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Thank you also for the amnesia, ove Min Alliance Leader, for rewarding 100,000 again, thank you "It's really convenient to burn firewood."
In Ningyuan West City, in the courtyard of the coal shop inside the north gate, a guest looked at the briquette stove and nodded.
A small stove with a few pieces of black charcoal with holes like honeycombs was placed in it, and it was burning red.
The stove may seem small, but the firepower is not small.
There was an iron kettle sitting on the stove, and he sat on it as he looked at the cold well water he had just made, and a pot full of at least ten catties of water.
But in a few moments, the long mouth of the kettle screamed.
This kettle is also a hot seller in the Li family business house in Ningyuan City, and it will call itself as soon as the water is turned on, reminding people to carry water.
It's much better than a regular kettle.
And the kettle that Li Ji will call is of good quality and the price is fair.
The guest had bought one from his own shop, so he was most familiar with the sound.
The water shell called, and the water must have boiled.
Sure enough, the guy lifted the kettle down.
There were already several large tea bowls on the table next to them, and there were some loose tea in them, and the guy was pouring the kettle into the tea bowl with freshly boiled water, and the white steam was rising, and the tea leaves were tumbling in the kettle.
The clear water immediately turned brown, and the tea leaves also stretched from thin tips to tender buds.
"This stove uses a few coals a day" The sun is getting hotter and hotter day by day, although there is no need to use a fire kang, but no one can do without making a fire to cook and boil water.
Ningyuan, an emerging mall, has a lot of people.
Xicheng, in particular, is mainly merchants.
Merchants did not have time to go into the mountains to cut firewood, and in fact it was not convenient to cut firewood in the vicinity, so they had to go to the mountains far outside the city to cut firewood.
People in the city buy firewood, but in fact, this coal shop used to sell firewood.
It mainly sells chopping wood, but also sells some small miscellaneous sticks, and even sells some pine needles and willow branches.
But recently, the shop suddenly launched coal, and there is a row of stoves for burning briquettes at the door of the shop, which burns there all day and night, and it is very convenient to cook and boil water.
This guest didn't care about it originally, and he bought firewood anyway.
His shop is just across the street, and it's a shop that specializes in making shoes.
After watching it for a few days, he found an interesting thing, that is, these stoves in this coal shop can actually burn day and night.
It burned for a day during the day, and at night it was also extinguished, and coal was added in the morning to continue.
And he found that he didn't seem to use much coal.
I was free today, so I came here to take a look.
"Shopkeeper Liu, sit, drink tea first."
The shopkeeper of the coal shop asked the guy to step back, and smiled and beckoned the shopkeeper Liu of the shoe store to sit down.
The May sun is already a little strong, and it is cool to sit under the porch.
At the foot of Table Mountain, coal mining has begun, and the coal mine is a shallow seam that is easier to mine.
After the coal is mined, it is mainly used for smelting iron and steel, after all, coke has an incomparable advantage of ordinary charcoal, which can make the furnace temperature reach higher.
Some of the crushed coal and pulverized coal left over from coking are not suitable for coking and will not be wasted.
It was transported by camel to the outside of the city of Ningyuan, where there was a coal factory.
With the addition of yellow mud and upper water, the water conservancy of the Yellow River was used to build a hydraulic coal press to suppress honeycomb coal.
Of course, if someone is willing to go directly to the coal factory or mine to buy lump coal or crushed coal, it is fine.
Coal plants are mainly used to produce honeycomb coal.
After the production is done, the coal is sent to the coal shops in the city by camel caravans.
Coal shops generally do not need to be reprocessed, but are only responsible for storage and sales.
Now this is the first coal shop, but after the coal production is more, more people will accept, the coal shop will definitely open a few more, so that it is more convenient to buy coal, the coal shop is even recruiting, ready to do door-to-door delivery, guests as long as they come to buy, and then they are responsible for package delivery home, and even help to build a good one, so that guests do not need their dirty hands.
To burn coal, of course, it is better to use a special coal stove in the coal shop, and if possible, a chimney can also be installed.
There are also several types of stoves, some expensive and some cheap.
The cheap one is very simple, like a wooden barrel.
For the shopkeeper of the shoe store Liu, it doesn't matter whether he burns wood or coal.
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But if it is more convenient and inexpensive to burn coal, then of course he is willing to use coal, after all, it is more troublesome to burn firewood, and he sees that this coal stove is very convenient to burn.
Shopkeeper Zhao smiled and said to Shopkeeper Liu, "You see the stove that boiled water just now, the most ordinary stove can put three honeycomb coals, but you can also put only two."
If it's just ordinary people cooking and boiling water, four or five yuan a day is actually enough.
When cooking, the damper is opened wider, and the fire is hot.
When not cooking, the damper is covered, and the fire will not be easily extinguished.
Even if you don't want to get up in the morning to regenerate the fire, you can add a block of coal at night and seal the stove to ensure that the fire is not extinguished overnight, so that it is good to add coal in the morning. ” Shopkeeper Liu nodded when he heard this, this is really good.
He came from Shannan, and his family had little land, so he had been doing some business outside.
It turned out that they were all merchants, but because they saw that Ningyuan was lively here, they bought a shop here and became a businessman.
The shoe store is actually his family, with a large family of wives, sons, daughters, and several cousins and nephews who work as apprentices here, and there are only eight people in the store.
Business is still good, the family is usually very busy, and even the wife has to help make shoes.
Buying firewood to burn, one to occupy space, the other to make it dirty, and secondly, it is more troublesome to burn the fire, so you have to add firewood from time to time.
And this coal stove looks much more convenient and simple.
"Of course, Shopkeeper Liu, there are a lot of people in your shop, in fact, I recommend you to use this coal stove with a chimney, which is more coal-saving."
Shopkeeper Liu took a sip of tea and calculated in his heart that although there were eight people in the family, this kind of small stove could also be used.
Only four or five pieces of honeycomb coal are used a day, which doesn't seem like much.
"I don't know how many pieces of honeycomb coal there are" "Five thousand silver dollars each," shopkeeper Zhao said with a smile.
Five thousand silver dollars a piece, Shopkeeper Liu quickly calculated it in his heart.
Now gold coins and silver dollars are widely circulated in Ningyuan, and they are popular with Hu and Han merchants.
The exchange rate of gold and silver coins is relatively stable.
One gold coin is stable at eight thousand coins, and one silver coin is stable at around five thousand coins.
One silver dollar is five thousand dollars, and it is exchanged for Kaiyuan Tongbao copper coins.
In this way, doesn't it mean that a lump of coal is worth a penny?
A lump of coal is worth a penny, which should not be cheap.
Now Ningyuan's rice is doumi Baiwen, and almost a pound of rice is ten yuan.
In this way, ten briquettes are worth a pound of rice.
But if you only use five briquettes a day, it will only cost five cents.
And if it's firewood, it's not cheaper than this, it's not so good to burn.
"A briquette for a penny is a little expensive."
Although he accepted the price in his heart, he still said that it was expensive.
"They all come according to the current price, and everything is more expensive in Ningyuan.
We don't have a store in front of the village here, and the closest place to Fengling and the two states is also separated by one hundred and eighty miles.
The firewood here is also expensive.
Besides, many things are now based on the current grain price, and now the price of rice is still Doumi Baiwen.
Besides, it is not easy for this briquette to be dug out of the mountains, transported all the way over, processed, and transported into the city. ” Five briquettes a day is only 150 yuan a month, which is just the money for selling a pair of shoes for Shopkeeper Liu.
"Shopkeeper Liu, you buy briquettes from me, and I will also give you some chopping wood for ignition."
"Then you'll have to help me get the coal home."
"Okay, anyway, it's so close, I won't charge you any more money."
The deal was reached, and Shopkeeper Zhao asked him to send a stove and a month's worth of briquettes to Shopkeeper Liu's shop, and the stove was calculated separately, but it was not expensive.
However, Shopkeeper Liu was still reluctant to spend money to install a chimney in the end, which seemed to him to be a bit expensive and unnecessary.
The two continued to drink tea and chat.
There are many people who come to buy briquettes or stoves, and from time to time people come over, and the shopkeeper Liu sat down for a while and then left.
In the backyard of the Yacheng Marshal's Mansion, Zheng Hongxian sought advice from Li Chao.
"We are short of people, a lot of people.
On the coal mine side, there is a serious shortage of manpower, and there is not much coal to be mined.
Now we have sold a lot of coke and found a lot of partners, and the merchants are very satisfied with our coke, but we can't take their orders. ” "And my iron mine, now that the exploration has been done, there is no one to start the work."
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"San Lang, get some people."
Li Chao was lying on the chair, enjoying the massage of the maids, listening to Zheng Hongxian's words, he was also a little helpless.
In fact, it is not only the Li family that has suffered from labor shortage, but the entire Ningyuan has such a problem, and even to zoom in, the entire Shuofang and the entire Datang have encountered such a problem.
In ancient times, it was difficult for commerce to develop greatly because of the problem of manpower, especially at the beginning of a dynasty such as the early Tang Dynasty, when many people were lost in the war, and at the beginning of the founding of the country, more people were left on the land.
Industry and commerce, need labor, need a lot of labor.
Everyone has land to cultivate, and who still goes out to work At most, it is near the door of the house, and I do some casual work during the slack time.
Or let the teenager in the family do apprenticeship and be a buddy.
For example, Ningyuan, an emerging shopping mall, has also begun to develop processing and manufacturing, and even the mining industry, which has a huge demand for labor.
Mining, this requires an adult strong man, and a teenager can't mine.
For those who do business in Ningyuan, it is easier for them to solve the problem of employment, after all, there are not many people, they can use their own people, relatives and even fellow villagers, and they can always find some people.
But for Li Chao, the industry is so big, people must be employed everywhere, and mining needs not 1100, but at least 1,000 or even more people.
Whether it is coal mining or coking, or even honeycomb coal, it will take a lot of people, not to mention that the Li family also wants to dig iron ore and smelt iron, which requires more people.
Ningyuan is a border city outside the lonely suspension plug, and there is no one around to use it.
In the entire Shuofang Town, most of them are immigrants, where to find them.
Li Chao also has a bit of a headache, this is indeed a problem Brothers, if you don't want to be rewarded, you will be rewarded with a dollar, as long as you have a dollar, and you will get a medal t1706231537: