But for the indigenous people here in Nanbao. Circulation tickets are not very attractive.

Indeed, now the entire Lingao, even the neighboring Danzhou, Chengmai and even Qiongshan know that this kind of negotiable coupon is creditworthy. But for the people here, how can this thing be as good as silver and copper coins? In places where there is hardly a commodity circulation, there is no such thing as paper money at all.

Originally, Ye Yuming planned to pay the wages of local workers in silver, but was resolutely opposed by Cheng Dong and Yan Ming. The reason is that such differential treatment by employees will seriously shake the confidence of workers in the mine in negotiable vouchers.

To ensure that it is accepted by the locals, it must be "effective" and fully demonstrate its purchasing power.

As the project progressed, two key cadres of the Foreign Business Committee, Dongmen Chuiyu and Li Mei, came to Nanbao, and their activities were to replicate the successful experience of Dongmen City. Of course, there are not many local consumers in Nanbao, mainly for miners.

After building a stone road outside the residential area and building a drainage ditch, the shop building was repaired. This kind of brick and concrete house is no longer a thing for Merlin and his construction team, Nanbao has many stones, and even the bricks have been saved a lot, and in less than a week, the first house has been completed. It is a long house, with two floors, and the interior is divided into one room, because of the external load-bearing walls. The truss-like structure, the internal partition walls are all so-called lightweight materials to save clay bricks. This kind of house is almost soundproof, but the space is easy to divide and can be used for a variety of purposes.

The lime water on the walls has not yet dried, and the sign of the Nanbao branch of the women's cooperative has been hung up. Occupying the five storefronts on the ground floor, the bullock cart brought shelves, counters, well-trained ladies and a lot of goods. The cooperatives sell and sell miscellaneous daily necessities and snacks such as cloth, silk, needlework, towels, wine vinegar, betel nut, salt, and brown sugar. Li Mei originally wanted to import small groceries such as rouge gouache from Guangdong and Macao, but the Finance and Finance Commission refused to issue her a silver license, so the proposal was abandoned, and she had to rely on Mo Xiao'an's Ministry of Light Industry to produce her own. In addition, Li Mei also negotiated with the Heaven and Earth Society, intending to act as an agent for the Heaven and Earth Society's agricultural material stores, selling the seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and agricultural tools of the Heaven and Earth Society. In order to get Ye Yuming to agree, she offered the condition that all agency fees would be waived and sales would be made at zero profit.

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

"The agricultural materials association will bring me customers, and the agricultural cooperatives do not intend to make money, just to 'bring business'."

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

"You're really good at trading—"

"Where, I still have to help you leaders." Li Mei smiled like a flower, "When your business trip is over, I will invite the people of the Heaven and Earth Association to dinner and treat you!" There are a few of you who go to the countryside to engage in jishu guidance, which is hard enough, and it is not easy. ”

This grocery store was opened to recoup the circulation vouchers so that the locals would find them useful and useful. Therefore, cooperatives do not charge copper coins or silver.

The Planning Commission also asked the cooperatives to be responsible for the work of purchasing local products, including homespun cloth, kapok, red and white vines, chickens, ducks, livestock, and so on. In fact, the Planning Commission does not lack these things. The main purpose of the purchase of local products is to expand the use of negotiable bills. Another purpose was to expand trade with the Loei district, where the town of Nam Bao was located. With such a stronghold as Nanbao Town, the connection between the crossing group and the Li District has been greatly strengthened. For this reason, Mu Min specially sent Fang Jinghan here to serve as the local Li affairs clerk.

Li Mei also has the ingenuity to engage in "domestic intermediary services" in the cooperative, where 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-absent miner and the eldest girl of Huaichun - and the matter was easy to deal with: the mining office paid the bride price on behalf of the miner, and the matter of helping the miner marry the girl back to his home became a good story. As for the bride price, it is deducted from the salary in instalments.

But then there were a few more incidents between the miners and the local married women, which made the local villagers angry - no one liked to be cuckolded.

At first, I dared to be angry but didn't dare to speak. Later, the elders of the village saw that this situation was really a bit "corrupt", and they jointly went to the mining office to complain that this momentum was curbed -- Ye Yuming stipulated that from now on, only the women's cooperative was allowed to carry out the transfer of clothes, and the wages were paid by the cooperative, and the two sides were not allowed to meet. As for cleaning, it must wait for the miners to come to work.

Next door to the cooperative is an office of Delong Grains. This was set up in view of the large number of negotiable notes in circulation, in order to guarantee credit and ensure that the holders of negotiable notes could be exchanged for grain at any time as promised by Delong. Delong sent 2,000 kilograms of brown rice to the local area as a reserve for cashing. Storing large quantities of food does not create a backlog or waste - the miners are meant to eat.

Another task of Delong was to bear the "reasonable burden" of local collection, so that the villages in the Nanbao area could only complete the payment of grain by transporting the public grain to Nanbao Town, and avoid the fatigue of traveling long distances to Bairencheng. It is a convenience measure.

Dongmen Blowing Rain has set up a miners' service society here, which mainly provides three meals a day to the miners - most of the miners have no wives and no one to cook when they return home. On the second floor is the service agency's cafeteria, which sells all kinds of simple meals, alcohol and cigarettes. Cigarettes have been included in the list of monopoly sales by the Planning Commission, and at present they are only sold in 100 percent of the "state-owned enterprises," so Li Mei's cooperatives have nothing to sell.

The miners' service is actually the mine's chief logistics steward. All the logistical needs of the mine were handled by the service cooperative, even including the management of prostitutes: the miners were mostly bachelors, in good physical condition, and more sexually demanding. If they are not given an outlet for catharsis, they will inevitably steal chickens and dogs in the surrounding villages and cause a lot of disputes. Dongmen Blowing Rain simply implemented the same "yellow ticket" system as Dongmen City in the local area -- he didn't even need to mobilize the prostitutes in Dongmen City to Nanbaolai -- because he heard that Lingao's skin and meat trade was easy to do, and as long as he received the yellow ticket, his wife could do business peacefully, and he didn't have to be exploited, and many prostitutes from other places had already come to Dongmen City, and some even came from the mainland. If it is really unsightly to do business in Dongmen City, simply divert some of them to Nanbaolai.

Because it was stipulated that prostitutes who applied for yellow tickets had to undergo a medical examination and that those with venereal diseases were to be treated, the result was that the General Hospital had to set up a special treatment center for venereal diseases in a remote area. The Ministry of Health has made a lot of trouble - without qualified antibiotics, it is very difficult to treat STDs. Pharmaceutical manufacturers have now produced some samples of antibiotics for clinical trials, but their efficacy is still quite questionable. For this reason, the people of Guangzhou Station kidnapped a lot of Lang Zhong of the Hualiu family around Guangzhou. Engage in integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment.

"Having prostitutes can alleviate the problem, but it doesn't solve the problem. In the long run, it can even be harmful. Wu De instructed Ye Yuming, "Needless to say, there will be STDs - regular check-ups and treatments by the Ministry of Health are not a panacea. ”

"So you'd better find them a wife as soon as possible, right?"

"That's right. One is to encourage prostitutes to be good. The second is to engage in friendship with nearby villages. Get more delicious food and drink to entertain, hold a bazaar, put a few movies or something by the way, and wait until the two love each other, and the raw rice is cooked and cooked. ”

"Would the miners be willing to marry prostitutes?"

"When the prostitutes were reformed, many of them married workers. This should be possible. "Of course, you can also give some material encouragement, such as sending some satin cloth and other things." ”

"This time and space is not very particular about chastity and the like-" Ye Yuming still felt that this matter was not kao.

"The so-called chastity depends on what social class it is." Wu De said, "The miners of this time and space are extremely poor, and their lives are in danger at any time and anywhere - it is very satisfying to be able to settle down and marry a wife, and to have a woman to take care of life, where can you take care of so much!" Even if he wanted to. Three media, six appointments, bride price, banquets, they can't afford it. ”

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

"Hehe, Xiaoye, let's say an inappropriate analogy: in another time and space, if you have tens of millions of belongings, of course, when looking for a girlfriend, you can also haode pick, look at the appearance, character and figure, and pay attention to the other party's education, don't want a junior college, at least a bachelor's degree, a master's degree is better. If it's just an ordinary clerk, it wouldn't be so particular - would it? ”

"It's really heartwarming to hear," Ye Yuming muttered, "Engage in friendship activities, and the young men in the nearby villages will have opinions." The miners soaked the big girl away. ”

"How can it be so easy as you say. There will not be many such examples for the time being - the working class has not yet become an enviable class at Lingao. At least for the parents of the girls, being miners' parents-in-law is not very attractive. ”

The rural clinic, which is a joint venture between the Ministry of Health and Runshitang, also came to the building, taking up two shops downstairs and three rooms upstairs. In the traditional blowing and blowing, and the sound of firecrackers, the Runshitang Nanbao branch and the clinic opened. Liu San sent two pharmacy guys to sit here, with some Chinese herbal decoction pieces and Chinese patent medicines for common diseases. Medical staff from the Ministry of Health also make weekly rounds. Although the clinic is simple and primitive, it is the first time that there is a health service in the Nambo area.

The recreational life of the miners was also thought of: the miners' service club had a rugby field, a sport with minimal equipment requirements that was now promoted everywhere by the Crossing Group. The rugby stadium usually plays, and when the touring movie screening team comes, it shows movies here, and Xi Yaya is very keen on this jihua. Of course, he didn't forget that Nanbao was a key facility that needed to be defended. The miners were trained and given standardized spears and sabers made by the machine factory, as well as rattan helmets, to protect themselves and, if necessary, to suppress riots.

Zuihou, He Ying also came here, mysteriously inspected a certain foundation, and then enclosed it - this is the church of the future.

The smooth mining of the Nanbao mining area has eased the supply of minerals through the group. From Nanbao, oxen-pulled four-wheeled trucks are constantly transporting not only lignite and peat, but also gypsum, kaolin and limonite. Even coal gangue and various miscellaneous stones, which are temporarily unusable, can be used in construction and road construction.

Kaolin was mined. It means being able to make your own porcelain. In the past, some special shaped porcelain needed by the group for industrial and daily use has been fired by the export porcelain kilns along the coast of Fujian, although it can generally meet the demand, but the transportation is very troublesome.

One of the great gains of Huang Tianyu following Liu San to Foshan was to recruit many ceramic craftsmen. With such a group of people, the production efficiency of Xiao Bailang's ceramic kiln has improved by leaps and bounds, and many special-shaped parts and oversized pieces that are difficult to make can be fired. But these are still glazed pottery. Without kaolin, it would be impossible to make glazed porcelain fabrics.

The kaolin mined from Nanbao is crushed and cleaned and transported to the ceramics factory. Xiao Bailang handed over the drawing of the flush toilet to a few old potters under his command.

Several people watched for a while and didn't speak, and it took a long time for the oldest potter, named Li Jinquan, to speak:

"Chief, we haven't done this thing, and we can do it with a large item, but there are still some holes in it, I'm afraid we can't do it at one time."

"How long will it take?"

A few potters put their heads together and discussed for a while, and it took two or three weeks.

"Okay, you guys do it first." Xiao Bailang was not interested in making a flush toilet, and he didn't bother to ask. It was simply pushed to the indigenous workers. Anyway, the experience of firing large-scale porcelain is certainly not as rich as the indigenous potters of this time and space. But porcelain

However, Mo Xiaoan is full of interest in this thing, and he looks at the progress almost every day, and comes up with ideas from time to time. But he was a pure layman, and he was useless except to cheer up the potters.

But what burns out after a few days of tossing is not like that at all. Obviously, Xiao Bailang's notion that a flush toilet is a more complex piece of large porcelain is inaccurate. Zuihou still seeks advice from the big library to find information.

After a check, I learned that the process of this sanitary ware is still quite complicated, especially the surface glaze, which has a very high content of jishu. Of course, the traverser does not need such a high-grade surface glaze, which can be kept clean and easy to wash.

Take the manufacturing process of the simplest sanitary ware. Most sanitary ware is injection molding, and the most difficult thing for the group is the preparation of special molds. The molding quality of sanitary ware mainly depends on the manufacturing level of the mold.

Xiao Bailang went to the machinery factory several times and made molds for special sanitary ware in the factory. After the model is shipped back to the ceramic factory, the gypsum is made into a slurry and poured into a fixed mold, which is slowly solidified in the mold by its gelling properties. After evaporating some of the water, a plaster model of the product is made.

The blank is made into mud, and then injected into the gypsum model, and the water absorption of the gypsum model is used to make the water in the mud close to the mold wall be absorbed to form a certain mud layer, and then the remaining slurry is poured out of the model, and the mud layer attached to the mold wall is separated from the model due to the shrinkage of the water to form a green billet, which becomes a semi-finished product.

The billet is slowly dried by dragging water under certain conditions, and there are temperature-controlled drying equipment in modern factories. In Lingao, you can only use the natural drying method. Let the air and wind take away the moisture in a special awning.

After the billet is dried, it is time for the key glazing process. The method of spraying glaze slurry is generally used in factories. There is no such condition here, so Xiao Bailang adopted the immersion type. The green billet is packed on a special rack and soaked 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 the sake of good looks, but to facilitate sewage discharge and prevent dirt from adhering and condensing.

After hanging the glaze, it is fired in the kiln. The first finished product was fired quickly, but the appearance was somewhat deformed due to temperature control problems. After several improvements, a fairly acceptable product was finally fired. Li Jinquan was puzzled when he knew that what they had spent a lot of effort to fire was actually a toilet - he really couldn't figure out how complicated a toilet was, and it had to be made of white porcelain. When Mo Xiao'an came to see the finished product, he mustered up the courage to bring it up.

"Because it can make money, and it's clean and hygienic."

Li Jinquan knows the meaning of cleanliness and hygiene, but he is confused about the concept of making money - how much can a toilet be sold for no matter how good it is?

"What is the most luxurious toilet in Guangzhou?"

This problem made the potters look at each other, they lived in poverty, and most of them went directly to the street or the field to solve the problem, and it was good to have a night pot at home.

Li Jinquan is the oldest and has more knowledge. He recalled that he had seen one in a sedan chair of a merchant who had come to the kiln to see porcelain about ten years ago, and it was red lacquered and gilded, and the white copper bucket hoop was polished.

"That's it, but the rich people's pursuit of life is always endless, since we can make a red lacquered and gilded toilet, we can also use white porcelain - in Australia, haode porcelain toilet is worth a lot of money!" When he said this, he recalled the feeling of powerlessness in a well-known foreign brand of sanitary ware store, where a toilet was sold for 20,000 yuan - his salary was only 20,000 yuan a year at that time.

"The little ones get it. It's just—" A younger potter asked, since it was a toilet, and the bottom of the weishenme was not sealed, but had strange curved pipes? In this case, will not the filth come out, and how can it be used? (！ )

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