chatted until late at night, Li Shimin was finally willing to let Li Mu go and let him go back to his room to sleep.

But even if Li Mu returned to the room, he couldn't sleep, and Wang Pu had been waiting for a long time. Li Mu was not surprised that he would be here, Taiyuan has coal, Taiyuan Wang is the major shareholder of Datang Mining, honeycomb coal, this kind of sacred object, he can't let go.

Li Mu motioned for him to sit down, Wang Pu hurriedly poured tea for Li Mu, Li Mu took a sip, and asked with a smile: "How is it, this coal root is okay, right?" ”

"It's just amazing!" Wang Pu gave a thumbs up and said, "This thing can even cover anthracite, it's almost like charcoal." ”

"It's still not as good as charcoal." Li Mu smiled: "At least I like the taste and sound of silver silk charcoal." ”

"Well, there is a difference. However, the people can't afford to use silver silk charcoal, and for the people, coal root is more practical. ”

"Haha, that's right." Li Mu smiled and said, "Don't beat around the bush, what do you mean, just say it." ”

Wang Pu swallowed and foamed, and asked with his fists: "Master Hou, I don't know the patent of this coal lotus, does Master Hou plan to transfer or lease it?" ”

Li Mu was stunned for a moment, and looked at Wang Pu with some surprise, he didn't expect Wang Pu to speak from this angle.

Patents?

Li Mu didn't answer the rhetorical question, and said: "The production process of coal lotus root is very simple, so simple that there is no recipe at all, you can know what's going on at a glance, you can imitate it casually, why bother to ask me?" ”

Wang Pu said sincerely: "Master Hou, don't tell lies in front of the Ming people, if it weren't for Master Hou's invention, I'm afraid it would have been done." But since it was the method that Hou Ye came up with, even if he gave the Taiyuan Wang family a few orders, he would never dare to treat you like this. Xia Guan just thought, didn't you set up a patent office just to solve similar disputes? It's better to follow the rules of the Hou Ye, so that everyone can be happy. The Taiyuan Wang family is very happy to give half of the profits of the coal lotus root to the Hou Ye-" As he spoke, he paused and changed his words: "Hou Ye is seventy percent, and the Taiyuan Wang family only needs thirty percent." ”

Li Mu laughed, patted Wang Pu's shoulder, and said, "Finally, I learned a little smarter, and I know Benhou's intentions." Wang Pu breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to continue, when he suddenly heard Li Mu say: "But you regard Ben Hou as a mercenary villain, why is this?" ”

Wang Pu hurriedly said: "Master Hou, how dare the villain be like this?" It's just, I just don't know how to express it-"

"Less surprised." Li Mu waved his hand, let Wang Pu, who was almost kneeling, get up, and said, "You are very advanced, and you can see the huge market for coal lotus." But there is a saying that a gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way, and if he can take it, he will not give it away if he can't take it. For the sake of some money, is it the work of a wise man to let himself fall into passivity? ”

Wang Pu's face changed, he knew that his little caution could not hide from Li Mu's eyes.

At this point, superfluous explanations have become quibbles. Wang Pu knelt on the ground, pestle the ground with his head, and waited for Li Mu's departure.

"You don't have to be like this, you are calculating for your family, reasonable. If Ben Hou didn't see it, he deserved it. I can see it, and I don't blame you. Li Mu helped Wang Pu up and said, "The business of coal lotus, your Taiyuan Wang family can do it." But there are two conditions, you have to agree to me first. ”

"Master Hou, please command."

"Ben Hou asked that this business cannot be done by the Taiyuan Wang family, and if it is done, it is Datang Mining. This is also for your own good, eating alone has not ended well since ancient times. ”

"What the Hou Ye admonished." Wang Pu agreed without thinking about it, and now he is not qualified to bargain with Li Mu. Although coal lotus root is easy to imitate, as long as Li Mu lives for one day, he says no, no one can make it.

"Another requirement is that 10% of the profits from the annual coal root should be donated to the Salesian Bureau."

Wang Pu was a little surprised, but he agreed without hesitation, compared to the price he planned to give Li Mu in his heart, it was only one percent, which was equivalent to not giving it.

Li Mu was also very happy to see him acquaintance, and said, "Then I'll tell you how this coal root makes money." ”

When Wang Pu heard this, he almost died of joy. Li Mu taught him to do business by hand, what is the difference between this and the advent of the God of Wealth?

"How much do you think this coal lotus is going to sell for?"

Wang Pu thought for a while and said: "The practicability of coal root is similar to Taiyuan coal, but it is better than anthracite. ”

Li Mu had already calculated, and when he said it at this time, he naturally had the bottom in his heart: "One hundred catties of good Taiyuan coal, the average price in winter can be sold for one hundred and seventy or eighty yuan...... Let's make it cheaper, just 160 pounds. ”

"One hundred catties ......," Wang Pu asked, "How many coal lotus roots are there?" ”。

"The weight of the coal root can be customized, and my suggestion is two and a half catties, which is too small, not burn-resistant, too big, and inconvenient to carry."

"That's four pennies and a coal lotus!" Wang Pu's arithmetic is still good, and he quickly gave the answer, but this answer can't satisfy him, it's too cheap, a few pennies a thing, how can he get into his eyes? How can you accumulate a huge amount of wealth?

When Li Mu saw Wang Pu's appearance, he knew that his arithmetic was not yet at home, and he would not calculate this account.

"A four-penny." Li Mu brought a piece of rice paper, Wang Pu hurriedly grinded the ink, Li Mu wrote on the paper: "A coal lotus root is two and a half catties, containing two catties of pulverized coal, and half a catty of loess...... It is made of the most ordinary coal. ”

"The cost of that coal root is ......" Li Mu listed the cost of pulverized coal next to him, Wang Pu silently calculated in his heart, and looked at Li Mu with a shocked face: "It's not more than three cents?!" ”

"Not bad!" Li Mu nodded, before Zhang Luo's transaction, he had made strict cost calculations.

Under the premise that the initial investment is not included, the cost of each coal root roughly includes three parts, raw materials, labor and miscellaneous expenses.

Among the raw materials, loess and water do not cost money, and the river beach is inexhaustible. Slaked lime and sawdust are extremely cheap things, and the amount used is extremely low, and when each coal root is spread, it is not even a penny, which is almost negligible.

Therefore, the cost of raw materials is basically two cents for two catties of coal, and in coal mines such as Taiyuan, it can be as low as two cents!

As for labor, Li Mu was going to pay every ten of the workers of the dun coal lotus. There are also workers who make pulverized coal and transport basically refer to this standard, so the total labor cost of each coal root is 0.3 cents.

The last miscellaneous expenses, including the remuneration of the management sales staff, the thirty taxes for entering the city, the food of the workers, and the labor insurance expenses, add up to a lot. But spread out in each piece of coal root, 0.7 wen is definitely more than enough.

Therefore, as Wang Pu estimated, the cost of each piece of coal root will not exceed three cents at most.

In the case of a price of four yuan, every coal root sold will make a net profit, and the profit margin is as high as one-third!

Four dollars earn one penny, which doesn't seem like much. It's like four dollars for one, and it doesn't seem like much. But what if 40,000 makes 10,000, and 40 million makes 10,000? Such a high profit is enough to make people take risks!

Some people may think, to put it nicely, how to ensure the shipment?

Please, don't forget that this is coal. In winter, it's a necessity! Do you still need to worry about the volume?

This business is an iron rice bowl, the kind that can be served every year!

……

Wang Pu's arithmetic is still okay, he just doesn't think about it. Li Mu made such a little move, and he could immediately clearly calculate how broad the prospects of this transaction were......

He secretly calculated in his heart that Chang'an City would use two or three million catties of coal every day. Nowadays, the coal mine is the monopoly of Datang Mining, and there are no competitors in the industry, and the so-called opponents are just those who buy firewood and charcoal, and their proportion is decreasing day by day under the squeeze of coal. If you switch to cheap honeycomb coal, it shouldn't be a problem to sell three or four million yuan a day. In this way, the net profit per day is three or four thousand.

In a month, it's almost 100,000!

100,000 a month, 300,000 in three months, this is just a city in Chang'an. How many cities are there in Datang? Even if it is not as easy to mine as Taiyuan coal, the key is that the production of this coal lotus root can be dug without picking coal!

A big city like Luoyang, Chang'an, earns 340,000 yuan a year, and a small city, tens of thousands of yuan is not a problem, right? As long as there are people, they can be sold. How vast is the territory of Datang, how much will it cost if it is promoted?

Hundreds of thousands, no, isn't it millions!

Wang Pu's mouth is open, what kind of business can be so profitable?

When Li Mu saw his expression, he knew that he had reacted, and secretly said in his heart, this is still Benhou's heart of charity, and the cost has increased a lot, otherwise he can earn more.

After calculating several times in his heart to make sure that he had not miscalculated, Wang Pucai smiled bitterly and cast an admiring look at Li Mu and said: "The villain actually thought that Hou Ye made a mistake this time, but I didn't expect that I was a mallet!" Now the villain understands why Hou Ye said that it is for the sake of the Taiyuan Wang family, such a big business, the Taiyuan Wang family really can't eat it, and they don't dare to eat it! ”

"Hahaha......" Li Mu laughed loudly: "You are also very good, you can control your greed, this is much better than your eldest brother!" ”

Li Mu asked Wang Pu to come over and said: "If you have money, everyone earns it, it is definitely a good word, you keep this sentence in your heart, and I will teach you the details of how to make coal lotus now." ”

"The coal root mixed with sawdust is used to ignite the fire, this does not need to produce too much, ten ordinary coal lotus roots are pierd, and one pier is made of ignition coal."

Wang Pu nodded, and was about to record it, Li Mu patted him and said, "Can this thing be written on paper?" He pointed to his head and said in a low voice: "Exist here, it's the safest, you can't remember this thing, you better don't mess around in the future!" ”

Wang Pu nodded vigorously, indicating that he could remember.

"The most important thing is slaked lime, only when this thing is mixed with it, the quality of coal root can be good. Its proportions are like this—"

"Don't worry, Master Hou, the villain won't leak out if he dies!" Wang Pu couldn't help but be grateful for Li Mu's trust, and immediately came up with a secret plan and said: "The villain suggested taking soil from another place, mixing the loess and slaked lime and then transporting it in. ”

"Yes, you're a connoisseur!" Li Mu nodded approvingly and said, "But do you think you can hide it?" ”

"If you want to hide it, it's not easy to be afraid." Wang Pu thought about it, and said with a bitter face: "It's okay to say at first, when the business becomes bigger, I don't know how many people will start to think about us, and sooner or later we will be able to understand this section." ”

"Of course." Li Mu nodded, but to Wang Pu's surprise: "You don't have to take special precautions, let people know, imitate and imitate, it's okay." ”

"Huh?" Wang Pu's heart has just been steady for a while? It's full of question marks again. "Master Hou, what do you mean by this? It's the most comfortable for our family to make money, right? ”

Wang Pu's arithmetic is still okay, he just doesn't think about it. Li Mu made such a little move, and he could immediately clearly calculate how broad the prospects of this transaction were......

He secretly calculated in his heart that Chang'an City would use two or three million catties of coal every day. Nowadays, the coal mine is the monopoly of Datang Mining, and there are no competitors in the industry, and the so-called opponents are just those who buy firewood and charcoal, and their proportion is decreasing day by day under the squeeze of coal. If you switch to cheap honeycomb coal, it shouldn't be a problem to sell three or four million yuan a day. In this way, the net profit per day is three or four thousand.

In a month, it's almost 100,000!

100,000 a month, 300,000 in three months, this is just a city in Chang'an. How many cities are there in Datang? Even if it is not as easy to mine as Taiyuan coal, the key is that the production of this coal lotus root can be dug without picking coal!

A big city like Luoyang, Chang'an, earns 340,000 yuan a year, and a small city, tens of thousands of yuan is not a problem, right? As long as there are people, they can be sold. How vast is the territory of Datang, how much will it cost if it is promoted?

Hundreds of thousands, no, isn't it millions!

Wang Pu's mouth is open, what kind of business can be so profitable?

When Li Mu saw his expression, he knew that he had reacted, and secretly said in his heart, this is still Benhou's heart of charity, and the cost has increased a lot, otherwise he can earn more.

After calculating several times in his heart to make sure that he had not miscalculated, Wang Pucai smiled bitterly and cast an admiring look at Li Mu and said: "The villain actually thought that Hou Ye made a mistake this time, but I didn't expect that I was a mallet!" Now the villain understands why Hou Ye said that it is for the sake of the Taiyuan Wang family, such a big business, the Taiyuan Wang family really can't eat it, and they don't dare to eat it! ”

"Hahaha......" Li Mu laughed loudly: "You are also very good, you can control your greed, this is much better than your eldest brother!" ”

Li Mu asked Wang Pu to come over and said: "If you have money, everyone earns it, it is definitely a good word, you keep this sentence in your heart, and I will teach you the details of how to make coal lotus now." ”

"The coal root mixed with sawdust is used to ignite the fire, this does not need to produce too much, ten ordinary coal lotus roots are pierd, and one pier is made of ignition coal."

Wang Pu nodded, and was about to record it, Li Mu patted him and said, "Can this thing be written on paper?" He pointed to his head and whispered: "