[Group Wearing Song Dynasty] The Glory of the Sky

When Yun Qi came back, it was as if he was a different person. He stopped drinking and having fun, and he stopped molesting the men in his mansion. He even tore off the gentle smile that always hung on his face, as if it was just a tool.

The most she does is to read books.

The hair is no longer hanging over the shoulders, and the clothes are finally dressed meticulously, as if the dissolute woman in the past is another person.

She was originally Wan Yanyong's abandoned son, and the reason for being abandoned was that she was difficult to control.

But after only going to Yangzhou, this woman became indifferent and serious, and she didn't even make fun of men anymore.

Knowing that she was not taken away by the Linguo people, but came back intact, some ministers couldn't help but set foot in her mansion, but the gate of the Yun Mansion was tightly closed, and no chance was given.

Some people in Tokyo even began to spread rumors, saying that the famous lady of the county had been disfigured and would never see anyone again.

Wan Yanyong had had enough of this feeling.

It was like this every time, she wanted to see her by herself, and she bit the hook like a hungry fish.

What is she trying to do?

When Wan Yanyong walked into Yunfu, all the servants opened the door well and guided him into the inner room.

In the inner room, there are more than a dozen candles lit, and the light is bright even on a cloudy day. There are manuscripts and arithmetic papers on the walls, like a retro-style laboratory.

Wan Yanyong was stunned for a moment, a little speechless when he saw Yun Qi.

Her demeanor has completely changed.

In the past, this woman was like a flower in full bloom, but now her brows and eyes are cold and ruthless, she doesn't even paint on her makeup, and let him come here with her face up to the sky.

But even without makeup, she still has bright brows and clear eyes.

"Yun Qi." Wan Yanyong leaned close to the wall, and looked at the handwriting all over the wall. He couldn't understand most of the characters inside, and it seemed to be the language of Shiguo.

"What are you counting?"

"The emperor is here." Yun Qi put the ballpoint pen behind his ear, rubbed his wrist and drank a cup of tea.

It was only then that Wan Yanyong realized that she had brought back two boxes of Linguo paper and pens for writing - no need to grind ink and lay inkstone, and there were ink stains on the sleeves that would not splash.

No wonder the handwriting is so tiny!

"I won't talk nonsense." Yun Qi put down the teacup, stared at him and said, "I went to Yangzhou City, and unexpectedly saw a person who I thought had nothing to do with me at all."

She's starting to speak honorifics now?

Is this still Yunqi?

"This person is related to your ten-year plan?" Wan Yanyong frowned and looked at her smooth cheeks: "How old were you ten years ago?"

Yun Qi didn't answer his question, but said bluntly, "I want to kill him at all costs."

She articulated her words clearly, her eyes were extremely steady, and her tone was no longer expressing her wish like an oath, but like a believer proclaiming her faith.

Yun Qi is a woman, no matter how cold her tone is, it is hard to be murderous.

But Wan Yanyong could feel intuitively that what she said was true.

She seemed to come alive suddenly.

His eyes became focused, and his body no longer trampled on like grass.

For whom?

Wan Yanyong originally came to talk to her about serious matters, but seeing that it was still early in the morning, he actually asked about many things: "With your ability, isn't it easy to kill anyone?"

"No," Yun Qi raised his palm and showed him his slender knuckles: "Linguo's firearms can be so small."

"Wei Chen wants to get close to him, I'm afraid he will die before he shows his knife."

She is serious.

Wan Yanyong thought it was an untamable wild cat picked up by the side of the road, and suddenly bowed his head for a fish, and his mood was quite delicate.

"Do you... want to kill the head of Linguo?"

"No." Yun Qi raised his head again, looked into his eyes and said, "I want to destroy that person, there is only one way, and that is to destroy Linguo."

"I'm willing to give anything for this."

When Wan Yanyong heard this sentence, he couldn't help clapping his hands and laughed loudly: "Yun Qi, when you first came to the Kingdom of Jin, you were as strange as a person born out of this world, but now you can speak so fiercely for a single person— —Could it be a heartbroken man?"

"No." Yun Qi said slowly: "His grandfather is the person I most want to kill, but I can't get close to that place at all."

Everything was as she expected, Jiangyin Town was under martial law, and Long Hui had already hidden deep.

Even if she just approached his residence, she would probably be targeted by cameras and snipers simultaneously.

"Grandpa?" Wan Yanyong raised his eyebrows: "Do you want to kill a child?"

"Well," Yun Qi lowered his eyes and sorted out the manuscript, his tone was indifferent and without compassion: "It's that person's painstaking effort, the quintessential talent cultivated with half his life."

"Could it be, what did that old man do to you?" Wan Yanyong touched his chin and said, "No wonder I think something is wrong with you... What happened to you before?"

Sexuality has nothing to do with young or old. The children in Jin Kingdom know how to touch their breasts and legs at the age of four or five, and it all depends on whether they are restrained.

"He may not know my appearance at all, or he may have been paying attention to me for a long time." Yun Qi paused, only got up to mark the order of the posted manuscripts, and changed the subject seemingly casually: "The emperor today Come here, isn't it just to reconfirm whether I'm safe or not?"

Only then did Wan Yanyong remember his purpose of coming here, and frowned, "Are you swearing allegiance?"

"Do you need me to kneel down?" Yun Qi said lightly: "Or kiss your boots or the tail of your robe?"

——She said it so lightly that Wan Yanyong felt that he had lost control again.

His eyes tightened inch by inch, and his tone was meaningful: "If I reuse you, I need you to be a military prostitute for half a year."

"Then go, since I fled to Linguo, I don't have much choice." Yun Qi wrote the serial number without changing his face, checking whether the materials he had sorted out were lost: "But most of them are either dead or injured. will do."

Wan Yanyong actually wanted to give this woman a knife, it would be best to let her die.

He doesn't like dealing with people who are smarter than himself.

"Okay, let's get to the point."

Yun Qi stood up slowly, and put the ballpoint pen back on his ear.

"Jin Guo is rotten to the bone, I have already said this."

Wan Yanyong was not irritated by her words, but looked at her with fixed eyes: "Tang Yi is doing very well now."

He openly and directly divided interests with all senior officials, so straightforward that it shocked the ruling and opposition parties.

But precisely because the interests are clearly divided, all nobles and aristocratic families can get equal benefits, and various reforms are extremely smooth, with minimal resistance.

After all, Tang Yi is a businessman, and he knows that it is difficult to win over people's hearts, and his feelings may change at any time, but the word "interest" will never fade.

Because of this, he used an open and direct way to discuss political matters like a businessman's profit distribution in the business field.

No matter how many people scold Tang Shangshu for being immoral and shameless behind his back, they still cannot resist the temptation.

——This kind of practice has never happened in thousands of years.

In the case of a clear division of interests, Tang Yi stood in the middle of the Jin court with a rather subtle posture, and had a good relationship with most of the officials.

He streamlined official positions, clarified the position system, proposed clear strategies to appease ethnic conflicts, and at the same time gave clear ideas for border information transmission and information network establishment.

Many ideas are so refreshing that Wan Yanyong dare not release him to Linguo.

If this kind of person stays in Linguo, what a commotion will be caused!

"What I suspect now is," he stared at the skinny woman with a playful tone, "How do you convince me that what you do is better than what he does?"

Yun Qi sat there quietly, and when he heard these words, he smiled instead.

"Also, do you know that Lin Guo has now signed a contract with Jin Guo and is willing to trade hundreds of thousands of flashlights!" Wan Yanyong talked about this matter in a rather fanatical tone, as if he could break through Mongolia tomorrow and become a Overlord of the North.

"You, a woman, can neither replace Tang Yi's position of reform, nor can you make military achievements on the battlefield. Just relying on the so-called skill of controlling people, you want to be reused by me?" Wan Yanyong said at this time, Already showing a sarcastic smile: "If you intend to enter my harem, you can consider it."

Yun Qi waited for him to finish speaking, took a sip of tea unhurriedly, and said lightly, "Sit."

Wan Yanyong frowned and said, "Don't you understand what I'm talking about?"

"You want to stand?" Yun Qi raised his eyebrows and said, "That's up to you."

She put down the teacup, and when the cup touched the paulownia tabletop, she lightly touched it with her little finger, without making any sound.

"The biggest problem in the Kingdom of Jin is not the defense of separatist regimes and the corruption of the official system, but money."

money?

Wan Yanyong did not expect that she would mention this matter at all, the thoughts that had been formed in his mind were disrupted for a while, and his heart was a bit at a loss.

Jin Guo is short of money?

Now that there are frequent business exchanges, how can there be such a reason?

"Don't you really want to sit?" Yun Qi's tone sounded like a teacher who was about to give a lecture in college, and his posture became more and more relaxed at the moment: "The casting and circulation of coins, and the business exchanges with the market will affect the prosperity of the Jin Kingdom. or not."

"What are you talking about?" Wan Yanyong interrupted: "The Minister of the Ministry of Officials doesn't think there is any problem, why do you say that?"

I'm afraid it's another trick to confuse the public!

"Your Majesty." Yun Qi said slowly: "Whether you want to attack Mongolia or the Southern Song Dynasty, you must first have money."

"That's true, but—"

"But the Kingdom of Jin doesn't even have enough copper to mint coins, does it?"

Wan Yanyong thought about how women know everything, and said angrily: "But paper money has already been issued, so it's not your turn to worry about it!"

"The first problem lies in the circulation and issuance of coins."

"The second problem is that the trade gap between the Jin and Song Dynasties is too large."

Yun Qi raised his eyes and smiled gently: "These two problems can be solved by one method."

"And the only one who knows the answer is me."

"Your Majesty still thinks that a woman is useless?"

-

The atmosphere was a little awkward.

Wan Yanyong came here this time, actually there is an element of venting evil spirits.

He hated this woman's attitude of winning, and even more hated her omniscient appearance.

It may also be that she hates herself who is unconsciously manipulated by her every time.

Seeing that the situation in the Kingdom of Jin is very good now, with breakthroughs in the military and government, it is obvious that it is going to a more prosperous situation, so he came to this Yunfu, wanting to slap this woman in the face severely.

But this time, he was speechless again and had to listen.

——Of course you don’t have to listen.

If this matter were changed to Wan Yanliang, I am afraid that she would have forced this woman several times, and would have killed her with a sword when she was bored, not caring about the twists and turns.

But he is Wan Yanyong.

He is Wan Yanyong who wants to achieve eternal dominance and conquer the world.

So the emperor took a deep breath, sat down anyway, and said with restraint: "If you can't fart, you will feed your head to the dogs tonight."

Yun Qi lowered his head and took out a few sheets of paper from the manuscript, showing him what he had sorted out.

Due to its national characteristics, the Kingdom of Jin lived a life of fishing, hunting and nomadic at first.

After defeating the Liao Kingdom and formally establishing the Jin Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom has been using the old money of the Liao and Song Dynasties and has no clear currency system because the system has not been fully established. The currency they circulate mainly comes from the Song Kingdom.

But in the second year of Zhenglong, five years before Wan Yanliang was still in power, the people at the top felt that something was wrong, and announced the proposal to cast copper coins, prohibiting the outflow of copper products, and began to collect folk bronzes to cast "Zhenglong Tongbao". .

The problem is that there are not enough copper mines in Jin Guo.

Copper is needed to cast weapons, and copper is needed to trim the palace. Even if it is to worship Buddha, copper is also needed to cast ritual objects.

Because of this, when copper mines are not abundant, it is possible to cast 10,000+ coins, and the cost needs to be 10,000+.

This means that the monetary system of the entire Jin Kingdom is extremely unstable and difficult to control.

The Song Dynasty began to issue Jiaozi during the Northern Song Dynasty, and Wan Yanliang naturally followed suit. Seven years ago, he began to set up a banknote delivery warehouse and a banknote-making warehouse.

What he wants to achieve is to be able to issue copper coins and banknotes at the same time, and the denominations of banknotes are also divided into five grades, with a minimum value of 20 guan coins and a maximum value of 1000 guan coins.

And because of the trade, the popular silver collars in the Song Dynasty were also quite popular. After all, gold and silver are naturally currency.

"That is to say, the current monetary system of the Kingdom of Jin is completely dependent on the 20 silver that the Song Dynasty pays every year, as well as the copper coins obtained from the exchanges in the market," Yun Qi showed him the data analysis diagram he drew, like a scholar The posture is calm: "And once the amount of banknotes is out of control, the whole system will collapse."

Although Wan Yanyong was smart, he still half understood what she said.

He himself is sensitive and eager to learn, and he would not still put on the airs of a king at this time, just thinking about asking: "Then tell the banknote depository to print less, isn't it over?"

Yun Qi rubbed the center of his brows, as if he was giving lessons to elementary school students, and only patiently guided him: "Think about it, Your Majesty, once the war breaks out, or the Song Dynasty unilaterally stops the inflow of copper coins, the military expenditure will continue to rise. To appease the sergeants, more and more paper money will just be printed."

It's not that people don't know that money is worthless if it is printed too much, but sometimes they have no choice in the face of the situation.

"What do you mean?" Wan Yanyong suddenly felt that he did not understand the concept of 'money', and asked: "Is it so important?"

Yun Qi took a deep breath, and wrote a line like writing on the blackboard.

"The essence of currency is debt, and the essence of holding currency is holding the claims of the currency issuer."

"The biggest crisis of the Kingdom of Jin lies in the fact that the amount of money issued can be interfered by the Kingdom of Song at will, and the reserves of precious metals are seriously insufficient-this is the first issue I want to talk about."

Wan Yanyong took a deep breath and probably understood what she meant.

Tang Yi and her are not concerned with matters in the same field, but what Yun Qi said is indeed not something that can be settled by a good relationship with noble bureaucrats.

Because there is no, there is no. It is an established fact that there are few copper mines in the Kingdom of Jin. This is also very likely one of the reasons why Wan Yanliang insisted on conquering the Southern Song Dynasty.

Not to mention the outbreak of military chaos, once drought and flood disasters occur, the people's harvests will be damaged, and the court will not be able to pay for it-so it will inevitably print more paper money to make the situation worse.

"The second problem lies in the difference in trade." Seeing that the emperor clearly understood, Yun Qi taught him how to see another problem clearly: "Your Majesty should have some understanding of the dispute. .”

The word question in the field of discussion means franchise and monopoly.

The three kingdoms of Liao, Xia, and Jin all established close government-run trade with Song, but there were also private merchants participating in the government-run business, and they only had to pay the corresponding tax and tooth money, and they could enter through specific certificates. field trade.

Song Guo fled from the north to the south, in fact, there was a meaning of cutting off the tail to survive.

According to Yun Qi's observation and analysis, before Song State moved its capital, its economic center of gravity had actually been moving southward.

Although she can't judge that we are in the Little Ice Age like Liu Xi and the others, but based on the collection of meteorological data, she can also understand that the annual harvest in the north is getting less and less, and grazing is becoming more and more difficult.

In winter, the rivers on the grassland are frozen and the pastures are dead. It is extremely difficult for cattle, sheep and shepherds to survive the winter. It is precisely because of the deteriorating climate that Mongolia and the Kingdom of Jin will continue to want to go south to plunder more resources.

Although both Song and Jin have their own disadvantages in terms of war, in terms of trade, Song is rich and the most outstanding among the five countries.

The reason is that the nomads in the north are highly dependent on tea, cloth, grain, spices, etc. from their Song Dynasty.

"Look here," Yun Qi read, pointing to the documents sent to her by Wan Yanyong, "In the market in Shansi Prefecture, a year's supply of new tea thousand hips, [-] catties of lychees, and five round eyes One hundred catties, six thousand catties of kumquats..."

Wan Yanyong didn't understand what she meant, so he just thought about it: "Shouldn't private trade be strictly controlled?"

Although the imperial courts of both sides have repeatedly banned them, there are still businessmen from the west of Beijing and Hubei wandering between the long borders, doing some smuggling business.

Moreover, the Southern Song Dynasty continued to use smuggling to buy military horses from the Kingdom of Jin.

Living in Huainan in the Southern Song Dynasty, the horses raised were all short and clumsy, not half as tall and strong as the army horses of the Kingdom of Jin.

The same water and soil support the same people. It is not without reason that Yanyun Nineteen Prefectures have been in an embarrassing place since the Han Dynasty.

The imperial court wanted to give up this territory because it was difficult to defend and attack, and it was difficult to farm and recuperate because of the cold weather. It was really sparsely populated.

He refused to give up, and kept trying to get it back, also for raising horses.

The cold weather makes the horses taller and stronger, and their running speed will continue to increase as a result.

And the closer to the northwest, the more suitable the pasture for the growth and development of horses - this is something that cannot be fed with rice in the south.

Once a horse is thin and short, it will have a considerable lack of impact and trampling ability. Because of this, the Kingdom of Jin has always refused to sell horses.

"If there is a profit, there will be people who will continue to take risks." Yun Qi obviously understands what he is worried about, and only reminds him in a gentle tone: "Instead of thinking about how to strictly guard against death, it is better to expand foreign exchange income."

This sentence is really farting.

Wan Yanyong stared at Yun Qi for a long time, then asked, "What do you think can be sold?"

He understands the truth, but there is no way to solve this matter.

Tea drinking was popular in the Jin Dynasty, but the tea in the north is not as good as the tea in the south.

Even farmers have the habit of drinking tea, so Jin Guo had no choice but to use silk to buy tea in the market.

The problem is that, from the perspective of practicality and value, the cost and value of silk are much higher than that of tea that is only a plant.

The current situation is that the high-quality goods that Jin Guo can sell are all necessary for war, and it is impossible to make a deal with Song Guo——

He was willing to sell iron ore with Linguo because he was afraid of Linguo's bottomless military strength, knowing that he could kill tens of thousands of his own people without even shooting an arrow.

The Song State could not only dump a large amount of grain, rice, tea and cloth, but also obtain more and more copper coins for storage.

Even if Yun Qi doesn't say anything, Wan Yanyong can see this trend——

Due to the huge and irreversible trade gap, the Song Dynasty will become richer and richer, while the Jin Dynasty will become poorer.

And this poverty will make Jin Guo have to print more and more money to save the financial crisis, which will further aggravate the problem.

Yun Qi talked about things from point to point, and at the moment he was only using a small stove to burn tea slowly, waiting for him to recover.

Wan Yanyong didn't have the air he had just now, he just felt like he was in an ice cellar, sinking inch by inch.

He can see the corruption of the court and the ugly things in the officialdom.

But personnel and affairs can be reformed, how can the destiny be reversed?

How is it possible for the people of the Kingdom of Jin to grow more abundant grain and produce better quality tea than those in the south of the Yangtze River?

"Yunqi." He said slowly: "Can you really turn this around?"

How is this possible.

Even if the Linguo people are gods, it is impossible for the land in the north to become as fertile as Huainan in an instant.

Yun Qi waved his fan and said unhurriedly: "Since the person I want to kill is still alive, I will naturally find a way to destroy him."

"Before he died, I was on the side of Jin Guo, and there was no possibility of betrayal."

For the first time Wan Yanyong was glad that the person this woman wanted to kill was in Linguo.

If that person belongs to the Kingdom of Jin, I'm afraid he will die without knowing who did it.

"What do you want?" He asked, "Have a public identity in the court? Or other benefits?"

Because Tang Yi wanted to openly divide political and financial interests, he had to inform him many times in advance, for fear that he would die unexpectedly.

And this woman, what does she want?

There was Empress Lu in the Han Dynasty and Emperor Wu in the Tang Dynasty, and it was no problem for him to support a female official to the top.

As long as she can solve the problem forcefully enough.

"No need."

Yun Qi narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "The chess game that breaks the game is already in His Majesty's hands."

"Its name is called sugar."

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sugar?

--sugar? !

sugar? ? ?

Wan Yanyong was silent for a few seconds, once again thinking that people in Linguo are all monsters.

These things have nothing to do with each other, how did she connect them?

"The candy you're talking about is caramel candy?" He frowned and said, "The Kingdom of Jin now relies partly on market trade for food, so why do you have the time to make candy?"

Yun Qi smiled and didn't say anything, just clapped her hands, signaling to the maid waiting outside to bring some snacks.

Now that the night was deep, he was really hungry.

The maid brought two things, one was cold vegetables, and the other was honey fruit shaped like flat peaches.

Wan Yanyong held the chopsticks, and looked at the calm Yun Qi in doubt.

"Your Majesty is still worried that I won't be able to poison you?" Yun Qi asked for another set of chopsticks, and took a bite in front of him.

Wan Yanyong frowned and watched as she swallowed everything, then lowered her head and tasted these two things.

It's a vegetable, it's nothing new.

But the dessert...it tasted neither caramel nor honey.

"What kind of candy is this?" He took another sip in confusion, but it still felt very strange.

There are only three types of sugar in this world.

The first is caramel made from malt, which needs to be made from grain.

The second is sucrose produced in Sichuan and Sichuan, but it is not very popular at present. Because of the difficult terrain of Sichuan and Sichuan, it is not easy for travelers to go back and forth safely, not to mention that it is even more difficult to carry goods in and out.

The third is the rarer honey.

Because of this, things like sugar have always been expensive and difficult to produce. During times of war, they were a pastime for rich people, and only in times of peace can they be widely eaten.

In the south, rice is used as sugar, and in the north, millet is used to make sugar. After all, food is consumed.

"We can also make sucrose." Yun Qi traced the unique embroidery on the fan with his fingertips, and said slowly: "Is it sweet?"

Very sweet, very sweet.

"I don't quite understand what you mean—" Wan Yanyong felt that he was going to be taken away by this woman again: "First of all, what are you made of?"

"Beetroot." Yun Qi yawned and said, "Your people only eat the leaves of beets, and don't use its roots at all."

That is, the root of the beetroot can be harvested and used to make sugar?

Wan Yanyong tasted the ordinary so-called beet again, frowned and said, "You didn't lie to me?"

"Actually, if there is targeted selection and breeding, you can grow sugar beets with bigger and bigger roots—this is not difficult," Yun Qi lazily said, playing with a fan: "According to my understanding, no matter the Jin and Song Dynasties Beets have been grown for hundreds of years, and the vegetable itself is cold-resistant and the leaves are edible. Although the rhizomes are not fat enough, they are enough for concentrated sugar production.”

"Wait," Wan Yanyong felt a little confused, and interrupted again: "What does this have to do with sucrose?"

They can't grow sugar cane at all in this weather.

Yun Qi glanced at him in surprise, and then realized that he was an ancient person, so he patiently explained: "The sugar in this place is the same kind of sugar as the sugar in the sugarcane—we call it sucrose in Linguo. .”

"Even—even if what you said makes sense, even if sugar can be extracted from this ghost vegetable," Wan Yanyong said with a frown, "Don't forget, now that the Southern Song Dynasty has abundant grain, caramel can be bought everywhere Things—Jin Guo sells this kind of thing in the market, can it be sold?"

Yun Qi blinked, pressed the button of the ballpoint pen, and wrote another line of formula for him.

Sweetness: Fructose > Sucrose > Honey > Glucose > Maltose Syrup > Maltose

Sucrose is sweeter than honey.

However, caramel can only be at the bottom in sweetness due to the high content of maltose.

It's like one is Daye Jinjunmei, and the other is tea soup made from weeds, they are not of the same magnitude at all.

Sugar beet has been widely planted as a northern crop itself, but the use of rhizomes has not attracted people's attention.

If the sucrose components in the rhizomes can be reasonably extracted, it will be equal to generating income on flat land, bringing a large amount of income to the Kingdom of Jin.

After the Kingdom of Jin has collected enough foreign exchange, it can further reform the currency system and issue new copper coins.

"It's up to Wei Chen to worry about the rest." Yun Qi cupped his chin and said slowly, "How to extract sugar from beets and how to improve the consumption of coins are Tang Shangshu's specialty work, you can just ask him."

Wan Yanyong frowned and stared at the woman, but didn't speak for a while.

After she finished explaining the government affairs, she began to drive people away openly and secretly.

Such a beautiful and outstanding woman lives too smartly.

What a pity.

Tang Yi sneezed three times in a row and subconsciously sniffled.

Estimated to be a cold.

Early the next morning, before Tang Shangshu woke up, the eunuchs in the palace rushed to call him into the palace.

Tang Yi thought that there was something urgent to ask him for help, but after entering the main hall, he realized that something was wrong.

There are several dishes on the table, and they are the kind with stems and whiskers.

Wan Yanyong didn't sleep well all night, his mind was full of how to increase his income and make a comeback in the market.

Although he didn't understand many things the woman said, he could still fully understand the core idea.

Tang Yi is now acting like the nobles of the Jin Kingdom, and his short-inch hair has not been deliberately long.

He stepped forward and saluted, his eyes still resting on the pile of vegetable leaves.

"Don't talk nonsense," Wan Yanyong sat up straighter, trying to explain the ins and outs concisely: "Yun Qi, she told me last night, what foreign exchange? Foreign exchange?"

foreign exchange?

Tang Yi was stunned for a moment and asked, "Is it a matter of trade?"

"She said this foreign exchange, what's the difference?" Wan Yanyong originally digested it in his mind all night, but now he felt that he couldn't explain anything clearly, so he said with difficulty: "Because this is what's wrong, Song Guo and Jin The income and expenditure of the country are not equal, do you understand this?"

This is basic economics knowledge.

Tang Yi nodded and confirmed: "Are you concerned about the consequences of the trade deficit?"

He also noticed this matter, but he always felt that the situation was unresolved, so he kept pressing it and did not report it.

No matter tea, food, food or cloth are necessities of life, Jin Guo has no way to stop importing them.

Wan Yanyong couldn't remember those words, so he choked out a word after a while: "Sugar!"

"The minister is here?"

"Sugar! That sugar!" Pointing to a pile of beets on the table, he ordered, "Put aside as many things as you can, and get out this sugar!"

Tang Yi looked at the pile of vegetable leaves on the table, still a little confused.

Isn't it a matter of poor trade? Why is sugar suddenly involved?

After all, he was inferior to Yun Qi in terms of test-taking ability, and he was far inferior to her in both sorting out and extracting information.

"That's it - this vegetable, the root of this vegetable, can produce sugar! Do you understand!" At this moment, Wan Yanyong felt that his important minister was an elm-headed one, and he wished to bring Yun Qi to the court to preside over important affairs , After holding back for a long time, I searched my stomach and found the two words: "Sucrose! Sucrose!!"

"Oh, oh," Tang Yi reacted, and then continued: "Your Majesty, you mean to let Wei Chen use this red cabbage root to extract sugar? Make it in batches and sell it in the market?"

"Yes!"

Tang Yi saluted in a hurry and ordered the eunuchs to send the things back to his mansion.

Although Tang Yi himself came from a medical background and had a certain reserve of chemical knowledge, the conditions in ancient times were really poor.

Not to mention the manufacture of new drugs, in such a backward era where even glass can't be blown, he doesn't have the conditions to make some tools to make penicillin.

But apart from other things, it is still possible to refine sugar.

Modern industry has strict requirements on food products. In sugar production, not only purity and impurity content must be considered, but also detergents and defoamers must be added.

But ancient times were different——

As long as this thing can be eaten, it can be sold.

There are no quarantine standards, let alone approval documents from the Quality Supervision Bureau.

After returning home, Tang Yi looked at the cart of beets, and thought of Yun Qi, who was elusive, and smiled and scolded his mother.

He took off his official robe and put on light and tight clothes, ordered the kitchen to find a kitchen knife and a cup, and started chopping vegetables like a cook.

The maids next to him dared not let the adults do this kind of thing, they hurried over to help, and kept apologizing and guilty, for fear of being punished.

Tang Yi remembered that this was ancient times, so he had to teach those people how to shred vegetables, how to wash them, and how to squeeze out sugar juice like teaching undergraduates.

After the first process, the sugar water is cloudy and dark brown, but when dipped in, it is indeed slightly sweet.

This is not an improved sugar crop. Although the sugar yield is not as high as the former, the stems, leaves, root tails, and green heads all contain a certain amount of sugar, which can also be chopped and squeezed for juice.

Tang Yi pondered for a while, and decided to get something out to see the result.

It's a pity that there are no chemicals that can help purify, otherwise clear and clean sugar can be produced.

After the sugar juice is repeatedly filtered with fine gauze, it is enough to carry out distillation and crystallization reaction.

Tang Yi worked hard for two days in a row, and it was not until the second night that he came out with a decent finished product.

He himself didn't think it was a finished product, but the servants who were waiting around him were all horrified and speechless——

"Master! This, this is actually a candy bar!"

"What's wrong?" Tang Yi rubbed some crumbs and tasted the taste: "Isn't it just ordinary rock sugar?"

The servants and maids were all dumbstruck, looking at the rock candy block like a fool.

In their day and age, there were only molasses and icing sugar.

The things Tang Yi created were existences that they could not recognize at all.