Great Tang princess

Chapter 54 The Blessing of the Tang Dynasty
Wang Xiang is Fulai's nephew. He has studied for several years. He originally wanted to pass the imperial examination to find a job as an official, but he couldn't even pass the examination. So he ran to the foot of the imperial city to find a job with his uncle.

Just in time for Li Yuechen to open a shop, he lacked a accountant.

You don't need a high level of education, you just need to be able to read and write.

After admonishing his nephew, Fulai got up and went back to the palace.

On the other side, Li Yuechen in the palace was thinking and writing something on the paper.

Egg whites, cucumbers, flour, honey...what else?

Li Yuechen scratched his hair while thinking, and patted his head with his palm from time to time, trying to wake up sporadic memories.

But are there really cucumbers in it?
After thinking carefully about some TV series I have watched before, it seems that these things are all used directly.

After thinking about it, Li Yuechen beckoned Xiao He over: "Isn't it the season for cucumbers to ripen now? Let the Shangshi Bureau bring a cucumber and slice it over."

"Here!"

Xiao He promised to do it right away.

Li Yuechen continued to write on the paper, thinking about the original mask method.

About twenty minutes later, Xiao He came over with a bowl of sliced ​​cucumbers.

This thing was originally called cucumber, but it was changed to cucumber in the period of Emperor Sui Yang, and it lasted until more than a thousand years later.

However, the cucumbers in this period are not as big as in the future, and are relatively smaller.

After Li Yuechen washed his face, he lay down on his rocking chair, and then began to stick the cucumber slices on his face.

Xiao He next to him couldn't help but wonder after seeing it: "What is your Highness doing?"

"It's okay, you go and do your work." Li Yuechen waved his hand.

Xiao He agreed in a daze, and went out with a strange expression on her face.

As he walked, he thought in his heart, could it be that His Highness is bewitched?

Of course, I dare to imagine these words in my heart, and I absolutely dare not say them.

After a while, Shangguan Wan'er, who had finished reading, came in. Seeing Li Yuechen lying in a daze on the rocking chair with cucumber slices on his face, she walked over curiously.

She didn't say anything, she just stood beside the rocking chair, tilted her head, and stared curiously.

Li Yuechen's black eyes moved slightly: "Why are you staring at me?"

"I'm just curious why His Highness sticks cucumbers on his face?" Shangguan Wan'er replied.

"You don't understand, it's all for maintenance." After speaking, Li Yuechen took off a piece of cucumber from his forehead and put it in his mouth.

While chewing, I was thinking about the effect of this method dedicated to Wu Zetian.

Think about it carefully, this method is too simple after all, let's find a way to study how to make a mask first.

If it doesn't work, just mix egg whites, honey and the like.

Anyway, if this kind of something that can be eaten is applied to the face, even if it can't really have any maintenance effect, it will definitely not be worse.

Thinking of this, Li Yuechen took another piece of cucumber and put it in his mouth.

……

After two days, Li Yuechen thought that the fertilizer should be almost ready, so he wanted to go and have a look.

So he called Fulai and Xiaohe directly, and went with him to look at the fertilizer outside the city.

Hearing that Li Yuechen was going out of the palace, Shangguan Wan'er ran over without saying a word, just staring at her eagerly.

Li Yuechen touched her head with a smile: "Today I left the palace to see the fertilizer, it smells bad, so I won't take you there."

"Yes..." Shangguan Wan'er agreed, looking a little disappointed.

I heard that they were going out of the city. This time, the Jinwu Guards did not change into casual clothes, but were fully armed and followed the carriage all the way from the palace to the village outside the city.

Along the way, Li Yuechen, feeling bored, came outside the carriage, and sat on the carriage frame with the captain in charge of driving, watching the scenery along the way.

Even though the road has been repaired to be relatively smooth, the carriage is still rickety.

Li Yuechen looked down, thinking about the possibility of making shock absorbers in this era.

Shock absorbers, if you put it simply, are two springs.

But in fact, it was a very troublesome thing. When she used to play off-road motorcycles, it took a long time to adjust the suspension.

Not to mention whether the quality of steel in this era is up to standard is a big problem.

Of course, there is another way, which is to stack the steel plates to make a leaf spring, but the shock absorption effect of this game is definitely not as good as that of a coil spring.

At present, the carriage she is riding in is pretty good, after all, it is used by members of the royal family, and some silk or leather can be placed under the buttocks to dampen the shock, but the effect... I understand it.

Because this time was out of the city, for convenience, except for the captain who was in charge of driving, everyone else rode around on horseback.

Li Yuechen also wanted to try it, but considering his current height... he still shook his head.

She can ride a horse, not only that, but also very slick.

This is thanks to the ex-girlfriend who owns a horse farm and is also an equestrian instructor.

As an extreme athlete, Li Yuechen used to have senior players of various sports in his circle of friends, and his ex-girlfriend was one of them.

The reason for the breakup is also very simple. The other party hopes that she can stay in Europe and run the other's family farm together.

But Li Yuechen really couldn't stand that kind of idyllic life, and finally chose to say goodbye.

Thinking about it now, I can't help feeling a little bit emotional.

Li Yuechen wanted to find a topic to talk about, turned his head and asked the captain of the car: "Have you married a wife?"

"Returning to Your Highness, we are married, and the boy in the family is five years old now." The captain replied respectfully.

Li Yuechen nodded. The other party was serving as a soldier here. He already had a wife and children at home, so he still had concerns after all.

It seems that no matter which era, it is not easy for soldiers!

Thinking of this, she smiled: "It's not easy for you Jinwu Guard..."

The expression on the captain's face was a bit awkward: "Your Highness, we are waiting...not the Jinwu Guard, but the prison guard."

"Huh?" Li Yuechen was slightly taken aback, as if he didn't realize it.

When I was a child, I heard Fulai talk about the Jinwu Guard once, so Li Yuechen always thought that it was the Jinwu Guard who was in charge of protecting her, but why did a prison guard escape today?
Demonstrating the embarrassment on his face, Li Yuechen asked seemingly casually: "Is there any difference between the prison guard and the Jinwu guard...?"

The other party nodded and briefly explained.

After listening, Li Yuechen nodded, it turned out that he had been mistaken all along.

She used to think that the emperor was surrounded by Qianniu Guards, and the others were Jin Wu Guards. Only through the captain's explanation did she know that there were sixteen guards in charge of protecting the imperial city.

Because their troops were stationed in the south of Chang'an City, they were also called Nanya Sixteen Guards.

The Jinwu Guard is naturally one of them, but among the sixteen guards, four guards are different.

The left and right prison gates and the left and right Qianniu, there are four guards in total. They are not government soldiers, but professional soldiers who eat imperial food and get paid.

After listening to his science popularization, Li Yuechen finally understood that she had made mistakes all along.

The other guards were protecting the entire capital, while they supervised the gate guards and were only responsible for the security of the imperial city.

The person in charge of protecting the emperor is Qianniuwei. The emperor's personal bodyguard is called Qianniu Beishen. Generally, he is the son of a high-ranking official at the prime minister level.

Qianniu Beishen would carry two swords with him, one for protecting the emperor, and the other for the emperor's imperial sword.

If the emperor wants to issue any special orders or wants to kill people himself, this imperial knife will come in handy.

Speaking of this knife, Li Yuechen had something to complain about.

I used to say on the Internet that the straight Tang sword that looks like a samurai sword was a standard weapon in the Tang Dynasty.

But I have been in the Tang Dynasty for so long, and I have never seen such a thing.

These gold... the horizontal knives carried by the prison guards are indeed straight, but it seems that the knives and arrowheads have not yet appeared in this era.

Therefore, the handle is usually placed in the scabbard together. There is a ring behind the handle, which is larger than the mouth of the scabbard, and it can be just stuck to prevent the entire knife from entering the scabbard.

The advantage of doing this is that it can prevent the knife from falling out when riding or running, but it may be a little troublesome when drawing the knife.

and many more!

Li Yuechen felt that he had grasped the blind spot!It hasn't appeared yet, my wife can make it appear!
I am a martial arts practitioner now, so it's normal to invent this stuff, right?

Even if it can be equipped to the army and improve the combat effectiveness of the army, it will definitely make Li Zhi and his wife happy.

When the two of them are happy, they are happy too!

perfect!

Thinking of this, Li Yuechen felt that his mood suddenly improved a lot, and couldn't help but lean on the door frame of the carriage and hum softly.

Instead, the captain next to him reminded: "Your Highness, it's better to go in, and be careful not to fall."

"It's okay, with this speed, you can't fall to your death!" Li Yuechen waved his hand indifferently.

The captain next to him coughed and almost choked himself.

His Highness really has a big heart, is it a question of whether he can fall to his death?I can't bear it even if it falls slightly!

In desperation, he could only focus part of his attention on Li Yuechen's side, in case she suddenly slipped down, and the driving speed was slightly slower.

……

About an hour later, they came to a village outside Luoyang City.

When the villagers here saw a group of heavily armed soldiers rushing in, they took a few steps back habitually, without much fear on their faces.

On the way, I heard Fu said that this place belongs to the royal farmland, and they should be used to seeing soldiers.

The carriage stopped slowly, Li Yuechen jumped off the frame, Fulai and Xiaohe followed closely.

An old man with white hair and coarse linen clothes came to salute: "I have seen..."

"Forget it!" Li Yuechen raised his hand, "Just do your own business."

The old man bowed slightly and left.

Fulai took Li Yuechen to the back of the village, and before he could go all the way, he smelled a biochemical weapon.

After retching twice, he endured the smell and continued walking.

Behind the village, what appears to be a cone-shaped mound covered in slime is emitting a smell that would make most creatures cringe.

Li Yuechen asked someone to bring a hoe, and holding his breath, he turned over the mud on the surface, flipped it a few times and then nodded, it looked pretty good.

After leaving the back mountain, Li Yuechen waved to Fulai: "Find some containers and bring them back."

"Here!"

The fertilizer was almost the same as what Li Yuechen remembered. As for whether it would work or not, we had to wait for the experiment to know.

Just get the fertilizer into the soil when you go back. As for planting, just ask the Ministry of Finance to send someone to help plant it.

Regarding the crops to grow, Li Yuechen wanted to grow rice more than wheat.

After all, along a Luo River, I should be able to afford this small garden.

As long as the experiment is successful, different crops can be planted according to different places.

In this era, there is no need for a thousand catties per mu, as long as the minimum yield per mu exceeds two hundred catties, the emperor will wake up laughing from his dreams.

……

On the other side, Wu Zetian finished all the memorials early today. After the couple stayed in the Hall of Renshou for a while, Li Zhi decided to visit his daughter.

The couple came to the Anfu Hall, and all the maids came out to salute.

However, Xiaohe and Fulai are not here, let alone their daughter.

Li Zhi frowned slightly: "Mianli, where is Chen'er?"

Mrs. Zheng saluted: "Go back to Your Majesty, Your Highness said that today he went out of the city to see the fertilizer."

Hearing the answer, Li Zhi nodded, and walked into the palace first. Since he came, he might as well stay here for a while.

On the contrary, Wu Zetian looked at the grown-up Shangguan Wan'er next to Zheng's, tilted her head, wondering what she was thinking, and followed Li Zhi into the room.

The two took off their shoes and entered the hall, and saw Li Yuechen's table case at a glance.

There is no way, the main reason is that it is too messy, all kinds of scrolls and papers almost fill the desk case.

This table case is the most conspicuous scenery in this hall, and it is impossible not to notice it.

"This girl..." Wu Zetian muttered, walked over first, picked up a piece of paper and looked at it.

Egg whites, honey, cucumbers... a bunch of food written on paper.

Li Zhi came over to take a look, and smiled slightly: "Could it be that you are studying what to eat again?"

As he said that, he took out a piece of paper and looked at it.

Wu Zetian shook her head helplessly: "This girl, I really don't know why she cares so much about food research."

Li Zhi next to him suddenly handed over the paper in his hand: "Meiniang, look at this!"

Wu Zetian took a look, and then a surprised expression appeared on his face.

There is a poem written on this piece of paper: the day of hoeing the grains is at noon, and the sweat drips down to the soil.Who knows dishes on the menu, A Journey.

It is true that Li Yuechen has forgotten most of the poems he has learned, but he still remembers those that he has known since he was a child, such as Mi Nong or Jing Yesi.

Because I am afraid of forgetting, I will occasionally write it silently, maybe it will be useful at any time.

Usually, she would burn these poems directly after she finished writing them, but recently, because she wrote too much, she was still thinking about a mask, so this poem was pushed down and forgotten.

After reacting from the slight surprise, the expression on Wu Zetian's face softened a lot.

Li Zhi sighed, turned his head to look at the sky outside, and murmured to himself, "With the world in mind...Meiniang, having Chen'er is a blessing for you and me, and it is also a blessing for Tang Dynasty!"

A smile appeared on Wu Zetian's face, and he nodded slightly: "Your Majesty said so!"

(End of this chapter)