When Chen Yue and others were happy and excited about the thriving honeycomb coal business, in the city across the city wall, the Yang family coal yard, the coal yard owner Boss Yang was drinking stuffy wine.

"Master, drink less!" Seeing that the man hadn't eaten much food and was already drunk, his wife Pan snatched the wine jug.

"When will you drink if you don't drink now? When the business is crowded, then there is only the northwest wind! Boss Yang sighed.

"Isn't our business good, what are you talking about!" Pan glanced at her husband dissatisfied.

"You are really a woman's opinion," Boss Yang sighed, "The amount of coal produced every day has been decreasing for the past half a month, and several coal dealers below have come to me to complain." If this continues, it won't take a few months, and our business will be robbed of the newly opened coal yard outside the city! You said that the surname of this family is Chen, where can you go to sell coal, you have to grab business with me on Xuanwumen Street! ”

"They all sell coal, why did he snatch our business, and his family sold it cheaply?" Pan asked puzzled.

"It's not about the price, it's about the honeycomb coal that his family invented, this kind of briquettes are coal-saving, clean, and very easy to burn!"

"Since this honeycomb coal is so good, we can just make it." Pan came up with an idea for her husband.

"It's really a woman's opinion, if honeycomb coal is so easy to make, you still need to say! I sent someone to buy some and studied it for days, but I still haven't seen how this thing is made. ”

"If you want me to say brother-in-law, you don't have to think about it so much," Pan Gui, the brother-in-law who has been sitting with his hands bored and eating, said, "Since this surnamed Chen is robbing our family's business, let's just find a way to make his family's business unsuccessful!" ”

"What you said is light, you have an idea, don't fucking know the fool of eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling at the end of the day!" Boss Yang glared at his brother-in-law fiercely, and he was already dissatisfied with this brother-in-law who was not doing his job.

"Hey, what are you talking about Agui, he's not worried about our family's business, and he's still young!" Hearing her husband scold her younger brother, Pan was suddenly unhappy.

"People in their twenties, still young? You just protect him, sooner or later this family will let him lose! "Boss Yang has no choice but to hate his wife and protect his brother-in-law.

"Brother-in-law, you just look down on me, my Pan Gui has not been a fool for nothing over the years, but I have made a lot of friends in the underworld and the white way! Brother-in-law, you don't have to worry about this, I'll do it for you neatly in less than three days! Seeing that his brother-in-law always looked down on him, Pan Gui was not happy, pushed away the rice bowl in front of him and stood up and walked away.

"Just listen to him, if he can help me, the sun will come out in the west!" Boss Yang said to his wife.

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Chen Yue didn't know that his business was already in the way of others, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care. The plate is so big and there is so much demand, with the growth of their own business, it will definitely squeeze some other coal yards that sell coal, this is unchangeable, and it can't be because of mercy to put a good business and not do it!

These days, the business of briquettes is getting better and better day by day, and as the reputation of honeycomb coal spreads in the area of Xuanwumen Street, more and more people in the inner city choose to use this new type of honeycomb coal. The net profit of selling coal every day has exceeded 10 taels of silver, and now the 100,000 catties of raw coal stored in the coal yard are about to be used up, Chen Yue has contacted the coal merchants who transport coal between Mentougou and the capital to buy 200,000 catties of raw coal.

As the business gets better day by day, the daily sales income of the worst among them also exceeds that of the briquette group, which has caused great dissatisfaction with the briquette group, and many people find Chen Yue to ask not to do the drudgery of making briquettes, and instead go to sell briquettes.

Who will make briquettes after running and selling, will you expand the scale to recruit new people to make briquettes? Although it is said that the larger the scale of business expansion, the better, but Chen Yue faintly felt a little uneasy in his heart, because the business has developed too smoothly, and if it continues to expand at this rate, one day honeycomb coal will be popular throughout Beijing! But with the strength of its own family, can Beijing support such a huge business? This is also Chen Yue's worries, and it is also the reason why he is reluctant to expand the scale of his business again.

The Chen family is just an ordinary military household, Chen Jianghe is just a general banner of the Beijing camp, in this background, it is enough to do a little business and make a little money, if the business is further expanded and attracts too many people's attention, I am afraid it will bring a catastrophe, and the business is only a trivial matter, and it will even kill his father and son!

If you want to further expand your business, you must find a backer as soon as possible! But Chen Yue thought about it carefully for a long time, and he couldn't think of what kind of way to look for and who to find to be his backer!

The sound of "Bangbang Bang Bang ......" came faintly from the city, and it was already the middle of the night, Chen Yue sighed, got up from the bed and came outside the room, and decided to go to bed immediately after letting go of the water, and he would have to get up and practice in a few hours.

As soon as he finished peeing, he felt a sense of relaxation, the wind was blowing from the north, it was already a little cold, Chen Yue tied his trouser belt and was about to turn around and go back to the house, when he suddenly stopped, and he heard faint footsteps outside the courtyard wall.

This is outside the city of Beijing, because the Houjin soldiers entered the customs several times and plundered, there are not many people outside the city who dare to live, in the middle of the night, how can anyone come?

Someone who came must have bad intentions! Chen Yue hurriedly walked into his father's house and quietly woke up his father Chen Jianghe. Then he went into the room where the three families lived, and woke them up one by one, and signaled them not to light the lamp, let alone talk. As for Wu Wan'er, it's better not to wake her up.

Holding the ash rod in his hand, the head of the spear was screwed on, and it suddenly became a spear, Chen Yue held the spear in one hand and the crossbow in the other hand and quietly watched the movement outside through the crack in the door, the crossbow was taken out of the past few days to buy some materials from the craftsmen in the army, Chen Yue processed it himself, and Chen Yue made all kinds of bows and crossbows in later generations, although the current tools are not as good as those in later generations, it is still possible to make simple hand crossbows.

The three family members behind him clenched the ash rod in their hands, looking at Chen Yue's back nervously, where had they seen such a battle before they were minors? Who the hell is out there? Chen Ping's mouth snorted, and he didn't dare to make a sound when he wanted to ask Chen Yue.

Chen Jianghe took the Yanling knife from the wall, stood by the door with a calm expression, and listened to the movement outside. Chen Jianghe is an officer in the Beijing camp, and he has participated in a large battle of tens of thousands of people, even the vicious Houjin soldiers have seen it, how can they care about such a battle! At most, there are a few thieves who want to steal chickens and dogs, so there is no need to be nervous at all.

"Poof", a heavy voice came, Chen Yue vaguely saw a black shadow jumping in from the wall, and then touched the courtyard door and removed the latch. Seven or eight black shadows flashed in, and there were quite a few people coming! Chen Yue couldn't help but look solemn.

When the shadows came to the front of the house, they saw a flash of fire, and one of them lit the torch in his hand, and in a moment's effort, several other torches were lit one after another.

They are going to burn down the house! This thought flashed through Chen Yue's mind.