Wan San was disappointed, he didn't wait for the little nobleman today.

Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Di went to inspect the affairs of the engineering team in the morning, and won the praise of the heads of the guards.

Zhu Di had a light on his face, he was very pleased, and he was smiling all the way.

Such a good opportunity, of course Zhu Gaochi will not miss it.

followed Zhu Di back to the palace and put forward new ideas.

"In the future, the coal mines in Fangshan and Xishan will be able to directly lead to Beiping City, and the honeycomb coal workshops around Beiping Mansion will not have to be troubled by transportation."

"The coke refinery is on the right track, the output is gradually increasing, and the problem of industrial coal has been solved."

"The prosperity of the coal mining industry is about to enter the fast lane, but it cannot be left to the coal mine owners, and it needs to be controlled."

When Zhu Di heard this, he immediately had a headache.

Zhu Di is no stranger to the boss's routine, and today he finally had a good time and smelled a familiar smell again.

Although he is the prince, he did not open the Beiping Mansion.

He also has a lot of rules and regulations on it.

"Boss, do you know anything about the political secretary?"

"Compete with the people for profit, and encroach on the land." Of course, Zhu Gaochi knew and said the two biggest things.

"Do you have someone in the Governor's Division?" The boss has never heard of it, Zhu Di is not surprised, but it can be said so clearly, Zhu Di guessed.

It's not something that needs to be hidden, Zhu Gaochi told him bluntly.

"Su Guan, the former ambassador of the Iron Smelting Institute, has a good relationship with his son, and he has recently been transferred to the Department of Political Affairs and Experience, and told his son some things."

"This person has a bit of an eye."

Zhu Di praised.

His information is naturally the most well-informed group of people, and it won't be long before the imperial court will officially issue an order to abolish the official iron.

In the future, the Ming Dynasty only had the people's railway.

Unless there was an urgent and important situation that led to the need for a large number of iron tools, the imperial court appointed full-time officials and recruited civil iron to concentrate production.

In ordinary years, according to the proportion, according to the situation of taxation, the real goods are collected from the people's railways.

Not to mention the rest, the iron smelting institute will become the Qingshui Yamen.

The ambassador of the seven-grade iron smelting institute will be reduced to the nine-grade official who does not enter the stream, which is equivalent to being pushed to the end, and on this kind of eve, being able to jump out in advance is equivalent to escaping a catastrophe.

Zhu Gaochi didn't tell Zhu Di that he revealed a little to Su Guan.

Su Guan thought that he relied on the news of the palace and learned the news in advance, but Zhu Di naturally knew that he knew the news of a fart.

Zhu Gaochi only learned about it based on what happened in history.

He couldn't explain the source to Zhu Di, so he didn't mention his role.

But after all, he is an ordinary official of the Experience Division, and Zhu Di will not take it seriously, the difference between the two statuses is too big, and they can't intersect together.

"It's not just the matter of the Iron Smelting Institute, but also the political envoys, there will be a big transfer in the entire Beiping Three Divisions, and the people's hearts are unstable, so we easily sent it away, and it didn't cause future trouble."

"But you have to know that the coal owner of the coal yard, one or two people can't make the climate, but the relationship inside is complicated, and if it is really combined, it is not a small threat."

Zhu Gaochi nodded.

He knew what Zhu Di meant.

For example, Zhang Dehui, there is naturally a relationship behind him.

These relationships will definitely not be able to move the Yan Wangfu, and even the Yan Wangfu can crush them to death if they stretch out their hands.

But ants mostly bite and kill elephants.

One or two can't threaten the Yanwang Mansion, but if the coal mill owners all resist, and the network behind each family works together, it will be difficult to say.

Although the vassal kings are all princes, their strength is like a cloud and mud.

Zhu Di can say everything in Beiping City, and he can speak loudly in various guards, because Zhu Di has the right.

If the identity of an empty vassal king, no one can do anything, but people can not listen, ignore it, and not look at it.

The Qin Palaces are a lesson from the past.

In the past, he was the first person to be a feudal king, and he could meddle in anything, and he had personnel power, financial power, and military power. Now he is just an idler with the name of King Qin.

Without real power, what is the use of being an emperor.

"Although the affairs of the political secretary have been suppressed, it does not mean that it does not exist, if new things are added, it may become more and more intense, and in the end the gains outweigh the losses, but we have to make concessions."

"The relationship between the coal yard is complicated, and it involves people's livelihood, and the profit is not large, so the imperial court allows the private sector to open mines, and is unwilling to govern the government."

Zhu Di taught.

Zhu Gaochi did not deny Zhu Di's statement.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the coke industry did not flourish, and the people did not fully use coal, and still maintained the traditional fuel for heating and cooking.

Therefore, the imperial court did not interfere much, and the mountain and coal yards were all controlled by the people.

The imperial court was also exempt from taxes.

This policy has promoted the development of the industry.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

With the prosperity of the market in all walks of life, the coal industry has also developed by leaps and bounds, so the Wanli Emperor has set his sights on this industry.

Officials from the landlord class have long eaten up this industry, and they are naturally unwilling to give up their profits.

Of course, the Wanli Emperor would not admit defeat, and the officials did not agree, so they sent eunuchs to collect the mining tax.

The eunuchs were irascible in their ways, and the merchants, with the support of the officials, shifted the conflict to the miners.

Isn't it a tax? Then I will increase the workload of the miners, reduce the wages of the miners, etc., and make people angry.

Miners are already a vulnerable group, and where they have withstood the blow, they have lost their source of livelihood all of a sudden.

Under the impetus of all parties, there was a rebellion.

The results are well known.

The emperor was defeated, and he also invited cabinet members to say to his face that he regretted it, which was regarded as exposing the matter.

Later Wanli's grandson, Emperor Tianqi.

He's smart.

Originally, he relied on officials to successfully pro-government, so he believed in officials, but soon found that something was wrong with officials.

Compared with his father, the Emperor of the Apocalypse was darker, and he made a group of thugs to deal with the eunuchs.

Among them is the mine.

The eunuchs did not collect taxes, and directly occupied the coal yard and sent the coal yard owner to prison and raided his home.

Part of the silver obtained was given to the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and part of it was divided among the eunuchs, and it was the mine owners and officials who suffered.

The means were much more violent than those of the Wanli Emperor, but there was no miner rebellion.

In a word.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, taxes were not collected because the coal mining industry should not be taxed, and there were many things to say, and it was impossible to talk about them in detail.

But.

Zhu Gaochi has changed the coal industry in Beiping, and the situation has changed.

Not collecting taxes now is not only not a good thing, but it is tantamount to cultivating an uncontrolled interest group.

With the scale of industrial development, the strength of this interest group will become greater and greater, and no one can deal with it.

Because the core of the first industrial revolution was the coal industry.

The victory of the industrial revolution is also the victory of the coal industry.

The coal owner of Daming was originally also a landlord.

When they combined, Zhu Gaochi felt that if he didn't control it in advance, he would have to be controlled by them in the future.

"Does my father know how many loads of firewood the people in the city use every year?"

"Forty to fifty quintals."

Zhu Di said lightly, trying to control the smugness on his face.

Zhu Gaochi touched his nose.

is worthy of the monarch who proposed to let the people live a well-off life, and he really knows the people's livelihood well, and he underestimated Zhu Di a little.

According to Zhu Gaochi's understanding, a household uses firewood to cook and heat every year, using two or three tons a year, with an average of 45 quintals, and 100 catties per quintal, but the algorithm of the Ming Dynasty is different from that of later generations, and one pound of the Ming Dynasty is more than 590 grams of later generations, and the weight of each kilogram in later generations is 120 catties.

"One load of firewood is 120 catties, and it is estimated that 45 quintals of firewood are used in a year, and there are 340,000 households in the entire territory of Beiping Prefecture, and according to 350,000 households, it is nearly 190,000 catties a year."

"Boss, a load of firewood is 100 catties." Zhu Di reminded.

Zhu Gaochi did not change his words, and still said: "And the population of Shandong is six times that of Beiping. ”

"What's the matter with Shandong?" Zhu Di somewhat understood the eldest son's thoughts, but the eldest son's sudden mention of Shandong made him a little stunned.

"Because my son has already started to lay trade roads to Shandong."

"When did you start selling firewood?"

Zhu Di said with a smile.

Shandong is adjacent to Beiping Mansion, the seventh brother Qi Wang Benfeng to Shandong Qingzhou, and later out of the town of Kaiping, the tenth brother Lu Wang died of illness, and the youngest son inherited the throne.

He knew that his eldest son was eyeing Shandong, so he deliberately quipped.

Such an attitude also shows that Zhu Di does not think that there are any difficulties in Shandong, and that there will be people who will offend the business of Yanwangfu.

Zhu Gaochi didn't pay attention to it, but continued to talk seriously, which made Zhu Di feel very bored, and the boss became more and more serious.

"Last year, Beiping levied 351,241 catties of iron, 15 to 1, and the amount of private iron was roughly more than 5 million catties."

"One pound of iron needs seven pounds of charcoal, one pound of charcoal needs five pounds of firewood, and more than 20,000 pounds of firewood a year."

"And many people in Peking are still reluctant to use iron tools, and the agricultural tools they use are mostly wooden."

"Why? Not because of the lack of iron ore production, but because of the lack of fuel, so production is limited by bottlenecks. ”

"Every year, 190,000 catties of firewood for the people have taken away the fuel needed by the iron works, and the iron ore in many coal yards has been piled up like a mountain, so that there is nowhere to put it, and it is regarded as a pest."

"So the price of iron is still high, a pound of iron is as high as one dollar and six cents, only plowshares are made of iron, ten catties cost one or two or six dollars, how can the people afford it?"

"The emergence of steam engine pumping machine has solved the bottleneck of coal mine output."

"The emergence of honeycomb coal has promoted the use of coal in large quantities by the private sector."

"The success of the coke refinery has broken through the limitations of the iron smelting industry in terms of fuel, and will not fall into low production because of being trapped in fuel.

Zhu Gaochi said firmly.

If he makes soap, it will only replace the traditional soap horn, and the income will only belong to the original soap horn market, and the market volume has not changed.

And coal is different.

The fuel limit, beyond the quadrant of the people.

The importance of fuel is related to the progress of civilization.

Since people learned to use fire, in the long history of thousands of years, it has always belonged to the era of firewood, that is, firewood is the majority.

All the way to the advent of coke technology.

Not only did the West begin to switch to coal as fuel, including the late Ming Dynasty, coal was also used in large quantities, and several historical events occurred around coal.

That's why it's called the Coal Age.

Then came the oil and gas age, the electric age.

You can see the progress of civilization, and the transformation is taking place around the change of fuel.

Beiping City is Zhu Gaochi's pilot.

The prelude has already begun, and it is natural to control this force in our hands, and then promote it to the surrounding areas and gradually industrialize Beiping.

(End of chapter)