The rain outside the window kept falling, and there was a lot of talk and laughter in the Tianguan signing room.

In addition to Zhao Hao, Wang Bengu and Yang Bo, there is also a middle-aged man named Yang Sihe, who is Yang Tianguan's nephew.

said that it happened to happen, because he had admired Zhao Hao for a long time, so he deliberately stayed to meet him.

Anyway, whatever people say, Zhao Gongzi will believe it.

Wang Bengu knew that his boss uncle and nephew had something to say to Zhao Hao, so he chatted with him for a few words, and then said goodbye with an excuse.

When Wang Bengu left, Yang Bo got up from behind the big case, sat down next to Zhao Hao, patted him on the shoulder affectionately and said:

"The old man and Ling Zu were ministers in the same hall and had a very good relationship. I didn't expect to be an official in the same dynasty as his children and grandchildren, it's really fateful. ”

"Grandfather often mentions the extraordinary deeds of the heavenly officials." Zhao Hao also smiled and flattered.

In fact, Yang Bo is eight years younger than Zhao Liben, but he is a junior in three subjects early, and he was appreciated by the big guy at a young age, and he soared early. With an old man who has been in the middle of the 30 years and has been pressed by the big guy for ten years, it is strange what kind of friendship he can have.

But who makes the family a heavenly official? Say yes, there is.

"Oh, really?" Yang Bo laughed happily for a while, and then smiled at his nephew on the side: "Sihe, don't you have something to ask Zhao Gongzi?" Why don't you speak? ”

"Isn't this listening to my uncle talking to Zhao Gongzi?" Yang Sihe has a neatly trimmed mustache and looks shrewd and capable. Then he took over the conversation and said with a smile: "Zhao Gongzi's method of turning stones into gold in the past half a year really makes us Jin businessmen sigh to ourselves." Who would have thought that relying on humble coal could make a fortune of millions of taels? ”

"Hehe......" Zhao Hao's brain was running rapidly, and from Yang Sihe's words, he extracted two key words: 'Jin Shang' and 'coal'.

He's meowing, that's what happened. Zhao Gongzi understood, but he still pretended not to know, and only answered modestly and politely.

"Sihe, okay, don't beat around the bush." Yang Bo couldn't stand it anymore, and reminded his nephew: "Zhao Gongzi even plays around with the old man of Xiaoge, you better be real." ”

"It's uncle." Yang Sihe smiled awkwardly and said, "Nephew, I feel that it is too abrupt, and I don't know how to speak." ”

Zhao Hao made the two of them sing and amuse. "Okay, let's talk about when Shanxi Coal Industry was established, right?"

"Huh?" Yang Sihe was surprised: "It turns out that Zhao Gongzi knows everything?" ”

"I didn't know anything before today. But I think Yang Yuanwai Baba wants to see me, and he definitely doesn't want to get involved in the salt merchant's business, right? Zhao Hao smiled faintly.

"Look, people can see at a glance that you're still there." Yang Bo scolded his nephew, then took Zhao Hao's hand and said:

"Virtuous nephew, you also know that our Shanxi is a poor place. There are no crops on the ground, but these black lumps of coal. Seeing the prosperity of the Xishan coal industry of the virtuous nephew, Sihe and these Shanxi businessmen realized that they were holding a golden rice bowl and asking for food everywhere. ”

In order to stimulate the economic construction of his hometown, Yang Tianguan directly gave Zhao Hao a generation.

Zhao Haoxin said yes, and then he had to go to Liaodong. On his face, he smiled kindly: "Shanxi coal is the best in the world, and Jin merchants are even more powerful, so they can definitely do it!" ”

"Zhao Gongzi really has confidence in us......" Yang Sihe couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Zhao Gongzi couldn't realize how sad and frustrated there was in that bitter smile......

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In fact, Jin Shang had been following him for a long time.

How powerful was the Jin merchants in the capital? As soon as the coal lotus came out, they targeted it.

With a keen business vision, they realized that this product would have a lot to offer, so they were ambitious to seize most of the coal market with their financial advantage!

Yang Si and they soon opened a coal lotus root yard in the capital, dug some skilled workers in the Lugouqiao coal yard, and also learned to open molds to make coal lotus roots, and then took a piece of the pie.

It was not difficult to imitate that thing at all, and the coal lotus root of the Jin merchants soon came out. It looks exactly the same as the Lugouqiao Coal Yard, but it burns much more choking than the latter.

They found that even if they switched to anthracite to make coal roots, more soot would be produced than in the original version. The clever Jin merchants soon realized that they must have a secret recipe.

It took more than a month for the Jin merchants to discover the secret batching plant in the Lugouqiao coal yard. Then, after spending a lot of money to coerce and induce, he finally extracted the slaked lime and its ratio from the workers' mouths.

Only then did they finally configure a coal lotus root of similar quality.

The Jin merchants, who breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly prepared to expand the scale of production. At this time, the price of coal rose again.

What's even more excessive is that the price of coal lotus in the Lugouqiao coal yard has been reduced by one-tenth in disguise.

A run on the outside here, so that the profit of the coal root is much thinner.

Thinking that they had to fight hand-to-hand with the eldest princess's coal yard, the Jin merchants suddenly felt that they were thinking about the coal lotus root of a spring, and it was not so fragrant.

However, they are still reluctant to the huge market in the capital, especially when they see that people have done business all over Zhili, they are about to cry the Jin merchants next door.

So several Jin merchant leaders put together a total of 100,000 taels of silver into Mentougou, and purchased more than 20 coal kilns, ready to be self-sufficient and no longer controlled by others.

Who knew that the disaster was not a one-way line, first encountered the 'earth dragon turned over', and Shuntianfu banned coal mining in Xishan. It's easy to wait for the ban to be lifted, and there was a loud bang in the sky, and Xishan Coal Industry made its debut again.

The king of drainage whisked, and the waste coal kiln turned waste into treasure!

Moreover, Xishan Coal Industry occupies the right time and place, and all the technologies from production to transportation are far ahead, and the cost per 100 catties of coal is almost half of theirs.

When the three Jingxi Mountain Roads are repaired, it will completely jam the throats of these small households, and they can manipulate their life and death at will, right?

The Jin merchants were not angry, so they asked the coal boss to give some eye medicine to the aggressive Xishan Coal Industry, so that they could restrain themselves and leave a way for everyone to live.

Who knew that as soon as it entered the stage of verbal threat, Dongchang, Shuntianfu, and the Criminal Department took turns to warn.

He also brought a group of coal bosses from Zhaitang to Beijing and squatted in the office for a few days, asked them to write a letter of guarantee, and paid a deposit before releasing them.

This Nima still makes people play with a fart, you can play by yourself!

The Jin merchants were willing to bow down, sigh to themselves, retreat, and salute. completely gave up the idea of grabbing food with Zhao Gongzi in the capital......

Although Zhao Gongzi did not know that there were still opponents from beginning to end, it did not prevent the Jin merchants from paying high respect to him.

Of course, Jin Shang can be so calm and admit defeat and quit because they not only did not lose money, but followed Zhao Hao to make a big profit!

The so-called opponent is the one who knows you best. The Jin merchants were the first to realize how valuable the shares of Xishan Company were.

Although they did not catch up with the original shares, they returned with a full load at the first round of IPO in Diaoyutai.

Most of the buyers with the highest bids and the largest subscription share are Jin merchants.

Among them, Yang Sihe bought a whole thousand shares! Now it has a floating profit of more than 200,000 taels.

Moreover, the coal kiln they bought for 100,000 taels, and because Zhao Hao opened up all mining technologies, the mining life was at least one or two times longer, so this gross estimate also earned 100,000 taels.

Even in the coal lotus root business, which they thought had failed, the Jin merchants made 10,000 taels of silver.

ps. The third update, ask for a monthly pass, a recommended ticket~~~