Chapter Ninety-Six: The Change of Money
In 1910, on April 26, the road from Pingyue to Guiyang began to be built amid the sound of crackling firecrackers.
Hundreds of workers, under the watchful eyes of all the people in Pingyue, began to work.
The people of Pingyue looked at the hot scene outside the city and talked about it.
'Did you hear that?' The county magistrate paid for the construction of this road, to be completed, we Pingyue to the provincial capital Guiyang time can be reduced by half, originally needed to walk a day, now five hours to walk to Guiyang. ‘
In the crowd, looking at the road where construction began, someone suddenly said.
"Of course I heard that the county master has done a great thing for us Pingyue." People responded and began to talk about the benefits of building roads.
If this road is repaired, it will take a few hours to walk to Guiyang, and it will be faster to ride a horse and a carriage. If you want to go to the provincial capital, it is not only time-consuming and laborious, but sometimes you need to trek through mountains and rivers. It takes at least two days to make a trip.
Now it has suddenly been shortened to one day to go back and forth, and those who have not seen the provincial capital can also go to see the market.
It was a provincial capital, and these people didn't know the other benefits of building this road, but they knew that they could go directly to the provincial capital, and it was a thing to brag about for these people who had not been out of Pingyue for many years.
Of course, they don't know that the construction of this road will not only have economic effects, but also strategic significance.
A year later, Guiyang will be a mess, if Chen Liqing and his army can reach Guiyang within a few hours, then the future regime in Guizhou -
This is something that Chen Liqing has planned for a long time, and now although he is in a hurry, he can barely act.
Of course, before this, building roads was a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, and after passing the loan process, Chen Liqun and they began to publicize Pingyue.
Under their publicity, this time, the county magistrate Liu Yu picked up a big bargain. By building such a road, he not only gained political achievements, but also gained fame among the people.
"Yes, yes, Lord Liu is the Lord of the Blue Sky. People nodded their heads, and at the same time couldn't help but look at the willow rain at the east gate.
Liu Yu was standing at the city gate, listening to the discussion of the crowd at this time, the smile on his face was extremely bright.
But I seem to have heard that this time I went to repair the road, and I could also earn wages, but the county lord and they were paid, so they could get five cents a day for repairing the road! The voices were heard again from the crowd.
'Really? Five cents a day? ‘
The crowd suddenly let out an unbelievable exclamation, in this era, in Guizhou during this period, ordinary workers only pay one or two cents a day, and three or four yuan a month, which is barely enough to support their families. But now I heard that these workers actually pay five cents a day, wouldn't it be fifteen or sixteen yuan a month?
Some people who wrote letters, shaved their heads, and sharpened their knives were all moved when they heard such high wages.
Of course, it was a recruitment notice posted by a newly opened construction company, and this time the construction company was bossed by Mr. Liu from Fengshan, who was a well-known grandfather who did good, and he was very kind to his salary. The man said triumphantly to the people around him.
'Oh, is Master Liu still recruiting now?' Hearing this man say this, some of the people who couldn't hold back asked one after another.
'Of course it's hiring!' The man said in a loud voice: "The county lord has stipulated that the road should be repaired in half a year, so how can hundreds of people repair it?" Master Liu has only recruited a few hundred workers in Fengshan, and now there is still a big shortage of workers. ‘
'Everyone's going to hurry, I've heard that you've done a good job, and you'll get a prize at the end,' the man encouraged.
'Ah, where, where?' When some people heard this, they immediately got anxious and hurriedly asked.
'Right next to the produce company!' The man did not shirk it, but hurriedly spoke.
Suddenly, Liu Yu and the others at the city gate saw this group of people scratching and ran out of the city.
'Well, Liqun, are we getting too paid?' 100,000 yuan is a hundred miles to be built, and one mile a day, we also need a hundred days. But the salary will be removed from Wu Baiyuan in one day, we have money, is it enough? ‘
Liu Yu also heard the man's agitation, and seeing that so many people were coming to help build the road again, Liu Yu was happy and anxious.
"Yes, Liqun, 100,000 yuan alone will cost half of the salary, and we still need to buy machinery, materials, etc., which is a bit high. As the new owner of the construction company, Liu Songren is also worried about not having enough money, and then what he earns and how he will repay it?
For a while, everyone on the city gate also thought of this problem, and looked at Chen Liqun one after another, but Chen Liqun was only stunned for a moment, then looked at Liu Yu and Liu Songren and explained: "Uncle Liu and Uncle Liu, you don't have to worry, the money will be enough, not enough for our bank to continue to borrow." ‘
As long as the road is built, our Pingyue products can be transported faster, and the money will be earned back sooner or later." ‘
'Earn it back?' ‘
Liu Yu and they still didn't believe it, but they didn't ask, looking at Chen Liqun's so determined appearance, it should be okay. That's all they can do to comfort themselves.
The road has been built, and such a big thing as Pingyue road construction has naturally spread all over the surrounding counties.
The people in the surrounding counties can only look at it with envy, they are not as rich as Pingyue Zhengaxe, and they can take out 100,000 yuan to build roads.
However, Chen Liqun and they didn't care about the envy of the surrounding counties, and after the road construction project started, they had to be busy with the circulation of new currency.
Coins are not made, they can be issued.
One of the most important functions is equivalent exchange.
Only by playing this function can Chen Liqun's bank be considered to be firmly established, otherwise the money they send will only be like in the late stage of the Anti-Japanese War, when the people carried a bag of money but could only buy a pound of rice.
The only way to make money play such a role is to increase the supply of Pingyue goods and increase the consumption demand of the people of Pingyue. Let the new money among those workers be able to buy what they want.
In this way, Pingyue needs to have enough commodities and enough necessities to supply.
Otherwise, those road builders, with high wages, will not be able to buy what they want, and then they will find that the Bank of China is not using its money.
Therefore, in response to this contradiction, Chen Liqun gave full play to all his abilities and urged some landlords to set up factories for ordinary products.
Chai, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea.
These necessities of life must be supplied in greater quantities!
Fortunately, with the harvest of winter wheat, Chen Liqing's super farm has been upgraded again, and the extra seeds have enriched the necessities of life in Pingyue. The new winter wheat also makes the supply of flour in Pingyue fully replenished.
Even in order to make the new currency circulate, Chen Liqun and they also sold the soap at a reduced price in Pingyue, reaching a dime a piece.
With the supply of honeycomb coal, they can also let paid families use it first, and even with the new milk factory, they have also developed a milk delivery function, so that the people of Pingyue can live a high-quality life with milk in advance.
Money - as long as the people have money in their hands, Chen Liqing from later generations has enough ways to let the people of Pingyue use money!
Anyway, everything in Pingyue will get better and better with the circulation of Bank of China coins.
And in such a busy life, time flies by in a flash.
On this day, on the road to Guiyang, the workers suddenly found a good-looking woman walking briskly in front of them.
'Big brother, do you know how to get Pingyue? The woman's head was sweating, her lips were dry, and her clothes were tattered, and I don't know what happened to her, and the workers even saw that her shoes were worn out.
What the hell is wrong with such a good-looking girl? The workers who saw the road construction felt pity.
'Big sister, let's drink saliva first, Pingyue, we are Pingyue's people. The worker hurriedly brought a bottle of water and wanted the girl to have a little. The girl, however, smiled and refused.
"No, big brother, I'm not thirsty, I just want to know how far Pingyue is from here, I have something urgent to rush to Pingyue, you can tell me how to go to Pingyue." The woman obviously looked at the water with a longing in her eyes, but she actually held back, but she was very anxious to know Pingyue's way.
Seeing that the woman was so persistent, the foreman couldn't refuse, and pointed to the new cement road they had repaired: "Pingyue will follow this new road and go to the end." ‘
"Big sister, if you have something to do with our Pingyue, if it's urgent, I'll ask someone to send you there." Seeing that the woman was about to move forward when she heard the words, the foreman couldn't bear it and hurriedly said.
"No need, thank you, big brother, I can do it alone, I can do it-" The woman turned back to the town to be strong, but the long rush consumed her energy, and as soon as she turned her head, her eyes went dark, and she suddenly fainted.
'Ah, big sister--big sister, what's wrong with you-' The foreman shouted loudly as he saw the woman fall like this.
Pingyue, county street.
"Second brother, as long as we set up the tap water, we don't have to go outside to fetch water to drink every day, and besides, eating tap water will be charged according to the amount of water a month, and you don't have to worry about the money in the hands of the big guys." ‘
On the street, Chen Liqing and Chen Liqun were talking while looking at the ditches dug on both sides of the street.
At this time, the Pingyue Street that enters the eye is a little potholed, and the gravel is messy, which is a lot more chaotic than the Pingyue in the past.
However, Chen Liqing knows that the current infrastructure: hardening the main road of Pingyue, opening the sewer, and the three major projects of tap water will only make the ancient city of Pingyue cleaner, more convenient and more tidy.
In order to increase domestic demand and increase the speed of paper money circulation, Chen Liqing took out the urban planning projects first.
On the one hand, it will recruit more workers and increase employment opportunities, and on the other hand, it will also significantly improve people's lives.
Again, another unspeakable benefit is that Bank of China banknotes can be issued in larger quantities.
It has only been a month since the Bank of China was established, and they have already issued more than 300,000 Singapore dollars.
S$300,000 will be circulated to Binh Viet through workers' wages and the purchase of materials, while digesting S$300,000 will require a lot of infrastructure supply and a lot of material supply. Once these supplies are supplied, they will increase the speed of circulation of new coins.
As time went on, there were many kinds of supplies, and in the end, Chen Liqing's bank was only responsible for printing money.
This is a common means used by some countries in the previous life, and it is most suitable for Chen Liqing to speed up the construction of Pingyue at this moment.
It's just that Chen Liqun doesn't know much about this economic system, and he still looks at the hard-working workers with some concern and says, "Little brother, compared to the consumption of water bills, we still pay them a lot of wages, and if the money does not circulate, our bank will expose its weaknesses." ‘
'It's okay, second brother, I'm not telling you to put a hundred and twenty hearts, as long as they have money in their hands, your little brother will find a way to take out their money and use it. ‘
'Don't you see the milk from our milk factory for everyone to drink?' If there is no Singapore dollar to put in and the workers receive their wages, will everyone be able to afford our milk with what money they used to have? ‘
But now, they have new dollars in their pockets, and our milk is better bought in Pingyue than in Guiyang." Chen Liqing pointed to the recent example of their milk factory.
The cows that appeared on his farm the previous month were enough to produce milk. The milk produced by the newly opened milk factory is directly supplied to Guiyang and Pingyue. However, the sales volume of the two places is actually about the same.
This made Chen Liqun sigh.
The people of Pingyue have money, and they can also live the kind of life of the people of Guiyang, and even because this is Pingyue, all kinds of factories are in Pingyue, resulting in the people of Pingyue now living better than the people of Guiyang.
Running water, milk, chicken and duck for breakfast every morning -- this kind of food is far better than it was a year ago.
These changes were all unthinkable to Chen Liqun before, but now, this kind of talk has actually allowed everyone in Pingyue to live.
Chen Liqun was about to pay homage to his strange fifth brother, but when he was about to speak, a voice suddenly came from behind him: "Second young master, little young master, the master told you to go home, something happened." ‘
Erde ran over.
(Sorry, the update is late, I'm a little busy today)
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