PS: Corrected later..................

It's all up to him. Cao Fu is loyal to Cao Liang, and he is calculating, and he is born to be a good material for doing business.

In recent years, Cao Liang's development in Bingzhou requires a steady stream of financial support, the number is huge, far beyond the imagination of ordinary people, the Gaoling Marquis Mansion itself has no money, only with Cao Yan and Cao Liang's income and the income of the grange, even if the Cao family does not eat or drink, it will not be able to meet the one percent that Cao Liang needs in Bingzhou.

Therefore, Cao Liang's most important source of funds is still in Wushisan's business.

Because Yipinju withdrew from the market of Luoyang Wushisan, so now Xiaoyao Wushisan is a dominant situation in the Luoyang market, even if there are some small workshops that produce Wushisan, its output and quality can not be compared with Xiaoyao Wushisan, and the market share occupied is negligible, and there is no competitiveness at all.

In recent years, Cao's Wushisan has completely formed a monopoly, not only in Luoyang, but also sold to Jizhou, Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou and other places, forming a sales network covering the whole country.

Of course, the most important market is still in Luoyang, which accounts for more than seventy percent of all five stones, and catching the Luoyang market is equivalent to mastering a cornucopia of continuous wealth.

After all, Wushisan is a consumer product, and those who smoke Wushisan will gradually become addicted, so Cao Liang does not worry about sales at all, and Wushisan is expensive, which is destined to its consumer group can only be a group of scholars who are either rich or expensive, and ordinary people have no money to buy this thing, which also makes Cao Liang more assured that the society will not be turbulent because of Wushisan.

If the family resources are exhausted because of the use of Wushi San, and the children are sold, Cao Liang is a great crime, but judging from the current situation, there will not be that kind of situation, after all, everyone who takes Wushi San, the family assets are relatively abundant, and it cannot be said that there is no bankrupt, but that is already a very small minority, and it will not cause any impact.

However, in order to reduce his dependence on the Wushisan business, Cao Liang started operating anthracite three years ago.

Compared with the many competitors in the initial Wushi Powder business, the sales of anthracite stone have no competitors at all, and Cao Liang is in a monopoly.

If you have to find an opponent, then the one that gets a little edge is charcoal.

The production process of charcoal is very complicated, from logging, transportation, charcoal burning to selling, a lot of manpower is required, the cost is high, and the price is naturally low, so charcoal is the same as Wushisan, and it also belongs to the special products of high-class officials and nobles.

Ordinary people with the surname of Baiminping, even the merchants who sell charcoal, do not use charcoal, they only burn firewood in winter, and they are smoky and burned all day long.

The emergence of coal and stone has greatly changed this situation.

The price of coal and stone is relatively low, only about half of charcoal, so not only high-ranking officials and nobles can afford it, but also ordinary people.

Because Cao Liang used all the mining personnel are Hun prisoners of war, so the cost of coal and stone mining is relatively low, the real cost arises from transportation, after all, from Bingzhou to Luoyang, there is a long way to go, in order to save costs, Cao Liang had an idea, using the Yellow River waterway transportation mode.

This mode of transportation was inspired by the seizure of Yipinju's smuggled salt ship from Pubanjin, and since they could transport smuggled salt from the waterway, why Cao Liang could not transport coal and stone from Bingzhou.

Because water transportation is relatively cheap, after the coal and stone arrive in Luoyang, it is sold at less than half the price of charcoal, and Cao Liang still has a huge profit.

Of course, the emergence process of any new thing is tortuous, and when Cao Liang transported the coal and stone to Luoyang, there was no spectacular situation of 10,000 people rushing to buy it, but it was quietly piled up there, and no one cared.

In fact, this is not surprising, after all, the price of coal and stone has been lowered to half of charcoal, but the common people who can't afford it still can't afford it, and those dignitaries and dignitaries are not bad money anyway, so they don't need to care about the price of charcoal.

So these selected anthracite stones arrived in Luoyang, but they fell into an embarrassing situation.

Cao Liang was not there, only the chief steward Cao Fu came to find a way, in view of the method of trying and selling before selling Wushisan, Cao Fu also adopted a similar method in the sale of coal and stone, that is, free distribution of coal and stone to a part of the influential officials, through word of mouth, slowly publicize the benefits of coal and stone to the general public.

Compared with charcoal, the advantages of coal and stone are unshakable, first of all, the burning time of coal and stone is longer than that of charcoal, and the fire power is stronger than that of charcoal.

Especially with the use of the stove flue invented by Cao Liang, the efficiency of coal and stone can be developed to the extreme, and those families who are still burning charcoal in winter are still suffering from the cold, and the homes of those who have installed a new stove and burned coal and stone are warm and warm, and the interior is comparable to spring.

After the news spread, the people of Luoyang rushed to buy coal and stone, which caused a great sensation.

However, in the first year, the coal and stone sold in Luoyang was not ideal, not only did it make money, but also posted a lot, after all, when the characters rushed to buy, it was basically the days of the end of winter, and the day turned warm, no matter how good the coal and stone no one cared about.

Cao Liang told Cao Fu not to be afraid of losing money, as long as the market can be opened, there will naturally be a lot of money to make in the future.

Sure enough, in the second year, the sales situation of coal and stone was very good, and there was even a rush to buy for a time, while charcoal was a large amount of unsalable, and it was no longer as prosperous as it was in the past.

This year's sales are at a new high, and so far, sales have surpassed last year's, and this winter, only half of them have passed.

Fortunately, in the past three years, regardless of the sales results, Cao Liang insisted on stacking and storing coal and stone in Luoyang, and one summer, the warehouses of Caojia Grange were full, so Cao Fu also deliberately rented some warehouses around Luoyang to stack coal and stone.

Due to the abundant inventory, so this year's coal and stone sales are hot, there is no crisis of out of stock, and the Cao family has made a lot of money, following the five stone scatter, coal and stone has become another pillar of the Cao family's economy.

It is precisely because of the huge profits generated by these two businesses that Cao Liang's development in Bingzhou is supported.

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