Chapter 500 Important Guidelines for Currency Promotion (Please vote and subscribe)
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Regarding the pricing of goods, that is, the purchasing power of currency, of course, it must be determined according to productivity.
Luo Chong had thought about the gold standard, silver standard, and copper standard before, but after careful study, he found that this monetary system is not suitable for the current Han tribe. Given the current status of the Han tribe, the most needed is the "physical standard", that is, the amount of currency issued should be determined according to the value of the actual goods, so that it conforms to the law that productivity = currency value.
Based on the physical goods, a certain multiple of currency is issued, just like Luo Chong is currently planning to use food and cloth to exchange for the equivalent of money.
The Han tribe does not have currency circulation yet, so how to promote currency and let the tribesmen get used to using currency is a problem that must be considered.
As for the promotion of currency, Luo Chong's plan is as follows. First of all, in terms of output, there are two main channels. The first is to use currency to pay wages to replace the original distribution of food, clothing and other daily necessities. The second is to use currency to purchase a large amount of production raw materials, as well as food and labor.
Here we have to say that the promotion of currency seems to be a difficult thing, but for the emerging civilization of the Han tribe, it is extremely convenient, that is, the government monopolizes all manufacturing industries. At present, there is no private workshop. If the people want to obtain various daily necessities, they can only get them from the government.
With this prerequisite, the next thing will be easy.
First of all, all the workshops, from the previous tribal public ownership, have all been transformed into nationalization. According to modern terms, that is "state-owned enterprises".
Now the state-owned enterprises of the Han tribe mainly include a textile factory, a metallurgical plant, as well as ceramics, carbon making, ink making, papermaking, printing, animal husbandry, wood products, oil pressing, salt mines, iron mines, and other metal minerals.
These workshops have a large number of workers. In the past, the living expenses of these people were all allocated by the tribe. But now it is different. After the privatization of property, the tribe no longer distributes physical goods to those who work in the workshops, but starts to pay their wages in currency. These industries involve various aspects and have a large number of practitioners. Therefore, forcibly promoting the issuance of currency from wages is actually the fastest way to see results in a short period of time. It is also the fastest way to spread currency to every corner of the Han tribe in the shortest time.
Another promotion channel is the acquisition of raw materials by state-owned enterprises. Minerals are not mentioned. They are state-owned assets and do not need to be purchased with money. However, in other aspects, more raw materials need to be purchased. For example, the largest commodity consumed by the Han tribe at present is wood products. This wood product contains many products, from tools to furniture, to vehicles and ships, and even weapons, but their raw materials are only one kind, that is, wood.
In the past, the source of wood for the woodworking workshop was organized by the tribe to go to the mountains to cut down trees. In addition to distributing daily necessities, the tribe did not have any other benefits. The reason why everyone was willing to do it was just because they were part of the tribe. Working for the collective was just their obligation to fulfill, because if they did not obey orders, they would not be given food.
But now it is different. Unless state-owned enterprises use slaves to cut wood, they can only buy it from private hands. The original logging team members have changed from working for the tribe to working for themselves. After completing their own farm work, they go to the mountains to cut trees in their spare time, and then sell them to the wood factory to make some money.
There are also other things, such as oil pressing. The Han tribe mainly operates soybean oil, peanut oil, and tung oil. Now there is also a kind of lacquer seed oil, which is mainly used to make printing ink.
The raw materials of these oils were planted or collected by people arranged by the tribe in the past. It was also a task assigned by the tribe, and the people worked voluntarily to obtain the distribution of living materials and food. But now with the privatization of land, the government no longer directly participates in the cultivation of agricultural products. So if you want to press oil in the future, in addition to those small amounts of agricultural product taxes, you can only buy it from private hands.
For example, if they planted beans in their own auxiliary fields this year but could not eat them all, they could pay a portion of the agricultural tax and sell the rest to the state-owned oil-pressing enterprises. Then, when the oil was pressed out, they could use the money to buy it.
However, tung oil seeds were picked by the people themselves and then purchased by the state-owned enterprises.
Other industries include textiles. Currently, the Han tribe mainly deals in woolen cloth and linen cloth. Silk is still in its infancy and has not yet been popularized.
Among them, wool, the raw material of woolen cloth, is mainly obtained through foreign trade channels, but the hemp fiber used for linen cloth can only be purchased from private hands in the future. The silk, which is about to be popularized, must be obtained from the auxiliary fields of women.
In this way, there is also paper pulp for papermaking, which has now become a model of private collection and state-owned enterprise acquisition.
The last type is the acquisition of labor. This labor force does not refer to the workers in the factories of various state-owned enterprises, but to those temporary workers who serve various public projects. This is mainly linked to the corvee policy.
There are two main forms of taxation initially set by the Han tribe. One is grain tax, and there is also head tax, as well as business tax for various industries. This type of tax is collectively called money tax, because what is collected is either money or physical objects, which are visible and tangible and have specific value.
The other is corvée labor, which means twice a year, during the slack season, each family must draw labor to work for the tribe for free.
However, Luo Chong does not intend to do so. The first reason is that the enthusiasm of the staff for the labor task is not great. Generally, they are in a state of coping with official tasks and are inefficient in doing their work. The second reason is that the actual situation of each family is different. It is impossible for each family to draw people to perform corvée labor. If people are separated from their wives and children because of corvée labor, it is not worth it, and it is easy to arouse public anger, which is not worth the loss.
Therefore, Luo Chong decided that in the future, whenever there is a public project construction, corvée will be exempted. If the family really can't spare manpower, they can directly use money to pay for the corvée, and the same applies to others. Then, when workers are needed, the government will publicly recruit them. During the construction period, all the workers who are called up will have wages to receive, which is actually the part of the tax they pay to pay for the corvée.
Although it is just a trick of changing from the left hand to the right hand, the nature of it has changed. One is to work for the government for free, and the other is to work for the government, and in the end you have money to take, that is, you can make money by working for the government.
In this way, it not only takes care of those families who can't get away, but also solves the serious problem of negative work attitude and low work efficiency of the people when they serve corvée.
Luo Chong is very confident about this. As long as the people below can seriously implement these policies in the local area, then the time when everyone in the Han tribe has money is just around the corner.
Now that we have the promotion channels, we also need the recycling channels, because currency only has value and can form a market when it is circulated. As the largest factory owner in the Han tribe, Luo Chong said he was not afraid that the people would not spend money. Unless they eat their own food and have no other needs, they will definitely buy the products manufactured.
(End of this chapter)
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