"Oh, this kang is still comfortable... Come on, Xia He, come over and sit next to my highness. How cold it is to stand there!"

Although Liu Laosan didn't know what the kang was, Li Chengqian knew very well and directly drew a sketch for him, then asked him to renovate his bedroom and directly replaced the entire bed with a large kang that was more than ten feet long!

"Your Highness, I will just stand!" Xia He blushed and stood on the ground in a squint manner.

"Come up and feel it, it's very warm!" Li Chengqian said with a faint smile on his face and said sincerely.

Xia He bit her lip, lowered her head, secretly glanced at Li Chengqian, and immediately blushed and hesitated.

"District, Your Highness...it's still daytime...night, and then...night..."

Li Chengqian was stunned for a moment and asked in confusion: "What night?"

"Bai, Bai Tian... Your Highness is going to be impeached by the censors again..."

"Impeachment?" Li Chengqian frowned, suddenly understood something, and said angrily, "Xia He, who do you think of me as? I am afraid that those censors will impeach... No, I care about day or night... Bah! No, I mean, I don't care whether I am day or night... No, what am I talking about? By the way, I mean to let you come over and feel the benefits of the fire kang, what are you thinking about?"

"Ah?" Xia He was stunned. She thought the crown prince was ready... Oh, I was so embarrassed!

Seeing Xia He's face turned red, even his ears were slightly red. Li Chengqian was speechless. Did he show so obvious... No, he is a gentleman with a strange and upright view. How could this girl Xia He think that he had such bad intentions?

"Come here! Sit on the kang!"

After Li Chengqian roared, Xia He slowly walked to the edge of the kang, and didn't dare to look at Li Chengqian.

Just as Li Chengqian was preparing to educate Xia He well and let her establish a correct outlook on life and values, and correctly recognize her noble character, Li Lizhi's voice came from the door of the hall.

"I've been frozen to death, I've been frozen to death. Prince, are you here?"

Li Chengqian looked at Xia He beside him, then looked at Li Lizhi and Li Zhi who walked in hand in hand, and said angrily: "Who is standing guard today? Run thirty laps for me!"

"Dang..." A sound of gold and iron falling to the ground came from outside the door, and then a slightly aggrieved answer, "Sir, obey the order!"

Li Chengqian's anger was relieved a little, and said to Li Lizhi with a kind look: "Lizhi, I'm not staying with my mother in this cold weather, why are you running around with my Zhinu?"

"Brother Prince, why don't you even have a charcoal basin here? I'm frozen to death!" Li Lizhi stomped her feet while looking around. Seeing Li Chengqian on the kang, she said with contempt, "It's been so late, Prince Brother is still in the quilt, are you ashamed?"

"Brother, I've gotten up at the age of 10!" Li Chengqian glared at Li Lizhi and said, "Come here, come to the kang, it's warm."

"Hmph, I don't want it, a lazy person!"

"Forget it, Zhinu, come to my brother and look at it, my face is red with cold!"

Li Zhi ran to Li Chengqian with his short legs, and crawled onto the kang with his hands and feet, and directly crawled into Li Chengqian's quilt.

"How about it, warm up?"

"Well, yes, Prince Guoguo is so warm here!"

"Hahaha, that's a must. Take off the hat and fur clothes, otherwise you'll sweat in a while." Li Chengqian touched the little guy's head and helped him take off the hat and thick fur clothes. "Lizhi, don't stand, sit on the kang."

Li Lizhi walked to the side of the kang with doubts, touched it, her eyes lit up instantly, and said in surprise: "It's really warm, what's going on with the prince brother?"

...

On the other hand, in Liangyi Hall, His Majesty Li Er was also having a headache because of this unusual weather. He was discussing a seemingly trivial matter with his ministers...

Just in the morning of this day, His Majesty Li Er received memorials from several censors, saying that the price of charcoal in Chang'an City soared, resulting in the lack of charcoal available for the people, and complaints were everywhere!

His Majesty Li Er attaches great importance to this matter. After all, in such weather, charcoal is no less important than food. If the people do not have charcoal to use, I wonder how many people will not survive this winter!

"Your Majesty, there are three reasons for the rise in charcoal prices. First, in previous years, the weather in Chang'an was the most pleasant, and the people were also preparing for charcoal in winter at this time. The temperature dropped sharply, and the mountains were blocked with heavy snow. Neither the people nor merchants prepared enough charcoal; second, some merchants were looking profitable, hoarding goods and raising prices, resulting in the already high charcoal increase three times a day; third, Chang'an's annual population increased by nearly 30% compared with last year, and the amount of charcoal required also increased accordingly!"

His Majesty Li Er nodded slightly, turned his eyes to Cheng Zhijie who was standing aside, and said, "Zhijie!"

"His Majesty?"

"You are in charge of the Ministry of Commerce. This merchant is now under the management of the Ministry of Commerce. If you go down today, you will investigate this matter strictly and will not be punished once it is verified!"

"Yes, I understand!"

Cheng Zhijie took the order and retreated, and Fang Xuanling stood up and said, "Your Majesty, letting the Ministry of Commerce rectify unscrupulous merchants is only a way to treat symptoms but not root causes. The fundamental reason is that the amount of charcoal is insufficient!"

"Well, I understand... Do you have a solution to this?"

The ministers fell into silence. As the saying goes, a good wife cannot cook without rice. Even if they are Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and Wei Zheng, no matter how capable they are, they cannot make charcoal out of nothing.

His Majesty Li Er was a little angry, but he also knew that this matter could not be blamed on his ministers. The fundamental reason for this matter was that charcoal was in short supply, so how could it be solved easily?

"Forget it, the Ministry of Commerce will first rectify the unscrupulous merchants, and at least stabilize the charcoal price first... Let's discuss it later!"

"yes!"

All the ministers sued their retreat, and His Majesty Li Er was also unwilling to review the memorial again! The charcoal matter was not resolved, which made him very upset and left Liangyi Hall and came to Lizheng Hall!

When I got here, I didn’t see Empress Changsun, and I didn’t even see her own treasures Li Lizhi and Little Shizi.

"Where is the queen?"

"Your Majesty, the Queen has taken Princess Jinyang to the East Palace!"

"East Palace?" Hearing the eunuch's answer, His Majesty Li Er immediately frowned and asked in a deep voice, "The queen has a disease of qi. The weather is so cold, why do you let her run around?"

The eunuch was stunned and looked at His Majesty Li Er with a confused look on his face, "Ah? Your Majesty... Your Majesty, I'm a servant, I'm a servant..."

Liu Zhong said at this time: "Everyone, the Empress went to the East Palace to miss His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. How dare these people stop them?"
Chapter completed!