This is the first time Li Di has eaten this strange food. It looks delicious and is extremely rare. But why does it cause blood to sniff it after biting it? It's so disgusting! The eldest son is still looking forward to what delicious food is there?

When it comes to killing Li Di in the battlefield, he would not frown, but he had no courage to eat a piece of beef with blood. He stared at Bai Dong for a long time and found that he used a knife to cut the beef one by one, then dipped it in the sauce, so he followed suit. As expected, with this kind of sauce with some alcohol, the beef with blood was not very difficult to eat, and gradually he tasted a fresh taste. He only felt that the beef was eaten in this way. If it was ripe, it would damage the taste. ⊙,

This bloody beef is more delicious than roasted lamb legs and fat lamb stew. It is a pleasure to pair with those Persian grape wines.

Cao'er was also slowly eating steak and wine, looking at Bai Dong and Ying Si blinking, as if thinking about something. Suddenly, his face showed a sudden enlightenment expression, but was stopped by Bai Dong with his eyes.

Telling students directly that the answer is far less effective than guiding students to think and get the answer. Ying Si is not a fool, and she is also a student of Fengming Academy. If she doesn’t even have the ability to think independently, what qualifications are there to be to be the crown prince of Qin?

Ying Si was considered a patient with a promising sex addiction in history, but now history has changed. Bai Dong must see not only his great ability to expand territory and find a wife, but also his ability to understand commodities, currency, and even the thoughts of aristocrats. In the future, China and Lao Qin will undergo tremendous changes. The future crown prince of Qin cannot keep up with the times.

"This kind of food was invented by the Taifu"

Ying Si swallowed and began to think: "I checked the silver cabinet of the money shop with Cao'er Master Gu. I found that Persians would come to the money shop to change the silver notes. This would facilitate them to go to the far place to do business. It would make silver more convenient for flow; if there was not enough silver, they would exchange a large amount of copper and iron coins. And I found that the copper and iron coins here exchanged silver at 1 to 4, which was twice as high as my Daqin. I was just wondering why they liked silver coins so much. Before the Taifu promoted the silver standard, even in the Great Zhou Dynasty, they were mainly copper and iron coins."

"Very good. You did not waste your time at Fengming Academy."

Bai Dong nodded slightly and smiled: "In fact, Greece near the Mediterranean has a history of minting gold and silver coins. However, this currency is more used in the upper class of the nobles and cannot be promoted to the civilian class. In the early days of China, silver coins were not used because there was too little silver. However, after the appearance of Shijian silver on the Japanese island, we no longer lacked silver. Moreover, for us, copper and iron coins were actually more practical than silver coins. The use of flashy gold and silver coins by ancient Greece and Persia was more a habit or a means for the nobles to show off their wealth. But this habit is very good. We should be good at guiding. Du Zhi is now your father, so you should have heard him say that the 'tariff' policy that Lao Qin is now implementing?"

Ying Si blinked: "I heard that the Qin Dynasty set up silver taxes on merchants from the West. If they want to go to Qin to trade or sell goods from Qin, they have to report high taxes; our Qin merchants can enjoy low-value copper and silver exchange, but they still have to use one to four ratios. If the ratio is not enough, they have to make up for it. Or they can directly exchange high-value silver bills from the money house opened by the Bai family and Lao Qin, otherwise they have to pay taxes. In this way, the Qin merchants can enjoy lower business costs, but Western merchants must bear high tariffs. This seems very unfair. If the Qin merchants enjoy all the benefits, aren't they afraid that Western merchants will be dissatisfied?"

"What can they be dissatisfied with? The copper and iron refining level of Persia and even Western countries is not as good as that of China. Their copper and iron coins are not purified enough. Of course, they have to pay more for the silver coins used to exchange for ours, so this is fair."

Bai Dong laughed and said, "You can't imagine the love of Western nobles for silver. As long as China ensures sufficient purity of silver coins, they will come to exchange it obediently. The more merchants communicate, the more profit the promotion of China's silver coins will be."

Ying Si's eyes lit up and slapped his thigh hard and said, "Si'er understands that silver is good-looking, but it can't be made into swords and armor. If it is used, it is far less than silver. But Westerners prefer silver. It is not convenient for us to grab copper and iron from them, so we can exchange it with the unimportant silver. Anyway, the Japanese island discovered by the Taifu is silver, so it doesn't need to be used for nothing? Master, are you right about Si'er?"

Seeing Cao'er nodding at him, Ying Si was even more proud, and even the bones around him seemed to have become much lighter: "And the Taifu said that Western aristocrats like gold and silver are just a means of proclaiming themselves, but these aristocrats alone may not use a lot of silver, right? The Taifu is the most capable person. Just this steak that needs to be combined with silver tableware may cause many Westerners to use silver. We get copper and iron from the West to make weapons and armor, but they exchange our silver for the useless things like dining plates. If this continues, China will become stronger and stronger, and the West will decline more and more. Anyway, they can't beat us. Taifu, Si'er is right, where is my steak?"

Bai Dong nodded slightly. The story of steak and silver tableware is actually just a microcosm of his methods. In the past two years, the Bai family and several cooperative trading companies have been using various means to guide the Western "silver consumption". Using silver with high value but not strong practicality to exchange for Western copper and iron resources is the fundamental purpose of currency exchange. However, Ying Si is still a little tender after all, and only knows one thing but not the other, and must be guided slowly.

As the heir of Lao Qin, especially his own student, Ying Si not only wanted to be the famous King Huiwen of Qin in history, but also a new leader with a modern concept of empire. Only in this way can we ensure that Lao Qin always stays at the forefront of China and even the world.

Bai Dong waved his hand and said that a female slave gave her fragrant veal. Forget the wine. Although this was in the pre-Qin era, Bai Dong still stubbornly believed that drinking alcohol was a crime when he was less than eighteen years old. He could not control other teenagers, but Ying Si could control it.

"If it's just for these benefits, then it's not my brother."

Cao'er suddenly interrogated: "If I read it right, my brother wants to use silver to control the West. China wants to establish the General Office of the Banking Industry to accomplish this? As long as China has enough silver, a strong enough business and a strong enough army, in the future, regardless of the East and West, the price of silver can only be determined by China! With this alone, China can easily take away all resources from the West, just like treating Japanese islanders, there is no fairness. Brother may say that this is for Qin and China, but are those Japanese islanders and Westerners not humans? Isn't China bullying the weak by doing this? Brother, are you still the good brother who holds Cao'er and tells Cao'er many fairy tales?"

“Good question.”

Bai Dong looked at his girl and felt happy and helpless. Cao'er grew up and even became a reporter. This kind of work is the easiest way to develop paranoidness. Her three views have already formed, so she questioned herself in person. Isn't this what I want to see? But when Cao'er really jumped out to question herself, why did she feel inexplicable loss and helplessness in her heart?

"Cao'er, this world is very big. When the East has never encountered the West, everyone can naturally live their own little days, but can they still live their own little days after contact? There must be commercial exchanges, cultural exchanges, and even political exchanges in the East and the West, how can they not influence or even control each other? Now China is strong and the West is weak, or my brother has a way to make the West be between the hands of China in the East. Isn't that good? If the West is weak and China is strong, will these Persians, Greeks, and Romans treat China equally?"

"At least I will not bring them too much war. Compared with blood and war, using commerce and currency to control the West is the gentlest and fairest method I can think of. Now China has a large amount of silver and has stronger economic and military power, so we can seize Western resources and even control Western countries. If we don't do this, maybe we are forced by the Westerners in a few years. At that time, we will probably be our China. Believe me, my brother has seen that scene in the dream country. The East China is like a dying dragon, divided and swallowed by Western powers. I will never allow this scene to appear no matter what!"

Swallowing the remaining steak into his mouth, Bai Dong stood up and clapped his hands: "If you still have doubts about your brother, I will ask Brother Li to protect you from traveling all over Persia. You can interview around and see what the Persians are attitudes? I can guarantee that you must be seeing the joyful Persians, because in their opinion, what China brings them is not bullying and seizing, but opportunities and vitality."

Cao'er shook his head and said, "I don't believe it!"

"If you don't believe it, let's make a bet. I'll give you three months to visit Persia. If you find that your brother is right, you have to go to Yue Kingdom obediently. Wu Zhuan still loves you very much. Even if he has changed a lot now, this kind of love will never change."

"I"

"What, can my Cao'er be afraid of it too? Wouldn't you dare to gamble?"

Bai Dong sighed: "You said you want to be a reporter and be a sister Shanlu who can speak for the world. My brother did not stop you, and even the marriage period with Wuzhun was delayed again and again. It was because my brother once promised you that you would make the decision on your marriage. On that day, you rejected Silde and chose Wuzhun. It was not that my brother forced you? Why do you always escape this marriage now?"

"Go and bet. If I lose, I will marry Wu Zhuan immediately and be your favorite lady of Yue!"

"Okay, this is my good girl."
Chapter completed!