It was freezing and Zhengde was sick.

It's still the same old problem, occasionally cold wind, cough non-stop.

The prescription of the imperial doctor Wu Jie, which used to be effective in three to five days, now has to delay a month to be cured. Zhu Houzhao is not sluggish, he is still in good spirits, but sometimes he coughs so badly that he seems to be able to cough out his lungs.

A few days ago, the physics school measured the temperature, and the outdoor temperature in Beijing in the middle of the night turned out to be minus 30 degrees!

Not to mention that Zhu Houzhao has a stubborn disease, even a healthy person will be frozen out if he doesn't pay attention to it.

God's thing, this is really no way.

According to the scientific data of later generations, it can be seen that the temperature has been falling sharply during the Song and Song dynasties, and it did not begin to warm up until the Yuan Dynasty. The recovery reached its peak in the Yongle period, and then it fell all the way, and the Yingzong period picked up again, and as a result, the Ming Dynasty had a change in the civil fort.

In the last years of Chenghua, it began to cool down again, and it fell off a cliff during the Hongzhi period. It only warmed up for a few years in the middle, and after Zhu Houzhao succeeded to the throne, the temperature change almost became a downward vertical line.

Fortunately, it only takes a few more years to usher in a 30-year recovery. At that time, the peak temperature would reach the lowest level in the Song and Song dynasties, which was the warmest day in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

Well, you read that right, the warmest years in the middle and late Ming Dynasty had an average temperature comparable to the coldest of the Song Dynasty.

Wang Yuan was so cold that he didn't want to get up, the charcoal stove lit a fire all night, and the poor people froze to death, and there were special people on the streets of Beijing who were responsible for collecting the corpses every day.

There is no need for Wang Yuan to advocate the use of coal, the people have already used that thing to make fires, and even the northern ironmaking uses a lot of coal. Iron ore, which is already high in impurities, is smelted with coal, and the fire hammer cast can be called a time bomb.

Morning?

The emperor is sick, and he is still a fart early!

It was all the ministers in the cabinet who had not seen the emperor for a long time, and the notes on the impeachment of Jiang Bin could not be handed to Zhu Houzhao at all.

"Master, please wash your face." The maid Hongling brought hot water.

Xia Chan has already been promoted to the head of the maid, and she generally doesn't do chores herself, Hongling is a girl who was bought through Ya Po.

The more disasters in the world, the lower the price of maids.

Hongling is worth five taels of silver, which has been sold at a high price, and his parents are very grateful, and they say that Wang Shilang's family is kind and generous.

Wang Yuan soaked his hands, washed his face with hot water, and finally felt alive.

"It's getting colder and colder." Huang E rubbed his hands and breathed, and the fat cotton jacket completely covered his figure.

Wang Yuan instructed: "Slaves in the house, buy them more charcoal." Remember to tell me a lot to ventilate the charcoal burning, and don't close the windows. ”

Huang E sighed: "Who doesn't know this truth? Every year, there are people in the capital who die of charcoal poisoning. Carbon used to be very cheap, but since the School of Physics developed the steam engine, the price of carbon has risen a lot compared to before. ”

The steam engine, not only used to mint coins, but has also begun to be commercialized!

Some time ago, Ling Xia, who was born in a craftsman's household, took his classmates to build a steam spinning machine. At present, only ten units have been built, all of which have been shipped to the Tianjin factory, but the coal consumption is still quite large, coupled with the Beijing coin machine, which directly raises the price of coal in Beijing - someone is doing something behind the scenes, and after learning that the coin machine burns coal, they secretly connect to collectively increase the price.

Beijing uses Xishan coal, namely Wanping Xishan Coal Mine.

Xishan is adjacent to the Ming Dynasty Royal Mausoleum, which was originally a forbidden land and no one was allowed to mine. The British Gong Zhang Fu of the Orthodox Dynasty once violated the ban on coal mining and was impeached by the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

But it can't be banned at all, because the firewood near Beijing has been cut down by the people.

Nearly a million people have to make fires to cook, and they can't afford high-priced firewood, so they can only buy low-cost coal. According to Qiu Jun's words in the last years of Chenghua, "Today's Beijing Division's military and civilian millions of homes are all paid with stone coal", and the common people usually use coal for cooking!

The large and small illegal private coal mines in the Xishan area are all in the hands of the nobles, and the eunuchs have to run to mix in the foot, and now Jiang Bin is also sending people to dig coal.

"Sir, it's time for breakfast." Xia Chan came with a smile.

Wang Yuan took Huang E's hand to the dining room, and his son Wang Su was also brought by the wet nurse, and greeted his father and mother respectfully.

There are two equal wives in the family, a concubine, and two sons. Unless it is a New Year's holiday, it is impossible to eat together, and no matter how good the relationship with each other is, it is inevitable to bump and bump.

Wang Yuan basically lived in Huang'e's room for two days, went to Song Ling'er's room for two days, and then went to live in Xiangxiang's room for one day, and usually ate according to this rule.

Xia Chan peeled the boiled eggs neatly and put them in Wang Su's bowl, treating them as her own son.

"Thank you, Aunt Chan!" Wang Su shouted obediently.

The family of three was eating breakfast, and although Xia Chan was already in charge, she volunteered to be a maid and stood by to serve.

Just half a year ago, Huang E came to menstruation, and Wang Yuan happened to be in her room again. Under Huang E's Zhang Luo, Wang Yuan finally took Xia Chan and became the evil male master of feudal society.

"I'm going to find Brother Ce!"

Wang Su quickly finished breakfast, and ran towards Song Ling'er, who is now Wang Ce's follower. Well, it's still Zhu Zaiyan and Zhu Xuanzhen's followers, who often go to the leopard room to play with the prince and princess.

Huang E shouted: "Slow down, don't fall!" ”

"Slow, slow." Wang Su ran faster.

Huang E turned around and went back to the bedroom, and said as he walked: "It's colder today, I asked someone to make a big one, remember to put it on your body when you go out." ”

Seeing that there was no one in the room, Xia Chan suddenly hugged Wang Yuan, kissed him and chased him out: "Madam, I'll help you find clothes!" ”

Wang Yuan shook his head and smiled, paced to the courtyard, two servants were clearing the snow, and hurriedly greeted him when they saw him coming.

As soon as the north wind blew and the chill hit, Wang Yuan couldn't help but shiver.

This is the coldest winter since Wang Yuan crossed. The people of many provinces have just survived the floods and droughts in summer and autumn, so how can they overcome such a cold winter?

The people of the steppe are also sad, and they don't know how many livestock and people will freeze to death.

Just some time ago, right-wing Mongolia moved south again.

The third son of Dayan Khan, who established himself as Khan, fought a fight with his nephew Bodi Khan (Buchi) last year, forcing the left-wing Mongols to unite against him. Neither side took any advantage, and in addition to the disaster last winter, this year Bars came with the right-wing Mongols, and quickly retreated after grabbing a circle in Yansui.

Zhu Houzhao was so angry that he wanted to drive the expedition in person, but Daming's food was not enough, and he himself had an old illness, so he could only lose his temper in the leopard room all day long.

Not long after, Huang E came out with a leather coat and personally put it on Wang Yuan carefully.

Wang Yuan walked towards Song Ling'er, the two children were building snowmen, and Song Ling'er kept commanding with a big belly.

"Second brother!" The little sister Wang Wei walked out of the room.

Wang Wei is sixteen years old, and she is a slim girl, but she has slightly dark skin like her brother.

Wang Yuan nodded and smiled at Song Ling'er, and said to the little sister: "I'm going to the School of Physics, and I'll send you over by the way." ”

"Okay." Wang Wei blushed.

The younger sister left Guizhou with Wang Yuan, and Ning Wang stayed in Huguang during the chaos and went north with Wang Yuan's old classmates.

During this time, Wang Wei always went to the School of Physics, and Wang Yuan inquired in private, but he looked at a scholar from the physics school. That kid's name is Yang Rui, a member of the brocade clothes, both civil and military, in the middle of last year, he was studying in Guozijian, and at the same time he entered the physics school.

Wang Yuan didn't block it, everything went naturally.

At least, the scholars of the physics school rarely appear to be dead in the wine bag and rice bag.

The carriage entered the city and turned to the south, and soon came to the physics college outside the southern city, and all the disciples greeted Wang Yuan one after another.

Wang Wei went to find his sweetheart, and Wang Yuan went straight to the inner courtyard.

The true Taoist priest has returned to the vulgar and restored his real name Lu Youzhen. This guy's research direction is chemistry, to be precise, oriental alchemy, but after he developed the technology of urine refining gunpowder, he has never really invented it, and often refines all kinds of new substances that he doesn't know what to do.

"Brother Lu, how is the honeycomb coal doing?" Wang Yuan asked with a smile.

Lu Youzhen said: "I am comparing various formulas. ”

This winter was too cold, and the price of coal rose, so Wang Yuan asked Lu Youzhen to develop honeycomb coal.

Wang Yuan only provided the shape, saying that he would add water to mix, and the rest was up to the students to explore.

Lu Youzhen and a group of Oriental alchemists have been experimenting for almost a month. First, only sawdust was added, then clay was added, and then lime was added, anyway, things were thrown into it indiscriminately, and then the ratio was adjusted after the test, and the performance of the briquettes was judged by boiling water on the same honeycomb stove.

Lu Youzhen said: "Adding lime is very effective and can prevent honeycomb charcoal from being too loose. The ratio of clay to soot, I'm also adjusting the ratio, and the wood chips are easier to ignite. ”

"Keep trying, and when I get the best match, I'll invest money to open a workshop." Wang Yuan said with a smile.

Wang Yuan is now a big investor, and when Ling Xia got a steam engine, he invested money to build a factory. Specializing in the production and development of all kinds of steam engines, students who have participated in the development of steam engines all enjoy shares in the factory.

This is also to avoid future disputes, and the students' inventions and creations can never be monopolized by the teacher.

Wang Yuan can choose to do that, but it will inevitably discourage students' enthusiasm, and only profit-driven is the best way.

In November of the 15th year of Zhengde, some people went door-to-door to collect coal scraps, and also went to various coal mines in Xishan to collect coal ash. The coal dust and coal ash are completely useless garbage, and someone actually spends money to collect it, and everyone sells it as a fool.

It was not until the beginning of December that the yamen of various ministries of the imperial court received gifts from Wang Yuan, and honeycomb coal began to become popular in the homes of officials, and some people gradually reacted.

Those useless coal ash and coal dust turned out to be the main materials for making honeycomb coal!

Wang Yuan was originally named "honeycomb charcoal", but after it was spread to the people, it inexplicably became "champion charcoal". There are countless imitation workshops, and honeycomb coal is becoming more and more popular, but only the real "champion carbon" is of the best quality, and the raw material ratio of honeycomb coal has not been leaked out for the time being.

Wang Yuan was busy improving people's livelihood, but Qingliu was busy impeaching Jiang Bin.

But those pieces just can't be handed over!

Wang Yuan can help deliver the chapter, but he doesn't want to be a gunman, and he doesn't want to rush to the front line of the confrontation with Jiang Bin.

So, Qingliu chose Zhang Yong.

I don't know what benefits were given to this eunuch, Zhang Yong suddenly attacked, but he didn't engage Jiang Bin, but instead went to engage Li Qi, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.