Great Tang princess

That night, after having dinner together in Jixian Temple, Wu Zetian waved his children away and told them to go back quickly.

Li Xian happily returned to his mansion with a few photos of his son and daughter, and jumped into the house.

Wei Lian'er had just finished playing mahjong with the other concubines, and she was sitting on a chair while the eunuch rubbed her shoulders while waiting for him to come back.

What is not known to outsiders is that in the current royal family, the relationship between husband and wife is basically quite harmonious, and there is no fighting all day long as outsiders guess.

Especially Wei Lian'er, she knew very well how kind her husband was to her. Even if she scolded him or quarreled with him, she would never fight back. Instead, she would serve tea and water with a smile and make her pay attention to her body.

Gentle men may not be very popular when they are young, but in fact, as women get older, the more they can understand the benefits of gentle men.

Today's Wei Lian'er is like this, she even feels very lucky that she married such a husband.

Compared with being a queen many years ago, fighting for power and profit, Wei Lian'er now just hopes to live a good life, as long as her life is safe, rich and healthy, and her children and grandchildren are full... that's how her whole life will go.

Just like now, reading books with her husband every day, practicing calligraphy, and occasionally playing mahjong with other concubines, it seems that such a life is quite interesting.

Even she couldn't help thinking, now that the airship is available, it is said that the princess is still working on a second one, and maybe she can take that thing to travel around the country in the future, which is better than going all day long. Staying in the east is much better.

Especially since going to the seaside of Qingdao, Wei Lianer feels as if the door to a new world has been opened, and she wants to visit more different places.

So once the mentality is calmed down, the life at home will be more interesting.

Wei Lian'er is more and more pleasing to Wei Lian'er's eyes, this husband who looks like he has no ambition and no ability in the eyes of outsiders.

Seeing him coming back, she quickly stood up from the chair, walked over to help him take off his shoes, and let him into the room: "I came back earlier than expected today."

Li Xian cooperated with her to take off his shoes, entered the room and smiled: "Well, it's just that Yuechen has researched something new, so Auntie told her to go and have a look."

While explaining, he also shook the shiny thing in his hand.

Wei Lian'er saw that it was just a stack of glass sheets, and couldn't help being a little puzzled: "What is the use of these glass sheets?"

"This is a photo, recording Lan'er's life in the military camp."

While talking, Li Xian handed her the piece of glass he was holding in his hand.

When seeing the lifelike photo, Wei Lian'er's beautiful eyes widened instantly. Her eyes were already big, but now they are almost round.

The first photo is of Li Chonglan. In the photo, he is sitting on the edge of the salt field, looking up at the sky with his head tilted at 45 degrees, as if he is observing or thinking about something.

Although Li Yuechen is not a photography professional, he still knows some poses that can be more photogenic. Although in the future, the movement of looking up at the sky at 45 degrees is extremely outdated, but in this era, it is still extremely advanced.

"Lan'er..."

Seeing this scene, Wei Lian'er couldn't help stretching out her hand gently, and stroked the glass outside the photo.

For a while, I actually missed my child a little bit.

Seeing that she seemed a little sad, Li Xian sat next to her, put his arms around her shoulders and smiled: "Yuechen said, this object is called a photo, and it was made using some messy principles that even my husband can't understand. Yes. I don’t wait for my children to be around, so I keep this photo by my side on weekdays, and it’s a thought..."

He said while taking away the top photo: "By the way, there are others, take a look..."

In fact, Li Yuechen also thought of this, so he took photos of almost every child.

In the photos that Li Xian brought back, besides his eldest son Li Chonglan, there were Li Chongfu and Li Chongjun who were still young, as well as Li Xianhui and several daughters.

Because of the harmonious relationship in the family, even if there are a few children who are not Wei Lian'er's own, they will still be treated as their own children.

While listening to Li Xian's explanation and looking at these photos, Wei Lian'er also recovered from her surprise and smiled slightly.

Normally, the children would write letters back every ten days and a half months. Now that I have these photos, I feel closer to the children.

But I have to say that she still feels unhappy about the princess's proposal to let the royal family go to the army. Now the youngest daughter around her will be six years old next year, and she will be taken to the military camp again at that time. Being a mother sucks at all.

This little girl was named Qiu Le because she was born in late autumn and made Li Xianle, who was originally troubled by some trivial matters, blossom.

Speaking of which, since Li Yuechen, all women born in the royal family have a first name. The previous custom of not naming women seems to have come to an end with Li Yuechen.

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Not only Li Xian's side, but also other families. When the mother saw the photo of the child, she was surprised at first, but then she felt that it would be nice to have a photo at home.

Although the fathers of many royal children were killed on charges of treason, their mothers were still there. When they saw the happy photos of the children, they put them away carefully.

In fact, the creativity of the ancient people was not bad at all. When Shangguan Waner came over the next day, she suggested to Wu Zetian that a carpenter could make a frame to frame the photo, and a bracket behind the wooden frame could keep It's on the table.

Such an idea was immediately approved by Wu Zetian, and then he ordered it to go on.

The top moved his mouth, and the bottom ran broken legs. This order came down in the morning, and the framed photo frames were delivered by dinner time. Not to mention, the effect was good, and it could stand firmly on the table.

Wu Zetian propped her arms on the table, looking at the photo of her daughter on the table, the more she looked at it, the more pleasing it was.

At the same time, I couldn't help thinking that when my daughter came back, I should take a few photos of myself. The level of detail is much better than that of portraits. The only drawback is that they are too small.

But Shangguan Wan'er didn't seem to think much of it. When she was sitting at her desk next to her and processing documents, she would always look up at the photos placed on the desk from time to time.

I can't help but laugh when I look at it, and then I lower my head and continue working.

Wu Zetian, who saw this scene at the side, didn't say anything, just raised his eyebrows slightly, and then acted as if he hadn't seen it.

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Qingdao Military Region.

Li Yuechen was watching the logistics soldiers carefully scatter the seeds in the glass shed that he had made, and turned and left after all the procedures were completed.

If the vegetables grown here can bear fruit this winter, the next step is to consider artificial hatching experiments.

The output of today's poultry farms is still a bit low, but if the artificial hatching experiment is successful, at least the output of poultry meat will be greatly increased in the future, and the price will be reduced a lot.

At that time, not only the army, but also ordinary people will be able to afford chickens and ducks. The nutrition will be improved, the chance of getting sick will be reduced, and the sustainable development of the population will be guaranteed.

When I go back to Dongdu next year, I can also try artificial breeding of freshwater fish. Maybe a few years of hard work can reduce the price of fish slightly.

Food is the most important thing for the people. In Li Yuechen's view, it is more important to let the people have enough to eat than infrastructure. As long as the people have enough to eat, the country can maintain stability.

After completing this step, Li Yuechen returned to the office, planning to start the next step.

Now that the Academy of Engineering has stabilized, and there are ships and airships, it is almost time to officially turn on the bright light of science.

To achieve this, Li Yuechen's first plan is to fix the most commonly used units of length, that is, to determine the concepts of millimeters, centimeters and meters.

The units of length in this era are mainly Zhang, Chi, and Inch. There is also the concept of millimetres, but they are not very common. Li Yuechen's plan is to manufacture tape measures to completely fix these units.

The tape measure is made of steel rods, and there is a prerequisite for steelmaking, so Li Yuechen plans to make a batch of tape measures first and distribute them to these craftsmen, and then they will promote this brand new measurement unit to the whole country in the future.

So how to determine this scale?

After thinking about it carefully, Li Yuechen decided to put this matter on his mother.

Back then, I swore in my heart that I would let my mother leave the name of a great emperor in history. Although now under her rule, the country is prosperous and the people are peaceful, and the national power is sufficient, and even made something like an airship, but just to be on the safe side However, Li Yuechen still decided to give her more credit.

For example, after the second ship is completed next year, people will be sent out to find new crops such as potatoes and corn. If this can be done before my mother abdicates, it will be regarded as a meritorious service during her reign.

But if we can completely unify weights and measures now, and let this system continue to be used in the future, then the name of the Great Emperor is considered to be well established.

Don't talk about anything else, just talk about Qin Shihuang, say that he is an emperor through the ages, is there anything wrong with it?

From Li Yuechen's point of view, his greatest contribution is not to build the Great Wall, nor to annex the six countries, but that the book and the car are on the same track!

In her opinion, Chinese characters are the greatest miracle in this land, a priceless treasure that is more valuable than any antique, and an ancient heritage that everyone who uses Chinese characters should understand.

The same script allows this multi-ethnic country to have cohesion, so that people who speak different dialects can understand the same script, and thus have a common culture.

On this point, even Li Yuechen, who was not interested in history at all, also thought so.

When I graduated from university and became an extreme athlete, I did many activities with Yingjiang, and learned about the short history of that country by the way.

That's when she learned that Yingjiang is an immigrant country, a country formed after a group of people gathered together, or to put it bluntly, a country established after a group of invaders wiped out the local aborigines.

But it happens to be such a country, a country where the executive, judicial and legislative powers are separated to ensure the stability of the country.

Brazil and Eagle Sauce were founded at the same time. However, there has never been a military coup after the founding of Eagle Sauce. To some extent, Eagle Sauce can be regarded as one of the great miracles in human history.

But at the same moment, Li Yuechen ended his challenge, or work.

After returning to China, I made a phone call for an old man who was ill and fell on the side of the road, sent him to the hospital, and then helped to accompany him in the hospital for a day until the old man's children came.

Although it was only a few hours, the two of them chatted more and more speculatively during these few hours, and they actually became friends.

After the old man was discharged from the hospital, he invited Li Yuechen to eat at home, saying that he was grateful for saving his life, so she also went.

After going there, I found out that the old man turned out to be a big boss of the Shaanxi Calligraphy Association, and there were various calligraphy treasures hanging in his home, which shocked Li Yuechen, who saw calligraphy for the first time at that time.

The black and white writing is simple, and every word can be recognized, but standing among those copybooks, it feels like being in a Tai Chi picture, surrounded by black and white mountains and flowing water, as if to let go of the mood in an instant.

It wasn't until then that Li Yuechen discovered that his own country also had a miracle that he had always ignored, a miracle that lasted for thousands of years.

I know every word clearly, but I feel that there seems to be a story behind every word. There seem to be countless rules between each word, but I can't understand it for a while.

Things that can be understood at a glance, and things that are completely incomprehensible are actually very difficult to arouse the desire to find out, but the text is different, and it can be understood at a glance, but it feels like it cannot be understood.

This feeling is especially strong when facing the words written by a master calligrapher.

It was from then on that Li Yuechen became interested in writing, but because of exercising every day, he had no time to learn brush calligraphy, so he learned hard-tipped pen calligraphy on the recommendation of the old man.

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Shaking his head lightly, withdrawing from the memories, Li Yuechen took a sip from his teacup.

In any case, the importance of weights and measures is self-evident. The first thing to determine is the unit of length. It seems that I will tell my mother when I go home this year.

Unify the unit of length first, which is especially important for the development of various machinery, and there will be opportunities to gradually unify other units in the future.

After confirming this point, Li Yuechen recorded it first, and now it is November, and the rest will be discussed after the new year.

Speaking of it, it's been a long time since I played to relax, so it's better to go out to change my mood.

Thinking of this, Li Yuechen ran directly to the training ground, planning to go skydiving for fun.

Extreme sports are a hobby of youth. It seems that I am almost 30 years old. If I don’t have fun, I am afraid that I will have no chance in the future.

The only pity is that there is no way to make zippers in this era, so flying wingsuits cannot be made. This is also a pity after coming to this era.

Oh, by the way, there are also motorcycles. If I can make an engine in my lifetime, maybe it is really possible to research this thing.