They want to use this to hit Taiping Coal Mine's business.

Taiping Coal Mine decisively released the news that only a small amount of yellow mud was added to the honeycomb coal as a binder. In addition, other ingredients were added to improve the quality of the honeycomb coal, promote combustion, and reduce smoke and toxic gases.

By the way, I also learned about the dangers of poison gas and how to prevent it, as well as first aid measures after poisoning.

Not only was the business not affected, but even more people bought coal, which dealt a heavy blow to the coal merchants.

Some coal merchants had no choice but to cut prices to promote sales. After all, crushed coal slag is cheap, so even if they cut prices, they will not lose money.

In order to sell the coal smoothly, these people also engaged in unscrupulous operations of selling dog meat under the guise of selling mutton, deliberately using honeycomb coal from Taiping Coal Mine as samples to deceive the people.

Many people bought their coal because they wanted to save money. When they went home and burned it, they found that it was difficult to burn and produced a lot of smoke. They wanted to return the coal, but they couldn't.

So some people deliberately went to Taiping Coal Mine's specialty store to return goods, hoping to use Taiping Coal Mine to deal with those unscrupulous businessmen.

However, these unscrupulous businessmen did not use the name of Taiping Coal Mine, so it was naturally difficult for Taiping Coal Mine to come forward and sue the authorities.

Later, this matter reached Xie Ying's ears, and Xie Ying came up with an idea. She asked her subordinates to pay lawyers to help these deceived people sue the officials for free.

A lawyer is an ancient lawyer who is very eloquent.

Now, the deceived people spread the news and went to find the lawyer one after another.

Although the amount of money defrauded from individual citizens is not much, the amount will naturally be large when the number of people increases.

The lawyer reported the case to the government, and the unscrupulous merchants had to return the goods to the deceived people. They were also fined by the government as a warning to others.

From then on, unscrupulous businessmen in the capital no longer dared to use honeycomb coal from Taiping Coal Mine to cheat people.

However, many poor people still cannot afford coal at 15 cents a piece, and can only spend money to buy cheap honeycomb coal produced by small workshops.

Xie Ying felt a little uncomfortable about this.

However, what made her even more uncomfortable was that Taiping Coal Mine was actually impeached!

At the morning court session, an imperial censor impeached Taiping Coal Mine and the eldest princess, believing that they were competing with the people for profits.

This made Emperor Taihe, who was originally a little uninterested, look gloomy in an instant.

But before he could open his mouth to question, a general jumped out angrily, pointed at the censor and asked: "You said you were competing with the people for profit, but whose profit are you competing for?"

The censor's face changed, and he retorted sarcastically, "I heard that the Princess's Taiping Coal Mine Company charges one thousand taels of silver for each share.

But even so, many people still invested in it. You are in a hurry to jump out now, could it be that you have invested in it and are greedy for the profits of the coal mine?

Do you know how hard it is for ordinary merchants? They already have a hard time running their business, barely making ends meet, and yet the princess is so greedy that she competes with the common people for profit and steals their business.

And for the sake of the coal mine's profits, you not only refused to dissuade them, but also aided and abetted them, colluding with the princess! You are truly shameless and shameless, making it shameful to be associated with you!

"You still have the nerve to call me shameless? Everyone knows that you have eight concubines at home, the youngest of whom is only sixteen years old and could be your granddaughter!

Who are those ordinary merchants you're talking about? I recently heard that quite a few unscrupulous merchants were producing low-quality honeycomb coal, passing it off as Taiping Coal Mine coal, and passing it off as good quality, defrauding many people. In the end, they were reported to the government by the victims.

The ordinary merchants you're talking about aren't they these profiteers? You, the dignified Imperial Censor, actually spoke for these black-hearted profiteers, and even distorted right and wrong to slander the Princess!

I want to ask, how much money did you, He Guangzheng, accept from the profiteers to have the guts to run to the court and talk nonsense, throwing dirty water on the princess?

He Guangzheng's face flushed with anger. "You are simply slandering me. When have I ever accepted money from those profiteers?"

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