After eating, several children knew what it was like to be full for the first time, and when they finished eating, Jiang Laoqi called his wife and several children over by the light of the stove and took out the paper.

"Come, I'll tell you to read, and I learned it from the chief's men." Jiang Laoqi said seriously.

In fact, there were only a few words in total, and Jiang Laoqi memorized all their pronunciations in his heart, so soon the sound of reading words sounded in this earthen house.

Time flies quickly, three days have passed quickly, Jiang Laoqi has adapted to the life of digging coal, except for being dirty, Jiang Laoqi can be said to be full of motivation, and even tired is not particularly tired, because it is almost as tired as the work he usually does when he goes to the city to sell coolies.

But those jobs won't give him such good food and so much food, so Jiang Laoqi is full of work, but he feels less tired.

But there is a new thing today, which is made by Qi Datou, who is from the same village as them.

Qi Datou's body is thinner, in fact, these people are not fat, not enough Qi Datou is relatively thin, but his head is not small, although his head is similar to Jiang Laoqi, but because of the proportion of his body, it seems to be big.

So he has a nickname since he was a child, called Qi Datou.

Today's novelty is very simple, that is, when Qi Datou ate at noon, he only bought three yuan of rice, and did not exchange the food stamps, because he asked the people who exchanged the meals, they have the final say on what the food stamps are exchanged, and the rest of the food stamps can be exchanged for food together at night and take home.

The news soon spread throughout the construction site, and Jiang Laoqi naturally knew about it, so he went to ask as soon as possible.

"Lao Qi, don't be like me, I'm because of the small amount of food, take the steamed buns as an example, the two of me really can't finish eating, so I can save the next one, you have a lot of food, if you eat less, then don't work in the afternoon." Qi Datou said.

"Don't worry, if I actually eat two, I have some support, and although one is not full, it is almost the same. I'm sure I won't delay the chief's work. Jiang Laoqi said quickly.

"Haha, you just have to know it anyway."

perfunctory Qi Da's first two sentences, Jiang Laoqi had other ideas in his heart, because since this food stamp can be kept at noon, can it be saved and exchanged together at night?

It's also more troublesome to take a little food back every day, and Jiang Laoqi is still thinking about seeing if he can change a little cloth for the family, he went to see it yesterday, one meter of cloth is not short, and it is not enough to make clothes for adults, but it is enough to make a dress for the youngest guy.

But of course, it is impossible to make clothes for the youngest guy, because the child grows up too fast, and he grows up without waiting for anything to make clothes, so Jiang Laoqi wants to exchange a few meters of fine linen for his wife and make a dress for her.

For so many years, since she married him Jiang Laoqi, she has never worn a new dress except for the clothes when she was newly married.

In the evening, Jiang Laoqi passed by the place where the grain was exchanged, said hello to Wang Wu inside, and then asked, "Wulang, I don't know if I can keep this grain stamp and not exchange it?" ”

Wang Wu was stunned for a moment, then looked at Jiang Laoqi, and nodded very dryly: "Of course you can!" The chief said that as long as the coal mine is open, this food stamp will be valid forever, and you can exchange it whenever you want. ”

"Then I won't exchange it for now, and I'll keep it for tomorrow." Jiang Laoqi said seriously.

"Okay." Wang Wu paused for a moment, and then immediately said with a smile.

In fact, Jiang Laoqi still has to exchange for food tomorrow, because the food at home is not enough to eat, and the one kilogram of grain exchanged every day, with some wild vegetables and the like, barely eats at the same time, there is a little surplus.

It's less, but it's much stronger than before. Therefore, even if Jiang Laoqi wants to change the cloth, it is estimated that he will not change the cloth until the family's food is enough to store for a few days to eat.

But today, he doesn't know why, in fact, he just wants to try.

Behind Jiang Laoqi happened to be Qi Datou, and he naturally heard Jiang Laoqi's words, so Qi Datou couldn't help but ask again: "Wulang, can it still be like this?" ”

"Absolutely." Wang Wu nodded affirmatively.

"Then I won't exchange it yet, you wait for me." Qi Datou arched his hand at Wang Wu, and then directly caught up with Jiang Laoqi, Qi Datou's family was better than Jiang Laoqi's family, and the surplus rations at home were five or six days, so Qi Datou simply didn't change it.

"You're here to pick me up, I've got something to do." Wang Wu said to a person behind him, and after the other party came over, Wang Wu immediately left here and rushed directly to the person in charge of the coal mine.

In less than an hour, Mingyue, dozens of kilometers away, got what happened in the coal mine.

She immediately rode out of the house and hurried to a manor outside the city.

This manor was originally Shi Wannian, but now it has become Huo Gang's, Huo Gang is still here for the time being, and has not left yet, the reason why Huo Gang stayed was because he was feeding the golden eagles, and now there are nothing to stay in Huo Gang and other golden eagles are not just the four at the beginning, but there are more than a dozen.

When Mingyue rushed over, Huo Gang was resting.

"Chief, someone didn't exchange the food stamps today, but stayed behind to prepare to exchange them together." After Mingyue came in, she reported directly.

Huo Gang was a little surprised, and after seeing the note in Mingyue's hand, Huo Gang stretched out his hand and said, "Show me." ”

Mingyue handed over the note, which not only contained the approximate time of this incident, but also the names of the two people who did not exchange food on it.

"I didn't expect it to be so fast." While watching, Huo Gang subconsciously replied.

"What's so fast?" Mingyue looked at Huo Gang with some curiosity.

"You'll know after a while, you pay attention to when they exchange these food stamps for other things, and then when some people have more food stamps in their hands, you tell them that they don't have to redeem them themselves, and their families can also redeem these food stamps."

"Understood." Mingyue nodded.

To be honest, Mingyue is a little strange, I don't know why Huo Gang wants to pay attention to this matter, in her opinion, food stamps can be exchanged for these grains and the like, for trouble, some people who are not so short of food, gather together and exchange them together in a few days, this is a normal thing.

And I provide several goods for them to exchange here, and it is naturally normal for them to exchange other things.

But what Mingyue didn't know was that the process was ...... It is a process of building credit.

And Huo Gang is actually not waiting for this, Huo Gang is waiting for another thing to happen, take Jiang Laoqi and Qi Datou as examples, Huo Gang is waiting, if one day Jiang Laoqi has no salt at home, but he has food stamps, but he has to go to the city to buy salt, and he has to come to this village to change salt.

At this time, Jiang Laoqi directly found Qi Datou and said to him, I will give you food stamps, can you give me salt first, because cooking needs to be used, and then Qi Datou directly gave Jiang Laoqi salt, because food stamps can be exchanged for salt here.

Huo Gang was actually waiting for this scene to happen, in their opinion, maybe they didn't think it was going on, because there was no loss, Jiang Laoqi wanted to use it temporarily, and he had it at home, so he took it from his home first, and gave Qi Datou a grain stamp, and then the next day Qi Datou could use the food stamps to exchange for salt here.

For Qi Datou and Jiang Laoqi, they didn't feel that there was anything wrong, but only Huo Gang knew that in this process, they had a third-party transaction, and in this transaction, the food stamps acted as an equivalent, to be precise, as a currency!

Huo Gang was waiting for this to happen.

This is his real purpose, when Huo Gang uses the scale of food stamps more and more, then one day, food stamps will be completely turned into paper money.

Of course, at that time, the food stamps were not the gold standard and the like that later generations were familiar with, but the grain standard, the cloth standard, and the salt standard. In fact, among the various dynasties in ancient China, the grain standard before the Ming Dynasty was the most common.

However, there is a premise for all of this, that is, Huo Gang wants to research better papermaking technology and make better paper here.

In fact, the quality of high-grade paper in this period has been very good, and the quality of the paper after gluing, waxing, polishing, etc., can be said to be almost very good, and it has actually had a foundation to become a banknote, which is nothing more than a problem of anti-counterfeiting technology.

However, in terms of anti-counterfeiting, as a later generation, Huo Gang actually has many methods.

The simplest one, in fact, is a way to make counterfeit money in later generations, that is, the rice paper of this period can actually be divided into many layers, if you first use one layer to print a pattern, and then press another layer and this layer together, then it is a bit like the later generations of the kind of watermark technology that can only be seen in the sun.

"I'm going to the iron mine tomorrow, and the raw materials in the industrial city should have already been transported, so if there's anything to do go directly to find me, but I'll try to get those golden eagles to deliver letters to this side tomorrow to see if it can be successful." If you can, this can enhance our communication in the future. Huo Gang explained to Mingyue.

"Yes, I know, I'll be here myself tomorrow." Mingyue nodded.

"Well, well, if you don't see them tomorrow evening, you can send someone to talk to me. If you see them, just write back to me. Huo Gang nodded.

"Yes!"

Early the next morning, Huo Gang rode away from here directly, and when he left Yiwu City for about ten kilometers, Huo Gang noticed that those golden eagles appeared on his head again, speaking of which, where these golden eagles nested, Huo Gang didn't know, they didn't live around Huo Gang at night, but they could always find him accurately the next day.

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