Great Tang princess

Chapter 821 Happy Dragon Boat Festival

The atmosphere this year is really good. The only regret is that my mother is on vacation in Hainan, so I can't meet and chat in person.

But Wu Zetian still wrote a letter to the children, and sent back a few photos by the way.

In the photo, she is wearing casual clothes, sitting by the sea and eating coconuts, looking very carefree.

Li Xian expressed envy after seeing it, and then asked: "It's the first month at this time, isn't Zhenzhou cold?"

"Maybe there will be a few days when it will be cooler, but it shouldn't be too cold." Li Yuechen replied.

At least as far as she knew, the weather in that place was rarely below ten degrees.

"Oh, let's go and have a look after my brother abdicates in the future." Li Xian said while looking at the photo.

"Okay, you are still the emperor, don't think about abdicating all day long." Li Yuechen smiled, "Run'er is still young, and still needs a few more years of training."

Among other things, my brother's attitude is really problematic, he doesn't have the consciousness of being an emperor at all... Li Yuechen secretly complained in his heart.

Also feeling helpless is Li Chongrun. It is really unimaginable that with the attitude of the old man, how could the grandmother agree to let him succeed him.

This question was still circling in my mind when I went to Lu Yao's house to greet her on the third day of the Lunar New Year.

After the carriage stopped, the door opened, and Wu Rong, who was sitting next to her, got out of the carriage first, and then reminded: "Your Highness, we are here."

Wu Rong is Li Chongrun's bodyguard. She was a member of the palace guard before, and now she is the captain of Li Chongrun's bodyguard.

This man is very smart, his academic performance is the first in the army, and his personality is very calm.

Although he is not a top martial arts master, he can still be ranked in the first echelon.

And the marksmanship is very good, and the Frisbee target basically ranks in the top three every time.

So after comprehensive consideration, it was decided to let her be the captain of the guard.

Li Chongrun agreed and jumped out of the carriage.

Lu Yao, who had been waiting at the door for a long time, immediately greeted her: "It's Chinese New Year, why is Your Highness still in military uniform?"

"I'm dressed like this on weekdays, but I'm not used to wearing that round neck robe." Li Chongrun replied with a smile.

In terms of wearing comfort, the military uniform is definitely better.

After all, clothes in this era are a bit troublesome to put on. To put it bluntly, you have to pay more attention when going to the toilet.

But the military uniform is different, it is not troublesome to wear, and it looks upright and energetic.

Of course, it was winter after all, so Li Chongrun wore a military overcoat over his military uniform.

This army coat is also pure black and filled with cotton.The collar and cuffs are thick wool.

For the best thermal performance, this coat is made relatively wide, which can wrap two normal-sized people without any problem, and the length almost hangs down to the feet.

But because of this, Li Chongrun felt a little hot, so the buttons on the outside were unbuttoned, and he could see the straight military uniform inside.

Of course, that's what Lu Yao said. From her own point of view, she thinks the military uniform looks pretty good, and it has a special temptation.

It's a pity that Lu Yao is an ancient person after all, and she doesn't know that people like her will be the so-called uniform control in the future.

After saying hello, Li Chongrun followed her into the Lu residence.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw that the members of the Lu family were already waiting. When they saw him coming in, they all saluted: "I have seen His Royal Highness!"

"Quick and free!"

Li Chongrun walked over and helped the head of the family, Lu Yuanfang, up: "This is a family, so there is no need to perform such a big gift!"

With such an attitude, the Lu family couldn't help but have a much better impression of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

In a feudal society, in order to show its supremacy, the imperial power did not need to abide by certain etiquette laws.

But Li Chongrun's attitude makes people feel very approachable and comfortable to get along with.

Strictly speaking, this is the first time for the Lu family to see Li Chongrun. Although Lu Yao always praised him for how good he is, they always had no real feeling in their hearts.

But today, it seems that there is finally a clear concept.

Wearing a straight military uniform, the whole person looks very energetic.

With a height of 1.7 meters and [-] meters, he is considered tall in this era. Wearing a military uniform, he can feel that ordinary people do not have a kind of spirit.

But unlike those uneducated old men in my impression, he seemed to be polite and personable.

In addition, Li Chongrun himself is not bad in appearance, and he has won the favor of the Lu family just after meeting.

Unlike the future, appearance discrimination in this era will be on the surface.

To be an official in this era, no matter whether it is the family background or the imperial examination, the selection will be carried out according to the standards of "body, speech, writing, and judgment".

The body ranks first, and the body is required to be magnificent and dignified!
Simply put, if you look good, you are more likely to be selected.

And it's a coincidence that Li Chongrun just grew up in the aesthetics of this era.

This has to mention the aesthetic changes since ancient times.

In the Han Dynasty, good-looking people could be eaten as food, and there were also braids and iron rice bowls.

During the Han Dynasty, there was an official position in the imperial palace called Ye Zhe.

According to the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", the main job of this position is to deliver news and receive guests.If there is any etiquette activity, you have to take the stage to preside over it.When an official at the farming level dies, he must preside over the funeral and so on.

And the hard requirement for this position is appearance!
In the Wei, Jin and Southern Dynasties, aesthetics changed to a certain extent.

At that time, celebrities liked to evaluate characters, and even came up with a set of systematic character evaluation theories, and appearance was one of the important criteria.

After all, it was the golden age of scholar-bureaucrats and aristocrats, and metaphysics became a social trend, so aesthetics no longer favored martial arts, but focused on literati aesthetics.

The standard is also relatively simple, the skin must be white, the stature must be tall, and the temperament must be soft.

For example, the legendary Pan An, with red lips and white teeth, and a face like beautiful jade, directly calls himself handsome as an adjective.

When she went out, she would be surrounded by a group of fans, who surrounded her car tightly.In order to express his love for him, he will throw fruit to him.

Then Pan An got a cart of fruit, which is also the origin of the idiom "throwing fruit to fill the cart".

But if one is ugly, it is absolutely impossible to receive this kind of treatment, no matter how good the literary talent is, it is useless.

Even if the literary talents are so good that they can raise the price of paper in Luoyang by themselves, it is bound to be impossible to get this kind of treatment.

In the Tang Dynasty, aesthetics changed again.

This is because the Tang Dynasty was more deeply influenced by the Northern Dynasties, and most people in the Northern Dynasties were from the nomadic Xianbei.

So tough guys and handsome guys have become the mainstream, coupled with the influence of Taizong himself, so the aesthetic requirements of men in this era are tall and strong in martial arts!

Even Li Yuechen once thought that Tang Dynasty people's bad temper was probably influenced by this aspect.

People in this era mainly pay attention to not beeping when they can do it. It is not uncommon for people to fight when they disagree with each other.

And Li Chongrun just grew up in the aesthetics of this era.

Since I was a child, I had systematic and scientific sports in the military camp. In addition, I ate well and kept up with nutrition, so I was tall and tall.

If you take off your clothes, you can still see the streamlined muscles on your body.

Year-round outdoor sports have also turned the skin into a slight bronze color.

With the stubble around his face, he is a masculine and handsome guy.

In addition, people are also cultured and polite, and they don't put on the airs of a prince, so Li Chongrun got along very well with the Lu family this day.

Especially Lu's mother, originally thought that her daughter's marriage to the royal family must depend on other people's faces.

But looking at it today, I feel that this son-in-law cannot bully his daughter.

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And Li Yuechen also took advantage of this holiday to stay at home.

Apart from practicing kung fu every day, I just play games or mahjong with Shangguan Waner and her sister and sister-in-law.

On the seventh day of the first lunar month, the latest issue of the newspaper was released, reporting on Li Chongrun's becoming the prince, and also published part of his resume.

Because he has become the prince, there is a high probability that he will not go to the battlefield in person in the future, so some of his information does not need to be kept secret.

The purpose of doing this is also to let the public have an understanding of the prince in advance, just like printing the face of the mother on the banknotes.

If it weren't for the immature photo printing technology nowadays, Li Yuechen even wanted them to publish Li Chongrun's photo directly.

Therefore, the public soon knew some of the achievements of His Royal Highness the Prince.

For example, during the Tubo War, he rushed to the front line and was the first to break into the Hongshan Palace.

The rebellion in the north also personally commanded and captured Li Jinmi and Sun Wanzhan, etc...

Of course, there are also some small achievements, such as excellent training results during the military camp.

Speaking of it, it can be regarded as a big meal for the people of the whole country. After all, this is the first time that the resumes of members of the royal family are truly introduced in detail.

However, because of this, Li Chongrun's topic was aroused.

All of a sudden, the streets and alleys were basically discussing various deeds of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

As for the other members of the royal family, their identities are still highly confidential and are not known to outsiders.

The same is true for several other children including the emperor. Before leaving the front line, their identities are all state secrets.

At the same time, Li Yuechen also made other plans in this regard.

That is to separate Zongzheng Temple and become a highly confidential institution directly responsible to the emperor.

After all, Zongzheng Temple records the information of all members of the royal family. It is regarded as the exclusive archives of the royal family, and confidentiality is very important.

But having said that, although Li Yuechen has been staying at home during this time, the Princess Mansion is not quiet at all.

Since the mirror came out, people came to the door with gifts almost every day.

They said it was New Year's greetings, but they actually knew why they came here.

And Li Yuechen didn't want to be disturbed during this time, so he didn't see anyone, and told them what to do after work.

Then he told Pei Qingwan that the cooperation model was up to her to figure it out.

As for this mirror... Considering that rare things are more expensive, the price of the [-]-carat mirror is [-] yuan a piece.

Eight open cheaper, one thousand.As for the ones above [-], it is custom-made, starting at [-], and there is no cap on it!
Expensive is a bit expensive, but for those foreign businessmen, it is not up to them to decide how much to sell back.

As for the domestic...forget it for now, after all, the cost of silver nitrate has already been placed there, and it is still not something that ordinary people can afford.

Instead of this, it is better to harvest a wave of rich people's money first.

In this way, Li Yuechen made money, the rich pretended to be aggressive, and the foreign businessmen also got benefits, which was a win-win situation.

After going to work on the eighth day of the lunar new year, many people couldn't wait to go to the Princess Mansion and talk about the price with Pei Qingwan.

After hearing the price, even though they were mentally prepared, many dignitaries still couldn't stop complaining about Li Yuechen in their hearts.

For ordinary rich people, this price is still not cheap, and it is not unaffordable, but it is somewhat painful.

You know, the price of rice today is five copper coins per bucket, and the usual money is equal to one hundred yuan. This price is really expensive and a bit outrageous.

Those foreign businessmen don't care, anyway, it's 2000 yuan a mirror, I'll ship it back and sell it for [-] yuan, isn't that too much?
If it is purely converted based on purchasing power, one hundred yuan now is equal to about eight thousand yuan in the future.

And a mirror the size of 4K will cost [-] yuan.

Thinking of this, Li Yuechen felt that he was somewhat dark.

But this kind of matter is left to my sister-in-law to deal with it. After work, Li Yuechen is dealing with work in the engineering institute.

First of all, Qin Tianjian and the Academy of Engineering should re-develop new products.

The astronomical telescope has been successful so far, and it will be fine as long as it is gradually upgraded in the future. She wants to do something else.

Li Yuechen spread out the drawings on the table: "This thing, called a clock, is a more convenient time recording tool than the clock and the armillary sphere..."

To be honest, even if a clock is made in this era, I am afraid that its accuracy may not necessarily be stronger than that of an armillary sphere.

But the problem is that the armillary sphere is too big to be placed indoors.

So Li Yuechen planned to let them make clocks and watches, even if they could make the old pendulum-style ones, at least they could be placed indoors.

The only problem is that she doesn't know much about the internal structure of the clock, and she needs to let them figure it out slowly, and she can't give them too much inspiration and hints.

Li Yuechen didn't care about the rest, let the people from Qin Tianjian and the Engineering Academy slowly figure it out.

Then she came to the laboratory next to her, and told Wang Gangdan and other bosses and a group of young craftsmen about the internal structure of the aircraft.

Although the internal combustion engine has not yet been mass-produced, since the experiment has been successful, it is time to arrange for knowledge in this area.

So a group of old craftsmen and young apprentices sat below, listening to Li Yuechen explain the knowledge of aircraft on the podium.

"The operation of the internal combustion engine needs air, and in the sky, as the height increases, the air will become thinner, so in order to prevent the engine from stalling, it is necessary to make a compressor. The specific principle is relatively simple..."

A group of craftsmen sitting below listened to Li Yuechen's explanation, and couldn't help complaining in their hearts. Do you call this simple?
Although the principle is really simple and understandable, it is to let a large number of blades rotate to compress the air...

But the problem is that this kind of equipment is not easy to make!
Of course, the complaints in my heart belonged to the complaints, but I still cheered up and worked hard to attend the class.

After all, if this kind of thing is made, they can be regarded as living up to the princess' expectations, and at the same time, they will become celebrities in the history of craftsmen!

(End of this chapter)