The smoke that once made Xu Yang hate it looked so refreshing at this time.

The steam wood car is not running fast, the noise is very loud, a worker is constantly stepping on the bellows, smoke comes out of the chimney, everyone is surprised to look at this piece of wood and iron monster, far away, as if afraid of this thing suddenly storming, only Xu Yang did not feel afraid, he saw this thing as if he saw a Mercedes-Benz Ferrari driving, this thing is a sign of modernization.

The charcoal in the steam engine had been completely burned, and the smoke was thin, and the rumbling, rubbing, and boiling sounds showed the vigorous vitality of this monster.

Foreman Cai on the side looked at his works with satisfaction and accepted the review, he struck iron all his life, and felt that the most perfect artwork in his life was this steam wood car.

He cautiously approached Xu Yang's side, his rickety back bent even more, and said, "I don't know if the lord is still satisfied." ”

Xu Yang looked at the steam wooden car that had run out for dozens of meters, and said with fascination: "Satisfied, satisfied, quite satisfied, Foreman Cai, all the craftsmen who participated in the research and development of the steam car will each be rewarded with five yuan." ”

Foreman Cai's gray beard was about to float up, and he kowtowed very happily: "Lord Xie." Then, as if he remembered something, he said worriedly: "Sir, this steam car is good, but the consumption is also very great, every time it starts, it consumes several catties of fine charcoal, such an expense is too expensive, it is better to use a carriage, so this thing can only be a toy for the nobles to play with." ”

When Xu Yang heard this, a confident smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, still using charcoal? It is no wonder that because most of the coal was buried deep underground, the ancients before the Song Dynasty could not mine it with the technology of the time. The fuel is mainly wood and straw, especially ordinary people can only burn straw and straw for cooking and heating. Princes and nobles used artificially processed "charcoal" as fuel.

"You don't have to worry about this, after a while a new type of fuel will appear, the price of which is dozens of times cheaper than charcoal." Xu Yang smiled and touched his chin, downloaded the map of China's coal mines from the Internet, and found that the coal reserves in the surrounding areas of Chang'an are particularly large, and Weibei from Hancheng, Pubai, and Tongchuan, including the Shenfu coalfield in northern Shaanxi, are all semi-open-pit coal mines with thick coal seams, shallow burial, extremely large reserves, and particularly good mining conditions.

As long as coal can be cultivated in these coal mines, and some coking plants can be established, the industrial era will begin to open its arms.

"Dozens of times cheaper than charcoal?!" Foreman Cai's eyes glared at the boss, and he thought that the Hou Ye in front of him was a slip of the tongue.

"Yes, it is at least dozens of times cheaper than charcoal, a specially processed incineration material." Xu Yang nodded very seriously.

Foreman Cai suddenly felt that what he had seen and heard in half his life was not as good as what the Hou Ye in front of him was, and he had never heard of the burning material that was dozens of times cheaper than charcoal, and suddenly remembered something, Foreman Cai raised his head and said: "Master Hou, are you talking about wood and straw?" That thing can't burn, it can't bring this steam engine at all. ”

Xu Yang shook his head and said with a smile: "Of course wood and straw are not good, I'm talking about burning coal." ”

Zheng Wen, who had been listening to the conversation next to him, suddenly interjected: "Coal? Is what Hou Ye said Shi Ni? ”

Xu Yang looked at the most outstanding and studious young man in his craftsman team, nodded and said, "Exactly, it is also called graphite, black stone, and so on." ”

Zheng Wen arched his hand thoughtfully: "But Hou Ye, I heard that this thing is extremely difficult to find, it is hidden underground, and its price is not as low as Hou Ye said, if it is made into a black coal carving, the price will be doubled." ”

Xu Yang said with a smile: "As a descendant of the Ghost Valley, you Hou Ye and I still have the ability to find minerals. ”

Watching the first drive of the steam car in the fiefdom, Xu Yang was elated, but before his ass could sit firmly, the holy decree came down, and the white-eyed father-in-law held the holy decree in his hand, and his voice was loud, and he summoned the three hundred chengguan to report to the Jinwuwei of the Ministry of War, Xu Yang knew that this was Li Er, the great god, who was grasping his own handle.

Also, the emperor is a kind of person who is attentive to anyone, no matter whether you are a very human minister or a petty official, whether it is a commander or a soldier, Li Er will not really intersect with you, the emperor's loneliness and widow are doomed, he is the only one in heaven and earth, the power of life and death, and he follows the law, Li Er will never allow too many private soldiers to exist in the forbidden land of Chang'an.

Since Li Er wants to take charge of a qiē, let him take it, Xu Yang is now light, he has a fief, a team, and a wife is about to have it, and he is making inventions in the fiefdom, and he is living a chic life.

Two generations of people, so that he is a little disgusted with the hard work of life, just wait for the invention of steam ships, Niu Jinda can transport high-yield crops from overseas, so that the people of the Tang Dynasty will no longer suffer from hunger, such a vigorous and dynamic empire of the Tang Dynasty, plus the various technologies that he will develop for it in the future, I believe that the pacification of the barbarians in the Quartet is also a sure thing.

The world map has been given to Li Er, his surging ambition has been boiling, the founding of the country for a few years, away from his own battlefield and BMW, charging and trapping, blood and fighting, sitting in the Taiji Palace all day boring and reading countless chapters, Li Er's current anger must be very big, he needs war, but the shame of the Weishui of the Khan has not yet been reported, and the mess left by Emperor Yang of Sui is still full of holes, and the people are still suffering.

Although it is stable today, but as Wei Zheng said, the Tang Dynasty is now a long-term sick patient, although the disease has been cured, but the vitality in the bones has not yet recovered, the world was in turmoil during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui, the population dropped sharply from 8.9 million to 2 million, and countless people hid in the mountains, or were taken captive by the Turks and other foreign tribes.

The future of Datang is not yet bright, and Li Er himself does not know whether the future will be smooth or thorny.

But Li Er knew that what Xu Yang predicted next year was a very bad thing, the locust plague in Guanzhong, this was a big disaster, Li Er was waiting for Xu Yang's solution with an attitude of believing it or not, but this kid was like a loach, and slipped into his fiefdom to do some strange things.

Li Er is going to start, three hundred city management, first summon Jinwu to observe for a period of time, it is absolutely impossible for him to allow private soldiers to appear near Chang'an, at most he can give Xu Yang a stone tiger talisman, and he has the lowest summoning qualifications.

After the announcement of the decree, the father-in-law of Baimei returned to Chang'an with three hundred chengguan, and at this time more than half of the people left in the fiefdom of Zhongnanshan, Xu Yang asked to keep the captains, and the father-in-law of Baimei looked at the edict, which said that as long as there were three hundred people, three hundred people were ordered, and one more than one was left, and there were actually more than twenty of them left in the chengguan, which made Xu Yang happy, and the rigidity of the ancient people was sometimes a good thing.

Being able to keep more than 20 bodyguards around Xu Yang also made Xu Yang feel at ease, and after a while, the performance of the steam engine, the left and right and the brakes were no problem, Xu Yang decided to take this steam wooden car into Chang'an tomorrow, and personally show His Majesty this epoch-making product, by the way, talk about the right to mine coal, he has been yearning for the life of the coal boss in the future for a long time.