Princess Yongmu listened quietly, and when she heard Li Yi say that she would be in exchange for benefits, she wanted to laugh inexplicably.

"Li Lang's family has a lot of wealth, and he wants to find more abundant profits?" Princess Yongmu asked with a smile on her lips.

"Wen Tian, if you don't know how expensive rice is, it's not easy for me to maintain this small family, not to mention everyone in Datang. Your Majesty sent troops to protect me, do you think I have to think more about Your Majesty? ”

Li Yi looks compassionate and compassionate, and wants to be a virtuous minister.

Princess Yongmu blinked: "Li Lang has worked hard. ”

"It's not that bitter, it's just that the Turks are too hateful, and they actually occupied the town of Broken Leaves and didn't let the caravan pass."

Li Yi said that the Silk Road on land was broken, otherwise there must have been many good things sent from the Silk Road.

Princess Yongmu asked softly, "Can't do business anymore?" Stuff over there is good? ”

She was young, and when the Silk Road was broken, she couldn't remember anything.

"We use silk, tea, and ceramics to exchange horses and wool with them, the key is seeds, seeds that Datang does not have."

Li Yi patiently said that he could not expect everyone to know what the Silk Road was for.

Princess Yongmu took a bite to eat and raised her head: "I heard that every year in Guangzhou, there are Kunlun people who come by boat to change things, can't they take the sea route?" ”

"Wen Tian, you are too powerful, not only are you beautiful, but the key is to be smart. Yes, the year before last, we had an envoy from Annan City in Datang.

But the man has been researching technology and wants to make fun things for His Majesty, but His Majesty doesn't want it. ”

Li Yi first praised Princess Yongmu, and then said that the envoy of Annan City, who had one the year before last, was called Zhou Qingli.

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

Li Longji didn't know what to think, no, probably because he was worried that the people would lose their money, and it would not be beneficial to the people.

Princess Yongmu was praised and blushed slightly.

Xiaolan listened and watched from the side: "Proprietor 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 as soon as she could.

"Guangzhou is the most important place to set up a city department to buy and sell things with outsiders.

Zhou Qingli should not put his mind on making things, but to make money, His Majesty is short of money, and there is no shortage of toys. ”

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

Let Zhou Qingli be the envoy of the city in order to trade with other people, not to make things.

"That's right, Guangzhou, now you can arrange, take things out, sell them elsewhere, don't want jewelry or anything, ask for spices and food."

Li Yi had an idea, the food in Southeast Asia is not valuable, and the spices are not worth much.

Traveling overland and taking small boats with some precious things, including pepper, fetch very high prices.

Datang took the initiative to go out, the fleet went out, and before the pepper in Leizhou and Qiongzhou formed a scale, they used maritime trade to make up for it.

What frankincense, myrrh, cinnamon, cloves, etc.

There are few big ingredients, and it is expensive to eat something in the Zhuangzi.

There are many places in Guangxi, but the road is not easy to walk, take the sea road from Guangxi and turn around into the Yellow River to Chang'an?

"Why don't you want jewelry?" When Xiaolan said jewelry, her eyes lit up.

"Li Lang doesn't like luxury." Princess Yongmu spoke up, she felt that she knew Li Yi better, Li Yi didn't want pearls, and the beautifully embroidered cloth.

Unless it can be used as money, the others prefer livestock and grain.

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

"I said, I said jewelry." Xiaolan emphasized her importance.

"Yes, you also said that the luxury goods that Wen Tian said should be changed. You see, a shipload of ceramics has been exchanged for ......."

Li Yi talked about economic accounts.

It is not cost-effective to exchange a shipload of things for a shipload of grain, and it is not cost-effective to exchange spices.

Bring empty ships over to pull grain, wasting capacity.

You can exchange it for luxury goods, and by the way, fill the ship with spices and grain and bring it back.

"Luxury goods are sold to rich people, and money is taken from them, and they can't be allowed to have too much money in their hands, and the number of luxury goods increases, and they will slowly become worthless."

Li Yi said the reason why he was willing to exchange luxury goods, which made the net worth of the rich shrink.

The money was used to build roads, build schools, distribute things to students for free, and distribute subsistence allowances to the people......

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

"Li Lang must be beneficial to the people." Princess Yongmu helped Li Yi speak.

"Wen Tian still understands me, let me tell you Xiaolan, no matter how many luxury goods rich people buy, they still have a way to make money.

People who don't have money often give them money directly, and they still don't have money.

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

"I know that Li Lang has a good heart, and the prime minister has a belly." Once again, Princess Yongmu recognized.

"Thank you." Li Yi smiled, he was willing to listen to Princess Yongmu speak, the voice was good, the key was that the content was better.

Xiaolan rolled her eyes beside her, not wanting to say anything.

After eating, Princess Yongmu said goodbye.

"There's time to play, Pink, find a few people to deliver." Li Yi didn't send it, so let Peach arrange it.

Princess Yongmu left Zhuangzi and crossed the bridge, a group of people surrounded her, and a car was parked.

She got into 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 the study to write a recital, and the imperial court should build a recital for the Bosi of Guangzhou.

Before noon, Li Longji received the recital.

It is written: land trade is not passable, supplemented by sea routes, the construction of the Guangzhou City Shipping Division, you can collect taxes, there is a lot of grain outside, merchants transport grain back, tax reduction.

With such a little content, Li Yi didn't have the heart to write it with flowers.

Li Longji saw it, greeted him, and asked the prime ministers to come over and eat together.

The number of prime ministers has increased by one, and they have not yet been withdrawn.

Under normal circumstances, two prime ministers are enough, sometimes three, and one must go down soon.

The extra prime minister is Yuan Qianyao, and normally he should succeed Yao Chong.

But he couldn't carry the matter, and when he took Yao Chong, he also took him down.

Four people arrived, eating fried noodles, many kinds of small pickles, each small pickle is a mouthful.

It's hot, and it's just autumn.

Li Longji didn't speak during the meal, and ate one bite at a time.

The four prime ministers looked at each other and did not know the situation.

When Li Longji ate the last bite of noodles and put the chopsticks, the four of them happened to be eating, which was a coincidence.

The palace maid brought tea, and Li Longji spoke: "I heard that there are always Kunlun people in Guangzhou who bring things to buy and sell. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks of a person, Zuo Shizhi Zhang Jiuling is a person over there, he just resigned and went home, and now he should be on the way."

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

Zhang Jiuling said a few days ago that his term of office had expired, and he had resigned and gone home, so he left.

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