Please ask me to be the emperor

There is no technical content in the coal stove and the briquette machine. Even if Zhang Shun doesn't know much about these two objects, he can deduce their structure and principles with his inherent knowledge, so he can easily draw these two objects. Drawings come out.

These two objects may seem simple, but they are actually better than one idea, an idea that changes people's living habits.

Due to the extreme scarcity of materials during this era, even firewood was actually in short supply on the market.

On weekdays, when a guest comes to boil water and make tea, as well as for bathing and washing, it takes a lot of effort to light a fire and a stove.

I still remember that on the day Zhang Shun and Ma Yingniang got married, they chopped firewood and took a bath. They almost spent the whole night, and it was really unbearable to look back.

Now that we have this coal and this coal stove, the situation is completely different.

Firstly, the price of coal is not too high, and secondly, coal is relatively resistant to burning.

If honeycomb-shaped briquettes can be produced, using this kind of stove that can maintain heat can basically ensure a continuous fire.

It can be used for heating in winter, and can also be used to boil a pot of hot water for daily tea use.

Since Yaozhou did not produce iron at this time, and the nearby iron-producing Hancheng County was almost exhausted as early as the Song Dynasty, Zhang Shun did not pay too much attention to this matter.

He just copied another drawing, gave it to Wang Jinyi, and asked him to send someone to quickly pass it to Governor Zhang who was in charge of smelting in Lantian, so that he could try out the product.

After everything was done, Zhang Shun privately told Song Qijiao, the magistrate of Yaozhou: "This coal mine actually digs six or seven thousand kilograms a day, and the annual income is more than one, two hundred taels."

"Thirty taxes per one, a well can still earn five taels of silver per year."

"I see that there are many coal mines mined by my colleagues. I am afraid that I can increase my income by more than a thousand taels. I hope you will do it as well!"

So when Song Qijiao saw that King Qin had fallen in the eyes of Qian, what could he say?

However, Zhang Shun's training opened Zhizhou Song Qijiao's eyes.

Yaozhou governs one state and one county, and its annual tax revenue is only more than two thousand shi, which is only one or two thousand taels when converted into silver.

As a result, the King of Qin was able to "squeeze" three to four thousand taels in taxes after such a trip, and the people did not realize the hardship. He was really a "strange person".

No matter what Song Qijiao was thinking, after Zhang Shun arranged the "taxation", "disaster relief" and other matters, he bid farewell to Song Qijiao and continued to go north.

Thirty miles north from Huangbao Town, we arrived at Tongguan County. At that time, the county magistrate of Tongguan was temporarily absent, and all affairs were handled by Song Qijiao, the magistrate of Yaozhou. Zhang Shun did not intend to waste time here.

However, there was one person Zhang Shun had to meet, so he stayed here for some time.

It turned out that there was a Jiyang Village to the north of Tongguan County. This Jiyang Village was Kou Shen, the Suzhou magistrate who had been recommended to Zhang Shun by Zhu Wanling.

In fact, it doesn't matter whether he is an official or not. What Zhang Shun expressed is an attitude.

This time he personally brought gifts to visit, which also shocked Kou Shen who was observing mourning in Jiyang Village.

After all, Zhang Shun is not the two idiots Li Zicheng and Gu Junen. How can he force Kou Shen, who is wearing hemp and filial piety, to come out?

After the two parties exchanged polite greetings, Zhang Shun said goodbye and left, hurried to Yijun County, Yan'an Prefecture.

It is one hundred and eighty miles from Yaozhou to Yanzhou, Yan'an Prefecture, and about ninety miles from Yijun County.

The journey was already quite long, and they were delayed for some time in Tongguan Huangbao Town and Jiyang Village. Zhang Shun and others had to speed up and prepare to get to the Yijun County Station for accommodation before dark.

As a result, after leaving Jiyang Village and walking for more than ten miles, the road ahead was blocked.

"Wang Jinyi, what's going on ahead?" Zhang Shun wondered, could there be traffic jams in ancient times?

Wang Jinyi, who had just personally investigated the situation, came to report and responded quickly: "Reporting to King Shun, ahead is the San Pass, also called Jinsuo Pass. After passing the San Pass, you will reach the territory of northern Shaanxi."

"It is said that there are a large number of hungry people north of the pass who want to cross the pass and go south. General Wei Zhiyou is afraid of disturbing the pass, so he sent people to stop them early and is not allowed to pass the pass at will."

"In front of us is the grain transport team sent by Wei Zhiyou to escort, with more than a hundred cattle, horses and vehicles, and two to three hundred soldiers."

"Because the terrain in the south of Guan Guan is flat and the terrain in the north of Guan Guan is steep, it is inconvenient for traffic to pass. People are pushing and pulling through the customs."

"Oh? Mr. Yu, please bring someone to help!" Zhang Shun thought for a while and then ordered Yu Chongxiao.

Anyway, the two thousand cavalry under his command are enough to serve as guards, and it will not have much impact if five hundred people are assigned to help.

After working like this for a long time, seeing that the sun was setting to the west, I could no longer get to Yijun County to stay on time.

Zhang Shun thought for a while and simply ordered everyone to move into the Jinsuoguan Inspection Department.

In the Ming Dynasty, inspection departments usually built castles. This Jinsuoguan inspection department was not very big, covering an area of ​​four to five hundred square meters.

Although it is impossible for all of Zhang Shun's two thousand people to stay, they can still accommodate hundreds of people, and the situation is even better than usual.

Seeing that everyone was setting up camp, Zhang took Wang Jinyi, Wukong and others out of the inspection department to check on the "hungry people" that Wang Jinyi had mentioned earlier.

The road Zhang Shun led his troops northward was called Xianyu Road, which was the road from Xianyang to Yulin.

The Jinsuoguan Pass is located in the transition zone between the Northern Shaanxi Plateau and the Guanzhong Plain, and it happens to be a pass fortress stuck on the Xianyu Road.

There are three majestic mountains surrounding Jinsuoguan, namely Nuhui Mountain to the north, Malan Mountain to the east and Zhongjia Mountain to the west.

In addition, Liulin River and Qishui River meet at the foot of Nuhui Mountain and flow southward, so this place is also called "Three Passes".

Because those "hungry people" could not pass the customs, they hid at the foot of Nuhui Mountain to rest.

Some were afraid of the cold weather at night, so they gathered some firewood and lit a bonfire.

Some found some hay and made a hay nest to lie down on.

Zhang Shun looked all the way and saw that everyone was thin and jagged, staying there with numb expressions and motionless to save energy.

"Okay, okay, please give me something to eat!" More than a dozen half-year-old children ran out of nowhere and stopped in front of them, pleading.

Zhang Shun saw how pitiful they were and couldn't help but look at Wang Jinyi.

But before he could say anything, the red lady took the lead and said, "Go, go, go aside, don't block the way!"

Seeing that they could not beg, the children dispersed one after another.

Zhang Shun was stunned, and the red lady quickly explained: "If you had opened your mouth, those ten people would not have been the ones running over!"

Zhang Shun then turned around and looked around, and saw all the "hungry people" on the roadside staring at him with green eyes, as if they would pounce on him if he softened his heart.

"This," Zhang Shun couldn't help but wonder, "am I going to have to watch them starve to death here?"

"That's how we came here at that time!" Red Lady couldn't help but said calmly, "God wants to kill people, who can save them?"

"They have King Shun at this time, where is our King Shun at that time?"

Zhang Shun was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but stare at the red lady's face. For a moment, he didn't know whether to scold her for being cold-blooded or ruthless, or to pity her for suffering.

"Master, master, please take me. I can give birth to a son, I can read and keep accounts, I can do work, I can serve tea and water and warm the bed." Just as the two of them were stunned, someone suddenly fell in front of Zhang Shun, as if saying It was like a stand-up comedy, and it was difficult for her to say more than ten sentences in one go.

Seeing Zhang Shun looking over, she timidly stretched out her finger and said, "Just give me a bag of rice, and I will be yours!"

Is this child less than ten years old? Do you know what it means to have a son?

Zhang Shun looked at the dirty, skinny and monkey-like child in front of him, and for some reason, tears couldn't stop flowing down his face.

"No, I have to save them!"