Chapter 30 The Benefits of Coal

"Laughing at what?" Li Shen secretly glanced around, reached out and pinched Wu Meiniang's buttocks, and asked with a smile.

Wu Meiniang's face suddenly turned red, she glared at Li Shen, glanced at the people who came and went around her, and said coquettishly: "What are you doing?" It's a shame. ”

Li Shen laughed a few times and said, "What are you ashamed of, no one sees it." By the way, where are you going right away? ”

"What do you say?"

Listening to the aggrieved words, Li Shen smiled and said, "Why don't you do it from the palace?" ”

Wu Meiniang shook her head and said, "Forget it, don't disturb your family's life." ”

"What are you talking about, aren't you?"

Wu Meiniang smiled and said, "No, the concubine went back to the palace first." He walked briskly towards the gate of the Ministry of Works.

"I'll send you." Li Shen shouted.

"No need."

Out of the gate of the Ministry of Works, Da Xiong was squatting on the carriage, buttoning his fingernails, and when he saw Li Shen walking out, he hurriedly asked, "Your Highness, where are you going?" ”

"Go see my father and find him something?"

"Do you want a carriage?"

Li Shen shook his head and said, "Let's go with Gu." ”

Along the way, Li Shendu hummed in a low voice, "Today's people, today is really happy...... today" and kept repeating the same words back and forth.

Indeed, he is really happy today, of course, this has nothing to do with the production of glass, but he remembered the coal thing, there are almost 150,000 households in Chang'an City, and the firewood consumed every day is as high as a scary level, and it has become a loess slope in the modern generation, but now there is not, once the coal is mined, the trees and other things are included in the protection of the law, so that the loess plateau will not appear in future generations, and the use of coal is much more convenient than wood.

In the countryside, it basically doesn't matter that there are more straws burned at home, and the appearance of cutting down trees is still a little less, if the towns of Datang are replaced with coal to burn, even if they make a penny from two briquettes, the income from this day can not be imagined, Chang'an City will use at least three or four million, and this day is one or two thousand, and it is every day, fifty or sixty thousand a month, one million and eight hundred thousand a year, what about other places? It's not a problem to make millions of dollars in a year.

Although the current copper coins are minted by the imperial court, the imperial court also knows that it is difficult to recover the money that has passed through the people, but it does not dare to mint copper coins on a large scale, which is easy to cause the depreciation of the currency. The people don't seem to have any money, but they are all scattered, and if they are gathered, this amount is also amazing, and the wealth is hidden from the people, which is not false.

Now the taxes of the imperial court, including support, are all kinds of taxes, and the taxes are low! If there are multiple pillar industries to come out, the people will earn more, of course, they will no longer be so calculated, the speed of the circulation of money is also smooth, and the court has a supporting industry, and can also mint more coins.

"I've seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Gonggong Chen, who was guarding the gate, watched Li Shen walk over slowly, and hurriedly trotted over with a smile on his face, saluted and shouted with a smile.

"Where's my father?"

"Your Majesty is having lunch."

Li Shen nodded slightly.

"Erchen has seen his father."

"Why are you here? Have you eaten it? His Majesty Li Er put down the wine glass in his hand, said with a slight embarrassment, and then explained: "Wine." ”

Li Shen smiled and said, "Try to drink less, the same is true for wine, drinking too much hurts your body." ”

His Majesty Li Er nodded slightly.

"The glass has been produced, come and have a look today." Li Shen sat down, took the handover of chopsticks and said with a smile, took a chopstick dish, drank a bowl of soup, and said: "Father, the son has found another thing that can make a lot of money, at least it can support Datang for more than a quarter every year." ”

"Glass?"

"No, the glass industry is going to be used to build hospitals all over the Tang Dynasty, as well as schools. It is something that must be used every day, it is better than charcoal, not to mention easy to use, and there is very little smoke, and there is basically no smoke coming out of the family cooking. ”

"What?" His Majesty Li Er asked.

In fact, for the burning of charcoal firewood, His Majesty Li Er also felt a little headache, the population gathered in Chang'an City was too much, every day when it was time to cook, the sky of Chang'an City seemed to be shrouded in a thick layer of dark clouds all day long, and the air was also filled with a rich smell of burnt charcoal, even if the imperial city and the people lived so far away, he always smelled this smell.

"It's a black stone, my father should have seen it."

"Black-colored stones?" His Majesty Li Er frowned and began to recall, and then said, "It seems that there is a stone outside Chang'an City that is all black. ”

"Outside Chang'an City? How did I not know? ”

His Majesty Li Er glared at Li Shen fiercely, and said: "At the beginning of the "Book of Wei", (Fu) Jian was not chaotic, the soil in Guanzhong was burning, there was no fire and the smoke was large, dozens of miles away, and the moon was not extinguished. Every time I come to hear the lawsuit, those who make the people complain will hold up a cigarette in the north of the city and watch and record it. If you say that it can be burned as firewood, this should be it. ”

"Do you know where it is?"

"It's not far from the Weishui River."

Li Shen nodded, and said to His Majesty Li Er: "The minerals owned by the Father Emperor Datang originally belonged to the imperial court, and I still hope that you can make a holy decree and explain to the people everywhere that they are strictly prohibited from indiscriminate mining." ”

"Tell me your reasoning?"

Li Shen glanced at him, everything needs a reason, he was really speechless, and said: "Coal plays a great role, at least for the current Datang has an extremely important role, if it is inferred according to the inference in the mind of the son, at least a hundred years, Datang needs it, if the descendants are not angry, this really does not know that until that year, it can be replaced with new energy, it is originally a non-renewable energy, use a little less." It can generate electricity, and there are a lot of things in it that need to be there, how can I explain it, anyway, it's very important, and you can't just let people mine it. ”

Looking at His Majesty Li Er, who didn't speak, Li Shen sighed in his heart, he also knew that he just liked to amuse him when he had nothing to do, and he was really completely speechless, and then said: "Anyway, it's very important, it's very important, at most in two or three years, you can see his importance." ”