A trip starting from the courtyard

Chapter 612 I implore the official to give me a name
An artifact that can solve the cold winter of the capital.

Zhao Zhen stood up "teng" and said eagerly: "Jingde (Qi Guogong), where is the artifact?"

Qi Guogong replied: "Your Majesty, the artifact is just outside the hall."

"Quickly present."

Everyone in the hall stretched their necks to look outside the hall, the British Duke said to the Marquis of Xiangyang who was not far behind him:
"Bin Zhou, what exactly is the artifact your son-in-law mentioned?"

The Marquis of Xiangyang stroked his beard with a smile and said: "Jingde is messing around, it's just a small thing, how can it be called a magic weapon."

Seeing the old man's complacent vigor, the British Duke was a little upset and was about to say something when he saw the emperor's personal servant leading three young men into the hall.

Two of them were holding a black iron bucket in their hands, and a black thing was burning in one of the black iron buckets, which looked like coal.

"What kind of artifact! Isn't it just a stove, grandstanding."

"Duke Qi is hysterical! If this thing is considered a divine weapon, then my family's gold-plated Crane Qing Boshan Furnace is a legendary divine weapon."

"My red clay stove."

The emperor waited for the three of them to approach, and was greatly disappointed after seeing it clearly, and immediately glared at the cheap son-in-law.

Qi Guogong did not panic at all, and slowly introduced several major advantages of honeycomb coal to the emperor in detail, and demonstrated it himself.

"Your Majesty, there is another characteristic of this briquette. The smoke and dust are much smaller than firewood charcoal."

The emperor approached the stove, looked at it carefully, and found that there was really no soot, and there was no pungent smell.

Immediately, his interest increased greatly, and he reached out to try the firepower.

Duke Qi hurriedly reached out his hand to stop it, and reminded: "Your Majesty, don't look at the small charcoal cakes, but the firepower is very strong, and it takes only a cup of tea to boil a bucket of water."

The emperor immediately asked his servant to take an iron hanger filled with water and put it on the stove.

"Duke Qi, how long can a piece of briquette burn?" Several ministers and dukes gathered in front of the stove at some point, commenting on the stove and the briquettes.

Qi Guogong could only repeat the advantages of honeycomb coal again, and then took a few people to a brand new honeycomb furnace next to him, and demonstrated it from the ignition.

When the ministers learned that a family of five could keep warm for a day with only 20 Wen, they found that Qi Guogong was really not boasting. For the current Tokyo city, this thing is really an "artifact".

Seeing that the officials and ministers were all satisfied, Qi Guogong talked about the various benefits to the Song Dynasty after the large-scale promotion of "honeycomb coal", and proposed to cancel the tasteless charcoal tax.

"Your Majesty, it is absolutely impossible."

Yu Shi Zhongcheng stepped out of the train and objected loudly:
"Nowadays, the imperial court's expenditure is very difficult. If the carbon tax of 10,000+ guan is missing, the treasury will definitely be unable to make ends meet, and it will eat more than enough food."

The biggest firewood dealer in the entire Tokyo city is his good junior Lu Gongbi, governor of Kaifeng Prefecture.As for his senior brother and Yushitai, who is in charge, of course he got a dry stock, although it is only a small half, he just got last year's dividend a while ago, a total of 12.

Just now he was still thinking about how to get the government to increase the carbon tax, otherwise the sales of charcoal in the future can be imagined.

Taking people's wealth is like killing their parents, and destroying people's love is like eating their flesh and blood.

Previously, the conflict with Qi Guogong was purely because of business affairs, but now it is endless.

"Your Majesty, the government of the State of Qi has purchased a large number of coal fields these days. He is harming the public and benefiting the private, and he is doing nothing to help the private. The Duke of Qi is terrified!"

"Your Majesty, I impeach Duke Qi"

"His Majesty."

The official glanced at the hall, returned to the dragon chair, and said to Qi Guogong: "Qi Guogong, is it true?"

Qi Guogong erected the attendance board and admitted it openly.

These days his wife bought a total of 8 charcoal farms, and his precious son also bought [-] charcoal farms.

Seeing that the emperor's face turned cold, he immediately said, "Your Majesty, the charcoal and firewood subsidies that the imperial court distributes to all officials each year cost more than 55 guan. In the future, they can be replaced by charcoal cakes, which can save about 40 guan every year." .

Last year, Yantie Division purchased 69.68 guan of firewood, one-third of which can be replaced by charcoal cakes, which can save about 15 guan a year, and there is also a weapon workshop.”

I don’t know if I don’t mention it, I’m taken aback.

The emperor's thoughts immediately flew to the major charcoal consuming households. As for how many charcoal yards Qi Guogong bought, it was only a few hundred thousand guan, and he neither stole nor robbed.

If you eat meat yourself, you must give others some soup, otherwise some of the courtiers will work hard for him and Da Song in the future.

Zhao Zhen's mind was spinning rapidly. The big family who used charcoal also had generals as supervisors, and his own palace. He almost forgot the super rich five big money supervisors for a while, and estimated that the court could save more than 200 million yuan a year in expenses, and the annual carbon tax Only 10,000+
Zhao Zhen immediately made a decision to cancel the charcoal tax, and ordered Taifu Temple to open more charcoal fields all over the country. The more the better.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, with this item, the soldiers and civilians of the Great Song Dynasty will no longer suffer from the cold winter."

"Congratulations, Your Majesty. It's all thanks to Your Majesty that I, Song Dynasty, can have this thing."

"Congratulations, official."

Seeing that someone took his lines, Qi Guogong felt a little remorseful, suddenly remembered his son's advice, and hurriedly bowed deeply,
"Your Majesty, this stove has not yet been named, I beg the officials to give it a name!"

The emperor nodded slightly, just thinking about it. Asked the servant to put the desk on the desk, prepared a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and wrote "Safe Furnace" on the paper with a brush.

Putting down the brush and reading the three words on the paper, the emperor felt a little regretful and was not in the mood.

Then he motioned to the servant to give the word to Qi Guogong.

Holding the 'Safe Furnace' in his hand, Qi Guogong was a little dumbfounded when he saw that the officials just patted pg and left. He looked at the piece of paper in his hand.

Solved the heating problem of the entire Beijing Song Dynasty in winter, and also helped the imperial court save millions of guan in expenses every year, just a piece of thin paper?

I dare not think about iron coupons or death-free gold medals, but promotion to a higher level official is the minimum.
While he was in a daze, a person suddenly walked out from the apse and grabbed his arm, "Duke Qi, Your Majesty has summoned you."

The speaker was none other than the emperor's chief executive officer Liang, Duke Qi hurriedly asked, "Sir, do you know why Your Majesty is looking for me?"

After turning to a secluded path, seeing that there was no one around, he slipped a jade plaque as a token of filial piety.

Officer Liang rubbed the jade plaque with his thumb twice, and guessed that it was a good thing, so he reminded him in a low voice, "It should be a good thing, please remember to keep the long story short."

Qi Guogong has a bottom line in his heart, and 9% of it is a matter of rewards.

After entering the Chuigong Hall, he had just saluted, and before his waist was straightened, the officials asked him what reward he wanted.

Although the relationship between the two was good, how could he open his mouth about this kind of thing? Maybe the emperor just asked casually, and he really wanted to take it seriously. After being humble, he politely declined.

"If I remember correctly, Jingde has been a salt and iron envoy for almost ten years, right?"

The Duke of Qi was overjoyed, the meaning of the emperor's question was self-evident, and the prelude to his promotion was proper, and he suppressed his excitement and said: "It will be ten years by next month." Suddenly thinking of something, Duke Qi took a photo with regret. He then took out a booklet from his cuff and handed it to Senior Officer Liang, "Your Majesty, the booklet contains the drawings of the coal stove and the recipe for charcoal cakes."

Zhao Zhen took the brochure from Mr. Liang, flipped through it, and found that the production process of the two items was very simple, and it didn't take much time to imitate them, but he was very happy to be able to hand them in, "Jingde, these two items Good stuff, where did you find it?"

(End of this chapter)