One hundred and fifteen meters wide and ten miles long, Suzaku Street is covered with thick snow, and the snow is like a white quilt on Suzaku Street, which looks soft and soft, but it makes people dizzy.

The county magistrates of Chang'an and Wannian counties have organized hundreds of Chang'an people to shovel snow with wooden milling.

With the arrival of Li Chengqian and hundreds of officials, the families of many officials in the squares on both sides came out one after another to participate in the snow shoveling.

It's just that Li Chengqian's side has long been separated by the people who are in charge of the prison gates, and a thousand of them also take wooden mills to load snow on the ox carts, the main purpose is to separate Li Chengqian and the hundred officials from the people.

Li Chengqian took the wooden mill from the old ghost's hand, pointed to the distance and said, "Let those people shovel this way, so that we can get together." ”

After that, he lowered his head and shoveled the snow and loaded it on the ox cart next to him, and looked up to find that Li Ke, the king of Wu, Li Su, the king of Shu, as well as Du He, Zhao Jie and others all looked at him in surprise and did not move.

Li Chengqian said angrily: "Let you shovel the snow, why don't you do it?"

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, don't do it, we'll just do it." Wu Wang Li Ke said with a sincere face.

Li Chengqian knew what they wanted to say, lowered his head and shoveled the snow, and said: "You have to do it when you come, if you do more, I will naturally do less." ”

Ignoring everyone, he just milled and milled the snow on the car, and every time he took a step forward, his feet clicked, and his movement was extremely inconvenient.

Xue Rengui's eyes were red, and he picked up a wooden mill to "brush and brush ......" and shoveled all the snow around him in a few clicks.

"If you have energy, you can go over there and shovel more." Li Chengqian rolled his eyes and walked forward with the wooden milling, but Xue Rengui worked roughly, a little snow was not shoveled clean, and he was polished by his wooden milling.

This time there was a big movement, and a group of ministers around him hurriedly ran over and asked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to return to the palace/

Li Chengqian's head was a little dizzy, and he didn't speak yet, and Li Ke, the king of Wu who was holding him, saw that his face was wrong, and reached out to mold Li Chengqian's forehead and was startled.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is sick, and his forehead is hot." Li Ke, the king of Wu, hurriedly helped Li Chengqian to the car, and Li Chengqian felt that his feet were light, and he didn't know anything.

There was a gasp of cold air all around, and all the ministers were not at ease in their hearts, in this era when a cold and fever can kill people, if Li Chengqian's illness is good, how can these people explain to Li Shimin?

"Hurry up and send His Royal Highness the Crown Prince back to the East Palace and pass on the imperial doctor." Li Shiji said, Xue Rengui had already driven the carriage away, and the two thousand or so prison guards also quickly gathered and ran behind the car.

When everyone looked at the hurried carriage and the long, neat procession, their hearts were even more complicated.

"Ouch, Your Royal Highness the Prince, you have not been idle every day since before the snow, you go everywhere to relieve this and that, and you worry about the disaster every day when there is a snow disaster, and you also go to the street to shovel snow, and you are sick in the end. Let me explain to my mother, how can I have the face to see my mother when I die! "But the old ghost sat on the ground since Li Chengqian fell, and the people in the East Palace were worried about Li Chengqian, and no one took care of him, so he only reacted now.

Li Jing walked up to him, touched him and said, "Bai Neishi, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has returned to the East Palace, you better go back and take care of His Royal Highness the Prince." "The old ghost is Bai Zhou, who is the inner servant from the four grades, there are only four in the Zhenguan period, and they should all be by Li Shimin's side, and Bai Zhou was allocated to Li Chengqian by the eldest grandson queen.

It's just that Li Chengqian crossed over for fear of revealing his feet and never asked, he didn't know any of this, but veteran prime ministers like Li Jing and Xiao Yu knew.

Bai Zhou was startled when he heard this, got up from the ground, slipped out of a horse next to him, waved his whip violently, and flew back to the East Palace.

The East Palace was left alone, and the rest of the ministers were in a heavy mood, and they all silently picked up the wooden mill to shovel the snow, and some people sighed from time to time.

Only Li Ke kept standing there in a daze, thinking about what Li Chengqian said at Wei Zheng's house the day before yesterday, his mood was heavier than others, and he unconsciously sighed: "The prince is all forced!" ”

As soon as he said this, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and when he turned around, he saw Li Shiji behind him, looking at him calmly.

Just when he didn't know what to do, he saw Li Shiji say to him deeply: "His Royal Highness King Wu, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is sick and His Majesty is not in the capital, and I also ask His Royal Highness King Wu to go to the East Palace to take care of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for the sake of his brother." ”

"Me?" Li Ke was stunned and understood, there is a crown princess in the East Palace, and there are Li Chengqian's henchmen, if you want to say that your brother Li Tai, the king of Wei, is in the East Palace, it is a real brother. Where is the use of him to take care of Li Chengqian, let him go to the East Palace at this time, just to let him take a stand in this battle for the storage position.

Wu King Li Ke looked at Li Shiji fixedly and did not speak, wanting to see something from his face, but unfortunately he didn't see anything.

"His Royal Highness King Wu is dedicated to the Tang Dynasty, and it is also for the crown prince and His Royal Highness! Please think twice, Your Highness! After Li Shiji finished speaking, he turned around and left.

Li Ke, the king of Wu, stood for a long time before he made up his mind, called Li Su, the king of Shangshu, and rode to the East Palace.

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When Li Chengqian woke up, he still felt sore, and he knew that the fever had not subsided.

Turning his head with difficulty, he saw the crown princess lying on the side of the bed asleep, stretched out his hand to wake her up, and said softly: "When you are sleepy, you will come to bed and sleep, if it is so cold, if you are also sick, who will take care of me?"

When the prince heard this, his face turned red and said, "The concubine fell asleep as soon as she lay down." King Wu, King Shu, Gao Xianggong and Yang Xianggong are all waiting in the main hall, do you want to invite them in?"

"I'm much better, let them go back, but let the old ghost in!" Li Chengqian felt a little tired.

"The palace doors are closed in the middle of the night, but His Royal Highness still sees them, so that the two ministers can rest assured." The crown princess said gently.

"Hmm"

At one time, the four of them came in to see that Li Chengqian really woke up, and they all breathed a sigh of relief, if Li Chengqian was sick in the East Palace, Gao Shilian and Yang Shidao would not have come if they didn't know, but this time Li Chengqian fell at the disaster relief site, and they were all Li Chengqian's elders as the left-behind ministers entrusted by Li Shimin, and they couldn't say anything if they didn't come.

As soon as he arrived at the East Palace and saw Li Chengqian unconscious, he couldn't leave, so he waited until midnight.

Li Chengqian saw that the four of them were very tired, and ordered them to prepare supper, and then let them go to rest after eating.

After the four of them went out, Li Chengqian told the old ghost how to practice alcohol, and asked him to quickly practice a bowl of high alcohol.

In this era, Chinese medicine did not have specific antipyretics, and if it was not possible to reduce fever, the effect of eating herbs that cleared heat and detoxified would also be reduced, so Li Chengqian was ready to use physical antipyretic.

Li Chengqian did not deal with Li Suo until the afternoon of the next day, during which time Li Ke, the king of Wu, and Li Su, the king of Shu, were in the East Palace, and Li Chengqian called them in to chat when he was better.

"I know you have big ambitions, and you do have some talents, but you don't have a place to use them right now. Even if your father is long live in the future, as long as you don't ascend the throne, the court will guard against you. Li Chengqian looked at Li Ke and said sincerely.

Li Ke nodded in understanding.

"But it will be different after all, because in a few years I am ready to restart the separation." Li Chengqian is very sure of the authenticity.

Li Ke was silent, Li Shimin's division had ended in failure last year, and Li Chengqian could not give his world to himself.

"My father didn't understand the essence of the Zhou Gong feudal system, so he did something wrong, and he is right to correct it now, otherwise Datang will definitely pay a greater price." Li Chengqian did not shy away from saying that Li Shimin was wrong.

"What does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince mean?" Li Ke couldn't help but ask.

"The feudal will be divided abroad, and the places where the Duke of Zhou was divided were not in the Western Zhou Dynasty, such as the Qi State of Jiang Taigong, the Yan State of Yan Zhaogong, the Lu State of the son of the Duke of Zhou, etc., which are not in the territory of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Therefore, if Datang wants to divide the seal, it should also divide you outside the Datang area. ”

"Desert?" Li Ke's eyes lit up, who didn't want to gallop on the battlefield.

"No, it's not suitable for farming, you can't bring people to build a country, and I'm still useful in those places, you all go overseas, like Japan, Linyi, Bori, Tuohuan and other southern sea countries The land is easy to cultivate and extremely rich, I will give it to you when I go back." Li Chengqian said seriously.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said with a smile, those places are all country-owned, huh?" Li Ke was really disappointed, and he coaxed me to be happy after talking for a long time.

"This is that you are not good at reading, you go and read the "Historical Records. The family of Taigong of Qi" The first thing Jiang Taigong did when he arrived in Yingqiu was to destroy a local land country, and then established the Qi country there.

When the time comes, I will naturally send troops to destroy you, and then let you take the people out to build a nation overseas. ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is willing to send the people out?" Li Ke didn't believe it, the people were an important resource at this time.

"There is a fixed amount of how many people can be fed on a piece of land, and there are only two things we can do, one is to try to increase food production, and the other is to get more land.

If the grain produced by the land cannot feed so many people, there will be peasant uprisings like the Eastern Han Dynasty, so the Tang Dynasty must constantly send people out if it wants to maintain long-term stability. ”

Li Ke was already stunned, his mouth opened wide and closed at all, he was already very smart, and he was naturally thorough, so he could ask his own questions while listening to Li Chengqian, but when he heard that the population would increase to a certain extent, the country would be in chaos, and he figured it out at once.

Li Chengqian's words completely opened up a new world for him, and some things that he couldn't understand before suddenly became clear.