Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 174 Markets
In the newly opened East Market, there is a hint of subtlety in the atmosphere. As a market, it seems too quiet, and everyone can't let go of it.

Zhou Xu doesn't care about this, after all, everything needs a process of adaptation.

Along with Dongshi, there is also a cafeteria.

To put it bluntly, this canteen is the original dining area.

Under the premise of paying wages, the tribal members naturally have to solve their own two meals a day.

Zhou Xu's idea is also very simple. The meals of the tribe members are either bought in the cafeteria, or bought ingredients in Dongshi and cooked by themselves.

The cafeteria is like a fast food restaurant, and cooks a certain amount of dishes every day, allowing the tribe members to spend their own money to cook the dishes.

This, to the greatest extent, avoids the incompatibility of tribal members due to changes in the situation.

As for those who are willing to buy their own ingredients to cook, it must be cheaper than the cafeteria.

But the tribal members themselves do not have stoves and various cooking utensils.

In the tribe, it is definitely not allowed to light fire at will. At the same time, they all live in a house similar to a dormitory, and there is no space for them to cook at all.

For this reason, Zhou Xu arranged a way for them, that is, they can rent utensils, including the stove, from the cafeteria for a fee.

Counting this amount of money, it is still cheaper than the cafeteria.

However, since everyone is very busy at work every day, they basically don't have the energy to buy vegetables and cook after a busy day's work, so most of the tribe members still choose to eat in the cafeteria.

Not to mention people who don't usually cook at all, it is generally impossible to cook better than the cafeteria.

When they can order food, many people will choose to eat all the dishes they like, and those with a big appetite will naturally spend more money and buy more dishes. When others eat a portion, he eats it directly two copies.

And the result of this is that within half a month, many people with little money in their pockets are about to spend all of their last month's salary.

Under this premise, in order to avoid being starved to death due to lack of money to buy food in the remaining half month, many tribe members began to be forced to buy vegetables and cook by themselves to save money.

By accident, the number of people who cook by themselves is slowly increasing.

In this regard, no matter what the situation is, for Zhou Xu, the leader of the tribe, he is happy to hear it.

In this way, time passed quietly...

"Come, come, come! Pass by, take a look! The fish just caught in the morning is fresh!"

"The pottery that has just been fired, the quantity is limited, if it is gone, we have to wait for the next batch."

"Eggs! Eggs for sale!"

"..."

Compared with when the monetary policy was just launched, a month has passed now.

Compared with when everyone was a little at a loss at the beginning, the East Market is now completely lively, and the yelling of vendors from various small stalls is one after another, one after another.

There are two fundamental reasons for this.

On the one hand, both buyers and sellers are not unfamiliar at the beginning.

On the other hand, it is because the hawkers have received their wages last month.

As the big boss behind Dongshi, every vendor is a wage earner under him. Apart from a small guaranteed salary, the salaries of the vendors are based on the amount of goods sold.

This month's wages are paid, and the hawker who earns the most earns twice as much as the least one!
When their leader first launched the currency, they might not have any ideas, but now a month has passed.

The value of high income has gradually been reflected in the tribe.

For those with low income, potatoes are the main food for two meals a day, which are cheap and big bowls, which can easily fill their stomachs.

And if you have a high income, you can eat two meals a day and eat meat to your fullest!

Even, you can eat three meals a day!
God, three meals a day?In this primitive era, even for them whose life is already very nourishing, this is something that they dare not think about lightly.

Who would have thought that with the introduction of their leader's monetary policy, some people would have successfully achieved it!
This was first discovered by those who cook their own food.

After all, at the beginning, they ate according to the leader's arrangement, and when the leader said to eat, they ate.

But now, the leader doesn't care about this matter.

In theory, as long as they have time, can they eat whenever they want and how many meals a day?
In this primitive era, it was quite a luxury to have two meals a day.

Eat three meals a day?It was like a dream.

After that, the cafeteria also seized the business opportunity and would properly cook some lunch for sale.

But not everyone can afford to eat like this. After all, the cost of living for eating two meals a day is completely different from eating three meals a day.

But this is also invisible, which further stimulates the motivation of tribal members to work and make money.

"Boss, bring me a smaller fish."

"Is this okay?"

In front of the fish stand, a member of the tribe gestured at the fishmonger.

After hearing this, the fishmonger directly fished a live fish out of the basin beside him.

"How about this one?"

"can."

"Okay, let me weigh it for you."

While talking, the fishmonger took out a steelyard from the side and began to weigh the fish in taels.

This steelyard is undoubtedly a weighing tool launched by Zhou Xu in cooperation with commercial trade. After all, there is no way to simply charge by quantity for many things such as fish, meat and vegetables, and it is more reasonable to charge by weight.

It really took him a lot of energy to let the traders learn to use the steelyard, but now it seems that it is no longer a problem.

"Let's go, let's go to other departments."

According to the plan, he has already stayed in Heiyue Village for a long time, and he will ride back to the grassland camp at noon today, so while there is still time in the morning, he plans to go around the various departments first to see if there is anything else that needs to be done. deal with.

With this in mind, Zhou Xu's schedule this morning was relatively tight. Before noon, he arrived at the last stop before his departure, the field of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Although there are already oxen in the tribe, the oxen are mainly used to pull ox carts to provide transportation efficiency for the tribe, and there are not enough cattle to be used in agriculture for the time being.

Under this premise, the work in the fields still depends on manpower.

Now it was close to noon, and the weather was getting hotter and hotter. The farmers who had been busy all morning also ushered in their lunch break.

Seeing Zhou Xu's figure, Zhao Geng, who was also busy in the field before, came over.

"leader."

"Aren't you going to have lunch?"

As the minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, Zhao Geng undoubtedly could afford lunch.

"I'll eat later, I have a question in my mind to ask the leader."

"what is the problem?"

"Chief, when you launched the currency, you said before that almost everything in the tribe can be purchased with currency. Now I want to know, can the fields also be purchased?"

"..."

(End of this chapter)