Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 746
Charcoal is also treated as an industry, and Taichang is really a bit ruthless.

So, does this industry have a future?

To be honest, according to the normal historical development track, this industry does not have much future.

Because when the world develops to a certain stage, coal will replace wood and charcoal as the main fuel, just as if oil and natural gas will replace coal as the main raw material in the future.

However, this replacement has a process.

At least, at this time, the European continent has not yet used coal on a large scale, and they have not even begun to formally mine coal.

The main fuels they use are wood and charcoal. After all, these two things are relatively easy to burn, and basically belong to the kind that burns at one point.

Coal is different. If you don't hold wood or something and burn it underneath for a while, the coal will not ignite at all.

Moreover, coal has a peculiar smell when it burns, and even produces toxic gas. If you burn coal for cooking in a closed environment, it is easy to be poisoned.

This coal-burning poisoning is quite terrifying, dizziness, and discomfort all over the body are mild, and it is possible to faint or even burp directly.

European countries don't understand this truth at the moment. They are not too cold and they don't know how to light firewood or charcoal to warm up.

When the weather is too cold, the doors and windows are naturally closed to prevent the cold wind from pouring in.

In this case, burning coal to warm the fire is basically no different from courting death.

Therefore, at present, many countries in continental Europe still prohibit the use of coal. Even if there are open-pit coal mines, not many people pick them up and burn them.

This is the truth. Even in the later period, coal began to be mined in large quantities, and the European countries rarely use coal for heating.

They burn firewood in their fireplaces. Coal is only used as industrial fuel or burned into steam for human heating. Europeans who directly use coal for heating are really rare.

The reason why they use coal as industrial fuel is that there is no way, because the wide application of steam engines makes wood and charcoal simply not enough to burn, and they must use other fuels instead.

Of course, Taichang didn't know this. He developed charcoal as an industry, that is, he purely took a fancy to the profits of the charcoal industry.

He also didn't expect that when steam engines began to be widely used in Europe, Europeans would look for cheap fuel everywhere.

If the Daming Western Company's business reaches Europe by then, and they can provide them with millions or even tens of millions of tons of cheap charcoal every year, it's really hard to say whether they will work hard to mine coal.

After all, the cheapest charcoal costs about as much as anthracite.

At that time, he may still be able to use charcoal to make the European countries suffer.

Of course, these are things for later, so I will skip them for the time being.

Taichang didn't have time to think about this issue right now, he was busy.

The civilians of the Juma tribe are constantly migrating here, and he has to order people to arrange food, accommodation and training for them.

The soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion have already cut down all the trees in the area of ​​Xinma City, and hundreds of tree-cutting machines have also been emptied, and he can't let these machines sit idle.

He had to arrange ships to transport these machines to the south bank of the Amazon River, or even to places such as Xinzhang to cut down trees to open roads, or to clear the open space for building cities.

There are also planting of herbal medicines and research and development of new pharmaceuticals, etc. The business of medicine is not comparable to that of charcoal, and he has to make great efforts to promote the development of this industry.

This morning, in a conference room on the Emperor, Taichang was gathering with Li Shuchu, Li Shuben, Wang Chong, A Suzu and others around a detailed map of the Juma tribe's territory, preparing to discuss the next move.

At this moment, the civilians of the Giant Horse Tribe had already migrated, and the population was a bit larger than they expected. Almost all the places where people could live in Xinma City were crowded, and they had to arrange work for these people quickly.

Taichang couldn't help sighing: "I didn't expect that your giant horse tribe has almost 50 people."

No wonder the giant horse tribe suffered from famine. Such a large area can feed 30 to [-] people, which is not bad. The population has doubled, so it is strange that they can find enough food.

This Asuzu didn't expect that he had not been to every sub-tribe, and they didn't have the habit of counting the population.

He asked with some embarrassment: "Men, is there any problem with these people's food?"

There is no problem with the food, and another 50 people will not be able to eat it all.

Taichang thought for a while, then pointed to the map and taught, "Your giant horse country is only such a big land. If you rely solely on hunting, you can feed more than 20 people, which is not bad. The population has doubled suddenly, and there is a famine. is very normal.

In this case, you should be thinking about how to increase food sources or how to expand the territory. It is useless to work around aimlessly. "

In fact, the population expansion of the giant horse tribe is also normal.

Because their great chief knows medical skills, and also knows hundreds of herbs.

For common diseases, they only need to teach the tribe to find some specific herbs to eat by themselves, and they can also focus on the diagnosis and treatment of serious diseases.

In this case, it's no wonder that the population of the Giant Horse Tribe didn't expand.

A Suzu really didn't think about how to increase the source of food, let alone expand the territory.

He could only nod repeatedly and said, "The students are taught."

Taichang sighed slightly, and then continued: "Now I have ordered people to send forty logging machines to Xinzhang Country, and I plan to use all the rest to develop Juma Country. Let's talk about the development of this business of planting.

How many cities do you think are suitable for us to build, and where are these cities suitable? "

The Giant Horse Tribe was the original name, and now the map is marked with the Giant Horse Country.

The development of this giant horse country is mainly for the development of herbal medicine planting business. When it comes to the development plan, Li Shuben, who is in charge of herbal medicine planting, naturally does his part.

He thought for a while, and then solemnly said: "Your Majesty, the area where the herbal medicine is planted is relatively scattered, and the people who grow and take care of the herb can't live too far from the planting place, otherwise, it will take a lot of money just to go back and forth in a day." less time.

Therefore, Weichen thinks that this time we can't focus on building a few big cities with more than 10 people.

We'd better be able to build a group of cities that can roughly accommodate a population of 2 or [-] like the small county towns of Daming.

In this way, the planting, care, and even harvesting of herbs are more convenient. "

Well, it makes sense. If two or three cities are built on a huge site like other Indian tribal alliances, the people who grow herbs may have to run two to three hundred miles to work every day, and then have to run two to three hundred miles run back.

This is a bit absurd, even if you take a Spike warship, it will take two or three hours for two or three hundred miles, and five or six hours for a round trip.

And the time in a day when there is enough light to work is only about six hours. If it takes five or six hours to go back and forth, then why do you work?

In other words, if two or three cities were built in a concentrated manner, it would be impossible to develop the herbal medicine planting areas far away.

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help but nodded slightly and said: "Well, Zhongke is right, we will build a dozen or twenty small cities that can accommodate 2 to [-] people.

In addition, there is another problem we have to consider, that is, the machines for cutting trees must have a large and solid dock to land.

Moreover, these machines basically cannot cross the river. When we choose the location of the city to build, we have to consider how to distribute it as much as possible, and build large docks near those cities so that the logging machines can be driven anywhere in the giant horse country. "

Everyone nodded when they heard the words.

They were discussing, when Liu Shiyou, who was on duty outside, walked in quickly, bowed his hands and said, "Your Majesty, Lord Sun is here."

Wei Guo Gongsun Chuanting!

What is he doing here?
Could it be that something happened in the capital of Western Yin!

Hearing this, Taichang was stunned for a moment, then waved decisively and said: "Today we will discuss here first, I have to go and see what happened when Boya rushed over."

After saying that, he led the crowd out quickly.

In fact, Sun Chuanting's dreadnought had just entered the port just now, and there was still a certain distance from the pier, and the people in charge of security outside hadn't seen Sun Chuanting himself yet.

However, there are only a few dreadnoughts in total, and there are several Sun flags erected outside the skylights on both sides of the top floor of this one. Who is it but Sun Chuanting?

At this time, the dreadnoughts were already approaching the pier, and some people on it could see them.

Taichang went to the hanging ladder to have a look, and was stunned again.

Because this is the only large dock that can dock the Emperor and the Dreadnought, and the other two dreadnoughts are parked side by side at the moment, Sun Chuanting's car can only be parked opposite the Emperor.

At such a short distance, Taichang can naturally see clearly the people on the top of the dreadnought opposite.

The reason why he was dazed was that not only Sun Chuanting came, but also Wen Zhenmeng, Huang Daozhou, Ni Yuanlu, Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi and others, all of whom seemed to be full of joy.

What's going on here, how come all these people came here, and they're all so happy!
Are these guys out of their minds?

Soon, the Intrepid came to a steady stop, and the hanging ladder was lowered accordingly, and Sun Chuanting, Wen Zhenmeng, Huang Daozhou and others rushed down.

Taichang was stunned for a moment, but still hurried down the hanging ladder and went up to meet him.

After paying respects to the monarch and ministers, he couldn't help asking: "What are you doing, why are you all running here?"

Sun Chuanting glanced around in a hurry, and then carefully reminded: "Your Majesty, the New Year's Eve is approaching, and Youxuan just took everyone through the capital of Xiyin, saying that he would come to accompany you to celebrate the New Year, so I followed you here."

Huang Daozhou and the others nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, Your Majesty, the New Year's Eve is coming, and I'm here to accompany you to celebrate the New Year."

New Year's Eve is coming!
Hearing this, Taichang was stunned again.

To be honest, he really didn't pay attention, because the weather here is getting hotter and hotter, probably almost thirty degrees.

Moreover, he was so busy that he was a little dizzy during this time, how could he have thought that it would be the New Year!

(End of this chapter)