Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 432 It's Cold (Part [-])
What Ji Gui said was not unreasonable. According to He Jinzhao, Sun Chuanting had sacrificed his life for Daming, so how could he join the rebels?

He is mainly a thief!

The words written in the letter are worthy of being able to rely on the top dozens of people in the country, which is called a sincere heart.

"Yang Yuxiu, look for an errand, suitable for us, the first Jinshi to seek refuge?"

Hearing He Jinzhao's words, Yang Yuxiu smiled and said nothing. He still has a way of dealing with these Jinshi.

A Jinshi who is not good at mixing is directly sent to the Dangzhi County. Although he can be admitted as a Jinshi, he is in a mess when it comes to managing people's livelihood.

Qiu Zhitao said again: "My lord, Sun Chuanting has been a county magistrate for several times, and he is familiar with local affairs."

"Just let him go to the local area first, and practice as a deputy mayor."

He Jinzhao set the tone, and Yang Yuxiu nodded. He became more and more proficient in such matters.

"The weather is getting colder and colder. Farmers' associations around the country are required to help the orphans, widows, old and weak people, and try their best not to let them freeze to death. Those sheepskin jackets have been tanned and distributed."

During this period of time, mutton was sold and a lot of sheepskins were produced.

It is normal for ordinary people in Northwest China to wear sheep jackets. Although the old sheepskins are heavy and smelly, at least they can keep you warm.

Only scholar-bureaucrats or wealthy people would wear lambskin, which is soft, tasteless and light.

He Jinzhao really has nothing to do with this cold weather.

It's only November, and the Yellow River next to Hequ County is completely frozen, making it possible to walk on ice.

When people go to the Yellow River, they feel the cold more intuitively.

It has to be said that Xuan Da Zhang Zongheng's thinking is correct. In this kind of weather, when going out to fight, the number of soldiers of the Ming Dynasty froze to death.

As for the orphans from all over the place, He Jinchao arranged for them to be buried in the Hall of Valor, and those soldiers who died became sons, and they were brought into the lecture hall for unified training.

"My lord, disasters have occurred frequently in various places since the Wanli period."

Qiu Zhitao was a little emotional, fortunately the lord is in charge of most places in Shanxi Province.

Otherwise, I don't know how many people will freeze to death this year.

Do you know what can be done?
This is a natural disaster, no one can solve it!
He Jinzhao nodded slightly. He also heard about it during the Little Ice River period in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Once extreme weather occurs, there will almost always be a chain reaction, such as drought, locust plague, and plague.

"Not to mention far away, since the reign of Tianqi, there have been severe droughts in Shaanxi and thousands of miles of red land in Hebei.

Heavy snow fell in October in Shandong, the thickness of the ice and snow was more than one foot, the trees were crushed, and the birds and animals died due to lack of food.

It has been snowing heavily for three consecutive days in Guangzhou, and the trees are covered with ice. "

Qiu Zhitao, a little old man, has read a lot of materials, and he is helpless in the face of this phenomenon.

He Jinzhao was even more powerless. This kind of extreme weather cannot be changed artificially.

"Inside and outside the Great Wall, there are few trees in the first place. Now it's hard to even buy charcoal for heating, unless the Mongolians come to sell wood and burn it into charcoal."

Yang Yuxiu still knows a lot about the Mongolian selling wood.

Now there are quite a lot of trees outside the Great Wall, not an endless grassland.

Jurchens in Liaodong sell ginseng, and Mongolians in Jizhen and other places sell wood.

"Isn't there coal in Shanxi?" He Jinzhao stood up and said, "Let the common people burn coal."

"My lord, this move is quite dangerous."

Ji Gui knew that coal was used to smelt iron or as fuel.

It is not that no one uses coal for heating in winter, but it is extremely deadly.

He Jinzhao nodded. All ironmaking in the Ming Dynasty used coal. Large-scale coal burning was still at the time of the British Industrial Revolution, because the forests could not help being consumed.

Compared with the technical difficulties encountered in mining coal mines in the United Kingdom, successive dynasties have already solved them.

"Call my brother-in-law." He Jinzhao ordered.

When He Jinzhao's brother-in-law arrived, he had already drawn a version of a simple iron stove.

The brother-in-law took it over and looked at it, and listened to He Jinzhao's explanation. The structure of the stove is very simple, and the poisonous gas is released out of the house through the iron pipe.

Then you can also put a kettle, and it is very convenient to drink hot water in winter.

Qiu Zhitao and the others looked at the drawings and listened to He Jinzhao's explanation, nodding repeatedly.

"Brother-in-law, after the first stove is made, put it in this room to keep warm, so that the common people can believe that this is feasible."

After He Jinzhao finished speaking, everyone was astonished, and there was no one who would be the first to do the experiment.

"My lord, please think again."

Although Ji Gui felt that He Jinzhao's idea was a good one, he shouldn't take the risk himself.

He Jinzhao shrugged: "I believe in my brother-in-law's skills."

The brother-in-law laughed twice: "Everyone, put your heart into your stomach. Now the skilled craftsmen under my command have even been recruited from the Jin Palace. This kind of gadget will definitely be able to be done well."

The crowd stopped objecting, and He Jinzhao started his business by making weapons from his brother-in-law, and the people under the province used some farm tools to revolt.

Although brother-in-law said it easily in front of everyone, he still studied it carefully.

This thing can be used by some people to make tin buckets and some people to make stoves.

He directly recruited a few experienced old craftsmen and asked them to make it quickly, so that everyone can use it in the winter at home in the future.

And the captain wants to be the first to use it, so he has to do it well to make sure nothing goes wrong.

"My lord, although we dig coal mines, if we sell them to the common people, it will be a loss-making business."

Yang Yuxiu felt that the promotion of this stove could be promoted, but the coal used to smelt iron was all high-quality coal.

Although many people were sent to dig iron ore and coal mines, equipment production came first.

"It doesn't matter, just sell low-quality coal directly." He Jin said honeycomb briquettes and briquettes.

This is the main raw material for heating in vast rural areas. The only disadvantage is that it pollutes the environment heavily and is not conducive to environmental protection.

Survival is the main priority now, and environmental protection is put on the other side first.

How much smoke is emitted from coal burning over London, England?

"what?"

He Jinzhao called his brother-in-law in again, and asked him to find another group of people to sell briquettes and briquettes.

These things are all powdered, and then they are mixed according to the proportion, and things like combustion aids are put in it.

The brother-in-law nodded vigorously, this is good, the key is to save money, so that most people can afford it.

The low-quality coal and coal slag left over from iron smelting can be used as raw materials for briquettes and briquettes.

The temperature dropped so fast that He Jinzhao was caught off guard. I hope that after the promotion of the iron stove, it will spread quickly.

"Come on, call me Siniang Miao, the propaganda team has another job to do." He Jinzhao thought for a while:
"Find me the painters who painted the portraits. When the time comes, let the propaganda team take the portraits of the stoves and cooperate with the peasant associations in various places to make iron stoves affordable for the people everywhere."

With He Jinzhao's order, the entire Zhen Fu Division started to run quickly.

(End of this chapter)