Zhu Guoqiang didn't know how hot the post was, but one thing is for sure, the weather is getting warmer day by day. As the weather warms up, the area around King Dewang's Mausoleum becomes more lively. At this time, the area around the royal tomb was a busy construction site. Earlier, tens of thousands of strong men dug out a city foundation half a zhang deep along the mountain range, and then tamped the foundation with manpower, and paved a few feet long stone as the city foundation.

When he was a soldier to defend the city, he not only gave a reward of silver, but also rewarded the land and promised his daughter-in-law. Even if it's now, not to mention that you can pay 30 yuan for a day of food, you can rest for two days if you work for five days, even if you don't work for these two days, you will get 10 yuan.

To work for such a kind prince, who is not working hard, not only does he feel tired, but he is even afraid that he will do less, sorry for the prince.

There is no way to let the prince be kind.

People have a rod in their hearts, they can weigh good and bad, at least for these ordinary people, they always know how to repay their kindness in their own way.

However, today's busy construction site is suddenly much quieter, although people still ram the rammed earth of the city wall with ramming plates, but the work near the city gate has stopped, and the craftsmen who originally worked quickly will sit idle near the city gate, chatting without a word, and occasionally everyone will look into the distance, as if waiting for something.

No bricks!

It is difficult for a good woman to cook rice, and without masonry, she will naturally be able to build the city wall again.

The sudden news made Zhu Guoqiang stunned and surprised.

"How so? Isn't there a brick kiln in the vicinity? ”

The Qing army's invasion destroyed almost all the villages in Fangyuan Baili, but the brick kilns in Fangyuan Shili and Eight Townships were intact, and there were still a large number of bricks and tiles in the brick kilns that had dried up, and only the bricks needed to be burned out to build the city.

"Back to the world, it's not that there are no bricks, it's that there are no reeds to burn bricks."

Li Shiji rubbed his waist and said,

"Burning bricks either rely on firewood, or burn reeds, when the first Jiannu entered the Kou, a fire burned a lot of reeds, the reeds are naturally enough, we Jinan on the mountain, when it was also lush and overgrown with big trees, but then the number of people is increasing, the trees on the mountain are used after hundreds of years, not to mention the beams of the house, that is, there is not much firewood for picking, in the past, the brick kiln was burning reeds on the side, and there were woodcutters from the firewood picked from the mountains on the other hand, and now there are no people in this garden for hundreds of miles, so, When the reeds on the kiln are burned, there will naturally be no firewood to burn the bricks......"

As an official of the palace, Li Shiji himself was born in the Ministry of Industry and was dedicated to repairing the palace. But he is no stranger to building a city, and the parapet wall of this royal tomb is also handled by him, but it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, no bricks, no firewood, he naturally has nothing to do.

Belch......

No firewood to burn bricks?

"Then why don't you burn bricks with coal?"

Coal?

Li Shiji looked at Shizi puzzled, his eyes full of doubts!

"Can coal burn bricks?"

Li Shiji's rhetorical question made Zhu Guoqiang stunned, when he was in Jinan, he learned from Song Xuezhu's report that the fuel in Jinan City included coal, and there were millions of catties.

"If coal can make iron for cooking, why can't you burn bricks?"

In addition to such a rhetorical question, Zhu Guoqiang suddenly remembered the process of Liu Hongsheng's fortune in the 20s of another world, when Liu Hongsheng, the agent of Kaiping Coal, found that there were many kiln factories around Shanghai, and those kiln factories originally used firewood and grass as fuel, so he sold coal to the kiln factory, but many people did not believe him at that time, in order to make people trust him, Liu Hongsheng began to do on-site experiments, Liu Hongsheng persuaded a lime kiln owner to modify the grate, test to burn flat coal, if the coal test is successful, the burned things belong to the kiln owner, if it failsLiu Hongsheng's own losses, after the test kiln owners found that the cost of using Kaiping coal is significantly lower than the cost of using firewood and grass, and finally triggered a large number of kiln owners to start using Kaiping coal, the coal market was instantly opened, with the support of good performance, Liu Hongsheng was promoted to comprador by Kaiping Mineral Company in one fell swoop, thus becoming the "coal king".

In the twenties, firewood and grass were still used in the Shanghai kilns, and as for this era......

"If you don't have enough firewood, let's try to burn it with coal!"

But when Li Shiji passed the instructions of the prince to the old Ding Tou, the manager of the brick kiln, he waved his hand again and again.

"Li Gongzheng, the prince of the world, the coal fire is too poisonous, it burns too hard, it burns Taishang Laojun, there is a disaster, and the brick kiln will collapse! Coal must not be used in this kiln! ”

"Burning Taishang Laojun?"

"Yes, yes, Lord Shizi,"

The old man who bowed his body, when he saw the prince of the world, he was frightened and didn't dare to come out, as if the prince in front of him was not the prince of the world, but a fairy. Yes, the prince himself is a god,

"The world, the son, this coal-based fire poison, in case it burns Taishang Laojun, when the time comes...... The main stove is good for cooking, but if it is used to burn the kiln, it is easy to burn the kiln down......"

What is burning Taishang Laojun!

Thinking that when Liu Hongsheng was selling coal, he also renovated the kiln, so Zhu Guoqiang said directly.

"Oh, since that's the case, then I'm going to try it, why is it too good to burn it with coal!"

"The prince?"

Just as he was about to persuade, Lao Ding Tou remembered that the prince in front of him was the true monarch of Huode, what else could he be afraid of?

Could it be that the true monarch of Huode wants to fight the old king!

My God, this is a fairy fighting method!

The heart of the old Ding Tou for no reason couldn't help but tremble, and while being grateful to fear, there was also a burst of curiosity in his heart.

Not to mention a craftsman like Lao Dingtou, together with a dignified eight-grade official like Li Shiji, when he heard the words of the prince, the same thought came to his heart.

"Obediently, the prince of the world is going to fight with the immortals!"

"Shi, Shiziye, you, do you really want to try?"

Li Shiji asked a little nervously.

"Try? Why not give it a try? ”

Zhu Guoqiang asked with a smile. How do you know if you can't do it if you don't try?

Science itself needs to be experimented, what is there to hesitate about.

"Really, do you want to try?"

Swallowing his saliva, Li Shiji suddenly had the idea of wanting to stop Shizi......