Zong Shu took Cao Zongshen and Li Shaoyan to watch all this from afar.

A month ago, Cao Zongshen and Li Shaoyan, like everyone, didn't understand why Zong Shu wanted to make matches again.

The source channel of the raw materials for night incense is obviously blocked, how can matches be made?

Zong's gambling house also set up a special gambling game for this.

Of course, in Zong Shu's words, this can't be called a gamble, this is a "project".

This is a project used to "finance" the Zong's Group.

If Zong Shu loses, he will have to pay many times the income for the gamblers, and all the silver earned will be given to the gamblers.

If Zong Shu wins, then he won't make much money, but he just converts the gamblers' money into principal.

Liang Shicheng's match factory was on fire for an hour, and it was immediately cold.

Listening to Cao Zongshen's introduction, Li Shaoyan knew all this.

It turned out that Zong Shu designated a place and asked Lin Lingsu to send miners to find it, and finally found the "phosphate mine" that Zong Shu said.

Everyone knows that the element of "phosphorus" started when Zong Shu took Lin Lingsu to the palace to collect night incense.

Zong Shu received a copper pot of night incense from the palace, instructed Lin Lingsu and his disciples, and was busy in the Great Song Academy for three days and three nights.

Finally, "phosphorus" was extracted from the urine, which is the key substance for making matches.

Everyone agrees that there are only two ways to extract "phosphorus". One is night incense, and the other is human bones.

Collecting phosphorus from human bones?

Not only is this more costly, but most importantly scary.

Unexpectedly, Zong Shu directly asked people to find the "phosphate mine".

I'm afraid that the phosphorus that a miner can get in one morning's work is equivalent to Liang Shicheng's busy work for a month.

There is too little phosphorus in the urine, where can there be more than this phosphate rock?

Compared with Liang Shicheng's painstaking efforts to extract phosphorus from urine, the cost of digging phosphate rock is simply pitifully low.

In order to extract phosphorus, Liang Shicheng invested more than 200,000 taels of silver, dug a huge manure tank, and recruited so many displaced people!

Spent more than 10,000 taels of silver from the Great Song Academy of Sciences to buy a full set of extraction equipment.

also endured the smell of the city's night incense concentration, worked overtime for a month, and the matches made were not as good as a day for Zong Shu and Lin Lingsu!

Under Zong Shu's guidance, the Great Song Academy of Sciences established the "Great Song Lighting" company, which specialized in the production of matches, candles and kerosene lamps.

Matches are just one of the businesses.

The factory area of Dasong Lighting Company is located in the base of Mixian County, next to the phosphate mine.

The match was ready, and it was pulled straight here.

For Dasong Lighting, the biggest cost of matches is the wages of the miners and the freight from the Mixian base to Bianliang.

The matches are free forever, and for Zong Shu, there is no pressure at all.

People's matches are free forever, and depending on the output of others, it is many times that of Liang Shicheng's match factory.

Needless to say, no one came to buy Liang Shicheng's matches.

Does Liang Shicheng dare to be free? Can't.

After all, more than 200 officials have invested in him, and Liang Shicheng must have a return.

Liang Shicheng had to make money.

The free match policy formulated by Zong Shu blocked all of Liang Shicheng's money-making channels at once.

And Zong Shu felt that this was not enough, and also launched a blockbuster measure: you get free matches, and I will send free candles and kerosene lamps.

I don't know what a kerosene lamp is, but everyone knows the value of a candle.

Zong Shu is a ruthless man, a little more ruthless than a ruthless man, the wolf is destroyed!

Li Shaoyan and Cao Zongshen were happy, and they were about to get double the benefits.

The two of them once visited all the gambling houses in the capital with Zong Shu, and because of their relationship with Zong Shu, they were included in the "blacklist" by the gambling houses.

In the casino, they can only look, not bet.

In the past, Li Shaoyan was the most popular person in various gambling houses, but within a few months, he was annoyed.

It is still Zongshu's atmosphere, and Zong's gambling house was directly established.

Zong Shu said that in order to make some money for the big guys, let Li Shaoyan talk to Niu Gao and others, invest some money, and bet that Zong Shu would lose to Liang Shicheng.

Bet like this and earn more!

Li Shaoyan has already made a lot of money anyway, and it doesn't matter if he loses this time.

Cao Zongshen, Niu Gao and others don't understand these things at all, since Zong Shu said to let them be detained, then unconditionally implement the instructions.

At this time, everyone followed Zong Shu and made a small windfall.

Li Shaoyan now really feels that with Zong Shu, good things happen one after another.

Follow Zong Shu, there is silver to earn, beautiful women to bubble, enemies to bully, and wine to drink!

In particular, the liquor produced by Da Song Liquor has a special internal price.

A hardcore like Li Shaoyan can certainly get a very low price.

Cao Zongshen also felt like this, after his young master was kicked by a donkey last year, it seemed to be enlightened, and he radiated a dazzling brilliance in all directions.

Following the young master, Cao Zongshen's family was rescued from prison, and they all found good jobs under Zong Shu, and since then they have stabilized their lives.

Cao Zongshen was even more because of Zong Shu, who went in and out of the East Palace all day long, and was also given the glorious title of "Great Song Dynasty Warrior" by His Majesty.

What he is most proud of is that because of his relationship with the young master, the status of the entire Caojiazhuang is getting higher and higher.

In the past, the village, which made a living by digging graves, never dared to make a public announcement, and everything was done secretly.

And now, they are also engaged in the work of digging, but now they can all raise their heads and finally see the light.

In the past, their work was looked down upon and even put their lives at risk.

Now, the people in Caojiazhuang have become technicians, and in the mining process, they are just guided, and they don't have to do it themselves.

All these dreamlike changes were brought to him by the young master.

"Young master, I thought you were going to lose to Liang Shicheng, but I didn't expect that we would win again!"

Cao Zongshen once suspected that Zong Shu was going to lose, but he also spoke frankly at this time.

Zong Shu raised his head and said with a smile: "Remember, your young master is still your young master!" ”

When the Taoist unpacked the candles on the stage, the merchants and the people were excited.

They all rushed to the stage, for fear that they would not be able to grab free matches and candles.

The students of the Great Song Academy began to maintain order at the scene, but they still couldn't stop these people who were about to go crazy.

"Come, give me matches, candles, give me!"

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, ouch, get out of here!"

"Your mother's feet, step on me B!"

The man's scream was much like that of a eunuch, and his pitch was thin and high, so that everyone could hear it very clearly.

Obviously, this man was in a hurry and said the opposite.

The crowd burst into laughter.

Under this laugh, the Taoist on the stage shouted: "Don't squeeze, everyone who comes has a share." ”

Only then did the crowd settle down.

"From this day forward, you will receive free candles and free kerosene lamps."

After the Taoist finished speaking, he put down the horn and took out an object from the box.

As you can see, this so-called "kerosene lamp" is completely transparent and made of glass.

Ah, the crowd of onlookers exclaimed in unison.

Compared to candles, this "kerosene lamp" made of glass is simply a fine craft!

In the Great Song Dynasty, there are some glaze factories that make things that can transmit light, but they cannot be compared with the transparency of glass at all.

As for glass, it was an expensive luxury brought from the Western Regions.

After the rise of the Western Xia, the trade routes between the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Regions opened by the Han Dynasty were cut off.

Although the trade routes were blocked, there were still many Persian merchants who came to the Great Song Dynasty with glass.

These glass products can only be afforded by high-ranking officials.

The reason why iodophor and penicillin launched by Zongshu are expensive, everyone guesses that this bottle is expensive.

In order to sell free matches, Zong Shu actually gave such a valuable thing!

This cost has to be too big!

This is equivalent to you eating my food for free, and I will give you a big golden bowl for free!