The weather in Luzhou soon became cooler day by day.

By the end of October, which will be the end of November and the beginning of December after the Gregorian calendar is adopted in the future, the first heavy snowfall has fallen in Luzhou, and the small city was suddenly covered with a layer of silver.

In Li Yuanjia's eyes, the dirty and worn dirt roads seemed to have become beautiful.

Almost no one goes out, but isn’t it beautiful?

This is not the modern society that will be more than a thousand years later. Let alone a half-foot-deep snowfall, a thick snowfall, or the kind of heavy rain that you can see the sea. Should you go out to work?

They have to go to work as usual, and even students who are supposed to go to school have to carry their schoolbags to school. These days, not to mention the ordinary people shivering in the heavy snow, even those wrapped in fur, there are carriages coming and going, and there are servants walking

The noble people who helped hold umbrellas did not go out if they could, for fear of catching the cold.

However, as officials and staff in the palace, Chen Qian and Huang Licheng were not so lucky.

Although they really wanted to hide in their own little room and sit around the sacred objects given by the king all day long, when a boy came over and said that the king had an invitation, neither of them dared to refuse.

I quickly freshened up and tidied up, and walked towards the so-called "lounge" where Wang usually stayed. Although everyone knew that Wang was an easy-going person, etiquette matters must not be ignored.

Tiptoeing all the way, the two of them arrived at the lounge one after another.

Although it was only a short journey, the cold air outside could almost penetrate into the bone marrow, which made Chen Qian curse Li Yuanjia in his heart. Can't people stay in their own houses in this kind of weather?

But as soon as the maids lifted the thick curtain and opened the door, Chen Qian's thoughts immediately disappeared.

So warm!

It smells so good!

After twitching his nose hard twice, Chen Qian's eyes instantly lit up.

When he walked into the house, Chun Yan, Wang's beautiful maid behind him, lowered the thick curtains. Only then did Chen Qian have the opportunity to carefully look at the situation in the house: Huang Licheng had arrived long ago and was sitting on a coal table with the king at the moment.

Next to the stove are exactly the same coal stoves as the artifact in his room. There are four of them in the king's room!

"Oh, what a luxury!"

Chen Qian was in a daze for a moment, and then his attention quickly focused on the iron pot on the coal stove.

Without even looking at the contents of the pot, Chen Qian could recognize the smell of onions, ginger and dogwood just from the tangy aroma. In addition, there was also the smell of meat. It should be the soup base made of chicken! As for that,

The table next to me was full of things, and I couldn't see clearly for a while.

"Haha, Mr. Chen is here!"

After seeing Chen Qian, Li Yuanjia clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Quick, come and sit down, I'm waiting for you!"

"I've met the king!"

Quickly walking over to salute, Chen Qian was not too pretentious and simply sat down by the stove. At the same time, he smiled and said: "Eat hot pot? That's a good meal today!"

Over the past few months, Chen Qian had gotten to know this king.

Although this young prince has a stubborn temper and no one can persuade him about something he has decided on, he is also very easy-going. Even if the servants in the palace make mistakes, they are rarely punished by him. As for Huang Licheng and

Chen Qian, the two royal officials who are equivalent to his staff, Wang is usually quite approachable and hates red tape. Therefore, after having more contact with them, Chen Qian and Huang Lixing no longer "annoyed" the king so much.

Moreover, the rich hot pot in front of him also made Chen Qian a little unable to control himself.

He had eaten with the king twice before. Although he didn't particularly like it, he didn't hate it either. But in such a cold weather today, this hot hot pot is too tempting.

"Okay, let's get started!"

After seeing Chen Qian sit down, Li Yuanjia immediately greeted everyone and started putting meat into the pot. Although the frozen and semi-hard mutton was difficult to cut, under Yu Niang's superb knife skills, it was only better than what Li Yuanjia remembered using a machine.

The ones that came out were just a little thicker. So after I put them in the pot and rinsed them for a few times, he immediately took them out and stuffed them into his mouth...

So delicious!

Sighing with satisfaction, Li Yuanjia immediately once again expressed satisfaction that he had completed the coal stove and hot pot before winter came, so he rewarded himself with a chopstick of mutton slices.

In the land of Luzhou, how can you live without a stove in winter?

Although there are many kinds of fine leathers in the house, it is absolutely impossible for him to be a prince in the cold, but who is willing to have at least ten kilograms of stuff wrapped around him all the time? But the cotton of this era...that is, Bai Die

Cloth was so precious that even a prince like him couldn't get much. In the end, he only scraped together a quilt.

Therefore, coal stoves are absolutely indispensable.

Of course, Li Yuanjia actually knew another great weapon for travelers to survive the winter, and that was the big kang! Unfortunately, he had only heard of it, but had never lived in it, let alone the method of building it.

And in his opinion, the principle of a big kang should be the same as that of an electric blanket.

It was all burning hot under his body, and this feeling was exactly what he hated the most, so Li Yuanjia rejected the idea of ​​making a big kang from the beginning, and took advantage of the coming of winter to come up with a briquette stove.

It can also keep warm, eat hot pot, etc. When the driest time comes in winter, you can boil a pot of hot water on it, and it can also function as a humidifier. Anyway, it is much more practical for Li Yuanjia than a big kang.

So nearly a month later, when Shi Sheng and the others found the best ratio after dozens of experiments and made hundreds of briquettes, Li Yuanjia couldn't wait to use them in his study and bedroom. Considering that he was now

As the prince of the Tang Dynasty, both his study and bedroom were very large, so he simply had a few placed in each room, not even caring about the unsightly pipes that served as chimneys.

Then according to Li Yuanjia's idea, it is natural to make more good things, and then give one to all the people in the house. Otherwise, how difficult would it be to endure such a cold winter, if there is no cotton or anything these days?

It's a pity that as soon as this idea came up, Han Shan killed it mercilessly.

The reason is simple, there is no iron!

Before and after Sicang joined the army, he sent 500 kilograms of iron materials, including iron pots for cooking and making hot pots. It was already a lot, and the rest was used to make coal.

How many furnaces can he build?

and……

Give this thing to each of the servants in the house?

Not to mention that you are just a prince, even His Majesty the Emperor who is far away in Chang'an City cannot be so wealthy! You must know that a coal stove is at least ten kilograms of iron. You sold most of the servants in the house and sold yourself.

Is it worth so much?

Anyway, in Han Shan's eyes, they are not worth it!

Therefore, apart from the one Li Yuanjia must use, the only people who can use coal stoves in the entire Luzhou Yamen Office, apart from Han Shan himself, are Huang Licheng and Chen Qian...

After half-full of hot food, Li Yuanjia's movements slowed down.

The two gentlemen, who are good at observing words and expressions, naturally restrained their speed and began to pay attention to the king's expression and movements. They knew that Li Yuanjia would definitely not be in this kind of situation just because he wanted to find someone to eat hot pot with.

They were called here under the weather, so there must be something to talk about.
Chapter completed!