Great Tang princess

Chapter 231 Reform
After leaving the newspaper office, on the way back, Li Yuechen kept thinking about a question.

The things I have to do are very troublesome. This kind of reform will definitely cause a lot of people's backlash. To ensure the smoothness of future reforms, I must let the emperor stand firmly on the same front as myself.

Second brother's character... Will he obediently listen to himself?

It's not that I don't want to explain it to them, but that what I want to do is only known to be feasible. For people in this era, many of my words are lunatics' words, and it is impossible to completely obey them.

Don't say you are a princess, even if you are an emperor, it would be very troublesome to reform.

Thinking of this, Li Yuechen couldn't help but suddenly came up with a terrible idea: why don't we just put the emperor in the air!

First of all, I don't have to sit on the dragon chair to waste time fighting wits and courage with the ministers. At the same time, I have mastered the army and emptied the emperor, so that I can ensure that I have the greatest power, so that I can carry out the reform I want to do.

Li Yuechen was taken aback by his sudden thought, and quickly shook his head, but couldn't shake it out of his head.

But the biggest problem is that if this is done, the family relationship will definitely not be as good as it is now.

If one day he really emptied his second brother, then he should hate himself...

Li Yuechen returned to Anfu Hall while thinking about it, and finally shook his head, forget it, let this kind of thing take its course.

……

In a blink of an eye, it was the New Year's Eve. This year, because the emperor was very happy, the New Year's atmosphere in the palace was much stronger than in previous years.

For Li Zhi, there was no better New Year's gift than this for his daughter's return from victory, and he even rewarded his servants with a lot of things.

At the family banquet in the evening, after eating, the family sits together drinking tea and watching singing and dancing performances.

In the end, Li Zhi even went off the stage himself and danced to the rhythm of the musicians, looking very happy.

The children were all surprised. They didn't expect that the emperor's father had such a relaxed side.

Although I usually dance with the ministers, I often dance in person, but that is basically when I drink too much.

But today he didn't drink too much, and actually went down, it seems that everyone is drunk if he is not drunk.

Li Yuechen also ran over with a smile and jumped up and down with his father, and even brought his brothers and sisters over to play together.

In the end, the whole family danced together, only mother Wu Zetian maintained her usual majestic image, sitting on the table unmoved.

Sister-in-law Pei Qingwan has a quiet personality. Although she is proficient in playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, she is really not good at dancing, so she didn't dance either.

Wu Zetian, who was sitting behind the table, looked at Li Zhi who was swinging with a group of children in the hall, with a slightly complicated expression.

She knew her husband very well and could understand what was in his heart.

Now he must feel that time is running out, so he wants to pave the way for his daughter, and behind this action, he may not have the intention of suppressing himself.

Now that he is too powerful as the Empress Dowager, if he goes in the future, he might become the next Empress Lu.

So raising a daughter now doesn't necessarily mean that she doesn't mean to use this daughter to suppress herself!
The emperor is the emperor after all, even at the last moment of his life, he is still thinking about the way to check and balance.

But she didn't show any anger, only a kind of indifference as if seeing through the world of mortals, and even a smile like a bodhisattva appearing on her face.

……

The next day, Li Yuechen did not participate in the Grand Court Meeting on the first day of the Lunar New Year, but put on Taoist robes and went to chant scriptures again.

At the same time, the new issue of the newspaper was officially released.

The headlines on the front page were about the triumphant return of the army and the triumphant return of the princess.

In this report, a lot of space was used to introduce the fact that the princess took 500 people and wiped out more than [-] enemies at the cost of three casualties.

As soon as such an exaggerated record was announced, it shocked many people's attention. The first reaction was that it was impossible!
But after thinking about it, since this newspaper can publish the government affairs of the court, it is naturally impossible to make up such things.

Even if the newspaper is published by the princess!

Although something like the credibility of the imperial court is invisible and intangible, once it is lost, it will be very difficult to get it back later.

But even so, this is still something that is hard to believe.

But later, many scholars with relatively strong family relationships inquired about some generals who participated in this battle in person, and it turned out to be true!
This can be regarded as really sparking a huge discussion, such an exaggerated matter, naturally only I know it is not good, so I have to say it to show off.

So it was spread to ten, ten to a hundred. Originally, the spread of the newspaper was already very wide, but after such word of mouth, things became more and more outrageous, and at the same time, more and more people knew about it, and some even came from the city. The trend of village development.

In some relatively remote places, it is even outrageous to say that the princess actually has three heads and six arms, and can eat more than a dozen people with one bite...

Especially during Chinese New Year, it is time to visit relatives and hang out with friends, and the news spreads quickly.

By the time Li Yuechen received feedback in this regard, it was already the eighth day of the first lunar month.

……

Listening to Gao Yanfu's report, Li Yuechen simply smiled and didn't say anything.

This kind of rumor has no effect on her, and rumors are always exaggerated.

In the past few days, Li Yuechen took advantage of his rest, and basically went to the Taoist temple to chant scriptures every day after practicing, to eliminate the hostility caused by killing so many people on the battlefield.

Although she herself knew that this thing might be a psychological comfort, since religion can be a medium for placing faith and spirit, it naturally has its reason for existence.

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the holidays are over, everyone should go to work, Li Yuechen also decided to visit his farm.

Riding a horse to the outside of the city, Li Yuechen entered the farm.

After a year of development, both pigs and chickens have grown in size.

The domestic pigs of this era are not as white as they will be in the future. Their skin is somewhat dark and their hair is even thicker.

It looks like an intermediate state between a wild boar and a domestic pig, and it is relatively thinner.

But now these pigs in the farm have obviously gained a lot of weight after being castrated, and the food is no longer human feces, but various feeds, and their hair is shiny.

Looking at the black pigs in the separate fences, Li Yuechen nodded: "Take one when you go back, and grab some medicinal materials for me."

"Yes!" Fulai guessed that the princess was thinking about something new, so he agreed.

In fact, Li Yuechen just wanted to try the braised pork. Now that the feeding method of these pigs has changed, I think the old man will not be so repulsive.

The scale of the farm is not small. Now there are almost [-] pigs and nearly [-] chickens and ducks.

With such a scale, it is not enough to supply an army of 500 people and open a wine shop.

The army has three meals a day, at least to ensure the supply of meat in the morning and noon.

I remembered that when I was training in the military camp, I had four dishes and one soup in the morning and noon, two meat and two vegetables, and basically all kinds of porridge in the evening.

Anyway, the army garrison hadn't been built yet, so Li Yuechen announced that he would spend another sum of money to expand the scale of the farm.

By the way, let those captives who took advantage of the New Year's rest for seven days to prepare for the next job - building army barracks.

Now that the main streets in the eastern capital city have been paved with hardened roads, these prisoners are also temporarily idle.

Now Geng Yunqiang and others are still living in the guardhouse, after Li Yuechen came over, they rushed over to salute.

As the princess's personal guards, they are now the favorites of everyone in the prison guards, and they usually walk with a haughty look.

But seeing the princess coming, they still saluted very respectfully: "Your Highness."

"Well, how do you feel after resting for a few days? Is it better?" Li Yuechen smiled and sat on a stone next to him.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness, everything is fine."

Li Yuechen nodded: "Well, you also know that now I am the General Zuo Qianniuwei. In the future, Zuo Qianniuwei will become independent and still retain the title of Qianniuwei, but it will be transformed into a brand new army..."

Geng Yunqiang nodded: "This subordinate understands, what orders does His Highness have?"

"You guys who were performing special operations with me back then, you go and ask them one by one to see if they are willing to sign up to join the Zuo Qianniu Guard..."

"This is my honor, how could..."

Li Yuechen waved his hand and interrupted him: "Anyway, you should ask them one by one, but you must make it clear that once you join, you will not regret it. Here you will receive extremely cruel and strict training. different……"

Although it is fine to force them to join as a princess, Li Yuechen still decided to let them choose by themselves.

People in this era may not be able to bear the training mode of the future army, so it is better to say something clearly in advance.

After listening to her description, Geng Yunqiang nodded: "Okay, this subordinate will do it now."

Li Yuechen nodded, and then said: "By the way, in addition, you are in charge of guarding those captives recently to build barracks and training grounds for future use. I will find a place in Mangshan in the next few days..."

"Here!"

……

After returning, Li Yuechen started to get busy again, unlike in the front line where he just waited for the battle after training every day.

There are too many things here, and basically every day's formation is fully arranged.

Li Yuechen went to Mangshan the next day, and first took a look at the current steel production base.

Today, the number of blast furnaces has increased from five to nearly one hundred. Just as I walked over, I could feel a wave of heat rushing towards my face.

Nowadays, the output of steel is much more than before, but the quality is still uneven in general.

In addition, there are more high-quality manganese steels than before, but these things are too hard, and it takes more manpower and material resources to make weapons.

There is no problem here, so Li Yuechen continued to look for a suitable training ground.

After wandering around for a day, I finally found a place at the foot of Mang Mountain, which was relatively flat and suitable for military barracks and a small training ground.

The key is that you can go up the mountain for training when you leave the house, which is relatively convenient.

And the small training ground below can be paved with a hardened playground for training the queue.

There is also a 1000 meters obstacle course built right next to it.

As an athlete, the 400-meter obstacles in the army are not very good, so I plan to do a 1000-meter obstacle training, including climbing nets, low walls, ditches...etc. obstacle.

Li Yuechen was riding on horseback, while looking at this place, while thinking in his heart that this place will be built in the future, a scene of a group of soldiers training.

Perhaps, I will change the pattern of war in this era, right?Li Yuechen couldn't help thinking in his heart.

While changing the army, we should also consider developing weapons.

As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will be interspersed with tactics, and if you are rich, you will be able to wipe out the land with gunfire. Only by developing weapons well can you effectively reduce the casualties of your own people.

After returning to Anfu Hall, Li Yuechen began to draw the design drawings of the barracks and training ground.

Still adopt the structure of high and low beds, but it is best to make it detachable, so that it can be dismantled and taken away immediately in the event of a war in the future.

At the same time, you can consider building a boiler room, at least to ensure that soldiers have hot water to take a bath.

Of course, don't expect to do showers here, just obediently carry a bucket to wash, and after washing, you can splash water on each other and so on.

Training facilities can definitely be made in this era, so there is no need to worry about this.

The most troublesome part is actually the military uniforms. To enhance the sense of belonging and collectiveness of the army, standard military uniforms are essential.

Li Yuechen didn't have a detailed understanding of the cloth dyeing process in this era, so whether camouflage uniforms could be made would not be considered.

But training uniforms are a must, and military uniforms, the so-called regular uniforms, must also be available.

Thinking of this, Li Yuechen felt a little troublesome again. People in this era have long hair and beards. Wearing such a dress like the normal clothes of the future...

It feels awkward to think about it, so I either adopt the aesthetic style of this era to make military uniforms, or I can only force my hair and beard to be cut.

After thinking about it carefully, Li Yuechen decided to force them to cut their hair and beards. After all, he had never studied fashion design, and he really didn't understand such things as fashion aesthetics, so he couldn't design military uniforms that fit the aesthetics of this era.

And the military uniform can't be designed casually, it must look upright, capable and handsome enough, which is the rigid requirement of the military uniform!
So they can only cut their hair and beard.

Of course, Li Yuechen wouldn't shave them bald. He just trimmed the length to the extent that a ponytail can be tied behind the head, but it's not too long.

It can be tied up when necessary, but it is also very handsome when you dip it in water and stroke it back.

The same goes for beards. They don't need to be shaved like eunuchs, but the longest can't exceed one inch. This is not only convenient for daily training, but also looks much better in military uniforms.

Military uniform is the face of the army, so whether it looks good or not is also a hard requirement!
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