Chapter 177: Yang Shouye's New Life 3
86_86695 "The people live on food. Therefore, every time we go to a place, we have to let the local people really be able to touch this day. ”
"It is our long-term goal to feed all the people in the world. Ensuring that all the people in the Fuxing area (similar to the concept of the liberated area) can have enough to eat is the most practical requirement for us at present. ”
"We have steel, we have cannons, we have rifles, we have bayonets, we have cement, we have glass, we have things like that. However, there are two bases for these things to be produced. One is the resource base and the other is the human base. These two foundations are indispensable. ”
"To pay attention to agricultural construction is to pay attention to industrial construction. For agriculture and industry, our revival will be to grasp both hands and be firm with both hands! ”
——1623, Wang Shuhui, "Agricultural Production is the Basis of Industrial Development"
Songzi Canteen is a very large semi-open building. On the first floor of this two-storey framed building, in addition to a few concrete pillars and a kitchen, there are large tables and benches.
Mao Ermao was very satisfied with Yang Shouye's stunned expression, he led Yang Shouye to the place where he was exchanged, and exchanged a few pieces of paper with a few steel hammers from the place.
After leading Yang Shouye to take a small wooden basin, Mao Ermao told Yang Shouye: "Here in Songzi County, basically all the business is Fuxing. If you want to buy something in the revival business, you can't use silver or brass. ”
While taking out a steel hammer and a silver coin to show Yang Shouye, Mao Ermao said to him: "Whether it is the wages paid to the workers by the Fuxing Society, or the purchase of things at the Fuxing Society, the money used by the Fuxing Society is the money of the Fuxing Society." This is called a steel hammer, and it takes ten coppers to exchange for one. This is called a silver dollar, and it takes one or two pieces of silver to exchange for one. ”
Yang Shouye was a little surprised by this, and he asked Mao Ermao strangely: "Second Uncle Mao, if the wages paid to the workers by the Revival Society are also like this, isn't this fooling people." Such a money made of iron is obviously not worth as much as ten coppers. This silver dollar doesn't weigh a single or two. No matter how beautiful these things are, isn't that a lie? ”
Mao Ermao smiled and said to Yang Shouye: "I haven't seen it, this steel jump is not made of iron, it is made of solid steel." At the beginning, I had that idea from you. But the problem is that in the revival trade, you can actually buy ten copper pieces with this one steel hammer. If you use this silver dollar, you can actually buy something for one or two pieces of silver. Whether the steel hammer and silver dollars are worth the copper and silver is still based on whether it can buy so many things. ”
Although he is not a cadre of the Renaissance Society and has not participated in cadre training, Mao Ermao, who has lived under the rule of the Renaissance Association for more than three years, already has the simplest concept of monetary value.
Yang Shouye asked Mao Ermao: "Second Uncle Mao, can you really buy those things with this money?" ”
Mao Ermao said: "Of course, at the earliest, I received wages every month, and the first thing I did was to use the money to buy food at the supply and marketing office." ”
"In our Hangzhou, when we are in good years, we also have two taels of silver and one stone of grain. Here, one silver dollar can buy one stone of the best white rice that has been shelled. One silver dollar can also buy three stone of cataw. At that time, I tried to make a bargain, and exchanged five silver dollars for fifteen stone of wheat. As a result, I can't eat anything for a month, and the other side is buying every month. In the end, there was no way, and in the second year, the wheat was sold to the distillery at a low price. It hurts me to death. ”
Two taels of silver and one stone of grain, this has long been the old yellow calendar. Now the price of grain in Hangzhou City has long been four taels of silver and one stone of grain. As people in an agrarian society, it is common for people to use food as a general equivalent. Food prices are very volatile. I didn't expect that food would be so worthless here at the Revival Society.
Yang Shouye listened to Mao Ermao's introduction and nodded. He said to Mao Ermao: "In this way, the silver dollar of this revival society is really valuable." ”
"That's not it! In our Hangzhou, a white-flour steamed bun is worth four or five coppers. In the cafeteria of this revival society, the same white-flour steamed bun can be bought ten with one steel hammer. This steel hammer is also worth more than copper! ”
Yang Shouye listened to Mao Ermao's old yellow calendar and muttered in his heart. Now there are four or five coppers, and they still want to buy a steamed bun in Hangzhou, which is purely a dream.
The Songzi cafeteria is in the same form as the university cafeteria. Customers take their own bowls and go to the corresponding window to eat. Yang Shouye was once again shocked by the richness of the food in Songzi Canteen.
In fact, in general, there are actually only three types of food in the canteen. Staple foods include Sanhe rice, Sanhe noodles steamed buns, white rice, corn rice, potatoes and sweet potato puree. Among them, potatoes and sweet potato puree are the cheapest. White rice is the most expensive.
There are more varieties of vegetarian dishes. However, they are also large stews made from different kinds of vegetables, in large pots and various chicken and duck bones.
Meat dishes are mainly chicken, duck and fish balls. Stewed chicken, tons of duck, fish stew, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs and braised pork, etc. Among them, braised pork is the most expensive, and boiled eggs are the cheapest.
Mao Ermao used a green ticket to make a big bowl of Sanhe rice for himself. The same green ticket was used, and a scrambled egg and a boiled egg were beaten, and finally a duck rack stewed cabbage was made. I received a free bowl of fish soup from the last window.
However, he led Yang Shouye, and the food he cooked for Yang Shouye was not so shabby. He used three small green tickets to make a big bowl of white rice for Yang Shouye. used five small green tickets to give Yang Shouye a braised pork. In the end, he used a small green ticket to get him a chicken rack and stewed potatoes. I also received the same fish soup from the last window.
Yang Shouye is also a small military attache of the Ming Dynasty. However, even for him, a military attache of the sixth grade, eating meat is not something that can be guaranteed during the Chinese New Year every year. Although I don't know how much those little green tickets are worth, Yang Shouye still sincerely thanked Mao Ermao for his hospitality.
Mao Ermao was secretly happy about this. However, he didn't show it on his face, and he said to Yang Shouye: "You don't have to be so polite. It's not that I deliberately ate badly to entertain you. I'm a Level 4 worker now. Eating in the canteen of the unit itself does not cost money, not to mention, workers above the third level also have a special braised pork subsidy. I'm not short of meat. ”
After showing off his fourth-level worker treatment, Mao Ermao continued: "If it weren't for the fact that I took over the mother-in-law and children in the family after the year, I would have to collect some money." Otherwise, I usually not only have to beat some meat dishes, but also make one or two melons to burn to relieve fatigue. Originally, I wanted to call you, but this shochu is not sold during the day, and is only available for dinner. ”
White rice is the purest form of white rice. Not only are there no beans or other grains in it, but there are no stones or sand at all. There are two large pieces of braised pork the size of a palm, which are oily, shiny, and extremely sweet. Even the taste of the stew is delicious. After all, this is not boiled vegetable leaves, but stewed with slaughterhouse scraps and potatoes. Fish soup actually costs nothing. Although each person can only make one bowl, this large bowl of fish soup is fresh and fragrant.
Just like Guo Degang said, Yang Shouye, who has never seen the oil star fine grain all the year round, is like a wind and clouds, eating all the meals and soup. I looked sideways at Mao Ermao, who had lived a good life for a few years and had begun to develop good living habits.
Good living habits are really cultivated in collective life. In the unit, those senior technicians who have passed the primary school diploma and engineers who can make drawings with a basic Chinese proficiency in the first level of education not only eat better than everyone when they eat with everyone, but also have a higher salary and treatment than ordinary cadres. People also have their own style. Basically, chewing slowly, not hurrying, these are the only styles that senior technicians and engineers have.
These people are prominent figures in the industrial system of the Renaissance, and it is natural for everyone to learn from them. Although Mao Ermao is only one level away from senior technicians, he can't pass the cultural class exam because he can't pass guò, so senior technicians have not been able to go up. However, for the demeanor of a senior technician, Mao Ermao is also unconsciously imitating.
In the Revival, one steel hammer is equal to ten coppers. One hundred hammers are equal to one silver dollar. Mao Ermao and Yang Shouye are two people, one eats a mid-range diet, and the other eats a high-end diet. However, the two men spent less than two steel hammers in total. Because in the cafeteria, one steel hammer can be exchanged for ten small green tickets.
It took a dozen coppers to eat such a large meal with sufficient quantity and abundant oil and water. This is something that Yang Shouye cannot understand. With this meal alone, Yang Shouye made up his mind to make a living in Songzi County.
After eating, Mao Ermao led Yang Shouye to another place. It is also the property of the Revival Society, and it is a three-story inn.
Mao Ermao took his temporary ID card from Yang Shouye, checked in at the front desk, and paid Yang Shouye for three days. Mao Ermao ordered Yang Shouye a standard room with a steel hammer for one day. As soon as he entered the room, Yang Shouye's first feeling was that the room was too small.
Indeed, for the ancients, the size of the house was never an issue. Just build a straw hut in the field, and no one will care about you. You can build as big as you want. Although there is wind leaking and rain in all directions, the living area is really not a problem.
However, on the one hand, Yang Shouye was surprised by the small size of the hotel room, and on the other hand, he was also very surprised by the facilities in the room.
The use of translucent green glass, the unimaginably large windows with good lighting; A faucet that can dispense water with a single twist of the valve; A ceramic squat that allows water to flow out when you pull the rope. These are all things that Yang Shouye can't understand. As for the snow-white sheets, Yang Shouye didn't dare to sit on them.
Mao Ermao taught Yang Shouye the use of the facilities in the room one by one.
For this business, Mao Ermao is already very proficient. After all, his wife from the "big city" Hangzhou and his three cowardly sons were also taught by him