Chapter 2: Currency, Newspapers, and Arrival
All the people on the Hope already have a residence, of course, the lower three floors of the house is certainly not as good as the fourth or fifth floor of the residential area, generally there is only one bedroom and a corridor that can be counted as a living room, but there is also a kitchen and bathroom, and if it is a family of more than three, or the children are older, they will be assigned two bedrooms, and one aisle as a living room.
But in this group of people, there are some people who are the most embarrassed.
There are about 20,000 of these people, close to 30,000 or so, and they are all people who have not found any work, so they were forcibly conscripted as militia reserves by the political axe, but they were also assigned their own houses, of course, most of these people are single, so the allocated houses must be the smallest.
Until the monetary reform later, each person's identity magnetic card can store electronic money, called human currency, its purchasing power is about the value of each human currency can be exchanged for a kilogram of rice or 0.7 kilogram of wheat, taking the militia reserve as an example, the monthly allowance is only a mere 120 human currency, of course, these human coins must be able to eat a full stomach, an adult's food consumption for a month, breaking the sky, is considered 50 kilograms, regardless of rice or wheat, no matter first, It's only about 50 yuan to 70 yuan.
But it's impossible for people to just eat rice, right?
I didn't feel that when I was still in the distribution before, when I was in the current currency reform and many things could be purchased freely, I felt the necessity of many things, such as toothpaste and toothbrushes, such as towels and tissues, such as salt and monosodium glutamate, such as vegetables and meat......
In all directions, one hundred and twenty human coins a month is indeed enough for an adult to live, but luxury goods or anything should never be thought about.
Of course, in a very small number of militia reserves, there are also families, not all of them are single, as for this, it is impossible for a family of three to live on these 120 human coins, right?
For this point, Yao Yuan believes that it is not possible to engage in specialization, but it can increase the way of social welfare, such as those with children, a family of three, and the other two have no jobs, and there are other things, such as women's care funds or something, anyway, all kinds of benefits add up, basically a month is better than a single person's life.
In addition to the militia reserves, ordinary jobs, such as cleaners, social service industries, etc., are paid between two hundred and fifty to three hundred yuan per month, which is already a large amount of money, plus social welfare, it is no problem to enjoy the luxury once or twice a month.
As for the more advanced jobs, this involves professional skills, such as maintenance personnel in various places, or occupations such as teachers, their salaries hover around 350 to 400, in turn, that is, police, technical staff, engineers, etc., the salary is around 500, as for the treatment of scientists, it is the highest among the people, the lowest level of experimental students are around 500, researchers are 650, as for scientists, according to the rating system, it is generally 700 upwards, The most advanced are great scientists such as Erren and Silewei, usually around 1,200 human coins.
As for the military, in fact, the monthly human currency is much lower than the people imagined, the ordinary soldier is only about two hundred, the non-commissioned officer is two hundred and fifty, the lieutenant officer is three hundred, and the school level is only five hundred, the military is more political axe welfare, basically the military is a collective life, and their families are political axes every month to allocate all kinds of materials, of course, after the currency reform, luxury goods are no longer in the distribution, so the human currency of soldiers is generally used to buy luxury goods.
These are a series of plans that Yao Yuan and a large number of professionals and experts have discussed for nearly three months, although this plan has a tendency to widen the gap between the rich and the poor in the view of Wang Guangzheng and others, but according to the opinions of those European and American scholars, this is to encourage social progress, and the middle class is obvious, there is no too exaggerated rich class, although the difference between the highest income and the lowest income is about ten times, but relying on the balance of social welfare, the gap will definitely not exceed five times, This is already a far cry from the gap between rich and poor on the planet.
Yao Yuan also has his own understanding of this...... The so-called hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, the world is bustling for profit, although the interests produce evil and ugliness, but the interests themselves are not good and evil, the user is good, the user is evil, and now it is the time when human beings are living and dying in the universe, and it is when everyone needs to burst out of their desire to compete and progress, how can it be a lifetime of big pot rationing to reduce the sense of competition of these people? On this point, Yao Yuan leaned towards the views of European and American scholars, so there was such a monetary reform.
Where there is a demand, there is naturally a pursuit......
Yao Yuan looked forward to it, and waited......
"Hey, buddies, the Internet café has opened, 0.5 human coins per hour, I've been there, and it actually contains the latest StarCraft 3, how about it? Let's go kill a game? Qi Xiaoniao bit half of his cigarette and said to Lin Qiuqiu and Wang Dandan, who were sitting on chairs in the square in front of him.
Wang Dandan said with a powerful attitude: "Go kill a bird!" There are eleven days left until the end of the month, and it is still early to receive your salary, how much money do you have in your card? Anyway, I can't touch a penny of my money, just enough to buy food. ”
Lin Qiuqiu wanted to speak and stopped, and only after a long time did he grit his teeth and say, "I'm afraid of a bird!" It's not like I wasn't hungry to charge some cards before, let's go, brother, I'm in for a treat today, let's go play for an hour, damn, I haven't touched the computer for more than half a year, you don't say it's okay, I say I'm full of computer bugs crawling. ”
But he didn't want Qi Xiaoniao to sigh, patted him on the shoulder, squeezed down next to him and said, "Forget it, it's me who is wrong, why do you mention these, I went to buy cigarettes and beer because I proposed it before, by the way, there are some apples or something...... Who let this be the first time to receive a salary and buy things freely, I can't imagine that our three brothers are also moonshine clans. ”
Wang Dandan looked at the depressed expressions of the two, and he also sighed and said: "Alas, in fact, I haven't figured it out, you said that more than 90 of us have been infected with the virus and have had a fever, but why are only the dozen people left?" The rest are all the same as us, directly thrown into the militia reserve, or to do those ordinary jobs, and those dozen people are happy, and now the worst is also a first-class soldier, that is to eat military food, life is not worried, there is more than 200 human currency allowance every month, why do you say that people are so different? ”
Speaking of this, the three of them sighed again, but Lin Qiuqiu suddenly said: "Xiao Niao, you are in the third of us, with the highest IQ, think about it, why can those people enter the army, and we are also specially recruited, why did they brush it down?" ”
Qi Xiaoniao waved his hand and said, "You ask me, who should I ask?" Maybe they're different, but I don't know what's the difference......"
The other two sighed again, Wang Dandan hugged his head and said: "Money, money, you bastard, mother, if God suddenly gives me thousands of human coins, Lao Tzu will definitely eat lobster every day, drink red wine every day, and hang up in Internet cafes 24 hours a day, who dares to persuade Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu directly slapped him with human coins!" ”
Lin Qiuqiu also sighed there, but at this time, Qi Xiaoniao heard the two cleaning staff next to him smoking and talking about something, to the effect that one of them asked the other one, there are about ten days, Hope can reach the asteroid area of the gas rudimentary planet, and bragged about how the Hope will fish for those asteroid meteorites after arriving, as if they are experts in this area.
However, after hearing these words, Qi Xiaoniao felt that there was silence all around, as if countless clues flashed in his mind, and gradually, he seemed to grasp something......
"Monetary reform, the gap between rich and poor...... Yes, why did the militia service training end a few days ago, the reason for all this is because the political axe is waiting for us to act! ”
The more Qi Xiaoniao spoke, the more excited he became, but his voice was deliberately suppressed, just for Lin Qiuqiu and Wang Dandan next to him to hear it.
Lin Qiuqiu and Wang Dandan both looked at him in surprise, and Lin Qiuqiu took the lead in asking, "Dude, you shouldn't be crazy about money, right?" Wake up, didn't you deliberately keep a small half of your cigarette on this hand? Smoke it, let the buddy taste it one last bite. ”
Qi Xiaoniao smiled and said, "Crazy hair!" I said, buddy, don't you want to get rich? I've found a good way to get rich. ”
"What?" Lin Qiuqiu and Wang Dandan asked at the same time, "What job do you have to compete for?" The right fit for the three of us? ”
"It's not about competing for any job." Qi Xiaoniao smiled mysteriously, and he said, "It's about creating jobs!" ”
The next day, Qi Xiaoniao, Lin Qiuqiu, and Wang Dandan, using their human currency allowance for the next six months as collateral, borrowed a sum of money from the Hope Political Axe, which was used to buy a large amount of paper, and at the same time rented a printing room on the fifth floor, and also hired several personnel with relevant expertise and knowledge, news reporters, and writers......
More than a week later, Hope's first newspaper, Hope Weekly, was finally released, each priced at only 0.2 human coins, and was published every Monday, publishing the current situation of the universe in which Hope is located, the distance from the asteroid belt, the staffing of Hope, whether there are gaps in various jobs, the crops harvested in the sixth layer of the ecological park that month, as well as jokes, folk dispute stories, and so on......
In the following week, more than 20,000 copies of the Hope Weekly Newspaper were sold, and almost half of the families bought one, and a week later, the Hope Political Axe took the personnel, paper, and printing room as shares, and established the first news agency of the Hope Weekly, and Qi Xiaoniao, Lin Qiuqiu, and Wang Dandan became the shareholders of the society, and they made a fortune all of a sudden......
Just when the newspaper on the Hope gave many people a chance to work and make a fortune, Hope arrived at the periphery of the asteroid field of the gas rudimentary planet......
The first cosmic mineral gathering is about to begin!
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