Chapter 1040 Friendly States Talk About Cement

"Dr. Li, thank you for the invitation." On May 16th, Lijiazhuangzi and a group of Japanese people arrived.

There were only four people in the Japanese state. They were searched when they crossed the bridge. Before meeting Li Yi, they took a bath and changed into the clothes provided by Zhuangzi.

It was not until noon that they saw Li Yi at the dining table.

Honey worth 25,000 yuan was delivered, accompanied by three people.

Tian Qingyuan, the young minister of Honglu Temple, Liu Tong, the chief minister of Honglu Temple, and Sun Wanyun, the chief of the military affairs committee.

The three of them were very happy to help Li Yi make money, and at the same time make money themselves.

The Japanese people gave their grandson Wan Yun five hundred coins, Liu Tong one thousand coins, and Tian Qingyuan one thousand five hundred coins.

The three of them each received a tenth, which was a considerable income.

There will be gifts when Zhuangzi leaves, which must be valuable.

"The main thing is to thank you for promptly using the honey that is needed for medicine. You are reluctant to eat it yourself. Knowing that the people need it, you donate it to bear witness to Tang Ri's friendship."

Li Yi didn't say "Japan" at this time. He didn't know the name "Japanese" before, but later found that the word "Japanese" was not a good name, so he changed it to "Japan".

It means the place where the sun shines before the Tang Dynasty and where it rises recently.

"When eating, there are many people in the village and life is not easy, so the dishes served to you are a bit shabby." Li Yi greeted everyone to sit down.

He made a large rotating round table, which was piled with plates, and each plate contained many dishes.

There are chickens, ducks, fish, sheep, cattle, rabbits and turtles, and in the middle is a goose stewed in an iron pot.

The four Japanese people were very happy. Look, Li Yi values ​​us, otherwise he would be able to produce so many dishes, some of which would never be seen in heaven or on earth.

"I'm honored to meet you all, please!" Li Yi first brought a small wine cup with white wine.

Drinking wine is popular nowadays, but Li Yi always feels that drinking wine without eating fried steak or something tastes wrong.

The taste of wine will overwhelm the taste of the dishes. Drinking rice wine is better than drinking wine.

Li Yi said that he drank a cup first, a cup worth three qian. After drinking, he frowned and pursed his lips. He waited for the wine to be swallowed before opening his mouth to exhale the alcohol.

"Please!" The other seven people followed suit.

The people from Honglu Temple knew the situation and worked with Li Yi.

The four Japanese people had never tasted such strong wine, so they took a sip and inhaled directly.

‘Cough cough cough.’ They quickly turned around and coughed, their faces instantly turned red, and they felt like their throats were clogged with cotton.

"This wine is too strong, try to breathe harder when drinking it." Li Yi reminded him, he forgot to mention it before.

"Good wine!" Junichiro Takaki praised it first, but he didn't know what was good about it.

Then the tables were turned around and everyone chatted and complimented each other.

After talking for a while, Xidaozhenbei suddenly said to Li Yi: "Dr. Li, the honey that was sent to Zhuangzi before can be beneficial to the people of the Tang Dynasty. It is really great.

I wonder...Does Mr. Li have a way to make the lives of the Japanese people better? "

"Ah? Oh, okay. But I'm not familiar with your country. We have new rice in the Tang Dynasty. Why don't I give you several thousand kilograms of rice seeds and you can take them back and plant them."

Li Yi looked embarrassed and thought of a good thing, rice.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Li. The rice is good. I heard that it can be harvested in two months. The Japanese people will be grateful to Mr. Li." Fujiwara Mayao took over.

After thanking him, he hesitated: "It's just that Japanese people lack housing, so..."

"It's easy. I'll teach you how to burn a kiln. You can send back the method to bake bricks and tiles, use bricks to build houses, and use tiles to keep out the rain."

Li Yi happily agreed and took the wine cup.

Everyone drank a cup, and Abe Nakamaro couldn't help it: "Dongzhu Li, we have seen the cement piers with iron chains on the Kamado ferry. That one is pretty good."

They were always thinking about the price. After thinking about the price, they found it expensive and difficult to transport. Buying cement from Datang and going back to build the fort themselves would require too much manpower.

The boat is small and cannot carry much at a time.

The recipe for making cement is the most important. Send it back and make it in your own place.

"Are you talking about concrete with cobblestones? This..." Li Yi made a long sound.

"Alas!" He sighed again: "To tell you the truth, concrete is controlled and for military use, and the Tang Dynasty is not allowed to spread it to outsiders."

"Yes." Changsun Wanyun testified, yes, how could the cement flow out?

"But the cement store where you buy finished products, for the sake of friendship between the two countries, I will sell it to you at my own cost." Li Yi compromised and sold the cement at my own cost.

"Japan is not an enemy of the Tang Dynasty. It is on the other side of the sea and transportation is inconvenient. Is there any other way?" Abe Nakamaro asked with a bitter face.

"Methods, ways, ways." Li Yi repeated, looking at the three people from Honglu Temple.

"Dr. Li, I drank too much water this morning and I want to fix it." Tian Qingyuan smiled sheepishly.

"I know where it is. I'll take Shaoqing there." The eldest grandson Wanyun went to pull Tian Qingyuan.

"My face feels uncomfortable, go and wash it off." Liu Tong found an excuse and left.

There were no maids or eunuchs, so there were only five people left in the room.

Li Yi put his hand in his pocket and touched the gun: "Everyone, I can't give you the prescription. I can take you to see the cement manufacturing process and the matter of losing your head."

"How about 50,000 yuan?" Xia Daozhenbei directly offered the price.

"I will give you 100,000 pieces of ready-made cement. Take it back and don't talk about watching it in the future." Li Yi retorted with one sentence.

Next to him, Junichiro Takaki knew how rich Li Jia Zhuangzi was, so he smiled and smoothed things over: "It's our Japanese 50,000, and 50,000 min is equivalent to 500,000 silver coins."

"Yes, our Japanese five hundred thousand silver coins." Abe Nakamaro gritted his teeth and agreed.

"Bring it?" Li Yi estimated that it was okay.

The current Japanese silver coins weigh 5-6 grams each, and 500,000 of them weigh about 2.5 tons.

Have you brought so much silver?

It can be exchanged for about 130,000 or 140,000 Tang coins. Now the Tang Dynasty does not exchange one tael of silver for one tael of money.

If one tael of silver is exchanged for one tael of money, then 2.5 tons of silver can only be exchanged for more than 60,600 taels of money.

One catty is 660 grams, and one catty is 16 taels. This is how it is calculated.

One tael of silver can be exchanged for more than two taels of Tang coins. This is the price of selling silver for jewelry.

Since his manor collects gold, silver and copper in order to issue exchange coupons, the value of silver can actually be higher.

"Silver coins don't have those, use other things instead, we have them." Fujiwara Mayang shook his head. They did bring a lot of silver coins and silver ingots.

If they can't take out 500,000, they can use other precious things as compensation.

Li Yi hesitated for a moment, and nodded when the four people were worried: "Bring it here, I will take you to see it, at most ten people, change into our clothes.

Remember not to tell anyone, in the future, if you have cement, just say that you figured it out yourself."

"Okay, now, now. Li Dongzhu, wait for us."

Abe no Nakamaro had no appetite for food, even if the food was good, many of them were new to him.

The four people ran out to find someone to carry things to Li's farm, and at the same time found six skilled craftsmen to watch together.

The three people from the Honglu Temple turned around and came in, sat down again and took the wine cup.

"It's a bit too little to earn, alas! Who made the Tang Dynasty and Japan friendly neighbors, just like a strip of water." Li Yi shook his head and raised his neck to drink a cup.

"Cheers." The three followed and drank with smiles on their faces.