"Quick, make a few more plates of fine grinding. Be quick, I want to sell noodles."
Zhangsun Xin found an opportunity again. It was the idea of the aides.
The four aides were very competent. When they were selling noodles in the Ministry of Revenue, they found out about the situation. Where would they get so much flour?
They could grind some by themselves, but they needed a lot of flour to sell.
When they waited for the Li Family Zhuangzi to make a move, they understood that it would be the world of wheat milling in the future.
Before the other big businessmen reacted, they would make a little money first.
They couldn't expect to learn how to make instant noodles, but they could make handmade noodles or sell the flour to others.
As long as they spent money to hire people to grind the flour, buy the wheat, and hire servants to grind the flour.
Even if the profit was only 5%, it was still a 100% profit.
The aides didn't know that they were gradually understanding the power of capital.
Ordinary people couldn't afford to make so many mills, let alone hire many people.
Without enough capital, even if the opportunity to make money was in front of them, they could only watch it disappear.
If they borrowed money to develop, it would be troublesome if they lost money.
The next night, Li Longji, Empress Wang, and Li Chengqi went to Zhuangzi.
Empress Wang wanted to check the child's body. She came every once in a while to see if he was poisoned.
The little guy was asleep, otherwise, he wouldn't be able to eat anything.
Li Longji and the other two insisted on eating instant noodles. Li Yi fried instant noodles for his sister-in-law's nutrition balance.
There were meat, vegetables, carrots, and fried goose eggs inside.
"Brother Yi, I didn't expect instant noodles to be eaten this way." Li Chengqi found it novel.
"Wasn't it the same when we ate fried noodles in the past?" Li Yi was distressed. Why would they eat instant noodles when they could fry noodles?
It only took a few minutes to boil the noodles underwater. Could it save three minutes by putting instant noodles in boiling water?
"Instant noodles are more chewy and chewy than handmade noodles." Li Chengqi disagreed.
"That's because instant noodles have a large proportion of gluten and two layers are ground down on the outside. In fact, it's almost a capital to sell these noodles. "
Li Yi told the truth. The noodles were different, and they had to rely on the manpower of the villagers.
In addition to the technical staff, the villagers were more trained to be managers.
This included the one hundred villagers who had just returned from Henan Prefecture. They had all received training.
In Luoyang, the villager commanded others to do their work.
He was responsible for guiding and supervising them. Gradually, he got used to organizing people and cooperating with others.
When he came back, he sold the chickens, ducks, and pigs.
In Luoyang, he added another five percent to the great merchants coming and going from Chang 'an, using copper coins and silk to exchange for Zhuangzi's exchange coupons.
They returned with the exchange coupons and lost 5%, saving time and transportation costs.
Their labor couldn't be calculated according to the labor of ordinary people. When converted into the production of instant noodles, there wasn't much profit.
Li Longji did not care about profits. He thought of the same plan of Zhangsun Xin's advisors.
"Brother Yi, it's easier for a rich businessman to do other things than a poor person."
"Yes, the power of capital is reflected in scale."
Li Yi put down his chopsticks. He finished his plate of fried noodles and left a plate for himself.
He picked up the yellow wine beside him and took a sip. "Capital lies in guidance. The great families now use their capital on land."
"The great merchants also have a lot of land. As long as someone is selling it, they will buy it." Empress Wang swallowed a piece of meat.
"Agriculture is the foundation. It involves the lowest level of human needs. Survival and having food to eat is enough.
Agriculture is also the foundation of war. How can we fight without food?
Industry is also the foundation of war. At the same time, industry can help agriculture and research better fertilizers.
What we need now is to change some people's thinking. We need to change our focus from the amount of land to the amount of land produced. "
Li Yi explained the relationship between the primary and secondary industries to the three of them.
He spoke slowly and told the three of them some things.
The development of the secondary industry should be the needs of foreign wars and the primary industry.
And the increase in the production of cotton, hemp, and silkworms in the primary industry would promote the expansion of the secondary industry.
The entertainment in the tertiary industry of the service industry was an additional demand for a certain group of people to satisfy the needs of the primary industry.
The financial industry of the service industry was a supplement and promotion of the primary and secondary industries, as well as the war.
There was no good or evil in capital itself. It was just that in the pursuit of more capital, it would inevitably show more of its evil side.
That was why there was tax. Tax was to use a portion of capital to support the primary and secondary industries, and to assist in the war.
As for the employees of the three industries, their income determined the distribution of social work.
Everything was moving and not fixed.
What the imperial court needed to solve was to balance the interests of the employees of the various industries. Otherwise, they would not worry about scarcity and would worry about inequality.
Li Yi drank wine from time to time and talked nonsense.
The three of them did not eat. Empress Wang wanted to drink wine a few times, but the palace maid beside her handed her juice.
Li Longji realized that after knowing Brother Yi for so long, he finally saw a powerful ability today.
Brother Yi explained the matters of the country clearly. He understood it as soon as he heard it. It turned out to be so simple.
What will Brother Yi do in the future? He was worried about marrying someone else as his wife.
As for Princess True Jade and Princess Jinxian, not to mention that the two sisters were older than Brother Yi, the people they interacted with were not good enough.
His own daughter … If he gave his daughter to Brother Yi, then he would not be Brother Yi.
It felt awkward. How should he address her? Could Brother Yi solve that emotional problem?
Li Longji's mind was filled with thoughts of finding a wife for Li Yi. He could not become someone else's son-in-law. How dangerous was that?
"These are just some superficial descriptions. There are deeper problems entangled together.
The financial industry existed the moment bartering appeared. It was just that no one thought much about it.
Paper money will promote the development of the financial industry. It is more convenient, more beneficial, and harder to control than copper coins and silk. "
Li Yi was instilling information bit by bit. He was afraid that his eldest brother and three would not understand if he said too much.
"Brother Yi, do you know anything about the financial industry?" Li Chengqi drank a mouthful of wine and smacked his lips.
"I know a little. The financial industry is a double-edged sword. You can't control people's desires. The prosperity of gambling lies in this. I will explain it to everyone when I need it. "
Li Yi was not willing to talk too much about the financial industry. In any case, he was now in control of the issuance of the exchange coupons.
According to historical records, if he did not issue the exchange coupons, two years later, the imperial court would impose a compulsory ratio of silk to copper coins.
This meant that the amount of silk had increased and it began to depreciate.
If the depreciation of silk was left unchecked, the monetary system would be in chaos.
No one was willing to accept silk and would exchange it for copper coins. The more they exchanged, the more the value of silk would depreciate.
The compulsory exchange ratio was related to the increase of the currency of silk.
Silk could not be used for a long time. If it got wet or caught fire, the losses would be great.
The Kaiyuan Age was a result of controlling the currency ratio. It was based on the stability of agricultural products. It was not stable.
In the Kaiyuan Age, a large amount of wealth was concentrated in the hands of a few people. The polarization between the rich and the poor accelerated the process of land annexation.
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