Great Tang princess

Chapter 287
The selection of the prince's concubine lasted for three days, and beauties from all over the world competed with each other in various skills, such as piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, horseback riding and archery.

After watching it for three days, Li Yuechen couldn't help complaining in his heart, who said that the pace of life in ancient times was slow, and the place that should be introverted was always introverted.

It's just that in this era, people are only involved in their own circles. In the future, they will be involved in all parts of the country and all walks of life.

It is normal for aristocratic women in this era to be able to write, and women also have the right to inherit the inheritance.

The most important thing is that aristocratic women are different from the royal family. Princesses of the royal family are basically pushed out for marriage, while many aristocratic women don't have to marry if they don't want to marry.

The women who were sent here were basically all-rounded ones, who could gallop on horses, open bows and shoot arrows, and dance gracefully in gauze skirts.

At least this is much better than Li Yuechen, if there is hip-hop dancing in this era, she can still try it, but the unique dance of this era... forget it.

To Li Yuechen's surprise, the winner in this competition was actually Wei Lian'er whom she met a few days ago.

The reason for the final victory is also very simple. Whether it is piano, chess, calligraphy, painting or riding, shooting and dancing, everyone is actually similar to each other. In the end, it is time to fight for looks.

And this Wei Lian'er was beautiful in purple, and she stood out from the group of beauties, so she became the crown princess logically.

There were also a few good-looking ones who were filled into Li Xian's harem and became future concubines.

After the candidate was decided, he called Li Yan, picked an auspicious day, and set the wedding date for the prince.

In the evening, after the family had dinner, they bid farewell to their parents and walked out of the Hall of Renshou.

Li Yuechen patted the third brother's shoulder lightly, and said earnestly: "Brother, you must remember in the future that women will only affect the speed of your sword drawing, don't be too obsessed..."

"As a brother, you don't need to go to the battlefield, so why draw your sword?" Li Xian asked in confusion.

"When you get older in the future, you will naturally know..." Li Yuechen nodded with a serious look.

In fact, there are many precedents for this matter, especially in the circle of athletes, who pay great attention to the issue of abstinence.

It can be said that there are countless athletes who eventually ruined their bodies because they couldn't control this aspect.

Speaking of it, most emperors don't live long, and it may have something to do with this.

Even the strong physique of athletes will be ruined by this kind of thing, let alone the emperor who has been pampered since childhood, no wonder they all don't live long.

There are many cases that have lived for a long time, but after all, a case is a case and cannot be regarded as a general situation.

After advising Li Xian, Li Yuechen didn't say much, and turned back to Anfu Hall.

……

In Anfu Hall, Li Yuechen chatted with his sister-in-law and Shangguan Wan'er.

Over the years, sister-in-law Pei Qingwan has also started to practice yoga, and her figure and complexion are getting better day by day, and now she looks much younger than her peers.

The most important thing is that everyone in Anfu Hall was influenced by Li Yuechen, they didn't use the cosmetics of this era at all, at most they just put a flower on their foreheads, so everyone looked very young.

Especially the eldest sister, Princess Yiyang, if she went out now and said that she was only twenty years old, no one would believe her.

In the process of chatting with everyone, Princess Xuancheng suddenly said: "Didn't two people go to the army to serve as teachers? There are other people asking me if I can also join the army. What do you think, Chen'er?"

"They are all talents that have been cultivated with great difficulty. They are not suitable for fighting in battle, but if they want to, they can take up military posts and study technology with people in the Academy of Engineering."

The science level of these children has already stood at the peak of the Tang Dynasty. They are not suitable for going to the battlefield to charge, but they are suitable for being staff officers or researching weapons and equipment and technology.

Today's Princess Xuancheng is regarded as a top science expert in Datang, but she has no way to transform knowledge into technology at present. This process will take a long time, even many generations to complete.

But anyway, they already know the existence of hot air balloons, and also understand the importance of technology, and believe that they will be able to research it one day.

Pei Qingwan is now managing Li Yuechen's business, earning a lot of money every day, and hired a few students from Princess Xuancheng to become full-time accountants, responsible for calculating the daily revenue.

Shangguan Wan'er is now in charge of taking the minutes of the government meeting when she is in court, and spends all her time on espionage.

Take Gao Yanfu to collect information from all over the country every day, and then report the most useful ones to the emperor. Of course, if Li Yuechen wants to ask anything, he will also know everything.

In the process of chatting, I can also learn a lot of ways to collect various information from Li Yuechen.

Although Li Yuechen has never done intelligence, at least she has watched a lot of TV dramas, and many of the methods in it are very advanced in this modern age.

Among other things, Shangguan Wan'er has recruited several top names in today's red light district as intelligence officers.

These people are accompanied by some dignitaries every day, and they can always get a lot of news invisibly.

Li Yuechen was a little curious: "What kind of benefits did you give them?"

"Just like what His Highness said, in the future they will grow old and the country will support them!" Shangguan Wan'er replied with a smile.

This is a good way, at least you can collect a lot of information that is not easy to get at ordinary times.

But at the same time, Li Yuechen was also a little worried, and he had to keep an eye on it in the future, so that the gang of eunuchs led by Gao Yanfu could not become the East Factory of the Tang Dynasty.

……

Li Yuechen returned to the barracks the next day and checked the progress of the hot air balloon and parachute at the Institute of Engineering and the Clothing Bureau.

When I was about to eat at noon, I returned to my office and saw Fang Furong helping Xiaohe organize the files.

"Sister-in-law, Xiaohe can do this, you don't have to worry about it." Li Yuechen said.

"It's okay, if you stay here every day, if you don't find something to do, you will always feel uncomfortable..." Fang Furong smiled very gently.

Hearing her words, Li Yuechen thought for a while: "It's okay, after a while, when the family courtyard is built, my sister-in-law will be able to go there, and if it's really boring, I can help my brother share some of the burden."

"Okay." Fang Furong nodded.

For this sister-in-law, Li Yuechen felt a little pitiful, she was completely implicated by the second brother.

What's more, when I was in Chang'an, my second brother played with male pets all day long, did he really have time to take care of her emotions?

Seeing noon, Li Yuechen went to eat in the cafeteria.

Soldiers are always the happiest at meal time every day, because only in the cafeteria can they see the opposite sex.

Whether it is Xiao He or Fang Furong, at least it is a happy thing to see women occasionally in this military camp.

As for Li Yuechen... In the hearts of the soldiers, she is not a woman, but a goddess!It is their spiritual belief!

After eating, Wang Xiaojie came over: "Your Highness, can you discuss with me the usage of the hand axe?"

"Well! Let's go!"

Li Yuechen nodded and followed Wang Xiaojie to the training ground.

"Your Majesty studied it today, and I think this hand ax is really easy to use, and it can also be used to pierce armor. It is really a sharp weapon for close-to-hand combat! I will demonstrate it to you, and please take a look at it, Your Highness!"

As he spoke, he held an ax and began to practice on the spot.

Slashing, parrying, swinging up... This light hand ax seemed to have life in Wang Xiaojie's hands, and from time to time there was a "swoosh" sound piercing the air.

After Li Yuechen stood by and squinted his eyes, he couldn't help but nodded.

As expected of a general who was killed abruptly on the battlefield, his kung fu is really superb!
Wang Xiaojie's moves are not good-looking at all, but every move is vicious, crisp and neat!
The other side of the ax is as sharp as a climbing pick, changing direction from time to time in his hand to match his moves.

After the rehearsal, Wang Xiaojie said: "Your Highness, this hand ax is very suitable for use as a weapon. It can break armor on both sides, and it is easy to tear flesh and bones..."

"That's good!" Li Yuechen nodded, "Let the Academy of Engineering start production immediately, and distribute it to the soldiers as soon as possible."

"Yes!" Wang Xiaojie nodded in agreement.

In fact, it is also beneficial to be able to replace the horizontal knife with the hand axe. At least the process is much simpler, and it also saves more materials.

In terms of armor-piercing, it is also much better than Hengdao, since Wang Xiaojie said it can be used, then naturally there is no problem.

……

In October, the weather had completely cooled down, so Li Yuechen also added a thick woolen cloak.

After returning to Renshou Hall, I saw the couple sitting in front of the small stove drinking tea and chatting. Seeing his daughter coming back, Li Zhi waved, "Chen'er is back, sit down quickly."

Li Yuechen sat cross-legged beside the table: "The baby is back, do you miss me?"

"If it wasn't for your Saburo's wedding date, you still don't plan to come back?" Wu Zetian turned his head and asked.

Li Yuechen's return today was indeed for the third brother's marriage. The date was set two days later, and she came back two days earlier to help out or something.

"That can't be done. Even if the child is in the military camp, he still misses the two adults every day."

Hearing these happy words, Li Zhi smiled: "Well, that's good!"

Then he said: "Today the Xue Yantuo tribe came to surrender, what does Chen'er think?"

"Come down when you're ready?" Li Yuechen's first reaction was that it was impossible, "But what are the conditions?"

Wu Zetian next to him smiled and said, "If the Turks hadn't been defeated, I'm afraid they wouldn't have surrendered... This time, I'm afraid that the reason why they came to surrender this time was because they heard about the explosive magic weapon of the Tang Dynasty, so they didn't dare to fight... But, This time, I hope Datang can help them with some food for the winter..."

Hearing these words, Li Yuechen nodded, as if he understood what happened.

Xue Yantuo and Turkic are neighbors. Some time ago, they fought against Turkic, and the grenade showed great power, which caused a huge shadow in many people's hearts.

After the Turkic Khan was sent back, he officially announced his attachment to the Tang Dynasty and made offerings every year.

Xue Yantuo asked him what happened, Turkic did not hide it, and honestly said that Princess Taiping of the Tang Dynasty is a god who descended to earth. At that time, Taoism caused a large-scale explosion and so on...

Although this matter sounds nonsense, since the Turks are so frightened that they dare not do anything, there must be a reason for supplying tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses to Datang every year.

So there was this year's surrender event.

Li Yuechen thought for a while: "I guess I know that my Tang Dynasty has abundant martial virtues now, so I don't dare to go south to plunder like before?"

In the past, the nomads in the north would go south to the border of the Tang Dynasty to plunder the people as long as the winter was difficult.

Looting supplies and triggering war at the same time can be regarded as consuming some population and preventing internal affairs problems.After all, if some people die, maybe the food will be enough to eat.

But this year, since I voluntarily surrendered before fighting, I guess I knew the existence of grenades, so I didn't have the guts to fight.

Wu Zetian nodded: "This is probably the case."

"If that's the case, it's fine." Li Yuechen nodded: "The Great Tang can give them food, but Xue Yantuo must surrender to the Great Tang. At the same time, he must deliver good war horses and cheese to the Great Tang..."

Listening to his daughter's answer, Li Zhi asked with a smile: "What if they don't agree?"

"If you don't agree, let them go back!" Li Yuechen turned his head and put on a smug look, "If they dare to offend my Tang border, I will take someone to beat them!"

"Heh, Chen'er has the demeanor of the former emperor now!" Li Zhi laughed.

"Originally, I am a big country, and I won't bully him. If he doesn't agree, we won't buy and sell by force." Li Yuechen replied, "We don't take the initiative to bully him, but if he dares to find trouble, then beat him!"

From Li Yuechen's point of view, Xue Yantuo had no choice but to agree to such a condition.

If they don't agree, they will have a hard time this winter, and it will still only lead to war.But if you want to fight, beating them now is like playing.

And if you agree, the economic lifeline will be firmly controlled by Datang, and that land will one day be merged into Datang's territory.

Xue Yantuo may also be able to see it. At present, they have not seen the scene of a salvo of grenades, and they may choose to do it.

But as long as they hit a foot, they will find that they actually have no choice.

After hearing their daughter's explanation, both husband and wife nodded, expressing that this was indeed the case.

Naturally, the kingdom of heaven will not raise troops for no reason and cause disputes, but if they dare to find trouble, then teach them how to behave!
……

The next day, in the court hall, Wu Zetian replied to Xue Yantuo's emissary.

Since you are here to surrender, then show some sincerity. Datang will not give food in vain, you will use materials in exchange. At the same time, you will be a vassal to Datang.

Xue Yantuo thought about it for a few days, and finally gave a reply, agreeing to Datang's conditions, willing to exchange his war horses and other supplies for Datang's food.

Such a result is naturally happy for everyone, but Li Yuechen feels a little pity.

Although she is not a war maniac, she still wants to see the combat effectiveness of the troops she personally trained, but this time she has no chance...

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