After hearing Liu Jin's words, Shouning Hou Zhang Heling looked at Liu Jin carefully again, and then said: "Is this Golden Continent really full of gold?"
"The name of Golden Continent is Golden Continent, so naturally there is a lot of gold, and indeed there is gold everywhere."
Liu Jin looked at the Zhang brothers and said solemnly.
I have no choice but to continue telling lies no matter what.
"Have you been to Golden Continent?"
Zhang Heling rolled his mouse-like eyes and asked again.
"I've never been there. I just listened to what an expert said."
Liu Jin replied, now he was a little confused as to what the two brothers were doing here.
"Does that mean you're just hearing it?"
Zhang Heling smiled, making people even more confused.
"I'm just saying this, it's up to everyone whether you believe it or not."
Liu Jin looked at him and said lightly.
"Brother, why are you asking Huanghuangzhou? We are not going to Huanghuangzhou. The weather is cold. Let's finish the business quickly. Let's go back early. I'm hungry again. I want to eat chicken."
Zhang Yanling, the uncle of Jianchang on the side, was shivering by a gust of cold wind. The clothes on his body were ragged and thin, which made Liu Jin very confused. The two brothers should not be short of money. They didn't even have any winter clothes.
It's really stingy to be willing to buy it.
This kind of person is cruel to himself and even more cruel to others.
Therefore, Liu Jin became more cautious. The two brothers could do anything with the favor of Empress Zhang. However, Emperor Hongzhi only had Empress Zhang as his wife, and he was never willing to let these two brothers go.
Really severe punishment.
If his little life was killed by the two of them, there would really be no place to redress his grievances. Even if he stabbed Emperor Hongzhi, it would probably end in nothing.
"Eat, eat, just know how to eat. Don't you know that the poor people in your family can't even open the pot?"
When Zhang Heling heard this, he severely reprimanded his younger brother.
Then he said to Liu Jin with a smile on his face: "Mr. Liu, I heard that your Xishan Coal Industry is quite profitable. You can get this briquette for just 2 cents at a time. I don't know if it's convenient for you to give it away."
A mouthful of rice for two of us brothers?"
"It's over~ It's over, after all, I still have to make wedding clothes for others~"
Hearing Zhang Heling's words, Qian Youcai next to Liu Jin suddenly burst into tears, as if he were mourning for a heir, and he couldn't help crying in his heart.
"Hou Ninghou is joking, what we Xishan Coal Industry earns are actually hard-earned money. Don't look at this small briquette. Although it sells for 2 cents, our Xishan Coal Industry needs to sell 10 briquettes."
Earn a penny."
"The briquettes must first be mined from the coal mountains. Just hiring people to dig and carry the coal requires a lot of manpower. Our Xishan Coal Industry provides food for free, and it also costs tens of cents a day."
"After the coal is mined and transported back, it must first be crushed, then go through the coal washing stage, then mixed with yellow mud, then compressed and molded, and finally dried and transported to the capital for sale."
"This briquette has to go through more than ten processes and dozens of people's hands before it is considered qualified. In the end, it only sells for 2 cents. The profit is very meager. This is all hard-earned money."
"I didn't expect that the two uncles would be interested in this meager amount of hard-earned money."
Liu Jin thought for a while and replied with a smile.
It is obviously inappropriate to directly reject these two brothers. Although Emperor Hongzhi is the major shareholder in Xishan Coal Industry, Emperor Hongzhi dotes on Queen Zhang, and Queen Zhang dotes on her two younger brothers. They are a family, and she is an outsider.
If anything happens, he will definitely die first.
So I had to find a way to get these two brothers to give up. Knowing that Xishan Coal Industry was not profitable, they would naturally not be interested.
To be honest, in an era without advanced production technology, selling this briquette for 2 cents was indeed very low profit. If Liu Jin hadn't adopted the assembly line work and production model of later generations, he tried every means to improve the production of this briquette.
efficiency.
Liu Jin estimated that if the honeycomb briquettes were sold for 2 cents each, the loss would not be huge, but he definitely didn't expect to make much money, since the Zhang brothers were interested in it.
I simply told them how to make the briquettes and let me get it myself. Then they would know that the briquettes were actually not very profitable.
As for the method of making briquettes, Liu Jin knew very well that there was no way to keep it secret. It is estimated that all the powerful people in the capital already have the method of making briquettes, which also includes the most critical method of washing coal.
"Really not making money?"
Zhang Heling looked at Liu Jin with suspicion. He had heard clearly that Xishan Coal could earn 100,000 taels of silver a month and millions of taels of silver a year.
"I just make some money, it's just hard-earned money."
"On this point, I would never dare to hide it from my two uncles."
Liu Jin naturally nodded repeatedly, and then said: "If you don't believe it, you might as well try it yourself. There are coal mountains everywhere. Just find someone to mine it yourself and make briquettes."
"We have already bought the coal mountain, but we don't know yet the method of washing the coal in the briquettes. I heard that if the coal is not washed, people will die."
As soon as Liu Jin finished speaking, Jianchang Bo Zhang Yanling said immediately.
"I give you the method of washing coal with both hands, and I also give you the method of making coal stoves with both hands."
When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately became happy. The Zhang brothers were indeed idiots. They were just lucky enough to have a sister who married Emperor Hongzhi. Otherwise, these two brothers were nothing.
This mountain of coal has been bought, and it is obvious that they have been preparing to eat this briquette cake for a long time, and they have a huge appetite. They are not thinking about buying a stake in Xishan Coal Industry, but thinking about doing it themselves and eating up the briquette market.
Light.
This is the most greedy person, the kind who will snatch up and eat up all the good things when they see them.
"Mr. Liu, this can't be done. We didn't even discuss it with Mr. Zhu."
When Qian Youcai heard this, he immediately became anxious. If this method of washing coal is handed over, wouldn't everyone be able to make briquettes? Then how can Xishan Coal Industry make money?
"It doesn't matter. Mr. Zhu will agree. When the time comes, you just need to tell him the whole story and it will be fine."
Liu Jin replied with certainty that since Emperor Hongzhi knew about it, the two brothers probably had nothing to do, and they would probably handle it this way in the end.
"Okay, Mr. Liu is a smart man. I just want to thank Mr. Liu."
Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling heard Liu Jin's words, but they looked at each other, and then showed a satisfied smile. They did not expect that things would go so smoothly. This Liu Jin was indeed a smart man.
