Chapter 950: The Splendid Maritime Customs

"Throwing gold nuggets down from the city wall can also kill people." Li Yi threw down a sentence and went to teach the nurses with his hands behind his back.

The Japanese delegation continued to stroll in the south market of the city, and Junichiro Takagi took out a notebook and a pencil.

"Now many people in the Tang Dynasty have learned to use pencils, and the papermaking technology of the Tang Dynasty has been greatly improved."

Junichiro Takagi had a look of admiration on his face and respected the Tang Dynasty from the bottom of his heart.

Like Abe no Nakamaro and others, they admired the culture and technology of the Tang Dynasty. They did not think there was anything wrong with the defeat of Japan by the Tang Dynasty more than 50 years ago.

Knowing that they were not as skilled as others, they wanted to learn more.

Many people in Japan could not speak the language of the Tang Dynasty, but many people could speak the language of the Tang Dynasty.

Including the embroidery of the Tang Dynasty, which was more powerful than painting, with shadows, and the embroidered things looked like real things.

The Shu brocade in Shu, Hangzhou and Suzhou were brocade.

It was not as simple as silk and satin. The things embroidered by the embroiderers were the best in the world.

The silk sold on the Silk Road already amazed the people of the Western Regions, and things with embroidery were treasures in the Western Regions.

At this time, the embroidery of Japan was trying to get closer to that of the Tang Dynasty. The Japanese embroidery in the Nara period was also beautiful.

The Japanese envoys were not thinking about embroidery at the moment. They were sighing at the prosperity of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty.

"Is that young woman...teaching her child to read?" Shimomichi Maki suddenly pointed to a place while walking.

A young woman, with a three or four-year-old boy, was holding a newspaper to teach the child to read.

Takagi Junichiro nodded vigorously: "Yes, Li Yi teaches people to learn pinyin in the newspaper and prints dictionaries. There are too few illiterate people in Jingzhao Prefecture now."

As soon as he said that, the envoys envied him again.

Now Japan's training tools are still placed together with those of the Tang Dynasty, that is, most of the content is from the Tang Dynasty.

Including the early dictionaries, the cover is Chinese characters.

Like the country with the Tai Chi map flag on the peninsula, Chinese characters come first, including naming their own cities, all of which are Chinese characters.

Now that they saw they could learn something else, they were thinking about it again, hoping to learn it, including the dictionary, and send it back to their home country, Japan.

So they wandered around for an afternoon, and returned to Sifang Pavilion before dinner time, ready to discuss and hold a meeting to see what to learn from the Tang Dynasty.

"It would be best to get some seeds, as well as methods for making paper money, and medical books."

Fujiwara no Mayang actually thought everything was good and wanted to get it back.

According to the treatment of the previous delegations to the Tang Dynasty, he thought that the Tang Dynasty would teach those who wanted to learn, and it would be the same now.

"If Li Yi can go to Japan to teach, we will definitely treat him with the highest courtesy." Abe no Nakamaro was still thinking about getting Li Yi there.

His idea was simple, he didn't need Li Yi to stay in Japan for a long time, just one or two years would be enough.

If possible, find many beautiful women to serve Li Yi, and then have children with Li Yi.

"Why not ask to see the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty tomorrow, and the others continue to look at things in Chang'an." Shimomichi Maki suggested.

Their rest time was considered to let them understand the situation a little.

He didn't want to waste it, so everyone dispersed and looked for things they could learn and wanted to learn.

At the same time, Li Longji invited three prime ministers and Wei Zhigu to a banquet. The four people were more familiar with Li Yi.

Others were not needed, and it was best not to have any intersection with Li Yi.

"Li Yi talked about the internationalization of currency today, which is helpful for the foreign trade and cultural propaganda of our Tang Dynasty..."

Li Longji invited four ministers to eat a double-flavored hot pot, or a carp hot pot.

Although Li Longji's surname is Li, he still eats carp, and he does not restrict others from eating it. Even the people of the Tang Dynasty like to eat carp sashimi.

There are carp in the poems written, which is very challenging for knife skills, and carp has many bones.

A carp is divided into two halves and put into the double-flavored hot pot. After the chicken soup is boiled, the meat and vegetables are boiled. When eating, the fish is cooked.

It tastes delicious when boiled with mutton.

"The Japanese may accept it, but the barbarians may not be willing." Su Yan believes in Li Yi's ability.

As long as the Japanese envoys are in Chang'an, Li Yi will have a way to make them accept it.

The foreigners in Guangzhou asked them to use the exchange vouchers of Lijiazhuangzi, but they had no use for them.

What the foreigners wanted more was things. They brought a ship of things and exchanged a ship of things for them to make money.

Bi Gou had a different view: "Zhang Jiuling is in charge of the Maritime Customs. Xiao Yi requires people who trade with the foreigners to form an organization and raise the price as a whole. Maybe this will be used as a breakthrough."

"It's difficult. Even if you use the exchange vouchers to buy the other party's things and the other party agrees, in the end the other party will still spend all the exchange vouchers to buy things and ship them away."

Song Jing supported Su Yan's view. The foreigners wanted exchange vouchers but could not exchange them for money. What they needed was goods.

"Take your time, my lords!" Li Longji was not in a hurry. He believed that the ministers' difficulties could be solved by asking Li Yi later.

The most important thing at the moment was to let Japan accept it first, whether it was to help Japan print money or Japan use exchange vouchers.

Li Longji held the wine cup. He was in a good mood. Japan had just arrived and everything was arranged properly.

Next, we will wait for Japan to cooperate with the Tang Dynasty little by little and sell Japan's good things to the Tang Dynasty.

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In the Maritime Customs mentioned by several people, Zhang Jiuling also ate fish.

There are many sea fish in Guangzhou, so he ate steamed fish.

He drank yellow wine, warmed yellow wine.

His hometown is not far from here, so he can adapt to the climate. The humidity is relatively heavy, so he will get used to it.

Now that the road is open, the number of people coming and going has increased accordingly, especially in this month, when it's not cold in the north.

When caravans came from other places and saw a barbarian ship docked, they would wait for the barbarians to bring out their goods to sell, and then sell their own goods to the barbarians.

In the past, Yi people and merchants negotiated prices individually, but now all merchants must take out their goods.

Divide them into categories and grades, set a price, and no one is allowed to sell them individually.

At the same time, the Municipal Shipping Department will collect taxes and collect taxes from foreigners, one in ten taxes.

If the Yi people had no money, they would deduct one-tenth of the goods.

The Yi people were reluctant at first, but UU Reading www.uukanｗｈｕｕnet still wanted to talk to the Tang merchants alone. After someone was caught and most of the goods were confiscated, the other Yi people agreed.

Not to mention the merchants of the Tang Dynasty. Business is a lowly industry, and the government can take care of it if they want.

What's more, they all know that Jingzhao Mansion collects taxes, and the money used for daily transactions is the exchange coupons of Lijiazhuangzi.

"When the person is found, you get back the money you were defrauded from, and fine them three times as much, then the deal is done."

Zhang Jiuling used chopsticks to scoop out a little beef chili sauce from a glass bottle, sipped it into his mouth, enjoyed it for a moment and said to Wei Yuefeng sitting in front of him.

Wei Yuefeng was the one who brought onion seeds to deceive people, but was caught by Li Yi.

When he came back, he brought the goods given by Li Yi and a letter to Zhang Jiuling.

Yesterday, he caught the barbarians who lied to him, and Shibosi came forward to catch them.

The other party confessed and was willing to compensate, but also said aggrievedly that the thing was good and different from green onions.