Dashilan is located outside Qianmen and its official name is 'Langfang Si Tiao'.

"Langfang" is a storefront facing the street. After Emperor Chengzu built Beijing, he set up four parallel commercial streets adjacent to Qianmenwai Street, which were named Langfang Toutiao, Ertiao, Santiao and Sitiao.

There is no doubt that these four commercial streets have become the most prosperous and upscale commercial centers in Beijing.

Many of the world's largest businesses have rushed to occupy territory here, so this place has naturally become a fat piece of meat coveted by thieves.

In order to protect their property, each family applied to Shuntian Prefecture to set up fences at the streets and alleys, which would be closed at night and opened at dawn to prevent thieves.

As time went by, people forgot the original name and began to call the area "Dashalar".

In Dazhalan, the four commercial streets each have their own focus.

Among them, Langfang headlines are mainly shops dealing with money, such as money houses, pawnshops, silver shops, and gold shops.

But there are some weird things mixed in there...

Royal Xishan Coal Industry is located at the eastern end of the street, in the best location.

In order to make room for it, the Baoqingji Gold Shop, which had been open here for nearly a hundred years, had to move to the adjacent Ertiao, where it had to squeeze in with a group of people buying clothes.

So, on a busy financial street, the first store is a coal store... It simply lowers the grade of the entire street, okay?

The pawnshop owners and bank bosses once wanted to unite and keep this coal store out of the headlines.

But when I looked at the sign they had hung up, I saw it was 'Royal Xishan Coal Industry Co., Ltd.'

Forget it, I can't afford to offend them. After all, they are the property of the royal family.

Everyone had no choice but to accept it.

What's even more bizarre is that although there are a lot of customers visiting this store, not a single one is buying coal. They all come to ask if anyone wants to transfer stocks...

Unfortunately, the business has only been open for over half a month, and shareholders haven’t gotten too excited about their shares yet, so naturally no one is willing to sell.

You know what, this guy is just weird. The less people are willing to sell, the more people want to buy.

The buyer's asking price continued to rise. In more than ten days, it went from two hundred taels to two hundred and fifty taels.

This made the shareholders very happy, as they felt that the value of their stocks had increased by 30% in just half a month.

Although they also know that only a few people are willing to pay such a high price, but everyone will be happy that way.

Therefore, when Xishan Coal Industry held its second board meeting here, all the encouraged board members were present.

Seeing the gorgeous carriages inlaid with gold and jade and the large blue wool sedan chair carried by eight people stopped in front of the gate of Xishan Coal Industry, the owners and employees of the nearby shops were so frightened that they dared not show their heads.

Everyone was hiding in the store, looking out and whispering excitedly.

"Isn't that Duke Dingguo's carriage? Is it Duke Dingguo who got off the carriage?"

"And the Duke of England!"

"Duke Cheng's carriage has also arrived..."

"That's Eunuch Li from the Imperial Household Department!"

"Oh my God, Your Highness the Princess!"

Everyone was stunned by this super luxurious lineup.

"It's just selling coal, is it that serious?" The guys couldn't help but secretly exclaimed: "Is the royal coal really gold?"

The bosses were jealous, not because they wanted to squeeze into the nine seats, but because they wanted to get some shares of Xishan Coal Industry!

Although they couldn't figure out the details of Xishan Coal Industry, something that was managed by so many top dignitaries and sought after by so many wealthy people must be a good thing!

On the three-story-high bronze patterned canopy, there is a plaque inscribed with six large characters "Royal Xishan Coal Industry" written by Emperor Longqing in a flamboyant style.

When the directors walked up the marble steps, the guards dressed in uniform black clothes, leather boots and equipped with thorny iron rods carefully opened two expensive colorful glass doors.

Entering the store, the view is suddenly open. The originally closed two-story floor is completely opened up, and the morning sun shines through the glazed roof with intricate patterns, illuminating the three-story high lobby, making it bright and spacious.

Many of the directors were visiting the store for the first time. They stood on the thick Persian jacquard carpet, looking up at the glittering scene above their heads, and were deeply shocked.

This was designed by Zhao Hao himself.

He borrowed the concept of Western churches. The stained glass has a soundproof effect and forms wonderful light and shadow patterns under the sunlight. The high-ceiling hall gives people a sacred and mysterious feeling, and faith comes from this.

Zhao Hao deliberately created a feeling of separation from tradition in order to subtly influence the major shareholders and directors of Xishan Coal Industry, allowing them to unconsciously detach from their original identities and establish faith in the company.

He brought the director and two supervisors to the third floor of the company, outside the largest and most luxurious conference room.

On the heavy rosewood door, there was a brass plaque with the words "Board of Directors Meeting Room".

Pushing open the heavy wooden door, you will see a two-meter-long mahogany conference table quietly placed on a dark blue Persian carpet.

Nine ornate mahogany chairs covered in brass were placed in a circle around the table.

The nine directors took their seats one after another in order.

Her Royal Highness the Princess naturally took the top spot.

Zhao Hao sat on her left, and Duke Dingguo Xu Wenbi sat on her right. Below them were Zhu Shimao, Li Fang, Eunuch Ji, Wu Kangyuan, Sun Dawu, and Tang Youde.

Ying Gong and Zhang Qianfa also attended the meeting as representatives of the Supervisory Board. In addition, the company's deputy general manager Yu Ben and the security manager Wu Yu attended as a small black fat man.

After paying respects to Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, the second board meeting of Xishan Company officially began.

First, General Manager Sun Dawu reported on the company’s latest developments.

"The first batch of 20 coal mines have started trial production. Everything is running well now. The daily output of coal can reach 1,000 tons, which is nearly twice the output of traditional coal mines!"

"Great!" The directors all smiled and whispered, "It seems that the original estimate of the 're-minable coal mine' was still too low."

"Yes, three thousand taels each, how can this be possible? I think four or five thousand taels is not enough, because our coal is better than that of ordinary mines." Zhu Shimao tilted his neck excitedly and said:

"Six or seven thousand taels is not too much. Maybe we can mine ten thousand taels of coal."

"That's just the beginning." Tang Youde boasted, "Didn't you hear from the young master... oh no, the vice chairman? With the development of science, we can mine hundreds of feet deep."

"Anyway, the company's current valuation is too cheap!" The directors reached a consensus and listened more carefully.

"Starting next month, we will increase production by adding ten kilns per month. On average, we open a kiln every three days. This speed is neither fast nor slow. At present, it is the most suitable for the company to accumulate experience and summarize problems."

"Yeah." The directors naturally had no objection to this.

"In addition, although we haven't made much noise yet, the coal bosses in Xishan have already felt threatened." Sun Dawu frowned slightly and told the not-so-good news.

ps. Chapter 3, please give me monthly tickets and recommendation tickets