Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian have been discussing for several hours, and even lunch is used here in the Qianqing Palace.

"This weather is indeed a lot colder, a lot, listening to the words of this week, hundreds of people have frozen to death just here in the capital, and I don't know how many people will be frozen to death in this world."

After discussing the matter, Emperor Hongzhi also looked out the window, and at this time it began to snow, thinking of what the Hubu Shangshu Zhou Jing said in the early dynasty, Emperor Hongzhi was even more worried.

"The minister is incompetent, unable to share his majesty's worries and relieve the people's difficulties, I am really ashamed!"

Hearing Emperor Hongzhi's words, Liu Jian said helplessly, he could feel Emperor Hongzhi's heart of worrying about the country and the people, but in the face of this natural force, he had nothing to do.

"I'm the same, my destiny can't be violated!"

Emperor Hongzhi shook his head and said, in the face of this natural force, even he, the emperor, felt helpless.

Freezing to death in winter, this is too normal a thing, people will freeze to death every winter, but this year it seems to be a lot of them, this is only October, before the coldest time, there are hundreds of people in the capital who are frozen to death, this weather is too cold.

"Why don't we go around the capital and have a look?"

Emperor Hongji suddenly proposed.

"The ministers should accompany themselves."

Liu Jian, Xie Qian, and Li Dongyang naturally hurriedly agreed, this is a rare opportunity to go out with the boss for a private visit to Weifu and go out to engage in activities together.

……

In a charcoal shop in Chongnanfang, Langdong, Beijing, Liu Jin and Zhao Erhu were wandering around the charcoal shop casually.

"Childe, what charcoal do you need?"

The children in the store saw Li Jin dressed as a scholar, and also stepped forward and asked enthusiastically, most of these scholars are rich, and they often need charcoal to warm up when they read and write.

It was freezing on this day, and without charcoal for heating, there was no way to write, because my hands would freeze, and even the ink would be frozen.

"I see that you have a complete range of charcoal in this store, can you tell me about it?"

Liu Jin looked at the charcoal shop very casually, and found that this charcoal was also very different from charcoal, even if he was a layman, he could see it at a glance.

"Childe has good eyesight, the charcoal in our store is the most complete in the whole Beijing city, whether it is ordinary miscellaneous firewood, or good horsemouth firewood, or black charcoal, white charcoal, long charcoal, etc., our store has it, and even the top poplar long firewood used in the inner court has it."

The shopkeeper gave Liu Jin a thumbs up, and then began to crackle and introduce the various charcoal in his store.

This charcoal is divided into many varieties because of the different logs fired and the material is very different.

"This horsemouth firewood is called Shunchai, because it is produced in the deep mountains around Mashuikou, so it is called horsemouth firewood, the characteristics of this horsemouth firewood is that it is pure white and has no black spots, the most used in the palace, of course, the price is also the most expensive, a load of horsemouth firewood needs 900 Wen."

"The quality of this long-loaded charcoal is also very good, it is made of hardwood in the mountains of Yizhou, the air is warm and durable, gray and white, and it takes 700 wen for a load of long-loaded charcoal."

"Of course, if Gongzi doesn't have any special requirements, this miscellaneous charcoal is also very good, it is made of trees in the mountains and forests in the north near our Jingshi, it is very durable, and it only costs 550 wen per load."

The shopkeeper patiently explained to Liu Jin the origin, characteristics and price of their charcoal, which also opened Liu Jin's eyes, it turned out that this small charcoal still has so much knowledge.

"This charcoal is really not cheap~ ordinary people can't afford to use it at all!"

After listening to the introduction, Liu Jin couldn't help but sigh, the cheapest miscellaneous charcoal costs 550 wen a load, and this horsemouth charcoal costs 900 wen a load, this price is too expensive.

You must know that the price of a big rooster in this era is only about 15 Wen, and this load of charcoal is sold for hundreds of Wen, which ordinary people can't afford to use such expensive charcoal at all.

"It's really too expensive~"

A voice sounded next to him, it sounded a little familiar, Liu Jin hurriedly looked over, and the Hongzhi Emperor he met in the Moon Tower that day, at this time he was still dressed as a master, and Xiao Jing next to him was dressed as a housekeeper, as for Liu Jian, Xie Qian, and Li Dongyang, they also changed into the clothes of ordinary people, so that people couldn't see that the three of them were important cabinet ministers.

"It turned out to be Mr. Zhu~"

Liu Jin hurriedly saluted Emperor Hongzhi, although he already knew the identity of the other party, but before Emperor Hongzhi said it, Liu Jin naturally would not break it, not to mention, once he knew that the other party was the emperor, he would inevitably have to kneel, this is the best if he didn't kneel, Liu Jin couldn't wait to never kneel.

"I didn't expect to meet Liu Gongzi here."

Seeing Liu Jin, Emperor Hongzhi was also in a good mood and said with a smile.

"This is the Liu Gongzi I told you, the Golden Continent, Australia, Europe, Africa, etc. are all what Liu Gongzi said, if you are interested in anything, you can just ask him face to face."

Then Emperor Hongzhi also introduced Liu Jin to Liu Jian, Xie Qian, and Li Dongyang, and the three of them also squinted their eyes at the same time and looked at Liu Jin carefully, their eyes were sharp, as if they wanted to see through Liu Jin completely.

"I've seen three gentlemen."

Although Liu Jin still can't figure out the origin of these three, most of the people who can follow Emperor Hongzhi's side should also be important ministers, and he still has to be polite.

"Well, it's not bad."

Li Dongyang pinched his mustache and nodded and said, he is very handsome, he was a handsome guy when he was young, Liu Jin is not bad, he has a good skin, and he still fits Li Dongyang's appetite.

"I heard that Liu Gongzi came to the capital to participate in the autumn and winter poetry meeting, why didn't he go to the poetry meeting, but came to this charcoal shop?"

Xie Qian looked at Liu Jin, thought for a while and asked.

"Alas, there are frozen bones on the stinky road of Zhumen's wine and meat, and the rich students are all chanting to the snow, saying that the snow is good and the time is right, but if they see the beggars shivering from the cold on the street, and when they see the labor with red faces and frozen hands on the street, will they still be in the mood to chant poetry and make words, anyway, I am not in the mood to participate in such a poetry meeting."

Liu Jin sighed and looked at the snowflakes that kept falling outside, looking worried.

Of course, this is also a reason why Liu Jin doesn't go to the poetry meeting, I really can't get used to those people, and more importantly, Liu Jin has crossed over from later generations, if he really wants to participate in a poetry meeting, he may be exposed, so it's better not to go.

Hearing Liu Jin's return, Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jian and others looked at each other, and they were all slightly surprised, but they didn't expect Liu Jin not to attend the poetry meeting for this reason, which was really a bit of a surprise.

This Liu Jin, like several of himself, even noticed that many people were frozen because the weather was too cold, and he came to this charcoal shop to learn about the charcoal market.

"The price of this charcoal is high, but the weather is very cold, I wonder if Liu Gongzi has any way to solve the problem of heating ordinary people?"

Emperor Hongzhi thought of the scene where Liu Jin of Wangyue Tower gushed about the world outside the Ming Dynasty that day, and he also asked with a trace of expectation.

"In fact, the problem of heating is very easy to solve, this charcoal is expensive, why not use coal?"

Liu Jin replied almost without thinking.