At eight o'clock in the morning, Bai Nan's door was knocked on the door, Bai Nan opened the door and saw that it was Xu Xin, who was dressed fresh and bright, this beautiful girl winked at Bai Nan, didn't even say hello, and naturally entered Bai Nan's single dormitory. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Hey, Miss Xu, aren't you afraid of rumors when you break into a bachelor's dormitory like this?" Bai Nan touched his forehead full of helplessness.

Xu Xin waved her hand indifferently and said: "Spread whatever you like, anyway, if you don't give him a head for someone who likes to chew his tongue, he can make it up for you." ”

Xu Xin glanced at Bai Nan, who seemed to have just finished exercising, and asked, "Have you had breakfast?" ”

"I ate in the cafeteria after running."

Xu Xin found a chair, and then asked, "Yesterday, the authorities paid salaries, how much did you pay?" ”

Bai Nan was even more helpless: "This seems to be a privacy issue." ”

Xu Xin snorted: "If you don't tell me, I can also find out, now the salaries of civil servants and soldiers are transparent, and you can go to the reception office to find out." ”

This is really the case, Zhao Daling insisted on promoting transparency and honesty from the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, so a series of government expenditures, as well as the income of public officials, are all traceable, and they can be publicized if necessary.

"I get a half-salary, the rank of lieutenant colonel is 260 yuan, and I should have received a captain's salary, but since I basically didn't work on the ship, this money is gone, and I can't get the fleet work allowance. However, because I still work in the State Council, I still receive one salary as a general counselor, and the two salaries are too high, so the salary of the State Council is halved, only 150 yuan. I also have a travel allowance this month, a total of 70 yuan for two weeks."

Xu Xin immediately became indignant, "Oh my God, doesn't it add up to 480 yuan?" I only send 135 yuan a month, and you're about to catch up with me. It's true, no matter where you are, you officials are the ones who get the most. ”

Bai Nan's salary, judging from the whole of Los Angeles, is a lot. The salary of ordinary laborers is only 70 or 80 yuan, the salary of a second-class soldier in the navy is 95 yuan a month, and the salary of ordinary civil servants is only more than 80 yuan.

Xu Xin wanted to say that Bai Nan paid her a salary and invited her to a meal, but even if the currency began to be issued, because the food was not extremely rich, everyone still needed to go to the collective canteen to eat, so as not to waste the food after it entered the market.

"The department store is opening today, let's go shopping together, I haven't felt like shopping for a long time." Xu Xin pulled Bai Nan and said.

Bai Nan can sense a little bit of the atmosphere of the girl to be upside down, and he is not rejecting Xu Xin, a beautiful girl, but he has not been thinking about it recently. Bai Nan wanted to refuse, but when he remembered the department store, he wanted to see what the first hypermarket in Los Angeles was like.

"Alright then, let's go check it out."

Xu Xin cheered, took Bai Nan's hand, and quipped: "It's good, I'll take you, you take the money, go shopping!" ”

Bai Nan really subconsciously touched the wallet in his pocket, this wallet was something he had before he crossed over, it used to contain a few soft sister coins, and a few Franklin who might be used when he went abroad. Now that the banknotes were no longer needed, he simply put away the wallet. Yesterday, all the units began to pay salaries, and after Datang Longyuan began to enter the market circulation, Bai Nan unearthed his wallet again.

The largest denomination of the Tang coin dragon yuan banknote is only ten yuan, and the following are five yuan, two yuan, one piece, five cents, two cents, one cent, five cents, two cents and one cent. In normal market circulation, all coins under a dime are ordinary iron-nickel coins. Although the Tang dollar is said to be the gold standard currency, the exchange of paper money for gold is restricted, so at least in Los Angeles, the Tang dollar is actually a credit currency.

After Bai Nan received his salary, he put 180 yuan into his wallet, and the wallet also seemed bulging, which made people feel very satisfied, and the remaining 300 yuan Bai Nan deposited in the only commercial bank in Los Angeles, China's Bank.

The Los Angeles department store was deliberately located far away from the government offices, right in the heart of Los Angeles on the other side. And now it's actually the only one here. The exchange market that has been formed before is not in this area, and the Ministry of Commerce also intends to distinguish between the ordinary consumer market and the acquisition market with obvious commercial practices.

The department store is now the largest building in Los Angeles, with three floors and only the first floor, apparently leaving plenty of room for future development. In front of the door is a large open space, I don't know if it's a parking lot, but for the time being, there will not be such a large number of private cars in Los Angeles. Today is Sunday, and most people are resting. In addition, the department store opened on the first day, so the front of the department store was simply overcrowded, and even in order to avoid chaos, or too many people to manage, the department store actually restricted the flow of customers.

"It's also drunk to go to a shopping mall and queue up like going to a nightclub." Xu Xin said dissatisfied, but still lined up honestly.

Although Bai Nan is also an official, his official status is not helpful in such a thing as queuing. The two of them queued for more than 20 minutes, and finally entered the department store, no matter how rich the goods in this mall are, it is very similar to the big supermarkets of later generations in terms of layout alone.

Bright incandescent lamps hang from the ceiling, making it very bright even in the windowless store. At the exit are cash registers, but there are no cash registers of later generations, but instead of a book of accounts and an abacus. The uniformly dressed cashiers and waiters all looked quite energetic. The big poster has a red pen written on it and says today's specials and other promotions, and then a desire to shop fills the customers.

The lack of food in department stores, which is the largest proportion of all supermarkets, makes Bai Nam feel a little unconventional. The current industry in Los Angeles does not produce much product, so the department store managers have come up with a lot of ways to enrich the store.

"Fruit! Seeing these fruits, a little girl like Xu Xin became extremely excited. Because of the lack of undeveloped California products, many crops have not been introduced, so it is far from reaching the realm of the fruit kingdom of later generations. There are many wild fruits in the area, such as blackberries and blueberries, but this is not the time to harvest. The fruits that Xu Xin saw were actually tropical fruits imported from Mexico by Bai Nan, and many of the fruits were not even known to Bai Nan himself. You can't buy food in Mexico, but you can buy a lot of tropical fruits, which are not easy to store and can't sell for a lot of money, but Bai Nan still buys a lot to fill the local market. Some fruits that are easier to store, such as coconuts, are slightly cheaper, while specialty fruits such as guava and cactus are very expensive. Bai Nan also put all kinds of thought into preserving these fruits, and even so, after being transported back to Los Angeles, most of them were also rotten. It was much cheaper for the sailors, and as soon as the fruit showed signs of spoilage, they were allowed to eat them. So when they returned to Los Angeles, the sailors even felt like their stomachs were stretched when they saw the fruit.

Xu Xin looked at the label hanging on a basket of cactus fruits, covered her mouth and said: "It's so ruthless, this thing is sold for two yuan a catty, just such a basket, you have to have one-tenth of my salary." ”

Bai Nan smiled and said, "Things are vaguely expensive." ”

Xu Xin pursed her lips, put down the basket, and was not ready to buy it, although she was from a delicate background, she was not unreasonable, and she would not force Bai Nan to buy such an expensive fruit for her.

Bai Nan had tasted some when he was in Mexico, so it wasn't very rare, and he picked a few fruits and took them to weigh the waiter.

"Sir, it's nineteen dollars and five cents in total." The waiter said politely.

Xu Xin saw that Bai Nan actually wanted to buy fruit, and said, "You guy, you still have to buy it if it's so expensive." ”

"You haven't eaten fruit for a long time, and besides, these tropical fruits are good for your health, so buy it, and I don't have anything special to spend money on anyway."

Although Xu Xin still kept counting in her mouth, her eyes looking at Bai Nan were much softer, and there was a light smile on the corner of her mouth.

Fruits are about one of the few things that can appear in the store and are related to eating, and there are not many buyers, after all, the price is indeed a little high, but some people buy a little bit in order to try it. Bai Nan knew that if there was no negotiation with Spain, there might be no Mexican fruit in Los Angeles for a while.

The two walked around and came to the area of daily chemicals.

"Soap, shampoo, laundry detergent, eh, even alabaster, do you have all of these?" I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the same. As modern-day congregation, they still had some detergents on the Changmao Wheel when they crossed, but after a few months, these things were basically consumed. Xu Xinke can't stand washing her face purely with water, and she doesn't use laundry detergent or anything to wash her clothes, and she can't wash it at all. What makes her even more tormented is that if her skin is not maintained, it will definitely lose its luster and elasticity, which makes her very worried.

Bai Nan knew that these daily chemical products were all produced by the Los Angeles chemical plant "Anhua Chemical" in recent days. Anhua Chemical is a state-owned chemical enterprise in Los Angeles, and since its establishment, it has three core figures, the first is to meet the needs of agricultural production of chemical fertilizers, the second to meet the needs of industrial production of basic chemicals such as three acids and two alkalis, and the third to produce daily chemical products required by daily life.

Anhua Chemical completed the mass production of urea and other fertilizers a month ago, and in the production of daily chemical products, it is even more dynamic, because these daily chemical products may become their main profit point, and these products may become important commodities for Datang to export overseas in the future.