The first rebel of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 985 Stone Nirvana
But without looking for Li Yin, everything seems to be unresolved.

then what should we do?

The three fell into deep thought.

Until Dai Zhou's arrival.

Things turned around.

But when Dai Zhou came, Li Shimin didn't give him any good looks.

He questioned:

"Dai Zhou, why didn't you solve the shortage of firewood in the palace first? Now many eunuchs and maids in the palace are frozen to death, and some of them died. What do you say!?"

Dai Zhou was very wronged.

I really don't blame myself for this.

It's not that I want to cut expenses!

There is no money in the palace!Now the entire imperial court is tightening their belts to live, wishing that one penny can be treated as two pennies, and everything should be saved.This year the whole palace is very difficult.There is also this minister who has not received a salary.

"Your Majesty, the snow came earlier this year. Many people were trapped at home and couldn't go out to cut firewood. In addition, the court didn't have much money to buy firewood recently. Therefore, some people can only reduce the amount of firewood. I don't know what will happen. This happened."

Dai Zhou was puzzled by such a thing as freezing to death.Probably not!It was too sudden.

Li Shimin did not say that the man was drinking.

Just blindly blame Dai Zhou.Don't blame him? Who?

Dai Zhou was not happy at first.

He asked himself to come over at night, and he was called over when he was still asleep just now.

Still being blamed all the time!
It must not be his fault.

It's not Li Shimin's fault, you obviously borrowed money, but invested it!Really drunk!
That said, no one is happy.

But he dared not say anything!This is depressing!

"How about Shengtang Group?"

Li Shimin asked suddenly.

How can you compare with the group?What happened to Li Shimin? !

But it is possible to imitate the group, after all, the group consumes more, maybe they have a way to save costs?

Used in the imperial court, it can alleviate the situation and survive the winter smoothly.

Li Shimin probably thought so too.

"Sheng Tang Group did not have such a situation!"

"The Shengtang Group is bigger than the Daming Palace, and the number of people is even greater. How can they not be short of firewood? Now that there is a sudden heavy snow, everyone should be the same, right?"

Less firewood is only one of the reasons, and the other is lack of money.

Li Yin's expenses are bigger, that is to spend money, if the unit price increases, he will not dare to spend too much.

Although Li Shimin's question is not perfect, it is also of reference value.

Empress Changsun suddenly said, "Is it because they use air conditioners? Electricity?"

But it was denied by Concubine Yang.

"No, if the entire Shengtang Group uses air conditioners, then no more thermal power plants are likely to be enough. Now that it is winter, the power generation capacity of the reservoir has dropped a lot. Miner once said that air conditioners are getting bigger power plants. Before, it would not be fully promoted, because it consumes too much electricity, especially heating, which consumes more electricity than cooling!"

Concubine Yang still knows something.

Because the water surface is frozen, electricity cannot be generated, which is more obvious this year.

It is also because of the cold winter that the temperature drops even lower.

Li Yin was also thinking about building the reservoir in a warmer place!
"What's going on? Let's not talk about the money, let's just talk about the amount. Shengtang Group must have more than Daming Palace. They have too many workers, and they have a lot of rooms and factories without heating. , it won't work."

Empress Changsun said again.

Dai Zhou was on the side, and finally said:
"This... As far as I know, Shengtang Group does not burn firewood."

"Not burning firewood?"

Li Shimin repeated it once.

Then he asked: "Then how did he solve the heating problem for the entire group?"

Shengtang Group can't stop at Dongshi, as well as hot spring resorts.

There used to be a hydropower plant outside and a breeding factory.

These places need heating.

Fortunately, the breeding factory has some modified pipelines.

But what about the rest of the group?
It is impossible to lay such long pipelines in thermal power plants.

So, how did they feed it?
"Coal! It's coal!"

Coal is dark in color and looks like a stone, so it has names such as "Shi Nirvana", "Carbon Charcoal", "Graphite", "Wujinshi" and "Hei Dan" in ancient times.

The "Shan Hai Jing Wu Zang Shan Jing", which was written at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period and the beginning of the Warring States period, said that "the mountain of women's bed", "the mountain of women's bed" and "multi-stone nirvana".The Nvchuang Mountain is located in present-day Shaanxi, and the Nvji Mountain is located in present-day Sichuan, indicating that coal had been discovered in these areas at that time. This is the earliest record of coal in my country.

In the Western Han Dynasty, my country began to mine coal mines and use coal as fuel.

But it was widely used after the Song Dynasty.

At this time in the Tang Dynasty, smelting was the most used.

It is still less used in people's livelihood.

Not even at all.

Therefore, Li Yin started to develop coal long before.

Therefore, Li Shimin said: "This coal is not cheaper than firewood, and the amount needed for smelting is huge, and the amount needed for the railway is also huge now. It is impossible for me to snatch it from them?"

He was right.

Now is indeed the peak period of coal consumption, so we can't compete with them, right?

"Your Majesty, as far as I know, the Sixth Prince has obtained the right to mine a coal mine. Although the amount they mine is not large, it can meet the needs of the entire Shengtang Group."

Even if he can't do it himself, why does Li Yin mine less than himself, but it is enough?

"why?"

"This, I should go and check it out!"

"Okay, you go and find out now. You must know how he did it!"

"Yes! Your Majesty, the minister will deal with it now!"

"Hurry up! I want to know the result before noon tomorrow!"

"Yes! That minister will leave first!"

Dai Zhou quickly left Daming Palace, and he didn't go to Tanglou, but went back to sleep directly.

At this time, no one can be found.

It's better to sleep well and look for it tomorrow.

Only Li Shimin, Empress Changsun and others were present.

Looking at the snowstorm outside.

"Your Majesty, what about the others?"

Concubine Yang was a little worried about the others.

Someone else was trembling in the room.

"Order to go on, supply firewood tonight, don't let everyone get frostbite! Let alone death!"

Li Shimin ordered.

The eunuchs went down to make arrangements.

After such a toss, Li Shimin was not sleepy anymore.

Later, he walked to the table and started to approve the notebooks.

At the same time, Empress Changsun and Concubine Yang had to stand by his side.

Because the two are not sleepy.

Then, after more than two hours, the eunuch walked in.

"Your Majesty, it's time to go to court!"

In the early days of the Tang Dynasty, the ministers participating in the court meeting had to get up in the middle of the night.

The emperor, on the other hand, has to get up at the fourth watch.

That is around three o'clock.

From the looks of it, today's sleep was wasted.

"Okay, I got it! Tell the ministers to come back later, it's so cold now!"

"Yes!"

Afterwards, the eunuch went down to inform the other ministers to come back to court later.

(End of this chapter)