Daqin: When I return from sea, I will offer you a map of the world

Chapter 239 The birth of honeycomb briquettes and earthen stoves, coal was collected as state-owned.

After the first emperor agreed, Zhao Si and Li Si had an in-depth discussion.

So two regulations were added to the complicated Qin law.

First, regardless of whether the people in various places use stone Nie charcoal as firewood, the local elders and county magistrates are obliged to urge users to pay attention to ventilation.

This regulation is added to the performance appraisal of officials.

Villagers and villagers regularly implement a reward and punishment system.

If there are many deaths among the people in any place because of the fire poison entering the body, it means that the officials and villagers are not in the right place, and they need to be held accountable.

When the officials and villagers are urging and persuading, the common people are obliged to cooperate. If those who do not listen to the dissuasion, they will be given a verbal warning for the first time and ordered to obey it. If there are three times, then the officials and villagers have the right to impose small punishments. Those who have repeatedly disobeyed supervision and persuasion can shave off their eyebrows and beard.

Second: Governments around the world are obliged to carry out boiled water promotion activities.

In the area of ​​Lingnan and Chu, the government and the people must be urged not to drink raw water, and water stalls must be set up on the official roads near the city to boil hot water for the people to drink.

At the same time, the government will provide a certain degree of subsidies and Shi Nie resource assistance to the Lingnan area, and it is necessary to put an end to the bad habit of drinking raw water in the local area.

This was something Zhao Si and Li Si had discussed for a long time.

The first one, Zhao Si has been thinking for a long time about the punishment for coal use regulations.

After careful consideration, Zhao Si believed that such things that are not costly and are related to daily life cannot be regulated by severe corporal punishment.

Therefore, the power to be delegated to the local area is only a verbal warning, and the maximum corporal punishment is no more than ten lashes. It is strictly stipulated that the whipping punishment cannot affect the daily life of the people, and the heaviest punishment is to shave off the eyebrows and beard.

This decree should be based on persuasion and promotion, not punishment. Li Si quickly agreed to Zhao Si's proposal because of the change in his thinking.

As for the law of drinking boiled water, considering that heating hot water also requires fuel resources, if people mainly drink hot water on a daily basis, it may be a heavy burden before Shi Nie has been promoted. Therefore, it is only to urge the local governments to promote it, drink it if you can, and don’t drink it if you can’t. The main purpose is to let the people know that drinking hot water can prevent most diseases.

As for the southern part of Chu State and the Lingnan area where miasma is very complicated.

Drinking hot water has become a must.

But the poor people are also really poor, so the subsidies will be paid by the Daqin government in the end, and then the custom of drinking hot water will be promoted in Lingnan and southern Chu.

There is no way, the living conditions there are too harsh, and the probability of death from drinking unboiled water is too high.

It is nothing more than setting up hot water paving on the official road near the city, and the stations along the way must also be able to provide drinking hot water at any time, and at the same time provide more fuel resources there, and then the government will enforce it.

Of course, the government must charge for hot water, but the price is very low. You can buy twenty bowls of hot water for one dollar, which is equivalent to fifty cents for ordinary people, which is acceptable.

Moreover, this fee is not necessary. It is up to local officials to decide according to the situation. It is not for making money, but mainly to avoid waste and fleece.

After the decree was promulgated, it did not cause too many waves.

On the contrary, it was the Zheng family's demise that made them really feel the benefits.

The Zheng family was destroyed, and the destruction was very easy.

As far as Shanyang is concerned, there are only 5 to [-] people in the border areas.

The Zheng family was nothing more than a local tyrant, more than 100 knights strictly carried out Zhao Si's orders like tigers and wolves.

Chickens and dogs were left alone, eggs were shaken and turned yellow, and even passing dogs were kicked twice.

There is one less bully on the people's heads, at least no one is stopping them from picking up Shi Nirvana.

For the local people in Shanyang, the biggest change is that the Zheng family did not come to collect taxes when picking up stones for the winter this year. Secondly, the local village elders and Li Zheng suddenly became active, urging them to ventilate from time to time.

Ventilation does not require doors or windows to be open all the time. It only needs to pay attention to the burning time and timely ventilation, which will not affect normal heating.

Trouble is definitely trouble, and naturally there are some people who do not abide by it because of trouble, so they are severely punished by the village elders.

There are also a few who have been repeatedly banned, their eyebrows and beards have been shaved off, and they are paraded in the streets.

There is no way, the first emperor's driving stopped right under his nose, and of course the local officials and village elders executed it well.

There were even officials who got up regularly in the middle of the night and knocked on doors from door to door to notify them of ventilation.

It can be said that it is responsible to the extreme...

And the effect is really obvious. At least Shanyang, which is currently under the eyelids of the first emperor, after strictly implementing this law, no one died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Of course it is impossible to die, who can be poisoned after taking a walk in an hour?
You have to be whipped for lack of ventilation, and you have to shave off your eyebrows and beard. Who would not be willing to open the door for a while?

As for Zhao Si, he was working on rough processing of raw coal, briquettes, coal stoves, and coal stoves.

This kind of thing looks easy but is difficult to do.

After a few days of self-care, Zhao Si finally chose to gather the craftsmen who followed the convoy to brainstorm.

With the brainstorming and Zhao Si providing ideas and general direction, the progress is fast.

It didn't take long to get out the briquettes.

This thing is best made of yellow mud and sawdust, so that it will burn more fully.

The corresponding molds have also been determined accordingly.

After the briquette is a coal stove.

When Zhao Si was a child, there was a coal stove at home, so it was not very difficult to imitate it, but there was a problem, the outside of the coal stove was covered with a layer of iron.

Even this small layer of iron sheet is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

So after careful consideration, Zhao Si began to discuss the possibility of improvement with the craftsmen.

Finally, a ceramic coal stove was produced. After many tests and improvements, it basically does not affect the practicality.

In this way, the only place where the whole body needs to use iron is the sealing part, which is not so difficult for the common people to bear.

As for the tongs for coal exchange, there is no big solution, only consumables can be used for the time being.

Considering the problem of the tongs, the coal stove may still not be very practical for the people at the lowest level, so Zhao Si started to try the chimney earthen stove with the craftsmen again.

This is not a difficult task. There are chimneys and pots in this era, and it is really not difficult to combine them.

The stove designed in the first generation is very luxurious, with sophisticated flue and even bellows to support combustion.

This generation of design was retained by Zhao Si, but it was not promoted. Without him, you have to consider that the common people are not professional craftsmen.

For things that promote people's livelihood, they must be simple and simple, practical and practical, and cheap and cheap.

However, it cannot be said that there is a problem with the design of this group of craftsmen, and Zhao Si did not abandon it, but kept it, and it may be useful in the future.

After being rejected countless times by Zhao Si, the craftsmen collectively made a mess, and simply built a simple stove with mud and straw and a short and simple chimney for Zhao Si to have a look at.

Zhao Si approved it.

Zhao Si didn't even think about using molded mud bricks as a stove.

Never overestimate the hands-on ability of Guishou in this era. Simple stoves like this kind of yellow mud live straw that can ensure combustion and ventilation to remove smoke are only possible for Guishou.

The worst design of the craftsmen was passed by Zhao Si, and Zhao Si gave the reward out of his own pocket, but the craftsmen refused to accept it. Under Zhao Si's strong request, a group of craftsmen accepted Zhao Si's reward like eating shit.

"Except for Guanzhong, most of Guishou in the world are still using Leisi for farming, and even the people in many places don't even know when to irrigate. Their houses are all crooked. Is such a beautiful stove? Can it be built by them alone?" Zhao Si explained seriously.

"If you want to promote things to the world, the most important thing must be simple, even if it is a little inferior because of this, it doesn't matter. One of the requirements that must be met for things that involve thousands of households is that as long as individuals take a little look Probably you can figure it out yourself, only in this way can it be possible to promote the world."

The final design chosen by Zhao Si made the craftsmen even unwilling to accept Zhao Si's reward, and the first emperor had also heard about it.

Now Zhao Si gave his own explanation.

"Besides, I didn't give up their other designs just because I chose this clay stove.

For example, this coal stove, I guess the people who will really use it widely should be Lishu who live in the city with a small amount of money.

Like the exquisite stoves they designed, I think the groups that can be used should be relatively wealthy noble families.

And I have seen Li Shu who are really at the bottom, they can't even afford shoes, they can't afford clothes, and they are starving all year round. It is a valuable thing, so there is this stove that is made of yellow mud and straw, and you can know how to build it at a glance.

As long as the stove can exhaust smoke and help burn rice, it is practical enough for them. " Zhao Si said.

Shi Huang nodded and found it funny again.

Zhao Si is a strange boy, he usually doesn't seem to care much, but he always thinks very carefully about matters related to people's livelihood, and tries his best to take care of the lowest level Li Shu.

He could feel that Zhao Si had feelings for such a group, but Zhao Si's life experience was really there, and Zhao Si's feelings were unreasonable.

It's not sympathy, it's not pity.

Is... empathy?Even respect?
It's not that the first emperor has never seen people who have deep sympathy for the poor, but Zhao Si's feelings for this group of people are different from theirs. Zhao Si is not superior, on the contrary, he puts this group of people at the bottom.

"Your Majesty, when I go on a tour of the world, I want to promote earthen stoves and stone nirvana along the way. I also hope that your majesty will allow the use of stone nirvana instead of firewood. This will speed up the promotion of stone nirvana. It can speed up a lot." Zhao Si said seriously with a smile on his face.

The First Emperor nodded, this is a matter of benefit and no cost.

Compared to these, he cares about other things.

After Zhao Si's happy departure, the First Emperor summoned Li Si, and after deliberation, he made the regulations.

The Shi Nie minerals in the territory will be nationalized in a unified way.

Counties and counties with Shine mine nearby can try to sell official media, briquettes and coal stoves.

(End of this chapter)