Datang Longya

Chapter 357 Coal Mine Discovered
Everyone was caught in the story of Leng Feng and couldn't extricate themselves. One day felt like a year, and another day was easy and fast. The switch between these two feelings depended on where Leng Feng got stuck last night.

In this long story, the team left the late autumn region and entered the cold region.

October!

The weather in Chang'an in October has not really ushered in the "cold", but in Leng Feng's place, the water is about to turn into ice.

This time is the opportunity for cotton clothes to come out! There are more than 2000 people, each of whom is equipped with a cotton coat and a thin down jacket. At this time, there is no need to put on a down jacket, just a cotton coat is enough.

It is planned to send out, and each person will be given a cotton coat. As for whether you like to wear it inside the armor or outside the armor, it depends on your personal preference.

Ashina Ayi did not, and neither did Wan Zhu.

The two of them who joined halfway were not in the plan, but it happened that the Dragon Tooth Army lost two soldiers, and their positions were handed over to Ashina Ayi and Wan Zhu. I don't know whether to be lucky or sad.

Li Xiaogong put the cotton-padded clothes on the inside of the armor, touched the cold nail leaves, and couldn't help but sigh: "Fortunately, these supplies were preserved, otherwise we would all be frozen like turtle grandchildren in this weather!"

"Such a cold weather is actually just a prelude. The approaching winter will be the most difficult days. I just hope that we will not be abandoned by this land. We have to encounter open-pit coal mines!"

"Is there a coal mine here?"

Li Xiaogong looked at Leng Feng in shock: "How do you know?"

Leng Feng kept silent. How can we find evidence for the knowledge of later generations?
Further north is Winter Siberia, where forestry is well developed and there are even more open-pit coal mines. In this ghostly place, if there is no wood and coal for heating, even if there are cotton and down jackets, people will freeze to death.

Seeing that Leng Feng was silent, Li Xiaogong stopped worrying about this issue, but said to Tang Jian beside him: "Since there is a coal mine here, we should find a way to mine it. Although it is cold, you can imagine what kind of coal mine this coal mine can create." wealth."

In the past, coal was only used by some blacksmiths. Commoner households either didn’t want to use coal mines nearby and thought it was slow, or they didn’t want to use coal mines nearby and thought it was too expensive.

But now, the development of coal stoves has led to the consumption of coal. There was not enough coal last year. The coal industry, which was originally depressed, was full of vitality. Then heating appeared, and the consumption of coal was even greater. Only those with enough titles and official positions can buy it. to enough coal.

It can be expected that the coal consumption this winter will only increase, and the coal industry will definitely become a big deal in the future. Although this place is far from the people, as long as there are coal mines here, it is valuable.

And the valuable land... Even if the emperor doesn't like it, the nobles will be jealous, and try their best to persuade the emperor to kill all the northern officials of the Western Turks, and open the way to dig coal northward.

Sometimes, it's not that the emperor doesn't want to fight a country, so he won't do it. If the nobles in the entire court are united, even the emperor has to compromise.

It was getting late obviously early, Leng Feng called everyone to stop and ordered to camp and rest, the following night was colder than the day, different from the previous randomness, now we must be prepared to keep warm.

When they were on the grassland, the soldiers complained to each other that the cowhide tent was too thick and airtight, and it was not as cool as a single-person linen tent, but now, no one said that anymore, and they wanted to block the exit of the tent to block the outside. cold wind.

The only thing to be thankful for now is that there are quilts. Three or five people huddled together and got into the quilts, haha, the warm feeling is undeniable. (except for a little cold face)

Ashina Ayi also fell in love with cotton quilts, and when Leng Feng was about to have dinner, she stopped him: "Leng Feng, is this cotton the white silk flower grown by the Gaochang people?"

Leng Feng looked at her strangely: "You are not far from Gaochang, why don't you know they have cotton?"

Ashina Ayi shook his head: "I have heard of it, but I have never seen it. There is no such thing in the alliance gifts that Gao Chang gives us every year."

"Original ceremony?" Leng Feng understood after a moment of doubt.

For a small country like Gaochang that lives in the cracks between big countries, if it wants to live well, it should please both sides. To put it bluntly, it is to act as a "younger brother" and give gifts to the elder brother, but Qu Wentai, a silly boy, thinks that the Tang Dynasty established the country. Soon, the foundation was too shallow, and there was no gift for Datang.

This is embarrassing, if you give a gift, Datang has to think about it before hitting you, if you don't give a gift, then hit you directly!Without hesitation!
Li Shimin, who came out of the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, if he didn't like a country, he would never think about whether to fight or not. He only thought about whether the food and grass were enough to support this battle, whether this country was worth fighting for!
Poor Gao Chang happened to meet these two conditions.

"Maybe the Gaochang people hide too tightly, haha, I won't tell you, those soldiers are still waiting for me to tell the story!"

The storytelling show every night has become a fixed one, and it is basically unnecessary to guess, knowing that they are already waiting there with their bowls in their hands.

Today's bonfire is a bit weird, Leng Feng looked at the abnormally colored lumps in the pile of wood, and wondered if it was coal!

"Is this coal? Who found it?"

Tang Jin beside Tang Jian raised his hand: "Duke Xi, I found it. We went to the nearby mountain to cut firewood. There were some big pieces in the pile of stones, so I moved them over."

"Okay! Before you leave tomorrow, you take people to that place again, and bring more. I kept the carriage and didn't throw it away, just to pull coal."

It seems that Tang Jin was so lucky that he discovered a corner of the open-pit coal mine.

Lumpy coal can never be one or two solitary lumps. One or two lumps of coal on the ground in nature will soon turn into cinders after being exposed to wind and rain. Only when there are coal mines nearby can lumps appear.

"Come on! Then Duke Xun, do I count this as meritorious service?"

Leng Feng nodded: "It's indeed meritorious service. Why, do you want a reward? Or do you want military merit?"

Tang Jin shook her head: "This is not a great contribution, I hope you will give a little more incense tonight, okay, hehe!"

It's nothing more than a stick of incense, Leng Feng readily agreed.

Here, Leng Feng started his lecture, but more than 200 people left the meeting halfway. It wasn't that they didn't want to listen, but that they had a task ahead of them.

Yan Liben and his craftsmen!

Leng Feng brought them to play their specialties, not only to make sleds, but also to make iron stoves.

I brought an iron stove to delay things before, but there is no iron stove on the road afterwards, so I will suffer from the boss.

(End of this chapter)