When Jin Liangyuliang returned home, he immediately called all the housekeepers in the house and took some family members to various shops to buy coal.

There were many servants of the bureaucratic squire's family squatting around the coal shop, and when they saw that the stewards of the Jin Liang family not only did not sell their own coal, but were buying it in large quantities, they hurriedly reported the news back to their masters.

The bureaucrats and squires breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the good news, it seems that Zhu Shun is destined to be planted in the hands of Li Lusheng, who has no bottom line.

The bureaucrats and squires arranged for the housekeeper to hurry up to buy coal, and arranged for a personal entourage to hand Li Lusheng a letter of deputy notice, taking advantage of Li Lusheng's official entry into the officialdom, to burn a cold stove.

Time passes slowly.

Half a month later.

The third batch of Manjia's coal washing plants were also built, but Man Danchen did not take it to the capital to earn money, and sent a letter to his father, asking him to send a sailor over.

The common people in the capital are short of coal, and the border soldiers who guard the country in the northernmost part of the Ming Dynasty are even more short of coal.

Every year, a batch of new military jackets can be issued to the Cao family's army, and the charcoal is twice the normal share, so that the Cao family army sergeants can survive the winter comfortably to the greatest extent.

Because Cao Wenzhao's family followed his sister-in-law Zhu Shun to do business, the business became bigger and bigger, and the poorest border army in the past has now become the envy of everyone.

What I envy is not only the various privileges of this old army, but also the new firearms of the old army, as well as the achievements of the Manchu Eight Banners head-on.

Since Yuan Chonghuan's death, there have been many military leaders in Shanhaiguan, and Man Gui has been able to suppress the other general soldiers because he has the most men and horses in his hands, as many as 30,000 or 40,000.

When there are too many people, a problem often arises, the consumption of grain and grass will become an astronomical amount, and the imperial court will not be able to collect taxes, and all the taxes will be avoided by the bureaucrats and gentry in various clever names.

If the taxes cannot be collected, the imperial court will not have the silver to distribute to Shanhaiguan, and the baggage of military salaries, ordnance, oil and salt can be delayed, and there are two kinds of baggage that cannot be dragged in winter.

One is grain, and the other is coals.

Shanhaiguan is located in the northernmost part of the Ming Dynasty, the ghost weather in the Ming Dynasty is getting colder and colder day by day, and the border army defending the city does not have enough charcoal to roast the fire.

There was no need for the Manchu Eight Banners to attack, and the cold wind overnight was enough to freeze to death a large number of border troops defending the city.

Man Danchen asked his father to send a sailor disguised as a merchant ship, just to transport a large amount of medium coal washed out of the coal washing plant to Shanhaiguan to the border soldiers, so that they could survive the cold winter in the cold city.

Zhu Shun did not blame Man Danchen for his self-assertions, the common people really need coal, and the soldiers who stood in the northernmost border of the Ming Dynasty did not need coal.

He just asked the Industrial Department to cooperate with the Infrastructure Department to build the fourth batch of coal washing plants, and he never said anything else.

After such a delay, a good thing has also been delayed.

Zhu Shun had overestimated the output of the coal washing plant, but he still underestimated the capacity of industrialization, but the coal washed out by the twenty coal washing plants every day was already enough to keep up with the consumption of all the shops in the hands of the Marquis of Zhenyuan.

Zhu Shun asked the workers of the various factories who had worked hard for a month to go back and continue to work in their respective factories, and the fourth and final batch of coal washing plants was handed over to the Infrastructure Construction Department and the Industry Department.

A good thing happened after the delay, Zhu Shun was in a good mood, but Li Lusheng couldn't sit still.

The coal of the Zhenyuan Mining Bureau is like a bottomless pit, which can never be eaten.

Half a month has passed, and only three percent of the cash in the hands of Jin Liangyu and Liang Jiabin are left, and the Zhenyuan Ore Bureau still keeps selling coal.

Jin Liangyu and Liang Jiabin didn't feel anything, they were still beautiful every day, and they were humming Kunqu opera tunes when they walked.

Coal is not like grain and ordnance, and it may become moldy or rusty if it is piled up in your hands for a long time, and you will lose it in your hands.

Coal can't be bad if you put it for a hundred years, and it's still the firewood that ranks first in firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, and you have to use it every day without worrying about sales.

Jin Liangyu and Liang Jiabin didn't believe it, the coal in the hands of the industrial faction could always be so cheap, unless the industrial faction had a little magic to turn stone into gold, and with a wave of their hand, they could pick out a large amount of refined coal.

The fact is much more magical than Jin Liangyu and Liang Jiabin, the two big Jin businessmen, do not need to wave their hands in the industrialized coal washing plant, and the useless river water that lies on the land for I don't know how many years has been completed by hand to complete the sorting of coal by industrialized machinery.

Jin Liangyu and Liang Jiabin, the two big Jin businessmen, were only bent on making money, but Li Lusheng sensed that something was wrong, and called his henchman butler: "You personally go to Jingxi to see that these refined coals are stored in Jingxi in advance, creating the illusion of picking coal in large quantities." ”

"Or does Zhu Shun really have some magic and can wash coal in large quantities."

The henchman called a few cronies who were good at fist and foot kung fu, got into a carriage and rushed to Jingxi, and happened to meet a group of returning workers on the way.

The butler lifted the curtain of the carriage and observed the group of skilled workers leaving from the side of the carriage, as if they had just served a very tired conscription, all with tired faces.

The henchman butler was thoughtful and ordered, "Speed up." ”

Coming to the edge of the Jingxi coal kiln, the henchman found a very unusual place, a large part of the abandoned original coal mine has disappeared.

Thinking of the coal transported to the capital again and again, the henchman himself has some judgments, it should be that Zhu Shun really has a kind of magic to pick coal in large quantities.

The henchman butler had to admire the master's thoughtfulness, and immediately discovered something unusual and immediately sent him over to check.

Fortunately, only one of the three major Jin merchants lost all the cash silver, and there were two big Jin merchants who did not finish the cash in their hands, and there was still room for maneuver.

If you really wait until the three major Jin merchants and bureaucratic squires all lose all the money in their hands, let alone become an official again, the first thing to consider is how to survive.

The henchman housekeeper stood at the edge of the Jingxi coal kiln and watched the tea kung fu again, and found that a team of Xiang Yong with a fire hammer came over, knowing that he couldn't panic now, and continued to look around the edge of the coal kiln without changing his face.

Pretending to be a traveler who has nothing to do to go out to walk in the snow, he just happened to see the changes here, and he was curious about everything here.

What the henchman butler didn't know was that it was not Xiang Yong who came over, but the third phase of students recruited in advance by the Army's Lecture and Martial Arts Hall.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong attached no less importance to the Jingxi Coal Washing Plant than Zhu Shun, so he sent the second and third students to temporarily act as village warriors and patrol the surrounding areas.

Inspect any suspicious spies to prevent them from sabotaging Zhu Shun's plan.