This terrible speed of making money is amazing.

Because the Yamato court in Japan was not good at smelting, processing and coin minting technology, it not only did not make money but also lost money. Therefore, the Qin family made another money in Japan without hesitation. In the coin agreement reached with them, Japan had to pay ten coins for every 1,000 coins to Japan.

Ten thousandths may not seem like a lot, but 300,000 guan is still 3,000 guan. This money is just free.

"Have you met Su Wo family? Have you negotiated an agreement to open a money house there?"

Qin Lu shook his head embarrassedly, "They refused and refused to let us open a money shop in Japan, nor would our ticket numbers be allowed to be circulated there."

"It's okay, take your time."

Rome used gold coins, Persia used silver coins, and ancient China always used copper coins. The currencies of various countries were closely related to their own systems, and of course they were more related to resources.

"Water has recently imposed heavy taxes, resulting in serious smuggling. Almost all local tycoons have participated in smuggling, and some powerful men on the coast have even organized pirates, smuggling and robbing them." Qin Lu told Qin Lang that Japan would have to collect 50 jin of taxes for every 100 kilograms of green tea worth 20 jin of green tea imported from the Tang Dynasty.

Such high taxes have caused Japanese merchants to be overwhelmed and smuggled and smuggled.

Although the tea in the Tang Dynasty also had a monopoly sale system, tea, like salt, sugar and wine, had to be subject to a special tax on average than ordinary goods, and some even had special sales.

Tea is picked and processed from tea farmers and purchased by tea merchants. Just like salt, you need to have salt inlets to buy tea. The inlet is a tax certificate.

Tea farmers register with the government and merchants sell tea. They first pay money from the government and then receive tea entries. Tea entries are equivalent to bill of lading and tax payment certificates. Each entries are equivalent to how many kilograms of tea leaves, which is basically equivalent to salt entries.

The tax on tea is five out of ten.

It is lower than the salt tax, because the salt tax is directly increased by ten times the salt price. If the salt is ten cents, the tax of one hundred cents will be increased by one hundred cents, and it will be sold for one hundred one hundred cents. The tea tax in the Tang Dynasty ranged from the initial five percent to ten percent, then to ten percent, then to fifteen, thirty-three percent, and now the rising tea tax reveals the importance of tea tax.

Nowadays, the peak tea production in the country is 50 million jin per year. According to different teas, a tax of 50% is levied at the price. The total annual tea tax reaches tens of millions of jin. Although it is far from the salt tax of tens of millions of jin a year, the tea tax has not been used to.

But even the tea tax of 50% is not as fierce as the tea tax of Japan for a tuition of 50 knots, because once the average exported tea is about 20 knots, the tax of 50 knots is equivalent to 25% levy, which is five times the amount of tea tax of tang dynasties.

Of course, those Japanese businessmen were unwilling to do so and could only take risks to smuggle.

"The local copper price in Japan is 106 per catty, while the export is 112 cents."

This price cannot be said to be cheap, but it is not expensive. After all, the original copper material of the Tang Dynasty was very expensive. Kaiyuan Tongbao was cast in the early Tang Dynasty, which is known as a good coin for hundreds of years. However, it is also a copper coin, copper lead-tin alloy, with copper content of 68%, and lead-tin alloys of more than 15 points each. The coin was cast in fact not yellow, but a bit white.

The total weight of Yiguan Kaiyuan Tongbao is six jin and eight liang, each weighing one qian, so the actual amount of copper is about four jin and three liang, and this weight is actually the best Wuzhu meat from the Sui Dynasty before the Tang Dynasty.

The copper used in Tang Yiguan coins is the total weight of the Sui Wuzhu coins, which of course must be called super good money.

During the Wude Dynasty of the Tang Dynasty, Kaiyuan Tongbao was cast. Regardless of the labor cost, the material cost was only 750 yuan, but in fact, the price of a pound of copper material was about 160 yuan.

However, if you use copper copperware, a pound of at least 600, so in order to ensure the copper material used to mint coins, the imperial court previously restricted copper in various ways.

The export price of one kilogram of copper in Japan is only 112, which is cheaper than the price of copper in the Tang Dynasty, which is 48 cents per kilogram, and even the actual market price is even higher in China.

However, compared with silk, porcelain, tea candy, etc., the profits are still very different. However, because there is no good commercial goods to bring when the merchant ships to Japan return, they can only bring copper and silver.

"The navy has been patrolling the sea very well recently."

The Tang Dynasty was very scarce for copper, so Japanese copper was still very popular, but because of the scarcity of copper, especially the domestic court deliberately restricted the market price of copper, fixed it to one hundred and six per catty, but if the casting device could have several times the profit.

Therefore, many maritime merchants are reluctant to transport copper back to China after getting copper from Japan, because copper materials in the Tang Dynasty are restricted commercial goods. The imperial court stipulated that copper materials can only be sold to the imperial court's official warehouses.

The price is 161 pounds, and it depends on the quality.

So now the maritime merchants have also begun to become more refined. They transport copper to other overseas places such as Linyi, produce cast copper ware and then sell it.

"Why should we also cast some bronze ware?" Qin Lu asked. "The countries in Haidong and Nanyang have a great demand for bronze ware. Even the Hu merchants in the Taixi countries are willing to purchase them, and the prices are good. The profit of casting bronze ware is several times that of coins."

But while Qin Lang got on the boat, he looked at the copper materials that had just been transported from Japan, he just shook his head.

"The Tang Dynasty lacks copper and money. Now that we have got copper materials, we are the first to mint coins. Besides, the court has already allowed us to mint coins in Luzon Mint, but we are not allowed to mint bronze ware privately? Only the bronze ware workshop of the court can have the right to produce some bronze ware related to life such as bronze mirrors less than three kilograms. Others do not have this qualification."

"The consequences of violating the imperial court's copper ban system are very serious."

"We don't have to make bronzes in Luzon, we can go to Linyi, which will not violate the law."

Qin Lang smiled, "Then you can escape the inspection of the navy ship. Once you are found, you will be transported to Linyi, and you will be punished with smuggling banned copper materials."

Qin Lu was a little unwilling to accept it, and it was a big profit.

Qin Lang didn't care much. The profits of money-making transactions are kept at more than 10%, not to mention that mining and smelting still have a lot of profits. Another thing is that the Qin family transported Japanese copper back and minted it into Kaiyuan Tongbao and then transported it back to Japan for circulation. This is something that Japan urgently needs. There is still a lot of room for operation and will have additional influence.

"Hurry out all the copper materials off the ship, send them to refine them first, separate them from silver and copper, and then transport them to the mint to mint coins, drive them out as soon as possible, and transport them back to Japan."

"I still hope to see all over the country of Japan using my Tang Dynasty Kaiyuan Tongbao." Qin Lang said with a smile.

As for the heavy taxation of Japan on imported tea, Qin Lang cannot control it for the time being. The Japanese love to drink tea and the amount of tea imported is large. Japan is trying to collect taxes to fill the finances. This is their own business.

Although the Qin family was an important tea planting, processing and selling merchant in the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese tea market only occupied a small share and could not affect much.

The main market for Qinjia Tea is the domestic sales market of Datang, and the tea market for export is all medium and low-end tea.

After these teas were collected from tea farms in various places by tea merchants, they gathered in Raozhou, Jiangxi. This middle reaches near the Yangtze River are a famous tea distribution center in the south.

Here, the tea leaves were transferred to the tea merchants in Hangzhou Yangdingzhu Foreign Trade Port, and these tea merchants sold the tea leaves to Zhugang to the tea stands there.

The tea store collects tea and finally sells it to Hu merchants who come to Tang or Tang merchants who want to go overseas. When they sell tea, they usually charge commissions, broken boxes, tariffs, and service fees, etc., which are about 15% of the tea price, the commission is generally 2% and the tea tariff is 10%.

Basically, the entire process of exporting tea is tea produce, tea merchants collect raw tea, and then tea shops collect tea and make tea, and the tea number sells the tea processed by the tea shop to the port's merchant ships. There are many intermediate links. Basically, the port's merchants will not pick tea directly from the tea shop, but they all go through these links. Relatively speaking, the efficiency is actually higher, and the quality and after-sales service are more guaranteed.

Therefore, although the Qin family is a major tea producer, the tea exported from various Hong Kongs has nothing to do with the Qin family itself.

It is mainly related to tea shops. Tea shops in each port are basically specializing in exporting tea business. They deal with tea shops, tea merchants and others in various places, purchase tea, and at the same time, they deal with maritime merchants and foreign trade. Once in and out, it is equivalent to foreign trade companies. Unfairly, they need to find customers, maritime merchants, and tea merchants, and often have to provide strong capital to make up for them.

Tea farmers usually deal with tea dealers. These people go to tea production areas in various places, buy tea leaves, and then sell them to tea shops that process tea leaves.

The tea in the tea shop is then sold to tea houses, and the tea houses sell tea to various tea shops that sell domestically, or tea shops that sell exports. They each perform their own responsibilities and do their own part well. In fact, every link cannot be easily done by outsiders.

There are many routines in it, and each has its own expertise.

For example, tea vendors should be familiar with the origin of tea, understand the raw tea market, master the season, and even have strong transportation capabilities. They may also have sufficient funds to make up for the tea collection process.

The tea house naturally needs to have excellent tea making skills. Without real skills, you can't eat this industry. Various tea leaves and various processing methods are the most professional.

If the tea store wants to collect tea and produce tea, it is necessary to build your own tea warehouse, and what it needs is a good channel.

If you move, you can keep tea with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of yuan, but you can't help but not have any strength.

When exporting tea reaches its final stage, it is naturally a foreign trade business. They need to concentrate on making sales channels, how to entrust the tea to a merchant ship to a certain overseas country, how to find buyers and customers, and also ensure that they can sell it, receive money, and make profits.

The risks they take are also huge.
Chapter completed!