Great Tang princess

Chapter 151 Inheriting a Millennium Culture

The first new year back in Chang'an was pretty good in all aspects. The only thing that made Li Yuechen feel a little dissatisfied was that the making workshop hadn't officially made new paper yet.

It was thanks to Fulai, who discovered something was wrong in December, that he urgently transferred a batch of new paper from the Eastern Capital, so that the newspaper did not run out.

At the same time, Fulai has not been idle during this period, and has reached cooperation intentions with many shops. As soon as the new paper is made, it can be listed for sale immediately.

The aristocratic family tried to make their own newspaper, but failed in the end.

Although they knew that Li Yuechen made paper out of bamboo, which could reduce the cost.But the problem is that since there are such people, if they keep up, they can only follow behind and drink soup, and it is impossible to make money at all.

Besides, because Li Yuechen didn't deliberately keep it secret, but those who bought the newspaper didn't know that behind it was Princess Taiping herself?
Compared with the aristocratic family, most people would still prefer to read the royal newspaper.

But if it is made of high-quality paper, the loss will be even more.

Newspapers like Li Yuechen would lose money every time they sold fifty copies. If they used high-quality paper to make them, they would only lose even more.

Therefore, the newspapers of these aristocratic families did not appear in the end, and were only rejected at the opening budget.

If these things could not be kept secret, most of them would be leaked through the gossip chats of the servants in the family.

And the transmission of news is often two-way, and Li Yuechen will naturally know it as it is passed on.

Li Yuechen didn't have any special reaction when he heard the news, which was expected.

So I don't care too much about this matter, and I still live in an extremely self-disciplined life according to my own living habits every day.

Even during the Chinese New Year, the prison gate guards were not closed. Li Yuechen was still the same as usual, holding his spear and double hammer, wearing rattan armor, and asked them to be his training partner.

It is a little different from before, now besides Geng Yunqiang, there are two other masters practicing with Li Yuechen.

Because only one Geng Yunqiang can no longer keep up with Li Yuechen's strength, so this kind of one-on-three mode has become.

The four of them were wearing rattan armor, with cloth heads wrapped around the ends of their guns, and they fought back and forth on the training ground for a while.

As for the hammer... that thing doesn't really need a sparring partner.

Not to mention whether it can be used or not, even if one day it really goes to the battlefield, that thing will be hammered one by one, and there is no need to consider the issue of moves.

Especially when you meet Li Yuechen who is born with supernatural power, even if your moves are fierce and your movements are like ghosts, the result will be the same if you hit him with a hammer.

The four of them were coming and going on the training ground of the prison guards, and Fulai, who was watching from the side, couldn't help but smile on his face.

Now there are only three people, in a few days, His Highness might really be able to fight ten against one... Fulai thought in his heart.

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Holidays are always very short, if one does not pay attention, it will leak through the fingers like quicksand.

Half a month later, the annual Shangyuan Festival came again.

Originally, this year Li Zhi planned to go out to see the difference between Chang'an's Shangyuan Festival and Dongdu with a private visit with his family in micro-services like last year.

However, Li Hong's cough suddenly became serious again, and Li Zhi gave up on curing it, so he planned to take his family on the tower of the imperial city to have a look.

After dinner, the family came to the Imperial City.

Perhaps because of the end of the drought, the Shangyuan Lantern Festival in Chang'an this year seems to be more grand than when it left a few years ago.

The most obvious thing is that there are a lot more dance masters on the street. These people wear various ghost masks and shuttle among the crowd.

But most of the people around were cheering. Some children were more courageous and would run around the evil ghost a few times.

Some brats would even raise their legs to kick him, but they simply didn't have much strength, and they were immediately pulled back by the adults at home.

The person dressed as an evil spirit was not annoyed, but continued bouncing back and forth among the crowd.

At this moment, a group of people in extremely strange costumes ran over suddenly. These people had red paint all over their faces.

And the decoration on the head also has swords and even arrows, it looks like the head has been pierced.

Coupled with the bright red paint, it looks bloody, like a ghost from hell.

This kind of dress made the two sisters a little scared, even standing on the high imperial city, they still couldn't help but take a step back.

Prince Li Hong knew many things about Chang'an, coughed twice and explained: "Sister, don't be afraid, this is a Zoroastrian sacrificial activity..."

Zoroastrianism is a relatively popular religion among the Hu people, and it belongs to a foreign sect.

Because of the open and inclusive atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, there are many foreign sects, such as Zoroastrianism, Nestorianism, Manichaeism... and so on.

It can be said that there is absolute freedom of religion in the Tang Dynasty, and all religions run side by side.

It didn't suppress other religions just because the state religion is Taoism. This kind of atmosphere is really good.

Li Lun, the youngest, raised his hand and tugged at his sleeve: "Brother, why do these people look like this?"

"I guess it should be a supernatural power similar to Taoism?" Li Hong replied with some uncertainty.

Li Yuechen, who was lying in the middle of the wall, couldn't help but smile when he heard this.

Of course, it is not to laugh at the lack of knowledge of the ancients, this is a very normal phenomenon in itself.

What makes her laugh is that she feels a little nostalgic seeing this scene.

Because in this land, even after more than a thousand years, there are still similar forms of performances. At the beginning, similar groups came to the orphanage to perform for charity.

It seems to be called... The Blood Club is on fire?Li Yuechen searched his memory.

In my memory, this kind of performance seems to be very popular in Baoji, especially when I was a child.

Compared with the current era, the future has a lot more richness in props.

At present, these people only have knives or arrows stuck in their heads, but in the future, not only kitchen knives or scissors, but also bricks and benches will be embedded in their heads.

It's a pity that Li Yuechen is not its successor, so he doesn't know the secrets inside. It's just that they seem to use real blood like chicken blood or pig blood for their makeup, so it seems to be very authentic.

Li Yuechen couldn't help but smile when he saw the people with bloody heads running around on the street. If it's true, the performance form after more than a thousand years should be passed down based on this, right?

It's just that the form of performance is still very different from the future. The future Li Yuechen vaguely remembers that it seems to be about Wu Song beating and killing Ximen Qing and his men.

In this era, there is no story between Wu Dalang and Ximen Qing, so the plot of the show is naturally different.

Since it is a performance within a religion, it should be used to develop believers.

Especially in this era, performing a magic trick can be regarded as a god, and this method is naturally a great help to attract believers.

At this moment, the leader of the believers at the front actually took a big step and came under the imperial city.

He wore a white mask covering the upper half of his face, and the material looked... like some kind of animal bone.

His clothes were a bit torn, with many strips of cloth hanging down from his shoulders and around him. If it was a different color, it might be used as an auspicious suit.

The man raised his chest and stood under the imperial city, then looked up.

"Who is this?" Third brother Li Xian looked puzzled.

Li Xiandao next to him said: "There are a lot of torches here, if your eyes are good enough, you should be able to see me waiting."

Mother Wu Zetian also raised her eyebrows, planning to send someone down to ask what this person was planning to do.

Before he could speak, he saw the man suddenly lift up his clothes, exposing his skin, and then stabbed directly into his body with a dagger in his right hand.

"what!"

Princess Yiyang took two steps back in fright, and couldn't help crying out.

Although the others didn't scream, they also took a step back in shock. After all, anyone would feel uncomfortable seeing someone suddenly committing seppuku in front of them.

However, what was surprising was that the man didn't fall down, instead he continued to cut open his skin with the dagger, and then pulled the knife open to both sides with both hands, exposing a large pile of bloody internal organs in the abdominal cavity!
Li Zhi frowned, and was about to say something, but he heard the person below shouted in the half-baked Tang dialect: "If you believe in my sect, you will live forever!"

The believers next to them who had their heads pierced by various things cheered one after another.

Princess Xuancheng covered her mouth with a look of disbelief.

Pei Qingwan turned around and put her head on Li Hong's shoulder, not daring to look.

On the other hand, the second brother Li Xian had a surprised expression: "It's really unexpected that time has such magical powers!"

Wu Zetian frowned and turned to look at Li Zhi.

And the old father Li Zhi couldn't help trembling, he raised his right hand slightly, pointed at the man under the imperial city, and said with a slightly trembling tone: "Such monsters will surely bring trouble to Tang Dynasty in the future! This person who uses sorcery took it down and drove me out of Datang..."

Li Yuechen, who was lying on the wall, suddenly turned around and smiled: "Grandpa, don't worry, it's not a witchcraft, it's just an illusion."

"Illusion?" Li Zhi turned his head, "What do you mean?"

"It's fake!" Li Yuechen explained with a smile, "It's just a means to attract believers."

Mom didn't quite believe it: "How did you know?"

"If A Niang doesn't believe it, ask this person to come up and ask." Li Yuechen didn't bother to explain.

"Nonsense!" My mother refused without even thinking about it, "If such monsters are allowed to come up, in case they do something wrong to His Majesty..."

Li Yuechen shook his head: "Don't worry, Auntie, Grandpa is the Human Emperor, with the dual blessings of dragon veins and national destiny. Whether you are a practitioner or a god, monster or ghost, anyone who dares to do anything wrong with the Human Emperor will be punished by the Nine Heavens God on the spot." The thunder is smashed into powder, and the gods and forms are destroyed! Even if this person really has black magic, he dare not do anything to grandpa."

"That too..."

"No problem!" Li Zhi suddenly raised his hand to stop him, then raised his chin to Qianniuwei next to him, "Go and bring that demon!"

"Here!" Several Qianniuwei agreed, and immediately went down, and after a while, they brought the man to the imperial city.

Perhaps it was because these Qianniuwei were also a little afraid of him, so they didn't touch him directly, but let him stand at a distance of less than five meters from the emperor.

And here, Li Zhi and Wu Zetian stood side by side, looking at the person opposite.

The person who came had already taken off the mask on his face, he was just an ordinary barbarian, his appearance was quite satisfactory, there was nothing special about him.

Rather, because he is a little fatter, he looks a little rich.

Li Xian and Li Lun hid behind the couple, Li Hong and Li Xian stood on both sides, and only Li Yuechen stood in front of Li Zhi.

The person opposite did not do anything, but saluted very respectfully, and said in Tang Yayan with a strange accent: "I have seen the Emperor and Empress, Your Highness!"

Before Li Zhi opened his mouth to speak, Li Yuechen asked directly with a smile: "Just now you demonstrated an illusion, right?"

The expression on the other party's face remained unchanged: "Your Highness probably misunderstood, it is not an illusion, this is the supreme supernatural power in my teaching. If Your Highness doesn't believe it, you can choose anyone from among the disciples below, and they can do what I just demonstrated. thing."

"So, as long as you believe in your sect, you can do this?" Li Yuechen asked with raised eyebrows.

"The premise is that the heart must be sincere, and it will only be possible after a long period of practice. Your Highness needs to know that one needs not only hard work and seriousness, but also a certain amount of luck..." The other party spoke eloquently with an unfathomable expression on his face. talk.

Li Yuechen nodded: "But didn't you just do it?"

"I have also gone through decades of hard work to obtain this supernatural power..."

Seeing that this person dared to flicker without changing his face in front of the emperor, Li Yuechen nodded suddenly: "That's how it is!"

As he spoke, he went directly to Qian Niuwei next to him, reached out and grabbed the imperial knife in his hand, and pulled it out with a "chuss".

"Your Highness..." Qian Niuwei was about to say something, but Li Zhi stopped him with a wave of his hand.

Seeing the metal light still reflecting on the black lacquered blade, the person opposite couldn't help but twitched slightly at the corners of his eyes.

Li Yuechen held the handle of the knife, put the back of the knife on his shoulder and took two steps forward, looked at the other party and said: "You let me stab the knife! If you can be unharmed, I will persuade the saint to make your sect the state religion ,how?"

While talking, there was a sweet and harmless smile on his face.

If I saw such a little girl smiling at me like this on weekdays, I guess my heart would turn cute.

However, at this moment, the smile on Li Yuechen's face felt a little sinister no matter how you looked at it.Especially when he was carrying a long knife with an edge on his shoulder.

"This this……"

The other party obviously didn't expect things to develop into this result, which is completely different from previous experience!

Looking at the smile on this princess's face, she is not joking at all, she is serious!
He stammered and tried to find some excuses, but found that he couldn't say anything.

In the end, he fell to his knees suddenly: "It is true, as Your Highness said, this is not a supernatural power, but an illusion! I beg Your Highness to spare your life! The villain is definitely not deceiving on purpose, but this technique is a sect tradition... Please forgive me, the Emperor and Empress, Please forgive me, Your Highness!"

(End of this chapter)