Great Tang princess

All the way to Nanshi, the speed of the carriage slowed down a lot. Li Yuechen observed the street scene that he hadn't seen for many years through the window.

Compared with when I was a child, the streets have undoubtedly become much cleaner.

The cement road reduces the dust flying in the sky when the weather is dry, and the visibility is much better all of a sudden.

There is not much rubbish on the road these days, let alone plastic bags and the like, and the overall appearance is quite clean.

The carriage slowly stopped at the gate of Taiping Rihuo.

Originally, these were actually two stores, each buying various daily necessities such as canned fruit and soap.

But later in Pei Qingwan's business process, they merged directly to prevent trouble.

Now it is a bit like a small supermarket, with high-end snacks such as canned food, as well as daily necessities such as soap and glycerin.

In summer, shaved ice is also sold here, and the price is not expensive. Children from middle-class families can still come here to buy some from time to time.

After observing outside for a while, Li Yuechen didn't get out of the car, but knocked on the car window to let Yi Liuru continue to go forward.

Most of Li Yuechen's businesses are located in Nanshi. Besides here, there are also Taiping Buzhuang and Taiping Bookstore, all of which are here.

Including the teahouse and restaurant under her name, etc., are also in the nearby Fangshi.

After all, this is the most prosperous place in Dongdu, so most of her industries are concentrated here.

After the carriage drove around Nanshi, Li Yuechen planned to visit the paper mill, so he asked Yiluoru to drive outside the city.

Li Yuechen crossed his legs and sat on the sofa in the carriage, while looking at the scenery on the road, while thinking about how to change the city pattern in the future.

Both Dongdu and Chang'an are based on the system of fangshi. Walking on the road, there are fang walls on both sides, and you can't see any shops.

In the past, this was for the convenience of fighting.

But now that Guotai Minan is in urgent need of economic development, this model needs to be changed.

In particular, the Fangshi system is actually not very convenient, because this system requires most shops to be opened in the market.

In other places, they can only operate some teahouses, restaurants or food stalls.

This means that people who want to buy small gadgets such as needlework have to wait until the market opens during the day before buying.

And the market is not allowed to open in the morning, and only allowed to operate for half a day, and if you live farther away, it is really troublesome to go back and forth.

Therefore, Li Yuechen's idea is to open up the walls of the workshop and open up commerce, so that shops can be opened on both sides of the street and various businesses can be operated.

You can also open more small shops in Fangshi to deal in some daily necessities and the like.

As for a large market like Nanbei City, we can refer to the future business district model to make it a gathering place for young people.

In fact, there are some things that she does not need to deliberately promote. With the development of time, many things will be born by themselves.

Like... the curtain.

When Li Yuechen was young, all the girls on the street wore curtains, but it's only been a few years, and now there is no one on the street.

The other thing is the atmosphere. Nowadays, it is nothing new for a dozen or more men and women to come out to play together.

In the past, some organizations such as folk poetry clubs were basically either men or women.

The same goes for outings during the Cold Food Festival, a group of men and a group of women.

Now, it is nothing new for a group of men and women to get together to write poetry or eat together.

Among them, Li Yuechen's role is only a little bit, and the bigger reason is because the emperor is a woman now.

It can even be seen from the woman's makeup.

During the reign of father Li Zhi, women's flowers were not too big, basically not wider than the eyebrows.

But since the mother came to power, the woman's flower tin has become bigger and bigger.

Even now, they are no longer satisfied with appliques, and many women have begun to paint directly on their foreheads.

And the paintings are bigger than the other, and flowers that can almost fill the entire forehead can be seen on the street from time to time.

Of course, this kind of makeup can only be seen on girls from wealthy families at present, but this is enough to explain the trend.

The progress of civilization is actually visible to the naked eye, so Li Yuechen thinks it's about time to develop business.

Of course, the change of the city cannot be started all at once, especially in the imperial society, the issue of royal majesty must be considered.

Therefore, it is better to keep the main street of a city as it is now.

……

Li Yuechen on the carriage was thinking while looking at the scenery outside the window.

Nowadays, the roads in the city are all stipulated to drive on the right, and people in this era are quite disciplined.

Except for the occasional dandy drag racing, the roads are relatively smooth most of the time, and congestion is unlikely to happen.

All the way out of the city, the soldiers guarding the gate planned to make a routine question.

However, after the guard who rode in front raised his hand and showed Li Yuechen's fish talisman, the soldiers let him go without stopping.

The main reason was that this carriage belonged to Pei Qingwan, and she rarely went out, so the soldiers guarding the city didn't know her.

……

Now there is also a large section of road outside the city that is made of concrete, and it is still being extended.

This road was built a few years ago. For the convenience of transportation in the future, it will go directly from Dongdu to Qingdao.

It's just that it may take a few years for the two places to be fully connected, so there is no rush.

The paper mill was built outside the city, in the lower reaches of Luoshui River.

Li Yuechen deliberately built the factory to be very large, and at the same time told them the importance of protecting the environment.

Arriving outside the factory building, the carriage had just stopped, and someone inside had already greeted him.

The soldiers guarding the city in Pei Qingwan's carriage may not know each other, but the people in the paper mill do.

So the person who saw it at the door ran over to greet him immediately.

However, when the car door opened, the person who got out was not Pei Qingwan, but Li Yuechen who was wearing a white skirt.

These two people were obviously newcomers, they had never seen Li Yuechen before, and they stopped in mid-air when they saw an unknown person getting off the carriage, and they were about to salute.

However, Yiluoru frowned, and said coldly: "Bold! You are not polite when you see the princess?!"

As soon as they heard that the big boss was here, the two of them didn't bother to distinguish between the real and the fake, and hurriedly saluted: "I have seen Her Royal Highness!"

"Free gift!"

Li Yuechen was not angry about this, looked around and asked, "Where is Du Er Er?"

One of them quickly replied: "Go back to Your Highness, let's! Please also come with me, Your Highness."

While turning around to lead the way, he also kicked his companion next to him on the ass, reminding him to go in and notify.

The person who was kicked also realized that the princess came in person, if there was no one to salute after entering, it would be over.

So he quickly speeded up and ran into the factory first.

Li Yuechen followed behind and walked into the factory slowly. As soon as he entered the gate, Du Er Er brought all the staff over to salute.

"I have seen Her Royal Highness!"

"Excuse me!" Li Yuechen waved his hand lightly, then smiled at Du Erer, "I haven't seen you for a long time, are you okay?"

"Thanks to the princess' wrong love, everything is fine!"

Du Er Er smiled honestly, and then made a "please" gesture: "Your Highness, please follow me!"

Following Du Laoer into the factory building, Li Yuechen observed from left to right.

Overall, it's not bad, there is no feeling of mess, everything is in order.

It seems that they are strictly implementing the phalanx they have set for these years.

Li Yuechen came over suddenly today, and they didn't have much time to put on a show, so what they saw now was the usual appearance.

Afterwards, Li Yuechen asked about the recent affairs of the paper mill, and learned that everything was going well.

There is no problem in terms of business, especially straw paper, which is selling really well.

From the high-ranking officials to the common people, basically all the bamboo chips have been thrown away and straw paper has been used instead.

After all, it is indeed much more comfortable to wipe your butt with this thing than bamboo chips.

Now Du Lao Er, the person in charge, doesn't need to do it himself most of the time, and is only in charge of management.

After arriving at his office, Li Yuechen sat down and asked straight to the point: "Speaking of which, what happened to the special seal that I asked you to study last time?"

"Return to Your Highness, Xiao Lao is planning to reply to His Highness in the near future, and it has already achieved results."

While answering, Du Er Er took out a piece of paper from the box beside him and handed it over: "Your Highness, please have a look."

Li Yuechen took it over and took a look, and immediately felt something unusual.

This paper feels stiff at first, relatively crisp, without the soft feeling of most papers today.

Of course, it is not as good as the paper money in the future, but in terms of the level of rice paper, it is indeed relatively crisp.

Shake it a few times in your hand, and you can still hear the sound of "哗啦哗啦".

This discovery has already surprised Li Yuechen. This kind of paper is already a very powerful improvement in this era.

Then he raised his hand and placed the paper in the sunlight for observation.

At this time, it was approaching dusk, and the sun was not as glaring as it was at noon.

However, a circle is still seen in the lower left corner of the paper, and there is also a pattern of two crossed spears.

Seeing this pattern, Li Yuechen couldn't help but laugh out loud. Unexpectedly, they really made it!

She lowered her arms and asked curiously, "How did you do it?"

"Returning to Your Highness, as long as the raised patterns are carved on the board when the paper is made, after the paper dries in the shade, this place will be thinner than the rest, so this effect can be achieved..."

The principle is quite simple, but Li Yuechen can imagine that they must have gone through many experiments to achieve this step.

She nodded slightly: "Can this pattern be made more complicated?"

"It shouldn't be too difficult, and most of the patterns should be fine!" Du Er Er replied with a nod.

Since he dared to say that in front of the princess, it was probably okay.

Li Yuechen nodded slightly: "Since that's the case, let's give it a try. I plan to use this as a remittance slip..."

She briefly explained her plan, and then asked Du Erer what advice he could offer.

As a paper craftsman, Du Erer doesn't understand economics, but he knows the key point behind it, which is anti-counterfeiting!

Especially in the future, if merchants use it frequently, they will have a large amount of money. Once it is forged, they will have to spend a lot of money.

"I also know that forgery technology will always be upgraded, but if you have suggestions on this, you might as well say it, it can be regarded as a reference..."

Du Er Er thought for a while: "Your Highness, this paper is made of Yizhou Tengsang. If it is designated as tribute paper, it should be able to raise the cost of counterfeiting..."

Li Yuechen thought about it, and it was true.

Now the formula of this paper is unknown to others. Even if it is said that it will be cracked one day, maybe the technology here will be more advanced at that time?

So I asked Du Lao Er to try other patterns first, and then go back and talk to others in detail.

After the matter was finalized, Li Yuechen asked if the panda dung could be made into paper.

The answer I got was yes, but I couldn't write it, it was just better quality than straw paper.

Li Yuechen took a look at the test product, and the feel was almost the same as the future toilet paper, and the color was also khaki.

After wiping his hands with it himself, Li Yuechen felt that it could be put into production.

Let Du Laoer choose a group of people to go to Yizhou to set up a paper mill, and then specialize in the production of this toilet paper to supply the army.

Even if the output increases in the future, it can become the toilet paper specially provided by the army, and occasionally it will be a means to attract people to join the army.

This is not a joke, the reason why one of Li Yuechen's junior high school classmates chose to join the army was to try the legendary army internal cigarettes.

Although that buddy didn't really smoke one until he was discharged from the army...

But in any case, the more attractive features on the army, the better.

……

After finalizing the matter here, the sun was about to set, so Li Yuechen took a carriage back to the city.

When we returned to the gate of the city, we could already hear the sound of evening drums. However, there was no curfew on the [-]th day of the first lunar month, so not only did the number of pedestrians on the street not decrease, but there were even more people than usual.

Yi Luoru asked: "Your Highness, do you want to go directly to the Princess Mansion?"

"Well... let's go to Tonglifang." Li Yuechen waved his hand.

Hearing this place name, Yiluoru was stunned for a moment, but she agreed immediately.

Tonglifang is not far from Nanshi.Just like Pingkangfang in Chang'an, it is the largest gathering place of entertainment venues in Dongdu.

The nightclub opened by Li Yuechen is here, and it is also the only one without the Taiping prefix among all the properties under her name.

She wanted to go there to see how the business was going, and on the [-]th day of the first lunar month, most people were shopping outside to watch the lanterns. There shouldn't be many people, so it should be a good time to go and have a look.

Although the sun had already set, the road was not affected at all because there were many lanterns on the street, and we arrived at our destination soon.

At the gate of Tonglifang, after the carriage entered, Li Yuechen saw the huge building that occupied a quarter of the square at a glance.

This is a three-story brick-and-wood structure. It looks like a building of this era on the outside, but when you look in from the gate, you can find that there is no pillar in the hall, and the space is extremely open!
And this name is even more simple and rude, just two words: Lelou!