Zhao Shan smiled softly and explained: "Behive briquettes are made by grinding coal into powder, mixing lime, yellow mud, etc., and are used to boil water for cooking. It is winter in Youzhou now, and the weather is cold, especially in Youzhou. In cold areas, briquettes must have huge sales space."
Bai Youyou blinked and said worriedly: "Your Majesty, wealthy people use high-quality charcoal, and I'm afraid they won't use briquettes."
"Ordinary people don't go out in the winter and bear the cold weather. It's impossible to buy it with money."
"If ordinary people have money to buy coal, they might as well use it to buy food. At least they will eat enough and not go hungry."
"Your Majesty's briquettes may be difficult to make money from."
Bai Youyou tentatively said: "Your Majesty, I had a plan before. I wanted to build a tea business and sell Daqian's tea to the Northern Wei Dynasty."
"no!"
Zhao Shan refused without even thinking about it.
Bai Youyou asked: "Why?"
Zhao Shan explained: "If you want to do business, if you enter an industry that is already very mature, but you don't know anything, have no capital or resources, and don't even have manpower, how can you do it?"
“Do you have any tea farmers who know how to grow tea?”
"Do you have a craftsman who knows how to fry tea?"
“Do you have a tea maker who knows how to check the quality?”
"Do you have a shopkeeper who knows the price of tea and someone in charge of sales?"
"Even if you want to sell tea to the Northern Wei Dynasty, you still need communication channels. Without people to collect tea, there is no sales channel. No matter how good your tea is, it will not be sold."
Zhao Shan said in a deep voice: "Business, especially a very mature business, is very difficult to break into. In addition, you said that briquettes are not as good as the charcoal used by the rich, which is actually wrong. Briquettes are more convenient and better to use. In addition, you said that briquettes are not as good as the charcoal used by the rich. In addition, briquettes are more convenient and better to use. , briquettes are not too expensive and can be used by ordinary people."
hiss!
Bai Youyou took a breath.
Her whole body was numb.
I didn’t expect that just dealing in tea would have such a deep knowledge. She thought it was easy for people to make money, but she didn't expect it to be so complicated.
Bai Youyou pursed her lips and gritted her teeth: "Your Majesty, am I really useless?"
Zhao Shanxiao said: "Silly girl, you are belittling yourself again. With me here, everything is not a problem. As long as you are willing to learn and do it, it is not a problem."
"The briquettes I just mentioned are a unique business."
"First, no one has ever done it. This is a wind outlet. As long as you stand on the wind outlet, pigs can fly."
"Second, I looked at the Xuannv Sect's assets, and there is actually a coal mine. In addition, there are many coal mines in Youzhou. Even though the coal in the coal mine is ordinary, it is good, and it is worse for smelting weapons, but it is no problem to make briquettes. "
"Third, no one understands this industry, so you can just explore and build it bit by bit. As long as you do it well, you don't have to build channels, and people will take the initiative to buy."
Zhao Shanxun said seductively: "You have my background and mineral resources. If you seize this industry that no one is involved in, it will be easy to make money."
Bai Youyou suddenly became excited.
She seemed to see herself making money.
Bai Youyou's fighting spirit is high again.
She was an optimist by nature and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, I will definitely do a good job as a concubine."
Zhao Shan nodded and said: "Let's go, I know the specific production method, write down all the circumstances, and you can go find the mason and blacksmith to make it. Not only must you make briquettes, but you must also make a coal stove. There is only briquettes and no coal stove. No way either.”
Bai Youyou nodded hurriedly and went back to the study with Zhao Shan like a quail.
Zhao Shan wrote down the method of making briquettes, using coal, quicklime, crushed straw and yellow mud, plus charcoal powder to mix, the ratio of coal to other materials is three to one.
Zhao Shan only knew the general outline. The specific production and subsequent improvements were left to the craftsmen to slowly explore.
For a true craftsman, practice makes perfect, and you will naturally improve once you understand.
Zhao Shan drew the shape of the briquettes, the equipment for making the briquettes, and finally the briquettes stove.
Coal stoves are very important.
With a coal stove, the briquettes can be burned for as long as possible. When there is no need to use the fire, you can also block the lower vent of the coal stove to ensure that the coal stove burns slowly and does not go out for a long time.
Zhao Shan finished drawing the production of briquettes and coal stoves, and then explained them to Bai Youyou bit by bit.
Bai Youyou was confused at first.
After Zhao Shan told the story twice, he finally understood it and said excitedly: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will definitely do it in the shortest possible time."
Zhao Shan smiled and said: "The production of briquettes and coal stoves must be kept secret. Especially when making briquettes, the craftsmen you find must be reliable. Before you buy a large scale of coal mines and seize the most upstream resources, you cannot leak it."
"The future Loyalty League can also use this to reorganize it. Not only do they do justice for heaven, but also the people of the Loyalty League must be transferred to the industry, from production, sales, to escorting, etc., arrange people to go in."
Zhao Shan said in a deep voice: "Everything is difficult at the beginning, do it well, I believe in you."
Bai Youyou said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will not give up. No matter how difficult it is, I will do it well."
Zhao Shan smiled and said: "Go ahead, I'm waiting for your good news."
Bai Youyou left quickly.
She was holding her breath inwardly, wanting to achieve results and not wanting to be looked down upon by Zhao Shan.
Once upon a time, she was just a chivalrous woman who only needed to act chivalrously and did not need to worry about anything else. After following Zhao Shan, it was obviously not enough to just act chivalrously and righteously, so he formed the Loyalty and Righteous Alliance for Zhao Shan, hoping to help Zhao Shan.
Unexpectedly, because of money, the Loyalty Alliance was already unsustainable.
Now, there is an opportunity for change.
Bai Youyou took the diagram of the equipment for making briquettes alone and went to a familiar blacksmith shop in Jixian County to ask the craftsman who forged farm tools to make the equipment.
After the coal is mixed, it is shaped using a mold. Without a made mold, it is impossible to make molds with holes one by one.
The craftsmen in the blacksmith shop also know Bai Youyou.
After all, Xuannv Sect often forges weapons or repairs weapons and the like.
The craftsman looked at the mold drawings given by Bai Youyou, then looked at Bai Youyou, and suddenly asked: "Bai Nuxia, is this your new weapon, or is it a hidden weapon you want to make?"
Bai Youyou's cheeks twitched when she heard this.
New weapons?
hidden weapon?
There is no such hidden weapon.
Bai Youyou didn't make honeycomb briquettes, and said vaguely: "Just give it a try temporarily, and come up with random ideas during the experiment."
The craftsman murmured a few words, nodded and said: "It is not difficult to make this weapon. Miss Bai will pick it up tomorrow."
"okay!"
Bai Youyou answered simply and asked about the price.
The craftsman smiled and said: "Old man, I rely on the protection of White Woman, so there are no gangsters to blackmail me. This new weapon will not charge money. When White Woman wants to build more in the future, I promise to charge money."
Bai Youyou didn't want to get benefits for nothing, so she still gave him some money before getting up and leaving.
In addition to the blacksmith shop, Bai Youyou also went to the city to buy better coal.
Daqian has already used coal mines for smelting and making bricks and tiles, so it is easier to buy coal. After buying coal, and then purchasing the charcoal powder, lime and yellow mud mentioned by Zhao Shan, Bai Youyou returned to Xuannv Sect.
Bai Youyou found a mason from Xuannv Sect to make a special coal stove.
After everything was arranged, it was already dark.
At night, Bai Youyou squeezed Zhao Shan again.
In order to get pregnant, you naturally have to work harder.
Bai Youyou knew that her man was an emperor and a big pig's trotter, and he could not monopolize him.
Zhao Shan was in Xuannv Sect, so this was an excellent opportunity, and she was unwilling to let it go.
After a night of passion, early the next morning, before Zhao Shan could get up, Bai Youyou went down the mountain to the city and went to the blacksmith shop to get back the mold for making briquettes.
Back on the mountain, Bai Youyou found the masons of the Xuannv Sect and instructed the masons to mix coal, charcoal powder, lime, etc., stir them into a relatively dry consistency, and then use molds to make briquettes.
The briquettes were made one by one. At the beginning, the masons were inexperienced, so the briquettes were somewhat lacking and not smooth enough.
The further back you go, the better you do.
After all the coal Bai Youyou bought was used up, twenty-five briquettes were made.
The briquettes are placed one by one in the sun.
Briquettes are normally dried in the shade or slowly dried. Nowadays, the weather is cold, and the winter sunshine has no effect on the briquettes and will not crack.
Two days later, the briquettes were completely dry, and the coal stove made by the masons was successful.
The coal stove currently manufactured is the simplest straight tube coal stove.
From top to bottom, there is a hole running through it. Only one briquette can be placed in a row, and up to three briquettes can be placed at the same time and overlapped.
The bottom layer of briquettes has iron wires running across it to ensure that the briquettes will not fall and to ensure that the burning briquettes are ventilated up and down.
When the bottom layer of briquettes is burned out and new coal is added, step on it directly. The burned briquettes on the bottom layer will break and can be dropped through the wire ring and then taken out from the hole at the bottom.
Bai Youyou looked at the prepared coal stove and briquettes, feeling a sense of urgency in her heart.
It’s finally done!
Must try it!
Bai Youyou took a small wooden stick and placed it on the iron bar at the bottom of the coal stove. He also used waste paper, mugwort and flammable charcoal to start a fire. After igniting the charcoal, he placed honeycomb briquettes in the coal stove, and the three overlapped one after another. .
Bai Youyou personally took a cattail leaf fan and fanned it through the hole at the bottom.
The whistling wind blows into the holes, causing the charcoal and wormwood to burn quickly, starting to ignite the briquettes at the bottom.
After the briquettes ignited, Bai Youyou used the wire to poke the holes in the briquettes that were aligned up and down to ensure that the upper and lower holes were consistent to better ignite the fire.
When everything was ready, Bai Youyou took an iron kettle and placed it on the coal stove.
The briquettes burned and the fire was raging. After a while, a pot of water boiled.
Bai Youyou looked at this scene with a look of wonder in her eyes, because the briquettes had not burned much yet and they could continue to cook.
At this moment, Bai Youyou was shocked and understood completely.
Really useful!
Briquettes can be of great use.
Bai Youyou was even more ecstatic in her heart. She asked people to put away the briquettes and quickly ran towards the yard where Zhao Shan lived.
