Wu De held a mass meeting. At the meeting, Fu Youdi and his minions were severely criticized by the masses. All his problems were put on the table and criticized, including him who picked his feet before eating and snored in his sleep. Everything was revealed. [Full text reading] Wu De allowed the masses to widely participate in this conference and enhance their sense of ownership. Engaging in the so-called "organized rebellion" fully satisfies their pleasure and shows his wisdom.
Fu Youdi was announced at the meeting to be relieved of all posts and to be "reformed through labor under the supervision of the masses" together with his minions. However, when the crowd tried to punch him, and some even suggested that he should be beheaded in public, Wu De stopped everyone - after all, Fu Youdi had worked hard to serve the people. We can't let his end be too bad, otherwise no one will be willing to sell themselves and join him in the future.
Then, the problems of the other two captains were also revealed, including withholding food, being lazy, etc. The restless two people stood up consciously and knelt down in front of Wu De to apologize.
"You have big problems," Wu De said, making a face like a master from the blue sky, "but your work achievements some time ago are obvious to all, so these problems will not be pursued."
"Thank you, Master, for your magnanimity." The two of them burst into tears of gratitude.
"Continue to work hard from now on." After Wu De said this, he reorganized the entire captive labor team and renamed it the production team. The captain is Lin Xing, Wang Tian is the deputy captain, and the clerk is Zhang Xingjiao. The following is still divided into four production teams, and the captain of each team adopts a recommendation system. Wu De stipulated that all management positions must learn to speak Mandarin, so the two captains who were originally criticized were able to resume their duties. Of course, they will restrain themselves a lot in the future, and most of the others will also have the idea of learning to speak the language of the "chiefs".
The new labor system adopts a work point system. Each person will receive 1 work point for completing the basic workload every day. For managers and technical workers, the basic workload is 1.2 work points. The labor portion increases proportionately. If you are engaged in particularly hard, dangerous or difficult work, your work points will be increased as appropriate.
In front of a rough blackboard, Wu De explained the meaning of work points clearly with the help of Lin Xing and Xiong Buyou's simultaneous translation.
"What is the use of this work point?" he said, "The work points can now be exchanged for extra food. It is equivalent to money. If you want to eat more fish, just use the work points to buy it. If you want to eat more rice, you can use the work points." He paused for a moment, " In the future, you can use this work points to buy more things, such as farm implements and tools. As long as the work points are enough, I can sell them to you..."
At this time, someone timidly raised his hand, it was Ma Peng: "Then I bought food and went to my mother to eat it?" Probably because he was afraid that Wu De thought he was going to run away, "I can bring my mother to eat..."
Everyone laughed in an uproar: "Have you lost your mind and gone crazy? What use do you have for your mother?"
"Of course." Wu De seized this opportunity to preach his new policy, "This is the money you earn, and you are free to use it how you want. In the future, we will introduce more things that can be purchased with work points."
Someone was whispering and whispering below. Everyone is obviously very interested in getting paid for their work. Someone then asked: "So we can eat every day now, but will we have to pay work points to eat in the future?"
"No, as I said before, it's in exchange for extra food." Wu De explained that the food supply is still based on two meals, one dry and one thin.
"Master Wu said in the past that if you do well, you can become an 'employee'. Do 'employees' also earn work points?"
"Earned." Wu De explained the difference between the two. The work point income of employees will be higher than that of them. For the same job, they get 1 work point, while employees get 1.2 work points. It is not easy to explain what the decimal point is. I was so worried about Xiong Buyou that I ended up using two fruits: one represents 1.o, and the other was cut into 1o slices. Take out 2 slices and count them as o.2. This intuitive education method can make it clear. .
Employees enjoy free meals, housing, and some private land in the future - such conditions make many people jealous. However, the concern that being an employee means being a thief makes most people lose hope in this bright future.
Wu De knew their concerns, so he didn't say too much. Overly enthusiastic publicity would have the opposite effect. Chinese farmers are the most realistic and also the most suspicious. Without tangible benefits, they will not easily board your pirate ship.
As expected, everyone was skeptical about this work point system, and some thought it was a lie. Making prisoners work and paying them back is such a good thing in the world. But from then on, Zhang Xingjiao was responsible for assigning work and keeping score every day. At the end of the week - they already knew that the "chiefs" calculated days in units of seven days a week - everyone received work-point coupons of varying amounts, ranging from seven points to ten points. This kind of work-point coupon has four different denominations: one cent, one cent, two cents and five cents.
Since work-point coupons are actually a disguised form of currency, the work-point coupons have been evaluated by economic professionals from the Planning Commission. After discussion, I thought there was no problem. Work-point coupons are actually a kind of grain-based internal circulation coupons. Food can only be exchanged for food in the two canteens of the travelers, and the range of travel and use is very small. As long as the travelers have enough food, there is no problem in maintaining their basic credit.
Moreover, the value of the work-point coupon itself is also negligible. One work-point can be exchanged for a bowl of dry rice (100 grams of rice, a bowl of porridge costs half a work-point (50 grams of rice), and a piece of salted fish costs two work-points.
The work points earned every day can actually only improve the food to a limited extent. The consumption of the traveler's food reserves is minimal. Furthermore, as Wu Nanhai said: "If half a year after landing on June 6, we still don't have the agricultural ability to feed the workers, it would be better to commit collective suicide."
As this was the first attempt to introduce currency, for the sake of caution, the Planning Commission established a financial working group and made a series of regulations on the issuance, printing, circulation and storage of work-point coupons. The work-point coupons are printed with lithographs in the printing room. The paper is brought from cardboard. The size is about the size of an RMB dime note; one centimeter, two centimeters and five centimeters are the same size as the old version of one cent RMB. The pattern is printed directly with black ink without color registration. The front is the majestic appearance of the Executive Committee Building, the back is the shadow of the Fengcheng Wheel, and the pattern is a coconut tree. Only the denomination part uses different colors of ink to show the difference. Each work-point coupon has an independent Arabic numeral serial number.
Xi Yazhou volunteered to inscribe the new banknotes with the inscription "Crossing the Central Bank", but financial team leader Cheng Dong believed that this kind of thing was just a crude token, similar to canteen meal tickets. There are no banks at all right now. For the time being, it is better to retain the true nature of the tokens and not use the name of the bank indiscriminately to avoid any sequelae in the future.
Finally, the flower paper in Wu De's hand had only three words "work point coupons" written on it, and the unit was "Bai Ren Production Team". Because the printing is very crude and the paper is not suitable, the effect is somewhat similar to the crude Ming coins sold outside the cemetery during the Qingming Festival, but in terms of technical content, no one in the Ming Dynasty could imitate it.
There is a beautiful ink-colored seal on this thing. If you look closely, it is his name seal. What does it mean to make Wu De dumbfounded?
Cheng Dong said that doing so would appear more formal and make the work-point coupons look more solemn, which was tantamount to using Wu De as a guarantee of credit - after all, the workers did not recognize the executive committee members.
"If there is nothing on it, wouldn't it just be a real piece of paper, a military receipt from the Empire of Japan?"
After the work-point coupons are printed, they are all handed over to the financial team, and Wu De collects them in person every week with the score sheet. Because making a payroll is a delicate job, a person like Wu De who has no accounting experience can't handle it, so he only needs to take the weekly score sheet, and let someone from the finance team who has done personnel wages compile the payroll. The amount is given as work-point coupons.
For the workers in the production team, this is a new thing. Everyone uses copper coins; you can also see silver; you have heard of gold. Sometimes I have no money, so I trade home-grown vegetables, chickens, ducks, and coarse cloth for salt and groceries. This is the first time I have heard of buying things with pieces of paper.
Paper money was used in the Ming Dynasty. However, this currency, which was once vigorously promoted by the government, has come to an end long ago due to the joint efforts of emperors and bureaucrats who had no financial knowledge. Such a frontier place was a world of copper coins and silver many years ago. Although there are exchange certificates similar to those of later generations, ordinary people have no access to them.
After getting it, everyone looked at me and I looked at you. No one believed that this thing could be exchanged for food. They thought that if they rashly exchanged it for food: Wu Chang said it could be used, Wu Chang in the cafeteria said. What should I do if it doesn’t work? Even in the government, one yamen often talks about the east and the other yamen talks about the west. Wu Chang has a fair face, a happy face, and is a very kind person, but if he buys things with a flower heads, there is no guarantee that he will get angry - there are many things that happen when gods fight, and ordinary people suffer.
Finally, with everyone's encouragement, and with the assurance that Lin Xing would ask Wu De to rescue people if Wu Chang wanted to hit someone, Ma Peng took out a five-cent note and handed it over, shaking it, and bought it. A bowl of porridge. As a result, the person who delivered the meal happily took it in and gave him another bowl.
The people around saw Ma Peng getting the porridge, and then watched him drink it while snoring. Then they saw that the person delivering the food over there did not look like he was coming to clean up Ma Peng. After staying for a long time, everyone People rushed forward, scrambling to take out their work-point coupons to buy rice and salted fish. When the catering office came to deliver the meals, Hu Yicheng was caught off guard and quickly sold out all the remaining items. No one expected such a sudden buying frenzy, so they did not prepare much extra food. Those who did not buy it, Looking at him eagerly. There was a loud chewing sound all around, and the greedy eyes seemed to swallow him up, so he quickly made a phone call to Wu Nanhai.
