Then he found a clean stone nearby and placed it in the shade.
Li Mengyue sat down without hesitation, and Xie Ruiyuan sat on the ground next to Li Mengyue, intending to listen carefully to what Li Mengyue was going to say next.
"Since you don't know where the coal mines are, I can assure you that the northern region has abundant coal resources. As long as we find them and make reasonable use of them, we can easily survive the coldest winter."
Xie Ruiyuan knew that since he was not willing to believe Li Mengyue, he would not doubt what Li Mengyue said.
Li Mengyue knew that coal resources had always existed since ancient times.
It’s just that the utilization rate of water in ancient times was too low, and the poisoning rate was very high.
After all, in ancient times, people paid attention to keeping doors and windows closed. When coal burned, without air circulation, people would naturally suffer from poisoning and lack of oxygen, leading to dizziness and headaches, and even death in severe cases.
Of course, such a situation did not exist in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Even royal family members like Xie Ruiyuan did not know the existence of the coal mine, let alone ordinary people.
In other words, the basket of coal in front of her would mark the beginning of the Great Zhou's utilization of coal resources.
Although she also wanted to save trouble and directly use chemical products and chemical processes for desulfurization, the reality did not allow it.
Then she did not hide anything and told him how to utilize coal under the existing conditions.
"Coal is a very combustible material. It can not only replace firewood, but can also be used to boil water and cook, and even keep warm in the winter. However, coal is toxic. However, when making honeycomb briquettes, if you add combustible sawdust to it to neutralize and thicken the briquettes, along with yellow mud for thickening and diluting, and quicklime for desulfurization, you don't have to worry about poisoning when using it indoors, and it won't have a pungent odor."
After hearing what Li Mengyue said, Xie Ruiyuan went straight to the point and asked, "How to make honeycomb briquettes?"
"This one?"
Li Mengyue put her hand in front of Xie Ruiyuan and rubbed her fingers.
"How much?"
"One thousand taels."
Xie Ruiyuan looked at Li Mengyue, who looked like a money-grubber. He really couldn't connect the dots between him and Li Mengyue, who had generously given him 100,000 kilograms of grain.
"Okay, no problem. I just don't have any money right now, so I'll just wait for now. If you want me to write a note, that's fine too."
Li Mengyue wanted to build a reservoir and do business, which required a large investment in the early stages. However, the money she had was not enough for her to "squander", so she thought about making some money.
She never thought that Xie Ruiyuan was even poorer than her, and he still wanted to pay a debt for a mere one thousand taels of silver, and even said he was willing to write a note.
She really couldn't understand how Xie Ruiyuan could speak so seriously despite being the Prince of Chen.
"You...you can't even come up with a thousand taels of silver."
"As you can see."
Li Mengyue couldn't help but curse. Although she never expected Xie Ruiyuan to raise the child, the child's father was too poor.
It's impossible for her not to admire a prince who has ended up like this, and no one knows how he did it.
Fortunately, she didn't have that kind of thought, so she wouldn't have vomited to death.
"Fuck you!"
"Okay, remember, you gave me one thousand taels of silver."
Even though Li Mengyue was a little angry, she still had to explain the coal matter to Xie Ruiyuan.
Because she understood that if she wanted to rescue more people in the north during the extremely cold weather, she had to rely on Xie Ruiyuan, and only him.
Not to mention that she had to stay in Wuning County to rescue the victims in the two prefectures, even if there were no victims, she probably couldn't go to the north.
After all, her belly was more than four months old and her pregnancy was already obvious. Even wearing loose clothes could not hide it. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell what was going on.
The key point is that she is not pregnant with a single baby. There is not just one baby in her belly, but four.
That’s right, four.
Some time ago, when she was still a baby, she took her own pulse and only knew that it was a multiple pregnancy, but she was not sure how many babies there were.
At that time, she guessed that there would be three, but she never thought there would be four.
In her previous life, she had never even held a man's hand, let alone had a child, let alone been in love.
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