After Yang Jing took down the coal mountain, he ignored the cold words of the common people and gentry in the city. He resolutely hired a large number of people to dig for coal, and then used ten thousand taels of gold to exchange for the technology to refine the coal.
A week later, the coal was produced.
However, a new problem appeared.
The coal was refined, but no one was willing to go to the boiler room to watch the fire burn the coal.
In the few days that Yang Jing was mining coal for refining, the news of him mining coal for warmth spread throughout the entire Hui Prefecture.
Everyone in the world knew that coal was poisonous. Burning coal for warmth was equivalent to courting death.
The commoners believed that if they went to the boiler room to watch the fire burn coal, they would die within two hours.
Although Yang Jing paid a lot of wages, the price was not enough for the people to be willing to exchange their lives.
Yang Jing could have ordered his peasant soldiers to check the boiler because he was sure that the coal was harmless. The peasant soldiers would obey Yang Jing's orders and would not refuse any of his requests.
But Yang Jing did not do so.
The extraction of the coal wasn't just to create greenhouses. He also wanted to promote the use of coal throughout the country so that the people of the world could have a comfortable winter.
There was another important reason. Once the coal was promoted, it would definitely sold well in the country in the future. When that happened, he would get countless gold and silver mountains.
He could not let go of this business opportunity.
Therefore, no matter the price, he had to convince the people of Hui Prefecture that the coal was not poisonous.
Yang Jing thought of a solution.
He asked Li Yun to post a notice in the city. Anyone who was willing to go to the boiler room to watch the fire burn coal would be heavily rewarded!
Those who are willing to wait in the boiler room for a quarter of an hour will be rewarded with five taels of gold.
Those who are willing to stay in the boiler room for an hour will be rewarded with ten taels of gold.
Those who are willing to stay in the boiler room for two hours will be rewarded with twenty taels of gold.
Those who are willing to stay in the boiler room for a full day and night will be rewarded with a hundred taels of gold!
Each level was limited to ten people, and the reward would be given out as soon as it was finished.
The moment the news of the reward spread, the citizens of the entire city were in an uproar!
What kind of concept was a hundred taels of gold?
That was money that they could not earn even if they farmed for generations!
Putting aside the hundred taels of gold, just the five taels of gold was enough for a family of three to eat for half a lifetime.
Driven by the huge reward, many people in the city were tempted.
After Yang Jing took down the entire Hui Prefecture, he built the Hui Prefecture according to Wuyuan County, allowing most of the people in the city to eat their fill and wear new clothes.
However, there were still some commoners in the city who could not work because of their physical illnesses and inconvenient legs.
No matter how good Yang Jingzheng's policies were, these people still couldn't get enough to eat.
However, if he could get the gold that Yang Jing gave him, it would be different.
If they were lucky enough to survive, not only would they have money to treat their illnesses, but they would also be able to save a large amount of money to support their family.
Even if they were unfortunate enough to die from gas poisoning, their lives were worthless since they could not work in the first place.
As long as he used it sparingly, the reward money he received was enough for his family to live comfortably for the rest of their lives.
Therefore, there were a few commoners who had the idea of exchanging their lives for money. They ignored their family members and resolutely went to register.
Everyone knew that if coal was burned in a house, everyone in the house would die within an hour.
Therefore, some people who were hoping to get lucky signed up for the reward of five taels of gold. They thought that staying in the boiler room for an hour should not be a problem. They would still be alive to spend money when they came out.
If there were any problems, he could just take the reward money and go to the clinic to see a doctor.
Those who had made up their minds to risk their lives directly signed up for a day and a night.
Take a gamble and turn a bicycle into a motorcycle!
Sacrificing him would benefit the entire family.
A hundred taels of gold!
If he could get his hands on it, his entire family would be able to live comfortably for the next two generations!
In front of the happiness of the whole family, his cheap life was not worth mentioning.
They felt from the bottom of their hearts that even a great immortal would die if he stayed in the boiler room for a day and a night.
Therefore, after they signed up, they decisively wrote their wills and told their wives, children, and parents about their funeral.
Just like that, the slots for the one-hour level and the one-day level were all filled in one night, leaving only the two-hour level. No one dared to try.
Thus, on a sunny and auspicious day, the experiment officially began.
Today's matter was no less important than the day Yang Jing attacked the city. Therefore, all the people in the city had come from ten miles away to watch the show.
They gathered around the greenhouse that Yang Jing had built and discussed among themselves.
"What kind of method is it to build a shed on the land?”
"I don't know. The new head of our Hui Prefecture is a god. Most of the things he wants to do are unconventional. How can we ordinary people guess accurately?”
"Hey, hey, hey, I know. Someone in my family works on the farm. He told me what Lord Yang's building is called... A greenhouse! He wanted to plant cotton in this shed. He heard that the cotton seeds had already been planted!”
"What is it? Did I hear wrongly? Planting cotton? Why didn't Lord Yang ascend to the heavens? How can we grow cotton in the south?"
"Yes, Lord Yang is being too whimsical. The land in the south is wet and there is not enough light. Moreover, the weather is so cold that it is impossible to grow that delicate cotton.”
"Isn't that so? What Lord Yang is thinking is really hard to fathom. It's fine if he grows cotton, but he actually wants to use coal to heat up.!”
"Hey, don't be too confident. I feel that our new master is not an ordinary person. He will definitely succeed in whatever he wants to do. I heard that he sent people to plant grains in Wuyuan County. Don't you think this is a miracle?"
"Harvest in a week? It must be fake. I've been farming all my life, but I've never seen anything like this.”
Just as everyone was discussing, Yang Jing appeared with a group of bodyguards.
He glanced at the twenty applicants and found that they were either missing an arm or a leg. He found it funny.
These people really thought that they were here to exchange their lives for money.
In order to reassure the people who went in for the experiment, Yang Jing also brought more than ten doctors and asked them to wait here. Once they found anything unusual, they would immediately treat them without hesitation.
Li Yun and the others checked the boiler room one last time. After finding no problems, the experiment really began.
The twenty commoners who had signed up earlier gritted their teeth and waved goodbye to their wives and children as if they were about to go to the battlefield.
Their wives and children looked at them reluctantly, their eyes full of worry and worry. Some wives who thought that their husbands would definitely die this time even covered their faces and cried.
(Please, please! Bosses! Crown Prince Yanzu! I beg Huahua and Piaopian!
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