Frederick opened the door hurriedly and saw a man in a black coat and leather cap standing at the door.

He couldn't help but froze, isn't this the uniform of a civil servant?

But it's so late, why would the civil servant come to visit his home?

"Are you Frederick?" Mr. civil servant looked at him and asked.

"Yes, sir." Frederick replied cautiously, "please come in and talk, it's cold outside..."

He turned his head and shouted: "Vera, pour a cup of hot water for Mr. Civil servant..."

Mr. civil servant said quickly: "No need to trouble, I will leave right away, I am here today to inform you of something..."

"As soon as the New Year is approaching, Lord Lord intends to give out a New Year gift to each of the people under his jurisdiction, including a department store shopping voucher worth 2 silver nars, 3 kg of edible oil, 2 bars of soap, and 20 kg. Dried scallops and 100 kilograms of dried firewood..."

Speaking of this, Mr. Civil Servant specially emphasized one sentence.

"Everyone can receive a gift. There are 4 people in your family, and you can receive 4 copies in total."

"Tomorrow there will be a caravan of gifts delivered here. After you register your name, you can receive it directly..."

"By the way, tomorrow evening, Lord Lord plans to hold a large New Year celebration in the valley north of Redstone Town. Everyone can participate for free..."

"The above is the notice from the Office of Government Affairs. Do you have any questions?"

Frederick shook his head stupidly, and his mind was dizzy. He was stunned to hear that Lord Lord was going to give him a New Year's gift, and that the gift was so heavy.

Oh my god, there are lords under the world who give gifts to their people...

The civil servant suddenly tidied his clothes and hat, stood up straight, and said solemnly:

"Lord Lord also asked me to bring him a sentence, wishing you a happy new year..."

Frederick's nose suddenly sore, his throat clogged, and a mixture of intense emotion, surprise, and pride came to his heart.

There were tears in the corners of his eyes, he just nodded desperately, but couldn't say anything.

"Frederick, if you have no doubts, I think I have to leave, and there are more than 30 families that need to be notified..." Mr. civil servant said with a smile.

He lifted the leather cap with his right hand, turned and walked into the snow with his cane. He gradually walked away amidst the "creaking" pedaling sound.

Seeing the figure of the civil servant disappear into the night, Frederick couldn't help but sighed.

Although the treatment of civil servants is enviable, to be honest, they are actually very hard. In such a cold night, they have to go door to door to inform the civilians.

There is no other way. There are almost no idlers on the island nowadays. Many civilian families are empty during the day and can only find people at night.

When he turned his head to look at his wife, he saw that her pair of eyes were shining, and her face was full of immense joy. She could hear exactly what Mr. Shicai civil servant said at the door.

"Thank your benevolent lord, may your brilliance shine on this land forever..."

After praying with excitement, Vera couldn't wait to ask questions.

"My dear, isn't our family of four able to receive 8 silver narrative shopping vouchers?" She asked as she couldn't wait to calculate with her fingers.

She kept talking like a happy lark, with a very happy voice.

"With these 8 silver nars, we can change to a new dining table, the kind that is painted with jellyfish paint, and with a little more money, we can change 4 new high-back wooden chairs to match the new dining table... …"

"There are also 12 kilograms of animal fat. You only need a small piece of fat to fry the fish steak. If you fry the fish steak twice a week, 12 kg can be used for half a year..."

"There are also 8 pieces of soap, and 75 copper nars are sold in the department store. I heard that you can wash them very cleanly when you take a bath. After washing, you will still have a good smell on your body. If the clothes are stained The oil can be washed off with soap..."

Frederick just smiled and listened to his wife's rants.

Only the two children ate themselves and did not pay attention to their parents' conversation. In their eyes, the most delicious pan-fried fish steak in front of them was the most important thing.

"My dear, what will the celebration be?" Vera asked again after a while of excitement.

"I don't know, do you want to see it tomorrow? It's just a bit cold at night, Bella and Betty may not be able to stand it..." Frederick said.

"Go, of course I want to go! This is the Lord's idea. It would be fine to dress them a little more then..." Vera said decisively.

Everyone in the territory now knows, but all the things that Lord Lord takes are definitely worth seeing.

In the eyes of Frederick and his wife, gifts that are of great value are too cheap in Renault's eyes.

There are only more than 2,000 leaders in the territory, and one person has issued a shopping voucher with a total value of only more than 40 jinnars. With Renault's net worth, this is only a drop in the bucket.

He decided to do this because the department store in the territory had only been open for less than 2 months, and the total profit exceeded 400 kinnals.

This number surprised Renault severely. It is necessary to know that there is only such a small population in the territory. Calculated by head, each person contributed 20 silver nars to him on average.

Of course, most of the profits come from the big dog owners on the island, but the contribution of the civilians is not small, and most of the civilians' remaining money is sucked up by the store.

Even Renault felt that it was too hard to make money, so he planned to allocate 1/10 of the profit to subsidize the low-level civilians.

For the big dog owners, 2 silver nars are not counted, but in the eyes of ordinary people, 2 silver nars are a huge sum of money. For example, Frederick’s family can receive 8 silver nars in total. Well, this is equivalent to 2 months' rent.

In addition, the reason for subsidizing civilians in the form of shopping vouchers, instead of directly issuing money, has another deep-seated purpose-currency.

The foreign world mainly uses metal currency, but Renault knows that with the development of the economy, paper currency is the general trend to replace metal currency, but there is a difficulty in promoting paper currency. Why do the local turtles believe that a thin piece of paper can be used as money?

In other words, why do you believe in the credit of paper money?

The birth of shopping vouchers is precisely to solve this problem.

On the other hand, it is also through subtle ways that civilians gradually accept banknotes, and banknotes are light and easy to carry. Once you get used to banknotes, you will find it very inconvenient to use heavy metal currencies.

In the future, Renault will gradually issue shopping vouchers of larger denominations, such as 10 silver nars, 50 silver nars, 1 gold nars, and up to the largest denomination of 10 gold nars.

After the circulation of shopping vouchers reaches a certain level, paper currency can be introduced to completely replace shopping vouchers.

As for other gifts, such as scallop meat and firewood, the former is simply partly distributed to the civilians because the warehouse can't fit them, and the latter is leftovers from the furniture processing factory, which are distributed to the civilians purely for waste use.

The purpose of sending soap is not simple, mainly to cultivate consumption habits. Once civilians get used to using soap, there is no need to worry about future sales.

Finally, this batch of New Year gifts has a deep purpose-to encourage childbirth.

When receiving a gift, as long as it is a leader of Haichaoling, whether it is a newborn baby or a mature adult, the gift share is exactly the same, and you will not receive more because of your age.

This approach conveyed a clear meaning to the civilians: more people, more people.

Want more gifts? Try to have a baby!

In fact, Renault has issued an order to allow the Government Affairs Office to consider issuing childbirth subsidies. The relevant policies have been formulated and are waiting for the official announcement.

In Renault's plan, this policy will become a long-term national policy.

The known land area of ​​the entire alien world exceeds 80 million square kilometers, and the human population is only over 20 million, and there is less than one person per square kilometer. The land is vast and sparsely populated.

Calculated according to the low density of 5 people per square kilometer, the entire world is enough to accommodate 400 million people, and the current human population is only 1/20 of the target.

Therefore, it is necessary to vigorously encourage childbirth, the sooner you start to explode, the better.