Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 404

But for the indigenous people here in Nanbao, circulation coupons are not very attractive.

Indeed, now the entire Lingao, and even neighboring Danzhou, Chengmai, and even Qiongshan know that this type of circulation coupon is credible.But for the people here, how can this thing be as real as silver and copper coins?In places where there is almost no circulation of goods, such things as paper currency cannot be eaten at all.

Originally, Ye Yuming planned to pay the wages of local workers in silver, but was firmly opposed by Cheng Dong and Yan Ming.The reason is that this kind of differential treatment of workers will seriously shake the confidence of the workers in the mine on the circulation coupons.

To ensure that it can be accepted by the local people, it has to make it "work" and fully reflect his purchasing power.

As the progress of the project progressed, the two main cadres of Dongmen Chuiyu and Li Mei came to Nanbao. Their activities were to reproduce the successful experience of Dongmen City.Of course, there are not many local consumers in Nanbao, mainly for miners.

Dongmen Chuiyu first built a stone road outside the residential area, and after laying the drainage ditch, began to repair the shop building.This kind of brick-concrete structure is nothing to Meilin and his construction team. There are many stones in Nanbao, and even bricks are saved a lot. In less than a week, the first house has been built. It's done.This is a long house with a second floor, and the interior is divided into rooms. Because the external load-bearing wall and truss structure are adopted, the internal partition walls are all so-called light materials to save clay bricks.This kind of house is almost soundproof, but the space is easy to divide and it is convenient for multiple uses.

The lime water on the walls was still wet, and the signboard of Nanbao Branch of the Women's Cooperative had already been hung up.Taking up the five facades on the ground floor, the bullock cart brought shelves, counters, well-trained female assistants and many other goods.Cooperatives sell cloth, silk, needlework, towels, wine vinegar, betel nuts, salt, brown sugar and other miscellaneous daily necessities and snacks.Li Mei originally wanted to import small groceries such as rouge and gouache from Guangdong and Macau, but the Finance and Finance Committee refused to issue her a silver use certificate, so the proposal was dropped, and she had to rely on Mo Xiaoan's Ministry of Light Industry to produce it herself.In addition, Li Mei also negotiated with Tiandihui, intending to act as an agent of Tiandihui's agricultural material store and sell Tiandihui's seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and agricultural tools.In order to get Ye Yuming to agree, she made a condition that all agency fees will be waived and sales will be made at zero profit.

"Then what do you earn?" Ye Yuming, who was walking with her on the construction site in Nanbao Town, was puzzled.

"Agricultural materials will bring me customers. The cooperative does not intend to make money on agricultural materials, but to 'bring business'."

There are more farmers who come to buy agricultural materials, and they will buy other commodities as well, and profits come from this aspect.Just like selling eggs at a loss in a large supermarket, what you get is popularity.

"You really know how to do business—"

"Where, you need the help of your leaders." Li Mei smiled like a flower, "When your business trip is over, I will invite people from the Tiandihui to have a meal and reward me! A few of your little comrades will go to the countryside to engage in Technical guidance is hard work, not easy."

The purpose of opening this grocery store is to return circulation coupons, so that local people find circulation coupons useful and easy to use.So the cooperative does not accept copper coins or silver.

The Planning Commission also requires the cooperatives to be responsible for purchasing local products, including homespun cloth, kapok, red and white vines, chickens and ducks, livestock and other local products.In fact, the Planning Commission does not lack these things, and the main purpose of purchasing native products is to expand the use of circulation coupons.Another purpose is to expand trade with Li District - Nanbao Town is on the edge of Li District.With a stronghold like Nanbao Town, the connection between the Crossing Group and Li District has been greatly strengthened.For this reason, Mu Min specially sent Fang Jinghan here to serve as the local Li nationality affairs clerk.

Li Mei also ingeniously engages in "housekeeping intermediary services" in the cooperative - she finds many local women who want to earn pocket money, and specializes in cleaning and washing clothes for single miners.This service soon caused a scandal between the long-term miner and the big girl in Huaichun-this matter is easy to handle: the mining department will pay the bride price on behalf of the miner and help the miner marry the girl back home. It became a good story.As for the bride price, it will be deducted from the salary in installments.

But then there were several affairs between miners and local married women that made the local villagers furious - no one likes to wear a cuckold.

At the beginning, he dared not speak out.Later, the elders in the village saw that it was a bit "rotten" to go on like this, and they jointly filed a complaint with the Mining Department to curb this momentum-Ye Yuming stipulated that from now on, only women's cooperatives should be allowed to transfer clothes, and the wages will be paid by the cooperative. On behalf of the hair, the two sides are not allowed to meet.As for cleaning, it must wait until the miners go to work.

Next door to the cooperative is an office of Delong Grain Bank.This is in consideration of the fact that there will be a large number of circulation coupons in circulation in the local area, in order to ensure credit and ensure that the holders of the circulation coupons can exchange them for grain at any time according to Delong's promise.Delong dispatched [-] kilograms of brown rice to the local area as a payment reserve.Storing a large amount of food will not cause a backlog or waste-the miners have to eat.

Another task of Delong is to bear the "reasonable burden" of local collection, so that the villages in Nanbao area only need to transport the public grain to Nanbao Town to complete the payment of grain, eliminating the need to travel long distances to Bairen City Travel fatigue.It is a convenience measure.

Dongmen Chuyu has set up a miners service agency here, which mainly provides miners with three meals a day - most of the miners have no wives, and no one cooks when they go home.The second floor is the cafeteria of the service agency. In addition to selling all kinds of simple meals, it also sells alcohol and cigarettes.Cigarettes have been included in the list of monopoly sales by the Planning Commission, and are currently only sold in 100% "state-owned enterprises", so Li Mei's cooperatives cannot sell them.

The miners’ service agency is actually the general logistics manager of the mine. All the logistics needs of the mine are taken care of by the service agency, even including the management of prostitutes: most of the miners are single men with good physical fitness and strong sexual desires.If he is not given an outlet to vent, he will inevitably sneak around in the surrounding villages and cause many disputes.Dongmen Chuyu simply implemented the same "yellow ticket" system locally as Dongmen City - he didn't even need to mobilize Dongmen City's prostitutes to Nanbaolai - because he heard that Lingao's skin and meat business is easy to do, as long as they get With a yellow ticket, you can do business peacefully without being exploited. Many prostitutes from other places have come to Dongmen City, and some of them even come from the mainland.If doing business in Dongmen City is really unsightly, we might as well divert some of them to Nanbaolai.

Because it was stipulated that prostitutes who applied for yellow tickets had to go through a physical examination, and those with venereal diseases had to be treated. As a result, Bairen General Hospital had to set up a venereal disease treatment center in a remote place.Everyone in the Ministry of Health made a lot of noise - without qualified antibiotics, it is very difficult to treat sexually transmitted diseases.Pharmaceutical companies have now produced some sample drugs of antibiotics for clinical trials, but their efficacy is still quite questionable.For this reason, the people at Guangzhou Station kidnapped many doctors of Hualiuke around Guangzhou.Engage in integrated Chinese and Western medicine treatment.

"Having prostitutes can alleviate this problem, but it can't solve it. In the long run, it will even be harmful." Wu De instructed Ye Yuming, "Needless to say, there will be sexually transmitted diseases—the regular inspection and treatment by the Ministry of Health are not powerful."

"So we still have to find wives for them as soon as possible, right?"

"That's right. One is to encourage prostitutes to be good. The second is to have a friendship with the nearby villages. Get more food, drink and hospitality, set up a market, show a few movies by the way, and wait until the two are in love. It’s fine if the rice is cooked.”

"Would miners want to marry whores?"

"When the prostitutes were reformed, many prostitutes married workers. This approach should be feasible." Wu De said, "Of course, some material encouragement can also be given, such as sending some silk, satin and other things."

"This time and space doesn't pay much attention to chastity—" Ye Yuming still felt that this matter was unreliable.

"The so-called emphasis on chastity depends on the social class." Wu De said, "The miners in this time and space are extremely poor, and their lives are in danger anytime and anywhere-if they can settle down and marry a wife, they will be satisfied with a woman to take care of their lives. How can he take care of so much! Even if he wants to, they can't afford three matchmakers and six hires, betrothal gifts, and banquets."

"The poor have no right to marry a virgin!"

"Hehe, Xiaoye, let me say an inappropriate analogy: in another time and space, if you have tens of millions of wealth, you can of course choose a girlfriend when looking for a girlfriend. Look at the appearance, taste the figure, and pay attention to it." Ask for the other party's education background, college degree is not required, at least a bachelor's degree, a master's degree is even better. If you are just an ordinary employee, you don't have to pay so much attention—isn't it?"

"It's so heartwarming to hear—" Ye Yuming muttered, "The young men in the nearby villages will have objections to the social activities. The miners have taken away the big girls."

"It's not as easy as you said. There won't be many examples of this for the time being - in Lingao now, the working class has not become an enviable class. At least for the girls' parents, the miner's father-in-law Parents are not attractive."

The rural clinic jointly established by the Ministry of Health and Runshitang also came to this building, occupying two shops downstairs and three rooms upstairs.Amidst the traditional whistling and firecrackers, the Runshitang Nanbao branch also opened as a clinic.Liu San sent two pharmacy assistants to sit here, dispensing some traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces and Chinese patent medicines for common diseases.Medical personnel from the Ministry of Health will also visit once a week.Although this clinic is simple and primitive, it is the first time that Nanbao District has a health service organization.

The recreational life of the miners is also thought of: the Miner Service Agency has set up a rugby field, and this kind of sport that requires the least equipment has now become a sport promoted by the Crossing Group everywhere.The rugby field usually plays games, and when the traveling film projection team comes, they show movies here. Xi Yazhou is very keen on this project.Of course, he did not forget that Nanbao is a key facility that needs to be defended. He specially conducted military training for the miners, distributed them standardized spears and sabers made by the machinery factory, and added rattan helmets. Not only is it enough to protect itself, but it can also suppress riots when necessary.

In the end, He Ying also came here, inspected a certain foundation mysteriously, and then occupied it—this is the church of the future.

The smooth mining of the Nanbao mining area has eased the supply of minerals to the Chuan Group.There are not only lignite, peat, but also gypsum, kaolin and limonite that are continuously transported out of Nanbao by four-wheeled trucks pulled by oxen.Even coal gangue and various miscellaneous stones that are temporarily unavailable can be used in construction and road repair.

When kaolin is mined, it means that you can make your own porcelain.In the past, some special-shaped porcelains needed by the time-traveling group for industrial and daily use have always been fired by export porcelain kilns along the coast of Fujian. Although they can generally meet the needs, transportation is very troublesome.

Huang Tianyu followed Liu San to Foshan and gained a lot from recruiting many ceramic artisans.Although many craftsmen are old and weak, they have rich experience in making porcelain and firing porcelain. With such a group of people, the production efficiency of Xiao Bailang's ceramic kiln has improved by leaps and bounds. made.But these are still glazed pottery vessels.Without kaolin, it is impossible to make porcelain glazes.

The kaolin mined from Nanbao was crushed and washed and transported to the ceramic factory.Xiao Bailang handed over the pattern of the flush toilet to several old kiln workers under his command.

Several people watched for a long time without saying a word. After a long time, the oldest kiln worker named Li Jinquan spoke:

"Chief, we haven't done this thing before. I can make big ones, but there are still some holes in it. I'm afraid we won't be able to do it all at once."

"How long will it take to make it?"

Several kiln workers put their heads together to discuss for a while, and it took two or three weeks.

"Okay, let's do it first." Xiao Bailang was not interested in making flush toilets, and he didn't bother to ask.Simply push it to the indigenous workers.Anyway, the experience of firing large-scale porcelain is definitely not as rich as that of the indigenous kiln workers in this time and space.but porcelain

Mo Xiaoan, on the other hand, was full of interest in this thing. He watched the progress almost every day, and offered ideas from time to time.But he is a pure layman, and he is useless except to encourage the kiln workers.

But what was burned out after a few days of tossing was not the case at all.Apparently, Xiao Bailang's conception that a flush toilet is a more complex large-scale porcelain is inaccurate.Finally, I still ask for advice from the big library to find information.

After a search, I found out that the craftsmanship of this sanitary ware is quite complicated, especially the glaze on the surface, which has a very high technical content.Of course, the traverser does not need such a high-grade surface glaze, as long as it can be kept clean and easy to wash.

Take the simplest manufacturing process of sanitary ware.Most of the sanitary ware adopts the injection molding process, and the most technically difficult thing for the Transit Group is the purchase of special molds.The molding of sanitary ware is good or bad, mainly depends on the manufacturing level of the mold.

Xiao Bailang went to the machinery factory several times, where he made molds for special sanitary ware.After the model is transported back to the ceramic factory, the gypsum is made into a slurry and poured into a fixed mold, and its gelatinity is used to make it slowly solidify in the mold.After evaporating part of the water, a plaster model of the product is made.

The blank is made into mud, and then poured into the plaster model, and the water in the mud close to the mold wall is absorbed by the water absorption of the plaster model to form a certain mud layer, and then the remaining slurry is poured out of the model and pasted on the mold The mud layer on the wall is separated from the model due to syneresis to form a green blank, which becomes a semi-finished product.

Green blanks are slowly dehydrated and dried under certain conditions, and there are temperature-controlled drying equipment in modern factories.In Lingao, we can only use the natural drying method, and let the air and wind take away the moisture in a special awning.

After the green blank is dried, it is the key process of glazing.The method of spraying glaze slurry is generally used in the factory.There is no such condition here, so Xiao Bailang adopted the leaching method.Put the blue billet on a special rack, soak and hang the slurry in the glaze slurry repeatedly until a layer of glaze is firmly hung on the surface.Not only the exterior of the sanitary ware, but also the interior is glazed.The internal glaze is not for good looks, but to facilitate sewage discharge and prevent dirt from adhering and coagulating.

After the glaze is hung, it is fired in the kiln.The first finished product was fired very quickly, but due to the problem of temperature control, the appearance was slightly deformed.After several improvements, an acceptable product was finally produced.Li Jinquan was very puzzled when he knew that what they spent a lot of effort to bake was actually a toilet—he really couldn't figure out why a toilet should be so complicated and made of white porcelain.When Mo Xiaoan came to see the finished product, he mustered up the courage to bring it up.

"Because it makes money and is clean."

Li Jinquan knows the meaning of cleanliness, but he is not clear about the concept of making money-how much can a toilet be sold for, no matter how well it is made?

"What is the most luxurious toilet in Guangzhou?"

This problem caused the kiln workers to look at each other. They lived in poverty, and most of them went directly to the street or in the wild to solve it. It was not bad to have a chamber pot at home.

Li Jinquan is the oldest and has more experience.He recalled that he saw one in the sedan chair of a maritime merchant who came to the kiln to look at porcelain about ten years ago.

"That's it, but the pursuit of life enjoyment by rich people is always endless. Since we can make toilets with red lacquer and gold plating, we can also make them with white porcelain-in Australia, good porcelain toilets are worth a lot of money! When he was talking about this, he recalled his feeling of powerlessness in a sanitary ware store of a famous foreign brand. A toilet sold for [-] yuan-at that time, his annual salary was only [-] yuan.

"You guys understand. It's just—" A younger kiln worker raised a question. Since it is a toilet, why is the bottom not sealed, but has a strange curved pipe?In this case, wouldn't the dirt flow out, how to use it?

(End of this chapter)