Great Tang princess

Chapter 41

"Your Highness, Your Highness?"

Li Yuechen, who was in deep thought, heard Shangguan Wan'er calling him, and suddenly shook his head: "Huh?"

"Your Majesty saw His Highness not saying a word... but you were scared?"

"No." Li Yuechen smiled, raised his head and said to Xiao He, "It seems that I haven't been here for a long time, and I gave birth to a mouse, so I should tell Grandpa to raise some raccoon slaves in the palace."

A raccoon slave is a meow star, but in this era, it is not called a cat, but a raccoon slave.

Xiao He saluted and said: "Return to Your Highness, the empress has already ordered when I came here, and now I have some, I think the mouse just ran out after being discovered by the raccoon slave."

Li Yuechen nodded to show that he understood: "By the way, don't touch the mouse with your hands, use a dustpan to feed the raccoon slave or burn it."

"Here!"

Although he didn't know why Li Yuechen gave this order, Xiao He still agreed to express his understanding.

Li Yuechen is also thinking about safety. After all, there are many germs on mice. Although the bacteria of this era should not be as contagious as they will be after more than a thousand years, it is best to ensure safety as the premise.

Shangguan Wan'er took off her shoes with Li Yuechen and entered the hall. With a look of expectation on her face, she cautiously said, "Your Highness, let's tell another story tonight."

"Story..." Li Yuechen raised his head and thought for a while, "That's fine, in the far north country, there is an Ice Queen. Let me tell you her story today."

……

The next day, just after practicing in the morning, Fulai came running over: "Your Highness, the Shangyi Bureau has made what Your Highness needs."

As he spoke, he took out a piece of bright red triangular red silk and handed it over.

Of course, it is not a simple triangle, but an extra piece is sewn in the middle, and a hole is also fastened with a copper ring.

Li Yuchen looked at it, it was okay, quite satisfied.

Then he took out the pen and ink and drew two stick figures on the bright red silk cloth, one on the left and one on the right.

There is no way, and don't expect people who have never learned to draw in two lifetimes to draw anything good.

The next day, Fulai had already brought hundreds of feet of twine, and at the same time brought back the finished skeleton.

Li Yuechen put the cloth ring sewn from the back of the silk cloth on the skeleton little by little, and then pressed the buckle like tenon and tenon together.

When I came to the open space outside the hall, I first lifted it up and tried it out, feeling the wind.

The wind is okay today, so if there are no accidents, it should be able to be released.

After passing the hemp thread through the copper buckle and making a tight knot, Li Yuechen took the roller and slowly stepped back to release the thread.

Fulai and Xiaohe next to each other looked at each other, feeling puzzled, wondering what she was going to do.

Shangguan Wan'er squatted by the side and watched Li Yuechen put the finished kite in the corner, and then stepped back a little bit to let it go. She couldn't help but ask, "Your Highness, what is this?"

Li Yuechen grinned mysteriously: "Just look at it!"

Shangguan Wan'er looked at the kite leaning against the corner of the wall and the two stick figures drawn on it with a strange expression, wondering what she was thinking.

But judging from his expression, he probably thinks Li Yuechen's paintings are a bit ugly.

Li Yuechen stood where he was, holding the rolling wheel and waiting for a while.

When he felt that the wind was blowing, he pulled back the twine in his hand, and the kite leaning against the corner flew into the air in an instant.

The following streamers also began to dance in the air.

As Li Yuechen set the line, the kite rose a bit.

However, before he could fall down, Li Yuechen pulled the string in his hand and pulled it back.

In this way, between Li Yuechen's pull and release, the kite began to swing from side to side and gradually rose, flying into the sky little by little.

"Oh, it's flying!"

Fulai, who was watching from the side, slapped his thigh and said with surprise.

Xiao He also looked surprised, staring at the kite that had become very small in sight.

Shangguan Wan'er, who was right next to Li Yuechen, opened her eyes wide and looked up at the kite in the sky.

Her small mouth opened slightly to the sky, as if expressing her surprise.

The big red kite was very conspicuous in the sky, and soon, not only the palace, but even the people outside the city saw the kite floating in the sky.

A small red triangle was floating in the air, and several long streamers below were swaying with the wind.

Many people in Luoyang City took to the streets one after another, and came to the Luoshui River, pointing and talking to the kites in the sky.

The news soon reached Li Zhi who was chatting with Wu Zetian in Renshou Hall.

It may be auspicious to hear Zhang Chengxin say that there is a red unknown object floating in the sky.Li Zhi and Wu Zetian also hurried out of the Hall of Renshou, covering their eyes with their hands and looking up.

Wu Zetian obviously had good eyesight, and soon saw a looming thread connected to it, which seemed to come out of Anfu Hall.

"Saint, empress, this is auspicious!" Zhang Chengxin said excitedly beside him.

"Okay," Wu Zetian waved his hand, turned his head to Li Zhi and said, "Your Majesty can't see clearly, the thing is connected by wire, and it's probably a new thing made by Chen'er."

Li Zhi was quite calm when he arrived, and turned the health care lane in his hand: "Let's go, go and have a look!"

……

Inside the Anfu Hall, the two older sisters also ran out, seeing the kite in the sky floating back and forth with the movements of Li Yuechen's hand, they clapped their hands and stamped their feet on the spot, very excited.

Li Yuechen grabbed the thread in his hand, turned his head and smiled, "Hey, it's a pity that the thread is not long enough, otherwise it could be higher!"

A group of people were watching here, and suddenly they saw Li Zhi and Wu Zetian coming, and everyone saluted.

Li Yuechen held the rolling wheel and slowly moved sideways to Li Zhi: "Look, Grandpa and Madam! This thing can fly very high!"

Looking at the rolling wheel in her hand, Li Zhi looked up again: "Sure enough, it was something made by Chen'er. Now the people in Luoyang City say that auspiciousness has come to the world!"

"Xiangrui?" Li Yuechen looked up, "It's just a wooden frame and silk."

At the same time, I thought to myself: A triangular kite is considered auspicious. If it is made in the shape of a dragon, will you think it is a real dragon descending to earth?
"Chen'er, what's the name of this thing?" Wu Zetian raised his head and asked.

"Kite." Li Yuechen replied while passing the rolling wheel in his hand, "Ma'am, do you want to try it?"

Wu Zetian shook his head: "Let your grandfather try."

"Grandpa?" Li Yuechen handed over the roller.

Li Zhi stretched out his hand to take it, but he questioned: "If it falls, is it okay?"

"No problem!" Li Yuechen replied.

Human beings are cautious when faced with things that are difficult to understand.

In this era, the only thing that can really fly is the Kongming lantern. Speaking of flying a spiral, it is the bamboo dragonfly.

But the bamboo dragonfly can't fly so high for so long. People will always subconsciously become careful about this kind of thing that breaks the cognition.

Under Li Yuechen's guidance, Li Zhi pulled and released the string from time to time, watching the kite in the air start to float according to his own control, and slowly relaxed.

After he learned it, he began to teach Wu Zetian how to play.

Wu Zetian also played for a while, while Li Yuechen explained how this thing was made.

After listening to her explanation, Li Zhi nodded: "Then can you take it back and have a look?"

"Of course!" Li Yuechen nodded, "Grandfather knows how to wind up slowly!"

Li Zhi slowly turned the reel, and the kite was brought back little by little.

When the people in Luoyang City outside saw the kite landed in the palace, they all cheered, and they didn't know what they were cheering for.

After taking back the kite, Li Zhi raised his eyebrows when he saw the stick figure painted on it: "Is this painting made by Chen'er?"

"Oh?" Li Zhi was obviously a little interested, "Who are you painting?"

"Of course it's two adults!" Li Yuechen smiled, "I wanted grandpa to write poems on it, but then I thought I couldn't see it because I was flying too high, so I drew my grandpa."

Li Zhi, who had always doted on her, finally showed a trace of disgust: "Is it Zhen and Mei Niang? This painting is really..."

"Unsightly?"

"concise!"

"Pfft..." Princess Xuancheng next to her couldn't help but burst out laughing, and Princess Yiyang quickly covered her mouth.

Li Yuechen couldn't help laughing, as expected of the emperor, this is EQ!
Wu Zetian beside him couldn't help but smile, and raised his hand to cover his mouth and chuckled twice.

Li Zhi didn't care about their laughter, but looked down at Li Yuechen: "Chen'er, things can fly to the sky, can people fly to the sky?"

Li Yuechen looked up at him with a confident smile on his face: "My child believes that people can also soar above the nine heavens!"

Hearing his daughter's words, Li Zhi looked down at her.

And Li Yuechen also changed his normal look at him.

The father and daughter looked at each other in silence for a few seconds. What Li Zhi saw in his daughter's eyes was not hope and enjoyment, but a kind of firmness!
It was as if she had really soared in the air like a bird.

He grinned slightly, reached out and touched her head: "That's good!"

Li Yuechen looked up at him, and suddenly thought in his heart, in his lifetime, maybe he could really take him to fly once, let him be in the sky, and see his great Tang Dynasty!
It is possible to make an aircraft in this era.

As an extreme athlete, Li Yuechen has enough say in this regard.

The earliest hot air balloons and parachutes were actually made of textiles. Since they are not compounds, it is possible to realize them in this era!
It's just that in this era, if you want to make hot air balloons, you need huge financial resources. Now the country is still facing the problem of drought, so let's talk about it later.

After all, flying to the sky was a rare thing for ancient humans. If you tell Li Zhi now that you can make him fly.

Leaving aside the question of whether you believe it or not, if you really believe it, I am afraid it will cost a lot of money to make it, which is not good for the country!
The cost of a parachute may be lower, but the problem is that you have to fly to the sky before you can use it!

Not to mention that in this day and age, there is no altimeter or AAD. For an untrained person like Li Zhi, skydiving is just a matter of life for a master like her.

Right now, I'm still thinking about how to study soil and chemical fertilizers. It's better to get them out sooner, so that the people will be less likely to starve to death earlier.

Thinking of this, Li Yuechen raised his head: "Grandpa, Mommy, I want some seeds for research."

"Seeds?" Li Zhi turned his head, "Why do you want to study these?"

Li Yuechen looked around and saw that they were all his own people, so he said casually: "My boy knows that there have been severe droughts and famines in recent years. My boy wants to increase food production so that the people of Tang Dynasty will no longer go hungry!"

Hearing her words, Li Zhi looked relieved: "Chen'er has the world in his heart, he is indeed my princess of the Tang Dynasty!"

Wu Zetian next to her immediately took two steps forward: "That's not allowed! This is a matter for the Ministry of Household Affairs. You are a dignified princess of a country. How can you spend all day in the wild?"

Li Zhi agreed with this point, and nodded beside him.

Li Yuechen said with a smile: "Mother, if you don't go to the wilderness, just study in the garden of Anfu Palace!"

There is a small garden in Anfu Hall, about [-] square meters, where some flowers and plants are planted, and there is plenty of sunlight.

There is absolutely no problem in using it for experimentation.

"Okay," Li Zhi nodded, "In that case, I agree!"

Anyway, it's just a small piece of land in the garden. It doesn't matter if she grows flowers or food, she can play whatever she wants.

……

After finishing the matter of the test site, Li Yuechen felt relieved.

At least in this way, I can try to grow some food here.

Of course, the actual soil and chemical fertilizer research institute needs to be built outside, after all, the smell of retting is really horrible.

If he dared to engage in such biochemical weapons in the palace, let alone whether Li Zhi and Wu Zetian would teach her a lesson, he would not be able to bear it.

……

Seeing that it was March, Li Yuechen felt that last year's plan could almost be implemented.

Just after the Cold Food Festival, Li Yuechen found Fulai: "Remember last year I told you to go to Lingnan to make canned lychees and bring them back? Now that the days are almost over, let's go."

Fu Lai nodded: "Speaking of which, it is indeed time for the lychees to mature, and the servants will pack up and set off."

Li Yuechen nodded: "Bring more people. If you want to do it, make more. When you come back, not only will your parents want to eat, but you will also think of it as a reward."

"Here!" Fulai agreed.

The next day Fulai got up early and was about to set off, but before he walked out of the palace gate, he saw Li Yuechen and Shangguan Wan'er standing outside the gate of Anfu Palace and waving to him.

Fulai was a little surprised: "Why didn't Your Highness practice exercises today?"

Li Yuechen smiled: "It's a long way to Lingnan, and it will take at least half a year to go here. I'm sorry, I'm here to see you off."

Hearing this, Fulai's eyes turned red instantly, and he saluted solemnly: "My servant thanked His Highness for your concern! I will definitely fulfill my mission..."

"Okay, okay..." Li Yuechen smiled and waved his hands, "It's just to get some canned food, not to go to the battlefield!"

Shangguan Wan'er smiled and took out a cloth bag and handed it to Fulai, with a cute little girl's smile on her face: "Eunuch Fu, this is something His Highness prepared for you."

Fulai took it, opened it, and found several canned oranges!
"Your Highness, this..." Fulai raised his head in surprise.

Li Yuechen leaned against the door frame, and said with a slight smile, "It's hot over there, take care of yourself, and prevent being killed!"

Fulai twitched his nose a few times, saluted solemnly, and lowered his voice: "Here! The servant has gone, please come back, Your Highness, don't delay your practice!"

After speaking, he turned around and left.

Seeing his leaving back, Li Yuechen also smiled: "Okay, Wan'er, let's go back."

　Regarding the origin of the bamboo dragonfly, it is actually difficult to verify.

　　It is said that they were already Han toys before BC, but in fact, things like wooden pillars are extremely perishable, and it is almost impossible to find any unearthed objects.

　　Some people say that the "speeding car" in Ge Hong's "Baopuzi" refers to the bamboo dragonfly, but the author himself thinks it is unlikely.

　　Because Baopuzi itself is a book about cultivating immortals, and most of its contents are quite nonsense.Bao Puzi's original words about the flying car rising forty miles are obviously very mysterious.

　　Moreover, the ancient car should refer to something capable of carrying people or transporting goods, so the author believes that the speeding car in Baopuzi should be a kind of manned aircraft, that is, something like a magic weapon.

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