Heaven's Martial Fate

Chapter 749

In the early winter season, the temperature in the capital dropped sharply.

People put on thick clothes one after another, and the number of beggars on the street is gradually increasing.

Whenever winter comes, it is the most difficult time for the poor people.

The survival pressure brought by the weather alone made them feel a little out of breath.

Not to mention anything else, just fruiting firewood for the winter is a rather troublesome thing.

The permanent population of the capital is one million, and the floating population is in units of [-]!
The firewood consumed every day is quite an astonishing figure.

Almost all the mountains and forests within a radius of [-] miles have been cut down quite severely.

As for coal, that is, coal, it does divert part of the fuel for public use.

However, the untreated charcoal smells too strong when it burns, and it is still billowing with black smoke. Except for a small number of uses, ordinary people and dignitaries still use firewood in their homes.

This is also the main reason why there are many small coal mines in the capital, but they have not been tepid.

Of course, most of the small coal mines in the capital area are controlled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

It is not that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has the foresight, but that there is a lot of demand for coal in the industries controlled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In addition, coal mines can gather a lot of young and strong, which is considered a hidden danger in the boundary of the capital.

It is also because of this that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has gradually controlled almost all of the capital's borders and the small coal mines that are not very valuable.

No one cared, the Ministry of Internal Affairs suddenly recently launched briquettes and briquettes stoves.

First of all, the shops, restaurants and other places under the Ministry of Internal Affairs have been laid first.

Then, the Huangzhuang outside the city, which belongs to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was allocated a lot of briquettes and briquettes stoves.

At the same time, the small coal mines in the capital owned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs are aggressively recruiting refugees and beggars in and outside the city.

At a very low price, refugees were hired to make briquettes, and at a price of one penny per briquette, thousands of people were recruited in one go.

Within a few days, the stewards of the Xungui family came to place an order. The order was two hundred briquettes stoves and 1 briquettes.

Although honeycomb briquettes are only worth a penny or two, they can't support the large volume of sales.

As for the portable briquette stove, one is only a tael of silver, but thousands of them are sold in a day, which is not a small sum.

For a while, the workshops affiliated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs were extremely busy, temporarily recruiting hundreds of homeless refugees and beggars to work and earn money.

The Xungui family was originally the focus of attention of the people in the capital. They concentrated on purchasing briquettes and briquette stoves, which naturally attracted the attention of the people in the capital.

Those who follow the fashion simply come to order a couple of briquette stoves, and there are dozens of briquettes, planning to use them first.

It turned out to be quite convenient.

At this time, there were rumors that in the imperial city, many court ladies and eunuchs were also using briquette stoves and briquettes.

The so-called effective from top to bottom, seeing that the imperial palace, Xungui's mansion, and some shops and people all used briquette stoves and briquettes, the people in the capital immediately felt itchy.

After learning that briquettes and briquette stoves are quite convenient to use, they immediately bought them like a flood, and the special store of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was almost overwhelmed.

For a time, the workshops affiliated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs were making a lot of money every day, and the orders were so large that they were directly suppressed for more than half a month.

At that time, the weather just entered the coldest season of winter.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is also ruthless. In order to meet the construction deadline, all the refugees and beggars in Chengli were wiped out, and they were dragged to work in the briquette and briquette stove manufacturing workshop.

All of a sudden, the appearance of the streets in the entire capital became much cleaner.

In sharp contrast to the advance payment, the convoy that transports briquettes and briquettes furnaces every day has almost never stopped at the gate of the city.

Even a fool can see that this time the Ministry of Internal Affairs has made a lot of money.

As long as your brain is not stupid, you can make a rough calculation, and you will know that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has earned at least tens of thousands of taels of silver just on briquettes and briquettes stoves.

Moreover, with the consumption of briquettes, the amount of money that can be earned will only increase.

Maybe, I could earn as much as 10 taels a year ago!

Such astonishing profits, some bigwigs naturally couldn't bear it, and wanted to forcibly sell a piece of the pie.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is the butler of the royal family, so what if its business is the business of the royal family?

I can't, the majestic emperor is still involved in business, competing with the 'people' for profit, right?

It's just a pity that they wanted to join forces, but they couldn't find any opportunities.

I wanted to encourage the honorable class to charge forward, but I didn't expect that the honorable families were so honest and peaceful.

They do have a means, which is to instruct their shops and workshops to make a batch of honeycomb coal furnaces.

Naturally, it can be seen that coal is the foundation of this business.

As long as there is a steady stream of coal and made into briquettes, you can make money lying down, and you can still make a lot of money when you go away.

I don't know which bastard is so wicked that he spread all the methods of making briquettes.

At this time, there were rumors circulating in the entire capital city.

As long as there is no problem with their brains, almost anyone in the capital who has heard this rumor can make briquettes, it is too simple.

Isn't it just that the stone carbon and yellow mud are mixed in proportion, and kneaded with water to form,
It doesn't matter if you don't have a special coal press, even if you use a stick, you can make straight air holes.

Unfortunately, knowing how to make briquettes is useless.

Without enough carbonaceous resources, everything is useless.

At this time, the way of using the briquette stove and its characteristics have been thoroughly spread, and at least four briquettes must be burned every day.

Think about it, it is said that the number of briquette stoves sold by the Ministry of Internal Affairs has exceeded [-].

What is that concept?
If all the [-] briquette stoves sold are used, at least [-] briquettes will be consumed a day.

If there is no coal mine in hand, what can be used to make so much briquette?

But after inquiring again, everyone was dumbfounded. Most of the coal mines that have been excavated on the border of the capital are in the hands of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The other coal mines, which are not too big or small, are in the hands of the Ministry of Industry.

In other words, no matter which dignitaries want to participate in such an industry, they have to snatch the coal mines from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

But such a thing, how can it be so easy to do?

Unless the cabinet and the cabinet are all united, if you want to grab today's property, you have to ask how strong your head is?
Those dignitaries who were about to make a move were basically discouraged at this time.

Obviously, it is quite unrealistic to take advantage of the cold weather to participate in the briquette business, so we can only find a way from other aspects.

Coal mines on the border of the capital are hard to get, but coal mines in other places are easy to get.

For example, Jin Province, which has just undergone a major cleanup, has many large coal mines...

(End of this chapter)