Great Tang princess

Chapter 166 There Are Business Opportunities Everywhere

Back at the newspaper office, Shangguan Wan'er took out the usual money and handed it to Gao Yanfu: "Give this money to the person who wrote the article as a remuneration."

Gao Yanfu didn't react a bit: "Editor-in-Chief, shall we...give him money?"

Shangguan Wan'er explained the principle of remuneration, and then exhorted: "The money must be paid to the author. If he wants to honor you, I don't care, but you can't black it out!"

"Yes!"

After hearing her explanation, Gao Yanfu also knew that this matter was related to His Highness's plan, so he didn't think about it at all.

As a smart person, you must know what money you can get and what money you can't get.

After Gao Yanfu left, Princess Yiyang also came back. After hearing the whole process, she suddenly smiled: "Maybe, from now on, this Tang Dynasty will make a career."

Shangguan Wan'er nodded: "Indeed..."

"Speaking of which, do you want to change this article?" Princess Yiyang asked, "After all, newspapers have always been mainly written in vernacular. This article..."

"The Emperor and the Queen of Heaven have no next orders, so I'll issue them according to the original text." Shangguan Wan'er said.

"That's good." Princess Yiyang nodded, and continued to sit beside her to review news from other places.

Now the two of them are getting more and more comfortable with their work, especially Shangguan Wan'er, whose growth rate is so fast that Princess Yiyang can't help admiring in her heart.

……

Li Yuechen's Taiping winery opened soon. With sufficient funds and sufficient manpower, it is not easy for the princess to open a winery.

At present, the staff of the distillery are still staffed by Li Yuechen's students. Of course, the wine making is currently still in charge of the Shangshi Bureau in the palace.

But considering that the food in Datang is not sufficient enough, this wine is not only expensive, but also limited in supply.

When the wine was first sold, it didn't have a name yet, but after only a few days, the title of "Immortal Drunk" has spread throughout the upper-class aristocratic circle.

Li Yuechen, who heard the news, couldn't help but smile, and couldn't help but sigh, in fact, sometimes, human imagination is simply frighteningly lacking.

Originally, she still wanted to be called Erguotou, but now... let them.

……

After a few days, Li Yuechen also got used to the feeling of riding a horse again, so he asked his master Liu Rengui to go to the guardhouse to give him some guidance training on horseback fighting.

After all, although she can ride a horse, she doesn't understand this kind of cold weapon fight on a horse.

But fortunately, in the wars of this era, things like fighting generals in front of the battle still happen from time to time, and my master Liu Rengui was also a master of this when he was young.

Li Yuechen trotted all the way on his own horse, and came to the guardhouse with rhythmic noises.

Now the horse has fully adapted to the horseshoes on its feet, and it runs very comfortably.

When they arrived at the prison guard's office, Geng Yunqiang and three other masters who were in charge of serving as sparring partners were already waiting.

Seeing the princess coming, he quickly bowed and saluted.

"Exemption." Li Yuechen got off his horse and raised his hand, "I will start training on the horse today, and you need to cooperate as much as you can, don't hold back! Of course, don't worry, even if I am knocked off the horse, I won't be punished!"

"I understand!" Geng Yunqiang and several others replied.

After such practical training, they are all sure of Li Yuechen's current strength.

To be honest, they didn't think they could hurt His Highness even if they tried their best.

Maybe she will suffer a little loss because she doesn't adapt at first, but when she gets used to it, I'm afraid that the four people on her side may not necessarily be her opponents.

After a while, Liu Rengui also came over on his own horse.

After saluting each other, a group of people came to the training ground of the prison gate guard.

Li Yuechen asked Fulai to help him put on the rattan armor, while listening to Liu Rengui explaining some key points of the immediate battle.

To be honest, fighting immediately is not the same as fighting on the ground. After all, people are sitting on horseback, and their power is not as fast as standing on the ground.

So in this case, you must learn to use the power of the horse to attack your opponent.

After Liu Rengui finished speaking, he handed her a ten-foot-long gun stick: "His Royal Highness will use weapons of this length in the future."

Li Yuechen took it and weighed it twice in his hand, with a complicated expression on his face: "This thing is still too light!"

Don't look at the stick as solid wood, but to Li Yuechen, it's almost like a plastic toy.

"Your Highness should use this weapon during training." Liu Rengui couldn't help but smile, "If you use a weapon that is convenient for you, then this training will probably kill you."

This is also true, Li Yuechen nodded, the strength of these soldiers is far inferior to his own now, if they really want to use iron tools, one of them will be smashed, and they will be disabled for life, or even killed on the spot!

After putting on the rattan armor, Liu Rengui also asked her to wear a pocket to prevent her head from being hit, and then let her get on the horse.

The four soldiers on the opposite side were also ready, forming a faint battle formation and pressing towards Li Yuechen.

Li Yuechen spun the spear stick in his hand very fancy, and then rushed towards them on horseback.

The moment the two sides met, because Li Yuechen was not used to fighting right away, the moment the cloth-capped gun stick hit Geng Yunqiang's chest, he was also slapped twice.

Because wearing the rattan armor, I don't feel too much pain, but if this is a real weapon, with the impact of the horse, I'm afraid the armor will be pierced.

Sure enough, it's not that easy to fight against one another... Li Yuechen sighed helplessly.

However, he was not discouraged by this, and instead trained more seriously.

Liu Rengui next to him watched the battle between them, raised his hand to touch the goatee on his chin, and nodded from time to time.

……

July [-]th, Hungry Ghost Festival.

The article that seemed to be about the way of yin and yang, but actually satirized Wu Zetian finally appeared in the newspaper.

Although most newspapers use vernacular, these days, basically as long as they are literate, there is no pressure to read classical Chinese.

It's just because after taking care of the vernacular text with punctuation, I always feel a little uncomfortable to read the classical Chinese text without any punctuation.

This article still caused a lot of discussion. The folks are actually fine, the key is in the officialdom.

Many high officials in the court began to speculate who had the guts to satirize the Queen of Heaven?

As for the author who signed the newspaper?No one would really think that a folk student would sit idle and satirize the Empress Dowager, saying that no one instructed her to do so, and that would be an insult to other people's IQ.

A few days later, the discussion on this matter in the officialdom has reached a very heated point.

For such a result, Li Zhi and his wife just laughed and said nothing, they didn't express any opinions at all, as if they didn't care at all.

However, Shangguan Wan'er has already received the second book that Wu Zetian wants to publish, which is called "Biography of Women".

The books to be printed by Tianhou naturally do not need to be reviewed, Shangguan Wan'er immediately asked Gao Yanfu to start printing, and he will print [-] copies first.

Gao Yanfu also checked the movable type carefully, for fear of any mistakes.

If the book written by Tianhou dares to misprint, this head will not be wanted.

Li Yuechen has also read this book. Simply put, it is a collection of many stories with women as the protagonists, and many of them can be seen to be newly compiled.

It can be seen from these stories that the battle between the mother and the ministers is completely over.

Li Yuechen couldn't help smiling, and at the same time decided to re-serialize a novel of the wilderness in the newspaper after the serialization of Romance of the Three Kingdoms was completed.

There is no Hongjun character in it, so the sage Wahuang is the highest representative, and at the same time, it focuses on depicting some plots of Houtu Empress proving the Tao for the common people.

In fact, during this period, the novel has not yet fully formed, and this kind of story is basically a blow to the people of this era.

This can be regarded as my own daughter, so I can give my mother a boost.

……

By the end of July, the weather has become slightly cooler.

After all, according to the Gregorian calendar, it should be the end of August or September by this time.

Shangshi Bureau sent another batch of their new fried tea for Li Yuechen to try, and promised that the taste has improved a lot this time.

After boiling hot water and brewing a cup to try it out, Li Yuechen nodded, and it did taste a bit like tea from later generations.

But I always feel that something is still missing, but there is no need to worry anyway, let them continue to try, and we will talk about it when it is completely done.

During the recent period, when Li Yuechen was free, he would go to Siyu Temple to chat with the people in charge of raising horses, and teach them some knowledge about horseshoeing by the way.

Horses are also an important strategic material in today's era, so the status of these officials is still very important.

Moreover, Li Yuechen would ask them to pull a horse over from time to time, and instruct the staff of Siyu Temple to hit the horse's shoe.

This is also a technical job, and it takes a certain amount of practice to do it well, and someone must be there to guide it at the beginning.

The same is true today. Li Yuechen explained while guiding in the open space outside the Siyu Temple: "Using this iron palm that has not cooled down to stick to the horse's hoof is to iron out the burrs produced during pruning. It should not be too long. Just iron it out..."

"After the horseshoe is finished, remember to apply some wax on the horse's hoof to prevent it from drying out... By the way, the horseshoe has to be taken off almost every six months, and the horse's hoof must be trimmed again..."

Hearing what she said, one of the supervisors suddenly raised his head, with a puzzled look on his face: "But Your Highness, how do you calculate this time?"

"There's no need to be too precise, just look at the cuticle under the horse's hoof from time to time...it's that dark stuff..."

While explaining and guiding them to finish four horseshoes, Li Yuechen also heaved a sigh of relief.

I have to say that teaching students this kind of thing is always so tiring.

But fortunately, most people in this era cherish knowledge and listen carefully when they come.Secondly, she is a princess after all, and these people dare not be disrespectful.

After the lecture, Li Yuechen was about to leave, but suddenly found that there seemed to be one more people listening to the lecture.

The person next to him looks young, probably less than 30 years old.

The beard around the mouth is not very long, and it is fairly clean.

I hadn't seen this guy when he first came here, and he didn't look like someone from Siyu Temple, but since he was in the imperial city, he should be a staff member of that department.

"Who are you?" Li Yuechen asked curiously.

The other party was staring intently at the horseshoe, but upon hearing the princess's question, he hurriedly saluted and replied respectfully: "Your Majesty Pei Bishu, I have seen Your Highness the Princess!"

"Exemption." Li Yuechen raised his hand, "Who are you, Minister Pei?"

"Return to Your Highness, it's Uncle Xiaguan."

Li Yuechen nodded to show that he understood. Although the imperial examination has already been mentioned at this moment, most of the officials in the DPRK are basically relatives. It is estimated that the officials who are really from the imperial examination are not even one-tenth of them. arrive.

Pei Xingjian is the minister of the Ministry of Rites, so it is quite easy to arrange a small official for his nephew.

"Are you also a member of Zesiyu Temple?" Li Yuechen asked.

"That's not the case. I'm the supervisor of the Shaofu. It's just His Highness's whimsical ideas. All kinds of exquisite things he made are popular in the Tang Dynasty. I admire it... I heard that His Highness is giving a lecture again today, so I came here to watch... ..."

Isn't Shaofu Supervisor just another person?Li Yuechen looked puzzled, but then he realized that he was probably transferred to another place.

"Interested in horses?" Li Yuechen asked.

Although Pei Xingjian is a civil servant, he is also a military commander, and his record is extremely good. It is normal for his tribe to be good at martial arts.

However, Pei Bishu shook his head: "That's not the case. Since I was a child, I like to think about strange skills and tricks. It is because of this that I admire His Highness so much..."

"That's really suitable for the Shaofu Supervisor..." Li Yuechen smiled.

After all, this department is usually responsible for making various handicrafts or other gadgets for the palace. It is a place where it is easy to cultivate inventors.

Seeing that the sky was almost dark, Li Yuechen stretched suddenly, and then prepared to go back.

Before leaving, he asked casually: "How many horses are there in the palace now?"

Siyu Temple Supervisor replied: "Return to Your Highness, there are more than ten thousand."

There were still quite a few, so Li Yuechen nodded, and then prepared to go back.

However, a question suddenly came to mind: "Then how do you deal with horse manure?"

Jian Cheng didn't seem to expect that Li Yuechen would ask such a question suddenly, he didn't react for a while, and was a little dazed.

Pei Bishu, who was next to him, saw him stunned, and coughed lightly.

Only then did Jiancheng come to his senses, and replied respectfully: "This... because the horses are all in the Qinling Mountains, so they are usually discarded directly..."

"Ugh……"

Hearing such an answer, Li Yuechen couldn't help but feel helpless, shook his head and said to himself in a low voice: "Such a good business opportunity was wasted by you."

Jian Cheng didn't seem to hear clearly, but he didn't dare to ask more, so he could only stay silent on the spot without saying a word.

However, Pei Bishu, who was next to him, could hear clearly. After he lowered his head and thought about it silently, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he couldn't help but exclaimed: "Your Highness is a genius!"

In response to his praise, Li Yuechen turned his head and took a look, showing a faint smile.

(End of this chapter)