Chapter Seventy-Six: Keeping Warm (1)
After building the honeycomb coal stove and explaining it to the craftsmen, Liu Xie returned to the study and quietly thought about how to protect against the cold.
It's November, and it's not too cold, but in December, the temperature is expected to drop dramatically, and minus 10 degrees Celsius may become the norm.
If the honeycomb coal stove is not manufactured in large quantities and then promoted, Liu Xie estimates that this year will be a disaster year!
The elderly, children, will freeze to death countless times!
Then there was the plague!
The population of the entire Guanzhong may be cut by half!
So now, the most important thing is to help the people keep out the cold.
And in order to make 2 million honeycomb coal stoves in a month, it is necessary to push it into the houses of ordinary people.
This will be a great challenge for the Han family!
First of all, there is the problem of mass manufacturing!
Within a month, to be able to make millions of honeycomb coal, it takes the wide dissemination of technology, and dozens of craftsmen before this are the best candidates for technology teaching.
Then, there is the question of whether the people can accept it, and this is also the most difficult!
After so many years of natural disasters**, the people of the Han family are estimated to have long been shy.
The only surplus food at home was the military rations I opened when I moved west・・・・・・
As for money, first my uncle Emperor Heng and my cheap father Emperor Ling, the two most absurd emperors of the Han Dynasty, were ruthlessly scraped again; Then it was plundered by the Xiliang army.
Therefore, the people nowadays, some of the money left in their pockets is used to save their lives, and they will not use the little money left until the extraordinary period.
As for the newly emerged honeycomb coal stove, the people did not have a high degree of awareness, and they did not have enough early warning of the cold wave, so they asked the people to pay for life. Used to buy a honeycomb coal stove that they are not familiar with, then it is unlikely.
But even if the people are reluctant to buy it, will I watch the people of the Han family being frozen to death?
"Wen Ruo, my inner library. How much money is left? The treasury, how much money is left? ”
Xun You took a bamboo slip from behind him, unfolded it and reported: "Back to the saint, Shaofu has 60 billion yuan of money and 8 million tons of grain. There are countless jewels and jades; As for the treasury money and grain, it is in charge of the big Si Nong Zhang Tao, and Wei Chen really doesn't know it? ”
Six billion dollars!
Eight million quintals of grain!
Liu Xie was directly shocked, what kind of concept is this・・・・・・
When Cheap Dad was in power, the annual tax collection was estimated to be only about 6 billion yuan, which is still the total revenue of the national treasury! And the expenses that are spent, after deducting the consumption of the army, the salaries of officials, the production, storage, and repair of weapons, are not more than one billion dollars a year!
And now. My Shaofu has a wealth of 60 billion, which is ten times the annual financial income of the Han Dynasty・・・・・・
Liu Xie looked at Xun You a little speechlessly, wanting to know the answer.
"Back to Your Majesty, some of this money and grain were left by the first emperor."
"There are also some that were collected from Dong Thief."
Xun You just cautiously twilted and didn't say too much, but Liu Xie immediately reacted: "Well, I know!" ”
Liu Xie at this time. I don't know what to say・・・・・・
When the cheap father was in power, he set up a west garden, sold official beards, and set up various names to loot money.
And collect the money that comes up. Some of it was for his pleasure, but most of it was stored by him in Shaofu.
It is estimated that when the cheap father was the Marquis of the Jie Ting Pavilion, he was poor and afraid, so he developed the habit of miser・・・・・・
Liu Xie seems to remember that when the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, the treasury was very empty. At that time, the great Si Nong Zhang Tame, an old man in his seventies, forced his cheap father to take out his pocket, take out the palace money and the good horses of the West Garden and give them to the sergeant.
Therefore, in the past 20 years of harvesting, there is a lot of money in Shaofu, so much that it makes all the officials of the Manchu Dynasty red!
After that, Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang and plundered the Sili area, and millions of people's money and food fell into Dong Zhuo's pockets; Then there was Dutian some time ago, the Haoqiang of the four counties of Guanzhong, but he was directly wiped out by the three generals of Huangfu Song, and all the money and grain obtained were also contributed to Dong Zhuo.
Then Dong Zhuo was killed by me, and his private vault was opened again!
However, Dong Zhuo's private treasury has so much money and grain, why would the hundred officials put him in the Shaofu instead of being state-owned?
As if he understood the question of the Son of Heaven, Xun You replied with some embarrassment: "Back to Your Majesty, there are four million of them, but Xu Chang's servants suppressed the hundred officials, and the money and grain plundered by Dong Thief in the past were owned by Shaofu~~~"
"Is it all?"
"If you go back to the Holy Heaven, it's all!"
slapped his forehead, Liu Xie really wanted to give Xiao Yi a big compliment!
No matter what dynasty you are in, the one who has soldiers and money is the uncle!
And now Liu Xie, with an army of more than 200,000, 60 billion money, and 8 million loads of grain, can be said to be the master of the uncle!
Because the Han dynasty is now declining, many prefectures and counties do not pay land rents, oral taxes, calculation taxes, and more taxes, and their finances may be paralyzed in the future.
Even the treasury can't come up with the money for the hundred officials, and it needs to pay the salaries of the hundred officials from the Son of Heaven out of his own pocket・・・・・・
Therefore, it is estimated that in the future, the hundred officials will kneel in front of the Son of Heaven and sing about conquest!
Because of their salary cards, Liu Xie needs to use Shaofu's money to call them・・・・・・
If they want to come to the palace of hundreds of officials, they don't dare to do it, otherwise how can they support their families?
With this 60 billion money, Liu Xie no longer had any doubts at the moment, and said with a stroke of his pen: "Xun You, mobilize craftsmen, gather workers, I want to see the production of two million honeycomb coal stoves and hundreds of millions of honeycomb coal within half a month." ”
"Can we increase the workshop in Guanzhong and increase the daily wages of the workers?"
"Weichen ~~~ take the order!"
Xun You almost gritted his teeth and took the order.
Xun Wenruo, he is really a genius in the world!
After Liu Xie sighed in his heart, he asked again: "Wen Ruo, how are the Mo Dao, Su Tie Dao and Ming Guang Jia prepared now?" ”
This is also the reason why Xun You gritted his teeth, now Shaofu is making every effort to make new weapons and armor for the Son of Heaven, if he is adding a honeycomb coal stove, he is really afraid that he will not be able to bear it!
However, as a courtier, he himself wants to share his worries for the monarch: "Back to Your Majesty, the three thousand Mo knives have been made, and there are about 100,000 sets of Su Iron Knife and Mingguang Armor now~~~"
"Yes! Very good! ”
Liu Xie grabbed Xun You's hand and patted it with great satisfaction: "Wen Ruo is really hard~~~"
This is true, from the very beginning, Xun You secretly ordered from the Son of Heaven to unite with the Gongwei Division, carrying Dong Zhuo behind his back, and under the cover of Jia Xu, he wantonly bought workshops to manufacture Su Iron Knife and Mingguang Armor.
In half a month, 100,000 sets of armor were released, which can be described as a magnificent achievement! (To be continued.) )