I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 708
The trips of rich families are generally more particular, especially Yang Suwen, who is wounded, insists on going with him.

Yang Daosheng was afraid of the bumps on the road, which made Yang Suwen's injury worse, so he was more prepared.

Not only thick cushions are prepared on the carriage, but also a small copper stove, incense burner, low table, tea set, everything is available.

This configuration is almost comparable to Yang Shiqi's own car.

Such a high-standard, even luxurious carriage stunned Yang Suwen and the two of them.

But Yang Su asked where his grade was after all, and his temperament was relatively calm, so he didn't say anything in his eyes.

But Sun Ruowei is only fifteen or sixteen years old this year, which is the grade when a person's curiosity is the most vigorous.

It's because everything she saw felt novel, and Yang Dao didn't drag Yang Dao to ask questions along the way, and Yang Dao explained to her one by one, without the slightest impatience.

The two of them had such an enthusiastic conversation that almost put Yang Suwen aside, making him feel very uncomfortable.

During the period, he subconsciously coughed several times, but was ignored by both of them.

"The big families in the capital are really different. Even a carriage is so beautifully decorated. It probably costs a lot of money to build such a carriage!"

Yang Dao didn't know whether he was outspoken or simply understood the meaning of Yang Suwen's words, so he said directly,
"It's not expensive either. The ones from my house are not high-quality products, but ordinary ones. I heard that the best carriages cost thousands of taels of silver to order in a dealership.

My car is a lot worse, and it only cost less than 300 taels! "

Hearing that a carriage would cost thousands of taels of silver, not only Yang Suwen frowned, but even Sun Ruowei couldn't help but click his tongue.

"Just such a carriage costs more than 300 taels? Doesn't that mean that just this carriage requires a hundred households to accumulate savings for a year?"

Only now did Yang Dao understand a little bit.

He quickly changed his tone and said,

"Actually, this carriage is not used very much at ordinary times, that is, it is only used once or twice when picking up important guests.

You also know that after all, my father is the chief minister of the court, and he welcomes and sends him off, so it shouldn't be too shabby, right? "

Don't look at Yang Dao's seemingly eclectic and free-spirited appearance, in fact, he usually associates with either the children of wealthy families or the descendants of high-ranking officials, either rich or noble.

He ever explained this kind of thing to others in such a low profile, they took the initiative to lower their arrogance and explain this to them, in fact, the main reason was that he didn't want to leave an image of a playboy in front of Sun Ruowei.

Yang Su asked the two of them, it's not like they haven't seen a better and more luxurious carriage than this one, but it's the first time to sit in it, and when they heard Yang Dao mention the price, they couldn't help but feel a little touched.

Yang Suwen, who was in a more excited mood, almost said, "The rich wine and meat stinks, and the road is frozen to death!"

Such ironic words were spoken, but he was begging for something after all, so he held back in the end.

Yang Dao also seemed to see the discomfort in their hearts, so he kept silent about these things, and instead introduced them to the changes in the capital in the past six months.

"You may not believe it, although I grew up in the capital, but if you want to talk about changes, the changes in the past six months are more than the past 20 years."

"It was only after I came back from the outside that I realized that the capital has changed a lot, and I'm still getting used to it."

Hearing what Yang Dao said, the two couldn't help asking curiously,

"This capital city doesn't look any different. Brother Yang, what are the changes you mentioned!"

Yang Dao hesitated for a moment, not knowing where to start.

Just then he lifted the curtain and saw several carriages transporting briquettes passing by.

So he pointed to one of the carriages and said,
"Do you know what these carriages are pulling!"

The two looked at the dark thing with many small holes on the car, but didn't recognize it for a while, it was coal, shook their heads and said,
"I don't know!"

Yang Dao explained to them with a slightly excited tone,

"This thing is called honeycomb coal, and it is a new type of coal that suddenly appeared this winter.

The method of making this briquette is not difficult, and the material is just ordinary coal, but after crushing, reshaping, and adding some small holes.

Not only is the firepower stronger when burning, but even the soot is much smaller. "

While speaking, he opened the small stove on the car with iron tongs, pointed at the half-burned briquettes inside and continued,

"The briquette we use now is this kind! How do you feel? Does it not smell like soot?"

Yang Suwen looked down and found that it was really that kind of briquette with holes, so he said in a slightly surprised tone,
"I used to think that the best coal was burned here, but I didn't expect that it was just this kind of processed coal. This thing is really amazing!

This thing is so miraculous, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a treasure that benefits the country and the people! "

Hearing his admiration, Yang Dao smiled slightly and continued,
"The benefits don't stop there."

"Do you know how these briquettes are made and who made them?"

Although the two of them had been in the capital for several days, they were busy with other things. They didn't have time to understand these trivial matters, so they shook their heads to express that they didn't know.

Yang Dao chuckled, showing a smile that he knows you don't know,

"You may not believe it, but I have heard that the prototype of this briquette was designed by His Majesty himself.

You have also seen how useful this kind of thing is. If the royal family opens a workshop with this, it will definitely make a lot of money.

However, His Majesty did not do this, but entrusted all the methods of making this briquette to the people of more than a dozen Huangzhuang in the suburbs to do it! "

"I talked to a person who delivered coal to my family some time ago. According to him, during the two months of winter, almost every family of their thousands of people eats white rice. There are also conditions to eat meat.

Many industrious families have already saved several taels of silver! "

Yang Suwen opened the curtains in disbelief at this time, and took a look at those drivers who were transporting coal in the wind and snow, but their faces were always full of smiles.

It's hard to imagine that they, who were supposed to be at the bottom of society, could actually have such a happy smile on their faces at this moment.

"Brother Yang, what you said is true. Your Majesty really gave this kind of wealth-making thing to those poor people?"

(End of this chapter)