In the next few days, Zhao Hao still paid close attention to his coal lotus business and even had no time to teach his students.

But it seems that when he has free time, he also adopts the same laissez-faire approach to education...

On the sixth day of the New Year, Zhao Hao was waiting at the coal factory early in the morning.

Sun Dawu has trained a thousand coal miners, but there are only a hundred molds, so everyone has to take turns practicing and familiarizing themselves with the tools.

If I don't get the tools I ordered from the blacksmith shop, I won't be able to work hard...

When the sun was high in the sky, Ji Sizheng's sedan chair finally appeared.

Behind them followed a huge team of 200 large carts. And those carts were loaded with the most needed production tools in the coal plant...

"Today we have a total of 500 carts. If we send them all at once, it will be too eye-catching. We don't have enough manpower, so we will send them to you in two batches." Ji Sizheng got off the sedan chair and pointed at the supplies on the carriages and said:

"On the cart were a thousand cast iron molds, eight hundred sledgehammers, and countless sieves, baskets, shoulder poles, and sacks..."

"Oh my, you are truly a god!" Zhao Hao was shocked by the powerful ability of Eunuch Ji. "In such a short time, you have managed to collect so many things!"

"Hehe, since His Highness has spoken, our family has plundered all the assets of every store and village." Ji Sizheng was also quite proud of himself. This was indeed a reflection of his strong ability, and no one else could do it.

"They are all worthless things, just use them as you like..."

"It seems that if I don't achieve something, I will be letting down your efforts." Zhao Hao pulled Ji Sizheng's hand and shook it hard.

"Take it easy, don't rush." ​​Ji Sizheng was dizzy and said, "You've tired the young master, the county lady...oh no, His Highness will be distressed."

Zhao Hao quickly let go of his hand apologetically. He didn't expect the old man to be so nervous that he said the wrong thing in just two seconds...

~~

As the saying goes, "If you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen your tools." As soon as the tools arrived, the coal plant's work efficiency was immediately improved.

The twenty managers were divided into two groups. One group supervised the three thousand workers in breaking coal blocks, and the other group supervised the one thousand workers in making coal balls.

Making coal briquettes does not require much technical skills. The workers became proficient at it in just half a day. By nightfall, they had made about 300,000 briquettes, taking up about one seventh of the wide open space in the yard.

"It seems that two million is the daily production limit." Zhao Hao silently calculated, if there are more, there will be no place to dry them...

~~

The seventh day of the Chinese New Year is the third day of free coal delivery.

On this day, Ji Sizheng sent another thousand molds and the remaining five hundred carts.

With the addition of the 200 trucks Zhao Hao raised, the coal yard now has a total of 1,200 trucks...

There were 1,200 vehicles but not a single animal.

That day, the coal yard recruited more than 2,000 refugees, and Sun Dawu arranged for them to break coal blocks, freeing up 1,000 "old" workers to join the coal briquette army.

On that day, a total of 700,000 coal lotus roots were mined...

~~

At night, Zhao Hao slept in the coal factory.

Before dawn, he was awakened by the sound of loading outside.

But this time Zhao Hao did not get angry when he got up. Instead, he washed his face and brushed his teeth with the help of Gao Wu, ate a quick breakfast, and then changed into the same blue silk cotton jacket as the steward, wore black cloth cotton shoes, and put on a thick dog-skin hat and went out to the yard.

Outside, twelve hundred trucks had been loaded, with five to six hundred coal lotus roots neatly stacked on each truck.

Eighty stewards led twelve hundred rickshaw drivers and stood guard beside the carriages; the white air they exhaled formed a thin mist.

"The young master is here!" Guo Da shouted loudly.

The managers and coachmen who were shrinking their necks and stamping their feet all looked at Zhao Hao.

Wherever Zhao Hao looked, he saw carts piled high with coal and lotus roots, which actually gave him the pleasure of reviewing an army.

Shaking his head to get rid of this absurd feeling, Zhao Hao shouted, "Let's go!"

Guo Da lit a long string of firecrackers. Amid the crackling sound, the drivers lowered their heads, put on their shoulder straps, gripped the handlebars with both hands, and pushed the carts steadily out of the coal plant.

“Who could have thought that such a spectacular scene could be created in just four days? It’s incredible, sir…” Looking at this grand scene, Guo Da was shaking slightly with excitement.

"It's still too hasty." Zhao Hao sighed and said, "I didn't arrange for the ice slabs, and there are still hundreds of thousands of coal lotus roots that can only be piled there."

Fortunately, the road along the way is wide and flat, and there are complete tracks for wheels, otherwise we couldn't even push the cart into the city.

"I can't ask for more, young master..." Guo Da laughed when he heard this, "Looking around the world, you are the only one who can accomplish so many things in four days."

"It's all thanks to the support of Her Royal Highness the Princess." Zhao Hao was not being modest. He was able to organize such a huge production, transportation and sales network from scratch in such a short period of time by leveraging the strong inherent assets of the Beijing Royal Store.

Even the recruitment of workers depends on the support of Baiyun Temple Porridge Factory. Without the endorsement of the Porridge Factory, it would be impossible to recruit more than 7,000 workers in just four days...

Moreover, the job of making coal briquettes is so simple that workers can start working without any training.

~~

"I really didn't expect that." The young master appeared beside Zhao Hao without him noticing, and said with emotion: "You just mentioned this on the first day of the new year, and you already made so many and started selling them on the eighth day. Just for this ability, I have to call you brother."

"How dare you ask me that? Where have you been these days?" Zhao Hao rolled his eyes at him.

"Hehe, I have too many social events during the New Year, and I really can't spare the time." Li Chengen smelled strongly of alcohol, and his eyes were a little dark. He pleaded with Zhao Hao in a low voice: "I told my family that I came out to study with me, and I stayed in the coal yard last night. Please don't let it slip, or I won't be able to go out for at least two months..."

"It depends on your performance." Zhao Hao responded without comment, then bent down and got on the carriage.

The young master got into the carriage with Zhao Hao with a shameless face. After they chatted for a while, Zhao Hao learned that he had spent the night fooling around with a bunch of playboys at the lakeside manor of Duke Dingguo across the street. No wonder he could come here so early.

In the carriage, Li Chengen took the time to ask Zhao Hao what he had done in the past two days, what troubles he had encountered, how big the coal yard was now, and how many coal lotus roots could be produced in a day?

Zhao Hao couldn't help but slightly improve his evaluation of him. He thought to himself that it seemed that this kid had not completely forgotten the important matter.

In fact, the young master was just afraid of being questioned by the two tigresses, one big and one small, in his family. If he couldn't answer them, he would have to suffer.

But to be fair, although this young lord loves to play, he neither bullies others nor has any bad intentions. He is already considered a good boy among the nobles.

Therefore, Zhao Hao was not interested in educating him with "love" like he did with Zhao Shixi.

That would be tiring and hurtful, it's not worth it, it's really not worth it...

~~

As the two were talking, the sky outside brightened and the brand new outer city wall of Beijing came into view.

At this time, the convoy had been divided into five groups, heading to different city gates.

However, the convoy of just these two hundred or so carts heading to Yongdingmen was a mile long.

The officers and soldiers on the Yongdingmen city wall had already seen the team approaching slowly like a long snake, and they couldn't help but drool.

During the New Year period, all businesses were closed. The merchants had not entered the city for nearly ten days and were starving, so they quickly ran to the city wall to report.

"Opened, Opened!"

The tax collector at Yongding Gate was playing Pai Gow with an officer. Upon hearing this, he threw away the cards, grabbed his official hat and ran out.

By the time he ran down the city wall panting and put his hat straight with both hands, the team had arrived at the city gate.

The tax collector was just about to put on a stern face when he suddenly saw a fat black man walking towards him.

When the tax collector saw who was coming, he was like a deflated ball and glared at the soldier following him.

"Is that a fat sheep? Look carefully before you report!"

The soldiers also recognized him as the second manager of Ruifuji who often went in and out of Yongdingmen to purchase and deliver goods...

Ruifuji is a royal store and offers tax-free service.

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