"The Li Family Zhuangzi has built many warehouses. Kerosene lamps and thermos bottles are selling well."
"Last year, it snowed heavily and many houses collapsed. The Winged Knights were dispatched, and the Li Family Zhuangzi was in charge of logistics."
"The Ten Miles Inn is being built. It will be here soon."
"Everyone is raising insects now. Bean worms are called Bean Sky Moths. Don't confuse them with Frost Sky Moths."
"There are 30,000 recruits in Taibai Mountain. I heard they are not weak."
"Those who escaped to the capital will be registered as refugees."
"The Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River has been built."
"Many surrendered households have come. They are all arranged by Li Dongzhu."
"When we came out, the Li Family Zhuangzi continued to collect tea. They should be collecting wormwood in a few days."
"At night, all the places in and around Chang 'an will be lit up. The Li Family Zhuangzi will pay for it."
"We brought many newspapers over. If Mr. Zhang wants to read them, we will bring them over."
The two of them talked about what happened when they came out. They did not know what happened after that.
Zhang Jiuling listened and tried to imagine what the two of them were talking about in his mind.
"What about Li Yi?" Zhang Jiuling wanted to know what Li Yi had done.
"You mean Li Dongzhu? Li Dongzhu did not do anything. The Li Family Zhuangzi is not accessible to ordinary people. "
"I know a little. Li Dongzhu sold many horses to the court. Then he dug wells further north to cross the desert."
"Yes, yes, yes. That happened."
"Li Dongzhu sent the 220 people who passed the imperial examination last year to the villages of the capital."
"Yes, yes, yes. That happened."
"Li Dongzhu hired many people to process things."
"Yes, yes, yes. That happened."
The Liang Family was talking, and the Tong Family was echoing.
Zhang Jiuling asked some more questions and asked the housekeeper to send the two of them away.
"I really want to go back and take a look. With Li Yi around, the capital office changes every year. No, it changes every month."
When Zhang Jiuling found out about this matter, he sighed emotionally. He also wanted to see the Capital Magistrate's office become different every day, and the commoners live better and better lives.
Unfortunately, he couldn't go back now. Even though Yao Chong and Lu Huaishen had gone down, Lu Huaishen had gone down as well.
Back then, it was because of these two people that he had resigned from his position. As he had wished, the two of them had lost their positions as Prime Minister.
It was actually not difficult for him to go back now.
But he couldn't leave. If he left, who would be the City Shipping Commissioner?
Every day, a large number of goods were traded, and every transaction was not a small sum.
In a few days, as Wei Yuefeng had said, even more ships would arrive.
Wouldn't that be a hundred thousand taels of tax every month? In a year, just the Guangzhou City Shipping Division alone was worth millions.
One million taels of silver could allow the Tang dynasty to fight a big war, the kind that had sufficient logistical supplies.
"I have to stay here until the imperial court sends someone over. I can only leave after I've taught the successor well."
Zhang Jiuling was afraid that if he left, the successor would not do his job well. He was even more worried that the successor would accept bribes.
Just as he was thinking, the butler came in again. "Dongzhu, Li Family Zhuangzi is here. The pigeon breeder has brought eighty pigeons and other things."
"Quickly invite him in." Zhang Jiuling stood up and wanted to personally welcome him.
He was not here to welcome anyone, but to receive the pigeons.
Previously, he had thought that Li Yi would send the pigeons to the border, but he didn't expect them to be sent to Guangzhou.
The pigeon breeder seemed to be more important. The pigeons were used to him and listened to his orders.
The pigeons couldn't be released, so they could only stay in the pigeon house. Once released, they would run away.
If someone else were to take care of them, the pigeons would not be familiar with them and would cause problems.
When he walked to the gate of the City Shipping Division, the pigeon breeder and the others had just arrived.
"Zhang Weng." The other party very tacitly cupped their fists together.
"Thank you for your hard work." Zhang Jiuling looked at the pigeon house.
The pigeons also looked around curiously as they cooed.
"Quickly, go and build a new pigeon house. Guangzhou is humid, and the pigeons are not used to it. If they want to fatten up, go and get some pigeon food."
Zhang Jiuling smiled. The pigeons were not bad. They didn't lose weight because of the long journey.
This showed that the pigeon breeder had taken good care of them on the way. The Li Family Zhuangzi's people were indeed extraordinary.
"Greetings, Zhang Weng. I am Wang Fangzheng from the Li Family Zhuangzi. This is the pigeon breeder, Pang Xin."
The leader of the team came forward and introduced himself and the pigeon breeder.
There was no need to introduce the others. He was the leader of the team.
"Good, quickly come in." Zhang Jiuling paid enough attention to them.
The people sent by the Li Family Zhuangzi were not ordinary. They could be the county magistrate in any county.
A lot of things were moved in. Zhang Jiuling's butler also brought the pigeon food.
There were many boxes with different things in them.
Pang Xin ignored the others and went to take things from the boxes. He looked, smelled, and ate.
Zhang Jiuling looked at him with a satisfied expression. This was a pigeon breeder.
Wang Fangzheng followed Zhang Jiuling in while the others checked the items outside.
"How is Chang 'an?" Zhang Jiuling sat on the chair opposite Wang Fangzheng. There was a tea table between them.
He asked anxiously even before the water was given.
"Replying to Zhang Weng, everything is fine. This time, we have 200,000 yuan in exchange coupons of various denominations.
Dongzhu had overdrawn the money for the bicycles in advance. It is not considered an overpayment. It is used to circulate the goods in Guangzhou City.
The money belongs to the Li Family Zhuangzi. In the process of circulation, it will offset taxes. "
Wang Fangzheng talked about the money first. In fact, it was fine to overpay.
The overpaid coupons could be used to buy things. These things could be used as collateral.
As long as the coupons were not misappropriated, even if the other party used the money to buy other things, the coupons would still be valuable.
If the Imperial Court did this, with the addition of the 10% tariff, the excess coupons would be earned back after every ten transactions.
Then, there would be a circulating currency equivalent to the overpaid coupons.
In other words, as long as the foreign goods supplier recognized the coupons, the coupons would not be overpaid.
Every time the coupons were printed, they could be used to buy the same thing.
If the profits from the goods sold in the Tang dynasty were taken into account, the overpaid coupons would increase in value.
This was the advantage of a country's currency becoming an international currency. It was a very unreasonable capital plunder.
Li Yi was now using Guangzhou City's Shipping Department to try it out. If you said he was overpaying, he was overdrawing.
However, overdraft was reflected when the currency was issued. When he bought something from someone else and the other party paid the tariff, the degree of overdraft would change accordingly.
The function of the tariff was to turn the overpaid coupons into the standard currency. It needed a circulation process.
The higher the tariff, the faster the return of the standard currency under the condition that the value of the foreign goods did not change.
When the ratio of the tax multiplied by the number of overpaid coupons was equal to the overpaid coupons, the credit coupons of the overpaid coupons would become the standard currency.
The Tang dynasty's currency was stable, and other countries would bear the losses in the process of this transaction.
This was the reason why the currency of the countries on the other side of the world depreciated very little at Li Yi's time.
They were international currencies, and they had this innate advantage.
In theory, the currency of that country should not depreciate. The reason why it depreciated meant that the domestic consumption demand was greater than the total amount of currency issued.
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