Li Hao smiled and nodded, with a pretending expression, and asked, "How much do you drink?" How much can you drink? ”

Cheng Chu said proudly when he heard this: "I don't have to say how much I drink, three catties and three pulps." ”

"Three catties, hehe......" Li Hao sneered again.

"What! You don't believe it? Cheng Chumo glared and screamed when he heard this, for the first time in his life, someone dared to provoke his drinking, which made him very unhappy.

"It's not that I don't believe it." Li Hao smiled lightly, "The distilled liquor I brew can make you lie down with one catty." ”

"You just blow the." Cheng Chumo snorted coldly and disdainfully, not believing what he said at all.

Li Hao also argued with him, anyway, he doesn't plan to make distilled liquor now, because now the restaurant has just opened, the business is booming, and there is no need to distill the liquor.

Now that he has Cheng Chumo as a partner, he must make good use of it, he thought about it, and finally decided to reach out to the coal industry.

The winter in Guanzhong is very cold, and Li Hao feels that he is about to be frozen into a fool these days, so the people in Guanzhong like to burn charcoal for heating in winter, those who have no money burn charcoal, and those who have money burn coal.

The coal industry in the Tang Dynasty was not very developed, but Chang'an was different, it was the most prosperous place in the country, and there were too many rich people, so Chang'an's coal supply accounted for almost half of the total Tang Dynasty.

Li Hao opened his mouth at this time and asked Cheng Chumo: "Brother Cheng, which force has always controlled Chang'an's coal?" ”

Cheng Chu replied silently: "The eldest grandson's family." ”

Li Hao was stunned when he heard this, the industry of the eldest grandson Wuji's family, this is not easy to do, he originally planned to find the Cheng family to cooperate with the honeycomb coal, this thing is determined to make money, very profitable, why, because honeycomb coal is made of crushed coal particles, and the people of the Tang Dynasty are all burning coal pieces, and no one wants crushed coal particles, and they are directly thrown away as garbage, which can be said to have almost zero cost, and this kind of business can only make money.

However, now there is a big problem, the eldest grandson's family controls the coal business in Chang'an, and it is not easy to go to the eldest grandson Wuji's mouth to grab food.

Li Hao asked tentatively: "If I want to cooperate with your family, enter the coal industry, and steal business from the eldest grandson's family, do you dare?" ”

Cheng Chumo's answer was very awesome: "In addition to rebellion, is there anything that my Lu Guogong Mansion dare not do?" ”

But then he said: "But it's not that necessary, my father and eldest grandson and uncle have been officials in the same dynasty for so many years, and they have a good relationship, and they robbed him of his business for some money, which is not worth it." ”

Li Hao raised his eyebrows: "What if it's a book of Wanli?" ”

Cheng Chumo's eyes lit up, thought for a while, and said, "I'll go back and ask him." After saying that, he hurried away.

Li Hao also wanted to go home, but the gate of Chang'an had long been closed, and he had no choice but to live in the restaurant tonight, and there was a staff dormitory in the inner courtyard, but ...... He prefers to live in the No. 1 room of Tianzi, hehe.

The next morning, before the restaurant opened, Cheng Chumo came to knock on the door, Li Hao asked Yao Dafu to open the door and let Cheng Chumo come in, Cheng Chumo said helplessly: "Li Hao, my father said that you are cheating again." ”

Li Hao blinked: "How can I pit you?" ”

Cheng Chumo said: "My father said, how can there be any good news in the world, he also said that you have pit Uncle Fang Qiao, pit Shen Song and Shen Dudu, this time you must want to pit our family." ”

"Alas, your father is really ......" Li Hao sighed helplessly, and after a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, "Brother Cheng, why don't we do it." ”

"Huh?" Cheng Chu was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do we have so much money?" Coal costs a lot of money. ”

"Didn't I say it yesterday, a book of ten thousand profits." Li Hao blinked quickly.

"I've figured out a pattern." Cheng Chumo said seriously, "When you want to trick people, you always like to blink your eyes and blink quickly." ”

"You're too careful." Li Hao couldn't help but blink his eyes twice, "I just think I'm very handsome when I blink." ”

Cheng Chumo decided to believe him again: "Okay, then tell me how to make a book of ten thousand benefits." ”

Li Hao asked Yao Dafu to exchange the two hundred and fifty yuan of yesterday's income for silver, and then pulled Cheng Chumo and said: "First of all, I will give you all the two hundred and fifty yuan of our income yesterday, you take this money to rent ten shops, the store does not need to be big, but the inner courtyard must be large, and these stores must be distributed in various places in Chang'an, don't lean together." ”

Cheng Chumo glared and exclaimed: "Two hundred and fifty yuan to rent ten shops, are you crazy or am I crazy?" ”

"You're a fool."

"Even if I'm a gentleman, I have a bottom line!"

Li Hao thought for a while: "Then rent for a short time, only rent for four months, and return the rent at the beginning of spring." ”

Cheng Chumo shook his head: "That's impossible, it's only four months of rent, and a fool is willing to rent it to you." ”

Li Hao: "Are you a gentleman?" ”

Cheng Chumo: ......

Li Hao continued: "Then, you need to send someone to the coal yard to buy crushed coal, the more the better." ”

Cheng Chu stared at the ground and exclaimed: "Are you crazy, the house is full of ashes when the broken coal is burned, what do you want that thing for?" ”

Li Hao said as a matter of course: "It is precisely because no one wants broken coal that I let you buy it, it is almost the same as giving it away for free, otherwise how can it be called a book of Wanli." ”

"Yes...... But that thing can't be burned! ”

Li Hao smiled secretly: "Shanren has their own clever plan, don't ask so much, just get me something, remember, the more the merrier." ”

Cheng Chumo thought that Li Hao always had mysterious methods, and this time it seemed that he was also in his chest, although he was quite confused, but there was nothing to lose when he thought about it, isn't it just broken coal, the broken coal in those coal yards is worried that no one will deal with it, isn't it just a matter of spending some manpower and material resources to drag it back, a trivial matter, so he agreed.

When Yao Dafu came back with two hundred and fifty taels of silver, Cheng Chumo took two hundred and fifty taels of silver to do what Li Hao explained, Li Hao saw him leave, hurried home, and asked Du Hong to look for a blacksmith everywhere, what is the blacksmith for, first of all, you need to make a coal billet machine, honeycomb coal is made from a coal billet machine, if you want to do a honeycomb coal business, of course you need a coal billet machine, and it takes a lot, because it is almost three or nine days now, and it is the time when coal is good to sell.

Secondly, Li Hao also needs to make a large number of honeycomb coal stoves, honeycomb coal can only be burned by honeycomb coal stoves, other stoves can't be burned, if you want to sell honeycomb coal, you naturally want honeycomb coal stoves, he has already thought about it, when the time comes, as long as you buy more than 50 catties of honeycomb coal at one time, you will send honeycomb coal stoves, this is the marketing strategy of the future world, who makes people so greedy and cheap.

The honeycomb coal furnace is not simple to make, not only does it need a blacksmith to make the shell, but also needs a heat-insulating inner tube, the inner tube is fired with sand, Li Hao personally went to the kiln factory where the porcelain was fired to fire, as long as a mold blank was made, then a kiln fired out is hundreds of thousands of inner tubes, and the speed is still quite fast.

In only five days, more than 300 coal billet machines and more than 5,000 honeycomb coal furnaces have been made, the coal billet machine is enough, but the honeycomb coal furnace is not enough, Li Hao asked those blacksmiths and kilns to continue to do, the minimum goal is to make 20,000.

At the same time, Cheng Chumo's crushed coal was also collected in place, he has been running around for the past few days, dusty and dusty, it is the first time to grow so big or so hard, his face has been blown out of frostbite by the cold wind, but he did not say a word of complaint, on the contrary, he is still looking forward to the hard work and happiness of starting his own business, others can not understand.

Cheng Chumo got a total of 200,000 stone of broken coal, that is, 20 million catties, it really didn't cost a penny, as soon as people heard about his identity, they sent it directly for nothing, and now the 200,000 stone of broken coal is stored in the grain depot on Shilipo in the north of Chang'an City, because there is their Cheng family's sealed field, there is naturally a Zhuangzi there, and there is also a grain depot, but usually the relatives of the Cheng family take care of it there, and Cheng Yanjin rarely asks.

Next, it's the turn of Cheng to be busy, because it needs to be employed, and there are hundreds of people, it is not difficult to hit the coal billet, as long as the crushed coal is mixed with water, and then the coal billet machine is used to beat it out, the important thing is that the amount of water must be grasped, not too much, not too little, if there is too much water, the honeycomb coal can not be burned, and if the water is too little, the honeycomb coal made is easy to disperse.

Li Hao knows the most appropriate proportion of water, don't worry about this, the workers who beat the coal billet are all from the Lu Guo Mansion, there are more than 300 people in total, Li Hao told them the method of beating the coal billet, and then taught them to use the coal billet machine, basically made a honeycomb coal in less than ten seconds, it is very simple, as long as the person who has no problem with the brain will basically look at it once.

The next step was to produce honeycomb coal, and more than 300 people were busy for four days in a row, and all the 200,000 stone of crushed coal turned into honeycomb coal and were neatly stacked in the warehouse.

Seeing that the weather is getting colder and colder, it is about to enter the thirty-ninth day, Li Hao himself can't wait, and asked Cheng Chumo to send people to drag these honeycomb coal to ten stores in Chang'an, and at the same time distribute the honeycomb coal stove he prepared to ten stores, so that they can buy fifty catties of honeycomb coal and send a honeycomb coal stove according to their own requirements, as for the price of honeycomb coal, it must be lower than coal, the price of Chang'an coal is ten cents a catty, which is more expensive than grain, no way, the coal industry in the Tang Dynasty is not so developed, and scarcity is expensive. Li Hao set the price of honeycomb coal at eight cents a catty, which is 20% lower than the market price, which is still very attractive.

The day before the "39", ten honeycomb coal shops in Chang'an opened at the same time, and as soon as they opened, they broke out the shocking news, selling coal for eight cents a pound, everyone was stunned, and they ran to ask, when they saw the honeycomb coal, they were all attracted by the strange shape of the honeycomb coal, and naturally asked the doubts in their hearts.

The clerks have been trained by Li Hao, and they patiently explain to you the characteristics, advantages and use methods of honeycomb coal, not to mention, honeycomb coal does have many advantages compared with coal, one of which is very important, that is, the combustion rate is high, that is to say, honeycomb coal can be fully burned, and the coal is large and hard, and the middle part is often not burned through, which is very wasteful.

In view of the low price and high utilization rate, many people have begun to buy honeycomb coal, how can there be no honeycomb coal stove to buy honeycomb coal, I heard that buy 50 catties of honeycomb coal will send the coal stove, most people buy 50 catties at one time, Chang'an has many rich people, and even some people bought thousands of catties of honeycomb coal at one time, and several carriages were towed away.

The appearance of honeycomb coal in Chang'an set off a coal boom, everyone has rushed to tell each other, the business of the ten shops is very hot, only on the first day, the ten stores combined to sell a total of 320,000 catties of honeycomb coal, according to the eight cents a catty, that made 2,560 yuan, cut some costs, net 2,500 yuan.

When he heard this result, Cheng Chumo was crazy with joy, dancing and screaming, Li Hao was not carried away by the money, they are now grabbing food in the bowl of the eldest grandson's house, it is impossible for the eldest grandson's family to sit idly by, it is time to ask Cheng to bite the gold and come out.