Chapter 174 Market
The atmosphere in the newly opened East Market was a little subtle. As a market, it seemed too quiet, and everyone was clearly not letting go.
Zhou Xu didn't care about this. After all, everything requires a process of adaptation.
The cafeteria also opened along with the East Market.
To put it simply, this canteen is the original dining area.
On the premise of getting paid, tribal members naturally have to take care of their own meals a day.
Zhou Xu's idea was also very simple. The tribe members could either buy food in the cafeteria or buy ingredients in the East Market and cook it themselves.
The canteen operates like a fast food restaurant, cooking a certain amount of dishes every day and letting tribal members pay for their own meals.
This, to the greatest extent possible, prevents tribal members from experiencing any discomfort caused by changes in circumstances.
As for those who are willing to buy their own ingredients and cook, it is definitely cheaper than eating in the cafeteria.
But the tribe members did not have stoves or cooking utensils.
Within the tribe, it is definitely not allowed to make fires at will. At the same time, they now live in houses similar to dormitories, and there is no space for them to cook.
To this end, Zhou Xu arranged a solution for them, which was that they could rent utensils including stoves from the canteen and charge a per-time fee.
Even with this money included, it is still cheaper than the cafeteria.
However, since everyone is very busy at work every day and basically does not have the energy to buy groceries and cook after a busy day's work, most of the tribal members still choose to eat in the cafeteria.
Not to mention that people who don’t cook at all usually can’t cook better than those in the cafeteria.
When people are able to order their own dishes, many will choose to eat all of their favorite dishes. Those with big appetites will naturally spend more money and buy more dishes. If others eat one portion, they will directly eat two.
The result of doing this is that within less than half a month, many people who don’t have much money in their pockets are almost spending all of their salary from last month.
Under this premise, in order to avoid starving to death due to lack of money to buy food in the remaining half month, many tribal members were forced to buy their own food and cook to save money.
As luck would have it, the number of people who cook their own meals is slowly increasing.
No matter what the situation was, Zhou Xu, as the leader of the tribe, would welcome it.
Just like that, time passed quietly...
"Come on! If you're passing by, take a look! These fish are freshly caught this morning!"
"This is pottery that has just been fired. The quantity is limited. If it's gone, we have to wait for the next batch."
"Eggs! Selling eggs!"
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Compared to when the monetary policy was first introduced, a month has passed.
Compared to the beginning when everyone was a little overwhelmed, the East Market is now completely bustling with the hawking sounds of vendors from various stalls rising one after another.
There are two fundamental reasons for this.
On the one hand, both the buyer and the seller are no longer unfamiliar with each other as they were at the beginning.
On the other hand, it is because the vendors received their wages for last month.
As the big boss behind Dongshi, every vendor is his employee. In addition to the small minimum wage, the vendors' wages are based on commissions according to the number of goods sold.
This month's salary came down, and the vendor who earned the most received twice as much as the one who earned the least! When their leader first introduced the currency, they might not have had any thoughts, but now a month has passed.
The value of high income has gradually been reflected in the tribe.
For those with low incomes, potatoes are the main food for two meals a day. They are cheap and come in large portions, which can easily fill the stomach.
If you have a high income, you can have two meals a day and eat as much meat as you want at each meal!
You can even eat three meals a day! Oh my god, eating three meals a day? In this primitive era, even for them who already had a very comfortable life, this was something they dared not think about easily.
Who would have thought that with the introduction of their leader’s monetary policy, some people would succeed!
This was first discovered by those who cooked their own meals.
After all, at the beginning, they ate according to the leader's arrangements. They ate whenever the leader said.
And now, the leader doesn't care about this matter anymore.
Theoretically, as long as they have time, can they eat whenever they want and as many times a day as they want? In this primitive era, having two meals a day was already a luxury.
Eating three meals a day? That's like a dream.
After that, the canteen also seized the business opportunity and started cooking some lunch for sale.
But not everyone can afford to eat like this. After all, the cost of living for eating two meals a day and eating three meals a day is completely different.
However, this also invisibly further stimulated the motivation of tribal members to work and earn money.
"Boss, give me a smaller fish."
"Is this one okay?"
In front of the fish stall, a tribe member gestured to the fishmonger.
After hearing this, the fishmonger directly fished out a live fish from the basin beside him.
"How about this one?"
"Can."
"Okay, I'll weigh it for you."
As the fishmonger spoke, he took out a beam scale from the side and started weighing the fish.
This scale is undoubtedly a weighing tool launched by Zhou Xu in cooperation with commercial trade. After all, many things like fish, meat and vegetables cannot be charged simply by quantity. It is more reasonable to charge by weight.
It took him a lot of effort to teach the vendors how to use the beam scale, but now it seems that it is no longer a problem.
"Let's go and check out other departments."
According to the plan, he had already stayed in Black Moon Village for a long time and would ride back to the grassland camp on horseback at noon today, so while he still had time in the morning, he planned to go around various departments to see if there was anything else that needed to be dealt with.
With this idea in mind, Zhou Xu's schedule for this morning was quite 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, they are currently mainly used to pull ox carts to provide transportation efficiency for the tribe. There are not enough of them to be used for agricultural purposes yet.
Under this premise, all work in the fields still depends on manpower.
It was almost noon and the weather was getting hotter. The farmers, who had been busy all morning, also had their lunch break.
Seeing Zhou Xu, Zhao Geng, who was also busy in the fields, walked over.
"leader."
"Aren't you going to have lunch?"
As the Minister of Agriculture, Zhao Geng can undoubtedly afford to have lunch.
"Let's eat later. I have a question in my mind for the chief."
"What's the problem?"
"Chief, when you introduced the currency, you said that almost everything in the tribe can be purchased with the currency. Now I want to know if fields can also be purchased?"
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(End of this chapter)
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