Chapter Three: Finding Good Things
Everyone you look at me, I look at you, no one said a word, and finally Alice said softly, "Lord, is this salt?" It's so white, whiter and finer than the salt we usually eat, but can it eat this salt? I don't doubt the old man, but it is a stinky salt after all, what if you are poisoned after eating it. After saying that, he looked at Li Bing with trepidation in his eyes, questioning the lord lord and making the little maid feel worried.
"The old man said that if he could eat it, he would definitely be able to eat it, not only could he eat it, but it was also more delicious than the salt he usually ate." Saying that, Li Bing took out the sack wrapped in toner from the funnel, held it up in front of everyone, and said, "Because I used the treasure that had been blessed by the Archbishop of the Imperial Capital to remove the curse inside, I was absolutely assured of food safety." This statement was thought out by Li Bing in advance, after all, instead of explaining chemical common sense to the simple lords, it was better to use religion and magic to make the lords more acceptable.
"Richard, you put away the salt and picked a livestock to feed for two days, and you will know if you can eat it when the time comes." In addition, the organizers took advantage of the fact that the ground was not yet frozen, and seized the time to dig salt for the old man. Dig as much as you can, the more the merrier. ”
"Alice, here continue the operation just now, you have to stare here, remember to take good care of the old master's holy relics, after the end of the work, you will personally put away the treasures of the old master and not allow anyone else to touch the old master." All salt refiners must obey Alice's instructions, understand! The lord's special trust made the little maid can't help but raise her low chest.
"Father Li Tie, after you finish playing two more sets of such tools, I don't have so many treasures to rule out the curse."
"Well, now let's all go to work according to my arrangement, and when the butler brings the merchant back, the old man will exchange this fine salt for a large amount of grain for you." Now, I'm not allowed to work on any objections! ”
After arranging the work of everyone, Li Bing dragged his somewhat tired body back to the bedroom.
Lying on the slightly cold bed, Li Bing was in a bit of a daze. Although the immediate food crisis can be solved with refined salt, it is not a long-term solution. And with the approaching of winter, fuel is also a big problem, if the limited fuel is used in the refining of refined salt, then how to solve the heating problem.
The more he thought about it, the more irritable he became, so Li Bingsuo got dressed and walked out of the Lord's Mansion.
I have to say that after the efforts of the Li family for generations, Li Bing's territory is still well built. The wide streets of the city center can be parallel to four horse-drawn carriages, and the roads are lined with shops. However, with the decline of the Warcraft business, the entire city has become increasingly depressed. Without the large number of warcraft provided by adventurers as goods, caravans no longer patronized this former frontier commercial center, and the merchants who had previously been popular with people, such as taverns, inns, and shops, which served adventurers, were mostly idle, and the shopkeepers either bored and snoozed in the shops of the gates, or simply closed their doors, or even moved directly to other towns.
Li Bing walked on the streets that used to be shoulder to shoulder, observing the depressed street market. Of course, he understood that in this way the whole city would fall into a vicious circle, because the territory lacked property, the only source of wealth was to collect commercial taxes, and now the caravan did not come, not only the supply of necessities of life was not guaranteed, but the territory's finances were even more empty.
Walking and thinking, Li Bing's ears heard a clanging metal crashing sound, and he unconsciously walked to Li Tie's blacksmith shop. Looking at the paving with the door still open on a cold day, Li Tie's father was sweating inside and busy trying to complete the work of the Lord's Palace.
Shunshi walked into the blacksmith shop, Li Bing only felt a heat wave coming from his face, and it was no wonder that the respected blacksmith master was shirtless all year round, except that his physique was different from ordinary people, and he was afraid that it was not unrelated to his working environment.
Seeing that it was lord lords coming, Father Li Tie immediately stopped the work at hand and said to lord lords with a smile.
"Lord, how did you get here?"
"It's all right, I'll just just go out and walk around and see what's going on in the territory."
"Alas, since those black guys have occupied the forest, our life has become more and more difficult, and if there is no caravan coming, I think many people will have to migrate away."
"Well, I've seen it too, and now the city is no better than it used to be, so many shops are closed, and there are no people in the busiest taverns before."
"Yeah, it's trouble to buy things now. Fortunately, the old Quark went out last time and brought back two truckloads of charcoal, otherwise it would be difficult to make a fire now, let alone hit the iron. ”
After hearing this, Li Bing couldn't help but feel discouraged, in the past, relying on the resources of magic beasts, the whole city had a good life, and now even the charcoal for the fire had to be purchased outside the territory. There is no way, the merchants will not run to the frontier territories because they specialize in selling some goods with little profit, unless the amount is large, but the city has no new source of income, and the lords have begun to reduce their clothing and food, so how can they buy a large number of goods. Again, this is a vicious circle.
As the supreme decision-maker of the territory, in order to hide the embarrassment of not being able to answer the call, Li Bing simply pretended not to hear, and turned around in this small blacksmith shop, carefully inspecting everything, as if this anvil was the emperor's mazar, and the hammer was the artifact of the brave.
"Huh? Father Li Tie, where did you get this thing from? ”
Li Tie took one look at it and recalled, "Well, that was dug up by The stinky boy of Richard outside the city, and he said that this thing was black and dirty like charcoal, and maybe it could also be used as fuel."
Hearing Li Tie say this, Li Bing asked with some excitement: "Then have you tried, can you burn?"
"Hey, this kid dug it up and tried it himself, can burn is can burn, but the smoke is also too big, and burned a pungent smell, only burned a shovel of that smoke choked me cough for several days, the neighbors around me protested, for this matter also on the lord you sued me in front of me, have you forgotten?" Finally I invited them to the tavern and drank the most expensive ale to solve the problem. ”
Li Bing recalled that it seemed that the body's predecessor had really dealt with this matter. Although he was absolutely assured of the blacksmith's father's character, Li Bing still sentenced the old blacksmith to invite the neighbors to drink, and ordered him to never let the poison gas go again.
Now think about it, this is a gas release, this is clearly sulfurous coal. Li Bing, who was worried about heating in winter, was excited, if it was really like the old blacksmith said that Li Cha dug back outside the city, this shows that the coal seam is quite shallow, the surface coal is easy to mine, and it is close to the city, which is simply a natural winter fuel. I thought the whole wasteland was worthless, but now it seems that there is salt and coal, which is simply a treasure!
"Daddy, how much of this thing do you have now?" Help me get it into the house, maybe I have a way to turn it into fuel without poisonous smoke. ”
Hearing this, the old blacksmith was suspicious, but the thought of the lord lord being able to turn poisonous stinky salt into snow-white refined salt made him believe three points first.
"Really? That would be great, I have this in the shop, there are many in the house, wait a minute, sir, I will transport it to you right away. ”
"Okay, then hurry up, I'll go back and get ready." After saying that, Li Bing did not care about the old blacksmith's quick pace back to the mansion.
The main harm of sulfur-containing coal combustion is to pollute the environment, sulfur-containing coal combustion will release sulfur dioxide, inhalation of sulfur dioxide will cause great harm to the respiratory system, causing diseases such as bronchitis, emphysema and other diseases, serious will also cause lung cancer. Of course, this is all the knowledge that Li Bing came into contact with before crossing, and the world's general understanding of sulfur dioxide is to release poisonous gas.
But this is obviously not difficult for the Lord Lord, as a person who worked in Yanzhou, a large coal mine that grows flowers, before crossing, you ask him how to remove sulfur? Simple, just two words - washing coal!
Coal washing is simply to divide raw coal with different compositions and different proportions into different grades through the impact of water flow, and remove dust and waste rock to reduce ash and sulfur content. Washed coal can not only effectively reduce the sulfur content, but also improve the combustion value of coal.
As for the water pollution generated in the process of washing coal, Li Bing's first intention is to solve the development problem first, environmental protection or wait for food and clothing, always can not let the leaders suffer from freezing and starving to engage in environmental protection, so that the people who engage in it are either xx or xx.
As soon as he stepped into the mansion, the lord lord shouted loudly, "Come, find me a few iron pots, large basins, as long as you can hold something that does not leak, call a few more people, lord I will teach you to get a good thing!" ”