Chapter 945: Japan Is Helpless but I Have a Solution

The two argued all the way to Li Yi's courtyard.

Li Yi soaked Luo Han Guo and Ku Niang together in water. The sweetness of Luo Han Guo is different from normal sweetness, and the bitterness of Ku Niang is also different from normal bitterness.

Put the two together, the bitter and sweet are neutralized, and when you drink it... you can still distinguish the bitterness and sweetness.

"People from Lingnan brought some of these fruits, which are ripe and dried.

This year, the most suitable place to plant is Lingnan Road, and the environment in Jingzhao Prefecture is not good enough.

There are few people there now, many of them are mountain people, and the fruits are wild, and they have not been artificially cultivated yet."

Li Yi talked about Luo Han Guo, which can reduce fire and benefit the throat with Ku Niang.

Bi Gou has been drinking too much ginseng beard water recently, and he has a little fire.

Li Yi recommended Bi Gou to eat more cucumbers, not lychees, and bamboo shoots are also good.

There are also gourd strips scraped last year, stir-fried with pork belly.

"Do you want to collect taxes on the things brought by the Japanese envoys?" Bi Gou looked at the things soaking in the glass bottle.

"Tax-free, give Japanese goods a tax-free policy, let them sell more things here, what else can they sell besides copper?

They grow mulberry trees and raise silkworms, and our Tang Dynasty has no shortage of them. They have found few silver mines, unless I tell them where they are.

In addition, there are fish caught by fishermen on the coast, and we also have them on the coast.

The abalone in Japan is good, they catch a lot, and can be made into dried abalone, which I love to eat."

Li Yi mentioned a few things, but Japan is now short of resources. There are a lot of wood in the forest, and the Tang Dynasty has the same amount.

Japan has no trade advantage over the Tang Dynasty. If they are taxed again, they will not sell things to the Tang Dynasty.

"It is said that the copper coins of Japan are not easy to use, and the people in many places do not want them." Bi Gou remembered something he had heard.

"Yes, outside the capital area, people outside do not accept them. They have taken some measures, but the effect is not good."

Li Yi certainly knew, it was written in the information.

"Is there a solution?" Bi Gou asked.

"Old Bi, are you asking for yourself or for Japan?" Li Yi asked back.

"What's the difference?"

"If you ask for yourself, yes. If you ask for Japan, no."

"You really have a way. Why are you so wary of a small country?" Bi Gou didn't understand.

"Small country? How many soldiers do you say you can defeat Japan?" Li Yi didn't think Japan was weak.

The naval battle didn't beat the Tang Dynasty. It was a problem of shipbuilding technology. When Japan has the technology, try it again?

"Tell me, I won't spread it." Bi Gou didn't discuss the fight. He just wanted to know the solution.

At least he couldn't think of a solution. They just didn't want copper coins. You had to chop off their heads.

"The current situation in Japan is the same as that in the Tang Dynasty. The people have to pay rent and labor service, and there are additional labor services.

The people are suffering, and there are also escapees and refugees. The land is seriously annexed.

If copper coins are allowed to be used to pay labor service, and it is only half of the original labor service, then..."

"Then the people will be willing to accept copper coins, sell things, exchange them for copper coins, and save their own things." Bi Gou followed up.

After saying that, he slapped his forehead. Is it that simple?

"Yes, Japan will lose part of its fiscal revenue, but copper coins will be promoted. Japan has a lot of copper, and currency is the foundation of the country.

If you control the issuance of currency, the part you lose can be compensated by minting more copper coins to buy it?

As for bad money and privately minted copper coins, the number is not as much as the official one.

The official has money to guide the economy. For example, your Ministry of Revenue, how much difference is there between having money and not having money?"

Li Yi never felt that such things were difficult. It was a simple matter.

What's the use of forcing copper coins to buy officials and pay salaries?

If productivity itself is not good and the people cannot get actual benefits, how can they adopt substitutes for commodity exchange?

When Li Yi said this, Bi Gou kept nodding, yes, that's it, I have money now, I am comfortable.

This year, including Henan Prefecture, at least 20 million in taxes must be collected.

After two or three years, the tax collected will be over 100 million, and then ask which small country around dares to provoke? I will kill you with money.

"Okay, Xiao Yi, you are indeed someone that everyone wants to rob. I heard yesterday that the Japanese want you to go to Japan."

Bi Gou admitted again that if you get Li Yi, you get the world.

Li Yi sneered: "If I go to other places, will I definitely help the other party? They think too beautifully, I can cheat them to death."

Li Yi thinks differently, why are there always people who think they are self-righteous, they are in the Tang Dynasty and are willing to pay, that's because they are originally Chinese.

If you go to other places, you don't have a sense of belonging, you will definitely do bad things, and then find a way to return to the Tang Dynasty.

Bi Gou liked to hear this: "Yes, Xiao Yi, your heart is not in the Yi. I will never tell them that their court will become stronger if they control the currency."

"I have a way to help them. I will help them print banknotes, and at the same time, the Tang Dynasty merchant caravans will take goods by boat, and use the banknotes printed for them to buy Tang Dynasty goods."

Li Yi never forgot to exchange copper coins and silver.

The issuance of credit currency can be postponed as much as possible, and the standard currency is still more useful.

Bi Gou picked up the glass, took a sip of water, and smacked his lips: "The taste is special, isn't this still helping them?"

"Originally, I was going to give them ten coins of copper coins, and I would print twenty coins of banknotes for them. Now it's ten coins for ten coins, so the operation is like this..."

Li Yi also took a sip of water first, and then talked a lot.

He asked for the weight of the money to be the same as Kaiyuan Tongbao, or not to be cast into coins, and a brass weighing 1.5 coins to be exchanged for one coin of Japanese currency.

Waguo saves a lot of losses in the processing process, I believe they will agree.

The price of Tang Dynasty goods is not the price within Tang Dynasty, and they need to pay extra.

Trade itself is profitable, and the trade between countries that need to be transported by sea is higher, transportation costs, and risks during transportation.

Tang Dynasty merchants receive Japanese banknotes, and exchange them for exchange coupons with Lijiazhuangzi at a ratio of 1.5 to 1 after returning.

The extra 0.5 belongs to the cost of printing currency in Lijiazhuangzi, and the merchants have already sold it at a high price.

Or they directly use money to buy Japanese goods in Japan and bring them back, and pay taxes.

In this way, Japan must always sell things to exchange for exchange coupons, including metals and products from the fields, such as raw silk and cooked silk.

Japanese merchants take a ship to Tang Dynasty, and Japanese banknotes cannot directly purchase Tang Dynasty goods.

Just like Tang Dynasty exchange coupons cannot directly purchase Japanese goods, if Japan is willing to accept it, it is another matter.

"In this way, the two sides compete on processing technology. Whoever has better processing technology will have higher added value of goods.

Our Tang Dynasty technology is better than Japan's. Every time the two sides trade, it is an increase in technology profit.

Trade technology for trade surplus and get more mineral resources and other physical materials."

Li Yi finally explained the relationship between currency, goods exchange and technology in the added value of goods.

This is the normal manifestation of the international trade surplus and deficit at that time.