Another world, Fengping County.

On October 3rd, early in the morning, the forest house in Yunyan Lane was lively.

Today is the eighteenth birthday of Lord Lin, a big household in the county, and the dignitaries in the city gathered together to celebrate Mr. Lin's birthday.

Even the passers-by in the past can get a bowl of longevity noodles to eat.

Lin Zegang landed in Qixia Country on a plane, answered the phone call of his parents' birthday wishes, told them that he had hired a bodyguard, celebrated his eighteenth birthday with his girlfriend Ji Shuqing, and then came to the other world non-stop.

Dusk is approaching, and the liveliness of the forest house has reached its peak.

In the main hall, Lin Ze, who deliberately changed into a bright red robe to express joy today, toasted the guests with a wine glass.

has his own father-in-law Li He and two uncles, two coal mine partners County Cheng Liupei, the chief bookkeeper Gao Fei, and the big yellow croaker supplier Shan Xuliang, as well as his good brother Xu Sheng, and his uncle Zhao Cheng.

and other businesses in the city.

As the coal mine business is getting bigger and bigger, Lin Ze has become more and more famous among the villagers and gentry merchants in Fengping County, and there are many people who come to today's eighteenth birthday party.

After toasting, Lin Ze returned to the main table.

"Ziyi, you can be regarded as out of the customs."

Due to the rules of different tables between father and son, Li Heng, the eldest brother sitting at the next table, complained to Lin Ze, who had just come back from outside.

Some time ago, Lin Ze was busy with the affairs of the Golden Continent, and disappeared directly in front of people in the name of retreat, and he didn't even live at home.

Only occasionally showed up, indicating that he was not missing.

Today's birthday banquet was all organized by Lin Ze two days ago with the help of his eldest brother.

"It's a little reward."

Lin Ze said with a reserved smile.

He has been practicing superior martial arts recently, and he also has the elixir of the Pulse Cleansing Qi Strengthening Pill to assist his cultivation, and this cultivation speed has made a qualitative leap compared to when he used crude martial arts cultivation before.

It's only been half a month of cultivation, and his skills have improved greatly compared to before.

"It can be seen that Ziyi's skills have made great progress recently, and with a year and a half of accumulation, his martial arts should be able to go to the next level."

Zhao Cheng, the elder of Mingyue Tower, who was sitting on the top seat, said with a smile.

The wooden rail car has been completed, and the final inspection is underway in the past two days, and it is about to start the official operation, and he was specially invited to attend the opening ceremony, and it was also timely to participate in Lin Ze's eighteenth birthday banquet.

He could see that Lin Ze's spirit had increased a lot compared to the last time they met, and he was getting closer and closer to the realm of condensation.

A first-class master of a secret weapon like Lin Ze, although reaching the realm of condensation of internal strength will not make his combat power leap to the super-first-class level, but he can directly become a strong man among first-class masters, which can be regarded as a great progress.

Even Zhao Cheng, a peerless master from Mingyue Tower, said this, and the people around him were immediately convinced, and no longer guessed in their hearts that Lin Ze was looking for an excuse to avoid trouble.

For a while, the atmosphere was harmonious.

Everyone talked and laughed around Zhao Cheng, the peerless master of Mingyue Tower, and a banquet was carried out in pleasure.

——

As the night deepened, the feast dispersed.

Many guests left separately, and Zhao Cheng, a peerless master, also left, declined Lin Ze and Xu Sheng's invitation to stay overnight, and went to rest on the big ship belonging to Mingyue Tower at the wharf of Fengping County.

This peerless master is still used to living in his own place, and he feels more secure.

When the guests dispersed, Lin Ze and Li and the three officials gathered in the study of the Lin Mansion.

Traditionally, at the end of each month, the miners in the mine are paid their salaries.

However, Lin Ze paid attention to the main world a few days ago, and he didn't have much time to deal with the affairs of the other world, so he just arranged for his subordinates to pay many miners one or two silver in advance, and the matter of accounting and paying salaries was temporarily postponed.

And now that the matter on the overworld side has come to an end, the matter on the other side of the world should be dealt with as soon as possible.

"It just so happens that tomorrow is the day of the opening of the wooden rail car, we are going to the coal mine, we just settle the accounts first, pay dividends tonight, and pay all the miners' wages tomorrow."

As Lin Ze spoke, he took out a bunch of account books and counted them with Gao Fei.

Soon, all the accounts were settled.

"In the whole of September, the total coal output of coal mines was 624.4 million catties, and the balance after deducting taxes was 53,074 catties of coal, counting the surplus of 165.63 million catties of coal last month, a total of 69,637 catties of coal, which has been sold all."

"The coal is sold for five catties of coal for a penny, so we get a total of 139274 taels of silver in sales."

"Then there is the honeycomb coal, which saves 6.75 million catties of coal, which is considered a profit, a total of 1,350 taels of silver."

"Next is cost accounting, the salary of miners totals 34,818.5 taels of silver, the salary of female workers who make honeycomb coal totals 600 taels of silver, the salary of logistics and security accountants totals 285 taels, and the expenditure of other labor tools and guard weapons is 620 taels of silver."

"Those who spend their own money to eat in the canteen are ignored, the meal tickets issued by the miners here, and the meal tickets issued by the female workers, security personnel, logistics and accounting personnel, a total of about 1.75 million tickets have been released, and the cost of ingredients is 26,250.5 taels of silver according to the calculation of 15 yuan for a meal ticket."

"To sum up, all the costs total 62,574 taels, and our net profit is 76,700 taels of silver."

"After dividing it, Yuezhang got 19,175 taels of silver, Lord Liu got 15,340 taels of silver, and Lord Gao got 3,835 taels of silver."

Lin Ze slowly said the results of the accounts, which were not bad from his estimates, and the net profit of this month was sixty or seventy thousand taels of silver.

However, it will be less in everyone's hands, and the reason is that the honeycomb coal project is losing money, but this is also a helpless thing, and the current role of honeycomb coal is to open the market.

But fortunately, recently, the Cao Gang, as well as some small private honeycomb coal workshops, have also begun to operate, and they are also producing a large amount of honeycomb coal to help expand the market.

It is expected that in another month or two, the price of honeycomb coal will be increased, and the income of several coal mine shareholders will be much higher.

For this result, the four people present all agreed.

The accounts of the coal mine matched the accounts of the tax officials below, and Lin Ze did not use his authority to make more money in the coal mine and hack their profits.

Li He is very satisfied with this result, although it is very good to make money from the coal mine, but it is more profitable for him to use coal to refine iron and build a business of selling farm tools, and this will also help him improve his political performance, killing two birds with one stone.

Liu Pei was also very satisfied, he had gained a good reputation for protecting the merchants of the past coal mines, and he also made and resold honeycomb coal to make money, and he also opened a lot of money-making industries around the coal mines, making a lot of money.

Gao Fei also thinks it's very good, and he makes a lot of money selling coal stoves and selling honeycomb coal in the city.

It can be said that everyone has a bright future.

"Let's go, go to the warehouse and pick up the silver."

Lin Ze smiled and spoke, and then took the initiative to lead the way in front and brought the three partners to his exclusive treasury.

In the past period of time, as soon as Lin Ze had income from the other world, he would exchange it for gold and send it back to his small base in the main world to save it, and the dividends prepared for several shareholders were also silver that had just been transported from the main world with a personal space not long ago.

In the quiet and safe treasury, Lin Ze opened the boxes one by one, and suddenly revealed pieces of silver ingots that flashed in the light.

These ingots are of fixed weight, and there is no need to count them again at this point.

Divided it slightly, put the dividend amount of the three partners into several cash boxes, and then moved it out in batches.

"Good, good, good, Ziyi deserves to be my best son-in-law."

Li He checked the silver coins in the box, they were all silver taels of good purity, and immediately praised them with satisfaction.

On the side, Liu Pei and Gao Fei were also amazed.

After getting this cash, no matter how many thoughts and thoughts several people had in their hearts before, they all felt much closer to each other at this time, and the solidity of the cooperative relationship was qualitatively sublimated.

"It's not too early, so let's hurry home."

Lin Ze smiled and sent the guests off.

He can probably understand the mood of these people, and with so much money, of course he has to hurry home and enjoy the happiness.

"Then take your leave."

Several officials summoned their servants and quickly left cautiously carrying the cash box.

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After sending off a few partners, Lin Ze was ready to rest.

Before going to bed, the eyes of several concubines were very resentful.

Lin Ze hadn't touched them for a while, and recently they had been out for a while, and now they felt that they missed their master a lot.

In this regard, Lin Ze's expression was calm and he fell asleep directly.

Before he came to the other world, he first solved Ji Shuqing, who was newly married, although it was not impossible to have another carnival with his martial arts physique.

But well, it's not necessary.

Young people still need to know how to be temperate.

The next day, Lin Ze got up early in the morning.

First, he went back to the trading base of the two realms in the main world for morning exercises, and then settled down a little about the affairs of the main world, and then began his activities on the other side.

In the morning, Lin Ze and his three partners, as well as Xu Sheng and Zhao Cheng, as well as other invited big families in the city, gathered at the west wharf of the city.

Today is the opening ceremony of the wooden rail car.

After Xu Sheng, the nominal owner of the industry, Zhao Cheng, the representative of the elders of Mingyuelou, and Li and the representative of the local officials, cut the ribbon together, the sound of firecrackers sounded.

Subsequently, the wooden railcar was officially put into operation.

Xu Sheng's men had recently been trained and immediately began to act after receiving instructions.

A cloud of burning wolf smoke rushed into the sky, and then in the area between Fengping County and the coal mine, like a relay, wolf smoke began to ignite one after another.

Soon, the Fengping County Coal Mine got the signal.

A wooden minecart, already loaded with coal, was wheeled onto a wavy wooden track.

With the force of the track's sliding, the minecart began to carry the coal, and from the starting point it slid along the track on its own towards the second station, four kilometers away.

Soon, the minecart slid to the site and stopped, and the personnel waiting at the second site quickly pushed the minecart loaded with coal onto the track to the third site, and continued to slide along the track on its own.

It is almost 20 kilometers from the Heishi Village Coal Mine to the Fengping County Wharf, and a total of six stations are designed from the starting point to the end point.

After this cycle several times, Lin Ze and his party, who were waiting at the wharf in Fengping County, finally saw a mine cart rushing over with coal, and finally stopped at the terminal.

Some of the men who had already prepared the coal were unloaded from the minecart.

Then load some already packed rice noodles and other materials into the car, push it to another track, from a high altitude, the whole track presents a loop, and then the mine car will be like sending coal over, along this specially built return track, this batch of materials will be sent back to the Heishi Village Coal Mine.

"Uncle Zhao, I also took you to the wooden rail car to see it before, and in the future, we only need to ensure the safety of this track, so that we can ensure that the coal is sent from the coal mine quickly and endlessly."

Xu Sheng said with a smile.

"Well, it's ingenious."

Zhao Cheng exclaimed.

The wooden track is simple to make, and the materials are simple, but the design is not simple.

Although he could see at a glance the general principle of the wooden railcar, which was given forward momentum by the continuous acceleration of the wavy track, it was difficult to reproduce it, and it may take a long time to study.

The technical content of this is much higher than the so-called wooden tracks that simply lay out a track and then pull a minecart forward with a horse-drawn cart.

With this wisdom, it is indeed worthy of making a lot of money.

Of course, the main thing is that Xu Sheng took the initiative to give him a benefit fee of 20,000 taels, and this sensibility is even more rare.

"Senior nephew Xu, you mentioned before, let the old man find some masters in the door to help protect the wooden rail car, and I agreed."

"Let the first-class masters under the old man's sect come over with a few fellow disciples, and when the time comes, they will bring the martial arts and prescriptions you need together."

Zhao Cheng spoke.

For him, it is nothing more than a matter of paying some sect contributions and silver taels, and the total annual cost does not exceed 1,000 taels of silver, but he can earn 20,000 taels.

This business, done!

The only pity is that this wooden railcar is obviously Lin Ze's idea, and it is closely related to the existence of the coal mine, otherwise he may be able to find a way to make money from this business himself.

"However, maybe we can ask Lin Ze's craftsmen to help design and build similar transportation tracks in suitable places, so that we can make money?"

"Let's find out where we can use such a rail car to transport supplies."

At this time, Zhao Cheng had new ideas and inspirations in his mind.

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Seeing Zhao Cheng get on the boat and leave, many people who came to see the excitement dispersed.

Lin Ze and Xu Sheng walked side by side towards the city.

"Ziyi, how about going to my dart game?"

At this time, Xu Sheng invited.

Some time ago, Lin Ze entrusted Xu Sheng to establish a dart game.

Now that some time has passed, it has already begun to bear fruit.

"Don't worry, I'll go to the coal mine first and pay the workers' wages, and then I'll go over."

Lin Ze spoke.

Then, they took action.

I went to the coal mine with a lot of money and paid the miners.

(End of chapter)