Bringing System to Great Tang

Chapter 694: Silk Road Maritime Customs

Princess Yongmu listened quietly and wanted to laugh inexplicably when she heard Li Yi say that there were benefits in exchange.

"Li Lang's family has countless wealth, but he still wants to find more profits?" Princess Yongmu asked with a smile on her lips.

"Wen Tian, ​​if you don't know how valuable materials and rice are, it's not easy to maintain my small family, let alone everyone in the Tang Dynasty. Your Majesty sent troops to protect me, do you think I should think more about Your Majesty?"

Li Yi looked compassionate and wanted to be a wise minister.

Princess Yongmu blinked: "Thank you, Li Lang."

"It's not really a hardship. It's just that the Turks were so hateful that they occupied Suiye Town and wouldn't let the caravan pass."

Li Yi talked about the Turks. The Silk Road on land was broken, otherwise there must be many good things sent from the Silk Road.

Princess Yongmu asked softly: "Can't we do business? The things over there are very good?"

She was young and couldn't remember much when the Silk Road was cut off.

"We exchange silk, tea, and ceramics with them for horses and wool. The key is seeds, which are not available in the Tang Dynasty."

Li Yi said patiently that everyone cannot be expected to know what the Silk Road is replacing.

Princess Yongmu ate her food and raised her head: "I heard that Kunlun people from Guangzhou come by boat every year to exchange things. Can't they take the sea route?"

"Wen Tian, ​​you are so amazing. Not only are you beautiful, but the key is your intelligence. Yes, the year before last, we had an envoy from Annan City in the Tang Dynasty.

But that person had been studying technology and wanted to make something interesting for His Majesty, but Your Majesty didn't want it. "

Li Yi first praised Princess Yongmu, and then talked about the Annan City Ship Envoy. There was one the year before last, named Zhou Qingli.

He followed the Persian monks to make something for Li Longji.

Li Longji didn't know what he was thinking. He didn't want to. He was probably worried that it would be a waste of money and would be of no benefit to the people.

Princess Yongmu blushed slightly when she was praised.

Xiaolan listened and watched: "Dr. Li, my sister Wen Tian is naturally smart."

"Xiaolan is also beautiful and smart." Li Yi praised Xiaolan again.

"What about Guangzhou?" Xiaolan was happy and wanted to study the business.

“Guangzhou is the place where the most important place is to set up a shipping department to specialize in buying and selling things with outsiders.

Zhou Qingli should not focus on building things, but on making money. His Majesty is short of money, and he is not short of toys. "

When Li Yi talked about Guangzhou, he guessed why Li Longji didn't want Zhou Qingli's things.

The purpose of making Zhou Qingli a merchant envoy was to trade with others, not to build things.

"Yes, Guangzhou, we can arrange now to take things out and sell them elsewhere. We don't want jewelry or anything like that, but spices and food."

Li Yi had an idea. The food in Southeast Asia was not valuable, and the spices were not valuable either.

Traveling by land and in small boats, they brought precious items, including pepper, which were sold at very high prices.

Datang took the initiative to go out, and its fleets went out. Before the pepper production in Leizhou and Qiongzhou reached a large scale, they used maritime trade to make up for it.

Something like frankincense, myrrh, cinnamon, cloves, etc.

There are also few aniseed ingredients, so it’s rare to have something to eat in a village.

There are many places in Guangxi, but the road is not easy to travel. How about taking the sea route from Guangxi and turning around the Yellow River to Chang'an?

"Why don't you want jewelry?" Xiaolan's eyes lit up when she mentioned jewelry.

"Li Lang doesn't like luxury goods." Princess Yongmu said. She felt that she knew Li Yi better. Li Yi didn't want pearls or beautifully embroidered cloth.

Unless they can be spent as money, others prefer livestock and grain.

"Wen Tian reminded me, I should do it, thank you." Li Yi changed his mind again.

"I said it, the jewelry is what I said." Xiaolan emphasized her importance.

"Yes, you also said that the luxury goods Wen Tian mentioned should be replaced. Look, a boatload of ceramics have been replaced..."

Li Yi talks about economic accounts.

It's not cost-effective to exchange a boatload of goods for a boatload of food, and neither is spices.

Bringing empty ships there specifically to haul grain is a waste of transportation capacity.

You can exchange for luxury goods, and fill the ship with spices and grains to transport back.

"Luxury goods are sold to rich people and the money is obtained from them. Don't let them have too much money. As the number of luxury goods increases, they will gradually lose their value."

Li Yi revealed the reason why he was willing to exchange luxury goods, causing the rich man's net worth to shrink.

Use the money to build roads and schools, give free things to students, and provide subsistence allowances to the people...

"Why are you so bad?" Xiaolan's eyes widened.

"Li Lang will definitely benefit the people." Princess Yongmu helped Li Yi speak.

"Wen Tian still understands me. Let me tell you Xiaolan, no matter how many luxury goods they buy, rich people can still make money.

People who have no money often give them money directly, but they still have no money.

The solution I came up with is not to make rich people have no money, but to make them earn money more slowly so that the gap between rich and poor is not so big. "

"You know Li Lang is kind-hearted and the prime minister is considerate." Princess Yongmu agreed again.

"Thank you." Li Yi smiled. He was willing to listen to Princess Yongmu's words. Her voice was nice, but the key was that the content was better.

Xiaolan rolled her eyes beside her and didn't want to say anything.

After dinner, Princess Yongmu left.

"Come and play when you have time, Taohong, find a few people to send it off." Li Yi did not go to send it off, and asked Taohong to arrange it.

Princess Yongmu left Zhuangzi and crossed the bridge. A group of people gathered around her and a car parked.

She got in the car and looked at Zhuangzi through the window, and nodded to Xiaolan.

"Let's go." Xiaolan shouted, and the team headed towards the imperial city.

Li Yi returned to his normal state and went back to his study to write a memorial that the imperial court should build the Guangzhou Shipping Department.

Before noon, Li Longji received the memorial.

It says: Land trade is blocked, sea trade is used to supplement, Guangzhou Maritime Customs is built, taxes can be collected, there is a lot of grain outside, merchants can reduce taxes by transporting grain back.

With just this little content, Li Yi didn't want to write it in a flowery way.

Li Longji read it, called out, and asked the prime ministers to come and eat together.

There was one more prime minister, and he hadn't left yet.

Normally, two prime ministers are enough, sometimes three, and one of them must go down soon.

The extra prime minister was Yuan Qianyao, who should normally replace Yao Chong.

But he couldn't take the responsibility, and when he took down Yao Chong, he took him down as well.

The four people arrived and ate noodles with soybean paste, many kinds of pickled vegetables, and each pickled vegetable was a mouthful. UU Reading www.uukanshu.net

It was hot, just the beginning of autumn.

Li Longji didn't speak while eating, and ate one bite at a time.

The four prime ministers looked at each other, not knowing what was going on.

When Li Longji finished the last mouthful of noodles and put down his chopsticks, the four people were eating, which was a coincidence.

The maid brought tea, and Li Longji said: "I heard that there are always Kunlun people in Guangzhou who bring things to trade."

"Your Majesty, I think of someone, Zuo Shiyi Zhang Jiuling is from there, he just resigned and went home, and he should be on the way now."

Lu Huaishen did not express his own opinion, but mentioned a person, Zhang Jiuling.

Zhang Jiuling said a few days ago that his term of office was over, so he resigned and went home, and then he left.

Zhang Jiuling's home is in the south, it's better to ask him than to ask others.

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