In winter, there was a heavy snowfall in Lantian, and the land was completely white. The land was really clean.

But before Li Chaosheng could appreciate the snow scene, the hard-working Lantian people had already gone out to clean up the snow that had fallen in the city. Every household also started to light the newly purchased stoves and burn the stoves bought from the coal shops in the city.

New honeycomb briquette.

Briquettes are a new product manufactured by Lantian No. 1 Coal Mine. It is said to burn very fully and reduce the risk of poisoning compared to the large coals burned in the past.

Seeing thick smoke rising from thousands of households, Li Chaosheng still felt a sense of accomplishment. You must know that in the past, the people of Lantian had to rely on force to endure the winter. Before Li Chaosheng took over Lantian, he often heard people say that someone

They freeze to death in the winter, so for the old Lantian people, spending the winter means passing through the gate of hell.

Although after Li Chaosheng took over Lantian, there were no more cases of people freezing to death in Lantian, but the life of the people in Lantian was still not very easy, and they had to fight hard in winter.

As a result, Li Chaosheng brought the issue of people's winter protection to the forefront, and took the lead in proposing at the Lantian government meeting that the issue of keeping Lantian people warm in winter should be treated as an important livelihood project.

As a result, Lantian No. 1 Winter Warming Plan was born. The plan mainly includes three aspects. First, the government should take the initiative to fund the repair of houses for ordinary people, especially five-guarantee households, widowed elderly people, or those with difficult family life.

We cannot allow these people's houses to leak rain in summer and draft in winter.

The heads of each village and town should take the initiative to understand the situation of the people, care about their living conditions, and actively report the repair costs. The repair costs will be directly allocated by the Lantian County Government.

By the way, the main source of this money to improve people's livelihood was the large amount of materials seized by Li Dingguo during the military operation and the funds from the sale of horses. Li Chaosheng allocated this money to needy families in Lantian County.

, on rebuilding the house.

Regarding this matter, there was a heated discussion within Lantian. At that time, the military had strong objections to the use of the money. They believed that the money should be given to the military to expand its armaments. After all, the money was considered part of their military's use.

The military should have priority in using the money earned for Lantian.

The Political Department of Lantian felt that since the money was in the public account, it should follow the overall plan of the Political Department. Moreover, the establishment of the military was successful, but Lantian did not treat the military badly. All the rewards that should be given were given. Since

Since the reward has been paid, the military should not obstruct the use of the money.

The military was also very dissatisfied with this. They believed that the people in the Political Department were trying to kill the donkey, using people to go forward and not using people to go to the back. At that time, people from both sides started fighting, each of them refused to accept the other. In the end, this matter

The matter came to Li Chaosheng, and finally Li Chaosheng made a decision directly: "Don't make any money at all. We Lantian soldiers and civil servants do not make money to satisfy our own selfish desires, but to benefit the majority of Lantian people, so

This money is neither given to the military nor to politics. It will not be used to expand infrastructure. This money will be used to improve people's livelihood!"

Li Chaosheng always kept his word when he was in Lantian. Neither the military nor the Political Department had any room for bargaining on the matters he decided on, so they could only obediently send the money to Li Chaosheng.

Li Chaosheng was not polite. After receiving the money, he immediately transferred the money to the winter warmth fund.

Now the people of the Ming Dynasty are all looking for a living, and Li Chaosheng wants to make the people of Lantian under his command live a good life, so good that other people of the Ming Dynasty will envy and aspire to it. In this way, Lantian can maintain a high level of attractiveness and truly achieve it.

The country does not use the dangers of mountains and rivers to threaten the world, and does not use the benefits of military revolution.

Only by making the people under your command live well can you gain the true support of the people. As long as the people truly support you, no one can shake your political power. This is the road for Li Chaosheng's development in Lantian.

Therefore, when Li Chaosheng was rich, he thought about benefiting the people, unlike some people who were rich and wanted to benefit themselves and let themselves live a life of luxury and luxury.

Just like what an entrepreneur named Wang said, if you make money as an entrepreneur, don't think about donating money every day to make yourself famous. If you have the money, you can give it to your employees and improve their welfare.

Only then will employees work hard for you, otherwise you will not be a good entrepreneur no matter how much money you donate.

This is a rough statement, but if you are poor, you can be alone, and if you are rich, you can help the world. The people under his command are living a miserable life. If Li Chaosheng is stupid and wants to provide some kind of extra-staff assistance, he is simply stupid and will be poked by the people of Lantian.

The spine and bones are scolding the mother.

Therefore, Li Chaosheng began to gradually improve people's livelihood when external pressure decreased.

That's why we have these three major plans to keep warm in winter. Now there is no need to worry about the food in Lantian. It is enough to eat. While ensuring the safety of food rations, the next step in Lantian will be to concretely improve the lives of Lantian people in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

, and the winter warmth plan is one aspect of living.

The supplement to the winter heating plan is divided into several parts. One part is the issue of house repairs for the five-guarantee households and needy households that Li Chaosheng is most concerned about.

In addition to the most basic five-guarantee household plan, Lantian has two other important measures. The first is the expansion of the civil part of the Lantian Coal Field.

The Lantian Coal Field is a supporting department developed by Li Chaosheng to support the Lantian Iron and Steel Plant. Its main function is to mine coal. Shaanxi and Shanxi are very close to each other. There is a gift from God here, which is coal, a large amount of coal.

Shanxi is a major coal-producing province, and there are some coal mines close to Shaanxi. Coal is an important industrial material, and they are indispensable for steelmaking.

You must know that the iron-making blast furnaces in Lantian do not burn wood, but high-quality coal mined in large quantities. Only after the coal is fully burned can it reach the high temperature required for iron-making in the blast furnace.

Therefore, the Lantian Coal Field has always been a subsidiary industry of the Lantian Iron and Steel Industry, and has never achieved the role of independent profitability. The utilization rate of coal among the private sector is not high. The reason is simple. After coal is burned, it will produce toxic gas carbon monoxide, which causes carbon monoxide poisoning.

This world with underdeveloped science is daunting enough, so people would rather freeze than burn coal.

In this regard, after Li Chaosheng learned the truth of the matter, he decided to change this situation. Coal must be burned, otherwise how to solve the heating problem of Lantian people.

So Li Chaosheng formulated the two most important steps in the winter heating plan. One was the coal yard reconstruction plan, and the other was to make an earthen stove, which was the most popular coal-burning stove in the 1980s and 1990s. There was a rough button on the stove.

Iron pipes, like large chimneys, can send the burned exhaust gas outdoors, thus saving carbon monoxide poisoning.

This is the second step of Lantian's winter heating plan, which is to establish a Lantian Iron Stove Factory to specialize in producing qualified iron stoves to solve the problem of heating difficulties for Lantian people.

There is no problem at all in the development of the iron furnace factory. After all, the Lantian artillery can be easily manufactured. How many iron furnaces can be manufactured?

Therefore, the iron stove factory opened soon. After the iron stove factory opened, Li Chaosheng went to the coal yard to inspect, and found a very serious problem, that is, the waste problem in the coal yard. In the coal yard, there are

A large amount of coal foam was dumped, and a huge coal pit was piled up in the backyard of the coal yard. It was full of waste coal and cinders from the steel plant.

The coal yard managers were also helpless. When Li Chaosheng asked what to do with the coal, he actually gave a ridiculous answer: Bury it, bury it. What plan is this?

Li Chaosheng was very dissatisfied with this. Isn't this a waste? You must know that in the future, any resources will be valuable wealth, and no waste is allowed. However, these coals cannot meet the current coal requirements of steel plants.

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But after thinking about it, Li Chaosheng came up with a perfect plan, which was briquettes.

Briquettes are a processed coal product, which has the characteristics of fully burning and saving raw materials. More importantly, if honeycomb briquettes are processed, the safety of using stoves for heating is also better guaranteed. After all, the shapes of honeycomb briquettes are the same.

Yes, make the stove suitable for burning briquettes, which will ensure the sealing of the stove and make it safer.

So after some reorganization, Lantian Coal Field established a subsidiary company, Lantian Briquette Manufacturing Factory, which specializes in manufacturing briquettes.

The manufacturing method of honeycomb briquettes is very simple. It is made from coal foam and yellow mud. The function of yellow mud is to increase the plasticity of coal noodles. The ratio is generally one hundred to five, that is to say, one hundred kilograms of coal noodles plus five kilograms.

Yellow mud can be used to make honeycomb briquettes.

Li Chaosheng is not unfamiliar with this. He saw his grandfather making this kind of thing when he was a child. It is very simple. It mainly consists of molds and grinding tools. It is not difficult for a factory in Lantian that can produce precision parts for muskets. It would take some time to make them.

Use the grinder to make it easier and more enjoyable.

Under Li Chaosheng's personal supervision and the cooperation of all departments, the Lantian Briquette Factory officially started production in three days. The workers pulled out the coal foam that no one wanted from the coal yard, and then began to proportion the ingredients and use them.

The grinding tool cut out the shapes of the briquettes and dried them in the sun. The first batch of briquettes was ready in five days.

At the same time, the first batch of 500 stoves in the Iron Stove Factory was also completed, and then Li Chaosheng designed honeycomb briquette stove stores across Lantian. However, Lantian people also had deep-rooted ideas about the poisonous coal. Li Chaosheng also had a solution to this problem.

That is to treat all stores as flagship stores and display them first.

So these shops were the first to use briquette stoves in Lantian. The shop placed the stove in the middle, then cut a hole in the window, stretched out the chimney made of an iron bucket, and then lit up the briquettes.

The room is getting hot.

At the same time, Li Chaosheng also popularized the knowledge among shop assistants, letting them know why burning coal can cause poisoning. The main reason is that people in the Ming Dynasty used braziers for burning. Braziers do not emit smoke, and the carbon monoxide produced when coal is ignited cannot be emitted. In addition,

Last winter, the doors and windows were closed, so it was natural to be poisoned.

But our briquette stove is different. The iron chimney is specially made to exhaust all the poisonous gas. There is only temperature in the house, and there is absolutely no poisonous gas.

After listening to the introduction by the clerks, the people were hesitant to believe it. Then the clerk emphasized again that this was what the county official said. Everyone believed it eighty percent, and then it was time to witness the miracle with their own eyes.

So honeycomb briquette stove shops all over the country began to light fires around the clock, and the shop assistants were all veterans of Lantian. After these people learned that the county official said that this thing was not poisonous, they did not hesitate at all and slept in the shop directly. Didn't you say it was poisonous?

?Then I will perform it myself to show you whether it is poisonous or not.

Just like this, day by day passed, and then the people were surprised to find that the clerk in the store did not do anything. Then people began to be suspicious. Ten days passed, and finally someone believed it and came to the store to order a set of stoves and a set of stoves.

Hundreds of briquettes. After all, it is too cold today and I need to wrap myself in a quilt when staying at home.

There is nothing we can do about it. We are now in the Little Ice Age of climate change on the earth, and the coldness is not comparable to that of later generations.

The first person to eat the crab, who may not be resistant to freezing, took on the heavy responsibility of the experiment. Countless people watched to see if the person who bought the stove would be poisoned to death.

A few days later, everyone noticed that the man who bought the stove had a glowing face and did not look like he was poisoned at all, so they went over and asked, "How about it, brother, can this stove really burn coal?"

After hearing this, the man laughed and said: "Brother, the county magistrate has guaranteed everything, can you be wrong? When have you ever seen the magistrate harm us? Let me tell you, this stove is really easy to use.

The whole room is roaring with heat, and you don’t know that you can do other things on this stove. For example, if you don’t want to eat, throw two sweet potatoes on it. Once roasted, they will be even more fragrant. And I suggest that when you buy them,

By the way, buy an iron kettle so you can make tea and drink some hot water later, which will save you trouble."

"real or fake?"

Everyone showed doubtful expressions, but the man smiled and said: "Don't you believe me, the county magistrate? Besides, I have been using that stove for seven or eight days, isn't it okay? Don't hesitate, everyone, it's really okay, it's so good

It’s something that only we Lantian people can use.”

After hearing this, the people were moved, so more and more people began to buy stoves, and more and more people began to use briquette stoves. In the blink of an eye, selling stoves turned out to be the hottest business in Lantian.

The income from selling stoves and briquettes this winter has exceeded the money Li Chaosheng set aside to build houses for needy households. It has even made Lantian's finances a little better, giving Lantian a lot more budget this year, which Li Chaosheng can use

The money can do more things.

Therefore, the little money from war and robbery is far less than the profits brought by commercial development, so resorting to military force is not feasible. Lantian's development route is to help other Ming people as much as possible and expand the territory while developing the economy.

Li Chaosheng got into his office with thought, sat in front of the stove and started to warm himself: "It's really cold today."

Li Chaosheng cooed, and Gu Zi on the side also rubbed his hands and said: "County Lord, let me tell you something. Two scholars came from Jiangnan. One is named Huang Zongxi and the other is named Gu Yanwu. They want to see the County Lord. Can the County Lord see you?
Chapter completed!