The emperor summoned more than a dozen master craftsmen from his ministry, and built a stone kang between two warm pavilions. Isn’t it easy?

Under Li Chengzhi's guidance, in less than an hour, two warm pavilions with a radius of three feet, and a stone kang that was nearly ten feet in front and two feet wide in left and right were freshly baked.

The iron stove is even simpler. Just put one on the ground, hang the stove barrel with an iron chain, and the fire will be lit in less than two seconds.

The kang would have to be heated for three to five days, and the moisture could be exhausted before people could live in it. However, the stove had been burning for nearly an hour. The pavilion was already steaming with heat, and sweat was visible on the emperor's forehead. When he took off his thick fur, Yuan

Ke only felt that his whole body was light and uncomfortable.

With this stove and fire bed, I will no longer have to suffer from the severe cold and smoke when winter comes...

After walking back and forth twice between the two warm pavilions, he felt as warm as spring, but did not smell much smoke. The emperor marveled: "These two things don't look complicated, but why has no one thought of it? If so,

Rumor: What can you do that ordinary people can’t?"

Li Chengzhi bowed his hands and said humbly: "Your Majesty is flattering me. When I was in the north, I saw the suffering of the cold people. When winter came, countless people died of freezing. I felt pity, so I studied these two things."

I am also about to make a suggestion to Your Majesty: You can summon hundreds of officials and give them to the whole world..."

The words were ordinary, but the emperor seemed frozen.

Not to mention the north, just Luoyang, thousands of people freeze to death every winter. Further north, such as Guanzhong, Hebei, Shanxi, etc., it is even more severely cold. How should the cold people survive?

But with a fire kang, this worry should be solved.

Yuan Ke was not an emperor who only knew how to eat minced meat. He also knew the people's livelihood very well. He knew that only middle-class families could afford to build earth dragons. Poor families could only endure it by force. At most, they could smoke some charcoal and light a brazier. But if they were not careful, the whole family would be destroyed.

Death by poisoning. For example, thousands of poor people in Beijing die in vain every winter, and more than 70% of them are poisoned.

Therefore, poor families cannot afford charcoal, and firewood is only the next best thing. At the very least, they have to keep a few livestock, and their excrement can also be used as firewood. The key is that they don’t know how to detoxify smoke...

Yuan Ke looked at the chimney built in the corner of the house and the steaming fire, and secretly sighed in his heart: Who dares to say that this move will not benefit all people?

He suddenly remembered that people such as Cui Guang, Liu Fang, You Zhao, etc. all praised Li Chengzhi for having a mind for all people and knowing the sufferings of the world.

For example, tofu, which is as low as 30% of the market price, is melted in the bottom of the smoothie box after being sold out, and then specially transported to the houses where the poor people live, where they can be enjoyed by children with sugar water.

Now, is it like this fire bed?

"The king is the most important thing, the country is the second most important thing, and the people are the most important thing?"

The emperor muttered something and then asked in a strange way, "In your heart, am I the last one?"

I just made up an excuse casually, how could it make you think of such a profound truth?

How could Li Chengzhi admit: "I don't dare!"

"Rebel!"

The emperor cursed secretly, pointed at Liu Teng and said: "Immediately go and deliver the edict, summon the Taiwei, Situ, Sikong, Sizhoumu, Shangshuling, Shangshujian, Yushi Lieutenant, Officials Department, Minbu (Lei Hubu) , Taichang is waiting for you to come here to discuss matters..."

As soon as he heard it, he knew that the emperor approved what Li Chengzhi said and wanted to make these two things known to the world and benefit all people. He also acted vigorously and resolutely, and wanted to discuss matters on the spot.

Li Chengzhi was only a fifth-rank official, and it was a military position, so he was not qualified to participate in civil affairs. He was about to resign, but the emperor refused to let him go: "Wait, wait until we finish discussing the official business, and then we will see how to reward you."

Reward for merit?

Don't tell me that you have no merit, but you still have to be scolded?

Li Chengzhi rolled his eyes and had no choice but to stay.

Not long after, a group of ministers arrived at the Shiqian Hall. They saw the emperor and Li Chengzhi wearing only a thin shirt, sitting around the stove with a plate of dried meat, one drinking hot wine and the other drinking hot milk. It was so comfortable. Everyone was surprised by his appearance.

The palace was too big, and the earth dragon had no effect at all, so we had to use charcoal basins. When there were too many charcoal basins, the emperor would cough for a long time, as if he would cough out his lungs, so it was almost nothing. When winter came, It was extremely cold in the palace.

Therefore, in the winter of previous years, when important ministers came to the palace to meet the emperor, they all wore three layers inside and three layers outside, wrapped up like bears.

But today, the emperor's palace is actually much warmer than the greenhouse with the earth dragon in the palace?

After taking a closer look, I saw that the palace had changed. It seemed to be divided into several rooms, and this was just one of them.

Between the two of them stood something that seemed to be made of iron, like a table or a tripod. There were layers of iron rings on it, and through the gaps, you could see the flames blazing inside.

Yuanjia wondered: "What is this?"

Yuan Yong took a look at Li Chengzhi, who had already stood up and stood beside the emperor: "It must be the iron furnace you mentioned before. How could it be made so quickly and so easy to use?"

As he spoke, Yuan Yong actually stretched out his hands and hugged the chimney.

This is purely a person's first reaction and has nothing to do with whether he or she has a high IQ. In his previous life, Li Chengzhi had been burned countless times since he was a child, but he never remembered it. Every time he returned to his hometown in winter, the first thing he did when he entered the door was Just hold the stove to warm your hands...

Li Chengzhi exclaimed: "Don't touch!"

But it's obviously too late.

Yuan Yong said "Yeah" and immediately jumped three feet high. Everyone immediately smelled the smell of meat being roasted.

The emperor laughed so hard that he almost fell off his chair.

If Li Chengzhi hadn't stopped him in time, he would have almost suffered like this just now. He didn't expect someone to follow in his footsteps...

Yuan Yong gritted his teeth in pain. When he looked up, several blisters appeared on his palms.

While blowing the cool air, he scolded Li Chengzhi: "Didn't you remind Yu Gu earlier?"

Li Chengzhi was speechless: How did I know you were so stupid?

While they were talking, a futon came to Huangmen, and seven or eight courtiers sat around the stove. Only the emperor sat on a chair, and Li Chengzhi stood behind him.

Yuan Yi looked around, then looked at the blazing flames in the furnace, and said with a smile: "How can it be like worshiping fire in Zoroastrianism (ie Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism)?"

Li Chengzhi's heart skipped a beat when he heard the words "worship fire". He couldn't help but think of the people in Jingzhou who shouted "Shuo Shuo Holy Fire, burn my sins..." and the people who bravely threw themselves at the fire without fear of death.

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"Don't be too far-fetched!"

The emperor scolded lightly, pointed to the stove and said, "What do you think of this thing?"

They are all human beings, how can you not tell that the emperor is not in a generally good mood?

Gao Zhao bowed his hands and said, "Congratulations, your majesty. With this item, I will no longer have to suffer from dampness, cold, and smoke. I will be able to survive the winter safely..."

The emperor nodded slightly. He held the milk cup that was slightly hot on the stove and said with emotion: "I heard that there was a heavy snowfall yesterday, and I couldn't sleep. I am worried, like tens of millions of cold people in the world. What should I do?

How can I survive the severe winter that lasts for four months? How can I take off my fur coat and be in this warm spring-like pavilion today?"

Gao Zhao praised loudly again: "Your Majesty has the world in mind and cares about all the people. He has brought happiness to the people of Wei Dynasty..."

All the ministers cursed the flatterers in their hearts and had no choice but to go along with Gao Zhao and pat him on the back.

It has to be said that it is not without reason that Gao Zhao became a lucky minister, a favored minister, and a powerful minister.

After a moment's thought, I looked at Li Chengzhi standing behind the emperor, and many people sighed helplessly.

Gao Zhao is already very powerful, but compared to him, his prospective niece-in-law is even better.

Gao Zhao only relies on his ability to understand the emperor's thoughts very quickly and dare to take the blame for the emperor. It's not that everyone in the hall can't do it, it's just that they don't want to do it.

But if it were Li Chengzhi, they would not only admire but not even be jealous. Just like the stove in front of them, it seems simple, but why can't anyone else think of it except Li Chengzhi?

Yuan Yong covered his palms and looked at the burning stove and the iron cylinder hanging under the beam, his eyes rolling around.

"What is the use of this iron cylinder? Why do you hear the sound of wind and thunder in it?"

Where is the wind and thunder?

It's just that because it's cool outside and hot inside, under the action of hot pressure and the wind blowing outside the temple, it creates a siphon effect, smoking outside.

Li Chengzhi rolled his eyes and spit out two words: "Exhaust smoke!"

Yuan Yong was stunned for a moment and sniffed hard. Only then did he realize that there was not much smoke in the palace?

"Although this thing is ingenious, it can only be called the icing on the cake. There is another thing that can be called a timely help... Come with me..."

As the emperor spoke, he stood up and walked around with his ministers.

Among them is the stone kang: it uses stone strips as pillars, stone slabs on the shoulders, and solid clay and mud. It has been burning for a while, and the mist in the pavilion is actually a bit warmer than the one just now.

"This is a fire kang, and it is not difficult to build. According to what Li Chengzhi said: If there are stones, they can be built with stones. If there are no stones, they can be built with wet mud and grass leaves. You can also build it with some clay slabs...

Wealthy families can use charcoal to burn it, middle-income and small families can use firewood and charcoal. Even poor people can also collect some cow, horse and sheep dung, fine firewood, and sweep some dead grass and leaves to burn it... Therefore, I send an edict to all the ministers.

I want to spread it all over the world..."

Seven or eight ministers were stunned.

Someone asked: "Can you really use mud and grass to build something?"

Someone else replied: "We can build a house, not to mention a kang?"

Yuan Yi took a step forward and touched the wet edge of the kang. He felt quite warm where he touched it.

He said suspiciously: "The iron furnace is fine, but isn't this thing just moving the earth dragon to the ground? What's so special about it?"

When I heard that this person was ignorant of the sufferings of the people, Gao Zhao flicked his sleeves and sarcastically said: "King Qinghe, in my opinion, there is nothing extraordinary about this thing, but it is not useless. Otherwise, why is it so highly praised by your majesty?

Do you know that the space required for the greenhouse in your house should be at least two feet in diameter and six feet deep. How can an ordinary home be built? You also know that such a large underground room requires enough firewood for one winter.

How much is the salary?"

Although he still didn’t understand what he meant, the two were old enemies. Little did he know that Gao Zhao was teasing him, “Why don’t you eat minced meat?” In just an instant, Yuan Yi’s handsome face turned purple.
To be continued...