Coal

The reason why Wang Jinghui did not use buying charcoal to keep warm was because he discovered another way of wealth: in this era, people used coal in whole pieces, just like using wood. In Wang Jinghui's eyes, using coal in home heating and cooking is obviously extremely wasteful, and the combustion effect is also very poor, so he thought of making honeycomb coal and supporting coal stoves.

The technology of making honeycomb coal and the coal stove used in the matching equipment is simple. This is not a problem for Wang Jinghui, who was a soldier, when he was in the army, he and his comrades purchased raw coal and made honeycomb coal or coal balls before winter, and used discarded diesel barrels to make simple coal stoves. The difficulty now is just to use the materials of this era to make practical and beautiful coal stoves. With his financial resources, it is not easy to get it. He told Liu Jianfang about making honeycomb coal and coal stoves to the idle Chanfang, but Liu Jianfang still didn't understand the truth. There was no way, so Wang Jinghui told him to buy a blacksmith shop directly.

Liu Chanfang understood this time: he wanted to buy a blacksmith shop as soon as possible! "God, what do this young boss want to do?! He asked himself to buy a printing workshop two months ago, but he thought he wanted to be a bookmaker. He didn't expect that he had just had a stable life to be a blacksmith?!" Liu Chanfang thought silently. However, since he followed this new boss, he had worked in the account room for his whole life and had dealt with silver for a lifetime, and he had never seen anyone who could be as capable as the young man in front of him. He had made millions of wealth in a few months. "Millions of wealth?" A house built with silver appeared in Liu Chanfang's mind. Thinking about this number makes people dizzy, "This time it may be a new wealth idea that came out of the boss's mind!" Liu Chanfang thought secretly.

If Liu's accountant cannot effectively implement such clear instructions from Wang Jinghui, he will really have to roll the shop and go home to retire. After having the experience of purchasing a printing workshop for the first time, Liu's accountant realized that his young owner might have been born with a hand that turned into gold, so he certainly would not save Wang Jinghui money this time. He came back in less than a day to report the results to Wang Jinghui: "The owner, the blacksmith shop has been bought, not far from here in the west of the city. The store is quite large. I also kept the former blacksmith master with a lot of money!"

After hearing this, Wang Jinghui asked the owner of the blacksmith shop, the No. 1 iron smith shop, to the study. Wang Jinghui looked at the strong man in his thirties in front of him and asked, "Is this master Zhao the former Zhao Ji Blacksmith shop?"

The strong man bowed to Wang Jinghui and said, "I am Zhao Wujue. He used to be the boss of the blacksmith shop, but now I'm listening to the mission of Mr. Wang!" The blacksmith Zhao Wujue was not very disgusted with Wang Jinghui because Wang Jinghui offered a big price for his blacksmith shop, which was a price that he could not refuse, and he also promised that his original status in the blacksmith shop had just changed from the original boss and master to the autocratic iron smith.

Wang Jinghui looked at the honest iron master in front of him, called him to the desk and picked up the schematic diagram of the coal stove that Wang Jinghui had just drawn on the desk, and asked him: "Master Zhao, can you create the things in this picture?"

Master Zhao took the drawings and looked at them for a long time under Wang Jinghui's explanation and said, "This thing is easy to build, but what is it for? It's a bit like a stove."

Wang Jinghui said: "Master Zhao is indeed very eye-catching. This is the stove. It can be used to keep warm, boil water, and cook. Master Zhao, it is almost winter now. I want you to make a sample for me as soon as possible according to this drawing. You also have to calculate how long it takes to make such a stove and how much cost."

Master Zhao said: "If this stove is built according to the size on the drawings, it can be made five or six in a day. This thing is not difficult to make. It is just an apprentice, but the internal components need to be built by an experienced master. The cost of this stove may cost four or five jin, and when sold, it will add a half jin."

After hearing this, Wang Jinghui said, "Okay, Master Zhao, you can build ten of them for me first according to this picture. You will take care of this blacksmith shop in the future. I will send you a accountant to assist you. If the stoves you have made are good, you will recruit more craftsmen. Your main job in the near future is to make these coal stoves. I will design a few more things for you to make in the future."

After seeing off Master Zhao, Wang Jinghui found Liu's accountant and said, "You will start buying a large amount of peat for me from today. When purchasing peat, you should pay attention to purchasing those peat powder residues. If not, buy smaller pieces of peat, store all the peat in my house outside the city, and recruit me thirty hired workers. I will be useful."

After hearing this, Liu Chanfang asked inexplicably: "Boss, the larger the peat you buy for winter, the better. Although the slag of peat is not valuable, it cannot be used to keep warm and make fire!"

Wang Jinghui looked at Liu's confusion and said with a smile: "Mr. Liu, don't worry. Tomorrow, you should not only buy some peat residue for me first, but also buy some ripe lime. I will be useful. Then you will understand!"

The next afternoon, Wang Jinghui waited for a truckload of crushed cinders bought by Liu Chanfang at the blacksmith shop that had been renamed "Shenhuo" Coal and Fire Store, and instructed the shop's shop to make honeycomb coal with a prepared model in a ratio of 1 to 9. Master Zhao moved the coal stove made according to Wang Jinghui's drawings to the yard, and after the honeycomb coal was dried, he filled it into the stove and lit it, and sat a pot of water on the stove. Honeycomb coal is better than coal blocks and it burns much more fully. After a while, the water was boiled.

Wang Jinghui said to Liu Chanfang next to him: "The price of making honeycomb coal with crushed cinders is much cheaper than buying coal blocks. Using this furnace with honeycomb coal can solve the problem of heating and cooking in winter. In the future, this "Shenhuo" coal fire store will specially make this furnace and sell honeycomb coal. Liu Chanfang can also make money in winter. How about it?"

Liu Chanfang saw it clearly next to him, and thought to himself: I am worthy of being the God of Wealth! This broken cinder is only worth a few dollars. Although this thing is not as profitable as that of a movable type printing machine, if it is sold for a winter, the capital of ten blacksmith shops will be earned back!

Wang Jinghui said to Zhao Blacksmith and Liu Chanfang: "The smoke produced when this honeycomb coal is burning is small, but it can also be very uncomfortable. When installing it, it is made into a small hole in the wall and connects the hole with the smoke outlet of the stove with bricks and cement, so that the smoke and dust generated by the honeycomb coal burning can be discharged outside the house. In addition, when Master Zhao is making the stove, the appearance of the stove can be made several more tricks. The rich and civilians have different needs. We must let everyone buy a stove that suits their own satisfactory, but there is one thing you have to remember: this space for storing honeycomb coal must be made according to my standards, otherwise if you can't buy a stove without using honeycomb coal, it will be useless if you buy a stove! Liu Chanfang, arrange the thirty newly hired guys in an empty house I built in the suburbs of the city, and let them make honeycomb coal there and then take it to the city for sale."

Today, Liu Chanfang once again saw Wang Jinghui's ability to make money. Yesterday he was thinking about buying less cinders and letting this boss give up after he was little bit by bit. Today, he wanted to buy all the cinders in the coal mine - this is all money! Ten kilograms of coal can buy thirty or forty kilograms of crushed cinders, and mixing some ripe lime is as easy to burn as coal chunks. If you don't get rich, it will be unreasonable!

In fact, Wang Jinghui did not want to make a lot of money when making honeycomb coal and coal stoves. He just found that people's coal burning methods in this era were too wasteful, so he thought of making honeycomb coal to save coal burning. This honeycomb coal is simple to make and can be mixed with slag with slag. As long as it is guaranteed to have adhesion, the honeycomb coal can be formed. The slag is much cheaper than coal blocks. Ordinary people buy cheap slag and can make honeycomb coal on the spot in the yard. This can also make it easier for those poor families in this winter. Unfortunately, the current metal smelting level is too backward and there is no way to produce tin sheets, so the tobacco pipes in the house can only be replaced by bricks, stone and cement.

Liu Jinghui was soon done about recruiting a mate. Wang Jinghui now has a high appeal in the slums in the west of the city. Not to mention that he usually treats and sells medicines to the surrounding residents, almost all he can reduce the amount, and he can avoid it. He also specially opened a porridge shed to give alms to those begging along the street and take in those wandering orphans. Where can such good people be found? Besides, not only does it make Wang Jinghui easy to work, but also pay high wages. This really makes Liu Jingwen feel extremely unhappy. However, when Liu Jingwen recruits workers this time, he learned from the lesson of insufficient staff when the pharmaceutical workshop was opened, and he actively suggested that Wang Jinghui recruit more people. Wang Jinghui waved his hand: You can do it!

Regarding his own industrial management, Wang Jinghui has always liked to be a hand-off manager, giving all the management rights to the accountant or the workshop owner he had acquired. This was also the decision he made after coming to this time and space to see the simple customs of the people in this era. After all, he still has a lot to do in the future, and he has to be exhausted to death when he intervenes in everything.

Liu Chanfang recruited forty hired workers to make honeycomb coal in the courtyards selected in the suburbs, and ten people were also recruited to deliver goods to the door in the city. Zhao Blacksmith also recruited several more employees according to Wang Jinghui's instructions. Experienced blacksmiths built the complex components inside the coal stove, and the other parts were handed over to the apprentices to build and install. The method of making coal stoves was also changed to assembly line operation methods, which greatly improved the quality and quantity of coal stoves.

As the weather slowly cooled, the sales of honeycomb coal and coal stoves also began to become popular. The production of honeycomb coal is simple and easy. People who cannot afford the stove will use iron barrels to make a simple heating stove. They can make homemade honeycomb coal or buy it from the "Shenhuo" coal fire store. The price is not much different anyway. Middle-aged families directly order coal stoves from us, and also order the honeycomb coal used for winter from here. The wealthy families are very picky, and they can buy charcoal as heating fuel if they have money. However, under Wang Jinghui's prompt, Zhao Blacksmith and his apprentices used their intelligence and designed a variety of coal stoves with generous appearances for such people to purchase, and the big profits are all here.

Although the income of the "Shenhuo" Coal Fire Store is very jealous in the eyes of others, Liu Chanfang has been baptized by the profits of the movable type printing machine and has long been immune to this income. At this time, Liu Chanfang was reporting the income of the coal fire store to Wang Jinghui: the monthly income is about 8,000 guan. It is estimated that as the weather continues to cool, the income will continue to increase to 20,000 guan. Liu Chanfang also saw that this young owner did not like the income brought by honeycomb coal and furnaces, and most of them were sympathetic again. If Liu Chanfang had paid the employer himself, there would definitely not be such a small income: the monthly wage of a hired employee is five guan, which is enough to make a family of five buy rice. The wage alone would cost 1,000 guan, which really made Liu Chan feel a little bit slaughtered.

After listening to Liu's accountant's profit report on Coal and Huoxing, Wang Jinghui didn't say anything. Now money is just like the wealthy people in the 21st century said to him: If you have 100 million US dollars, then money is just a number in your eyes. Wang Jinghui didn't know what level his property would be able to reach if it was converted according to the purchasing power of the 21st century, but he knew that the existing money had been spent in his entire life. Now he could also proudly say to others: Money is just a number in my eyes!

Seeing that Wang Jinghui had no reaction, Liu Chanfang continued to report to him: Commercial Press has completed the printing of "Taiping Guangji" and "Wenyuan Yinghua" this month, and all the 4,000 sets of books have been packaged according to your instructions. Yesterday, the shopkeeper Zeng and I summoned all the booksellers in Kaifeng to order. Unexpectedly, these booksellers bought all the 4,000 sets of books. Zeng asked me to ask you whether I would publish the second edition again. The profits obtained by the Emperor of the Song Dynasty printed "Taiping Yulan" have been counted, and a total of 683,000 guan!

After hearing this, Wang Jinghui felt a sense of amusement: "Gift books" from later generations sold so much in this era! He said to Liu Chanfang: "Tell Manager Zeng: It's okay to add printing, but you have to accept orders from booksellers first and then decide the number of second edition printed. Now it is estimated that the number of second edition books will not be too many. In addition, I will send me one of these two sets of newly printed books, so that Manager Zeng will wrap them in yellow silk and put them in a nanmu bookcase like last time. This is the purpose of giving to the emperor. Don't make any mistakes! Before I hand over the books to the emperor, all printed books will be sealed. After I hand them over the booksellers, do you understand?!"

Liu Jianfang was already very excited and was poured with cold water by Wang Jinghui: Oh my God, why did you forget the emperor! If you didn’t present the book to the emperor before you can review it, wouldn’t it bring a catastrophe to the boss? Thinking of this, Liu Jianfang broke out in a cold sweat and said, “Thanks to the boss’ reminder, otherwise Lao Zeng and I would have to commit a huge disaster! Don’t worry, we will pack the books to the royal family and satisfy you! But how should the officials sent by the two officials be managed?”

Wang Jinghui couldn't help but feel a little funny when he saw Liu's trepidation, and said, "Although the two officials sent by the officials are not parents in charge, they are also officials walking in the museum. You must not neglect them. Everyone will give them a set of glass tea sets as a management point. Go to Manager Li to discuss it, and he will know what to do! Mr. Liu, tell Manager Zeng: Although I will not interfere in his management in the future, I should make him pay attention to the books published in detail. The content of the books should not involve the government affairs. Print more books that are not controversial like the Analects of Confucius. The prices should be cheap. Don't just think about making money! The profits we have made for the royal printing of the books are rich, and there is no need to smash your own job for those small profits. Do you understand?"

After hearing this, Liu Chanfang nodded repeatedly and thought to himself: This boss is not old, but he is very mature in his work. No wonder he can make a fortune in such a short time. Even if he becomes rich, it is hard to guarantee that he will not be sent to the army! He respected Wang Jinghui in his heart and said, "Don't worry, boss, I will bring you what you say to Manager Zeng, after all, be careful to sail the ten thousand years of ship!"

After hearing this, Wang Jinghui said, "Mr. Liu, I feel more at ease in doing things. We have made a lot of money. If the money is not enough, I still have a lot of things here! Even if I, Wang Jinghui, have all the property of Wang Jinghui, and I will still be able to create another property! The Chinese New Year will be in another month. Please continue to tell me: the wages for the two months of the year will be doubled, so that everyone can have a comfortable New Year! In addition, when you go to see Manager Li, you asked him to take out two thousand guan from my bonus and give it to the guys in the glass workshop. And the dozens of orphans I adopted also make two new sets of clothes for each of them. The food must be added to them every day. It is a time to grow up. Don't treat others badly. Do you understand?"
Chapter completed!