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Although they also tried to use various methods to fight back, but before the absolute crushing advantage of Qionghai salt, they couldn't even stir up a wave - originally, on the one hand, it was necessary to burn wood to boil the sea, consuming a lot of fuel and manpower to cook the grain salt, and on the other side, the sun salt, bamboo fence can be harvested in large quantities, how to compete with this quantity and cost? The absolute disadvantage of nature, no matter how hard you try, you can't fight it!

When Chen Dalei first joined the trading company system, he also participated in the work of the company's salt industry system in this regard, so he was extremely impressed by this matter. And now Lin Hanlong's tone clearly expresses the meaning that the coal industry will be the next salt industry.

Sure enough, he listened to Guo Yi again:

"In the Ming Dynasty, if you want to mine underground mineral deposits for a long time, you must not be able to bypass the government. If we want to develop the coal resources of Mentougou on a large scale, we must cooperate with the Ming Dynasty - Lao Chen, when you go to talk to those charcoal owners, you might as well tell them this sentence, maybe you can mix with the imperial businessman or something in the future. ”

Chen Dalei smiled bitterly when he heard this-you short-haired yourself are not afraid of the government, so you think that everyone is like this? In fact, as a businessman, the most feared thing is that the official family will be involved, and when the time comes, the mouth will be swallowed together with the business and industry, and then there will be no place to cry.

Noticing the wry smile on his face, Lin Hanlong knew that he was thinking about it again, so he had to add:

"Don't worry, the cooperation with the Ming government has our trading company in the front. If the government really wants to fight bad ideas, it can't get around us...... If they're really not at ease, we have a suggestion here. ”

He glanced at Guo Yi, who walked out the door and came in a moment later with a few pieces of black and swarthy things

"Those charcoal owners have been in the coal business for so many years, so they must have a lot of crushed cinder stocks, right?"

"Yes, there are several large piles of crushed coal left in almost every coal yard, and at most one of them has accumulated a foot thick on the ground, which is really not easy to sell."

Chen Dalei replied casually, and at the same time, his attention involuntarily focused on those strange things—black, round, with many holes on them, and he twisted his fingers to see what they were.

"It's ...... Made of pulverized coal? ”

"Well, it is also mixed with soil, eighty percent pulverized coal and two into yellow mud, add water and stir it with a mold to shape and dry it, it's very simple...... Oh, and it's called honeycomb coal, or maybe it's called a briquette. With a dedicated stove, it is a very good fuel, especially suitable for household use. ”

Guo Yi didn't care about the recipe and production method, which made Chen Dalei a little surprised, and said in his heart, You are not afraid of being learned. But then Guo Yi's words made him understand the reason:

"If you go and talk to the charcoal owners tomorrow, you can give this to them as a gift first - we have a full set of molds and a matching stove, which is easy to use and definitely not out of market. You can tell them that whether they want to cooperate with us or not, we can pay for their stock of shredded coal -- at the original price. It would be better if they were willing to process it into briquettes and sell them to us - we would still buy them at the normal price of coal. ”

"Oh?"

Chen Dalei's heart moved-Guo Yi said very clearly just now, this thing is eighty percent coal and two percent mud, that is to say, if it is made into briquettes and sold, the price can rise by two percent, and as for manual work such as dredging and molding, it is not a cost at all in the eyes of merchants in this era. Especially those who are in the coal business, who doesn't have a hundred or ten strong labor boys at home.

Regarding the effect of this "honeycomb coal", Chen Dalei was a little skeptical at first. But later, when he followed Guo Lin and the others outside to watch the combustion demonstration of honeycomb coal - including using a few straws to ignite the fire, to cooperating with a special small coal stove to cook, stir-fry, boiling water and a series of operations, especially the advantage that a piece of briquette can be "sealed and smoldered" to keep it all night, Chen Dalei immediately realized: This is a business that can be done for a long time!

-- Of the seven things to open the door, firewood is the first one. No matter how powerful you are, you are extremely wealthy, and as long as the fire is fired, you must continue to buy firewood and fuel. In the past, people didn't like to use coal, because they thought it was dirty and slow to ignite, although it was an advantage to burn hard, but as a family, in addition to heating in winter, it often didn't need to be burned for so long. As a result, coal has not been widely used as a daily fuel.

However, this honeycomb coal almost perfectly overcomes the shortcomings of ordinary coal, and gives full play to its advantages. According to the price given by short hair: the price of a piece is only about one to two yuan, and the maximum cost of burning four or five yuan a day is only ten yuan, which ordinary households can fully afford. The most important thing is that this thing has to be burned every day, and every household uses it, which is a good deal that will never be perfected!

"This ...... Can't we do it ourselves? ”

Chen Dalei first wanted to eat it himself, but Lin Guo and the others both shook their heads with a smile:

"It's not necessary, it's just because it's too simple and easy to make, and it's easy for people to learn. And it has no threshold, anyone just needs to buy some crushed cinders, get a mold, and have the strength to make themselves, and they can't form a monopoly, and the price and profit can't be raised. It doesn't make much sense for us to do it ourselves. If we want to sell it, we can actually sell these things......"

He pointed to the iron molds and small coal stoves, as well as pots and pans of the corresponding size...... Chen Dalei suddenly understood, and immediately laughed:

"Understood, let's just do our own business, no one can grab it."

With this trump card in hand, I am much more confident when I go to negotiate with those coal shop bosses...... Thinking of tomorrow's meeting, Chen Dalei felt a little proud.

In fact, according to the usual habit of the Ming Dynasty, this kind of meeting to gather people to discuss matters, not to mention, should be notified ten days and a half months in advance, so that we can know whether people are free or not. Shorthair does things at their own pace, and many places talk to themselves.

However, when Guo Yi opened his mouth just now, Chen Dalei dared to agree, also because he was sure that no matter whether those charcoal shop bosses had anything to do or not, they would hand over a post by themselves, and they would definitely drop everything and come to visit. This is the status of him, Chen Dalei and General Manager Chen in the Beijing business circle!

We are the people who can talk and laugh with the general manager of the Forbidden City, and when the court is old! A few owners of the charcoal shop went to meet with them in person to discuss business, which was already a big face. Originally, Guo Yi said that he would buy those charcoal stores, but Chen Dalei estimated that he could do it if he used some means, but he just felt that it was unnecessary.

But now that the conditions for short-haired hair are extremely generous, and he has been given such a good product as a stepping stone, if he can't do it, then his face as General Manager Chen will have nowhere to go.

"Okay, this matter is on me, and I must take down all those charcoal lines. Not to mention anything else, if they buy all the crushed coal they have accumulated and make it into briquettes, it will last for about a few months. ”

Chen Dalei guaranteed the ticket, so the coal problem was solved, and the next thing was the land problem.

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Speaking of land, I'm afraid that even shorthair is not a good way -- if Chen Dalei took out the coal and reported it, it was still a little to give the "vice president An" who came to inspect the work a disappointment and make some trouble for her. This land is insufficient, and the trouble that can't be unleashed is really not something he can solve.

On the one hand, the original location of Qiongshifang was because Chen Tao's residence, the so-called "Qionghai Town Beijing Office", was located near the South Gate Catholic Church, so he felt that it was better to place the market in this area. On the other hand, there happened to be a piece of land here that was more suitable at that time, and the original owner planned to sell it, so he took it.

Its specific location is in the Xuanwu Gate, on the south side of Fucaifang, and across the street is the size of the Yongfang where the majority of officials and nobles are located. In its own right, it can be considered a "commercial district" - its characteristics can be seen by the names of nearby places: Blacksmith Alley, Handkerchief Alley, Hair Alley...... Wait a minute. Originally, it was a place where craftsmen gathered, which is a very good location.

If it weren't for the fact that the world is not good now, and the business is getting worse and worse, the original owner will not sell the house if he can't support it. However, because this house comes with a very large yard, the owner is reluctant to give it away for nothing and refuses to sell it at a low price, which has dragged on for a long time. Finally, it was the Qiongzhou shorthair who had just arrived in the capital to "Lao Tzu is not bad for money!" The faction took it down, and by the way, several adjacent properties were also bought at a high price.

Chen Dalei, who was helping them run errands at that time, still felt that these short-haired things were too unsuccessful, even if you crossed the river and ran to the capital to open a store, you wouldn't want to circle such a large land, right? It's enough to do a school field, who knows that it's only been less than a year, and what he regrets most now is that he didn't buy more at that time! At that time, there were obviously a few surrounding shops that were also discussed, but the asking price was too high, and the most important thing was that I felt that I really didn't need so much empty space, so I didn't talk about it anymore.

Didn't you expect the business to be so big, and now you want to buy it? -- Thanks to their blessings in Qiongshifang, the bustle and prosperity in this area is already the crown of the capital, and those shops that were originally half-dead are now doing very well, and people refuse to sell them!

Of course, if you really want to use official connections and engage in some shady means, it is not that you can't get it. But Chen Dalei still has a bit of a bottom line after all, and he doesn't want to do this kind of bullying thing, and looking at the shorthairs' usual style of acting, most of them will not agree to use this method.

Then you can only rely on money? This is a bottomless pit - looking at Guo Lin and the others who were studying the map and discussing countermeasures, even though he knew that this was not kind, Chen Dalei still couldn't help but faintly rise in his heart with a kind of pleasure like watching people eat deflated.