It's still the same three-room farmhouse.

However, compared to the beginning, it has been completely dyed black, and from a distance, it looks dirty and messy.

"Other people's guilds have been established."

The latter complained while shoveling coal.

The old man still doesn't say three words a day, and only works with his head bored.

"Daddy."

Hou Sheng stopped what he was doing, his young face was full of anxiety, he persuaded his father many times, but his father was old and stubborn.

The old man still didn't say a word, and smashed the coal with a shovel.

Finally.

The old man bent down and squeezed out a few words.

"If you don't carry the burden, you don't know the weight."

"It's a good day, but I have to mix blindly with others, and I've only eaten a full meal for a few days, and I don't know what my surname is."

"How can it be mixed blindly, the nobles all approve of it."

When the son mentioned the nobleman, the old man stopped talking.

The little nobleman is a good person.

Give them something to cook for free so they can eat.

But the affairs of the little nobles, the common people should not get involved, and live their own lives well, which can be regarded as the right thing.

Hou Sheng gritted his teeth and buried his head in hatred.

"Second uncle."

"Second uncle."

There was a shout from outside, from far and near.

"It's the fifth brother." Hou Sheng heard the voice and hurriedly ran out.

"Fifth brother, you're here."

"You kid, it's getting darker."

A relatively white young man glanced at Housheng, and then patted Housheng's arm, and the two looked close.

"His fifth brother is here, come and sit at home and stay for dinner." A woman walked out, a smile on her face.

Speaking of the work in this family, it was found by the nephew.

"No, I'll leave later."

"Why are you in such a hurry?"

The afterlife is reluctant.

"I went to Daxing Northeast Tai Village, and when I came back, I came to see the second uncle, your father."

"Work in there."

"Let's go, let's see."

The two walked in together and saw an old man who was like an old scalper, working non-stop and not being disturbed by the outside world.

"Second uncle."

"Hmm."

The old man didn't raise his head, so he answered.

The young man didn't care, knowing the personality of the second uncle, among the father's brothers, the second uncle was the most able to bear hardships and stand hard work, and he seemed to be tireless in his work, and he was also the most taciturn.

"Fifth brother, what are you doing in Northeast Tai Village, I also went there a few days ago."

"You've been there too?"

The young man wondered.

Hou Sheng nodded and said: "A person from China Heavy Industry came to the door and gave a Laoshzi post, saying that he was going to a meeting, and all the honeycomb coal workshops would participate." ”

"Dad won't go, I'll go."

"Oh, no wonder I saw a new plaque there, is that post still there?"

"I'll get it."

Hou Sheng trotted out and quickly brought back a brand new invitation, without any wrinkles, and kept it carefully.

The young man opened it and looked at it carefully, pondered for a moment, and then looked up and said, "This is a good thing." ”

Hearing the words of the fifth brother, the future life was overjoyed.

"I also said that it was a good thing, and it was said at the meeting that we would set up a honeycomb coal chamber of commerce, but there were requirements, and the number of our workers was not enough."

"What are the charters, do you remember? Tell me about it. ”

The latter hurriedly finished speaking.

"It's a pity."

"You should join."

The young man looked sorry.

"Dad, did you hear the words of the fifth brother?"

The old man didn't say a word.

"Forget it, the character of the second uncle, it's good this way." The young man laughed.

Housheng's face was broken, and he still counted on his cousin to help persuade his father.

The young man's eyes glanced at the old man.

The meaning is very clear, the second uncle is stubborn, and ten cows can't pull it back.

And the second uncle admits death, which is indeed not the material for business.

Honeycomb coal has no technology, and it doesn't cost much, it is purely based on strength and hardship, and it is not afraid of dirty, which is just right for the second uncle's family.

The uncle's family has enough land, and the family farms for a living.

The second uncle's family and his own family did not get a few acres of land, but his father came out early and had a job to make ends meet, but the second uncle's family was very poor.

When the owner of the mine didn't want to continue the honeycomb coal business, he was cheeky enough to find the owner and help the second uncle's family take it.

That is, to learn how to make honeycomb coal, the second uncle makes it at home, and the owner doesn't ask for money, what the owner cares about is someone to take over.

Of course, the coal mine must have been bought from the owner.

However, the second uncle does not expand the scale, only relies on a family of three, desperately fighting, and the demand for 20,000 catties a month is 20,000 catties, and the price of coal is less than ten taels of silver.

It's about a hundred taels a year.

In terms of the profit of honeycomb coal, the annual income of the second uncle's family is about thirty taels, and excluding some odds and miscellaneous items, it should be about twenty-seven taels.

Seeing the style of his cousin's family, the young man couldn't help but muttered in his heart, his cousin was more active, but the second uncle was in charge of the family, so there was no way.

Housheng was also depressed for a while, and soon pulled his cousin to ask questions.

Although his cousin was only a few years older than himself, he had seen the world.

"Fifth brother, what are you doing there?"

"The matter of the mine, help the owner to negotiate the sale of coal transportation by railway, our owner wants to build the railway on the mine and connect it with the railway outside."

"Have you ever ridden in that carriage that runs on the iron? How does it feel? Hou Sheng asked curiously.

Two miles from his house is the railway.

I have seen a few times when the four-wheeled carriage runs fast and steady, clanging and jingling, and the rhythm is still very good.

"I've sat on it twice, it's really a novelty, and after I think it's going to be more and more useful, more and more people are using it."

"Why?"

"There's a lot to say about it, it's not just a matter of words, I'll talk to you in detail when I get back."

"I'll go back to the mine first, so that I can deal with the owner."

"Let's go?"

"I'll come back next time when I have time."

"His fifth brother, why don't you leave without eating." The woman chased after her.

……

The Honeycomb Coal Chamber of Commerce was formally established.

The industry was small and loosely structured, and only eight companies participated, so China Heavy Industries vacated a house for the guild hall.

The owner of the Chamber of Commerce, the two masters of the extraordinary, Gao Zhen, the shopkeeper of the outer cabinet, proposed, Zhu Gaochi agreed, and Wang Ren, the manager of the outer cabinet, served as the manager.

The deputy owner is Guo Song, the owner of the honeycomb coal workshop.

Some people are still embarrassed, thinking that they are making a big fuss and spreading it out for people outside to laugh at, but no, the owners of eight honeycomb coal mills only make a lot of silver in a year.

I dare to set up a chamber of commerce, and I'm embarrassed to mention it.

Guo Song didn't think so.

He believes that there is a lot to be done, as long as the obstacles on his body are removed, although the profits of this industry are thin, but the market is huge.

Walk can also win.

Now, although he only earns a few hundred taels of silver a year, when the scale expands to ten times or a hundred times, it will be a profit of tens of thousands of taels of silver a year.

If you can earn tens of thousands of taels of silver a year and put it on the table of Beiping City, it is enough to see.

There were only nine people present, plus Wang Ren.

So everyone sat down at a round table with seven plates of meat dishes and five plates of vegetarian dishes as a celebration of the establishment of the guild.

Everyone saluted each other, Wang Ren drank a few glasses of wine, his face did not change at all, and he said calmly.

"Let's eat here behind closed doors this year, and next year we will go to the largest restaurant in Peking and set up a private room to celebrate."

"Well, that's a good point."

Guo Song echoed in a good way.

The rest of the people also said a few words, and the atmosphere was not very strong.

"I know that you don't think so, think I'm talking big, I also get straight to the point today, usually I am in the outer cabinet, and I talk about business with everyone outside, and a business is tens of thousands of taels of silver."

"But why should I come to be the owner of this pavilion, in addition to your trust, there is also a reason why I took the initiative to fight for it in front of the little prince."

"Don't hide it from you, the little prince is a little dissatisfied with the development progress of the coal industry."

"Still not satisfied?"

Someone was surprised.

More mines have been added in the last year than in more than a decade.

"The little prince has a bit of a skill of turning stone into gold, his vision, no one is unconvinced, he thinks it is insufficient, it must be insufficient."

Guo Song said affirmatively.

As soon as he finished speaking, the rest of the people spoke.

"This is very true, our industry was created by the little prince out of thin air."

"There is no little prince, where can we sit again."

"I'm not afraid of your jokes, I used to be a seller in the countryside, and I couldn't get a few pieces of silver a year."

"If it weren't for this honeycomb coal, I don't know how long I would have suffered."

"Hehe, don't say that." Guo Song laughed and couldn't help but say, "Xu Ning, the shopkeeper of the engineering team, have you ever heard of it?" ”

Some said they had heard it, others said they had seen it, and some people shook their heads.

"He used to be an apprentice in the shop, and he also planned to be a seller, and then he happened to learn that our factory was recruiting, so he came to apply, who knew that he could get to today's position."

"Oh, no." There are people who know Xu Ning, and they are surprised.

The engineering team in charge of Xu Ning's shopkeeper, with thousands of people under his hands, is also a well-known figure in Beiping.

I heard that the coal mill owners of various families all befriended Xu Ning, but I didn't expect this to be the background.

"So, our industry is new, the scale is still small, no one knows how big it will be in the future, and you are veterans, don't be arrogant."

"Although the little nobleman didn't come forward, who doesn't know that this honeycomb coal chamber of commerce is the idea of the little nobleman?"

"In the future, everyone will let go of their hands, work hard, do as much as they can, and if they encounter any problems, they will naturally have a chamber of commerce to solve them."

"In case the Chamber of Commerce can't solve it, there will be a little prince behind it, Quanbeiping, there is something that the little prince can't solve?"

At China Heavy Industries, looking forward to the vision is an old routine.

The people on the outer cabinet who will not say a few words.

Guo Song stirred up the atmosphere with a few words, and several unconfident owners also had confidence in their hearts.

Oh, yes.

They are small in scale, but there is a little prince behind them.

The coal yard owners have a big business, but does the little prince stand up for them?

"You must not only build the market in Beiping, but also build more markets in other state capitals as soon as possible."

"There are dozens of honeycomb coal workshops, and you are the most outstanding among them, and I have confidence in your ability."

"This year, we will set off the market in Beiping, and tomorrow we will go together to grab the market in Shanxi."

"The Chamber of Commerce came forward to organize, you only need to repeat the practice of Beiping in Shanxi."

"When the time comes, you have a large number of skilled workers, mature production models, the best technology, etc., who can rob you in this industry?"

"So, what you have to do now is not to wait and see, but to grab the market as quickly as you can."

"This industry has a low threshold and fierce competition, and whoever runs fast will have the last laugh."

The steward of the outer cabinet has a tongue that is not rotten.

Plenty of alcohol.

The nine people in this room looked like a grass platform team, but they were heated by the atmosphere driven by him.

(End of chapter)