Lu Duan also saw Song Jiu in the crowd, and looked at Song Jiu holding his hands, looking like he was watching a good show, and frowned. He also knew that Song Jiu had a playful attitude towards this industry, but Song Jiu's attitude made him slightly dissatisfied.

Walked in front of Zhao Chengzong and gave a salute, and said a few words, Bianshui is relatively narrow in this section, and the two rivers are only separated by a few dozen meters, but the sound is not loud, and it is still not audible, Han Qingxiong said: "This Lu Zhixian is really confused, he is an official, half an elder, what kind of courtesy." ”

It seems to be.

Song Jiu knew that it was not, if he didn't think about it, he really didn't think about it. Lu Duan's gift is not very good, but he only gave a peer ceremony, at most he said that he was confused, once he did a big gift, Zhao Chengzong would not be able to step down today, Lu Duan would also be impeached, and he also formed a bond with Zhao Pu. But it is this ceremony, Zhao Chengzong will be very embarrassed.

is a peer ceremony, Zhao Chengzong can't stand it, and said: "Lu Zhixian, you are not apologizing, you are scolding." ”

This is easy to do, Lu Duan jumped on the boat and asked the owner: "How much charcoal does your boat weigh?" ”

"Yuzhi County, three thousand three hundred stones." The owner of the ship replied honestly. A medium ship, about one hundred and fifty tons, but slightly overloaded, this weight is not overstated. But in the future the ship will get bigger and bigger, and such a ship will become a small boat.

This is also the first coal ship transported by Zhao Chengzong and other yamen.

Later, they did not arrive in the capital, and most of them were transported from Xuzhou.

"This is an important waterway in Gyeonggi, and every day many ships rush to rush before the frozen water, and the living needs of the people and civilians near the capital are brought over, so you let the ships unload here, not afraid of accidents?"

"This. This ......" The owner of the ship looked at Zhao Chengzong.

Lu Duan stood on the board of the boat and gave Zhao Chengzong a peer salute, Zhao Chengzong wanted to speak, but this salute was to plug all his words back into his stomach. Han Qingxiong whispered again: "Shame, shame." Lost Lu Xianggong's face together. ”

Song Jiu didn't think it was a shame and continued to watch the show. Lu Duan calmly said to the shipowner, "Come and see." This ship comes from Hongqiao, I have to let you, how dangerous? According to the system, you will be fined and confiscated together. In this way, sail the boat to the opposite imperial dock, Song Jiu, you tell General Han to send someone to unload these charcoal and transport it to the victims. Give the owner another 300 yuan. ”

"Zhixian, Zhixian," the owner of the boat shouted anxiously, but Lu Duan ignored him and let the two officials escort him to sail the boat to the imperial dock diagonally opposite.

In fact, this is the problem of the price of carboniferous.

In the future, perhaps large-scale coal mining in the Song Dynasty, now only a few areas are mining coal, and there is little civil use, and most of them are used for iron smelting in the Cizhou area. Originally, the capital still used charcoal and firewood for heating or cooking. Cutting firewood is also not easy, and it is impossible to cut it at the doorstep. It is also impossible to sell it for money with a few small dead branches, it must be a fine wood to split into firewood, and when it is cut down, it must be carried back, and it can only be cut three or two loads a day. But that's not the end of it. You have to go into the city to sell it for money. In fact, it is less than one load of firewood a day, so the price of a load of firewood is between 80 and 100 yuan. Once baked into charcoal, the cost is higher. Generally, a load of charcoal is a little more than 100 catties, about 400 wen.

The imperial court found various coal mines. The price of the mined coal is also set at this price, 400 wen per stone. Song Jiu ran to Kaifeng Mansion to raise objections. He proposed. The imperial court did not implement all of them, but only tried them on Jingdong Road, and contracted some iron pits to private individuals. Depending on the situation, this decree may be withdrawn, and it may be rolled out nationwide. But the process will be slow, mainly for fear of gunpowder leakage.

Song Jiu used the topic to play and said that it couldn't be so expensive. In fact, many charcoal pits are located by the river, and the cost of moving from the waterway is not high, and the imperial court has dug charcoal pits on a large scale, which has caused many drawbacks, and contracting to private individuals is even more necessary.

Once half of it is private, such a high price will affect its role and invisibly increase the cost of steel. Therefore, the imperial court set its price as two hundred yuan per stone and two hundred and fifty yuan. In fact, this price is also very high, and the price of a ton of coal is at least 4,210 yuan.

After density measurement, Song Jiu finally figured out how many catties of a Song stone was, about ninety-five catties. One meter is 3.05 feet. This is converted according to the standard of Kaifeng County. At the same time, the volume of liters is also converted. But now it's not called kilograms, it's called imperial catties. It is not called rice, but it is called the imperial ruler, and it is not called the ton, but the imperial ton.

It's not easy, Song Jiu finally won't have a calculation chaos, but the others are.

It is still expensive, it is very likely that it is equivalent to 2,78 yuan to 3,000 yuan per ton in terms of purchasing power, but now the mining cost and transportation cost are still high, no matter how cheap and unreasonable, this cost can barely be widely used. That is, 3,300 stone of charcoal, the real price is 660 yuan, if you give high-quality charcoal, the price is 770 yuan.

Lu Duan only gave 300 yuan, which was a big loss.

Lu Duan stood on the shore and said to the officials beside him: "Send five people to build a small shed here, for the safety of other ships, if there are ships unloading here in violation of regulations, all of them will be confiscated." ”

After speaking, he returned to Kaifeng County.

Zhao Chengzong led a group of Yanei to stare at each other with big eyes. A group of Yanei scolded Lu Duan for being weak and used this shameless method to solve the problem, but the more Song Jiu recalled, the more wonderful he felt, and after thinking for a long time, he suddenly said: "It's not good, this old boy is uneasy and kind, and wants to drag me into the water." ”

The bridge is repairing the road, and it will be maintained for a period of time after it is repaired, and it will not be able to pass people for the time being, so Song Jiu called a small boat and put him over.

A large group of Yanei did not enter the Hezhou shares, but it does not mean that they rejected Song Jiu, there are many reasons for not joining the shares, some people disdain, some people still don't believe it, some people are unwilling Song Jiu accounted for most of the deed shares, until Song Jiu made a large concession, some people regretted it, but at that time, the deed shares were already full, and some people did not want to live under Song Jiu, there are many reasons.

However, everyone also interacts from time to time, Song Jiu's status is getting more and more expensive, in addition to the family, the officials and the emperor's weight can be on an equal footing with them. As for the 100 or so Yanai who have invested in the shares, they are also not monolithic.

Like the Pan brothers, Zhang Lin was good, Fu Zhaoshou was very repulsive to Zhang Lin, and later Zhang Qiong died, Fu Zhaoshou did not reject it. But Zhang Lin is equivalent to his own son has withdrawn from this group of internal social circles. This is just one of the contradictions, and there are all kinds of intricate relationships. I'm afraid that Zhao Kuangyin, as their leader, can't integrate them into one iron plate.

Zhao Pu was not too friendly to Song Jiu. Zhao Chengzong and his cousin Zhao Chengqing are not evil, just as Zhao Pu's attitude towards Song Jiu is the same as his attitude towards his two students.

Seeing Song Jiu coming, Zhao Chengzong said, "Jiulang, are you really unloaded?" ”

"It's not that I'm really unloaded, it's Lu Zhixian who really unloaded, can I not let him unload?"

"This loss is ours, is it really the ship's owner?" Not only this ship, but there are two other ships behind it, but they have not yet arrived. If you unload it and burn it at home, you can't finish it. Besides, where do you put this big pile of coal?

Song Jiu was happy and said, "How much do you buy these lands per mu?" ”

"Don't mention it, twenty yuan per acre, it was only worth four or five yuan, and it was all your fault, and it rose more expensive than the land in the city." Zhao Chengzong said, and the other yamen were also very resentful. Lu Duan's soft move was ruthless, and he didn't let the coal be unloaded. What other workshops are you talking about?

"The land is not expensive, on the contrary, it is too cheap."

"Jiulang, don't be funny, twenty acres of land is not expensive. Is it sold for a hundred guan an acre? ”

"Zhao Dalang, you haven't recognized its value yet, Hezhou is full of use. If it is less than 4,000 acres, the money from the wharf and the academy will be removed. After removing the area occupied by road and bridge construction, how many acres are left? In the future, I will pay more than 560 yuan to the imperial court. And it's not permanent yet. There is only a fifty-year term. Your land is right next to Hongqiao, how much do you think it's worth? Of course, in addition to wanting to be a honeycomb coal workshop, you just thought that it could only grow vegetables, so I didn't say it. ”

"Yes, please teach me Kuro."

"Once the Hongqiao is repaired, not only the landscape of Hongqiao, but also the main store, the playground, etc., the people will not only come from Hezhou, but also from Hebei, how many people will come in a day. You only use such land for workshops, how can you give it up? ”

"Yes, Jiulang, just say it, I'll treat you in the evening."

"Where?"

"Rendian."

"There's a lot of people on the other side."

"I'm invited," Zhao Chengzong said through gritted teeth.

"Okay, I'll say it to you, it's not suitable for a workshop, it's the most suitable for a restaurant, a tea shop, and its income will be several times that of a workshop."

"How is it possible, besides, your store."

"The main store is different, it is a luxury restaurant, and there will be a lot of snacks on Hezhou in the future, but it has nothing to do with you. The honeycomb coal workshop is profitable at the moment, and its technology is simple, and more and more people will set up workshops in the future, and the profits will gradually decline. If you're reluctant to give up, I have a plan. There is no good water milling place near Bianshui, or it is too far to transport it to the city. But Bianshui can't work, Wuzhang River can't work? Go ahead and grab it before it's too late. ”

"yes, we're confused." Zhao Chengzong said overjoyed.

At present, the profit is still okay, this is Song Jiu after calculation, deliberately suppressed the profit, there is some rejection in the Ya, Song Jiu repeatedly reasoned, you can't make too much, you can make too much money, the people can't afford to use it, and the amount will make up for the profits. And in the future, there will be more and more workshops, the price will inevitably fall, and the people will also say that they make black money, and even affect the credibility of Hezhou. The effect is indeed good, and at least 30,000 or 40,000 households in the capital have begun to use honeycomb coal. So let Zhao Chengzong and their group of yamen see it hot.

The first year is a monopoly business, and the profit will not be bad, but as soon as there are several workshops, the profit will immediately decline. Therefore, Song Jiu is in the nature of playing tickets, and it can only be said that one person can be counted, Zhang Lin. Zhang Lin invested a few hundred yuan in shares, a total of 1,000 yuan.

But he has no official or position, so he can only eat his old book. It's okay, he also has an uncle, if there is no Zhang Qiong, Zhang Jin would not have been able to get the position of deputy head of Long Jiejun, but the relationship with Song Jiu and his eldest brother-in-law is the same. If there was no Song De, the eldest brother-in-law's family would not have opened that small wine shop, and life would not have changed for the better. Song De died, it turned out that Song Jiu was rubbing around with that idea, and the eldest brother-in-law would have an idea. The first year is not easy to calculate, it is possible for one person to get 400, 500, 600. In the next year, it would be good to be able to get one or two hundred. But with this money, as long as Zhang Lin doesn't come nonsense, it is enough to support. A few years later, Hezhou began to officially distribute dividends, and with the cost of his 1,000 yuan, he might be able to get 1,000 or 2,000 or 3,000 every year. In the second half of his life, no matter whether Zhao Kuangyin will give him an official or not, he will have no worries about food and clothing.

At that time, Song Jiu was just a joke, he didn't expect to take it seriously so quickly, and sometimes Song Jiu was full of emotion when he thought about it.

Zhao Chengzong discussed with a group of yamen for a while, turned his head and said to the yamen: "You go back and report to Lu Zhi County, we don't have a workshop, and we will rebuild a teahouse restaurant." ”

Isn't it disgusting, actually saluting to himself, this will be another scolding when it reaches his father's ears. Zhao Chengzong was so depressed that he said to Song Jiu: "Let's go and see your vegetables, and eat wine after reading." ”

Actual play is the main thing, business, his father is such a big business, and he is still worried about money?

"Okay."

A group of Yanai ran to the vegetable greenhouse to watch, it has been more than a month, the growth is gratifying, and the cyan leaves are like jadeite under the sunlight sprinkled by the glass. Several kinds of vegetables are common, but some are called differently, for example, the gourd is actually a kind of short and fat gourd, and the gourd is divided into two kinds, one is the common long gourd, but some people also call the gourd gourd. Some want to build a shelf, gourd, gourd, cucumber, winter melon also have to build a shelf, now the winter melon is not too big, but the shelf requires high quality, some have begun to climb the vine and flower, vegetable farmers in the artificial flowering.

At this time, there are no bees and no wind in the shed, so pollination can only be done by hand. Another novel knowledge.

Leeks, eggplants and celery don't need to be put on a shelf, but they are also high-yielding vegetables that grow just as hot. Pan Weide said: "Jiulang, this celery looks like it can be eaten." ”

"I can't eat it now, it's going to take twenty days."

"Do you really eat cucumbers in the snow?" Han Qingxiong looked at the little cucumber eggs and opened his mouth wide and said.

"I don't know if it will snow in 30 days, but after 30 days, I can eat a batch of cucumbers in the morning market."

"Jiulang, how much does this one cost?" Pan Weide thought of the unscrupulous character of this prospective brother-in-law, and asked suspiciously.

"How much do you think it's going to be worth?"

"One hundred wen, no, this spring my mother bought an early gourd and spent more than nine hundred wen. Oh my God, Jiulang, you're robbing money," Pan Weide finally reacted and shouted with his arms around Song Jiu.

"Hey, this is called eating smart food and making smart money, you know."

"No, Jiulang, you have a treat," Zhao Chengzong shouted. Dozens of yamen didn't settle accounts, and when they settled the accounts, they were startled, and they carried Song Jiu out of the palace together, tied them up to Rendian, and blackmailed Song Jiu for a luxurious meal, using more than 400 yuan of Song Jiu.

But it can't be so expensive, this is twenty acres of land, too much, but a cucumber still dares to sell for three or four hundred yuan, which is equivalent to grabbing money. It's just that Song Jiu was mostly out of the capital at that time.

As soon as he returned home, he saw one of his students' parents sitting at home waiting for him, and when he saw Song Jiu, he knelt down and burst into tears. Song Jiu was startled, helped them up, and said, "Da Tamping is committing an accident outside?" ”

This student's name is Wu Da Thong, and he usually works very hard when he reads, but he doesn't talk much and is a little old-fashioned, otherwise Song Jiu will be included in the twenty personal disciples. But it may be due to genetic factors, his parents are also less talkative and old-fashioned.

The two of them kept to themselves in the river, but when they saw that they were kneeling and crying, what else could they be if it wasn't a big rammer.

Yuping covered her mouth, and Song Jiu was at a loss for this music. (To be continued......)