The first legitimate son of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 255: Tricked the Aristocratic Family
"Did you know that Li An is crazy!"

"Why is Li An crazy? Why is he so crazy?"

"Ang Lee is completely obsessed and there is really no cure."

"I really don't know what Ang Lee will do again. This is completely throwing money into the water."

"You're so stupid to do such a stupid thing."

A few days later, people in Chang'an City were talking about Li An going crazy. Of course, Meng Ziqian was the first to bring this topic up. Ever since he learned that Li An kept buying loose coal, Meng Ziqian had already turned on the ridicule mode.

First of all, this guy was planning to unite with other coal dealers to raise the price of bulk coal in order to cause trouble for Li An and make Li An pay more money to buy bulk coal. But when Meng Ziqian wanted to unite everyone, At that time, he found that no matter how hard he worked, people would not look down on him. Instead, they would sell it faster in order to finalize the contract with Li An as soon as possible.

At this time, Meng Ziqian also knew that there was no alliance. These people were all businessmen. To these people, loose coal had no meaning. It was better to exchange it for money. In the past, these loose coals could not be sold at all. When we go out, no one will buy loose coal.

Now if someone buys loose coal, they should sell it all at once, and they can still get back two coins. They join together to resist the increase in money. That is what pure fools do, so in less than five days, Li An bought all the loose coal around Chang'an City.

Even Meng Ziqian had to compromise in the end and sold all the loose coal in his family's name to Li An.

After this matter was completed, Li An had mastered almost all the bulk coal in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty. At this time, Li An's coal stoves began to be launched. These coal stoves were built by the Ministry of Industry. The price of one coal stove It only costs less than ten cents, and the price of loose coal is only one-tenth of the lump coal in Chang'an City.

After you buy a coal stove, Ang Lee will give you a chimney and a wind pipe.

Why should I send it? Because when the house is heated in winter, the stove placed in the house must be connected to the chimney.

If the chimney is not connected, gas poisoning accidents often occur, that is, carbon monoxide poisoning.Therefore, on the top of this stove, there is a mouth for receiving the chimney, and a fire door. Closing the fire door can concentrate the fire power.However, the fire door is generally opened to ventilate the smoke.

Every year before winter comes, you need to buy a chimney and install it when you want to light a fire.The chimney on the stove is connected through a neck joint and leads to the outdoors. It is not only for smoke exhaust, but also for heat dissipation.

There are also techniques for installing the chimney. The chimney has a large head and a small head to ensure that there is no air leakage.To install the chimney, you need to nail a nail on the wall or a nail on the beam, and use thin wire to fix the chimney.The chimney must also have a certain slope so that the smoke oil can flow out.

This smoke oil is the coal tar gas produced when coal is burned. The coal tar gas is cooled in the chimney and becomes smoke oil.If the chimney is not connected properly, the oil will leak everywhere.If your chimney is well connected and the slope is suitable, then the smoke oil will flow out of the house along the chimney.So sometimes it is necessary to hang a glass bottle for oil on the mouth of the chimney outside the house.The mouth of the chimney outside the house needs to be connected with a neck to prevent the cold wind from pouring directly into the house from the chimney.

At the same time, as a standard feature, air ducts must be installed in rooms with stoves.This wind bucket is usually placed on the window.There is a duct to facilitate the circulation of air in the room and outside.If this air scoop is not installed, gas poisoning accidents are likely to occur.Therefore, Ang Lee must give this thing away. If he doesn't give it away, those people will definitely not buy it.

When something happens, all the bad reputation will be brought to Ang Lee's head. Of course, even if Ang Lee has given away the chimney and wind pipe, there will still be some poisoning incidents. However, at that time, although Some people wanted to make a fuss, but Li An took out the chimney and wind bucket that he gave him, and those who wanted to make a fuss also turned off the fire.

Of course, Li An's behavior also offended all the merchants who bought lump coal in Chang'an City. Li An used the loose coal to make briquettes and sold them to the people of Chang'an at a very low price. Who else would come? Buy lump coal.

The price of lump coal, which was originally high, has dropped all the way, causing many coal merchants to lose their money. Because of this, Li An has become a thorn in the eyes of many people in the Chang'an family. Although Li An has won the hearts of the people of Chang'an, he has lost the Winning the trust of those aristocratic families can be considered pros and cons.

Li An's approach made the originally a little wary Prince Li Chengqian feel slightly relieved. After all, although Li An won the hearts of the people, he offended the aristocratic family. Li Chengqian still believed in his heart that the cornerstone of the Tang Dynasty was those aristocratic families, so Li An Li Chengqian believed that if the family was offended, Li Tai would be less likely to join forces with Li An. After all, Li Tai also knew the capabilities of the family.

Coal stoves and briquettes brought the greatest benefits to the people of the Tang Dynasty. During these nine cold winters, a coal stove and some briquettes could heat up a room. At least I could survive, and because of coal With the advent of stoves and briquettes, less than 100 people froze to death in Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty this winter. This is already a very small number. In previous winters, thousands or more people did not freeze to death.

The cold this year was so biting, but only a hundred people froze to death. This is already an extremely good thing.

Then Li An began to look for cotton again. After all, as the saying goes: "Ten layers of cotton are not as good as one layer of cotton." In fact, as early as the Han Dynasty, people had begun to spin cotton into cloth, and undyed cotton was called " The dyed cotton cloth is called "white certificate".Wang Fu, a scholar of the Han Dynasty, stated in "Qian Fu Lun·Fu Lu" that "Wen Zi Colored Certificates" were described. The colored certificates here are exquisite cotton cloth dyed by cotton spinning.

A kind of cotton cloth produced locally in Yunnan is called "wide cloth". Due to its wide width and high quality, it is very popular and was used in large quantities by the Han Dynasty.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the exchanges between my country's frontier areas and inland areas became more and more frequent, and the amount of cotton fabrics transported from Yunnan, Xinjiang and other places to inland areas gradually increased.According to records, only the small vassal states such as Linyi, Adanluo, Gandhari, Boli, and Zhongtianzhu in Hainan contributed a considerable amount of cotton fabrics to the court every year.In the Southern Dynasties, the emperor and officials mostly used this cotton cloth to make clothes.

Because cotton at that time was mostly produced in border areas, and cotton had not yet been grown in the Central Plains and Jiangnan regions. Although people enjoyed the benefits of cotton weaving, they did not know cotton.

In the records, some people wrote cotton as a tall tree, and some people recorded it as a kind of grass.

But cotton has been around for a long time, but it has not been promoted, and Li An is the one who wants to do this. He wants to promote cotton, so that it can better benefit the people of Chang'an.

(End of this chapter)