Great Tang princess

Chapter 743 Typewriter Improvement

From the next day, Wei Lian'er followed Li Xian to Jixian Hall every morning.

Li Xianyao learned to review various memorials, while Wei Lian'er followed Shangguan Wan'er to learn how to deal with the information sent by the secret guard.

Wu Zetian, who had been completely idle, was listening to music and flipping through the photos sent in the morning.

Every time I went to an expedition, I naturally brought a camera with me, and I took a lot of photos after the affairs in Tubo were completed.

Most of them were taken by Empress Wu Zetian sitting in the main hall of Hongshan Palace, including the photo of Songtsan, the red capital of Tubo, holding the letter of surrender.

Another photo was taken by Wu Zetian and the officials he sent standing on the square in front of the Hongshan Palace.

In the photo, she had her hands behind her back, while Chidu Songtsan and other officials sent in made salute gestures.

These photos have been sealed in glass photo frames and can be preserved for thousands of years.

Future historians can glimpse many details of this era through these photos.

"Your Majesty, drink some tea." Shangguan Wan'er reminded, while gently handing over the freshly brewed tea.

Wu Zetian nodded slightly, and then said: "The photos are really lifelike no matter how you look at them, but it's a pity that they are all in black and white..."

"Wan'er asked about this before, and His Highness said that this aspect of color can only be left to future generations to continue to study."

"This is what Chen'er said, the limitations of the times." I said yesterday while picking up the teacup, and took a sip.

Judging from the expression, it seems that there is also a little regret.

After all, I have seen such a miraculous thing, but if I can't make it more perfect, I will indeed feel unwilling.

"Wan'er feels that His Majesty does not need to regret it. Now this photo can let future generations see His Majesty's face, but it has no color. Instead, future generations should feel sorry." Shangguan Wan'er said with a light smile.

After Wu Zetian heard this, she turned her head slightly and glanced at her, then raised her hand with a smile and pointed at her twice: "You, after staying with Chen'er for a long time, the skill of flattery is getting longer."

"Your Majesty was joking, Wan'er is speaking from the bottom of her heart..."

Listening to the two talking and laughing non-stop, the atmosphere was relaxed and harmonious.Wei Lian'er, who was sitting next to Li Xian, couldn't help but look up at her husband, conveying her meaning with her eyes: Why are you and I working so hard here, but they can drink tea and chat easily?

Li Xian spread his hands, and then winked: That's why I said I don't want to be the prince!

Then he sighed helplessly, shook his head, continued to pick up his pen and began to review the memorabilia.

Wei Lian'er also scratched her scalp a little irritatedly, and continued to look through the intimidating information sent from various places.

Fortunately, in terms of work, she is more relaxed than Li Xian.

After all, today's national ministers are still mainly elderly people, so work documents must be written with a brush.

The dark guard is an institution with many young people, so it can use a pen to review.

There are few words written, and there may be no special feeling.

But once you write for a long time, the advantages of the pen are highlighted.

Wei Lian'er was a little tired, she could use one hand to support her chin and write with the other hand.

But the writing brush is not good, if the body is crooked, the writing is likely to be crooked.

And Li Xian was the number one calligrapher in the world, so he would definitely not allow any problems with his calligraphy.

Although he is usually too lazy to die, he definitely has an attitude of striving for excellence in calligraphy.

And the final result of this is that every night when I go back, I have to call my servants to rub my wrists.

……

On the first day of May, the weather had become completely hot, and Li Yuechen came to the Engineering Institute in a carriage.

Today's Li Yuechen was dressed very coolly, wearing a pure white cheongsam, holding a folding fan, and even the ponytail, which had always remained the same, was tied behind his head today and pinned up with a few hairpins.

There is no way, the main reason is that the weather is too hot now. If it is not in ancient times, you may even think that the world is warming.

There were only two snowfalls in Dongdu last winter, and only one in Chang'an. It is conceivable how warm the climate is.

And this time after returning from Tubo, Li Yuechen also verified his conjecture.

Now it should be the warming period between the two ice ages. Now even the plateau areas like Tubo have become lush and lush. In addition, there are elephant herds in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, so this conjecture is probably true.

And in recent years, it can be clearly felt that the summer is getting hotter every year.

So now Li Yuechen doesn't care about any etiquette and customs, and just wears a cheongsam.

Anyway, it's just a trip to the Engineering Academy, and I take a carriage back and forth, and I won't just walk on the street dressed like this.

However, such a dress surprised everyone in the engineering academy.

When Pei Bishu came out to greet her, seeing the princess dressed like this, she lowered her head in fright: "Your Highness..."

"Okay, okay, let's go in and say, it's almost too hot!" Li Yuechen fanned himself with a folding fan while waving his hands to urge him to go in quickly.

After entering the engineering academy, when other people saw the princess dressed like this, they all bowed their heads and turned around, doing their own things, and even forgot to come over to salute.

Li Yuechen didn't care much about these things, so he went straight to the point and said, "I asked Ben Gong to come here today. Doesn't it mean that the typewriter has made some progress? Come and take a look!"

Pei Bishu quickly agreed: "Yes! Your Highness, please come with me and take a look in the laboratory."

When they came to the laboratory, Wang Gangdan and other craftsmen bowed their heads in salute.

However, Li Yuechen saw the typewriter that was already on the table at a glance.

It seemed to be the same as before, so I asked, "What improvements have been made?"

Wang Gangdan immediately introduced with his head down. According to him, this typewriter could type out a total of 8064 characters before.

This time, some changes have been made in this regard. On some scroll wheels, only Chinese characters are not added, and only various radicals are added.

For example, if you want to type a character Qin, you can first find three, then type a person, and finally find the bottom of the small He character, and then you can type the character.

After sorting and combining in this way, this typewriter can currently type more than 9 characters.

After Li Yuechen heard it, the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching, and he complained secretly: Are there [-] Chinese characters?

Although this function seems a bit tasteless, but in any case, with such a positive attitude, it is worth encouraging.

After making some verbal commendations, Li Yuechen asked the question he was most concerned about: "Can the production increase?"

Speaking of this, Pei Bishu immediately replied: "His Royal Highness, if we build a single factory at present, the annual output can reach [-] units, and the cost can also be reduced to [-] guan."

"Five hundred guan... Twelve sets..."

Li Yuechen murmured to himself for a while, then nodded: "Well, let's leave it at that for now. At first, it must be an order from the imperial court only, and the price should be [-] guan."

At present, only the imperial court can afford this kind of thing. Although those aristocratic families can afford it, they may not be able to buy it.

For now, this kind of thing is still given priority to the imperial court and the army.

According to the experiments conducted by Pei Bishu and the others, after proficiency in this typewriter, the highest record can be 55 characters per minute.

This data may not be a big deal in the future, but in this era, it has far surpassed the efficiency of handwriting.

Li Yuechen also brought a prototype with him when he left, and brought it with him when he entered the palace the next day.

The weather is hot, and there are several basins of ice cubes in the store to cool down.

Seeing Li Yuechen's cheongsam attire, Wu Zetian couldn't help admonishing him immediately: "You are a majestic princess of a country, you have been like this since you were a child..."

"Oh, it's hot! You don't have to teach me, Auntie, you came here by carriage."

Seeing her like this, Wu Zetian didn't say anything anymore. Anyway, after all these years, he knew that she was not too much.

After taking the tea from Shangguan Wan'er and taking a sip, Li Yuechen waved his hand and asked Xiaodong behind him to put the typewriter on the table.

Then he pulled Wei Lian'er over and said, "Sister-in-law, use this from now on."

Wei Lian'er had never seen such a thing, or even heard of it, so she couldn't help asking curiously, "What is this?"

"Come on, I'll teach you!"

Speaking of Li Yuechen, he pulled her aside and began to teach her how to use it.

Wu Zetian and others had seen the first typewriter before, so they were no longer so curious about it.

It's just that it can be put into use now, and I feel a little surprised.

The operation of this thing is not very difficult, and Wei Lian'er has fully mastered it in about half an hour, but the proficiency will take some time to get used to.

After a while, he took a white paper full of handwriting and showed off to Ideal with some excitement: "Look, Your Highness."

Li Xian took it over and looked at it, then frowned: "This word has no charm!"

Although the speed is indeed much faster, the words typed out are quite different from those written by hand.

"Efficiency is what the imperial court needs! What kind of charm do you want?" Li Yuechen picked up his teacup and took a sip. "With this thing, the workload of the past three days can be completed in one day!"

Hearing this sentence, Li Xian raised his eyebrows: "Doesn't that mean that we will have to complete three days of work every day in the future? I'm too tired..."

Hearing this sentence, Li Yuechen was also slightly taken aback, then couldn't help standing up, and patted his brother on the shoulder: "Ah brother, I can already see the future."

He is right, the biggest difference between the future and the current era is that it is too curly.

But such a period will not stay for too long, it is an inevitable process.

In fact, the so-called eagle sauce or other countries in Europe that seem to have no 996 have had moments when the rolls flew up.

It's just that they ended early and didn't last too long.

And Li Yuechen set the labor law early, but he just didn't want to let such a thing happen.

Perhaps it is impossible to have a perfect country in this world, but Li Yuechen wants to turn it into a near-perfect country.

Of course, that may only be for the people, but for the imperial court, the volume still has to continue.

……

On the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May, the emperor took his family to watch the dragon boat race on the wall of the imperial city as usual.

That is to say, from this day, the provincial system began to be officially implemented on a trial basis.

Start with the four provinces of Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei and Tubo.

This system is basically the same as the future, but there are also differences.

Take Shandong as an example, because Qingdao is currently the most developed area in Shandong, so Qingdao was originally intended to be the capital of Shandong Province.

However, due to its geographical location near the sea, and Shandong Province is not small, it is not suitable.

It was finally decided to choose Qingzhou, which is geographically closer to the center of Shandong Province, as the capital.

The other is Shanxi Province. It stands to reason that there is no problem with Taiyuan being the chief assistant.

However, Taiyuan is also the place where the Li and Tang royal families thrived. From this point of view, it should be regarded as a municipality directly under the Central Government.

After discussions among cabinet ministers, it was finally decided to make Shiai the capital of Shanxi Province.

Shiai, on the east side of Taiyuan Mansion, used to be a natural barrier to defend against foreigners, called Weize Pass.

However, because Princess Pingyang once led troops to garrison here, it was also called Niangziguan by the local people.

Considering its unique geographical location and history and culture, it was set as the capital of Shanxi Province.

With the implementation of the provincial system, the efficiency of the imperial court has improved a lot.

And because many officials were sent to serve as governors and governors, some new faces appeared in the court.

But to Li Yuechen, there is no difference. It is still the same sentence. Adult men in this era are basically full of beards. At first glance, they are actually similar.

This situation may not change until the first batch of officers retire and change careers.

After all, it has become a habit for these people in the army to have short beards and short hair, and it may not be possible for them to grow their hair and grow their beards when the time comes.

And Li Yuechen's recent work is not easy. Apart from taking classes in the military academy, there are still a lot of things to deal with in the army.

Leaving aside the details, just talking about Li Chongrun's arrangement is very troublesome.

Due to the plan of wool trade in the future, and considering that the turmoil on the grassland may cause border instability, Li Yuechen plans to set up another military division on the northern border, which will be under the jurisdiction of the northern border military region where Liu Huang is located.

But it is too troublesome to recruit a new group of people to train from scratch.So Li Yuechen recently planned to transfer some of the trained recruits from other military regions.

But the arrangement of personnel is a trivial and troublesome task, and I have been worrying about this matter for the past few days.

But at this time, envoys from other countries came to the door again. Since returning the year before last, they have formed football teams in their own countries.

So this year I plan to come and participate in the Big Week Professional Football League. I started a few months ago, and now I will be here soon.

In the war some time ago, Tubo was regarded as a slap for other countries, and directly defeated itself.

In the future, it is definitely not possible to challenge Da Zhou through war, but it does not prevent starting from other aspects, such as football!

(End of this chapter)