Great Tang princess

Chapter 367

Now the new year can't be like it was when the old man was alive. Li Yuechen participated in the new year's grand court meeting with the officials, and congratulated the queen and the emperor under house arrest for the new year.

At the noon banquet, after eating with the officials, Li Yuechen returned to the Princess Mansion, during which time he didn't say a word to the queen.

In such an embarrassing atmosphere, the officials were still able to deliver their congratulatory speeches with a smile, as if they were really happy.

As for the emperor, he never appeared in the hall at all, and there was no chance to meet him at all.

Back at the Princess Mansion at noon, Shangguan Wan'er ran over before she had eaten, and asked expectantly, "Your Highness, how about going out to play together during the Lantern Festival this year?"

"Okay." Li Yuechen nodded and agreed, but she had no objections.

Shangguan Wan'er said: "It would be great if the two Highnesses and Empress Xiao Jing could go together..."

Because the elder brother was posthumously titled the Emperor of Filial Piety, Pei Qingwan's title was actually the Empress of Filial Piety, but usually only the servants would call him that.

Li Yuechen usually called his sister-in-law directly, while the two older sisters called her by their first names.

"Then Wan'er ask them." Li Yuechen touched her cheek, and then went back to the house to do her own business.

A school dedicated to members of the royal family will start to be established in the next year. They will definitely go to a military academy when they get older, but the cultural study materials for their childhood need to be compiled as soon as possible.

Li Yuechen still does not intend to take Confucianism as the mainstream, but as one of them.

Although he looked down on the ancient things in his heart and felt that most of them were dross, Li Yuechen didn't intend to beat them to death.

She will not demonize Confucianism, but let them understand Confucianism from another angle as a discipline.

At the same time, enlightenment reading materials such as Thousand Characters and Hundred Family Names are also needed. It is better to have some stories such as phone calls or fables to improve their learning enthusiasm.

Of course, there is also the most important ideological and moral course. In Li Yuechen's view, this is the most important.

Especially for the heirs of the current emperor, if there is no accident, some of them will become the next emperor in the future, and the three views formed during the growth process can have a lifetime influence on them.

Because the role of the royal family will change from a "ruler" to a "leader" in the future, the responsibilities and responsibilities of the royal family must be taught to them from an early age, making it an instinct engraved in their genes.

There are basically ready-made teaching materials for Chinese and mathematics, and now what Li Yuechen needs to compile are teaching materials for ideology and morality.

After all, things like the responsibility and responsibility of the royal family are actually quite complicated once they want to implement them on paper, and more should be tested by precepts and deeds.

Similarly, Li Yuechen also planned to take this opportunity to attack the public opinion influence of the gentry.

It is impossible to build orphanages or free schools right now, but we can find ways to increase the number of students.

Now that the number of books printed by Taiping Bookstore has reached a certain scale, Li Yuechen thinks it is time to consider upgrading.

The plan is very simple. A library will be built next to the Hongwen Hall in Huichang Gate, and the common people will be allowed to enter it to read and study, and even copy it.

Free writing brushes are provided in the library. As for paper and ink materials, they are all at cost price.

In this way, many poor students who cannot afford books should be able to be cultivated, and the library must continue to expand in size and fill with various types of books.

While thinking about it, Li Yuechen wrote down the plan for the library into a booklet, and showed it to his mother when he was done.

Mom would probably agree. Li Yuechen vaguely remembered reading it online. She seemed to be the only emperor in ancient history who allowed people to visit the palace hall.

An emperor like Dad might not agree to this kind of thing, but the possibility of passing it with Mom is quite high.

……

On the night of the first day of the new year, Li Yuechen held a banquet in the Princess Mansion, and everyone sat in the hall with a fireplace to eat and chat.

The flames in the fireplace flickered, and from time to time there would be a slight "crackling" sound, accompanied by a few sparks swaying in the air.

The hall is brightly lit, and people sit around a big round table to eat.

Wang Wuqiong, who was sitting at the bottom, had a nervous expression on her face, she didn't even know why she was sitting at the same table with the princess for dinner.

You know, there are three princesses and one queen sitting on this table.

As for Shangguan Wan'er, I heard that she was also the princess' playmate since she was a child, so the relationship is naturally unusual.

But I really didn't expect that today even her bodyguard was dragged to the same table to eat with her.

Perhaps seeing her nervousness, Shangguan Wan'er smiled: "Don't be afraid, Your Highness has been like this since she was a child, just get used to it."

Princess Xuancheng smiled: "She pulled Fulai and Xiaohe to eat at the same table. Anyway, there are no outsiders here, so don't worry about it."

Hearing what the two said, Wang Wuqiong agreed, but the surprise in his heart still didn't fade away so easily.

It wasn't until Li Yuechen picked up the wine glass and wished everyone a happy new year that she realized that she also quickly stood up, held the wine glass respectfully, and said the blessings.

The dishes on the table are delicious and delicious. The cooks in the princess mansion are basically trained by Li Yuechen himself. In addition, he has a good talent, and now he has developed many new dishes, which are better than the dishes in the army canteen. Much richer.

Although he was a bit reluctant to let go, Wang Wuqiong still enjoyed eating with so many rich dishes.

"Tomorrow is the second day of junior high school, so you don't have to follow me, go home and see your parents." Li Yuechen said with a smile, "It just so happens that I will go to the palace to see my mother tomorrow, it doesn't count as going out."

"Yes!" Wang Wuqiong agreed.

The army also has holidays, which can be regarded as a compromise made by Li Yuechen in this era.

The main reason is that it is impossible for soldiers in this era to serve for as short as two years. Most soldiers stay in the army for more than 20 years. It is not realistic to really follow the standards of the future army.

So today's Qianniuwei can basically go home every Saturday and Sunday for a holiday, and implement a shift system. Basically, the soldiers can stay at home for six or seven days a month.

Li Xian, a military officer with a special situation, usually takes his mother-in-law and children to live in the military family home.

Of course, after the military system is perfected, it can continue to change, but now it can only be like this.

……

Early the next morning, Li Yuechen took them to yoga again.

Because there is a fireplace in the hall, several people are wearing simple suspenders and shorts. Needless to say, it was naturally invented by Li Yuechen.

When a few people were exercising, they used a small wooden stick the size of chopsticks to pin up their hair, looking very casual.

Wang Wuqiong was also wearing a brand new suspenders and shorts, standing beside her shyly.

Although they are all women here, for an ancient person, wearing this kind of clothes is a bit too unrestrained, especially when the thighs are exposed, it feels a bit shameful.

Not to mention, after seeing the figures of Li Yuechen and the others, he couldn't help but feel a little ashamed.

To be honest, although things like aesthetics will change with the times, in many cases, the core will not change.

Although plump aesthetics are popular nowadays, behind the plumpness is actually health!

In other words, in this age, what people like is healthy beauty, not obesity.

The streamlined figures of Li Yuechen and the others reveal a sense of health everywhere. Even after more than a thousand years, they are still existences that can attract countless fans in short videos.

Especially the obvious mermaid line and the angular waistcoat line actually have a hint of sex appeal, even a woman will feel her heartbeat speed up for a moment when she sees it.

"Don't stand still, come and practice with me." Li Yuechen beckoned while posing in a split-horse pose.

"Yes!"

Wang Wuqiong pulled her shorts, walked over and asked curiously: "Your Highness, is this also practicing martial arts?"

"This is adjustment." Li Yuechen smiled, "Practicing martial arts on weekdays is hard, and this method is soft. Just like the Taoist way of yin and yang, the combination of soft and hard can keep the body in its best condition for a longer period of time."

Although she couldn't understand, Wang Wuqiong still nodded and began to exercise beside her.

Although Li Yuechen had never practiced martial arts in her previous life, as an athlete, she knew very well that any athlete paid great attention to "relaxation".

Including some fighters such as UPC, they also do various soft training such as pulling ligaments and lowering the waist.

Suffice to illustrate the importance of flexibility.

But in this era, many martial arts that are famous in later generations have not yet taken shape, and there is no such thing as Taijiquan and Baguazhang.

But there are also some pictographic martial arts like monkey boxing, but that is mostly used by civilian assassins, while the army mainly uses spears and horizontal knives.

Li Yuechen also plans to promote it more in the future, at least let the royal family exercise more, don't act like the third brother, he is already chubby now.

……

After the practice, Li Yuechen washed up, tied up his hair again, and then set off to the Hall of Renshou.

As soon as he entered the hall, he put the report written yesterday afternoon on the table: "Aniang, look at this!"

Wu Zetian didn't speak, and opened the booklet casually to read it.

Looking at it, he frowned slightly, the speed was obviously slower, he should be observing carefully.

There are not many words in this report, and it took less than 5 minutes to finish reading it.

Li Yuechen poured a cup of tea and put it in front of him, then asked softly, "Aniang, how are you doing?"

"Are you going to use this method to attack the gentry?" Wu Zetian asked.

"That's just an insignificant incident," Li Yuechen shook his head lightly, "What's more important is that this move will allow many children from poor families to afford to study, and cultivate more talents for the Tang Dynasty!"

This is the truth, in this day and age, reading is a very luxurious thing.

How many children from poor families even chipped in to buy a book together, and read it together when they came back.Sometimes I even bring a pen, ink, paper and inkstone to ask someone to borrow a book for me to copy.

In this day and age, knowledge is expensive.Therefore, there are no poor families in the upper class, and no noble families in the lower class.

"My child's move is equivalent to solving the problem of not being able to afford books." Li Yuechen explained with a smile, "As long as you have been enlightened and can read, you can go to the library to read and study, and even arrange people to solve their problems ..."

What Li Yuechen meant was to arrange two masters in the library, and those who read the books could ask them on the spot if they didn't understand anything.

In this way, in a few years, a large number of educated people should be able to be cultivated, so that a new force can be supported to fight against the gentry.

Listening to her daughter's explanation, Wu Zetian nodded slightly: "This method is not bad. I originally wanted to speed up the progress, but I was worried that I didn't have a good start!"

"Then Aunt agrees?" Li Yuechen asked.

"Naturally!" Wu Zetian smiled and nodded, his eyes flashed with admiration, "I also want to see what kind of reaction this method can cause!"

Now that the Queen of Heaven has said so, then this matter is naturally finalized, and Li Yuechen decided to let the craftsmen start construction as soon as the Lantern Festival is over!
And now that there are libraries, the newspaper office will also be expanded to include the function of a publishing house.

At that time, the newspapers can recruit scholars from all over the world to write books, no matter what type, as long as they are found to be worthy of publication by the publishing house, they will be paid for the manuscript, and they will be published in the bookstore and included in the library.

In this era of inheritance, if Li Yuechen directly throws out all the knowledge for others to learn, it is tantamount to completely opposing the gentry.

"Don't say you came up with this method." Wu Zetian narrowed his eyes, "If I fail here, you may still need the help of the gentry in the future..."

She took this matter down mainly to preserve her daughter's reputation. After all, no one knows whether this reform will be successful.

Li Yuechen also nodded and agreed, but she didn't do it for the sake of fame, but because she decided at the beginning that her mother must be left with the name of "Great Emperor" in history, so this eternal merit should be reserved for her. Enough.

As for fame?Forget it, Li Yuechen doesn't care about the evaluation of him in the history books at all, and that thing can't be eaten...

Then the two began to chat about school issues. Now that the second brother's two children are not young, how to arrange them in the future is also a problem.

Wu Zetian thought for a while: "His child, take back the royal family and train him as the prince's heir."

In the final analysis, even if Li Xian became a commoner, he was still her son, and this could not be changed.

"Hmm..." Li Yuechen nodded, "Also, it's almost time for the eldest sons of the two elder brothers to be enlightened. Let me make arrangements for them to officially start studying in September this year."

Wu Zetian picked up the teacup and sighed slightly: "It's a pity that this method can't be effective quickly after all..."

Li Yuechen persuasively advised: "Aniang, education is the foundation of a century-old plan! This matter may require the joint efforts of several generations to achieve, but we can't stop doing it because the results are slow..."

Listening to her daughter's arguments, Wu Zetian always had an illusion, as if her daughter could already see that after the implementation of this method, it would definitely be better than it is now.

That kind of confidence, that feeling of confidence... as if she had seen it with her own eyes.

(End of this chapter)