MTL - Be a Leader In a Primitive Tribe-Chapter 121
After solving the vehicle and power issues, and the tribe has developed well in all aspects, Sangyu is in good spirits every happy event.
So I was busy studying another thing.
That is currency.
For a long time, the tribe's wages have been paid in the form of goods. No matter in which aspect, there are great disadvantages, and the Phoenix people have even begun to conduct private transactions in the form of bookkeeping.
For example, A saves pork this month to exchange staple food with B, and B wants to buy the pheasant that C brought from the mountains on weekends.
However, what C wants to change is pork. In this way, everyone will switch from one to another, and it will be a big circle, which is very inconvenient.
Moreover, some people have small appetites and cannot eat so much food. But food can’t be stored for a long time, especially meat. This kind of people desperately hope to have a kind of receipt, to write down these things temporarily, and get them later when they are needed.
At this time, the demand for currency/food stamps within the tribe is getting higher and higher, and the emergence of the currency system can be said to have emerged as the times require.
Sang Yu has already started to design currency certificates, and has determined the paper, pattern, text and face value of these currency certificates.
The final denominations include: 1 cent, 5 cents, 10 cents, 50 cents, 1 yuan, 5 yuan, 10 yuan, 50 yuan and 100 yuan.
The text is printed with movable type, and at the same time, it is stamped with the personal seals of the tribe and Sangyu, and the totem of the Phoenix tribe is also painted on it.
Although the tribe has not yet started movable type printing, the characters on the banknotes are not many, and the most are within two or three crosses. Sang Yu directly wrote the template, and then hired the only two engraving craftsmen in the handicraft team to carry out the printing process. Sculpture.
The form of banknote production is absolutely confidential, so Sang Yu Rangran specially built a highly confidential mint house, next to it is the bank office, and in front is the bank hall office, which is similar to a bank window.
The main work of the office is to provide salary payment and banknote exchange business, the latter mainly includes replacing damaged banknotes with new ones, and exchanging large bills for small bills, etc.
In the future, the bank will also open the deposit and withdrawal function.
It's just that everyone doesn't have any spare money right now, so there is no need to consider this function for the time being.
There are two craftsmen who are mainly responsible for minting coins, each of whom is responsible for engraving different fonts and patterns.
Contains Chinese and Arabic numerals.
The tools and all materials used for engraving cannot leave the house, and at the same time, words such as "Death penalty for those who print coins without permission" are printed on the banknotes.
The seal is red, the design is yellow, and the font is black.
The entire layout design is very compact, easy to carry.
The tribal seal and personal seal are carried by Sang Yu. These two seals must be stamped on each banknote, and the seal of the bank is also stamped. This seal is in charge of the main person in charge of the bank, and the three seals are indispensable.
With the level of technology in this era, it is still impossible to forge such banknotes.
And in the future, paper and printing technology will go further, and more advanced currencies will be produced for updating.
When the first batch of currency was issued, Sang Yu nodded again, specifically how much money would be printed.
Once there are fewer printings, the banknotes in circulation will not be enough at all, and they can still be filled by barter;
Once there is too much printing, the productivity does not develop accordingly (the quantity of goods does not increase accordingly), and the money is worthless.
In this regard, Sang Yu is actually a layman. He used to take economics as an elective and only talked about currency issues. But she only had a rough understanding, and she probably remembered that currency issuance was related to productivity and currency in circulation, as well as deposits and bonds. But the latter two do not exist here, so just consider the first two.
After simple pricing of the tribe's food, she determined the average salary of the tribe's people, estimated the flow of goods, and finally printed the first batch of currency using the first two months as an experiment.
So at the beginning of October, when we received last month's wages, each of us received a notice and went to the bank to collect wages in batches. We needed daily necessities for the month and directly used the wage money issued to buy what we needed at the supply and marketing cooperative.
Everyone felt so novel when they got the banknotes for the first time. Some people find it convenient, while others find it cumbersome and complicated. It is better to distribute food quickly.
There are also some illiterate, with blank faces.
For this reason, Sang Yu specially arranged for 20 educated people to help those who couldn't understand coins recognize money at the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative, and taught them to buy things.
The supply and marketing cooperative also thoughtfully proposed several convenient gift packages.
It is to make a big gift package according to the amount of wages paid by goods in the past, including the same amount of rice, millet, cassava, salt and meat. These people pay the wages directly, and just carry these goods home after switching.
But everyone soon discovered that after buying the big gift package with the money, there were still two yuan left.
So the volunteers came up and told them that with their wages, they can buy other things on the counter, such as soap for 50 cents, a small bottle of soy sauce for 1 yuan, a pair of straw sandals for 30 cents, a hat for 2 yuan, and an egg. one cent.
This group of people immediately discovered the benefits of coins, gathered around the counter, pointing here and there to buy these things.
These things were also offered in the past, but the price was vague, and the supply and marketing cooperatives also calculated roughly, so it was inevitable that there would be more or less. Everyone always felt that they were cheated, so they were reluctant to buy.
Now that everything is clearly priced, everyone starts to move around.
Some of the men had tasted the taste of rice wine, and with the remaining two yuan, they bought good wine in a small bamboo tube, and then happily carried their things home.
The first few days of receiving wages were messy, and the promotion of banknotes was indeed a bit difficult, and there were some disadvantages.
But gradually everyone found that this thing is more and more practical.
Just like Zhuang, although he is a team leader and his salary is higher than others, but he can't resist eating a lot and delicious meat.
So I bought a lot of meat, which must be more expensive than rice and cassava. So he spent all the money, but wanted to taste the rice wine. He ran out of money, so he didn't dare to ask his wife for it, so he turned to Gao.
With black lines all over her head, she said: "My monthly salary is only 150 yuan. Now I have two children, plus my wife, I have to give each of them an egg a day, which costs nine yuan a month. If you borrow Here it is, I have no money to buy wine."
"Don't children have eggs at school, don't think I don't know."
Only then did Gao laugh and said, "My child is only in school for five days, and I have to buy it myself for two days on weekends."
"Then this is left over. If you want to drink, I want to drink too. You can borrow it from me first, and I will pay you back next month."
"Oh brother, it's not that I don't give it. It's my family. It is stipulated that I have to give her my salary every month. She will buy food and so on, so she will give me ten yuan for pocket money. I will save some money for eggs. Not a few bucks left."
Handing over the money to the woman in the family, it would be a bit embarrassing to say it, so Gao started to hide it.
Zhuang rolled his eyes at him and said: "You are a strict wife, I won't ask you, I'll ask Yan."
With that said, he turned around and went to find Yan.
Yan and his daughter had just bought food and were about to go home when they were cut off by Zhuang Gao.
Their family really didn't have any other big expenses. A team leader Yan could earn 120 yuan a month, and after deducting the usual food expenses, there was still 20 yuan left.
My daughter, Li, is now thirteen years old, and she attends school, so the family only takes care of her weekend meals, and doesn't spend any food.
Knowing that these two people wanted to borrow money from him, he shook his head and sighed: "Seeing that one or two of you have married, you are poorer than me."
In the end, he took two yuan and handed it to Zhuang Dao: "A jug of wine costs two yuan, remember to pay it back to me next month."
Zhuang Meizi took the money and ran towards the supply and marketing cooperative in a hurry.
It's a pity that before he took two steps, he was directly stopped by Ying who was holding the child.
"Honey, why are you here?"
Zhuang hurriedly hid the two yuan in his pocket.
However, Ying had already discovered this move.
"Seeing that you have been out for so long and haven't come back, Mom asked me to come and see, and told you not to buy meat. The staple food is cheap and you can buy more staple food if you are full."
Zhuang hesitated and said: "...but I... I have already bought all of them."
Ying put the child down and grabbed the small sack beside him.
I saw that I bought a lot of meat.
"You are so stupid. The supply and marketing cooperatives sell these meats every day. You buy so much and you have to pickle them with salt. They are not fresh. Why don't we keep the money and buy it when we want to eat it?"
Fortunately, this stupid goose also knows to match some bacon that can be stored, and a live chicken. Otherwise, if it is all fresh pork, the weather is cold now, and it will not taste good if it is kept for a long time.
It is also thanks to my mother-in-law who is the captain of the agricultural department, and her salary is slightly higher than that of the small captain and ordinary clansmen. Otherwise, according to the way my man eats, ordinary people can't afford it.
However, ordinary people don't eat meat like theirs. In this sack, there are tens of catties of meat alone.
This can only be afforded by a rich family, and the leader's family does not have such a rich meal.
This family can't be handed over to this fool, the next month's salary must be firmly in his hands.
"I didn't think of it all at once." Zhuang scratched his head aggrievedly.
Ying has been married to Zhuang for so many years, how can she not know what kind of temperament her husband is, so she suppressed her temper and said:
"From next month, when you get paid, the money will be handed over to me directly, and I will arrange the food for the family."
"Oh, then if I want to buy something else..."
"I will leave you ten yuan pocket money every month, no more."
When Zhuang heard this, he felt happy instead. Gao's money was taken by his wife, so he should be like this.
What's more, it took a lot of brainpower to buy things. If you bought more meat, you could only buy less food. It was troublesome to calculate, and he didn't even have money to buy wine.
Since my wife has a good mind, let her do the work, and just be responsible for carrying the things.
Seeing Zhuang's silly and happy look, Ying couldn't help laughing, and after scolding him for being silly, she took out two yuan from her pocket and said to him: "Last month, Lian exchanged two catties of rice for me. Change it into coins and give it to me later, you can spend it."
Seeing the two yuan, Zhuang Yi was so happy that he laughed so hard that his back molars were showing.
He couldn't help but compliment Yingying.
Ying was relieved by his flattery for a while, then picked up the child and said: "Okay, let's go back, Mom is waiting for dinner at home."
