"So, where is the coal mine?" Zhao Si smiled.

To figure out where the coal mines are, it is necessary to figure out what coal is called in this era.

Zhao Si looked back at the books he had read, and it didn't seem to involve such anecdotes, so he could only open his mouth to ask his own customers for advice.

"Black, burning stones?" Zhang Cang frowned and pondered for a moment.

"According to legend, Emperor Shun once used black stone to burn pottery, I think it is what the lord said, right?" Zhang Cang thought for a moment.

Chen Sheng and Wu Guang didn't know, and Chen Ping didn't know either, but Li Shiqi thought for a while and took out a black accessory from his arms.

"What the lord said should be Shi Ni."

Zhao Si took the accessories sent by Li Shiqi and looked at them, they were the accessories made of coal mines.

"This is it, it's this!" Zhao Si was overjoyed.

"The lord wants to survive the winter by burning stones? However, the smell of stone is pungent, the smoke is also very large, and there is fire poison, there are many people who do not have firewood to spend the winter is to burn stone Nirvana, but they often die of fire poison because of this, and over time, there are fewer and fewer people who use stone nirvana. Li Shiqi opened his mouth to explain the history of Shi Ni's use to Zhao Si.

"That's the toxic gas produced by the combustion and volatilization of the stone, just pay attention to the air circulation!" Zhao Si smiled.

"How much does the price of the stone be used?"

"It's worthless, this thing can't be sold for a price." Li Shiqi said.

In this era, high-end families use charcoal, ordinary families use firewood, and then all kinds of weeds, weeds, rotten wood, and so on......

As for the Shi Ni, because the quality is uneven, the combustion is not sufficient, the smoke is strong, the taste is pungent, and this era does not understand the lethal principle of Shi Ni, under the combination of various factors, although Shi Ni has been applied, it has not been promoted.

Zhao Si was overjoyed when he heard this.

In the next few days, after Zhao Si reported to the First Emperor, he wore his own golden armor and died in Shanyang with a hundred soldiers to conduct a field trip.

Zhao Si found that there are really not a few people who use stone nirvana in the land of good yang.

There is no way, a large amount of firewood is used to supply the convoy of the First Emperor, except for the real rich family, without Shi Ni can not survive this winter at all.

Not only that, Zhao Si also found that the stone used by the people in the land of Shanyang burned more transparently, and the smoke was not very large, which showed that the purity of coal was relatively high, which was a good thing.

Zhao Si visited back and forth, and everywhere he went, he would summon the local villagers and ask them to inform the villagers that when using the stone, they must open the windows for ventilation, and if they have no windows, they must open the doors for ventilation, in short, they must pay attention to the air flow to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning.

Pity......

Little success......

They stubbornly believe that it is fire poison, just like the miasma raging in South Vietnam, but in fact, a large part of the reason is that they do not drink plain water.

There are still many people who are reluctant to do things that modern people are accustomed to, things that they think are reasonable and not troublesome at all, let alone ancient times.

"It seems that if Shi Ni is widely used, corresponding laws must be formulated, and it is strictly stipulated that windows must be opened for ventilation, and in the land of South Vietnam, laws should be formulated that no one is allowed to drink raw water, and boiled water must be drunk." Zhao Si pondered.

Do you really think that these good habits are rooted in the history of Zhuxia?

In fact, most of it was enforced by the great man.

If history is allowed to develop slowly, under the threat of life safety, it will naturally form corresponding habits in hundreds of years and thousands of years, but it is too slow, Zhao Si will write these down, just the burning of Shi Ni to open the windows for ventilation and the ban on drinking raw water in the place where the miasma forest of South Vietnam gathers can make Daqin die a lot less.

Anyway, Qin's laws and regulations are complicated, and there are more than one laws and regulations involving people's livelihood norms, and there is no problem with these two more.

In the course of the following visit, Zhao Si successfully found the coal mine in Shanyang.

It can't be said to be a coal mine, it can only be said to be a coal mountain.

Or do you want to say that Shanxi is rich in coal bosses?

There are really a lot of coal bonanzas in this place, and the businessmen who come to Shanxi to do business for various reasons have only one final destination, that is, to become unpretentious coal bosses.

Zhao Si looked at it from a distance, and saw that there were many people here who came sporadically with backpacks.

There was no way, the heavy snow came too early, and it happened that the first emperor's drive stopped here, and in order to meet the supply of firewood for the first emperor's convoy, Shanyang County ordered that it could only issue a ban on logging, and the people were not allowed to cut it privately, and priority was given to the use of the first emperor's convoy.

The First Emperor accompanied the convoy of tens of thousands of people, not to mention cutting firewood, there was a tree at the door of his house, and the government had to cut it to supply the First Emperor.

Obviously, the team of more than 10,000 people has brought great supply pressure to Shanyang.

Although Li Si has been coordinating and solving the problem, trying his best not to disturb the local livelihood of Shanyang, the heavy snow has closed the road, and the transfer of material supply is obviously not so fast.

The people could only pick up stones to keep warm in the winter.

Zhao Si looked at it, some of the people were even in rags, some were still wearing single clothes, and some were even barefoot, and the heavy forced labor and taxes of the Qin Dynasty made the people have no money to spare, and he could feel the hardships of the people.

"Hmm...... Are the rich also coming to pick up stones for the winter? Zhao Si keenly noticed that there were not only ordinary people in the rich ore area of the coal mountain here, but also a group of more than a dozen knights riding war horses.

He did not carry a sword, but he walked back and forth with a wooden staff in his hand, and the people talked to him every time they passed.

The battle of Zhao Si and his party was still very large, and at the same time that Zhao Si looked at them again, more than a dozen knights also discovered Zhao Si, and then saw hundreds of heavily armed cavalry and a gold-armored general led by him, and subconsciously went to a hidden place, and avoided it from a distance, Zhao Si frowned and realized the problem and immediately ordered.

"Capture them all, and if they resist, kill them on the spot!"

"In addition, you go and invite a few people who are picking up stones, pay attention, please, no rough movement!"

Zhao Si gave the order, hundreds of knights moved in response, and more than a dozen knights on the opposite side obviously noticed that something was wrong, and subconsciously wanted to speed up.

Pity...... Their horses were not as fast as the elite war horses of the Qin army, not to mention that they did not load a horse three-piece suit.

Within a moment, more than a dozen knights were knocked off their horses by the Qin army, and all of them were captured.

This commotion made the people present have an obvious commotion, a large number of people fled when they heard the wind, and some of them knelt in place because of their legs and feet, and a few horsemen invited a few people to come to Zhao Si without much effort.

Zhao Si looked at an old man, dressed in single clothes, trembling, and a young man, barefoot, with frostbite on his hands and face.

There are also a few shirtless men who are not a big deal, and there is even sweat on their foreheads.

However, regardless of the age, young and middle, when they came to Zhao Si, they all knelt down tremblingly for the first time.

Kneeling with them were a dozen or so knights who had been captured alive.

"Don't be afraid ......"

Zhao Si wanted to help them up, but they were helped up and knelt down as soon as their hands were loosened, and they were afraid of physical contact with themselves, so Zhao Si had no choice but to squat next to them and talk to them.

"I saw them talking to you, who were they? What are you doing here? ”

"Pick up ...... The ......" boy who picked up the fire stone raised his eyes, noticed the vicious gaze staring at the side, and quickly stopped talking.

Where did they come to collect flint stones? It is clear that they are all lackeys of the Zheng family, and when they saw that the people had to pick up stones for a living, they came to take the opportunity to collect the mountain fee.

But he didn't dare to say it...... He also can't afford to offend the Zheng family.

"Poof!"

As soon as the young man's words fell, Zhao Si had already pressed his sword and stood up, a human head had already landed, and scarlet blood was splashed on Zhao Si's face.

"Did I show you?"

Zhao Si looked at more than a dozen knights, and seeing that life and death were in front of him in an instant, a group of knights did not dare to act rashly, and honestly threw themselves to the ground.

Zhao Si casually threw the sword to the entourage, removed the blood-stained helmet, squatted down again and asked, "Don't be afraid, tell me what they are doing here." ”

"Collect ...... Tax...... Collect flint tax. ”

"Collecting taxes? Are they from the government? Zhao Si was stunned for a moment.

"It's not...... No, they are from the Zheng family. The boy's trembling voice was tinged with tears.

If he says this, he probably won't survive.

"It's not from the government?" Zhao Si smiled and walked in front of a dozen knights.

"Let me think about it, how to punish private taxation?"

"Like, clan punishment?"

Zhao Si said a word, and the bodies of more than a dozen knights began to tremble uncontrollably.

"Kill them all here!"

Zhao Si gave the order, and the sound of drawing his sword suddenly rose, and the heads of more than a dozen knights fell to the ground.

"I hate this kind of person the most in my life!" The Zheng family took advantage of the fact that the people had no firewood to burn, and took the opportunity to collect coal mining taxes, which violated Zhao Si's bottom line.

"Take the army into Shanyang County and find out where the Zheng family is!"

"Don't let anyone slip away!"

The Qin Dynasty strictly stipulated that military activities involving more than 50 people had to be personally approved by the First Emperor.

Unfortunately, as long as Zhao Si goes out, at least one hundred armor soldiers will accompany him to protect Zhao Si's safety, so every time he goes out, Zhao Si has to be approved by the First Emperor.

This also happens to be convenient for Zhao Si, if you really wait until you go back to report to the first emperor, or to inform the Shanyang County Government, the Zheng family is afraid that most of it has already run away.

This place is far away from Guanzhong, and Zhao Si does not have much hope for the administrative execution here.

"Yui!"

All the soldiers obeyed the order, strictly speaking, this is Zhao Si overstepping his authority to enforce the law, but who made it Zhao Si who gave the order? Anyway, Zhao Si has this power, and if something goes wrong later, Zhao Si can resist it, so what is there to scruple about?

"All the eggs have to be shaken for me, and the earthworms dug up in the ground have to be split in half vertically!" Zhao Si was still angry when he thought about it.

For this kind of person who made a fortune, Zhao Si thought that a hundred kinds of torture and a thousand kinds of torture were not too much to use on them.

The soldiers obeyed the order and set off, leaving Zhao Si to look at the few Qiantou who were prostrate on the ground and sighed.

"It's no wonder that the inspection of the ancient higher authorities was a disaster for the local government......"

"Even if the First Emperor didn't mean that, even if Li Si has tried his best to reconcile, it still brings an extremely serious burden to Shanyang......"

"Fortunately, we have found a large bonanza, and then we can solve most of the problems by taking honeycomb coal out of the trend...... If the First Emperor could set an example for the fleet to use with him, it would greatly speed up the widespread use of coal. ”

"The only question is whether the First Emperor wants it or not."

After all, coal is indeed very cheap compared to charcoal, and it is somewhat unworthy of the identity of the First Emperor, and it is understandable that the First Emperor refused.

"Anyway, let's propose it......"

The First Emperor is not such an unkind emperor, if he knows that he is moved by emotion, the First Emperor should also agree.

(Omitted)

(End of chapter)