It's the first time for Li Di to eat this strange food, it looks delicious, and it's a rare veal, but why does it still bleed when you bite into it? It's disgusting! The eldest prince is still looking forward to it, what is delicious about this thing?

When it comes to killing people and killing Li Di on the battlefield, he won't frown, but he just didn't have the courage to eat a piece of beef with blood, stared at Bai Dong for a long time, only to find that he used a knife to cut the beef one by one, and then dipped it in sauce to eat, so he followed suit, sure enough, after having this sauce with some wine flavor, the bloody beef was not very difficult to eat, and he gradually ate a fresh taste, only to feel that this beef is eaten like this, if it is ten ripe, it will damage the taste.

This bloody beef is even more delicious than roast lamb shank or fat lamb stew, and it is a pleasure to pair with those Persian grape wines.

Cao'er was also slowly eating steak and wine, her eyes blinking at Bai Dong and Ying Si, as if she was thinking about something, and suddenly she showed a sudden expression of enlightenment, but was stopped by Bai Dong with her eyes.

Directly telling students that the answer is far less effective than guiding students to think and then get the answer, Ying Si is not stupid, and he is also a student of Fengming Academy, if he doesn't even have the ability to think independently, what qualifications do he have to be the prince of Qin?

Historically, Ying Si was a successful sex addiction patient, but now that history has changed, Bai Dong wants to see not only his great ability to expand his territory to find a wife, but also his ability to perceive commodities, currency, and even the hearts of nobles. In the future, Huaxia and Lao Qin will undergo great changes, and the future prince of Qin will not be able to keep up with the times.

"This kind of eating was invented by Taifu"

Ying Si swallowed and began to think: "I checked the silver cabinet of the money bank with Aunt Cao'er. It was discovered that the Persians would come to the bank to exchange the silver tickets. This makes it easier for them to go to distant places to do business. to make silver more mobile; If the silver is not enough, they will exchange a large number of copper and iron coins, and I found that the exchange of copper and iron coins for silver here is 1 to 4, which is twice as high as my Daqin I just wonder why they like silver coins so much, before Taifu did not promote the silver standard, even in the Great Zhou Dynasty, copper and iron coins were the mainstay. ”

"Good. You really didn't waste your time in Fengming Academy. ”

Bai Dong nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "In fact, Greece near the Mediterranean Sea has a history of minting gold and silver coins for a long time, but this currency is more used in the upper echelons of the nobility and cannot be extended to the common class. In the early days of China, silver coins were not used, because there was too little silver, but after the appearance of Iwami silver on the island of Japan, we were no longer short of silver, and for us, copper and iron coins were actually more practical than silver coins, and the use of flashy gold and silver coins in ancient Greece and Persia was more of a habit or a means for the aristocracy to flaunt their wealth. But it's a good habit. We should be guided. Du Zhi is your grandfather now, you should have heard him say that Lao Qin is now implementing the 'tariff' policy, right? ”

Ying Si blinked: "I heard that Great Qin set a silver tax on merchants from the West. If they wanted to go to Qin to trade or sell goods from Qin, they had to report high taxes; Our merchants of Qin can enjoy a low ratio of copper and silver exchange, but they still have to follow the ratio of one to four, if the ratio is not enough, they must make up, or they can directly exchange the high ratio of silver tickets from the Bai family and Lao Qin's bank, otherwise they will have to pay taxes, so that the merchants of Qin can enjoy lower business costs, but Western merchants must bear high tariffs, which seems very unfair, so that the merchants of Qin enjoy all the benefits, are they not afraid that Western merchants will be dissatisfied? ”

"What do they have to be dissatisfied with? The level of copper and iron refining in Persia and even Western countries is not as good as that of Huaxia, and the purity of their copper and iron coins is insufficient, and it is of course necessary to pay more to exchange them for our silver coins, so this is fair. ”

Bai Dong said with a smile: "The love of Western nobles for silver is unimaginable, as long as Huaxia guarantees the supply of silver coins of sufficient purity, they will obediently come to exchange, the more merchants communicate, the more profitable the promotion of Huaxia silver coins will be."

Ying Si's eyes lit up, and he slapped his thigh fiercely and said: "Si'er understands, silver is a good-looking thing, but it can't be used to make swords, can't make armor, if the use is far less than silver, but Westerners prefer silver, we can't snatch copper and iron from them, so we use not very important silver to exchange, anyway, the Japanese island that Taifu found is silver, don't use it in vain?" Auntie, are you right? ”

Seeing Cao'er nodding at him, Ying Si was even more proud, and even the bones around his body seemed to be much lighter: "And Taifu said that the Western nobles' love of gold and silver is just a means to flaunt themselves, but these nobles alone may not use a lot of silver, right?" Taifu is the most capable person, just this veal steak that needs to be matched with silver tableware may make many Westerners also use silver, we got copper and iron from the West to make weapons and armor, but they changed our silver to make useless things such as dinner plates, so that China will become stronger and stronger, and the West will decline more and more, anyway, they can't beat us. Taifu, is Si'er right, where is my veal steak? ”

Bai Dong nodded slightly, the story of the veal steak and silver tableware is actually just the epitome of his means, in the past two years, the Bai family and several cooperative trading companies have been using various means to guide the West's 'silver consumption', and exchanging silver with high value but not strong practicality for Western copper and iron resources is the fundamental intention of currency exchange, but after all, Ying Si is still a little tender, only know one and do not know the other, and must be guided slowly.

As the heir of Lao Qin, especially his own student, Ying Si must not only be the famous Qin Huiwen King in history, but also a new leader with the concept of modern empire, only in this way can we ensure that Lao Qin will always be at the forefront of China and even the world.

Bai Dong waved his hand, and a female slave sent fragrant veal, even if the wine was forgotten, although this was in the pre-Qin era, Bai Dong still stubbornly believed that drinking under the age of eighteen was a crime, and he couldn't control how other teenagers were, but he could manage it.

"If it's just for these interests, then it's not my brother."

Cao'er suddenly said: "If I'm not mistaken, my brother wants to use silver to control the West, and Huaxia wants to establish the General Department of the Silver Industry to do this?" As long as Huaxia has enough silver, a strong enough business, and a strong enough army, the price of silver can only be determined by Huaxia in the future, regardless of the East or the West! With this alone, China could easily take away all the resources of the West, just like the Japanese islanders, there is no fairness at all. My brother may say that this is for the sake of Qin and China, but aren't those Japanese islanders and Westerners human? Isn't Huaxia bullying the weak by doing this? Brother, are you still the good brother who hugged Cao'er and told Cao'er a lot of fairy tales? ”

"That's a good question."

Bai Dong glanced at his sister-in-law, and his heart was happy and helpless, Cao'er had grown up, and he had just become a reporter, this kind of work was the easiest way to develop a paranoid temperament, her three views had been formed, so she would question herself face to face, isn't this what she wants to see? But when I saw Cao'er really jumping out and questioning myself, why did I feel inexplicable loss and helplessness in my heart?

"Cao'er, this world is very big, when the East has not met the West, everyone can naturally go to live their own small life, but when they have contact, can they still live their own small life? How is it possible that if there are commercial, cultural and even political exchanges between the East and the West, there will be no mutual influence or even control? Now that China is strong and the West is weak, or that my brother has a way to make the West in the palm of my Eastern China, isn't this good? If the West was weak and China was strong, would these Persians, Greeks, and Romans still treat China equally? ”

"At least I won't bring them too much war, and controlling the West with commerce and money is the gentlest and fairest I can think of, compared to blood and smoke. Now it is Huaxia that has a lot of silver, and has stronger economic and military power, so we can seize the resources of the West, and even control these countries in the West. Believe me, my brother has seen that kind of scene in the country of dreams, Eastern China is like a dying dragon, divided and devoured by the Western powers, I will not allow this scene to happen no matter what! ”

Swallowing the rest of the steak in his mouth, Bai Dong got up and clapped his hands: "If you still have doubts about my brother's words, I will ask Brother Li to protect you throughout Persia, you can go around to interview and see what the attitude of the Persians is?" I can guarantee that you must see the rejoicing Persians, because in their eyes, what China brought to them was not bullying and seizure, but opportunity and vitality. ”

Cao'er shook her head and said, "I don't believe it!" ”

"If you don't believe us, let's make a bet, I'll give you three months to visit Persia, and if you find that your brother is right, you will obediently go to Yueguo. Wuli still loves you very much, even if he has changed a lot now, this affection will never change. ”

"Me"

"What, is it possible that my grass will be scared, will I not dare to gamble?"

Bai Dong sighed: "You said that you want to be a reporter and be a sister of Shanlu who can speak for the people of the world, my brother didn't stop you, and even the marriage date with Wu Yuan was delayed again and again, just because my brother once promised you that you are in charge of your marriage, and it was you who rejected Syald and chose Wu Li that day, not because your brother forced you?" Why do you always want to run away from this marriage now? ”

"Bet on it, if I lose, I'll marry Wu Li immediately and be the lady of Yue Guo you like!"

"Okay, that's my good girl."

Bai Dong and Li Di looked at each other and laughed, Cao'er was able to marry Wuli smoothly after all, it was a good destination, and he was relieved to be a brother. Ying Si secretly glanced at the beautiful and beautiful little aunt of Cao'er, and was very reluctant in her heart, was that guy named Wuli too lucky? (To be continued.) )