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Mu Yanzheng was a little helpless about the photo, and didn't notice that Su Yi's hand was always facing up. After handing him the book, he put it in his sleeve.

Su Yi thought to himself, this time he finally escaped, and he will definitely not be discovered.

After Su Yi returned to the room, he looked at the back of his hand, took out the golden sore medicine from the drawer, and applied it on himself.Because he occasionally hurt himself when doing experiments, sore medicine is always kept in the house.

Although this dark ointment smells bad, it is really effective.

Su Yi casually wrapped his hands with a cloth and said, "I should be fine tomorrow."

He deliberately used color photos to attract Mu Yan's attention, but he was fooled.

Su Yi opened the book and looked at the vivid photos on it.When the photo was first introduced into China, some people said that it was the human soul captured by the camera.It seems that photos can fool some people.But if it's just a plant, not an animal or a human being, even if it is discovered, it won't cause too much surprise.

Su Yi casually put the books on the bookshelf, and glanced at the "Analects of Confucius" next to him.

When he drew out the method of making glass that day, he put it on the bookshelf in the quiet room.Later, thinking that this thing was nothing special to him, but it was a good thing that could cause many things when he took it out, Su Yi took the "Analects of Confucius" with the glass manufacturing method back to his bedroom.

Generally, the things in his bedroom will not be touched by anyone.

When talking about practicing calligraphy just now, Su Yi thought of the account book at home, the income, expenditure and deposits that made people cry.

In Hanwu, in order to curb the rich and powerful, silver coins were specially minted.However, due to the boycott of wealthy families, it was abolished after only two years.After that, Wang Mang also minted silver coins, which were soon abolished.

However, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, although there were no official silver coins, the folks had already used silver as currency, and it was widely used in large-scale "buying and selling", such as accepting bribes.

When the warlords in various places fought, due to the decline of the Han Dynasty, the purchasing power of its copper coins also decreased, while silver kept its value more and more.The folks mostly used barter, while the aristocratic clans all used silver and gold as currencies for mutual circulation.

Therefore, when the Yu Dynasty was established, and the silver coins were re-minted, the resistance was not so strong.

Originally, silver began to be widely used in the Song Dynasty, but in this world, silver has already been used as currency, and it is not the "Yuanbao" that has been finalized since the Yuan Dynasty, but silver coins.

Yuchao's silver coins did not use the "Three Grades of Silver" in the period of Han Wu and Wang Mang, that is, silver coins with three patterns were minted to distinguish different denominations.Using patterns to distinguish them will lead to confusion in the currency market.There is only one kind of silver coin in Yu Chao, which weighs about half a tael, and the exchange rate is about five hundred renminbi.Two silver coins can be exchanged for a consistent copper coin, which greatly facilitates market transactions.

Although there is no "silver ticket" similar to paper currency in later TV dramas, it is still much better than dragging a cart of copper coins to buy things without moving.

However, the money available to Su Yi's family can only be converted into silver coins, which can only fill a small box.

It's just a small box... Only then did Su Yi realize that his family was so poor.

Of course, Su Yi actually has a lot of "treasures", and if they are sold, they will definitely be worth a lot of money.But don't say that imperial gifts can't be bought and sold, even if gifts from other people, they can only be said to be given to each other during the New Year's festival, and they are not said to be sold.

Selling these things means that the family will soon be unable to survive, and that is a shame.

The housekeeper didn't feel that the family was short of money at all.The granary is full, although it is not as good as that of a wealthy family, but Su Yi's family has a small population, and he also bought good things from Mu Yan's house, so the granary at home can already last for two years.

At this time, food is the most important thing.As for money or something, that's secondary.

But Su Yi, who came back from the modern society, still feels that money is very important.

He has been thinking about how to make money, such as whether to open a restaurant or not - the protagonist of the novel he read basically has to open a restaurant when he travels back.But his recipes are actually nothing special, the main thing is that the seasoning is great.There are not enough seasonings in this world to make his family's dishes delicious.

But seasonings and so on, there is no large-scale harvest yet, basically all the seasonings he exchanged are used to support the operation of a restaurant, which is obviously impossible.So Su Yi put down this plan for the time being.

Su Yi turned over the glass to make a prescription.

How could he forget this.

Food cannot be sold, but he can sell glass.Why does he have to be obsessed with food, thinking that only selling food can make money?

Not just glass, but soap, too.But the cost of making soap is also very high now. To reduce the cost, the soap must be put into industrial production only after artificial alkali production and electrolytic alkali production.

But it doesn't matter if the production cost is expensive. Originally, soap and the like were sold to rich people.

After Su Yi's idea of ​​making money got rid of the bondage of food, he became active.

Since soap can be sold for money, of course cosmetics and skin care products can also be sold for money.Aristocratic women are very willing to spend money. The rouge and gouache in a shop are good, but they can make a lot of money.

Su Yi immediately became excited. In fact, he has a lot of money-making ideas.Su Yi was so excited...well, he fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow.

Waking up the next day, Su Yi excitedly wanted to talk to Mu Yan about it, but Mu Yan had already gone to court.Today is the big court, and you have to go out at the third and fourth watch.

Su Yi felt that it was pitiful to be an official, and it was really a crime to wake up so early every day.It's still better if he is so free and easy, sleeping every day until he wakes up naturally.

When Mu Yan came back, it was already evening, and Su Yi finally had the opportunity to tell Mu Yan about his money.

Mu Yan was surprised.

In fact, Mu Yan doesn't dislike business or anything.Of course, his family's extravagance cannot be covered by rent and salary.Even if some people despise doing business, it is impossible for a family to not have its own business relationship.

They may use collateral to do business, and they may use the method of affiliation and collecting protection fees to let people who depend on them do business.In order to get a lot of money, it is necessary to do business.

What surprised Mu Yan was that Su Yi was actually interested in making money.

Su Yi shouldn't be a non-human being... Mu Yan thought about Su Yi's daily life, well, it's not a non-human being.

However, Su Yi took the initiative to say that he wanted to make money, and he was very excited, Mu Yan still felt very strange.

Moreover, such things as doing business are usually left to the servants, how can the master think about it by himself?

But Su Yi said it happily, so Mu Yan also listened.He is becoming more and more conniving towards Su Yi, and now he can see Su Yi wherever he is, even if he loves money, he likes it.Su Yi wants to make money, and Mu Yan will definitely support him.Even if he is asked to make suggestions himself, um, it doesn't matter, as long as Su Yi is happy.

But Mu Yan listened and felt that something was wrong with Su Yi's words.

Su Yi's words got farther and farther, and his plans became bigger and bigger. He has changed from earning money from the nobles in Beijing to a national commercial circulation.

Su Yi was not born to be a businessman. When he talked about this incident, he was a little dry at the beginning, but in the end he ran away with his mouth full of words.

He first withdrew a paragraph about the importance of the market economy to the unity of the country, which is similar to the problem that is badly discussed in high school political and economic books such as "a field of cotton, b field of grain".

As for why making glass and making soap can be related to this... well, he said it casually, and his mind diverged accidentally.

When Su Yi mentioned this, Mu Yan began to think deeply.

Then Su Yi discovered that he had almost forgotten about politics and economics, and what he had learned in high school, as if he couldn't say anything more.

But he has other things that can diverge, such as international trade.

Did you know that flat glass is a super luxury in Europe?In order to keep glass manufacturing secret and make glass earn money from people in other countries, Italy asked craftsmen to produce glass on an isolated island?

Now they don't know how to make glass yet, so let's make the glass, ship it out, and exchange it for gold and silver, and slaughter them hard.

Gold and silver are common currencies in the world. Now, taking advantage of the ignorance outside, we sell the glass and exchange a ship of glass for a ship of gold. All the gold is stored in the treasury. In the future, the treasury will no longer be afraid of running out of money, and we can use it however we want. .

That's right, let's talk to the emperor's father, let the officials take the lead, and pull a boat of glass to exchange for gold!Domestic money is controlled by big families, and it is difficult to get it out.But it doesn't matter, we can go to foreign people's money!

The glass is good, the porcelain is good, the tea is good, and the silk is good.But forget about the ones that are too exquisite, just take the best-made ones, the lowest-cost ones, not any high-quality products, and they must be priced outrageously, outrageously expensive, the more expensive the better, foreigners do not lack gold and silver.

Porcelain still needs to go through so many processes, and so does silk. We can't drink enough tea, so let's use glass.It can be used after burning.

All in all, what Su Yi means is that I will dedicate the glass manufacturing method, and you will be responsible for the sales. It is best to invite the emperor's father to take the lead in the name of the country and go abroad to earn gold.

Su Yi felt that his thoughts were too clear, and he was really provocative. Seeing Mu Yan, who was lacking in interest at first, and who still had a coaxing smile, now his eyes are shining, and he can't wait to make a fortune.

"I will enter the palace immediately." Mu Yan dropped these words and immediately entered the palace.

This matter is very important, he can't wait until the next day, and must report this matter to His Majesty the Emperor before the palace key is released.

Su Yi touched his forehead: "Are you so excited? It seems that although Mu Yan doesn't value gold and silver very much, he actually loves money. But can the current navigation technology go so far? Along the mainland, it should be successful, right? If they want to sail far, I have to provide some technical support."

Compass or something, he can provide more accurate than the current Sinan, and can also correct the errors of magnetic poles and true north and south.The most feared thing in sailing is scurvy, and he can also formulate preventive measures in advance.

I heard that Europe doesn't like to take a bath, and the plague is much more common than in China.So make more soap, and the crew should take a bath frequently.

If the fresh water is not enough, a device for extracting fresh water from simple sea water can be used.The pure water may not be drinkable, but it can be used for domestic water.Moreover, there should be no problem with resupply when driving on the shore.

By the way, when Zheng He went to the West, he was tricked many times by the natives.He must write a good guide to getting along with foreigners, must let the most treacherous businessmen deal with them, must be equipped with the best weapons, and he must not suffer for the "great power".

We are not here to promote the prestige of the country, but simply to make money.When enough money has been earned and anyone who dares to provoke is beaten to the ground, the country will have prestige.

National prestige is based on economic strength and military force. If you treat people with virtue and generosity, you must clean up enough people before it will be useful.

Su Yi shook his head, feeling that his thoughts were very clear now, and he must take this opportunity to write down everything he was thinking now.

So he immediately went back to his study and started writing various guides with his handwriting that barely caught the eye.While writing, Su Yi cursed in his heart.It's really tiring to write too many words with this brush.

I need a pen.

But the current technology is not yet able to make a fountain pen.The fountain pen that can be used conveniently is after the three inventions of "iridium gold fountain pen nib, hard rubber and free-flowing ink".Su Yi had to solve many technical problems for a pen.

For one thing, he hadn't found rubber trees yet, and he didn't know how to find iridium.But without iridium, the service life of the pen is only reduced.Perhaps, he could make a fountain pen someday.

If rubber trees are found.

But Su Yi knows how rubber is made, but he doesn't know what a rubber tree looks like.Well, don't laugh at him, who made the tree only write the method, not the rubber tree.And even if he painted it, he couldn't remember it.

So now Su Yi has to continue to write hard with a brush.

Mu Yan rushed into the palace, of course not because of money as Su Yi thought.

He believes that Su Yi is just "providing advice" under the banner of making money.

And these two strategies can completely exist as national policies, and can solve many problems of Yuchao now.

The first one is that because the place is controlled by the aristocratic family, there are big problems in all aspects of information circulation, resulting in a crisis that government orders cannot be issued in a timely manner.

Su Yi's proposal is to broaden trade routes and encourage commercial circulation.Folk businessmen travel from south to north, and they will naturally spread the news from all over the place.However, there are many challenges in doing business.For example, household registration, such as whether farmers will be abolished due to business.

Agriculture is the foundation of the country. It is precisely because of this that the rulers of all dynasties have adopted a policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, worrying about population migration, which is not good for household registration management and agricultural production.

Mu Yan also thought so before.

But after listening to Su Yi talk about the relationship between "market" and "unification", Mu Yan had a new idea, which urgently needs to be shared with His Majesty the Emperor. , more than ten years, or even several generations of emperors' policy.

His Majesty the Emperor will definitely be very interested in this method of reducing the influence of the family on the local area - "traitor to the family" Mu Yan thought.

The second thing is the issue of treasury silver.

After the issuance of silver coins, the money in the treasury naturally changed from copper coins to silver coins.Although gold is not used as an official currency, it still exists when the nobles have already stored it in the treasury.Today's gold is mostly cut into quantifiable gold bars for preservation.

Now the country is waiting to be rejuvenated, although there is already a sense of prosperity, but there are too many places to spend money, and it is completely unable to make ends meet.The aristocratic family has a lot of money, and some people even sprinkle gold, silver and jewels into the rivers, lakes and seas to hear the sound.The aristocratic family occupies a large amount of land, and there is no need to pay taxes.

However, the national treasury is already empty, and His Majesty the Emperor has used his private treasury several times to supplement the treasury.

Fortunately, when the treasury of the Han Dynasty and the property of the hostile family were confiscated during the founding of the country, they got a lot of gold and silver.But if it goes on like this, it's not a solution to only get out but not get in.

The emperor couldn't bear the urge to kill a few families. It was also because the treasury was empty, the emperor tightened his belt to live, and those families threw their treasures into the water to listen to the sound.

To be honest, this kind of arrogant person will be killed sooner or later.

But now that foreign trade is the way to go, perhaps the emperor can be more patient.

Of course, Mu Yan didn't feel that the death of those aristocratic families who foolishly flaunted their wealth made him sad, he just felt that now is not a good time to confront the aristocratic families.It is better to focus on domestic construction first.

Originally, Mu Yan didn't think of this, because at this time, the people of Huaguo thought that all the land outside the Central Plains was a barren land, so what good things could there be?But since Su Yi is full of gold and silver abroad, he can exchange anything he takes out for gold and silver, so Mu Yan definitely believes in Su Yi.

Abroad is indeed a barren land, but it is the people who are barbaric.As for the underground, there are also gold, silver, copper and iron.

Mu Yan doesn't know what glass is, but Su Yi didn't mean that ceramics are the rarest abroad, and cheap ceramics with lower quality can also be exchanged for gold.

In order to burn out qualified imperial porcelain, the official cellars smashed the rest of the defective products.Now, those defective products can be sold abroad.

If it goes a little further, such as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it is absolutely impossible for this kind of thinking to appear in the heads of the upper class.But it's still early, everyone's minds are still open, and there are not so many shackles.

In the Han Dynasty, the Silk Road was specially developed; in the Tang Dynasty, overseas trade was even more developed.Moreover, during the Han and Tang Dynasties, they were all keen to expand to the outside world, knowing that the outside world was very vast, and they did not have the attitude of a frog at the bottom of a well.So it's not surprising that Mu Yan can think of so many things.

The only strange thing is probably the big difference between Su Yi and Mu Yan's brain circuits.

Su Yi just wanted to make some money, but Mu Yan extracted two points from Su Yi's mouthful of running the train, which later supported Yu Chao's national policy of entering a prosperous age, and this also affected the later dynasties. "Going to sea to do business" became the norm in the Huaguo Dynasty, and it is only natural that some advanced ideas were born in advance in the end.

It was so early at this time, Su Yi never thought that what he was doing now would affect the modern society.

But sometimes, reality is more interesting than imagined.

After Mu Yan entered the palace, he stayed overnight in the palace.

Mu Yan's servants also went out of the palace specially, and returned to the mansion to get a few sets of clothes.

Su Yi was very surprised. Did the Emperor's father also love money so much?But are these two people too excited? You can take your time to make money.

Mu Yan stayed in the palace for five consecutive days, and some people were called into the palace one after another, and stayed overnight in the palace together.

Su Yi didn't know about the rest of the people, but Mu Yan didn't come home for five days, of course Su Yi knew.

At the very beginning, Su Yi thought to himself, it's just to make some money, and the two of them are not short of money, why are they so excited?Later, Su Yi felt that it couldn't be for making money, but it must be for other countries' major affairs.

Isn't it the end of the provincial examination now, and the first Jinshi examination will be in February next year?Is it for this matter?Or, is there something else?I heard that autumn and winter are the peak time for northern nomads to invade the border. Is this the reason?

Su Yi felt a little sympathetic to Mu Yan.He just went into the palace to talk about making money with His Majesty the Emperor, but in the end he was arrested, what a pity.

Su Yi slowly continued to write his sea guide.

Anyway, Mu Yan looks so excited, this guide will definitely be used.At the beginning of spring next year at most, they will go to sea, right?I heard that the Mu family already had a fleet for foreign trade, but the place they went was not far away, probably wandering around the Indian Ocean.However, since there is a mature fleet, there is a foundation for long-distance voyages in the future.

"However, should I improve the ship?" Su Yi bit his brush and said, "Do you want to make an internal combustion engine? But this requires digging for oil and refining it. How about starting with a steam engine? Some people already use coal. It’s warming up. But isn’t it too early to make a steam engine now? Would it be dangerous?”

More importantly, the steam engine made by Su Yi had to go through many experiments before it could be used on ships.

"Forget it, let's talk about steam engines and internal combustion engines after I die." Su Yi resolutely gave up the idea of ​​industrialization in advance.

He planned to write down steam engines, internal combustion engines, and oil purification and other things that could greatly develop industry, and dedicate them as relics to the emperor at that time.Well, if he died, then the emperor should be his younger brother or his nephew.

He kept the blueprints and wrote down the uses, thinking that an ambitious emperor would know how to use them.

As for whether the emperor would doubt himself because of these shocking things.I am dead, guess there is wool for it?

So decided.

"But to be honest, even if I can make a steam engine and an internal combustion engine, I don't know how to use it on a boat." Su Yi sighed and shook his head.

But gunpowder...do you want to get it out first?At sea, bows and arrows are more deterrent than artillery, right?

But he was very worried about making such a dangerous thing.

"Gunpowder and gunpowder weapons should also be kept as blueprints." Su Yi added another relic to himself, "I don't know if the smelted steel can be used... Wait, although it can't be used as a firearm, a large bow and crossbow can be used. Use it as a gun.

Su Yi happily drew the bow and crossbow manufacturing diagram.As a male technical nerd, how could he not understand weapons, whether it is cold weapons or crossbows?