done with silver.
It was said that evil money from other places usually circulated in the counties governed by the prefectures. Most of it was in the Eastern Capital of Luoyang and the Western Capital of Chang 'an.
He felt that evil money couldn't be eradicated. It was not something that could be done by humans.
Li Yi lowered his head and thought. "I don't want to accept iron, but tin is fine. Many of them are still iron and tin, and the cost of collecting them is high. Together with the copper coins from the shoddy work, what can we use to offset it? "
"Gang Rou, think of a way." Zhang Jiuling gave Li Yi a look of encouragement.
"Okay! It needs to be operated. I can't lose money. "Li Yi agreed.
Huang Li: "…"
"Brother Yi, I've saved up some money. Why don't I make it up to you?"
Li Longji was afraid that Zhuangzi's currency would not be enough as collateral, so he was willing to pay.
Li Yi waved his hand. "It has nothing to do with the loss. I can't accept one copper coin worth of evil money. It depends on the degree of evil money.
Many evil money appear to serve the trade. When it's manufactured, its value is lower than normal.
Some of it has the purpose of fraud, and some of it is related to the lack of currency in the Tang dynasty. "
Li Yi said that evil money was fake money.
People used to need it. It was like the cents and cents in the current currency. One copper coin worth of coupons could buy an egg, and the egg seller needed change.
Kaiyuan Tongbao was worth a lot. If you wanted to buy an egg, you couldn't get change.
If she used silk to buy eggs, she would tear off a small strip and give it to the egg seller. The seller wouldn't want it. She wouldn't be able to use it when she returned.
Evil money, ten evil money is equal to one Kai Yuan Tong Bao, buy eggs with three evil money, the egg seller will agree.
Evil money was different. Sometimes, the people were unable to determine its value and had to ask others to determine the price.
This was used to supplement the lack of currency circulation. Counterfeiting was called fraud.
In that case, it would be feasible to throw out the exchange coupons and exchange them with others according to the ratio.
"How do I do it?" Su Yi didn't care about anything else. He just wanted to get rid of the evil money as soon as possible.
"Print more small-denomination exchange coupons and distribute them to the prefectures and prefectures of the Tang dynasty along with other denominations.
Li Yi looked at Yao Chong as he spoke.
Yao Chong pursed his lips. "This old man will send someone to keep an eye on it. What's the exchange rate?"
"Different kinds of evil money will give different exchange rates, plus the weight.
For example, five pieces of goose eye money weighed the same as one piece of Kai Yuan Tong Bao. When exchanging, it would require seven to eight pieces of goose eye money to exchange for one piece of exchange coupon.
The exchange coupons have the advantage of naturally appreciating in local areas. At the same time, printing small amounts of money will cost more than the face value.
The people are willing to make up for the loss by the exchange rate. "
Li Yi gave a solution. When exchanging, the value of the evil money would be lowered.
How much evil money could the ordinary people have? They didn't care.
Businessmen with a lot of evil money were willing to take a loss as long as they could exchange the evil money quickly.
"Okay!" Li Longji nodded and made up his mind.
"Good idea. In this way, people won't think of making evil money to exchange. The production cost will be higher than the profit, and they will lose money." Lu Huaishen agreed.
"After collecting the evil money, transport it back and send it in. We don't want pure iron. Throw it to the local people to make ironware. We want copper and tin."
Li Yi also talked about how to deal with the evil money.
Copper could be used to make copper pads and other things, which could be used in steam engines and future circuits.
He didn't need tin to make glass because he had enough reserves.
He wanted to make canned food. The disadvantage was that tin would break if it was too cold. He had sent tin to the soldiers before.
He wrapped the tin with a layer of other things to keep it warm and prevent it from being in the negative 30 degrees Celsius environment.
Huang Li endured the spiciness and drank a mouthful of soup to calm himself down. It was solved. The evil money problem was solved during the meal.
Was the Tang dynasty's politics so fast? It was time for him to participate in the small court meeting, right?
Princess Yongmu was tired from eating pork trotters. She spat out a bone and wiped her mouth, "Li Lang's trip to the sea made me think of many things. I'll remember them one by one and show them to everyone later.
Including the rewards for the top talents in various industries, the laws of the Tang dynasty that everyone must agree with, the reform of the slavery system, the new methods of fruit preservation and deep processing … "
"Brother Yi!" Li Longji was in a good mood, "You went to the sea to collect seeds for the Tang dynasty. It must have been hard on you."
"It's okay! Don't I need to come up with ideas if I don't go out? I think there will be more trouble. "Li Yi didn't provoke the officials anymore.
Everyone blushed slightly. Li Yi was angry as soon as he came back.
Li Yi, on the other hand, was still worried about the domestic affairs.
"Change the pot often. The people over there are not used to spicy food."
Li Yi turned his head and saw Huang Li in a daze. His face was red and he hurriedly ordered.
Huang Li's pot was removed. He poured it into the big soup pot at the bridgehead. The soup was spicy.
"No, no, ah!" Huang Li was in a daze. It was not because of the spiciness, but because of surprise.
He found that he couldn't … couldn't figure out where to start.
Even if someone told him how to do it, he still had to think hard.
The pot was changed. It was a hotpot with vegetables and beef slices.
He wanted to explain, but he found that it was still delicious and not spicy.
The three hundred people who came with him were eating the Mandarin Duck hotpot elsewhere.
They couldn't eat spicy food, but they still dipped their heads in the spicy food and stuck their tongues out.
They had never been to Chang'an before. Compared to the hot weather in Guangzhou, Chang'an was relatively cool. At least, it was cool in the house.
The palace maids carried the food around and added meat for others. They didn't let them eat mutton or beef.
There were two types of palace maids that could exist in the Li Family's manor. One type was capable and beautiful, while the other was not too beautiful but extremely capable.
But at this moment, none of them were ordinary. They were all beautiful because they could put on makeup.
The training the palace maids received was stricter than Li Yi's celebrities and mistresses. The palace maids worked hard to learn.
The celebrities and mistresses worked hard to make a living, while the palace maids worked hard to survive.
The leader of the mountain people and the deputy leader of the second-in-command appeared to be at a loss of what to do.
Huang Li couldn't care about the others. He wanted to ask about Li Yi's affairs. They had agreed before he came.
He thought it would be easy, but now he understood. Was he qualified to ask about politics?
"Brother Gang Chang, is there something wrong?" Li Yi kept looking at Huang Li. He was familiar with the others, but not Huang Li.
"No … there's … no … it's … the withholding of taxes. The Governor's Office of Guangzhou wants to withhold taxes. We agreed to pay the local taxes."
Huang Li paused and hesitated several times before he finally spoke. He put on an expression that said, "You can beat me or kill me at will."
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