Chapter 46: Carboniferous IV

In this way, a lot of time, there is a lot of inconvenience.

Of course, the Empress Dowager is already the most honorable person in the world, and she can enjoy any kind of enjoyment. This inconvenience is more of an inconvenience for the next people.

If you are an ordinary person, you may not understand these conveniences.

However, the Empress Dowager is not an ordinary old woman, and it can be said that she is well aware of the people's suffering.

The Empress Dowager looked at it and said, "Not bad." It's just that I don't lack this object in my heavenly home, and if you use this persuasion, it's bad. ”

Zhu Qi Zhenye smiled and said, "Of course. I value two things. One is to save trouble, and the other is to reduce the number of trees cut down by the people of the world. ”

Immediately, Zhu Qizhen explained the stove 1510.

A few briquettes a day, and cooking, a load of firewood in a day or two, naturally saves trouble I don't know how much.

As for the people of the world to cut down fewer trees, it is also very simple.

If you are in the south of the Yangtze River, you can put this thing aside, but in the city of Beijing, there are some things that have to be considered, do you really think that only modern Beijing has sandstorms?

The Empress Dowager asked, "The people can't afford to use this thing." Not to mention briquettes, how much does this stove cost alone? ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Craftsmen in the palace, many old problems can't be removed, and there is no way for children. However, in the child's mind, this stove can actually be made of mud, so it doesn't cost a penny. ”

In ancient times, many peasants were all-rounders. He was a farmer, a carpenter, and a mason. You can do a lot of things by yourself. And women will also weave cloth and make clothes themselves.

Many people have very little money in their hands, and they rarely use money except for selling a very small amount of salt, agricultural tools, and paying taxes, which is a self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy.

Therefore, as long as this method spreads, most peasants will build a stove for themselves, which will definitely be a penny and will not be used.

The Empress Dowager said: "Yes, how are you going to promote it." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "This matter can't be forced. I want the palace to take the lead, and I want to use briquettes more in the palace, so all the officials and princes will use the popularity, and the people will definitely follow after knowing the convenience. ”

The Empress Dowager was a little happy when she heard Zhu Qizhen say this. said: "Yes, it is better to do things slowly, slowly, than hard." ”

The Empress Dowager was worried that Zhu Qizhen would issue an edict to let the people use this stove, which would cause chaos.

"It's all taught by my grandmother well." Zhu Qizhen said.

"You're doing well today, you can make a request." The Empress Dowager said.

Zhu Qizhen was surprised: "Really? ”

The Empress Dowager said: "Where is this fake, this world will be handed over to you sooner or later, I am just worried that you will not be able to hold on, so I will help you manage it, if you have the ability, I will hand over this stall to you now, how dare you take it?" ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he felt a little excited in his heart and wanted to agree. But after thinking about it carefully, he said, "My grandson is not good, so please ask my grandmother to take care of it more." ”

The reason why Zhu Qizhen said this, on the one hand, was that he really felt that he couldn't control the Ming Dynasty at all, although he studied every day, studying scriptures and history in the morning, figuring out the government in the afternoon, and busy with palace affairs in the evening.

But the more I learned, the more I felt that being a good emperor was a difficult thing.

There is nothing in the world, it is not that there are really no major events in the world, but that the Queen Mother has arranged these things properly.

There are hundreds of prefectures and more than 1,000 counties in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and I don't know how many things have happened. How can it be that there is nothing in the world.

Zhu Qizhen is very envious of the Empress Dowager's ability to settle all kinds of affairs. But it's also very self-aware.

He couldn't do it.

The Empress Dowager has such an old-fashioned method, because of her experience in the political arena for so many years, she can see through the thoughts of the person who reads the book.

It should be pretended to be stupid, what should be done, what should be delayed, and what should be used by thunderous means.

Among them, the prioritization of the urgency cannot be done without decades of skill.

At least he can't do it now.

Of course, there is another reason, that is, even if he has a good relationship with the Empress Dowager, no matter what kind of family affection is mixed with the element of power, he cannot be taken lightly.

The Empress Dowager said, "So, you can make a request. It can be related to the foreign court. ”

Zhu Qizhen pondered for a while, and for a while, his brain was spinning wildly, and it was immediately confirmed. Beijing City, in the city of Beijing, put people in the city.

Zhu Qizhen understands his weight very well, and it is useless to make some requests that are too far.

Only the city of Beijing was something he could intervene in.

Not to mention anything else, he wants to promote briquettes instead of firewood in Jingshi, and if there is the support of Shuntianfu, it will be much easier.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Grandma said this, but grandchildren were disrespectful. Whatever the grandson wants to do, he can't get around the Shuntian Mansion, and the grandson wants Yu Qian to serve as the Yin of the Shuntian Mansion. ”

The Empress Dowager thought for a while and said: "It's appropriate, but this matter can't be rushed, and now the drought in Henan has passed, but after all, the drought has caused great losses to Henan, and Yu Qian is very popular in Henan, so he must slowly fall into Beijing again." ”

Yu Qian was outside, and he was patrolling various places with the right attendant of the military department, and when the governor system of the Ming Dynasty was not standardized, Yu Qian's rank was similar to that of Shuntian Mansion Yin's official position.

It's just that Shuntianfu Yin is important in Beijing.

Counting the Beijing officials, the Beijing officials are half a cut higher than the foreign officials, and Yu Qian is also promoted.

For Yu Qian, the Empress Dowager also knows a lot. However, after all, the Empress Dowager does not know the history of later generations, and she sees Yu Qian as just a rising star.

With a little more experience, I may be able to join the cabinet to take over Sanyang's class in the future.

For the emperor wanted a Shuntian Mansion Yin. It is not a bad thing to let Yu Qian have more contact with the emperor.

"Thank you, Grandma." Zhu Qizhen was overjoyed.

After all, Yu Qian is in the heart of the Empress Dowager, and it is different from Zhu Qizhen's heart.

The Empress Dowager said: "Go, Master Wang's homework is loose, but it doesn't give you time to play, since you want to do this thing, do it well, do it well, I will naturally have a reward, if you do it badly, how about inviting Mr. Li to be a lecturer?" ”

Zhu Qizhen hurriedly said: "Grandson must handle this matter properly." ”

So, throughout the dog days, most of Zhu Qizhen's thoughts were on the matter of coal.

It was impossible for him to conduct field investigations, and he did not know how backward the coal mining technology was in Mentougou. But there was one thing he felt.

What really determines the price of coal is not the coal itself, most of it is above the freight, in Mentougou, the people get some coal from the coal yard for their own use, generally speaking, they do not charge money.

This shows that the local coal cannot be priced.

The best way to bring down coal prices is to open up the communication line between Mentougou and Beijing.

And this traffic line is divided into two sections, one is the Yongding River. The Yongding River was originally repaired by Guo Shoujing and used to transport coal.

It's just that the former site of the Yuan capital is the south of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty. As a result, after the coal was transported to the south, it was also transported ashore to the north and entered the city through the south gate.

The key to this is in the second paragraph.

The cost of water transportation is the lowest in this era. There is no cheaper mode of transport than this.

However, from the Yongding River ashore, most of them were transported into the capital by pack horses.

Although it is only a dozen miles away. But the cost is not small.

Naturally, these transporters will have to add money.

It is impossible for Zhu Qizhen to build a canal because of the coal transportation route, so he can only find a way on the original route.

Zhu Qizhen remotely controlled Cao Jixiang, first rectified the Mentougou Coal Mine, and many of them were planned under the Salary Division. Then the river wharf was cleaned up to increase the traffic volume.

Then find a way to rebuild the road from the wharf to Beijing. Plan a special route for transporting coal.

It's just that in this way, there are too many things in it, and they have to be done by Shuntianfu.

Now Shuntian Mansion Yin, Zhu Qizhen is not very familiar with him, and it is not easy to do things. For a while, Zhu Qizhen also became looking forward to Qian's transfer to Shuntian Mansion Yin.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen has not been transferred from the position of governor of Henan and Hebei, and a major event has happened.