"Uncle Tie, have you built the utensils I asked you to build last time?" Meng Yan asked.

"It's been built a long time ago, a total of three payments have been built, one pair is made as a sample here, and two payments are taken by the manager Jiang." Tie Meng said with a smile.

"Uncle Tie, can you take me to see it?"

"That's what you're supposed to be, come with me!" Tie Meng waved his hand, "Tie Dan, hit with your heart, pay attention to the coordination of your wrist and waist, if you don't beat this piece of iron today, you will save lunch and dinner!" ”

"Hey, uncle!" The iron egg is painful and happy, with the guidance of a master who thinks that the iron fighting grandmaster, his skills are improving by leaps and bounds!

This is much happier for Tie Dan, who has been obsessed with striking iron since childhood, than killing people with a machete.

The three of them came to a side room, and Tie Meng reached out and pushed the door open.

"Stone, look, these are the two sets of utensils you asked me to make, this is the stove you asked me to build, this is the utensils you asked me to build to make honeycomb coal, look at it, is it the same as what you painted?" Iron Fierce Hand pointed to a strange pile of iron in the room.

Meng Yan looked fixedly, a little surprised.

It's not that the stove and utensils are wrong, but they are so delicate that they can be described as works of art.

"Uncle Tie, you don't have to make it so good-looking, who would be willing to use it if you take it home like this?"

"Hehe, stone, you didn't say, how this is used, I just want to make it look better!" Tie Meng sneered and said with a smile, in order to show his exquisite skills, he had been meticulously crafting for two nights before making it.

"Tsk, this stove belongs to me, Uncle Tie, if you are free, make a few more like this, I plan to use it as a gift!" Meng Yan said very bluntly.

"Gift-giving?"

"Yes, gifts, our stove is a new thing, if you want the people to accept recognition and buy, you have to think of a marketing plan!" Meng Yan said, "This stove made by Uncle Tie reminds me!" ”

"Brother Meng wants to give this cylindrical stove as a gift, and then these people use it to help us promote it invisibly?" When Guo Yue heard this, her eyes suddenly lit up.

"Bingo, Satsuki is so smart!"

"This stove can cost a lot of materials, not counting labor, and it costs a tael of silver!" Tie Meng said in surprise.

"A tael of silver?" Meng Yan froze.

He planned to make at least 500 such stoves, and as soon as he heard that this was not considered workmanship, it would cost one tael of silver, and 500 of them would cost at least 500 taels of silver!

This is really a bit of a stretch for Meng Yan, who is already undercapitalized, to implement this marketing plan!

Even if the plan is halved, it will have to be at least about 300, or not to play a hunger marketing in the Ming Dynasty?

No, it's not high-tech millet that I'm playing, it's just an ordinary charcoal stove, can it work?

The so-called hunger marketing is the use of propaganda to arouse people's curiosity and achieve the purpose of making things scarce and expensive.

Reading glasses can be done, this coal furnace is forgotten, and the rapid popularization can make money.

These are all necessities of life, and there is no need to engage in so many flowers.

But when a new thing emerges, in addition to propaganda to attract the attention of the people, the most important thing is to make the people accept this new thing.

Meng Yan is confident in the convenience and efficiency of briquette stoves and honeycomb coal, because in later generations, that is, in the era when he left, these two things were still being used by people. 3

"Uncle Tie, are you using all the refined steel?" Meng Yan took a closer look and asked in surprise.

"Yes!" Tie Meng said with a smile.

"It's a terrible thing!" Meng Yan really wanted to scold, how good would this be if it was used to build weapons?

Guo Yue is also a black line, and he actually used 100 refined steel to build a furnace, did this old man surnamed "Tie" get water in his head?

"Uncle Tie, if you don't use a hundred refined steel, how much is this furnace worth?" Meng Yan asked.

"If you use cast iron, you will only need two pieces of silver!"

"So, if I were to build five hundred of these furnaces, it would cost me only a hundred taels of silver?" Meng Yan said in surprise.

"It's almost, but the quality and condition are definitely not as good as this one!" Tie Meng nodded and said with a little regret.

"It doesn't matter, as long as it's strong and durable." Meng Yan Road.

"That's okay!"

"Brother Meng, this is the tool you said about making honeycomb coal, right?" Guo Yue stepped forward, picked up the mold on the ground and asked.

"Yes, it's this set of tools, Uncle Tie, Jiang Feng, have they tried it?" Meng Yan nodded.

"They just took it away, I don't know if it's already used!"

"Oh, that's the case, then let's take it and try it first, Uncle Tie, take a hand!"

"Great!"

"I'll do it too!" Guo Yue also stepped forward to help.

Meng Yan wanted to make honeycomb coal, and Jiang Xiaodie and Jiang Feng, brothers and sisters who got the news, also ran over, and they didn't have time to use the set of tools before they took it.

There is strength in numbers, and it is very fast.

Raw coal is taken, crushed into fine particles, charred sawdust, lime, charcoal powder, yellow mud......

"Brother Meng, what is this?"

"It's manganese!"

"Isn't it used to make gunpowder, what are you doing with this?" Guo Yue grabbed Meng Yan and asked.

"This one is combustion-fueled!" Meng Yan explained.

"What about this, what is this?"

"This is ......"

Jiang Feng's brothers and sisters didn't know why Meng Yan wanted him to buy these things, but now after listening to the explanation, they all understood.

These raw materials are mixed first according to a certain proportion, then a certain amount of water is added, stirred evenly, put into a mold, and pressed.

One by one, honeycomb briquettes did just that!

"Brother Meng, what are these so many holes for?" Guo Yue asked curiously.

"These holes, one is the upper and lower inlet and outlet gas, and the other is the flame rise and heat transfer after combustion, so that the honeycomb coal burns enough to reduce the loss!" Meng Yan explained carefully and carefully.

"Stone, how to use this thing, why don't you show us?" Tie Meng said with unusual interest.

"Okay, I'll teach you how to burn this stove first!" Meng Yan nodded and decided to come to a live teaching.

"Take two pieces of flammable dry pine, it doesn't matter if you don't have them, you can also ...... ordinary wood at home"

"After igniting, put it in, put the honeycomb coal in it slowly, remember, from the bottom of the mouth, fan the fire, not too fast, but not too slow......"

"After igniting, you can add a second piece, if you are not in a hurry, you can let it slowly burn on its own, if you are in a hurry, you can fan the wind against this mouth, and you can blow it!"

……

"Of course, I don't think the fire is strong enough, so there is no problem with boiling water and stir-frying, and this stove is very coal-saving, how much it will be saved, and it will be tested!"

"How to test?" Guo Yue asked curiously.

"Select a few households, respectively, we provide coal and honeycomb coal, and take an average of the amount of coal and honeycomb coal they consume within ten days, and then convert it into money, you can know whether our honeycomb coal has an advantage!" Meng Yan explained.

"If the cost of using our honeycomb coal is low, then no one will use coal directly?"

"Xiaoyue is right, if this is the case, there is no reason for the people not to choose our honeycomb coal, as for this stove, one can be used for several years, if we do some more activities, such as lottery, gifts, discounts, etc., you say, will it be rich at that time?"

"Sure to make a profit!"

"Stone, I'm afraid someone will come to steal business!"

"Don't be afraid, how many people dare to come to Jinyiwei's head to break ground?" Meng Yan smiled, wouldn't he be a fox and a fake tiger?

What's more, he will soon be a Jinyiwei test hundred households, and he also pulled the daughter of Jinyiwei's command Tongzhi into the shares.

There is such a talisman, and those who dare to make up their minds should also weigh it, whether they have the courage or not, Jinyiwei is not a vegetarian.

"That's right, I've forgotten your identity!" Tie Meng laughed.

For a time, everyone was very optimistic about the prospects of coal furnaces and honeycomb coal.