"Ding, Ding......"

There was a slight sound of metal hitting in the yard, and Tan Sitong, who was sitting on the bench, looked at Tang Haoran, who was dressed in a short beat, holding the iron lump in both hands, stepping on the slime from time to time, and after stepping on it for a while, he dipped the iron lump on the sawdust, and then raised it to the side.

Under Tan Sitong's gaze, a round coal was squeezed out of the iron lump.

At this moment, not only Hu Lichen and Luo Sheng, who had been traveling with the young master all the year round, were stunned, but even the well-informed Tan Sitong couldn't help but stand up, his eyes stared at the cylindrical coal block that was squeezed out, and looked at the "hole eye" on it, his face was full of puzzlement, what is this for?

In fact, from the very beginning, Tan Sitong couldn't figure out what Tang Haoran was going to do, the iron lump weighing more than ten catties was spent by the blacksmith shop for more than ten days, and it took more than a dozen oceans to make it, and in the end, Tang Haoran came up with the idea, using the old pipe that was broken off from the foreigner's steamboat bought from Tianjin, cut it off and make it into a ring, this is the matter, Tang Ziran seemed to be very satisfied after reading it, and directly ordered 20, almost didn't worry the blacksmith to death.

Then he instructed Luo Sheng to go to the coal store to buy 200 catties of pulverized coal, and then mixed fifty or sixty catties of soil into the coal, and the general coal shop was mixed with 20 catties at most, and then it was not fired, he was so good that he mixed fifty or sixty catties, and then he went directly to the yard and picked up the coal, and it took half an hour.

Then he prepared a basin of water and a pile of sawdust next to him, and then stepped on the rattling machine qì to dry, as for the plate of water is used by the shabu machine, after tamping the coal, it is necessary to dip some sawdust, so that the briquettes do not stick to the soil on the ground, this Tan Sitong can see it, but he can't see why it is so troublesome during the day.

Under the gaze of the four people in the courtyard, Tang Haoran used this "iron block", which was somewhat similar to the briquette machine of later generations, and hit more than a dozen briquettes one after another, as in his memory, and neatly beat them into a row.

"Hu Lichen, Luo Sheng, why don't you try it!"

The two of them are Tan Sitong's domestic servants, and the two of them usually do the heavy work in the Tang family. This briquettes are no exception.

"Alas, Young Master Tang!"

When Luo Sheng heard this, he hurriedly ran over, followed Tang Haoran's example, played a briquette there, tamped the coal with his feet, and then carried it to the side and pressed down the pole that came out, this work is a little fresh.

"Young master, wash your face first and wipe your sweat!"

It's just that as soon as he was free, Yun'er brought the washbasin over.

"Ziran, ...... are you?"

Looking at Tang Haoran, who had just washed his face, Tan Sitong asked with some doubts.

"Honeycomb coal!"

Spit out three words, Tang Haoran picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and then said proudly.

"The burn is more sufficient, the heat is higher, and most importantly, start a fire, as long as the furnace is not extinguished, three or four pieces of coal a day, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, there is no need to raise the fire again!"

"This is the ......"

Tan Sitong looked at the six-inch honeycomb coal, which was no more than two inches thick, and his face was full of incomprehension, so there was no need to raise the fire? How is this possible?

"Just keep the fire on fire!"

Putting down the teacup in his hand, Tang Haoran pointed to the honeycomb coal over there and said.

"I wondered if I could buy a few coal shops in the capital to specialize in this honeycomb coal business,"

"What!"

Tan Sitong can't understand it now, what is Tang Haoran talking about, is he doing business?

"Resurrection, is it possible, do you still think this business is a cheap business?"

Looking at Tan Sitong with a suspicious face, Tang Haoran wondered where he had washed his brainwashing. Then he suppressed his voice slightly.

"Besides, we need money!"

Tang Haoran deliberately accentuated Qian's tone, reminding Tan Sitong why he was in this business.

"When, of course not, it's just Ziran, is this coal really sold?"

"The things that the young master made, everyone must rush to buy them!"

Yun'er interjected on the side, in her opinion, this honeycomb coal was specially made by the young master for herself, in order to make herself no longer suffer from the choking of fire smoke every day, then she would be unhappy, and at the same time, she admired the young master even more, and Tan Sitong was allowed to question the young master.

"I don't know if I will rush to buy it, but Brother Fusheng, you said that day, the average family of five or six needs thirteen or fourteen catties of coal a day, but what if you only need ten catties of coal a day? And you don't have to raise the fire every day? ”

"This ...... Ordinary people are naturally careful in their lives, if so, they can save three or four catties of coal a day, and the people are naturally willing to use it. Can ......"

Looking at the six-inch coal pillar, Tan Sitong said again.

"I see that the coal is at least five or six catties, if you use this honeycomb coal, it will be at least fifteen or sixteen catties a day!"

"That's why I let the blacksmith shop make a small turn, so that the weight of the coal will naturally come down!"

Tang Haoran smiled, and then came up with his thoughts one by one.

"I thought, we not only have to buy a few coal shops, it is best to buy a coal-burning furnace, this coal furnace is only more than 300 Wen, I estimate that if we make it ourselves, it will only be 200 Wen, when the time comes, we will send, like selling kerosene, buy 500 briquettes, and send the stove,"

When he was in Wuchang, Tang Haoran learned that in order to buy kerosene and send kerosene lamps, those American oil merchants would also calculate in order to open up the market, relying on this calculation, but in just a few years, kerosene and kerosene lamps completely replaced the old-fashioned oil lamps in the city.

"According to the current price of briquettes, the furnace money is not enough to mix soil, as long as the furnace is sent out, there will be a customer in the future, I have calculated, there should be 15 to 170,000 households in the capital, if each family uses 1,000 briquettes per year, if the monopoly of the supply of briquettes in Beijing, the annual profit is at least hundreds of thousands of taels of profit, how many coal shops in the whole capital?"

"Briquettes in the capital?"

Tan Sitong was taken aback by Tang Haoran's thoughts.

"Ziran, in such a big capital, there are not three hundred but two hundred coal stores, can you still eat them all?"

"Eat it all? We don't have that much silver, do we? ……”

Tang Haoran smiled and said what he thought.

"My idea is to divide the capital into 10 to 15 districts, set up a coal shop in each district, and then take this coal industry as the center and eat that piece of briquette business."

Monopolizing the briquette business in the capital, this is Tang Haoran's idea in the past few days, whether it is to go out to the local area, to do a career in the local area, or to engage in "revolutionary work", after all, no matter what you do, you need silver, without silver you can't do anything, even the so-called revolution is just a dream, if Sun Yat-sen has sufficient financial support, how can ten revolutions not succeed?

Now that such a money-making business opportunity is in front of him, Tang Haoran naturally will not miss it, although Zhang Zhidong gave the pen Chengyi, and he sold the book a few days ago and got a sum of silver, but who is idle with silver, if he has a few million taels of silver, maybe he will rebel now.

"Ziran, but I see that the briquette machine is not complicated, if you have a heart, compared to the gourd to draw a scoop, within a month or two, you can also make honeycomb coal, how can you crush them then?"

Although he knew that most of the coal business was the business of small households, he naturally did not have to worry about provoking the adult, the prince Baylor, but Tang Haoran couldn't help but think that it was too simple, how could this unique business be easy to do?

"Hmmm......"

Groaning, Tang Haoran picked up the teacup and drank it slowly, he stared at Luo Sheng who was playing briquettes, but with a smile on his face, indeed, this briquette machine is not complicated to make, as long as you put a little effort into it, you can guess about it if you walk around the coal shop, but it doesn't mean that this business can't be done.

"As long as it takes a month or two, it's enough!"

Putting down the teacup, the corners of Tang Haoran's lips lifted slightly, and he looked at Tan Sitong and said.

"In these years, it's not easy to eat alone, the key depends on how to operate, resurrection, these 50,000 taels of silver, it doesn't seem like much, but if you use it, it can also come in handy!"

Smiling coldly, Tang Haoran's brows raised slightly, most of the businessmen's vision in this era is limited to the present, they have never eaten pork, they have always seen pigs walking, whether it is in movies, television or literary works in later generations, there is always how a company can achieve a monopoly on the market with the help of various means, and the monopoly trend is also the most prevalent market means in the West in this era. The huge profits brought by monopoly are something that no one can refuse, Tang Haoran can't, and some people can't.

"Fusheng, these days, look at opening up our stalls, first buy two furnaces outside the city, and then collect a few blacksmith shops, and then, get another map out, let's think about it, divide this area, well, there is ......"

Listening to the young master and Young Master Tan talking there, Yun'er was only confused, although he couldn't understand what they were saying, but from the meaning of the young master's words, he could tell that he wanted to do briquette trading, what was wrong with the young master? How could this kind of trade be made?

Thinking of the briquette business, Yun'er's mind first came to mind of the guys in the coal shop covered in soot, and even the shopkeeper's body was not necessarily clean.

No, I have to persuade the young master when I go back!

When this thought popped up in her heart, Yun'er saw that the young master was discussing with Young Master Tan with a happy face, and Young Master Tan, who was originally opposed, seemed to be convinced, and the two seemed to be planning something there, and they all looked elated.

Could it be that this briquette business is so good?