Chapter 1091: Huge Surplus Is Not Enough

"Bring the system to Datang ()"

"Tingshuo, don't compare yourself with Xiaoyi, even though you are already very powerful." Bi Gou attacked Su Yan.

Bi Gou was right. Su Yan's information is: Su Yan, courtesy name Tingshuo, weak but sensitive, can recite a thousand words at a glance.

Translation: Su Yan has been smart since he was young. He can read a thousand words at a glance and recite them immediately.

He is a character like Zhang Song, and in theory he should be able to use the image memory method.

"When have you ever compared yourself with him?" Su Yan argued. We don't compare ourselves with things that are not human.

Then he smiled: "It's not easy for Li Yi. It's more tiring than being a prime minister. He has to take care of everything."

"He doesn't have to go to court. He can sleep as long as he wants and eat whatever he wants. He can cook it himself.

Before tonight, Li's farm will send clams. The three of us will each have two catties. Go home and cook them quickly. Don't keep them overnight."

When Bi Gou talked about Li Yi, he thought of a happy thing, that there was seafood to eat.

Real seafood, alive.

When he was in Henan Prefecture, he had never seen live seafood. Who would have thought that seafood could be kept on a boat all the way back.

"It's sold outside, one jin for one jin, and there is no guarantee that all of them are alive, but even if they are dead, they died on the same day."

Song Jing raised the price, but he couldn't afford it. There were not many clams in one jin. He fished them out of the water and weighed them when they were slightly empty.

Fortunately, King Song was selling and giving away clams at the same time, giving them to people who were eligible to eat for free, such as the three of them.

Bi Gou immediately smiled: "Taxes have been paid. The King of Song took the initiative to pay taxes and said he would help the Ministry of Revenue to collect 30 million strings of cash this year, which is one-tenth of the tax.

Because the King of Song needs to give out, the concubines in the palace, the royal family, and ministers like me.

Only one ship, 40,000 kilograms were transported back, and 20,000 kilograms were sold, and there will be more later. Conchs are the most expensive, and the Ministry of Revenue can get more than 4,000 strings of cash from the sale of one ship."

Bi Gou was happy, he liked to make money, even if he couldn't use a penny of that money for himself.

He had a chance to get some of it, such as some project funding, and take kickbacks.

He understood, and the more he understood, the less he would do it. His family sold pencils and made a lot of money. He sometimes donated money to Beitianfang.

If he was greedy, it was not worth it to be greedy for hundreds or thousands of strings of cash. He sold pencils for hundreds of strings a year.

If he was greedy for tens of thousands of strings of cash, the money would be hot to hold, and it would definitely be found out. How would he face His Majesty and Xiao Yi then?

His Majesty, remembering the old times, would probably give me a cup of poisoned wine and leave my body intact; and I don't think Xiao Yi will see me for the last time.

"Will the 30 million strings of cash arrive this year?" Song Jing didn't know if the King of Song was willing to pay taxes. What could you do to him if he didn't pay?

"There won't be 30 million in surplus. I've spent a lot recently. Zhigu asks me for money almost every day to send to various places to build roads and water conservancy projects.

I'm thinking, there will be 20 million strings of cash by the end of the year, and I'm worried.

I'm worried about making money, and I want to take out everyone's money to complement each other; I'm worried about spending money, how to spend 20 million in surplus?"

Bi Gou was indeed worried. In the past, the rent of less than 10 million strings of cash a year was a bit stretched to pay the ministers and provide supplies to the army.

This year's rent is enough, and there is a lot of extra money that has never been used. Oh my God!

Su Yan smiled: "Go ask Li Yi, he will tell you how to use it."

"I'm worried now, worried that he is thinking about the surplus of the Ministry of Households." Bi Gou was even more distressed.

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"Brother, the Ministry of Revenue has a lot of money this year. Take out another 10 million to build a navy. In the spring of next year, the fleet will sail far away. Many ships will be thrown away. It will be fine in the future."

The thing that Bi Gou feared happened in Lijiazhuangzi, just like Murphy's Law.

Li Yi thought that Li Chengqi's speed of making money and building ships was slow. The key was that he had little money and too much investment.

Including raising pearls, planting pepper, developing seaside business, and spending the Tang Dynasty fund...

Potatoes and corn are really good things, tomatoes, kidney beans, sunflowers, sweet potatoes, and big apples.

There is also rubber, throw it to Yunnan, oh, the Southwest Barbarians and Qiongzhou to plant.

There is also a lot of gold and silver over there, and there is a lot of silver in Europe.

As long as there are enough precious metals, the Tang Dynasty can issue non-credit currency.

As long as non-credit currency gets enough, it can become a stable credit currency.

For example, Lijiazhuangzi, even if Lijiazhuangzi does not use collateral and directly prints money, the people will still accept it, and will not take money to Lijiazhuangzi to exchange for gold, silver and copper.

Li Chengqi had heard of all kinds of things outside, and he also saw the pictures drawn by Li Yi.

They said that potatoes and corn have high yields and are easy to feed.

Especially corn, which can be pressed for oil. It can be planted casually and can be eaten by people and livestock.

"I'll ask Bi Gou for it. I can't pay taxes in vain." Li Chengqi decided.

"It has nothing to do with paying taxes. If the things are brought back, won't the Ministry of Revenue still increase revenue? The gold and silver will be transported back and placed in the Ministry of Revenue to issue paper money.

I will mark which mines are easy to dig, mark the coal mines together, refine them locally, and then transport them back."

Li Yi knew that there was a lot of gold in America, and there were a lot of other things.

As for oil, there is also the Middle East. It is difficult to drill wells for oil in the Tang Dynasty, but oil can be dug in some places in the Middle East.

Then load barrels of it and ship it back. It's useful.

"Yes, I'll go there in the afternoon and send them clams by the way." Li Chengqi thought it through.

After eating a big bowl of cold noodles, Li Chengqi left with the clams.

Li Longji came back and had lunch with Wu Jieyu at noon. Wu Jieyu was about to give birth.

"Brother Yi, I heard that the Ministry of Revenue will have a large financial surplus this year?" When Li Longji got the news, he was also worried about how to use the money.

"Before my elder brother came, I said that I needed 10 million strings of cash to build more ships. There are about 10 million strings of cash left. It's not enough if I don't spend it."

Li Yi brought the fruit plate and said worriedly.

"Not enough?" Li Longji felt that he had too much money, so why was it not enough? He had money, very rich.

"My steam engine will be ready tomorrow. It will be ready to produce trains directly. It needs rails. 10 million strings of cash is nothing more than 10 billion coins. It will be used to build and lay rails.

After the inner line of Jingzhao Prefecture is laid, it will be laid to Luoyang. There is nothing left. 10 million strings of cash is enough for this. We should dig and smelt the mines ourselves.

We will make the cement piers for the rails ourselves, and the gravel will have to be transported from somewhere else.

The money of the Tang Dynasty is more valuable. I will pay for the train myself. 10 million strings of cash is enough for this, and it may not be enough."

Li Yi shook his head. It was too difficult. He wanted to spend money, but how much money could he not spend?

The railway tracks have not been built to Shu yet. If I say it out loud, Lao Bi will probably have problems.

How much manpower and material resources are needed to build a railway? Is 10 million strings enough? A hundred 10 million strings can be thrown in.

"Can't we transport goods without railway tracks?" Li Longji became distressed.

He saw the wooden tracks, which were pulled by horses and were very useful, and they cost a lot of money.

"Not really, I will first build a steam engine for ships, plus the sail-powered ships that are going to be thrown away. If I meet the natives, I can sell them to them."

Li Yi thought about it and thought that the current Tang Dynasty railway tracks and trains were not very useful.

It was first built from Chang'an to Luoyang, and then to the Shandong coast. It was still useful. At that time, the ships from Guangzhou would unload the goods in Shandong.

Railway bridges need to be built in the middle, including the bridge on the Grand Canal. Is 50 million strings enough?

His country at that time was frantically building roads. This plan was unusual, and leaders insisted on it.

Then there was the result that express delivery in normal areas arrived within 72 hours, railways, land routes, and the road to prosperity.