Chapter 133: Money
The status of a tribe and a chieftain is unique and inviolable. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info All day long, everyone was arguing about the 'method' in Wang Hao's mouth. Basically, all the clan uncles have an opposing opinion.
However, when Wang Hao used the identity of the patriarch to say that this matter must be listened to him, although those clan uncles were very dissatisfied, they could only helplessly comply.
In their eyes, Wang Hao is good at everything, but only the loser can't change it in this life.
One counts as one. Starting with table salt, he brushed his teeth with salt that was not in good condition, which was one piece. Although the animal skins in the village were tattered but still kept out of the cold, he forcibly burned them, and this was another piece. When the captives of Liu Village were caught, they strongly opposed the suggestion that the clan should feed them grass every day, and instead used delicious fish and meat as their staple food, which was the third case. Not to mention the various things that were given out in trucks on exchange days.
Of course, all the previous things are small interests that are not painful for the village, but the suggestions made by Wang Hao today have touched the big interests of everyone in the village. Although the few people who benefited in the end were still their own clansmen, for them, the clan uncles, it was not as good as before.
The next morning, at breakfast, those people from other villages learned a piece of news from Wang Hao's mouth that made them scratch their heads.
There have been some changes in the arrangement of work in the village.
In the past, no matter what work they did, it was counted on a daily basis, no matter how fast or slow they worked, a day was counted as one working hour. But now it's different.
Man-hours are calculated according to the content of the work. Take, for example, the construction of a new wooden wall. The sections of the road that need to be dug are carefully divided. Each section is about 100 paces. Everyone can take this distance, and once they have dug it up and accepted it, they will be given a day and a half of man-hours.
Everyone has an account in their hearts, and if they look at this distance, they find that if they are not lazy, even if it is affected by heavy rain, they can dig it up in one day. If you continue to calculate it in this way, although it is a little harder, two days of work can be worth three days of work.
Of course, that's not the only thing that's changing. Wang Hao actually told them that if a man who does not have a mother-in-law in his tribe meets the eyes of these women who have no man in Wang Village, the two sides can live together if you are willing to do so. Moreover, at that time, Wang Cun would pay for them, and give them a private clay pot and some food.
But there was a condition that the man must leave his original tribe and take an oath to join the royal village.
As soon as Wang Hao said this, many people were moved. They all saw how superior the life of Wang Village was. Not only does it have delicious food, but you don't have to risk your life to fight all kinds of wild animals. Being able to join such a tribe is simply something they dream of.
It's just that because he can't give up his original village or some other reasons, no one has expressed his willingness to join Wang Village for the time being.
If these two events are happy news for everyone. Well, there's one more thing that definitely doesn't make them happy.
That's the problem of food. At breakfast, Wang Hao actually announced to everyone that from tomorrow onwards, the village would no longer care about everyone's food.
As soon as the words fell, it aroused the unanimous condemnation of everyone, if it weren't for the eight bull crossbows on the arrow tower and the iron sword on Wang Hu's body, there would even be some impulsive people who wanted to use their fists to ask for an explanation.
But then Wang Hao also gave them an explanation.
A basket of things called 'money' was lifted out from behind Wang Hao.
When everyone looked closely, the basket of black things turned out to be small round cakes made of black ironwood.
Round cakes come in large and small sizes. The big ones are the size of a fist, and the small ones are only a little bigger than a thumb.
After Wang Hao's explanation, everyone realized that the reason why the village no longer provided food was because they needed to exchange these round cakes called money in Wang Hao's mouth for food. And the way to get these round cakes is to exchange the daily man-hours.
A big round cake, oh no, a big penny, represents one man-hour, and a big penny, can be exchanged for ten small coins. And any of them can take a small amount of money in exchange for a meal.
Moreover, this money can be exchanged not only for food, but also for anything that Wang Village is currently selling.
Wang Hao gave them an example. If they had chosen some of the easier jobs and had been busy for a day, they would have been able to earn only one large sum of money, and in addition to their daily food, they would have saved seven small dollars.
And according to the originally negotiated terms of exchange. A small pottery bowl requires three days of man-hours to exchange, so now, the conditions for the exchange of pottery bowls are no longer calculated by man-hours, but according to the money. A pottery bowl costs two big bucks to exchange. In this way, the price of the pottery bowl is relatively cheaper than the original price of a small amount of money.
In this way, everyone can accept it much more. It's nothing more than a difference in the way of exchange, as long as you don't suffer a loss, you'll be fine. What's more, Wang Hao also said that the reason why working hours are no longer counted and replaced by money is that the working hours are easy to be confused, and it will be troublesome if the calculation is wrong. But the money is different, after every day after work, the settlement money is handed over to them for safekeeping. As long as you have money, no matter where your money comes from, Wang Cun will accept it. This is also for their sake.
For example, the village wanted to change the bow and arrow. But the exchange price of the bow and arrow was two thousand yuan, and for them, it was twenty ninety-nine plus twenty yuan to exchange. If the man-hours were to be calculated, it would take them five or six years to get a bow and arrow. But now with money it's different. When all the people in their village came, if there were ten people in their village, they would only need to work for two hundred days each to exchange a bow and arrow. If there are 200 people, they only need to work for ten days each. This is not a good thing for them.
In the end, after Wang Hao's flickering, oh no, it was an explanation, and everyone finally accepted this strange way of exchange.
When all these things are said and done, the busy day begins again. Next to the cowshed at the entrance of the village, Wang Hao led people to build a notice board yesterday afternoon. Every morning from now on, new work will be placed on it. Wang Hao said that the work on the notice board is more cost-effective. But the number is relatively small. When the assignment is over, the rest of the people will have to wait and do some of the rest.
The smarter ones have already run towards the bulletin board, trying to snatch up the daily quota of jobs. And the reaction is a little slower, and the brain has not completely turned in circles.
Heavy rains for several days have caused the river to rise a lot. Now the entire beach is flooded.
It's time of year for the fish in the river to multiply. Countless large fish, converging into schools of fish, swim down the river, swimming against the current, following the instinct of the creatures, towards the place where they were born.
Whether it is crocodiles or bears, ospreys or herons, and even some non-swimming dinosaurs and ocelots, they all gather on both sides of the river.
It's a feast for predators. But for the fish, it is also a sad song of exchanging life for the opportunity to reproduce.