Chapter 2522: First Snow Falls and Then Starts Cheating

"Brother Yi, just arrange for someone to take care of the trivial matters." Li Longji held the wine cup. He thought this matter was simple.

He loved to listen to popular science, but he didn't want to raise this matter to a certain height.

When he waited for Brother Yi to find him alone, Brother Yi's popular science was interesting, without political appearances.

He knew why some ponds had more reeds cut, and under the water, there were more withered lotus flowers in the pond that were taken away by ships, and then there were fewer fish.

It was a matter of air. People need to breathe, and so do fish.

"Third brother is right..." Li Yi agreed.

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The snow fell, and the water transport of the Yellow River was not as durable as that of the Yangtze River, and gradually stopped.

But it did not affect Haizhou, where there were railways, to continue to transport materials to the inland. The Tang Navy that went out returned one after another to unload and rest.

A large amount of spices and gold were transported to Lijiazhuangzi. The purity of gold was not enough, so it had to be smelted and purified.

The foreign merchants brought gold and silver here, not for direct trade, but to melt them first, calculate the weight after melting, and pay a sum of money for fire consumption.

"Brother Yi, how do we arrange these things?"

Li Longji stood outside in the snow. This year, God did not prepare for them. It snowed heavily and it has not stopped yet.

All the navy came back with a lot of valuable things, mainly spices, and a smaller amount of gold.

Every time a ship was fully loaded with these things, it would pull precious wood and food when it came back.

The first time they set out as the entire Tang Navy, the value of the things they brought back was more than 100 million strings.

This 100 million strings includes the discount of some things because the sales price has become lower due to the increase in quantity. If there is no discount, it will be more than 100 million strings.

Pepper grains, more than 50 tons per ship, were calculated by grams in the past few years.

Now the people want to buy, weighing one or two is not much money, and the family income can afford it.

"Print Tang banknotes, stop printing the exchange coupons of Li's manor, and slowly recover them through market transactions."

Li Yi was in a good mood. He finally returned the right to issue currency to the official, but he still controlled it.

The collateral for the official printing of banknotes must be kept in the manor to prevent others from stealing them away.

The versions of Tang Dynasty banknotes of various denominations have been made, and 20 million banknotes of different denominations have been printed, but they have not been issued.

The laws of the Tang Dynasty have been revised long ago, requiring that no transaction process in the Tang Dynasty should refuse to accept Tang Dynasty legal currency.

Currency issuance is easy, and the salaries given to officials are directly converted into new Tang Dynasty banknotes.

The Clothing Alliance, the Workers Alliance, and the Merchants Alliance exchanged the exchange coupons of Lijiazhuangzi for the same amount of Tang Dynasty banknotes.

The court exchanged the exchange coupons with Li Chengqi, and took the exchange coupons to Lijiazhuangzi to exchange for collateral.

Lijiazhuangzi changed the name of a warehouse where the collateral was placed and turned it into the court's.

The exchange coupons given by the court to Lijiazhuangzi were destroyed to complete the exchange.

Another case is that the court gave Lijiazhuangzi the court's banknotes, and Lijiazhuangzi gave the court an equal amount of low-voltage materials, and Lijiazhuangzi used the court's money when buying things.

For example, the same operation is done for paying wages for railway construction.

The exchange vouchers of Lijiazhuangzi gradually withdrew from the stage, and finally only the paper money of the court was in circulation.

However, it cannot be exchanged now, and the court can only issue currency to pay "salaries" to officials and the army and buy things for the people.

The reason is that the exchange vouchers of Lijiazhuangzi are still very new and have not recovered the printing costs. The paper money of the court also has printing costs.

Direct and fast exchange will eliminate a printing cost.

The exchange vouchers in circulation in the Tang Dynasty as a whole are obviously not enough. If they are recovered, a large number of Tang Dynasty paper money needs to be printed. The more they are printed, the more collateral they need.

"Brother Yi." Li Chengqi held a string of candied haws in his hand: "The things used as collateral depreciate, is it the currency depreciation?"

"Yes! Therefore, the collateral must be rare. After the appreciation of gold, the exchange vouchers appreciate, and other items depreciate accordingly."

Li Yi nodded, looked at the candied haws in his brother's hand, and always felt that it was too early to eat it now, the first snow.

"If the amount of foreign gold and silver increases, won't our collateral depreciate?" Li Chengqi considered this issue.

"When there are more, the foreign ones depreciate, we use exchange coupons and Tang Dynasty paper money to buy them. The gold that was originally worth one string is worth half a string.

Who dares to use physical gold and silver to enter the Tang Dynasty market in large quantities to push the Tang Dynasty currency to depreciate? We will print paper money to buy without collateral, and the ones we buy will be collateral.

In this process, there will be taxes, and this tax is our extra profit.

Even if they use paper money to buy back collateral in large quantities, we will not be run down."

Li Yi doesn't worry about this kind of thing at all. Who dares to play finance with him now? He will bully the other party to death.

Li Chengqi suddenly realized: "What is the tax for? Gold and silver trading, 30% tax, right?"

"If it is made into a handicraft, it will be 80%. Old Bi has the most say. He always thinks about the new technology products in my village."

Li Yi smiled. Next year, Bi Gou will start to hand over power and join Tuan'er for retirement.

Retirement is not allowed. Once retired, it's over. Not all retired people can change their mentality well.

Let him relax a little, and participate in the development of the Tang Dynasty, so that he can live a few more years.

Li Longji came to Li Chengqi, grabbed his brother's hand, and ate a hawthorn, frowning with sourness: "It seems like yesterday!"

His eyes were red, and he felt that these years had passed very quickly, and the Tang Dynasty was developing rapidly.

He had more children, and the scar on the eldest son's face completely disappeared, and he was studying hard.

After giving birth to two children, the queen is getting younger and younger, growing up backwards? Prepare to have another child, preferably a girl.

"Song De, is there something?" Li Yi followed his feelings and found that Song De was standing there a few dozen steps away without approaching.

"After hundreds of experiments, the largest airship has been made, hydrogen."

Song De came over at this time and saluted first.

"Don't be sad, it's just spending money. Many scientific research is delayed because of lack of money. What is the most lacking in Li's manor?"

Li Yi knew where Song De's expression came from. Airships cost money. Large and small experiments were constantly made, and more than 200,000 strings of cash were thrown in.

It is mainly used to study how to prevent other airbags from exploding after one airbag is ignited and exploded by a diesel engine.

If this problem is not considered, the R&D cost is very low, and Li Yi directly provides some technology.

"It's money. Let's build a large airship that is 100 meters long and 20 meters in diameter at the front. Theoretically, it weighs 25 tons, carries 17 tons, has dual diesel engines, and can travel at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour."

Song De was happy and reported the situation of the airship that was about to take off. It was normal that the owner was good, and the key craftsmen were also good.

"Okay! When will the test run be?" Li Yi knew why the front diameter was small. For speed, the rounder it is, the slower it flies, because there is air resistance.

He originally thought that the speed would be a few dozen kilometers, but it ended up exceeding 100 kilometers.

With people and diesel, it should be able to transport 12 or 13 tons of cargo at a time, flying to Zhenzhou and Sanya.