"Zini, what is the purpose of these wooden blocks marked with grain that you ordered to be made?"

In the village administration center of Qilin Village, Sima Yu looked at Guo Yuan, who was directing more than a dozen carpenters to make wooden blocks, and asked. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since that day, Guo Yuan asked Sima Yu to learn how to handle government affairs, except for going to the military camp every day, Sima Yu began to learn to deal with government affairs with Guo Yuan most of the time.

With the upgrading of Qilin Village to a third-level village, the village administration center has been expanded several times, and there are several functional rooms such as a back wing room for the village chief to rest, a meeting hall, a study, and a latrine.

At this time, in the meeting hall, more than a dozen craftsmen who knew how to make carpentry were constantly making small wooden blocks that were only a few inches in size and engraved with the word "grain", and Guo Yuan was directing on the side.

"Back to the lord, these are all two votes, each piece of wood represents a pound of grain, as long as a piece of wood the villagers can receive a pound of grain from Wen Rui, and in the future, we can give them these food stamps as wages when we hire villagers to work."

Hearing this, Guo Yuan explained to Sima Yu that the Wen Rui he mentioned was a talent recruited by the Zhaoxian Pavilion to be responsible for the distribution of food in Qilin Village.

"Zini, aren't you afraid that some villagers will copy it themselves?"

Sima Yu frowned when he heard this, and questioned loudly.

You must know that the production of these small wooden blocks is not too high-tech, and it is too easy for the villagers to imitate them.

"Hehe, don't worry, my lord, we will have a record of every piece of food stamps we distribute, and the villagers are only allowed to exchange these food stamps for food in the village, and they are not allowed to trade with each other, and they can only go to the village to register and exchange the corresponding copper coins and silver taels."

Guo Yuan smiled lightly and continued to explain confidently.

"Wouldn't this increase a lot of workload, why not just pay wages with copper money?"

Sima Yu was even more puzzled when he heard this, the method of not allowing transactions after registration prevented the villagers from copying it, but the distribution and exchange of grain required person-to-person registration would increase the workload a lot.

"Lord, there is not enough copper money in the village"

Guo Yuan couldn't help but smile helplessly when he heard this, and after glancing at Sima Yu with some "resentment", he said word by word.

"Well, isn't this, didn't I open a lot of copper coins, how can it not be enough?"

Sima Yu, who was uncomfortable with Guo Yuan's eyes, shook his head, and then said a little incomprehensibly.

Since activating the props, he has opened all 821 people's livelihood bags before and after, but more than 900,000 copper coins have been opened, why is it not enough, Sima Yu is puzzled.

"Lord, I'm afraid you have forgotten the decree implemented in my Qilin Village, now the village needs to pay wages every day to hire villagers to work, a healthy villager's salary is generally 4-8 yuan a day, and the daily salary of some skilled workers is even as high as 13 yuan, my Qilin Village now has nearly 80,000 yuan of labor every day in addition to the elderly and children, and the salary paid every day is as high as more than 500,000 yuan. Moreover, 3,400 new soldiers have been recruited, and at the salary of 10 yuan per day for each ordinary soldier, 4,200 soldiers need to pay more than 42,000 yuan per day.

If it weren't for the fact that there was still some income from the sale of grain, houses, shops, land, etc., I am afraid that it would have been impossible to support such a large amount of consumption every day. That's why I came up with a way to do this, which will increase the workload, but it will allow us to spend a lot less copper money and revitalize the economy of the village."

Guo Yuan, who was a little proud of coming up with this method, couldn't see this, so he had to shake his head and explain in detail to Sima Yu again.

In Sima Yu's heart, he always thought that more than 900,000 copper coins were a lot, but he didn't know that due to the low value of copper coins, the huge Qilin Village now needs tens of millions of copper coins to circulate every day.

In order to solve this problem, Guo Yuan thought hard for several nights before coming up with this solution.

Once this food stamp method is introduced, it will immediately solve the current dilemma faced by Qilin Village.

Everyone's salary settlement uses these food stamps made of wooden blocks that can be made infinitely, and a large amount of copper coins can be liberated in an instant, even if the villagers want to exchange some copper coins for trading, the amount will not be too large, with the existing copper coins and gold and silver reserves in Qilin Village, it is completely enough.

After listening to Guoyuan's explanation, Sima Yu was stunned for a moment, and looked at him with a mountain-looking expression.

Isn't this the prototype of silver stamps and banknotes in later generations? This is as high as more than 80, close to 90 politics is really not covered, this method can be imagined.

In fact, this is also Sima Yu's idea, and Guo Yuan was also inspired by seeing some Ming Dynasty silver tickets that were exchanged back, and came up with such a workaround.

If Qilin Village now has a technology that cannot be imitated, Guo Yuan may be able to get a set of silver tickets immediately.

This method is really wonderful, and it seems that we will have to study and study a way to get some passes, silver bills, etc., and also establish money banks and banks, which can greatly promote economic development. Jing Guoyuan's idea came to fruition, and Sima Yu immediately thought about it with some excitement.

"However, it's a pity that the speed of making wooden blocks is too slow, and you still need to train some people to make food stamps."

Seeing that Sima Yu had already understood the use of food stamps, Guo Yuan was also a little proud in his heart, but he quickly shook his head with some regret.

"Oh? Too slow? ”

When Guo Yuan said this, Sima Yu was also stunned, and looked at the more than ten craftsmen who were making wooden blocks, and found that the production speed was not fast, and I am afraid that he could only make less than 1,000 pieces a day.

Judging from the rough calculation that Guoyuan just had, the daily salary of the entire Qilin Village is probably more than 600,000 yuan.

According to the calculation of 3 wen per catty of grain, at least more than 200,000 food stamps need to be issued a day, and many villagers are likely to issue food stamps that will not be used, but will be saved, so that these food stamps will not be returned to Sima Yu and them, and new food stamps will need to be issued the next day.

Based on this calculation, it is estimated that the entire Qilin Village needs to produce at least millions of food stamps to barely support the daily operation of Qilin Village.

At the current rate of these craftsmen, I am afraid that they will be able to make more than 10,000 pieces a day, and if we do not increase the number of people, it will be a few months before we can gather millions of food stamps, and by then I am afraid that the economy of the entire Qilin Village will have collapsed.

"Hey, Zini, why do you want to find some people who don't know how to engrave to divide the wooden blocks, and then they will unify the lettering?"

Sima Yu couldn't help but sigh after taking a closer look at it, and proposed.

Sima Yu found that each of these food stamps, from dividing the wood into pieces of wood to lettering, was done by each master independently, which was very inefficient, and because there were few people who knew how to engrave, the scale could not be expanded.

The method proposed by Sima Yu is also the assembly line commonly used in later factories.

"Oh, great, the lord is really ingenious, so it will definitely be able to greatly improve the production speed of food stamps"

After listening to Sima Yu's proposal, Guo Yuan understood the key after thinking about it for a while, and then praised with a look of surprise.

After saying that, Guo Yuan was not talking nonsense, and immediately prepared to go out and select people to make food stamps.

"Lord, Wu Langzhong asks to see you!"

At this moment, a soldier guarding the outside came in and reported to Sima Yu.

"Please come in!"

Sima Yu was a little surprised when he heard this, but he still asked the soldiers to invite Wu Langzhong in.