What kind of factory do you want to open in this other world?

"It is required that this factory can provide many jobs, the technology applied should not be too complicated, try not to attract the attention of others, have a certain profit margin, and then not touch the sensitive line of the Great Zhou court."

Focusing on these elements, Lin Ze began to think deeply.

In an agrarian society where commerce is not very developed, what can make money stably is nothing more than the four industries closely related to clothing, food, housing and transportation.

"First of all, excluding housing and travel, these things have been studied in the farming society for countless years, and they have already reached the peak, unless I get some cement excavators and cars from modern society, there is no advantage over the local industry."

"But if you do this, it's too dazzling, give up."

"Then it's iron smelting, salt making and the like, this belongs to grabbing food with the Great Zhou court, and you will be beaten."

"Papermaking? The technical difficulty is a bit high, not to mention the modern papermaking technology, even the ancient technology is not something that some villagers who have not read can quickly get started. ”

"Using modern rich seasonings and optimized cooking techniques to open a restaurant is not eye-catching and profitable, but the problem is that most of the people eat at home, and the market size of the restaurant is limited, so it does not provide many jobs."

"Weaving? Theoretically, every woman in every family will learn to weave these days, and getting an improved loom can not only provide many jobs, but it is not too eye-catching, and it can be quickly run and start shipping profitable, but raw materials are a problem. ”

"It's impossible for me to bring raw materials from the main world on a large scale, if I engage in raw materials from the other world, it will affect the interests of large local households, and it will be easily resisted collectively."

"They don't have to fight me by force, as long as they ask the silkworm farmers under me not to sell the silk to me, I can't do anything directly, I can't attack people for some commercial competition."

"Even if the production efficiency of modern looms increases exponentially, it will not work without raw materials."

Thinking of this, Lin Ze suddenly saw a woodcutter walking towards the city with firewood on the side of the road, and some inspiration flashed in his mind.

He asked the servant who was driving: "How much can a load of firewood sell for a stone?" What about charcoal? ”

The servant who drove the car also saw the woodcutter who carried the demolition into the city.

Thinking that Lin Ze was just curious, he replied respectfully:

"If you go back to the master, the price of a load of firewood is 100 yuan, which is converted into 1 pound and 1 penny, and the charcoal is 1 catty and 2 yuan to 3 yuan according to the condition, and the kind of smokeless and burn-resistant and slightly fragrant high-grade carbon can be sold for 10 yuan a catty."

"The firewood used by the people in the city, except for the woodcutter who cut firewood from the mountains and sold it in the city, many of the other firewood merchants cut it near the Yunwu Mountains and then loaded it into a ship and transported it into the city along the Yangchun River."

In Shi's view, it is normal for a character like the old man to not be close to the kitchen and not understand these prices.

In technologically backward agrarian societies, there is no gas and electricity to use, and firewood is used for cooking.

The people who live in the countryside are okay, and they can meet their daily needs by taking some leisure time to go into the mountains to cut firewood, while the people in the city need to buy firewood to use, and when it is cold, they also need to buy charcoal to keep warm.

Because there was a demand, the profession of woodcutter was born.

Firewood is everywhere in the mountains and is not worth much.

A penny or a pound of firewood is not purchased for the firewood itself, but for the laborers who cut firewood from the mountains and transported it all the way into the city.

"There it is!"

At this time, Lin Ze thought of what to do next.

He planned to occupy the firewood and fuel market in Fengping County, and based on this, he would expand his business to the entire prefecture.

Of course, not to build a charcoal factory, but to build an entire coal mine.

A few years ago, when he was cruising around Fengping County with a drone, he once saw a huge open-pit coal mine near a barren mountain in Fenglin Township, a subordinate part of Fengping County.

If this open-pit coal mine was in the Overworld, it would be a huge fortune worth hundreds of billions, and it would have been used a long time ago.

But in this Great Zhou Dynasty, it was a wasteland that no one cared about.

Although it is not uncommon for people to discover that coal can be burned, the demand for fuel in agrarian societies is not too large, and only cooking rice is used in large quantities.

Digging coal is very laborious, and the physical strength of the same time is not as easy as cutting firewood.

Another reason is the possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning due to the lack of attention to ventilation when burning coal, but the agrarian society did not know the reason, so they finally chose to stay away from the existence of coal, and only occasionally used a small amount of coal in iron smelting.

"Now the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty are used to using firewood, but I can use coal stoves and honeycomb coal to expand the sales market of coal."

Lin Ze pondered.

When he first discovered this open-pit coal mine, he was busy learning language and martial arts, and he didn't think much about it, but just wrote it down for later use.

At the moment, it seems to be a good entry point for configuring henchmen.

First of all, coal mining requires a lot of labor, which can provide a large number of jobs in a short period of time, and secondly, there is no technical content to engage in this, at best, it is necessary to buy more mining tools such as mining picks.

Then, coal couldn't be sold at a price in the Great Zhou Dynasty, which had no industry, and it was a hard-earned money.

With Lin Ze's social status in the Great Zhou Dynasty at the moment, he can still keep this kind of hard-earned money.

Because the mining is all open-air, even if the Great Zhou court is worried that a large number of young people will get together and have an accident, they only need to come over and take a casual look to find that these young people are indeed mining, not under military training and plotting against them.

"Coal mines can now be used to provide jobs, and in the future, coal production is on the right track, and my men have enough people to use it to move technology from the main world and use coal mines as a basis to build their own industrial system."

"In the future, if you want to expand production, you can directly go to the explosives and coal mining assembly line, and then smelt steel, manufacture production lines, and mass produce various products."

"If these miners are well co-opted, they can also be directly turned into force under me when the time comes."

Lin Ze thought about it in his heart, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was a promising thing.

Even from the perspective of providing jobs, Lin Ze thought of many future development plans.

In the early stage, when trading between the two realms, of course, it was necessary to keep a low profile and carefully hide his development, but after developing to a certain size, the shadow will inevitably not be able to cover the powerful volume that Lin Ze has, and at this time, he needs to go from behind the scenes to the front of the stage.

And in order to deal with the exposure that is bound to come, Lin Ze must have the ability to protect his wealth, otherwise he will be just a fat sheep that can be slaughtered in the eyes of others.