Chapter 2356: Compared to Happiness, There Is a Flaw in the Heart
"Old Bi, you have to think about it. How many steam engines and sailing ships can we send out? Thirty ships can earn three million. Those ships..."
Li Yi was worried that Bi Gou would get angry, so he mentioned another team.
Sure enough, Bi Gou compared it. If thirty ships can earn three million, wouldn't four hundred ships earn forty million?
This voyage is the court's goods and people, and other merchants can follow and see.
"Xiao Yi, how to spend so much money?" Bi Gou swallowed his saliva.
"How to spend? Old Bi, are you afraid that you can't spend it? Do you know how much the Tang Dynasty Tianxia Fund earns a year? How much to spend?"
Li Yi found that the people of the Tang Dynasty seemed to have never seen money. One hundred million strings of money were just one hundred billion coins, and the purchasing power was equivalent to 300 billion to 500 billion at that time. It depends on what to buy.
The railway from Chang'an to Haizhou cost 30 million strings of money, not counting the technical cost and the locomotive and train carriages in the village.
The Tang Dynasty World Fund controls the pearl aquatic products, artificially cultivated kelp, seaweed, sun-dried salt, ducks, and various crop plantings on the coast.
In addition to the Workers' Alliance, Clothing Alliance, Business Alliance, and seafood fishing and processing...
It also has a base of tens of millions of strings of cash a year, all thrown into child-raising subsidies, schools, and Beitianfang.
Bi Gou lowered his head again: "I do know a little bit, but the money is still not enough."
"Don't be sad, Lao Bi, it will get better. Right now, we are building roads and ships, wooden ships, and iron boats.
The wood is shipped back from overseas, and the good wood from the Tang Dynasty should not be used, but kept.
The general wood should be cut down and replanted in an orderly manner, especially in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, our Guanzhong, don't cut down too many trees."
Li Yi comforted Bi Gou, and also said it to others.
As he said this, he served the wine, and everyone continued to eat and drink. After eating, they went back to wait for Lan Bao and others. It was estimated that it would take two days to transport the goods.
The people who came back from Haizhou Wharf ate quickly, and after eating, they went to help carry things.
Lan Bao's father-in-law's family annexed the other two families, and the territory expanded dozens of times.
There are more places to contact the outside world, and everyone came here to exchange things.
Mainly exchange food and ironware, using iron ore, copper ore, silver ore, and gold ore.
Some people don't even know that they are gold ore, which is associated with other ores, and is calculated according to other ores.
Lan Bao led people to repair simple smelting furnaces, burning wood, and the purity of gold ingots, silver ingots, and copper ingots is not too high.
People came to exchange in Heijokyo, not to mention other places.
They usually exchange ironware. They know that the Nantian family has good smelting technology, but they dare not rob it. The people of the Tang Emperor run here.
They want ironware, usually to arm their own army, and another one for the people under their rule.
This use refers to exchange, and the people need to take out more things, otherwise they go there to exchange by themselves, and the journey is long.
It is not easy to go by land, and there are no ships by sea.
The people nearby are willing to exchange food, especially where there are ores nearby.
They carried the ore to exchange, and the dried fish they got from each exchange were more than what they caught by themselves.
It is not that living near the sea means that there are endless fish to eat, and the fish will not come ashore for you to eat.
Lan Bao opened a salt field to dry salt at his father-in-law's place, and 30 large sea boats went out to fish every day.
The fish were spread with salt and dried, and then exchanged with people from other places.
Carrying 100 kilograms of copper ore for six days to return to Nantian's house, the fish meat they exchanged could be eaten for more than ten days.
"Lan Bao, how are the people over there?" Qi Li, the local person in charge of the dock, followed him to eat stretched noodles.
Others went to work, Lan Bao ate slowly, he did not do hard work, and each had his own division of labor.
Jiang Chuan, the battalion commander of the 200 Yu Lin Flying Cavalry, went to help, mainly responsible for command.
"Like the people of our Tang Dynasty, they are hardworking. As long as they can have enough food, they will work hard.
The people they hire are paid well and allowed to move their families here.
In this way, they will work hard for their own interests when there is danger.
The farming equipment there is not good. Some people use stones as hoes to dig the ground and put seeds in a hole.
Generally, wheat is planted, and paddy fields are unwilling to be planted. They need to be plowed. There are no livestock and good plows.
The yield per mu is not as good as that of Guanzhong, Henan Road and other places in our Tang Dynasty. They are very willing to learn..."
Lan Bao took a few bites and stopped to introduce the local situation.
He fenced off the good beach near his father-in-law's house to dry salt and did not allow other outsiders to approach.
Small boats were also arranged to patrol the sea to prevent others from learning.
While he used his technical advantages to process other people's raw materials, he sold fish and salt.
Some Japanese merchants hired people to carry them to the inland in exchange for the difference.
The area around Nan Tian's family has become accustomed to using exchange coupons to buy and sell things, which is convenient to carry and easy to negotiate and set prices.
In the area near Nantian's house, more people gathered to live there, mining in the mountains, sawing antlers, collecting wild honey, helping to process seafood and other jobs.
My father-in-law's family raised a lot of private soldiers, but they did not attack others, just to protect their own side.
The people there lived harder than the people in the Tang Dynasty, but as long as there was a glimmer of hope, they would not give up.
Lan Bao's evaluation was very objective, and he praised the people of Japan more.
"Are there a lot of good things this time?" Qi Li looked at the rail cars moving back and forth on the dock. UUReading Book www.uukanshhu.net
"A lot, mainly because they had accumulated in the past, and there will be a lot next time. Anyway, if you give them time, they will accumulate.
In addition, people in some places did not trust at first, and they did not have ships, so they were building ships.
The land route was too difficult to travel, so they tried to transport the goods to the seaside first, and then came to us after boarding the ship.
People from Heijokyo also came, and there were many nobles. They told me that they wanted something next time they went back..."
Lan Bao talked again, slurping noodles. If he didn't eat them, they would get cold. They were not cold noodles.
A train arrived, and another group of people went up to help unload the goods.
Most of them were ice cubes, and the rest were a mess.
There was a large wooden house next to it, which was wrapped tightly with straw curtains.
Today, less seafood was delivered to Chang'an, and people and goods needed to be transported. Someone called in advance to tell us.
The dispatcher was making emergency arrangements to reduce the number of stops and shorten the parking time.
"Such a big guy?" Lan Bao's hand trembled as he held the bowl. Why was the train so big? It was clearly a big house moving.
"It's almost there. It's said that two more trains will join in half a month. The dispatcher is the busiest one day, and there are also switch workers. "
Qi Li was fascinated by what he heard. He wanted to know more about the situation in Japan.
Because there is a comparison! Only when others live a bad life can one reflect his own happiness.
When he heard that it was difficult for the people of Japan to eat wheat, he felt that his bowl of sauerkraut noodles was particularly delicious.
You can say that he has a bad personality or that he is of low level and small pattern. Anyway, he can feel his superiority through comparison.
"Master Li is really a god." Lan Bao picked up the bowl again.
Minami Kazuko, who had finished her meal, blinked her big eyes and looked at the train, calculating how much stuff could be loaded in that carriage.