Chapter 15

"What is this briquette, your highness?" Wang Shijie is puzzled.

Xiao Ming shows a mysterious smile and gives a sign to Chen Wenlong with his eyes.

Chen Wenlong understood and sent the craftsman to take the briquettes out.

This kind of briquette is also called honeycomb briquette. It's 10 cm cylindrical and full of round holes. In the world before Xiao Ming, this kind of briquette stove was very popular before the 1970s and 1980s, and almost every family had it.

Boiling water, cooking, heating, it can be said that the function is diverse, very practical, and the manufacture is quite simple.

In the face of this never appeared thing, Wang Shijie four people at the same time into confusion, just waiting for Xiao Ming's next explanation.

"If you look closely, this is a briquette furnace, which is actually a cylinder, separated into two parts by an iron pestle. The top is the furnace, the bottom is the air inlet, and there is an air door outside. When it is increased, there is more air, and the fire is strong. When it is decreased, there is less air, and the fire is small. This briquette is made by grinding and recasting the coal cake, and the combination of the two will have magical effect."

After that, Xiao Ming took the charcoal straw to light the fire, put a coal ball at the bottom, and stood on it with a long clay tube as a chimney.

Wang Shijie four people stand together and whisper, concentrating on Xiao Ming's action.

After a while, the fire started and the coal ball was lit. Then Xiao Ming put the second coal ball into the furnace and took down the small chimney.

At this time, the blue flame in the furnace is burning vigorously.

"Your Highness, it's not much different from a charcoal basin." Sun Dong has always been outspoken among the four and said ahead.

Qin Mu turned his eyes and knocked the fan in his hand. He was dissatisfied with sun Dong and said, "brother sun, this is a bad word. Since you can make your highness pay so much attention to it, it must be a terrible thing."

"Brother Qin's flattering skill is really improving day by day. It's amazing. I think brother sun's words are reasonable." Wei Qing zhengse said.

If sun Dong is outspoken, Wei Qing's head is on the axis. As Xiao Ming knows, Wei Qing's provincial examination was passed by his father, who spent a lot of money on it.

As for him, he likes sticks more than poetry.

Wang Shijie pondered for a while, showing a look of disdain to the three people, "if you say your Highness's coal briquette stove, you three can't beat me to understand, this kind of coal briquette stove your highness said, it's really very practical, much more convenient than the charcoal basin."

"It's brother Wang who has an opinion. He is worthy of doing coal and iron business." Xiao Ming praised.

Wang Shijie has always been a man who lays eggs for a broken basket. He is so elated that he looks like a rooster who wins a fight. "Your Highness, this thing is really good. I don't know where your highness learned this thing from?"

Xiao Ming said faintly, "it's a long time to talk about this. It's the butler of the palace who bought a book from an overseas businessman a few days ago. I saw that there were many novel things in it, so I studied it carefully."

At this time, Xiao Ming's identity is the advantage of the prince. He just needs to make up an excuse to get rid of the equipment to be developed in the future.

If it's the common people, it's estimated that these rich families will have to figure out how to kill people.

Wang Shijie was dubious, but Xiao Ming didn't dare to ask. After all, it was one thing for them to get along well with Xiao Ming, and it was another thing for them to be superior or inferior.

"Your Highness is really a noble man with his own help. This briquette stove is really good. Can you ask the equipment department to make it for us?"

Wang Shijie exchanged his eyes with Qin Mu and others. The briquette stove is novel. They want to buy it back and try it out.

It's impossible for the briquette stove to be popularized to the common people's home now, because the common people can't afford to burn coal, they can only burn some firewood and so on.

But big families are different. The psychology of any big family is the same, that is, they like to hunt for novelty.

"It's not impossible. It's just that the briquette stove consumes iron and coal. My lord Qi's house is very poor all the time..."

Wang Shijie, a figure like a human spirit, immediately understood, "Your Highness, it's easy to say, how much silver do you say this coal briquette stove is, we'll go out."

Qin Mu nodded one after another and took advantage of Xiao Ming. They didn't dare to do it. Anyway, Xiao Ming was also a vassal.

"Well, a briquette stove is fifty Liang silver." Xiao Ming opened his mouth.

Wang Shijie was surprised. The king of Qi really dared to take it.

In his opinion, although the briquette stove is much more convenient than the charcoal basin, it is not irreplaceable. At most, it is more convenient and not worth so much money. At most, it is only three Liang silver.

He said: "Your Highness, fifty Liang is too much. If you think about it, it's troublesome for a rich family not to raise a servant. But after all, you don't need to do it by yourself. If you buy fifty Liang, you'd better buy a servant girl. Don't make it difficult for me."

Qin Mu nodded at the same time, and sun Dong said, "but brother Wang reminds me that this briquette stove is a business. It can be sold to some rich families who have some money in their hands and can't afford to raise their servant girls."

Xiao Ming glanced at the four people, thinking that the ancients were not stupid, and they were very careful. They didn't make a lot of money just by making something.When the first round of deception failed, Xiao Ming called Chen Wenlong to ask about the cost of the briquette furnace.

Wang Shijie's estimate is accurate. The cost is about two liang silver. After all, coal and iron are still very expensive.

However, sun Dong's proposal is feasible. His briquette stove is made to earn money.

Otherwise, where can he get the money to build up the industrial base? Can't he take all the rich families in Qingzhou?

"It's still brother sun." Xiao Ming praised.

At this time, Qin Mu had an idea and said, "Your Highness, my family is engaged in water transport business. We go everywhere in Chongqing. How about giving the business of coal briquette stove to my family and letting my family sell it?"

"This is really the best thing for brother Qin." Wei Qing said.

"Brother Qin, this is exactly what I want to say. You all know that Qingzhou's taxes are not as good as one year. If this goes on, king Qi's house will soon be exposed. Although you often help the king's house, it's not a long-term plan." Xiao Ming said with a long sigh.

At this time, all four of them were embarrassed. They naturally knew where the crux of the tax problem was.

But now the big families in the state of Dayu don't hold the silver in their own hands.

Now the king of Qi wants to do his own business to supplement the palace, which is also understandable. Who among the princes does not have a group of merchants.

These merchants offered money every year in exchange for business convenience. Some profitable businesses were even operated directly by the prince's cronies.

Similarly, they also offered some silver to the king of Qi every year, but the king of Qi was really stupid and incompetent, and the silver was just for pleasure.

Even the mines that the other princes had seized were ignored by water transport.

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