After Shao Song

Chapter 133 Coal saves lives
As mentioned earlier, Mr. Hong Shi Xiaolang was born in a big family in Jiangxi. His father, Hong Hao, was a Jinshi. After a war that destroyed Xixia, the Jinhe Alliance was released.

Of course, such a person is a loyal minister and filial son who needs to be commended vigorously. However, over the past ten years, he has been severely damaged. He had no place to live for a while, so he was given the title of Secret Pavilion and rested at home.

Fortunately, God has seen that he has a good character, and many of his eight sons have become successful. Needless to say, Hong Shi, the young man, has lived up to his mission when he went to Dali as an envoy, and was elected at a young age. Now he has agreed to marry Zhao Ding. Xianggong Zhao's second daughter Zhao Erniang married Zhao Yang, and the third son Hong Mai seemed to be a Jinshi candidate. He also had a good understanding of the equivalence ratio between Jiaozi and gold and silver. He had already caught the eye of Xianggong Zhang, Zhang Jun and Lin Jingmo. Hong Mai Hao also felt satisfied.

He never expected that the second son Hong Zun, who he always thought was not doing his job properly, would have some bad luck and be recruited to Taiyuan by Zhao Guan's family in the cold weather.

In this world, who doesn't know that the official family is the first-class noble person, and if he catches his eye, it will be no problem to rise to the top.Far away, Zhao, Zhang and Hu were prime ministers for three or four years. Nearby, Zhang Jiucheng turned into a minister of the Ministry of Industry in white.

Hong Hao really felt that the smoke was coming out of his ancestral graves, but after all, he was a man who had lived in the Kingdom of Jin for ten years, so he had his own knowledge.Seeing that the family is often worried about the lack of charcoal and charcoal these days, it is all solved by this kid's tinkering here and there, so he understands his role.Before leaving, he warned: "If the official has an order, as a subject, you must not shirk it, but you must do what you can, and don't talk big." That would bring disaster to the family.

At the same time, Zhao Guan's family has sent people to explore the coal mines at the location based on the memories of the previous life. The results are gratifying, because coal has not yet undergone large-scale development in this era, mainly because the instruments and other equipment cannot keep up.But as an engineering dog, he still knows a little bit about the basics.

Hong Zun was relatively honest in front of his father, but after walking straight away with the Imperial Guard, he quietly asked his servant on the road, "Jin Shi, you said if I can make the briquettes that my elder brother wrote about, the official family Do you think I am good enough to betroth Princess Shouchun to me?"

The young man Jinshi was shocked, looked around, and found that no one was paying attention to them, so he whispered: "My Erlangjun, please stop dreaming, those are the golden branches and jade leaves of the official family, don't talk about the briquettes, Even if you give the official a golden mountain, it will be useless. Who doesn’t know that she ran out of the palace and refused to be punished by the official? You just met the princess during an outing and offered her a little charcoal. Why do you never forget it? ”

Hong Zun was very stubborn and said: "Feeling, do you understand feeling? As the book says, when the golden wind and jade dew meet, they will win over countless others in the world."

Jinshi grew up with him, so he complained mercilessly, "From my perspective, it's just you who is tempted. Her Highness the Princess doesn't think there is anything glamorous about her, and her attitude is very cold. That is His Majesty's daughter. If you turn over If you are caught flying a kite over the wall to court a mate, Prince Yang, not even the head of the family can protect you!"

Hong Zun choked to death and simply stopped talking. He wrapped his fur tightly and said bitterly: "Anyway, she's not married, so I still have a chance."

But one code after another, when he arrived in Taiyuan, he saw a field of ice and snow. The elderly and children fell to the ground and could not get up. He put aside the children and focused all his energy on coal powder condensing into charcoal fire. career, he insisted on researching coal cakes that looked extremely poor but could keep people warm in three days. They did not let the Zhao Guan family realize that this was a wild boar that only wanted to get its own cabbage. They admired it so much that they appointed him an eighth-grade supervisor in the Ministry of Works. Position, actual job.

One of the great benefits of a feudal unified country is that it is extremely efficient.As soon as the finished product appeared here, Zhao Guan's family rushed to push the briquettes to the north and then the south before the first day of the year. Saving lives was like putting out a fire, saving every one they could.

At the same time, Hong Zun was asked to write down the production steps, and he hurriedly mined coal mines in the Northeast. How many briquettes could be produced, and it was always faster to distribute them in two places than in one.In addition, Xiao Hongqian has to work harder to continue research to see if the cost can be reduced and whether the ratio can be more precise.

Because many experienced elderly people say that the cold in spring is not easy to live with.

According to the household registration registered by the Ministry of Household Affairs, the state distributes a portion of the income to each person and each household free of charge, first to civilians, then to wealthy households, and finally to officials. However, if there are businessmen who are speculating and cheating, they will be exiled without discussion once they are found.

In this way, Zhao Guan’s family took a group of young people and worked overtime to celebrate the first day of the 14th year of Jianyan. Thousands of households celebrated the first day, but no one was willing to set off firecrackers, and they all saved it for warmth.The situation eased slightly, and Zhao Guan's family began to exercise their supreme power, removing the chiefs and deputies of the Coal Department and the Qintian Supervisor from their posts, and re-selecting them. At the same time, they informed the two capitals that this year's spring is cold, and spring plowing must be paid attention to, otherwise the affected areas will have no harvest for the year. , the people starve to death without freezing to death, and he will definitely stretch out his claws and reduce the salary of the household department and local officials.

After this disaster, many problems broke out, because after all, there was a shortage of supplies.Many people fought over charcoal wood and pig ointment (lard, which has the effect of keeping warm). All human lives seemed so insignificant in the face of natural disasters.

It was also very difficult for the local government to deal with it, but even the supreme ruler Zhao Guanjia didn't have any good solutions.

I really miss mediators like Li Gang, but at his age, he doesn’t know how to clone himself.

However, Zong Zhifu's performance was as good as ever. Under his orderly arrangements, and with the fact that there is a real dragon named Zhao Guan's family in Taiyuan City, it is already considered the best place for law and order.As a result, Zhao Jiu resigned from Li Yanxian's post as Hedong Economic and Strategic Envoy before the New Year's Day and appointed Li Ruoxu as his successor. Zong Ying also served as Deputy Hedong Economic and Strategic Envoy to Zhi Taiyuan Prefecture.

When Zhao Guan's family lamented that God was playing tricks on him, he didn't know that in the Song Dynasty, all kinds of floods and droughts were just like playing tricks, but a serious one would happen in a few years.During his ten years of fighting against the Jin Dynasty, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River were very honorable, with no flooding, and the weather was very favorable, with no sudden cold or heat. This was considered compensation for him by the Taoist ancestors.

Otherwise, if disaster relief is enough, how can we expand our army?

But these are all gossip. The most important thing now is how to deal with the follow-up. He urgently needs talents who understand the weather. The experience of the old farmer in the field is really not so accurate.But the problem is that the Tokyo Center has been screening for a long time and can't find one that meets his standards, because astronomy is too partial these days, but as an official, the talent pool around him can always provide all kinds of personnel, Yue Yun suggested, " Officials, when I was in Tianjin, my uncle said that many sailors are excellent at reading the weather. Although these people are not officials, they have spent half their lives dealing with seas. If they don’t have this ability, they will die long ago.”

Zhao Guanjia's glasses lit up, but before he could be happy for a few days, Zhang Jun told him in disgrace that one of the ships going out to sea this time had drifted somewhere?
Zhao Guan's family...

What crime have I committed?
——Small theater extra——

Reviews
In this feudal society, natural and man-made disasters are quite terrible. For example, there was an ice age at the end of the 13th year of Jianyan in the Northern Song Dynasty. Although the reigning Song Shizu tried his best to rescue the disaster, the damage caused was still terrible. According to official statistics, people froze to death. There are no less than [-] civilians, and this is the result of the government's continuous rescue operations.

But precisely because Song Shizu was in power, this crisis also became an opportunity, allowing him to vigorously develop the coal industry.Hong Zun, who is regarded as the ancestor of the coal mining industry, emerged at this time. He first developed briquettes and then changed them into briquettes and briquettes.As a result, the harm caused by ice and snow to the people has been greatly reduced.

These events are clearly recorded in the fourteen volumes of the famous work "Charcoal Fire Pictures" written by Zhao Shenyou, the daughter of the emperor's beloved daughter, Princess Shouchun.

But for some reason, a country next door said that briquettes are their patent.Could it be said that all the universe was discovered by their country?
　In fact, coal briquettes have existed in ancient times, but the problem of cost and lack of research are still in place. The ancestors of China are very smart.The strong wind blew the ship away, and everyone guessed what would happen.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)