It was snowing heavily, but Fang Xuanling's home was as warm as spring.

It's just that his mood is not warm, which is very similar to the ice and snow outside the window.

Seeing his stupid son Fang Yiai smirking around the stove, Fang Xuanling felt that his skull hurt even more.

"What's going on?" Lu Shi picked up the kettle of boiling water on the stove, poured it into the cup and brought it to him, "I sighed all day." ”

Fang Xuanling didn't speak, and stretched out his finger to the stove.

This kind of iron stove, with a long chimney leading to the window, is all the rage in Chang'an City, and every household likes it very much.

"What's wrong with the stove?" Lu Shi was even more puzzled: "Isn't it good to give things for nothing?" ”

Li Yunze used a brick kiln factory to make furnace galls, and then got outrageously cheap iron sheets for many people who had nothing to do after the autumn harvest to build stoves and chimneys, and then gave them to Chang'an City for free, and every household could get it.

In Lu's opinion, this is a great good deed, and it is not pleasing to the eye to look at his own master as if he has lost his soul.

"It's not the stove, it's the coal in the furnace!"

Fang Xuanling finally couldn't help it, "A few months ago, Li Yunze said that he wanted to buy coal, and I offered a price of two cents per catty, and I felt that it was too expensive at that time, and I was afraid that he would not buy it." After all, a shovel is one or two catties, and a basket is one hundred and ten wen. The price is like picking up

Like. ”

Unexpectedly, he actually agreed, and also signed a long-term supply and marketing agreement, and bought the right to purchase all the coal around Chang'an City in the next ten years. He even bought all the useless cinders at the price of one pound and one penny. ”

Lu Shi thought thoughtfully, "It seems that there is such a thing, I heard that everyone praised you at that time." That's a good thing. ”

"yes, it's a compliment." Fang Xuanling smiled bitterly, "But now, everyone is scolding me." ”

Why is that? You have opened a ten-year source of wealth for the imperial court, and if you don't reward it, you won't talk about it, why do you still scold you? ”

"It's because of the honeycomb coal in this furnace." When it comes to this, Fang Xuanling gritted his teeth, he has been shrewd all his life, but he has been repeatedly deflated in front of Li Yunze, a young man, and he is really cheated.

"Do you know how much this honeycomb coal costs?"

"How is this not known?" Lu Shi, who was in charge, immediately laughed: "Two pieces of honeycomb coal cost a penny, two dollars buy four yuan, and four pieces of sealed stove are enough to use for a day." ”

Fang Xuanling, whose face was even more ugly, smiled miserably, "Then do you know that the coal sold to Li Yunze by the imperial court can produce several pieces of honeycomb coal per catty?" ”

Lu's curiosity also rose: "How many pieces?" ”

Fang Xuanling opened a palm: "One pound of coal can produce five pieces of honeycomb coal." ”

"Two dollars for a pound, four pieces of honeycomb coal for two dollars." After calculating, Lu Shi smiled, "People only earn half a pound of money, and he always has to make some money when he does business." How much money is this? ”

"That's just a few bucks?!"

Fang Xuanling got up suddenly, gritted his teeth and panted, "Do you know that in Chang'an City alone, there are no less than 100,000 households that have bought stoves, and some families have bought more than one." According to the calculation of burning four pieces a day, that is 400,000 pieces. ”

The more he spoke, the more angry he became: "This is only in Chang'an City, counting the large families who buy more, and the villages and towns outside the city buy more, and sell at least 800,000 pieces of honeycomb coal every day." ”

After talking for a long time, Lu still didn't understand, but felt that his head was dizzy and couldn't understand, "And then?" ”

"And then? He can earn half a son by selling five yuan, ten yuan is a penny, and 800,000 yuan is 80 yuan, which is a day's income, 80 yuan a day!

！ ”

Fang Xuanling was not lightly angry, "Profiteer!" ”

You must know that even if he is Fang Xuanling, Lu Mi, Zhitian, food, charcoal, rewards, food money, clothes, miscellaneous labor, etc., all the income is combined, and he can't get eighty yuan a month.

On Li Yunze's side, he can earn eighty times a day.

Of course, we're talking about income on the surface.

This is just the income of Chang'an City, and when the honeycomb coal and stoves spread in all directions, it is estimated that it will not be a problem to earn a few hundred yuan a day.

How can there ever be such a crazy profiteer in this world, and there is so much wealth in the world, and he is about to be sucked up alone.

As for Li Yunze's side actually didn't make so much, and he still had a lot of costs or something, the officials of Datang naturally ignored it.

Anyway, in these days, there have been many noble families who have sent people over to either coerce or lure, wanting him to hand over the fat meat.

The coerced ones were all thrown into the snow with broken legs.

The temptations were all broken and hung on the trees.

It wasn't until Li Er spoke that the nobles stopped.

If the means are not good, then just wipe your face and want to turn your face and deny it, directly tear up the previous supply and marketing agreement, and pull away all the coal produced to make the honeycomb coal yourself.

This thing doesn't have the slightest technical content at all, isn't it just sawdust, lime, yellow mud, charcoal powder or something, and it doesn't look like anyone else.

As for the briquettes, you can understand it at a glance, it's too simple.

The voices of these people were so loud that Li Er even had to push Fang Xuanling out of the top cylinder.

It is precisely because of this that Fang Xuanling has been miserable in the past few days, and it is good to be scolded all day long for giving money that should have been from the imperial court to profiteers.

After Lu Shi understood the ins and outs, he asked suspiciously, "What kind of agreement, shouldn't it be, the government's coal can be sold to whoever it wants, why let him take it all." ”

Fang Xuanling, who was exhausted, waved his hand again and again, "Don't say more, you don't understand." ”

The ancient imperial court really didn't care about any credit, and there were many things that turned their faces and didn't admit their accounts.

But this time is different, because Li Yunze has unimaginable power in his hands, and offending him for a small amount of money and goods is the real gain outweighs the loss.

It's just that Fang Xuanling can't say this to others.

Thinking of this, he regretted why he sold his Zhuangzi to Li Yunze in the first place, and made himself a mess now. Taste.

Fang Yiai, who had never spoken, sat by the fire and felt the warmth, not knowing what was going on in her mind.

At the same time, Li Er, who threw the black pot to Fang Xuanling, was drinking in Li Yunze's new courtyard.

Li Yunze not only changed a new yard for himself, but even pushed down the entire old house in Zhuangzi, and then transformed it into a new house with red bricks and green tiles.

Every time Li Er came over, his eyes would light up when he looked at the neatly planned and row-by-row beautiful houses, and he hoped that he would be able to see that the entire village of Datang was so beautiful and wealthy in his lifetime.

"It's no problem to sell bricks, give as much as you want." Li Yunze poured wine into Li Er's wine glass, "If the demand is large, I can expand the production scale of the brick kiln, and it is not difficult to produce tens of thousands of bricks at a time." ”

This is what Li Er envies the most, Li Yunze's most awesome thing is not that he can come up with a few rare things, but that he can have as many as he wants!

Li Er, who picked up the wine glass, asked again: "What if you want a kiln factory?" ”

"No problem." Li Yunze replied briskly, "This thing has no technical content, since you want it, I'll give it to you entirely." ”

Datang naturally also has a kiln factory, and naturally it can make bricks by itself.

But the output of their kiln factory is not as much as Li Yunze's, and the quality is incomparable.

The reason for this is that Li Yunze has professional equipment and temperature measurement capabilities here.

Li Er didn't understand this, so he was very happy and took the initiative to touch Li Yunze.

After drinking the wine in the cup, Li Er, who was slightly red, picked up the fast son and went to clip the fat beef in the hot pot, which was really delicious.

"Recently, many people in the DPRK and China have taken a fancy to your honeycomb coal business." After eating for a while, Li Er began to talk about business again, "I can guarantee that the agreement is valid, but they are transporting a large amount of coal from afar to make honeycomb coal, so there is no way. ”

Of course, Datang does not have a patent here, and it will not accept a lawsuit arising from this.

Li Er was indeed well-intentioned, worried that it would affect Li Yunze's business.

"In this snowy weather, coal is brought in from hundreds of miles away." Li Yunze couldn't be happy, "The cost of the journey alone far exceeds the cost, and there is a problem with his brain." ”

"You're not worried?"

"What's there to worry about?" Li Yunze picked up his wine glass again, "Honeycomb coal looks simple, but it's actually really simple." But the problem is that they don't have an accelerant. ”

Li Er has never heard the word "accelerant?" What is it? ”

"Sodium nitrate, potassium nitrate, potassium permanganate, nitrate and so on and so forth. Without these things, it is difficult to light honeycomb coal, and it is difficult to burn for a long time when it is lit, and the most likely thing is that it will be extinguished halfway through. ”

Li Er'w(?Д?) w’

Although he didn't understand it, Li Er believed Li Yunze's words, and things were really not that simple.

The fast man holding the fat cow paused for a moment, and Li Er suddenly turned his head and shouted out of the door.

The guards quickly pushed the door in, and waited for orders with their hands tied.

"Quickly go to the house of the eldest grandson Wuji and tell him to sell the coal he sells immediately, and he is not allowed to do any honeycomb coal."

When the guards left in a hurry, Li Yunze was immediately happy, "This helping relatives is really in place." ”

"It's nature." Li Er's face was taken for granted, "Of course I want to help my relatives." ”

Accelerants, in the industrial age, are not a matter at all, and there are really as many as there are under the horror of industry.

But in the agricultural era, let alone use, I haven't even heard of it.

Li Er quickly changed the topic, "Your stove is still made of iron, why do you want to give it away for nothing?" ”

This is a thing he doesn't understand, such a good thing is actually given away for nothing, and a gift is sent in units of 100,000, this is no longer a lot of money, this is a good money boy.

"First of all, the cost of the stove is not high, the iron sheet is just a furnace gall, and it is not worth a few dollars."

"Secondly, what I send is not a stove, but business."

Li Yunze seriously explained, "The people of Datang are used to using wood and charcoal, and they used to use coal, but not to mention carbon monoxide poisoning, so it is not easy to promote it." ”

"But I can give it away for free, so I can naturally open the market quickly, especially to solve the problem of smoke and poisoning, and everyone can use it with peace of mind."

"In this business, it's not the stove that makes money, but the sale of honeycomb coal."

Li Er is very smart, and after listening to it, he understood after a little thought.

He nodded appreciatively: "You have the talent of Guan Zhong Tao Zhu." ”

Li Yunze was noncommittal about this, compared with those profiteers in the modern world, Guan Zhongtao and Zhu Gong were nothing, and they could really think of any trick to trick people.

There is only the unexpected, there is no pit that cannot be pitted!