In the next few days, except for New Year's Day, at other times, Old Hoffman organized the serfs in the manor to shake coal balls together. The serfs in winter have nothing to do. Old Hoffman paid the wages, and they naturally happily helped shake it until grandma...
So, in the next year, Hoffman Manor has accumulated a lot of briquettes...
However, when the coal carrier from the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce arrived later that year, when Old Hoffman tried to sell coal briquettes to them, he was rejected...
The reasons for their refusal were also very simple and clear. First of all, after listening to the old Hoffman's recommendation, they asked what was in the briquettes. When the representative of the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce heard that it contained a certain amount of yellow mud, he decisively rejected the old Hoffman. Because they believe that the briquettes are mixed with yellow mud, and the amount of doping is unknown. Therefore, briquettes are no longer high-grade coal.
And this year, coal is hard to sell. If you add yellow mud to the coal, who would want it? Therefore, the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce rejected the purchase of briquettes and only purchased raw coal briquettes.
In this regard, the old Hoffman has nothing to do. After all, whether it is available is your business, or not is the buyer's business.
At this time, Marin happened to be still at home. So he interjected:
"Father, give me all the briquettes!"
"What?"
"I packed the briquettes!"
"However, people say that the quality of this briquette may not meet the standard of high-quality coal..." Old Hoffman hesitated, he didn't want to deceive his son.
"It's okay. I just use it for heating. I don't need high-quality ones. Besides, our briquettes are not mixed with much yellow mud, so the quality is not bad. Besides, 1.5 shillings per chartron is really not good. expensive."
"That's really..." Old Hoffman was a typical old-fashioned German, who didn't bother to do shoddy things. Besides, it would be even more impossible to supply supplies to his son.
Marin also took out the briquettes, put them in the stove of the blacksmith shop in his manor and tried it, and found that the difference was not very big. Of course, it could be that he couldn't see it. At least, on the surface, there is not much difference between briquettes and briquettes.
According to Hoffman Sr., the output ratio of coal lumps to coal powder in coal mines is 2 to 1. In other words, 50 chartrons of coal dust will be produced in the mine every day. However, labor wages in the inland areas of Germany are very low. It is also very simple and low cost to find someone to shake the pulverized coal into briquettes.
It's just that Marin is thinking-I want so many briquettes, what can I do...
50 Chaltron briquettes, roughly equivalent to 75 tons of coal. Moreover, this is still a day's output. After one year, it is 27,000 tons. Marin himself couldn't digest it anyway.
Therefore, Marin must find a way to solve the whereabouts of the more than 27,000 tons of coal. Or, he can also try to sell to the outside world...
The price of coal is relatively low, and it is incomparable with the popular firewood. You know, in the market, a Chartron coal only sells for 4 to 6 shillings. The same quality of firewood will cost about 8 shillings.
This is because, after the coal burns, it will produce an unpleasant smell (mainly due to the sulfur and other substances contained in the coal). This is not the case with firewood burning. Moreover, European forests are widely distributed now, and there is firewood, so why use coal? Moreover, the burning of coal does not burn up like firewood. Therefore, the ancients believed that coal is not as good as firewood...
But in fact, the calorific value of coal is much higher than that of firewood. Under normal circumstances, the calorific value of anthracite is more than two to three times that of firewood.
Even if the briquettes are mixed with yellow mud and the combustion is not complete, the calorific value is twice that of firewood, which is not a problem. In short, burning briquettes is never a loss.
Marin couldn't think of the use of so many briquettes for a while. However, briquettes are fuel after all, and they always have their good uses. Moreover, the cinder after burning the briquettes can also be used to lay cinder roads, and it is not afraid of mud in rainy days.
Moreover, Marin read the news in his previous life, and it seems that cinder can also be used to make cement or bricks, or replace sand and gravel, and be used as aggregate and cement for mixing.
In conclusion, briquettes are by no means lacking in uses…
It's just that the air is definitely not going to be good if a lot of coal is used...
In addition, how to transport the briquettes to the island of Texel is also a big problem. You know, apart from the money, Marin now only has those 400 idiots. He has no ships in his hands, let alone sailors and navigators.
So, how to transport the briquettes to Texel is also a problem...
However, Marin had thought of cooperating with others before. For example, hiring someone else's boat for transportation.
However, Marin also worried about a problem. That is, someone else's boat is someone else's after all. When others are free, they can help you transport coal. If no one else is free, no one will deliver coal for you...
Therefore, it is still necessary to develop their own transport ships. But, first of all, Marin has no ships and no one, and he can't work without cooperating with others.
Coincidentally, the representative of the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce is still...
Then, Marin reached an agreement with the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce to rent a "large" (large in the inland river) inland river transport galley to transport the coal briquettes to Texel Island. This kind of large inland riverboat can carry 100 Chartron coal at a time, and it is indeed a big guy in the inland river.
Marin specially rented a large ship idled by the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce to transport briquettes, and Marin also arranged for Kohler to be the escort for the first delivery of briquettes.
In fact, Marin's real intention was to poach the ship and the captain and sailors on the ship...
It is not impossible for Marin to buy a boat by himself. However, the cultivation of skilled sailors is very slow. Perhaps, it will take several years to develop a skilled hand. And qualified captains are even more difficult to find...
Marin didn't want to wait, so he decided to poach someone else's corner. Coincidentally, the merchant ships of the Wiggins Chamber of Commerce are said to have a low shipping rate, and there are always some merchant ships that are difficult to obtain transportation opportunities.
In this situation, in addition to the economic downturn in Europe, there are also other relationships. For example, some people who have a good relationship with executives get more tasks and get more rewards. And if the relationship with the executives is poor, of course it will be difficult to get business, and the whole ship will naturally have a hard time.
This time, Marin specifically proposed to find a boat that is usually relatively idle, because he intends to "digging the wall" with the boat and people...
Only with your own transport ship, the transportation of briquettes can be completed on time and on time, without procrastination...
And Kohler's role is to get close to the people on the boat, and find a way to win over the people on the boat, so that he can use his hoe to "digging the wall"...