When Chai Shao heard the word "Sui Coin", his mind immediately thought of the broken pieces of jade... such a meaning.
But this is very strange. What does it mean to ask the Japanese for this condition? Does the Japanese want a jade?
Then why should the jade be broken into pieces instead of being finished? How good is the finished jade...
Li Sheng was about to make a long speech when he saw Chai Shao's face turning red for some reason. He couldn't help but wonder, "Does Mr. Chai have any ideas?"
After all, Chai Shao was already a senior leader in Lingyan Pavilion, so Li Sheng was quite curious.
However, Chai Shao waved his hand and said with an awkward smile, "Nothing, nothing, His Highness the Holy King will continue!"
Li Sheng nodded, and then explained the "year coin".
The so-called Sui coins... are too familiar to Li Sheng.
This term was born in the Song Dynasty. Because of the incident of the Sui Coin, the spiritual people of the Song Dynasty tried to whitewash this dynasty countless times for thousands of years. However... no matter how they washed it, a single Sui Coin could wipe out all the great things.
Articles written by fans of Song Dynasty - no matter how colorful the articles are - are washed away by just two words.
After the Song Dynasty, the coins disappeared in the court. First in the Yuan Dynasty, it was impossible for the Jin family to pay the coins to anyone. However, due to the lack of culture, Jiangshan became a member of the imperial family within a few days.
Get lost. Needless to say, the subsequent Ming Dynasty, the legitimacy of the entire Ming Dynasty came from "never compromising with the barbarians". Of course... this does not mean that the elites of the Ming Dynasty did not understand the methods of Huang and Lao used by the Han to govern.
Barbarians, but since the legality lies here, of course it is impossible to pay the annual coins.
But by the Qing Dynasty...the Song Dynasty version of Sui coins was gone.
However, the new version of the indemnity contract is all filled up in minutes...
As for private "protection fees", there is no need to say more.
In short...Li Sheng remembered it very clearly. In later generations...because of the hundreds of millions of taels of silver paid by the Gengzi indemnity, a large number of people in China starved to death at that time, and tragedies of selling sons and daughters were common everywhere, and the gap between the rich and the poor in the Japanese country was huge at that time.
Yet even children in the poorest mountain villages have access to electric lights.
Even now, even though Li Sheng is a science student, the contrast is still so strong that Li Sheng can still recall it and can even accurately name the treaty he no longer studied in class.
And the Sui coins Li Sheng mentioned...
Of course, it is different from the annual coins paid by the Song Dynasty to the Liao Dynasty.
Since I come from modern times and have seen the financial innovations made by Japanese friends in the matter of Sui coins, and China has received such a great gift from Japanese friends as the Gengzi Treaty, how can I not return the favor?
Therefore, the plan Li Sheng explained to Chai Shao was of course...
"On the grounds of colluding with maritime merchants and causing losses to the Tang Dynasty, we are demanding compensation from the Japanese state... We must pay one million taels of silver and one hundred thousand taels of gold every year..."
Li Sheng blew the numbers all over the place, and Chai Shao was immediately confused.
"One hundred thousand taels of gold, one million taels of silver?! Is this too much?"
Chai Shao didn't mean that there was something wrong with Li Sheng's strategy, but he felt that the number was too exaggerated.
One tael of silver is almost the same amount of money, a million taels of silver... Even for today's Datang, this is still a heavy expense. Of course, today's Datang economy is developing rapidly, and one million taels is not an astronomical figure.
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But paying one million taels every year is amazing!
Not to mention the need to pay 100,000 taels of gold. You must know that one tael of gold is equivalent to 20 taels of silver. The value of these 100,000 taels of gold is more than one million taels of silver.
Such a huge number... if it is too huge, wouldn't it be difficult to implement? I'm afraid that this "treaty" will become a piece of paper by then, Chai Shao couldn't help but think.
I mentioned these concerns to Li Sheng, but Li Sheng still sneered.
"What's wrong with a million taels? A million taels is a lot? Haha..."
Li Sheng will not forget the amount of Gengzi compensation, one million taels a year...that is, it will take more than four hundred years to complete the compensation.
Now that I have one million taels a year, I am already opening up my net.
What's more, Li Sheng actually said this number...
Although Chai Shao was worried that the treaty would become a dead letter because it couldn't be implemented, Li Sheng shook his head, "It's a good thing if it can't be implemented. The Japanese can't afford to pay, so why don't we just confiscate our homes?"
"Searching the house?"
Chai Shao didn't expect that Li Shenghui would suddenly jump from the strategy of country to country to the "micro" concept of confiscating homes. He didn't react for a while, "This... the leader of the Japanese country didn't dare to have gold and silver without paying compensation. It seems like confiscation of homes."
It doesn’t make any sense…”
But when he said this, Li Sheng smiled slightly.
"How could it be meaningless? Mr. Chai, the 'house raiding' that the younger generation is talking about, of course does not mean raiding the home of the Japanese emperor, but the house of the Japanese country itself! Although the Japanese country is small, it also has a lot of minerals and dense jungles.
It can also be used in shipbuilding. Why not use it?"
When Chai Shao heard this, his heart suddenly became clear, and he immediately understood what Li Sheng meant——
The annual "yearly coins" of one million taels of silver and one hundred thousand taels of gold are not the focus.
The focus is to directly obtain various minerals from Japan!
At this time, Chai Shao finally understood why Li Sheng said there was no need to rush to war with Japan...
After the Japanese government was overthrown and transformed into the rule of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty would inexplicably have to bear certain responsibilities for the ordinary Japanese people. To exploit minerals, Japanese citizens needed to be recruited, and the civilian husbands were recruited... If there were villages that starved because of this, the Tang Dynasty would inevitably
We also have to spend money and provide food to provide relief.
But if you don't get rid of it, then there will be no such thing.
The Japanese people's eating, drinking, and drinking are still under the jurisdiction of the Japanese court, and the minerals of the Japanese country...
Datang is equivalent to being able to get whatever you want at no cost!
this……
At this moment, Chai Shao felt a rush of cold air coming out of his back, and the back of his head felt cold.
Although the Japanese country's evil deeds were disgusting to the Tang Dynasty, and I came here with the intention of giving him a hard lesson, I never imagined that there was such a "year-old coin" plan to wipe out every household!
If this set of "treaties" comes true, then in the future...
Chai Shao estimated that even if this Japanese country was immortal, its three souls and seven souls would have to be squeezed out by the Tang Dynasty...
This even made Chai Shao turn pale, vaguely feeling that this strategy was somewhat vicious.
However, seeing Chai Shao's expression, Li Sheng clapped his hands and said with a rare serious look, "Mr. Chai, does he have sympathy for the Japanese? If so, this junior must remind the old man not to forget that the Japanese robbed me."
When the merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty massacred my merchants and sailors from the Tang Dynasty, did they ever show the slightest bit of compassion?"
"Mr. Chai... think about those sailors, they all have wives and families!"