After Qin Ming left the Qingxin Palace, he took a deep breath.

"Resigned? Hmph, after resigning, there are many things to do. ”

With that, Qin Ming strode out of the palace, went to Shuntian Mansion first, handed over the official seal, and returned to Qin Ming's mansion with Ye Xiaowu and Li Muxi.

Qin Mansion, Qin Ming was unofficial and light, so he went directly to the account room and asked about his income in the past few months.

The housekeeper took out the account book and showed it to Qin Ming, in the past few months, the library has basically sold tens of thousands of copies every day, and the net profit is also tens of thousands of taels.

Earning almost one million taels a month.

That's a lot of money.

Qin Ming was very satisfied, because on his project, there were already more than three million taels of silver at the moment.

Although this money is not the richest man in the imperial capital or even in a county town, it is absolutely terrifying to accumulate so much wealth in a few months.

However, Qin Ming knew that this was far from enough, because he needed to recruit talents and establish his own power, which cost money.

As a modern person, he deeply understands a truth, only when the salary is in place, the employees will be in place.

Therefore, Qin Ming decided to expand the industry.

And the coal mine is a bottomless pit for making money.

You must know that the people of this world have not yet discovered the role of coal mines, that is, even a good coal mine is enough to dig for many years.

These are all silver collected everywhere, and they are so easy to earn.

Therefore, that night, Qin Ming made an appointment with Zixuan.

Zixuan arrived at Qin Ming's house at night and gave Qin Ming a map in his hand.

"Lord Qin, this is the location of the coal mine."

"Okay, thank you, by the way, don't call me Lord in the future, just call me Qin Ming." Qin Ming said with a smile.

Zi Xuan nodded: "You resigned, did you want to take good care of the coal mine?" ”

"There's probably a reason for that, too." Qin Ming said.

Putting the map away, Qin Ming said to Zixuan: "I'm not the Shuntian Mansion Yin anymore, the new one should be coming soon, no matter what the new Mansion Yin is, you just need to do your job well, this is the basic way to be an official." ”

"Thank you......" Zi Xuan smiled as well.

The next day, Qin Ming took the map, and together with the housekeeper, went to the location on the map.

The location on the map is in the mountains twenty kilometers outside the imperial capital, which is relatively remote, and there are many trees in the mountains, but after twenty kilometers, the mountains are a little barren, and there are not even any plants growing.

Apparently this is a mine.

Qin Ming smiled, and when he went deeper, he found that there was a pit behind the mountain, and several sheds had been built, and more than two hundred people were gathering here.

These people are the same bandits.

At the moment, they are digging coal, one by one, full of energy, with iron hoes in their hands, digging on the coal mine.

Qin Ming was speechless when he saw this, these people are so stupid, they are really willing to dig coal, and they are so energetic.

In fact, he didn't know that these bandits robbed less than 1,000 taels all year round.

Now Qin Ming gave them 100,000 taels a year, of course they were motivated.

And seeing Qin Ming coming, the long-haired man of the bandit leader said, "Brother Qin, how about it, our brother can dig it, right?" ”

Qin Ming smiled: "Not bad, not bad." ”

Then he found that the bandit beauty was also rolling up her sleeves and working hard.

Such a beautiful woman can't bear to do this job.

So Qin Ming said: "That girl, don't dig it, be responsible for keeping accounts every day and making food." ”

Then Qin Ming made some arrangements, and the division of labor was clear, let some people dig, some people broke into pieces of about the same size, and the other part was responsible for transportation.

As a result, a coal digging process was formed.

And for the last step of sales, Qin Ming had to ask the old housekeeper to rent a store to recruit people to sell.

These coals are bituminous coal, and they must be well ventilated when they are used, otherwise they will be poisoned.

If you poison people, let alone sell coal at that time, you will even get into a lawsuit.

It is not easy to solve this problem, after all, no matter how you advertise, there are definitely people who will not do a good job of ventilation.

Especially at night, the ventilation is cold, so many people must not believe in evil and do not ventilate, and when the time comes, what should I do if I am poisoned and die?

Therefore, Qin Ming decided to get another stove for burning coal for heating.

The bottom of the stove is hollowed out, and water can be boiled on the top, and a chimney is made next to it, and the smoke is introduced into the chimney and discharged outside.

In this way, although there is still smoke entering the house, there is very little, and it is basically impossible to do it with a little ventilation.

So Qin Ming said he would do it, according to his memory, he drew the furnace for burning coal, and then handed it over to the housekeeper to go to the blacksmith shop to build.

It was done the next day, Qin Ming took a look, it was like this.

It's just made of copper, and iron is unaffordable for ordinary people.

The price of the copper furnace is also good, the cost of dozens of copper plates is OK.

Qin Ming tried the stove and used it to burn coal, and the smoke rose up to the chimney and went up with the chimney out of the house.

And the stove quickly heated up, and it didn't even take long for the stove to burn red, and a warm temperature spread, making Qin Ming's face smile.

So, Qin Ming immediately asked the housekeeper to produce the stove in large quantities.

At the same time, the shops also rented 10 stores, and all the coal from the reserve began to be transported to the 10 shops.

It's getting colder and colder, and it's even starting to snow.

On this night, the emperor looked at the snow outside in the Qingxin Palace, and his face was sad.

"The cold winter has arrived, the snow is falling, this winter, I don't know how many of the people of Chu will be frozen to death......"

Behind him, Tobe Shangshu sighed, there was a list in his hand, and he said faintly:

"Your Majesty, to this day, the imperial capital alone has already died from diseases caused by the cold, and hundreds of people have died. This is only the cold sick and died, and it began to snow today, and now, the number of people who froze to death will rise sharply. ”

The emperor said: "Charcoal is not burned, and it is troublesome to burn, and ordinary people cannot afford to use it, hey......"

"Your Majesty, there will always be a way." Tobe Shangshu spoke.

The emperor nodded: "Go down......"

……

In winter, the ordinary people in Chu State freeze to death every year, and countless people die of disease, and it is probably estimated that there are at least tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

It's heart-wrenching!

It was also this snowy night that countless people could not sleep peacefully.

Because they have begun to get cold, they are beginning to worry about whether they can survive this winter!

However, on the second day, suddenly many places in the imperial capital saw leaflets pasted on the wall in black and white.

At first, no one noticed, but soon, someone took a closer look.

A scholar looked at the leaflet and read to the people around him: "The cold winter has come, and the snow is coming. For everyone to resist the cold, our Qinjia coal house has sent warmth to everyone.

From now on, the top 10 people who go to the Qinjia Coal House every day to buy 100 catties of coal will receive a free coal-burning stove. The cold winter is ruthless, the price of coal is very close to the people, everyone is welcome to snap up ......"

"What does that mean?" Some people are puzzled.

Someone next to him said, "It seems to be the propaganda of roasting coals." ”

"Cut, charcoal, who bakes it." Someone disdainful.

The scholar said, "There is also a note below: Coal can be burned for one day for five copper plates. Equipped with a stove, cooking, boiling water, and baking fire! ”

"What? A pound of burning for a day? What kind of charcoal is so burned? ”

"That is, five copper plates per catty, so cheap? Can you still burn it for a day? I don't believe it. ”

The news spread quickly, and many people didn't believe it, but some people were curious to take a look.

Ten shops burned coal with stoves, the fire was very strong, warm, and many people went in and froze directly around the stove.

Qin Ming, as the coal boss, personally went to the store to publicize, and everyone immediately believed it when they saw that the owner of the Qin family's coal house was also Qin Ming.

Then many people began to buy, and they were ordered for dozens of catties and dozens of catties.