Chapter 103 Economic Reform (I)

The occurrence of theft made people in the safe area panic, especially those survivors, who had more or less private supplies. Yesterday, the survivors who participated in the search for materials had a larger amount of supplies. These supplies were the foundation of survival and were extremely precious, but they could not be carried with them at any time. However, after the theft case, no one dared to let their supplies leave their sight, so this scene happened: people with work arrangements kept their supplies by their side, guarding the supplies while working, while those who had no work arrangements simply did not go out and kept their supplies tightly.

Xie Tian and Song Hui and others discussed the situation of this theft case in private. Since Xie Tian asked Li Yang to install all the useless surveillance in the safety area on the periphery and cooling tower, almost all the surveillance in the dormitory building was removed and there was no valuable clue. Song Hui also went to the dormitory where the incident happened to see it. Because it was summer, they opened the windows when they were sleeping, but the door was closed. There were no traces of pried open in the dormitory door. On the window sill, there were doubts on the window sill. There were faint marks scratched from fingertips in the eaves of the plastic steel window. If you don’t look carefully, it would be almost impossible to find.

This proves that the thief came in from the window with the eaves, but there were not many objects for climbing on the back of the building. After seeing it, Song Hui said: "This person's skills are at least not simple. Although it is on the third floor, it is difficult to climb from the basically bare back side without a few brushes, and no footprints are found. It can be seen that this person is very cautious."

"..." Xie Tian cursed and said, "There are only a few faint scratches as clues. In this way, the culprit will not be found. If this matter is left unresolved, the negative impact will be too great!"

Liu Mu said, "Why don't we search and search all the dormitories and rooms to see if we can find those supplies."

"Stop dreaming." Song Hui shook his head and said, "The other party even considered the shoe prints, so how could he be so stupid that he brought the supplies back to the dormitory? What's more, there are other roommates in the dormitory. Are you not afraid of being discovered?"

"It may be that the gang committed the crime, maybe it may be." Liu Mu said: "Maybe it was the people in the entire dormitory who colluded with each other."

"This possibility also exists." Xie Tian said, "But in this way, we have no clues to check. Even witnesses cannot be found. I also support Lao Song's view. Whether it is an individual or a gang committing crimes, they will not be so stupid as to put the supplies in the dormitory."

Song Hui sighed and said, "Otherwise, I will ask everyone in that building carefully to see if there are any details that are ignored, and then see if I can find any clues from other people."

"Yes." Xie Tian nodded and said, "But I have a better way."

"What's the solution?" the two of them immediately asked.

Xie Tiandao: "I also came to the conclusion that the other party won't hide the supplies in the dormitory just now. Assuming that the other party really didn't hide the supplies in the dormitory, he would never hide the supplies too far. In short, the supplies must still be hidden in a corner of the power plant."

"That's right!" Song Hui nodded and said, "It must be like this. There are soldiers patrolling near the exterior wall. They will never take this risk. Moreover, the power plant is large and there are countless hidden places where you can hide that little material, so the material must still be in the power plant."

Xie Tian said lightly: "Since all the stolen food supplies are all food supplies, the thief will definitely find a way to get them. He may not take them back, but at least he will find a place to secretly consume the supplies. After all, he stole them to eat them. Suppose he hid the supplies in a place, then when he wants to consume these supplies, he will definitely return to the place where the supplies are hidden. As long as we hide in the dark these two days and keep strict guards on it, I don't think it will take long for him to reveal his own feet."

"Just do it." Xie Tian said, "The wind is at its tightest moment in the past two days. I think the other party will definitely not touch those supplies. Let's wait for two more days. After two days, I will take out thirty kilograms of supplies and give them to the woman. Then I declared to the public that the thief had surrendered to me privately and returned all the supplies. I thought that he was the first offender, so I will not pursue the matter and will not announce his name."

Song Hui nodded and smiled, "In this way, the real thief will think that we were forced to lie because we couldn't find him at all, and were afraid that the impact of this matter would be too bad. If we wanted to calm the matter down, at that time, he would definitely relax his guard and think that the limelight had passed."

"Yes!" Xie Tian nodded and said, "That's it, Lao Song, you, Lao Liu and Ma Jicheng, Zhu Jinxi, you four, start tonight, quietly keep an eye on the dormitory building to prevent him from being brave enough to get supplies without waiting for the wind to pass."

"good!"

That night, Song Hui, Liu Mu and four others didn't sleep all night, but unfortunately, there was no suspicious person out of the dormitory building throughout the night. It seemed that the person was really staying patiently, but that night, the others in the dormitory building were worried, and the doors and windows of each room were closed to prevent the loss of supplies.

Xie Tian suddenly thought of his original economic plan. Now, is it just the opportunity to implement this plan?

Xie Tian asked everyone to go to the first floor of the canteen for a meeting through the speakers. This time, basically like an ant moving, each of the survivors carried large and small bags, carrying all their useful supplies with them, making it seem like they were going out for a trip.

Xie Tian asked helplessly: "You are not so scared, are you? I called everyone except the soldiers on duty here. Are you still afraid that ghosts will steal your supplies?"

A woman held a black cloth bag and said, "Even if everyone comes, there are fronts and backs. What if we just leave and the backs are stolen? In addition, Leader Xie, I would like to say something unpleasant. The thief on the night before yesterday was so elusive. Whether it is us survivors or soldiers in the army, it is all suspicious. What if the thief is among the soldiers on duty? So we still feel more at ease with the supplies on our bodies."

Xie Tian sighed, but he didn't expect that these people were really like frightened birds, but thinking about it was true that at this time, supplies are everything, and the safety zone does not have the ability to provide everyone with a fixed job. If the supplies are lost and there is suddenly no job, then they can only endure hunger.

Xie Tian said: "I have a rough solution to your concerns about material safety."

"What's the solution?" the person below blurted out.

Xie Tian explained: "Leave all your supplies to the safe area for custody."

Now, the following discussions were discussed and handed over to the safe area for safekeeping. No one could guarantee whether the safe area was really just for custody. Some people even worried that Xie Tian wanted to confiscate the materials in this so-called custody method.

Xie Tian said in detail: "Everyone first listen to me that the storage I said is absolutely fair and safe. The safe area currently has several tons of food as a guarantee. We will all the materials you handed over to us to calculate the amount of rice you have to pay, and then issue a rice ticket as a certificate. Once you need to retrieve the materials, you can exchange the rice ticket for actual materials. For example, the elder sister who was holding a black cloth bag just now. If you have ten kilograms of rice here, you will give it to the safe area for safe area to store. The safe area will give you a ten kilograms of rice ticket. It is like the size of the money. Rice tickets can also have multiple denominations, such as one kilogram, two kilograms, half kilograms, one kilogram, five kilograms, etc. These rice tickets are like the previous RMB, you carry them with you. For example, if you need three kilograms of rice today, then you can use the three kilograms of rice tickets to the warehouse for three kilograms of rice. Isn't that very convenient?"

"Then how do I know that I exchanged rice for rice tickets? Are you willing to exchange them for me in the future?" The woman couldn't help but hug the black cloth bag tightly and muttered.

Xie Tian smiled slightly and said, "Since everyone entered the safe zone, I think you have seen the policies and practical actions of the safe zone. If Xie Tian really wants your supplies, it is impossible for you to defeat so many soldiers with your personnel and weapons and equipment. It is easy to steal your supplies. Can you take such a lot of effort to deceive them?"

Everyone was in thought. Xie Tian said it very realistically. These people are absolutely vulnerable to the safe zone and the army. If Xie Tian really wants to get their supplies, it will be very easy.

Then, a man said, "You only get rice tickets, so how do I calculate the canned food here? Do you also open the canned ticket?"

"No." Xie Tian waved his hand and said, "Rice notes are not necessarily just measuring the value of rice. On the contrary, it can be a common currency. In the case of grain standard, everyone should have discovered that grain is the most fundamental hard currency. There is no such thing in the world that you cannot exchange for food. For example, if you want to exchange his hat with the elder brother next to you, he will definitely not be happy to give him money, but if you give him a pound of rice, he will definitely be willing, right?"

"I'm Ha'er!" the man said happily: "I'm not a melon baby with him if I take a pound of rice."

Two sentences made everyone laugh. Xie Tian smiled and said, "Of course, I'm just making an example and continuing to talk about the topic just now, such as you have canned food, and you have canned beef in a pound. If I give you one pound of rice, you will definitely not want to change it, right?"

"Yes! Who is willing to change it? I'm beef and animal protein, and who doesn't want to eat meat!"

Xie Tian smiled and said, "What if I give you three kilograms of rice?"

The man hesitated for a moment and said, "It's three kilograms of rice, so you can consider it if that."

Xie Tian spread his hands and said, "Isn't this the problem solved? You see, we set a exchange ratio between foods, between rice and white flour, 1:1, 1:1, 1:1, 5. Although canned vegetables are not as good as rice and flour, they are also scarce materials and can supplement vitamins; as for rice and meat, 1:3."

"If you have two pounds of meat, I will exchange it for you for 6 pounds of rice tickets. If you hold it on your body, it will be convenient to carry, safe and not easy to lose. If you want to eat noodles, come to me to change it for noodles. If you want to eat vegetables, come to me to change it for vegetables. If you want to change it for meat, I will exchange it for you and the exchange will still be in that ratio. This will not only be convenient to carry, but also much more selective."

"I understand what you mean!" the man said excitedly: "What you mean is that the rice bill you made is banknotes. We people will take things to you and sell them to you for banknotes. Then these banknotes can buy you various other things. Does this mean?"

"That's right." Xie Tian nodded and said, "That's probably what it means, but if you sell it to me or I sell it to you, it will be carried out according to a fixed proportion. I will not make any profit, so that you will not lose any losses in this kind of transaction!"

At this moment, the discussions of the crowd were no longer the kind of doubts and panic that they had just been. Seeing that everyone was happy, Xie Tian continued to say: "Not only that, the number of people in our safe area will continue to expand in the future, and there will be more and more people. You also have to make various transactions. For example, if you want someone's bottle of wine, you can discuss with him how many rice tickets to exchange for the right one. This rice ticket is money, which is the current currency. Isn't it much more convenient?"

"This is indeed convenient!" Hu Xiaobao blurted out: "If we work for the safe area, will we not directly give a certain amount of rice? Do we have to exchange it for rice tickets to pay?"

"That's right." Xie Tian nodded and said, "This is more convenient."

Du Yuewei suddenly walked out of the crowd and looked at Xie Tian and asked: "If we approve this kind of rice ticket, it is equivalent to agreeing with your own right to make money. If you print a large amount of rice tickets and you don't have enough rice as a reserve, then this kind of rice ticket will inevitably depreciate. At that time, we can't exchange the same amount of rice with rice tickets, so what should we do?"

Then, before Xie Tian could speak, Du Yuewei said again: "Also! You use rice tickets to pay our labor remuneration, but everyone saves a lot. They earn a pound of rice, but they are reluctant to eat them all. They must leave a part of it to avoid sudden unemployment or other emergencies. If the rice tickets we accumulated through hard work eventually turn into a pile of waste paper, what should we do?"

Xie Tian didn't expect Du Yuewei to ask two very sharp questions in a row. At this time, Du Yuewei said: "Also! After the rice ticket is made, what do you use to ensure anti-counterfeiting? We can only exchange rice tickets for hard work. Others can just find a piece of paper to paint and paint and falsify a rice ticket for real rice. How can our fairness be reflected?"
Chapter completed!