What the!

The guest words made Zhu Yijun almost lose his voice and ask why.

How can a business of millions of taels of silver shrink into a business that understands a thousand taels of silver.

"The emperor doesn't know, whether the capital is rich or poor, is mainly coal, or because the mountains and forests within a radius of 100 miles have been cut down for so many years, fortunately, Wanping Xishan produces coal, and it is a high-grade smokeless white coal, so it can be regarded as allowing the military and civilians in the capital not to cook for heating without pay, but His Majesty does not know, this coal opening seems to be a profitable thing, orthodox, the British Gong Zhang Fu has ignored the "ban on chiseling and recalling the stone", even if the slaves opened up a coal kiln in the east of the Lugou Bridge River, at that time, the Metropolitan Procuratorate asked for punishment, and Yingzong granted it, but later, When it was opened, everyone found out that this coal kiln was not only not a profitable thing, but a lot of trouble, and slowly the magnates in Beijing stopped touching this thing. Nowadays, most of the coal kilns in Wanping Dayushan, Taohuagou and Zhaitang are opened by merchants from all over the world, that is, to earn some hard-earned money......"

Glancing at Shi Yiwen, the guest did not speak for him as usual, but took the initiative to solve the emperor's confusion.

"As for this briquette, I guess we have just made a briquette here, and I can't see that the briquettes in the coal shops in the capital can be made in half a month......

Glancing at the briquette machine, he smiled politely.

"It's not difficult to make this briquette machine, you can make it with a glance by finding a craftsman, and when someone else makes it, then there is still our business?"

At first, he just looked at him differently, and because of the words used by the guest, Shi Yiwen took a high look at him, and there are really not many people who can see this truth clearly in an instant.

Not to mention the present, even if it is left in the future generations, I am afraid that few people can see the key in an instant - if the technology is too simple, it is a time lag to make money.

But the briquettes can't even hit the time difference, because the technology is too simple, and there is no huge profit at all, so I can make a fortune with this thing...... It's tantamount to a fool's dream.

"It even takes half a month, to put it bluntly, this thing is a round iron shell as a mold, twelve iron rods as the core, an iron sheet on the core, the iron sheet is connected to this pole, the pole is in the iron pipe, and the iron sheet of the mud is on the top, and then it will come out after pushing, that is, the doorway for a look......"

Zhu Yijun, who had lost interest, smiled, and looked at Shi Yiwen with a somewhat funny smile.

"Zhiyuan, after a long time, you want to earn money for others."

Because the two have been friends for a long time, Shi Yiwen just smiled disapprovingly at the emperor's joke.

"Hey, that is, you can see at a glance, the briquette machine and the briquette stove I built are indeed intended for others to use, the minister estimates, if you sell it, it can probably be sold for a thousand hundreds of taels of silver, after all, there are hundreds of coal shops in the capital, and if you sell a few, you can always earn some silver."

With a smile on his face, Shi Yiwen said directly, and even before they were talking, the iron factory had already begun to make briquette machines, ready to sell them to those coal shops.

"Actually, sometimes buying and selling is like this, making a thing may not make a lot of money, but this thing has a benefit......"

Glancing at the briquettes on the ground, Shi Yiwen said seriously.

"I have inquired everywhere in the past two days, in the past hundreds of miles around the capital, the mountains stretched for thousands of miles, and the forests were dense in the past, but after a hundred years of public and private felling, the trees were exhausted, and the forests were thinning.

Although he lost interest, Zhu Yijun still listened patiently to Shi Yiwen's continuation.

"In Xishan and other places, there are no less than 100 coal kilns, large coal kilns produce 4,000 catties of coal every day, and small ones have one or two thousand catties, which is not less than 2.3 million catties per day."

"It shouldn't be enough for the capital, right?"

Zhu Yijun wondered.

"It's not even close."

As for the difference, Shi Yiwen does not know, but it is certain that there is still some difference, which is the reason why he wants to run a modern coal mine.

"The capital uses coal, one is the Mentougou to which Wanping belongs, Tianqiaofu and other places, the other is Fangshan Nanshan Che'er Ying, Yingshui Village and other places, from all over to Beijing, like Mentougou is only forty or fifty miles away from the capital, and the far one is eighty or ninety miles, after these coals are out of the kiln, they must be transferred before they can be sold. In order to be able to transport out, the coal produced in the West Mountain mainly relies on livestock to transport out, the local people use mules and horses to carry coal out of the mountain, and send it to the coal stack under the mountain, and these coal stack merchants buy coal, but also have to transport their camels to their own coal factories, these coal factories are mostly located in the traffic arteries, and the coal purchased is accumulated in the coal factory, which transports the screened coal to the city, wholesales to the coal shops inside and outside the city, and then retails the coal shops to the buyers in the capital, and the coal in Beijing is so repeated. ”

looked at Zhu Yijun and saw that he still had no interest, so Shi Yiwen cut to the chase.

"You see the coal goes from the pit mouth to the coal stack, to the coal factory, and then to the coal shop. The price is constantly rising, the pit mouth lump coal per 100 catties of 50 Wen, crushed coal 30 Wen, coal stack at the bottom of the mountain to collect coal respectively plus 10 Wen, plus 6 Wen to collect coal, the porter must have 30 percent of the crushed coal, the coal factory wholesale coal shop, plus 20 or 30 Wen range......"

Carefully explained the Tao in the coal, and then Shi Yiwen said.

"Because honeycomb coal is convenient to use, the people are willing to make it, and the use of coal in this capital will only increase. Therefore, a few days ago, I bought dozens of small coal kilns in Mentougou, where I plan to open a large coal mine with a daily output of more than one million catties to supply coal to the people in Beijing and the surrounding areas. ”

After saying his plan in one word, seeing that Zhu Yijun didn't speak, Shi Yiwen continued.

"But so much coal, if you want to transport it out from Mentougou, you will definitely not be able to use mules and horses to transport it like in the past, and if you want to open a mine, you will build a road to transport coal between Mentougou and the capital."

"Oh, open mines, build roads, and go far, this is a lot of silver!"

Zhu Yijun glanced at the briquettes on the ground again, and then said.

"This million pounds of coal...... It is 1,000 taels of silver a day, and the profit is only a few hundred taels of silver. ”

Seeing that Zhu Yijun didn't seem to see the key, Shi Yiwen smiled.

"Counting up to a year, it's only hundreds of thousands of taels, but it's better for a long time, hundreds of thousands of taels a year, but as long as the capital is there, this money is a steady stream of inputs, and the more people in the capital, the more coal will be used, and the profits will naturally be more lucrative, even ......."

Looking at Zhu Yijun thoughtfully, Shi Yiwen smiled again.

"It's not just the capital that needs coal! What if we sold all the way south along the canal? ”