The night was warm and cold, and there were several storms and rains. Lu Sheng hugged Bu Feiyan and leaned on the head of the bed to warm up, and Lu Sheng proudly talked about what happened in Lanzhou after the New Year. Just show off to your wife, you see, how awesome your husband and I are.

Bu Feiyan listened quietly, and just when Lu Sheng finished speaking, the rooster outside the house reported that it was dawn.

"Unknowingly...... I actually said it all night......" Lu Sheng stopped his words and said with some unfinished words.

"You've been talking for less than an hour. ”

"Really, then how can you ...... overnight" Okay, Lu Sheng shut up.

It's dawn, of course, to get up. Although my waist is a little sore, I still have a lot of official business to do.

"By the way, Xianggong, the shopkeeper Wu seems to be here. Something could be going on so early, right?"

"Shopkeeper Wu, how do you know?"

"Are you mentally sluggish?" Bu Feiyan asked suspiciously, were you not injured?

But Bu Feiyan didn't know that there was a time period for the big pig's trotters called the sage time.

Get up and get dressed, give way to non-smoke and rest for a while. Lu Sheng walked out of the bedroom through two arches to the outer courtyard, and sure enough, in the living room of the outer courtyard, the shopkeeper Wu was drinking tea in the living room under the invitation of the housekeeper.

Seeing Lu Sheng coming over, he quickly stood up, "Boss!"

"What's the matter?

"Owner, our honeycomb coal and coal furnaces have been successfully laid in Qinzhou, Chuzhou, Jeju, Wuzhou and Zhongzhou. Last year's income has come out, and the gross income is 380,000 taels of silver, but the investment in the early stage is relatively large, leaving aside investment, wages, equipment prices and losses...... The net profit was 80,000 taels of silver. ”

"Well, that's not bad, are you up to February?"

"Yes!"

"Four months, from investment to income...... It's already good to be able to do 80,000 taels. You're doing a great job, and you're going to end the year with your big bag. ”

"Owner, our new energy firm has made money, and those who are not blind and stupid know that they have made money. Anyway, our next priority should be to expand our territory and acquire as many coal mines as possible. ”

For this point, Shopkeeper Wu is very anxious. Before Lu Sheng started new energy, Wu had already seen the future prospects of new energy in advance, and actively encouraged Lu Sheng to buy more mines.

After that, Lu Sheng used the unclear future prospect as an excuse to test the water first and then delayed. And now, the furnaces and honeycomb coal of new energy commercial houses have exploded into the market, not only have they tasted the sweetness, but also other big businessmen have seen business opportunities and poured into Lanzhou.

"There's no rush for this!" Lu Sheng said casually.

Compared with the next business layout of Shopkeeper Wu, Lu Sheng is more concerned about being a little sleepy after fighting all night last night.

In the past ten days, all the major commercial houses in the nineteen states of Shenzhou have sent people to Lanzhou, and many outsiders have secretly come to observe the mines under our control. I couldn't prevent it even if I tried everything.

The design of the furnace is simple, anyone can imitate it, but honeycomb coal has a bit of a trick, but this trick is useless, and smart people can imitate it after a month or two of research.

Yesterday evening, Meng Taishou sent someone to find me, telling me that there were already twelve trading houses offering to buy mines. Asked if we wanted to continue buying, if we wanted to buy, Taishoufu gave priority to us, but if we didn't buy, Taishoufu had to sell these mines.

My host, if you don't make a move, it's too late!"

Seeing Shopkeeper Wu's anxious demeanor, Lu Sheng smiled, "I said you came early in the morning, and you came in a hurry before dawn." It was for this. ”

"Dongjia, I know that you have a pearl of wisdom in your hands, and ordinary people dare not think about it. If you have other plans, I won't be in a hurry. But if not, as the chief manager of the owner, it is my duty to seize business opportunities and make money for the owner. ”

"Okay, good!" Lu Sheng was also fed up, "Come on, serve tea!"

Since you want to speak slowly, let's first moisten your throat with tea. Because the house is new and the people are also newly recruited, Lu Sheng is not very familiar with his subordinates.

But fortunately, these new recruits are very professional and work very hard. Almost as soon as the shouting fell, the maid walked in with two cups of fragrant tea.

"You sit, don't be in a hurry to drink a cup of tea, it's hurting your liver in a hurry. ”

Lu Sheng took a sip and said faintly, "What was my original intention to start the coal mining industry?"

"The owner is a bodhisattva, and when he came to Lanzhou, he saw that Lanzhou was poor, but he didn't know it when he guarded Baoshan. Therefore, the coal mine Baoshan was raised to save the people of Lanzhou from fire and water.

It's been almost three months since the mine was opened, and the miners have been paid for two months, you don't see what it looks like when they get paid. On the black face, the tears of crying are all black. Just knelt on the ground and kowtowed to us, and kowtowed in the direction of Xining City.

These are what they should have taken, and they are all hard-earned money with strength. Every time I see them like that, I feel bad. ”

"You can feel uncomfortable, which shows that there is still the conscience of the capitalists. I started the coal industry in order to make a living for the people of Lanzhou. Now, someone has seen the road and is going to come and help us widen it. It's a good thing, isn't it too late for us to be happy?"

"Wait...... Even if we want to broaden it, why should we borrow the hands of others if we have the strength to expand ourselves? Although we don't forget our original intention, wouldn't it be a fool not to make money if we have money?" Of course, Shopkeeper Wu is not a fool, how could he be fooled by Lu Sheng so easily.

"Of course, it's a fool not to make money, but you are also an old man in the mall, so you should be able to see what the future prospects of honeycomb coal are, right?"

"Dayu 19 states, there are nearly 50,000 people, a total of about 10,000 households, if every household buys our stove with honeycomb coal, the sales of the furnace is 30 million taels, the annual sales of honeycomb coal is 20 million taels, a furnace with five years of calculation, ten years of only selling the stove has 60 million taels. This is better than ...... This is comparable to all the business of the proprietor firm combined. ”

"It's just the best state of the day, and the actual profit should be half of it. ”

"Half is a lot, and it can cover half of the owner. ”

"If there are ten buckets of wealth in the world, a businessman can take up to two buckets. If there are ten buckets of wealth in the coal industry, I should take two buckets.

Seven years ago, Yuzhu Commercial Bank had already been able to monopolize the furniture market in Chuzhou, from raw materials to processing to sales, we were already invincible in all fields. But why, Chuzhou's counterparts have sprung up like mushrooms?"

"Because the purpose of our firm is to be a person and leave a line for others to live. But at this time and at that time, in Chuzhou, there was originally a furniture and wood business.

Originally, there was a business of making pastries, sake brewing, and dried fruits. We don't kill them all, leave them a way to live, we uphold the benevolence of the rich. But in the coal mining industry, we are the pioneers and the only ones, and even if we eat them all, it will not affect the lives of others. Why do you want to leave a line?"

"One day this towering tree experiences unbearable wind and rain and collapses?

If the new energy is dominant, Lanzhou is still so lifeless. If the new energy is too strong and there is no opponent, then you and the new energy will lose the enterprising spirit, no enterprising heart, no sense of crisis, this business bank is in the twilight of life.

If there is no opponent in new energy, then create an opponent, and if there is no competition, then create competition. Moreover, when the road is widened, it is so widened that the whole market cannot eat all the production.

What to do?"

This question suddenly made Shopkeeper Wu fall into deep thought.

Because in the previous conversation, the shopkeeper Wu has pointed out the upper limit of the market. The ceiling is there, but the production is much more than that. The masters of Tuyinmen once made an appraisal and bought twenty mines, which could be used by the entire Shenzhou for twenty years. There are still hundreds of such veins in Kelanzhou, and those are still obvious veins. There are countless hidden deep veins.

Enterprising and development is the purpose of Yuzhu Commercial Bank. This is deeply rooted in the heart of the shopkeeper Wu. If these two items are abandoned, then the new energy commercial bank will really be out of touch with the Yuzhu commercial bank. This is something that the shopkeeper Wu does not want and does not allow to happen.

The saturation of the other market, although at present, it will take at least five years to saturate the market. But what about five years from now? People who have no foresight will have near-term worries. Although Shopkeeper Wu still couldn't figure out Lu Sheng's layout, he now had a hunch that Lu Sheng seemed to have already considered this problem.

"Shopkeeper Wu, do you think...... Is the function of coal to make honeycomb coal for people to cook on fire?"

"Could it be...... Is there any other effect? In addition to burning...... What else can be done?"

"Hahaha...... Coal is a function of combustion, but combustion itself is a universal function. Do you think that Lanzhou's iron smelting industry, which is now flourishing, also relies on coal? Moreover, combustion produces energy, and energy can be converted.

Coal, so black, so dirty, and so toxic. But it is the mother of industry, and when the first coal is successfully started, the gears of this world's stationary have already begun to turn.

When the first energy conversion tool was manufactured, a milestone in the world's scientific and technological development was set.

Perhaps, you and I will never see our unintentional actions go down in history, but I believe thousands of years from now. Man can go to heaven or to the earth, man can swim in water, he can dance in fire.

Thousands of miles apart are no longer far away, and people from all over the world can sit together and talk and communicate face-to-face, just like we do now. We don't have much to do, it's just ...... Just pry it up. Do you understand?"

Shopkeeper Wu shook his head blankly, "I don't understand!"

"You come with me!"

Lu Sheng stood up and took Shopkeeper Wu to his study. Because I have just finished moving, many things have been put away and have not been put in the right place.

After rummaging for a long time, Lu Sheng took out a dusty box, which contained all the manuscripts that Lu Sheng sorted out in his spare time. In the manuscript, it is the primitive mechanical structure that Lu Sheng can understand.

And the simplest steam engine was drawn by Lu Sheng with the longest time and the most thought.

"This thing, sooner or later, I will let him appear in the world. It was the world's first non-bio-powered machine. It will open a milestone in the rapid operation of the world. ”

"My lord, what is this? Big boiler?"

"It's called, steam engine! The boiler is used to store hydraulic water, and when the pressure reaches a certain limit, the valve is opened, and the pressure will rush out of the pipe for a moment, and then push the piston forward. With the lever, the shaft connected to the lever can be rotated continuously and continuously...... You ......"

Lu Sheng's words paused, because he saw a pair of eyes that were even more confused than kindergarten children.