"People in the city have money and can afford to drink such expensive wine, but we countrymen can't afford to drink it." The honest man reluctantly put down his wine glass, ashamed of himself.

"You can't say that, your commune has a bumper harvest this year, and all the farmers have made a fortune, even if you don't have any cash on hand, won't you have some grain to sell?" Hawkers are good at it.

"Selling Grain...... I'm not going to do this kind of loser's trick. The honest man is still hesitating.

"It's not about selling rations, and if you don't sell the food that can't be eaten, do you have to pile it up in the warehouse to raise moths?" The peddler said disapprovingly.

The honest man scratched his head, feeling that this was not unreasonable, and the ideological struggle became more and more intense.

At this time, a young woman led a little girl of six or seven years old and hurriedly squeezed through the crowd, came to the honest man, and said eagerly: "Husband, give me 5 gold talers!" ”

"What do you want so much money for?" The honest man asked vigilantly.

"There are people over there who sell mercury mirrors, and today they are on sale, and I heard that they are cheaper than those sold in the shops in the city! Hurry up and give me the money, if you don't hurry up, someone will rob me up! ”

"Five Quinthals...... Don't buy something so expensive, it's not much use anyway. The honest man tried to persuade his wife to give up this extravagant idea, but instead of thinking about it, he angered the other party, stared at his eyes and retorted sharply: "How can it be useless? With a mercury mirror, it is also convenient to comb your hair and dress up, besides, other people's daughters-in-law have bought them, but I don't have them, where do you put my face? If you don't buy me a mercury mirror, it means that you don't have me in your heart, do you have a good woman outside! ”

The honest man is obviously afraid of his wife, and he was shocked by the woman's coquettish and threatening shouting, and reluctantly took out his money bag.

As soon as a smile appeared on the woman's face, the little girl next to her jumped up again.

"Daddy! Father! I want to buy toffee! ”

"I can't afford such expensive sugar!" The honest man angrily counted his daughter as ignorant.

The little girl perfectly inherited her mother's coquettish skills and came out of the blue, without saying a word, she cried directly.

The mother hurriedly hugged her baby daughter, coaxed in distress, and turned around and glared at her husband in a hurry: "It doesn't cost much to buy a few pieces of candy, look at your stinginess!" Your own daughters don't hurt, do you want to prostitute or gamble if you keep the money?! ”

"You can't waste money so much, let alone no money...... Believe it or not. The honest man weakly defended and opened the money bag to his wife, showing that there was really not much left.

"There is still a lot of grain in stock this year, just sell some for some cash." The woman said nonchalantly.

At this time, the vendor selling alcohol next to him interjected with a smile: "Brother, the most important thing in life is to be happy, right?" If you make your wife and children unhappy, they will not be happy for you when you look back, why bother! The grain production of your commune is so high, and before the stored grain is eaten, next year's new grain will be piled up in the warehouse, and the farmer should know that the old grain is not valuable, and you may not be able to sell it if you want to sell it at that time! ”

The more the honest man listened, the more reasonable he felt, gritted his teeth, and stuffed the money bag to his wife, "Don't make trouble, buy whatever you want!" ”

The woman smiled, picked up her daughter and ran to buy the mercury mirror, and the rest of the change to buy toffee for her daughter.

The honest man was already empty-handed, and he was about to turn around and leave without interest.

"Brother, don't be in a hurry to leave, after all the year's hard work, it's finally harvest season, don't you want to buy two bottles of wine to treat yourself?" The seemingly casual words of the wine vendor seemed to have a hook, pulling the footsteps of the honest man, looking back at the bright and moving wine in the glass bottle, and hesitated for a while.

The liquor seller struck while the iron was hot, and said with a smile: "Brother, are you willing to spend five gold thalers to buy an expensive mercury mirror for a woman, but you are not willing to spend five silver thalers to buy yourself a bottle of wine?" I tell you the truth, don't mind, a man farming is too hard to support his family, he should be kind to himself, in case his eyes are closed, his wife follows someone else, what is the picture of this life? ”

It's not a nice sound, but it's devastating. The honest man seemed to be stimulated, stomped his feet, and said resolutely: "Leave me two bottles of wine, and I'll come back to get it after I sell the grain!" ”

"No problem!" The peddler was so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut.

……

On the outskirts of the square, Anthony watched life in the bazaar, and finally realized Roland's intention in bringing him to observe the village bazaar.

The change in mentality of the honest family of three is not an exception, similar scenes can be seen everywhere in this village where the traditional order has been broken by the commodity economy, and countless people have given up their original extremely conservative consumption concepts and enjoyed them overnight. In the process, food, money, and other commodities, which symbolize wealth, flowed rapidly between different social groups along with vigorous trading activities, bringing unprecedented prosperity to the rural market.

The combination of "money to the countryside" and "commodities to the countryside" that accompanied the expropriation of public grain by the Kolas government triggered an unexpected and wonderful effect: the abundance of commodities opened the eyes of the rural peasants, and then produced a strong shopping impulse, and in order to satisfy the shopping impulse, people needed more cash, and in order to obtain cash, people naturally considered selling the part of the food stock in addition to the food rations. Limited by the government's policy of purchasing grain, the villagers had no choice but to sell their grain to the state, whether they wanted it or not, so that the government was able to use the power of rural vendors, essentially the "free market," to successfully carry out the otherwise difficult task of "buying grain from the state treasury."

The trading scene on the square of Hongshiqiao Commune is a microcosm of the current social economy of the Kingdom of Kolas, the government's macro-control and the "invisible hand" of the free market are all playing a role, and what is even more rare is that the two forces do not contradict each other, but form a joint force to help accelerate the take-off of the national economy, and this is the result of the painstaking management of Roland, the helmsman of the national economy in the Far East.

The bustling trade in the village hall square market prompted the villagers to join the shopping army to sell their grain stockpiles, and the hawkers were happy to see this, but the tax police encountered a little trouble.

The villagers' enthusiasm for selling grain was too high, and the cash brought by the tax police to buy grain was not enough, so they had to go to the commune savings bank to borrow a sum of money. Fortunately, the IRS and the savings bank are both state-owned units, and the business-to-business turnover does not talk about interest.

Considering that the deposits in the savings house were the income from the sale of grain by the commune, and that the money was the money for the purchase of grain escorted by the tax police, the total number of coins remained the same, but more paper wealth was created in the reciprocating circulation—this phenomenon inspired Roland to take time out of his time to publish an article on the "money multiplier" in an academic journal under the name of "Liszt Keynes".