Chapter 384: Installment payment?

Wu Zhi smiled and said, "This is naturally. Ice cubes must have a market. At that time, not only will court officials buy it, but the people of the entire Song Dynasty will also buy it. There are so many people in the Song Dynasty. If the ice cubes can be sold to them, it will not only solve their hot problems, but also make a lot of money."

"However, we have to make enough money from these officials and the wealthy businessmen in Bianjing to make money from the people."

Song Huizong: "What are you going to do?"

Wu Zhi: "If we sell together, the price of the people will definitely be much lower, and the price of the people sold to the officials will be expensive. If the officials know that the price of the people I sell to the people, they will not buy it from me. They can buy ice cubes from the public, so I will make a reservation for them first!"

"Secondly, there are those businessmen. There are still many wealthy businessmen in Bianjing, and they can also be sold to them at the same time."

Hearing Wu Zhi's words, Song Huizong nodded: "At that time, you can make a lot of money again!"

Wu Zhi: "This summer, there are only at least tens of millions of taels of ice, not to mention that I have made mosquito coils and repelled mosquitoes!"

"Oh? And this thing, how is the effect?"

"Very good!" Wu Zhi took out a plate of mosquito coils, then lit them to Song Huizong to look at them. Song Huizong was a little surprised after smelling them: "King Yan, is this a mosquito repellent? This is clearly an incense!"

Wu Zhi smiled and said, "So this thing is easy to sell, not only repelling mosquitoes but also fragrant!"

Song Huizong held the mosquito coil, which was black in circles. Song Huizong exclaimed: "King Yan, you really have you, you can make it all! I really admire you!"

Song Huizong said this is the truth. Since he came into contact with Wu Zhi, Wu Zhi has been refreshed in his understanding of the world.

Sometimes he doubts whether Wu Zhi is a human being.

Or is he from this world?

However, Song Huizong felt that this was unlikely, so he could only say that Wu Zhi was a strange man.

"Your Majesty, these are all gadgets, and there are more things that can change the Song Dynasty in the future."

"Okay, King Yan, I support you in everything you do, as long as you want to do it."

Song Huizong expressed his affirmation to Wu Zhi.

With the words of Song Huizong, basically, Wu Zhi can do whatever he wants in the future.

Anyway, the Business Department had a lot of supplies, craftsmen, and various materials, which gathered many high-end talents in the Song Dynasty.

They were all controlled by Wu Zhi for his use.

Wu Zhi can do it with his hands.

Next.

All Wu Zhi had to do was wait.

When the court officials use up the ice, they will naturally look for Wu Zhi.

Now some court officials have consulted Wu Zhi to discuss the ice.

However, after the first batch of ice cubes were released, Wu Zhi told the public that there were fewer ice cubes.

Anyway, it's all his words.

Some court officials suggested that they wanted ice and were willing to pay.

Seeing this, Wu Zhi told the price.

Some courtiers were also a little scared about the price.

After all, this is really a lot. In winter, ice on the river is very valuable. Isn’t it just water?

It’s just that there is no ice cube in summer. If you have such demand in such a season, the price will naturally be higher.

A court official said, "King Yan, can this ice cube be cheaper? In fact, there are ice cellars in our Song Dynasty Palace and the people!"

Um?

Hearing this, Wu Zhi nodded, he understood this.

There were ice cellars in the Song Dynasty, but Wuzhi’s things were still popular. Why?

Because he is so big.

It is produced in summer, while it was stored in winter in the Song Dynasty, which is not affordable for ordinary people.

There were underground ice cellars and ice wells in the Song Dynasty.

Not only that, there were many ice cellars in the Song Dynasty, and there were large ice cellars in the palace. In the summer, the officials would distribute ice to their concubines and ministers.

But it's limited after all!

There are small ice cellars among the people. In winter, the owner of the ice cellar hires people to smash ice in the river, carry them to the ice cellar and put them in it, and then transport them out and sell them for money when it is hot.

The ice cubes will melt soon after they come out of the ice cellar. In order to solve this problem, the Song Dynasty cold drink shop also has a large double-layer wooden barrel with a base underneath and a round cover on it. The interface is covered with white copper. After putting the ice cubes into the mezzanine, it will not melt for two or three days.

When cold drinks are ready, use this large wooden barrel to refrigerate. When not refrigerated, the wooden barrel can also be used as an air conditioner.

Put one in each corner of the house, and open the lid and air conditioner to cool down. It should be noted that this double-layer large ice bucket was not the first of its kind in the Song Dynasty. It was found in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was called the Ice Mirror at the time.

The reason for keeping ice is indeed because the summer of the Song Dynasty was too hot.

Ye Mengde, a native of the Song Dynasty, wrote in his book "Summer Retrieval Records": "This year's hot, I heard that there were many people who died of dull servants in the city." This sentence means: This summer is particularly hot this summer, and some people get heatstroke while walking, fall to the ground with a "thump" sound, and can never wake up again.

Ye Mengde did not exaggerate. Looking at the "History of China's Meteorology", the temperature in the Song Dynasty was higher than that now, and the average temperature in the two Song Dynasty in three hundred years was two degrees Celsius higher than today, and the temperature in summer could reach up to 45 degrees Celsius.

If a person has too poor resistance and does not have protective measures, he is completely likely to die of heat and death.

Speaking of the high temperature in the Song Dynasty, there is another evidence.

In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin soldiers frequently invaded Jiangnan, burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of crimes. The crimes they committed were numerous. However, from the perspective of time, these Jin soldiers had a rule.

It rarely invades in summer, why? You are afraid of heat! In fact, the summer in the Jin Dynasty was also very hot, but it was dry and hot and easy to resist. The Southern Song Dynasty was located south of the Huai River. It was full of water vapor, which was damp and hot. The thick high-temperature water vapor spread between the sky and the earth, covering the front, back, left and right, making people unbearable to feel hot and breathing, just like a few layers of wet sweaters and sweaters tightly wrapped around the body.

In the third year of Jianyan of Emperor Gaozong of Song Dynasty, it is said that an inexperienced Jin army crossed the Yangtze River in the sixth month of the lunar calendar and was preparing to attack Nanjing, but two thousand people died of heat on the road.

The remaining Jin soldiers were frightened and quickly returned home. The way back was hotter and seven hundred people died of heat.

It is conceivable how hot the weather is!

Although there are ice cellars in the palace, to be honest, it is really not enough.

And it was not the hottest time, so Song Huizong didn't transfer it. It was not until Wu Zhi's ice was sent out that he realized that Wu Zhi could actually make ice.

Now the ministers are enough, as long as they can buy it.

You know, the ice cubes in the ice cellar are not enough to make so many people use up a summer.

If you want to use ice for the whole country, you can only use Wuzhi to produce it in summer, and what is enough to store it in winter?

So many court officials still buy it with Wu Zhi.

After all, there are ice cubes at home, and my wife, relatives, and I can enjoy a cool summer.

Although these officials have good conditions and even without ice, they will be much better than ordinary people, living a better life is the enjoyment that people pursue.

Ministers looked for Wu Zhi one after another, so Wu Zhi proposed another schedule, that is, they would pack all the ice cubes for the next five years.

Of course, after cheating them before, some court officials may not be able to take out so much cash, but Wu Zhi had already thought about it.

Those who can only take out a small portion of the money can be paid on credit and installments. This account is calculated on the court's accounts. That is to say, they owe the court's money, and they are not afraid of not paying it back. If anyone wants to rely on it and not pay it back, it is simple, it will be deducted directly from the salary. Besides, who really dares to owe the court's money?

No one is so bold yet.

And these also have interest, and those who cannot pay will have to pay four points of interest every year, which is already very low.

Wu Zhi is also enough to consider their situation. Some people don’t want to pay extra interest, so they will do it at one time.

Of course, this time there is no name for the government to offer heaven, so they will not offend the government, so this is truly free.

The last time I sold watermelon, it was a cooperation between the government and the accounting. This time Wu Zhi was a free trade.

If they don't want to, forget it.

But other officials have decided that your family has not, is it embarrassing to lose it?

They are all officials in court, or even at the same level. People are using it, so can't you afford it? If this is spread, it will inevitably be inferior. You must know that officials are also very particular.

If your superiors have it, but if your subordinates don’t, it’s fine. We are all at the same level and cannot lose this invisible comparison.

It’s like if you have a car, I have to have it too. If you have a house, I have to have it too. How can you have ice cubes? I can’t be bad, right?

Wu Zhi was not afraid of them not selling it. Besides, the weather in the Song Dynasty was really hot. Standing in the palace square in a hot day, looking at the scorching sun in the sky, if you stand for a long time, you will be sunburned to death.

This made Wu Zhi feel a little sympathetic to the guards standing around him, sweating profusely, wearing thick armor, holding weapons and protecting the safety of the palace.

Dedicated!

As King of Yan, Wu Zhi naturally does not have to suffer such suffering.

If they don’t buy this kind of weather, Wu Zhi won’t sell it. It depends on who can survive. Wu Zhi is not short of money anyway. He is just thinking that the more money he will be better. After all, with such a seasonal opportunity, it is correct to make more money.

Of course, Wu Zhi would not really let them go, so he found Cai Jing, who was caught by Wu Zhi, who dared not to listen to him.

I had to book for another five years, and Cai Jing was really crying.

A group of people saw that Cai Jingdu had booked, and the rich officials did not miss the amount of money, but also booked, which formed a reservation atmosphere.

"King Yan, I booked ice for five years!"

"King Yan, I will also need five years!"
To be continued...