"Your Highness, are we really going to give up the big fat piece of cement?" Wang Zihao asked with an unwilling face. After eating and drinking, Li Su was stopped by Wang Zihao and proposed to set up a cement factory, but Li Su refused.

"Hehe, Zihao, the overall prospect of cement is indeed very broad, but it is not suitable for us, the early investment in the factory is too large, we do not have so much money in our hands now, and cement is destined to be a small profit and quick turnover product, the cost recovery is a little slow, and so many people open a cement plant, the competition in the future must be very fierce, I don't want to put all my energy into this, so even if the prospect of cement is good, I will not participate." Li Su said with a smile.

The sales of roasted tea in the first quarter did not bring him some income, but after paying off the previous arrears, and then a gold mountain sent by heaven in Chapter 45 plus the daily expenses of the palace, there was not much left, and Xia Cha had just started to sell, and the money had not yet been paid. Not to mention the distillery, there are a lot of wines, and there are even more orders, but those newly brewed wines can only be sold after blending, and it is estimated that it will take a few days. Therefore, Li Su basically has no funds to use, let alone invest in cement plants.

Hearing Li Su's words, Wang Zihao was also deflated, in fact, not only Li Su has no money in his hands, but even he has no money in his hands, the money he earned some time ago was invested in the restaurant, and the restaurant has just opened, although the production is hot and makes some money, but it is far from enough to invest in the cement factory.

"Hehe, Zihao, don't be too discouraged, we can't do a cement factory, but we can do some other business, I can guarantee that it will definitely not be worse than the profit of selling cement." Li Su suddenly laughed wickedly, and his eyes were full of smugness that the conspiracy had succeeded.

Wang Zihao's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he said very excitedly: "Haha, I know that with His Highness's wisdom and martial arts, there must be a trick!" ”

"Where, where, I just thought of it by chance." Li Su laughed proudly, in fact, when he decided to use a golden mountain (plus more) cement sent by heaven in Chapter 45 to attract investment, he already had a way to make money in his heart.

After laughing, Li Su asked Wang Zihao again: "Zihao, do you know that there is a kind of black stone in this world, which is generally produced underground, and its texture is very brittle, but it can be burned, and the flame is yellow and blue. ”

What Li Su said is actually coal, the calcination of cement consumes fuel, and now all charcoal is used, and the price of charcoal is not cheap, and nearly half of the cost of cement is the consumption of charcoal. Li Su has long wanted to use coal instead of charcoal, first, the combustion value of coal is high, and second, coal has not yet been used on a large scale, and the price must be cheap. If Li Su can find a coal mine and develop it, he is not afraid that those who run cement factories will not buy it. You must know that digging coal is profitable, you don't see those Shanxi coal bosses in later generations, all of them are eager to spend money every day to play, in the previous life, Li Su only had a red eye, and now he can travel to the Tang Dynasty, of course he will not let go of such a profiteering industry.

"Your Highness should be talking about charcoal, right?" Wang Zihao was a little unsure, listening to Li Su's description, the first thing he thought of was charcoal.

"Yes, yes, it's coal." Li Su said happily, he just asked casually just now, the original intention was just to let Wang Zihao remember the characteristics of coal, and then ask others more, after all, coal was already used in the Han Dynasty, and there must be many people who knew about it, but I didn't expect Wang Zihao to be one of them.

"Zihao, since you have heard of it, do you know where the coal is produced?" Li Su eagerly grabbed Wang Zihao, and both eyes were about to glow red.

"Uh~" Wang Zihao was taken aback by Li Yu's appearance, and was stunned for a moment before he replied: "Your Royal Highness, charcoal is not rare, there is a black stone mountain in the northwest of Chang'an, and the mountains and mountains are all the charcoal you said, there are some poor people around Chang'an, and they use charcoal for heating in winter, but this thing is difficult to ignite, and it is easy to be poisoned by charcoal, so there are very few people who use it, most people still like to use firewood or charcoal, and I have not heard that someone uses charcoal to sell it for money." ”

"Hahaha~, that's great! Blackstone Mountain! This is simply a golden mountain from God! After listening to Wang Zihao's introduction, Li Su laughed happily. Originally, he was still worried that the coal seam was buried too deep, which would cause the mining cost to be too high, but listening to Wang Zihao's description, it turned out to be an open-pit coal mine, as long as it was loaded into a car and transported to Chang'an, this is not what Jinshan is?

"Your Highness, can this charcoal really be sold for money?" Wang Zihao still didn't believe it, he had also seen the charcoal, it was black and inconspicuous, and it was useless except that it was difficult to burn, but there were many trees around Chang'an, and the firewood alone could not be used up, who would have nothing to use those very inconvenient coals?

"Of course!" Li Su was still immersed in excitement, and then instructed Wang Zihao, "Zihao, tomorrow I will let Gao Zhong come to you, you take him to the Black Stone Mountain, buy all the surrounding land, and you inquire again, see if there are other places around Chang'an where there is coal production, and buy it together, if the money is not enough, you can embezzle the deposit of the winery's order first, and I will send someone to greet the imperial uncle and imperial brother." ”

"Yes, the villain obeys!" Although Wang Zihao couldn't understand why Li Su valued Shi Tan so much, since Li Su had already made up his mind, he couldn't object anymore, so he could only agree.

Li Su asked some more about the situation of the Chamber of Commerce, Wang Zihao answered one by one, and Li Su was very satisfied in all aspects, especially when they received millions of orders alone, and now the Chamber of Commerce has to receive many businessmen from all over the world every day, and the transaction volume is also continuing to rise, but Wang Zihao is a little worried that the output of the distillery cannot cope with so many orders.

Li Su was overjoyed when he heard this, and told Wang Zihao to let go of his hands and feet to take it boldly, the winery will ship in the next two days, and then you can pay for those more urgent orders first, and the others can be slowed down, anyway, there are several people such as him and Li Xiaogong and other people, and they are not afraid of others to make trouble.

After Li Su finished the matter, he left Dengxian Tower. After sending Li Su away, Wang Zihao ordered the restaurant to close, and checked again that there were no hidden dangers, and then got up and went home. It's already midnight, the curfew has already begun, and the door has been closed, but Wang Zihao has the sign of the Superintendent Courtyard sent by Li Su, so it is unimpeded.

The Wang family's house is located in Xinghuafang, and the west market where Dengxian Tower is located is only separated by a Guangdefang, and it will be there in a carriage for a while. After entering Hing Wah Square, turn right, and after two streets is the royal residence.

Wang Zihao entered the house and returned to the back house, his wife Wang Yang had already fallen asleep, and when she heard the maid's report, she endured sleepiness and made a simple supper for her husband herself. Wang Xijun, who slept with his mother, was also woken up, and simply got up to help his mother make supper together.

"It's so late, why did the husband come back again, didn't the door close a long time ago?" Mrs. Wang quickly set the dishes and chopsticks, sat next to Wang Zihao and asked, Wang Xijun rubbed his eyes, picked up the bread on the table and ate it.

Wang Zihao glanced at his daughter lovingly, and then said: "Hehe, Your Highness gave me a sign of the Supervision Courtyard, and the guards guarding the gate of the workshop let me go, are Wei'er and Yun'er asleep?" In addition to Wang Xijun's daughter, Wang Zihao also has two sons, but they are not yet adults, one is eleven years old and the other is only eight years old.

"I've fallen asleep a long time ago, that King Liang hurt our Wang family so badly, now it's good, you still have to get up early and work hard for him, I really don't know if our Wang family owes him in the last life?" Mrs. Wang said with some dissatisfaction, since the incident of taking over the roasted tea, Wang Zihao has been busy with her family every day, and even she and her children have been neglected.

"Mother, my father wants to restore our Wang family's family business, and it's normal to be busy, and I think that King Liang is a person who does big things, since my father has decided to follow King Liang, he must work hard, maybe he can mix up an official body for his younger brothers in the future, and he is no longer afraid of others, we are merchants." Wang Xijun is worthy of being a person who has followed his father to manage the family business since he was a child, and his vision is from the long-term of his mother, who grew up in the boudoir.

"Hehe, what Xijun said is right, King Liang is no longer the King Liang who only knew cockfighting and lackeys before, now he is extremely shrewd, doing things under him, it is not possible to show some ability." Wang Zihao touched his daughter's head dotingly and said. This is the inner hall, and there are only three of them, so they talk a lot less.

"Okay, okay, you father and daughter will know that they are colluding to bully others." Mrs. Wang glanced at her husband and said, "By the way, the Zhou family sent someone here again today, and they sent a lot of things, I think they are quite sincere, or ......."

"No way!" Wang Zihao and Wang Xijun shouted almost at the same time.

"Mother, why did you let the Zhou family enter the door again, have you forgotten how they did to our Wang family at the beginning, not only returned the engagement marriage, but also insulted my father, almost making my father think about it for a while and went to a dead end, now seeing that our Wang family has just improved a little, and he has no skin and no face to come up and want to remarry, this kind of family you can bear to let your daughter marry in?" As soon as the Zhou family was mentioned, Wang Xijun, who had not been sleepy, stood up, his two big eyes widened, and he said to Mrs. Wang angrily.

"When I was engaged to the Zhou family, my prince was blind, if it weren't for His Royal Highness King Liang who lost all my Wang family's property, I wouldn't be able to see the true face of the Zhou family, speaking of which, we still have to thank the prince, otherwise we really want to marry Xijun to the Zhou family, wouldn't it hurt our daughter for a lifetime?" Wang Zihao is also angry, if Li Su is here, he will be very surprised, Wang Zihao has always been tolerant and kind to people, and it is rare to see him so angry.

"Hmph, you always say that the Zhou family is not good, but in the final analysis, it is not because that King Liang lost all our family property?" Mrs. Wang obviously hasn't turned this corner yet, and she has always been worried about Li Su's loss of the Wang family's property.

"Madam, why are you so confused!" Wang Zihao looked distressed, "The nature of the Zhou family is not good, it has nothing to do with whether we have any property or not, and if our daughter marries into that kind of family, she can only suffer for half her life in the future, compared with the happiness of the second half of your life, what is the wealth of our Wang family?" ”

At that time, Li Su lost all the property of the Wang family, and the Wang family was almost in a slump, but what made matters worse was that the Zhou family, who had already been engaged to Wang Xijun, regretted the marriage, Wang Zihao was angry at the time, and found the Zhou family to comment, but he didn't expect to be insulted by the Zhou family's father and son. Afterwards, Wang Zihao calmed down, but he was a little glad in his heart, although the family business failed, at least he saw the true face of the Zhou family's forces, so that his daughter would not marry and suffer in the future. It is precisely because of this incident that the open-minded Wang Zihao's resentment towards Li Su has also decreased a lot. Now Li Su values the Wang family, and handed over the fried tea and the five kings' drunk sales to Wang Zihao to take care of, but when the Zhou family saw it, they shamelessly wanted to repent, and they had asked Wang Zihao to send someone out of the door last time, and they dared to come today?

Mrs. Wang saw that her husband and daughter were really angry, and remembered that her husband couldn't think of jumping into the river, and she was also a little afraid in her heart. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but resent the Zhou family, and immediately admitted his mistake: "Okay, the concubine knows that she is wrong, I will have someone send the gift back to the Zhou family tomorrow, and I will never mention remarriage in the future." ”

"Hehe, this is my good mother!" Wang Xijun saw that his mother agreed, and he was afraid that she would be unhappy about what he had just done, so he hugged Mrs. Wang's neck and said coquettishly, "Mother, you see that your daughter is so beautiful, and her father is valued by King Liang, restoring the family business is just a trivial matter, and there may be greater development in the future, so your daughter is not worried about getting married, you just sit at home and wait for others to propose!" ”

"King Liang, King Liang! You and your father know what King Liang is talking about, he is harming you and you haven't married yet. Mrs. Wang complained dissatisfiedly, and suddenly stopped when she said this, as if she had thought of something, her eyes lit up and she continued, "I heard that King Liang is about the same age as you, and he is not married, so just marry you to him, even if he compensates you to be your husband!" ”

"In the woman's opinion, what is the identity of King Liang, how can he marry a merchant girl, and King Liang is already engaged, or His Majesty personally decreed, the other party is Miss Xiao Wenxin, the granddaughter of Song Guogong, that is a famous beauty in Chang'an City." Wang Zihao saw that his wife was whimsical again, and couldn't help but scold.

"Cut~, he wants to marry me or not." Wang Xijun's face was dissatisfied, especially when her father thought that she was inferior to Xiao Wenxin, which made her very angry, and she argued forcefully, "Besides, although Xiao Wenxin is beautiful, she is actually just the concubine of the Xiao family, and her status is not much higher than mine." Wang Xijun's words also have some truth, in the big family, some of the children of the concubine are actually not much stronger than the status of domestic servants.

"Hey, no, that King Liang is also a prince no matter what, how can he marry a concubine?" Mrs. Wang usually doesn't go out much, so she doesn't know the causes and consequences of Li Su's engagement.

"Mother, this is interesting, I'll tell you a good story, I ...... a few months ago" As soon as Li Su talked about the original troubles, Wang Xijun immediately became enthusiastic and told all the rumors he heard, women like these gossips the most, especially at Mrs. Wang's age, so she also listened very excitedly, and interjected two sentences from time to time to express her opinions.

Looking at the gossipy mother and daughter, Wang Zihao had no choice but to shake his head with a wry smile, pick up the dishes and chopsticks and start eating his supper. !!