Chapter 81: A Fire in Winter
There are still a few days left on Zhengdan, and a letter came from Youzhou again, with a few chicken feathers inserted in the letter, and the messenger was Wang Wanzai.
Chicken feather letter has been very important since ancient times, Zhang De saw that it was a chicken feather letter, and suddenly his heart gamed, and he secretly said that it must not be a big mess.
Then Zhan Xin was happy, and the old man Wang Xiaotong almost looked up and wrote dear, and the whole letter was full of all kinds of excitement and excitement.
The old man was obviously engaged in civil construction in Pingzhou, Jizhou, but he went to Youzhou next door to prospect. Prospecting is actually not a big deal, the key problem is that Wang Xiaotong, an old man, actually found a small open-pit coal mine.
But Lao Zhang knew very well in his heart that the boundary of Youzhou was not a matter of small coal mines. Fifteen hundred years later, the capital was actually a metropolis built on a coal mining belt.
No wonder it's top secret, no wonder it's a chicken feather letter, it's too tangled.
You said that you are a bad old man in your seventies and eighties, and it is not good to stay in Jizhou, what are you running to the Youzhou next door! Your surname is Wang, so you are the old king next door, specializing in digging the foot of the wall?
Nowadays, the magnates in the capital are not stupid, and they are not so easy to fool. was found to have an open-pit coal mine, and the feelings were good, and they all followed the wild dogs that had escaped the reins, and they didn't want to run up.
Now in the winter, the coal stove in Chang'an has already been sold out of stock. Du Ruhui Du Tianwang, just this winter's income, not to mention out of stock, anal prolapse is willing!
The price of a pound of charcoal is half a penny, which is the official price of procurement, and the price of the internal government is not serious. However, it is also the talk that the merchants of the two cities, Jia Dongcheng, and the magnates use to reduce the price, but the price of charcoal in the market is more than a pound.
However, charcoal is not yet used. If you don't have twenty pounds a day, it's really not called a well-off home.
Settle a long-term account. In the end, it is still a good deal for briquettes. And in the workshop, there are seven or eight families in a small courtyard. If you have three or five stoves, you can use them together.
On average, there are two briquettes per person a day, and hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an, if they are really all used, how much does it cost? Guang Lao Zhang's mine in Xihetao was too late to dig every day.
Again, people are in pursuit of a better life. When you use a coal stove bento, who would want to burn charcoal, let alone firewood.
And Poly Construction also helped to repair the stove. Since the beginning of winter, whether there is a fireplace or a coal stove at home, it will not freeze in total. Compared with those who shiver and have to stay and stomp their feet, it is more than thousands of miles away.
Since the beginning of winter in the capital this year, I haven't heard of a few people freezing to death, and such a thing was actually taken to the court meeting by the brazen Zhang Liang to praise Li Dong, saying that this is the holy monarch in the court, the Ming monarch in the world, and the virtuous monarch loves the people.
And then it's this table and that fu, you praise Li Dong for being awesome. I praised Li Dong for being amazing, and no one was left behind, in a word: blow!
But it's also crooked, Zhang Liang, an old shameless man, is crazy in the position of the imperial doctor. But it finally made Li Dong ponder one thing, why there are still many Qianshou people in Chang'an City in Wude Nian who are frozen to death, and this year. Won't he freeze to death?
After pondering and understanding, of course, Taizong did not give instructions saying that "science and technology are the primary productive forces". Instead, I feel that Zhang Gongjin is the whole family. Although he is like a beast, on the whole, he is still wholeheartedly devoted to me, and he wants to be rewarded, and he is not a Ming Jun if he is not rewarded.
After all, in the past, when it was winter, I had to send warmth to those old things who were going to die, but now I don't need to put on a show to be immortal, which is so wise and powerful.
So His Majesty Tian Khan issued an edict himself, and gave Uncle Zhang's second son Zhang Dasu a reward for a man from Huating County. Originally, His Majesty the Emperor wanted to give Zhang De a higher title, such as Liangfeng County or something. But when I thought that it was January Moon immediately, when I thought of January Yue, I immediately thought of Lantern Festival, and when I thought of Lantern Festival, I thought of my daughter being shocked by my sister's car, and Li Dong's whole person was immediately not good.
Then Emperor Taizong hatefully pretended not to think of Zhang Caozhi, as a father, he wished that Zhang De was hit by a carriage and died.
But you can't say that you won't give anything, Lao Zhang has a younger brother who learned advanced postures with Yu Chang in Suzhou, and he got a reward from a Confucian Linlang.
Ru Linlang, who is also one of the few famous figures in Jiangnan, not to mention, is still a ten-year-old boy, and his future is immeasurable.
Lao Zhang is far away in Hebei, so he naturally doesn't know why the winter in the capital is suddenly hot again. Because seeing Zhang Caozhi leaving Chang'an in a gloomy manner, how could his younger brother be rewarded by His Majesty the Emperor in the blink of an eye?
Looking at this rhythm, the emperor is still very fond of the Zhang family.
Ru Linlang is very small and inconspicuous, but the emperor himself has specially engaged in such a thing, in this wax moon day, it is endlessly memorable.
"It's a pity, Xu Xiaode took the lead, even if he is a heavenly family, he is helpless."
"Alas, Zhang Caozhi is really a son-in-law through the ages."
"I only hate that I didn't have such a vision back then, alas, ......"
Then everyone silently lined up and went to the west of the city, running to pay the money there.
Why do I pay? Financing, of course.
Why Financing? To dig coal, of course.
Why dig coal? Of course, it's because the coal business is very good.
The gap of briquettes in Chang'an City is amazing, if it weren't for the lack of supply of briquettes in Huaiyuan, where would there be living space for firewood and charcoal.
In the forbidden garden, Poly built a hearth specially built for the old chairman, so that Li Yuan wore a silk robe all day long, and hugged all kinds of beautiful concubines to play the uncovered conference.
It's winter, it's uncovered.
After such a depraved thing was known to His Majesty Emperor Taizong, the whole person couldn't help himself, hated that he couldn't be so absurd, and for a moment, Li Dong suddenly wanted to abdicate, and then handed over the seat to Li Chengqian, so that he could work hard and be sprayed.
Last year, it was just convenient, but this winter, the entire Chang'an area, with a little spare money, is restless there. The only unit organization that can grasp advanced coal resources is the famous Chang'an dynamic social group "Zhongyi Society", and the president is the famous Chang'an Shiyu, Saiwei Chi Xiao, Zhang Fei, Zhang De, and Zhang Caozhi.
In such a feudal imperial society with underdeveloped productive forces, the magnates of the imperial capital also understood a truth: there are more wolves and less meat, and there are more monks and less porridge.
Therefore, any competitor who shares its own profits must be strangled in the cradle.
So the magnates of Chang'an City formed an alliance and resolutely attacked the magnates outside the capital who came to take food. Even the magnates in Luoyang, Taiyuan, Xiangcheng and other places could only cry silently.
As the saying goes, the building near the water gets the moon first, where do you know that there is such a good way to make money legally.
But everyone is not stupid, what a briquette is, they don't understand it for a while. But what coal is, they can still figure it out.
The story of Blackstone's combustion, after all, was known, so he went crazy looking for Blackstone on his own territory. In short, this money can't all be earned by the bastards of Chang'an.
In many cases, once a rigid demand is formed, it is really not a worry to sell.
What is rigid demand? If you don't die, you just need it.
The Tang Empire is still in a feudal centralized society, although Zhenguan monarchs and ministers are very powerful, but these are all powerful in social science, and they dare not run naked in the face of the cold Siberian air. And ordinary people can only chop firewood to keep warm, and no matter how much linen clothes they wear, aren't they still frozen into dogs?
If you have a stove at home, it's really hard to die, unless you kill yourself by plugging the chimney......
So in this winter when the hearts of the magnates were hot and their bodies were hot, Lao Wang told Zhang De in Youzhou that he had discovered an open-pit coal mine, which is not the same as saying to the powerful people who are similar to the vicious dogs in estrus: Don't stop.
"What the hell did you say this old man was not doing anything and went to Youzhou to do something!"
Zhang De slapped the table, and then sighed, "Fortunately, Li Keshi is not the governor of Youzhou, otherwise Lao Tzu would really be a dog." ”
Hebei Dao Lao Zhang is not nobody, such as the eldest cousin Changsun Chong, didn't he just introduce some people? Hou Xuanchen, a relative of the Luguo family, was a powerful person in Hebei Province. Isn't Xue Dading and Zheng Sui also a big man?
However, it's useless, this is especially Youzhou, a place where people who die every year will be uncomfortable if they don't fight.
However, from another point of view, Zhang De felt ecstatic, after all, open-pit mines are easy to mine, and the smaller the initial investment in the coal and steel industry, the better.
Besides, if someone is grabbing food, isn't there still Uncle Zhang? How close is the Dingxiang Governor's Mansion.
Just when Lao Zhang was thinking about the benefits, Old Man Wang came with another letter, and it was Wang Wansui who sent the letter.
However, this letter only fell into the hands of Zhang De after Zhengdan.
"What the hell?! Someone from Goguryeo came and wanted to buy a coal stove? Got it wrong? ”
Although it is easy to be shot for fornicating with an enemy country or something, as a crony capitalist, isn't betraying the country a big deal? However, Lao Zhang thought about it, what kind of big deal is selling a coal stove, and can it rise to such a major right and wrong as selling the country?
So after a few bad thoughts, he was ready to sell his mother.
However, Wang Hyo also mentioned in his correspondence that the snow disaster in Baekje Silla was more intense this year, and both countries had to admit to Goguryeo and kneel down to support them to tide over the difficulties.
As for kneeling and licking with Datang, that is a normal posture, but Datang Yuanshui can't save the near fire, how can it be so easy to relieve it?
But in this situation, Lao Zhang also came to the spirit, and Silla Baekje had a snow disaster? It's good to have a snow disaster, there must be a lack of food in a snow disaster, and a snow disaster will definitely kill the crops, so you can't wait to sell yourself in piles of hungry people?
Ouch, big deal, you can't let the Goguryeo people pick up the cheap.
Zhang De, who was rubbing his hands, was excited, and hurriedly found Cui Shen and asked if there was any way for Silla Baekje.
In fact, according to Lao Zhang's normal thinking loop in the past, he would not think that Cui Shen, a big stammer, could have any international relations. However, Cui Jixiu, a ****** member who was bent on revenge on his family, smiled and wrote a sentence in front of Lao Zhang: The young lord of the Black Tooth Country of Baekje, the old friend of my fifteen years ago, is now the head of the Black Tooth Country, and can be accepted in Baekje.
Zhang De originally wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, silently preparing the ship and making a big deal. (To be continued.) )
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