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He will take care of everything. Cao Fu is loyal to Cao Liang and is good at calculating. He is born to be a good material for doing business. Cao Liang feels more at ease when he leaves the business to him.

In recent years, Cao Liang's development in Bingzhou has required a steady stream of financial support. The amount is huge, far beyond ordinary people's imagination. The Gaoling Marquis Mansion itself has little money. It only relies on the salaries of Cao Yan and Cao Liang.

As for the income from the farm, even if the Cao family did not eat or drink, it would not be able to meet 1% of Cao Liang's needs in Bingzhou.

Therefore, Cao Liang's most important source of funds is still in the Wushisan business.

Since Yipinju has withdrawn from the Luoyang Wushi Powder market, Xiaoyao Wushi Powder is now the dominant player in the Luoyang market. Even if there are some small workshops that produce Wushi Powder, their output and quality cannot be compared with Xiaoyao Wushi Powder at all.

When compared separately, the market share occupied is very small and there is no competitiveness at all.

In recent years, the Cao family's Wu Shi San has completely formed a monopoly. It is not only popular in Luoyang, but also sold to Jizhou, Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou and other places, forming a nationwide sales network.

Of course, the most important market is still in Luoyang, which accounts for more than 70% of all Wushi San. Seizing the Luoyang market is equivalent to mastering a cornucopia of continuous wealth.

After all, Wushi Powder is a consumer product, and those who take Wushi Powder will gradually become addicted, so Cao Liang does not worry about sales at all. Moreover, Wushi Powder is expensive, which destined its consumer groups to be either rich or expensive.

The taxi community and ordinary people did not have the money to buy this thing. This also made Cao Liang feel more reassured that society would not be turbulent because of the Five Stones Scatter.

If his family's wealth is depleted due to taking Wushi Powder and he sells his children and daughters, Cao Liang will be guilty of a very serious crime. However, judging from the current situation, that situation will not happen. After all, anyone who takes Wushi Powder will have his family

The capital is relatively abundant, so it cannot be said that no one has gone bankrupt, but they are already a very small minority and will not have any impact.

However, in order to reduce his dependence on the five-stone bulk business, Cao Liang started operating anthracite coal three years ago.

Compared with the initial numerous competitors in the Wushi Powder business, there were no competitors at all in the sales of anthracite coal stones, with Cao Liang operating a monopoly.

If you must find an opponent, then the one with a little bit of influence would be charcoal.

The production process of charcoal is very complex. From logging, transportation, burning charcoal to selling, it requires a lot of manpower, the cost is high, and the price cannot be lowered. Therefore, charcoal, like Wu Shi San, is also a special product for the upper class.

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Ordinary people, even the merchants who sell charcoal, do not have access to charcoal. They only have firewood to burn in the winter, and they are exposed to smoke and fire all day long.

The emergence of coal and stone has greatly changed this situation.

The price of coal is relatively low, only about half that of charcoal, so it is not only affordable for dignitaries, but also for ordinary people.

Since all the mining personnel used by Cao Liang were Huns prisoners of war, the cost of coal mining was relatively low. The real cost came from transportation. After all, it was a long way from Bingzhou to Luoyang. In order to save costs, Cao Liang

Liang Liang had an idea and adopted the transportation method of the Yellow River waterway.

This method of transportation was inspired by the private salt ship that was seized from Pubanjin. Since they could transport private salt by water, why couldn't Cao Liang transport coal from Bingzhou?

Since water transportation is relatively cheap, after the coal arrived in Luoyang, it was sold at less than half the price of charcoal, and Cao Liang made a huge profit.

Of course, the emergence of any new thing is a tortuous process. When Cao Liang transported coal and stone to Luoyang, there was no spectacular scene of tens of thousands of people rushing to buy it. Instead, it was piled there quietly without anyone paying attention.

In fact, this is not surprising. After all, the price of coal has been reduced to half that of charcoal, but ordinary people who can't afford it still can't afford it. And those dignitaries are not short of money anyway, so they don't need to worry about charcoal.

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So when these selected anthracite stones arrived in Luoyang, they fell into an embarrassing situation.

Cao Liang was away, and only the chief steward Cao Fu came to think of a solution. In view of the method of trying the five stone powder before selling it, Cao Fu also adopted a similar method in the sales of coal and stone, that is, selling it to some influential companies for free.

Officials distributed coal and stone, and through word-of-mouth, the benefits of coal and stone were slowly publicized to the general public.

Compared with charcoal, the advantages of coal are unshakable. First of all, the burning time of coal is longer than that of charcoal, and the firepower is stronger than that of charcoal. If the charcoal is put into the brazier, it will not take long to burn out.

, and the coal and stone are filled into the fire, and there is almost no need to add any more overnight.

Especially when used with the stove flue invented by Cao Liang, the efficiency of coal can be developed to the extreme. Those families who were still burning charcoal all winter were still suffering from the cold, but they installed new stoves and burned coal.

The coal and stone house is warm and cozy, and the interior is like spring.

After the news spread, people in Luoyang rushed to buy coal and stone, causing a great sensation.

However, the sales of coal and stone in Luoyang were not ideal in the first year. Not only did they not make any money, but they also paid a lot of money. After all, by the time people rushed to buy it, it was basically the end of the winter.

Once the weather gets warmer, no one cares about the best coal and stone anymore.

Cao Liang told Cao Fu, don't be afraid of losing money. As long as you can open up the market, you will naturally make a lot of money in the future.

Sure enough, in the second year, the sales situation of coal and stone was very good, and there was even a panic buying phenomenon for a time, while a large amount of charcoal was unsaleable, and it was no longer as prosperous as before.

This year's sales have reached a new high. So far, sales have exceeded last year, and this winter is only half over.

Fortunately, in the past three years, no matter how the sales performance was, Cao Liang insisted on stacking and storing coal and stone in Luoyang. One summer, the warehouses in Cao's farm were full, so Cao Fu also deliberately rented some warehouses around Luoyang.

Come down and use it to pile coal and stone.

Due to sufficient inventory, no matter how hot the sales of coal and stone this year were, there was no crisis of out-of-stock, and the Cao family made a lot of money. After Wushisan, coal and stone became another part of the Cao family's economy.

root pillar.
Chapter completed!