Molested Zulong at the beginning

The beauty in front of her had slender eyebrows, a moon-like nose, bright red lips, and bright white teeth. She was paired with an elegant and vulgar face. She was a stunning beauty with icy muscles and bones.

Even though Bai Su had already seen many beauties and his appetite had been whetted, he couldn't help being amazed when he saw the visitor.

It's not someone else.

It is the current helm of the Mohism, Mo Xun.

Bai Su was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help asking: "Why are you here?"

She raised her slender hands to lift her black hair, revealing her white and attractive collarbone, and raised her head to look at Bai Su curiously: "There are a lot of interesting things in your room, and I always come to see them after I finish my work." one look."

Bai Su followed the trend and saw that she was holding two books in her arms. They were the novels he wrote to make Hu Yan happy when he had nothing to do, "Green Snake" and "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio".

"Your Excellency is really well-educated. I didn't expect that in addition to being proficient in governing the country, he also knows so much about folk tales of ghosts and ghosts, and wrote such a touching story."

Mo Xun walked over slowly, with a pair of bright beautiful eyes, staring closely at Bai Su in front of him, full of admiration.

Even though she is a Mohist girl, she is naturally intelligent, but no matter what, she is still just a young girl who has just begun to fall in love. She really doesn't have much resistance to this kind of love story between a man and a woman.

Bai Su couldn't help but smiled: "I wrote it when I had nothing to do. If you like these things, I will write you a story in two days. The story of Zhao Ling'er in Xianling Island..."

"what is that?"

"A story about a young man with a chivalrous heart and a girl who is as white as a sheet of paper."

"It sounds like a very interesting story, so please look forward to it."

Mo Xun's eyes lit up, and a happy smile appeared on his face.

She has re-read these books seven or eight times, and is deeply moved every time. If she has the opportunity to hear new stories, that would be the best.

"That's natural. I, Bai Su, always say the same, but I'm afraid I can't do it these two days. I still have to be busy with the work in hand." Bai Su rubbed her sore neck and said.

A look of curiosity appeared on Mo Xun's face. Looking at the messy pipes on the drawing, he couldn't help asking, "My lord, what are you doing?"

Bai Su said, "I'm going to make a heater."

"Heating?"

Mo Xun's slender black eyebrows were slightly frowned, with a blank expression on his face.

At the beginning, Bai Su planned to be an earth dragon, in simple terms, it was a large heated kang.

The principle of this thing is also very simple, you only need to lay a fireproof layer under the foundation, build a special stove, let the fire burn on the floor tiles under your feet.

In this way, there is no need to worry about fire or toxic smoke. The temperature of the flame will be transmitted along the floor tiles, making the whole room warm.

But Sister Zheng asked him not only to solve the problems in the palace, but also to solve the heating problem of the entire Xianyang City, so this method of the earth dragon is a bit inappropriate.

After all, laying foundations one by one is too high in efficiency and cost, and it is not suitable for large-scale promotion.

To solve the heating problem in the entire city of Xianyang, the heating with the lowest cost and the ability to uniformly burn hot water is naturally the most suitable choice.

The Roman Empire used unified pipelines to let the boiler room heat the hot water, and then transport it all the way to build a large bathhouse enough for thousands of people to take a bath together, and run a hot bath.

According to this principle, it is not impossible to build a more complete pipeline system to heat the entire Xianyang City.

So the question is, what material is suitable for pipes and boilers?

Mo Xun lightly touched his vermilion lips with his index finger, and said seriously, "My lord, how about using lead?"

Bai Su was taken aback for a moment: "Lead?"

Mo Xun nodded and said lightly: "This thing is durable and won't rust. It can be said to have many advantages."

The corner of Bai Su's mouth twitched: "No."

"Why?"

Bai Su looked at the puzzled girl in front of him, and said helplessly, "This lead is poisonous. If you often bathe and wash vegetables in water with rare lead, it will easily poison people after many years. In mild cases, they will lose their fertility. Those who die young, die prematurely and suddenly die."

"Is this really that serious..."

"It's not serious."

After Mo Xun saw Bai Su nodding, he couldn't help but gasped.

She never expected that this thing would have such serious side effects.

Fortunately, my adults stopped her in time.

Otherwise, once the lead pipes are used to provide hot water for His Majesty, and something happens to His Majesty's body, even if the Mo family has ten heads, it will not be enough to cut them off.

She subconsciously swallowed her saliva, looked at Bai Su, and asked tentatively: "Then according to the words of the adults, what should I do?"

Bai Su stroked his chin and said, "Let's use iron, it's more secure."

"iron……"

Mo Xun blinked his black and white eyes, and doubts arose in his heart: "This... can this work?"

"Try it and you'll know."

Bai Su smiled, and called the craftsmen of Shaofu, and asked them to follow the blueprints, first create a small trial effect.

It didn't take much time for everyone to fix a boiler room.

Following Bai Su's order, everyone began to add coal to boil water under the boiler.

Mo Xun watched the excitement at the door.

In her eyes, Bai Su is a special existence.

This bad boss always likes to tease her, but for some reason, every time she is with this man, she feels an inexplicable sweetness in her heart.

When she looked at Bai Su's back with full eyes.

Bai Su enthusiastically directed the craftsmen to heat the house, especially when watering, and let them stand at a relatively safe distance.

After all, there is boiling water inside, and once it gets a little bit on it, it will be scalded.

Hot boiling water flowed down the iron pipe, and even though they were far away, everyone could still feel the terrifying heat.

Mo Xun came back to his senses, and his slender eyebrows frowned: "My lord, are you warming up or killing people? There is nothing wrong with such a scalding temperature. If you burn Your Majesty, it will be a capital crime."

Bai Su smiled confidently: "Don't worry, these pipes are buried under the floor tiles, so they won't burn anyone. If you don't believe me, go inside and have a look."

Seeing that the water was almost gone, Mo Xun nodded.

Back to the house with Bai Su, she wanted to complain a few words, but as soon as she came in, she felt warm and not at all cold.

This made her open her mouth in surprise.

If it was the past, even if there were seven or eight braziers in the room, she would still feel a burst of coolness. Every time she knelt down in front of the table, she would feel that her legs were faintly cold.

But now the ground is warm and comfortable, making one want to lie down on the ground and take a nap.

Mo Xun couldn't help sighing for a while, "My lord is really a god. Letting the coal burn outside not only completely solved the problem of the poison of the coal, but also made the room so comfortable. It's really amazing."

Although she stood by the side for a while and clearly understood the principle, when she actually saw the effect, she couldn't help being surprised.

Bai Su smiled and rubbed his nose: "I may not be as good as others in other aspects, but when it comes to eating, drinking, having fun, and enjoying yourself, no one in the world can match me."

Chapter 270 IX What Color Is The Clothes

Inside Xianyang Hall.

Bai Su walked all the way to Mingtang.

Sister Zheng was wearing a black palace dress, sitting in front of her desk, flipping through a memorial from time to time.

When she heard footsteps approaching, she slowly raised her head, her phoenix eyes looked at Bai Su with great interest: "How is things going?"

According to Sister Zheng's vision, it is not an easy task to solve the problems in the entire city of Xianyang in a short period of time. If it doesn't take a year or a half, there must be no suitable solution.

From the very beginning, she raised this difficult problem just to make things difficult for Bai Su, and she didn't have much hope that it could be completed.

Bai Su said with a smile on his face: "Your Majesty is lucky. After many days of research, I have come up with a solution. After experiments, it has initially succeeded."

When Sister Zheng heard this, a look of astonishment appeared on her beautiful face: "What... what, you actually came up with a countermeasure?"

Bai Su nodded lightly, and narrated what he and the Mohist giant had done

After hearing the rationale, Sister Zheng couldn't help but glanced at Bai Su, and said in a strange tone, "You are a good means, and under the catalysis of lust, you have even figured out such a subtle method. "

Bai Su's eyelids twitched, is Miss Zheng praising herself or scolding herself?

Sister Zheng didn't say much, she put down the memorial in her hand, changed the subject and said, "How did you come up with the idea of ​​using this radiator for heating?"

Bai Su stroked his chin and said: "In the past, in winter, many people would close the doors and windows and use braziers to keep warm in the house. If the charcoal poison accumulates to a certain level, their lives would be in danger."

"Since it's not safe inside the house, it's better to burn coal directly outside the house. Just find a way to transfer the heat from the charcoal to the house."

A hint of doubt flashed in Zheng Jie's phoenix eyes: "The fire is outside, so far away, how can it be passed in?"

Bai Su said with a smile: "This will naturally use pipes. Iron has a high conductivity, and a boiler room can be built outside."

"Put the boiled water along the pipes all the way in the house or under the floor tiles, so that there will be no charcoal poisoning, and there is no need to worry about fire, and the whole room can be warmed."

"Let it snow outside, the room will always be like spring all the year round..."

Sister Zheng looked at Bai Su who was chatting eloquently in front of her, and felt both happy and annoyed for a moment.

The good news is that the method Bai Su came up with is really good. It is not only comfortable and convenient, but also safer. It is really a good thing that benefits the country and the people.

But what's annoying is that this damn courtier is a complete bad ruffian.

Although talented, it can be called a rare horse with a thousand li in the world, but this horse's appetite is also too big. Every time he rides a horse, he needs to be fed enough food and grass.

Although this guy is not greedy for power and has little interest in money, fame and fortune, but for some aspects, his appetite is getting worse and worse.

Just being close to her ear and calling her mother-in-law is enough. This damned courtier actually wants her to bend over and do bad things in a dragon robe.

When Miss Zheng thought of this, her silver teeth clenched.

After Bai Su explained the rationale in detail, he couldn't help being taken aback when he saw Sister Zheng staring at him with a strange expression.

He couldn't help asking: "Then...that Your Majesty, but where am I wrong?"

Sister Zheng came back to her senses, coughed lightly, and changed the subject: "Bai Su, your product sounds good, but it always feels like a huge cost. After all, the cost of a boiler is tens of thousands, and ordinary people can't afford it." Get up."

Bai Su explained with a smile: "Your Majesty, there is no need to worry, this boiler does not need to be customized separately, it only needs to be funded by the government to build a large boiler at intervals, and then directly connect the official road to each household, so that the unified Boiling hot water can save a lot of cost and be more efficient.”

"Besides, this is not a business, but a business that can be run. For example, you can charge a heating fee every year for a few months. The court can quickly recover the cost, and even turn losses into profits."

"In the future, the imperial court will receive another stable tax. Although this amount of money is not much, it is still a lot of money accumulated over time. Except for daily meditation and maintenance, there is still a lot of surplus..."

After listening to Bai Su's words, Sister Zheng nodded slightly.

As the so-called firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea, firewood will always be one of the biggest expenses of the common people.

If the heating is provided by the government, and the cost is not much more expensive than the firewood I usually use, and it is safer and more comfortable, then most of the people will definitely pay the money willingly.

However, relying on good credit, the government charges one year’s fees at a time, and it will not take long for the court to recover the cost. It has earned a heating official road that can provide stable tax revenue. .

After pondering for a long time, Sister Zheng said: "Looking at it this way, this is an infrastructure facility like a canal or an official road. The imperial court has invested heavily and needs to mobilize a lot of manpower and material resources, but the return on income is very small, or... The insides are just mosquito legs, not much meat at all."

Bai Su said: "Since ancient times, building roads, bridges, and infrastructure has involved huge investments. There is no profit in a short period of time, and it is even a loss-making business. It can be said that the predecessors planted trees and the descendants benefit from the shade. However, if Your Majesty wants to make money , it’s not impossible.”

There was a hint of curiosity in Sister Zheng's phoenix eyes: "Oh, what can I do?"

Bai Su said with a smile: "Whoever has money can earn it."

Sister Zheng quickly understood what Bai Su meant, and asked tentatively, "You mean, the dignitaries in the court?"

Bai Su nodded, and said: "Local merchants, court officials, and some dignitaries, these people have much more money than ordinary people. If you don't earn what they earn, you earn someone else's money."

Sister Zheng's slender willow eyebrows frowned slightly: "But how do you make money from them? Do you charge two or three times more?"

After all, these people are not fools, and it is impossible to pay more for no reason. Even if they really pay twice or triple the heating bill, it is not much.

Bai Su said with a smile: "Two or three times, Your Majesty, you look down on them too much. Since you want to make money, then set a hundred times, a thousand times higher price, then how dare you do business."

"Hundred... a hundred times, a thousand times, this... such an outrageous price, will anyone really accept it?"

There was a look of astonishment on Sister Zheng's graceful and luxurious face.

Although together with Bai Su, I often heard some outrageous words, and I already had some expectations in my heart, but when I actually heard this exaggerated number, I still couldn't believe it.

Bai Su said: "Your Majesty, you have implemented the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business for many years, but you don't understand the logic of this way of doing business. Looking at the world, the more useful things are, the less valuable they are, and the more useless things are, the more expensive they are." It's worth thousands of dollars."

Sister Zheng heard it suspiciously: "What do you mean by that?"

Bai Su wrung his fingers and said, "Your Majesty, think about it, food, salt, cloth, these important things that are really related to people's livelihood, are often cheap and worthless, while those useless stones, jade, coral, and pearls are often worth tens of thousands of dollars." thousand."

"So after understanding this logic, it is easy to earn money from these wealthy businessmen and rich people. You only need to fiddle with an ordinary thing with some useless tricks. The more fancy the better."