When Huo Gang arrived in Yiwu City, Shi Wannian and Mingyue naturally rushed out, Huo Gang's order had already been passed to them, the residents of Yiwu City and Loulancheng were different from the herdsmen, but Huo Gang must be treated fairly, and the ordinary people of Yiwu City and Loulancheng could also divide the land.

But because they couldn't divide the cattle and sheep, each of them could get an extra three acres of land.

And ordinary people like the ordinary people who originally had land near Loulan City and Yiwu City, if they were still willing to stay in the same place, then in addition to their original land unchanged, they would also give each of them two acres of land.

If they are willing to migrate to the Huozhi River Valley, then their original land can also be directly converted.

The same is true of other landless ordinary people, who are willing to stay where they are, then they are distributed in the same place, and if they are willing to move, then they just move there.

In fact, there is not much land owned by ordinary people here in Yiwu and Loulan, and most of the land here also belongs to the original nobles of Loulan City and Yiwu City. But now, these nobles dealt with the same way as the Turks, and of course, even if they had an opinion in their hearts, they would not dare to say it.

Because they dare to say bad things about Huo Gang behind their backs now, if it spreads, they will probably be killed directly by ordinary people when they walk on the street.

However, to Huo Gang's surprise, those ordinary people who originally lived outside Loulan City and Yiwu City all had some land, Huo Gang thought that most ordinary people would stay in the original place, but in fact, most of them were willing to move away.

"Chief, in fact, this is not difficult to understand, Loulan aside, Loulan itself does not have much land that can be cultivated, a considerable part of the Loulan people living outside the city are not much different from the Turks, and the Loulan people living in the city are more workers to live."

"And although there is a lot more land on Yiwu's side than Loulan, especially a lot of land outside the city, these lands are relatively barren compared to the Central Plains, and the grain production is not high, not to mention that for most ordinary people, the fields they share originally belonged to those nobles, and you didn't deal with these nobles, they may be worried about the future revenge of these nobles."

"They are more willing to believe in you than these, after all, your miracles have been spread throughout the grassland, and they prefer to believe that after they migrate, all you have allocated them is good land." Mingyue said with a smile.

Huo Gang nodded: "Okay, that's fine, population concentration has the advantage of population concentration, let's talk about the mining method of the coal mine side next." ”

"Chief, I have already sent someone to investigate, the coal mines you gave your name are all open-pit minerals, which are very easy to mine, because there is no need to dig a mining hole, so the safety will be higher than some minerals that need to be drilled." Mingyue immediately spoke.

"Well, I know this, what do you think about the employment of coal mining?" Huo Gang looked at Mingyue and Shi Wannian, Shi Wannian didn't speak all the time, Mingyue was reporting the problem to him.

"Chief, if you give an order, I believe that with your current appeal, more than 100,000 of our Han people are willing to serve you, but this kind of work similar to conscription may be inefficient and will also affect your reputation, so I prefer the employment system." Shi Wannian paused and said.

"I have the same opinion as the Lord of Stone City." Mingyue also nodded directly.

"Well, you're right, I'm not going to use a system of conscription." Huo Gang nodded, of course it was impossible for him to adopt the system of conscription.

"However, General, if the employment system is adopted, we have not set a suitable standard for wages for the time being, because this wage will inevitably allow them to barely support the family when there is a strong labor force to work."

"But the mining of coal mines requires a lot of labor, and if we pay them, we don't have that much copper money, and our treasury can't support that much at present." Mingyue said softly.

Huo Gang smiled, and he said directly: "Actually, this is simple, I am here to solve this matter this time." ”

After finishing speaking, Huo Gang directly handed a grain stamp to Mingyue.

"What is this?" Mingyue took the food stamp in Huo Gang's hand with some curiosity, she naturally knew the words on it, but there had never been paper money in this era, so it was naturally impossible for her to know what it was.

"Before answering this question, let me ask you, for ordinary people, what do they usually use the money they earn to buy?" Huo Gang asked.

"The main thing is to buy food, salt and clothing." Shi Wannian answered this question directly.

For ordinary people in this era, survival is the most important thing, so almost all ordinary people spend most of their money to buy food, occasionally buy some cloth and some household utensils.

However, there are very few household utensils, and most of the money is used to buy food.

"Yes, since their money is always used to buy food and clothing, and although we do not have much gold and silver such as copper coins, we have a lot of grain and silk silk, and it is enough to pay them wages." Huo Gang said directly.

"This ...... Yes, but what does it have to do with food stamps? Mingyue asked with some curiosity.

"It doesn't matter, we can't give them food every day, can we? The cost of shipping these grains alone is a huge problem, and we will choose a place to open a distribution point for the most commonly used things such as grain, silk, and salt. ”

"For example, if this food stamp is 1 yuan, we can set the price of 1 kilogram of grain at 4 yuan."

"If these laborers are paid one kilogram of grain a day, then it is enough to give them a four-dollar food stamp. In this way, we can save great manpower and material resources, avoid unnecessary consumption, and let them exchange food for themselves. Huo Gang said with a smile.

As soon as Huo Gang explained this, Mingyue and Shi Wannian suddenly realized, and Shi Wannian immediately bowed his hand to Huo Gang: "Chief, really far-sighted, I have already thought of such a perfect solution in advance, so that we can perfectly avoid the problem of not having enough copper money, and also avoid the waste caused by our transportation of a large amount of grain." ”

In this era, the cost of transporting grain is very high, such as the army is pulling, if the distance is a little farther, if you transport a hundred servings of grain, by the time you reach the destination, you will even consume a third.

Because these people who carry food also have to eat, and if the distance is greater, this consumption will even increase to a level that is simply unbearable like two-thirds.

The soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first, this is not just a sentence.

This is also the reason why from ancient times to the present, countless powerful empires in the Central Plains have not been able to completely eliminate these nomads. When the traffic can't keep up, it's almost impossible to completely eliminate them unless you completely change their state of existence.

"However, the chief's food stamp will not be easily imitated." Mingyue said with some curiosity.

"Take a look at this food stamp for yourself." Huo Gang said with a smile.

In fact, Huo Gang has done the primary anti-counterfeiting technology, although the quality of the paper is not very good, but in this era when printing technology has not begun to develop, the anti-counterfeiting technology researched by Huo Gang is already very strong.

On the piece of paper of the food stamp, the word food stamp is very large, but if you look closely, the stroke of the food stamp is very thick, and there are some small patterns carved on these strokes.

Xiang Gu mixed some special dyes with the ink used for printing, so that the whole ink spread very little after printing, so that these patterns can be preserved almost perfectly.

Such patterns can only be preserved in print, and it is almost impossible to reproduce them with a pen or other means.

Not to mention that there is Huo Gang's seal on it.

These two seals were personally stamped by Huo Zheng and the others one by one.

Although the location is slightly different, the approximate location is the same, although the efficiency is very slow, but for the time being, these food stamps can be recycled and reused, so the efficiency is slow, which is no way.

Huo Gang has already made Xiang Gu improve the printing ink that is not easy to spread, it is best to have different colors to match each other, anyway, Huo Gang gave the requirements for improvement, but when Xiang Gu can toss it out, Huo Gang is not clear.

But for now, such anti-counterfeiting technology is sufficient.

In addition, in this era, if you dare to forge these seals, it is not as simple as a fine or something, but you have to lose your head directly, so in fact, this seal is the biggest anti-counterfeiting technology.

If these two are combined, there will be no problems within one or two years, and one or two years is enough time for Huo Gang and them to develop new anti-counterfeiting technology, don't underestimate the ability of the ancients in this regard.

Pay for grain and silk directly, without paying copper money, then it is much simpler. Otherwise, they really don't have so many copper coins, but there are more gold and silver in the Western Regions than copper coins.

In this era, copper ore is actually equal to money.

However, Mingyue and Shi Wannian didn't know the hidden role of the food stamps at all, and they couldn't see it at all, they couldn't blame them, to be precise, this was the limitation of the times, and no one in this era could see the other role of these food stamps.

The reason why Huo Gang got the food stamps out was to use them in the future for all the infrastructure construction activities such as building the city wall of Yumen Pass, building roads, etc., but what he didn't expect was that the first one to use was the coal mine here in Yiwu City.

According to Huo Gang's request, in the village closest to the coal mine, several large warehouses were soon set up.

The nearest coal mine is not far from Igo Castle, but it is not too close for ancient times when there was no means of transportation.

However, it happened that there was a village in the vicinity, and soon with the assistance of the craftsmen of Igo Castle, several large courtyards and warehouses were built directly in the open space next to the village.