Chapter 174 0169 [Business Opening](2/2)
They observed the usage carefully, and each bought a stove and a lot of briquettes, intending to take them back to study and imitate them.
When the briquette market matures, it is estimated that prices will need to be re-priced.
After working until noon, Ju Ming paid for a treat and ate in a restaurant in the south of the city. Of course, Chen Dong and other Tai students also participated.
Everyone gave gifts so that Ju Ming wouldn't spend any money.
As evening approached, Ju Ming watched the coal shop close, feeling indescribably happy. This was his first business in Tokyo.
I don’t expect this business to make me a rich man, at least it can meet my daily expenses. This is the foundation for being an honest official!
A few days later, sales of briquettes increased significantly.
The small vendors in Zuojunxiang in the south of the city have switched to using briquettes whenever they need to light fires.
Because small vendors found that this kind of stove is too convenient.
When there are many customers, turn on high heat, and when there are few customers, turn on low heat. If there are no customers temporarily, just close the lid, and the smoldering fire can burn for several hours.
They don't call it honeycomb coal, but they call it "Tanhua coal" when they meet others.
Other coal shops in and outside Tokyo have also launched imitation products one after another. In order to open up sales as soon as possible, they also use "Tanhua" as the prefix.
For a time, Tanhua stove and Tanhua coal were popular throughout the city, and Ju Ming could not sue his colleagues for trademark infringement.
Following the small vendors, more and more people are using briquettes to boil water and cook because they can actually save money.
Even the coal poem copied by Zhu Ming spread widely, and Zhu's nine poems became Zhu's ten.
Occasionally, Ju Ming rode a horse for a stroll and saw honeycomb briquette stoves at the entrances of several teahouses in the city. All you had to do was grind the tea into powder in advance, and you could order tea at any time with the kettle on the stove.
This sight made Ju Ming quite happy. He changed the daily life of the people in Tokyo.
“The common people’s daily use is the Tao!”
It was another holiday, and Chen Yuan was giving a lecture in the courtyard: "The Tanhua stove and Tanhua coal are the embodiment of transforming the Tao into something useful. If firewood wants to burn, there must be air circulation, and the bellows used for blacksmithing is to inject the air into it."
The holes of the Tanhua coal are put into the furnace for ventilation. The lid of the Tanhua furnace also uses air to control the fire...Having this thing can save the people money. If you study more about this kind of things, you will definitely save countless money for the people.
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Ju Ming sat nearby and listened, unable to correct the mistake because he didn't know how to introduce the concept of oxygen.
Chen Yuan believes that it is a kind of "anger".
Air circulation is life, which can ignite fire and support combustion.
If there is no flow, it is dead air and cannot burn. For example, if you cover a candle with a lid, the candle will go out. This is because the air flow is blocked and the life becomes dead air.
If the wind is too strong and blows out the flame, then the anger is too strong and the flame cannot bear it.
People breathe and survive by being angry.
Hmm...a very simple understanding, similar to the Western concept of phlogiston.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
There was a sudden knock on the door, and the knock was very urgent.
Min Zishun's servant went to open the door. Hou Xuan stood outside the door, followed by Fatty Zheng and Zheng Yuanyi.
"Dalang, Mr. Zhu has come to Beijing!" Zheng Hong shouted.
Ju Ming rushed out quickly: "Where?"
Chapter completed!