Great Tang princess

Chapter 46 Life Crisis
Li Yuechen really thinks so. Although she is not a scientist, she has the identity of a princess here after all.

As long as there is this commitment, at least within the lifetime, there will be people who are willing to study various technologies to delve into this aspect.

If this idea can be spread, Datang's technological level will be improved sooner or later.

On the way back, Li Yuechen kept observing with the small incense burner in his hand.

Mechanical gyroscope, in the future, this is nothing new, but in this era, no one knows what it means.

After returning to Anfu Hall, Li Yuechen sat alone in the Linbo Pavilion, with one foot on the seat, leaning against the pillar, holding the small silver hollow incense burner and constantly dangling in front of his eyes.

Shangguan Wan'er was at the entrance of the hall, and asked Xiao He next to her with some doubts: "Why does Your Highness look like this when you come back?"

"I don't know either." Xiao He shook her head, "Should be thinking about some new utensil?"

In fact, Li Yuechen's attention is all on the small ball in front of her. She still can't believe that such a thing can appear in this era. It seems that the wisdom of the ancient people cannot be underestimated!
……

The next day, the craftsman delivered the square table she wanted, and Xiao He also brought back the wool felt she wanted from the Shangyi Bureau.

After laying it on the table, I put the mahjong on the table and tried to shuffle the cards myself. It felt really good, so I ordered Xiao He to pack it up.

Then he temporarily arrested two eunuchs and took the table to Renshou Hall, and at the same time asked Xiao He to send someone to call Princess Qianjin to come.

Seeing his daughter bring a big table over, Li Zhi subconsciously thought it was some kind of thing that he was eating at the same table.

Looking at the sky outside with some doubts: "Chen'er hasn't eaten yet?"

"Grandfather misunderstood, this is just a plaything."

After speaking, Li Yuechen asked the eunuch to put the table away, and spread the wool felt on it himself: "My son has already sent someone to invite my aunt, and I will tell you the rules in a while."

Li Yuechen doesn't quite know what games are played in the gambling houses of this era, but at least in the palace, most of the game games are played by two people.

Such as Go, Chess, Shuanglu and so on.

However, Go and Xiangqi in this era have not yet developed to that stage in the future, and the rules are also different.

The game with the widest audience at the moment is Shuanglu. From the royal family to the common people, as long as the family conditions are not too bad, they can basically play it.

Not long after, Princess Qianjin came to the palace. Hearing that Li Yuechen had researched a new thing, she immediately came over and sat down with great interest.

The four sat at the four directions of the table, and Li Yuechen began to tell them how to play mahjong.

It was the first time they had heard of this four-person game, and Li Yuechen showed them an example while explaining it.

In the end, he said directly: "How about playing a lap first?"

"Come on!" Li Zhi was clearly interested, and sat directly on the east seat.

Because I just heard from Li Yuechen that it starts from the east and he is the emperor, so I sat down on my own.

Li Yuechen said that it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter where he sits.

After trying to play a round, I found that all three of them played well and were quite familiar with the rules.

Li Zhi raised his hand to tidy up the hairpin on his head, and said with a slight smile: "This thing is really interesting, and it can also be used as a gambling game."

As a wife, Wu Zetian knew her husband very well. She cast a glance at Princess Qianjin next to her, and then said with a smile, "Since that's the case, how about adding some color?"

"Okay!" Princess Qianjin said no problem.

It doesn't matter to Li Yuechen, anyway, she has a high chance of not losing to the three novices, even if she loses, would they be ashamed to ask a child like herself for money?
Soon, the four of them officially started playing mahjong.

It was quiet at first, but then chatter started.

Princess Qianjin seems to be very familiar with her mother Wu Zetian, and the two chatted a lot.

Li Zhi interjected from time to time, but most of his attention was still focused on the mahjong in front of him.

Li Yuechen watched their expressions while playing, as if he wanted to use this to analyze the cards.

Wu Zetian lightly typed out a piece of three: "Speaking of which, Chen'er plans to open a shop to sell that canned food."

The Princess Qianjin on the opposite side turned her head to look at Li Yuechen with a look of surprise: "Why did Chen'er do that businessman thing?"

"Father and mother worry about disaster relief every day, and I don't know how many years their temples are turning white. As long as I earn money, maybe the two adults will stop worrying about it." Li Yuechen replied obediently.

"But you are the princess of the Tang Dynasty, this..." Princess Qianjin said while turning her head to look at Li Zhi.

It turned out that he just looked at the cards in front of him with a smile on his face, as if he didn't hear what they were talking about at all.

Princess Qianjin was silent for two seconds, then suddenly grinned: "Chen'er, have you found the shop?"

Li Yuechen shook his head, and took out a second card: "I went to Nanshi a few days ago to look around, and it seems that there are no shops that are going to be sold, and I don't want shops in good locations."

Hearing her words, Princess Qianjin smiled slightly: "There is a shop facing the street in Nanshi for a piece of music in my palace's house. Although it is not a good location, it is not bad. How about giving it to Chen'er as a gift?"

In the Tang Dynasty, people with a good atmosphere and a humble nationality were mixed in the trilogy, and the bad was not cheap.

Although it belongs to the category of servants, but it is not in the low status, it can be regarded as a servant with salary.

Li Yuechen was slightly taken aback, and subconsciously said: "This is not appropriate..."

While speaking, he looked at Li Zhi and Wu Zetian next to him.

However, both of them had inscrutable smiles on their faces, as if they didn't care about the conversation here.

Wu Zetian fiddled with the cards in his hand, Li Zhi picked up the teacup next to him and took a sip.

After putting down the teacup, he tapped on the table lightly: "Why are you staring blankly? Hit!"

Good guy!play?

Li Yuechen could see it, Wu Zetian probably had this purpose when he mentioned this matter just now?
So he smiled immediately, revealing a row of neat teeth: "So, Yuechen thanked my aunt!"

After accepting a gift, Li Yuechen was in a good mood.

But Princess Qianjin didn't lose anything, because Li Zhi and Wu Zetian lost a lot of money to her, and the sum could almost be worth such a shop.

At dusk, Li Zhi announced the stop when he saw the ladies in the palace lighting the lanterns.

"This thing is really interesting, it's not worse than Shuanglu!"

Wu Zetian nodded: "Yes, and the four of them played together, and it was quite lively. Your Majesty can also play with the ministers occasionally."

In fact, Li Yuechen should first promote it in the palace, especially those concubines.

Although Li Zhi didn't have many concubines, there might not be many future emperors.

With this thing, the palace fight is saved.

Li Yuechen watched some Gongdou dramas before, and felt that they were completely idle.

If there are computers and the Internet in this era, it is estimated that it is too late for the concubines to come to the dark every day, who has time to go to the palace.

Regarding the matter of the store, none of the four said anything more. Anyway, Princess Qianjin sent the house deed and land deed the next day.

In order to express his gratitude, Li Yuechen took a few cans and asked his servants to take them back.

Then I looked at the few cans I had left, and couldn't help but shook my head, thinking that this year it was the fruit season and I had to make more.

……

Seeing that the time is about to enter May, the weather is getting hotter day by day.

Li Yuechen has completely given up on complicated hairstyles, and runs around wearing a ponytail every day.

Li Zhi and Wu Zetian don't say anything now, let her do as she pleases.

On the contrary, Wu Zetian started to wear a ponytail when she didn't see the ministers, not to mention, it was really comfortable.

Now I still do exercises in the morning and study in the afternoon.

It's just that when I'm studying now, because of the addition of Emperor Fan, I can't let Shangguan Wan'er accompany me to read, and I just write my post-reading reflections with my two sisters.

Not to mention, Li Shimin is indeed an awesome emperor, at least every time Li Yuechen reads this emperor fan, he always has some new insights.

When he was free, Li Yuechen would still go to the court to listen to the news.

But there seems to be nothing serious recently, or some border skirmishes or something.

These matters were resolved at the same time as they were reported, just telling the emperor.

There were some news about the drought that Li Yuechen had been concerned about. Although it was said that the response had been made in time, some people still starved to death.

When hearing these news, Li Yuechen couldn't help sighing.

I hope that this year's soil fertilizer experiment can achieve results, at least hope that the national granary can be enriched, and when this kind of thing happens again, it can provide disaster relief food.

From the perspective of Li Yuechen, a future man, there are still many problems in this country.

But what needs to be solved most is the problem of food.

After all, even if you want to develop technology, you have to feed people first.

Some things can be deduced from the news in the court, and some places have already begun to appear floating households.

That is the so-called black household.

This involves the issue of tax law. The tax in the Tang Dynasty was a head tax, which means that as long as you are alive, you have to pay taxes and bear taxes.

But many people can't afford food and taxes, so they can only flee from the place where their household registration is located and become black households.

Li Yuechen believed that the emperor would not fail to see this problem, but there was no way he could change it.

Firstly, he is an ancient person after all, and his thinking is restricted by the times; secondly, if this thing is not handled well, it can be sprayed bloody by the censor, and even worse, it may cause national chaos.

This is not unfounded worry, but really possible.

Because the current political system of the Tang Dynasty is aristocratic politics, not bureaucratic politics.

For many ministers nowadays, power not only comes from the emperor, but also partly from their own families.

So in this era, even the emperor will be constrained in many places.

Thinking of this, Li Yuechen, who was leaning against the wall, shook his head slightly, turned and left.

On the court, Li Zhi, who saw his daughter leaving, glanced over there, but there was a faint smile on his mouth.

……

After a few days of calm, Li Yuechen thought that the weather was getting hotter and hotter, should he consider asking Li Zhi and his wife to have some barbecue at night?
While thinking about it, I came to Shangshi Bureau, intending to see if there was any seasoning suitable for barbecue.

In this era, cumin has already existed, and it is called Anxi fennel at the moment.

The oil is a bit troublesome. In this era, there is only sesame oil, also called flax oil, or animal oil.

The most important reason is that the soybean oil in this era is smelly and will not be used for food.

As for the sesame oil...it's enough for barbecue.

After thinking about it, Li Yuechen asked the craftsman to build a barbecue grill, and with some charcoal and sticks, he could make mutton skewers.

When he just walked out of Shangshi Bureau and was about to go back to Anfu Hall, he suddenly saw Xiao He coming over.

After receiving a small bag from a court lady, she turned around and was about to go back, when she suddenly saw Li Yuechen.

"Your Highness?"

"Hmm." Seeing Xiao He's normal expression, Li Yuechen looked at the small bag in her hand and asked, "What is this?"

Xiao He opened it for her to take a look, and found that it contained some burnt carbon ash.

"Why do you want these things?" Li Yuechen asked suspiciously.

"This... the servant girl Kuishui is coming..."

Kwai water?

Li Yuechen was a little puzzled at first, but then nodded suddenly, oh, that!

He didn't ask any more questions right away, and was about to continue walking back, but suddenly froze in place.

I wipe!My wife is now a woman too! !Actually forgot this! ! !

Xiao He was about to follow Li Yuechen back when she suddenly turned around and asked, "How to use this thing?"

Hearing her suddenly turn around and ask, Xiao He was stunned for a moment: "Your Highness, don't worry now, in the future..."

"Stop talking nonsense, talk quickly!" Li Yuechen urged.

Xiao He was taken aback and quickly explained.

After listening to her explanation, Li Yuechen's expression was a bit complicated, and he walked back with a strange expression, Xiao He followed behind without knowing why.

Women in this era always used a cloth bag in Kuishui, which contained some plant ash and the like for use.

The most important thing is that it is still reusable!
Probably the only thing better about being a royal princess is not having to clean it yourself...

Depend on!
Thinking of this, Li Yuechen shook his head violently, no way!Let's solve this problem first!
Li Yuechen suddenly turned his head and asked, "Is there any cotton in the palace?"

"May I ask Your Highness, what is this cotton?" Xiao He asked back.

"Forget it, I'll go to the Clothing Bureau tomorrow to ask." Li Yuechen waved his hand, and ran a few steps back to Anfu Hall.

Speaking of this, this is not the only problem to be solved, and the underwear must also be reformed by the way.

In this era, there is no underwear, and things like loincloths are used, so let's get this done first!
If I hadn't bumped into Xiao He today, I wouldn't even have remembered this matter!

Li Yuechen couldn't help feeling a little scared, feeling that this was the first major crisis in his life.

After all, it was her first time as a woman and she had little experience, so she was ignored for a while.

Thanks to the fact that I'm only six years old now, and I still have a long time to prepare, I shouldn't need to use plant ash to solve it like women in this era.

Li Yuechen has already figured it out, if there is no cotton in this era, then use silk to solve it!

Anyway, my mother is a princess, so I can afford it!
　Thank you [Time Can Ever Be Lonely] for tipping 500 starting coins!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)