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    In the last few days of November, heavy snow began to fall in the capital.

    How big is it exactly?

    Basically, within five days, almost a foot of dirt had accumulated on the road.

    The thatched houses where many poor people lived in the outer city of the Imperial City were also destroyed by thousands of households at once.

    The group of workers who repaired the city walls, moats, and roads must not be able to continue at this time.

    But it happened that the heavy snow came too quickly, so Miao Yan and Wu Yeshuang had an idea and transferred them to the work of snow removal and disaster relief.

    Therefore, they can be seen on the internal and external roads, important buildings, etc. of the Imperial City.

    In this way, even if there are too many people and a little waste, they will not stop their work and the whole family will starve to death without food.

    The already low grain prices, including those of bran, have also been slightly increased in the past few days.

    It¡¯s not that the grain merchants are unwilling to take advantage of the opportunity to raise prices, but because Miao Yan is here, he issued a death order. Anyone who dares to raise prices during this period should wait for him to visit!

    The last time Mr. Zheng was visited, he almost lost his life. Who would dare to make the same mistake as him?

    ¡°But there is no problem if the price increases slightly by half or ten percent.

    After all, there are fluctuations in legitimate business, and Miao Yan cannot control this too much, otherwise it will be him who will be impeached by the censor.

    However, Miao Yan's sorrow is not over yet.

    He went directly into the palace.

    "Your Majesty, it has only been five days since the university was demoted. No less than two thousand houses in the outer city and the inner city have been crushed, and this is still in the imperial capital city!" Miao Yan said, "Wei Chen went to see the gathering area of ??the victims.  , the situation there was even more serious, they had never expected to encounter a snowstorm before, so more than tens of thousands of houses collapsed."

    "ah?"

    Emperor Jinghe was shocked, "What should we do?"

    Miao Yan said: "Weichen has allowed them to cut down trees from the surrounding forests and temporarily use wood to support the surroundings and roof of the house. If they continue to actively remove the snow on the roof every day, the problem will not be big.

    But one thing that worries Wei Chen even more is that they cannot have a lot of wood for heating, let alone the money to buy coal for heating.  If this snow continues to fall, thousands of elderly people and children may freeze to death!  "

    ¡°All the mountains, rivers, and mines in Dakang are the private property of the emperor.

    But as far as the matter is concerned, if the people go up the mountain to collect some firewood on weekdays, or even cut down some trees to sell or use, the government will generally not care.

    However, if nothing else is mentioned, the trees around the capital are an important barrier against wind and sand invasion, and are also an important barrier against landslide disasters - this was known to the ancients hundreds of years ago.

    Therefore, large-scale logging is not allowed in most woods and forests.

    For example, when Liu Mingqi's papermaking workshop was small in the past, it could cut down forests in the Gyeonggi area. But now that the amount of paper used has increased tenfold or dozens of times, it can only go further to the Funiu Mountains and Taihang Mountains.  Went to cut down.

    Where the victims live together, burning firewood for cooking usually requires a large amount of wood. They have no money to buy it, so they can only cut it down nearby.

    They have been living here for several months and have almost cut down the forests on three mountains.

    For this reason, Miao Yan also specifically warned the patrol officers patrolling around him not to allow them to cut down trees that were too large.

    ¡°If it hadn¡¯t been for the sudden snowstorm, Miao Yan wouldn¡¯t have been able to open this hole.

    ¡°If they were allowed to cut down trees for fires and keep warm now, even three or five mountains and forests would not be enough.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: Burning wood to heat the house is simply a?suffering, and it is more likely to cause a fire.

    So people in the city usually use coal, and people in the palace and wealthy people usually use charcoal.

    The fireworks of coal are very small and have sufficient heat, but they are more expensive, have a strong smell and are easily poisoned.

    Burning charcoal will not cause poisoning, but the price of charcoal is much more expensive than coal, so rich people cannot really afford it.

    So Miao Yan didn¡¯t mention charcoal at all.

    "Coal"

    Emperor Jinghe now knew why Miao Yan came to find him.

    Coal, like iron ore, is the private property of the emperor, right?sp; Halfway through Liu Mingqi's words, he suddenly denied it, which surprised both the emperor and Miao Yan, who originally thought the plan was good.

    Then they saw the young man slap themselves on the head.

    "Why am I so stupid!" Liu Mingqi's eyes radiated light, "Your Majesty, I have a good idea! It will allow most people to use coal for heating, and it will also allow them to reduce their expenses, and the court will not lose money!  "

    I can still make money.

    The boy didn¡¯t dare to say this.

    But a heart that longs for wealth is already ready to move and cannot be restrained at all!

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    Note: "Wanshu Miscellanies" of the Ming Dynasty records that in the 37th year of Wanli, one pound of iron was worth 0.025 taels of silver. Prices did not fluctuate much during the Wanli years.  The number here is the price of iron in the peaceful and prosperous period of Dakang. Therefore, the price of an iron chimney of 20 kilograms of iron is 5 coins of silver.

    "Firewood" in Volume 205 of "Ming Huidian", in the third year of Longqing, ordinary firewood was 0.15 taels per 100 catties, and ordinary (charcoal) charcoal was 0.45 taels per 100 catties.  If you replace it with wood and charcoal from high-end trees, the price will be scary.

    For example, the price of willow charcoal in the Ming Dynasty's "Miscellaneous Notes of Wanshu" is 4 taels per 100 kilograms. In the Qing Dynasty, "The Empress Dowager: red basket charcoal, 20 kilograms in summer and 40 kilograms in winter." The empress dowager only gave dozens of kilograms of red basket charcoal.  , it is said that it is hot and resistant to burning, gray and white without explosion, has less smoke and has a slight aroma. The price is even more frighteningly high.

    The "Wanshu Miscellaneous Notes" of the Ming Dynasty also records that in the 20th year of Wanli, the price of coal was 0.12 taels per 100 kilograms. The "Instructions for the Factory Warehouse of the Ministry of Industry" recorded that fried blocks (small coal blocks) were about 0.13 taels per 100 kilograms. Therefore, in the Dakang Dynasty, ordinary coal was taken at 0.13 taels per 100 kilograms.  One hundred catties is 0.12 taels of silver.

    According to data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Qing Palace, the daily supply standard is: 120 jins for the empress dowager, 110 jins for the empress, 90 jins for the imperial concubine, and 75 jins for the imperial concubine But it will increase every time because the actual consumption is very large.

    Therefore, for ordinary people to cook, boil water and heat each day, the daily consumption of a family of five is 30 kilograms, which is not an exaggeration. I watched a few videos. Modern Northeastern rural people buy coal for the winter, and they all buy 1 ton of coal.  Buy it (remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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