"Young man, I obey!" Li Hanwen agreed loudly, then hesitated and said, "Sir, we Xuanming have very little money. We don't have much money in our hands, and the common people don't have any money at home, so how are they going to buy it? Food? You can only exchange it with items, but this would be too troublesome, and it would be difficult to get the fur still alive."
"I happened to be talking about this, where is the tax?" Baili asked.
"The villain is here." The official in charge of taxation was called Wu Haishan. Hearing Baili's call, he hurried out of the queue and thought to himself, "Sir, are you going to start collecting taxes now?" No, we Xuanming haven't officially collected taxes for a long time. Even the villain doesn't know the current tax amount.
"I will allocate some funds to you later to purchase all kinds of materials sold by the people. You can collect anything. You can decide the price according to our local conditions." Baili said.
"The villain obeys the order, but doesn't know where to get the money?" Wu Haishan is also a manager, so he will do it after receiving the order.
"If you don't need silver, just use these banknotes." Baili said with a smile.
"Sir, even we are not willing to ask for this paper money, and the common people will not recognize it!" Wu Haishan grinned.
"Hanwen, you can just charge banknotes for selling those materials." Baili solved the banknote circulation problem with one sentence.
yeah? Everyone got excited immediately after hearing this. Is it true?
"The official has no jokes." Baili said.
"Then if we receive these banknotes, we can go directly to the official shop to buy food and stuff?" Chu Dapeng asked.
"Of course." Baili smiled.
"Well, I will just believe what you say, sir. If I can't spend the money by then... what do you say, sir?" Chu Dapeng was hesitant, fearing that it was a scam.
"Then I, the county magistrate, will let you do the job." Baili said.
"Okay, even if you say that...it's not appropriate!" Chu Dapeng blushed.
Li Hanwen also worked vigorously and resolutely. In the afternoon, he organized people to move all the food and materials in the warehouse to an empty house next to the county government office. He found a wooden board and wrote a plaque himself. The business was officially opened!
Naturally, the first batch of customers we welcomed were the officials who had just received their salaries, and they couldn't wait to exchange these waste papers for white grain!
The first one in line was Mrs. Chen, with several big sacks full of patches hanging on her shoulders. She was planning to spend all the more than one hundred taels of silver that Chen Ping had just received!
If I can really sell food, I will wash your feet tonight. If I can't buy it, I'll throw you into the well to take a bath!
"Sister-in-law Chen, you have brought so many sacks. They are only four to five hundred kilograms full. Can you carry them back?" Baili Qingyun also attended the opening ceremony in person, standing at the door with his hands behind his back and smiling at Sister-in-law Chen.
"As long as it can be replaced with grain, I can withstand tens of thousands of kilograms!" Sister-in-law Chen said that her arms swayed, and she had the strength to weigh hundreds of kilograms.
"Old Chen has been given more than one hundred taels of silver. The official price is two taels of silver and one stone of grain. If you buy them all, it will be more than fifty dan, seven thousand catties. Sister Chen, your family of three will not be able to finish it in ten years! Baili Qingyun smiled.
"If we can't finish it, let's save it. As long as there is food at home, I won't panic!" Mrs. Chen said, rolling her big eyes and looking at Baili, "Master, can we really exchange for so much food?"
"Xiao Ye, Yun Yi, Bijiang, I see you are just idle. We will find some big trucks later to help Mrs. Chen transport all the food back!" said Baili.
Okay, the three brothers agreed in unison, but work is work. Mrs. Chen, you have to take care of the food. Your cooking is really delicious, especially the stewed carp... Otherwise, why don't you go back and stew the fish for us first? Leave all the work to us!
Sister-in-law Chen watched helplessly as Xiao Ye and the others loaded bags of grain into the truck. She still felt like she was in a dream. Oh my God, these paper money can really be used as money!
"Silly old lady, don't just buy food. Don't you buy some of those cotton, needlework, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, pots and pans?" Chen Ping reminded loudly from the side.
"Oh no!" Sister-in-law Chen suddenly realized, "Yes, yes, yes, I need two iron pots, two boxes of needlework, give me a piece of blue cloth...the same piece!"
"Mom, I want to drink sugar water!" Yan'er bit her fingers and drooled while looking at the sugar in the store.
"Eat!" Mrs. Chen was eager to spend all the paper money in her hand, no matter how expensive the sugar was, just five pounds! The baby has never eaten sweets several times since he was a child...
The hundreds of people watching at the door were jealous!
Good guy, food is so cheap and sold at a high price, and the prices of pots, pans and other items are also very low. In a remote place like Xuanming, it is equivalent to giving it for free!
But why do you only sell to these officials? We ordinary people are not human beings!
We don’t have money, but we have things. Are we allowed to exchange them? If you don't let us change, we will start a riot!
Baili patiently explained to everyone in person that we are an official store and cannot barter, but you can buy it. If you have silver and copper coins, you can buy it now. If you don't have money, just use banknotes. What are banknotes? It's the colorful paper money...coins that these adults take.
nor? Then you go north and find Wu Haishan, the tax collector. He collects things from him, including dried meat and dried fish, medicinal herbs and dried mushrooms, fresh fish and lake shrimps, fur and fox collars, cattle and sheep, and everything...
I don’t want the breasts, they can’t be stored and they will become sore if left overnight, but we will collect a lot of them when our dairy factory opens later! in addition……
Folks, run slowly, don't be in a hurry, be careful not to fall!
Before Baili finished speaking, hundreds of people watching the excitement dispersed...
The purpose of opening a warehouse to sell grain and pay back wages is to stabilize the hearts and minds of officials and let everyone know that Xuanming County, which has been abandoned for several years, has now officially been included in the order of Yanyun County.
From now on, everyone has their roots and will no longer be miserable.
There is no need to worry about intrusion and bullying from northern Xinjiang tribes.
So sir, when will we start a war with the Xinghe tribe? Now they have started cutting grass on our pasture!
If the grass is knocked away by them, how will our cattle and sheep survive the winter?
Baili had no intention of starting a war, but recruited a large number of strong men to start building the city wall. Xuanming City was not big to begin with, and the previous city walls were well preserved, so they only needed to reinforce, thicken and heighten them.
But despite this, it is also a very huge project for Xuanming City.
The main reason is that there are too few manpower. There are only four to five hundred strong men in the city. Even if the big guys know the importance of building the city wall, they are still willing to work hard, but they are afraid that it will not be completed before winter.
This is easy to handle, right? Go out and look for it.
Now that the autumn harvest season has passed, there should be a lot of idle labor in Xuanming Prefecture, and all the homeless people outside the city are here. No matter what their identity is or where they come from, as long as they can work!
If you take care of the food and pay the wages, if the food is sufficient and the money is given, you won't believe that no one will come.
