The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 378 Guan Zhongtao Zhu Zhicai
It was snowing heavily outside, but Fang Xuanling's house was as warm as spring.

It's just that he couldn't feel the warmth in his mood, which was very similar to the ice and snow outside the window.

Seeing his silly son Fang Yiai smirking around the stove, Fang Xuanling felt his head hurt even more.

"What's the matter?" Lu Shi picked up the kettle with boiling water on the stove, poured it into a cup and brought it to him, "I've been moaning and sighing all day long."

Fang Xuanling did not speak, and pointed to the stove.

This kind of iron stove, with a long chimney leading to the outside of the window, is very popular in Chang'an City, and every household likes it very much.

"What's wrong with the stove?" Lu Shi was even more puzzled, "Is it not good to give something for free?"

Li Yunze used a brick kiln to make the furnace liner, and then obtained ridiculously cheap iron sheets for many people who had nothing to do after the autumn harvest to build stoves and chimneys, and then gave them away to Chang'an City for free, and every household could share them.

In Lu's view, this is a great good deed, no matter how his master looks like he has lost his soul, it is not pleasing to the eye.

"It's not the stove, it's the coals in the stove!"

Fang Xuanling finally couldn't help it anymore. "A few months ago, when Li Yunze said he wanted to buy coal, I offered a price of two cents a catty. At that time, I thought it was too expensive and I was afraid he wouldn't buy it. After all, a shovel is worth a catty or two. , carrying a basket is worth a hundred and ten coins. This price is the same as picking up
Like. "

"Unexpectedly, he agreed without hesitation, and signed a long-term supply and marketing agreement, buying the right to purchase all the coal around Chang'an City in the next ten years. He even gave those useless coal slag to Buy it."

Lu Shi was thoughtful, "It seems that there is such a thing. At that time, I heard that everyone praised you. This is a good thing."

"Yes, they praised me." Fang Xuanling smiled wryly, "But now, everyone is scolding me."

"Why is this? You have created a source of wealth for the court for ten years, and if you don't reward it, you won't talk about it. Why do you still scold you?"

"It's because of the briquettes burned in this stove." Mentioning this, Fang Xuanling gritted his teeth. He has been shrewd all his life, but he has been beaten repeatedly in front of Li Yunze, a young man. He is really cheated.

"Do you know how much this briquette is?"

"Why don't you know this?" Lu Shi, who was in charge of the house, immediately laughed. "Two pieces of briquette cost one penny, two pennies buy four yuan, and four yuan is enough to last the day when the stove is sealed."

Fang Xuanling, who had an even uglier complexion, smiled miserably, "Then do you know how many honeycomb briquettes can be produced per catty of coal sold to Li Yunze by the imperial court?"

Lu's curiosity also arose, "How much?"

Fang Xuanling opened his palm, "One catty of coal can yield five briquettes."

"Two pennies a catty, four briquettes for two pennies." After calculating, Lu smiled, "He only earns half a penny a catty, and he must make some money in business. How much is this? "

"How much is this?!"

Fang Xuanling stood up abruptly, panting heavily with gritted teeth, "Do you know that in Chang'an city alone, there are no less than 40 households who bought stoves, and some even bought more than one. Calculated by burning four yuan a day, that's [-] yuan. .”

The more he talked, the more angry he became. "This is only from Chang'an City. Counting the purchases from wealthy households, there are also purchases from villages and towns outside the city. At least 80 briquettes are sold every day."

After talking for a long time, Lu Shi still didn't understand, he just felt dizzy and couldn't figure it out, "And then?"

"Then? He can earn half a penny by selling five yuan, ten yuan is one penny, 80 yuan is eighty guan, this is a day's income, one day [-] guan!!!"

Fang Xuanling was so angry that he said "profiteer!"

You must know that even Fang Xuanling, Lumi, working in the fields, food, charcoal, rewards, meals, clothes, handymen, etc., add up all the income, and they can't get [-] guan a month.

As for Li Yunze, he could earn eighty guan in a day.

Of course, this is talking about income on the bright side.

This is only the income of Chang'an City. When the briquettes and stoves spread in all directions, it is estimated that it will not be a problem to earn a few hundred guan a day.

There have been such crazy profiteers in this world. There is only so much wealth in the world, and he has almost absorbed it all by himself.

As for the fact that Li Yunze didn't earn that much, and he still had a lot of costs, the Tang officials naturally ignored it.

Anyway, in these days, many noble families have sent people over to threaten or lure him, wanting him to hand over his fat.

Those who threatened had their legs broken and were thrown into the snow.

Those who were tempted were all interrupted and hung on the tree.

It wasn't until Li Er spoke that the nobles stopped.

The method is not easy to use, so just wipe your face and want to turn your face and deny it, directly tear up the previous supply and marketing agreement, and take away all the coal produced to make that briquette by yourself.

This stuff doesn't have the slightest technical content at all, isn't it just wood chips, lime, yellow mud, charcoal powder or something, it looks like no one knows how to make it.

As for the briquette-making thing, it is easy to understand at a glance.

The voices of these people were so loud that Li Er had no choice but to push Fang Xuanling to top the tank.

It was precisely because of this that Fang Xuanling had a miserable life these days, being scolded all day long for giving money that should have been from the court to profiteers was considered good.

After understanding the ins and outs, Mrs. Lu asked suspiciously, "Then what kind of agreement should it be? The government can sell the coal to whoever it wants, so why let him take it all away?"

The exhausted Fang Xuanling waved his hands again and again, "Stop talking, you don't understand."

The ancient imperial court really didn't care about credit, and there were many things about turning their faces and denying their accounts.

But this time is different, because Li Yunze has unimaginable power in his hands, offending him for mere wealth is really not worth the candle.

It's just that Fang Xuanling can't tell others about this.

Thinking of this, he regretted why he sold his Zhuangzi to Li Yunze in the first place, and made himself look so coquettish now.

Fang Yiai, who hadn't spoken all this time, was sitting by the fire feeling the warmth, and she didn't know what was going on in her mind.

At the same time, Li Er, who blamed Fang Xuanling, was drinking in Li Yunze's new courtyard.

Not only did Li Yunze change the yard for himself, he even demolished all the old houses in Zhuangzi, and transformed them into new houses with red bricks and blue tiles.

Every time Li Er came over, his eyes lit up when he saw the neatly planned and beautiful houses lined up in rows. He hoped that in his lifetime, he could see that the entire village of Datang was so beautiful and rich.

"It's okay to sell bricks, just give as much as you want." Li Yunze poured wine into Li Er's wine glass. "If the demand is large, I can expand the production scale of the brick kiln. It's not difficult to produce tens of thousands of bricks at a time."

This is what Li Er envied the most. The most amazing thing about Li Yunze is not that he can take out a few rare items, but that he can have as many as he wants!
Picking up the wine glass, Li Er asked again, "What if you want a kiln?"

"No problem." Li Yunze responded readily, "This thing doesn't have much technical content, if you want it, I'll give it to you."

Datang naturally also had a kiln factory, and naturally could make bricks by itself.

But the output of their kilns is not as much as Li Yunze's, and the quality is even more incomparable.

The reason is that Li Yunze has professional equipment and temperature measurement capabilities here.

Li Er didn't understand these things, so he was very happy and took the initiative to meet Li Yunze.

Li Er, who drank his glass to the brim, picked up the chopsticks to pick up the fatty beef in the hot pot. It was really delicious.

"Recently, many people in the court have taken a fancy to your briquette business." After eating for a while, Li Er started to talk about business again, "I can guarantee that the agreement is valid, but they transported a large amount of coal from far away to make briquette , this is impossible.”

Of course, Datang has no such thing as a patent right here, and it will not accept lawsuits arising from this.

Li Er was indeed out of kindness, worried that it would affect Li Yunze's business.

"In this snowy weather, coal was transported from hundreds of miles away." Li Yunze was overjoyed. "The travel expenses alone far exceed the cost. There is something wrong with my brain."

"Aren't you worried?"

"What is there to worry about?" Li Yunze picked up his wine glass again. "Honeycomb coal looks simple, but it is actually very simple. But the problem is that they don't have combustion accelerant."

Li Er has never heard the word "combustion accelerant? What is this?"

"Sodium nitrate, potassium nitrate, potassium permanganate, nitrate and so on. Without these things, honeycomb coal is difficult to ignite, and it is difficult to burn for a long time after it is ignited. The biggest possibility is that it will be extinguished halfway through .”

Li Er'w(?Д?)w'

Although he didn't understand, Li Er believed Li Yunze's words, and things really weren't that simple.

Holding the fat cow's chopsticks in his hand, he paused for a moment, then Li Er suddenly turned his head and shouted towards the door.

The guards quickly opened the door and came in, waiting for orders with their hands tied.

"Quickly go to Changsun Wuji's house and tell him to sell the coal he sells immediately, and not to make honeycomb."

When the guards left in a hurry, Li Yunze immediately cheered, "This is really a good way to help relatives."

"It's natural." Li Er took it for granted, "Of course I want to help my relatives."

Combustion accelerants are nothing in the industrial age. Under the terrifying industry, there are really as many as there are.

But in the agricultural era, let alone used it, I had never even heard of it.

Li Er quickly changed the subject, "Your stove is still made of iron, why give it away for nothing?"

This is a matter that he doesn't understand very much. Such a good thing is actually given away for nothing, and it is given in units of [-].

"First of all, the cost of the stove is not high. It's just an iron sheet and a furnace liner, so it's not worth a lot of money."

"Secondly, what I donated was not a stove, but a business."

Li Yunze explained earnestly, "The people of the Tang Dynasty are used to using wood and charcoal, and coal was also used in the past, but the smoke is heavy, not to mention the fact that there is also a case of carbon monoxide poisoning, so it is not easy to promote it."

"But I give it away for free, so it will naturally open up the market quickly, especially after solving the problems of heavy smoke and poisoning, everyone can use it with peace of mind."

"In this business, it's not the stove that makes money, but the sale of briquettes."

Li Er is very smart, and after listening to it, he understood it after a little thought.

He nodded appreciatively, "You have the talent of Guan Zhongtao and Zhu."

Li Yunze was noncommittal about this. Compared with those profiteers in the modern world, Guan Zhongtao and Zhugong were nothing. He could think of any kind of tricks.

There are only things you can't think of, nothing you can't get out of!
(End of this chapter)