From the gate of heaven

Chapter 101 [September Coal Mine Profit Sharing, Rail Car Running]

Another world, Fengping County.

On October 10, early in the morning, Lin's house in Yunyan Lane became lively.

Today is the birthday of Master Lin, a big family in the county, and the dignitaries and dignitaries in the city gathered together to celebrate Master Lin's birthday.

Even pedestrians passing by say a word of auspiciousness, and they can get a bowl of longevity noodles.

Lin Ze had just landed in Qixia Country by plane, answered the phone call from his parents to wish him birthday, told them that he hired a bodyguard, celebrated his birthday with his girlfriend Ji Shuqing, and then came to the other world without stopping.

As dusk approached, the bustle of the Lin residence reached its peak.

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

He has his own father-in-law, Li He, and his two uncles, his partners in two coal mines, Liupei, the county magistrate, Gao Fei, the director, and Shan Xuliang, a large yellow croaker supplier, and his good brother, Xu Sheng. , and his uncle Zhao Cheng.

and other merchants in the city.

As the coal mine business grows bigger and bigger, Lin Ze has become more and more famous among the townspeople, gentry and merchants in Fengping County, so there are many people coming to today's birthday party.

After toasting, Lin Ze returned to the main table.

"Zi Yi, you have passed the customs."

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

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

He only showed up once in a while, indicating that he was not missing.

Today's birthday party was organized by Lin Ze with the help of his uncle two days ago.

"Small gain."

Lin Ze smiled reservedly.

He has been practicing high-level martial arts recently, and he also has the elixir of Ximai Qizhuang Pill to assist his cultivation. Compared with the previous time when he practiced with superficial martial arts, there is a qualitative leap in his cultivation speed.

It has only been practiced for half a month, and the skill has improved greatly compared to before.

"It can be seen that Ziyi's martial arts has improved a lot recently, and with another year or so of accumulation, his martial arts will be able to reach a higher level."

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

The construction of the wooden rail car has been completed. The final inspection is going on in the past two days, and the official operation will begin. He was specially invited to participate in the opening ceremony, and attending Lin Ze's birthday party is just in time.

He could see that Lin Ze's spirit had grown a lot compared to the last time we met, and he was getting closer to the Ningzhen Realm.

For a first-class master of hidden weapons like Lin Ze, although reaching the realm of condensed inner strength will not allow his combat power to leap to a super first-class level, but he can directly become a strong among first-class masters, which is not a small improvement .

Even Zhao Cheng, a peerless master from Mingyue Tower, said so, 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 time, the atmosphere was harmonious.

Everyone was chatting and laughing around Zhao Cheng, the peerless master of Mingyue Tower, and a banquet was going on amidst joy.
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As the night darkened, the banquet dispersed.

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

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

After the guests dispersed, Lin Ze, Li and the three officials gathered in the study of the Lin residence.

According to the usual practice, at the end of each month, reconciliation is required to pay the miners in the coal mine.

However, Lin Ze's attention was focused on the main world a few days ago, and he didn't have much time to deal with the affairs of the other world. He just arranged for his subordinates to pay many miners a tael of silver in advance, and the settlement and salary payment is temporary. Postponed.

And now that the matter in the main world has come to an end, the matter in the other world should be dealt with as soon as possible.

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

While Lin Ze was speaking, he took out a bunch of account books and counted them together with Gao Fei.

Soon, all the accounts were settled.

"In the whole of September, the total output of coal mines was 6 million catties. After deducting the tax, the surplus was 2440 catties of coal. Including last month's surplus of 5 million catties of coal, the total was 3074 million catties. Catties of coal have all been sold.”

"Coal is sold for one penny and five catties of coal, so we got a total of 139274 taels of silver."

"Then there is honeycomb coal, which saved 675 million catties of coal. This part is regarded as profit, and the total is 1350 taels of silver."

"The next step is cost accounting. The miners' salaries total 34818.5 taels, the briquette female workers' salaries total 600 taels, the logistics security accountants' wages total 285 taels, and other labor tools and guard weapons cost 620 taels."

"Those who spend their own money to eat in the cafeteria are ignored. The meal tickets issued by the miners, plus the meal tickets released by the female workers, guards, logistics and accountants, totaled about 175 million. According to 15 yuan per meal ticket Calculated in terms of money, the cost of ingredients is 26250.5 taels of silver."

"To sum up, all costs total 62574 taels, and our net profit is 76700 taels of silver."

"After the division, father-in-law will get 19175 taels of silver, Master Liu will get 15340 taels of silver, and Lord Gao will get 3835 taels of silver."

Lin Ze slowly revealed the results of the accounts, which were not far from what he had estimated. The net profit for this month looked like 7 to [-] taels of silver.

However, the specific distribution to each person will be less. The reason is that the honeycomb coal project is losing money, but there is no way to do it. The role of honeycomb coal right now is to open up the market.

But fortunately, Caobang and some small private briquette workshops have started to operate recently, and they are also producing a large amount of briquette to help expand the market.

It is estimated that in one or two months, the price of honeycomb coal will be raised, and the income of several coal mine shareholders will be much higher by then.

For this result, the four people present all recognized it.

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

Li He is very satisfied with this result. It is true that the coal mine makes money, but he uses coal to smelt refined iron and sell agricultural tools.

Liu Pei was also very satisfied. He gained a good reputation for protecting the merchants who passed by the coal mine, and made money by reselling honeycomb coal. He also opened a lot of profitable industries around the coal mine, earning a lot of money.

Gao Fei also thought it was very good. He made a lot of money selling coal stoves and briquettes in the city.

It can be said that everyone has a bright future.

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

Lin Ze smiled, and then took the initiative to lead the way, bringing the three partners to his own exclusive money bank.

For a period of time in the past, whenever 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 for storage. The dividends he is preparing for several shareholders are just received from the main world not long ago. While using the silver transported in the portable space.

In the quiet and safe vault, Lin Ze opened the boxes one by one, revealing pieces of silver ingots shining under the light.

These silver ingots have a fixed weight, so there is no need to count them again at this moment.

Slightly divided, put the dividends of the three partners into several cash boxes, and then moved them out in batches.

"Okay, okay, okay, Ziyi is indeed my good son-in-law."

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

On the side, Liu Pei and Gao Fei were also full of praise.

After receiving the cash, no matter how many thoughts and thoughts a few people had in their hearts before, they all feel a lot closer to each other at this time, and the firmness of the cooperative relationship has been qualitatively sublimated.

"It's getting late, the adults should go home quickly."

Lin Ze smiled and waved his hands to see off the guests.

He can probably understand the mood of these few people. With so much money, of course he has to go home quickly to appreciate and be happy.

"Then say goodbye."

Several officials called their servants, and quickly left with the cash box carefully.
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After sending off a few partners, Lin Ze was ready to rest.

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

Lin Ze hadn't touched them for a while, and recently he went out for a while, and now they feel that they miss the master very much.

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

Before he came to the different world, he first dealt with Xiao Biesheng's newly-married Ji Shuqing, although with his warrior physique it would be okay to have another carnival.

But well, it's not necessary.

Young people still need to know how to control themselves.

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

First, he went back to the two-world trading base in the main world for morning exercises, then settled down a little bit about the affairs of the main world, and then started his own activities in the other world.

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

Today is the opening ceremony of the wooden rail car.

After Xu Sheng, the nominal owner of the property, Zhao Cheng, the representative of the elders of Mingyuelou, and Li and the local official representatives cut the ribbon together, the sound of firecrackers rang out.

Afterwards, the wooden rail car was officially put into operation.

The people under Xu Sheng have been trained recently, and they immediately started to act after receiving the instruction.

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

Soon, the coal mine in Fengping County got a signal.

A wooden mine cart that had already been loaded with coal was pushed onto the wavy wooden track.

With the help of the sliding power of the track, the mine car began to carry coal, and slid along the track from the starting point to the second station four kilometers away.

Soon, the mine car slid to the station and stopped, and the personnel waiting at the second station quickly pushed the mine car loaded with coal onto the track to the third station, and continued to slide forward along the track by itself.

It is about [-] kilometers from the coal mine in Heishi Village to the wharf in Fengping County, and a total of six stations are designed from the starting point to the ending point.

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

Some people who had already prepared unloaded the coal from the mine car.

Then put some materials such as rice noodles that have already been packed into the car, and push it to another track. From a high altitude, the whole track presents a circular line. Next, this mine car will be like sending coal. Similarly, along this specially built return track, this batch of materials was sent back to the coal mine in Heishi Village.

"Uncle Zhao, I took you to see the wooden track car before. From now on, we only need to ensure the safety of the track, so that the coal can be delivered from the coal mine quickly and continuously."

Xu Sheng said with a smile.

"Well, it's really ingenious."

Zhao Cheng exclaimed.

The production of this wooden track is very simple, and the materials are also very simple, but the design contained in it is not simple.

Although he can see at a glance the general principle of this wooden railcar, which is to give the minecart forward power with the help of the continuous acceleration of the wavy track, but it is very difficult to actually reproduce this thing, and it may take a long time to study .

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

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 2 taels of favor fee, and this kind of understanding is even more rare.

"Nephew Xu, you mentioned earlier that I asked the old man to find some experts in the door to help protect the wooden rail car, and I agreed."

"Let the first-class masters under my sect bring a few fellow sects over, and then they will bring you the martial arts and prescriptions you need."

Zhao Cheng spoke.

For him, it is nothing more than paying some sect contributions and silver taels. The total cost per year does not exceed 1000 taels of silver, but he can earn 2 taels.

This business is done!

The only regret is that this wooden rail car is obviously Lin Ze's idea, which is closely related to the existence of the coal mine, otherwise he might still be able to find a way to do this business himself to make money.

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

"Go and study, which place can use such a rail car to transport materials."

At this time, a new idea and inspiration popped up in Zhao Cheng's mind.
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Watching Zhao Cheng get on the boat and leave, many people who came to watch the excitement dispersed.

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

"Zi Yi, how about going to my escort agency?"

At this time, Xu Sheng invited.

Some time ago, Lin Ze commissioned Xu Sheng to set up an escort agency.

It's been a while now, and it's beginning to bear fruit.

"No rush, I'll go to the coal mine to pay the wages of the workers first, and then go there."

Lin Ze spoke.

Then, act.

Take a lot of money to the coal mine and pay the miners wages.

(End of this chapter)