Guanshi Mountain is located in the lower reaches of Weishui, just over 20 miles away from Chang'an City.

In later generations, Pudong and Puxi were separated by a Huangpu River in the early years, but the big gap was simply two worlds.

Not to mention that in Datang, Guanshi Mountain, which is more than 20 miles away from Chang'an City, can't see any prosperity in the location of the Tang Imperial Capital.

And the mountains here only have a thin layer of soil on the surface that is a little nutritious, and can barely grow some shrubs.

The topsoil below is all coal mines, which is not suitable for plant growth at all.

In fact, it is no secret that there are coal mines under Guanshi Mountain.

In the former Sui Dynasty, or even earlier, some nearby villagers came to Guanshi Mountain to pick up coal and stone to use as fuel.

Later, the mountain was bought by the eldest grandson's family for several miles, however, the changes here were limited.

On the one hand, Guanshi Mountain is more than 20 miles away from Chang'an City, and there is no official road, only some rural dirt roads are connected to the official road, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the traffic is inconvenient.

The most important thing is that the eldest grandson's family bought this coal mine, which was originally intended to be used as fuel for ironmaking, but after tossing for several years, they didn't come up with any tricks, and slowly gave up.

In fact, if you really want to talk about it, the eldest grandson family still has some vision, but they haven't found the right way to make iron from coal.

The cold spring some time ago made the life of the villagers near Guanshi Mountain even more difficult.

Woe and blessing depend on blessing and misfortune lurk!

No one thought that this inverted spring cold would actually make earth-shaking changes in Guanshi Mountain.

"Everyone is working hard, the demand for orders received by the honeycomb coal workshop is getting bigger and bigger, if our coal mine can't supply it by then, don't look like the housekeeper is usually very talkative, and he will be furious at that time."

The Guanshishan Coal Mine is a relatively rare open-pit coal mine, and it is also one of the easiest mines to mine among the mines that Li Kuan has acquired.

Therefore, during this time, the Chu Wangfu concentrated on the construction of the Guanshishan Coal Mine, and also set up a honeycomb coal workshop nearby.

Coal mine excavation, coal mine transportation, coal mine crushing, honeycomb coal production......

In the vicinity of Guanshi Mountain, several large workshops have been built around the open-pit coal mine.

"Steward Jiang, you can rest assured. In the mine, three meals a day, we all see that no one will be lazy. However, this coal stone is very solid, and it is actually very laborious to dig it out, and if you want to continue to expand production, it is better to increase manpower. ”

A sturdy man who looks like a small foreman, he has the courage to talk to Steward Jiang.

"Nonsense, it's not like I don't know. Some time ago, the cold spring led to the emergence of some displaced people in some counties of Yongzhou Prefecture, and His Royal Highness the King of Chu has applied to the household department to resettle all these displaced people to the mine, which is a recent matter. ”

The coal mining area is in full swing, and the honeycomb coal production workshop is no exception.

Unlike the mining area, there are many more women in the honeycomb coal production workshop.

Coal mining is a physical job, and it is difficult for ordinary women to eat, so there is almost no shadow of a woman there.

But honeycomb coal is not the same way to make it, and although it is also tiring, women can still do it.

There are even some sturdy peasant women, with quick hands and feet, who produce more than strong men in a day.

"Lao Liu, both of you and your wife are doing things in Guanshi Mountain, so you don't have to worry about it at all in the future."

"His Royal Highness King Tuochu has recruited our villagers who have eaten the last meal but not the next meal to the mine, and arranged for a few children of our family to enter the school. Today, my Lao Liu put down his words, and my Lao Liu's life will be sold to His Royal Highness the King of Chu. But whenever His Royal Highness the King of Chu says to go east, I will never go west, and whoever dares to get along with His Royal Highness the King of Chu can't get along with my old Liu. ”

When Li Kuan asked Laifu to arrange the production of honeycomb coal, he ingeniously asked him to arrange for Mr. Mengxue of the Chu Wangfu to go to Guanshi Mountain to open a school to teach the children of workers in the mining area.

There is no cold door in the top grade!

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, if ordinary peasant children wanted to study, it was really like a dream, and there was almost no possibility.

Being able to have the opportunity to read and hyphenate has already surpassed 99 percent of the children of peasant families.

It's not like the Ming and Qing dynasties at all, and the children of the poor family can also have the opportunity to study.

Therefore, as soon as Li Kuan's school was established, it immediately conquered the hearts of all miners in the mining area who had school-age children at home.

And for Li Kuan, this is just a gesture.

Of course, the deep meaning behind it is not something that ordinary people can understand.

Anyway, in a short period of time, the construction of the Guanshishan School did not cause any waves in Chang'an City.

On the contrary, various nobles and families have arranged for their children to go to various places in Datang to buy coal mines.

The meat in Chang'an City is not edible, but the soup elsewhere can still be drunk.

No matter how powerful Li Kuan is, it is impossible to monopolize Datang's honeycomb coal business.

As for the patents for honeycomb coal?

Not to mention in Datang, even if it is another thousand years, no one will pay attention.