Back in Datong Mansion, Chongzhen immediately asked Lord Shen to call all the merchants in Datong, and he asked these merchants to sell honeycomb coal for him!

When he came to Datong, he saw that although Datong produces a lot of coal, it mainly burns firewood.

In the Ming Dynasty, although ordinary people have begun to burn coal, but because coal contains sulfur, it produces poisonous gas when burning, and it is also very troublesome to start a fire, so coal has not been used in large quantities in households, only the smelting furnace of the workshop and the poor people who have no money to buy firewood will use coal instead.

To what extent did the ancient people need wood?

In ancient times, emperors often put firewood and grain together during relief, just to avoid starving people having rice and no firewood, so the records of disaster relief in the history books are often as follows: the emperor gave the people "firewood rice", "woodwoody rice", "salary millet", and "woodwooded grain".

In the Ming Dynasty, the population increased dramatically, a large amount of vegetation was cut down, and it was the famous Xiaoice freezing period in history, and in winter, many people often froze to death, and the demand for charcoal firewood was higher.

To what extent is the timber being cut down?

According to historical records, the emperor can use 300 catties of charcoal a year, 110 catties for the queen, 30 catties for the princess, and 10 catties for the emperor's grandson. So in the middle of the night, the emperor was often woken up by the cold air! Not to mention the common people, it is common for people to freeze to death!

You must have heard of the "Three Norths" shelterbelt project.

In fact, during the Jingtai period of the Ming Dynasty, the area of Juyong Pass and Yanmen Pass in the north of Beijing was originally densely forested. There is no need for any "three-north" shelterbelt project at all. It is said that the forest at that time "stretched for thousands of miles", "far and near were blocked by people, and people and horses could not cross it", which was a natural barrier to prevent Mongolian iron horses. However, due to the dramatic increase in population, a large number of felling was directly cut to flat land, almost making Beijing desertified.

This is evident in the human demand for energy.

Lord Shen is very helpless, the silver has not yet landed, and the emperor wants him to find another group of merchants to come to the pit, but helplessly, the emperor can only do what he orders.

Lord Shen asked his subordinates to find the merchants of Datong, but after looking for a long time, only eight small businessmen were found, the reason is that these officials heard Lord Shen say that the emperor wants to sell honeycomb coal, who doesn't know that the honeycomb coal is mixed with yellow mud and water, coal is not easy to burn, and now it is mixed with yellow mud and water, and it can burn a fart!

Therefore, some businessmen with the background of officials' family members know about it, and rich businessmen without official background have also been arrested by bribing officials.

The remaining eight small businessmen could only be caught with a bitter face.

As soon as Chongzhen saw the bitter gourd faces of these eight small merchants, he knew what was going on, and asked Jinyiwei, and sure enough, it was the same as he guessed.

"What's your name?" Chongzhen asked.

"Back to the emperor, the little one is called Qiao Fugui, and he is a clay seller!"

"Back to the emperor, the small one is called Hou 30,000, and he sells small noodles!"

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Eight people introduced them one by one, either selling toys or food, all of which were very small businesses on the street.

Qiao Fugui, will it be the ancestor of the Qiao family, Chongzhen remembered Qiao Guifa, the ancestor of the Qiao family, in his previous life, and a native of Qiaojiabao in Qi County, it should not be.

It just so happens that these eight people have no background, so let them help me sell coal, and I can feel more at ease.

After the business is booming, other people will definitely be jealous and will attack these eight people, and if these eight people want to do a good job in business and live a good life, they can only rely on him, the biggest behind-the-scenes boss, and they will not dare to make more profits.

"Do you know what I'm looking for you for?"

"Your Majesty, we are just a small business, and we are afraid that we will delay the emperor's big business." Qiao Fugui and the others said that they didn't know anything, and when the officials went to arrest the merchants, they all said that they would sell honeycomb coal to the emperor!

Coal is not easy to sell, let alone honeycomb coal mixed with yellow mud and water, so these officials did not look for businessmen who have a relationship with them, and found them eight small businessmen.

Chongzhen doesn't talk nonsense, it's useless to explain more, it's better to demonstrate directly.

So the first batch of honeycomb coal was brought over, a few pieces of burning firewood were placed underneath, and the honeycomb coal was placed on top of the firewood.

Qiao Fugui, Marquis Sanwan and others covered their noses when they saw it, the emperor is looking for the rhythm of death.

Come on, now even this honeycomb coal mixed with mud can't be sold!

Seeing this, Shen Yue hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, don't you know, this coal is poisonous, and it is mixed with yellow mud and water, I'm afraid there will be a lot of smoke, and it won't be good if it hurts the dragon's body, or you go out first, and then come in after the coal burns." ”

Before Shen Yue finished speaking, the honeycomb coal actually burned!

What's going on?

Everyone was stunned! What will this coal ignite? And it burns more vigorously than coal, cleaner, and has no other peculiar smell.

"I added some things to this honeycomb coal, which makes it easier to burn and doesn't smell bad."

Now the crying face has become an errand and official who catches merchants, such a good thing, why didn't you find your own people, one tael of silver can buy 20 catties of charcoal, if 100 catties of honeycomb coal are sold for 1 tael of silver, how much silver can this Datong's coal sell!

One person can make more than 300 catties of honeycomb coal a day, that is more than 3 taels of silver, a month is 100 taels, Datong now has 500,000 people digging coal, a month is a big business of five million taels of silver!

Such a big business, just let it to others!

Chongzhen didn't have time to look at the bitter gourd faces of those people.

In order to test, he burned more than two dozen pieces of honeycomb coal at once. Now all this coal is burning in the furnace!

Burning so much honeycomb coal, it's too wasteful, Chongzhen remembers that there is a honeycomb coal stove, two pieces at a time are enough, it can be burned for half a day, just enough for ordinary families to stir-fry and cook rice. Next time, let the craftsman make a batch of honeycomb coal stoves and sell them, it will also be a lot of silver!

"Bring the pot, I want to boil water!" Chongzhen said, such a large honeycomb coal, boil a few pots of water in a while, take a hot bath, and it will not be wasted! What a day on the expedition, I haven't taken a good shower!

Lord Shen hurriedly asked the messenger to bring the pot and filled it with a large pot of water.

The honeycomb coal fire was very strong, and in less than a quarter of an hour, a pot of water boiled! Chongzhen asked the messenger to replace it with another pot of water.

Chongzhen suddenly thought that the people of Datong were now frozen, so he said, "Lord Shen, you take the servants and workers, and each household divides two pieces of honeycomb coal, and tells them how to burn it!" "Two pieces are enough, now the people of Datong are digging coal for him to make honeycomb coal, and there is a lot of silver!

I'm going to sell it to them when I go back!

"Qiao Fugui, Hou Sanwan, and your ......" Chongzhen forgot the names of the others, "Do you think I can sell this coal?" ”

"Yes, yes!" Qiao Fugui and the others kept nodding, this honeycomb coal is much better than charcoal, the firepower is so strong, and there is no peculiar smell, now it is going to be released!

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