"Throwing gold from the city wall can also kill people," Li Yi said and went to teach the nurses with his hands behind his back.
The Japanese Empire's delegation continued to stroll around the market in the south of the city. Takagi Junichiro took out a notebook and a pencil.
"Nowadays, many people in the Tang dynasty have learned how to use pencils. The paper-making technology of the Tang dynasty has improved greatly."
Takagi Junichiro had a look of reverence on his face. He respected the Tang dynasty from the bottom of his heart.
Abei, Nakamaro, and the others also admired the culture and technology of the Tang dynasty. They didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the Japanese Empire being defeated by the Tang dynasty more than 50 years ago.
Knowing that their skills were inferior made them want to learn more.
Many people in the Japanese Empire couldn't speak the Tang dynasty's language, but there were many people who could speak the Tang dynasty's language.
This included the embroidery of the Tang dynasty. The embroidery of the Tang dynasty was better than painting. There were shadows, and the embroidery looked like real things.
The embroidery of Sichuan and the embroidery of Hangzhou and Suzhou was beautiful.
It wasn't as simple as silk or satin. The embroidery of the embroidery workers was the best in the world.
The silk sold on the Silk Road amazed the people of the Western Regions, and embroidery was a treasure in the Western Regions.
The embroidery of the Japanese Empire at this time was trying to get closer to the embroidery of the Tang dynasty. The embroidery of the Japanese Empire in the Nara period was also beautiful.
The Japanese Empire's envoys weren't thinking about embroidery at this time. They were admiring the prosperity of the Tang dynasty's Chang 'an.
"That little girl is … teaching the child to read?" Shinichi Jinbei suddenly pointed at a place as he walked.
A young woman with a three or four-year-old boy was holding a newspaper and teaching the child to read.
Takagi Junichiro nodded vigorously. "Yes, Li Yi is teaching people to read pinyin in the newspaper and also printing dictionaries. There are too few illiterate people in the capital today."
As soon as he said this, the envoys were envious again.
Now, the Japanese Empire's reading tools were still placed together with the Tang dynasty's. In other words, most of the content was from the Tang dynasty.
This included early dictionaries with Chinese characters on the cover.
Just like the countries with the Taiji diagram on the Peninsula, Chinese characters were the most important. Even the names of their cities were all in Chinese characters.
Now that they saw that they could learn something else, they were thinking about it again. They hoped that they could learn it, including the dictionary, and send it back to Japan.
Therefore, they strolled around for an entire afternoon before returning to the Four Quarters Embassy for dinner. They planned to hold a meeting to discuss what they should learn from the Tang dynasty.
"It would be best if I could get some seeds, a method to make paper money, and medical books too."
Fujiwara Ma Yang actually liked everything he saw and wanted to take it back.
Based on the treatment of the previous diplomatic missions to the Tang dynasty, he believed that whatever he wanted to learn would be taught in the Tang dynasty. It was the same now.
"If Li Yi can go to Japan to teach, we will treat him with the highest courtesy." Abe Nakamaro was still thinking about how to get Li Yi there.
His idea was simple. He didn't need Li Yi to stay in Japan for a long time. A year or two would be enough.
If possible, he wanted to find many beautiful women to serve Li Yi and have children with Li Yi.
"Why don't we ask to see the Prime Minister of the Tang dynasty tomorrow? The rest of you can continue to look at things in Chang 'an." Shimodo Jinbei suggested.
The rest time was enough for them to understand the situation a little.
He didn't want to waste time. Everyone dispersed to look for things they could learn and things they wanted to learn.
At the same time, Li Longji invited the three Prime Ministers and Wei Zhigu to a banquet. The four of them were more familiar with Li Yi than with the others.
As for the others, there was no need. It was best not to have any interactions with Li Yi.
"Li Yi talked about the internationalization of currency today. It will be helpful for the foreign trade and cultural promotion of the Tang dynasty …"
Li Longji invited the four ministers to eat the Mandarin Duck Pot, which was a carp pot.
Although Li Longji's surname was Li, he still ate carp and didn't restrict others from eating it. Even the people of the Tang dynasty liked to eat carp sashimi.
His poems all had carp in them. It was a test of knife skills. Carp had many bones.
A carp was cut in half and placed into the Mandarin Duck Pot. After the chicken soup boiled, the meat and vegetables were boiled. As they ate, the fish was cooked.
Using mutton to boil it was delicious.
"The Japanese Empire might accept it, but the barbarians might not." Su Yi believed in Li Yi's ability.
As long as the Japanese Empire's envoy was in Chang 'an, Li Yi would have a way to make the other party accept it.
The overseas barbarians in Canton had no use for the Li family's exchange coupons even if they were to use them.
What the barbarians wanted more was goods. They could bring a ship of goods over and exchange it for a ship of goods back to make money.
Bi Goo had a different opinion. "Zhang Jiuling is in charge of the Shipping Department. Xiao Yi asked people who trade with the barbarians to form an organization and raise the price as a whole. This might be a breakthrough point."
"It's difficult. Even if we use the exchange coupons to buy goods from the other party and the other party agrees, the other party will still have to spend all the coupons to buy goods and ship them back."
Song Jing supported Su Yi's opinion. The barbarians wanted the exchange coupons, but they couldn't exchange them for money. What they needed were goods.
"Take it slow, officials!" Li Longji was not in a hurry. He believed that if the officials were in a difficult situation, he could ask Li Yi later and solve it.
The most important thing now was to make the Japanese Empire accept it first. Whether it was to print money for the Japanese Empire or to use the exchange coupons for the Japanese Empire.
Li Longji held his wine cup. He was in a good mood. The Japanese Empire had just arrived, and everything had been arranged.
Next, he just had to wait for the Japanese Empire to cooperate with the Tang dynasty bit by bit and sell the good things from the Japanese Empire to the Tang dynasty.
… …
Zhang Jiuling was also eating fish in the Department of Shipping that was mentioned by several people.
Guangzhou had a lot of sea fish, and he was eating steamed fish.
He was drinking yellow rice wine, which had been warmed.
His hometown was not far from here, and he had adapted to the climate. It was more humid, and he just had to get used to it.
The road was repaired, and the number of people coming and going increased, especially in the current month, when the north was not cold.
When the caravans came from other places and saw the barbarians' ships docked, they would wait for the barbarians to take out their goods to sell. At the same time, they would also sell their goods to the barbarians.
In the past, the barbarians and the merchants would negotiate the price alone. Now, all the merchants had to take out their goods.
They would divide the goods into different types and grades, and set the price. No one was allowed to sell alone.
At the same time, the Shipping Department would collect taxes from the barbarians.
If the barbarians did not have money, they would deduct one-tenth of the goods.
At first, the barbarians were unwilling and wanted to talk to the merchants of the Tang dynasty alone. After some of them were caught and most of their goods were confiscated, the other barbarians agreed.
Needless to say, the merchants of the Tang dynasty were a lowly profession, and the government could punish them if they wanted to.
Moreover, they all knew that the capital government collected taxes, and the money used for their daily transactions was the Li Family Zhuangzi's exchange coupons.
"I've found the person. You've got back the money you were cheated of, and you've also fined them three times the amount.
Let's do it, "Zhang Jiuling said to Wei Yuefeng, who was sitting in front of him, as he used his chopsticks to scoop out a bit of beef chili sauce from a glass bottle and put it into his mouth.
Wei Yuefeng was the one who brought the onion seeds to scam the barbarians, and was caught by Li Yi in the end.
When he came back, he brought back the goods that Li Yi had given him, as well as a letter for Zhang Jiuling.
Yesterday, he had caught the barbarians who had scammed him, and the Shipping Department had come forward to catch them.
The barbarians had confessed and were willing to compensate. They had also said that the seeds were not bad and were different from green onions.
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