Chapter 234: The Beginning of Private Ownership
Clothes not only serve to keep people warm, but more importantly, they can make human beings feel ashamed, and play a pivotal role in establishing ethical relationships.
From the day he made the clothes, Wang Lang wore them every day, and gradually the clothes became a status symbol.
Lin Huo and the others also wanted to make the same clothes as Wang Lang, but Wang Lang did not agree.
Cloth was a crucial step in his plan of private ownership.
After everyone saw the magnificence of the clothes, the women's enthusiasm for weaving rose a lot, and soon with more and more cloth, Wang Lang was ready to start his own system reform.
During this period, Wang Lang ordered the workers to build a spacious and beautiful house with bricks.
Wang Lang intended to use the house as a primitive trading post, where all the tribe's supplies would be gathered for sale, a model very similar to the model of a supply and marketing cooperative, a small state-run supermarket, before the reform and opening up.
It took half a month to build this trading post, and Wang Lang put part of the tribe's grain, meat, and various animal skins and cloths into it.
With the goods, all that remains is the most critical money.
As for what to use as money, Wang Lang referred to ancient currencies and planned to use copper coins, copper coins with tin added.
The style of the copper coin Wang Lang did not bother much, it is a very common square hole copper coin, as long as this kind of coin is strung with a rope, it will be more convenient to carry.
Once everything was ready, it had already taken almost a month.
On this day, Wang Lang summoned all the leaders of the tribe, including those on the other side of the river.
All the important people are gathered together, which is a rare thing since the creation of the tribe.
These leaders gathered in the square of the tribal meeting and talked in a low voice, and everyone didn't know what Wang Lang was going to announce when he summoned these people so solemnly this time.
With Wang Lang's appearance, everyone fell silent, and their eyes looked at Wang Lang's side.
Wang Lang glanced at everyone, and after seeing that everyone had arrived, he sat down on the wooden pier and said, "There is something important to announce when you are summoned here today. ”
"Chief, are you going to conquer other tribes?" The belligerent bark asked excitedly.
Wang Lang shook his head and said, "This time it's not a war, it's something else, don't worry, listen to me slowly." ”
Everyone waited curiously for Wang Lang's next words.
"For a long time, all the things in our tribe are shared by everyone, but this situation has great drawbacks, before we were seriously short of food and goods, this drawback is not obvious, but now our corn is filled with several granaries, food is no longer our problem, but after the food is sufficient, I found that the tribesmen began to show signs of laziness, and in the long run, our tribe will be in a very dangerous state." Wang Lang said slowly.
People frowned, thinking carefully about Wang Lang's words, the problem that they didn't realize before, when Wang Lang said this, everyone also realized this problem.
Not to mention the ordinary clansmen, even they themselves have lost the kind of energy they once had, they don't have to worry about eating and drinking, and now they spend most of their time doing nothing, and the soldiers may still train, but compared to before, the state is much worse.
"Chief, what's there to worry about, if anyone doesn't work, just beat him." Kong Yi said disappreciatively.
"One person can fight, dozens or hundreds of people don't work, can you arrest them, they are all our people, not slaves, their lives are protected by the tribe, no one has the right to execute without permission, now we have a small population, and when the future is several times as many as now, how should we manage it."
After Wang Lang finished speaking, Kong Yi was silent, he hadn't thought about this problem at all, and he didn't know how to solve it.
"So what can you do?" Dark Cloud asked.
"I intend to abolish the distribution system of the tribes." Wang Lang said in surprise.
Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and the dark cloud hurriedly said: "Chief, this has canceled the distribution system, what do the clansmen eat and drink?" ”
Listening to everyone's objections, Wang Lang waved his hand and said, "Everyone be quiet, I naturally have a solution in mind." ”
Hearing that there was a solution, everyone fell silent, and the dark cloud asked, "What are you going to do?" ”
Wang Lang took out a copper coin from his belt and said, "This is my solution." ”
Everyone stared at such a copper coin for a long time, but they were all confused, and they didn't know what Wang Lang wanted to do.
"Chief, this seems to be made of copper, what's the use of this thing?" Kong Er asked.
"This thing is called copper coins, and you can use this thing to exchange for the materials you need, for example, a hundred copper coins like this can be exchanged for this dress on my body." Wang Lang said slowly.
"Can I exchange this thing for clothes?"
The crowd asked in disbelief.
Wang Lang nodded and said: "That's right, I will gather the tribe's materials, and then distribute some copper coins to everyone in the tribe, with this copper coin, you can exchange it for what you need in the newly built trading station, but this copper coin is only distributed for the first time, if you want to get more copper coins, you need your own labor to exchange it." ”
"Then what if someone can't get the copper coin, then he won't have nothing, will he starve to death?" The clouds asked a very serious question.
Wang Lang said with a smile: "I have already taken this matter into consideration, for example, the disabled clansmen, the old people who have no ability to work, these tribes will arrange for them to do some work that they can do, and they will not starve to death, but they can only maintain their own lives, and if they want to live a better life, they can only work hard by themselves." ”
After hearing this, Wuyun thought about it carefully and said, "This is indeed a solution, and in this way, the enthusiasm of the clansmen will increase a lot. ”
"Chief, do we leaders receive the same copper coins as ordinary clansmen?" Kong Yi asked.
"You'll get more than ordinary people, but you can't get copper coins from other places privately, I'll give them to you people and soldiers every two full moons, and if I find anyone breaking this rule, don't blame me for not remembering the old feelings." Wang Lang warned.
One of the disadvantages of private ownership is that it will cause corruption among those who enjoy power, and Wang Lang hates this and does not want this to happen when he is in power.
When everyone heard this, their hearts sank, and they hurriedly assured Wang Lang.