(Happy May Day, everyone!) ）

On the second day, Zhao Dezhao left the group of masons from yesterday to continue the work in the house. He said goodbye to his grandfather and uncle, and then took his cousin back to his house as a guest, and hurried home with these plans in mind.

When they returned, they sat in the donkey cart, which was quite slow, and they both leaned on the donkey cart and took a nap. Suddenly, hearing a noise and crying in front of him, Zhao Dezhao opened his sleepy eyes, and then pushed He Lingtu, who was leaning his head against him.

He Lingtu woke up from his sleep, squinted his eyes and asked, "Brother Zhao, what's the matter?" ”

"It's noisy outside, I can't sleep, it's like something is going on? Let's go, let's take a look. Then Zhao Dezhao ordered the driver to stop the donkey cart, and the two got off the donkey cart arm in arm.

At this moment, a woman on the side of the street was crying, and the crowd was gathered around her.

An elderly man in the crowd said, "Lady of the Cao family, what's the matter?" Why are you crying all the time? ”

The wife, who was called the lady of the Cao family by the elderly man, stopped crying and said, "Yesterday, there was a fire in the house to keep warm, and the house accidentally ran water and burned half of it. ”

The old man continued to ask, "What is your family like?" ”

The lady of the Cao family pulled her hair in a bun with her hand, raised her head, but had a melancholy look on her face, and said: "The valuable objects at home have turned into ashes, and all the deeds have been lost." My mother-in-law has been ill since then, and she is still lying in the intact half of the room. The slave husband died early, and it was just a charcoal fire burning in the house, but he never thought that the husband couldn't get up the next day, no matter how he called, and his body was as cold as the stones in the river. Alas, now I am left with my mother-in-law to live by myself, alas--the slave family really doesn't know what to do? ”

"Well, you're a miserable man, too, and this happens a lot—well, I don't know why? Maybe that's your life. The old man comforted the lady of the Cao family, and then thought that the use of this charcoal was indeed dangerous, and one accidentally lost his life.

Zhao Dezhao heard the woman's words and the old man's emotion, and thought to himself, this is nothing, the city of Tokyo has now begun to burn charcoal, every cold night is a little careless, the house is watery, the eaves are afraid of destruction, the bad ones will die, of course, there are some people who burn charcoal and charcoal, often close the doors and windows of the room, and take care of sleeping, but they don't know that at this moment the house has been planted with a time bomb, often the next day after others find out that it is a dead body, Many people believe that they were killed by demons, because the day before was all alive. For these accidents, of course Zhao Dezhao knows how to defend against them, and the difficulty of the woman in front of her is only half a house, but fortunately, her life is safe, and she can be given some money.

Now that the crying of the lady of the Cao family has stopped, she got up from the ground and patted the dirt on her body, Zhao Dezhao is inconvenient to show up now, so she sent the coachman who drove the donkey to hand over some silver money. After the lady of the Cao family saw the silver handed over by a stranger, she hurriedly knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, "Thank you for this father-in-law, the slave family will be rewarded for being a cow and a horse in the future!" ”

The coachman was at a loss, and looked at Zhao Dezhao and He Lingtu helplessly. Zhao Dezhao gestured with his eyes, and the coachman hurriedly helped up the lady of the Cao family who was kneeling on the ground, and said bitterly: "You have to take this silver money alive." ”

What I saw on the street today is just a microcosm, these problems have always existed, Zhao Dezhao is not happy in his heart, it is good for the poor to have a place to live, and now everything in the family is gone, fortunately I met a kind person like Zhao Dezhao today.

On the way back home, you can smell the smell of burning coal all the time, especially on this cold and biting day, big families burn this kind of coal, the smell of coal is the smell of inferior coal, Zhao Dezhao has always endured this smell.

This smell is naturally not good for the body, Zhao Dezhao has been thinking about such a problem in the donkey cart, it is time to change the charcoal, reduce its harm, and at the same time let the people know that when burning the charcoal, do not leave a crack in the window.

As for oil and natural gas, although some places have been discovered and are being used in this era, Zhao Dezhao knows that those things are beyond the reach of the whip now, and the future is long, and in the years to come, he has the capital and strength to talk about all this, and now, the current coal should be dealt with well, so as not to harm people again.

The donkey cart returned home, Zhao Dezhao and He Lingtu returned to their rooms, and after lunch, Zhao Dezhao left his cousin and went to Steward Li's place.

Zhao Dezhao knocked lightly on the firewood door, and when Steward Li saw his own Shaolangjun, he asked suspiciously, "Shaolangjun is in trouble?" ”

"Zhao'er is planning to tell Steward Li about one thing, it is about Shi Tan, I wonder if Steward Li can fully describe Shi Tan?"

"Shaolangjun is talking about this charcoal, he is asking the right little old man, and the little old man knows!" Then Steward Li told Zhao Dezhao some things about Shitan, and Zhao Dezhao listened very carefully.

The meaning in the words is probably that the carboniferous areas in the Great Zhou are basically within the Qinling Mountains and the north of the Huai River. At that time, there were many carboniferous in the north, and there were large coal mines in Taiyuan Mansion and Jin, Ze and Shi Prefectures (central and northern Shanxi) on the East Zhou River Road, Xiangzhou on the West Hebei Road (now Anyang and Puyang in Henan), Huaizhou (now Qinyang, Henan), Cizhou (now Cixian County, Hebei), Xingzhou (now Xingtai, Hebei), the vast area of Shaanxi Road and Xuzhou on the East and West East Road. Therefore, these resources are not lacking.

Coming out of Steward Li's place, Zhao Dezhao went to the warehouse in the house to check some of the charcoal that had just entered, but he could peek at one or two from the surface, only to see that the charcoal was all lumpy, and the variegated colors were mixed, and it seemed that the purity was not high, Zhao Dezhao picked up a piece and looked at it carefully, this charcoal is all inferior charcoal, even if the smell is pungent and unpleasant when cooking and heating, it is expected that normal people can't stand it.

Zhao Dezhao probably knew a thing or two in his heart this time, knew what was going on, paced out softly, walked slowly and leisurely in the middle of the corridor for a quarter of an hour, and was about to walk forward, when he suddenly saw a stone grinding disc standing at the door of the kitchen in the backyard, and a shirtless man was struggling to pull the grinding disc back and forth, and those coarse objects were ground into fine powder.

After a while, Zhao Dezhao thought of a way - Zhao Dezhao pulled He Lingtu out of the door, and He Lingtu next to him hurriedly asked, "Brother Zhao, what's the matter?" ”

Zhao Dezhao replied: "By the way, go shopping in the market, and you'll know later." ”

In an instant, he left the house in a donkey cart.

Above the market, the smell of burning charcoal is still quite strong, when the cold wind blows, the dust of the charcoal floats high and high, and people are blown to the face of black ash, people see it and smile and ask: "How do you have the posture of a, you don't see your true face at all." Ha ha. ”

"Uh...... Burnt charcoal. ”

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This smell made the two children cover their noses, but what Zhao Dezhao was looking for today was the charcoal on the street, and he came out with a purpose today, only to see that at this time, Zhao Dezhao came up and asked a trader who sold charcoal. The charcoal sold by the shops was in small pieces, and it was broken in pieces.

Zhao Dezhao was very puzzled, and when he saw a shop selling coal, he hurriedly walked over and asked, "Is the store selling coal?" ”

The merchant saw a child standing at the door, with a slightly older child next to him, and said impatiently: "Go, go, don't block the door to do business, two stinky children buy a charcoal?" Jokes-"

"You ......" He Lingtu on the side heard this, and was about to punch, but was stopped by the short Zhao Dezhao.

Zhao Dezhao hurriedly said: "I just asked you if you sell charcoal, is it because I see that your charcoal is okay, and the wood you burn has a taste, I am here to buy some to go back to burn, are you bullying me and laughing?" "The burned wood has a taste, this is just Zhao Dezhao's random nonsense.

"This ...... You kid, uh...... Isn't it just to sell some charcoal, you can take it all. The trader saw that although the child in front of him was small, the momentum emanating from his eyebrows was not comparable to that of ordinary children, so he was forced to sell some with Zhao Dezhao for his livelihood.

Zhao Dezhao bought some and put them on the donkey cart, and asked the vendor reluctantly, "This big brother, your charcoal is really good." ”

The vendor's attitude was very relaxed now, but he shook his head, and on the other hand, he was very unhappy about Fang Cai's matter, and said, "I don't know, Xiao Langjun, please forgive me, Fang Cai ......."

"It's nothing, it doesn't matter. Well, let me ask the shopkeeper, where did you buy this coal? Zhao Dezhao continued to ask.

"Don't hide it from Xiao Langjun, I bought it from the Sun family charcoal shop in Dongshi, the Sun family coal shop has been in Kaifeng City for more than 20 years, and I have been selling these, I have cooperated with him for several years, and I have been doing it all as a branch."

"Thank you for informing us!"

When the vendor said this, Zhao Dezhao learned the important news and instructed a few servants to carry a few baskets of charcoal onto the donkey cart.

Got on a donkey cart, rushed to the kiln, asked the craftsman to make a few pottery molds, there were a few pillars in the middle, and the two halves were together to form a cylinder, and the craftsman made a set according to Zhao Dezhao's analogy, although the style was rough, but it could still be sampled.

Zhao Dezhao and He Lingtu stepped on the donkey cart and immediately returned home.

When they returned to the house, the servants moved all the baskets of coal to the back yard, but instead of moving them to the warehouse, they found a few stone grinding discs, poured several baskets of stone charcoal into the stone pans in turn, and called a few powerful servants in the house to grind on the side.

When He Lingtu saw Zhao Dezhao's instructions, he didn't know much about it, and asked suspiciously: "Brother Zhao'er bought charcoal here, not grain, how can it be ground finely, and the good end of the charcoal is not used, but it is so wasted, what does it look like?" I don't really understand, what are your plans? I can't understand you anymore. ”

After saying this, He Lingtu wanted to go up and stop it, but when he saw Zhao Dezhao smiling on the side, he didn't show anything, and he didn't make much trouble.

Zhao Dezhao, who was calling the servants next to him, looked confident, and said with a smile: "Cousin, why worry, I'll see later!" ”

He Lingtu shook his head helplessly and said, "Okay, you have a lot of ideas, I don't understand, I have to ask for an explanation later." ”

After a while, a large basket of charcoal slag came out, and Zhao Dezhao asked people to dig up a few baskets of loess, and then brought some charcoal from the kitchen room to also press and grind it into powdery particles.

Then let the little servants mix according to the ratio, and it is said that the charcoal occupies the largest weight, eighty percent. The charcoal powder is formed, and the rest is filled with some yellow clay, mixed with some water, and is evenly proportioned, and the iron mold poured out by the blacksmith shop is used to make a cone-shaped object, and then poured out

Drying after molding... Don't do it too dry.

At this time, Zhao Kuangmei came in, and when she saw what Zhao Dezhao was doing, she ran over to take a look. saw that He Lingtu was also coming, and hurriedly asked, "Brother Tu is here!" ”

"I've seen Uncle." Although the two are the same year, they are a generation apart.

Zhao Kuangmei didn't know what Zhao Dezhao was doing when she heard He Lingtu, it seemed to be very interesting, and she wanted to try it herself. Zhao Dezhao said that you are watching from the sidelines, anyway, it will be useful in the future for your place, and this object is called a briquette.

When Zhao Kuangmei and He Lingtu heard the briquettes, they thought they were eating. Zhao Dezhao hurriedly stopped the two from thinking nonsense, and said, "Later, I will let you see such new things, so that you can be amazed." ”

Now that the honeycomb coal has been made, Zhao Dezhao suddenly thought that there was still a briquette stove and forgot to build it, so he sent Li Si'er, a newcomer to the house, to take the drawings of his study and go to the craftsman's house where he had been making utensils.

It took three days for the old blacksmith Wang to make the utensils day and night according to the drawings drawn on the drawings and according to the proportions, and finally the first briquette stove in history was born.

Three and a half days later, after the briquette stove was made, Zhao Dezhao asked his subordinates to try it, which was very good. Zhao Dezhao looked like he was strolling leisurely, as if he had a bamboo in his chest, and then he instructed Li Yuanchang to take a basket of honeycomb coal and prepare a donkey cart, Zhao Dezhao, Zhao Kuangmei and He Lingtu rushed to the east of the city, and along the way they inquired about the whereabouts of Sun's charcoal shop in the east of the city.

About half an hour later, the donkey cart had already arrived at the door of Sun's Shitanpu store. In the cold winter years, the frost and haze for a long time, there are still a lot of people who come to buy carbon, and during this time, Sun's stone pond shop was surrounded by water.

Zhao Dezhao, Zhao Kuangmei and He Lingtu barely entered, saying that the young owner of Guangwei Group asked to see, at this time the shopkeeper in the hall heard the three words of Guangwei Group, and walked over from the hall, and saw the child in front of Guangwei Building that day, no, this is the young owner of Guangwei Building who was shocked by the heavens, and now he is the chairman of Guangwei Group.

Shi Shiran, the shopkeeper of the king, came out, rolled up his sleeves, and said with a smile: "I don't know what kind of wind is blowing today, and the chairman of the owner is blowing here." ”

Zhao Dezhao replied: "I came with the wind, and today I am here to discuss the matter of Shitan, I don't know if the shopkeeper can introduce Master Sun of the East Sun family." When Zhao Dezhao inquired about the Sun family's charcoal shop, he heard that the head of the Sun family's coal shop in Kaifeng today is the older generation of wealthy businessman Sun Ruhai.

Sun Ruhai, a wealthy businessman, is really a real person who has developed from a white-handed family to now occupies half of the sky in the city of Tokyo, except for a charcoal seller who is also a person, called Liu Fang.

In the Three Kingdoms era, Sun Liu was divided and merged, and now there are these two characters in the capital of the Great Zhou Kingdom, Sun and Liu monopolize the large and small coal business in Tokyo City and its surroundings, and the large and small shops in the city are either the Sun family or the Liu family, and the two are both coal traders, so they naturally become competitors in business. Although the two companies are both competitors, they have never harmed the people, and the business they engage in is also courtesy, and they do not kill each other. Therefore, these two can gain a firm foothold in Kaifeng Mansion, but I don't know why the forces behind these two are so evenly matched and stable. There must be a big man behind it.

When the shopkeeper Wang saw that Zhao Dezhao wanted to see his owner, he ran an errand by himself.

Zhao Dezhao thought so, and after a while, Mr. Sun Ruhai, the owner of Sun Dongjia invited by the shopkeeper Wang, came out of the Sun house.

said that Cao Cao came to Cao Cao, a round belly, big belly, comfortable walking, dressed in rich clothes, copper coin patterns, holding two stone balls in his left hand, his right hand sticking to his back, followed by two servants in green clothes, a panting Wang shopkeeper, and a lively little girl.