Chen Mu finally had a little understanding of the direction of the Ming Dynasty in the historical context, although this understanding made him feel powerless.

During the long cultural development, people who mastered knowledge spent their entire lives studying ancient political science applicable to China, and constructing this political system that ruled the vast majority of people and vast territory with very few bureaucrats.

The method is to restrain each other and even internally consume each other. Like the stability of a triangle, the Ming government is also extremely stable internally, but the price paid for this stability is that it has extremely poor ability to fight against external pressure.

This is like a rule, which restricts everyone. Even the emperor can only open the cucumbers in winter, let alone others.

There are some things you know they are good, but you can't do them.

He finally fully understood why Hai Rui was hidden.

Because the Ming Dynasty's insanity could not resist the tiger and wolf medicine, even if the important officials of the cabinet knew where the problem was and knew that the problem was very big, it was obvious that Hai Rui, who was outside this set of rules, brought greater harm.

It is either black or white, and it won't work in the Ming Dynasty.

But Chen Mu still privately asked the little eunuch how the Yichunpu in Gohuichi made it. He could not do it, but he could not ignore it, because maybe at what time, these things would be of great use.

At the same time, someone rode a fast horse in the wind and snow to Xuanfu, and took the simple-made coal stove and honeycomb coal.

Of course, when General Chen entered the palace again, he did not forget to find the pie shop mentioned by Emperor Longqing from outside Donghua Gate. He asked someone to pack several flavors of pie and bring them into the palace, and asked the emperor to take a look at our honeycomb coal stove.

A coal stove worker came to the palace today, so I won’t talk about the eunuchs and palace maids. The family members in the palace were called out by Long Qing to see the new things. The little prince also took advantage of the situation and called from the East Palace. He looked at General Chen from afar and added coal to the fire with coal balls.

"There is a ventilation vent below. The fire needs to be used to open it, the fire is burned up, and the wind is going up. First, point some broken wood inside, and you can grab the coal balls in it." Chen Mu mainly explained to the eunuch. It was useless to tell the emperor about this. He would not make this thing with his own hands. "Put one piece first, it will burn it after a while, and then add it after a while. You can add three pieces. The holes must be aligned, otherwise the wind will not come out and it will be destroyed after a while."

Feng Bao was waiting beside the emperor. Seeing Chen Mu fill the coal in, he leaned closer and looked at him and asked, "General Chen, how long do you think this honeycomb coal will burn?"

Chen Mu smiled and raised his hand and pointed, "Please look, it's burning."

"Oh, grandpa, General Chen's stove has its own tricks, it burns so quickly!"

Feng Bao's grandfather's call was smooth, and Chen Mu almost pinched the hand of the coal ball. There was nothing unusual on his face. He quickly smiled and smashed it with a high hat, saying, "The Supervisor is a man of both civil and military affairs. In the past, the gunpowder was in pieces, and when it burned, it was flat. Later, it was pelleted, and the surface burned was large at the same time, so the fire was evenly caught. We wanted it to be fast and slow."

"The same is true for this coal ball. In the past, they were all coal chunks, and they were burned flat. They were not evenly burned. Sometimes they were fast and sometimes they were slow. Maybe when the fire was added. Some were burned and some were not burned yet, which was a lot of waste, not to mention that there was charcoal poison inadequate burning."

"General," Feng Bao asked, "Is this charcoal poison?"

Carbon toxicity is carbon monoxide generated by inadequate combustion.

"There are also this ones, but it's a little less. It still can't be placed indoors. If you want to use it indoors, it must be ventilated." Chen Mu raised his hand and smiled relaxedly, and said to Feng Bao: "Just cook and water, just cook outdoors. If you keep heating indoors, we will connect an iron chimney to it and guide the smoke outside. You can also make some iron pipes to fill it with water, and find a way to keep the water flowing, and the hall will be warm."

Chen Mu felt that this could be a set. If Nanyang or the steam engine in Xuanfu has taken shape, this set of things can be linked to save resources.

The invention of the steam engine was originally intended to mine coal and mine groundwater. China's coal mines were widely distributed. The Ming people never dug deep into coal mines because they knew that after digging, they would cover the tunnels, and new ones would be produced in twenty or thirty years, and they would be used endlessly.

Emperor Longqing looked at it, but he didn't see any tricks. He asked Chen Mu: "General Chen, do you think Wanquandusi Banner Army can do this by subsidizing daily necessities? The coal blocks are exquisitely made, all of which are square and square. It is time-consuming to make them alone. It is cheaper than ordinary coal cakes. It is cheaper than the flag army, and it is expensive and cannot afford to use it."

"Your Majesty is too worried. The coal ball is good because it is burned fully. Perhaps a coal ball is sold a little more expensive than the same large coal cake, but it will burn longer than the coal cake, and it will catch fire faster than the coal cake. Finally, the people use coal balls to save money than coal cakes, and it will not delay the training of the flag army, so the army can do it. However, I still have one thing to worry about and ask for it."

The guards were unimaginable for more than a hundred years ago, but now it has become a well-known thing for the world, especially in front of the emperor and the inner officials. This is not a secret. No one criticized him for this. But when he said he had asked for it, Longqing and Feng Bao looked at each other.

"General Chen, what's the matter?"

"Your Majesty asked me to supervise the Xuanfu, and the cabinet ministers sent me as Wanquan, all for one thing. Revitalizing the exhausted guards for many years. I thought that training the guards and revitalizing the guards was inseparable from the economy. In the early years, the flag army was established. They had military fields and had enough food. At that time, the guards were majestic."

"But now all the guards have insufficient fields and they are not enough to eat enough, so how can I start practicing? So I started from two aspects: one is training and system, and the other is to make the flag army form its own industry. It is easy to form an industry, and the guards have enough military surplus. After three or five years, they can eat and wear warm clothes, but it is difficult to control it. I don't want to worry about it for several years, and it will make the guards rich and the flag army suffer."

"Just like this coal ball, the coal cakes in the past were sold at one ounce of 100 pounds in the capital, and coal balls could be sold at one ounce of 100 pounds, while the coal balls could be used as 2800 pounds of coal cakes to be cooked. The coal cakes consumed in the year of Shuntian alone are more than ten million pounds? The profits in Xuanda, Jiliao and other places can be predicted. This huge amount of wealth can not only rejuvenate the Wanquan Banner Army, but also subsidize the soldiers of the Xuanfu."

"The guard officials may not be afraid of ministers, but the guard officials must be afraid of the guards, because the guards are close relatives. Therefore, I want to ask Your Majesty to send a few internal officials to Wanquan. In addition to subsidizing the soldiers, the remaining funds received by the coal balls will be almost the same as the soldiers. They will be transported to the inner treasury of Your Majesty in the palace. On the one hand, it can prevent the guard officials from being greedy, and on the other hand, it can also allow these silver to be used in more places."

Longqing and Feng Bao had a little bit of a mistake.

However, before they could speak, Chen Mu bowed and said anxiously: "I know this is competing for profit with the people, and the royal family does not lack this little silver, but only the internal officials can suppress the long-standing guard officials!"

Longqing was wearing a round-necked dragon robe, stroked his right hand with his left rib, supported his left elbow on his right hand, and rubbed his beard on his lips with his fingers, looking at Chen Mu frown and meditating.

After a while, he spoke, "Who did Chen Qing listen to nonsense? Who said I don't lack it?"

Good morning!
Chapter completed!