Chapter 174 Market
The Dong Market, which has just opened, has a subtle atmosphere. As a market, it seems too quiet, and everyone can't let it go if it is made clear.
Zhou Xu didn't care about this, after all, everything has to go through a process of adaptation.
And along with the opening of Dongshi, there is also a canteen.
To put it bluntly, this canteen is the original dining area.
On the premise of paying wages, tribe members naturally have to provide for two meals a day themselves.
Zhou Xu’s idea is also very simple. The tribe members can either buy food in the canteen or buy ingredients in the East Market and cook it themselves.
The canteen is like a fast food restaurant. Every day Cook a certain amount of dishes and let the tribe members pay for the food themselves.
This, to the greatest extent, avoids the discomfort of tribe members due to changes in circumstances.
As for those who are willing to buy their own ingredients to cook, it is definitely cheaper than the canteen.
But the tribe members themselves did not have stoves or various cooking utensils.
Within the tribe, it is definitely not allowed to light fires at will. At the same time, they all live in houses similar to dormitories, and there is no space for them to cook.
For this reason, Zhou Xu arranged a way for them, that is, they can rent utensils, including stoves, from the canteen for a fee per use.
Including this amount, it is still cheaper than the canteen.
However, because everyone is very busy at work every day and basically does not have the energy to buy food and cook after a busy day's work, most of the tribe members still choose to eat Of the cafeteria.
Not to mention that people who don't cook at all usually can't cook food that's as delicious as the canteen.
When they can order food themselves, many people will choose to eat all the dishes they like. Those with a big appetite will naturally spend more money and buy more dishes for others to eat. One portion, he eats two portions directly.
The result of this is that before half a month has passed, many people who don’t have much money in their pockets are about to spend all their last month’s salary.
Under this premise, in order to avoid starving to death because they had no money to buy food in the remaining half of the month, many tribe members began to be forced to buy and cook their own food to save money.
Under some circumstances, the number of people who cook their own meals is slowly increasing.
No matter what the situation is, Zhou Xu, as the leader of the tribe, is happy to see it.
Just like that, time passed quietly...
"Come on, come on! Let's pass by and take a look! The fish just caught in the morning is fresh!"
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"Eggs! Sell eggs!"
"..."
Compared with the time when monetary policy was just launched, one month has passed now.
Compared with the time when everyone was a little overwhelmed at the beginning, now the East Market is completely lively, with the shouts of various stalls and vendors coming and going one after another.
The fundamental reason lies in two aspects.
On the one hand, both the buyer and the seller are not unfamiliar at the beginning.
On the other hand, it is because the vendors received their wages last month.
As the big boss behind Dongshi, every vendor is a wage earner under him. In addition to a small guaranteed salary, the vendors' wages are based on commission based on the number of goods sold.
When wages are paid this month, the vendor who earns the most will earn twice as much as the vendor who earns the least!
When their leader first launched the currency, they might not have had much idea, but now a month has passed.
The value of high income has gradually been reflected in the tribe.
For those with low incomes, potatoes should be the main food for two meals a day. They are cheap and big bowls that can easily fill their stomachs.
And if you have a high income, you can have two meals a day and eat meat every meal!
Even, you can eat three meals a day!
Oh my God, three meals a day? In this primitive era, even for them whose lives were already very nourishing, this was something they did not dare to think about easily. Who would have thought that with the introduction of their leader’s monetary policy, some people would have succeeded!
This was originally discovered by those who cooked their own food.
After all, in the beginning, they all followed the leader's arrangements for eating. When the leader said they would eat, they would eat.
Now, the leader doesn’t care about this matter.
Theoretically speaking, as long as they have time, can they eat whenever they want and how many meals a day they want?
In this primitive era, having two meals a day was already quite a luxury.
Three meals a day? It was really like a dream.
After that, the canteen also seized the business opportunity and would cook some lunch for sale.
But not everyone can afford to eat like this. After all, the cost of living is completely different between eating two meals a day and eating three meals a day.
However, this is also invisible, further stimulating the motivation of tribe members to work and make money.
“Boss, let’s have a smaller fish.”
"Is this okay?"
In front of the fish stall, a tribe member gestured at the fishmonger.
After hearing this, the fishmonger fished out a live fish from the basin nearby.
"How about this one?"
"Okay."
"Okay, let me weigh it for you."
As the fishmonger said, he took out a steel scale from the side and started to weigh the fish.
This steel scale is undoubtedly a weighing tool launched by Zhou Xu to cooperate with commercial trade. After all, many things such as fish, meat and vegetables cannot be billed simply by quantity. It is more convenient to charge by weight. Reasonable.
It took him a lot of effort to let the vendors learn to use steel scales, but now it seems that it is no longer a problem.
“Let’s go and check out other departments.”
According to the plan, he has stayed in Black Moon Village for a long time, and he will ride back to the grassland camp at noon today, so while there is still time in the morning, he plans to go around each department to see if there is anything else he needs. deal with.
With this in mind, Zhou Xu's schedule this morning was relatively tight. Before noon, he arrived at his last stop before departure, the fields of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Although there are already cattle in the tribe, currently the cattle are mainly used to pull cattle carts to provide transportation efficiency for the tribe. For the time being, there are not enough cattle to be used in agriculture.
Under this premise, all work in the fields still relies on manpower.
It is now close to noon, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter. The farmers who have been busy all morning have also ushered in their lunch break.
Seeing Zhou Xu's figure, Zhao Geng, who was also busy in the fields before, came over.
“Chief.”
“Aren’t you going to have lunch?”
As the Minister of Agriculture, Zhao Geng can undoubtedly afford lunch.
"I'll go eat later. I have a question in my mind to ask the leader."
"What's the problem?"
"Chief, you said before when you launched the currency that almost everything in the tribe can be purchased with currency. Now I want to know if fields can also be purchased. ?”
“……”
(End of this chapter)