The big man has a living father

Chapter 38: Stirring Literary Spirit (Additional Update)

Huo Hai silently returned the urinal to dust.

"Xiang Xu, go call the servant who makes pottery."

Soon, the guests who made pottery came over, and Huo Hai told them the method of making porcelain.

The two pottery makers looked puzzled as they listened.

The master chef was puzzled: "Second Master, are you sure you are using the same furnace that can heat iron into water to make ceramics? That's too hot, isn't it? When we put a piece of iron into the furnace that makes pottery, it doesn't even turn red."

The apprentice Niu was unwilling: "Second Master, you said that to make these jars, we have to wash the mud, make it fine without any impurities, and not even have cavities as big as a needle tip? It's weird, how can I bear to pee in a urinal made of this?"

Huo Hai glared: "Don't mention the urinal again!"

The cow doesn't want to! : "Chamber pot, how can I bear to pee in it?"

Huo Hai: "You are not allowed to even mention the chamber pot."

The ox that made the pottery was unwilling: "Huzi, how can I bear to give it up..."

Huo Hai: "You're going to die if you don't mention peeing, right? I'll report this to His Majesty and you'll have to squat to pee from now on."

Niu was unwilling: "I understand. This precious treasure that I worked so hard to make cannot be used for peeing. It should be used to hold gold."

Huo Hai: "That's not right, just burn it anyway."

In fact, the technology of firing porcelain is not particularly difficult. Huo Hai was also forced to do handicrafts in his previous life, and he knows that the key to this thing is to accumulate experience.

Huo Hai could barely remember the differences between the several types of porcelain glaze materials he had made at the time.

As for when they will be able to reproduce various types of porcelain, that depends on their luck and their understanding. However, the yield rate of the most basic porcelain should not be too low. After all, they have been making pottery for a lifetime and have half the experience of making porcelain.

Huo Hai was talking to Niu Buyi while looking at Emperor Wu of Han.

At this time, Liu Che and Sang Hongyang were squatting in the field, doing arithmetic with red and blue colored beads.

The way they calculate is actually similar to an abacus.

However, the fields were uneven, and while he was calculating, the beads rolled away. Then, if one data was wrong, he had to start all over again.

Liu Che was heartbroken and said, "You are so stupid and clumsy. You kicked the beads away again."

Sang Hongyang: "Your Majesty, how about we use counting rods?"

Liu Che rejected this proposal: "What about until the end of time?"

Huo Hai was more and more puzzled as he looked at it: Has the abacus not been invented yet? These beads are clearly used in the same way as the abacus, but how long would it take for someone to be able to string the beads together with a stick?

In fact, Huo Hai underestimated the makeshift team nature of this world.

The development of abacus from zero to one was extremely difficult, but it was achieved long ago.

However, in the evolution from abacus beads to abacus, the core remained unchanged except for the appearance, which made it a hundred times more convenient. However, it was not invented until three hundred years later.

This world is just a huge makeshift team. Just muddle through. As long as you can count, it's fine. Are the beads easy to lose? Are they inconvenient to carry? Do you need an operating platform? These are not a problem.

……

In the evening, the soldiers and nobles were all drinking.

Only Huo Hai was held by Liu Che.

Huo Hai also wanted to eat meat, it would be a waste if he didn't eat it! But he couldn't leave.

After Liu Che understood the theory, he no longer worried about theoretical issues, but began to calculate how to make more profits from coal mining.

He also bluntly said: "You just randomly estimated an income and an expenditure and started doing business?"

Huo Hai spread his hands. What's the point of calculating the monopoly business? There's no loss anyway.

However, Liu Che calculated the problem very strictly.

For example, a worker could dig 1,000 to 6,000 kilograms of coal (1.5 tons in later generations) every day, while ordinary heating would require burning between 30 and 60 kilograms of coal per night.

At present, Huo Hai has randomly set a price of one cent for every three pounds of coal.

In other words, according to Huo Hai's algorithm, a worker can dig a maximum of 2,000 coins worth of coal a day, and a maximum of 60,000 coins a month.

Therefore, Huo Hai set a goal for the workers: if they could dig 80% of this amount, they would earn 5,000 yuan a month.

You know, if an ordinary person in Chang'an City works as a laborer, he can only earn one thousand yuan a month.

This is definitely a high income!
However, after unremitting calculations by Emperor Wu of Han and Sang Hongyang, they came up with some more reliable data.

For example, building the worst house outside the city of Chang'an would cost about 5,000 coins. Isn't it too outrageous for a worker to earn the money for a house in a month?
If their purchasing power is too high, the prices in Chang'an City will be pushed up too high.

They'd take about one third.

So, after final calculations, the price of coal will be lower.

But not by reducing the price by one third.

Because, in addition to coal mining, there is also water washing and transportation?

So, in the end, four pounds of coal cost one penny.

In fact, Liu Che's statement that four pounds, nine taels and one qian is the most appropriate calculation.

But Huo Hai needs four pounds and one cent, because... this weight unit must be reformed in the future.

Four jin is exactly one kilogram, just right.

After it was decided, each worker could generate an income of 24,000 yuan for the coal mine every month.

Liu Che wanted to take out 22,000 as his share.

The profit sharing ratio is 30% for Huo Hai, 60% for him, and the remaining partner 10%.

However, Huo Hai insisted on using 14,000 yuan for research and development, road maintenance, and mine development, and the remaining 10,000 yuan would be divided among them. Liu Che thought about it and agreed.

After all, this is not a one-time deal, it has to continue forever.

After the agreement was reached, Liu Che began to announce the decree and notify the partners to come.

This coal partner is actually Sima Xiangru's father-in-law and also the supplier of building materials for Maoling.

When Huo Hai saw Sima Xiangru's father-in-law's mastery of stone materials, he immediately proposed to cooperate in business.

At that time, they began to acquire major open-pit coal mines and nearby fields within a distance of 60 to 100 miles from Chang'an.

He was rewarded with a thousand gold coins, or 100,000 strings of cash, for writing "Fu on Afang Palace", and he invested all of it.

When Sima Xiangru rushed over, he saw Huo Hai calculating.

"This time, my eldest brother gave me a reward of 100,000 gold. He gave me 20,000 gold. This 20,000 gold is enough to support only one project, but it is not enough to support two projects, the meat factory and the coal factory."

Liu Che: "You have three hundred retainers. How much does it cost per month?"

Huo Hai: "About three or four thousand strings of cash."

Liu Che: "How much? Even the Imperial Guards don't cost that much! Let's disband them!"

Huo Hai: "These people are the most important. They are the ones who researched the specific production methods of washed coal and coal briquettes. They also researched the milk bottles, milk trucks, and wooden rail cars that will be used in the future. You can't research them, can you? Anyway, I won't do it."

Liu Che: "Okay then, the money is not enough..."

Liu Che didn't want to pay either.

Huo Hai chuckled: "Increase the output of white paper!"

Liu Che: "No way. Sima Xiangru and the 1,000 Confucian scholars I have transferred from the local areas are currently translating and copying the vernacular translation of the Five Classics. Only when my translation is circulated throughout the country can we increase the production of white paper."

Huo Hai: By the time your translation becomes popular throughout the country, all the children in the country will have memorized the entire text of my version, Your Majesty.

But he said: "I have thought of a way to consume all the extra white paper. It's simple. All I need is Sima Xiangru's cooperation."

Sima Xiangru was stunned.

You came here to talk about coal, so how did it become about paper?

"Your Majesty, am I here to discuss... coal or paper?"

Liu Che: "It's about finding a matchmaker for you."

Sima Xiangru hesitated: "Is that so, Your Majesty? I am already old..."

Liu Che: "You are dreaming! Come here and talk about coal first, then talk about paper."

Sang Hongyang, who had been silent the whole time, said: "Your Majesty, I suggest that we put aside the coal and paper issues and first talk about why coal is non-toxic. Otherwise, none of this will be accomplished."

Liu Che: "Yes, this coal is poisonous. Let alone a confined space, even if it is lit in the wilderness, it can make people faint. How can it be non-toxic?"

Huo Hai didn't know what to say. After all, there are two types of so-called poisons in coal.

"I have built a kang in my room, and a new stove in the kitchen. Your Majesty will know when you see it."

On the way to the room, Huo Hai Liu Che was talking to Sima Xiangru about two plans with saliva flying.

The drinking princes and nobles: "Wow, Your Majesty, would you like to invite Your Majesty over for a few drinks?"

Meng Qing: "Your Majesty, Mr. Huo and Mr. Sima, three great literature lovers, are discussing literature. Why are you joining in the fun?"

Sima Xiangru said in the distance: "If that's the case, I don't agree. How come the share is 10%, and I'm the one who does the work...father-in-law, but I want to postpone the distribution of the money?"

Huo Hai: "That's for development, isn't it? So, I'll give you an extra 30% quota, and the remaining 70% will be invested in development. I'll make up the difference in one lump sum after the mid-year settlement."

Liu Che: "What do you mean by 30% or 70%? Why don't you ask your father-in-law to give you some more as a cushion? That old man made a lot of money on my grave... in my Maoling Mausoleum!"

Sima Xiangru: "You don't want to order just one, I'll add another one? Is that what you mean?"

Next to Meng Qing, Xun Zhu looked over and sighed: "The literature they are discussing must be very elegant. The sparks of wisdom are colliding. I can see the excitement of literary talent."

……

Wei Zifu woke up and asked: "Why hasn't your Majesty come back yet?"

Palace maid: "Your Highness, someone has just brought a message, but you fell asleep, so I didn't wake you up."

Wei Zifu: "Oh, Your Majesty is back?"

Palace maid: "Your Majesty, His Majesty has gone to bed at Lord Huohaihuo's house."

Huo Hai? Wei Zifu was no stranger to him.

A few days ago, Crown Prince Liu Ju took two cups and silk thread and played with a "homemade telephone". Wei Zifu had a deep memory of it.

You’ve experienced the local telephone, but what is a telephone?
"Huo Hai? So he slept at Qubing's house? Your Majesty is drunk?"

Palace maid: "Your Majesty, yes... His Majesty wants to sleep on Lord Huo Hai's bed, saying that he wants to feel real warmth for a night."

Wei Zifu: “!!!!!???”

Is my bed cold? Is it false warmth?
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Thanks to book friend 83 Years of Memories for the reward.

This is an extra update because I'm so happy to have received a high recommendation, and I just happened to talk about the rules for extra updates.

The leader will add more chapters, silver will add ten more chapters, gold will add fifty more chapters. If you don’t have time to add more chapters before the game is put on the shelves, you can continue to add more chapters after the game is put on the shelves. It will always be valid.

I dare not promise too much and I can’t write them all.

(End of this chapter)