"Oh?" Li You said with a smile. I just don't dare to call myself the most talented woman in the world. So, you agreed to the matter of the Royal Bank of Tang?”
"I…I…"
Wei Yuechan's heart was in a mess.
Initially, she had a very bad impression of Li You. But now, after a series of surprises, the situation had changed completely.
However, it was Li You who had sent people to kidnap her. It was really difficult for her to agree immediately.
No!
Even if she had already been bestowed with a marriage, it would not do!
I…I have dignity too!
Wei Yuechan changed the topic and said,""Your plan for the Great Tang Bank seems to be very good. However, there was a very serious loophole.”
"What loophole?"
"The wealth in this world is unlimited, but money is limited. It's almost impossible to achieve the effect you want.”
"What do you mean? Tell me more details."
"Do you know how much tax a man in the Great Tang has to pay in a year?”
"About two strings of money."
"However, be it in law or in reality, the taxes paid by the men are not money but in kind.”"The Great Tang's tax revenue comes from the rent of servants," said Wei Yuechan. Every year, men pay two stones of millet to the state, called rent; Silk pay twenty feet, cotton three liang or cloth twenty feet five feet, hemp three catties, called tune. Each Ding served 20 days of corvee every year. If he did not serve, he would pay three feet of silk or three feet seven inches and five cents of cloth every day, which was called Yong. Did King Qi know the reason behind this?”
"What's the reason?"
"Because there aren't that many copper coins in the world. When people traded, they used cloth and copper coins. Sometimes, even cloth and silk were not enough, so they had to use food. Therefore, the imperial court could only collect taxes in kind. If His Highness wanted to open the Royal Bank of Tang, he couldn't possibly accept a pile of grain or cloth, right? A bucket of rice in a good year was only a few wen, but in a bad year it would be hundreds of wen. Cloth rotted easily, and there were many varieties. How could this be converted?”
"This is a problem."
Li You had really overlooked this point and frowned slightly.
During the Tang Dynasty, copper coins and cloth were mainly used for transactions. Silver was very rare, and gold was also rare.
In fact, he was very short of copper coins and cloth.
In order for the market transactions to proceed normally, the imperial court had even issued orders many times to prohibit the private storage of brocades. If you hid all the good brocades, what would you use to trade in the world?
Wei Yuechan heaved a sigh of relief when she saw his reaction.
She thought to herself,'I've finally diverted your attention. Otherwise, if you kept asking her if she wanted to open a bank with you and even said crazy things like " husband and wife as one ", how would she answer?
I can't bear to reject you. Moreover…His Majesty had already bestowed the marriage! I…What else can I do?
I'll agree to it, but I'm really unwilling to accept it. Besides, who would ask such a question in front of a girl?
"Your Highness, if you can't think of a solution, you can go back and think about it slowly," said Wei Yuechan. We can talk about the Tang Bank plan when we figure it out.”
"What's wrong? Is Yue Chan trying to chase me away?"
"I'm not chasing you away, but this matter is extremely difficult. It's impossible for you to think of a solution in such a short time.”
"Hehe, that's not the case." "To be honest, I've already thought of a way to solve the financial problem in the country.”
"What method?"
"Make enough copper coins."
" You…" Wei Yuechan almost burst into laughter."If the Imperial Court could produce enough copper coins, wouldn't they have done so long ago? The problem was that the country could not produce much copper every year.”
"This is simple. Just produce more copper.”
"How can it be that easy?" " We need a large number of miners to excavate the copper mine," Wei Yuechan explained. To smelt it, not only did it require a lot of manpower, but it also required a lot of wood. Even if he tried his best to increase it, it wouldn't increase it by much. Your Highness, it's not that I want to criticize you, but although you're a genius, you've been pampered and don't know the sufferings of the people.”
"No, Little Lady Wei has misunderstood.”"I have my reasons for making the imperial court produce more copper," Li You said. Let me put it this way. I have a method that doesn't require much manpower, wood, or even excavation. I can produce a large amount of copper! It would not be a problem to produce ten times the current copper.”
"Impossible! That was impossible! Ten times the current production, and he didn't need much manpower? This…Didn't he want the horse to run and not eat grass? Even immortals can't do it." Wei Yuechan's face was filled with disbelief.
Li You said,"This is Little Lady Wei's ignorance." Let me be clear, this king's method is called wet copper smelting. Moreover, it was recorded in the ancient books. Unfortunately, the world was in a treasure mountain and did not know that God could take it!”
That's right, the method that Li You proposed was the wet copper smelting technique!
To put it simply, when iron met copper sulfuric acid, a replacement reaction would occur, replacing copper from copper sulfuric acid.
The actual operation was to put the iron sheet into the naturally occurring bile water ore and obtain copper. There was no need to mine, no need for wood to be smelted!
Junior high school chemistry knowledge!
The ancients had records of it.
Jin Ge Hong's "Baopuzi Inner Chapter, Yellow and White" recorded: It was recorded that the iron was painted with green, and the iron was as red as copper.
Tao Hongjing of the Northern and Southern Dynasties also said,"When the chicken feces and vermicelli are sprinkled with bitter vinegar and coated with iron, they all turn copper.”
However, although people had long discovered this substitution reaction, they thought that they could use this method to refine copper and obtain the Song Dynasty hundreds of years later.
Zhang Qian, a native of Dexing in the Northern Song Dynasty, invented this method at the age of 61, making the Zhang family rich. At the age of sixty-nine, he presented this method to the court.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, the copper produced by wet copper smelting accounted for 20% of the country's copper production. What about the Southern Song Dynasty? It reached 90%.
Take note, because the Song Dynasty's economy was developed, the shortage of money was very serious. Although the original method of smelting copper with fire had many drawbacks, it had not been eliminated. On the contrary, people doubled the mining of copper mountains and used the fire method to refine copper!
However, it was too easy to refine copper by wet method, so the proportion of copper refined by fire method was rapidly reduced.
It could be calculated that the annual output of copper smelting by wet method was more than ten times that of copper smelting by fire method!
Of course, Li You couldn't tell Wei Yuechan about what happened in the future.
However, with the ancient book as evidence, this method was indeed feasible. Wei Yuechan believed it immediately.
Heavens!
How did Li You's brain grow?
He thought of a way to increase the national copper production by ten times, and the cost was only 30% of the previous one!
Why didn't I think of that?
Wei Yuechan had always been proud of her management skills, so she was very satisfied with the title of 'Goddess of Wealth.'
However, after listening to Li You's " Great Tang Bank Plan " and " Copper wet smelting technique ", Wei Yuechan deeply felt that her ability to earn money paled in comparison to Li You's.
I'm convinced!
He was completely convinced!
Wei Yuechan was slightly moved after witnessing Li You's mastery of both the pen and the sword. But now, her gaze towards Li You was filled with reverence!
Wei Yuechan was a strong woman. She had been completely suppressed by Li You in the area that she was best at. Now, she was completely convinced and impressed!
"Alright, the problem of the copper coins has been basically solved.”"Is Yuechan willing to carry out the Great Tang Bank plan with me?" Li You asked again.”
"I'm willing!"
Wei Yuechan blurted out. The impact of this wet copper smelting technique was too strong.
As soon as the words left her mouth, she realized that something was wrong. She really wished that there was a crack in the ground in front of her eyes and she could crawl into it. The redness reached her neck.
She lowered her head and changed the topic again."If this matter has already spread out, wouldn't the value of those previously uncared for gall water ores immediately skyrocket?”
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