On the outskirts of Lingao County, Qiongzhou Prefecture, rows of brick houses stand on the ground, several of which are still relatively tall factories, such a huge scale of buildings, and the broken and small Lingao County not far from the side has formed a very obvious contrast.

At first glance, these buildings are known to have been newly built in recent years, and they are surrounded by a wall, and the gate is quite imposing, and a brand new signboard hangs outside the gate, 'Lingao Erjiu Fishery Company'.

Not far from the door, there are more than a dozen small vendors shouting on the side of the road, but the strange thing is that although there are also people nearby walking in front of their stalls, these small vendors are mostly indifferent, looking like you like to buy or not, but occasionally a person wearing a light blue cloth shirt with the word 'twenty-nine' embroidered on the cloth clothes passes by here, but most of them shout!

Talking about some fruit that has just been picked from the ground, it is sweet and delicious.

The fat pig that was just killed in the morning is full of fat meat with a knife!

And these people in blue cloth clothes also seem to be accustomed to this, and if they need it, they will stop temporarily, and then buy some vegetables or meat, or fruit snacks, etc., and then take out a bronze ticket to pay the bill.

And these small vendors are happily handing over all kinds of goods, and then receiving these tickets.

Don't look at these tickets fluttering, but they are real money!

It is a bronze ticket issued by the Datang Royal Bank, which is used as a secondary currency for the silver ticket!

In the early days, the banknotes issued by the Tang Royal Bank only had silver bills, and the face value of silver bills was relatively large, from one money of silver, five dollars of silver, one or two pieces of silver, and ten taels of silver bills, in addition to the large amount of bank cashier's notes specially prepared for big merchants, and the most issued were silver bills with a face value of one or two silver.

This kind of silver ticket of one tael of silver, and silver coin of one tael of silver at a glance, is basically rarely seen among the common people, especially the lower classes such as peasants, who account for the vast majority of the population, because people use copper coins in their daily lives, not silver coins and silver tickets.

Silver tickets are mostly used for business transactions!

In response to this situation, and at the same time, in order to alleviate the shortage of copper coins, Datang Royal Bank specially issued copper tickets!

There are five denominations of bronze tickets: 100 denominations, 50 denominations, 10 denominations, 5 denominations, and 1 denomination, and later a large bronze ticket with a denomination of 1,000 denominations was also issued.

The value of the copper ticket is not directly linked to the silver ticket, not that a thousand copper tickets can be exchanged for one or two silver silver tickets, but to the copper coin 'Datang Tongbao' issued by the Mint Bureau of the Datang Tax Department.

Because the price of copper, silver and gold will fluctuate, in order to prevent speculation in various precious metals and cause turmoil in the monetary system, the Tang Dynasty did not impose a ban on how much Tang Tongbao could be exchanged for one or two pieces of silver, but adopted the method of going with the market.

Copper coins are copper coins, silver coins are silver coins, and gold coins are gold coins, and the exchange ratio of the three is changed according to the market, for example, the current official exchange rate of the Tang Royal Bank, at present, one or two gold can be exchanged for five taels of silver, and one or two silver can be exchanged for one thousand and thirty pieces of Datang Tongbao.

When the Datang Tongbao copper coin was first issued, its copper content and other currency value were calculated by exchanging one or two silver for a thousand Datang Tongbao, but a few years have passed, and the current exchange ratio has become one thousand and thirty.

Gold and silver exchange is also, a few years ago, one tael of gold can also be five taels of silver, but with the opening of the Tang Dynasty to sea trade, a large number of foreign merchants brought a large number of silver coins to buy various goods, resulting in the gradual rise of the domestic silver stock, so that the exchange ratio of gold and silver fluctuated.

Since the current precious metal monetary system is still used, silver and copper tickets are attached to silver and copper coins, so the exchange ratio between silver and copper tickets is not clear, but adopts a fluctuating mode.

Although the Tang Dynasty currently wants to adopt a single monetary policy, such as the establishment of a silver standard or even a gold standard, it is still unrealistic at present.

It can only be a mix of gold, silver, and copper coins.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the silver and bronze bills issued by the Datang Royal Bank are basically already people's people!

One of the most important is that the tax department of the Tang Dynasty collects copper and silver tickets!

Of course, it is still not excluded that some people are still afraid of the sudden depreciation of paper money, so they do not keep paper money in their hands, but will deposit it in the royal bank in time and become money in the account, or simply exchange copper coins and silver coins and take them home to dig a cellar and bury them, waiting for these silver coins and copper coins to give birth to a small silver coin and small copper coin.

These small traders, of course, could not understand the complex connections behind the banknotes, but they only knew that these paper notes could be used as money, and they received these banknotes from others, and then they could use them to buy or deposit them in the Royal Bank.

The small traders on the side of the road occasionally took one bronze ticket after another, and made a lot of money, but although they made money, they occasionally looked at the gate of the Erjiu Fishery Company not far away, and they still showed a trace of envy.

In the past few years, the 29th Reclamation Regiment, now the Lingao 29 Fishery Company, has already become the largest local enterprise, and the rumors that the people working in it can get a few taels of silver or even more every month have already spread throughout Qiongzhou Island.

A few days ago, Lingao Erjiu Fishery Company just changed its signboard, the canning factory because of the lack of manpower, ready to recruit a group of hired workers from outside, pay wages on a monthly basis, in addition to this, there is no other guarantee, and the salary is only less than half of the old employees of the fishing company, but it is still a sensation in Lingao County!

On the day of recruitment, more than 400 people came to try to get a job!

However, the 29 Fishery Company planned to recruit only 25 employees, and in the end, seeing so many people applying, the number of places was temporarily increased by 15, but the ratio of recruitment and admission still reached 10 to 1.

Attract so many people to apply, squeeze your head and want to get in, naturally because of the high salary of Erjiu Fishery Company, even if you just enter, you won't know anything, you can only be an ordinary employee who does chores, and you can get more than one or two silver a month!

For ordinary people who can't earn a few taels of silver all year round, it is absolutely good to be able to enter the Erjiu Fishery Company to get a salary.

Many people are actively looking for jobs, this situation is actually not unique to Erjiu Fishery Company, in fact, many companies will encounter this situation when recruiting workers.

In this year's factory, the treatment is definitely not good, give you one tael of silver a month, and the boss needs you to earn back ten taels of silver for him.

The working hours are 12 hours or 14 hours a day, and this is still a factory under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, if it is a private factory, the working hours are longer, and there are 16 hours of work.

Although Li Xuan was also a little worried about this situation, and asked the Ministry of Commerce to improve the treatment of workers many times, the Ministry of Commerce was also very embarrassed, so he could only issue a document, hoping that all enterprises could comply with the standards of factories under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, and the standard working hours should not exceed 14 hours a day.

Because it is now a period of barbaric industrial development, those capitalists who have just changed from landlords to factory owners are all focused on profits, and let them reduce their working hours and increase the wages of their workers, which is not to be counted on.

And there is also a reality that even if the factory requires employees to work for 16 hours, the salary is lower than that of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, but there are still a lot of people who are willing to work.

In a very realistic sentence: we have a lot of Chinese, you don't do it, a lot of people rush to do it!

However, the Erjiu Fishery Company is different, the previous Erjiu Fishery Company was not actually a commercial company, and there was no need to make a profit itself, because all the money earned was handed over to the Prisoner of War Division.

At the same time, because everyone works together, no one wants to work hard and then make money and hand it over, so their working hours and treatment are quite different from those of other factories in the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, and there is only other private factories, so there is no way to compare.

Easy work, good salary, this is the reality of Erjiu Fishery Company!

Not to mention that ordinary people want to find a job here, even if they are the children of small landlord families, some scholars who have no way to enter the official career and can only eat by themselves also want to enter the Erjiu Fishery Company to work, once they can get in, with their ability, well, not to mention anything else, it is enough to read and write, settle accounts and do accounts, and at the end it is also a role of junior management.

Decent work and high salary!

It's just that it's too difficult to get in, and those passers-by can only cast envious expressions.

At the same time, in the county yali in Lingao County, the county magistrate Feng Kailong was also smiling, and he was in a good mood and sent Lu Fangfang out of the yamen, and he also sent Lu Fangfang to the door very kindly, and waved his hand and said: Brother Lu go slowly!

After Lu Square got into the carriage and left, his eyes never retracted for a long time, that look, that action, just like sending the God of Wealth!

But for Lingao, for Feng Kailong, isn't the current Lu Pingfang the God of Wealth!

In the past, Feng Kailong had a lot of complaints about the 29th Reclamation Regiment, not only him, but also the tax officer of Lingao, and even the director of the Taxation Bureau of Qiongzhou Prefecture, who had great opinions about the 29th Reclamation Regiment.

For the hair?

Because the former 29th Reclamation Regiment did not pay taxes!

They used to be an armed organization, but they were not a commercial company, and there was no such thing as paying taxes, anyway, the Ministry of Taxation has never had an example of taxing on the military, although they have always wanted to do this, and some officials of the Ministry of Taxation are shouting, the income of this soldier, that is also personal income, and if it is income, you have to pay personal income tax, and the civil officials have paid it, and there is no reason why the military will not pay it!

But at present, it is a war of reunification, and this war has not ended, and it has begun to collect taxes from soldiers, which is easy to cause turmoil in the hearts of the military, so Li Xuan has always pressed the request of the Ministry of Taxation, without Li Xuan's approval, even if the Ministry of Taxation is awesome, but it is not so awesome that it can collect taxes on its own, so at present, this kind of thing can only be said.

But now that the 29th Reclamation Regiment has been restructured and has become a company under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, since it is a company, it has to pay taxes, and the profit of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year, the turnover exceeds millions of taels of silver, and if the tax department does not collect more than 100,000 taels of silver from it, the director of the Qiongzhou Government Taxation Bureau will dare to write his name upside down!