Chapter 139: Night Market
Readx;?Fireworks were launched in the Oriental Port on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, these fireworks were brought from the old time and space, and some of them were also a little damp due to improper storage, and failed to burst the required pattern in the air. www.biquge.info But these fireworks that can successfully explode all kinds of beautiful fires when they rise into the air make the people of Dongfang Port and Anyun, who lack entertainment, fully enjoy a fireworks show.
These fireworks were originally intended to be used as weapons at the beginning of the crossing, and it is important to know that these things can not only explode violently, but also produce huge flames. During the Battle of Champong Port, these fireworks were used as aerial bombs to bomb the barbarians who invaded the north along the way, and received very good results. But these fireworks are just fireworks after all, no matter how powerful they are, there is still a time limit for saving them, with the gradual enrichment of the Senate's arsenal, the more powerful grenades and flying thunder cannon shells gradually began to equip the troops, these fireworks have become a bit chicken, so the Executive Committee decided to simply take advantage of the New Year to put these fireworks, and at the same time can also make a batch of fireworks to be set off during the festival, so as to add some festive atmosphere to the first New Year of the Senate.
These fireworks are mainly made by the chemical department, because there is very little sulfur produced in Annam, so most of the sulfur is mainly transported from other places through trade, but fortunately, the sulfur required to make black powder is not much, and it is mainly used by the chemical department to make sulfuric acid. The chemical industry is experimenting while increasing or decreasing the materials used, at this time the Dongfang Port chemical industry is not comparable to the old time and space, what chemical raw materials are needed in the old time and space, just go directly to the market to buy, but at this time, where can I buy purified chemical raw materials? Not to mention that there is no place to find analytically pure reagents, so the fireworks that explode in the sky at this time must be homemade in this time and space. Fortunately, the natives of this time and space have no ability to appreciate fireworks, as long as they see a huge fire ball bursting in the sky, they will shout in unison, and for a while, the entire Oriental Port is full of people, and it has become a sea of joy.
In the crowd, not only the local indigenous people, but also many elders wandered around the makeshift night market. These night markets are the masterpieces of the elders, and many veterans with good skills have taken this opportunity to set up their own stalls in the night markets, such as "Lanzhou Ramen", "Wuhan Dry Noodles", "Changsha Stinky Tofu", "Sugar Painting", "Noodle People" and other delicacies that have not yet been invented in this time and space. Children happily weave through the crowds, holding coppers in their hands, and buying snacks from the stall owners in the night market.
In fact, the copper coins held by these children were distributed by the Ministry of Trade at school, and each student was given ten cents of coins by the teacher as a small red envelope for the New Year before the end of class. In fact, the vast majority of the people who travel to give red envelopes to all students are opposed, and the fundamental reason is that the children are free to study in school, and lunch is also free, even if some children live in the school dormitory building in a special situation, it is also free for each child, and now the Chinese New Year has to give each child a dime, and there are more than 300 children in the Dongfanggang Primary School and the half-sized children in the crash course.
But Mr. Shui expressed strong support for the resolution, saying that the money could come from the welfare lottery. You must know that in order to enliven the atmosphere of the New Year, Oriental Port carried out three welfare lottery lottery activities before the New Year. However, after the Peng Lingte jumping incident, the financial sector fully understood the bottom line of the property loss of the local unnaturalized aborigines, so it made sufficient restrictions, each person who bought a lottery ticket, only allowed a maximum of two yuan, that is, twenty chances, and after the purchase, a blue seal will be stamped on the back of the right hand, the material used in this paint is more durable, and it will not be washed off in a day or two, so as to prevent the aborigines from using the money to touch the prize without self-control.
Despite so many restrictions, these three prizes are still hot and have brought more than 800 yuan of net income to the financial sector. Therefore, Shui Wangtai generously proposed that since the welfare lottery is taken from the people, it is natural that it should also be used by the people. At this time, each of the children in Dongfanggang was given a dime of "New Year's money" by the financial department, and the elderly and disabled people who were unable to work could go to the neighborhood committee where they were located to receive a one-yuan holiday subsidy.
This move immediately caused a sensation in the entire Oriental Port, and all the natives actually knew that this welfare lottery was just a means of collecting money from the Senate, and their participation so passionately was nothing more than wanting to try their luck, after all, a touch of ten yuan lottery tickets could immediately make a fundamental change in family life. But all of a sudden, the Senate used a lot of money from lottery tickets to people who had no job income or low income, which had never happened before. Since ancient times, only the government has collected money, when have you ever seen the government send money? The Senate, which had a high status in the minds of the naturalized people, went to the next level at this time, and was directly regarded as a savior by them.
At this time, the children happily walked through the crowd with the copper in their hands, and many children were directly attracted by the stinky tofu, which was set up by Wu Yong. As a veteran of the military department, Wu Yong is now a platoon commander, originally according to the requirements of the Senate, the military department should maintain a state of combat readiness during the festival to prevent the enemy from sneaking attack, but they also want to create a peaceful atmosphere, so Wu Yong, who often secretly makes stinky tofu in the army to satisfy his hunger, was temporarily seconded to the night market to set up a stinky tofu stall......
Wu Yong's face was full of helplessness now, looking at the big group of children in front of him while snorting and looking straight at the stinky tofu bubbling in the oil pot. Almost all of these children wore the student uniforms of Dongfanggang Primary School, and although the garment factory had been unable to dress all the people due to lack of productivity, Yang Canling put the production of student uniforms in the first place and gave priority to ensuring the supply of student uniforms. Because the vast majority of children do not have their own clothes at home, they usually wear shabby clothes that adults change from small, and now they have such beautiful clothes, so now Wu Yong can see that the children's necklines or cuffs have a layer of black grease, even at night he can see clearly.
The children stared at the stinky tofu, but no one paid for it, and the children standing in front of the stall stood in a semicircle with a radius of two meters. This made Wu Yong feel very strange, and he couldn't help but ask a few of the children, but the children's answers were surprisingly consistent, too expensive to afford.
These students have received primary school education and can understand the signboard of a penny and a bowl on the signboard, but each of them has a dime for the New Year, if they eat openly, this dime is only ten bowls of food, they have never taken so much money, one by one is reluctant to use it.
In fact, this also reflects a shortcoming of financial currency, that is, the face value of auxiliary currencies is not low enough. Since the maximum face value of the silver coins issued by the Traveling Crowd at this time was one yuan and the minimum face value was one cent, they miscalculated the purchasing power of one dollar silver coin, in fact, one dollar silver coin and the purchasing power of one thousand yuan in the old time and space were combined, so the purchasing power of one cent was equal to or even higher than the ten yuan in the old time and space. Then when buying something with a value of less than one point, both the traversal and the common people have to be blind, and there is no smaller face value. It's better to cross the crowd, it's a big deal to buy more, but the common people are not so wealthy, and they can't wait to break it and make ten copies for a penny. Therefore, although the cross-border people have issued low-denomination coins, there is still a market for copper coins in the Wu Dynasty and Annam, and now they have even reached a tacit standard, 1,000 copper coins are one yuan, and one cent can be exchanged for ten copper coins.
Speculators soon appeared, exchanging large quantities of copper coins in other places, then going to Dongfang Port to buy silver coins, and then exchanging more copper coins in other places. And then there is a fake copper coin, the main component of these fake copper coins is money, tin, soft, some fall to the ground will be split in half, although these counterfeiters can not imitate the exquisite Senate silver coins, but counterfeit copper coins are simply not a problem. After this problem appeared, the financial department and the police carried out several operations and destroyed several workshops that made fake copper coins, but the number of fake copper coins that have been circulating in the market is still relatively large, and it cannot be solved for a while.
Wu Yong had no choice at this time, so many children gathered in front of his stall, and there were many children in front of the stalls of other patriarchs, but they were reluctant to pay for it, which made the elders speechless. In fact, these patriarchs are not setting up stalls to make money at all, they have a lot of money in their accounts, and today's task is to ensure that the night market is prosperous, so that the natives can understand the charm of the night market, and in the future, it is better to introduce policies to help the natives invigorate the nightlife of the Oriental Port. You must know that as long as it is dark in Dongfanggang now, the naturalized people who get off work will go to sleep directly, and at night there are almost no people on the streets of Dongfanggang, which is as weird as a ghost town. This situation makes many women feel unhappy, women in the old time and space naturally like to go shopping, but because the natives have no concept of nightlife, whether it is an administrative district or a commercial area, it is silent when it gets dark, so that they can only do nothing in the dormitory after work, so it has become one of the main purposes of the night market to drive the nightlife of Oriental Port.
"Whoosh-boom!" A huge red and yellow firework exploded in the sky, causing all the children to look up, and for a while the children were smiling and dancing and pointing to the fireworks that exploded in the sky. Wu Yong suddenly remembered that when he was a child, he used to gather around the stinky tofu stall and greedily inhale the fragrance of stinky tofu, and couldn't help but smile lightly, and made a decision in his heart, "Come on, come on!" I'll treat you to eat, one piece for each of you! ”