Chen Mu finally had a little understanding of the direction of the Ming Dynasty in the historical context, although this understanding made him feel powerless.

In the long course of cultural development, those who possessed knowledge spent their lives studying the ancient political science applied to China, which has built the current form of government in which a very small number of people and vast territory are ruled by a very small bureaucracy.

The method is constraint, mutual containment and even internal friction, like the stability of the triangle, the Ming government is also extremely stable internally, but the price paid for this stability is that the ability to resist external pressure is extremely poor.

This is like a kind of rule, which restricts everyone, even the emperor can only break and sniff the cucumber in winter, let alone others.

There are things you know are good, but you can't do them.

He finally fully understood why Hai Rui was hidden in the snow.

Because Da Ming's heavy body can't help the tiger and wolf medicine, even if the cabinet ministers know where the problem is and know that the problem is big, it is obvious that Hai Rui, who is outside this set of rules, will bring more harm.

Black and white, it doesn't work in Daming.

But Chen Mu still privately asked the little eunuch how to do the biting spring garden of the goose ash pond, he could not do it, but he couldn't not know, he couldn't not understand, because maybe at some point, these things would be very useful.

At the same time, some people rode fast horses to Xuanfu to get simple coal stoves and honeycomb coal.

Of course, when General Chen entered the palace again, he did not forget to find the pie shop mentioned by Emperor Longqing from outside the Donghua Gate, and asked people to wrap several flavors of pies and bring them into the palace, and asked the emperor to take a look at our honeycomb coal stove.

Today, there was a coal stove worker in the palace, and the eunuch and palace maid didn't talk about it, and the relatives in the palace were called out by Longqing to see this new thing, and the little prince was also called from the East Palace, and he looked at General Chen from a distance with briquettes to add coal to the fire.

"There is a vent below, the fire needs to borrow the wind, turn it on, the fire burns up, the wind goes up, first point some broken wood in it, and you can clip the briquettes in." Chen Mu mainly explained to the eunuchs, it was useless to tell the emperor about this, and he wouldn't get this thing with his own hands, "Put one piece first, and it will burn up after a while, and then add it to the top after burning, you can add three pieces, and the holes must be aligned, otherwise the wind will not come out for a while." ”

Feng Bao waited beside the emperor, saw Chen Mu filling the coal, looked closer and asked, "General Chen, how long do you say this honeycomb coal can burn?" ”

Chen Mu smiled, raised his hand and said, "Governor, please look, it's burning." ”

"Yo, grandpa, General Chen's stove has a doorway, and it burns so fast!"

Feng Bao's grandfather called smoothly, Chen Mutong's hand almost didn't pinch the briquettes, and there was nothing unusual on his face, so he hurriedly smashed it with a smile and a high hat, and said: "The overseer is a person who is both civil and military, and the gunpowder used to be a piece of noodles, and it burned flat in the past, and then it was all particles, and at the same time, the burned noodles were large, so the fire was even, we wanted it to be fast, and we wanted it to be slow." ”

"This briquette is the same, it used to be all coal, and it was also burned flat, not to mention that it burned slowly, it was not even, sometimes it was fast, sometimes it was slow, and it was not certain when to add fire, some of them were burned and some were not burned, there was a lot of waste, not to mention that the burning was not sufficient and there was charcoal poison."

"The general is right." Feng Bao asked, "This is not charcoal poison?" ”

Charcoal poisoning is carbon monoxide produced by inadequate combustion.

"This is also available, but it is only a little less, and it still can't be used indoors, if you want to use it indoors, you must ventilate it well." Chen Mu raised his hand and smiled easily, and said to Feng Bao: "Cooking rice and boiling water is just outside." If the room is warmed, let's connect it with an iron chimney to guide the smoke outside, or you can do some iron pipe irrigation, find a way to keep the water flowing, and the hall will be warm. ”

Chen Mu felt that this could be a set, if Nanyang or Xuanfu steam engine had a prototype, this set of things could be linked together to save resources.

The steam engine was originally invented for coal mining and pumping out groundwater. China's coal mines are very widely distributed, and the Ming people never dug deep into the coal mines, because they knew that after digging almost enough, they would cover the tunnels, and after twenty or thirty years, new ones would be produced, and they would be inexhaustible.

Emperor Longqing looked at it, but he didn't see any way, and asked Chen Mu: "General Chen, you said that you want the Wanquan Siqi Army to rely on this to subsidize daily use, is it okay?" The coal block is exquisitely made, all of them are square and square, and it is more time-consuming than ordinary briquettes to make it alone, and the cheap flag army cannot make ends meet, and the people cannot afford to use it. ”

"Your Majesty is more worried, this briquette is good because it is burned sufficiently, maybe a briquette is sold a little more expensive than the same large briquette, but its burning time is longer than the briquette, and the fire is faster than the briquette. However, the minister still has one thing to worry about, and he has a request for His Majesty. ”

It was unimaginable for Wei Jun to do business more than a hundred years ago, but now it has become a well-known thing in the world, especially in front of the emperor and internal officials, this is not a secret, no one blames him for this, but when he said that he had a request for the emperor, Long Qing and Feng Bao glanced at each other.

"General Chen, what is the matter?"

"Your Majesty let the ministers supervise the Xuanfu, and the ministers sent the ministers to do everything, all for one thing, to revitalize the guards that have been exhausted for many years, and the ministers thought that the training of the guards and the revitalization of the guard system were inseparable from the economy.

"But now that all the guards and soldiers are deficient, and they still can't eat enough, how can they talk about training? Therefore, it is necessary to start from two aspects, one is training and system, and the other is to let the flag army form its own industry. It is easy to form an industry, the guard army has enough military surplus, three years and five years, can eat enough food and wear warm clothes, but it is difficult to control, the minister does not want to bother for several years, fat the guard officer, bitter the flag army. ”

"Just like this briquette, in the past, the briquettes in Beijing were one or two kilograms, and the briquettes could be sold for one or two kilograms, but the kilograms of briquettes could be burned as two thousand eight hundred kilograms of briquettes. Xuanda and Jiliao can foresee the profits. This huge amount of goods can not only rejuvenate the Wanquan Banner Army, but even subsidize the soldiers of Xuanfu. ”

"The guard officer may not be afraid of the minister, but the guard officer must be afraid of the minister, because the minister is a person who is a holy family. Therefore, the minister thought, please send a few internal officials to the fullest, in addition to subsidizing the sergeants, a few percent of the rest of the briquettes will be transported to His Majesty's treasury in the palace, so that the greedy heart of the guard can be guarded, and secondly, the silver can be used in more suitable places. ”

Long Qing and Feng Bao's little eyes are a little wrong.

But before the two of them could speak, Chen Mu arched his hand and said eagerly: "The minister knows that this is a competition with the people, and the royal family is not short of this bit of silver, but only the internal officials can suppress the long-standing guard officials!" ”

Long Qing was wearing a round-necked dragon robe, his right hand stroked his left ribs, his left elbow propped up on his right hand, his fingers rubbed his beard on his lips, and he looked at Chen Mu frowning and meditating.

After a while, he spoke: "Who did Chen Qing listen to, who said that I am not lacking?" ”

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