On the streets of the capital, I heard someone shouting early in the morning.&1t;/p>

"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers..."&1t;/p>

"Honeywoven coal, honeycomb coal! Sell honeycomb coal! Five pennies per cent, five pennies per cent, and delivery to your door!"&1t;/p>

A vendor pulling a carriage shouted loudly, "The whole carriage behind the carriage is full of honeycomb coal." Passersby were curious, and some ran over to pay for it.&1t;/p>

"I don't know what's going on now! You can only buy two kilograms of coal for a penny. This honeycomb coal is also made of coal, but you can buy five kilograms of coal for a penny! It's convenient to burn, it's much more cost-effective than coal for a penny."&1t;/p>

"I heard that the emperor was collecting mining taxes. If the miners who do coal briquette business still sell at the previous price, they would definitely lose money."&1t;/p>

"Then why is this honeycomb coal so cheap?"&1t;/p>

"Who knows! Little brother, I will buy twenty-month honeycomb coal and send it to me home."&1t;/p>

"Okay, where do you live?"&1t;/p>

“Just in front.”&1t;/p>

"Little brother, I'll buy thirty cents and send them to me at home."&1t;/p>

Xiao Wang, who pulled a whole truck of honeycomb coal to sell early in the morning, diligently delivered honeycomb coal to the neighbors in the alleys. This honeycomb coal has no worries about not having sales.&1t;/p>

The most important thing is that honeycomb coal is cheap and it is convenient to burn. This thing is at least much cheaper than firewood. Nowadays, the firewood around the big towns in the north has been cut off, and the remaining trees are all made of wood. Who would use it as firewood? Carrying firewood from farther places to the city for sale is higher than coal, and although logging does not require digging holes, you can cut it by yourself. However, after coal mining has formed a scale, the heat acquisition efficiency is much higher than logging.&1t;/p>

Therefore, the price of firewood in the capital is much higher than that of coal, and it has always been something that only wealthy families can afford. Because the food made from burning firewood is the most natural, and the taste is obviously different from that of stewing with other fuels. Therefore, the mansions of powerful people are burning firewood, and every three or five days, there will be a designated place for the firewood to be delivered. Where can ordinary people afford it!&1t;/p>

Ordinary people used to burn coal balls, which were cheap enough. You could buy about 5 kilograms for a penny. It was enough to burn for a day or two.&1t;/p>

However, the price of coal balls has soared recently, from one cent to five kilograms to two kilograms. The price has risen by more than half.&1t;/p>

This has to be said that Wei Zhongxian, who was dedicated to the tax bureau's suppression of coal mine owners, was extremely hardworking and took direct action when collecting taxes.&1t;/p>

So much so that after these coal balls entered the city, the price was like a running wild horse. They rushed up wildly, and they couldn't even be tied up!&1t;/p>

Although a penny is not much, it is almost similar to the purchasing power of one dollar in later generations. But ordinary people also know how to calculate carefully! The price of coal balls has risen so quickly, it is still affordable to use them, but it is not cost-effective.&1t;/p>

At the same time, the people in the capital have found that the price of honeycomb coal has not increased. You can still buy five kilograms for a penny.&1t;/p>

The coal weight of each of these honeycomb coals is 55o, and 5og of yellow mud and other materials are added, which is exactly 6og. That is, a pound of it in the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

The most important thing is that these honeycomb coals are much more convenient to burn. They don’t need to fan frequently like using coal balls, and the firepower is sometimes not enough and the combustion is not complete.&1t;/p>

Honeycomb coal is so cheap and easy to use, so of course I use honeycomb coal. It just needs to buy a coal stove. The coal stove is not very expensive. The structure is very simple, and you can just find a craftsman to make it. The civil production area of ​​the Royal Military Factory produced a batch of coal stoves. The price of a coal stove is only 30 cents, and it was immediately very popular in the capital.&1t;/p>

In fact, the price of these honeycomb coal is six yuan per cent, but it is not delivered to the door, so you have to go to the warehouse to pull it. So someone sells honeycomb coal, and one cent becomes five yuan.&1t;/p>

Xiao Wang, who sells honeycomb coal, did the calculations. He could earn 30 cents of honeycomb coal a day, and 90 cents in a month, which was equivalent to 1.8 yuan.&1t;/p>

When the coal is almost finished, every household will buy a lot of them and pile them outside. It is relatively simple to sell 90 yuan of honeycomb coal a day. Especially when I first started this kind of business, the business was particularly good. Soon after a busy day, Xiao Wang went back and forth several times, sold more than 300 yuan of honeycomb coal, and earned 90 yuan a day.&1t;/p>

Honeycomb coal quickly began to become popular throughout the capital, and the shadow of honeycomb coal can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys.&1t;/p>

These cheap honeycomb coals are very popular.&1t;/p>

After all, you can buy five yuan of honeycomb coal for a penny, which is almost equivalent to buying one yuan of honeycomb coal for two cents in later generations. Such a price is completely acceptable to the people in the capital.&1t;/p>

Although the price is extremely low, Royal Mining Company still makes a lot of money.&1t;/p>

All of these honeycomb coals are mined nearby, and the mining and processing costs are relatively low. A laborer can dig five or six meters of coal a day, and one meter of coal weighs more than 2 tons. However, transportation and excavation of mine channels are not so convenient. It is still okay for a miner to dig two or three meters of coal a day.&1t;/p>

Processing honeycomb coal is also very simple and the cost is relatively low.&1t;/p>

The most expensive thing is transportation. A carriage can pull about 15 kilograms of coal, and the shipping fee for one day is about 60 yuan.&1t;/p>

In other words, if the carriage is transported in one day, the cost will increase a lot. If the transportation time is only one day, the cost can be controlled below 1 o'clock. The honeycomb coal processed by a ton of raw coal after entering the city can create a profit of about 2 o'clock.&1t;/p>

If it is transported by water, the cost will be much lower. After all, the ship does not need to eat grass, and the transportation volume is larger.&1t;/p>

There is a lot of coal in the north, and it is okay to run 50 kilometers a day by carriage. Generally speaking, there must be coal mines in northern cities within 50 kilometers.&1t;/p>

In contrast, firewood is generally burning in the south. The coal in the south is not that abundant, and forest resources are much richer. Therefore, the cost of burning firewood in most areas of the south is lower than that in the coal.&1t;/p>

But in the north, the cost of burning coal is much lower than that of burning wood.&1t;/p>

The emergence of honeycomb coal quickly squeezed out the coal balls in the capital from the market. The coal miners were all crying and fainting in the toilet. They originally naively thought that raising prices could pass the cost on the people, but this trick was useless.&1t;/p>

Royal Mining Company obviously does not have to pay taxes. The price of coal is still so low. At the same time, honeycomb coal is much more convenient. Where can their coal balls compete? They can't sell them in a few days, and the coal is squeezed in piles of coal in the warehouse.&1t;/p>

Not long after, the mine owners could only accept it with their noses and sold the coal balls in the warehouse at a low price, and reluctantly sold the mine at a low price to the Royal Mining Company.&1t;/p>

Royal Mining Company is still very formal in purchasing mines. At least it has paid for it. Although the price is so low that it makes people scold me, it is basically no different from giving it for free.&1t;/p>

However, these mine owners still cried and called on their parents. They begged the Royal Mining Company to buy their coal mines. These mines not only won’t make money when they are left in their hands, but they will also be charged a mine tax every month. The mine has become a hot potato in their hands, and they will throw them to good morning.&1t;/p>

The coal mine owners who were out of the bleak state naturally cursed a lot.&1t;/p>

"Bandit. It's totally a robber."&1t;/p>

"This shit emperor. If this continues, the world will have to rebel against him."&1t;/p>

The country is originally a violent organization, an upgraded version of robbers. This has been the case since ancient times. It’s just that everyone sets rules and follows them. With rules, there will be no chaos and no bleeding. Whether the strong or the weak, they can find a position in the rules. Thus, they form a pyramid structure and survive.&1t;/p>

The rule of the Ming Dynasty today is that merchants do not have to pay taxes. Although it is unreasonable, this is the current rule. However, the growth of capitalism is obviously trying to pull the imperial power down from the ding end of the pyramid.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao holds the imperial power of the pyramid, so he naturally doesn't have to be polite to these merchants.&1t;/p>

I'm just a robber, how can I tell you!&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao thought this, but naturally he could not be so explicit on the surface, but: "I am just collecting taxes, everything is reasonable and legal. The ding is just shaking my hand when collecting taxes, and I just collected a little heavier."&1t;/p>

All coal mine owners around the capital were squeezed out, and coal mining around the capital was naturally under the monopoly of the royal and mining companies.&1t;/p>

This part squeezed out the coal mine owners from the market, which made Zhu Youxiao very satisfied and commended Wei Zhongxian.&1t;/p>

Although it monopolized the sales of coal, the price was still maintained at the whole price of six pieces of honeycomb coal. After all, this thing is closely related to the lives of ordinary people, and the long-term flow is the king.&1t;/p>

However, Zhu Youxiao has found that he can make money in terms of firewood.&1t;/p>

It is obviously unlikely to let the powerful and wealthy people in the capital burn honeycomb coal. As the emperor, Zhu Youxiao used the fuel for the imperial kitchen, and charcoal, and there is no coal at all.&1t;/p>

So, doesn't this thing meet the conditions for luxury goods?&1t;/p>

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao immediately waved his hand and collected taxes, and continued to collect taxes.&1t;/p>

"In order to protect the environment, all firewood entering the city will be levied with a five-fold tax rate." Zhu Youxiao has adopted the banner of environmental protection and set a 50% firewood tax.&1t;/p>

Trees in the north must be protected, but Zhu Youxiao does not mandate that firewood is not allowed. If you can afford money, continue to burn.&1t;/p>

If you can't afford to burn this money, just burn the honeycomb coal.&1t;/p>

Soon outside the gates of the capital, the firewood tax became a new tax. For a time, the rich people in the city cursed, saying that the emperor had gone to the money and even had to pay taxes to burn firewood.&1t;/p>

There is no way, life still needs to continue.&1t;/p>

For those powerful and wealthy people who are really rich, it is not a big deal to increase the price of firewood by five times. Being rich means being willful.&1t;/p>

If you don’t have money, you can only accept your fate. What else can you do!&1t;/p>

However, the people at the bottom of the capital have been much better, because the royal capital has begun to recruit a large number of workers in the city, and various investment and construction activities have been launched one after another, so the labor force is needed.&1t;/p>

After all, many industries under Royal Capital have begun to generate profits, so at this time, we naturally have to invest part of the profitable money in expanding reproduction and other aspects.&1t;/p>

Royal Mining Company needs workers to mine!&1t;/p>

The salt industry company entered its peak production period in summer and also recruited a lot of temporary workers.&1t;/p>

At this time, mining companies, salt companies, and Jimin Grain Bank all completed market monopoly in Beijing, and they all had demand for the quality of roads, so the road construction was put on the agenda again.&1t;/p>

I need people to build roads! I will ask for another one.&1t;/p>

Materials such as three-dimensional soil, slag, stones, etc. are also manpowered to build roads.&1t;/p>

There are other Royal Military Factory, Mint, Steel Factory, Honeycomb Coal Processing, which require workers, both formal and temporary workers.&1t;/p>

These activities immediately provided a large number of jobs for the people of the capital. As long as they have the strength of young and strong positions, the daily wage standard for temporary workers is 30 yuan, the labor intensity is lower, and there are 25 yuan. For women and other labor force, there are 15 to 20 yuan a day. (To be continued...)&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!