Chapter 574: Food Stamps

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"Oh, why didn't the imperial court transfer our Li Dashuai to lead the troops. If Li Dashuai takes the Zhenguo Army away, all Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi will be finished. Even if he Wang Xianzhi has any more witchcraft, I don't believe he can come back to life again. ”

A middle-aged businessman from Luoyang was full of worries when he heard that the grass thieves had hit the gate of Luoyang. Although the newspaper said that the imperial court had mobilized soldiers and horses from all walks of life, those who were interested would understand it as soon as they heard it. The mobilization of the imperial court was not to encircle and suppress the grass thieves at all, although several soldiers and horses were dispatched. But those soldiers and horses, all the way to Luoyang, all the way to Baotong Pass, and all the way to Ru and Deng, are also to prevent grass thieves from entering Shannan and forcing into Guanzhong from the Wuguan area.

The only one who really dealt with Huang Chao was the loyal army led by Cui Anqian to pursue him from behind.

The imperial court did not transfer Li Jing to Beijing, of course, there were many considerations. First, the Zhenguo army was too far away, and it was difficult to quench the thirst of the near water, and Li Jing had already reported to the imperial court, saying that he was mobilizing to recover Liaodong. Tian Lingzi wished that Li Jing would go to that ghost place in Liaodong, and the farther away from the Central Plains, the better. is just a grass thief, but he is just running faster, and if Li Jing is transferred again, wouldn't it be a waste of military merit to Li Jing. Therefore, Tian Lingzi instructed that the political hall headed by Lu Xian was resolutely not to transfer Li Jing and Zhen Guojun. Even Kang Chengyu, the new envoy of the Tianping Army, who has a close relationship with Li Jing, and Cui Yunqing, the envoy of the Taining Army, are not among the transfers.

However, when Li Jing received the news, not only was he not a little disappointed, but he was very happy. It is naturally best not to go to the Central Plains without receiving orders. Even if the emperor decrees. He also has to find excuses to delay. And judging from Tian Lingzi's attitude. It seems that although his actions in Ziqing Town are very fierce, as long as he tolerates Wang Jingwu and them, and divides half of the territory to them, and he still focuses on Dengzhou and Liaonan, Tian Lingzi has a lot less sense of precaution against himself. This proves that their plan has indeed succeeded.

The transfer of troops by the imperial court was not intended to annihilate these two grass thieves in Ruzhou, but to prevent them from attacking Luoyang and Chang'an, and to drive them back to the east of Henan.

"Some of this battle will be fought!" The few teachers sighed.

"Compare with the Central Plains. This Dengzhou is really like a paradise, full of vitality! A businessman sighed, "When the chaos in the Central Plains is a little calmer, I have to bring my family to Dengzhou immediately, and I will be a new Dengzhou person in the future!" ”

"Luoyang is prosperous, are you willing to give it up so quickly?" A fellow businessman asked.

"In today's world, prosperity doesn't work, and along the way, you see that the cities that have been messed up by grass thieves have all become ruins. Luoyang does not have guardians like Zhenguo Jun and Li Dashuai. It's better to stay in Dengzhou safely. Moreover, since entering Dengzhou. What you see all this, don't you think, Dengzhou will be better in the future? ”

The fellow businessman couldn't help nodding and had the idea of moving.

Because it is the weekend, Guo Tao's two brothers-in-law are also coming back today, according to the custom, every Saturday night, it is the time when Guo Tao's foster Guo family has a reunion dinner. Therefore, the dinner on this day was also extraordinarily rich.

After school, Guo Tao rushed to his home, and together with his adoptive mother Wang, who returned home early, took the money, household registration book and identity card, and went to the money bank to exchange money for banknotes.

Guo Tao put the big chain on his shoulder on the counter, and handed over the sixty-four catties and ten yuan inside to the salesman on the money bank counter in exchange for banknotes.

"Hello, do you exchange all ten dollars for banknotes?" The salesperson, a young woman in her twenties, looked very good-looking, smiled and asked behind the counter.

Wang smiled: "For four thousand yuan, three thousand yuan for one hundred, and another one thousand for one." The rest of the money is deposited in this passbook! Wang's smile was full of pride.

The salesman smiled and did as requested, and after depositing Liuguan into the passbook, he took out thirty red banknotes of one hundred yuan, and exchanged the remaining one thousand yuan for change.

"The eldest mother is so happy, the children are so old, this is saving money for him to marry his daughter-in-law."

Wang smiled, "This is Guo Tao, a child who is fostered in my family, and is a squadron leader at Dengzhou Military Academy." But it's still early to get married, and I'm only twelve years old now. He also has two older brothers above, but he is not as good as him, the eldest is now twenty-five, he is still a bachelor, he is praising the Japanese army, a few days ago, he wrote a letter, saying that he had just been promoted to a captain, promoted to sergeant, and was a corporal. Compared to this kid, the second child is also twenty years old this year, and he is even more unproductive, and he is still in the unity army. He said this, but in his heart, Wang was very proud.

The boss has become the corporal commander of the Zhenguo Army, surpassing the inferior, third-class, second-class, first-class and superior soldiers, and has become the captain. I heard that the boy said that their team members valued him very much, and wanted to marry his daughter to him, and said that they would come to the house to see him this weekend. This is a great thing, and it is really a double happiness. No, I hurriedly brought the family's salary this month, and in the past, I only kept 1,000 yuan, but this time I left 4,000 yuan, that is, I will buy some good rice, noodles and meat, and prepare to entertain the boss's boss.

The salesman and the young woman smiled: "I also have a foster child in my family, a ten-year-old girl, who is ingenious, and has been admitted to the medical school last time. I think that the child and your child are somewhat suitable, and if there is a chance for them to meet each other, in a few years, as soon as they graduate from school, they can directly do happy events. ”

Wang said again and again that the Zhenguo Army has recently issued a new regulation to encourage early marriage. A new marriage office has also been set up, with special official media and officials managing the household registration records of all people, and men from one to twenty and women from one to fifteen have reached the official age of marriage. Before getting married, the marriage is registered, and then after the six ceremonies, it is considered officially married. However, men are sixteen and women are thirteen, and they can also get married, but they are not allowed to do so a long time ago. However, if the man is over twenty-five and the woman is over twenty and has not yet married, the marriage office will have an official media to arrange the partner, and before the marriage. A late marriage penalty may be paid. A thousand dollars a year.

If you reach 30 for men and 25 for women, you are still unmarried. and they will be forcibly married within a year. Even a widower who has been widowed for five years must start marrying, and if he is unmarried after five years, he will have to pay a fine of 1,000 yuan a year.

The boss is just twenty-five this year, and after this year, he will have to pay a fine, and the official media will directly intervene. Wang and Lao Guo have been worried about this matter these days, but now it's okay, the boss has to be valued by the boss. It's the best thing to marry your daughter.

Guo Tao couldn't help but feel a little blushing when he heard them talk about their marriage like this. Although in the military academy, he is a squadron leader with a hundred people, and he usually has a bit of prestige. But now, he's just a shy teenager.

"Auntie, we still have to go buy food." Guo Tao had no choice but to remind.

"Look at me and forget the problem of time, sister, let's talk next time we have time."

"Eldest sister, you should get busy first."

Walking out of the money village, Guo Tao couldn't help wiping a handful of sweat.

With the money in exchange, the two went straight to the grain management office. This is also the new official office, which is in charge of grain. Recently, various prices in Dengzhou have been greatly reduced. In particular, the price of grain is only 10 yuan per catty of millet, 121 catties of wheat, and 151 catties of rice. The others are also greatly reduced, a silk horse costs 1,000, and the cloth is 500 Wen. The price of silk has risen a little, but the price of cloth has fallen a lot.

Prices have plummeted, even back to 20 years ago, but everyone's wages have not fallen, and the minimum wage in Dengzhou is still 1,500 wen a month. Even if it is the lowest salary, you can exchange 150 catties of millet for a month.

However, with the introduction of new prices, there are also many new regulations. For example, if you buy grain, you can't buy it at will, you have to get the grain control office to get the money in exchange for food stamps.

According to the regulations of the grain management institute, food standards have been formulated according to the five grades of yellow children, small men, middle men, adult children, and the elderly, respectively, yellow children under the age of three are given one bucket and five liters of grain per month, three buckets of grain are given to young men over three years old and under ten years old, three buckets of grain are given monthly, and middle men are called middle-aged men over 10 years old and under 20 years old, and six buckets of grain are given monthly. Over 20 years old and under 50 years old are called Ding, and nine buckets of grain are given every month. For those over 50 years old, five buckets of food are given a month.

According to this standard, the registered people under the Zhenguo Army can buy grain stamps at a parity price as long as they present their household registration and identity cards, and then buy grain at any grain store in Dengzhou.

However, the grain price of the Zhenguo Army is a tiered price, and the standard is according to parity, but if it exceeds the standard amount, it will be increased by one percent, and if it exceeds the standard by two-thirds, the price will be increased by two layers, and if it is more than twice the amount, it will be increased by three percent. Further, you have to double the price of food. For every time it is doubled, the price is doubled. When it reaches the triple standard, it is triple the price, and it is stipulated that the maximum shall not exceed three tiers. exceed, no amount of money will be given to food stamps.

Those restaurants and restaurants do not use food stamps to buy grain, but they also have a share, and the price of grain is much higher than that of ordinary people. When you eat in a restaurant, you don't need a food stamp, but it will be expensive.

Especially for wine and tea, they are monopolies, and heavy taxes are imposed. However, the price of salt has dropped a lot, and a pound of salt costs only two pennies.

Moreover, Guo Tao heard that all the grain in the mirror of the Zhenguo Army was not allowed to leave the country. Once investigated, it is a serious crime and must be sent to southern Liaoning for labor reform. The grain purchased by other merchants from other places had to be transited through Dengzhou, and heavy taxes were also levied.

In short, food in Dengzhou and southern Liaoning is very cheap now, but it is only relative. There is a ration of grain, and although there is a surplus of this amount, it is not possible to resell grain, and if it is sold for more than one stone, it will be a crime. If you can't finish eating, you can return the food stamps, and even the grain management office will compensate you with a little interest.

With these detailed regulations, and the abundant stocks of grain in the warehouses of the Zhenguo Army, the price of grain can be smoothly lowered and maintained, and other prices began to fall sharply, returning to the level of the Xuanzong Dynasty, or even lower.

In today's Zhenguo Army, food stamps are the most valuable and stable, and then copper coins, as well as silk, banknotes, and gold and silver coins.

One thousand wen yuan is equal to one gold coin and one horse of silk, which is equal to one hundred catties of corn stamps. One gold coin is also equal to five silver coins, and one silver coin is two hundred coins. One piece of silk is equal to two pieces of cloth.

Banknotes also come in denominations of 10, 20, 50, 100, and 1,000.

With food, gold and copper coins as a guarantee, prices are now very stable, and there is no need to carry a large amount of silk when you go out, nor do you need to carry tiring copper coins. The credit of gold and silver coins and banknotes is excellent, and everyone can use them with confidence. The people of Dengzhou all believed that Li Dashuai was willing to sell the grain he bought at a loss to the people at a consistent price, and that the people could not believe him if they were such a benevolent marshal.

Guo Tao followed the Wang family to buy a bag of white rice in the rice store first, and the Wang family even specially bought the most expensive red Zhancheng at the moment, it is said that this rice was transported from the Zhancheng country in the extreme south, and now Dengzhou and southern Liaoning also have it, but the output is very small, so it is extremely expensive. There are three kinds of rice in Zhancheng, such as red Zhancheng, early Zhancheng, and late Zhancheng, but the most expensive in Red Zhancheng, even 30 yuan per catty, and Zhancheng rice belongs to the non-food stamp supply variety.

In addition, Suchang Erzhou Gong Rice, Xiangjiao Rice, Yangzhou Gong Rice, Huangli Rice and Orchard Rice, Wang also bought a small bag each. I went and bought a bag of wheat and sent it to the windmill mill for milling.

After that, I went to the vegetable market and bought high-quality mutton, a big pig's hind leg, and even grabbed two catties of beef. I bought a few fresh fish, plus radish, wead, spinach, celery, and kelp. Later, I went to the grocery store and bought a bacon and two salted fish, as well as a few canned food.

Guo Tao was speechless when he saw it, and he called his adoptive mother completely unremembers what she usually said about thrifty housekeeping, which is too much. However, although he was carrying these things, the young man's heart was also full of excitement, and there would be a sumptuous meal tomorrow, such an opportunity was rare.

After walking a few steps, Wang stomped his foot, and after the last moment, he turned around and went back, walked past the grocery store, and came to the tea, wine, salt, monosodium glutamate, and perfume store on the corner.

"Bring me two bottles of bayberry wine, another bottle of liquor, another piece of soap, one more soap, and another alabaster!" Wang gritted his teeth, and finally reported what he wanted to buy.

Guo Tao exclaimed, "Auntie, these are all luxury goods, and they are all heavily taxed." A bottle of wine can buy a sheep. ”

Wang said distressedly: "How can my mother not know this, but this time is a big day for your eldest brother." Tomorrow his boss will come to meet us, and we will have to entertain us well, how can we do without wine. I heard that this soap and soap are very good, and after using them, they can not only be washed clean, but also smelled all over the body, just like spraying perfume. Tomorrow no matter what, you must be properly prepared, tonight you also have to take a good soap wash, brush your teeth a few times with this toothpaste, and rub this alabaster tomorrow, when the time comes, the whole family is ready, so that people will not look down on your eldest brother. ”

For the sake of his son, the Wang family, who usually eats fish and meat once a few days at most, was ruthless this time and directly made a bloody investment. (To be continued......)