Chapter 452 Looking for Coal Mine

Xue Mei asked Jinping to search for it, and there was open-pit coal nearby.

"Look back about five hundred miles." Xue Mei said, "If not, forget it. What is coal?"

Jinping was confused.

"It's charcoal. Do you recognize charcoal?" Xue Mei asked.

Jinping pondered for a moment: "Is it just a black stone? A stone that can be burned."

Xue Mei: "Yes."

"I've seen it."

Cai Yuan was confused when she listened. She didn't know about charcoal or black stone.

Seeing that Xue Mei and Jinping were talking lively, Cai Yuan went to Lu Wen's pharmacy.

"...Then you look for it, be careful." Xue Mei said, not caring about Cai Yuan's departure, but only talking to Jinping. "Some people who are exposed directly can be asked about it with the locals. This is the three-drunk money, you can take it to get some."

It is very troublesome to exchange silver notes locally.

When Xue Mei set out, she exchanged 20,000 taels of cash in her space.

Most of her cash silver is silver ingots worth five taels per one. In the northwest, such silver ingots are a lot of money and are very eye-catching when taken out, and are not easy to exchange.

Xue Mei exchanged for an additional five hundred yuan in hang money.

A hanging of money is a thousand copper plates, worn together. Usually, people use copper plates when buying things.

Let Jinping inquire about the news and take out a few copper coins to reward people, it will be more reliable.

If Jinping took out a five-tall silver ingot, it would be enough for farmers in the northwest to earn a year. They would be scared to death first, suspected that Jinping was not good at it and could not find out anything.

It should be just right to give others money.

Fortunately, Xue Mei has room, otherwise her "currency" of more than 2,000 kilograms would be exhausted to death.

The existence of silver notes is particularly limited.

"The money for three hangs is too heavy, and I can't use that much." Jinping said, "I'll take a hang. I still have some broken silver on me, so I can use it when I stay in a hotel."

Xue Mei would not let her spend her monthly money.

She searched again and found seven pieces of silver, all of which were two or two taels a day, and gave them to Jinping.

Jinping only took two, brought a hanging money, and went back to the house to dress up.

When she came out, she was a vulgar middle-aged man, and she changed into a cotton coat and trousers that were half old and not new.

Xue Mei was amazed at her outfit.

Her heart suddenly moved.

If Xiao Jingcheng could not contact her and then let Jinping pretend to be her, could she escape Xiao Jingcheng's eyes and run to the Xiongnu to kill Guirong?

As soon as this thought came to Xue Mei looked at Jinping.

Jinping didn't know that her master had such an idea, otherwise she would feel cold all over.

She was uncomfortable when Xue Mei saw her: "What's wrong with Miss?"

"It's okay." Xue Mei smiled, "I'm afraid you're out, the soldiers on guard will not recognize you, so I'll send you there."

Good thing about Jinping.

Sure enough, as soon as they walked out of the inner courtyard, they immediately encountered a wave of patrol soldiers, and they happened to change their guards to the gate of the main courtyard.

Seeing Jinping, the leading deputy general immediately scolded: "Who is this?"

Xue Mei: "It's my maid, Jinping. She disguises herself as she wants to go out to do my business for me."

Jinping also said: "Deputy General Lu, do you still remember me?"

Deputy General Lu: "..."

Is this too amazing?

He glanced at Jinping a few times, and because she was indeed a female voice, she was quite familiar with it, and Princess Chengyang was the guarantor, so the deputy general did not make things difficult for her.

Xue Mei sent Jinping out of the door.

After she came back, she did not sit in the room because there was no burning the kang, and the room gradually became a little cold.

Xue Mei went to Lu Wen's side.

It is impossible to stop the charcoal fire in Lu Wen’s pharmacy, and the medicines here are life-saving.

After a big battle, half of the losses were not caused by death in the battle, but by death after the injury worsened.

If they can have penicillin, their wounds will not become inflamed or suppurated, they will be able to save their lives and reduce the casualty rate by 50%.

This is a big deal.

The population has not yet exploded, and soldiers are very precious.

"...Miss, is Jinping out?" Cai Yuan was helping Lu Wen cultivate penicillium, and specially washed his hands and came to accompany Xue Mei.

There is no burning kang in the top room, but one wall is warm, so it is also very warm.

Xue Mei sat on the kang by the window and nodded: "Yes."

"When will she be back?" Cai Yuan asked again, pouring Xue Mei a cup of hot tea.

Xue Mei thought about it and found that she didn't know either.

"It may take some days," said Xue Mei.

Cai Yuan said oh.

She asked Xue Mei again: "Go to find Black Stone in Jinping, what is that Black Stone?"

"It's charcoal."

"Carbon?" Cai Yuan's eyes lit up, "Can you just keep warm?"

"yes."

"Why is there such a thing, then no one uses it?" Cai Yuan asked again.

"Someone uses it, but you don't know very well." Xue Mei smiled.

Some people are indeed using coal. For example, if you know that "Black Stone" exists.

In the ancient history that Xue Mei knew, people used coal in the Han Dynasty.

However, in the early feudal society, there was not a large population and natural resources were sufficient to obtain.

For example, when it comes to heating, you can just use charcoal. Even in a very remote and cold place, you can cut down trees and burn charcoal.

The situation in Baiya Town is special because there are 200,000 soldiers gathered here, and the population density far exceeds the population density under natural conditions.

This will cause charcoal deficiency.

It's just a shortcoming, not to the point of serious lack.

The deputy general said to Princess Baoqing, which was exaggerating. She refused to give Princess Baoqing charcoal, because Xiao Jingcheng deliberately tormented her. As for the third-rank generals, they were like court officials, in addition to their salary and share, and they would not really give them only five kilograms of charcoal.

Of course, you can't keep warm as much as Xue Mei.

In addition to charcoal, cow manure and horse manure are also burned to keep warm in the military camp of Baiya Town.

Therefore, coal is a heating option that cannot flow into the flow.

Everyone doesn’t use coal, it’s not that it’s rare, but that it’s not easy to use.

There is gangue, coal, dust and sulfur in the coal mine.

If you can't deal with coal mines, you can just take the raw coal over and burn it. It smells particularly bad and will choke.

It makes people cry and their noses flow.

At this moment when industry has not developed at all, most of our demand for fuel is related to life: cooking rice, boiling water, and keeping heating.

Both activities are indoors.

The sulfur in the coal tastes so pungent when it is burned, and the dust is choking. Can the rice you make still be eaten? Can the water be drunk? Not to mention keeping warm.

The raw coal burned up and couldn't even stay in the house.

Therefore, the coal used at this stage is a very small number of blacksmiths. The sealing box used by blacksmiths is sealed. They may not care about pungent odors, and they do not mind dust because of the seal.

Besides, the blacksmith's work is already dirty and they won't mind the coal ash all over the room.

If it's cooking or heating, who can accept the gray face of the head and face after sitting for a while?

Coal was very limited. It was not until the Song Dynasty that the population exploded and natural resources were insufficient, so people would actually develop coal.

At that time, coal was still developed on a small scale, and it was not until industry came to the world that coal was used as energy and was used on a large scale.

However, Xue Mei has a way to use them now.
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