Chapter 944 How to Promote Currency
Abe Nakamaro thought for a moment: "You mean burnt lime?"
"Exactly, used for sterilization." Junichiro Takaki gestured.
"Go back and try. We have burnt lime in our country. Why is it called quicklime?" Abe Nakamaro was not very used to the title issue.
"Because it can also be turned into slaked lime, the uses overlap in some aspects and are different in some aspects." Junichiro Takaki learned a lot from newspapers.
"I wonder if I can learn how to make exchange coupons and use them to print money when I go back." Abe Nakamaro knew what exchange coupons were.
They are called exchange coupons in name, but they are actually currency.
What worries him most is that the people are unwilling to use copper coins, and there are many small countries in the country that have been enfeoffed.
In some places where copper is not produced, copper coins are minted in Pingchengjing, but people elsewhere decide that copper coins are useless.
Saying how much something is worth is worse than seeing it yourself.
You know how much rice or cloth you can exchange for ten eggs.
Ten eggs were exchanged for a few copper coins. What should I do if I couldn’t buy the rice and cloth with the copper coins?
The things you get in exchange are what you need. You don’t need copper. Copper cannot be eaten or worn.
Then he thought of a way to allow people with official positions to use money to get promoted.
Officials save their own money, which must be copper coins. They donate a sum and give it to different officials according to the amount.
Those who do not have an official can donate five thousand copper coins to an official.
Officials were also paid with copper coins when receiving their salaries, and were allowed to use copper coins to buy things.
However, it can only be circulated in Pyeongseongkyong and Gyeonggi-do, and people from outside still don’t want it.
Abe Nakamaro and others couldn't figure it out, why? People in the Tang Dynasty liked to use copper coins, and some made bad money.
If you switch to your own country, what's the difference?
With a lot of doubts, everyone continued to visit Dongshi.
Feeling the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, I envy the lives of the people in Jingzhao Mansion of the Tang Dynasty.
There are so many things on the market that it can be described as a dazzling array of things.
The common people took out money and found money, and even the blind people used exchange coupons to buy things.
There are blind spots on the redemption coupons, which should be added according to the method of making watermarks. The blind spots of money with different denominations are different.
Based on the feel and size of the redemption coupon, as long as it is newer, a blind person can distinguish it.
As for the specific purchase, there is no need for blind people to distinguish, there are enthusiastic people nearby to help.
When a seller encounters a blind person, he not only dares not give to the bad one, but also chooses the good one to give. If he gives more, he is afraid that someone will report him to the official.
"Brother, hello, stall owner, I'll give you two more dollars of meat." The Japanese envoy looked at a man helping a blind man to buy things.
The extra two cents is also weight, ten cents and one tael are not the face value of the copper coin, two cents.
"Hey, hey!" The blind man carefully put away the money he had found, picked up the meat, lit it with a stick and left.
A kind person immediately followed and helped the thirty-year-old man go home.
The Japanese envoy lamented the folk customs of Jingzhao Mansion in the Tang Dynasty. When he saw the fried dumpling seller, he took out two copper coins from his sleeve.
He walked over and handed over the copper coins: "Give me a roll."
The stall owner looked at the money he took and distinguished it carefully: "If you don't sell it, you don't recognize it."
"My Japanese money is the same as the Kaiyuan Tongbao of the Tang Dynasty." Xia Daozhenbei pointed to the other party.
The stall owner shook his head: "No, I don't want it. It doesn't feel as heavy as Kaiyuan Tongbao."
"I'll add one coin. Three coins are worth two coins. I'm the Japanese envoy." Xia Daozhenbei felt depressed and added another copper coin.
"Japanese envoys cannot pay less for things, unless you are the owner Li. I will give it to you for free." The stall owner said, taking it in his hand and weighing it a few times.
Nodding: "I sold you, no matter what, you are still an envoy of Japan."
After saying that, he put away the money and motioned to the woman next to him to give Daozhen a roll of steamed buns wrapped in raw paper.
The woman carefully selected the one that looked bigger, but in fact she ate the weighed rice dumplings and handed it to the next one.
I'm really in a good mood next time, this looks big.
He broke off one and put it in his mouth to bite, it was crispy.
Fujiwara Matashi next to him pinched one and said, "I really envy them that they can spend their money wherever they want."
"Li Yi is very resourceful. He may know some reasons and can solve our domestic worries." Junichiro Takaki thought of a way.
It is said that when a prime minister encounters difficulties, he will go to Lijiazhuangzi for advice. The students from Lijiazhuangzi do well in counties and villages.
It shows that you have the ability to be a master. Ask yourself why the copper coins in Japan cannot be circulated. Can Li Yi give you an idea?
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Bi Gou was already asking Junichiro Gao Shu. When the Japanese envoys entered the Tang Dynasty, in addition to paying tribute, they also had a large number of Japanese products.
Including silver, silver was used in manufacturing and tongkaijue, but later it was canceled due to lack of silver.
There was less silver than gold in the Tang Dynasty, and no big mines were discovered.
Silver was a luxury product in the Tang Dynasty and was used to make bronze mirrors and jewelry.
A copper mirror with a little silver added is similar to a glass mirror, but it is easy to wipe off the silver if you keep polishing it.
"Should we collect taxes from them?" Bi Gou stood carefully at the door of a workshop and watched Li Yi operate.
Li Yi is making litmus paper. This is a critical step and no one is allowed to interrupt him.
After Bi Gou finished speaking, Li Yi turned to glare at him, and Bi Gou quickly shut up.
"I have sulfuric acid and caustic soda here. If something goes wrong, it's over. Just wait for me."
Li Yi continued to operate. The red test paper was added with sulfuric acid to test alkali; the second one was added with caustic soda to test acid.
People always rely on experience to judge the pH of soil and make mistakes. Li Yi took the time to collect litmus. After two days of processing, the finished product was produced today.
It can be used after it dries, but a comparison is needed, so he has to adjust the color himself.
Half an hour later, the learning craftsmen understood it.
Li Yi breathed a sigh of relief, walked out, and asked the craftsmen to make a large number of litmus. If there is not enough litmus, they can collect more.
Litmus is now a medicine, which is easier to find and not valuable. A child can collect a lot with a small shovel.
"With test paper, the people will have more choices when farming. They can easily know the situation of their land, what to add to neutralize it, or what crops to plant."
Li Yi had a small bamboo piece in his hand with two litmus papers on it.
"Chemistry, right?" Bi Gou didn't understand the principle at all, but only knew that this knowledge was extraordinary.
"Yes, and if I don't tell others, no one will make it for hundreds of years."
Li Yi was not modest at all, and he didn't plan to teach litmus paper to outsiders.
He would sell test paper and comparison table, and let the court buy them.
"Are you going to give it to the people?" Bi Gou thought it was related to farming, so he thought it was Li Yi's gift.
"The court will pay for it, one pack of 100, plus two comparison tables, in case one is lost or broken, there is a backup.
The government will take it and distribute it to the people, and the people will go to their own fields and bring it back to find the government's table to compare.
Twenty coins per pack, if the comparison table is not needed in the future, nineteen coins, do you think it's okay?"
Li Yi had already planned to sell it for money, and farming was something the court should be in charge of.
"No, how much does this thing cost?" Bi Gou refused, he thought it would be a loss if he bought it.
"Old Bi, don't always think about the cost of materials, don't you consider the cost of technology? I saved money and tried hundreds of thousands of times to invent..."
"I don't believe it, you should have made it directly, and failed once or twice at most." Bi Gou still refused.