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Chapter 332 Is your conscience really this painful?

Xie Ying really felt a pang of conscience.

Although free door-to-door delivery seems to be a great deal, the mine actually has opened honeycomb coal and coal stove workshops in several places in the city.

So after someone places an order, they just need to choose the nearest workshop according to the address and arrange delivery.

This not only reduces the trouble of transportation, but also saves a lot of transportation costs.

After all, transporting crushed coal slag and transporting honeycomb coal are of different levels of difficulty.

The finished honeycomb coal should not be knocked hard, otherwise it will easily be broken. Don’t worry about the broken coal slag, they will be crushed before use anyway.

Don’t think you’re losing money just because honeycomb coal is cheaper than ordinary coal.

In fact, the materials used to make honeycomb coal are all broken coal slag that cannot be sold at a high price. Charcoal powder, carbonized sawdust, and yellow mud are also added to it.

The amount of crushed coal slag used is only about half.

Charcoal powder does not require good charcoal, and the powder obtained by burning and carbonizing straw will do.

So the cost of this thing is really not high, and selling it for fifteen cents is simply outrageous!

However, charcoal powder and carbonized sawdust are added not because they are black, but to increase the combustion efficiency of honeycomb coal and reduce the emission of harmful gases.

The selling price of fifteen cents is also based on the market price.

There is no way. With the current coal prices, if they set the price too low, it will only disrupt the market.

Not only will the coal merchants hate them, but people in other places will also easily feel resentment.

If someone with ulterior motives instigates trouble at that time, it will easily lead to chaos.

Therefore, the price of honeycomb coal must not be too low, and the current selling price is already a bit risky.

So in order to live up to her conscience, Xie Ying had no choice but to propose free door-to-door delivery and a coal stove as a gift.

Coal blocks are daily consumables, especially now that the weather is getting colder, there is no need to worry about the sales of honeycomb coal.

The capital city has a population of hundreds of thousands. If we calculate based on an average of five people per household, there are more than 100,000 households.

Assuming that each household spends an average of 200 pieces of coal per month, the capital city consumes more than 20 million pieces of coal per month.

A piece of honeycomb coal sells for fifteen cents, which means the monthly expenditure is three hundred thousand strings of cash.

Even if Taiping Coal Mine only occupies one-third of the market, it would still be a turnover of 100,000 guan.

After deducting taxes and various costs, the net profit can be about 60,000 to 70,000 strings of cash.

Of course, this is because Coal Hill belongs to them, and there are two large Buddha statues of the Princess and Concubine Jiang, so officials of all ranks dare not exploit them.

This is just the profit from selling honeycomb coal.

Those selected coal blocks of better quality can be sold to generate another source of income.

Once the coking oven is built, they can also use coal to make coke.

The refined coke can be used to make steel, and the by-product of coking can be used to extract wax oil to make candles.

Whether the coke is sold or an application is made to Taihe Emperor to open a steel plant, a lot of money can be made.

Xie Ying covered her chest, feeling even more guilty.

[Let's gradually lower the price of honeycomb briquettes in the future, or I'll feel bad.]

Situ Yuan looked at her ever-increasing lips speechlessly: "..."

Is your conscience so painful?

……

At the mine, after finishing a day's work, a neighbor found Wang Ada and whispered to him, "Did you hear? The mine is giving out benefits again!"

When we buy coal tonight, we can enjoy the internal price. Each piece of honeycomb coal is two cents cheaper than the market price. Do you want to buy it?

I think it's okay to buy them and then resell them. Each of us is limited to buying 200 pieces of honeycomb briquettes per month, and if you buy 200 pieces at a time, you can also get a coal stove for free.

This way, we can buy 200 pieces of coal from the mine and save 400 coins! When we resell it later, we can make a profit from the difference. "

Wang Ada hesitated a little: "I want to buy coal, but I also need to burn coal at home. I spend 200 yuan a month on coal, so I'm afraid I won't save much."

The neighbor asked, "How is your sister-in-law doing recently? Has her condition improved? In my opinion, once the news gets out, more people will want to come and work here!"

If my sister-in-law can't catch up, it will be difficult for her to come in later. If she can also come in to work, you two can live in the dormitory in the future. Not only can you buy 400 pieces of coal at the internal price every month, but you can also resell it all and make a few hundred coins in profit."

Wang Azir also knew this, but unfortunately his wife had worked too hard in the past and needed to recuperate. It would definitely not be appropriate for her to work in the mine now.

Not to mention that she is still ill and if she gets sick, it will be their fault.

The mine was so good to him, he couldn't be ungrateful and let his sick wife at home take advantage of it.

Seeing his dilemma, the neighbor comforted him, "Don't worry. I heard there's another factory going to be built nearby. It's also owned by the boss. When they start recruiting people, you can give your sister-in-law a try."

"Ah."

Wang Ada nodded. This was the only way now.

Logically speaking, most people would not want to be miners because it is too hard.

But Taiping Coal Mine is different. The treatment here is so good that more and more people want to work here.

Recently, even his former colleagues have approached him, expressing their desire to come and work.

But in just a few days, everyone's thoughts changed.

I just don’t know if the boss will continue to be so generous.

The daily meals here alone make many people envious.

Anyway, he had never seen such a generous boss since he was a child.

Those people are probably living Bodhisattvas.

What he didn't know was that at this moment, a certain little living Bodhisattva was feeling a little guilty because he had made too much money.

So we plan to improve their daily meals after the coking oven starts operating.

Set up a clinic by the way.

Today, conditions are so poor that miners are still prone to injury when working in mines.

So a clinic must be arranged.

Otherwise, the mine is located in the suburbs and transportation is not very convenient. If someone is unlucky and gets seriously injured, he or she would probably be dead by the time he or she is sent to the city clinic.

In addition to the clinic, transportation and transport must also be arranged.

That is, roads and carriages.

At present, only a dirt road has been dug to facilitate the transportation of coal. Because cement and asphalt have not yet been developed, it is currently impossible to build a road, and the only way to transport coal is to use the existing simple dirt road.

Not only does it delay things, it is also very tiring.

Unfortunately, this matter cannot be rushed. The furnace must be built first to make coke.

We can only do it step by step.

Fortunately, a lot of equity fees had been collected before, and with the income from selling coal, the glass factory, cement plant and coking ovens could all be built.

After coke is produced, we can find ways to make steel and iron, and lay steel rails in mines and mines to facilitate transportation.

Now that there are no rails, the mined raw coal and slag can only be transported by manpower, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and is also a great torture for the porters.

If this continues, even the best body will not be able to withstand such pressure.

So the rail transport vehicle must be developed!

Even if there were no steam engines now, laying the tracks would save a lot of effort if people pushed the train.

However, laying rails will definitely cost a lot of money. These are necessary costs and must not be saved.

Xie Ying kept calculating while pinching her fingers, and her serious look made her look even more cute and adorable.