"The coal stove is ready..." Ang Lee got up from the bed in surprise and smiled: "This is really good news. Let's go... Qing'er, help me dress, let's go and see our powerful tools for making money...!"

"Yeah..." Qing'er nodded happily, then got up to help Ang Lee put on her clothes.

After putting on the clothes, Ang Lee took Qing'er out of the room. When Zhen Geng saw Ang Lee coming out, she bowed and said, "Your Highness... You are coming out. I'm sorry, I've disturbed you, but I have a reason to have to disturb you. One hundred coal stoves have been burned. Please check it out."

"Okay..." Ang Lee immediately followed Zhen Geng to the place where the coal stove was located.

After Ang Lee saw the coal furnace, his eyes were also lit up, because the coal furnace he saw at this time was no different from the modern coal furnace. This coal furnace, the kind of furnace that burns coal, has become a memory of the lives of urban and rural residents in the past century.

From the mid-1960s to the late 1980s, Chinese urban residents mainly used coal stoves to cook tea.

Before this, residents mainly used large stoves to burn firewood; in the late 1980s, gas stoves entered ordinary families, and coal stoves were gradually abandoned.

At least in the 1990s, when air conditioners were not yet popular, the heating equipment in the unit and office was also a coal stove...a coal stove with long flue channels.

The coal furnace has a simple appearance and is cylindrical. Ang Lee's coal furnace is a clay furnace. It is not very strong, but it can be used.

There is a furnace door at the bottom of the furnace, which not only supplies air inlet, controls air inlet volume, but also facilitates the use of furnace ash... In our dialect, we call it "fired furnace ash".

The furnace is the core and key of the charcoal furnace, consisting of the furnace gallbladder, the furnace strip and the insulation layer.

Back then, when people were in the mud furnace, they filled it with yellow mud, but some people who worked in factories filled it with refractory mud.

During the days when burning charcoal stoves, people always feel a little nervous.

Early in the morning, I have to go to the charcoal stove. The first thing I do after get off work at noon is to open the stove door and make the fire prosperous. I will cook first and then cook one or two dishes - only one or two dishes, and it will be too late to get too much.

After dinner is ready, you need to boil water and seal the fire... You can't seal it too early, seal it too early, by the next morning, the coal balls on it have been burned too much, which is troublesome.

Sometimes, when I get home from get off work at noon, I find that the stove is off. It’s so urgent!

Ang Lee really didn't expect that he would see the coal stove again one day, just as Ang Lee was thinking about looking at the coal stove.

Zhen Geng on the side said, "Your Highness...the things are made, but no one knows how to use them when they go?"

At this time, Ang Lee smiled and said, "I know how to use... I'll light the stove for you first..."

After saying that, Ang Lee skillfully found the hay, then lit it, stuffed it into the coal stove, and then stuffed some small wood into it. Then he got up from the fire.

At this time, Ang Lee added honeycomb coal and finished it in one go, which was remarkable. You must know that Ang Lee's doing this is no longer engraved in his blood.

After a while, the coal stove fell, and Ang Lee began to boil water on it, cook... and bake things. Ang Lee spent less than an afternoon teaching everyone present how to light the coal stove.

Don’t underestimate this coal stove, boiling water, cooking, and heating... It has a great effect. Ang Lee made this coal stove, in addition to making money, it was to improve the quality of life of the people in the Zhou Dynasty.

Of course, a new thing like a coal furnace needs a series of operations to be recognized by the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Ang Lee is preparing to promote the coal furnace before winter comes, and at least it must be widely used by the people of Luoyang.

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“It’s raining…!”

The drizzle was drizzling... Wu Chengsi and Wu Yanji, the father and son, came to the southwest of Wuzhi County, Henan Province... that is, Huaiyuan County, where the gods were waiting for them.

"How far is it?" Wu Chengsi asked in the carriage, looking at his son beside him.

Wu Yanji replied: "Father, it's not very far away, it's about half an hour."

Wu Chengsi nodded, and at this time Wu Chengsi was also thinking about it. You must know that Wu Chengsi could arrive here from Luoyang in person this time. To put it bluntly, Wu Chengsi was really panicked.

If it were in the past, how could Wu Chengsi be condescending to be noble? He came to invite a god nun.

But now it's different. Wu Chengsi's advantages have been exhausted. Wu Chengsi even felt that he had been blacklisted by Wu Zetian, which forced Wu Chengsi to start thinking about some evil ways, just like the flattery he had at the beginning.

In fact, Wu Chengsi once had a great chance to be the crown prince.

Empress Wu Zetian faced a very difficult problem when she became emperor, which was to whom could the Great Zhou Empire pass on to after she "Long live the future"?

If Wu Zetian was a man, this problem would not exist. If you accept all beauties in the world and give birth to a son for him, you will not have to worry about not having an heir. However, Wu Zetian was a woman, so trouble would come.

Moreover, when Wu Zetian became emperor, she was already a 66-year-old lady. No matter how she recruited a handsome man into the palace, she would only solve her emptiness, loneliness and coldness.

Having a baby? Wu Zetian never thought about it.

Of course, Wu Zetian was not without children. After entering the palace, she gave birth to four sons for Li Zhi, namely Li Hong, Li Xian, Li Xian (Zhongzong of Tang), Li Dan (Zhongzong of Tang), and three daughters: Princess Anding, Princess Taiping, and an elder who was more than teenager than her goddaughter, Princess of the daughter of the daughter of the daughter of the elder (Li Zhi's aunt).

Wu Zetian's surname was Wu, and his father was Wu Shiqi, a wood dealer in the late Sui Dynasty and early Tang Dynasty. Later, he became a founding hero of the Tang Dynasty. Wu Shiqi gave birth to two sons, namely Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang. Wu Yuanqing gave birth to a son named Wu Sansi; Wu Yuanshuang gave birth to a son named Wu Chengsi.

In this way, Wu Zetian had three choices about the heirs. However, Princess Taiping was first ruled out.

Although Princess Taiping wanted her mother to make herself the princess and inherit the Great Zhou world in the future, although Wu Zetian was the female emperor, she was still an anomaly in the patriarchal society. She herself knew that the female emperor would not be accepted by the patriarchal society. She could do it, but her children could not.

Besides, Princess Taiping's surname is Li, and she is truly the emperor. How can she choose her heir in the future? Princess Taiping's husband's surname is Xue, and she gave birth to two sons Xue Chongxun and Xue Chongjian. In other words, after Princess Taiping really became the emperor, the heir was most likely to be given to the Xue family.

Wu Zetian's husband's surname is Li, and she is not willing to return the country she finally took to the Li family, let alone the Xue family, which is not even close to her.

If we have to pass on the country to the Wu family, then Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi, who are closest to their own blood, are the most suitable candidates.

Wu Zetian did have the idea of ​​passing the country on Wu Chengsi. The reason is very simple: Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi are their own nephews, the Wu family is their own family, and although Li Xian and Li Dan are the flesh that fell from their bodies, their surname is Li, and in Wu Zetian's opinion, they are outsiders.

So for a period of time, Wu Zetian has always intentionally cultivated Wu Chengsi.

For example, in the second year of Tianshu (691), Zhang Jiafu, the confidant of King Wu Chengsi of Wei, instigated the Luoyang people Wang Qingzhi, gathered hundreds of people, and went to the palace to submit a letter. On the grounds that "the gods do not care about non-classes, and the people do not worship non-classes", he asked Wu Zetian to depose Li Dan's identity as the emperor and change Wu Chengsi to the crown prince.

Prime Minister Cen Changqian and Ge Fuyuan opposed the change of the imperial heir. They were falsely accused of rebellion by Wu Chengsi and were imprisoned and killed. The Fengge assistant minister Li Zhaode not only stabbed Wang Qingzhi to death, but also took the opportunity to persuade Wu Zetian and preserved Li Dan's imperial heir.

But later, Wu Zetian held a sacrificial ceremony in the Wanxiang Temple, but he ignored the etiquette system of "the crown prince is Yaxian", avoided the imperial heir Li Dan, and changed to Wu Chengsi to Yaxian, and ordered Liang Wang Wu Sansi to be the final sacrifice.

It can be seen here that Wu Zetian had some high expectations for Wu Chengsi not long ago, otherwise, he would not have given Wu Chengsi so many clear opportunities.

However, Wu Chengsi was not sure of it at all. Since Wu Chengsi entered the court, Wu Chengsi had never done anything qualified and mediocre. Apart from flattering and killing the Li tribe, Wu Chengsi could hardly have anything that was beneficial to the Great Zhou.

He then provoked Wu Zetian repeatedly, which made Wu Zetian suspicious and disgusted Wu Chengsi.

In addition, the experienced Di Renjie said, "I have never heard of my nephew building a temple for my aunt after he became emperor." This sentence directly beat Wu Zetian's dignity to the point of being blue and swollen, leaving her speechless.

Di Renjie's attitude is very obvious: Wu Chengsi and you are not born to you after all, after all, you have a biological father and a mother, where can you join in the fun? King Luling (Li Xian) and King Xiang (Li Dan) are also your own sons. They want to be restored to become emperors and worship their parents. You will always put your tablets on your behalf.

So now, Wu Chengsi can also experience it in person, and Wu Zetian has begun to give up on him.

But Wu Chengsi didn't want to give up yet, so he still wanted to be the crown prince and had to be the crown prince. Since Wu Zetian's attitude was cold to him, then... Wu Chengsi would come back to his old career and give his aunt what she wanted most.

The birth date of the God Niu Clan this time is Wu Chengsi's last work... But Wu Chengsi would not have thought that it was the birth date of the God Niu Clan this time that directly led him into a place of no return.

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The carriage stopped... Wu Chengsi and Wu Yanji got off the carriage together, and then they saw a group of people kowtowing and burning incense on a soil platform in front. At this time, Wu Yanji bowed and said, "Father... On the soil platform in front, the gods planted a birthday, and it grows every day. It is said that as long as it all grows out, the birthday will be planted successfully.

That way you can live five more years...!"

"Five years...!" Wu Chengsi nodded slightly and said, "There are not more than five years, but it is amazing. As long as we can grasp it well, our Wu family is still the best in the Great Zhou Dynasty."
Chapter completed!