Zhu Yunwen didn't have the time to deal with the affairs of the clan at all.

This group of idle princes in Beijing said something in the Zongren Mansion, he received a secret letter that night, how many of the clan relatives were under the guise of being the emperor's hardcore cronies, Zhu Di and Zhu Zhen actually had a number in their hearts, but they had to call each other together.

You can't doubt each other before we start uniting, right?

The words they said between them, including the words of resentment against him, the emperor, the eldest son and eldest grandson of the old Zhu family, Zhu Yunwen also laughed after seeing it, and his position was different, it was normal for them not to be angry and resentful, if they were not resentful in private, then they couldn't say it, and the descendants of Taizu would not be so weak that they didn't even dare to say a few angry words.

As long as you don't open your eyes to stop him from making the next drastic reform of the Ming Dynasty, let them say go.

With this mentality, Zhu Yunwen woke up early in the morning and went to the Ministry of Industry first.

Because the first honeycomb coal came out!

The man who promoted the rational use of coal and stone entered the Ministry of Industry a few years ago, and Zhu Yunwen also gave him a second-class medal of ingenuity in recognition of his achievements.

After three or four years of work, this Shanxi craftsman named Zhangyang really made a honeycomb coal thing, and also made a honeycomb coal stove for supporting use.

In this small invention, Zhu Yunwen does not take any credit.

Where does Zhu Yunwen remember the principle of honeycomb coal, not to mention the proportion of yellow mud and water, but it is not important if there is no principle and data, the important thing is that these craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty have figured out the practical science by themselves.

It's just a practice over and over again.

And the name honeycomb coal is really not Zhu Yunwen, its inventor Zhang Yangqi The name is also completely because of the appearance, this newborn briquette makes people really think they have seen a honeycomb at a glance. Even if the color of this honeycomb is a lot darker.

"It's good for heating and cooking, and it's less toxic and easier to use."

Zhang Yang stood tremblingly in front of Zhu Yunwen and explained, but there was no whole sentence in his mouth.

He was so excited.

"Good, good, very good!"

Zhu Yunwen happily shouted hello three times in a row, looked at the dark-faced craftsman in front of him with a smile, and asked, "Can it be mass-produced?" ”

Zhang Yang nodded violently: "The method of production has been recorded in detail and confirmed by the grass people, and it can be manufactured on a large scale, but this honeycomb coal stove requires a few blacksmiths to spend some time, but the difficulty is not." ”

Zhu Yun shook his head, thought about it for a while, and then said, "How much does the furnace and a piece of honeycomb coal cost?" ”

"The cost of the furnace is a lot more expensive, and there are about two taels of silver if you fold it manually, mainly more than a dozen catties of iron account for the majority, and honeycomb coal is not worth much, after all, the coal and stone are inexhaustible, and it is only a few pennies."

Where is there an inexhaustible supply of useful things in the world.

Zhu Yunwen was amused in his heart, but he didn't pretentiously say anything about resource protection, even if he said these people these years, he didn't understand.

"Go and call Zhu Zhi to me."

Zhu Yunwen walked out of the room, took a handkerchief to wipe the sweat off his forehead, and turned to the study with the Si Yamen.

Dog days burned the stove, and he was crazy to wait for Zhu Zhi at the scene.

Now that the product has been produced, the next thing to do is to popularize it, with this honeycomb coal, those wealthy businessmen in Shanxi and Hebei who rely solely on coal and stone to make profits, their interests will be impacted.

At the beginning, the use of coal and stone Zhu Yunwen was willing to popularize it in order to survive the people, after all, where can ordinary people afford charcoal, but now with honeycomb coal, the use of rough raw coal will definitely be eliminated, which belongs to technological innovation, and Zhu Yunwen naturally cannot popularize it to those coal merchants.

Collect the taxes they are hiding, where can they have the pleasure of making money by themselves?

Zhu Zhi hurriedly beat the emperor Nanjing will always run over, and then he was guided to Zhu Yunwen's side, wiped the sweat stains on his head, and just planned to see Zhu Yunwen beckoning, he realized in his heart, and hurriedly bowed his waist slightly.

"I came to you today, but I have a good thing for you."

As soon as he heard the emperor say this, Zhu Zhi pouted in his heart.

Whatever is good news for the emperor often ends up being bad news for others.

"Let's take Uncle Liao Wang to see it first."

Zhu Yunwen waved his hand, and a little eunuch led Zhu Zhi to the workshop to find Zhang Yang, leaving Zhu Yunwen to hide in this house.

It was only about a quarter of an hour, and Zhu Yunwen hadn't finished drinking two bowls of mung bean soup here, and Zhu Zhi walked back over there, and his face didn't know whether it was hot or happy, and he looked very excited.

"See something?"

Zhu Yunwen's gesture moved slightly, and Shuangxi here served Zhu Zhi tea, and brought a towel by the way.

"I've seen it."

Zhu Zhi wiped his sweat and took a sip of the cow.

"Your Majesty, this honeycomb coal is really good, and now although it is said that dog days can also be taken to Liaodong to sell first, if the results are gratifying, it can be produced in large quantities, and it will be terrible when Jiangnan turns around."

"I don't understand the business and business, Uncle Liao Wang is here to get the idea."

Zhu Yunwen first said politely, and then changed his tone: "But I have a suggestion for you, the stove is cheaper to sell and popularize, after all, this thing is cast in iron, even if it is burned for more than ten years, it will not burn down, and the people may not be willing to use it if it is expensive. ”

If you can't even sell the stove, where will the honeycomb coal be used?

Zhu Zhi has been doing business for a few years, and after hearing this, he only understood the truth after a little consultation, and nodded busily: "Your Majesty is wise." ”

The cost of a stove is only about two taels of silver, even if it is doubled and sold for five taels, what if it is sold for one million, it is only three million taels of revenue, Zhu Zhi can't look at this money at all now.

But honeycomb coal is different, the cost of three or four cents a briquette, even if it is sold at the earlier price can still be sold for seven or eight cents, and the amount of consumption is large, tens of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty, three or nine days, two or three months, the amount of use is the sea.

"In addition to this kind of big stove, you can also try to make some small stoves."

Pointing to the small lantern hanging in the study, Zhu Yunwen paid attention: "It is smaller than this, it is suitable to be placed in the study for those rich families, and the cost is not only cheaper but also more expensive." ”

Zhu Zhi smiled in understanding.

"But before you sell it, I still have to arrange something."

As he spoke, Zhu Yunwen called Zhang Yang's name: "Go and call that Zhang Yang to me." ”

Sell briquettes and shout what do artisans do?

Zhu Zhi was a little stunned, could it be that the emperor still wanted that craftsman to follow him to do business with the imperial businessman? There's no need for this, it's just such a simple thing, anyone can look at it once, and the people below will naturally teach those buyers how to use it when they sell it.

He was still confused here, and Zhang Yang, who received the summons over there, was also confused.

The number of times he met the saint today was a bit much, and he had a sense of dreaming.

"Long live the grass people knocking on my emperor, 10,000..."

Long live the song has not yet been sung, and the voice of Emperor Lao Tzu sounded in his ears.

"Get up and find your own seat."

This sentence almost didn't make Zhang Yang pull over, although the person got up on the ground, where did he really dare to move blindly, he just stuffed his head and didn't dare to move anything.

Zhu Yunwen saw that he didn't dare to sit down, so he stopped being polite to him and went straight to the point.

"This honeycomb coal was invented by you, and I plan to let the imperial merchants take over and sell it, and then the imperial chamber of commerce will send someone to you to learn technology."

Zhang Yang's whole person is still stepping on the top of the clouds and has not come down, as soon as Zhu Yunwen said that he nodded busily: "Please rest assured, the grass people will definitely teach them as quickly as possible." ”

He is a craftsman in the Ministry of Industry, isn't it normal for the court to use the technology he has figured out?

"That's not what I'm talking about."

Zhu Yunwen smiled: "What I want to say is that since I want to sell this honeycomb coal, and this honeycomb coal was invented by you, you should have a share of the money from the sale, so I called you to ask, how much silver are you going to ask?" ”

What's that?

Zhang Yang was dumbfounded, and Zhu Zhi was also dumbfounded.

For the first time, I heard that the imperial court used the skills of craftsmen to give money to craftsmen.

If you want to say that you are happy to be the emperor, it is common for you to directly issue a reward of a sum of silver, how much you can set the number yourself, even if you give a thousand eight hundred taels, it can be called an astronomical amount for these craftsmen, how can there be a reason to let the person receiving the reward negotiate the conditions by himself?

"I don't think you thought about it."

Zhu Yunwen pondered for a while and said: "Since you didn't pay attention, then I will give you an idea, one is that I asked the imperial merchant to give you 100,000 taels of silver, which is considered the buyout of your invention and the cost of technical learning."

Second, that is, the royal merchant gives you a cut of the profits from sales every year, how about one percent? ”

Lose your marbles! The emperor has another moth.

Over there, Zhang Yang, who had been smashed by Zhu Yunwen with a sentence of 100,000 taels, was still dizzy, and Zhu Zhi bounced out of the chair directly.

"Your Majesty, by all means."

Zhu Zhi stiffened his neck and was justified: "This Zhang Yang leads the court, and his invention naturally belongs to the court, since it is a thing of the court, why do you want to give him this silver?" ”

It's just a matter of giving back the silver, but the emperor still wants to give a cut?

There is a share of his Zhu Zhi in this silver.

Seeing Zhu Zhi's fried hair, Zhu Yunwen glared at him fiercely: "Do I want you to teach how to do things?" ”

Zhu Zhi was suddenly frightened and sweated all over his back, and then he realized that he dared to question the emperor for a while. Busy pushing Jin Shan and pouring the jade pillar on the ground to confess.

Zhu Yunwen didn't bother to take care of him, let him kneel there, looked at Zhang Yang again, and said warmly: "How about it, have you thought about it?" ”

Zhang Yang swallowed his saliva and waved his hand hurriedly: "The emperor is mighty, where are the grass people worthy, don't use it." ”

What this prince said makes sense, I Lao Zhang leads the court to Lu, and every year the court also opens an extra sum of silver for him to practice, so the honeycomb coal made should belong to the court in both sense and reason.

If you really want to reach out and ask for money again, where is there such a thick dough.

Seeing that Zhang Yang said that he was unwilling to ask for money, Zhu Yunwen sighed slightly.

"That's it, since you don't want to take the initiative, I'll decide, let the imperial merchant give you 100,000 taels of silver as a reward tomorrow, okay, that's it, you go and get busy."

Is 100,000 taels a lot?

Before Zhu Yunwen didn't cut the annual salary of the clan relatives, this was the annual salary of the prince of Daming for a full twenty years!

But in fact, compared to the profit of this honeycomb coal, 100,000 taels is a fart.

There are so many people in the Ming Dynasty, and the revenue of coal and stone alone is more than one million taels a year, not to mention that there is now North Korea as a dumping ground, and every year the major chambers of commerce go to North Korea to sell coal duty-free for North Korean specialties, and the profits from the sale of them back to Jiangnan have increased several times.

The accounts of the imperial merchants, he Zhu Yunwen is clear in his heart.

It can be said that everyone thinks that this Zhang Yang picked up a big bargain, but in fact, the 100,000 taels he got in his hand did not even have one percent of the real benefits.

Sending away Zhang Yang, who was crying in Dule, Zhu Yunwen said to Zhu Zhi: "Okay, get up." ”

Zhu Zhi, who was amnesty, hurriedly got up, and it could be seen that he was indeed frightened, and he was not in the mood to feel sorry for the 100,000 taels of silver, so he got up and confessed his mistakes.

"Do you know why I gave him money?"

You have convulsions, what else can you do?

Zhu Zhi replied tremblingly: "Your Majesty's imperial grace is mighty..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhu Yunwen.

"This has nothing to do with my kindness, the so-called merit will be rewarded, and if there is a mistake, it will be punished. Zhang Yang invented this honeycomb coal, and you can see the benefits in it, I can also see it, and the people of the world will also be able to see it in the future.

As the actual inventor has not received a penny, and you, the merchant who sells it, have made a lot of money in the middle, in the future, will those craftsmen who want to enter the Ministry of Industry to make inventions still have enthusiasm?

Don't say anything about taking the court's Yulu as a matter of course, the poet Li Bai also led the court's Yulu, why didn't he see the name of Emperor Li Tang on his poem? ”

It is science and technology that determines whether a country is strong or not, and what is science and technology?

Science and technology are knowledge, inventions, and creations.

Then, intellectual property rights must be protected, and the original creators of knowledge must be encouraged.

The Song and Yuan dynasties were solidified in their thoughts, and they were light workers and lowly craftsmen, and they dispelled the spirit of continuing to engage in invention from their bones, and now Zhu Yunwen asked Zheng He to open the sea The purpose is to introduce Western theoretical knowledge, combined with the highly developed practical science of the Ming Dynasty, to give birth to the seeds of industry.

At this juncture, Zhu Yunwen will never allow anything that discourages the enthusiasm of knowledge.

Intellectual property rights must be respected and protected, which is a basic national morality.