Early in the morning of May 23rd, Fan Bang hired trucks to load newspapers and transport them to Li Family Zhuangzi.
At the same time, gold, copper coins, silk, and silk were also transported.
The news spread, and the people of Chang 'an cheered.
"Li Dongzhu won. Fan Bang bought so many newspapers, and Li Dongzhu bought them for less than ten grams."
The most well-informed person shouted everywhere, telling everyone he could see about this good news.
"Great! I knew Li Dongzhu would win. "
"They spent so much money to buy the newspapers, and they only sold them for ten grams?"
"Why didn't they find a way to sell them to others?"
"I heard that they were raising money to buy things with Li Dongzhu, and they ran out of money."
"The main thing is that they admitted defeat. Otherwise, Li Dongzhu would still sell them newspapers, 300,000 copies a day."
"Last night, they went to sell things overnight, and the merchants pushed the price down hard. They reluctantly accepted it."
"They deserved it. They even wanted to trick Li Dongzhu."
"Li Dongzhu must have made a lot of money again. I'll drink tonight to celebrate."
The people passed the good news to each other, as if Li Yi could directly share the money with them.
"Newspaper, today's new newspaper. It has a way to make canned food with porcelain."
The people who got the newspaper first read the life tips, then other things, and finally the story.
They found a way to keep fruits and cooked meat for a long time.
"It also has a way to make braised pork. Do they want to make braised pork and put it in the canned food?"
"I saw a way to make canned food with bamboo. The newspaper said that Li Family Zhuangzi was experimenting to see how long the bamboo canned food could be kept."
"Li Dongzhu can always come up with new things."
Countless people in Chang 'an celebrated because Fan Bang bowed. The Tubo people who bowed their heads exchanged goods at the bridgehead.
The farmers checked carefully. They unfolded the silk one by one and found that it was slightly old, so they didn't want it.
They counted the copper coins one by one. Those with a little rust on them were untied and picked out.
The gold was weighed and checked.
Fifty catties of wine was transported out and the Tubo people were randomly inspected.
He opened it and poured it into the lighter to see if it could be lit.
It was possible to ignite them, but it was a little strenuous. Some of them would only ignite after several strokes.
The farmer explained that all new lighters were like this. Someone took a used lighter and poured it in. Sure enough, it was easy to ignite.
Twenty thousand catties of alcohol sounded like a lot. Fifty catties for a jug, so it was only four hundred jugs. Just treat it as giving alcohol to the ten thousand soldiers on the frontlines.
While the Tubo people were handing over the goods, they were hiring boats directly from the Ba River.
They were going to enter the Wei River from the Ba River, then the Wei River into the Yellow River, then the Yellow River into the Grand Canal, then the Grand Canal into the Yangtze River, then the Yangtze River into the Dadu River, then the Dadu River into the Jinchuan River, and finally they reached Tubo.
From Bashui to Suzhou, it was downstream. From there, it entered the Yangtze River and went against the current. Along the way, there were many places where the trackers had to pull it.
Four hundred jars of alcohol and ten thousand lighters, two hundred and fifty thousand silver coins.
Li Yi found a high place and used binoculars to look.
"If all of them were exchanged for copper coins, it would be two hundred and fifty million silver coins. Kaiyuan Tongbao, one silver coin is 825 grams, which is two hundred and sixty-two and a half tons.
Copper, more than two hundred tons of copper, twenty thousand catties of 85% alcohol, and ten thousand lighters can be exchanged for that. "
Li Yi said to himself happily. In fact, most of the goods were good silk. There were not many copper coins and not much gold.
Li Chengqi stood beside Li Yi. "Brother Yi, only you can see that the money is calculated in ten thousand silver coins."
He knew the financial income of the Tang dynasty. Last year, everything was converted to about seven million and eight hundred thousand silver coins.
Li Yi, on the other hand, was selling alcohol and lighters with very little capital for two hundred and fifty thousand silver coins.
Previously, he had cheated so many merchants of two hundred and ten thousand silver coins and almost emptied the warehouse of Lantian County.
Li Chengqi looked at Li Yi and thought, You are also our Brother Yi. Otherwise, you would sell for two hundred and fifty thousand silver coins.
How much is the capital? The alcohol is only 85%. Plus the cost of making the lighters, it's more than three thousand two hundred silver coins.
Plus the sixty-six thousand silver coins that were lost, it's seventy thousand silver coins. A net profit of one hundred and eighty thousand silver coins.
The rest of the money in your family added up to more than five hundred thousand silver coins.
Do you think you can survive on one-sixteenth of the annual income of the Tang dynasty?
"I'm going to use the money I earned this time to subsidize the students of the government schools in various places and repair the roads.
I'll expand the narrow official road from the Tang dynasty to Tubo and repair the plank roads.
I can also use gunpowder to help blow up the mountains and make the roads easier. I won't leave a single coin. "
Li Yi suddenly said how he was going to spend the money he earned.
Li Chengqi nodded. Following his previous thoughts, he answered himself, Yes, you can survive. Brother Yi, how afraid of death are you? You throw away the money as soon as you get it.
He found that Brother Yi's biggest advantage was that he could adapt to the situation.
He made money quickly, but he was not greedy.
He gave what should be given to the people, and what should be given to the Emperor. He tried his best to bribe the officials.
Then he shouted that he wanted to deal with the corrupt officials and gave ideas on how to deal with them.
Li Yi continued, "This year, we'll build greenhouses in twenty counties. Vegetables, cantaloupes, and watermelons in winter are considered luxury goods. We'll pay 10% tax.
The other rich families who build greenhouses will pay the tax with me. No one can refuse. There's too much money.
After a while, I'll come up with a new kind of glaze and ask the buyers to pay the business tax.
I guess I'll offend a lot of people. When someone comes to find me, I'll discuss with them how to make a lot of money. "
"Brother Yi, no one will find you." Li Chengqi reminded.
"You must. If you don't, they'll keep it in their hearts and play dirty tricks behind your back.
Instead of a group of enemies hiding in the dark, it's better to be friends in the open.
Businessmen should not only buy low and sell high, but also produce and make more money for the people. "
Li Yi insisted on waiting for someone to come. How much could he do alone?
They should unite to make money together and promote the development of the Tang dynasty society.
Li Chengqi listened for the time being. Anyway, he decided to help. He could not let others trouble Brother Yi.
If Brother Yi was in a good mood, he could come up with more new things.
He looked at the Tubo people carefully carrying the wine jars and smiled.
"Hahaha, the return journey will be difficult! The boatmen will charge a high price. Alcohol is easy to burn.
Grass and straw mats need to be stuffed between the jars. Hot food cannot be cooked on the boat.
There will be guards during the day and at night. Once the fire breaks out, it will be too late to jump into the water. "
Li Chengqi said that transporting alcohol was troublesome. It was the same for transporting alcohol.
"We can only fill lighters when we transport it back. If we use this alcohol to make hot air balloons, we'll burn them." Li Yi also smiled.
"Can't it fly?" Li Chengqi asked.
"Yes, it can. If the jar is filled with alcohol, it can fly up. It will slowly rise, but when it reaches the sky, the heat supply will be insufficient and it will fall down."
Li Yi said the problem of using 85% alcohol in hot air balloons.
Then he remembered something.
"Brother, my alcohol is 75% alcohol. It's used to treat wounds and disinfect them.
It's very effective. The only drawback is that it's easy to form pus under the scab. The scab needs to be removed and then scrubbed with alcohol.
However, it won't cause problems with infection. After the pus under the scab is cleaned, the pus and blood will decrease and new flesh will grow around it. "
Li Yi was not willing to use alcohol to disinfect patients' wounds. It was better to use alcohol to disinfect instruments and non-invasive external cleaning.
He was willing to use iodophor for skin wounds, but he could not make it at the moment.
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