"Reply to the girl, this copper stove is very expensive. We gave it to the girl, so we don't charge her any money. Normally, we use cast iron stoves and wrought iron stoves. This set costs twelve taels of silver. Responsible for the installation and debugging, honeycomb briquettes cost one penny, and you will burn about five yuan a day, and six to seven hundred yuan a winter is enough." Zhuzi said carefully.
"The price of this coal is not expensive, but much cheaper than buying charcoal. The stove is not cheap, but the heating effect is better." Lin Yueru said.
"It would be a good idea to put one in every girl's room. It will take about a hundred. When guests come in the future, they won't feel warm. Xiaohong, please talk to Zhang's mother and ask her to purchase a hundred sets." Lin Yueru said to Zhu Honger ordered.
"Yes, girl," Xiaohong lowered her head and responded.
"This iron stove of yours is really good. Although it is not expensive, many poor people still cannot afford it. This year's firewood is much more expensive than every year. I don't know how those poor people will survive this winter."
"Miss Lin, we also have a low-end stove. If you buy a thousand pieces of coal, you can get one for free. But the stove tube costs a penny per section. It is specially designed for servants and poor people."
Lin Yueru said in surprise: "There are free gifts. Iron is so expensive. One pound costs two taels of silver. This stove must weigh thirty jins, and the cost is six taels of silver. We also need labor and transportation. Something like that. If you sell it for twelve taels, you’ll get 30 to 40 percent profit. You won’t have to pay for it if you give it away for free.”
"Miss Lin, the free stove only has a layer of iron on the outside, filled with a layer of sand and a layer of refractory clay, and costs less than ten cents. We can make money back from the briquettes. If we buy more coal, we will also give it away. There is a tin kettle and tin cups, so you have hot water to drink all day long. You can also soak your feet before going to bed at night, how comfortable it is."
Lin Yueru was completely convinced. This was that person's method. He had calculated everything and every potential customer would not give up.
"Xiaohong, take Zhuzhu to see Mother Zhang. In addition to a hundred sets of iron stoves, we are ordering 100,000 pieces of coal. There are 100 stoves as gifts. We will install stoves in every house this winter." Lin Yueru said.
Zhu Zhu held the order he had just signed in his arms and walked back excitedly. The market for Tianxiang House has opened up, and it will be easier to negotiate with other brothels.
This large single iron stove is worth 1,200 taels, 100,000 pieces of coal are worth 100 taels, and the furnace tube is worth 4 taels, for a total of 1,304 taels. I have a 1% commission, so I can get 13 taels of silver.
Zhuzi was extremely excited. His parents couldn't save two taels of silver a year, but he got 13 taels from one purchase. If this trend continues, he can buy a house in Zunhua and bring his parents and sister over.
Zhu Zhu had already planned it. After Tianxiang Tower opened, other brothels faced competition from Tianxiang Tower and had to keep up no matter what.
Think about it, who would wear too much in that place?
I'm frozen to death, so there are other things to enjoy.
Not all the customers have been snatched up by Tianxiang Tower. They don't want to buy and wait until there are no customers.
There are hundreds of brothels, big and small, in Zunhua City. How can we make dozens more orders?
"Miss, you were too kind to that silly boy. It's more than a thousand taels of silver. It's time for Mother Zhang to nag again." Hong'er said angrily.
"Do you know what kind of person he is?" Lin Yueru said quietly.
"He's just a stupid boy. Didn't you see that he was acting like a pig when he followed my butt? He was almost drooling."
"You were the one who wrote the intelligence to Jingli last time, right? Do you still remember the time when someone poisoned the slaves who attacked the Baihu Station in Rock Beach? You little girl, you were holding your chest with your hands and looking like a nymphomaniac She said she wanted to marry this lone hero who sneaked into the enemy camp alone."
Hong'er was stunned for a moment, it was him.
"You think based on this merit, should I give him some benefits?" Lin Yueru said.
"My slave is wrong." Hong'er bowed and saluted.
"In the future, you should get closer to him. You can't find such a young hero even with a lantern."
"Yes" Hong'er's face turned slightly red.
After Hong'er exited, Xiaoyu frowned and said to Lin Yueru: "Young lady has gone too far. Although that silly boy deserves the girl's reward, you let Xiaohong get close to him, but it was a bit abrupt."
Lin Yueru didn't look unhappy at all because of a maid's disrespectful words, she just listened quietly.
"That silly boy's master is from Chen Ke. This is a big taboo in the factory. The girl is so anxious to put someone next to him, but something happened in Beijing."
"Tu Shanyue hasn't been feeling well lately. I always feel that she and that kid are plotting something. The situation is delicate now and Master Tu Shanyong's attitude is unclear, so Tu Shanyue must keep an eye on it. Can the adoptive father survive this situation? We still don’t know. If our adoptive father falls, there will no longer be a place for us in the Ming Dynasty. At this time, they can still take care of these things. The sun is setting and the road is far away, so we are going backwards and doing things in reverse."
The appearance of a new stove has aroused heated discussion in Zunhua. This new product from Xinghe Iron Factory is available for everyone to try. After using it for a day, many people can no longer live without it.
It's so warm.
It turns out that the feeling of warmth makes people so happy.
The room was warm as spring, and many couples were preparing to have another child.
Winter is the saddest time for children.
Many died young.
Not to mention, the big tin kettle sitting on the stove lid has a supply of boiling water all day long, and you can even take a foot bath before going to bed at night.
It's so comfortable.
The kettle on the stove is steaming hot, the house seems to be less dry, and the skin no longer has small cracks. The appearance of my wife and daughter at home also seems to be more youthful.
Zunhua has set off a craze for installing iron stoves throughout the city.
Orders are coming in like a snowflake, and they have been queued for a month.
If Yang Fan hadn't been going to Beijing soon, he would have wanted to build a few more blast furnaces. Zhao Fudu began to purchase iron materials from other iron factories.
Old man Zhang, who sells chaos, has been grinning from ear to ear recently.
He and his wife pushed a cart equipped with a stove to sell Chaos on the street every morning. They served as a breakfast stall in the morning, and went to the dock at noon to bake multigrain pancakes and make wontons, which they sold to the coolies for lunch.
When it gets dark, we go to the gates of gambling houses and brothels. Those gentlemen who go home in the middle of the night are hungry and shivering in the cold wind of late autumn. They just want a bowl of wontons to warm them up.
Zhang Laohan's Chaos has meat and vegetables, expensive and cheap, and everyone can afford it. After decades of operation, it can be regarded as a time-honored brand in the city.
In addition to the ingredients, the biggest cost of his Chaos stall is charcoal. This stall needs a fire kept burning. Carbon is not cheap. Fifty cents worth of carbon will be burned in a day. A month is one and a half silver.
When the weather is cold in autumn and winter, you have to spend an extra five or six cents.
A few days ago, a young man came to sell their honeycomb briquette stove and gave him a free one-day trial. The result made Old Man Zhang overjoyed. The five-cent coal actually lasted a day and a night, and the firepower could be adjusted. The fire far exceeded that of charcoal, even the windmill. All saved.
The next day, I was satisfied and asked him how much the stove cost. He actually said that as long as I bought 1,000 pieces of coal, I would get the stove for free. If I bought more coal, I would also get a metal kettle, a cup, and a small tin bowl.
The kettle, cups, and iron bowls are all made of tinplate, and are plated with a layer of tin. They look shiny and silver, and I don’t know how they were made. They are very high-end.
In this way, you can provide extra hot water to guests, or add a new large bowl of tea business.
I decisively bought two thousand pieces of coal. Mainly because they provide kettles, cups, and small bowls.
I only spent 2 taels of silver to buy coal, which saved me 1 tael and a half of silver in a month. Calculated in this way, I increased my net income by 1 tael and a half of silver in a month.
Yang Fan was reluctant to take orders, and he roughly estimated that Zunhua had the potential to have at least tens of thousands of sets of stoves. After arriving in Beijing, I will continue to promote, because Beijing is a bigger market. It is estimated that if only this item is done well, one's income and expenditure will be balanced.
