Although Brother Ji said that it was okay for Fang Chongyong to be "greedy", he still appreciated the deceased's resolute attitude of "honesty" in the future, and casually rewarded him with a little charcoal.

At that time, Fang Chongyong didn't pay much attention to this matter, after all, his purpose was only to make a forward stop for Lao Zheng's later actions, so that Brother Ji had a general impression that the lack of charcoal in Chang'an was already very serious.

If a person like Fang Chongyong has a connection and a status like this, he can't afford to burn charcoal without corruption; So what will happen to so many grassroots officials in Chang'an?

In fact, if you think about it, you will know that many officials in Chang'an will not be able to survive the winter without corruption, this is simply a boring official life!

I believe that Brother Ji will also be touched.

Fang Chongyong thought very well, but after he left Xingqing Palace, he went to work at Yushitai to check in, and when he came back, he was embarrassed to find that the "little point" he imagined was not the same concept as the "little point" in Ji Ge's impression at all!

The eunuchs in the palace sent twenty carts of charcoal in one go, and the small courtyard of his house did not have such a big treasury to load at all!

The firewood room can't be installed, so it has to be piled up in the yard, which already occupies most of the yard area, and it's not even convenient to take a walk.

Fang Youde, who was stationed in the Longwu Army barracks, did not come back, and he didn't know what happened at home. Fang Chongyong has been on duty from the Yushi Terrace in the past two days, and when he returned home, he saw the charcoal that was all over the yard and had nowhere to put it, and he only felt that his head was big for a while.

Is it because Brother Ji gives too much charcoal, or is the scale of his residence unable to keep up with his identity? Or is it that personal thinking can't keep up with the "grade" enjoyed by the powerful?

At this moment, Fang Chongyong fell into deep doubts.

For Brother Ji, nothing is as big as face, and the rewards he gives to his courtiers are often given casually with a wave of his hand, and there is no concept of numbers in his mind at all.

How big is a cart, how many catties of charcoal can be held, and how long it can be used, Brother Ji has no concept of this, and he doesn't care about these trivial matters, he rewards his courtiers only according to their mood.

"This saint in the Chang'an Palace is really capricious."

As soon as he got home from duty that day, Fang Chongyong saw Wang Yunxiu, who was wearing a thick jacket, staring at the charcoal in the yard and sighing.

"Isn't that capricious? The saint did not cut wood, nor did he plant the land, nor did he burn charcoal. In his eyes, these things are very simple, just like throwing seeds into the ground, and the food will grow on its own, and the whole process does not need to be handled by anyone. ”

Fang Chongyong took Wang Yunxiu in his arms and sighed with emotion.

The stinky problems of the "meat eaters" of all dynasties and dynasties were vividly displayed in the Li Tang Emperor and the clan.

King Qi hugging his sister to keep warm is called "Yashi", and there are even more excessive clans, raising a large number of servants, and in winter they are made to turn their backs to themselves and stand in a row to become a "human screen" to block the wind.

The classic bio-energy heat dissipation + automatic windshield, as well as a dialogue chat function.

When Fang Chongyong heard Wang Yunxiu talk about this, he shouted loudly, and he could only say that these pampered magnates really knew how to play. In terms of enjoying life, Fang Chongyong is not even a younger brother!

Charcoal heating will be very hot and uncomfortable, only human heating is the most suitable! Just from the aspect of heating, Fang Chongyong is more than a dozen grades worse than those people!

"The charcoal given by the saints cannot be sold, cannot be given away, but can only be used for oneself. We don't have many people in our family, and I think this charcoal is enough for ten years. ”

Wang Yunxiu shook her head in disappointment and sighed.

The saint rewarded him like this, of course, it shows that Fang Chongyong and the saint are in power. But is it a good thing for the country that the emperor spares no effort and rewards the people so much?

The answer is obvious.

"Today you go to bed first, I'll do something in the study."

Fang Chongyong waved his hand and walked straight towards the study.

Wang Yunxiu looked at his back, frowned slightly, and finally sighed lightly and said nothing. When the man was busy, his toes really didn't touch the ground, and he didn't sleep until the middle of the night every day.

Isn't it said that the supervision of the imperial history is very leisurely, and it is like a holiday when you are in Chang'an?

What the hell is he up to?

……

"Coal, it's hard to top!"

In the study, Fang Chongyong held a candlestick and marked the location on several maps hanging on the wall.

In Tongguan County, Yongzhou (northwest of Tongchuan City, Shaanxi), north of Chang'an, there is a "strange thing".

The mountain people over there do not cut wood for heating in winter, but burn the best wood in the mountains to make charcoal (not just any rotten wood can be burned), and then transport the charcoal to Chang'an to sell in exchange for the items needed for life.

For example, iron farm tools such as sickles.

So how do these mountain people survive the winter themselves?

The answer is that they went to the mountains to pick up charcoal, and then burned the ground to warm it for the winter, and the days were more nourishing than the people in Chang'an City.

The terrain of northern Shaanxi is dominated by terraces and mountains, and what is particular is a "dead horse running from the mountains". The houses stretch one layer at a time on the mountain terraces, interspersed with terraced rice fields.

Some families dig holes directly on the side of the platform and live in them, which is the "cave" that Fang Chongyong often heard in his previous life.

There is coal in Tongguan County in Yongzhou, and the mountain people themselves are using it, and they have a mature way to use it. The question is not whether it can be found, but how to transport this thing to Chang'an, and how ordinary people in Chang'an can afford it!

The mountain people in Tongguan County refused to carry ox carts to Chang'an, because the proportion of coal was much higher than that of charcoal. A truckload of coal can't be sold for a truckload of charcoal, not to mention the price, and the cattle will be tired half to death.

At the same time, the magnates of Chang'an also looked down on charcoal, thinking that it meant a lot of fun, not to mention, it was also very heavy and difficult to carry, and the effect of using it was not advantageous compared with charcoal.

Even if the price could be much cheaper, so what? Do the elites lack money?

What they lack is the quality of life!

The pursuit of quality of life by these people is endless. Money is just a tool needed in the pursuit of quality of life.

With the purchasing power of ordinary people in Chang'an, they can't afford to burn charcoal at a low price, and they still lack mature ways to use it. Improper charcoal burning methods will kill people, and improper coal burning will also kill people, there is no essential difference between the two, and each has its own way of use.

If the coal is not mined on a large scale and transported in a system, then its price will not be very cheap.

The mountain people in Tongguan County pick up charcoal for it just because it is convenient, as a substitute for charcoal, it burns for much longer than firewood, and the taste is much smaller than that of firewood.

They were reluctant to use charcoal, because it could be transported to Chang'an for money.

With the rise in the price of charcoal in Chang'an, Tongguan County, which is 300 miles away from Chang'an, began to burn charcoal and transport it to Chang'an for sale, forming a new industrial chain.

The closest point charcoal supply point to Chang'an is Zhongnan Mountain in the southwest of Chang'an.

It's just that a large area of this place is the Royal Forbidden Garden, and people from the Li Tang clan often come here to hunt, so the trees in that area are not allowed to be cut down.

Therefore, the amount of charcoal that Zhongnan Mountain can provide for Chang'an is also limited. This alone cannot fully supply the charcoal needed by Chang'an.

"The coal from Tongguan County in Yongzhou still can't be transported to Chang'an, not to mention the freight is too expensive, and we have to find sporadic mining points."

Fang Chongyong shook his head and drew a cross on the map with charcoal.

So is there any place that can provide Chang'an with a stable source of carbon?

The answer is yes.

Fang Chongyong's gaze turned to another map on the wall. This map is very new, it was sent by Zheng Shuqing yesterday, and it has just been copied.

The place marked on the map is located in the northwest of Chang'an, on the outskirts of Pizhou further north on the edge of Jingshui.

In this era, Jingshui was not a simple "irrigation river", but could be transported by water, and there were ferries, small boats, and flat-bottomed boats to transport coal, which was not a big problem.

What's more, the end of the waterway is the ferry port on the outskirts of Chang'an, which does not require long-distance land transportation.

However, although the transportation is convenient, the coal mining conditions are not good, and there are no local villagers and mountain people who use coal. There is no "legend" about coal.

But fortunately, although there is no news from the people, there are records from the government!

The coals in this place are buried in the ground, and ordinary people can't pick them up at all, and even now there are not many people who know about it!

However, during the time of Taizong, officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Yu were ordered to explore nearby and found that there was a ten-zhang deep coal pit here.

With the technical conditions at that time, it was possible to expand the mine and carry out sporadic mining, but there was no mining value at that time.

Because of the cost and effort, the price of coal obtained must be very expensive, far exceeding charcoal, not to mention that it is difficult to find miners to mine.

In addition to spending a lot of money to build mines, the use of a combination of machinery and manpower to mine can make it possible to significantly reduce the price of coal mines.

This requires the government to invest a huge amount of money, and it is a net loss in the early stage.

If the mine is not repaired and mined directly, then after the miners go down the mine, there is a possibility that when the mine collapses, they will not be able to come up again.

Because it was the Zhenguan period at that time, there were only hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an, and the lack of charcoal was not as bad as it is now, and no one took the "lack of firewood" seriously.

In addition, the Tang Dynasty at the time of Zhenguan was a typical "small government", and the number of officials was an order of magnitude smaller than that in the Kaiyuan period, which belonged to the state of being able to ignore miscellaneous matters, so this matter was just a number in the Ministry of Industry, and there was no follow-up for more than a hundred years!

Obviously, demand determines production, and the people and the powerful do not have that demand, and the court has no mind to toss blindly.

Over the past 100 years, Datang mining technology has improved a lot. What couldn't be done back then, whether it can be done now, needs to be seen, and it can't be denied casually.

Fang Chongyong felt that it was necessary to go to the local area to observe it in person and see how the result would be before making a decision.

Zheng Shuqing almost put the "big knife" of the deposed envoy to picket the lawlessness and dispose of the officials on the necks of the relevant personnel of the Ministry of Industry before he found this "long-lost" document. The paper has been considered a cultural relic for so many years, and when it is found, it is almost in a state of fragments.

Lao Zheng invited someone to copy it before sending it to Fang Chongyong. This series of tosses can be described as eighteen bends in the mountain road, and I don't know how many people's waists have been broken.

If you have advanced to this point and don't go to the scene to see it, it will be too embarrassing for the traverser.

"You can go and see here in Pizhou, and I'm going to leave tomorrow."

Fang Chongyong folded his arms and watched for a long time, and then drew a circle on the location of the coal pit on this map.

As for the transportation conditions here, he also went out of his way to inquire about Jingshui's "strange temper".

Jingshui is both frozen and not frozen in winter.

Much of its water comes from mountain springs along the Jingshui River, which are often warmer than the river. Sometimes the surface of the river looks like it is frozen, but in fact there is only a thin layer, and people and horses will fall into the river if they step on it.

Only on the coldest days of the year is the ice so frozen that you can run a horse, and the rest of the time, it breaks with a blow with a stick.

There is a folk legend that when Li Er fought with the enemy on both sides of Jingshui, Li Er begged the Dragon King to make the day when Jingshui froze in advance, and the army crossed the river smoothly, and Fang Chongyong did not know whether it was true or false.

Nowadays, there is a temple dedicated to the dragon king on the bank of Jingshui, and the source of this matter should be here in Taizong, and it is also part of the praise for it.

"If the line of Pizhou Coal Mine can be opened, I don't know if it can make the people of Chang'an better.

However, far water is not quenching the thirst after all, and this trick will be next year at the earliest, Lao Zheng relies on the coal mine to survive the winter, probably there is no hope. ”

Fang Chongyong glanced at the distribution map of Hedong coal provided by the Ministry of Industry, which was densely packed with labels everywhere. According to an official at the Ministry of Industry, many of the coal yards there are open-air and widely supplied to neighboring states and counties.

It's just that Shanxi's coal, in the feudal era with inconvenient transportation, could not be transported to Shaanxi on a large scale to solve the urgent need.

From the perspective of resource utilization efficiency, Chang'an, the capital of construction, should be regarded as the last among all options. Fang Chongyong was also very helpless, because no matter how many bad ideas he had in his head, he couldn't build Chang'an into a city like Luoyang.

Without the convenience of transportation, it is impossible to develop the economy and solve the problems of people's livelihood.

"Datang has eaten all the benefits of Chang'an, the capital of Dingdu, and now it is about to start paying off its debts."

Fang Chongyong muttered to himself, he found that when he rarely sent a kindness and no longer lay flat, and wanted to pull Sheng Tang a hand, he couldn't pull it!

It's easy to be an old coin fighting for power and taking food from other people's mouths.

However, once you want to make the cake bigger, you find that the people who should have stood up to do things are all lying flat, and you are the only one working hard.

After all, it is much easier to snatch things from the people than to clear the wasteland yourself.

At this moment, he somewhat realized the helplessness of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gaozu.

"Forget it, Datang is not my family, it's my bird business. I'm already worthy of Datang for this leisure, and I'm not an official of the Ministry of Industry. ”

Fang Chongyong threw the charcoal casually, not wanting to toss it anymore.

"Let's play with my wife honestly, I'm going to Pizhou tomorrow to find a coal mine, and I won't be able to play for a long time."

Fang Chongyong pushed the door out and walked in the direction of the bedroom.

The night in Chang'an was really cold, and he couldn't help but shrink his neck when he stood in the courtyard.

……

Outside the gate of the Ten Princes' Mansion, there were more than a dozen people wearing the brocade robes of the Tang Dynasty. They didn't say a word, quietly waiting for the new Ten Princes' Mansion envoy Yu Chaoen to read out the holy decree sent by Li Longji.

The status is a prince, but it depends on the face of a eunuch. At this moment, the sorrow in everyone's hearts was indescribable, and they didn't dare to express it.

Because the Ten Kings' Mansion is so powerful, there are many ways to give them small shoes.

And Li Longji's current relationship with these princes, how to say it, it may not be very appropriate to describe it as potential, but it is almost like a stranger.

And even more malice towards each other! At least passers-by will not have murderous intent towards them, but Li Longji is difficult to say.

"Li Xuan, King Ying, Li Yan, King Di, Li Xuan, King Yong, released to Chang'an. Leave immediately, within three days, you must leave the Ten Kings' Mansion!

King Ying went to Yunyang (north of Chang'an), King Di went to Liquan (west of Chang'an), and King Yong went to Lantian (south of Chang'an), each of them opened a mansion, and the number of servants in the palace should not exceed 300.

These three kings are not allowed to enter Chang'an unless they are edicted. If you want to face the saint, you must first report to Zongzheng Temple, and the saint can only leave after agreeing to it.

After entering Chang'an, there shall be no more than five people around him, and his actions must be arranged by Zongzheng Temple, and he shall not enter the palace without the hand of the saint. ”

Yu Chaoen shouted in the voice of a male duck unique to eunuchs, and many princes who heard the content of this holy decree showed surprised expressions on their faces and fell into a deathly silence.

The good news is: the prince can finally be released!

The bad news: not a complete outlet!

First, there are only three people who are released this time, and the number is not much.

Second, the locations of the outward release are all around Chang'an.

Third, only the prince himself is released, not the grandson and granddaughter!

In the end, how the other princes arranged, the holy decree did not say anything at all. What kind of prince can be released and what kind of can't, it is also not said!

What is this pedaling?

The expressions on everyone's faces were wonderful, confused, stunned, happy, calm, and so on. It's just that it's hard to say whether these people write their feelings on their faces or deliberately perform for outsiders to see.

But no matter what, the Ten Kings' Mansion Trap System, just like this, "without warning", quietly opened a crack without the consent of the central ministers.

It took a little time to check the information, so I will update it today

(End of chapter)