Li Hao smiled and nodded, with a pretentious expression on his face, and asked, "How much alcohol do you drink? How much sap can you drink?"

Cheng Chumo said proudly: "I have no choice but to drink, three pounds and three pulp juice is no problem."

"Three jin, haha..." Li Hao sneered again.

"What! Don't you believe it?" Cheng Chumo glared at him and cried. The first time in his life, someone dared to provoke his alcohol tolerance, which made him very upset.

"It's not that I don't believe it." Li Hao smiled lightly, "I brewed a pound of distilled liquor to let you lie down."

"Just just blow the air." Cheng Chumo snorted coldly, not believing what he said at all.

Li Hao also argued with him that he didn't plan to get distilled liquor anyway, because the restaurant has just opened and the business is booming, so there is no need for distilled liquor at all. When the restaurant business becomes lighter one day, then launch distilled liquor and introduce it to the restaurant, it will immediately make the restaurant business popular again.

Now that he has the partner Cheng Chumo, he must make good use of it. He thought about it and finally decided to extend his hand to the coal industry.

The winter in Guanzhong is very cold. Li Hao feels that he has been almost frozen to a fool during these days, so people in Guanzhong like to burn charcoal to keep warm in the winter. Those who are not rich burn charcoal, and those who are rich burn coal.

The coal industry in the Tang Dynasty was not very developed, but Chang'an was different. It was the most prosperous place in the country. There were too many rich people, so Chang'an's coal supply accounted for almost half of the total Tang Dynasty.

Li Hao asked Cheng Chumo at this time: "Brother Cheng, which power has always controlled the coal in Chang'an?"

Cheng Chumo replied: "Changsun family."

Li Hao was stunned when he heard this. Changsun Wuji's family's industry was not easy to deal with. He originally planned to find the Cheng family to work with honeycomb coal. This thing is definitely profitable and very profitable. Why? Because honeycomb coal is made of crushed coal particles, while people in the Tang Dynasty burned coal blocks, and no one wanted it. They were thrown away as garbage. It can be said that it was almost zero cost. Only when this kind of business can you make a profit.

However, now we have encountered a big problem. The Changsun family is in charge of the coal business in Chang'an and wants to go to Changsun Wuji to grab food. This is not easy to deal with.

Li Hao asked tentatively: "If I want to cooperate with your family, enter the coal industry, and grab business from the Changsun family, will your father dare?"

Cheng Chumo's answer was awesome: "In addition to rebellion, are there anything that my Duke Lu's mansion dare not do?"

But he then said, "But there is no need. My father and Uncle Changsun have been in the same court for so many years and have a good relationship. They stole his business for a little money. It's not worth it."

Li Hao raised his eyebrows: "What if it's a huge profit?"

Cheng Chumo's eyes lit up, he thought for a while, and said, "I'll go back and ask him." After that, he left hurriedly.

Li Hao also wanted to go home, but the Chang'an city gate had long been closed. He had no choice but to stay in a restaurant tonight. There was an employee dormitory in the inner courtyard, but... he prefers to live in Room 1, Tianzi, hehe.

The next morning, before the restaurant opened, Cheng Chumo knocked on the door. Li Hao asked Yao Dafu to open the door and let Cheng Chumo come in. Cheng Chumo said helplessly: "Li Hao, my father said you cheated me again."

Li Hao blinked: "Where did I cheat you?"

Cheng Chumo said: "My father said, there is no profitable thing in the world. He also said that you have cheated Uncle Fang Qiao and Governor Shen Song and Shen. This time I must have wanted to cheat our family."

"Oh, your father is really..." Li Hao sighed helplessly. After a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up, "Brother Cheng, why don't we do it."

"Ah?" Cheng Chumo was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do we have that much money? Coal requires a lot of capital."

"Didn't I say it yesterday, it's a huge profit." Li Hao blinked quickly.

"I have figured out a rule." Cheng Chumo said seriously, "When you want to cheat people, you always like to blink, blink very quickly."

"You're so careless." Li Hao couldn't help but blink twice, "I just think I'm very handsome when I blink."

Cheng Chumo decided to believe him again: "Okay, then tell me, how can you make a fortune?"

Li Hao asked Yao Dafu to exchange the 250 guan we earned yesterday for Yinying, and then pulled Cheng Chumo and said, "First of all, I will give you all the 250 guan we earned yesterday. You can rent ten stores with this money. The store does not need to be very large, but the inner courtyard must be large. Also, these stores must be distributed in various places in Chang'an, so don't lean against each other."

Cheng Chumo stared at him and screamed: "Two hundred and fifty cents of ten stores, are you crazy or am I crazy?"

"Are you a playboy?"

"Even I am a playboy, I have a bottom line!"

Li Hao thought for a while: "Then let's rent it for a short period of time, only rent it for four months, and then you will get the rent out in the spring."

Cheng Chumo shook his head: "That's impossible. Only four months of rent will the fool be willing to rent it to you."

Li Hao: "You are a playboy."

Cheng Chumo:...

Li Hao continued: "Then, you need to send someone to the coal yard to buy crushed coal, the more the better."

Cheng Chumo stared at the ground and screamed: "Are you crazy? The house is covered with dust when the coal is burned, so why do you want that thing?"

Li Hao said for granted: "It is because no one wants the broken coal that I asked you to buy, which is almost the same as free gift, otherwise how can you make a profit?"

"Yes...but that thing can't be burned!"

Li Hao smiled mysteriously: "The mountain man has his own tricks. Don't ask so many questions. Just get me the things. Remember, the more the better."

Cheng Chumo thought that Li Hao always had mysterious means, and this time he seemed to be confident. Although he was quite confused, he didn't lose much. He just broke coal. The coal in the coal yard was worried that no one would deal with it. He just used some manpower and material resources to drag it back. So he agreed.

When Yao Dafu took two hundred and fifty taels of silver back, Cheng Chumo took two hundred and fifty taels of silver to do what Li Hao told him. When Li Hao saw that he had left, he hurried home and asked Du Hong to look for blacksmiths everywhere. Why do you find blacksmiths? First of all, you need a coal-making machine. Honeycomb coal is made of a coal-block machine. If you want to do a honeycomb coal business, of course you need a coal-block machine, and it takes a lot of it, because it is almost 39 days now, and it is time for coal to sell.

Secondly, Li Hao also needs to make a large number of honeycomb coal stoves. Only honeycomb coal stoves can be burned. Other stoves cannot be burned. If you want to sell honeycomb coal, you will naturally need a honeycomb coal stove. He has already thought about it. When selling it, just buy more than 50 kilograms of honeycomb coal at one time and send it to a honeycomb coal stove. This is the marketing strategy of the future world. Who makes people so greedy for small profits?

The honeycomb coal stove is not easy to make. Not only does it require a blacksmith to make the shell, but it also needs to insulated the inner tube. The inner tube is fired from sand and soil. Li Hao personally went to the kiln factories that fired porcelain. As long as one mold is made, it will burn hundreds or thousands of inner tubes in one kiln, which is quite fast.

In just five days, more than 300 coal blanks and more than 5,000 honeycomb coal stoves have been made. The coal blanks are enough, but the honeycomb coal stove is not enough. Li Hao asked the blacksmiths and kiln factories to continue to do it. The minimum goal is to make 20,000.

At the same time, Cheng Chumo's crushed coal was collected in place. He was running around these days, exhausted and exhausted. This was the first time he had worked so hard, and his face was blown out of frostbite by the cold wind. However, he did not say a word of complaint. On the contrary, he was still looking forward to the hard work and happiness of starting a business that others could not understand.

Cheng Chumo got a total of 200,000 stones of crushed coal, which was 20 million kilograms, which really didn't spend a penny. When people heard about his identity, they gave it to him for free. Now the 200,000 stones of crushed coal are in the grain warehouse on Shilipo north of Chang'an City, because there is a sealed land by their Cheng family, so naturally there is a farm and a grain warehouse. However, relatives of the Cheng family are usually managed by them, so Cheng Yaojin rarely goes to care about it.

Next, it was Cheng Chuan's turn to work hard, because it needed to hire people and hundreds of people. It was actually not difficult to beat coal blanks. Just mix the crushed coal and water evenly and then use a coal blank machine to make it. The important thing is to grasp the amount of water mixed well, not too much, and not too little. If there is too much water, the honeycomb coal made cannot be burned. If there is too little water, the honeycomb coal made will easily dissipate.

Li Hao knew the most suitable water mixing ratio, so there was no need to worry about this. The workers who beat coal blanks were from Duke Lu’s mansion, and they had departments and family servants, with more than 300 people in total. Li Hao told them how to beat coal blanks and then taught them how to use coal blanks. He basically made a honeycomb coal in less than ten seconds. It was very simple. As long as people with no brain problems, they could basically read it once.

Next, the production of honeycomb coal was huge. More than 300 people worked for four consecutive days, and all the crushed coal of 200,000 stones turned into honeycomb coal and was neatly stacked in the warehouse.

Seeing that the weather was getting colder and colder, it was almost 30 days. Li Hao himself couldn't wait, so he asked Cheng Chumo to send someone to drag the honeycomb coal to ten shops in Chang'an. At the same time, he also distributed the honeycomb coal stove he prepared to ten shops, so that they could buy fifty kilograms of honeycomb coal to get a honeycomb coal stove according to their requirements. As for the price of honeycomb coal, it must be lower than coal blocks. The price of Chang'an coal blocks was ten cents per kilogram, which was more expensive than grain. There was no way. The coal industry in the Tang Dynasty was not so developed, and things were rare. Li Hao set the price of honeycomb coal at eight cents per kilogram, which was 20% lower than the market price, which was still very attractive.

The day before the "Three Ninth Festival", ten honeycomb coal shops in Chang'an opened at the same time. As soon as they opened, shocking news broke out. Coal was sold for 8 cents per kilogram. Everyone was shocked and ran to ask. When they saw the honeycomb coal, they were all attracted by the strange shape of the honeycomb coal, so they naturally had to ask questions.

The clerks were all trained by Li Hao. They patiently explained the characteristics, advantages and usage methods of honeycomb coal to everyone. Not to mention, honeycomb coal does have many advantages compared to coal blocks. One of the most important ones is that the combustion rate is high, that is, the honeycomb coal can be fully burned. Because the coal block is large and hard, the middle part is often not burned through, which is very wasteful.

In view of the low price and high utilization rate, many people have started to buy honeycomb coal. How can we not buy honeycomb coal stoves? I heard that if you buy fifty kilograms of honeycomb coal, you will get a coal stove. Most people buy fifty kilograms of honeycomb coal at one time. There are many rich people in Chang'an, and some people even bought thousands of kilograms of honeycomb coal at one time, and several carriages were towed away.

The emergence of honeycomb coal has set off a coal boom in Chang'an. Everyone rushed to tell each other. The business of ten stores was very popular. On the first day alone, the ten stores sold a total of 320,000 kilograms of honeycomb coal. Based on 8 cents per kilogram, they made 2,560 kilograms of money. After some costs, they made a net profit of 2,500 kilograms.
Chapter completed!