"Your Majesty, Weichen still has something to do!" Lord Shen said again.

"Aiqing, please speak!"

Chongzhen is a little impatient, he has to go back and talk to Jiang Qianxi, who is so beautiful!

Just looking for him, the emperor, for a trivial matter of plowing the fields, wasting most of his time, what else is there to do now!

Lord Shen said: "Your Majesty, this worker has started coal, and the workers will pay the workers when they dig coal, and this time they will pay 1.5 million taels of silver, Your Majesty, this silver ......."

"Didn't I give you 1.5 million taels, that's enough!"

Lord Shen is responsible for recruiting workers, Chongzhen did not find a suitable director of the coal plant for a while, the director of the coal plant, naturally if it is a business experience, Chongzhen is already assessing those businessmen in Datong, but he will not find a suitable candidate for a while, so Chongzhen asked Lord Shen to temporarily manage the wages of these workers.

In addition, Chongzhen is also preparing to go on the expedition, and he has been delayed in Datong for many days! These days, the news that the emperor has an artifact has spread all over Shaanxi, as long as he takes Tianziwei around, Li Zicheng, the thief, will immediately become a rat on the street, and everyone shouts and beats!

"That's enough for this month, but what about next month? Your Majesty, if you can't pay your wages, the workers are only afraid that those workers will ....... the word "rebellion", Lord Shen didn't dare to say it.

And the emperor, not in a hurry at all, wandered around Datong with a few women all day long, either to make trouble to watch the drama of the art troupe, or to the mountains outside the suburbs of Datong to see the scenery, and often chatted with those craftsmen, and even played with the craftsmen "mud", and said what "honeycomb coal" was!

Alas, these emperors of the Ming Dynasty have such strange interests, some like to be carpenters, some like to be generals to fight, some like to be Taoist priests, and now there are those who like to play with mud!

The current emperor has won the reputation of loving the people, but can he eat if he loves the people? Don't those workers who love the people ask for wages? Don't look at them happily playing with you in the mud now, you can't get paid!

It's true to say that Chongzhen is playing with beautiful women, after all, Chongzhen is really playing with beautiful girls, but Chongzhen is doing business while playing!

Before the Ming Dynasty, the collection of mining taxes was done by eunuchs, and the eunuchs who opened mines did not understand Kanyu or geology, and mining became a means of extortion across the country, that is, to find rich people, and then tell them that there is a mine under your family, or a mine under the ancestral tomb, and then extort these big families to pay for it, and be boycotted.

Of course Chongzhen can't learn from these eunuchs to do this,

But he himself doesn't understand Kanyu and geology, so what can he do?

Chongzhen doesn't understand, but someone does!

Those craftsmen in Datong have dug coal and know where there are coal mines and where they are better. So Chongzhen chatted with these craftsmen to see who was suitable to be the factory director, and by the way, taught these craftsmen to make honeycomb coal, the main fuel for the people in the future.

When Chongzhen taught the craftsmen to make honeycomb coal, the craftsmen joked in private: This emperor is really interesting, mixing soil, lime, charcoal powder and miscellaneous things into these broken cinders to stir, this emperor is really a trick, coal is not worth much, and so many broken things are added to it, do you want to sell it for more money with shoddy goods?

The emperor also said that this thing can be sold for money, and whoever sells more will be the director of this honeycomb coal plant in the future! The workers all laughed, hehe, this cinder mixed with yellow mud, only a fool would buy it!

But the craftsmen didn't say it, if the emperor wants to play, then play with the emperor! I also pay three taels of silver every month, why don't you play with the emperor!

At this point, the craftsmen are working very hard to please the emperor, maybe they will be like those Taoist priests and craftsmen, and they will be able to increase their official positions in the future.

They all say that there are three hundred and sixty lines, and they don't believe it before.

But in the Ming Dynasty, there were carpenter emperors who were added to the rank of knight because of their carpentry skills, and now there is an emperor who likes to play with mud. It's like you've sold your life, today you can make 500 honeycomb coals, tomorrow I can beat 600!

In this way, the craftsmen "played" a lot of honeycomb coal, which was all black and pressed in the open air!

"Aiqing, rest assured, the money will be available then, didn't I teach craftsmen to make honeycomb coal? It will take a month for this honeycomb coal to dry, and I will also let the merchants of Xuanfu do royal business in Datong a month later, and let them buy this honeycomb coal when the time comes, and the money will be there! Chongzhen said

"Your Majesty, but this honeycomb coal is a slime mixed with mud, and we have a lot of coal in Datong, so we don't need pure coal, who will buy these cinders mixed with yellow mud!" Lord Shen is in a hurry, isn't the emperor playing with mud? I really want to sell these "slime" for money, of course, it's no problem for you to sell a few hundred or thousands of taels, you are the emperor, and the businessman will give you face! But that's a matter of 1.5 million taels of silver!

“......”

Chongzhen didn't know what to refute.

In your eyes, this honeycomb coal is actually a pit coal mixed with yellow mud! This is something invented by people three hundred years later, coal is difficult to burn, so the practicability of coal is very poor, but after the invention of honeycomb coal, coal is more flammable and more resistant than before, and coal has suddenly become the main fuel for human beings! You even say that this is "pit coal"!

Forget it, it doesn't make sense to explain it to them, and when the time comes, take the honeycomb coal and burn it in front of the public, won't you know the benefits of this honeycomb coal? Now the explanation is also a waste of saliva.

So Chongzhen said: "I will go to Liu Fangliang in Yulin, Shaanxi tomorrow, this salary problem is a matter of the coal factory, I will personally deal with it in the future, you just need to pay the first month's salary, just be your governor!" ”

"But the emperor ......" Lord Shen is still very worried, this is not a joke! If you don't pay your wages, these 500,000 people will be fatal if you rebel!

"Aiqing rest assured, when I conquer Shaanxi and Henan, are you still afraid that there will be no silver, wherever Li Zicheng goes, he has robbed so much silver from the vassal king, I think there will be a lot of silver from Li Zicheng!"

Chongzhen was speechless, he could only say this, otherwise Lord Shen would not let him go, this is also Shen Yue's father, he raised these questions out of good intentions, Chongzhen is not angry: "Lord Shen, and I plan to build a school in Datong, you go and do it, in the future, these little things, you are the governor, you just decide." And my lords, you are the parents of the people, you have to go to the people more, you must remember, the top is worthy of me, the bottom is worthy of the people, you should be bold to do it! ”

(End of chapter)