Horse on the World

Chapter 37 Opencast Coal Mine
When the wind and snow stopped for a while, Li Qing couldn't wait to go to the coal mine to have a look. Shang Haibo was worried, so he asked Wang Qinian to send a team of soldiers, together with Li Qing's own hundred or so personal guards, the group marched mightily let's go.Yang Yidao and Tang Hu were beaten with boards. Although there were only ten boards, under the care of Shang Haibo, the ten boards were solid and without any moisture. The two limped behind Li Qing's horse. Walking, this ass, the horse can't sit still.

Li Qing, who originally wanted them to rest by themselves, saw the virtues of the two walking and gritted their teeth, and laughed and cursed: "You asked for trouble!" But it was very useful in his heart, these two people are very loyal!

"General, if this animal charcoal is as you said, it will indeed be of great help to Chong County, but is it true?" Shang Haibo was still worried, and asked this question repeatedly along the way.

"Of course!" Li Qing patted his chest, "Mr. Shang, I will prove it to you with facts."

After half a day's work, the group arrived at the Yazikou that Wu Siniang had mentioned. This place is more than ten miles away from the old camp in Chong County. They couldn't hide it either. If it wasn't for the guidance of a guide who was familiar with the mountain roads, Li Qing and his party wouldn't have been able to get here at all.

"General, this is Yazikou. Wu Siniang picked it up here. We also know that the black animal charcoal is everywhere. It's just that almost no one here dares to pick it up and burn it.

Li Qing squatted down and used his hands to remove the top layer of floating snow, but the snow below had been frozen extremely hard, so he pulled out his waist, chopping in disorder, causing snowflakes and ice shards to splash everywhere, and the soldiers also Using the weapon in his hand to push away the snow, he finally revealed a solid ground.

"General, I found a piece!"

"General, I have it here too!"

After a flurry of fuss, Li Qing had piled up a large pile of coal in front of him. He picked up a piece and looked it over carefully. Li Qing confirmed that it was coal, but there was a good lump of coal in the pile. There are also stones with poor quality.This kind of interbedded stone cannot be fully burned, and it is the most likely to produce gas. Presumably, Lu Siniang couldn't tell the difference between lump coal and interlayered stone, so she picked them up and burned them all at once, and then made the hut airless, which led to gas poisoning. If her hut It's just as good as the others.

Li Qing shook his head, this woman is really unlucky, but thanks to her unlucky luck, she let me know that there are such good things in Chong County, resources, these are strategic resources.

Li Qing smiled and pointed at the ground, "Give me the ground!"

The guards took out the pickaxes prepared in advance and began to dig the ground. Li Qing smiled and said to Shang Haibo: "Mr. Shang, as far as I know, these animal charcoals are buried very deep in the ground. It is difficult, and it is easy to cause casualties. There are not many open-pit coal mines like this, but Chong County actually has one. take off."

Shang Haibo said: "If it is true as the general said, it can solve the poisonous gas problem of this animal charcoal, it will indeed be a great help, this may be the general's destiny, God bless you, let Chong County not only have this thing, And the general just knows how to use it."

Li Qing laughed out loud, "It's just a matter of luck."

Shang Haibo glanced sideways at Li Qing, who was watching the soldiers digging the ground intently, and smiled thoughtfully. Of course it's not right now, but what about in the future?

The ground was extremely frozen, and often a pickaxe could only dig a few inches deep. After a while, the soldiers began to sweat, and the ground was dug a few feet deep.

"General, General, I dug it out!" A soldier shouted, and then more soldiers shouted. Li Qing walked forward quickly and saw that the turned-up soil had been completely black. , among the black powder, there were countless large or small lumps of coal. He stretched out his hand and grabbed a handful in his hand. Li Qing slowly picked it up, looked at the black coal, I was ecstatic in my heart, it really was a blessing from the heavens, such high-quality coal was only a foot deep from the ground.

Seeing Li Qing hold the black powder in his hands intoxicatedly, and even put it in his nose to sniff deeply, Yang Yidao, who had just been hit by the board, couldn't help being anxious, rushed forward and knocked out the coal in Li Qing's hand, "General, this animal charcoal is poisonous!"

Li Qing laughed and stood up, "No, only when this animal charcoal is burned will it produce toxic gas. Now, no, it's very safe. Hey, Yang Yidao has made progress. It seems that Mr. Shang's meal will kill him." You played well." The guards beside him heard Li Qing's good-natured ridicule and looked at the embarrassing face of the boss, and couldn't help laughing loudly. Only Shang Haibo looked hesitant and hummed coldly from his nostrils. With a sound.

"Come on, every soldier get some back for me." Li Qing ordered loudly.

Chong County, the general's mansion, Shang Haibo saw the craftsmen who were busy non-stop, and he was still a little uneasy, so he asked Li Qing who was supervising the work in a low voice: "General, are you sure there is no problem? You can really solve him Is it poisonous?"

Li Qing was already confused by Shang Haibo's repeated questions, and said with a wry smile: "Sir, I said that if there is no problem, then there is no problem. That's all right. Let's try it out after it's built. During the trial period, I'll decide Don't go in, okay?"

Only then did Shang Haibo nod in satisfaction, "This is the safest way."

Alas, Li Qing let out a long sigh, right now the craftsmen are building earth dragons, kangs, and even the stove in the kitchen according to the sketch drawn by Li Qing in the general's mansion, and it is estimated that it will be ready for use in four or five days.Thousands of catties of coal brought back by the soldiers were also piled in front of the general's mansion.

"The common people dare not use it because they don't understand it. No one has used it before, but if I use it first, it will be popularized among the common people. Then this winter, we won't have to suffer from the cold." Li Qing said. Shang Haibo said.

"It's a good thing for the general to care about the people, but it's better not to let the general do it himself in the future for such unknown and unpredictable things. It's better to leave these things to the people below." Shang Haibo never forgets Tell Li Qing.

And these days, everyone in the old camp in Chong County knew that the general would use animal charcoal for heating, and declared that there was a way to solve the poisonous gas problem of animal charcoal.

The earth dragon was on fire, and so was the big kang. At the beginning of the first day, a strange smell came from several smoke exhaust pipes. Calm and calm, Yang Yidao and Tang Hu stood closely behind him, although their faces were ugly, they did not retreat at all.On the other side, Shang Haibo also stood firmly, staring at the smoke pipe with piercing eyes.

After a while, the weird smell gradually disappeared. Li Qing reckoned that the earth dragon and the big kang should have been burnt by now, so he said with a smile: "Okay, now we can go in and have a look."

Just as he was about to go in, Yang Yidao jumped into the room before Li Qing, and Tang Hu grabbed Li Qing. It actually made Li Qing unable to move.

Shang Haibo on the side nodded his head, with a smile on his face, the twenty boards were worth it.And Yang Yidao's mother-in-law, Yang Zhoushi, bit her lip tightly and looked nervously at her own man in the room.

When Yang Yidao stepped into the house, the first thing he felt was that it was very warm, the air in the house was very fresh, and there was still the earthy smell left after the construction had just started, and he didn't feel the unpleasant poisonous gas at all.

After staying there for a few minutes, he actually felt a little hot. He stood firmly in the room and experienced it carefully. Damn it, it was getting hotter and hotter.

The time for one stick of incense has passed, and the time for another stick of incense has passed, Li Qing was a little bit frozen, trying to break free from the hand of the one-eyed dragon Tang Hu, he turned around and said: "Okay, now such a time has passed, everyone We all know there should be no problem, let's go in!"

While speaking, the door opened, and Yang Yidao appeared at the door, his face flushed, "General, it's so hot in the room!" Li Qing cursed secretly, of course it was hot, not only burned the ground dragon, but also burned the kang, can you not Is it hot?
A group of people poured into the general's mansion, and the completely different temperature from outside made everyone dumbfounded. It was like spring in this room!

(End of this chapter)