"Niu Er, everyone is in a hurry to use carbon. Stop entertaining us and sell us the carbon!"
"Yes, Niu Er, the shopkeeper is still waiting for me to bring the carbon back!"
"Is there no more charcoal? If not, we will go to the opposite side to buy charcoal?!"
"Let's go buy charcoal."
Seeing a few people making noises in the crowd, Niu Er became anxious and said quickly: "Fellows and fellows, don't worry, how dare I amuse you? This is because I have something good to do to benefit you!"
"Good thing, what good thing?"
When everyone heard that there was an advantage to be taken, they immediately became quiet and asked Niu Er.
But Niu Er explained with a smile: "Today, a batch of new charcoal was shipped to the shop. It is not only safe and easy to burn, but also very cheap. More importantly, if you buy charcoal, you will get a stove for free. Where can you find such a good thing?"
"Huh?"
Sun Xiaoer in the crowd was also very surprised when he heard this: "Is there such a good thing?"
"That's of course. Brother Wei also applied to the shopkeeper because of the fact that you are vying to support my store. After all, we have to take advantage of it!"
Niu said with great loyalty.
Everyone was a neighbor, so they naturally knew Niu Er's character, and one by one they began to carefully look at the briquette stove on the table.
When Niu Er saw that the briquette stove had attracted everyone's attention, he quickly said: "Fellow fellows, this is called a briquette stove, and it is specially used to burn briquettes!"
"I dare to ask Brother Niu, what is briquettes?"
"Good question from the waiter, come on, everyone, look, this thing is called briquettes!"
Upon hearing Sun Xiaoer's inquiry, Niu Er picked up a piece of briquettes from the stove and showed it to everyone.
Everyone saw that the briquettes were no different from carbonate and charcoal except for their weird shape. They were all black things, so they suddenly lost interest.
After all, no matter how weird the thing is, it will be the same after being burned in the stove.
"Niu Er, you'd better sell us the graphite quickly, it's nothing special!"
"Yes, Niu Er, sell us the charcoal quickly, we don't want your stove."
"Fellows and fellows, don't worry, just listen to what I have to say!"
Seeing that everyone's attraction to briquettes was declining, Niu Er subconsciously reached out and wiped the sweat from his forehead. He didn't know whether it was unintentional or intentional. The soot from the briquettes he just scratched suddenly turned him into a 'painted-faced cat'. It made everyone laugh.
While everyone was laughing, Niu Er struck again while the iron was hot: "As you all know, charcoal is easy to ignite, but not resistant to burning; stone carbon is resistant to burning, but not easy to ignite;
This briquette has the advantages of both, it is easy to ignite and very resistant to burning! "
Wow!
The whole place was in an uproar.
Someone immediately questioned: "You idiot, do you think we are easy to deceive? There is no such thing as the best of both worlds in this world. I have lived for decades, old man, and I have never heard of it!"
"Yeah, there's no such thing as the best of both worlds."
When everyone heard the questioning, they looked at each other and agreed.
Niu Er smiled slightly, raised the briquettes again, and said: "They say seeing is believing and hearing is believing. The market has just opened and it's not too late. Let's give it a try and find out!"
As he spoke, he put the briquettes into the brazier in front of everyone, and then said, "You might as well guess how long it will take to light this briquettes?"
"this"
Everyone looked at each other, looking at each other, and no one spoke rashly. They only stared at the briquettes in the brazier, as if they wanted to witness with their own eyes how it was ignited.
I don’t know how long it took, but when Niu Er saw that the bottom of the briquettes started to turn red, he immediately used pliers to take out the briquettes and temporarily showed them to everyone.
At this moment, Niu Er didn't need to say much, everyone started talking about it.
"It seems that in just a few words, the briquettes were ignited. In total, they are not much worse than charcoal."
"Who says it isn't? In my opinion, it's almost the same as charcoal."
"No, aren't we trying to get the best of both worlds with it? We just proved that it is easy to ignite, but we didn't prove that it is resistant to burning!"
"Yes, yes, it is true"
Niu Er naturally listened to all the people's discussions.
He slowly put the briquettes into the briquette stove, then added two more pieces of briquettes, aligned the holes, and continued: "You should be curious, both stone carbon and charcoal are burned in the stove. , why should this briquettes be burned in such a stove? Isn’t it unnecessary to take off your pants and fart?”
"Hahaha--!"
When everyone heard this, they burst into laughter.
They did have such doubts in their hearts, why not just burn it on the stove instead of burning it in this weird stove.
Could this weird stove be the key to resistance to burning?
Seeing everyone's doubtful expressions, Niu Er smiled and turned to Sun Xiaoer, beckoning: "Xiaoer, come here!"
"ah?"
Sun Xiaoer's eyes were fixed on the stove, and when he heard Niu Er's call, he was at a loss.
However, Niu Er did not give him time to react. He immediately took his hand, came to the stove, and whispered softly: "Don't be afraid, Xiao Er. I came to you because I want to give you a chance to experience it for yourself. There is no other way." the meaning of!"
"But."
Sun Xiaoer hesitated.
Niu Er whispered again: "As long as you do as I say, I will discuss with the shopkeeper and give you a monetary benefit, how about it?"
"Is this true?"
"Truer than gold!"
"good!"
Sun Xiaoer nodded excitedly, and without any further hesitation, he immediately followed Niu Er's words and stretched his hand over the stove.
"hiss"
Feeling the heat wave above the stove, Sun Xiaoer subconsciously retracted his hand and took a breath of cold air.
"How about it?"
Seeing Sun Xiaoer's reaction, Niu Er couldn't help but smile and raise his eyebrows.
Sun Xiaoer rubbed his hands and said truthfully in front of everyone: "The temperature in this stove is higher than the temperature of my stove. It's a bit hot."
"This is just the beginning. When blue flames appear, it will be really hot!"
Niu Er explained to everyone with a smile.
Soon, blue flames came out of the stove, and everyone's eyes widened in surprise. This awesome guy really didn't lie.
But I heard Niu Er say again: "Xiao Er, your family often boils water. You should know better than everyone the time it takes to boil water with this stone carbon and charcoal. Now let's use this fire to boil water and see what happens?"
"good!"
Sun Xiaoer responded excitedly, then took the iron pot from a boy's hand, placed it on the briquette stove, and added the newly pumped well water.
If Niu Er asked anything else, he might not know, but when it comes to boiling water, he does know a lot about it, because he boils all the hot water in his store.
In just a few words, the well water in the iron pot began to emit bursts of steam.
"Boy, can your stove boil water so quickly?"
Niu Er looked at the iron pot and asked with a smile.
Sun Xiaoer stared at the hot water in the iron pot and shook his head: "No, my stove is different from other stoves. My father specially asked craftsmen to build it. It usually boils water very quickly, but also Not as fast as this stove”
"Hehehe"
Niu Er laughed heartily, then looked around at everyone and said, "If you want to try other things, such as cooking food, you can come up."
"Okay! Let me try."
As people who do not believe in evil are rushing to experiment, the magic of briquette stoves has repeatedly refreshed everyone's understanding.
Looking at the flames on the briquette stove, after half an hour of testing, there was still no sign of weakening, and everyone couldn't help but marvel.
Seeing that the experiment was almost done, Niu Er stood up again and said: "The magic of this briquette stove does not end there. When you use this stove in the future, as long as you control it properly, the briquettes in a briquette stove can burn until the next day." In the morning, even the fire was saved. What's even more exaggerated is that if you add two pieces of briquettes, it can be used for another day. If you keep going, you will consume up to four pieces of briquettes in a day."
"this"
Everyone was stunned when they heard Niu Er's words.
If it is true as Niu Er said, wouldn't this briquette be more cost-effective than charcoal and stone carbon?
Seven things to do before opening the door: firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea. Firewood ranks first. A day’s meals, whether charcoal or stone carbon, all need to be cooked with charcoal. The consumption can be imagined.
If you can use carbon and save a lot of money, this will be a great thing for families and shops.
Everyone present was very interested in briquettes. Without thinking, they started buying briquettes and hauling in free briquette stoves.
The shopkeeper of Fushan Trading Company opposite saw that something was wrong and immediately ran to report to his employer.
"My boss! Something bad has happened!"
The scarred man had just returned from Jingyang Lord's place and looked very confident. When he heard the shopkeeper's call, he didn't panic at all. Instead, he smiled and teased him: "Why, the other side started giving away everything for free?"
Ever since the price of stone carbon dropped to one hundred pounds per dollar, the competition between him and Zhao Hao was no longer the competition between stone carbon and charcoal. It's a battle of spirits.
The so-called battle of spirits is competition regardless of the cost.
Now that the price of carbon has dropped to one penny, any further price reduction will be nothing but free money.
But giving it away for free meant nothing to him.
Because his charcoal is still being sold, the help Jingyang Jun gave him was far beyond the money he borrowed.
Therefore, as long as his charcoal is still on sale, even if Zhao Hao gives it away for free, it will have no impact on him.
"Boss, them"
After hearing what the shopkeeper said, the scarred man's face instantly darkened. The complacency he had just felt was gone, replaced by extremely angry: "What a good means! What a good means!"
As he said this, he slapped the table and laughed miserably: "All the tit-for-tat and competition and price reduction are all fake! They're fake!"
"Zhao Hao has thought about this for a long time. He has something like briquettes but kept it secret. He waited until now to get it out. He wants me to die. No, it's not just me. He wants everyone to die. !”
After the words fell, the scarred man felt a burst of heartache.
If he hadn't thought about standing up for Lord Jingyang and reaping greater benefits, he could still make money comfortably now. The current situation he is in today is entirely due to his ambition, and he is solely to blame. No one can blame him.
However, most people are like this, being tolerant to themselves and being mean to others.
Even now, the scarred man has no intention of reflecting on himself, but blames all the faults on Zhao Hao.
Seeing the scarred man cursing Zhao Hao endlessly, the shopkeeper felt frightened, but he had no choice but to wait until the scarred man had scolded Zhao Hao enough, and then he said cautiously: "Master, what should we do now?"
what to do?
If I knew what to do, would I still be like a shrew and curse incompetently?
He raised his head and glanced at the shopkeeper bitterly. The scarred man waved his hand feebly. Signaling him to go out.
The shopkeeper ran away as if he had received amnesty, and began to think about his future.
In the next few days, under the impact of briquettes, Toyama Trading Company lost all hope.
Many shops began to close.
At this time, the businessmen who lent money to the scarred man no longer had any favors with the scarred man, and sent people to collect debts one after another.
As for the Jingyang Lord behind the scarred man, he directly drew a clear line with the scarred man, and eventually forced the scarred man to separate from his wife and commit suicide by hanging himself from a beam.
As a result, the competition between carbolic and charcoal has finally come to an end.
In the contest between Zhao Hao and Lord Jingyang, Zhao Hao finally won in an unexpected way.
This also shows that when you can't defeat others head-on, you can take the opposite direction.
Perhaps taking a different approach can open up a new path.
The impact of the contest between Zhao Hao and Lord Jingyang is no less than that of Zhao Hao being granted the title of Supervisor of the South China Sea.
Many ministers of the DPRK and China who were originally prepared to wait and see began to get close to Zhao Hao intentionally or unintentionally, and many powerful people who originally planned to secretly oppose Zhao Hao began to remain dormant.
In short, the competition between charcoal and stone carbon made everyone in Xianyang City see a different Young Master Hao.
This further enhanced Zhao Hao's power in Xianyang.
"Master Qi, everything you need for your trip south is ready. If you need anything else, I will arrange it immediately!"
Linghu Fan, the internal historian of Zhisu, reported to Zhao Hao with a smile.
Zhao Hao glanced at him lightly and said calmly: "Thank you for your hard work."
"It's not hard work, it's not hard work. The young master was ordered to go south. It is the duty of an old minister to serve the young master."
"Ah!"
Zhao Hao snorted and sneered, "Back then, I saw that the Zhisu Neishi had a close relationship with the Datian Order, and I thought that the Zhisu Neishi would hold a grudge against me because of the Datian Order."
"Don't dare!"
When Linghu Fan heard this, he was startled and quickly bowed and saluted: "I have nothing to do with the guilty minister. Please tell me, sir!"
"Whether it matters or not, I know it well. Now I am ordered to go south. If you need help in the future, please do it yourself!"
"As ordered, how dare I not do my best to assist Young Master Bi."
"Well, let's go down!"
Zhao Hao waved his hand to signal Linghu Fan to step back, then turned to look at Zhang Cang who said nothing: "What do you think of Master Zhang?"
Zhang Cang thought for a while, stroking his beard and said: "Young Master has just shown kindness and power. I believe that he will not do harm to Young Master!"
"But, I don't feel at ease if someone in such an important position is not one of my own."
"this"
Zhang Cang hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively, "In your opinion, what should we do?"
"How about we replace him?"
"ah?"
Zhang Cang was stunned by Zhao Hao's words.
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