The shopkeeper treated Li Kou and the others very attentively.

Those were two really extravagant people.

It is clear that they are homeless, but they do not eat the benefits of Zhang Dahu.

In the heart of the shopkeeper, this is a person who "can achieve great things".

He knew that Zhang Dahu received half of the money from the glass cup, not to mention it.

"If you are generous, then the water cup should also be able to be bought, with this glass cup, why not be afraid of going to the horse and not doing things for him?" The shopkeeper's ushering in to the eyesight is quite expensive.

He saw that the young man was not a pick-and-choose.

Li Kou was a little curious, but the candles were lit in his room, but the oil lamps were lit in the lobby.

Three huge oil lamps can also provide palm-sized light.

Li Kou watched the two gangs of idlers move tables and chairs over, and was very curious.

It turns out that there are already modular furniture in this era?

In his opinion, the rectangular and square table is combined into a large table, but when it is separated, it is a small number, isn't that a combination of furniture? Although it is quite different from later generations, he used modular furniture at home when he was a child, and there are a lot of high and low cabinets and the like-

"Those mirrors can come in handy, but I'm afraid people don't love furniture." Li Kou thought to himself when he thought of those big mirrors.

The tables and chairs were neatly arranged, and Li Kou looked at Zhu Wen and asked him to invite those people to take a seat.

At this time, Li Kou looked at the meal carefully, and there were stir-fried vegetables, but looking at the oily ones, it was not very much to his liking, and there were still a few meat dishes that were not a little green, but the two large pots of noodles were cute.

Zhu Wen invited those people to take a seat, and since he was accompanied by the head of the main seat, Li Kou did not shirk, sat at the head, reached out to grab the chopsticks, and said, "I'm hungry, no matter how much." ”

But he carefully took out a little chili noodles from his pocket, there was no chili seeds in them, sprinkled them on the noodles carefully, and turned around and asked the shopkeeper: "Is there salt and vinegar?" ”

The salt is coarse salt, which is extremely ugly, and you can know the taste when you see the sand grains in it.

Vinegar is no different from the afterlife.

Li Kou got up and said, "I'll go get some salt from my own brought." ”

He remembered that in this era, only salt and iron were monopolies, so he said: "Buy some coarse salt and make some homemade." ”

After a while, he brought some salt and pepper from a canned bottle, and Li Kou sprinkled some more on the noodles.

Everyone was dumbfounded, and the shopkeeper came over and said, "Where did Xiao Langjun get such fine salt?" ”

Of course, I found it in a small store.

There is really a lot of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and Li Kou is afraid that he will not be able to eat it all after eating it for more than ten years.

Li Kou said: "Buy your own one." ”

Zhu Wen looked at the salt and pepper red and very cute, and Li Kou didn't shirk when he shared some with him.

It's just that he couldn't bear it anymore and coughed dangerously.

Li Kou said: "This thing can keep out the cold, but I can't lack it for a day, you just don't get used to it." ”

He poured some meat into the bowl and covered it with another layer of spicy seeds.

Liang Deng and the others looked at it strangely, but their eyes were on the two glass bottles.

Liang Deng timidly reached out to touch a bottle of salt and pepper, and Li Kou simply pushed it to himself.

"What a treasure!" Liang Deng lined his sleeve before he picked it up and waited to look at it carefully.

Li Kou's windswept appearance was not smiling, but Zhu Wen was a little swindling even though he was extremely hungry, and he taught the shopkeeper to look at it twice, and hurriedly ordered the helper: "Don't look at it, it's a treasure, go get some noodle soup." ”

Li Kou said: "That's how to eat. ”

After eating a good meal, Li Kou picked a little more barbecue, ate two bites of salt and pepper and didn't eat more.

The few carefully placed the glass bottles, and Liang Deng carefully asked "how is the price?"

This is a businessman who knows that copper money is hard to earn, and he only asks about the price and is not greedy.

Li Kou didn't say anything, seeing that Zhu Wen was still eating, he took out a little tea from his pocket - thirty yuan a pound of Tieguanyin, and there are many in the store - and asked the helper to make a cup of tea, and talked to Liang Deng in his hand: "What does Mr. Liang do for a living?" ”

Liang Deng said: "Don't you dare to be called Mr. like this, just call me Liang Da - I am from Huating County, and my family makes a living selling carbon." ”

Huating County was the largest and best coal-producing area in Gansu in later generations, and it was also cultivated like high-quality coal.

Li Kou said: "The weather has been cold since the beginning of winter last year, I think it's a good business, right?" ”

Liang Deng sighed and patted his thigh and said: "Where is the young gentleman, our Weizhou's carbon burns fast and is not resistant to bumps, except for the weapons prison, it is more important, where can ordinary people afford it." In recent years, the carbon of Yanyan Road is in short supply, and the carbon of our Huating County is only bought by the eunuchs of Weizhou counties, ordinary people, go up the mountain in autumn to cut firewood, just want a cold winter and not freeze to death, where to buy the charcoal, not to mention that it burns too fast ordinary people don't love. ”

Li Kou secretly thought: "This is the era of solving the problem of survival, in the future generations, the combustion value of Huating coal is higher, but it burns faster and uses more, of course, it is not loved by ordinary people." ”

But he wanted the coal, which burned higher.

The cold wind blew the door curtain and shook, Li Kou looked out, at this time the streets outside had already been covered by heavy snow, but the wind was not so cold, after all, it was the season of spring.

Li Kou said: "How much does Mr. Liang produce charcoal per day?" ”

Liang Dengxi said: "Shaojun wants to use carbon? ”

Li Kou said: "If you buy a house this year, you will definitely live next year." ”

Liang Deng couldn't help but be disappointed: "The small carbon pit of the Sprinkle family also produces ten stones per day, and it takes two or three days to go back and forth, plus the cost of the road, three trips in a month, which is enough for a family for three years." ”

Li Kou said: "Maybe there will be a lot of people in the village in the coming year——"

As soon as he said this, Zhu Wen immediately said: "Does Da Lang want to build a village?" ”

Li Kou didn't know the difference between a village and a village, so he said that he was "still thinking about it".

Liang Deng kindly persuaded: "Even if you have money to build a village, you can't make every household use carbon, one stone of charcoal is only for a family for a month, even if Shaojun is rich, he can't support it." ”

Li Kou asked, "How much is a stone?" ”

"The ancient measurement method is called four even, the algorithm in the early years of the dynasty, one stone should have two hundreds, ten buckets, and one hundred liters, and now there are people who have property to collect rent, and the government collects rent, all of which are calculated by private fighting, so it is impossible to say exactly how much, only when there are 130 to 40 catties." Liang Deng laughed.

Li Kou said: "I'm afraid it's not enough for half a month, and it's only half a month to save some." ”

Several people looked sideways and were surprised, what kind of life did this person live?

A stone of charcoal is only for half a month, and the extravagant characters in Weizhou are nothing more than that.

Liang Deng said again: "That can also be relieved by toner." ”

Pulverized toner is coal, right?

Li Kou asked if it was true, so he asked the price.

Liang Deng said: "This is cheap. ”

He didn't say the price, but only the approximate range: "A stone of carboniferous in the winter moon must be no less than 100 yuan." ”

Li Kou couldn't calculate how much a pound was, and he didn't understand ancient weights and measures.

At this time, there was no hurry, Li Kou asked about the popularity of coal.

Only then did he open his eyes, it turned out that in the Northern Song Dynasty, coal was already an important fuel.

Liang Deng said: "I make a living from the charcoal business, but I also know some general information. Legend has it that in the Tang Dynasty, there was a shortage of timber in Jingzhao Mansion, and the officials and people had no firewood available in the winter moon, so there were loggers who entered the imperial city. Since the founding of the dynasty, the wood of the Beijing division is less, every winter month, the capital must have a firewood shortage, the woods near the Beijing division of the Renzong Dynasty were cut down for the officials and the people, which led to a firewood shortage in the whole city in a winter month, the people of the Beijing division for the winter, even the mulberry and jujube trees were cut down, and there were more soldiers who rushed into the village to forcibly cut down the mulberry and jujube trees, at that time, the imperial court stipulated that the mulberry trees of others were cut down by forty-two feet, and the three copies were executed, which also failed to resist the forced felling and stealing of the cut, and even the emperor's mausoleum was cut down in a helpless place. ”

Li Kou couldn't understand the firewood famine, but he knew that he would only encounter it in the future.

He asked Liang Deng: "Sir, this is the reason for the popularization of coal, right?" ”

Liang Deng said: "That's the case, the young monarch doesn't know, and the imperial court also has measures, such as Changping to reserve firewood and charcoal for winter, but firewood and charcoal are inconvenient to transport, and the size is large, and the capital has a population of 1.5 million, where can firewood save the famine?" Don't talk about it far away, just say that a hundred years ago, in the fifth year of Dazhong Xiangfu, the charcoal of the Dongyue Jingshi reached 200 Wen per scale, which was only used to boil a pot of water. At that time, the imperial court allocated 400,000 scales of charcoal to help the famine, but that was only a drop in the bucket. Legend has it that in the winter of the fourth year of Jiayou, there were people who threw themselves into the river and hanged themselves in the rain and snow in Beijing, and the Shangyuan Lantern Festival that year was not held. ”

Li Kou nodded and said: "The problem is to force reform, the imperial court should use the charcoal, is this charcoal discovered by the dynasty?" ”

"That's not it." Zhu Wen watched the idle man collect the dishes and chopsticks, poured some hot soup from a bowl at this time, took a sip and said with a smile, "In the Tang Dynasty, many ordnance superintendent liquor shops used charcoal. It's just that the national dynasty has been promoted, and now the Beijing division is close to the left, there are Taiyuan Mansion on Hedong Road, Xiangzhou, Huaizhou, Cizhou on Hebei West Road, and Xingzhou, these are all places where coal is produced, and Shaanxi Zhulu also has coal production, and there is a large place for coal production on Yanyan Road. Weizhou coal, mostly used in Yanyan Road, Huating coal operators are very few, that is, the government implements the decree, the carbon merchant tax is reduced, and even the cost of leasing the carbon pit in the carbon mountain is reduced, and no one starts, that is, it is also to join forces with the military superintendent, the hotel and other huge demand, and the ordinary carbon merchant can not gnaw this bone. ”

Is it?

Li Kou was noncommittal, but it was a good business.

Since the government has allowed and even encouraged private investment in the coal industry, and the coal mining technology of the Northern Song Dynasty should also be available, what needs to be done now is to accumulate funds and find the right time to eat a piece of coal.

After all, now that there are crops in suitcases, the problem of eating is solved first, and then it is time to think about fuel.

Li Kou said: "If you have capital, you can try ......."

Before he finished speaking, Zhu Wen interrupted the conversation and said, "Da Lang has high hopes for his family, how can he study hard?" ”

Li Kou didn't say more, what he was thinking about was the plan after the foothold.

With food and clothing, it's time to improve living conditions.

But can these plans be allowed in this day and age?

If you can't allow it, then change the rules?

Or even change the way of the world?

The Song Dynasty is not very fun, he is a thorn in his body, at least when he wants to live and work in peace and contentment, he will not be patient.

So, when the world is not mellow, then unveil it?

Li Kou only said that this matter should not be decided first.