"Stove?" The eyes of the four members focused on the stove in the middle of the living room.

"Zhang Guanren, this is the stove you are talking about?"

"What kind of charcoal is burning in this stove? It's so warm! ”

"It's burning charcoal!"

"Impossible!"

"How is that possible? Will burning charcoal have no smell at all? ”

"What is this big iron rod for?"

Zhang Junping didn't introduce much, he lifted the kettle, and suddenly everyone smelled a pungent smell, this pungent smell was very light, if you weren't careful, you wouldn't notice this smell at all.

Through the smell, they knew that the stove should be burning charcoal, and although the four members burned high-grade charcoal at home, they had all seen and smelled charcoal.

In fact, carbon monoxide is a colorless and odorless harmful gas, and this pungent smell is produced by sulfur dioxide, which is also a harmful gas.

"Huh? Is this carboniferous? ”

"How is this charcoal the shape?"

"And charcoal in this shape?"

The four members didn't care about the pungent smell of charcoal, watched around the stove, and asked Zhang Junping one after another.

Zhang Junping smiled but did not answer, turned his head and explained to Zhang Fu: "Fu Bo, let someone send a few pieces of honeycomb coal in!" ”

After a while, the family came in with a dozen pieces of honeycomb coal that had just been made.

"Guys, this is the charcoal burned in the furnace, and I call this charcoal honeycomb coal!" Zhang Junping explained with a smile.

The four members didn't care about etiquette anymore, so they rushed up and studied around the honeycomb coal.

Some people touch the honeycomb coal with their hands, poke or pinch it hard, and the honeycomb coal that has just been made and is still wet, how can it withstand their destruction, and it suddenly rots into a ball of slime, and what has not become slime is not in shape.

"How can this honeycomb coal be so easily damaged?"

"This ......"

"Zhang Guanren, I don't know how much this honeycomb coal is worth?"

"Same price as coal!"

"How is this possible?"

"It's so cheap?"

The four members were even more amazed that such a miraculous coal was so cheap.

Although the charcoal is cheap, this stove is not cheap, and most people are reluctant to buy it.

"I don't know, how long can this piece of honeycomb coal burn?"

"This piece of honeycomb coal can be burned for about half an hour!

If the outlet below is sealed, it can be burned for three or four hours! ”

"How can it burn for so long? Wouldn't that guarantee that the fire would not be extinguished overnight? ”

"Absolutely!"

The four members circled around the stove, trying to see how it was made.

After watching the stove and the honeycomb coal, everyone turned their attention to the purpose of Zhang Junping's invitation to come, and Li Yuanwai asked: "I don't know why Zhang Guanren called me to wait?" ”

"I invited you here to give you a fortune, what do you think?" Zhang Junping said with a smile.

"Give us a fortune?"

The four members felt unbelievable that Zhang Junping would take the initiative to give them wealth.

Some people are wary of this, this can't be some kind of conspiracy, right?

"Is it how this honeycomb coal is made?" Sun Yuanwai reacted quickly and asked hesitantly.

"It's not just how to make honeycomb coal, but also how to make this stove!" Zhang Junping smiled and nodded.

"Is that true?"

"Really?"

"Sure enough?"

Looking at the four members with a look of surprise and disbelief, Zhang Junping laughed, "Hahaha! When I asked the four of them to sell grain at a reasonable price, I once said that there will be a big reward in the future!

This business of honeycomb coal and stove is the generous reward I gave to the four employees, I wonder if the four employees may see it? ”

"Yes!"

"You can see in your eyes!"

"Of course I can see it!"

"I can see it so much!"

The four of them said in unison.

The four major grain merchants were able to occupy 60 or 70 percent of Kaifeng Prefecture's grain supply, and their business acumen and vision were naturally not bad.

This honeycomb coal can not only be used for heating, but also for boiling water for cooking, which is very useful.

Although a pound of charcoal or a honeycomb coal can not make much money, but the four members all understand the truth of small profits but quick turnover.

Thinking of the huge profits, the eyes of the four members began to redden.

"Then I'll leave the business of honeycomb coal and stoves to the four of them!

Our Zhang family mainly has two percent of the profits, and the remaining eight percent of the profits are divided equally between the four of you? ”

"Obey the orders of Zhang Guanren!"

"Just do what Zhang Guanren said!"

The four of them agreed in unison.

They didn't care at all about Zhang Junping taking two percent of the profits, if Zhang Junping didn't want any profits, they would have to think about it for a while before they dared to cooperate with Zhang Junping.

"Outside the four members, let's take a look at how honeycomb coal is processed!"

The four members had long wanted to see how honeycomb coal was processed, and they were naturally happy to hear it.

Zhang Junping led the four of them to the side yard where the charcoal was stored.

Zhang Junping pointed and said, "Look, this is the machine for processing honeycomb coal!" ”

The machine for processing honeycomb coal is very simple and very primitive, that is, an iron rod has a handle on it, and a small round iron bucket below, and there are small iron rods in the iron bucket, and the only mechanism is the push plate in the iron bucket that pushes the honeycomb coal out.

(This primitive honeycomb coal processing machine, readers in their thirties and forties may have seen it, or even have this kind of machine at home.) ）

After reading the manufacturing method of honeycomb coal, back in the living room, Zhang Junping took out the contract that had been prepared a long time ago, asked the four of them to sign and press their handprints on it, and then continued: "As for the stove for burning honeycomb coal, it is more troublesome to build by hand, and the cost is relatively high, I have another method here!"

That's the casting method!

First build the mold, then pour the fired molten iron into it, and after the mold is demolded, it is the shell of the furnace, and you can add the furnace core to it!

This method of manufacturing is much cheaper than the price of a furnace built by the purchase!

Those chimneys can be made in the same way!

The specific manufacturing methods and patterns are all available to Blacksmith Liu, so let the Fuguan family take you to him directly! ”

Zhang Junping is not afraid that they will not abide by the contract, and dare not abide by the contract, Zhang Junping has a way to clean them up.

If they dare to violate the contract, Zhang Junping will dare to kill them, and if they can't destroy the door, they can still do it.

Just like in this era, if you want to do a monopoly business, you never rely on law, but by force.

The business of honeycomb coal was handed over to four people, and Zhang Junping believed that with their ability, they could deter most of the merchants who wanted to counterfeit them.

A small number of people who dare to counterfeit him also believe that with his strength and the strength of the four major grain merchants, he can completely monopolize the honeycomb coal business in Kaifeng Prefecture.

As for whether there will be counterfeits outside Kaifeng Mansion, it doesn't matter so much.