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Chapter 32 Chapter 33: Honeycomb Coal

Li Hao nodded with a smile, with a pretentious expression on his face, and asked, "How much alcohol do you hold? How much salamander can you drink?"

Cheng Chumo said proudly after hearing the words: "I can't drink too much, and three catties and three lees of oatmeal are not a problem."

"Three catties, hehe..." Li Hao sneered again.

"What! You don't believe it?" Cheng Chumo stared and screamed angrily. It was the first time in his life that someone dared to challenge his drinking capacity, which made him very upset.

"It's not that I don't believe it." Li Hao smiled lightly, "The distilled wine I brew can make you lie down for a catty."

"Just brag about it." Cheng Chumo snorted coldly, not believing what he said at all.

Li Hao also argued with him, anyway, he doesn't plan to make distilled wine now, because the restaurant has just opened and the business is booming, so there is no need for distilled wine at all. The introduction will immediately make the restaurant business fire up again.

Now that he has Cheng Chumo as a partner, he must make good use of it. After thinking about it, he finally decided to extend his hand to the coal industry.

The winter in Guanzhong is very cold, and Li Hao feels that he is about to be frozen into a fool during these days, so people in Guanzhong like to burn charcoal to keep warm in winter. Those who have no money burn charcoal, and those who have money burn coal.

The coal industry in the Tang Dynasty was not very developed, but Chang'an was different. This was the most prosperous place in the country, and there were too many rich people, so Chang'an's coal supply accounted for almost half of the total amount of the Tang Dynasty.

At this moment, Li Hao asked Cheng Chumo: "Brother Cheng, which power has always controlled Chang'an's coal?"

Cheng Chumo replied: "The eldest grandson's family."

Li Hao was taken aback when he heard the words. The business of the eldest grandson Wuji’s family is not easy to handle. He originally planned to find Cheng’s family to cooperate in making briquettes. They made it, and people in the Tang Dynasty burned coal, and no one wanted the broken coal particles. They were just thrown away as garbage. It can be said that the cost is almost zero. This kind of business is profitable.

However, now there is a big problem. The Changsun family controls Chang'an's coal business, and it is not easy to grab food from Changsun Wuji's mouth.

Li Hao tentatively asked: "If I want to cooperate with your family, enter the coal industry, and steal business from the eldest grandson's family, would your father dare?"

Cheng Chumo's answer was awesome: "Apart from rebellion, is there anything that Duke Lu's government dare not do?"

But he continued: "But it's not necessary. My father and Uncle Changsun have been officials in the same dynasty for so many years, and they have a good relationship. It's not worthwhile to rob his business for some money."

Li Hao raised his eyebrows: "What if you get a lot of money?"

Cheng Chumo's eyes lit up, he thought for a while, and said, "I'll go back and ask him." After speaking, he hurried away.

Li Hao also wants to go home, but the gate of Chang'an City has been closed long ago, he has no choice but to live in a restaurant tonight, there is a staff dormitory in the inner courtyard, but...he prefers to live in Tianzi No. [-] room, hehe.

The next morning, before the restaurant opened, Cheng Chumo knocked on the door. Li Hao asked Yao Dafu to open the door and let Cheng Chumo come in. Cheng Chumo said helplessly, "Li Hao, my father said you cheated me again."

Li Hao blinked and blinked: "How can I cheat you?"

Cheng Chumo said: "My father said, there is no such thing as a huge profit in the world. He also said that you cheated Uncle Fang Qiao and Governor Shen Song. This time, you definitely want to cheat our family."

"Oh, your father really..." Li Hao sighed helplessly, and after a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, "Brother Cheng, why don't we do it together."

"Ah?" Cheng Chumo was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Do we have that much money? Coal, it costs a lot of capital."

"Didn't I say it yesterday, it's a lot of money." Li Hao blinked quickly.

"I figured out a pattern." Cheng Chumo said seriously, "When you want to cheat people, you always like to blink, and you blink very quickly."

"You're overthinking." Li Hao couldn't help blinking his eyes twice again, "I just think I'm very handsome when I blink."

Cheng Chumo decided to trust him again: "Okay, then tell me, what is a book of Wanlifa."

Li Hao asked Yao Dafu to exchange the 250 guan that we earned yesterday into silver collars, then pulled Cheng Chumo and said, "First of all, I will give you all the 250 guan we earned yesterday, and you use this money to rent ten shops. The store does not need to be big, but the inner courtyard must be large, and these stores must be distributed in various places in Chang'an, not close together."

Cheng Chumo stared and exclaimed: "250 yuan to rent ten shops, are you crazy or am I crazy?"

"You are a dude."

"Even if I'm a dude, I have a bottom line!"

Li Hao thought for a while: "Then rent it for a short period of time, only for four months, and the rent will be canceled in the spring."

Cheng Chumo shook his head: "That's impossible, only a four-month lease, and a fool would be willing to rent it to you."

Li Hao: "You are a dude."

Cheng Chumo: ...

Li Hao went on to say: "Then, you need to send someone to the coal yard to buy crushed coal, the more the better."

Cheng Chu stared silently and exclaimed: "Are you crazy? The house is covered in ashes when the broken coal burns. What do you need that for?"

Li Hao took it for granted, "It is precisely because no one wants the crushed coal that I let you buy it. It's almost like giving it away for free. Otherwise, how can it be called a million dollars?"

"But...but that thing can't be burned!"

Li Hao smiled secretly: "Shanren has his own tricks, don't ask so many, just get me the things, remember, the more the better."

Cheng Chumo thought that Li Hao always had mysterious methods, and this time he seemed to have a plan in his mind. Although he was quite puzzled, he didn't lose much after thinking about it. Isn't it just crushed coal, and the crushed coal in those coal yards is worried that no one will deal with it, no It's just a matter of spending some manpower and material resources to drag it back. It's a trivial matter, so he agreed.

When Yao Dafu came back with 250 taels of silver collar, Cheng Chumo took 250 taels of silver to do what Li Hao told him to do. Seeing that he was gone, Li Hao hurried home and asked Du Hong to look for a blacksmith everywhere. Why are you looking for a blacksmith? First of all, you need to make a coal briquette machine. Honeycomb coal is made by a coal briquette machine. If you want to do briquette coal business, of course you need a coal briquette machine, and you need a lot, because it is almost [-] days now, and it is time for coal to sell well. .

Secondly, Li Hao still needs to make a lot of briquette stoves. Only briquette stoves can burn briquettes, and other stoves can't. If he wants to sell briquettes, he will naturally need briquette stoves. He has already thought about it. Honeycomb briquettes weighing more than [-] catties will be given as briquette stoves. This is the marketing strategy of buy one get one free in the future world. Who makes Chinese people so greedy for petty gains.

It is not easy to make a briquette furnace. Not only does a blacksmith need to make the outer shell, but it also needs a heat-insulating inner tube. The inner tube is fired with sand. Li Hao personally went to those kilns for firing porcelain and fired it, as long as one mold is produced. , Then hundreds of thousands of inner tubes are fired in one kiln, and the speed is quite fast.

In just five days, more than 300 coal billet machines and more than 5000 honeycomb coal stoves have been completed. The coal billet machines are enough, but the honeycomb coal furnaces are not enough. Li Hao asked those blacksmiths and kilns to continue to work. The minimum goal is to make two ten thousand.

At the same time, Cheng Chumo’s crushed coal was also collected in place. He has been traveling around in the past few days, and it is the first time he has worked so hard when he grows up. , he is still looking forward to the hard work and joy of starting his own business, which others cannot understand.

Cheng Chumo bought a total of 20 stone crushed coal, which is 2000 million catties. He really didn't spend a penny. When people heard about his identity, they gave it away for free. Now the 20 stone crushed coal is stored ten miles north of Chang'an City. Po's grain depot, because there is their Cheng family's closed field there, there is naturally a Zhuangzi there, and there is also a grain depot, but usually the relatives of the Cheng family are there to take care of it, and Cheng Yaojin rarely asks.

Next, it was Cheng Chu's turn to be silently busy again, because we needed to hire people, and hundreds of people were needed. It is not difficult to make coal slabs, just mix the crushed coal and water evenly, and then add some charcoal yellow mud or something, use coal slabs Just make it out of the machine, the important thing is that the amount of water mixed with the ratio of yellow mud to charcoal must be well grasped.

Li Hao knows the most suitable ratio, so there is no need to worry about this. The coal miners are all from Lu Guogong’s mansion. They used a coal billet machine to make a briquette in less than ten seconds, which is very simple, as long as people with no brain problems basically read it once.

The next step is to produce honeycomb coal in a mighty way. More than 300 people have been busy for four consecutive days, and all the crushed coal of 20 shi has been turned into honeycomb coal, which is neatly stacked in the warehouse.

Seeing that the weather was getting colder and colder, and it was about to enter thirty-nine days, Li Hao couldn't wait any longer, so he asked Cheng Chumo to send people to drag the briquettes to ten shops in Chang'an, and at the same time distributed the briquettes stoves he had prepared to ten shops. In a store, let them buy fifty catties of honeycomb briquettes according to their own requirements, and give them a honeycomb stove. As for the price of honeycomb coal, it must be lower than that of coal. The method is that the coal industry in the Tang Dynasty was not so developed, so rare things are more expensive. Li Hao set the price of honeycomb coal at eight Wen a catty, which is 20% lower than the market price, which is still very attractive. .

The day before the "March [-]th", ten honeycomb coal shops in Chang'an opened at the same time. As soon as they opened, the shocking news broke that coal was sold for eight yuan per catty. Everyone was shocked and ran to ask. When they saw the honeycomb coal , were all attracted by the strange shape of briquettes, and naturally had to ask their doubts.

The clerks were all trained by Li Hao, and they patiently explained the advantages and usage methods of honeycomb coal to everyone. Not to mention, honeycomb coal does have many advantages compared with coal, one of which is very important, that is, the high combustion rate, That is to say, honeycomb coal can be fully burned, and because the coal block is large and hard, the middle part often cannot be burned through, which is very wasteful.

Because of the low price and high utilization rate, many people started to buy honeycomb coal one after another. How can there be no honeycomb coal stove when buying honeycomb coal? There are many rich people in Chang'an, and some people even bought thousands of catties of honeycomb briquettes at one time, and it took several carriages to haul them away.

The appearance of honeycomb briquettes set off a coal boom in Chang'an, and everyone rushed to tell the news. The business of the ten shops was extremely hot. On the first day alone, the ten shops together sold a total of 32 catties of honeycomb coal. Forget it, then he earned 560 guan, after excluding some costs, he made a net profit of [-] guan.

When he heard the result, Cheng Chumo was so happy that he went crazy, dancing and screaming, Li Hao was not dazzled by the money, they were grabbing food from the bowl of the grandson's house now, the grandson's family couldn't sit idly by, it's time to invite Cheng It's time to bite the gold.

(End of this chapter)