Now that winter is coming, the people in all parts of the capital and the people in Tongzhou in the north and south still rely on firewood and charcoal for heating.

The cost of both of these things is very high.

But the coal they can dig out of this western mountain is very small, and it can be supplied on a large scale.

Zhu Youxiao said that what needs to be paid is only the very low labor income of these miners, as well as food and clothing.

I don't know when it started, the rich and noble families in the entire capital no longer burn charcoal, nor do they burn firewood for heating, but another kind of anthracite burning for heating has spread.

This trend was first popularized in the Forbidden City, saying that a coal field was found on the side of the West Mountain, and a large amount of anthracite coal was produced in it.

This anthracite burns up, does not smoke, does not smoke the eyes, and the price is cheap.

It only costs 200 wen to buy a bag of fine anthracite.

When this price was quoted, there was an uproar throughout the capital.

Anthracite for two hundred wen?

It's gold!

With this kung fu, they would rather burn bamboo charcoal!

But the thinking of the common people is completely different from the thinking of the rich and noble.

I haven't heard what other rich and noble people say!

This thing of burning anthracite is elegant.

You see that you are wood-burners and charcoal-burners, and there are bursts of smoke, which make your eyes hurt, and you smoke this house to blacken, and there is no half-point doctor and rich family at all.

How can this compare to someone burning anthracite?

You see, His Majesty in the Forbidden City burns this anthracite.

If these things are really bad, can His Majesty use them?

This majesty usually uses things, how picky it is!

Even if His Majesty says something good, it must be good.

At the beginning, for a while, I didn't see any circulation of this anthracite in the market.

Also, Your Majesty is such a big palace, and the anthracite production is not good enough to supply.

The little anthracite that flowed out of the market was quickly bought by other powerful families.

But slowly, the supply of anthracite in the capital also increased.

Many powerful families began to abandon the original charcoal and firewood burning in favor of burning anthracite.

No matter how you say this, that Uncle Zhang's mansion burns anthracite.

Your Marquis Zhao's family burns charcoal and even firewood.

Are you better than others?

Doesn't that mean that you are a lot lower than others?

When we meet and say hello in the future, Hou Li's waist is not straight.

This is called decency!

Now the rich and noble people go out, don't they open their mouths and ask you if you eat?

But this anthracite, did you burn it?

Huang Liji, the first assistant of the cabinet, worked hard for a day, and finally got off duty, and when he returned to his house, his family hurriedly brushed the snow off his body.

The first snow of the winter has arrived, and the weather has become exceptionally cold.

When Huang Liji returned home, he wanted to roast a charcoal fire, drink a few sips of wine, and eat some meat.

It's just that Huang Liji sat around the coal stove today, but found that the coal burned today was a little different from the past.

"Madam, why is there no smoke at all in this charcoal today?"

Huang Liji, as the first assistant of the cabinet, has seen a lot of rare things, but he has really never seen this situation.

"Didn't you buy some new bamboo charcoal today? The quality of this bamboo charcoal looks very good, and you can buy more in the future. ”

Mrs. Wang smiled beside her and said flatteringly: "Oops! Master, even if you're a high-ranking and powerful person, you've seen everything, but this thing is really a new and rare thing. ”

"You see that all this burns anthracite, and when it burns, it is all smokeless."

"Sir, when you read at home on weekdays, don't you always say that this charcoal smoke makes your eyes hurt? After that, there will be no smoke! ”

Huang Liji fiddled with the charcoal stove twice, and found that there was no smoke, and he sighed a little in his heart, "I am really a big man, and there are so many good things, but it is really a gift for scholars." ”

"It's just such a good thing, and it's definitely not cheap?"

The lady was extremely happy to please Huang Li, and her heart was already extremely comfortable, and she didn't care too much about the price of anthracite.

"Hey, how expensive can this be?"

"This burden is only two hundred words."

When Huang Liji heard this, he was also secretly taken aback.

Two hundred wen a load, that's really a lot.

They are not like ordinary people, who only light one or two stoves, and such a large family consumes more than one load of anthracite every day.

That is to say, if they burned two or three taels a day, one tael of silver would not be enough for two days.

How many rich and noble families are there in this capital, how many powerful families, how many king's grandsons, and how many noble children.

These burned anthracite coal, only more than him, not less than him.

I don't know how much it costs to excavate this anthracite.

If the development cost of this anthracite is very low, then this silver is like picking up for nothing.

At this time, Wei Zhongxian was happily reporting in front of Zhu Youxiao.

"Your Majesty is amazing, this is really amazing, in just a few days, we have earned as much as 200,000 taels of silver from anthracite."

"Our anthracite business is still expanding to the north and south."

"We can even mobilize Cao Yun's ships to sell anthracite coal along both sides of the canal."

"According to what His Majesty taught, this is only used by the powerful people in the capital, and it can harvest a wave of rich and foolish people on both sides of the strait, so if it goes on like this, it will really be profitable."

"If it goes on like this, this winter, we will be able to earn at least five or six million taels of silver."

Zhu Youxiao also sighed a little, Daming's annual tax revenue is only seven million taels, and relying on this anthracite alone, he can earn five or six million taels a year, which is really terrifying.

"We must have enough respect for our customers, people are rich and noble, not rich fools, you have to be cautious!"

"Yes! It's the slave who said it wrong! Rich and noble! What a rich family! ”

Wei Zhongxian couldn't have imagined that this anthracite would make so much money.

He felt a slight ache in his heart.

He knew that that West Mountain was such a big treasure house, and he had already occupied that West Mountain.

It's just that now this Xishan is still the property of his Wei Zhongxian on the surface, but it is actually the property of Zhu Youxiao.

In front of His Majesty, it's okay for him to steal petty, if he stretches his hand a little bigger, he won't dare now.

However, this is also due to Zhu Youxiao's layout, using some market speculation, and pulling up the face of this anthracite and the rich and noble, so that he can get so many silver taels.

The cost of two or three cents was sold at a high price of two hundred cents, which was ten times the profit.

But Zhu Youxiao was not satisfied.