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- The briquettes Jin Chenbai talked about have now become the flagship product of Prince Yu¡¯s Mansion.
In terms of sales, it may not be as good as floral essential oils, or even soap and sugar.
But in terms of sales volume, all the products of Yuwangfu combined are not even one-tenth of the briquettes.
The time when people need briquettes in large quantities is basically from late October in winter to mid-January of the following year.
If we expand the scope a little further, it would be from late September to late January, about four months.
In the remaining eight months of the year, the sales volume of briquettes dropped rapidly.
On weekdays, it is the heavy town, customs and other places in the frontiers. This convenient and simple fuel is needed. It is a place like Jiangnan. Except for some large households, no one else can buy it.
But this does not mean that there is no need to produce on weekdays.
On the contrary, their work intensity is not low at all on weekdays.
For example, of the two workshops in Imperial Capital, one is located around the disaster area in the east, and the other has been moved from under the wall of Imperial Capital to twenty or thirty miles away in the south.
There are a total of 50,000 people working in the two workshops, which is now the largest workshop in the Imperial Capital.
The Xiaogecun papermaking workshop, which has been expanded to accommodate 10,000 people, is not even a quarter of others.
" However, the two workshops in Dijing Mansion are not very efficient.
With 50,000 of them, they only make 80 million briquettes every day.
At first glance, 80 million briquettes are a lot.
The total population of the Imperial Capital is only three million, and the number of households is approximately five to six million. Calculating ten households a day, there are only five to six million.
One day¡¯s output is enough for the Imperial Palace to use for half a month.
But that¡¯s not how the accounts are settled.
The two briquette workshops in Dijing Prefecture do not only supply Dijing Prefecture at all, they supply to many places.
First of all, the three northwest provinces of Gansu, Shaanxi and Shanxi need their supply, and it is snowy in winter and it is not suitable to travel, so they must prepare supplies for them in advance.
Having a sled in winter is great, but the problem is that if something unexpected happens, such as road collapse, avalanche, etc., and the sled is useless, there will be no briquettes at the border city passes, which will cause a big problem.
Therefore, the transportation of briquettes has not stopped since spring.
Anyway, briquettes are very durable and can be used as usual after one or two years of storage.
In these three provinces alone, the monthly demand exceeds 500 million.
Then there is Hebei and the Shanhaiguan-Jinzhou defense line, where more briquettes are used in winter.
It can be said that if six briquettes are enough for a family in the Imperial Capital in winter, every family in Shanhaiguan and Jinzhou defense lines, especially the two important node cities of Jinzhou and Ningyuan, will not be able to live with ten less.
In the past, when there was no briquettes, even the garrison troops could only hide in the barracks and tremble.
Don¡¯t worry about defense, no enemy army can come to fight at this time - even if you don¡¯t die coldly, you will have to be hindered by the thick snow, and you won¡¯t be able to exert one-tenth of your strength.
Fire attacks are useless.
Now that we have briquettes, every place in the military camp can be burned, and every sentry post on the city wall can also be burned.
The sergeants standing guard inside to investigate the situation, despite the biting cold wind blowing and three or five honeycomb briquette stoves burning like this, can warm their bodies and bones. They can also drink a mouthful of hot soup and eat a mouthful of hot rice at any time, not to mention too much. Relieved.
The same is true for residents inside and outside the city.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????:?????????????????????? Without briquettes, I couldn¡¯t feel it. Now with briquettes, everyone feels that they can¡¯t live without it.
The system of the Dakang Dynasty was very complete.
¡°More than half of the people who can live in and around Jinzhou and Ningyuan are family members of soldiers, and the remaining half are farmers living a hard life.
If a city only has a garrison, then life will be boring and hopeless. If there is no fireworks on weekdays, it will definitely not last long.
Therefore, the imperial court encouraged these border cities to have extra residents to work and live.
¡°If nothing else, provide some food, meat, fruits and vegetables for the sergeants, and do some chores, such as repairing city walls, carrying things, etc. Someone has to do these, right?
Even the supplements of sergeants and the strong support during battles, don¡¯t they have to be on the field?
"So now that these people have come to live here, they can't leave because they are too miserable.
&nb??Then there are the nearby Lianghu, Anhui, Jiangxi and other places.
These places are in the central part of the empire, especially the two lakes areas, which have suffered major disasters in recent years, so there is a great demand for cheap fuel like briquettes.
After all, millions of people can only live in tent areas. If everyone burns firewood, they will hollow out many mountains.
? And there are huge fire hazards.
Briquettes are different, they are simple and convenient, and the charcoal residue can continue to burn. When you take it out, there is basically no risk of rapid ignition.
Well, not only the recent floods, but also from the time when sleigh trucks started delivering briquettes during the heavy snowstorm during the Spring Festival, briquettes have become an indispensable treasure among the people of the two lakes.
As for Anhui and Jiangxi nearby, they use it equally a lot in winter, but in summer, only one-third of the people use briquettes, and because there is no need for heating, the amount is even less.
Weiyuan Briquette Workshop, which was established one step ahead of Xinye Briquette Workshop, is the most outstanding of the three workshops.
Liu Mingqi first went to Xinye to discuss the briquette workshop with Sima Bei, and then went all the way to Chengdu, where he discussed the briquette workshop in Sichuan with Ge Songdao.
Logically speaking, Xinye should be the first to start.
But Xinye belongs to the Gyeonggi region and needs to be reported at various levels.
Ge Songdao himself is the governor of Southwest China. He wants to open a briquette workshop. He can do it tomorrow if he thinks about it today and gets the technology tomorrow.
Therefore, Weiyuan¡¯s briquette workshop started faster than Xinye¡¯s.
Both places have the same size of 20,000 people, but the workers in Sichuan can produce 65 million briquettes every day, which is a full 5 million more than Xinye.
This is why workers from Sichuan have always been very popular when going out to work.
Compared with Xinye, Weiyuan Briquettes Workshop has a greater burden.
Xikang, a defensive line close to Tubo, is frozen for at least four months a year, and the roads are muddy for at least six months as the snow melts.
In addition, there are mountains, rivers, and canyons everywhere, and transportation is very inconvenient, so materials there are extremely scarce.
Every year, the largest part of the output of Sichuan, a land of abundance, is subsidized to Xikang, and the remaining part is given to Guizhou. It can only maintain a delicate balance.
In the cold and harsh environment there, briquettes are a strategic material.
During the Spring Festival this year, briquettes were delivered to the Xikang defense line by sled, and received unanimous praise from top to bottom. Therefore, Ge Songdao also wrote a special memorial, asking the court to thank Prince Yu for his great invention.
"It's just that sending it from Imperial City to Xikang is too time-consuming and expensive, so a briquette workshop was set up in Weiyuan.
On weekdays, we walk part of the way by water, and then transport it all the way to Xikang via horse-drawn carriages, donkey carts, mule carts, etc. This not only saves money, but also greatly shortens the time.
Even recently, news came from Xikang that many Tibetan businessmen couldn't help but buy some briquettes for use. The feedback was very good.
Tubo is located on a plateau, and the burning temperature of firewood is not high enough. The semi-sealed combustion of briquettes makes the temperature higher, making it easier to keep warm and cook things easier. Why don't they like it?
From this point of view, Ge Songdao was quite proud when he left Sichuan.
In this way, he not only saved Sichuan millions of taels of supply losses every year, but also gave a total of 20,000 people in Weiyuan a job. The various supporting industries surrounding this briquette workshop can at least solve the problem of 20,000 taels of silver. The production and life of 100,000 people.
Sichuan will become more peaceful and prosperous as a result.
This is also a valuable asset he left behind for the successor Governor of the Southwest, Pan Hongmao.
The three southwestern provinces that Pan Hongmao took over were much more affluent than when Ge Songdao took over.
Of course, the biggest beneficiary of the vigorous development of the three major briquette workshops is Prince Yu¡¯s Mansion.
Even though they desperately tried to increase the treatment of workers, pay taxes, and resolutely refused to get coal in vain, the total profit in one month exceeded one million taels of silver.
¡°The imperial court¡¯s procurement alone accounts for about 70% of the total.
¡°No one knew that briquettes could be so profitable. They thought that Prince Yu¡¯s Mansion was just barely keeping its capital.
With so much money, Princess Yu, who loves money very much, couldn't help but feel a little frightened.
What is the concept of earning the wealth of a prosperous rich man in one year?
No matter how the emperor doesn't care, he will probably be a little jealous after knowing such a high profit in the future, right?
But you want Princess Yu not to earn this money?
How is that possible! ?
"My family has such a large population, and my son will have so many children and grandchildren in the future. If I don't earn more money to save their family, will they all be affected by the northwest wind in the future?" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)?What a concept!
No matter how the emperor doesn't care, he will probably be a little jealous after knowing such a high profit in the future, right?
But you want Princess Yu not to earn this money?
How is that possible! ?
"My family has such a large population, and my son will have so many children and grandchildren in the future. If I don't earn more money to save their family, will they all be affected by the northwest wind in the future?" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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