With Zhu Houzhao's large-scale investment, Zhao Ce's coal mountain quickly started to operate.

When the machine arrived, it started to produce.

Zhu Houzhao had a good shop from behind, so he asked Zhao Ce to plan it. After the Chinese New Year, he would put all the coals here to sell.

Regarding these things, Zhao Ce also thought it was provided by Mr. Zhu.

Of course I accepted it all.

However, before the sale started, Zhao Ce first ordered someone to pull a few cars to the refugee shed outside the city.

Although the court helped the refugees, it only helped build a similar shed and provided a hot meal of porridge every day.

As for firewood or charcoal to protect against cold, there are very few things that can be provided.

Nowadays, the price of charcoal in the capital is too high, and the imperial court is powerless to provide it.

Every day, many refugee beggars come to the capital and take root in the refugee sheds outside the city.

Every day when I wake up, many people die in my sleep, and the bodies are just thrown aside and piled up.

Except for the numbness on everyone's faces and the instinct that their bodies could not suppress their trembling cold, everyone's faces had no expression when they saw the corpses.

Chen Wu took Zhao Ce's instructions and pulled several trucks of coal here, he saw this scene.

In the other side of the Coal Mountain, the refugees they recruited were so happy compared to these.

At least they don’t have to worry about food and drink, and they also have materials for heating at all times.

Chen Wu asked someone to unload trucks of honeycomb coal.

These honeycomb coals are made of raw coal.

When the people in the refugee shed saw their arrival, they poured carts of black things outside, but they didn't respond.

After the things were dumped, someone took some cylinders made of mud and went to the refugee shed.

Several refugees rolled their eyes and watched their movements.

These cylinders were fixed in the middle, and something like a soil stove was dug below.

The fire was raised together, and the people around finally reacted a little.

Everyone crawled towards the fire at the same time.

Seeing this, Chen Wu scolded: "When the fire rises, there will be several more fires behind you."

Those black things with round holes were caught in one by one.

A simple honeycomb coal stove was built.

Chen Wu brought his men to build several of the same stoves in the refugee shed.

As for the refugee sheds near the outside, many have been built.

After all the construction is completed, all the stoves are surrounded by people for heating.

Chen Wu pointed to the honeycomb coal piled up over there and said loudly: "This is what my master brought to you."

"After the stove is burned, it will fall down. You can use this tool to clean it up."

"Then replace it with new coal cakes."

"It is OK to use it to boil water and cook rice to keep warm, but you cannot directly suck it in the flames."

Fearing that these refugees didn't hear it, Chen Wu repeated it loudly several times.

Those who felt the warmth and seemed to be back to life all looked at him gratefully.

"This hero, I wonder who your master is?"

"Yeah, he saved our lives, we want to remember his name."

"If you have the chance in the future, I want to thank him in person."

Chen Wu smiled and said, "My master is Yongxibo."

"He thought that everyone was wandering here and the weather was cold, so he asked us to pull some materials to keep everyone warm."

"These stoves are things that save everyone's lives. I hope you all look forward to it and don't let people ruin it at will."

People around him nodded in a hurry.

Many people knelt on the ground and bowed: "Thank you Yongxibo for saving his life."

Seeing this, Chen Wu glanced at the corner of the refugee shed.

There were some familiar faces there, and after receiving his gaze, they couldn't help but shrank for a moment.

Chen Wu quickly looked away and took the people to the shed on the other side to build a stove.

After the stove was fully built, it was almost dark.

A group of people took advantage of the night to leave.

......

These refugees finally got a sip of hot water.

Until the next day.

The officers and soldiers who came to serve the porridge came in and were about to drag the dead out, but they found that there were no dead last night.

These burning furnaces are emitting heating.

There were many people around each stove, and everyone was holding various ragged utensils in their hands and drinking hot water.

A soldier asked, "Where did these stoves come from?"

A refugee smiled with a dark face and quickly replied: "This official, this was built by the servants from Yongxibo's mansion yesterday."

"These materials were brought to us by Yongsip."

The officer and soldier looked closer and found that there was no smell of charcoal or firewood burning inside.

This taste is a bit strange.

He said curiously: "What's burning inside?"

A refugee pointed to them at the honeycomb coal piled up there.

Several officers and soldiers walked over and took a few glances.

"This... although the shape is a bit strange, it looks like coal?"

After saying it alone, everyone next to him was shocked.

"Coal? Isn't this toxic?"

The officers and soldiers in the lead quickly walked into the refugee shed and began to drive away the refugees around them.

"Everyone walk away, these things are poisonous!"

As he said that, he wanted to use the scabbard in his hand to push off the earthen stove.

Seeing this, the expelled refugees rushed forward to stop them.

"Official, this is the stove for heating. No one has been feeling uncomfortable since we were warming yesterday."

"How could this be poisonous?"

The others quickly agreed and stopped them from destroying these earth stoves.

The officer and soldier frowned and scolded: "Nobody!"

"This is coal, burning it will kill people!"

If coal burns, people will die, and if frozen, they will die.

But obviously, from yesterday to now, none of them have been poisoned to death.

Even those who would have been frozen to death were saved.

These refugees were not willing to listen to what they said, and they all surrounded them to protect these things that could save their lives.

There were too many refugees, and there were only a few of these officers and soldiers, so they were a little panicked.

The leader shouted loudly: "You are bold and retreat!"

"If we retreat, we will be frozen to death. We are all dead. What's the difference?" A man shouted loudly: "Don't touch our stove!"

"That's right, we finally have something to keep warm, don't touch our stove!"

Although these people were so hungry that they were weak, they were quite loud when they responded.

Lin Qi, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, happened to inspect the relief situation of refugees outside today. When he heard the movement here, he frowned and asked, "What happened?"

"Are these refugees going to riot?"

The people sent around me to investigate the news came back soon.

"Mr. Lin, these refugees said that yesterday, the servants from Yongxibo Mansion came to help them build some earthen stoves and transported them a lot of heating materials."

"But our people have to remove their stoves, so this scene happens."

Lin Qi asked in confusion: "This is a good thing, why did it destroy the stove for people to keep warm?"

"Sir, I don't know that the heating materials brought by Yongxibo Mansion are nothing else, but the toxic coal!"

"coal?"

Lin Qi said in surprise: "Where is there a special chimney?"

The official magistrate shook his head.

Lin Qi thought to himself, is this Yongxibo trying to do good or bad things?
Chapter completed!