I am Li Shen and Li Shimin, the free kings of the Tang Dynasty

In fact, it’s not surprising that Li Shimin had self-doubt. I don’t know why. Since Zhenguan, there have been disasters every year in various places.

There is never a year without good weather, either drought or floods, locusts or heavy snowfall, and two plagues come again at every turn.

In recent years, there have been cults or rebellions spreading rumors among the people every year, saying that Li Shimin's ascension to the throne was due to the combination of destiny and heaven.

The throne is not right, and the name is not right, so the words are not right, so God punished him.

"Your Majesty, Shen'er said that the rain and wind today are all natural phenomena and have nothing to do with God. So your Majesty does not need to blame yourself."

Concubine Wei came over and helped Li Shimin put on his cloak.

"Natural phenomenon? What is a natural phenomenon?" Li Shimin asked in confusion.

"I don't know, but I think it's natural to just let nature take its course." Concubine Wei guessed that in fact, she had only heard Li Shen say it when she was a child and didn't understand what it meant.

"There is some truth in what my beloved concubine said, but I think it is naturally related to the Tao of nature mentioned in the Tao Te Ching. The so-called Tao naturally represents everything in this world."

In order to prove that Lao Tzu was his ancestor, Li Shimin memorized the Tao Te Ching backwards and forwards.

"I don't understand. I only heard something Shen'er said when she was young."

"When you were young? Alas, I really didn't expect that Lao Shi had understood such a profound Tao at a young age." Li Shimin established a beautiful misunderstanding on his own.

"Your Majesty, it's late at night. I'll take your Majesty to take a bath and rest." Concubine Wei saw that Li Shimin was worried so she changed the subject.

"Yes," Li Shimin looked back at the still charming Concubine Wei and nodded in agreement.

Next is:

The fragrance of powder makes the Yaoqin Zhen wet with sweat, and the crispness of spring melts into the cotton rain ointment. If you want to stop, Tanlang touches the place, the cool spirit and purple grapes are refreshing.

The snow started to lighten up the next day, but continued. The snow accumulation has exceeded two feet and nearly three feet. The snow in the palace was cleared all night, so there wasn't much,

But traveling on the street has become a problem. Wannian County and Chang'an County urgently dispatched manpower to clean up, and the military guards in the city also joined in.

Carriage after carriage pulled the snow towards the outside of the city. Today's morning was relatively late, and many officials had to wade through the snow due to travel problems.

"Your Majesty, the snow in Chang'an City is close to three feet. This has not been seen in decades. I think we should make plans in advance.

It is still unclear what is happening outside the city and how widespread the damage is. "Fang Xuanling stood up first and said.

"Well, what Fang Qing said is absolutely true. The Ministry of Civil Affairs immediately went to the warehouse to prepare. We will make plans after reporting the disaster situation from various places."

"Your Majesty, there is still the issue of keeping out the cold. Although the snow has lightened up now, the Taishi Bureau said it will not stop until at least tomorrow.

With such heavy snow, many people's houses will be crushed and they will be homeless. Even if they have food, they will probably freeze to death. Changsun Wuji said.

Changsun Wuji's words caused the hall to fall into silence. This was a big problem. The imperial court did not have so many heating facilities.

"Your Majesty, I think we can only wait for news from various places before making plans, and first find out how big the disaster is." Fang Xuanling said.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Rengui, immediately send people to Dongshan Military Camp, mobilize all the people, and rush to Huangzhuang for rescue. I estimate that no houses will collapse. The main thing is to clear the snow.

Tell the soldiers that raising troops for a thousand days and using them for a while, their responsibility is not only to kill the enemy, but also to save the people from fire and water. "

In the study of Prince Ji's Mansion, Li Shen's three giants were all present. Of course, the Prince's Mansion must be prepared for this snowstorm.

"The minister takes orders."

“Old Wang, the palace’s carriage must be ready at all times, and if necessary, the granary in Prince Ji’s palace must be opened at any time to prepare for disaster relief.

There are also brick factories and cement factories to expand production. The Chamber of Commerce issued a warning that those who raise the prices of food, salt, charcoal, cloth and other cold-proof materials during the disaster will be kicked out of the Chamber of Commerce and will be sanctioned.

The palace can purchase salt, cloth, fur and other materials to keep out the cold at a price one level higher than the market price. "

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Hongfu also accepted the order.

The importance of forming a chamber of commerce was reflected at this critical moment. If you are not a member at this time, then Li Shen has no control over you.

But if you are a member, you have to follow the chamber of commerce's arrangements. If you don't follow the rules when you join the membership, it is written in the rules that you can sanction the member.

A prince, plus more than 120 second-generation officials, how much backing do you have to withstand the sanctions of these gangsters?

There will still be laws in later generations, but in this era, it is not illegal for nobles to exaggerate and kill people. No one dares to mess with them.

If it were later news, it would be said that the special operation to eliminate gangsters and evil forces had eliminated the largest gangster force in Chang'an headed by Li Shen.

"Xuance, always pay attention to the situation reported by newspapers from various places to see how widespread this snow disaster is. It's okay if it's just Guannei Road, I hope it won't be too big.

Xuance, I think we need to touch the iron. "

Li Shen had bought all the useless mountains around him before, and Wang Xuance knew this. This was all a few years ago when I first left the palace.

There was a small iron mine among them, but Li Shen did not mine it on a large scale. He only quietly mined some for the research institute to conduct research on iron and steelmaking.

The research location is also in the cement factory, so that it can be concealed from others.

Li Shen is now short of a blast furnace. As long as he builds a blast furnace, Li Shen can produce iron in large quantities.

Li Shen has always felt that salt and iron are not suitable for him to touch at the moment. But this snowstorm may require a lot of iron to build a stove.

Because Li Shen had a lot of coal, half of the mountain was dug up in the past few years. Moreover, Li Shen had already asked Wang Hongfu to capture all the nearby coal mountains.

"Your Majesty, the eldest grandson Pushe's family has an iron and salt business, and the iron business is quite big." Wang Xuance reminded.

"Really? Then you mean to let me cooperate with Zhao Guogong?"

"Your Majesty, the salt and iron business has always been the main source of income supporting the aristocratic families. If Your Majesty does it himself, there may be great resistance.

Why don't we cooperate with Zhao Guogong and hide behind our skills? Zhao Guogong's iron production is large and the price will be lowered. When the time comes, the noble families will definitely look for him instead of us. "

Wang Xuance's intention was to let Changsun Wuji hold the vat.

Li Shen thought about it and felt that it made sense. Even if Li Shen made iron himself, he would not make money. Iron is the foundation of development.

Li Shen's research institute now requires iron for many things, especially in industry where the demand for iron is the greatest.

And now they are already studying steel. In fact, the wisdom of the ancients is no worse than that of later generations, but their thoughts are imprisoned.

Now Li Shen lets them study at will and open their minds, just like birds out of their cages, letting the birds fly in the sky.

Li Shen sometimes felt that if the Braided Dynasty had not closed itself off to the country, nothing would have happened.

(The author is not going to break down the details of ironmaking and steelmaking. I checked the information and found that the blast furnace focuses on refractory brick technology and coke technology, which can be achieved. As for the blast furnace drawings, they are below.

The development of industry requires the support of many things, but everyone, this is a novel, and your brain should be saved after reading this.

To be honest, after watching the video, it was too complicated and I didn’t understand it. So you just take it as real. OK? )

I send you a poem to express my apology,

Hand in hand, holding the wrists into the curtain, shyly smiling and blowing the lamp.

The golden needle pierced the peach stamen, and did not dare to frown loudly.

(Ming Dynasty) Feng Menglong's "Three Words and Two Beats"