"Ziyi."

Goofy greeted warmly.

Next to him, there were also Li He and Liu Pei.

Behind the three of them, in addition to following the officials, there was also a military formation of 100 people neatly lined up.

A few days ago, Lin Ze had seen these soldiers patrolling between the area from Fengping County to the coal mine, and today they were directly brought to the mining area by their boss.

And next to this great battle, there are many other merchants.

Lin Ze is mobilizing the normal operation of the entire coal mine, and Gao Fei is not idle here, these businessmen are the customers that Gao Fei is responsible for contacting.

Gao Fei's method of contacting customers is also very simple, after he asked his blacksmiths to build enough coal stoves, he directly used his identity as the master bookkeeper to gather the merchants in the city and demonstrate to them how to use coal on the spot.

And it is clear that the cheap price of coal is five catties a penny.

The correct use of coal will not be poisoning, and it has the advantages of longer burning time and more intense heat, and only need to build an additional coal furnace to use it for a long time.

With such good fuel, there is no reason for everyone to refuse.

So many merchants happily agreed to buy coal, and today they came to the Black Stone Village Coal Mine together.

At this time, seeing Lin Ze appearing, many miners also surrounded him.

They didn't just watch the excitement, in fact, they were also a little worried.

This is both an official and an army, so he shouldn't have come to trouble Master Lin, right?

Many miners get high wages in the coal mine, and they still eat high-standard food every day, all of which are brought to them by the coal mine opened by Mr. Lin.

It's not been a few days since this good life, and they don't want it to end for no reason.

Although many miners did not dare to directly confront the government, they still dared to come over at this moment to give Lin Ze a strong momentum.

However, at this time, seeing a senior official take the initiative to greet their Master Lin, this made many miners breathe a sigh of relief, and it seemed that things were not going in a bad direction.

"Uncle, Lord Liu, Lord Gao."

Lin Ze walked over and greeted the three officials first.

The three smiled and nodded in response.

"Ziyi, come, let me introduce you, this is the shopkeeper of Yuelai Restaurant, this is the shopkeeper of Qian's Mutton Restaurant, they are all here to buy coal."

Subsequently, Gao Fei began to pull Lin Ze and introduce him to customers.

Under normal circumstances, Gao Fei would not be so polite to a group of merchants, but today, seeing that everyone was here to send him money, Gao Fei made an exception and introduced everyone.

"I've seen you shopkeepers, and I'm going to bother you to take care of your business today."

Lin Ze greeted everyone politely.

"Congratulations to Lin Gongzi on the official opening of the coal mine, a small gift is not a tribute."

These merchants also said auspicious words in their mouths at this time.

In addition, I also gave some pastries and nuts wrapped in red paper, which are not very valuable, but they are also a small gift of heart.

Just now, Lin Ze and the magistrate of the county, the county lord and the master of the book greeted each other, they all saw it in their eyes.

These people don't even dare to offend the main book in charge of them, let alone the county magistrates and magistrates with higher status, but Lin Ze can talk and laugh with these big people, which shows Lin Ze's high status.

"Thank you for your gifts, today I have a good opening of the Blackstone Coal Mine, and I will give you a ninety-five discount."

Asked the family to accept the gift, Lin Ze returned the gift and said with a smile.

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After the greetings, Lin Ze asked the family to get some firecrackers and red silk, and asked Li He, Liu Pei, and Gao Fei to cut it with himself, the owner of the coal mine, as the official opening ceremony of the coal mine.

After that, the sale of coal began in earnest.

In the large conference room, Lin Ze was entertaining many customers.

Small snacks with tea are placed in front of every shopkeeper who comes to take care of the business today.

"Everyone is welcome to buy coal, at present, our Heishi Village Coal Mine is still in the stage of developing the market, so we will sell coal cheaply, and the temporary price is five catties of coal, generally speaking, one catty of coal is worth three catties of firewood."

"Because the tall man has already demonstrated to you the superiority of coal beforehand, I will not waste your time here."

"With such a durable and cheap coal, you should also know how popular it will be once it becomes popular in the world."

"Therefore, if you have enough money, I suggest that you can stock up on more coal, whether it is for your own use or to make a profit in the future."

"That's all I say, you shopkeepers can line up to come to me to register the amount of coal you want to buy, don't worry if you don't have your turn, you can drink tea and eat melon seeds and wait for a while, what you said before is still valid, and today's opening reward is 95% off."

Lin Ze smiled and told the customers in the conference room, who numbered about fifty, about the price of coal.

"Lin Gongzi, I want 500 catties of coal."

At the front, a mutton restaurant money shopkeeper opened.

He didn't buy a lot of coal, and the idea of giving it a try was even greater.

Although the main book Gao Fei has demonstrated coal before, it looks good, but whether it is good or not can only be known if you have used it.

"Okay, Chenghui 100 yuan, because today's opening reward is 95% off, so you will be charged 95 yuan."

Lin Ze opened his mouth with a smile and wrote a certificate note to the shopkeeper in front of him.

The certificate itself was printed with an engraving, which showed that ___ catties of coal were extracted, and Lin Ze filled in a number of five hundred on it.

The money shopkeeper took a string of copper coins to pay the money, Lin Ze gave him the voucher after counting, and said with a smile: "Turn left when you go out and the warehouse area, just use this voucher to pick up coal, if you don't bring a container for coal, you can also buy sacks at the warehouse." ”

Lin Ze knows how much coal is in the warehouse, and these customers are naturally overseers and will not let their interests be damaged, so the warehouse can't make any tricks.

If it is a ghost, it is easy to find out when the subsequent reconciliation is made.

The money shopkeeper nodded and went out to the warehouse with the voucher.

There are members of the mine protection team under Lin Ze and an adult family member staring at this, these members of the mine protection team are still children in their early tens, just when their thinking is not rigid and their learning ability is the strongest.

In recent days, after assault training, they have been able to read numbers and perform simple addition and subtraction operations.

After receiving the receipt, the members of the mine protection team quickly weighed 500 catties of coal for the money shopkeeper, and the first transaction was completed smoothly.

In addition, the warehouse is also watched by the officials of the county government, who are Gao Fei's subordinates, who are responsible for recording the sales of the coal mines, which they then use as a basis for collecting taxes.

Of course, in fact, Lin Ze can directly show the account books to Gao Fei and calculate the tax later, but this process still has to be followed.

Next, Lin Ze is repeating this process here.

Slips were issued in the conference room, and then many customers came to the warehouse with vouchers to pick up coal, and then either brought their own sacks, or bought sacks in the warehouse, in short, packed the coal, put it on their own vehicles and took it away.

Xu is that everyone has doubts about the use of coal, and the first batch of customers who came to buy coal did not buy a lot of coal, and the family was five or six hundred catties.

49 customers bought a total of 26,000 catties of coal from Lin Ze, and recorded 5.2 taels of silver.

This amount of coal is not enough compared to the 2,214 tons of coal piled up in the warehouse.

For this result, Lin Ze was calm.

Now is only the first step to open up the market, the next only need to wait for everyone to accept the use of coal, and wait until the reputation of good quality and low price explodes, is the time for coal sales to explode.

"Guest, how much coal do you want?"

At this time, Lin Ze set his eyes on the last guest in the conference room.

The guest was a middle-aged man in a blue brocade robe, who had been sitting at the back of the conference room at the beginning, observing the process of everyone buying coal.

Gao Fei introduced Lin Ze before, this is Zhang Le, the owner of Zhangjia Chai.

"I want 500,000 catties, I want to try to sell coal in my firewood shop, and I hope that Lin Gongzi will succeed."

Zhang Le said with a smile.

He got a hint from Gao Fei that he could come here in bulk to buy goods and sell them in the firewood store.

In his vision, he can already see the potential of coal to sell well, and if he does not let his industry make changes with it, it will inevitably be eliminated from the market.

However, Zhang Le was still not confident enough, and only planned to test the water with 500,000 catties of goods first.

Anyway, this bit of coal can't be sold, and my family has a large population, so it won't take long for my own use.

"Okay, Chenghui is one hundred taels of silver, and today's opening reward is ninety-five percent off, ninety-five taels of silver."

Lin Ze is also not grinding, it is a good thing that someone is willing to be a distributor.

Directly opened the voucher.

More than 2,200 tons of coal cost Lin Ze more than 200 taels of silver, but this time it was half of the blood.

And in the warehouse, there are more than 1,900 tons of coal left.

It's not just a huge profit, it's a huge profit.

Zhang Le also paid happily, and after greetings, he went out directly, and took the trucks and firewood employees who had been prepared long ago to the warehouse to pick up coal.

This 500,000 catties of coal business will be busy for a while.

"I'm sorry, Lin Daxia, prepare manpower and tools, it's too late."

"Congratulations on opening your business."

Lin Ze was just about to leave the conference room when someone came in again.

This time, it was an acquaintance, Shan Xuliang, the head of Fengping County of the Cao Gang.

He had a gift in his hand and apologized as soon as he entered.

"If the master of the single hall can come, it is already extremely face-saving, so I'm sorry."

Lin Ze smiled and arched his hand.

"I'll also buy 100,000 catties of coal, there are many brothers under my command, and I also need a lot of firewood to cook every day, and by the way, I also take care of Lin Daxia's business."

Shan Xuliang said with a smile.

"That's a good feeling."

Lin Ze gave Shan Xuliang a slip and personally sent him to the warehouse to pick up coal.

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After being busy for a while, I sent away all the guests who came to buy coal.

"How?"

Lin Ze walked into the factory director's office and saw three officials sitting together drinking tea and chatting.

Li He saw Lin Ze come in, and asked with a smile.

"I sold less than 120 taels of coal, although today's sales are not much, but with today's foreshadowing, the next period of time will be a period of high-speed outbreak."

"At present, this group of customers who have bought coal will buy it back after experiencing the actual effect of coal."

"The process of using coal was originally a demonstration of the promotion of coal, and then new customers came to buy coal."

"In addition, there are also second-class dealers who see the benefits will also come, and it is estimated that there will be many people in the towns and villages of Fengping County who will sell coal to make a living in the streets and alleys."

"When the time comes, maybe we'll be able to sell as much coal as we produce, so just store as much coal as we can in the warehouse before then."

Lin Ze sat down, poured himself a glass of boiled water, and replied.

"Then I will bring you the prisoners in the county jail, and you will start working directly in the next two days."

Li He opened his mouth to propose at this time.

"No, I found that these criminals are difficult to manage, and the gains outweigh the losses."

"Besides, this mining is also a beautiful difference, many people rush to come, and there is no shortage of people at all."

"Uncle Ling can consider getting these people to the workshops run by your government, anyway, these places are already very strict."

Lin Ze shook his head and refused.

It is easy for him to manage the coal mine now, because both the kitchen staff and the miners themselves are highly motivated.

Everyone hopes that the coal mine will become better, that the coal mine will continue to exist for a long time, and that the interests of employees and Lin Ze, the boss, are the same.

Most of the time, they can take care of themselves.

But these criminals are different, and they have to be prevented from escaping.

And give them a meal with meat, isn't that a reward for them?

Therefore, Lin Ze felt that it would be good for these people to honestly go to prison and taste loneliness, hunger and whipping, and they did not deserve to be squeezed of surplus value.

"Yes, too."

Li He nodded, agreeing with Lin Ze's idea.

"Actually, uncle, as well as Lord Liu, Lord Gao, you can take the quota of miners as a kind of welfare, give your subordinates, and win their hearts."

At this time, Lin Ze proposed with a smile.

In this era, people are not afraid of hard work, they are afraid that there is no return after hard work, and they will even go hungry.

Therefore, although the work of a miner is hard, there will never be a situation where people cannot be recruited.

Lin Ze arranged easy work for his servant family members as a means to buy people's hearts.

The work of the miners is very heavy, and the effect of buying hearts and minds is low, but it is not completely useless.

So at this time, Lin Ze gave the places of these miners as a benefit to the three official shareholders.

"This is indeed a good proposal, go back to the official to count the situation of the officials under his command, and see if they have any family members who are willing to come to mining."

Li He nodded.

Goofy didn't speak, and many of his men overlapped with Li He.

And many of the slaves in his family are cultivating his family's fields, and they don't need to come out as miners.

"I don't need it here."

"The soldiers under my command are all transferred from other places, and they are all alone, and there is no one to take care of."

"If you go back and collect the mining tax, you will send them more money, and it will not be in vain for everyone to come to this mining area to patrol hard."

Liu Pei shook his head.

This kind of stationing in other places was a norm in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the purpose was to prevent the soldiers, who were an important stabilizing force in the region, from shielding local relatives and criminals, and relying on the locals to contradict the officials.

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