With the establishment of the trading market and the establishment of the financial system, silver and copper coins began to be issued. The market economy of Weihaiwei began to come alive.
After a period of testing, Lin Feng began to distribute silver and copper coins to the workers who worked for him instead of food. Previously, the main reason for distributing food was to recruit people to join the system he had established and contribute to his territory.
Because the people of Weihai Wei didn't trust him at first, he could only rely on food to attract them.
After this period of crazy infrastructure construction, all the facilities had begun to be completed, and the silver and copper coins had also begun to be issued smoothly. Lin Feng could already give money to his subordinates.
As more and more people worked for him, he had to mobilize a lot of people to manage the warehouse and transport food almost every day. This was a huge waste of manpower.
It was different to give them money. Give them the money and let them buy it themselves. This could save a lot of manpower and also allow the people in the territory to find opportunities to make a fortune and increase their income.
With the establishment of the financial system, each unit began to be responsible for its own profits and losses. The total value of each unit was calculated in silver dollars. The data obtained this way was very real and there was a more obvious comparison.
Each unit decided whether to set up a canteen or not, and they were responsible for purchasing food, cloth, salt, and other items.
Lin Feng only needed to set a wholesale price for each type of goods in the trading market, and then he could use the profits to drive the merchants to buy the goods and sell them everywhere in Weihai Wei.
The peddlers who walked the streets and alleys, as well as the various units, villages, and even the small shops at the entrance of the construction site, also appeared one after another.
As long as there was money to be made, the Chinese people would be able to unleash their shocking potential and perseverance. Many profit points that Lin Feng did not expect were thought of by these people, and they even succeeded.
Of course, in order for the bank to gain a foothold, Lin Feng naturally set up a savings account for all his subordinates who worked for him. They received their salaries every month and directly deposited them into the savings account. As for those shops and other handmade products, such as paper, bamboo baskets, tailor shops, medicine shops, etc., when applying for a business license, they had to open a bank account.
Through this method, he could increase the number of users!
In the blink of an eye, the bank gained hundreds of thousands of users.
After all, no matter how much publicity there was, it would not be as profound as trying it out personally.
Especially when many people came to collect their salaries with their savings books and were shocked to find that they could earn interest by saving silver and copper in the bank.
At this time, although there were banks all over the Ming Dynasty, the banks would not give interest. Instead, they would have to pay a storage fee to the banks.
It could be said that the appearance of the bank shocked the people of Weihaiwei.!
All of them were confused. Wouldn't the bank lose money like this?
However, it would be a waste not to take advantage of it. They originally wanted to withdraw all the money in the savings book, but after knowing that there was interest, they all saved it again and scrimped on it.
The average salary in Weihaiwei was only 100 copper coins.
However, the 5% interest rate every year made many people happy as if they had picked up money.
One had to know that the prices in Weihai Wei were extremely high. Rice was a copper coin per catty, and most of the fish caught by fishing boats were sold at a price of one copper coin per catty.
The most expensive item was cloth, but it only cost ten copper coins.
With an income of 100 copper coins per person, many people could already eat their fill and eat fish. Most importantly, they could also buy a piece of cloth to make clothes for their wives and children.
Of course, if it was too troublesome to make clothes, there were still finished clothes for sale in the market. However, these clothes were a little expensive for ordinary people.
They had just eaten their fill, so they could not bear to spend so much money.
The establishment of the trading center, the establishment of the financial system, and the establishment of the administrative system allowed Weihaiwei to embark on the path of rapid development.
Time passed in the blink of an eye.
It had been two months since Lin Feng took down Weihai Wei.
The two months of busy construction had yielded remarkable results.
In terms of farms, Lin Feng had built 1,000 system farms that spanned over 1,000 mu, which was more than a million mu of fertile farmland. Moreover, he had already obtained his first harvest. After harvesting 500 million catties of food, Lin Feng's subordinates no longer lacked food.
According to the calculation of two catties of rice per person per day, two million catties of grain consumption per day, and sixty million catties of grain per month.
500 million catties of food was enough to feed a million people for eight months!
In addition to the expanding fishing team, they obtained a huge amount of fish every day. As well as the chickens, ducks, pigs, and cows raised in various farms, they had already begun harvesting.
It could be said that just a month of harvest had filled Lin Feng's granary with food.
The ample food reserves also brought a strong driving force to the development of Weihai Wei.
Whether it was food or money, it was the same. Food was a necessity for everyone, and it was a consumable that had a terrifying consumption every day.
Enough food meant enough money.
He could use this grain to recruit more people to dig for iron, copper, silver, gold, and coal mines.
In an era without machinery, mining was both dangerous and labour-intensive.
In just two months, the number of mines had soared to 100,000.
The kiln factory that specialized in making bricks, as well as the construction workers who built roads, also occupied a large number of people.
In addition, there were docks, markets, ironworks, textile factories, and so on.
Almost all the young men and women of Weihai Wei were captured by Lin Feng.
In the beginning, there were not so many workers, but they were afraid of competition. It was obvious that workers earned more than farmers. Many former tenants no longer chose to farm and became workers.
In addition, Lin Feng had expanded the scale of all kinds of factories almost indefinitely, so he did not reject anyone.
As a result, a large number of young and strong people flooded into various factories and became workers.
If it was any other faction, this would not work. There would be a huge problem in the development of agriculture. However, Lin Feng, who had his own farmer and farm, did not care at all.
He wished he could get everyone into the factory to be workers.
This was because it was too labor intensive.
This was especially so now, when there was no machinery. Almost every step needed people.
Of course, he also learned from the drawbacks of the state-owned enterprises in the future. He linked the income of workers to labor, and the principle of more work, more pay, began to calculate the income by the piece.
He wasn't afraid that the things he produced wouldn't sell!
Because right now, the entire Great Ming lacked everything!
Moreover, his troops were monsters that devoured resources. In order to increase their combat strength, they trained every day.
All kinds of clothes, food, cloth, alcohol, medicine, weapons, equipment, and so on would consume an astronomical amount every month, and this was just a guard of nearly 5,000 people.
In the future, they would definitely expand the army. At that time, the consumption would be even more terrifying!
Moreover, this was only the consumption of daily training. Once they started fighting, the consumption of resources would increase by tenfold or hundredfold.
Steel, cloth, and food. Lin Feng did not mind having too much of these three types of materials, and he was frantically stockpiling them.
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