The emergence of carbon stone stoves has given the people of Tokyo a new understanding of heating, which is convenient and fast. Compared with the previous carbon stone heating, stoves are safer!
But cheapness is the most competitive thing. The combustion efficiency of coal is much higher than that of charcoal, and its endurance is strong, so it is naturally the best choice.
The advertising effect of Thousand Households far exceeded the expectations of Puhui Store Shopkeepers. They didn’t know what the contagion effect was, so they didn’t even need to spread it to ten people. It was already a very scary thing to spread it to two or three people. As long as it could spread
Go on, the efficiency is amazing.
Now, people in Tokyo know that Puhui Company has a stove that can safely use carbon stone, and the effect is amazing.
The essence of human beings is to pursue simplicity, comfort, cheapness, and efficiency. The so-called good things are those that occupy one of them. For this winter that can freeze people to death, the appearance of stoves may be a little late, but it is not too late.
Compared with this winter, there are more winters. There is winter every year, and heating is needed every year.
A small stove paired with a warm copper kettle is a kind of enjoyment pursued by the people of Tokyo. Although it is past the New Year and the promotion time, the blacksmith shop of Puhui Company is still overcrowded.
Almost everyone comes for the stove, and everyone comes for the iron chimney, because only iron chimneys can be used. Try replacing it with other wooden chimneys? Don’t be scorched by the heat of the stove in half an hour.
To ignite.
Of course, good things like carbon stone stoves will be sold out of stock. Some wealthy families have ordered dozens of units at a time, not only to install them in their houses in Tokyo City, but also in their villages outside the city.
stove.
So soon, a strange scene appeared in some houses in Tokyo. Iron pipes protruded from the paper windows of the houses. Fortunately, they were paper windows. It didn’t have to be too complicated. You only needed to cut a circle in the thick window paper.
The hole is good.
The window paper of this era had quite good sealing properties. Although it was made of paper, it could block wind, rain, and even odors.
The poisonous and choking soot was naturally blocked out of the window. This method of heating was refreshing to everyone, and they were quite willing to try it. The benefits of the stove were obvious, and its functions were quite complete.
You can sit with water and bake things on top, and you can still burn things in the furnace below. Potatoes and potatoes seem to be a perfect match for this stove. They just throw them into the furnace without washing them, and after talking and laughing, they can be taken out and grilled easily.
Open the dirty outer skin to reveal the delicious orange-yellow inside.
No one can resist the temptation brought by these two things in winter, and no one can resist the huge profits brought by such a simple item as a stove.
The price of Puhui Store is not expensive, but it is not cheap either. It costs five guan, but the iron stove needs to be forged manually, and the fire tiles inside are also not simple. For people of this era, high temperature resistant materials
There are not many, and Wa is one of them.
Driven by huge profits, it was impossible to protect the secret of the stove. Imitation stoves soon appeared, and they could be bought for only four dollars. Although the workmanship was worse than the stoves of Puhui Company, they were still
I can’t bear the price difference of a whole amount!
Ye An doesn't care about this, but he is confident in his business. As long as he does not lose money, his factory will be the lowest among all stove manufacturers.
If you want to start a price war with yourself, you are asking for death. And just at this moment, one of the craftsmen of Puhui Village was bribed.
Stoves are not like other products. As long as you know the know-how and materials, imitation is as simple as eating and drinking. When large-scale imitation begins, competition will appear.
With the beginning of the price war, the number of stoves purchased by Puhui Company began to decrease sharply. Except for some customers who came for the reputation of Puhui Company, the rest were regular customers who felt that this company was benevolent and righteous.
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More people still choose other people’s cheap stoves as a temporary replacement. After all, stoves are meant to be cheap. If the price is high, they might as well switch to charcoal!
Many people thought that Puhui would lower its prices. After all, this was a common tactic used by wealthy businesses, but Ye An did not do this. Price reductions for a period of time would only make previous customers feel they were losing money, and would do nothing but damage goodwill.
In this case, the best way is to let everyone enjoy the benefits, so under the ardent expectations of the shopkeepers of Puhui Company, Ye An gave them a sudden solution, starting with coal.
"Starting from tomorrow, everyone who buys a stove from our Puhui store will have the price of charcoal reduced by 20% and delivered to their door. From now on, the price of charcoal will be 10% lower than that of other stores every year. There is no need to worry about not having enough carbon stone. We will send it to Taiyuan
People have sent word that there are indeed carbonite deposits in Mount Taiti, which are abundant and sufficient!"
Ye An's words instantly solved the crisis in the hearts of everyone present. In their view, the price of launching such a large-scale furnace was the need for a sufficient supply of carbon stone.
In the past, the demand for carbon stone in Tokyo City was less, and more was purchased than needed, so the price was naturally not high. But it is different now. According to the sales of stoves this winter, the demand for carbon stone in Tokyo City will definitely increase in the future.
With the sudden increase and the expenses in the palace, Puhui Company may not have that much carbon stone, so wouldn’t the stoves sold become waste?!
But the shopkeepers of these Puhui companies do not know the amount of coal produced in Shanxi, let alone that Shanxi is a "coal sea". Compared with the oil of later generations, coal is the industrial blood of this era. How can Ye An not pay attention to it?
He had already sent people to Shanxi to search for coal mines, and designated them near Taiyuan. In order to avoid suspicion, he did not even dare to mention the name of Taiyi Mountain. However, in the end, the people he sent out found the easiest coal mine in Taiyi Mountain in Taiyuan.
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This is nonsense. The coal resources in Taizhan Mountain are already abundant, to the point where you can dig out high-quality coal just by digging a hole in the ground.
Before the Chinese New Year, Ye An ordered Puhui Company to monopolize coal with all its strength, purchasing large quantities and signing contracts, and was even willing to increase the price to purchase. Of course, this was in the name of the fact that the workshops in Puhui Village needed a large amount of coal as fuel.
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For Ye An's decision, the big shopkeepers of Puhui Company resolutely implemented and implemented it, so news immediately came out that as long as people who bought Puhui Company stoves, the price of carbon stone would be reduced by 20% this year, and starting from next year it will always be
Keep selling at a 10% price reduction!
Suddenly, more people flocked to Puhui's blacksmith shop, and even some people who bought stoves from other companies came to sell Puhui's stoves. The reason is simple: coal saves money.
This naturally attracted many people to return the stoves to the people who sold them before. Some merchants were unwilling to return the stoves, so they were naturally questioned by others: "Can your carbon stone provide benefits like Puhui Store?"
The answer was "Of course not!"
Ye An was not the only smart man. Other merchants selling stoves also thought about this problem, but who would have thought that Ye An would lead an army. After receiving the news, Zhao Zongli was so angry that he gnashed his teeth and wanted to eat his flesh!