"No, no, Brother Yi, it's too dangerous over there, not to mention that you can't leave Chang'an." Li Chengqi's hairs stood up.

He didn't expect Li Yi to go out in person, what kind of joke?

Sending Brother Yi abroad is purely overkill, and Brother Yi should stay in Zhuangzi.

Then if you have any questions related to the national policy, ask Brother Yi.

Have you ever seen the prime minister running out when he is not in the court?

"If I don't go, no one else can go. Economic warfare is not easy to fight. Li Yi insisted.

"I know, it was written in "Guanzi" that Guan Zhong used economic warfare to defeat other countries again and again, find someone to learn it, and it will be."

Li Chengqi took out the book "Guanzi", in which it was written that Guan Zhong's economic war against the Lu State, the Hengshan State, and the Chu State.

When he fought the Chu State, he said that he used money to buy Lu Min, and then the people of Lu State stopped farming, and planted mulberry trees to raise silkworms and weave silkworms.

Then Qi Guo, continue to buy.

In the end, the country of Lu ran out of food, and the state of Qi pitted the country of Lu.

When he fought the Hengshan Kingdom, which did not exist at all in the Spring and Autumn Period at that time, he said that Guan Zhong knew that the weapons of the Hengshan Kingdom were good, so he bought them at a high price.

The capital of Hengshan Kingdom has built weapons, no one farms, there is no way to eat, and the State of Qi has pitted Hengshan Country again.

said that he would fight the Chu State, buy the deer of the Chu State at a high price, and sell a large amount of grain to the Chu State at a low price, and the Chu State raised deer instead of growing grain, and there was no food, and the Qi State pitted the Chu State.

Li Yi knew these stories, and he looked like he couldn't laugh or cry.

"Big brother, that's a story, fake, where did Qi get so much money to support a country's main industry?

When that country makes money, it keeps the money and doesn't spend it, raising deer, building weapons, and weaving cloth every day?

I said that I bought artemisia seeds at a high price, but the people of Jingzhao Mansion didn't plant their fields anymore, and they specialized in planting artemisia?

The currency of the Spring and Autumn Period was messy and made of bronze, where did the Qi State get the money? ”

Li Yi told Li Chengqi, don't listen to the story, there is a kind of train of thought in the story.

The real situation does not exist, and now the people still exchange eggs for things and bamboo baskets for things.

There are also silk silks that are also spent as money, and copper coins are simply not enough.

The people have made money, of course they have to consume, do they keep it?

How long does it take to plant mulberry trees and silkworms? How many silkworms are produced in a year?

In this process, the Qi State was providing food, and then suddenly ran out of food.

That is to say, the Qi State had a lot of money at that time, so that the Lu State could destroy the fields and plant mulberry in a large area, and the extent of silkworms.

At the same time, Qi can also sell grain to Lu at a low price to support the daily catering of Lu people.

Since you're so awesome in Qi Kingdom, why don't you just do it?

Think about it, if Qi wants to do that, how many times is the productivity of other countries?

Behind the productive forces is production technology, and production technology drives military technology when it is used.

"Huh? No way? Li Chengqi also thinks that after watching "Pipe", he can understand the economic war.

"Economic warfare is driven by simple buying and selling, but it is not simple buying and selling. There has to be a process in which both sides gain and lose each other in trade.

Comprehensive profits, called trade surplus, is to take advantage of others.

The overall profit is small, which is called a trade deficit, and it is taken advantage of by others.

In the deficit, a large amount of resources are lost, and the national strength is weakened, which is usually accompanied by the depreciation of the external currency and the inflation of the domestic ......"

Li Yi also told his eldest brother about state-to-state trade relations.

"Is the loss of resources a trade deficit?" Li Chengqi summed it up.

"No, if you just export goods and not enough to buy other people's goods, you will have a trade surplus on the books.

If I tell them that there are good iron and coal mines in that place, they will mine them in large quantities.

When sold to our Datang, they are a trade surplus in resource exports.

It is enough to buy food from Datang, and the people can still live a good life. ”

When Li Yi said it, he thought of a small island country, and the one that sells guano is actually phosphate rock.

There was a time when the people were rich.

The people on the island used to be thin and thin, but since they had money, they have all become fat.

Later, they sold almost enough, and they ran out of money, and they were used to living a good life.

"I can't say it, Brother Yi, you can't say it, you still know where there are mines, it's best to be in a place where our Datang is closer to Chang'an, you tell me."

Li Chengqi knew that coal was good, not to mention iron ore, how could he tell the enemy.

"So I have to go to the Khitan and solve the problem in the Bohai Kingdom." Li Yi turned back to the topic.

"Nope." Li Chengqi continued to shake his head.

Safety aside, how long does it take to make a trip?

The last time I went to Luoyang, Henan Province, I felt that there was no backbone in Chang'an City.

Fortunately, last year was in response to the locust plague, and this year the situation is even more severe.

When it comes to tax collection, Bi Gou is thinking about money, but he can't come up with a perfect operation method.

In case there is a loophole in any place, the household department tries to make up for it, but the way I think of is wrong again, and I change it back and forth, which delays things too much.

Brother Yi stayed in Zhuangzi, and he had something to ask him.

"That's just to let their people follow, send some things to the border first, smuggle a few, and exchange them for money."

Li Yi temporarily dispelled the idea of going out and prepared to implement another set of plans.

Anyway, either one will do, the effect is different, just change it.

"Big brother, tell the Khitan envoys that the members of my Li family's Zhuangzi's economic and cultural exchange team, three hundred and ninety people and their relatives who went to play with them, were taken out of the Tang Dynasty who were captured by them.

Now I'm asking the team members to come back and refine the follow-up action plan. ”

Li Yi said another thing to Li Chengqi.

At the beginning, the owner agreed to ensure the personal and property safety of the respective team members of both parties, and at the same time to be able to withdraw at any time.

Now it's here, Datang's team members are the Datang people who were captured over there, three hundred and ninety people.

Their relatives went to play together and had to bring it back as well.

Isn't there 390 captives here, reciprocal, the captives can also be converted into members of the Khitan team, and their relatives can bring them back together.

"Huh?" Li Chengqi felt confused, team members can do this? It is impossible for the other party to agree.

The people who were taken were the private property of people from place to place.

"Brother Yi, I'm afraid it's inappropriate for you to exchange prisoners, right?" Li Chengqi shook his head.

"What's wrong?" Li Yi was puzzled.

"The number of people is different, with family, more." Li Chengqi said as if you didn't even know this.

"I've also taught three hundred and ninety people how to do it, what did they Khitan teach us to the Tang people?

Three hundred and ninety people will give birth to bean sprouts, and the people in Datang over there, could it be that the Khitan people taught them to give birth to bean sprouts? ”

Li Yiqiang's words are reasonable, and others still think that they are right.

"They won't say yes." Li Chengqi is from himself, and if he is replaced, he will not do it.

"I didn't expect them to agree, I contacted them first, discussed the number of people later, and there were follow-up operations, little by little."

Li Yi understands better, others are stupid when they are uncomfortable, you say that 390 people will be exchanged for 390 households, so they will be exchanged with you?

He followed and said: "Once I go, it's April and May, and I have arranged all the arrangements, if I go by myself, it will be easy to do." ”

"No, let's do it in a difficult way." Li Chengji once again firmly stopped.