Chapter 172 Food Stamps
In this chaotic world caused by the Green Tide, ordinary people may not even recognize the United Army, let alone Roland who was directly airdropped in, so it is useless to reason with them.

Pure disaster relief cannot be implemented either, for a simple reason: the people do not believe that you will distribute food for no reason.

The displaced people do not believe in the benefits of free food. They believe that they can feed their families with their own efforts.

Therefore, Roland's policy of work-for-relief is more suitable for Donnar's current situation.

Anyway, we all have hands and feet. Since we don’t trust Roland, we can all work for him.

Giving them work to do and food to eat is more reasonable, and you can also give them a little money to let them see more hope and stimulate commercial circulation or something.

Teach them how to build houses, give them food, and when they finish building, tell the refugees that the wages given to you before can be used to buy the houses you built. If it is not enough, just pay a deposit and the city hall can rent it to you first, and you can pay it back when you have money in the future.

Similarly, if you want to farm but don't have the money to buy land, the government can also grant you the reclaimed land. According to Roland's military farming order, 40% of the land will be taxes and 10% will be rent. After five years, only national taxes will remain. However, although the land was sold to them, Roland also made a patch to prohibit the sale of land. If you want to sell land, you can only sell it to the city hall. Moreover, the amount of land that each person can buy is limited.

Roland had planned everything well.

However, when it came to distributing the money, Roland encountered a small problem. Almost no one wanted the copper coins he exchanged at Sinar.

Roland had originally planned to pay the workers a salary, deduct their food expenses, and then give them some copper coins as their final salary.

As a result, most of the starving people didn't want copper coins.

In addition to some copper coins distributed a few days ago, later, after hearing that soldiers could use food coupons to exchange for pancakes, they all asked to exchange them for food coupons.

After the matter was reported to Roland by officials at all levels, he naturally agreed to their request.

It's not a big deal anyway. If they want money, they can take the money. If they want food coupons, they can take the food coupons. At worst, we can allow them to use the food coupons to pay taxes, buy houses and farmland.

It just so happened that Roland had a limited amount of coins. If someone chose food stamps, Roland's coins could last for a longer period of time, giving him more time to continue developing.

Thinking of this, Roland decided to give a discount of 10% more to those who exchanged for food coupons in order to get more people to do so.

Roland's decision successfully made almost all the people choose to exchange for food coupons.

The people don't want copper coins, and the soldiers don't want silver coins, which results in a large number of copper coins specially exchanged in Roland's space bracelet, and the silver coins are almost useless.

After staying in Jiuqi for a few months, the million copper and silver coins that Roland stored in the Jiuqi warehouse not only did not decrease, but increased a lot.

Although some workers and soldiers chose to take money, Roland had officials open grain stores everywhere in Jiuqi to meet the people's demand for exchanging grain coupons for pancakes. At the same time, in order to recover currency, Roland also allowed the purchase of pancakes with coins.

Therefore, after knowing that they could buy food with money, the common people of Jiuqi directly emptied their family assets and couldn't wait to empty the grain stores.

In order to ease the panic buying trend, Roland raised the price of grain several times, but it was still useless. As long as there was stock, it would be sold out in an instant. In the end, Roland could only choose to limit purchases. Grain coupons could be exchanged at will, but if you wanted to buy with money, there was only a fixed amount per day.

This also led to an increase in the value of food stamps, and more and more people chose to exchange them.

Ultimately, this led to the current situation.

The amount of wages Roland paid out became less and less, but the amount of gold and silver he collected remained stable.

At the same time, food coupons anchored by pancakes became a general equivalent widely accepted and circulated in Jiuqi and nearby villages, replacing gold and silver currencies.

Roland reluctantly accepted this situation. After all, food coupons were just pieces of paper and were much easier to get than gold and silver coins.

The only problem is that this kind of food coupons that only circulate under Roland's control have eliminated almost all private trade between the people and the outside world.

Because, although the food coupons are useful in Roland and can be exchanged for basically anything, no one will recognize them outside.

However, Roland didn't really care about this. After all, Donnar was in such a mess right now, how could any caravan be willing to take risks just for a little profit from private trade? Now, those who dared to travel around to trade were basically large caravans, who looked down on the little profits from private trade and directly did large-scale business with the government to seek huge profits.

Roland naturally did not refuse this and placed big orders with every major chamber of commerce that passed through Jiuqi, ranging from various infrastructure materials, medicinal materials and tools to various high-level slaves who mastered production technology, as well as various intelligence and publicity.

After the Grand Chamber of Commerce filled the final deficiencies of Old Qi City, the development of Old Qi City entered the fast lane.

Now, Jiuqi is a busy scene everywhere, and even a false prosperity has appeared. At a glance, there are constant hustle and bustle, and the scene is prosperous.

The reason why it is false is that if Roland withdraws the food input at this time, the entire Old Qi will enter a state of depression, or even collapse quickly. However, as long as we hold on for a few more months and wait for a batch of food on the farmland to mature and be harvested, there will be no problem even if the food input is withdrawn.

And if everything goes well, then after the first batch of grain is harvested, Old Qi City will become Roland's stable rear base, able to continuously provide Roland with taxes and troops, and future plans will have a solid foundation.

Of course, the great changes in Old Qi could not be hidden from the outside world. Especially since Roland did not deliberately cover it up and allowed the Chamber of Commerce to enter and exit public places, the prosperity of Old Qi was also spread by the caravans coming and going.

Although it was unclear how Roland did it, the prosperity of Jiuqi naturally attracted attention from all sides.

However, Roland dared to do this because he had his reasons. After three months of training, the soldiers had almost completed their basic training. The next step was to take them to see blood.

Moreover, Jiuqi was still too small, and he needed an excuse, an excuse to expand within the United Army.

So during this period of time, Roland has also made preparations. Anyone who dares to cause trouble will have to die.

Roland was looking forward to seeing which unlucky neighbor would attack him first.

(End of this chapter)