Chapter 1045: People's Faith and National Reputation

Princess Yongmu watched the bus go by through the window. There were many people on it, and she was happy.

"Li Lang, it's hot at night, and many people come out. The number of passengers increases accordingly, and we can earn back the money for the empty trip in the middle of the night."

"The empty trip in the middle of the night is subsidized by the court, and it is not directly calculated in the normal driving profit during the day."

Li Yi emphasized the difference between the two sides.

When the bus that runs every two quarters of an hour arrives, the wages and materials are calculated extra.

"The money is directly given by the court?" Princess Yongmu is not clear about the specific operation method.

"Deduct it from the operating dividends. The Li family's farm must give it to us. The money that is distributed to the Ministry of Households is deducted from this money, and it belongs to the court."

"Isn't it that the court earns more and takes a little more?" Xiaolan was puzzled.

"The extra profit should be deducted from our profits. In fact, the Ministry of Households should have one department responsible for collecting the full payment and one department for additional subsidies.

It's just that Lao Bi thinks it's troublesome. When the scale is large in the future and it reaches the local level, he will know. It's more troublesome if he can't figure it out."

Li Yi was speechless about Bi Gou. Bi Gou is busy now. The affairs of Henan Prefecture are running. Fortunately, Zhang Shuo is watching.

Xiaolan rolled her eyes, not quite understanding: "Spending so much money just to get people to the pharmacy faster, is it worth it?"

"The court's money is meant to be spent. The car can run empty, but the credibility will not be empty.

Now the court is saving lives and gaining recognition, which will spread from Jingzhao Prefecture.

In the future, the court will issue credit currency, and the people will still recognize it. A country without a stable currency will inevitably not rule for a long time."

Li Yi believes that not every money spent will have a profit in the end.

When money is spent, as long as there is profit, it is fine, and profit is not just money.

If the court puts making money first, it can only explain two problems.

One is that international competition is fierce, and the external environment is like this, so you should learn from it.

The other is that domestic fiscal revenue has decreased, and it is impossible to achieve the planned goals, so it is directly released.

The advantage is that in order to make more money, the people will think of more ways to promote the improvement of social production technology and productivity.

The disadvantage is that the people only see the money, as long as they can make money, they can laugh at poverty instead of prostitution.

And the most important thing for the Chinese nation is tradition. If you lose this tradition, it will be difficult to get it back.

I have been reciting poems and ancient Chinese since I was a child, and I have to take exams, but I can't understand a slightly literary article. Whose sorrow is this?

The Tang Dynasty's control over the local areas is actually not very good, and it is also suppressed by force.

The local families are higher than the local government offices. If the government office wants to sentence someone to death, it must report to the higher levels and finally report to the Ministry of Justice.

When a local family sentences someone to death, it will be announced and executed directly, without reporting to the officials at all, and the government acquiesces.

So at a glance, oh, it's a prosperous era, with more than a dozen death sentences a year.

These dozen have been approved by the Ministry of Justice, how many have not been approved?

Li Yi wanted to reverse and change, he had the ability, he had no selfish interests in profit, and it was easy to make money in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Yi was lost in thought, and the carriage became quiet again.

Princess Yongmu stretched out her hand and pulled Li Yi's frown aside: "Li Lang, with a credit currency, will there be no situation where money is worthless?"

Li Yi's brows relaxed: "How is it possible? As long as the logistics speed is not fast enough, there will be problems."

"What problems?" Xiaolan couldn't figure it out, so she asked.

"For example, I go to Yuezhou, where there is Dongting Lake and beautiful scenery. I have money, I will bring one million strings of cash..."

Li Yi began to tell the two people how he would do something bad.

He would send many people at the same time to buy pigs from all over the country, big pigs and small pigs.

Hundreds of thousands of strings of cash were spent, and basically all the pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese in that area were bought.

Hundreds of thousands of strings of cash were spent, but it was not just Yuezhou, but several surrounding states.

Then he continued to raise the price to buy, and before the new livestock and poultry were shipped in from outside, the prices of such commodities in several states skyrocketed.

More people wanted to raise them and then sell them.

The people didn't know anything about economics, so they were fooled by others.

Li Yi would sell the things he had bought before at a high price, and then secretly buy grain.

The people bought livestock and poultry, hoping to make money by selling them at a higher price.

Li Yi kept speculating, and every day was more expensive than the day before, and the people also bid up the price to buy and sell.

When it was almost time, Li Yi sold all the things he had bought before, and turned to buy a large amount of grain.

The whole area would immediately experience a sharp inflation phenomenon.

Everything was rising in price, and as soon as the foreign livestock and poultry arrived, the people had no money to buy them.

Those who had bought livestock and poultry before were crying and selling them at a lower price, and some people borrowed money to buy them, but couldn't pay them back, so they gave their land and houses to others.

Foreign goods were not selling at all, and even the goods from these states were sold to the outside world at lower and lower prices.

As long as Li Yi spread the word: the money of the court is worthless, it's useless to take it, everyone should hurry to buy things, and the things are real only when they are kept at home.

The people would spend any money they had, and the sellers would not accept paper money.

At this time, Li Yi made a lot of money. In the surrounding areas, whoever still accepted paper money, he would go to buy food crazily.

With the movement of rejecting paper money and the real feeling that paper money is worthless, more people don't want paper money.

"Does it impact our credit currency?" Li Yi said, and asked the two people with a smile.

Princess Yongmu and Xiaolan were already dumbfounded. They admitted that there was no problem for Li Yi to throw out hundreds of thousands of strings.

It's not just talk. Li Yi has money. Some prices in Jingzhao Prefecture are actually controlled by Li's manor.

Li's manor adjusts the commodity prices of the entire Jingzhao Prefecture through the commodity prices in the big market in the south of the city, which is the pricing power.

No wealthy merchant dares to hype something when he finds any opportunity. If he dares to move, Li Yi can kill him without any administrative order.

Someone must dare to buy pigs and buy them hard to raise the price of live pigs in Jingzhao Prefecture.

If Li Yi has a little conscience, he will say: The price of pork is too high and must be lowered.

The other party will stop immediately, and then would rather lose some money to lower the price of pork.

If Li Yi is very angry, he will let the other party know that he can't buy all the pigs, at least the other party doesn't have enough money, and he can't sell the pigs after buying them.

"Li Lang, if someone really unites to do that, can you deal with it?"

Princess Yongmu is worried about her father, and the court will inevitably issue credit currency.

What should we do if someone makes trouble at that time?

"Don't worry, there are many ways to do it. One is for the government to arrest people and say that they are hoarding and driving up prices.

But I don't like to do that. Bullying people makes the court look incompetent.

Another way is to transfer things from the side. I would rather lose money and transfer things quickly, and then limit the supply of meat to each household every day.

The last one is simpler. If they dare to spread the news, I will also spread the news. I will say in the newspaper that those purchased things are harmful to the body."

After Li Yi finished speaking, he laughed. He was not afraid of others making false propaganda because he controlled the power of public opinion.