Lu Chen knew about the little thoughts of his two disciples, but he did not stop them or say anything.
How does the saying go? This world is ours, this world is yours, but this world will eventually belong to those grandchildren.
Children have their own ideas, so let them do it. After all, Lu Chen is gradually changing the world into what he wants it to be, and he doesn't want such a beautiful country to fall into the hands of the eldest prince and his idiot mother.
In the following days, Lu Chen's life basically revolved around three points: the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Princess's Mansion, and the Commercial Street Club. He was really busy.
After all, not every scientist can do it while massaging their waist every day and doing various experiments with scientific researchers.
"Coal is a good thing, but we currently have too few ways to use it. But that's okay. As long as we increase investment and continue research, I believe it won't be long before we can produce more and more fruitful results."
"Don't throw away the broken pieces. Collect them all. They're good stuff, too. Mix them with mud and make honeycomb coal. Sell them to the poor, and you can make some money... ahem, and help them get through the winter better."
"I even think these scraps are too little. I'll have to hire people to knock out the coal soon. Labor costs are nothing. The cheapest thing in Da Qi is labor costs. My master saw that they were having a hard time, so he found them a new way to make a living. I truly care about the world, so how can you still ask for wages?"
"Have you finished researching all the copper tubes? Have you designed the pressure relief device? Great, let's arrange it for our national teacher right away. Since the Mid-Autumn Festival is over, the weather has been getting colder by the day. I'm certainly not doing this for pleasure. Since I was the one who proposed this project, it's natural that I should be the first to conduct the experiment. What a spirit of selfless dedication to science! Just thinking about it makes me want to pee."
In this era, wealthy families used floor heating for heating, but the disadvantages of floor heating were also obvious: low heating efficiency, easy blockage of flues, unsanitary, and also somewhat dangerous.
But if it is replaced with heating, it will be different.
Lu Chen made a lot of money selling ice in the summer, which made him realize that the real money-making projects were not high-tech projects, but projects related to people's livelihood.
The profit from daily necessities may not seem high, but the advantage is the large quantity.
Since selling ice can make money in the summer, selling coal, stoves and radiators in the winter should be even more profitable.
Poor people use cheap honeycomb coal at home, ordinary families use normal coal, and rich people have heating installed at home. No one in the entire Da Qi can escape from my business system!
As for how to promote it, Lu Chen already had a plan. With so many industries under his control, it was easy to create a linkage.
"How can selling coal not make money? Aren't you afraid of being beaten by the coal bosses for saying this? Have you cultivated those acres of land outside the city that you were asked to cultivate?" Lu Chen turned around and asked Mou Ping beside him.
"In reply to the Imperial Master, I have prepared everything as you instructed. The house has been decorated according to your requirements, with thickened glass, double-layered walls, and the location of the underground pipes has been revealed. Imperial Master, what are you planning to do?"
"What for? Of course, we need to build some greenhouses. In this cold winter, if we don't have any green leafy vegetables to eat, if we don't have some fruits and vegetables, how can we replenish our vitamins? It's fine for me, but Her Royal Highness the Princess and the Little Prince both need to nourish their bodies. A few days ago, they told me they wanted to eat cucumbers and asked me where to find them for them."
Mou Ping wasn't quite sure what a greenhouse was, but he was quite shocked when he heard that people could eat green leafy vegetables in the middle of winter.
Even in the palace these days, you might not even get a bite of green leafy vegetables in the middle of winter. Has the Immortal Master given up on pretense? Is he planning to reverse the seasons?
Thinking of this, Mu Ping said with a moved look on his face, "The Imperial Master is truly well-intentioned. I believe Her Royal Highness the Princess and the Little Prince will be deeply moved when they learn of this."
"Just being moved is useless. What I mean is that they have to pay for the construction of this greenhouse!"
Lu Chen did make money, a lot of money, but he had too many projects on hand.
There is the construction of the Grand Canal, the preparation for a bank, and more than a dozen project teams have been set up under him some time ago. The money is really spent like water, a rush!
Although every project is a good project and will definitely make him more money after the results come out, isn’t this the case with many companies in later generations? Tomorrow is beautiful, but most of them die on the way to tomorrow.
What's more, Li Mingyue's belly is also not doing well. She has been worried about it for a long time, but there is no movement.
In fact, Lu Chen was still very panicked about this matter.
Medical technology was not well developed back then. If a couple could not have children, there was no way to use medical means to detect whether it was the boy or the girl who was infertile.
Lu Chen is very scared now. Could it be that his body is not good enough?
After all, I am a resurrected soul, so there will inevitably be some impact.
Neither of them made any movement, and Lu Chen became more and more annoyed the more he thought about it.
"Could it be that I've built such a huge industry, only to have it go to someone else in the end?"
Lu Chen felt that this was not acceptable. He decided to take some time to talk to Zi Yan Du Juan to find out who had the problem.
While Lu Chen was thinking about these things, Li Mingyue was also sighing in the princess's mansion.
She had just finished drinking a bowl of medicine, which was said to increase the chances of pregnancy, and if she got pregnant, it would most likely be a son.
But I've been drinking this for a month straight, and why is there no movement in my stomach?
Thinking of this, Li Mingyue slammed the table in anger and said, "Zhang Guizhi, where the hell did you get these secret recipes from? Are they reliable?"
Zhang Guizhi was so frightened that she knelt on the ground and said, "Your Highness, this is a secret recipe given by the old priest in the palace. It has always been used by the royal family, so it must be effective."
Li Mingyue thought about it and felt that it was true. With her status, how could the people under her dare to give her a random prescription?
She lay on the couch helplessly and said, "It's been a month, why is there still no news?"
"Could...could it be the problem of the National Master?" Zhang Guizhi said cautiously.
"Bullshit, my man is invincible and very strong!" Li Mingyue spat with a red face, but the worried expression on her face could not be hidden.
Just as the two women looked at each other in silence and Li Mingyue was thinking about whether to find an opportunity to test Lu Chen's quality, a eunuch hurried in and said, "Your Highness, His Majesty has sent a verbal order, saying that you must enter the palace tonight. The Queen Mother misses you."
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