In the next few days, except for the New Year, the old Hoffman organized the serfs in the manor to shake coal balls together. The serfs in winter were nothing, and the old Hoffman gave the wages, so they naturally helped shake and shake, and shake grandma...

So, by the time the year passed, a lot of coal balls were piled up in Hoffman Manor...

However, after the coal ship of the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce arrived, when Old Hoffman sold them coal balls, he was rejected...

The reason for rejection was very simple and clear. First, after listening to the recommendation of Old Hoffman, they asked what was inside the briquette. When the representative of the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce heard that it contained a certain amount of yellow mud, they decisively rejected Old Hoffman. Because they believed that the briquette was mixed with yellow mud and the amount was unknown. Therefore, the briquette was no longer considered high-quality coal.

And nowadays, coal is hard to sell. If you mix yellow mud in the coal, who would want it? Therefore, the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce refused to purchase coal balls and only purchased raw coal chunks.

Old Hoffman had no choice. After all, whether it was your business or not was the buyer's business.

At this time, Marin happened to be still at home. So he interrupted:

"Father, give me all the briquettes!"

"What?"

"I've wrapped the coal balls!"

"But, people say that the quality of this coal ball may not meet the standard of high-quality coal..." Old Hoffman hesitated a little. He didn't want to cheat his son.

"It's okay, I just use it to keep warm, and I don't need to use the high-quality ones. Moreover, our coal balls do not have much yellow mud, and the quality is pretty good. Besides, 1.5 shillings per Chaltron is really not expensive."

"That's right..." Old Hoffman is a typical old-fashioned Germanic man, disdaining to do bad things with inferior products as good ones. Besides, if you supply goods to your son, it would be even more impossible.

Marin also took out the coal balls and put them in the stove of the blacksmith shop in his manor and tried it, but found that the difference was not very big. Of course, it might be that he couldn't see it. At least, on the surface, the difference between coal balls and coal blocks was not very big.

According to Old Hoffman, the yield ratio of coal blocks and coal powder in coal mines is 2 to 1. That is to say, 50 Chaltron coal powder will be produced every day. The labor wages in the inland German areas are very low, so finding someone to shake coal powder into coal balls is also very simple and the cost is also low.

But Marin was thinking about what I wanted so many briquettes...

50 Charteron coal briquettes are almost equivalent to 75 tons of coal. Moreover, this is still a day's output. In a year, it is only 27,000 tons. Marin himself cannot digest it no matter what.

Therefore, Marin must come up with a solution to the place where more than 27,000 tons of coal is available. Or he can try to promote it to the outside world...

The price of coal is relatively low, incomparable to the popular firewood. You should know that in the market, Charteron coal is only sold for 4 to 6 shillings. Firewood of the same quality costs about 8 shillings.

This is because after coal burns, it will produce a bad smell (mainly because coal contains sulfur and other substances). Firewood does not have these conditions. Moreover, Europe's forests are widely distributed, so why should we use coal? Moreover, coal burns, unlike firewood burns, which is not as high as firewood burns. Therefore, ancient people believed that coal was not as easy to use as firewood...

But in fact, the calorific value of coal is much higher than that of firewood. Under normal circumstances, the calorific value of anthracite is more than twice to three times that of firewood.

Even if the coal balls are mixed with yellow mud and are not completely burned, the calorific value is twice that of firewood, which is still no problem. In short, burning coal balls will never lose money.

Marin could not imagine the use of so many coal balls. However, coal balls are fuel after all, and they always have their usefulness. Moreover, the cinders after coal balls are burned can also be used to pave cinder roads, and you can not be afraid of mud on rainy days.

Moreover, in his previous life, Marin read the news that it seems that cinder can also be used to make cement or bricks, or instead of sand and gravel, and mix as aggregate and cement.

In short, coal briquettes are by no means lacking in use…

However, with a lot of coal, the air will definitely not be good...

Also, how to transport coal balls to Texel Island is also a big problem. You should know that Marin now has only 400 stupid big-headed soldiers left in his hands. He has no ships, nor has sailors and navigators.

Therefore, how to transport coal balls to Texel Island is also a problem...

However, Marin had thought of cooperating with others, for example, hiring someone else's ships to transport them.

However, Marin is also worried about one problem. That is, other people's boats are their own. When others have time, they can help you transport coal. If others don't have time, no one will transport coal for you...

Therefore, it is still necessary to develop your own transport ship. However, first of all, Marin now has no ship or people, and it is not possible to cooperate with others.

Just so happens that the representative of the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce is still there...

Then, Marin reached an agreement with the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce to rent a "large" (large in the inland river) inland river transport galleons responsible for transporting coal balls to Texel Island. This large inland river boat can ship 100 Chaltron coal at a time, and in the inland river, it is indeed a big guy.

Marin specially rented a large ship idle by the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce to transport coal balls, and Marin also arranged for Kohler to serve as the escort for the first time transporting coal balls.

In fact, Marin's real intention was to poach the ship and the captain and sailors on the ship...

It is not impossible to afford to ask Marin to buy a boat by himself. However, the cultivation of skilled sailors is very slow. Perhaps it will take several years to cultivate a skilled sailor. And a qualified captain is even more difficult to find...

Marin didn't want to wait, so he decided to poach others' crooked. It happened that the merchant ships of the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce were not very high, and some merchant ships were always difficult to get transportation opportunities.

In this case, in addition to the poor economic prosperity in Europe, there are also relationships between closeness and distantness. For example, some people with good relationships with senior executives will get more tasks and naturally get more rewards. However, those with poor relationships with senior executives will of course be difficult to get business, and the whole ship will naturally have difficulty in getting the whole ship.

This time, Marin specifically proposed to find a relatively idle ship, just to "poach" the ship and the people...

Only with your own transport ship and coal balls can you complete it on time and on location without dragging it...
Chapter completed!