Marin is now extremely looking forward to Simon's marriage as soon as possible, because once Simon gets married, he can take the opportunity to launch honeycomb coal. At that time, even if the Lamarck family is angry that Mark Boguo was deceived by Marin, they will not be able to regret it. After all, divorce is very difficult in these years, and it needs special approval from the Holy See.

And if the honeycomb coal is launched too early and angers the Lamarck family, maybe the other party will regret it. And if the Lamarck family repented, Marin dared to guarantee that the old Hoffman would definitely beat himself. Therefore, he is now waiting for Simon to get married and cook the raw rice to maturity, so that he is not afraid that the Lamarck family will regret it.

What Ma Lin didn't know was that in the two years since he left the Ming Dynasty, the whole country of the Ming Dynasty has completely begun to popularize honeycomb coal. Mainly, honeycomb coal stoves are too trouble-free. Clean and doesn't take up space. Moreover, the cost is also very low.

Especially for those who are poor, not taking up space is a very important advantage. You know, you need a firewood room to burn an earthen stove. After all, if you use ordinary haystacks, the firewood and grass are easy to get wet on rainy days, and you can't make a fire for cooking. In ancient times, firewood houses were the standard configuration of ordinary people's homes. In the TV series, people are "locked in the firewood room" at every turn, which shows how important the firewood room is a civil facility. Moreover, the area is not small.

However, for the poor, building a firewood house is a bit of a luxury. Some poor families live in rooms that are not as good as the firewood houses of large families. Many poor people in the city live in the most basic thatched huts, which leak when it rains, where can they have the money to build firewood houses?

And the emergence of honeycomb coal has given ordinary people a very good choice - to save a firewood house. Moreover, burning coal is more expensive than burning firewood and grass!

Therefore, when Zhengde launched the honeycomb coal and honeycomb coal stove in the name of the Salary Saving Division, one of the four divisions of the Inner Palace (Salary Division, Bell and Drum Division, Bao Qian Division, and Mixed Hall Division), it quickly became very popular. First of all, honeycomb coal quickly became popular in Beijing, which has a large population.

However, the use of honeycomb coal is different between large households and poor households in Beijing. At first, those big households also tried to use honeycomb coal for cooking, but they soon found that honeycomb coal was not as hot for cooking, and the stir-fry was not as fragrant as the earthen stove. Therefore, despite the convenience and cost saving of honeycomb coal, those large households still do not like to use honeycomb coal for cooking. However, they were deeply attracted by one function of the honeycomb coal stove - boiling water......

After the honeycomb coal stove plugs the gas hole at the bottom, a tin kettle is placed on top of the stove, which can boil hot water 24 hours a day. And the magnates and scholars of the Ming Dynasty especially like to drink tea, as well as a complete tea ceremony. The honeycomb coal stove can provide hot water 24 hours a day, and the boiling water is smokeless, which is very popular with the Ming gentry class.

After all, there are no thermos for insulation these days. If you want to drink tea, you have to boil hot water freshly, which is very troublesome and needs to wait. The honeycomb coal stove can provide hot water at any time, which is very convenient for the Ming gentry to make tea and entertain guests.

Therefore, although the gentry class and the commoner class of the Ming Dynasty liked the honeycomb coal stove very much, the place where they placed the honeycomb coal stove was different - the commoners put the honeycomb coal stove in the kitchen or at the door for cooking; The gentry and wealthy families of the Ming Dynasty all put honeycomb coal stoves and tin kettles for boiling water in front of the living room. In this way, it is convenient for the maid at home to make tea for the guests.

Even, many ordinary people, because of the honeycomb coal stove can continue to boil hot water, can drink hot water at any time, which is very convenient. What the? You say that no one watches during the day that the honeycomb coal stove will burn dry? It doesn't exist, because, in these days, women don't go out, they generally take care of their children at home, or work as female workers for money, and they happen to be at home watching the stove to prevent the water from boiling dry. As for the big families, needless to say, there are special maids watching the stove, so as to provide hot water to the host or guests to make tea at any time......

In short, the honeycomb coal stove is like this! Even ordinary people can drink hot water 24 hours a day after having a honeycomb coal stove. Before the advent of honeycomb coal stoves, boiling hot water was not only troublesome, but also a waste of firewood, and poor families were not necessarily willing to boil water. Therefore, the honeycomb coal stove can not only reduce the cost of boiling water for cooking, but also provide hot water at any time in the era when there is no vacuum thermos. In this way, it is very convenient for the government to promote drinking hot water or something.

And if there is no honeycomb coal stove, which is an artifact that continuously boils water, even if you promote drinking hot water, poor families may not be willing to waste firewood to boil hot water in order to save firewood. When you are thirsty, you can get some well water and deal with it......

Of course, in ancient times, large families also had stoves for boiling water. It was a small copper stove that burned lumps of charcoal. But charcoal blocks are more expensive, at least much more expensive than firewood. Moreover, those who have eaten barbecue in later generations know that the charcoal-burning grill is also smoky, which greatly affects the atmosphere of the literati...... The honeycomb coal made of anthracite will not smoke and burn, and it can also provide sufficient tea, which is very popular with the literati.

Therefore, in the past two years, the honeycomb coal stove has spread rapidly in the Ming Dynasty at the speed of the spread of the virus. At the beginning, it was Zhengde who ordered people to set up a honeycomb coal stove outside the cabinet door to boil hot water for the cabinet bigwigs to make tea.

As a result, this move quickly attracted the attention of the bigwigs of the DPRK and China......

The cabinet is the gathering place of the most senior group of bigwigs in the Ming Dynasty, and it is full of the top group of bigwigs. In the past, there was also a small copper stove in the cabinet to boil water. However, the small copper furnace has a small amount of water to burn and is expensive.

The honeycomb coal stove provided by Marin to Zhengde and a large tin kettle similar to a kettle in later generations can boil 5 liters of water at a time, which can supply the needs of several cabinet bigwigs at the same time. In this way, several bigwigs in the cabinet only need to share a honeycomb coal stove, and the water boiling guy only needs to be equipped with one. Unlike before, every big guy had to bring his own little guy to boil water, and he had to ask the salary company for so many charcoal blocks.

Li Dongyang was born in a wealthy family in Beijing, and his life has always been exquisite, so he didn't care much about it. But Yang Tinghe was born in the countryside of Sichuan and Shu, and has always cared about people's livelihood. After seeing the advantages of this new type of honeycomb coal stove in terms of cost and use, as a secondary assistant, he vigorously recommended this tea brewing artifact to the hundred officials of Beijing. Then, the honeycomb coal stove first became popular in Beijing, and then became popular in the homes of wealthy households and local officials in Beijing. Then, at various cultural meetings, rows of honeycomb coal stoves used to boil water to make tea also appeared......

In this way, Zhengde did not pay for advertising, and the officials helped to publicize it for free. However, when the officials of the DPRK and China noticed the huge potential of the honeycomb coal industry, they were stunned to find that the coal mines in Jinxi Province, which produced the most coal in the whole Ming Dynasty, were basically controlled by the palace's Salary Saving Division......

The benefits are in the hands of those eunuchs, who dares to rob them? Although Liu Jin has fallen, Zhang Yong and others are not very successful, but Liu Jin's residual power is still there, and the ministers do not dare to compete with the palace for the coal resources of Jinxi Province. Then, everyone began to compete for coal mines elsewhere.

In this way, the Mentougou coal mine near the capital was discovered and occupied and developed by several bigwigs in the DPRK and China. Although the scale of Mentougou Coal Mine is not comparable to the large coal mines in western Shanxi, it can not stand here on the edge of Beijing, the transportation cost is very low, and the price is advantageous. The Datong Coal Mine in western Shanxi is hundreds of kilometers away from Beijing, and there is no advantage in cost.

Subsequently, the Kailuan Coal Mine near Shanhaiguan, which was the first modern coal mine in modern China, was also found by the local garrison generals and became the interests of the military bosses......

In this way, a honeycomb coal industry leveraged the great development of the coal mining industry in the Ming Empire. Although Daming does not have a steam engine industry, it can't stand the large demand for honeycomb coal! With a population of one million in Beijing alone, the consumption of coal is an astonishing number, not to mention that there were so many cities in the Ming Dynasty. Of course, due to the restrictions of transportation conditions, honeycomb coal can only be promoted smoothly in cities near coal mining areas. And those places that are far away from coal-producing areas and have inconvenient transportation cannot promote honeycomb coal for the time being. Because, the cost of land transportation in this era is too pit......