Recently, in addition to working in the weapons workshop, Zhong Hao has also been busy contacting the big restaurants in the states and counties near Jingqiang Village as an agent. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info81

However, after Zhong Hao learned about the market, the market in the northwest is too small.

Most of the surrounding areas of Jingqiang Village are military towns, such as the Volcano Army, the Baode Army, the Lan Army, the Jinning Army, etc., although it is an army, but most of them are only under the jurisdiction of a county, and most of the people are soldiers, the people are very few, and the consumer market is naturally very small. As for others, such as Linfu Feng Sanzhou, although nominally a state, its population is not as large as that of a county in the interior. Only Lanzhou has a slightly larger population near Jingqiang Village, but in fact, Lanzhou is also a poor place, and the price of this soju is too high, and it is estimated that the sales volume is limited.

Zhong Haojing, Qiang Zhai, this soju is estimated to have a big market only in Bingzhou. As for the farther places, Zhong Hao has no ability to find an agent for the time being.

However, although the output of Jingqiangzhai Shochu has increased a lot now, except for the monthly supply to the Yang family's caravan, the rest is not very much for the time being, but the market in Bingzhou can also digest about it. Qin Jun contacted several of the largest restaurants in Bingzhou to sell soju in the soju market, which was very popular as soon as it was launched. It is said that in Bingzhou, the two kinds of soju of Jingqiang Village, "Jade Liquor Burning" and "Jade Liquid Qing", have become as famous as Fenjiu in a short period of time.

The soju in Jingqiang Village is divided into two types: high and low, and Zhong Hao still uses the names of "jade liquid burning" and "jade liquid clearing" in Qingzhou.

In fact, this soju is only available in Jingqiang Village, and Zhong Hao is not worried about sales. It's just that now outsiders still know very little about Jingqiang Village Shochu, and the popularity has not been raised. When the popularity is out in the future, I am afraid that there will naturally be many people from all over the country who will take the initiative to become local soju agents.

Jingqiang Village is close to Hehejin Ferry, and is located on the side of the official road. Many merchants in Hedong go to Linzhou, Fuzhou or go to Xixia to trade, and Hehejin Ferry is the only way to pass, and naturally they will also pass through Jingqiang Village.

Nowadays, a separate area has been set aside in Jingqiang Village as a trading area, where there are not only houses and inns for passing and needy merchants to settle here, but also a market for trading goods.

Although Jingqiang Village is self-sufficient in many things, there are also many things that need to be purchased from passing merchants or merchants who come to Jingqiang Village to sell goods, so this business area is a must.

However, Jingqiang Village is a military village after all, for safety and easy defense, this area is an independent area, and past merchants can only operate in this area, and they can't go to other places in Jingqiang Village. Moreover, merchants entering Jingqiang Village need to undergo strict inspections, and weapons and other things are not allowed to be brought into Jingqiang Village.

Zhong Hao felt that these past merchants were the best candidates to help Jingqiang Zhai soju advertise, and they came from all over the world and could spread the news of Jingqiang Village's production of high-quality soju to all directions faster.

However, there are not many merchants in the business area of Jingqiang Village today, and only occasionally there are passing merchants who settle down here to rest. There are not too many merchants who come to sell goods nearby, mainly because there are no villages near Jingqiang Village, and the merchants who come here to sell various items can't go around the streets and alleys to sell goods, so they can only sell to Jingqiang Village, and many things are bought once for a long time, so the merchants who come here are not very frequent.

Although there are not many people for the time being, Zhong Hao still arranges for people to carry out propaganda in the business zone. After letting the merchants and merchants taste the shochu, they all praised the shochu in Jingqiang Village.

When many merchants and merchants left Jingqiang Village, they bought a few jars of soju and brought them with them, either to sell them or to drink them for themselves.

However, Zhong Hao agreed with those who went to Western Xia that this wine could not be sold in Western Xia, mainly because Zhong Hao and Yang Wenguang had an agreement that only the Yang family caravan could sell this soju in Western Xia. Only by maintaining a monopoly can sufficient profits be guaranteed.

There are not many merchants and caravans in the Jingqiang Village Business Zone, but recently there are a few merchants who have lived in the inns of the Jingqiang Village Business Zone for a long time, and often ask this and that with the soldiers and civilians of Jingqiang Village who come to buy groceries, and their behavior is quite abnormal.

However, the soldiers and civilians of Jingqiang Village did not notice their suspicion.

Zhong Hao has been coming to the business area a lot lately, but he also pays attention to this matter!

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The snow in the northwest came a little late this year, and it was not until the middle of winter that the whole Hedong ushered in the first heavy snowfall.

However, although there was no snow this year, it was very cold, much colder than usual.

The families of the soldiers and soldiers of the Pingxi Army used to be most afraid of being too cold in winter, and many of the soldiers and their families of the Pingxi Army who had no measures to keep warm and could not eat enough when they encountered the extreme cold every year had to freeze to death.

However, no one will freeze to death this year, naturally because of their Zhizhai Zhong Hao.

Zhong Hao asked the Yang family caravan to bring back a lot of leather from Yinxing and the city, and this year, the soldiers and families of the Pingxi army in Jingqiang Village have at least one fur to protect them from the cold, and they no longer need to wear single clothes with catkins or straw to carry it. In addition, Zaijing Qiang Village can eat enough every day, and there is no need to starve like when he lived in the Hedong Volcano Army.

This year, the soldiers and families of the Pingxi Army not only do not have to suffer from the cold, but also enjoy the warm life of winter.

Because all the barracks and family rooms in Jingqiang Village are installed with iron mud stoves with chimneys. When the charcoal is lit, the house is extremely warm, and the soldiers and families of Jingqiang Village will naturally be able to enjoy a warm life in peace.

Nowadays, the furnace of burning charcoal in the iron mud chamber made by Jingqiang Village is very popular in Bingzhou, Lanzhou and other places.

After the weapon workshop in Jingqiang Village finished making the spear head, it did not produce a horse chopping knife, but made an iron stove and an iron chimney. After all, the production of this horse chopping knife is time-consuming and laborious, and it takes too long, and the high-quality iron embryos that can make weapons are quite insufficient, and they cannot be assembled in the middle and left battalions of the Pingxi Army for a while and a half. And this iron stove business, this cold winter is a good time, Zhong Hao naturally feels that it is important to make money first.

After all, now the left battalion is equipped with ash pole guns, and as for the horse chopping knife, it is not too late to slowly produce it next year. Zhong Hao felt that they had ash pole guns in their hands, and they could be regarded as having combat weapons, and when the middle battalion went to suppress the bandits, the left battalion should be able to basically undertake the defense of Jingqiang Village.

The production process of the iron furnace is relatively simple, and the requirements for iron quality are not high, the miscellaneous and inferior iron embryos that are not suitable for making weapons in Jingqiang Village, as well as some miscellaneous iron and scrap iron that have been purchased everywhere recently, Zhong Hao has asked the people of the right camp to take the weapon workshop by the Guye River to the blast furnace and melt it to make the iron furnace.

The iron stove sells well, and the sales of charcoal and coke in Jingqiang Village are also much larger, especially many large households like coke that is resistant to burning and has no smoke, so the blast furnace of coke refining in Jingqiang Village has been stopping to make coke recently.

Now the front and rear battalions of the Pingxi Army are desperately mining coal, while the right battalion is desperately making iron stoves and refining coke, and they are extremely busy.

However, soon after the first batch of iron stoves in Jingqiang Village were put on the market, some people began to imitate them on the market in various states and counties. The production process of the iron stove is relatively simple, and ordinary blacksmith shops can also make it, but it is actually relatively imitated. Of course, the iron stoves produced in those blacksmith shops were relatively rough, and they were made by burning the iron embryo red, hammering it out with a hammer and riveting it.

Those blacksmith shops use this method to make iron stoves, although it is much more troublesome than the iron furnaces that are directly molded in Jingqiang Village, but now the iron stoves are sold well, and the price is high, and the iron furnaces made by this method still have a lot of profits to be made. As for the hearth in the iron furnace, it is made of mud, which is naturally simpler.

Zhong Hao actually thought of this problem at the beginning, and after many blacksmiths imitated the iron stove of Jingqiang Village, he asked the weapon workshop of Jingqiang Village to stop making iron stoves and make iron chimneys with all their might.

This iron chimney, the weapon workshop in Jingqiang Village is made in batches with molds, all of which are directly poured into a thin iron sheet five feet long and six inches wide with molten iron, and then rolled up and riveted with rivets.

The iron chimneys in Jingqiang Village are all standardized production, because the assembly of non-standard chimneys will be very troublesome, and the effect is very bad, and it will leak smoke and smell.

The cigarette barrel made by Jingqiang Village only sells for 80 wen a section, but it has more than doubled the profit.

Other blacksmiths who wanted to make cigarette barrels were made inch by inch with a hammer. It takes a long time to make a sheet of iron that is thin and evenly thick, and it is completely formed, and it is impossible to make a single cigarette barrel in a day.

This blacksmith beats to make a chimney, which is no less time-saving than making an iron stove, and even more laborious than making an iron stove, so those blacksmiths naturally will not waste time and effort to make this unprofitable chimney.

An iron stove can be sold for a consistent price, after removing the cost of iron, it can still earn at least 200 Wen, and it is not worried about selling, who would be stupid to make a chimney that does not make money, and the chimneys made by the blacksmith shop are one by one, they can't be assembled at all, and no one will buy them.

Zhong Hao was happy to give up the iron furnace business to those blacksmiths, because there were not many iron embryos in Jingqiang Village, and it took too much money to make furnaces, so how could it be compared to making money with a chimney.

Moreover, those blacksmiths in the states and counties of Hedong are building iron furnaces, but they have the right to spread the market for Jingqiang Village. The people of various states and counties must install chimneys when they buy back iron stoves, and this chimney can only be made in Jingqiang Village, so they naturally want to buy the chimneys of Jingqiang Village, which has invisibly expanded countless markets for the chimneys of Jingqiang Village, and Zhong Hao is naturally happy to see it.

After the heavy snowfall, although the right camp and the front and rear camps of Jingqiang Village were still busy, the bandits in Luliang Mountain completely began to winter.

Now it's time for the middle battalion of the Pingxi Army to dig out the bandits' nests. (To be continued.) )