When Huo Gang arrived at Yiwu City, Shi Wannian and Mingyue naturally rushed out. Huo Gang's order had already been passed to them. The residents of Yiwu City and Loulancheng were different from the herdsmen, but Huo Gang must have treated him fairly, and ordinary people from Yiwu City and Loulancheng could also divide the land.

However, because they cannot divide cattle and sheep, each of them can divide them into three acres of land.

For example, ordinary people who already had land near Loulan City and Yiwu City, if they were still willing to stay in their original place, in addition to their original land unchanged, they would also be given two acres of land each.

If they are willing to migrate to the Huoci River Basin, then their original land can be directly converted.

The same is true for other ordinary people without land. If they are willing to stay in place, they will be allocated in place. If they are willing to migrate, they will migrate directly.

In fact, ordinary people in Yiwu and Loulan do not own much land, and most of the land here belongs to the original nobles of Loulan City and Yiwu City. However, now, the treatment methods of these nobles are the same as those of the Turks. Of course, even if they have opinions in their hearts, they will definitely not dare to say them.

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Because they dare to say bad things about Huo Gang behind their backs. If they spread it, they would probably be beaten to death by ordinary people when they walked on the street.

However, what surprised Huo Gang was that the ordinary people who originally lived outside Loulan City and Yiwu City all had some land. Huo Gang thought that most of the ordinary people would stay in their original places, but in fact, most of them were willing to move away.

"Chief, this is not difficult to understand. Let's not talk about Loulan. Loulan itself does not have much land to cultivate. A considerable number of Loulan people living outside the city are not much different from Turkic people, while Loulan people living in the city are more of the workplace for people to live."

"Although Yiwu has a lot more land than Loulan, especially outside the city, these lands are relatively barren compared to the Central Plains, and the grain output is not high. What's more, for most ordinary people, the fields they divide originally belong to those nobles, and you have not dealt with these nobles. They may be worried about the future revenge of these nobles."

"Relative to these, they are more willing to believe in you. After all, your miracles have been circulating throughout the grassland. They are more willing to believe that after they migrate, you allocate them fertile fields." Mingyue said with a smile.

Huo Gang nodded: "Okay, that's good. The benefits of population concentration are concentrated. Let's talk about the mining methods of coal mines next."

"Chief, I have sent someone to investigate. The coal mines you named are all open-pit minerals and are very easy to mine. Because there is no need to mine caves, the safety is higher than that of some minerals that require mining caves." Mingyue immediately spoke.

"Well, I know this, what do you think about the employment of coal mines?" Huo Gang looked at Mingyue and Shi Wannian. Shi Wannian had never spoken, and it was Mingyue who was reporting the problem to him.

"Chief, if you give orders, I believe that with your current appeal, more than 100,000 people in our great men are willing to serve you. However, such work similar to corvee may be inefficient and will also affect your reputation, so I prefer the employment system." Shi Wannian paused and said.

"My opinion and Lord Shicheng has the same view." Mingyue also nodded directly.

"Well, you are thinking well. I won't adopt the corvee service system." Huo Gang nodded. Of course, he could not adopt the corvee service system.

"However, general, if the employment system is adopted, we have not set a suitable standard for wages for the time being, because this wage must allow them to barely support the whole family when they have a strong labor force."

"But coal mines require a lot of labor. If we pay them wages, we don't have that much copper coins. At present, our treasury cannot support so much." Mingyue said softly.

Huo Gang smiled and said directly: "Actually, this is simple. I'm here to solve this problem this time."

After saying that, Huo Gang directly handed a food coupon to Mingyue.

"What is this?" Mingyue took the food coupons in Huo Gang curiously. She naturally knew the words on it, but there has never been a banknote in this era, so she naturally could not know what this was.

"Before answering this question, I ask you, for ordinary people, what will the money they earn usually be used to buy?" Huo Gang asked.

"It's mainly enough to buy food, salt and clothes." Shi Wannian answered this question directly.

For ordinary people in this era, living is the most important thing, so most of the money for almost all ordinary people is spent on buying food, and occasionally buying some cloth and some household utensils.

However, buying household utensils is very small, and most of the money is spent on buying grain.

"Yes, since their money is always used to buy food and clothes, and although we don't have much gold and silver like copper coins now, our amount of food and silk is quite large, and it is enough to pay them wages." Huo Gang said directly.

"This...is OK, but what does it have to do with food coupons?" Mingyue asked curiously.

"It doesn't matter. We can't distribute food to them every day, right? The freight of these foods alone is a huge problem. We will choose a place to open a distribution point for the most commonly used things such as grain, silk, and salt."

"For example, this food coupon is 1 yuan, we can set the price of 1 kilogram of grain to 4 yuan."

"If the daily wage of these laborers is one kilogram of grain, then we can give them four yuan grain coupons. In this way, we can save a lot of manpower and material resources, avoid unnecessary consumption, and let them exchange the food by themselves." Huo Gang said with a smile.

After Huo Gang explained this, Mingyue and Shi Wannian suddenly realized something. Shi Wannian immediately bowed to Huo Gang and said, "Chief, indeed, has a far-sighted vision and has already thought of such a perfect solution in advance. In this way, it will perfectly avoid the problem of insufficient copper coins and also avoid the waste caused by our transportation of a large amount of food."

In this era, the cost of transporting food is very high. For example, if the army is driving, if the distance is slightly farther, if one hundred pieces of food is transported, one-third of it will be consumed when it reaches the destination.

Because these people who transport food also have to eat, and if the distance is farther, the consumption will even increase to a level that is simply unbearable for two-thirds.

Before the troops move, food and grass will come first. This is not just a sentence.

This is also the reason why countless powerful empires in the Central Plains have not been able to completely eliminate these nomadic peoples from ancient times to the present. When transportation cannot keep up, it is almost impossible to completely eliminate them unless you completely change their living conditions.

"However, will the chief's food coupon be easily imitated?" Mingyue said curiously.

"You can take a look at this food coupon yourself." Huo Gang said with a smile.

In fact, Huo Gang has already developed primary anti-counterfeiting technology for this food coupon. Although the quality of the paper is not very good, in this era when printing technology has not started to develop very much, the anti-counterfeiting technology developed by Huo Gang is already very powerful.

On the piece of paper, the word "food stamp" is very large, but if you look closely, the strokes of the food stamp are very thick, and there are some fine patterns carved on these strokes.

Xiang Gu and others mixed some special dyes for the ink used for printing, so that the entire ink diffuses very little after printing, so that these patterns can be preserved almost perfectly.

Such patterns can only be preserved exactly the same by printing, and it is almost impossible to copy with a pen or other methods.

Not to mention that Huo Gang's seal is also on it.

These two seals were personally covered by Huo Zheng and the others.

Although the location is slightly different, the approximate location is the same. Although this is very slow, for the time being, these food coupons can be recycled and reused, so the efficiency is slower, and there is no way to do this.

Huo Gang has made Xiang Gu improve the printing ink that is less likely to spread. It is best to have different colors to cooperate with each other. Anyway, Huo Gang gave the requirements for the improvement, but Huo Gang didn't know when Xiang Gu and the others could make it happen.

But now, such anti-counterfeiting technology is enough.

In addition, in this era, if you dare to forge these seals, it is not as simple as fines or something, and you will just lose your head, so in fact, this seal is the biggest anti-counterfeiting technology.

If the two are combined, there will be no problems within one or two years. One or two years is enough for Huo Gang and others to develop new anti-counterfeiting technology. Don’t underestimate the ancients’ abilities in this regard.

If you pay for food and silk directly, you don’t have to pay copper coins, then that’s much simpler. Otherwise, they really don’t have that much copper coins, and the gold and silver in the Western Regions are more than copper coins.

In this era, copper mines are actually equivalent to money.

However, Mingyue and Shi Wannian didn't know the hidden function of the food coupons at all, and they couldn't see it at all. They couldn't blame them. To be precise, this is the limitation of the times. In this era, no one can see the other function of these food coupons.

The reason why Huo Gang got out the food coupons was to use it in the future for all infrastructure construction activities such as building the city walls of Yumen Pass, building roads, etc., but what he didn't expect was that the first one used was the coal mine in Yiwu City.

According to Huo Gang's requirements, several large warehouses were quickly built in a village closest to the coal mine.

The nearest coal mine is not far from Yiwu City, but it is not too close to ancient times that lacked transportation.
Chapter completed!