Why? Lin Lingsu couldn't help but ask.

"Because we have cheaper raw materials, phosphorus is not only present in urine, but it is also a mineral, the same as carbon." Zong Shu explained.

Zong Shu said that phosphate rock is a kind of ore associated with carboniferous, and generally speaking, where there is carboniferous, there will also be phosphate rock.

In Mixian Carboniferous, there must be the existence of phosphate rock.

With phosphate rock, the cost of raw materials will be greatly reduced.

"With the price of Liang Shicheng's matches in front, then our matches are cheaper, and the cost may be lower than that of the sickle. Make money, that's for sure. ”

"Matches are a consumer product, and the matches we produce are completely better than scythes in terms of price and quality. Why don't people buy ours? ”

Zong Shu's trick is too amazing, on the one hand, he wants to trap Liang Shicheng to death, and he also wants Liang Shicheng to warm up in advance and start the match advertisement first.

When the matches are well-known to everyone, Zong Shu will launch matches that are many times cheaper.

To a certain extent, Liang Shicheng is paving the way for the matches launched by the Great Song Academy of Sciences for free.

In this way, no one bought Liang Shicheng's matches.

Zong Shu set up a chain set for Liang Shicheng, and Liang Shicheng couldn't drill any of them.

Of course, all of this is premised on finding more efficient raw materials.

Neither Lin Lingsu nor the crown prince would doubt this.

The Mixian coal was found by Zong Shu in one day, and now he says that there is phosphate rock associated with the Mixian coal, so there must be one.

Lin Lingsu remembers that a few months ago, Zong Shu said that in order to make that sharpened pen, called a pencil, a kind of ore must be used, called graphite.

Graphite is also an associated mineral of carboniferous, and there must be carboniferous in Mi County.

Based on the mineral characteristics described by Zong Shu, the miners did find graphite.

According to Zong Shu's drawings, the Academy of Sciences is looking for wood suitable for making pencils, and after finding it, it will be made and mass production will be achieved.

Zong Shu demanded that in the future, all personnel of the Great Song Academy of Sciences, except for self-cultivation courses such as calligraphy, should use pencils at other times.

Zong Shu also emphasized that making pencils does not make money, so it is impossible to produce them on a large scale, but this is very important for the development of the Great Song Academy of Sciences.

Zhao Huan saw from afar that the eunuchs were busy and useless, and his heart was as refreshing as eating a chilled cold melon.

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Liang Shicheng set up a stall on the street, and he didn't sell a box of matches, but it took a lot of money to demonstrate the efficacy of matches for the masses.

Liang Shicheng was angry, Zong Shu casually made a thing out, it was so expensive that it was dead, and everyone lined up to buy it.

Making monosodium glutamate, from the palace to the alley, it was immediately popular.

After the new-style warm pavilion was created, Donggong and Zong Shuguang collected hundreds of thousands of taels of deposits.

Iodophor and penicillin are made, and people are waiting at the Great Song Academy all day long, and the price of the black market has doubled.

And the match business that Zong Shu gave him was so cold.

Liang Shicheng took a group of eunuchs and worked hard for a month, but not even a match was sold.

Liang Shicheng was ruthless, and asked his eunuchs to go to the relevant shops in the capital to speak, and they must come to buy matches within three days.

Liang Shicheng's match business is on behalf of His Majesty and the royal family, and your shops must give face, otherwise, don't do your business!

The three-day deadline had expired, and not a single shopkeeper had come to the door.

It's weird, have these shops eaten bear heart leopard gall? Aren't you afraid of being seized and closed by the government?

When the eunuchs under his command investigated, they learned that the operators were some small shops and small merchants, and when they heard that they were asked to buy matches, they didn't even sell them.

In this case, they are not considered "related stores", and they do not need to buy Liang Shicheng's matches.

The others who sold fire sickles were all merchants.

The merchants carry their burdens and walk through the streets and alleys, and they are very mobile.

The merchants sold the most commonly used things by the common people, and the prices were extremely low, so people did not listen to the orders of these eunuchs.

Let the officials buy it? Liang Shicheng doesn't have the courage to do so, and he can't afford to lose this person.

If His Majesty knows, won't it prove that he is incompetent?

Liang Shicheng is really strange, a good match, so easy to use, no one buys it!

Or the common people discriminate against their group!

Some eunuchs analyzed that the amount of matches they make now is too small, so the cost is high.

If the volume is large, the cost will be reduced.

But with the little night incense in the palace, there are not many matches at all.

If you want to make more matches, you have to expand the source of raw materials.

The other eunuch was opposed, which is like entering a restaurant, except for wine, there is generally a rule: no foreign food is allowed.

It's the same with the palace, Yexiang, how can you enter from other places?

How can the night incense of the palace be mixed with the feces and urine of ordinary people?

If you go outside to enter the night incense, it is the greatest blasphemy against Your Majesty and the royal family.

The egg hurts! Liang Shicheng gave up his house in the palace as a night incense extraction room, and let more than a dozen other eunuchs squeeze into one room.

The vacated room is used to store night incense.

The enthusiasm of the little eunuchs was very high, because Master Liang gave them a promise that the matches would definitely earn back a lot of silver.

At that time, those involved in match making will have a considerable amount of income that is a normal channel.

After paying such a big price, making such a big move, and making matches, no one cares about them, where does the money come from to distribute it to everyone?

Because of the matter of collecting night incense, Liang Shicheng also had a conflict with Cai Xiu.

Liang Shicheng was extremely frustrated.

Seeing Liang Shicheng closing the stall in embarrassment, Zong Shu's mouth almost dislocated from laughter.

If this continues, Liang Shicheng will definitely not be treated by Huizong.

Tong Guan, one of the "Six Thieves of the Northern Song Dynasty", was rectified, and it was Liang Shi's turn next.

When Zong Shu returned home, he found several people sitting in the room, looking at Zong Shu nervously.

Steward Qiao said that last month, the Zong family expanded their business in the south, buying large porcelain workshops in Suzhou and Hangzhou.

At the same time, according to Zong Shu's request, he found a few members of this family and was willing to move his family to the north to live.

The purpose of these people, Zong Shu, is to expand rice production to the north.

Rice is native to tropical Asia, and in the early Song Dynasty, Champa rice from the Shamba Kingdom was widely introduced to the Yangtze River basin.

Rice can be harvested twice or even three times a year, and the yield is twice as high as that of wheat that is harvested once a year.

The yield of rice per mu in the south is about 350 catties, and the yield of wheat per mu in the north is about 170 catties, and rice has triggered a "food revolution".

Since the widespread introduction of rice, the Jiangnan region, which is suitable for cultivation, has finally established its position as an economic center, and the proverb "Suhu is ripe, the world is full" was born during this period.

During the Song Dynasty, rice was planted in the Yangtze River Valley. At this time, people felt that rice was only suitable for cultivation in the south, and did not know that it could also be cultivated in the north.

The more north you are, the better the rice you produce.

In the famous Great Northern Wilderness in later generations, the rice produced was very delicious.

Even the cold Northeast can be planted, and other places can be planted.

Only by popularizing rice on a large scale can we truly solve the problem of food and clothing for the people.

In an agrarian society, nothing is more important than food.

Food is the lifeblood of the people, and food is the lifeblood of everyone.

Only by producing enough grain can we stabilize the basic plate of the Great Song Dynasty.

"Steward Qiao, that Chen Yang, if it's An Quan Zhenzi, have you found it?" Zong Shu asked.

"Found it, he just went out and went to find the national teacher." Steward Joe replied.

Great, Zong Shu jumped up happily.