Great Tang princess

Chapter 91
What Li Yuechen didn't know was that after she left the Hall of Renshou, Li Zhi took the glasses she gave her and looked at them carefully over and over again.

From time to time, I reached out and stroked it lightly, as if holding a beloved baby.

Wu Zetian next to him looked at him and shook his head slightly: "Your Majesty, rather than fiddling with those glasses, how about sitting down and listening to government affairs?"

"Just say what you say, I'll listen." Li Zhi agreed without looking back, looking around with his glasses in his hand.

Hearing such an answer, and looking at his appearance, Wu Zetian opened his mouth, but finally said nothing.

Li Yuechen who returned to the Anfu Palace continued to read and write. The business in the store has been good recently, so she doesn't have to worry too much, as long as she listens to the account report occasionally.

You don't even need to listen to this account yourself, and directly hand it over to Princess Xuancheng to do it.

The current Princess Xuancheng is trying to calculate the things that can be seen in life every day. Although most of them cannot be calculated, she seems to enjoy it.

Li Yuechen was also idle and bored, so he took her to play a sand table war game.

In the beginning, Princess Xuancheng was really good at cooking, but by the beginning of June, she was already able to fight Li Yuechen back and forth.

This ability surprised Li Yuechen.

You know, this Princess Xuancheng has never read a book on war!
Now, all her skills on the sand table are basically learned from Li Yuechen. She never thought that she could draw inferences from one example, and turn around and kill her back and forth.

"Tsk tsk tsk..."

After killing another round, Li Yuechen shook his head regretfully while arranging the chess pieces, and murmured to himself in a low voice: "This talent, maybe he can really be put in the army as a staff officer."

"What did Chen'er say?" Princess Xuancheng on the opposite side raised her head, "The voice is too low for me to hear clearly."

Li Yuechen put the chess pieces away: "I mean, sister is fine on weekdays, so she should read the book of war."

"I don't have to go into battle to kill the enemy, so why look at those?" Princess Xuancheng laughed.

"Sister, there is no useless learning at this time. Anyway, there is nothing to do in this palace every day. Why don't you take a look."

Hearing what she said, Princess Xuancheng nodded: "Okay, then follow what Chen'er said!"

Although Li Yuechen's military books were given by Liu Rengui, there are also many military books in the palace.

But considering the ethical issues of this era, Li Yuechen still raised his mouth when he came to Liu Rengui's home the next day.

"The book of war master gave me, I want to show it to my sister, can I have a look?"

Regarding this, Liu Rengui said it didn't matter: "Your Highness can naturally dispose of the skills that the old man taught His Highness."

"Hey, thank you, Master!"

Seeing Liu Rengui being so generous, Li Yuechen thanked him from the bottom of his heart.

In this era, the issue of inheritance is taken very seriously, and even many things that are passed on from family to male are not passed on to female.

It is absolutely impossible to easily teach outsiders the skills of one's own family.

Not to mention that Liu Rengui is not the same as the royal family.

To put it bluntly, the royal family has Xianbei blood after all, and they have a strong Hu Feng, so they don't have such a serious concept of men and women like the Han people.

There are not many examples of women being in charge of the house, or even being the patriarch.

Liu Rengui was able to agree to this matter, and it could be seen that he really liked this apprentice.

……

Once entering June, both the royal family and the ministers began to get a little busy.

After all, Li Zhi's birthday is still half a month away, and the ministers are busy presenting presents, and the royal family has to prepare banquets and so on.

Li Yuechen spent almost every afternoon in the craftsman's workshop, participating in the final manufacturing of the carriage with the workers.

The wooden body has been fully glued to the animal skin organ panel and fixed to the frame.

I tried it with two horses. When turning a corner, the body will also bend, pulling apart and merging at the same time.

Seeing this scene, Li Yuechen nodded and couldn't help showing a smile on his face.

Fulai was very excited at the side: "Your Highness, it's done, it's done..."

"Well, it's done." Li Yuechen nodded, "The next step is the final finishing touch."

The seats inside the car body have been installed and can be rotated [-] degrees, allowing a family to face the front at the same time and turn around to form a conference room structure.

The seats are all wrapped in good leather, filled with cotton and wool, soft and very comfortable.

I haven't had time to do the carvings and paintings on the car, but I just painted some simple patterns on it temporarily.

Dozens of craftsmen lifted the heavy body and connected it to the frame.

When all the card slots are aligned and put down, and the iron bolts are fitted, the four-wheeled carriage is basically completed.

In the next few days, just put together some parts of the front of the frame, and everything is done.

……

Seeing that the time is getting tighter and tighter, the craftsman supervisor is also working on it nervously.

Finally, on the afternoon of June [-]th, all the production processes were completed, and this brand new four-wheeled carriage appeared in the yard outside the Craftsman Supervisor.

This carriage is pulled by eight horses in double rows, and the carriage is simply painted with a layer of wax and some patterns.

The four wheels are arranged on both sides. There are a total of ten seats on the body, and there are two seats at the front end that are not counted as seats, which are reserved for the driver.

In front of the car body is a disc made of wood and iron, even if the car body twists, there is no need to worry about the people on it being squeezed.

"Someone who can drive, go up and try!"

With that said, Li Yuechen grabbed the edge of the frame, flipped over and jumped onto it.

Then he turned his head and waved to Fulai: "Why are you still in a daze? Come up!"

"Here, Your Highness..." Fu Lai took two steps back, "Sage Master, how can we go up there?"

"Eh..." Li Yuechen pouted, but forgot about it for a moment.

After all, this carriage was made for the emperor, and it didn't matter if people stood on it when the body was not installed, but now that the body was installed, no one could get on it casually.

After thinking about it, Li Yuechen nodded: "Well, now, you send someone to inform my parents, as well as my brothers and sisters, let them all come and try."

"Here!"

Fulai agreed, and hurried out to inform.

Li Yuechen could only sit on the edge of the frame, dangling his legs boredly, drinking the yogurt Jian Cheng handed over and waiting.

……

At the Hall of Renshou, Li Zhi brought Wu Zetian over when he heard that the four-wheeled carriage made by his daughter was a success.

Due to the short distance, it only took 10 minutes to come here.

Seeing the two coming, Jian Cheng and the craftsmen hurriedly saluted to greet them. Li Zhi's eyes had long been attracted by the carriage, he waved his hands casually, and came to the front of the carriage.

Li Yuechen leaned over with a smile: "Look, grandpa, how about this carriage?"

The couple took a good look at it, and Li Zhi nodded: "It seems to be a circle bigger than my Yujia, but it is so spacious unexpectedly!"

Wu Zetian also nodded: "Yeah, it's really a bit miraculous."

Li Yuechen said with a smile: "The frame before was too cumbersome and took up too much space, so it looked big."

After beckoning, Fulai pulled out a piece of wood from under the driver's seat with a wink.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out that there were five steps inserted under the driver's seat like building blocks.

The steps are hollow and light in weight, and can be easily picked up by one person.

After setting the steps, Li Yuechen took the two of them by the hand and got into the car, letting them sit in the rearmost seats.

As soon as I sat down, I felt soft under the buttocks and back, very comfortable.

Li Zhi twisted left and right, couldn't help but nodded with a smile: "Okay, this frame is really comfortable to sit on!"

"It's more than that!" Li Yuechen smiled, reached out and passed between the two, grabbed the handle behind him and pulled it.

A piece of bright yellow silk was pulled out from the gap in the rear frame, and the glued nails on both sides were also pulled up, forming a canopy that completely covered the two of them.

"In this way, parents don't have to worry about being exposed to the sun even in summer." Li Yuechen laughed.

Li Zhi looked around and couldn't help but nodded: "Okay, okay!"

Judging from the uncontrollable smile on his expression, he was obviously surprised and delighted by this carriage.

After a while, several children also came over, and before they had time to express their amazement at the carriage, they were dragged into the carriage by Li Yuechen.

After each sat down, Li Yuechen waved to Qianniuwei next to the carriage: "Go and drive, try to move!"

Qian Niuwei turned his head to look at Li Zhi, and after seeing him nodding, he agreed, sat in the driver's seat, and drove forward slowly.

When the carriage started to move, Li Zhi was slightly taken aback: "Huh? I don't seem to feel the bumps at all!"

"Yes." Li Hong also felt novelty, "Yuechen, why is this four-wheeled vehicle so slightly bumpy?"

"It's not that the four-wheeler has less bumps, but because it has shock absorbers." Li Yuechen roughly explained what a shock absorber is.

Li Zhi and others all had expressions of "I don't understand, but I'm greatly shocked".

After walking out of the lecture hall, the carriage began to drive in the imperial city. After a while, the Qianniuwei in front turned his head and said, "Sage sit still, it's time to turn."

"It's okay, you turn yours!" Li Yuechen waved his hand.

The carriage started to turn, and Li Zhi saw that the front of the carriage was obviously twisting to the side.

The organ leaves on the left are squeezed, and those on the right are pulled apart.

And the disc on the underbody of the car body seemed to be turning, and the car body was instantly split in half and twisted to the left.

When the corner is over, the body is back upright, and the organ leaves on both sides return to their original appearance.

And the whole process was extremely smooth, and the people sitting in the car didn't feel any awkwardness at all.

Seeing this scene, Li Zhi opened his eyes wide: "Amazing!"

"hey-hey!"

Li Yuechen had a smug expression: "How?"

Not to mention Li Zhi, Li Hong and others were also surprised.

It can't be said that this carriage doesn't feel the bumps at all, but the impact is not too big, and it won't make the butt hurt.

For a moment, he couldn't help observing, and Li Xian even leaned out his upper body to see the structure below.

In the end, Li Hong directly caught him back: "Nonsense, it's dangerous if you fall."

"Brother, don't worry, at this speed, you won't be able to fall to your death!" Li Yuechen laughed.

Is this a question of whether you can fall to death?Li Hong didn't know how to complain for a while.

"Not bad!"

Wu Zetian couldn't help but praised: "If this frame is slightly modified, it can be used as a new Luanjia."

"Well, it is indeed much more comfortable than those two-wheeled vehicles." Li Zhi also nodded in agreement.

Li Yuechen said: "Actually, the floor of the imperial city is flat, drinking tea in this car will not be a big problem."

Li Zhi nodded, then turned his head and looked at Wu Zetian, and they both saw the comfort in each other's eyes.

This daughter is indeed a whimsical idea. Don't look at it as a carriage, but this is a problem that no one has solved since ancient times.

But now she was easily solved by this youngest daughter, which made the two people's recognition of her cleverness greatly increased again.

When the carriage returned to the craftsman's office, Li Zhi couldn't help but raised his hand and patted the carriage frame after getting off the carriage, nodded and said, "Okay! Those who are responsible for the production this time will all be rewarded!"

The craftsmen were overjoyed and saluted one after another: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward!"

Jiancheng still didn't forget to flatter Li Yuechen: "Your Majesty has a great reputation, this car was designed and supervised by His Royal Highness the Princess, and the servants are just contributing their efforts."

"Ok!"

Li Zhi nodded, looking happy, turned his head and waved to the children: "You don't need to go back today, we will have dinner together in Renshou Hall."

The children nodded in agreement.

……

Two days passed in a blink of an eye, June [-]th, Li Zhi's birthday.

This day should be a holiday, but civil and military officials all brought gifts into the palace to present treasures to the emperor.

And the emperor also rewarded a lot of things, the prime minister and the officials of the three provinces and six ministries were basically rewarded with a magnifying glass.

Although it has been said that this novel thing has been made for a while, the news is well sealed and has not been leaked out.

Although Liu Rengui and the others had seen a telescope before, this was the first time they had seen this thing. They were all surprised for a while, and couldn't help being curious that Datang brought so many transparent colored glazes.

Li Zhi also told them in court that it was invented by the princess, which was an advertisement for her future glass factory.

Naturally, the officials caught the princess and praised her, and they all picked up nice things to say.

Li Zhi on the dragon chair listened to the compliments from the officials with a smile on his face, but he was thinking about what it would be like to let them know that the princess had increased the grain production again.

I'm afraid that at that time, it will not only be praised, but also surprised.

After all, food production is related to the country, so throwing such a blockbuster should cause a huge discussion.

Those responsible for helping in the household department are currently arranged in the palace, and the news has not been leaked.

When the real harvest came, Li Zhi really wanted to see the expressions on these people's faces.

Anyway, that day is not far away, and the results will be available in half a month at most.

Behind the screen of the side passage, Li Yuechen leaned against the wall, and couldn't help but smile when he heard the praises from the officials.

Looking up again at Li Zhi on the dragon chair and Wu Zetian behind the bead curtain, Li Yuechen couldn't help but nodded.

Now the couple should know how important they are, right?At least in a short period of time, there should be no thought of marrying herself out!
　According to the information found by the author, during the Tang Gaozong period, the emperor's birthday should not be considered an official holiday.

　　It's just a festival between the ministers and the emperor, and it has nothing to do with the people.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)