The real estate industry in the Ming Dynasty was not very prosperous, and the courtyard in Beijing was only more than 100 taels of silver per set.

So it is actually quite good to be able to sell 50,000 taels in the end.

But making money by relying on this is not the purpose. It is mainly to tie the interests of the owners behind the businessmen in the capital together in this way.

If they have an industry in the Yongweiying military residential area, then they will be willing to protect it when they encounter any danger.

Although Xiao Sheng did not expect them to stand up and defend their country directly, at least some people who took the opportunity to make trouble.

Moreover, Liao Zidong is so popular now that only by letting everyone join the ranks of making money can we avoid being targeted.

There are thousands of shops, and there are many sounds, but in fact they are distributed on four streets and need them in all walks of life. They are just iron shops. It is normal to have more than a dozen stores on one street.

The streets are very long and wide, and the consumption of tens of thousands of people is on these four streets. These shops are probably not enough.

In the end, these stores sold a total of 143,450 taels of silver.

This was indeed a bit beyond Xiao Sheng's expectations.

With too much money, no one will refuse. Such a large amount of money can be paid to the newly established Yongwei Camp for one month.

Of course, in name, of course, it was not him who came to pay the court's army.

More than 60,000 soldiers, plus their families, at least 200,000 people live in the "Xinjingying Military Residential Area".

This is a very large project, and the construction period required by Zhu Youjian is two months.

Even if the construction team of the Huangxia Construction Chamber of Commerce has reached a scale of tens of thousands of people after the last expansion, it requires a lot of manpower to complete such a huge project on time.

So the Huangxia Construction Chamber of Commerce recruited 20,000 temporary workers, and the refugees around the capital had been plundered by them, so they could only find someone from the capital.

Temporary workers don’t have to cover food, but they have a monthly fee of one or two taels of silver every month.

One tael of silver a month ago, this was the treatment only given by the maids of wealthy families.

For those refugees, they were already very satisfied with what they gave them. Now they had one or two taels of silver, which was simply a living Bodhisattva.

Although the daily workload is very large, in the eyes of those recruited temporary workers, Liao Zidong is a great charity.

The money is paid monthly, so those refugees still have no money. After dinner, they will rest directly at the construction site.

As the weather gradually became colder, their construction speed also accelerated a lot.

Because they also have to rest in it at night, if the wall is built higher, there will be more warmth at night.

The Ming Dynasty is September, according to the Gregorian calendar, it is November. On the land of the Ming Dynasty during the Little Ice Age, the temperature dropped sharply and it was already below zero at night.

In order to ensure that these people are not frozen to death, Liao Zidong proposed to Xiao Sheng to provide them with a stove.

At this time, Xiao Sheng remembered that he had forgotten this simple and profitable product.

In the territory of the Ming Dynasty, coal resources have been developed at this time and are currently monopolized by some merchants.

But the high-ranking families don’t like this kind of thing with strong smoke, they burn excellent charcoal.

According to the "History of the Song Dynasty", it is clearly recorded that "in the past, millions of families in Bian capital were all dependent on charcoal."

Ordinary people rely on coal for winter.

However, the transportation industry is not very developed today, and the transportation of coal itself is a big problem.

The transportation cost must be calculated as the coal sales price, so the coal price is not cheap.

Moreover, direct burning of coal blocks cannot fully burn coal, and more toxic gases are produced.

In the 1990s, a Chinese worker invented a very practical thing that benefited the vast majority of people in North China.

Honeycomb coal, although simple to manufacture, can save coal and burn fully.

It is suitable for homes, cooking, boiling water, and adding a chimney can also prevent gas poisoning.

It's really perfect for use on construction sites at this time.

There is a coal mining factory next to the capital. The production technology of honeycomb coal is very simple, but burning coal requires a special furnace, but making this iron furnace is not that easy.

After all, it needs to be sealed well and has a certain strength.

Iron smelting technology is one of the technologies that Xiao Sheng asked Zhu Youjian to invest in human and material resources research from the beginning. With modern technical support, it has achieved results now.

Compared with the original technology, the efficiency of iron smelting has increased by 40%. The key is that the steelmaking technology has been well developed.

Steel is one of the most important parts of a country's basic industry. The steel output in the Ming Dynasty was not low. In this era, it firmly ranked first in the world, but after the industrial revolution, it would be surpassed by Western countries.

The key is that the technology has not been well inherited and developed.

China has already had the method of making steel by coke, and at this time, there were many outstanding steel craftsmen, so they did not encounter much resistance to the popularization of new technologies.

However, the time is still short and the scale transformation has not been completely completed. It is impossible to mass production of steel suitable for making armored weapons, but it is enough to produce coal stoves.

In the late Ming Dynasty, both the iron smelting industry and coal had already occupied a large part of the market, and official iron smelting plants and coal mines only occupied a small part.

Xiao Sheng directly bought two iron smelting plants and two coal kilns slightly closer to the capital, and established the "Huangxia Steel Chamber of Commerce" and the "Huangxia Coal Chamber of Commerce" respectively.

The transformation and reorganization took three days, and the production of coal stoves and honeycomb coal began on the fourth day.

In addition to the coal stove, Xiao Sheng also made a large number of hot water kettles, which allowed the coal stove to heat water. For those workers, they could not only warm the outside through the coal stove, but also drink hot water to warm the inside of the body.

As coal stoves appeared in the construction site in large quantities and people could drink hot water every day, workers' evaluation of Liao Zidong became even higher. His name was not only circulated in the capital, but also spread to surrounding cities with those businessmen.

For a time, Liao Zidong naturally became a representative figure in the business community in the capital.

Although the identity of a businessman was a lowly hometown in ancient times, at least one thing everyone understands is to make money with President Liao.

In fact, the boss behind the big businessmen in the capital knew that Liao Zidong was just a person pushed to the front desk, just like themselves, and did not end up in person.

Everyone knows this person well, and it is the newly-received Marquis of the Ming Dynasty who was recently named Liuli, the nobleman of the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!