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In Lin Hanlong's plan, the cooperation between Qiong Haijun and Zhou Dashoufu was by no means limited to politics. In fact, since he vaguely stated last time that he could cooperate with Daming in an economic way similar to the development of Tianjin Port, Zhou Yanru has been extremely interested in this aspect, and has already found opportunities to ask several times.

After whetting the other party's appetite for a while, Lin Hanlong also planned to come up with a practical project, lest the other party think that he was just letting off the cannon. As for the content of the project...... The current situation of the Ming Dynasty: the landlord seems to be a natural and man-made disaster; The bureaucracy seems to be a swarm of the people; In the mouth of the literati, the people are not living; But in the eyes of their modern people, there are really good opportunities everywhere, and it's not a matter of minutes to come out with a golden doll?

happened to be the ball that Hu Wen kicked to him, and Lin Hanlong felt that he could make good use of it......

Shorthair's work efficiency is high - that night, General Manager Chen Dalei received a notice and came over to meet with Lin Hanlong and Guo Yi to discuss the next development of Qiongshifang.

The men talked much more casually between them, the three of them got a little wine in the office, went to the canteen to ask for a few snacks, drank a few glasses first, and when the atmosphere was up, Guo Yi smiled and said:

"I said, Lao Chen, you don't have a good way to get off the horse. Anna is a foreigner who doesn't understand our national conditions, and Sister Hu doesn't care about economic practice, so if you push those specific troubles over, you won't have to blame us in the end - it's better to come to us from the beginning. ”

Chen Dalei also knew that although these people were young and impulsive, they were not easy to fool - although the Qiong Haijun gang had high talents, the best of them were not here. There are also some weaknesses in their personalities.,After all, they all have some level of standing up to represent collective activities.,It's by no means comparable to ordinary people who don't understand the world.。

didn't plead at the moment, raised the wine glass and drank it all, which was regarded as a self-punishment glass, and then said with a wry smile:

"If it weren't for the fact that I really couldn't do it, I wouldn't have begged those aunts...... It's really hard to do! For the sake of the smoky thing, several shopkeepers of the satin cloth village ...... Ah, manager, you come to me almost every day to argue. If we don't move our canteen, they won't be able to do business - the fabric is all stained, what price can they sell? As for the canteen itself, I also complained once - there was nothing to burn, and we were about to buy all the charcoal on the surface of the city! ”

The city of Beijing has to supply a large number of residents with fuel every day, and there are not many woods around, so traditional firewood alone is certainly not enough. Therefore, coal, or coal, has long been one of the important fuels for residents in the capital. The coal mined from the Mentougou area enters the Beijing division through the Fucheng Gate, and for this reason, there is a plum blossom carved on the Fucheng Gate, so as to pass the word "coal".

However, in this era, coal was not widely used - mining and transportation capacity was limited in those days, and it was not easy to light the coal itself, so it was not convenient to use it as a daily household. In the capital, the rich families used charcoal, while the poor families still collected firewood and grass that did not cost money, and only the "middle class" would go to the coal store to buy coal for use. But the "middle class" of the Ming Dynasty is really not much, even if this is in the capital of the empire, Jingshi, the officials and merchants who can be called "middle class" are only a few thousand, and the consumption of coal is not too large.

The birth of Keqiong Shifang completely changed this situation, not only the canteen, but also the central boiler room that provides hot water and heating is a large coal consumer. Qiongshifang has been open for more than half a year, and the price of coal in Beijing has risen by 50%. Even so, the bosses of those coal banks hid when they saw Chen Dalei -- not because they didn't want to do his business, but because they were running out of stock. Even if Chen Dalei never bargained, and at any time he directly waved a large roll of silver dollars to speak, those charcoal shop bosses could only laugh and refuse - who could see that a large sum of silver didn't want to make money, but there was really no goods!

-- How could the supply of these charcoal shops, mined and transported by traditional methods, satisfy the use of fuel in the Qiongshi Fang, which is completely the habit of modern people in later generations! Even if the coal banks of the entire city of Beijing join forces, they still can't stand it.

In addition to eating, the two most popular benefits for employees are the heating in the dormitories and the public bathrooms that are open every day. It's just heating, and you can get around when there are more people. But taking a hot bath is not something that can be easily done.

Some people in later generations always said that ancient people didn't like to take a bath, but in fact, they just didn't have that material conditions. In the middle of winter, who doesn't want a good thing like being able to take a hot shower every day when they are busy with stinky sweat? In the capital, in addition to Qiongshifang, there is another unit that can have similar conditions, and there is probably only the Forbidden City.

In fact, there have been many requests for public bathhouses to be opened to the public like canteens, but they have been stuck because of the lack of coal. But even so, there are not a few "related households" including employees' families, business partners, and nearby neighbors who come to "rub" the bath. Even the low-level officials in the six departments and six departments of the capital, the Jinyi Guard, and the Yamen of the Shuntian Mansion are now often patronized here with their families - the conditions of the government departments are not as good as those of large enterprises, and this phenomenon can actually appear in the Ming Dynasty, which is considered an anomaly.

"Now that the weather is getting warmer, the bathroom doesn't have to be opened every day, the heating can be turned off slowly, and our coal storage only needs to be supplied to the canteen, and it can last for a month. But if there is no replenishment after that, it will be really unbearable! ”

Chen Dalei smiled bitterly and confessed to the two of them, while Lin Hanlong and Guo Yi glanced at each other, and both of them showed smiles in their eyes.

"On the Beijing side, he said it was a lack of coal ......"

"Hehe, when I was a child, I had relatives who lived in Mentougou, and the Jingxi Mining Bureau was a first-class unit at that time, and how many people wanted to drill into it with their heads sharpened."

Chen Dalei listened to the conversation between the two with some inexplicability, and then when the two took out the map of the Beijing division and pointed at the place name of the head ditch in the west of the city, he finally heard something.

-- These two people from the south, who had never paid attention to the coal industry in the capital before, did not even think about it, but they were very sure and concluded that the coal used by the Jingshi must have come from the Mentougou side, and there must be a large amount of mineral deposits buried under its territory. They don't seem to care who runs the mines, and they're already negotiating how to dig them up and transport them to the capital.

"Judging from the map, the water system of the capital is also connected to Mentougou, so that our future coal transportation and early equipment transportation will be much more convenient...... What do you think of our application for two steam engines directly from the Industrial Section? ”

"Neither of them is enough...... But let's meet the early needs first. It's just that we don't know if this map is accurate? After all, it's a post-...... If you draw it, you have to go to the field to explore it. ”

The two muttered and discussed for a while, and then finally remembered Chen Dalei:

"Ah, Lao Chen, tomorrow you will meet with the bosses of those coal shops and discuss with them -- we will buy their coal shops."

"Huh?"

Chen Dalei didn't expect these two to just open their mouths, as soon as they opened their mouths, they were so exciting news that they wanted to swallow other people's business? Which of you who has been in business these years is not a little family business that has been saved after decades of struggle, and even many of them are handed down from their ancestors, these two mouths are about to be snatched over, you are short-haired, you have money and power, you can't do this, right?

Seeing that Chen Dalei's face was wrong, Guo Yicai on the other side noticed that it might be his inappropriate words, and hurriedly smiled and said:

"Eh, don't get me wrong, we're not trying to rob other people's property. It's about investing in them, buying their business -- it's us giving them money, not the other way around. ”

――Does this sound like a short-haired style, Chen Dalei's heart relaxed slightly, but after thinking about it, he still shook his head:

"Nowadays, the world is restless, even if you have a thousand gold in hand, it is better to have a long-term livelihood - most people in the world think this way. Even if we are willing to pay a high price, I am afraid they may not be willing to sell. Besides, we don't know how to do it ourselves, so we just need to spend more money on coal. Those families also said that they would hire more people after the beginning of spring, so why should we have to buy the next charcoal store and grab this bowl of coolie rice from them. ”

It seems that Chen Dalei still did some work, but limited to his vision, the effect was limited after all. Lin Hanlong shook his head slowly:

"With their primitive methods of manual mining, no amount of hiring people can meet our needs...... Thermal coal is a key industry, and we must control it ourselves. If you go and talk to them, tell them directly: it is imperative for us to intervene in this business, and once we enter, with their current production scale, we will definitely be crushed at that time. ”

"But that's not what we want – it's our way of producing that determines that our output must be huge. So we want to work with each other and get them to join our system. In this way, the experience and channels they have accumulated in this industry can still play a role, rather than simply being driven out of the industry as a competitor who has failed to compete. ”

This is really arrogant, but Chen Dalei absolutely does not dare to take it as a wild statement - because this is a fact that really happened: in the salt industry.

When Qionghai Salt entered the mainland market, Shorthair also adopted a similar strategy: to cooperate with the original local salt merchants as much as possible, and to give them a considerable profit for this purpose. But there are always people in the world who are easy to get into the horns of the bull, who feel that there must be a conspiracy to make profits like this, and resolutely "not be fooled", and always refuse to cooperate with them - and then they are crushed without suspense and silently.