After leaving Da'an Palace, Emperor Zhaowu pondered all the way.

Shicai was too emperor and told him a lot, although he was very ashamed and felt very faceless, but it was undeniable that there were many flowers in it, and it still made him think deeply.

Especially the change in mentality before and after becoming the emperor made his heart shake.

Back in the study, he sat and thought about recalling the recent events of the past.

I have to say that his own changes are really big.

Don't say anything else, let's just talk about the prince, when he was still the prince, the prince didn't cause trouble for him less, what did he do at that time?

personally went to apologize, severely punished the prince, and asked the prince to admit his mistakes and apologize again and again.

But now?

He went to apologize to Huo Junyao in person, but he lost some of his original sincerity.

"Well, it looks like I'm wrong."

For some time afterward, when he consulted with his ministers, he did not mention the matter of homemade bombs again, as if he had never known of them.

At the same time, his attitude towards Huo Jingzhi was also much more friendly.

As for Huo Junyao's side, the progress is not bad, and the outer city wall is close to capping after continuous layer by layer pouring.

Internally, she also arranged for several wide cement roads, with which the speed of the trolley to transport materials has been sped up a lot.

Winter is coming, and Huo Junyao began to prepare for the cold for the farmers on the two Zhuangzi.

Now her small iron-smelting factory produces about 200 catties of iron every day, after all, there are few people and raw materials, and the method of iron smelting is relatively primitive, so it is naturally impossible to compare with the big factories of later generations.

But even so, it's barely enough for some of her current consumption, and winter is coming, so she can get some fireplaces first, and then a coal mine or something.

She had them all sent to every household.

"Miss, are we going to get that greenhouse this year?"

"Get it, why don't you get it, you can go and see if those things from last year can still be used."

Xiaochan hurriedly smiled when she heard this; "Sister Forget Xia has already checked it a few days ago, and she has found it out and sorted it out, and it can still be used."

"If it works, then arrange it first."

"And it looks like it's going to be winter, and a lot of work can't be done, you go and inform Steward Zhao and Red Sleeves to see if you can arrange some hard-working workers to the workshop."

"You can't do some of the work outside, but you can continue to do some of the work in the workshop."

"By the way, let the red sleeves select some people and get a few brick factories, we still need a lot of materials here next year, and we can burn more and prepare them this winter."

Now that she has a coal mine, it's easier to fire these things than she used to do with wood or something.

When Xiaochan went down to order, Huo Junyao also came to the study.

Recently, a lot of money has been consumed, and some output is not proportional to income, and it will definitely not work if it continues like this.

You have to hurry up and make some money.

And her first target is naturally the coal mine, which is approaching winter, heating is a big problem, and the price of charcoal is expensive, so it's time for the coal mine to appear.

Her thoughts were naturally the return furnace she had seen in her previous life.

This is a combination of heating and boiling water for cooking.

She quickly drew the drawings from memory, and this thing was not complicated, but it also needed iron to build.

Now that she has barely had a certain source of iron, she doesn't have to ask for it as bitterly as before.

And she also plans to wait for the spring next year, she will have to increase iron smelting, after all, there will be more places where iron will be used for some follow-up things.

After Xiaochan came back, she directly handed over the drawings to Xiaochan and asked her to hand them over to the blacksmith and get one out for her to see.

In addition to opening the return stove, she also thought of honeycomb coal, which was also a nice thing.

Although the return air furnace is very good, it is made of iron, and the price will naturally not be low, and ordinary people will definitely not be able to afford it.

The method of making honeycomb coal is also very simple, she directly asked people to get a lot of abrasives, and began to prepare for manufacturing on the same day.

As winter gets closer and closer, on the streets of the capital, the people arranged by Huo Junyao are ready.

Return air furnace, honeycomb coal, one by one.

She set the price of the return air furnace as one ten, and the honeycomb coal was two dollars a penny.

Not only have the stocks sold out, but a lot of orders have been signed.

With the advent of honeycomb coal and return air furnaces, the original charcoal price has suffered an unprecedented impact.

Especially the scholars, these guys have always made money there, so they gathered there, and in the past few years, the big market for charcoal has basically been monopolized by them.

The emergence of honeycomb coal, which is cheap and so applicable, who will buy their kind of charcoal for five cents and a pound?

This is still the lowest kind of charcoal, and there are ten, twenty, or even fifty liters above it.

And before they could react, the Fang family, the Ji Guo Mansion, the Yongning Hou Mansion and the Ning Guo Mansion also started selling honeycomb coal and coal blocks.

They all followed Huo Junyao to get a coal mine together, and as soon as Huo Junyao's idea of honeycomb coal came out, she arranged for someone to send a mold to each of them.

Let them arrange their own people to build, so several have a lot of inventory, and now the sales channel has been opened, and several of them shot together, and quickly seized most of the low-end market.

As for charcoal or something, there is still a market, but it is a high-end market.

Although honeycomb coal is good, it can't stand some people who think that this thing has no style, charcoal or something will still be willing to buy, but most of them are some things that are relatively high and can only be bought by rich people.

But even so, those who do charcoal business are still shocked.

After all, the bulk is still the low-end market, there are not many rich people after all, and the low-end market is cheap, but the base is large.

And those low-end charcoal who do charcoal business are not as cost-effective as honeycomb coal, and no people buy them, and those rich people disdain to buy this inferior charcoal.

This time, it made these people who did the charcoal business lose a lot of money.

They have prepared a lot of low-end goods, which are all money, and now they can't be sold, and the production of high-end charcoal is cumbersome, and it takes a lot of money, and there is not much money to be made, so there is no way to stop the loss.

Those people of the Shi clan were so angry that they vomited blood, but they didn't dare to look for trouble.

Why?

Don't look at who sells honeycomb coal at this time, they are all top magnates.

Especially Ning Guogong, this is a ruthless person, he is angry, he is really the master who can cut your head with a knife.