Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 355

The Board of Supervisors finally determined the denomination of the banknotes. The maximum denomination was only set at Dangyi, and then it was five hundred yuan, two hundred yuan, one hundred yuan, fifty cash, ten cash, and five cash. small bills.

Originally, Sun Xin planned to issue banknotes of less than five cents, but after calculation, it was found that it was impossible to replace the use of copper plates for the time being, and the printing cost of too small denomination and the price of copper plates might lose money, so in the end, the The minimum denomination is set at Dang Wuwen.

In this era, the salaries of the archers recruited to fight the enemy on the Qinfeng Road are consistent for a month. Of course, the salary is often insufficient. Under normal circumstances, the average monthly salary can receive more than 800 yuan, about [-] yuan a day. Small banknotes can probably buy a catty of mung beans in the market, and it is enough to buy general commodities.

Lao Chen's son works in the pharmaceutical workshop of the supervisory committee, and the monthly salary is [-] yuan. The factory of the supervisory committee also includes food and drink. In recent years, the factory has made good profits, and it also distributes pork, rice, flour, grain and oil during the holidays. There is no lack of it. The income from these foods is generally counted as wages, and all income from money is added up to add up to a month's worth of money.

And his salary for this month is seven flimsy "Dangbaiwen" banknotes, which still smell of ink.

Lao Chen became anxious when he heard his son say that his wages would be paid with this banknote in the future.

He had never heard of banknotes, but subconsciously felt that exchanging colorful banknotes for real money sounded unreliable.

Lao Chen is also in his 60s, and he couldn't help but mutter when he was anxious.

The son didn't sound too good, but the daughter-in-law was a little too wordy, and the grandson who was still studying didn't dare to talk, he just buried himself in the porridge and water, and his son might be unhappy when he saw this father-in-law and daughter-in-law, so he hurried Persuasion in the middle:
"Father, don't worry. The supervisors in our factory also said that the banknotes can be exchanged into cash in the bank of the supervisory committee. If we are worried, we can exchange them together."

"Someone took the banknotes to cash them when I got off work. It's just that I worked overtime today so I didn't go with them. If I'm really worried, I can cash them in the bank and spend them?"

Hearing this, Old Chen hurriedly taught him a lesson: "Why didn't you say this earlier?"

Seeing that it was going to be late outside the house, the Bank of the Supervisory Committee was closed at night. Lao Chen could only keep this matter in his heart, thinking that he would have to exchange cash the next day.

The daughter-in-law went to work the night shift in the textile factory, and Lao Chen closed the door to think about money and didn't sleep well all night. When he got up early the next morning, he asked his son for the seven hundred cash.

Going out, Lao Chen first went to the work team and told Zhuangtou, who was leading the canal opening, that he wanted to ask for leave today for some things. Now that the work of opening the canal has entered winter, it can be done before the spring floods come. Sunjiazhuang has no shortage Manpower, it is enough to ask for a day off to deduct work points, and Xiao Zhuangtou easily agreed.

Lao Chen went straight to Sunjiaji's Supervisory Committee Bank.

The people who came to the manager's meeting bank to exchange banknotes had already lined up. As soon as Lao Chen saw the long line, he felt glad that he had come early. In a blink of an eye, it turned into this scrap of scrap paper.

However, looking at the long team, he was a little worried. He was worried that if so many people came to exchange, the bank would not have enough money, or he would make things difficult for him, not allowing the paper to be exchanged for money.

In a state of anxiety, when the bank opens and the door is closed, people immediately want to squeeze into the bank.

The bank seems to have anticipated this situation long ago. The banknotes of the Supervisory Committee have been issued for more than ten days. As various factories and mines have begun to use banknotes to pay salaries, there have been many people exchanging cash in the Bank of the Supervisory Committee in the past few days. .

Just after getting off the bank, two peasant soldiers ran out of the bank. They were both dressed as basic militiamen, not equipped with muskets, and holding wooden sticks in their hands. Line up first and wait.

While the crowd was clamoring, another person dressed as a clerk came out. That person handed out small wooden chips to individuals, saying that the number on the wooden chip was one, two, three, and four, and they could only enter after calling the number.

Lao Chen also quickly went to pick up a number, but it turned out to be 54.

After anxiously waiting for an incense stick of time, Lao Chen gradually followed the team to the front, looking at the basic militiamen next to him with some trepidation.

These militiamen are all young men of fifteen or sixteen years old. Benefiting from the development of Sunjiazhuang in the past three or four years, these young men have no shortage of food, and they are all very strong. They are actually half a head taller than Old Chen, a big man from Hebei. , Standing there with a whistle stick has a deterrent effect.

"No. 54, No. 54 comes in!"

Hearing the sound, Lao Chen hurried in. He had never dealt with the bank of the supervisory committee before, and even the investment funds handed over to the supervisory committee were all asked by the supervisors.

When I walked into the bank for the first time, I felt apprehensive when I saw the clean windows, as if I had come to some yamen.

On the contrary, the young man sitting on the bank counter was full of smiles, and when he saw Old Chen, he called out, "Isn't this Uncle Chen?"

It took Lao Chen a long time to recognize it.

"It's Wangxiang, isn't it?"

Wang Xiang nodded.

It turned out that the teller was Lao Chen's neighbor in the past. His father was one of the first to come to Sunjiazhuang to be a farmer. A few years ago, his father was the deputy supervisor of Lao Chen's team. Later, I heard that he was transferred to the Supervisory Committee of Mouping County. I went to be a supervisor, and the family moved away from the original place.

Unexpectedly, the kid who used to run around with a runny nose has become a gentle and gentle bank clerk.

Seeing an acquaintance, Lao Chen felt relieved at last, and said hastily, "Quickly exchange the money for uncle!"

Wang Xiang took the note and looked at it, and made it clear again. Without further ado, he asked someone to go to the back to get the money.

Soon, a large tray full of [-] big coins was taken out.

Old Chen weighed the money carefully, and Wang Xiang asked, "Uncle, if you're right, I'll call the next one."

Lao Chen nodded but didn't leave. Wang Xiang looked at him and pointed to the fair scale next to him: "There are scales over there. If you can't count them, you can go there to weigh them."

Old Chen's eyes lit up, and he quickly carried the wooden tray to the scale beside him. There were also bank staff there to help him. This scale was also specially prepared for exchanging cash. There was no fixed weight, but ten copper coins were used as weights. Yards, and then use the steelyard to weigh the total amount of the money.

The final number weighed was more than 690 pieces, which made Lao Chen quite happy.

Theoretically, a string of money is one hundred pieces, but it is almost impossible in the actual circulation process. Some money will be broken during use. It is more common that people will secretly untie a few copper coins in a string of money. No one can count coins one by one during a large transaction. After a long time, there are basically no strings of one hundred coins on the market.

The default number of strings of coins in Dengzhou area is about 85 pieces. If copper coins are rare in Sichuan area, the default number is only 78 to [-] pieces.

There can be more than 690 pieces of money in seven strings, which in Lao Chen's opinion is absolutely worthless.

Also, after carefully looking at the fineness of the money, I picked up a piece of money and broke it carefully, and I was even happier after finding that it would not be bent.

Big coins these days are issued everywhere, with different weights, even [-]% of the difference in weight alone, and the copper content is even more mixed. Some money can be broken in half when it is dropped on the ground.

Everyone wants to save good money and spend bad money, and bad money drives out good money, so rich people will have very good money and beautiful copper coins in their homes, while ordinary people probably use some broken coins. Bad money that was stolen or smashed.

The money in the bank of the Supervisory Committee is collected and stored in a unified way. Before the banknotes were issued this time, it was expected that there would be a wave of exchange for a period of time, so the money in the treasury was counted and a large number of money of different quality were disassembled. , and then compiled together, so that the final compiled money is much better than the bad money currently used in the market.

That's why Lao Chen was so happy when he saw the quality of the money.

Old Chen felt that Wang Xiang was an acquaintance of him who was able to exchange such good money for him. Before going out, he ran to the counter and smiled at Wang Xiang who was working: "Thank you."

Wang Xiang nodded to show that it was okay, and then said to Lao Chen: "It is actually very convenient to use banknotes, and there is no need to exchange them for big money."

Old Chen nodded with a smile: "It's true, it's true." But he didn't take it seriously in his heart.

Walking out of the bank with more than 700 large bills in his hands, Lao Chen finally felt at ease. He always felt that the money was going to run away from him just now with those few flimsy bills.

But after walking around with so much money for a while, Lao Chen was also a little tired.

The strings of money are quite heavy, more than 700 big coins, weighing nearly ten catties, and it is impossible for these money to be honestly concentrated at one point when they are worn in a string. It is as cold as a snake. It was dangling in the pocket, and it was necessary to maintain a slightly embracing posture so that it would not fall out.

Thinking of taking all the money back and using it at that time, Lao Chen felt a little headache. With so much money at once, he didn’t need to go to work today. After thinking about it, Lao Chen decided to buy something, then turned around and walked along Sunjiaji continued to go east.

In the past two years, as the living conditions in Sunjiazhuang have improved, many people like to eat meat. The direct impact is that the price of pork has risen. In the past, the price of pork in Dengzhou City was only the price of a pig, but now it has risen to It's always five hundred dollars.

It's not that everyone has finally learned to eat pork, they have eaten it before, but pork that has not been castrated has a bad smell, so it is the food of ordinary people in this era, and ordinary ordinary people can afford meat, the poor can consume it There is too little meat in China, and the rich are unwilling to eat it, so there is no market for pork.

The rising price of pork has made it popular for many households to raise pigs in Sunjiazhuang both for investment and for their own consumption.

Old Chen had long wanted to buy two little piglets for his family, and now he happened to have money, so he went to the market to bring them back.

(End of this chapter)