After the First Emperor agreed, Zhao Si and Li Si had an in-depth discussion.
So two regulations were added to the complicated Qin laws.
First, whether people in various places are using Shinie charcoal for firewood, local township elders and county officials are obliged to urge users to pay attention to ventilation.
This regulation enhances the performance appraisal of officials.
The villagers implement a reward and punishment system.
If there are many deaths among people due to fire poison entering the body, it is because the officials and villagers failed to inform them properly and need to be held accountable.
When officials and villagers are urging and persuading, the people are obliged to cooperate. If they do not listen to the dissuasion, they will be given a verbal warning for the first time and ordered to comply. If there are three times, then the officials and villagers have the right to impose minor punishments. If If you repeatedly disobey supervision and advice, you can shave off your eyebrows and beard.
Second: Local governments are obliged to carry out boiled water promotion activities.
In the Lingnan and Chu regions, officials and people must be urged not to drink raw water. Water stalls must be set up on official roads near the city to boil hot water for the people to drink.
At the same time, the government will provide a certain degree of subsidies and stone resource assistance to the Lingnan area, and it is necessary to put an end to the local bad habit of drinking raw water.
This is something that Zhao Si and Li Si have discussed for a long time.
The first one is about the regulation of coal use. Zhao Si has been thinking about this punishment for a long time.
After careful consideration, Zhao Si believed that this kind of thing that was free and related to daily life could not be regulated by severe corporal punishment.
Therefore, the power devolved to local governments can only be verbal warnings, and the maximum punishment is no more than ten lashes of corporal punishment. It is also strictly stipulated that whippings cannot affect people's daily lives. The heaviest punishment is to shave off eyebrows and beards.
This law should be based on advice and promotion, rather than punishment. Because of the change in ideological concepts, Li Si quickly agreed to Zhao Si's proposal.
As for the law on drinking cooked water, considering that heating hot water also requires fuel resources, if people mainly drink hot water every day, it may be a heavy burden before Shi Nie is promoted. Therefore, we only urge local governments to promote it. Those who are able can drink it, and those who are not able do not need to drink it. The main reason is to let the people know that drinking hot water can avoid most diseases.
For areas with very complicated miasma, such as the southern part of Chu State and the Lingnan region.
Drinking hot water has become a must.
But the people who are poor are really poor, so this subsidy was ultimately paid by the Qin government, and then the custom of drinking hot water was promoted in Lingnan and southern Chu.
There is no way, the living conditions there are too harsh, and the probability of death from drinking raw water is too high.
It is nothing more than setting up hot water pavilions on the official roads near the city. The stations along the way must also be able to provide a supply of drinking hot water at any time. At the same time, more fuel resources should be provided there, and then the government will enforce it.
Of course, government hot water must be charged, but the price is very low. One yuan can buy twenty bowls of hot water, which is about fifty cents for ordinary people. This is acceptable.
Moreover, this fee is not necessary and must be determined by local officials according to the situation. It is not to make money, but mainly to avoid waste and plundering wool.
After the decree was promulgated, it did not cause too many waves.
On the contrary, the destruction of the Zheng family made them truly feel the benefits.
The Zheng family was destroyed, and it was easy.
As big as Shanyang is, the border areas only have a total of 40,000 to 50,000 people.
The Zheng family was just a local tycoon, and more than a hundred knights strictly followed Zhao Si's orders like tigers and wolves.
There were no chickens or dogs left, the eggs were all shaken and turned yellow, and even the passing dogs were kicked.
There is one less tyrant above the heads of the common people. At least there is no one to stop them from picking up the stone nirvana.
For the local people in Shanyang, the biggest change is that there is no Zheng family to collect taxes this year when they collect stone for the winter. Secondly, the local village elders and Li Zheng suddenly become active and urge them to ventilate from time to time.
Ventilation does not require doors or windows to be kept open all the time. You only need to pay attention to the burning time and ventilate in time, which will not affect normal heating.
Trouble is definitely trouble. Naturally, some people did not comply because of the trouble, so they were severely punished by the village elders.
There were also a few who had been repeatedly punished and had their eyebrows and beards shaved off and paraded through the streets.
There was no way, the First Emperor's drive was stopped right under his nose, and of course the local officials and village elders carried it out very well.
There were even reports of officials getting up at certain times in the middle of the night and knocking on doors to notify them of ventilation.
It can be said that he is responsible to the extreme...
And the effect is really obvious. At least in Shanyang, a place currently under the nose of the First Emperor, after strictly implementing this law, no one died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Of course he couldn't die. Who could be poisoned if he came here for a stroll in an hour?
If there is no ventilation, you will be whipped and have to shave off your eyebrows and beard. Who would not be willing to open the door to get some air?
As for Zhao Si, he is tinkering with rough processing of raw coal, briquettes, coal stoves and coal stoves.
This kind of thing looks easy but is difficult to do.
After Zhao Si thought about it for a few days, he finally decided to summon the craftsmen who were following the convoy to brainstorm ideas.
With brainstorming and Zhao Si providing ideas and general direction, the progress was rapid.
It didn't take long to get the briquettes out.
It is best to make this stuff with yellow mud and sawdust, so that it will burn more fully.
The corresponding mold was decided accordingly.
After having briquettes, it becomes a coal stove.
When Zhao Si was a child, there was a coal stove at home. It was not very difficult to imitate it, but there was a problem. The outside of the coal stove was covered with a layer of iron.
Ordinary people cannot afford just this small layer of iron sheet.
So after careful consideration, Zhao Si began to discuss the possibility of improvement with the craftsmen.
Finally, a ceramic coal stove was developed. After many tests and improvements, it basically did not affect its practicality.
In this way, the only place where iron needs to be used in the whole body is the sealing area, which is not so difficult for the people to bear.
As for the tongs used to clamp coal and change coal, there is no big solution. For the time being, we can only use consumables.
Considering the problem of fire tongs, coal stoves may still not be very practical for the people at the lowest level, so Zhao Si began to try chimney earth stoves with craftsmen again.
This is not a difficult thing. In this era, chimneys and pots already exist, so it is not difficult to put them together.
The stoves designed in the first generation were very luxurious, with sophisticated flues and even bellows to support combustion.
This generation of designs was retained by Zhao Si, but was not promoted. Otherwise, you have to consider that ordinary people are not professional craftsmen.
For things that promote people's livelihood, they must be simple and simple, practical and practical, and cheap and cheap.
However, it cannot be said that there is something wrong with the design of this group of craftsmen. Zhao Si did not abandon it, but kept it. It may be useful in the future.
After Zhao Si rejected the plan countless times, the craftsmen collectively scrapped it and built a simple stove and a short and crude chimney out of mud and straw for Zhao Si to see.
Zhao Si gave it the go-ahead.
Zhao Si didn't even think about building a stove with molded mud bricks.
Never overestimate the hands-on ability of Guizhou people in this era. Simple stoves like this yellow clay living straw, which can ensure combustion support, ventilation and smoke removal, are likely to be popularized in Guizhou Province.
The worst design of the craftsmen was approved by Zhao Si. Zhao Si paid for the reward out of his own pocket. The craftsmen even refused to accept it. Under Zhao Si's strong request, a group of craftsmen accepted Zhao Si's reward as if they had eaten shit.
"Except for Guanzhong, most of the Guizhou provinces in the world are still using grass for farming. People in many places even don't know when to irrigate. Their houses are all repaired crookedly. Is it possible that such an exquisite stove is... Can it be built by themselves?" Zhao Si explained seriously.
"If you want to promote something to the world, the most important thing must be simplicity. Even if it is a little inferior because of it, it doesn't matter. For something like this that affects thousands of households, one requirement that must be met is that as long as an individual takes a look You can probably make it yourself, and only in this way can it be possible to promote it to the world."
The design plan finally selected by Zhao Si made the craftsmen even unwilling to accept Zhao Si's reward, and the First Emperor also heard about it.
Now Zhao Si has given his own explanation.
“Besides, I didn’t abandon their other design plans just because I chose this earthen stove.
For example, this coal stove, I estimate that the group that will really be widely used is the Li Shu who live in the city and have a little extra money.
Like the beautifully designed stoves they designed, I think the group that can use them should be the richer aristocratic families.
I have seen the Li Shu who are really at the bottom. They can't even wear shoes or buy clothes. They suffer from hunger for the first half of the year. Such people can only use local materials, and what they get is the kind of money they don't have. It is a valuable thing, so we have this stove that is made of yellow mud and straw. You can know how to build it at a glance.
As long as the stove can exhaust smoke to help burn rice, it is practical enough for them. "Zhao Si said.
The First Emperor nodded and found it funny again.
Zhao Si is a strange boy. He usually seems to be indifferent, but on matters involving people's livelihood, he always thinks very carefully and tries his best to take care of the lowest level common people.
He could feel that Zhao Si had feelings for such a group, but Zhao Si's life history was so tangible that Zhao Si's feelings were completely unreasonable.
This is not sympathy or pity.
Do you... feel the same way? Even respected?
It is not that the First Emperor has never seen people who have deep sympathy and compassion for poor living beings, but Zhao Si's feelings towards this group of people are different from theirs. Zhao Si is not aloof, on the contrary, he puts these people at the bottom.
"Your Majesty, during the next big tour of the world, I will pass through various places. I want to promote earthen stoves and crude stone nirvana along the way. I also hope that your majesty can allow the use of stone nirvana instead of firewood. This will speed up the promotion of stone nirvana. It can speed up a lot." Zhao Si said seriously with a smile on his face.
The First Emperor nodded, this was a favor without any expense.
Compared to these, he cared about other things.
After Zhao Sim left happily, the First Emperor summoned Li Si, and after discussion, he made regulations.
The Shinie mineral resources within the territory will be unified and nationalized.
Counties with Shine mineral resources nearby can try to sell official media, briquettes and coal stoves.
(End of chapter)
