In the West Garden, heavy snow fell in the sky and spread across the palace group, causing a thick layer of snow to spread to the lakeside in the center and the palace next to it.

In the room of Wanshou Palace, the underground heating system has been fully operational, making it always warm and comfortable here, and the copper furnace is filled with a rich sandalwood.

But in the open air, people may not be frozen to death, and in such a greenhouse, they may not be able to live forever. Jiajing's face was pale and he seemed to be lying on the bed like silk.

After watching, hearing, asking and touching the bed, the two imperial physicians frowned tightly and their faces were filled with sorrow. Even when facing the emperor who had killed countless people, the two of them couldn't help but sigh heavily.

Huang Jin and Chen Hong were always with each other. First, they sent away the two imperial physicians, but their hearts were heavy. Although they had already guessed the result, they couldn't help but feel slightly sank in their hearts.

"I have a dream!" Jiajing's eyes opened at some point, but he said lightly.

Huang Jin and Chen Hong hurried forward and asked in a very cooperative manner: "Master, I wonder what kind of dream it is?"

"I dreamed that I got what I wanted. God was moved by my sincerity. I dreamed of the Three Pure Daojun, and I dreamed of... Xu Ji Chong Ying Zhenren!" Jiajing's face showed a hint of pride and smiled like a memory.

Chen Hong immediately started to wonder: "Which immortal is Xu Ji Chong Ying Zhenren?" Huang Jin knew that he was referring to Magu, the Shouxian Niang, so he asked in cooperation: "Master, these two immortals are with you. What did you say?"

"I didn't say much, I just said that I was already in the Immortal Class. Xu Ji Chong Ying Zhenren praised me a few words! By the way, how is Guyu Palace?" Jiajing seemed even happier, and suddenly the topic changed. Asked.

Chen Hong was responsible for supervising the project and immediately responded: "If you go back to the emperor, the project progress has been accelerated and the construction will be completed in less than two months!"

Jiajing was quite satisfied with the result, but the excitement had passed and he looked very tired. Although his stomach felt a strong sense of hunger, he felt a sense of disgust in his stomach.

Huang Jin has been paying attention to Jiajing's diet, but knowing that Jiajing has hardly eaten much these days, so he brought the food he had prepared long ago.

Jiajing only had a few bites, even if it was delicacies, it seemed like eating wax, but it was spit out like a mountain and a sea of ​​spit out, and vomited out with green bile.

Huang Jin nervously helped Jiajing to keep up with his anger, while looking at Jiajing who was constantly retching with fear. He knew that if this continued, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty might have starved to death.

Doctor Liu and Doctor Wang left the room and walked directly to the main hall. The chief assistant of the dynasty Xu Jie had been waiting for a long time. The two immediately stepped forward to salute and told the truth about the diagnosis: "The emperor is terminally ill, and his body is exhausted and he has dried up. I'm afraid I won't last three days!"

Xu Jie nodded gently. He originally wanted to go inside to show his loyalty, but in the end he felt that it was not necessary, so he turned around and walked out of Wanshou Palace.

He stood on the steps of the palace, looked up at the heavy snow in the night sky, but a hint of helplessness appeared on his face.

Although Jiajing was moody, stubborn and self-righteous, he was the emperor who knew the best of the emperor's minds, he became more and more obsessed with practicing Taoism over the years. After being affected by his illness, he basically did not interfere in government affairs. Where can there be such a good emperor in the world?

But the elixirs that have been over the years have finally fallen into the root of the disease. The winter of the previous year has survived and the winter of last year has also survived, but this winter is already going to ruin this selfish emperor.

Fortunately, after these four and a half years of operation and layout, he is confident that he will face the next new dynasty and is even more confident that he will continue to sit firmly on the throne of the Ming Dynasty Prime Minister.

The snow continued to fall, but the court in the capital seemed to be undercurrents, and all parties seemed to be brewing something. The struggle for power has always been the main theme of the court.

The snow in the capital is heavier than in previous years, and the air seems colder.

For the wealthy families in the capital, the cold winter is just a trivial matter of wearing more clothes and burning more charcoal. The people who are wandering to the capital or the lower class may die because of this.

Since the beginning of winter, it has been no longer a new thing to carry corpses out of the Beijing city gate, and even the positions of corpses carrying corpses in the capital have been short of shortage.

No matter how the court praises Jiajing and Xu Jie, a pair of wise and virtuous ministers, no matter how deep the bodies of the lower-class people were buried, or the literati praised this in history books, it could not cover up the dynasty.

Abandoned life.

"God, open your eyes and take a look. How long do you want this emperor to stay on the throne?" The people in the capital were not blind, and some people were already shouting in their hearts.

Everyone also slowly tasted it. Although it is said that Yan Song was the culprit of the Ming Dynasty, Yan Song has been stepping down for four and a half years, but the world still has not improved.

Yan Song may be a corrupt official who harmed the country and the people, but the culprit who brought the world to this end is probably the emperor who dared to exploit the people to build a palace.

In Jiajing, every family is pure and has no money, which is a portrayal of this era.

It’s just that some people are sorry, some are shouting, but some are doing things sincerely.

While all parties were watching the movements in the palace, the sign of Renyi Coal Ball Workshop was replaced and officially changed to a new sign of "United Daily Media Workshop".

"My name is Zhao Daniu, and someone has strength!"

"I'm not afraid of hard work or fatigue. Just give me a cotton coat!"

"I know you are good employers. As long as you settle my wife and I, I will sell my life to you!"

...

A large group of refugees came to hear the news, and one was trying hard to promote himself at the registration office at the entrance of the workshop. Some people also brought their families to come, hoping to find a place to stay.

After many days, they have long been praised. Although there are many families who are giving porridge in the capital, there is no second family that can be as long-lasting and full as the United Business Group, as the United Business Group, with lanterns in the entire capital.

Although they knew that the coal workshops in conjunction with the workers were given wages, they could not afford wages and just hoped to survive in this helpless capital.

"The first requirement of our joint workshop is to be upright in character. If you can memorize the factory rules on this, then we will record them for you!" The head of the company was a steady little old man, but he pointed to the sign not far away.

road.

Next to the sign, there was a servant leading a large group of people to read there. Everyone seemed to work very hard and repeated over and over again.

The development of the United Business Group has gradually formed a complete corporate culture. This corporate culture not only advocates truth, goodness and beauty, but also emphasizes employees' absolute obedience and sacrifice to the United Business Group.

Although the factory rules do not have the slogan of "being a joint person in life and being a joint ghost when you die", they have slogans such as "Once you enter the joint door, eat the same food, never leave it, and swear to be united!" to form a more cohesive group

.

This is not a thing that is staged in one place, but a lot of things that are staged at the same time.

In view of Lin Ping's usual will, he jointly discussed and adopted a monetary offensive. In a very short time, he spent a lot of money to acquire or cooperate with all the coal briquette workshops in the capital area, and then carried out industrial upgrading to immediately produce honeycomb coal on a large scale.

The technical content of honeycomb coal is not very high and is a labor-intensive industry. From the mining of raw materials, to the production of honeycomb coal, to the sales of honeycomb coal, a large number of manpower are needed here.

Of course, while recruiting personnel, the resettlement of women and children is also carried out simultaneously, which has allowed many refugees in the capital to have a place to live.

The people of the Ming Dynasty were all kind. Faced with the shelter of the Lianhe Workshop and the great kindness of giving a job, they all worked very hard, which made the construction period several days faster than expected.

In mid-December, the first batch of honeycomb coal was officially launched.

With the publicity of the Shuntian Daily and the reputation publicity of the people in the capital, ordinary families in the capital soon knew about the new type of media such as honey coal.

The current prices are: 4 cents and 5 cents for one hundred kilograms of charcoal, 100 kilograms of dry firewood, 100 kilograms of fried chunks (coal chunks) per 3 cents.

Honeycomb coal can be used for both fire and heating, but it can replace the status of charcoal and coal briquettes. The market demand is very huge. However, Lin usually does not intend to seize too much of this kind of consumable product that is mainly aimed at ordinary people.

profit.

In order to enhance competitiveness, and to give greater benefits to the people of the capital, Lin usually set a unified selling price of 100 kilograms of honeycomb coal at two cents, that is, a kilogram of honeycomb coal at four cents.

Of course, her behavior was actually very correct.

Although high prices can make a lot of money, the source of profit is still extracted from the people at the bottom. Honeycomb coal and charcoal do not have an advantage in competing with each other. It is better to quickly occupy the market and repel competitors at a lower price.

Although coal balls have a lot of smoke and dust, they are better at keeping warm in the fire pit and not affecting their lives. If the price is too high, the people in the capital may not choose honeycomb coal, but will continue to choose cheap coal balls.

The most important thing is that although honeycomb coal is smokeless and ashless, if the price is far beyond the price of firewood, I am afraid that the people in the capital will still use firewood to make firewood to cook.

It was just that Lin’s usual strategy of being cheap and affordable, or she didn’t plan to make money with honeycomb coal at all, so she successfully seized the market for coal balls and firewood.

That's why in this snowy season, there are a lot of ox carts and donkey carts in the streets and alleys of Beijing. These hardworking coachmen have sent trucks of honey coal to thousands of households.

Since it is the peak of demand, the joint coal workshop can sell up to 250,000 kilograms of honey coal per day, and 500 taels of sales a day, thus ensuring that tens of thousands of refugees do not need to endure hunger anymore.

Chen Yi was working hard to carry coal balls to a family, but he felt like he was dreaming. He had been hungry since he fled to the capital, and now he has been wearing a cotton coat that is unified in the normal coal workshop and has become a glorious

Coal sender.

An old lady came out of it and looked a little embarrassed and said to Chen Yi: "Thank you so much, I have to trouble you to help me, the old woman unload coal!"

"Miss Zhang, it's okay, this is all I should do! You have used this kind of coal. If you think it's still suitable, just tell me just that. I'm responsible for this area. I will deliver it to you on time.

Here!" Chen Yi wiped the sweat beads from his forehead and said with a sincere smile.

Although the joint workshop did not clearly stipulate that he would help unload coal, and even many people took the initiative to unload coal by themselves, he was kind and wanted to help the workshop with more customers, so he always helped consciously.

The old lady also felt warm and greeted enthusiastically: "Okay, I remember you, do you want to go into the house and drink water before leaving!"

"No need, I have to rush back to submit the service. Aunt Zhang, goodbye!" Chen Yi waved his hand and left after tidied up the honeycomb coal neatly in the corner of the wall.

The winter night came much later, and when he returned to the workshop to hand in the work, it was already dark outside.

Since he and his wife worked here, a separate room was arranged by the workshop. When he arrived at his warm little house, an oil lamp had been lit at home, and food was just on the table.

"Dad is back, mom can have dinner!" a little girl said with a crisp voice in excitement.

Zhang is working in a workshop to screen coal, and he is always unkempt when working, but the workshop has a special bathtub. At this time, it looks clean at home. His face also looks bright and charming, but he looks excited: "Guess today

Who is coming to the workshop?"

"Which shopkeeper is it?" Chen Yi called his daughter to sit down, and asked curiously.

Zhang shook his head gently and immediately announced the answer and said: "Tiger... is wrong, it's Xunwang Lin!"

"Well, Master Lin's sister, I heard that she invented this honeycomb coal!" Chen Yi picked up the fish meat and carefully picked out the fish bones.

Zhang's attention was not on the food, and his face was still rosy, "Why did you hear that if it weren't for her invention, how could this ordinary coal workshop appear?" After a pause, he continued, "She said,

If any of us is bullied, I can make a decision with her, including you hitting me!"

"I'll hit you?" Chen Yi put the fish meat that picked out the fish bones into his daughter's bowl, and suddenly showed a confused expression on his face.

Zhang looked at him resentfully and said angrily: "This is a metaphor. Anyway, if we are bullied in the future, she will help us stand up!" After saying that, he glanced at Chen Yi like a demonstration.

Chen Yi smiled helplessly and found that the famous Lin Xunzhang really cares about everything, but he felt much more at ease. Although his life has been relieved for a moment, it is a world where the strong prey on the weak.

, no one is covering him, he looks like a foreigner after all.

Zhang said seriously: "I was quite worried about whether we would be bullied, but today I heard Lin Xunzhu say this, and the housekeeper always emphasized that we are united people, and I and those colleagues are at ease.

Many!"

"Yes! It's really a blessing for us to come here for three lives!" Chen Yi also held the chopsticks and seemed to feel emotional.

The little girl was eating fish and asked innocently: "Today I heard Huangmao say that we have chickens to eat during the New Year, isn't it true?"

The couple looked at each other and smiled. This was already public. As the New Year is approaching, they will get a chicken, which will be the New Year feast they rarely come to.

The snow was still falling outside, but the coal balls were burning in the furnace, which made the couple feel warm. I hope that the emperor of Jiajing forty-six years would be less stagnant and allow them to live a stable life.
Chapter completed!