Chapter 107 Ask the owner to give him a way to live, Quan Xu has long thought of using coal instead of firewood to cook rice and kilns.It's just a pity, the ideal is very plump, and the reality is too skinny.It turned out that the snow was frozen and the transportation was inconvenient, and he had nowhere to buy it if he wanted to, so he had no choice but to cut down the pine forest.Now he finally got the briquettes and the briquette stove out.Of course, at first, there was a large stream of smoke coming out, and Sanniang hurriedly ran over: "Xianggong, let me do the fire!"
”"No need."
That is, the time of a pillar of incense, the black smoke in the stove has dissipated, and it has been replaced by clusters of blue fire.Jeon Wook put the kettle he had brought from the afterlife on it.Only then did Quan Xu realize that there was still an iron ring missing on it.Fortunately, the efficiency of the cow is strong enough, and in just a few minutes, the stove cover is built and placed on the briquette stove, which is not big or small, just right.At this time, Sanniang found that this small briquette stove, although it looked like there was no firewood burning vigorously, but the speed of boiling water was faster than firewood, and after a quarter of an hour, it boiled a whole kettle of boiling water.Sanniang poured the boiling water in the kettle into the thermos and stored it, and the second pot of boiling water also boiled after a while."
It's incredible!"
Erniang nodded: "This stove can boil water, and naturally it can also stir-fry?"
”"It's nature!"
Quan Xu tried to move the briquette stove, and felt that the weight was about seventy or eighty pounds, which was a little heavy.He moved the briquette stove into the kitchen, Erniang washed her hands, and began to cook for Quan Xu.Quan Xu persuaded Erniang many times, but she insisted on doing things, and Quan Xu had no choice.At this point, Sanniang is more obedient, Quan Xu asked Sanniang to manage the female family Ding Bing, she was responsible for training, let her manage the treasury, she was responsible for managing the treasury.Quan Xu looked at Niu Jie and said, "How many briquette molds have been built?"
”"Back to the owner, there are now more than 600!""
Make a thousand!"
Quan Xu smiled: "In the future, everyone in the Daimyo Mansion will burn briquettes!"
”After all, the Daimyofu has coal resources, which are quite abundant, and just like this briquette, a family of three, three yuan a day is enough.As for the cost of briquettes, when Quan Xu bought it, it was less than nine tons and more than five silver coins, which is equivalent to 100 catties of coal, about twenty or thirty yuan, even if he made five times the profit, he sold a briquette for a penny.So you need 90 wen a month, and 90 wen can buy firewood, about half a load, about 50 catties, but how long can this 50 firewood burn?
Why did many people freeze to death in the Ming Dynasty in winter?
It's because I don't have money to buy firewood, so I'm reluctant.To take a simple example, if you are not a wealthy family, an ordinary wage earner, a month's salary, you need to burn one-third of the firewood alone.In comparison, the price of less than a penny of silver is still acceptable to the people.The Quanxu compound began to burn coal, and this briquette made of clay and coal became an indispensable part of the production and life of the Quanxu compound.This kind of briquette stove is almost the same as the briquette stove of later generations, cooking, boiling water, very convenient, and the most important thing is that with the emergence of this kind of thing, it has become a profit point.Don't look at this kind of briquettes without technical difficulty, with the advent of briquette furnaces.Many people in the Daimyo Mansion City also came to purchase, and it was such a simple briquette stove that cost less than 100 yuan, and it was sold for 300 yuan and was in short supply.The people in the countryside can say that they can collect some firewood or chop firewood to solve the problem of making fires for cooking, but the people in the cities can only buy firewood, which is a large expense.With the advent of briquette stoves, this convenient stove quickly became a sought-after commodity in the Daimyo Mansion and its surroundings, but only half a month later, imitations began to appear.Fortunately, Quan's briquette furnace has formed a good reputation, and sales are also rising, and there are vendors from Daimyo Mansion, Kaizhou and even Dongchang Mansion and Quang Binh Mansion who come to buy goods.After Zhou Hongru's calculations, just the briquette furnace can bring nearly 100 taels of silver to Quanxu every day.Although Quan Xu didn't see one hundred taels of silver, this was a gratifying progress.You must know that you need to sell more than 300 stoves to make a profit of 100 taels of silver.As for briquettes, this kind of thing is more profitable.A briquette requires more than a pound of coal ash, and a penny of coal can be made into three briquettes.As for other costs, labor costs are almost negligible.Quanxu's fee for the workers is three dry meals, about more than three catties per person, but each worker can make at least six or seven thousand briquettes a day.Although the briquettes are not valuable, they can not stand up to a large number, although they have increased the manpower many times, they can produce 500,000 briquettes a day, but they are still in short supply, and 500,000 briquettes are 500,000 Wen, about 500,000 taels of silver, and the profit is more than 300 taels.More than 300 taels a day, then it is tens of thousands of taels of silver in a year.With the expansion of the scale of production, this coal ball was also independent by Quanxu, and was built directly on the bank of the Jiagou River, setting aside four or five hundred acres of vacant land for drying briquettes.Niu Huanxi, the son of Niu Huanxi, became the director of the briquette factory.Through the word-of-mouth fermentation of the Women's Workshop, the turnover of the Women's Workshop is rising, in fact, although the Women's Workshop is only in the capital of the Daimyo's mansion, even the noblewomen who are far away in the capital also come to consume.They don't just come to buy luxury goods, but most of them come to enjoy the spa and enjoy beauty treatments.At the end of February, the member deposits of Women's Square officially exceeded one million taels.Quan Xu just began to think about taking the ancient silver of the Ming Dynasty and selling it in later generations, but buying industrial silver and minting silver coins to spend it, as a result, as Quan Xu took out more and more silver ingots, Su Tong reminded Quan Xu that he had entered the sight of the relevant departments, and someone began to investigate Quan Xu.Quan Xu was so frightened that he had to cancel this plan, he threw the deposit of the women's workshop, threw it out of the fire, and minted it into a silver coin, although only five percent of the tin was added, but due to the coating process, Quan Xu's silver coin was not only beautiful, but also beautiful in pattern, and more importantly, the weight was sufficient.No matter how accurate you weigh, the difference between the two silver coins is less than a centimeter (0.5 grams), but the hammer silver coin minted by Quanxu is very popular and easy to use, one is one tael, and two taels is two, which is clear at a glance.It's not like the black broken silver, which has to be weighed when it's used.However, no one calls Quanxu's silver coins silver coins, and people always use to call them Quan's silver cakes.This is the most helpless thing for Quan Xu, the bank has not officially opened, but there are more than 300,000 silver coins flowing out through the women's shop.Of course, due to the circulation of the members' deposits of the Women's Place, Quanxu successfully used the silver to mint, and minted a total of 2 million pieces.After repeated negotiations with Chen Ying, at the end of February, Quanxu bought more than 130,000 acres of land that had been booked.In March of the second year of Chongzhen, the local peasants of the Daimyo Mansion left the construction site and returned home to prepare for spring ploughing, and the progress of the castle project slowed down suddenly.Quan Xu didn't seem to take the matter of spring ploughing to heart, he took Sanniang, Erniang, and rode in his carriage, Yuan Shiqing rode in an ordinary carriage, and several other carts were filled with firewood, rice, oil and salt, and dozens of family members followed.Nominally, Quan Xu is inspecting his fields, but in fact, he is on a spring outing.Due to the heavy snow last winter, the fields at this time were not yet dry, and the grass spit out tender shoots, and the spring breeze was quite comfortable.Unlike Quan Xu's happy mood, Yuan Shiqing is sad, he is really sad."
Boss, when are we going to start plowing the land!""
There's no hurry."
However, as the manager of the outer court, Yuan Shiqing couldn't help but be in a hurry, he went to Kaizhou, Guangping Mansion, and even Dongchang Mansion to inquire, and no one was willing to sell cattle at all.Without cattle, Quanxu's more than 150,000 acres of land, what to cultivate?
How big is 150,000 acres?
It is equivalent to more than 100 square kilometers.Of course, Quanxu's fields are not all in the territory of Daming County, which has more than 70,000 acres, and there is also a part of Kaizhou and Linzhang County of Zhangde Prefecture.Nangang in Linzhang County, this is the farthest piece of land in Daiming County.Quan Xu stood around, carefully observing the land here, the boundary monument has been changed, and now the name of Quan Xu has been changed.The surrounding tenants looked at Quan Xu pitifully, they had no land, and they were also worried that Quan Xu would not give them land to plant."
Owner, if you don't plow the land, it's too late!"
Yuan Shiqing was in a hurry, and his mouth was blistered."
Don't worry, you notify the original tenants now, let them come over for a meeting!"
In addition to the fact that there are no villages in the twenty or thirty miles around the Quanxu compound, there are more than a dozen villages of all sizes in Gaogang.When Yuan Shiqing heard this, he thought that Quan Xu was allocating manpower and preparing to start work.Yuan Shiqing's feet seemed to be like springs, and he was very happy to inform these tenants.The family members began to set up tents on the high ground of Nangang, and unloaded firewood, rice, oil and salt from the accompanying carriages.The nearby village is called Gaojiazhuang, which is not large, with a total of only more than 200 people.Yuan Shiqing informed the young men of Gaojiazhuang, and these young men separately notified the surrounding villages.These villages are far and near, large and small, for more than two hours, and more than 3,000 people from these more than a dozen villages arrived at the scene.Jeon Wook had eaten lunch and had already slept well.At this point, wait until everyone is there.Quan Xu stretched his waist and looked at everyone with a loudspeaker: "My surname is Quan, I am your new owner, and I now tell you a few things." ”Quan Xu just spoke, startling this group of uninformed people.Quan Xu's voice sounded like thunder, and although there were many of them, they could clearly hear Quan Xu's words.The crowd did not understand that this was a loudspeaker, and they were in awe of the new owner."
Do you want to plant my land?"
An old man with gray hair trembled and said, "I don't know how many buckets of rent the owner is going to collect?"
”"I'm not going to rent the land to you to plant!"
Hearing this, everyone's expressions turned pale.If you don't rent land for them to plant, how can they live?"
Plop, plop."
Quan Xu knelt in front of a person."
Ask the owner to show mercy and give me a way to live!.