At this time, the season has not yet entered winter, although it is already cold, but only need to add a layer of clothes, the fire wall and the pankang in this house are burned, the temperature is close to 30 degrees, and it is not long before Li Shimin's face appears beads of sweat.

Unable to stay in the house any longer, the two of them came outside and found a cool and windless place to sweat.

Li Shimin said: "Aiqing's invention is indeed beneficial to the country and the people. I want to promote the world, but I still have doubts in my heart. ”

Li Mu could probably guess, but he didn't say that the boss was going to speak, so wouldn't he be a fool if he didn't let the boss say it at this time, showing that he was smart?

"Coal and stone, no one paid attention to it before, and the amount used was not very much, so it gave people the feeling of being able to pick it up. But if all the people in the world use coal and stone for heating, the consumption must be very large, can this coal and stone be used? ”

Li Mu smiled and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has already done an investigation, and the coal and stone in my Datang territory are inexhaustible. ”

"Really?"

"Seriously."

Li Mu dared to say this, it was not without basis. Of course, he knows that coal is a non-renewable resource, and use a little less. But the premise is how many people use it, in later generations, 900 million people in the north were heated every year, and it has taken more than 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the proven coal reserves are still enough to be used for more than 100 years. You know, this is the annual consumption of nearly 3 billion tons of heating, power generation, and industry.

We can make a rough estimate, remove the ones that are not easy to mine, remove the ones that are too much impurities, and remove all the miscellaneous ones, and only count the kind of open-pit coal mines that Lu Wenfeng said in Yubu Langzhong, how many open-pit coal mines are there? At least a quarter of it! You must know that two of the world's top ten open-pit coal mines are in China, and the coal currently used by Datang is negligible, equal to the unmined state, with at least 100 billion tons of stock.

And how many people are there in Datang at present? Li Mu asked Lu Wenfeng that at the end of the Sui Dynasty, there was a great chaos, soldiers rose everywhere, and the population decreased sharply. In the first year of Zhenguan, the imperial court made a statistic that the population of the country was less than two million households. Even if it is a lowly population, the hidden black households do not exceed 2.5 million.

How many people are there? However, 12 million people, plus lowly and black households, do not exceed 15 million people.

Just such a small number of people is less than the total population of a municipality in later generations. Even if it's open, you don't need money, you use coal every day, how much can you use?

Li Mu didn't bother to calculate, but at least, when he was alive, he couldn't see the day when the open-pit coal ran out. Maybe on the day of the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the open-pit coal will not run out.

In that case, what's wrong with bragging? There's no way to verify it anyway.

In these matters, Li Shimin still believes in Li Mu's judgment very much. He rubbed his hands together, a little excited.

In this world, there are fights and fights, what are you fighting? What's the contention?

To put it bluntly, it's human!

The reason why the gate valve family has so much influence is because there are many of them and they influence more people. Who will determine the emperor's stupidity and wisdom? It's still a human being, people say you're stupid, you are stupid, you say you're virtuous, you're virtuous.

Those who have attained the Tao have much help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help. Where does the help come from? Aren't you human?

Li Shimin could already imagine that as soon as this coal came out, thousands of people would be saved from freezing, and he would inevitably be praised by all the people in the spring of the coming year. Isn't that the beginning of a prosperous age?

The more Li Shimin thought about it, the more excited he became, he clapped his hands, and said: "I have decided, let the Datang Daily print an additional issue, distribute it to all places, forget the iron furnace, and spread the construction method of this fire wall and pankang to the world, and then order the county officials not to stop the people from mining coal and stone, and to let the people no longer be frozen." It will snow in a little more than a month, so we must do it quickly, otherwise my people will be frozen for another year, and I can't bear it! ”

Li Mu glanced at Li Shimin with slanted eyes, and said in his heart, you are really generous enough. But after thinking about it, Li Mu knew what the problem was. In order to fool Li Shimin, he said that coal was too cheap. Since it was something that came out of nowhere, of course he wouldn't care.

Li Mu hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, no! ”

Li Shimin frowned and said, "I love the people like a son, why not?" Or are you reluctant to pass on your secret method to the world? ”

Li Mu sighed and said, "Your Majesty, you have misunderstood the minister. After the minister arrived in Chang'an, His Majesty saw everything he did. When did the minister care about money, when did he care about the secret method? Whatever the minister invented, he was the first to give it to His Majesty and use it for the people. All the money earned by the minister, except for a small part for the family, the rest is also spent on official affairs, which month is not allowed to take out twenty or thirty thousand, this is all real accounts, Your Majesty thinks so much about the minister, the minister is really sad in his heart......"

Saying that, Li Mu raised his sleeves and hid his face to cry. Li Shimin has just played Mingjun, so he naturally has to accompany him to play a virtuous minister, otherwise this scene will not be enough to fight.

Although Li Shimin saw the traces of Li Mu's performance, after thinking about it, Li Mu was really not wrong. Li Shimin saw what he did, and Yuan Tiangang occasionally mentioned a few words recently, but he really couldn't find fault with it. Li Shimin patted him on the shoulder and said, "Aiqing's heart, how can I not know, I am in a hurry, don't care, hurry up and get down to business, why don't you agree with my thoughts?" ”

Li Mu understood the truth in his heart, and said, "Your Majesty, you don't know enough about coal and stone. What the minister just said is that it is easy to pick up, and it is not possible to pick it up everywhere. For example, in this Chang'an City, where do you see coal and stone? ”

According to the minister's understanding, the nearest place to produce coal and stone near Chang'an is Tongchuan County, which is a hundred miles away. Today, the coal and stone used in Chang'an are all transported from there. And how big the world is, this coal and stone are not everywhere. A few days ago, the minister, together with Lu Wenfeng of Yubu Langzhong, found that the distribution of coal and stone was the largest in Hedong, Shaanxi, Jingdong, Jingxi, Taiyuan and other places. This coal, like copper and iron and other minerals, is not available everywhere. ”

The few places Li Mu said were all the locations of the open-pit coal mines that Lu Wenfeng found out according to his instructions. Today's mining technology cannot be mined without open-pit coal mines. Li Mu didn't have the idea of fighting those coal mines, as a socialist successor, he still had the heart to save some resources for future generations.

Li Shimin really didn't understand this situation, so he couldn't help frowning, and said, "Then according to what you said, it is difficult for this coal and stone to be implemented in the world?" ”

"It's not impossible, but it's a bit more troublesome." Li Mu pondered the words and said, "Your Majesty, although it is troublesome, the profits in it are very considerable. ”

"Profit?" Li Shimin became interested, although the surplus of the treasury has been better in the past two years, but his internal funds are still empty, otherwise it would be difficult for him to show his face to ask for a part of the racecourse, and when he heard that there was money to be made, Li Shimin immediately became energetic like a cat that smelled a fishy smell.

"Your Majesty, I checked the code and found that in addition to the salt and iron franchise, I Datang did not establish a law for the mining of various minerals. I wonder if what the minister said is true? ”

Li Shimin nodded and said: "There is indeed no official office in charge of mining in the DPRK and China, and most of the minerals are in cooperation with the locals, and the government collects taxes. This has been the case for all dynasties, so what's wrong? ”

"Your Majesty, it's a big mistake." Li Mu said solemnly: "In the minister's view, minerals are the lifeblood of the country. For example, copper can be minted for money, and even if it is not used to mint money, it has value in itself, not to mention gold and silver. Although the imperial court now collects taxes, the imperial court cannot control the amount of mineral mining, and the taxes collected are not enough. In this way, is it not that the minerals of the state have been delegated to private individuals and controlled by the localities? To put it bluntly, isn't it equivalent to being handed over to the local gate valve families?! ”

"This ......" Li Shimin hesitated for a moment, his brows furrowed more and more tightly. Li Mu is right, for example, today's mineral deposits, except for salt and iron, are all in the hands of local gate valve families. But all dynasties have been like this, can it still be changed?

Li Mu rolled his eyes and said, "Your Majesty, have you ever heard of the phrase Emperor Yuan?" ”

Li Shimin said angrily: "What do you mean! ”

"If there is a copper mine in Qiandong at this time, 200 catties of copper are mined, but the local government conceals it and does not report it, and divides it privately. Can Your Majesty know? ”

"...... this," Li Shimin couldn't answer, of course he couldn't know. But thinking about it, two hundred catties of copper were privately divided in this way, and nominally, all the four seas were his, and he suddenly had a feeling that his money had been stolen.

Li Shimin took a deep breath and said, "Don't say what you have, just say what you think." ”

Li Mu no longer sold Guanzi, and said bluntly: "Another thing is that just like this coal and stone, it was not originally a mineral, but now that there is a new way to use it, it has become a mineral." Your Majesty, you think, Taiyuan Shuozhou is known to be the place with the largest stock of coal and stone in the world, if the locals know the use of coal and stone, wouldn't they not have to do anything, and they will directly become rich overnight? ”

Li Mu paused for a moment, and then added another sentence of heart-wrenching: "Your Majesty, this is all your money." ”

"That's right! If it is not the king's land within the four seas, it should be mine! Li Shimin glanced at Li Mu and said, "What's a good idea?" Come on! ”

"The minister thinks that His Majesty should promulgate the Datang Mineral Resources Law. It was stipulated that all mineral resources, such as iron, copper, gold, silver, etc., were to be owned by the imperial court. ”

Li Shimin frowned and said: "Is this move too much to compete with the people, after all, it has been a ...... for thousands of years."

"Your Majesty, what do thousands of years have to do with the present? Does Your Majesty want to be a rule-abiding emperor in his heart? Isn't His Majesty's appointment of ministers to reform the Ministry of Industry for the sake of reform? ”

"Innovation ......" Li Shimin pondered for a while, and did not express his position easily, but said: "You continue." ”

"First enact a code to take back the minerals to the state. Then set up a special department to manage the world's mineral deposits. At the same time, there is no need to change the status quo in a hurry, and we will continue to cooperate with the local government. However, people who have nothing to do with the local area should be sent from the imperial court to sit in the mining areas and be transferred once a year or every two years to prevent private gain. All exploration, exploitation, production, taxes payable, etc., must be counted by the imperial court. If this is done, the treasury will be greatly filled. ”