"I obey, little man!" Li Hanwen agreed loudly, then hesitated and said, "Sir, our Xuan Ming has very little money. We don't have much money in our hands, and the common people don't have any money at home, so how are they going to buy it?

Food? You can only exchange it with items, but this would be too troublesome, and it would be difficult to get the fur still alive."

"I happened to be talking about this, where is the tax?" Baili asked.

"The villain is here." The official in charge of taxation was named Wu Haishan. Hearing Baili's call, he hurried out of the queue and said to himself, "Sir, are you going to start collecting taxes now? No way, we Xuanming haven't officially collected taxes for a long time."

, even the villain doesn’t know the current tax amount.

"I will allocate some funds to you later to purchase all kinds of materials sold by the people. You can collect anything. You can decide the price according to our local conditions." Baili said.

"The villain obeys the order, but doesn't know where to get the money?" Wu Haishan is also a manager, so he will do it after receiving the order.

"If you don't need silver, just use these banknotes." Baili said with a smile.

"Sir, even we are not willing to ask for this paper money, and the common people will not recognize it!" Wu Haishan grinned.

"Hanwen, you can just charge banknotes for selling those materials." Baili solved the problem of banknote circulation in one sentence.

Yeah? Everyone got excited immediately after hearing this. Is it true?

"Officials have no jokes," Baili said.

"Then if we receive these banknotes, we can go directly to the official shop to buy food and stuff?" Chu Dapeng asked.

"Of course." Baili smiled.

"Well, I will just believe what you say, sir. If I can't spend the money by then... what do you say, sir?" Chu Dapeng was hesitant, fearing that there was fraud.

"Then I, the county magistrate, will let you do the job," Baili said.

"Okay, even if you say that... it's not appropriate!" Chu Dapeng blushed.

Li Hanwen also worked vigorously and resolutely. In the afternoon, he organized people to move all the food and materials in the warehouse to an empty house next to the county government office. He found a wooden board and wrote a plaque himself. The business was officially opened!

Naturally, the first batch of customers we welcomed were the officials who had just received their salaries, and they couldn't wait to exchange these waste papers for white grain!

The first one in line is Mrs. Chen, with several big sacks full of patches hanging on her shoulders. This is her plan to spend all the more than one hundred taels of silver that Chen Ping just received back!

If you can really sell food, I will wash your feet tonight. If you can't buy it, humph, I will throw you into the well to take a bath!

"Sister-in-law Chen, you have brought so many sacks. They weigh only four to five hundred kilograms when they are full. Can you carry them back?" Baili Qingyun also attended the opening ceremony in person, standing at the door with his hands behind his back and smiling at Sister-in-law Chen.

"As long as it can be replaced with grain, I can withstand tens of thousands of kilograms!" Sister-in-law Chen said that her arms shook, and she had the strength to weigh hundreds of kilograms.

"Old Chen has been given more than one hundred taels of silver. The official price is two taels of silver and one stone of grain. If you buy them all, it will be more than fifty dan, seven thousand catties. Sister Chen, your family of three will not be able to finish it in ten years!"

Baili Qingyun said with a smile.

"If we can't finish it, let's save it. As long as we have food at home, we won't panic!" Mrs. Chen said, rolling her big eyes and looking at Baili, "Master, can you really exchange for so much food?"

"Xiao Ye, Yun Yi, Bijiang, I see you are just idle. We will find some big trucks later to help Mrs. Chen transport all the food back!" Baili said.

Okay, the three brothers agreed in unison, but work is work. Mrs. Chen, you have to take care of the food. Your cooking is really delicious, especially the stewed carp... Otherwise, why don't you go back and stew the fish for us first?

Leave all the work to us!

Sister-in-law Chen watched helplessly as Xiao Ye and the others loaded bags of grain into the truck. She still seemed to be in a dream. Oh my god, these paper money can really be used as money!

"Silly old lady, don't just buy food. Why don't you buy some cotton, needlework, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, pots and pans?" Chen Ping reminded loudly from the side.

"Oh, that's not true!" Sister-in-law Chen suddenly realized, "Yes, yes, I need two iron pots, two boxes of needles and threads, give me a piece of blue cloth...the same thing!"

"Mom, I want to drink sugar water!" Yan'er bit her fingers and drooled while looking at the sugar in the store.

"Eat!" Sister-in-law Chen was eager to spend all the paper money in her hand, no matter how expensive the sugar was, it cost five kilograms! The baby had never eaten candy even when she was growing up...

The hundreds of people watching at the door were jealous!

Oh my god, food is so cheap and sold at a high price, and the prices of pots, pans and other items are also very low. In a remote place like Xuanming, it's like giving them for free!

But why do we only sell to these officials? We ordinary people are not human beings!

We don’t have money, but we do have things. Are we allowed to exchange them? If we are not allowed to exchange them, we will start a riot!

Baili patiently explained to everyone in person that this is an official store and we cannot barter, but you can buy it. If you have silver and copper coins, you can buy it now. If you don’t have money, just use banknotes. What are banknotes? These are the adults.

The colorful paper money I got... coins.

No? Then you go north and find Wu Haishan, the tax collector. He collects things from him, including dried meat and dried fish, medicinal herbs and dried mushrooms, fresh fish and lake shrimps, furs and furs, fox collars, cattle, sheep and live animals...

…

I don’t want the breasts, they can’t be stored and they will become sore if left overnight, but when our dairy factory opens later, we will collect a lot of them! In addition...

Folks, run slowly, don't be in a hurry, be careful not to fall!

Before Baili finished speaking, hundreds of people watching the excitement dispersed...

The purpose of opening a warehouse to sell grain and pay back wages is to stabilize the hearts and minds of officials and let everyone know that Xuanming County, which has been abandoned for several years, has now officially been included in the order of Yanyun County.

From now on, everyone will have roots and will no longer be miserable.

There is no need to worry about intrusion and bullying from northern Xinjiang tribes.

So sir, when will we start a war with the Xinghe tribe? Now they have started to cut grass, on our grassland!

If the grass is knocked away by them, how will our cattle and sheep survive the winter?

Baili had no intention of starting a war, but first recruited a large number of strong men to start building the city wall. Xuanming City was not big to begin with, and the previous city wall was well preserved, so it only needed to be reinforced, thickened, and raised.

But despite this, it is still a very huge project for Xuanming City.

The main reason is that there are too few manpower. There are only four to five hundred strong men in the city. Even if the big guys know the importance of building the city wall, they are still willing to work hard, but they are afraid that it will not be completed before winter.

This is easy to handle, isn’t it? Go out and look for it.

Now that the autumn harvest season has passed, there should be a lot of idle labor in Xuanming Prefecture, and all the homeless people outside the city are here. No matter what their status is or where they come from, as long as they can work!
Chapter completed!