Chapter 1270: Trade Is Limited to the Other Side of the Mountain

"Those with technical barriers are called high-tech commodity exports, and those without technical barriers are called OEM." Li Yi first gave a definition.

To be more specific: "High-tech commodities have high added value. Today's glass mirrors are high-tech, with low material costs and high sales prices."

"What is low-tech? Silk?" Wu Jieyu knew that others were willing to buy Tang silk, and also porcelain.

"Silk is a high-tech product. Others don't have it. The people of our Tang Dynasty can't have a set of silk clothes each. How can it be said that the technology is low?"

Li Yi not only does not think that silk is expensive, but also thinks that silk exports should be restricted.

Use other commodities instead. Silk is cool to wear in summer, and good silk brocade is indeed beautiful.

Li Longji raised his eyebrows: "If you grow cotton, you can't grow land. Food should be the first priority."

"Let others grow cotton, and we buy it back to make clothes. Yes, the Southwest Barbarians, and Tianzhu, Tianzhu's cotton is good."

Li Yi narrowed his eyes, and a map appeared in his mind, where is suitable for growing cotton, where is the wheat and rice, spices...

"Increasing the volume and variety of trade, we can't always have pearls, tortoises, and corals.

Expensive luxury goods cannot reflect their value in medicine, they can be replaced by other things.

Medicinal pearls, in two years, the pearls we grow can be harvested every year, one year for one year of planting and harvesting.

It's not cost-effective to exchange a lot of silk grown for gems.

I know where there are gem mines. If necessary, send people to dig directly.

What rubies, sapphires, cat's eyes, diamonds that can be used to polish jade from other mountains, I know what they haven't found now."

Li Yi felt sorry for such good silk, tea, and porcelain to exchange for stones.

Exchange for food, spices, and medicinal materials, you can get a lot.

Let others grow more cotton, the climate there is good, and they don't have to worry about food or clothing.

"We pay one piece of silk to transport one hundred dan of grain to the seaside. The land and labor for raising, collecting, and weaving one piece of silk can never be exchanged for one hundred dan of grain."

Li Yi calculated for everyone how much he paid and how much he gained, which is called technical advantage.

It is not his business how much the other party paid for sending one hundred dan of grain. Since the other party is willing to exchange, it means that the profit is still very high.

"Uncle, we need to build more ships and speed up. We can't let them take all the profits."

Queen Wang wanted to capture the foreign merchants and turn them into slaves of the Tang Dynasty, specifically exchanging good things for the Tang Dynasty, and the foreign merchants just need to give them food.

Li Yi looked at Li Chengqi, Li Chengqi was in charge.

"Merchants have been organized. The Tang Dynasty Merchant Alliance is the only one to the outside world. They will not compete with each other.

Merchants who join the alliance must set unified prices when trading outside and must not actively reduce prices.

At the same time, if a trade blockade is implemented, no one can sell, and those who sell will be dealt with. Those who do not join the Merchant Alliance..."

Li Chengqi stopped talking, and the outcome of not joining was set.

It was not easy to get a boat, but if you don't join the Tang Dynasty Merchant Alliance, you will be guaranteed to be sunk when you go out to sea.

As for the king's law, what king's law is there overseas, and who is the king?

In order for everyone to be able to pull together, you have to be ruthless.

Once you are outside, if someone has a good relationship with the locals, other merchants from the Tang Dynasty will go there and survive.

Li Longji followed and said: "In the future, when the Tang Dynasty fleet goes out for patrol, we will patiently teach anything that is not good for our Tang Dynasty."

"When can we go out to sea to see? What is it like to sail in the sea?" Concubine Dou Lu has never been to the seaside.

I just heard people say that someone drew it.

She knew the sea, and it appeared in the water curtain. At a glance, it was all water, boundless.

The sun rises in the water and sinks from the water. The sky in the distance is connected to the water.

Li Yi looked at everyone, none of whom had been to the seaside, and said, "The railway is built, let's take the train to take a look."

Li Yi felt sorry for these people. They looked powerful, but in fact, if it weren't for the An-Shi Rebellion, they would have been traveling between the East Capital and the West Capital.

Going to the East Capital was because they couldn't get food. There were a lot of people in the palace, and they had to eat and eat with the people every day. They had to fight for that little food, so they moved.

It was a method, but also an escape, an escape from natural disasters.

This year, there was a severe drought in Guanzhong, and the locust plague in history caused a large reduction in grain production, which could not be transported to Chang'an, and the people were hungry and ate dirt.

Leaving Chang'an, out of sight, out of mind.

Knowing the disaster in advance, Li Yi first cleaned up the locusts and then spread them all over the water network.

If the people had a lot of surplus food, Li Longji would not go to Luoyang.

"Yes, go and have a look. Brother Yi, you can rest assured if you follow me. Or ask His Majesty if he can send the prime minister to go with me to the seaside to see the people's livelihood."

Li Longji is not worried about government affairs now, the army is powerful.

If there are any urgent government affairs that need to be handled, it will be no problem with Li Yi.

Even if the sky is about to fall, ask Brother Yi, and Brother Yi will find a way to solve it.

Li Yi looked at Li Longji: "Who will go and who will stay? Third brother makes a request, and His Majesty will definitely agree."

"Brother Yi, who do you think is better to stay?" Li Longji couldn't think of it for a while.

"Old Song and Old Zhang are both fine. They have both seen the sea. Old Bi... Old Bi has also seen the sea, but Su Yan has never been to the seaside."

Li Yi took a look and saw that you all know the sea!

Bi Gou was the governor of Guangzhou. As the governor of Guangzhou, why didn't he go to the seaside to have a look?

"They... Alas!" Queen Wang sighed.

She envied others. In the past, she didn't consider going to the seaside and was always struggling.

Theoretically, you can see the sea when you are at Mount Tai, but in fact, it is hundreds of miles away. There is no telescope, and it is covered with clouds and fog. Even without fog, you still can't see it.

In the past, you couldn't find a chance to go out. Could the empress and the emperor go to the beach to play? No more court?

Now everything is different. Court? Where Li Yi is is the court.

Princess Yongmu looked longingly at the side: "Is the sea beautiful?"

"It's better to swim in summer, but the premise is that there must be a beach with fine sand, and the reefs will hurt your feet. Otherwise, I will take you to fly there.

The area north of the Yangtze River is not good, it's cold, go to... Qiongzhou, it's warm there, and the beach is okay.

I will teach you to surf, just like a sled, the one you wear on your feet."

Li Yi saw that Princess Yongmu wanted to go, and wanted to fly directly.

"Brother Yi, no, the journey is long, and you will get sick if you suddenly go from a cold place to a hot place."

Li Longji hurriedly stopped him, don't go, our destination is Hongnong, not Qiongzhou

Others persuaded him to stay. We would not feel at ease if he left.

"Li Lang, wait until next year." Princess Yongmu gave up the idea of ​​seeing the sea immediately.

"Well, in fact, if it's fast..."

"It will take at least three days, right? Let's hurry up in three days and get to Hongnong." Li Chengqi interrupted Li Yi.

"No, I won't go." Li Yi nodded.

"Master, Wang Wei ate the half-cooked fish and said it tasted good." Song De came here and reported to Li Yi.

"The little brat is the little brat. He is going to have diarrhea. Well! He can see me." Li Yi was surprised and admired.

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