The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 117 Iron coins instead of real money?
In the military council that day, Song Yingkui stated that the officers of the regiment commander and above should be evaluated according to the results of leading the troops, and at the same time determined that the salary standards for officers of different ranks would be different.In the future, there will be rewards and punishments in all wars.The promotion and elimination system will be used to strictly demand officers and soldiers.

The Shiping Pass garrison was officially renamed as the Fifth Battalion Army, with a designated military title, Ming military records, and military flags. It is necessary to move quickly towards a regular army.

From the bottom of my heart, what Song Yingkui wants to do most now is to unify the uniforms of the whole army, but he is short of money, and the Fifth Battalion is still short of cloth, so he has no conditions to change the clothes of the brothers for the time being. sorry thing.

At the beginning of November in the second year of Jingli, the city construction project of Yanchuan City officially stopped.The outer wall was covered with stones for only ten feet, and it had to be stopped due to the cold weather.Fortunately, the earth wall has been built, and the normal protective function is already available.

In the city, Carpenter Qin arranged for the refugees to build some houses with earthen embryos, and the refugees squeezed together and barely settled down.

"The housing of the people in the city is still too tight. It is not a problem for a large family, men, women and children to live together. Let's think of a way outside the city to build a brick kiln and lime kiln as soon as possible, and then directly burn bricks. First use bricks and lime to build simple houses. In the spring of next year, we will directly use stone mud and bricks to build some buildings, so that more people can be accommodated in the city, and there will be room for the people from the surrounding Zhuangzi to enter the city during the war. Refuge." When taking time to inspect the construction progress of Yanchuan City, Song Yingkui saw that the living conditions of the refugees in the city were overcrowded, so he ordered Carpenter Qin to find a solution.

"My lord, do you mean to directly build brick buildings like the ones already built in the Shiping official workshop area? To accommodate the refugees?" Carpenter Qin questioned Song Yingkui in disbelief, whether he was sure to let the refugees live in brick building.After the cement was made, Song Yingkui led the soldiers from Shipingguan to build several two-story concrete brick buildings to test the performance.Carpenter Qin was very curious about this kind of brick-concrete building, so he ran over to see it several times.

"Of course, without building brick buildings, the current refugees would not be able to live in the city, not to mention that Yanchuan City was a place of refuge for the people nearby during the war!"

"With such a solid house, how many rooms can a family divide?"

"It's not divided according to the size of the family, and it's bought with money, but no real money is needed. Recently, my official two established a five-battalion military factory camp, such as the workshop area on the Shiping Pass and the newly built brick kilns and lime kilns on the Yanchuan side. The cement factory to be built in the spring of next year will be under the management of the factory management camp. After the factory management camp is established, it will recruit workers from the refugee camps, temporarily recruiting about 400 people. The decent young adults among the refugees can basically be absorbed.

Anyone who is young and strong and serves in the fifth battalion of our army's middle factory is eligible to buy a house in Yanchuan City.The money for buying a house is deducted from the salary of the young and strong every month.A young and strong man is eligible to subscribe for three brick houses with a length and width of more than ten feet. The salary will be deducted 260 yuan per month. After five years of deduction, the house will be his family.A young man who has just entered the factory's business operation has a starting salary of [-] yuan, and the salary is adjusted every three months depending on the ability.Skilled craftsmen, single-negotiable wages.As an official, I would like to ask Uncle Qin to convey to the refugees that the recruitment will start in the next few days, and those who are interested will apply voluntarily. "

Song Shoubei suddenly became rich?Didn't you say a few days ago that you have no money to pay wages and can't recruit workers?Although Carpenter Qin was a little puzzled, he didn't think much about it.As a person living in the Fifth Battalion, although he has no worries about food and clothing now, he is still very excited that the refugees who are also living in the end of the world can have a job.He quickly said yes, and ran out in a hurry to share the good news with the refugees.

There is a thread of money, where the cash flow is still cut off, where can I get the money?Song Yingkui, who is short of money and quick to get angry, has figured out a crooked way in the past two days. He is going to print money by himself.

Before time travel, you always said that you are so short of money, why don't you print it yourself?Unexpectedly, after time travel, he was really forced to print money by himself due to lack of money.

Refugees need to be resettled, the workshop area needs to be operated, and soldiers need to be paid. Song Yingkui really can't think of any other way except printing money.The war has shut down business outside, and no matter how good you are at making products, it will be difficult to make money.

It is said that it is printing money, but in fact the current Wuying does not even have the conditions to print money. The only way right now is to cast iron money.Song Yingkui planned to use cast iron coins as copper coins, yes, even if the iron coins were to be used as copper coins, it would be exchanged one to one.

Isn't this whimsical?The price of iron and copper can be the same. It is strange that cast iron coins can be circulated according to such a ratio.

Circulation, circulation is bullshit.It was not intended to be a currency in circulation at all. Strictly speaking, cast iron money is a way of pricing, as long as it has exchange value within the system.

With the iron money, Song Yingkui plans to open two military supply firms in Shipingguan and Yanchuan City. The firms will have food and other daily necessities produced in the workshops, such as iron pots and other things that can be used in family life.The prices of these products are the same as those in the outside market, the difference is that the military suppliers' guild recognizes the value of the money it makes.

However, there are conditions when buying. In addition to iron money, you must also show your identity card.Without an identity badge, only iron coins can't be bought.At the same time, there is still a purchase quota for grain, and you cannot buy as much as you want.

In order to balance the payment of wages for the original craftsmen, soldiers and newly recruited refugees, Song Yingkui thought of another trick, buying off-plan houses for the refugees.It is said that the starting salary is 200 Wen, and after the monthly payment is deducted, it is only more than [-] Wen that is sent to the hand.In this way, the income of the refugees is different from the wages of the original workers and soldiers.

What is the purpose of this crooked trick?Of course, it is to protect the credit of the iron coin, so that the iron coin does not appear so worthless.The original workers and soldiers, they are all locals, they have food at home, and there is not much demand for food. The money sent to them should be exchanged for other products, even if they are not exchanged for other products, as long as the iron coins can be exchanged With the opening of the tax credit, the risk of emptying the grain depot can be prevented to the greatest extent.

Refugees are different. They have no food in their hands and no land. They must be thinking about buying more food just in case.If there is too much money in hand, and the purchase of grain by military supply companies is restricted, the credit of iron coins will soon collapse, and they will become useless in their eyes.Controlling the amount of iron coins in their hands, combined with the purchase restriction policy, in a short period of time, the credit of iron coins will be maintained, and food can be stored in the warehouse.To be honest, Song Yingkui felt that he was a genius for thinking of such a wonderful solution.

Having said that, crooked ways can only be used in emergencies. In order to maintain this system, in the next period of time, we must find a way to buy some food from outside to ensure that the inventory will not be emptied.It is also necessary to find ways to enrich the products of military suppliers, especially some important items for civilian use, and the supply must be guaranteed.

(End of this chapter)