Li Shimin was very puzzled. Did he have to do something specially when entering the customs?
This would be too ugly and lose the style of a great country.
"Thanks to your majesty, your majesty doesn't know that our country, the Tang Dynasty, is now the most prosperous country in the world. It has a vast territory and abundant resources, and has many more items for sale than foreign countries.
Needless to say, merchants in the Tang Dynasty could not buy many things in foreign countries."
He bought back everything he could and handed it over to His Majesty. Your Majesty has also increased production. Foreign things did not have much appeal to the merchants of the Tang Dynasty.
This is just like the late Qing Dynasty in later generations. Why did a war break out?
Isn't it because the Mi Banner Kingdom discovered that their merchants not only failed to make money after arriving in the Qing Dynasty, but also increased their purchasing power in the Qing Dynasty.
Because the Qing Dynasty at that time was very rich in materials after thousands of years of accumulation, and had no interest in foreign things at all.
Therefore, when people from the Mi Banner country went to the Qing Dynasty to do business, their money still flowed to the Qing Dynasty.
As a result, because of this huge difference, the people of the Mi Banner State were very angry. They launched a war and forced the Qing Emperor to give money. In fact, it was an unreasonable robbery of money.
The same is true for the current Tang Dynasty. Compared with foreign countries, it is richer in materials. Muchuan is absolutely sure that the scale of trade will tilt heavily towards the Tang Dynasty, and money will flow into the Tang Dynasty like running water.
The military strength of the Tang Dynasty was not weak, and with an emperor like Li Shimin, and the advanced weapons provided by Muchuan, Muchuan did not have to worry about foreign invasion at all.
It would be good if the Tang Dynasty did not attack others. However, historically, Li Shimin had always wanted to capture Goryeo. Muchuan touched his chin. Since Goryeo always believed that this and that of the Tang Dynasty belonged to it, it would be better to incorporate it directly into the Great Tang Dynasty.
Tang Lai, when it is said this way, it seems reasonable and reasonable. After all, the world belongs to the Tang Dynasty. It is yours and his, and there is no need to distinguish between them.
The more Muchuan thought about it, the more reasonable it became. It seemed that he still needed to optimize some weapons to quickly increase the military strength of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Shimin listened to what Muchuan said and didn't say much. His military ability was outstanding, but he was still a little weak in governing the country. However, Li Shimin was eager to learn and figured out many things by himself after thinking about it for a while.
He felt that what Muchuan said was reasonable. People in the Tang Dynasty only earned their own money, which was too slow to help improve the national treasury. Only by making money from foreigners to the Tang Dynasty could they make money quickly. Fang Xuanling would definitely not hinder him anymore.
Goryeo is being attacked.
"Yes, I like this proposal!"
“How should this foreign language institute be established?”
Li Shimin asked.
"Currently, there are many foreigners in Chang'an. We can set up a pilot program with 30 foreign language professors to teach two foreign languages first."
Muchuan thought for a while and said, in fact, they have not discussed this yet, but just briefly mentioned it.
"Two kinds, are they enough?"
Li Shimin frowned and asked.
"Although it is not enough, we will open it first and wait until we can find teachers in other foreign languages and then continue to add more."
"Okay, but how long does it take to learn this foreign language?"
"It is tentatively scheduled for one year. During this year, teaching will only be held in the evening and will only be taught for one hour."
Muchuan was full of confidence.
"I'm afraid one hour and one year of teaching may not be enough."
Li Shimin thought that since Muchuan said he would only teach at night, the people he would recruit must be people who work during the day. In order not to affect their money, they could only teach at night.
"In this way, I will use part of the money from my private treasury. Anyone who is willing to study hard can receive 10 taels of silver every month."
"If the study time is adjusted to one day during the day, the time to complete the study can be shortened."
Li Shimin suggested.
"Yes, we can recruit students before it opens. It will last for five days. We will teach for an hour every night. After five days, we will take a test. The top 60 people can be recruited."
“To prevent some people from slacking off, the exam can be conducted once a month.
Those whose grades are unsatisfactory will be fined and expelled."
Muchuan also suggested.
"Yes, Master Mu has considered everything comprehensively."
"Let's make arrangements first. When you need money, just follow the rules."
Li Shimin waved his hand and said no more.
There are really too many books under his hands. If he delays any longer, he may not be able to read them all by the time he goes to court tomorrow.
Muchuan left as he was told.
After returning to the Ministry of Household Affairs, Muchuan told everyone the result of what he had discussed with Li Shimin. No one expected that, just by mentioning it, His Majesty would completely solve the problem and put forward many suggestions.
Everyone was very happy. This was the first time in such a long time that the Ministry of Finance had done something like this among the people.
Muchuan was much calmer. After all, he had been in school for more than ten years in later generations and had never seen any scenes.
He arranged to choose the address of the college and the wife of the professor, and publicize it to Chang'an and surrounding cities. There was no need to promote it too far away.
If the pilot project in Chang'an City is completed, some relatively large cities will be selected and launched.
Because as long as you study well, you will get money, and there is no threshold required. The only condition is literacy, so many poor people came to participate.
Of course, there are also many children from wealthy families who come, most of them are children from business families, and there are very few children from officials, almost none.
Muchuan had already anticipated this. For the poor, in addition to earning money while studying, if they learn foreign languages, they can make money by translating in the future, and they can also go to local places to teach, which can give them some income.
Even if you only earn 500 yuan a month, you can still have enough to eat in the countryside.
Muchuan had no intention of destroying their hopes. He had already notified the city patrol and asked them to receive them equally.
Many people with fully patched clothes came to sign up, because there was only one day to sign up, and some who were far away had arrived in Chang'an the day before.
Some of them have read books for several years, some only recognize some words, and some cannot even finish a complete book.
But this time is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If you can study for a month, you can get 10 taels of silver, and if you study for half a year, you can get 60 taels.
10 taels can keep their whole family from going hungry for most of their lives.
60 taels can feed the whole family, build a new house, and marry a wife. The remaining money can be used to start a small business. Money begets money.
Because I was poor and couldn't afford breakfast, I was hungry early in the morning.
Although they had tried their best to wear the clothes that they could wear most, even the patches on them were carefully mended again, for fear that it would be disrespectful to expose the inner clothes.
But their dusty appearance makes them still far behind compared to those children from rich families, as if they are refugees.
So much so that everyone had an anxious look on their face, craning their necks to look inside the temporary school.
Afraid of sudden changes, they are not even qualified to study on a trial basis every night.
Since there were only two foreign languages, and both had been doing business with the Han people for many years, it was easy for them to invite masters, and they had already invited many masters to teach them.
