Chapter 58 Benefiting the Country and the People "Your Majesty, can you tell me why you summoned me to the throne

?" Li Chengqian asked. "No, I just asked you to go to the Liangyi Hall to see me! " said the eunuch. "Who did your Majesty send to summon me!" Li Chengqian asked. "It was the eunuch supervisor Wang Yuan!" said the eunuch. Li Chengqian was suspicious. Normally, Li Er would not let him go if he had nothing to do, let alone send his personal eunuch Wang Yuan to find him. Unless something big happened, Li Er would send Wang Yuan, the eunuch supervisor, to call Li Chengqian, the prince. "Got it! Wang Quan, prepare the sedan chair and accompany me to the throne!" Li Chengqian said, "By the way, take the cotton robe as well." "Yes!" Wang Quan ordered the eunuch to prepare the sedan chair. He took the cotton robe beside him and followed Li Chengqian out of the hall. Wang Yuan, who was waiting outside the palace, saw Li Chengqian coming out and hurriedly went to meet him. He held Li Chengqian's hand and glanced at the cotton robe in Wang Quan's hand and said, "My dear! Be careful!" "Thank you, Eunuch Supervisor!" Li Chengqian said, and with Wang Yuan's help, he sat on the sedan chair and went to the palace. Halfway, Li Chengqian asked Wang Yuan why Li Er was so anxious to summon him to the audience. "Eunuch Supervisor, why did my father summon me to the audience? Please tell me something!" "This... I don't know either. Let's wait for my dear to arrive and we will know it naturally." Li Chengqian didn't believe that Wang Yuan didn't know anything, but just didn't want to tell him because it was useless. Li Chengqian winked at Wang Quan. Wang Quan immediately understood, and after approaching Wang Yuan, he quietly stuffed some yellow and white things into his sleeves. After weighing the money in his hand, Wang Yuan smiled and said, "To be honest, my lord, I remembered something, maybe it is related to this." "What is it?" Li Chengqian asked. "After the court was dismissed today, a censor reported to everyone, accusing you of not concentrating on handling government affairs, but focusing on strange and cunning tricks." Wang Yuan said. After listening to Wang Yuan's words, Li Chengqian finally understood what happened. It turned out that it was his tricks that caused the trouble. These censors are also full of money. They report him for a little thing. Don't they know that these are all major things that benefit the country and the people? The sedan chair stopped outside the Liangyi Hall. Li Chengqian got up and walked into the Liangyi Hall. Li Er had been waiting for him for a long time. "Your Highness! I wonder if your Highness has called me here urgently. Is there something important?" Li Chengqian bowed. Li Er pointed to a pile of memorials and said, "These are the memorials submitted by the censors. Take a good look! They are all about your strange and lewd skills." Looking at the pile of memorials, Li Chengqian thought to himself: How many people must have reported him? Almost all the censors have submitted memorials. Li Chengqian picked up a memorial and read it. It was all about him neglecting state affairs and focusing on playing with flowers and plants like silk. In short, he was not doing his job and only knew how to play. How could such a person bear the heavy responsibility of the empire? So, these people wrote to ask for the abolition of Li Chengqian and the appointment of Jin Wang Li Zhi, who was famous for his benevolence and filial piety, as the crown prince. Li Chengqian read several memorials. Although the contents were different, the meanings were the same. They all accused him of being greedy for fun and neglecting state affairs. If he inherited the throne in the future, the Tang Dynasty would be in danger! Request to depose the crown prince. It turned out that the root of everything was here. To put it bluntly, Li Chengqian still offended many people. He was not as pleasing to them as the kind and weak Li Zhi. Even though they knew that Li Er would not agree to depose his position as crown prince, they still had to give him some eye drops. "What do you have to say about this?" Li Er asked. He was very dissatisfied with Li Chengqian's obsession with silk during this period. If there were no mistakes in handling government affairs. Li Er had reprimanded him for his behavior of playing with things and losing his ambition, and he would not let him do whatever he wanted. What's so great about a rare flower that was introduced to the Central Plains from the Western Regions? When Li Er asked Li Chengqian to come here today, he also wanted to take the opportunity to give him a warning, hoping that he could focus more on family and national affairs. "Father, the reason why I fiddle with silk is not for fun, but for the sake of the people of the world." "As the saying goes, the people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the least important! As the prince of the Eastern Palace, I should share the worries of father! Consider the people of the world." Li Chengqian said. It would be better if Li Chengqian didn't say this, but Li Er got angry when he said this. You said that it's okay for you to fiddle with flowers and plants on weekdays! You dare to say that you are doing this for the benefit of the people of the world. Do you want to make the people of the Tang Dynasty like you, who only care about things and lose their ambitions ? Li Er secretly suppressed his anger. He wanted to hear what Li Chengqian could say. "Humph!" Li Er snorted coldly: "Tell me, if you are not a person who only cares about things and loses his ambitions, why do these censors have to report you?" " I want to hear how this piece of silk has become a major event that benefits the country and the people. If you don't tell me the truth, don't blame me for punishing you." Li Chengqian felt Li Er's anger. If he couldn't convince Li Er, he would definitely be punished. "Father, I have discovered that this silk can be used to resist the wind and cold when it is stuffed into the interlayer of clothes. More importantly, it can also keep warm!" "With these cotton clothes made of silk, the whole winter will not be cold, and the common people will not have to suffer from the bitter cold." "After the soldiers of our Tang Dynasty have these cotton clothes, they will not have to be afraid of the wind and snow when patrolling the border." Li Chengqian said. "Are these cotton clothes made of silk really as good as you said?" Li Er was very shocked after hearing this! All along, the Han people thought that this exotic flower from the Western Regions was just a plant for the nobles to enjoy. Not to mention Li Er, even other royal descendants and nobles have never thought about it in this way. But even though Li Chengqian said it so confidently, Li Er still didn't quite believe it. This really overturned his previous cognition. "That's for sure! I ordered someone to make a cotton robe. If you don't believe it, you can try it on." Li Chengqian said. The father and son have similar body shapes, so Li Chengqian took out the cotton robe that originally belonged to him, just to let Li Er experience the feeling of wearing a cotton robe. This would be more convincing and help him convince Li Er to promote it nationwide. "Oh! Where is the cotton robe? I want to try it. Is it as magical as you said?" Li Er said.

"Wang Quan, I'll bring a cotton robe to present to His Majesty!" Li Chengqian said, and Wang Quan hurriedly handed the cotton robe in his hand to Wang Yuan.

Wang Yuan took the cotton robe and helped Li Er put it on to try out the effect.

After putting on the cotton robe, Li Er soon felt a lot warmer and more comfortable.

The coldness in his body seemed to be driven away! Li Er was very happy. With these cotton clothes, not only did the people not have to endure the bitterness of the cold winter, but the soldiers could also fight in winter.

This solved the problem that the monarchs of all dynasties had a headache because they could not fight in winter.