Chapter 1375: Nothing to do with diligence, either a traitor or a steal
If paper tickets cannot be exchanged for gold and silver, wouldn't this be a loss of blood? It is a strange feeling no matter how you think about it, exchanging your own real money and silver for the other party's paper tickets...
However, this matter is not that simple. Speaking of which...
Because on the Southeast Side, some factories have recently been built with aid from Rome, including paper mills and cotton spinning mills.
If such an organization wants to deal with the Li Tang Empire, there will inevitably be gold and silver exchanges, and especially in terms of sales, gold and silver must be used, so... the topic of paper tickets depends on this and has been discussed all the time.
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However, if it is just because Li Tang Empire said that paper tickets are the same as gold and silver, then no one will buy his account, and a fool will use the gold and silver in his hand to exchange the paper tickets in other people's pockets.
However, the problem is that Li Tang has now posted an official notice that all maritime merchants are not allowed to refuse banknotes. Once discovered, they will be severely punished immediately! And some stupid chickens have been killed to scare the monkeys.
Of course, this was just one of Li Tang's tricks. It was obviously not enough to simply ask maritime merchants not to refuse banknotes, and to restrict the government's yamen to insist on collecting all currencies when collecting taxes.
Therefore, another move Li Er made was to issue banknotes. Merely ensuring that the imperial court and the Tang Dynasty would recognize the banknotes was nothing more than to appease other people's hearts, and to appease other people's hearts...
This kind of thing is in line with the old saying, being diligent without anything is a traitor or a thief. To calm people's hearts, of course you have to do things that make people uneasy.
...At the same time as this incident happened, Li Er asked the maritime merchants to use banknotes to purchase overseas goods as much as possible! The leading maritime merchant was a capable general under the West Lake Industrial Zone in Hangzhou, named Asi.
Sensitive Arabs.
Although this Asmin is of Arab origin, she is now very effective in serving the Tang Empire. She promotes banknotes everywhere, and the main means of promotion is to use banknotes in all acquisitions of overseas assets and goods.
Normally, of course, no overseas force would accept it. Whether it is native tribes, overseas countries, or maritime merchants from overseas countries... but a normal person cannot accept others using a few useless cards.
Just exchange the paper notes for your own assets and goods. But the problem is...
These paper bills, which should have been of no use at all, are now useful because of Li Er's paving the way. Because although Datang used paper bills to forcefully exchange your family's property and the goods you produced,...
I also promised that you can use these paper notes to exchange for Li Tang's property and Li Tang's goods.
With these two simultaneous effects, it is much easier for people overseas to accept Li Tang’s banknotes! And of course...
With just these two items, no one knows how to manage money, Li Er. After all, these banknotes... Think about it, before there was this thing, didn't everyone in the world live their lives the same way?
As the old saying goes, don't add entities if it's not necessary. Since paper money is an unnecessary thing, why do it have it? Isn't this just unnecessary.
Therefore, in the eyes of everyone in the world, this thing is just an existence looking for trouble.
but……
After all, Marcus was no ordinary person, he was from the Roman Empire.
He is not an ordinary Roman, he is an intellectual, a strategist, and a talent reserve of the Roman Empire. For ordinary people, this is something that should not be added to the substance unless necessary.
But people like Marcus think deeper.
Since this thing is not necessary for overseas countries, it can be omitted.
So... doesn't this thing have the same nature for Li Tang?
If this is the case, then why does Li Er bother to do this? It’s obvious that no one wants it, and it’s obvious that no one uses it, so why push it out...
but!
The Tang Empire was also an empire. And an empire...
This kind of thing is too familiar to Marcus.
The Tang Empire would not do unnecessary things, or to put it more bluntly, any country that could become an empire would not do unnecessary things if it had the qualifications.
So... there is only one answer. This paper money only seems redundant on the surface, and there is no need to exist on the surface. However... to the Tang Empire, this thing must be of great value, it is nothing more than a temporary
No one will be able to see it.
Of course, Marcus also admitted that he could not see the value of this banknote.
Even after thinking about it, I still don't understand what the real function of this banknote is.
But as a Roman intellectual, as a true intellectual who understood strategy, Marcus could reason that this banknote had some value to the Tang Empire, and in this case... a piece of paper money was regarded as valuable by everyone.
If you refuse to accept something that is dispensable, the next step...
The Tang Empire will definitely use various means to make the people of the world accept this thing and even get used to its existence.
Marcus had carefully collected information about the Arab who worked in the colonies on the subcontinent. This woman was extremely capable and was an important minister of the Tang Empire.
Even such manpower was mobilized, which further confirmed his conjecture. The Tang Empire must secretly attach great importance to this banknote, and continue to reason based on it... It is not difficult to see that the Tang Empire's next plan must be to use
More and stronger manpower to continue the promotion of banknotes.
And for such an intensity of talent mobilization, it's hard not to think of one thing.
war.
Only for war will a country vigorously mobilize its best young people to go out.
But as we all know, ruling a big country is a job with a very high threshold. Every day in the country, just daily affairs are complicated and exhausting, and war... this kind of behavior of looking for trouble for yourself when you have nothing to do, is
No wise monarch would do it. Since he did it, it means that there is some kind of strategic goal in the war - that is, the promotion of banknotes this time, and this strategic goal must contain
of great value related to the fate of the entire empire.
Marcus quickly thought of this, and knew clearly that these were true insights and not his own opinions. But... no matter how much Marcus thought about it, he couldn't figure out what the value of the banknotes was.
If this banknote is a strategy similar to plunder, then why did the Tang Empire promote this thing within itself? Everything seems to be a maze shrouded in fog...
After thinking about it, Marcus felt that he had to come to the subcontinent first to observe whether the banknotes were officially issued by the Tang Empire or whether they were made by businessmen. If they were just done by businessmen, it would not be that serious.
But now it seems that this is the strategy of the Tang Empire...