Emperor of the Tang Dynasty

"Go back to Your Highness, this is a banner." Niu Xiaoer scratched his head honestly.

"Fanzi?"

As soon as Li You heard the name, he always felt even worse. He couldn't help but think of the "soul banners" in the cultivation novels.

"What is this flag for?"

"I don't know either," Niu Xiaoer said blankly, "Anyway, since I was a child, this kind of banner has to be hung on the first day of the new year, so I also hung one this year..."

Li You: "..."

Forget it.

Li You looked at the thing Niu Xiaoshou was holding again, and he was carrying strings of green bamboos when he passed by just now.

"This is... a firecracker?"

Li You recognized it at a glance, and it could be regarded as seeing a familiar object that also existed in the later dynasties.

Niu Xiaoer was even more confused when he heard the words: "Your Highness, what are firecrackers?"

Li You was stunned and coughed: "I'm wrong, this is a firecracker, right?"

"Yes, Xiaozhu and I are also building firecrackers, which will be burned to drive away the Nian beast. It's just that I was afraid of disturbing your highness, so I didn't wake up your highness."

Niu Xiaoer nodded. On the first day of the first lunar month, every household would set off firecrackers to expel a monster called "Nian".

This is also one of the traditional customs, which is said to be inherited from the Han Dynasty.

"Okay, you go."

Li You waved his hand and let Niu Xiaoer continue to work, looking at his back with a little melancholy.

As a result, this firecracker is not something Li You is familiar with, it can only be said to be the predecessor of the firecracker that Li You thought.

This is because the Tang Dynasty still lacked gunpowder, and paper was not cheap, so the "firecrackers" wrapped in gunpowder had not yet appeared.

The predecessor of firecrackers is also an alternative solution, that is, people use fire to burn bamboo to make it burst and make noises, so as to expel the god of plague. Because the burning of bamboo makes a sound of "beep, beep and beep", it is called firecrackers or exploding rods.

"If you recall carefully, it seems that gunpowder firecrackers will not be recorded until the Northern Song Dynasty. Otherwise, I can continue to develop gunpowder and make some bombs and cannons."

This is also one of the reasons why Li You is melancholy. If he can carry forward gunpowder in advance, and even let Datang enter the era of hot weapon combat, then he will definitely be invincible in the world!

Until then, as long as the navigation technology is well developed, it will not be a dream to unify the world!

It's a pity that there are no fireworks that can only be lifted off with the help of gunpowder, let alone a hot weapon.

While sighing, Li You went to find Xiao Zhu for breakfast.

As his personal maid, Xiaozhu has already become the leader of the servants in the Chu palace, and after Li You's training, Xiaozhu's cooking skills have also skyrocketed, compared to any royal chef in the royal kitchen.

So now Li You's breakfast is basically made by Xiao Zhu. Sure enough, as soon as Li You returned to his room, Xiao Zhu who received the news had already brought over the steaming breakfast.

But this time the breakfast was a bit different. Li You twitched the corners of his mouth when he looked at the black bowl in front of him.

"Xiaozhu, what kind of dark cooking is this? Have you recently joined the dark cooking world?"

Xiao Zhu was puzzled by the question, and said strangely: "Your Highness, this is Tusu wine, it is the New Year's drink."

"So this is Tusu wine..."

Li You looked back at the Tusu wine, which was selling in a very bad way, and thought that he had written a poem about drinking Tusu wine last night.

It's just that his poems are from Lu You, but Li You himself has never seen Tusu wine with his own eyes. Li You originally thought that Tusu wine and Jiaobai wine were normal alcohol, but he didn't expect the real Tusu wine. Much beyond Li You's expectations.

If it wasn't for Li You's familiarity with Xiao Zhu, he almost thought that Xiao Zhu was blatantly poisoning him.

"Why is this Tusu wine called wine... It's obviously Chinese medicine, right?"

Li You couldn't help but complained, hesitating for a while, not really wanting to speak.

Xiaozhu said, "I don't know when I return to Your Highness... But I heard that Tusu was originally the name of a traditional Chinese medicine. It is made from a mixture of medicinal materials, and it is estimated that Tusu wine is similar, right?"

Li You heard a burst of shame: "It's really still not drinking, right?"

"How does this work?" Xiaozhu insisted, "Please, Your Highness, must drink Tusu wine, Tusu wine can exorcise evil spirits, detoxify and prolong life!"

The wooden peach amulet that was originally used to ward off evil and filth was replaced by Li You and hung up on the Spring Festival couplets.

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It's just that this Tusu wine just looks from the appearance, not to mention that it can exorcise evil spirits and detoxify, just drink it and it will be poisoned, right?

"Fight! Anyway, I have Jiuyang Divine Art, and I can't invade a hundred poisons!"

Li You closed his eyes, pinched his nose and drank the Tusu wine.

"--vomit!"

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After the painful solution of breakfast, Li You remembered that he had to go to Li Shimin's place, because on the first day of the new year, according to the custom, the family would gather to drink and treat the guests with blessings.

Sure enough, soon there was a little eunuch waiting to visit the Chu palace, saying that His Majesty had invited him.

Li You followed behind the little eunuch with a bitter face. He only felt that the bitter taste in his mouth had not dissipated, and he criticized the anti-human custom of drinking Tusu wine as he walked along the way.

When he finally arrived in the main hall, he could see Li Shimin and his concubines, as well as some main members such as princes and princesses. Li Shimin waved kindly when he saw him.