But without looking for Li Min, everything seems to be unresolved.
then what should we do?
The three of them fell into deep thought.
Until Dai Zhou's arrival.
Things took a turn for the better.
But when Dai Zhou came, Li Shimin didn't give him a good look.
He asked:
"Dai Zhou, why didn't you solve the problem of insufficient firewood in the palace first? Many eunuchs and maids in the palace are now frozen, and some are dead. What do you say!?"
Dai Zhou was very aggrieved.
I really don’t blame myself for this.
It’s not like I want to cut expenses!
It’s because the palace has no money! Now the entire imperial court is tightening their belts and living a life, wishing that every penny should be used as two penny, and they have to save everything. This year has been very difficult for the whole palace. There is also a minister who has not received his salary.
"Your Majesty, the snow came earlier this year. Many people are trapped at home and cannot go out to chop firewood. In addition, the court does not have much money to buy firewood recently. Therefore, some people can only be asked to reduce their consumption. I don't know what will happen. This happens."
Dai Zhou was puzzled by the idea of freezing to death. Probably not! This was too sudden.
Li Shimin didn't say it was because of drinking.
Just blame Dai Zhou blindly. If you don’t blame him, who should you blame?
Dai Zhou was not happy at first.
I asked myself to come over late at night. I was still asleep just now when I was called over.
Still being blamed!
It's definitely not his fault.
It's not Li Shimin's fault. You obviously borrowed the money, but you used it to invest! So drunk!
That makes no one happy.
But he didn't dare to say anything! This is so depressing!
"What 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 money. Maybe they have ways to save costs?
Use it in the imperial court to alleviate the situation and survive the winter smoothly.
Li Shimin may have thought so too.
"Shengtang Group did not have this situation!"
"The Shengtang Group is bigger than the Daming Palace, and the number of people is even greater. How come they don't have a shortage of firewood? Now there is a heavy snowfall, everyone should be the same, right?"
Less firewood is only one of the reasons, the other is lack of money.
Li Min's expenses are bigger, so he has to spend money. If the unit price increases, he doesn't dare to spend too much.
Although Li Shimin asked this question, it is not perfect, but it also has reference significance.
Queen Changsun suddenly said: "Is it because they use air conditioning? Electricity?"
But Concubine Yang denied it.
"No, if the entire Shengtang Group uses air conditioning, then no matter how many thermal power plants there are, it is estimated that it will not be enough. Now that it is winter, the power generation capacity of the reservoir has dropped a lot. Min'er once said that air conditioning will only be used when 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 even more obvious this year.
It is also because of the cold winter that the temperature drops even lower.
Li Min was also thinking about building the reservoir in a warmer place!
"What's going on? Let's put aside money and just talk about the amount. Shengtang Group must have more than Daming Palace. They have too many workers, a lot of rooms and factories, and no heating. , it won’t work.”
Queen Changsun said again.
Dai Zhou was on the side and finally said:
"This... as far as I know, the Shengtang Group does not burn firewood."
"Not burning firewood?"
Li Shimin repeated it.
Then he asked: "Then how did he solve the problem of heating for the entire group?"
Shengtang Group is not limited to Dongshi, but also to hot spring resorts.
There used to be hydropower plants and breeding plants outside.
These places all need heating.
The breeding plant is a bit better, with improved pipelines.
But what about other parts of the group?
The pipelines in thermal power plants cannot be laid that long.
So, how do they provide heating?
"Coal! It's coal!"
Coal is dark in color and looks like stone, so it has names such as "stone nirvana", "carboniferous", "graphite", "black gold stone" and "black pill" in ancient times.
The "Book of Mountains and Seas·Wuzangshan Jing" written at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period and the beginning of the Warring States Period says, "The Mountain of Women's Bed", "The Mountain of Women's Ji" and "Nirvana of Many Stones". The Nvtang Mountain is in today's Shaanxi and the Nvji Mountain is in today's 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 most commonly used.
There is still less use in people’s livelihood.
Or even none.
Therefore, Li Min had begun to develop coal long ago.
Therefore, Li Shimin said: "This coal is not cheaper than firewood, and the amount required for smelting is large. Now the amount required by the railway is also huge. I can't possibly compete with them, right?"
He was right.
Now is indeed the peak period for coal consumption, so we can’t compete with them, right?
"Your Majesty, as far as I know, the Sixth Prince has obtained the mining rights of a coal mine. Although the amount they mine is not large, it can satisfy the needs of the entire Shengtang Group."
He couldn't do it himself, so why did Li Min mine less than himself but still have enough?
"Why?"
"This, I need to go check it out too!"
"Okay, you go find out now. You must know how he did it!"
"Yes! Your Majesty, I will handle it now!"
"Go quickly! I want to know the result before noon tomorrow!"
"Yes! Then I will retire first!"
Dai Zhou quickly left the Daming Palace. He did not go to the tenement building, but went directly back to sleep.
At this time, no one can be found.
Might as well sleep well and look for you 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.
There are people shivering in the room.
"Go down and provide a full supply of firewood tonight. Don't let everyone get frostbite! Let alone die!"
Li Shimin ordered.
The eunuchs went down to take care of things.
After all this trouble, Li Shimin was no longer sleepy.
Later, he walked to the table and started to approve the papers.
At the same time, Queen Changsun and Concubine Yang had to stand beside him.
Because neither of them was sleepy.
Then, more than two hours later, the eunuch came in.
"Your Majesty, it's time to go to court early!"
During the early dynasty of the Tang Dynasty, ministers participating in court meetings had to get up at midnight.
The emperor, on the other hand, has to get up at the fourth watch.
That's around three o'clock.
It seems that today's sleep is a waste.
"Okay, I understand! You can ask the ministers to come back later, it's so cold now!"
"yes!"
Afterwards, the eunuch went down to inform other ministers to come to court later.
