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Chapter 192 Zhaitang

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    When Ambassador Hou calmed down, everyone left the dock.

    Zhao Hao looked around and saw that he was deep in the mountains. The surrounding mountains were high, the valleys were narrow, and there were ravines and ravines. There was a walled city hanging high on the top of the mountain, with one man guarding the gate and ten thousand people unable to open it.

    Ambassador Hou looked pale and did not forget the important task of the tour guide: "This place is connected to the capital in the east and the desert in the west. It is the last line of defense in the west of the capital. However, there is a riverside city not far ahead. There is no beacon fire there. This  It will be peaceful and peaceful."

    Zhao Hao nodded, he could already see the scale-like houses at the foot of the village.

    Because of coal, a lively market town has been formed here.

    When everyone came to the town, they saw that there were not a lot of coal stacks here as they imagined, but there were more kilns than they imagined, and the sanitary conditions were particularly poorwell, I'm talking about the streets.

    "This is where the coal mine owners and accountants live. If you want to talk to them about business, you can go here." Ambassador Hou said while covering his nose: "The coal diggers all live in the mine. There are big and small workers.  Look, I can¡¯t go down the mountain all year long.¡±

    Zhao Hao nodded, you can get a lot of useful information in this kind of place.

    Anyway, he was waiting for the people on horseback to come and join him, so he pulled Ambassador Hou around on the street.

    Zhao Hao first went to a coal dental store to inquire about coal prices.

    From the broker¡¯s mouth, he learned that one hundred kilograms of coal only sold for eighty cents, and the price of anthracite was nearly twice as expensive, about one hundred and fifty cents per hundred catties.  Of course, this is the price of coal in Zhaitang, and there will be an additional 20 to 30 yuan for shipping to Beijing.

    "How much does firewood and charcoal cost?" Zhao Hao began to calculate the interest rate difference here. You must know that except for the capital and Shanxi, most people in the country still burn firewood, especially in the Jiangnan area. Many people don't know them.  Something like coal.

    ¡°I don¡¯t know here, but firewood in Jingli costs about 150 ren per 100 catties, and charcoal costs 400 to 500 ren per 100 catties.¡± Ambassador Hou is indeed a professional, and he answered with all his treasures.

    "It's not too different" Zhao Hao muttered, thinking that the production and sales volume would not increase, and there would be no profit.

    It¡¯s just too easy for him to make money and it¡¯s inflated.

    The coal business has almost no cost except labor and freight, and the sales volume is stable and has a long history.

    Who can open a small coal kiln and make a steady income of two to three thousand taels a year? He must be a big landlord.

    "Beijing has a population of over one million, and the nearby hills have long been cut bare, so they had to switch to coal." Ambassador Hou quickly answered: "Rich people still burn charcoal. After all, no matter how good anthracite is,  It can¡¯t compare to charcoal.¡±

    "Yes. If the ducks in Biianfang were roasted over coal, none of them would be sold." Seeing that his uncle looked a little serious, Zhao Shizhen made a joke, which really made everyone laugh.

    Coal is currently positioned as a substitute for firewood and charcoal.

    Except for Zhao Hao, no one knows that this extremely cheap fossil energy contains the power to change the world!

    ??~~

    In addition to the kiln, the most in the town is human teeth.

    Coal mining is a labor-intensive industry, especially in this era.  Wu Kangyuan told Zhao Hao that at least 20,000 to 30,000 refugees were digging and transporting coal. Zhao Hao thought it was a bit exaggerated at the time, but he completely believed this after seeing the situation on the street with his own eyes.

    The streets are full of ragged refugees with sallow faces and skinny muscles. They are famous and come here to find work.

    There was also a man who was shouting and driving these refugees into the store like animals.

    Zhao Hao also mixed in with the crowd, entered a dental shop, and asked casually where the refugees were from, and found out that they were all from Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, and Liaodong.

    Not all of these refugees fled to Beijing to escape the Tatars.

    In fact, starting from the middle of Jiajing, the Eurasian continent showed signs of entering a long Little Ice Age.  Abnormal climates such as severe cold and floods, extreme cold and heat, etc. have appeared one after another. Crops in various places have failed or even failed, forcing farmers to abandon their crops and flee in large numbers.

    Speaking of which, the reason why the Tatars invade so frequently has a lot to do with the massive death of livestock in extreme weather

    And all this is just the prelude to this small glacier that lasts for more than a hundred years, not even the appetizer

    Of course, cold climate is not completely useless, because humans will have two beneficial progress at this time. One is the greatness of thought; the other is the improvement of technology

    ??And from the perspective of cold and pure capital, the large number of refugees caused by the cold climate is exactly what industrial production needs, a large number of laborers leaving the land.

    ??~~

    While he was thinking wildly, Zhao Hao heard someone making a clang.?, struck the gong.

    It turned out that the store was full of people, so an agent knocked on the gong to silence everyone, and then shouted loudly:

    "The Hu family's third kiln recruits thirty workers from the pits and thirty workers from the mines. They take care of food, food and housing, and the wages are generous."

    "May I ask, how much does it cost per day?"

    "The money in the kiln is calculated not by days, but by loads. A load of ten coins is sent down the mine, and twenty coins are transported down the mountain from the kiln entrance." The agent replied loudly.

    "How generous is Lao Hu's family? Last year when I was at another family, they only gave half of the money." A tall and thin man sighed with emotion.

    "Yes, it's rare to see such a boss. I heard that in Lao Hu's Guohuo, they have enough to eat every time, and there is meat to eat every now and then." Another horse-faced person agreed.

    When the other refugees heard this, their eyes lit up.

    ¡°These guys sound like they are veterans and know their stuff.¡± The agent smiled and nodded.

    "How long can we do it?" the tall and thin man asked.

    "I will work as a casual worker until next May. If you are willing to work, hurry up and put your thumbprint. There is no shop like this in this village." After the manager finished speaking, he waved his hand and asked his subordinate Yazi to take out a stack of written contracts.

    "This is great. I don't have to worry about it for half a year. I, Liu Laoliu, have to sign it quickly." The tall and thin man immediately squeezed to the front, reported his name, and then put his fingerprint on a contract.

    ¡°Count me in!¡± The horse-faced man also pressed his fingerprints.

    When the rest of the people saw someone taking the lead, they no longer hesitated and rushed to sign up and take their fingerprints.

    Zhao Hao went up to him and saw that the contract was full of harsh conditions, and even had a bastard clause like 'all work-related injuries, deaths, and injuries will be taken care of by one's own' But he estimated that no one in this room could understand it.

    He couldn¡¯t stand it any longer, so he quit the dental shop.

    He heard Ambassador Hou whisper to him: "That tall man and that horse-faced man are themselves sitters hired by Yahang."

    Zhao Hao nodded and heard him continue: "It would be good if these people can get half of the promised wages."

    After the broker put away the pile of contracts, the foreman sent by Hujiayao led them to the mine.

    Zhao Hao looked at the workers being driven along the mountain road like animals by the foreman, and felt a little uncomfortable. These refugees who had never seen the world were really easy to deceive.

    This is completely different from the cunning villagers of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

    When he turned around, he saw the tall man with a horse-faced face sneaking into another dental shop

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