Villager of Daming

Chapter 767 Successful Reef Removal with Many Toys

Nanjing, or rather the twelfth lunar month in Yingtianfu, suddenly became different from before.

For several days, by the middle of the day, temperatures were consistently below freezing, even during the day.

The only thing to be happy about is that the reef blasting in the Yangtze River Basin and the Yellow River Basin was successful. News came back every day about which hidden reefs and exposed reefs were blown to pieces.

The boatmen and trackers in the two river basins are most familiar with the situation and know which locations are dangerous. When the army goes over, they choose the ones with good water quality and bring ropes and pipes, and some even use iron cages.

The pipe is connected to the surface of the water, and people can breathe underneath. Wear diving goggles, a kerosene lamp connected to the pipe to allow ventilation, a drill, and a hammer. A group of several people can dig it out.

Drill out the blast hole, put in the explosives and detonators, and when everything is ready, people pull it up and pull the rope to detonate it.

It usually takes many times to explode, and each time is easier than the last. The underwater explosion shock wave is all in that range, and the shock is particularly severe. If you do it a few more times, the things below that were not directly bombed will also be shaken loose.

Light snow was falling, and there was no frost on the glass coated with glycerin.

The spicy soup with beef as the ingredient and the lamb's eye buns stuffed with garlic sprouts are a favorite of both adults and children.

There are also big steamed buns left over from the village last night. They were fried in oil until browned in the morning. They are also good to eat with tofu.

Goat milk given by children and some women and old people.

Babies who can eat complementary food are egg custard and vegetable puree, but the taste is relatively bland and I dare not add seasonings, otherwise the child will not drink breast milk.

"You said the sales of honeycomb briquettes have been good recently?" Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of the spicy soup, burped, and exhaled the cold air in his stomach.

"Your Majesty, there is only [-]% profit, not just selling, but also subsidies."

Li Chang swallowed half of the sheep's eye buns in his mouth and responded. He also wanted to bite some of the small buns and dip them in vinegar and soy sauce.

"As we know about subsidies, a lot of money is spent on travel expenses." Zhu Yuanzhang put his chopsticks into the bowl and picked up shredded tofu.

He learned from his second son that Jubiqi purchased large quantities of pulverized coal, which was the cheapest coal. Basically, whoever wanted it had to do it himself.

Industrial areas basically do not use pulverized coal, unless it is required to blow powder during smelting. A large amount of pulverized coal is made into coal slime for the common people.

The weather has been cold recently, and Ju Biqi has been focusing on business since last month, organizing manpower, including sending messages at convenience stores.

Let the businessman help transport the coal powder here, and the profit amount will be around 5.00%.

It is not cost-effective to directly eliminate small businessmen and transport pulverized coal to such a distance for 5.00% of the profit.

The big merchants and the joint caravan were happy, the small merchants pursued profit ratio, and the big merchants pursued profit value.

After the pulverized coal was transported, Ju Biqi found jobs for those who had less work to do in winter, making briquettes and selling them to the people at low prices.

Some people do not meet the welfare standards of the nursing home, but their economic conditions are indeed poor. In order to prevent them from freezing to death, they have to be subsidized.

After some operations, taxes still need to be paid, and there is no tax refund policy.

Subsidizing the people is your own business, what does it have to do with the court's taxes?
It's just that the profit ratio of [-]% seems low, but the actual overall income is not that much.

The common people got cheap briquettes and burned them during the day without fear of being poisoned by soot. At night, when good lump coal was scarce, the probability of poisoning was very low.

At present, Jubiqi is not able to operate in all places, only Yingtian Prefecture, Zhenjiang Prefecture, and some areas of Yangzhou Prefecture.

Taiping Prefecture and Ningguo Prefecture do not use it. The local government is very powerful. They organize manpower to arrange the heating issues for the people in winter.

Like Ningguo Mansion, most people have prepared coal and firewood for the winter, and a lot of it is good coal. They have money.

Dr. Zeng Lu, the imperial censor, was eating steamed buns nearby. He had soaked in too much vinegar and frowned because of the sourness: "After the weather gets cold, the people's burden increases. How much does it cost per day?" He didn't know the cost. The heating of his house was provided by the court. The briquettes were given, and there were only about a hundred kilograms of lump coal.

The lump coal is burned in case of bad weather. Normally, it costs 20 yuan a day to burn briquettes.

There is no need to worry about soot poisoning, the location of the boiler is not in a normal house, and coal coal saves money.

"About two cents." Liu Lian replied aloud. He knew that he was now an official, responsible for the river course of Yingtian Mansion, Zhihe, a seventh-grade official, and he happened to have a small steam engine ship that he mobilized himself.

"Two cents? It's not a small amount, it can buy two kilograms of rice." Liu Bowen said, he was concerned about people's livelihood recently.

“When I was in Xiaqiu Village, I bought coal to make coal, and one penny was enough to burn it for a day.

River transportation is inconvenient in winter, so buying ready-made briquettes is naturally expensive. I guess I didn't expect it to be so cold this winter.

Is this considered a disaster?Will it be warm by New Year's Eve?It seems to be colder, the weather changes with the month. "

Another doctor, Chen Ning, spoke to the director and asked about the disaster.

The leader was chewing the screw spinach in the shrimp oil side dish. He looked at Chen Ning and motioned for the other party to wait for a while.

A young man from Xiaqiu Village said helpfully: "Never mind, the heavy snow in Nanjing would have to collapse most of the houses to be considered a disaster. If this is true, the north is hit by disasters every year."

"That's the truth, you gentlemen should eat the steamed buns while they are hot." Zhu Yuanzhang decided and told everyone to stop talking and keep their mouths occupied until they eat.

Everyone fell silent and ate breakfast slowly for half an hour, all for the sake of their families.

It's a holiday today, but if you don't come over for breakfast, there won't be any extra food at home. It's so cold, who wants to cook?

The head of the family has worked hard, and when they go to Xiaqiu Village, the palace will send them three meals a day, even if they go home immediately now.

Even though I came here, I went back immediately after eating. It didn’t look good, so I just sat and chatted.

Officials from various ministries gathered together to talk, first about the weather, then about the wind and moon, and then about work.

The generals gathered together to talk about various issues of the war, and Hu Weiyong had to go to the six departments to listen to them one by one.

Babies who eat complementary food go to sleep when they are full. They wake up later and can participate in play activities. They are always sleepy.

The other children found their own partners to play with, some outdoors and more indoors, with the most building blocks, especially those with mortise and tenon structures.

This thing is the kind of Lego that was used by Zhu Wentian, but that one is more powerful. The Chinese people at that time didn’t know where to put their minds. They knew that other people’s plastic toys were made and sold more expensively. Looking at it again, isn’t this just us? The Chinese mortise and tenon joint!

Xiaqiu Village collected scraps of wood used to build the imperial palace, matched them with Zhu Wentian's drawings, and threw them to the craftsmen.

The craftsmen took one look at it and threw it to the apprentice. It would be a waste of talent for the apprentice to make such a simple mortise and tenon structure.

The apprentices took the wood and drawings and repeatedly did boring things on the lathe. Fortunately, they finally had a heart that was not willing to be ordinary, and they individually made many mortise and tenon structural components that they thought they could add to the work.

After things are done, they still need to be polished. This is the most important thing. Children don't need to pierce the thorns with their hands when playing, so they use good wood.

The polishing work is taught to hired hands, and the apprentices do not do it. There is no technical content and it is just a waste of time.

This is where the assembled toys in the Xiaqiu Village toy store come from, some are cheap and some are expensive.

"Hey! Big cherries. Out-of-season fruits, how do you sell them outside?"

Zhu Yuanzhang did not go to talk to the ministers, but went to the village chief to drink tea, and a fruit plate and dried fruits were brought to him.

(End of this chapter)