On the outskirts of Lingao County, Qiongzhou Prefecture, rows of brick and tile buildings stand on the ground. Several of them are relatively tall factories. Such a large-scale building complex forms a perfect match with the small and dilapidated Lingao County Town not far away.
Very obvious contrast.
At a glance, you can tell that these buildings were newly built in recent years. They are surrounded by walls and the gates are quite impressive. There is also a brand-new signboard hanging outside the gate, "Lingao Erjiu Fishery Company".
Not far from the door, there are about a dozen small vendors shouting on the roadside, but what is strange is that although there are people nearby walking past their stalls, most of these vendors are indifferent, looking like you love them.
They didn't seem to want to buy it, but occasionally someone wearing a light blue cloth with the word "twenty-nine" embroidered on the cloth passed by, and most of them started shouting!
They were talking about the fruits just picked from the fields, which were sweet and delicious.
The fat pig that was just killed in the morning was full of fat with every cut!
And these people in blue commoners seem to be accustomed to this. If necessary, they will stop temporarily, buy some vegetables or meat, or fruit snacks, etc., and then take out copper stamps to pay the bill.
The vendors, on the other hand, handed over various goods with happy faces and then accepted the bills.
Although these bills may look frivolous, they are real money!
It is a copper note issued by the Royal Bank of the Tang Dynasty, used as a supplementary coin for the bank note!
In the early days, the only banknotes issued by the Royal Bank of the Tang Dynasty were silver notes, and the face values of the silver notes were relatively large, ranging from one silver coin, five silver coins, one tael of silver, and ten taels of silver. In addition, there were also banknotes specially for big businessmen.
Large-denomination bank cashier's checks are prepared, and the most widely issued banknotes are those with a face value of one or two silver coins.
This kind of one-tael silver notes and one-tael silver coins are rarely seen among ordinary people, especially the lower class groups such as farmers who make up the majority of the population, because people use copper coins every day, not copper coins.
Silver coins, banknotes.
Most of the banknotes are used in business transactions!
In response to this situation, and also to alleviate the shortage of copper coins, the Royal Bank of the Tang Dynasty specially issued copper notes!
Copper stamps were issued in five denominations: one hundred cents, fifty cents, ten cents, five cents, and one cent. Later, large copper stamps with a thousand cents face value were also issued.
The currency value of the copper notes is not directly linked to the silver notes. It does not mean that a thousand copper notes can be exchanged for one or two silver notes. It is linked to the copper coin "Datang Tongbao" issued by the Mint Bureau of the Ministry of Taxation of the Tang Dynasty.
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Because the price of copper, silver, and gold would change, in order to prevent speculation in various precious metals from causing chaos in the monetary system, the Tang Dynasty did not forcefully stipulate how much Tang Tongbao could be exchanged for one tael of silver, but instead followed the market.
Copper coins are copper coins, silver coins are silver coins, and gold coins are gold coins. The exchange ratio of the three changes according to the market. For example, the current official exchange price of Datang Royal Bank is that one tael of gold can be exchanged for five taels and three taels of silver.
Two silver coins can be exchanged for one thousand and thirty pieces of Tang Tongbao.
When Datang Tongbao copper coins were first issued, their copper content and other currency values were calculated by exchanging one tael of silver for one thousand Datang Tongbao coins. However, after a few years, the exchange ratio has now become one thousand and three.
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The same goes for gold and silver exchange. A few years ago, one tael of gold could still be exchanged for five taels of silver. However, as the Tang Dynasty opened up sea trade, a large number of foreign merchants brought a large amount of silver coins to purchase various goods, resulting in domestic
The stock of silver gradually increased, so that the exchange ratio of gold and silver fluctuated.
Since the current precious metal currency system is still adopted, silver bills and copper bills are attached to silver coins and copper coins, so the exchange ratio between silver bills and copper bills is not clear, but adopts a fluctuating model.
Although the Tang Dynasty currently wants to adopt a single monetary policy, such as establishing a silver standard or even a gold standard, it is still unrealistic at present.
Only gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins can be mixed.
The only good thing is that the silver notes and copper notes currently issued by Datang Royal Bank have basically been accepted by people!
The most important one is that the taxation department of the Tang Dynasty collected copper and silver notes!
Using official tax revenue as credit support has made people slowly accept silver and copper bills. Of course, it is still not ruled out that some people are still afraid of the sudden devaluation of banknotes, so they do not keep banknotes in their hands, but
It will be deposited into the Royal Bank in time and turned into money in the account, or simply exchanged for copper coins. The silver coins will be taken home, dug in a cellar and buried, and waiting for these silver coins, the copper coins will give birth to small silver coins, small copper coins.
These small vendors naturally cannot understand the complex connections behind banknotes, but they only know that these banknotes can be used as money. They collect these banknotes from others, and then they can use these banknotes to purchase goods.
Or deposit it into the Royal Bank.
The small vendors on the roadside occasionally accepted copper tickets one after another and made a lot of money. However, although they made money, they occasionally looked at the gate of Erjiu Fishery Company not far away and still showed a hint of envy.
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In the past few years, the 29th Reclamation Group, now the Lingao 29th Fishery Company, has become the largest enterprise in the area. There are rumors that the people working there can earn several taels of silver or even more every month.
It has already spread throughout Qiongzhou Island.
A few days ago, Lingao Erjiu Fishery Company just changed its sign. Due to the shortage of manpower, the cannery factory is planning to recruit a group of employees from outside and pay them monthly wages. Apart from this, there is no other guarantee, and the wages are only those of the fishing company.
There are less than half of the old employees, but it still caused a sensation in Lingao County!
On the day of recruitment, more than 400 people came to try to get a job opportunity!
However, Erjiu Fishery Company planned to recruit only twenty-five employees. In the end, seeing so many people coming to apply, fifteen places were temporarily added, but the ratio of applications to admissions was still ten to one.
Attracting so many people to apply, they are all trying to get in. Naturally, it is because the salary of Erjiu Fishing Company is high. Even if they just join, they don’t know anything. They can only be ordinary employees doing odd jobs, and they can get one salary a month.
That’s a lot of silver!
For ordinary people who cannot earn a few taels of silver throughout the year, it is absolutely great to be able to get wages from Erjiu Fishery Company.
Many people are actively looking for jobs. This situation is not unique to Erjiu Fishery Company. In fact, many companies will encounter this situation when recruiting workers.
In factories these days, the pay is definitely not good. If you are given one tael of silver a month, the boss needs you to earn ten taels of silver for him.
The daily working hours are always twelve or fourteen hours, and this is a factory under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises. If it is a private factory, the working hours are longer, and some work for sixteen hours.
Although Li Xuan is somewhat worried about this situation and has repeatedly asked the Ministry of Commerce to improve the treatment of workers, the Ministry of Commerce is also in a dilemma and can only issue a document hoping that all companies can comply with the regulations of factories affiliated to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.
According to the standard, the standard working hours per day cannot exceed fourteen hours.
Because today is a period of barbaric industrial development, those capitalists who have just transformed from landlords to factory owners are all focused on profits. If they are asked to reduce working hours and increase wages for workers, there is no hope.
And another reality is that even if the factory requires employees to work for sixteen hours, and the salary is lower than that of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, there are still a lot of people willing to work.
To put it in a very realistic sentence: We Chinese have a lot of people, and if you don’t do it, there will be a lot of people competing to do it!
However, Erjiu Fishery Company is different. The former Erjiu Fishery Company was not actually a commercial company and had no need to make a profit, because all the money earned was turned over to the Prisoners of War Department.
At the same time, because everyone works together, no one is willing to work themselves to death and then turn over the money they earn, so their working hours and benefits are quite different compared to other factories of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.
, there are only other private factories, so there is no way to compare.
Easy work, good pay, this is the reality of Erjiu Fishery Company!
Not to mention ordinary people who want to find jobs here, even the children of small landowners and some scholars who have no way to enter official careers and can only earn a living by themselves also want to work in Erjiu Fishery Company. This
Once they can get in, based on their abilities, well, if they can read, write, and do accounting, it is enough. In the end, they will also play a junior management role.
Decent work and high salary!
It's just that it's too difficult to get in, and the passers-by can only express envy.
At the same time, in the county government office in Lingao County, the county magistrate Feng Kailong also smiled and sent Lu Pingping out of the government office in a good mood. He also sent Lu Pingping to the door very kindly and waved his hand.
He said: Brother Lu, walk slowly!
After Lu Pingping got on the carriage and left, he didn't take his eyes back for a long time. His eyes and actions were just like paying homage to the God of Wealth!
But for Lingao and Feng Kailong, isn't Lu Fangping the God of Wealth now?
In the past, Feng Kailong had great complaints about the 29th Reclamation Group. Not only him, but also the tax officer in Lingao and even the director of the Taxation Bureau of Qiongzhou Prefecture had great opinions on the 29th Reclamation Group.
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why?
Because the former 29th Reclamation Group did not pay taxes!
They used to be an armed organization, not a commercial company. There is no such thing as paying taxes. Anyway, the tax department has never had an example of taxing the military. Although they have always wanted to do this, some tax department officials just shouted
Look, the income of soldiers is also personal income. If it is income, you have to pay personal income tax. Civil servants all pay it, but there is no reason why soldiers should not pay it!
However, it is currently the Unification War. The war has not yet ended. Taxes have been collected from the soldiers, which can easily cause instability in the morale of the military. Therefore, Li Xuan has always suppressed the requests from the tax department. Without Li Xuan's approval, the tax will be collected.
No matter how awesome the Ministry is, it is not awesome enough to collect taxes on its own, so for now this kind of thing can only be said.
But now the 29th Reclamation Corps has been restructured and turned into a company under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises. Since it is a company, it has to pay taxes. The profit is hundreds of thousands of taels a year, and the turnover exceeds millions of taels.
If the tax department does not collect hundreds of thousands of taels of tax revenue from it, the director of the Qiongzhou Prefecture Taxation Bureau would dare to write his name upside down!