The first wind and rain drifted away

Scholars and scholars can be killed!

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen's cruel words came out, the whole person seemed to be sluggish, and a strange feeling surged in his heart.

The emperor's whole person has completely changed and has become a little strange.

Looking at what he has done recently, there is no longer half of the original indecisiveness, but decisiveness.

However, this is a good thing, and this is the courage of a good king.

In his life, if he can assist the emperor to change the country's situation, it will be enough to leave a name in history!

I am a person who is buried in loess with half of my body, and this is the pursuit for the rest of my life.

"Aiqing, it has been more than eight years since I ascended the throne. What I think about on weekdays is ZTE Daming.

I can't eat more than five flavors a day, I can't wear clothes three times a year, I keep my self and etiquette, everything is done and behaved according to the standards of Mingjun, why is the country still like this?

I thought about it day and night, and thought that there must be something wrong, what went wrong?

It wasn't until the middle of the middle of the year that Fengyang fell, and the ancestral tomb was swept away by traitors, that it burned to my heart, and it completely burned me.

This country can't let a righteous man and a gentleman play like this.

For these people, since the reason doesn't make sense, then I can only use the knife. ”

Emperor Chongzhen saw that Wen Traitor's expression was wrong, and thought that he was frightened by the changes in his middle, so he sighed and explained.

After all, this world needs a group of capable people to work together to change.

And the gentle and treacherous appearance is the first class among capable people.

The phase of the Ming Dynasty is not so easy to do.

"The emperor is the king of Yao Shun, and he has acted in moderation since he ascended the throne, but the ministers can't understand the holy will, and for their own selfishness, government affairs can't be implemented smoothly, so the current situation is difficult.

Now that the emperor has reopened the factory guard, the foreign ministers cannot be blinded, and they dare not float in the matter, and the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty can be expected. ”

Wen Traitor pointed out Emperor Chongzhen's intentions and the current situation to the point, and said loudly.

"yes!" After listening to the words of the treacherous minister, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the crooked neck tree where the deity was hanged, and suddenly sighed and said lonely:

"The ministers are at fault, and I also have shortcomings, and we shouldn't have laid off the factory guards, which caused the current situation."

Alas, the poor deity, who ascended the throne at the age of seventeen, was still a child, did not know the dangers of the world, and was fooled by the righteous man and gentleman, thinking that the eunuchs were born eunuchs and villains.

In all dynasties, major national affairs have been bad in the hands of this group of villains.

Therefore, as soon as he ascended the throne, he abolished the East Factory, and then abolished Jinyiwei.

I thought that I had done a great deed that no one had done before, and I was also a first-class Mingjun anyway.

Near the virtuous ministers, far from the villain, the Ming Dynasty will definitely reproduce the prosperity of the Hongzhi period in his own hands.

But it backfired, without the eunuchs and the country, the government fell into the hands of righteous men and gentlemen. As a result, the country is rotting day by day.

Up to now, the Jiannu forces in eastern Liaodong are getting stronger and stronger, the entire northeast has fallen into the hands of the enemy, and the Guanning army has retreated to the western Liaoxi corridor.

In China, the peasant army crisscrossed the mountain, Shaanxi, Henan, and Hubei provinces as if it were in a no-man's land, and now the front of the army has threatened the southeast of Nanjing.

One wrong step, one wrong step.

The situation is like this, and the current successor, Emperor Chongzhen, is a strategy, no matter how the situation changes outside, intrigue, and I am bent on making money and strengthening the army.

When you have money, you can be strong. When the soldiers are strong, they will be listened to.

People with hard fists have a point, especially in troubled times, this is the truth.

Thinking of Qian and Bing, Emperor Chongzhen's originally melancholy mood suddenly brightened, and he said to Wen Traitor excitedly: "Wen Aiqing, follow me to the Metallurgical Division, and let you see a few treasures." ”

After saying that, he pulled his legs and left.

Lao Wang and Wen Tiren followed the footsteps of Emperor Chongzhen and walked towards the military battle.

The Metallurgical Division is a small workshop attached to the Imperial Palace's War Bureau, which is designed to create some rare things for the royal family, and all kinds of talents are available.

Seeing the arrival of the emperor and the first assistant, Chen Meichun, the smelting department, led the crowd to kneel down to greet him.

"Get up, go to the workshop and let Wen Shoufu take a look at the recently produced treasures."

Emperor Chongzhen said as he walked, and walked straight to the workshop of the Smelting Division.

It seems that he has been here more than once.

When the group arrived at the No. A workshop of the Metallurgical Division, Wen Tiren was surprised to find that there were some simple sheds outside the workshop, densely packed with strange-looking briquettes.

It is cylindrical and has evenly distributed holes in the middle.

There are at least tens of thousands of such things.

These black bumps, are they the treasures that the emperor said?

Under the orders of Emperor Chongzhen, outside the open space, a coal stove was placed there, and Chen Meichun was operating it to show Wen Shoufu.

First, put the soft hay at the bottom of the stove, take out the fire fold and blow it vigorously to ignite the hay, and then put on the coarser dry wood, which is no different from the previous stove fire.

When there was a primer in the stove, Chen Meichun picked up a briquette with fire tongs and put it into the stove.

The special coal stove is also cylindrical in shape, with a slightly larger hole than a briquette, just enough to allow one briquette to fit in.

Wen Traitor looked at it very seriously and was also very curious.

Under Chen Meichun's operation, it didn't take long for a moment to see flames coming out of the holes in the briquettes, and the briquettes began to emit blue flames.

The depth of the coal stove is just enough for two briquettes, and when the first one burns, Chen Meichun puts the other one in and aligns the holes of the two briquettes with fire tongs.

Wen saw flames emerge from one of the briquette holes below, licking towards the second briquette hole.

The top of the coal stove is designed as a ring of protrusions, just enough to sit on a kettle or pot.

Chen Meichun filled a copper kettle with water, put it on the stove, and after about a stick of incense, he heard a booming sound and white smoke coming out of the spout.

"The water is boiling! It's so fast! Wen Adulterous nodded and praised loudly.

"Lord Shousuke, this thing designed by the emperor is called a honeycomb stove, and the briquettes are called honeycomb coal, a briquette can be burned for nearly an hour, and there is no problem in cooking a meal.

When not in use, seal the top with an iron sheet, and then block the air inlet below with a wooden plug, so that it will not burn again. ”

Chen Meichun took the copper kettle off it and demonstrated it to the gentleman.

This was designed by the emperor?

Looking at the fire burning in the hearth, Wen Ranxiang was surprised.

When did the emperor have such skills?

"Wen Shoufu, please see?" Chen Meichun squatted down, stretched out her hand and inserted a small piece of iron on the honeycomb stove, and the fire in the furnace dimmed.

"This is the damper, and if you close it, the fire will be smaller.

Put a fresh honeycomb medium in at night, close the damper, and get up early the next morning, the fire can still burn.

At this time, you only need to open the damper, and then replace it with a new coal, and in a very short time, the fire will burn very strongly. ”

"It's a good thing, it's a baby." Squatting there, Wen Treacherous Xiang fiddled with the wind door up and down, looking at the fire from bright to dark, as if thinking about something.

These are all worthless loose cinders, lump coal has been transported, and not many people pay attention to these ordinary loose coals.

Basically, the people still cut down firewood and trees for heating, and those who have money burn charcoal. Because of the coal thing, it still smells good when burned, and these loose coals are really difficult to clean up.

In addition, it smells when burned, and it can poison people in a closed house in winter.

Now the emperor designed it this way, adding an extra layer to the outside of the stove, and filling the inside with water, it can be used for two purposes.

"Your Majesty, are these things made of cinders?"

Wen Ranxiang stood up, patted his hands that were a little stained with soot, and asked curiously.

"Of course, each briquette is also mixed with 20 percent clay." Emperor Chongzhen nodded affirmatively, and began to break the news.

"Your Majesty's move has benefited the people of all families in the world!" Wen Traitor's eyes sparkled, and he said admiringly: "When it comes to winter, the capital needs a lot of firewood.

It can educate people for ten years and trees for a hundred years.

Look at the forests outside the city, sooner or later they will be cut down. Now that the waste is being used, the people switch to this thing, which can not only save a lot of firewood, but also cut down some forests.

On top of that, people can save a lot of money. ”

In the days when there was no honeycomb coal, refined coal and firewood were used for cooking.

An average family of five needs at least 15 or 6 catties of coal a day, and a large population needs to use 30 or 40 catties.

According to the price of one penny and two catties of coal, a household spends 8 to 20 yuan a day on coal, which is 240 to 600 yuan a month, and 2 to 56 taels of silver a year.

This is just a small amount of money for wealthy large families. But for ordinary people, spending on fuel is a lot of money.

If you switch to honeycomb coal, you only need three briquettes a day to cook, which can undoubtedly reduce expenses, which is really good news for the people.

"Aiqing only thinks about civilian use, doesn't she think about military use?"

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and nodded his fingers, and said proudly: "This thing can be equipped for the army, and the army is stationed outside, and it is necessary to cut wood for heating and cooking every day, which is very important."

Sometimes a lot of soldiers have to be sent out to cut down trees. If there is such a thing, it can liberate many soldiers. ”

Now the troops are heating, and the senior generals can still supply a certain amount of charcoal. But ordinary officers and soldiers can only burn wood for warmth.

Especially in the winter field battles, dry firewood is hard to find. Many generals often struggled to find some dry firewood, and sometimes had to endure the smoke of burning wet firewood for a long time.

"Equipping honeycomb stoves in the army, and preparing one for each general flag, can solve the problem of heating the camp tents.

What's more, the soldiers still have boiled water to drink and hot water to drink from time to time, and they no longer have to take cold showers to drink cold boiled water.

In this way, who of the soldiers does not remember the good of the emperor? ”

After Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, Lao Wang added with a smile.

If you don't say that Lao Wang is loyal, he always cares about Emperor Chongzhen's prestige in the army.