Chapter 36: Take off your boots

Isn't it just thinking about running people?

Look at Lao Tzu's upside-down boots!

Zhao Yunrang immediately called Zhang Zhusi and asked him to promote the stove of the same style in the villa to the surrounding brother counties, especially in Bianliang City, in the name of this county.

In addition, the specifications of the furnace chamber are specified, and there are three types: large, medium, and small.

Build a stove, Biluo Villa subsidizes a penny of silver, and the stove uses bricks to find Lao Zhou!

A vigorous furnace promotion campaign began.

The lords of the various prefectures and yamen did not stop them.

On the contrary, officials from the local government to the household department all believe that this is a good thing, a good thing that benefits the country and the people.

Because in recent years, there has been an obvious energy crisis in Bianliang City.

Heating and cooking in Bianliang City in winter mainly rely on firewood and grass.

And the yamen, who were not engaged in production, lived on the tax on firewood and grass levied from below.

Merchants use money to buy firewood, while the poor have to fetch firewood themselves.

However, Bianliang City has a large population and a limited amount of firewood and grass around, so there has long been an energy crisis.

Sometimes the supply chain is broken, even if it is a big government like the three provinces and six ministries, it is not for nothing when it is frozen!

Although there has been a nickel in recent years, it is basically not used in ordinary firewood stoves.

Even if you use a charcoal basin, it is better than charcoal.

However, there have been many incidents of death caused by tobacco poisoning, so the charcoal has not been promoted.

The main thing is that high-quality charcoal is much more expensive than firewood and grass!

The common people can't afford to burn!

Therefore, such an obviously wasteful move, no party stood up to stop it.

The household department will not stop it, anyway, not to spend its own money.

The common people will not be able to afford a stove for nothing, and occasionally they have plenty of money to burn less coal.

Moreover, some people also believe that this is actually Zhao Yun's expression of resignation.

Spend your own money to build a stove for Biren, although the chimney does not use much iron, it is said to be good for several years, but it adds up to a lot of expenses!

Li Tongru, the secretary of the Du Branch, has been commended by the household boss for this, and it is estimated that he should have a share of the year-end bonus.

The power of silver was infinite, and according to Zhao Yunrang's instructions, the team that built the furnace soon expanded to thousands of people.

All over Bianliang City, grid-like distribution, carpet coverage!

Seeing that the furnace in Bianliang City was almost built, Zhao Yunrang sneaked into the city and found the branch of the household department.

With the identity of the little prince, he met Li Tongru very smoothly.

Zhao Yunrang's purpose was very simple, and the furnace was built for free, hoping to obtain a large amount of high-quality charcoal from the charcoal field.

In this way, the upfront investment can be earned back from the HI coal transaction.

"Master Li, why did I build so many furnaces, just to get this market, with these furnaces, charcoal will be very scarce!"

Zhao Yunrang's words were very straightforward.

Of course, Li Tongru knows that because the people in the charcoal field have been coming to report, the price of charcoal has risen slightly in three days and has risen sharply in five days.

On the contrary, no one wants the coal dust that was piled up for Zhao Yunrang!

The reason is that this thing is so hard to burn.

Throw it directly into the stove, and the land will be a fire, and you can accidentally burn your beard.

Some people are mixed with water, the proportions are not well controlled, and the fire is either extinguished or half dead.

So the coal dust in the charcoal field has been piled up like that.

The reason why Li Tongru sent it to Zhao Yunrang's brick kiln was because he wanted to pit Zhao Yunrang, and secondly, there was really no place to put it.

Zhao Yunrang took out the agreement he had signed with the charcoal farm before: "Lord Li, this is the agreement signed by the director of the charcoal farm, look at this handprint-"

Li Tongru glanced at it: "That's the former master, that person is corrupt and perverts the law, and he has been arrested and questioned!" ”

Zhao Yunrang: "......"

"The official family can't deny it, at least this year's agreement must be implemented, and it must be true to its word!"

Li Tongru thought for a while: "In this way, you see that this agreement will definitely not be completed, why don't we set up another one!" ”

Zhao Yunrang said vigilantly: "What kind of establishment?" ”

Li Tongru smiled and leaned on the Taishi chair: "Look, although there are very few good coals, there is a lot of pulverized coal, there are a lot of them, little prince, even if you are worried about the country, okay?" ”

Zhao Yunrang was dumbfounded: "How can this be?" It's useless for me to ask for that thing, even if I burn bricks, I can only make do with it! ”

Nonsense, who gave it to you!

"Why not? Don't talk about the conditions for the sake of worrying about the country, at the beginning of the Biluochun, I let the little prince take you away! ”

Li Tongru is meaningful, don't forget, we are celebrating the holidays!

"In this way, the agreement that was originally one year was changed to three years, a thousand taels of silver per year, and the pulverized coal is all yours!"

Zhao Yunrang cried with a sad face: "Then you can't let me carry it alone!" ”

"Then who you find, it doesn't matter if you are in the branch!"

Zhao Yunrang reluctantly took out a few seals: "I can only let them share some of it!" ”

In this way, Zhao Yunrang obtained a large number of contracts for the purchase of pulverized coal from the Ministry of Households.

The contract was directly signed with Li Tongru, and a respected elder in Bianjing City was invited to testify!

Li Tongru was very much in favor of this approach, and he found all the people.

Otherwise, what should I do if Zhao Yunrang, who suffered a big loss, repented?

With these elders here, even if it is Zhao Yuanyan, if he wants to regret it, he has to weigh it.

A large amount of pulverized coal was transported directly from the charcoal yard to the vicinity of the brick kiln in Lao Zhou, where the clay was the best.

The honeycomb coal, which is equipped according to the standard proportions, quickly pils up.

That's right, what is processed directly near the brick kiln is the finished honeycomb coal.

Although if this thing really wants to do some technology such as hydraulic processing, Zhao Yunrang can also get it.

However, Zhao Yun's goal is to let the people have food, clothing, and clothing to use directly.

Hundreds of workers, a daily output of tens of thousands of honeycomb coal.

As soon as the three types of honeycomb coal came out, it immediately shook the entire fuel market in Bianliang City.

Even if it was originally a very high-end silver frost charcoal, as soon as the honeycomb coal came out, it was immediately eclipsed.

It's cheap!

The price is low and burn-resistant, and most importantly, the stove with a chimney fully solves the safety problem of coal burning.

A piece of honeycomb coal can be placed in the furnace for half a day.

A pot of hot water was turned on in less than a quarter of an hour, and the cooking of small households was also solved by the way.

And if you find an empty space in the corner of the house, you can use it for half a month, and you don't need to get a lot of firewood and grass, which is dirty and messy.

With a stove, who would go outside in the cold to burn a big stove?

Moreover, the stove can also be combined with the clay kang to kill two birds with one stone!

For a time, the construction team led by Zhang Zhisi further expanded rapidly.

Even with Zhouzhi County, it is also famous, and it is said that after the rank is full this year, it should be one step higher!

And this honeycomb coal is basically the price of pulverized coal plus a piece of handwork ranging from three to ten yuan.

Pulverized coal, on the other hand, is basically something that no one wants, but good coal is expensive.

Of course, not now, Zhao Yunrang set the price of honeycomb coal at one-fifth of the price of coal.

Free brick stove, low-cost honeycomb coal, it is estimated that this winter, Bianliang City will not be too cold!

As for next year, the business of the chimney will definitely rise sharply, and Zhao Yunrang is ready to launch the iron stove at that time.

Of course, it depends on the exploration of iron ore and the progress of iron smelting technology.

It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.

When the time comes, who will rely on the charcoal brazier for warmth?

If you don't feel the warmth, I'm afraid there is only Li Tongru, the secretary of the Du Branch.

Because when Li Tongru realized this, it was too late, and honeycomb coal had completely occupied the market.

Even some princes and nobles began to burn honeycomb coal in their homes.

So the coal dust from the charcoal field was remembered.

However, all the pulverized coal has already been ordered and underwritten.

Moreover, it is a three-year agreement.

The one who signed the agreement on behalf of the charcoal field was him Li Tongru!

Li Tongru took a look, and sure enough, on the top of this agreement, there was actually a great seal of the Duzhi Division.

This bit of, but the branch division also needs to use the seal?

As a result, it was Zhao Yunrang who specially requested it.

In fact, what Zhao Yunrang said at the beginning was really only for a year, and he didn't think about making money with this at all.

But Li Tongru felt that he couldn't understand his hatred, and he must have forced Zhao Yunrang to sign a three-year agreement.

It's really dumb to eat coptis, and I can't tell if I have bitterness.

I have the intention to tear up the agreement again, and when I look at the two parties who signed the agreement, here is the household department, but there are several.

Although except for Zhao Yunrang, Li Tongru does not know a name.

However, it did not prevent him from knowing that those names represented the Horse Mansion, the Marquis of Jinning's Mansion and even the imperial guard Yan Zhao of Kaifeng Mansion.

The most important thing is that a private seal named Song Yi is also stamped at the end.

Li Tongru took this agreement to meet the household boss and wanted to ask if he could tear up the agreement.

Unexpectedly, the big guy looked at these names at first, and muttered for a while, roughly shaken.

But when he saw Song Yi's private chapter at the end, he directly put a bowl of good cloud tea on Li Tongru's face.

Although the boss didn't explain the reason in the end, Li Tongru knew that this agreement not only had to be torn up, but it must also be strictly implemented!

The big man of the household who was slapped in the face in the blink of an eye directly downgraded Li Tongru.

Seeing that the winter solstice was coming, Zhao Yun asked Zhao Fugui to go to the palace to get something.

Although Biluo Villa is doing well, Zhao Yunrang always thinks that he belongs to the entrepreneurial stage and must pay attention to diligence and thrift.

As a little prince, I don't want to scavenge some points from the palace.

Not only Zhao Fugui, but even Xiao Liuzi was also sent.

Because he saw that the matter of subduing Xiao Liuzi was actually unable to be the master.

It is estimated that Zhao Yuanyan still has to say a word.

As a result, within half a day, Zhao Fugui turned around, bringing two pieces of news, one good and one bad.

The good news is that Xiao Liuzi Zhao Yuanyan is very happy to release people, and from today on, Xiao Liuzi will be Zhao Yunrang's person.

The bad news is, nothing!

Zhao Yuanyan also said very clearly, people gave it to you, and there was no way to do it.

It's not that there isn't, it's that it's not given!

Also, the honeycomb coal used by the palace this winter does not need to be delivered by Lao Zhou, and the palace directly sends someone to pull it.

As for the silver, don't think about it.

I'll go, what kind of logic is this!

Zhao Fugui swallowed, Zhao Yunrang said angrily: "Say! ”

I want to hear what reason Zhao Yuanyan used!

"The old prince said, if you really want to ask, I will tell you four words, but I can't say it, so the prince has already written it down."

Zhao Yunrang grabbed it and opened it to see, it was really worthy of Zhao Yuanyan, who was unique in calligraphy and painting.

Four big words, heartily in one go: I am your father!