Don't be a prince

Faced with Li Chengqian's proposal, Fang Xuanling did not refuse, or in other words, he did not have the qualifications and reasons to refuse.

Changing the bet is the prerogative of the winner, not to mention that it is just a little copper money from each family, which is not too cost-effective.Tangtang Zhongshuling, Liubu Shangshu, Shi Lang and others went out to welcome the team of 2000 people, and they lost face.

"Since His Highness said so, I will naturally accept it."

After cupping his hands, Fang Xuanling quickly changed the topic: "Your Majesty Qizuo, Tubo Prime Minister Lu Dongzan has been here for several months. Regarding the matter of annexing the country, please make a decision as soon as possible."

Finally, when the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty mentioned himself, Lu Dongzan immediately stood up, imitating the etiquette of the Tang people, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty the Tang Emperor, it's time to discuss the matter of attaching the country. You travel to Qizhou, and after returning to Beijing Need to deal with government affairs, I understand, now, I am afraid it has been dealt with!"

Seeing Lu Dongzan talking about his magnanimity without changing his face, Li Chengqian was slandered. Some time ago, this grandson probably prayed that the matter of attaching the country would not be put on the agenda.These few months are enough for Lu Dongzan to copy the appearance of an imperial court.It's just copying. It's no problem for him to learn the structure of the imperial court, but it is absolutely impossible to tell him the core information about various functions.Even though Lu Dongzan visited various officials' homes with a large number of gifts during this period, he couldn't find out why.

The courtiers accepted Lu Dongzan's gifts without fail, but they were ambiguous when it came to his official position.

Li Chengqian sincerely wished that Lu Dongzan could copy the system of Datang to Tubo.In this way, Songtsen Gampo not only had to unify the plateau by force, but also ruled again spiritually.

Tsk tsk, it would be strange that there would be no excitement on the plateau.

Half of the emperor's face on the throne was blocked by Yan, making it difficult for people to see his emotions clearly.

Seeing Lu Dongzan's impatience, Li Shimin asked: "The prince told me before that Tubo is willing to pay a price for the attachment of the country. I don't know what the price is?"

"Tubo is willing to send thousands of sheep and thousands of cattle, and give up the idea of ​​East Cuan and West Cuan, and make a covenant with the ancestor's letter. What do you think?"

As soon as Lu Dongzan said this, everyone in the room was shocked.

The area of ​​East Cuan and West Cuan is not small at all!For the barbarians in the southwest, since ancient times, the emperors of the Central Plains have thought of incorporating them. However, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away.

Today, among the barbarians in the southwest, the Xie clan, Dong Cuan and Xi Cuan have the largest territory.Among them, the Xie family is the same as Feng An in Lingnan. Although he is an uncrowned king, his respect for the Central Plains does not seem to be fake.As early as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the leader of the Xie family helped the Eastern Jin Dynasty resist Cheng Han's attack on Ningzhou. Although he failed to win, he refused to surrender, so he was rewarded by the Eastern Jin court.

In the third year of Wude, the chief Xixie of the Xie family, Xie Longyu, took the initiative to join him. In the third year of Zhenguan, the three chiefs of the Xie family sent envoys to pay tribute together. They also helped when Tubo attacked the Tang Dynasty.

Compared with the Xie family, Dong Cuan and Xi Cuan are a bit ignorant, always thinking that they can live a peaceful life by guarding their grass nest, but they don't know to take the initiative to surrender, and even faintly have the idea of ​​seeking refuge in Tubo, which is really hateful.

Hate it, hate it, but their territorial size is a good thing, even Datang, it is impossible not to be tempted.The area of ​​these two places is even greater than that of the attached country!

In terms of influence, it is definitely that Tubo has a greater influence on these two places than Tang Dynasty, but Tubo just gave up here and transferred to the attached country.

As for Tubo signing a contract with the ancestral book, it is considered a very advanced contract method, and it is absolutely trustworthy.On this point, the reputation of the Tibetan people is still very strong.

Unlike the excited Fang Xuanling and others, the emperor remained expressionless, and continued: "I confirm that you, Tubo, will give up Dong Cuan and Xi Cuan, and even if Datang doesn't subdue it, you will never get involved?"

Lu Dongzan nodded: "That's right."

Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief, and directly agreed: "Well, I will make a contract with you, and I will never get involved in the affairs of the vassal state. Even if the vassal state asks for help, I will turn a blind eye!"

The emperor knew very well that there was no need for Lu Dongzan to lie. Although he had been in contact with Tubo from a small area and became a neighbor directly, which made him worry, but compared with Dong Cuan and Xi Cuan, it was still Dong Cuan Xi Cuan Xiang.The goal of the Tubo people is Tuyuhun, and even the countries of the Western Regions.This matter can be seen from the activities of Tubo in recent years.

Fuguo has no intention of submitting, even if he has, after accepting Fuguo, the land of Datang will protrude, trapped in the siege of Nanzhao kingdoms, Dongcuan, Xicuan, Pubu and Dangxiang. , can easily overturn.And if Dong Cuan and Xi Cuan are collected, the land will be combined with Lingnan, which is a good deal.

After each took what they needed, Lu Dongzan and the emperor signed the covenant directly above the hall.

Li Chengqian, who watched the excitement all the time, knew that this was just a short-term exchange of interests between them.Datang and Tubo can thus get what they need.But what will happen in the future, who can say clearly.Even when he ascended the throne, it is not surprising that he ran around or something with the surname "vomit".

Under the ceremony of the ministers, the covenant was signed, and Lu Dongzan, who got his wish, cupped his hands and said to the emperor: "Although we have always had friction with the Tang Dynasty, our Zanpu is actually very respectful to the kingdom of heaven. Yes. Lu Dong is not talented, and wants to marry a princess from the Tang Dynasty for Xiao Zanpu, what does your Majesty think?"

Marriage again?

Li Chengqian, who was originally acting as a clay sculpture, couldn't sit still. Could it be that Lu Dongzan forgot about the Western Turks?In his opinion, whether it is an official princess or a clan girl getting married, it is a punishment.Tubo is located on a high plateau, not to mention the bitter cold for years, and the lack of oxygen. Such an environment is worse than that of Western Turks. How can we agree?Under the glamorous appearance of Zhaojun's departure and Wencheng's marriage incident, I am afraid that not many people care about the real experiences and thoughts of these two princesses!

Besides, not only himself, I am afraid everyone knows that, rather than wanting to get married, Tubo's biggest goal is actually the princess's dowry.The materials and craftsmen that were married to the past are what they desire most.In comparison, the carrier of the dowry, the princess or the clan daughter, is really not worth mentioning.

Before Li Chengqian jumped out, the emperor said: "I am also very moved by the proposal of the prime minister, but my daughters are very young and are not suitable for marrying Tubo. It seems that the daughter of the clan is not respected enough for Tubo. ,forget it."

Although Lu Dongzan looked normal, his heart kept roaring.

Clan girls can do it too!

It's not easy to lower one's status after being raised one's hand, Lu Dongzan could only swallow this bitter fruit depressed.

The court meeting was over, and the civil and military ministers left. Li Chengqian, who wanted to go back to the East Palace, saw Li Jian's face that seemed to be smiling but not smiling as soon as he left the palace gate.

"Your Majesty ordered His Royal Highness to go to Baifu Hall."

"understood."

After agreeing, he followed Li Jian to Baifu Hall, the apse.

This is a space exclusively for the father and son. Even Li Jian is qualified to enter the clean-up, but he dare not look at the things here at all, and dare not write down anything here.

There are still so many screens, and there are still so many wooden cards.

The emperor, who had just stepped down, looked very relaxed and was writing on a screen.

"Come and see, what is the name I gave to the gunpowder weapon?"

Li Chengqian leaned over to take a look, and saw a lot of messy words written on the screen, and there was no need to guess what was smeared out, only a few that were clear.

The name of the grenade was retained, the ordinary gunpowder arrow was named Thunder Arrow, and the gunpowder arrow of the eight-ox crossbow version was named Sunshock Arrow.The name is weird, no matter how you look at it, it is a modified version of the Sky-shattering Arrow.

However, the word "heaven" is not used casually nowadays, so shocking the sun... let's make do.

As for the "big guy" who could blow up a section of the city wall, he was named "Huang Ming Lei" by the emperor. Just by looking at it, one could tell what this Huang Ming Lei represented.

After actually experimenting with the power of the emperor's order, it is obvious that this thing must be strictly controlled, and even its use requires the emperor to send someone to supervise it.What's more, the one who can be approved to take this big weapon into the army can only be the emperor's most assured general.For the rest, don't even think about it.

Chapter 276 Tear gas?

The power to destroy a city with one blow, not to mention the Koreans, even the people of Tang Dynasty were frightened.

Although Li Shimin considers himself a very open-minded person who is able to accept new things, but the expected cherry turns into a pomegranate, which still catches people off guard.

"Father Huang's naming is very appropriate, and my son thinks it is very good!"

It can't be said that it's not good. I feel uncomfortable looking for the emperor's father when I'm too idle?

Li Shimin nodded in satisfaction, pointed to the screen and said to Li Jian, "Burn it, I won't need this screen anymore."

Li Jian lowered his head and dismantled the screen, rolled up the screen core with words and took it out of the hall.

They all went in front of the second screen. Li Shimin thought for a long time before writing down the name "Yu Tai" on the screen. He turned around and said, "I called you here today to ask you about Yu Tai's going or staying. I intend to transfer him to the grassland to take up a post. It can be said that I owe him a lot. Although he stepped in for me, but his achievements were not obvious before I took the throne, so I can't reward him directly, otherwise it will be true. With merits like that in Koryo Frontier City, I intend to formally promote him, if he stays in your East Palace, I'm afraid he won't be able to earn a title until his later years."

To transfer Yu Tai away...

Li Chengqian naturally agreed: "Father, you can decide whether Yu Tai will stay or not. I have no reason to prevent my subordinates from being promoted. However, can I give some advice to you about the appointment of the general who leads you personally?"

"Of course you can. Tell me, who are you going to make the general?"

"You should be familiar with him. He is the one who personally led the captain of the mobile team, Pantianhou, and Jieli was waiting for the bridge to be demolished when he arrived at the bridge. Although he was born as a commoner, no matter whether Jieli went south or fought on the grassland, It was also the battle of Goryeo, and he made a lot of military exploits, so the minister intends to promote him."

Li Shimin laughed loudly, pointed at Li Chengqian with a pen and said: "You have a good idea, you want to draw someone out of your own soldiers to become a general, but do you think the position of leading a general is too simple? This is equivalent to the position of General Dingyuan, at the top of the fifth rank! But anyway, since you have spoken, I will accept it!"

After adding "General Xuanwei" to Yu Tai's name, he wrote the name of Changtian Monkey, and added "General Qinzhao" after it.

Seeing Yu Tai's promotion, Li Chengqian knew that this guy had never lost his place in the heart of the emperor's father.

Good guy? General Xuanwei from the fourth rank!This is a jump into the ranks of senior military generals.

But did he hang out with him for several years? Now that he is going to be transferred, Li Chengqian feels that he still wants to send him off.Yu Tai himself was favored by the emperor, coupled with his familiarity with the training methods of personal leadership, and proficiency in the use of gunpowder weapons, I have to say that this is really the best time for him to enter the military ranks.

On the one hand, he is worried that he will be suspected if he involves too much, and on the other hand, he is greedy for generals with gunpowder weapons? He will never object to Tai's entry into the ranks of senior generals?

"What are you still doing here? You don't have any government affairs to do now, so you can help me with other things. Keming is now recuperating at Daozhang Sun's. I don't have time. You can visit me instead."

"My son takes orders!"

After arching his hands and leaving Baifu Hall? On the way back to the East Palace? Li Chengqian couldn't help but sigh that the emperor's father's success was not without reason.

Throughout the history books, famous people are generally good at winning people's hearts. Liu Bei weaves straw sandals for Zhuge Liang. When he came to the emperor's father, Zhang Gongjin visited the ward in person before he passed away. Du Ruhui took care of his body.

Visit important ministers instead of the emperor? This is a formal etiquette, and we can't relax it? No matter what, you have to stay in the academy for three to five days.

Li Chengqian, who was about to go crazy in the East Palace, immediately ordered Dian to set up a bureau to dispatch the official prince's guard of honor.

The prince's guard of honor is dispatched? Although it can't keep up with the emperor's swagger? But walking on the streets of Chang'an still has the effect of clearing the streets.

The mighty team left Chang'an City? They arrived at the academy within two hours.

It is afternoon now, not suitable for visiting, so Li Chengqian ordered to visit again tomorrow. He took off the prince's robe and changed into the uniform of college disciples. out of college.

The current academy can basically be said to be the safest place around Chang'an except for the imperial palace.

Not to mention that the engineering college has already demonstrated their usefulness, even if you go to the gunpowder workshop and gunpowder weapon workshop, you have to pass this road.

The 2000 fully armed Zuowuwei soldiers were hoarded at the key posts all over the road, and when they returned with [-] soldiers, they would also be incorporated into this defense system.This was unanimously approved by everyone in the court, and no one felt that the emperor's arrangement was a big deal.

Some of the graduates of the first period have already returned and are running between the dormitory cafeteria and the self-study room, racking their brains to write their graduation thesis.

This is what he came up with. When I was in later generations, I didn't have the opportunity to try the ups and downs brought by the thesis. It would be good for the students of the Tang Dynasty to experience it.

The appearance of the graduation thesis made the old gentlemen of the college appreciate it.Because this is a more intuitive way to know what a student has gained than an exam.

Just after entering the academy, I ran into an acquaintance - Feng Zhidai.

Feng An returned to Lingnan to suppress the bureaucrats, but Feng Zhidai stayed on.Although he is the second son, Feng An still places high hopes on him.

Feng Zhidai rubbed his eyes twice before recognizing the identity of the prince, and quickly cupped his hands: "Feng Zhidai has met His Highness."

Looking at the draft paper Feng Zhidai was holding, Li Chengqian smiled and said, "Why, you also want to write a graduation thesis?"

Feng Zhidai said sternly: "As a student of the college, Zhi Daitian naturally couldn't miss this opportunity. At first, I thought this paper was nothing, but after I started writing it, I realized how difficult it is to sort out what I have learned and sublimate it. After the thesis is approved by the gentlemen, I will return to Lingnan. I have been away from home for so many years, and I really miss my mother."

"Don't rush to leave after graduation. You'd better wait for the imperial examination. Although you have an official position, your study career is incomplete if you don't experience it once. Moreover, there is a colleague of yours at the same time as you. Go south with you, and take over the affairs of the seaport and shipyard. Gu also asks you to take care of him."

Feng Zhidai also knew that sailing was a big plan of his father and prince, so he agreed immediately.

"Okay, let's go back and continue to write the thesis. I will tell you the truth. I am going to let the ministers of the court be the reviewers of the thesis. In this way, they will have a clear understanding of the students of the academy."

After saying this, Li Chengqian turned his head and whistled and left, as if he had never said such a thing.

Feng Zhidai scratched his head, and immediately understood what His Highness the Crown Prince meant.

This is an opportunity!

In the imperial court's big exam, the scope of the exam is fixed, and the scores on the paper alone cannot represent a person at all.His Royal Highness did this to give the academy disciples a chance to express themselves in advance.In this way, talented people can immediately attract the attention of the court.

Such an opportunity is of no use to him, but to other students, it can be said to be a blessing from heaven.

Holding the manuscript paper in his arms, Feng Zhidai trotted all the way back to the dormitory.He wanted to inform the students of the same period of this news as soon as possible.

I walked around the teaching building, and then around the cafeteria, like a foolish school leader inspecting the school.

However, this is not the future, there are no students playing with mobile phones, and there are no young couples who fall in love early. No matter where you go, as long as you see students, you are working hard.

Passing through the history branch that has almost become a garbage dump, Li Chengqian is full of resentment towards Yao Silian.

If the place is small, don’t you know how to submit a report and expand the place?Now his old man collected all the antiquities from all directions of friendship, which filled the branch of history. In this way, he and his students wanted to caress the chest of their lover, obsessively doing research around the antiquities, for fear that they would be damaged if they were too heavy handed.

A little further on is the medical school.

The current medical school is not so much a medical school as a hospital. Sun Simiao's reputation is too great. The direct impact is that the doctors in Chang'an have lost their jobs, so they can only come to the medical school with the cheek to ask for admission.

The name of a person, the shadow of a tree, after Sun Simiao settled down, even ordinary people would go to the medical school to prescribe medicine when they got sick.

Later generations will drive for more than an hour, but in the eyes of Tang people, it is just how long the journey takes, and they don't care.

Instead of going to the ward, he went through the gates guarded by several students and directly entered Sun Simiao's small courtyard.Outsiders are not allowed to approach here, even if he is as frank as Sun Simiao, he doesn't want the skeletons in his room to be exposed to others.

Just after entering the yard, he saw the old man. The handsome old man with fluttering beard was feeding the rabbits. They were all hares that Li Chengqian ordered his soldiers to catch from the mountains.

After seeing Sun Simiao experimenting with the properties of the medicine more than once and turning himself bruised from the medicine, Li Chengqian severely reprimanded him, "Experimenting the properties of the medicine, wouldn't it be good to find a few mice, rabbits and chickens?"Even if the size is not enough, at worst, we can catch a tiger and use it to test medicine. Anyway, tigers are not protected animals now, and killing one or two of them can still be regarded as eliminating harm for the people.

"Don't let me know in advance when you come, the old way can make you fascinated by feeding the rabbit?"

Hearing Lao Sun's words that were seriously rebellious, Li Chengqian hurriedly said: "I just admire your dedication to medical skills. The prescriptions you have tried in the past few years are probably more than the prescriptions that several doctors have been familiar with all their lives. "

Throwing all the vegetables in his hand into the rabbit cage, and patted the soil on his hands, Sun Simiao said: "It's nothing to work hard, as long as we can remove the dross of the predecessors and leave the essence, so that future generations will receive more." Enze, it is a matter of great merit to be less burdened. You came today just in time, and the Korean ginseng here is not enough for the old man, is there a way for you to get some more?"

Accompanying Sun Simiao, he said as he walked, "Don't worry, it won't be long before someone will come to deliver you. A heavy punch from the frontier army probably frightened Gao Jianwu. This guy looks pretty good." Wise, but actually a coward. Having annoyed Datang, the first thing he has to do is to lower his posture as much as possible and offer gifts in exchange for forgiveness. Korean ginseng pays a lot of tribute every year, and the ones piled up in the Imperial Medical Office are all lost. The efficacy of the medicine is delivered to you, just to make the most of it.”

Sun Simiao waved his hand and said: "Don't tell the old Taoist about the things in the court, let's talk about mold. You mentioned this thing when you were injured and recuperated last time. At that time, the old Taoist still thought that using the products of object corruption to cure diseases, especially anti-inflammatory It’s a fantasy, but after thinking of using poison to fight poison, I tried it. Don’t tell me, it’s really useful, just touch the green hair on the inflamed wound, and it will quickly have an anti-inflammatory effect, compared to some golden sore medicines Faster."

Hearing what Sun Simiao said, Li Chengqian said anxiously: "Don't use yourself as an experiment again, I just said it casually, you must know that mildewed things not only produce useful molds, but some are poisonous. If it is not good, it will kill people!"

Sun Simiao said helplessly: "The old man has corrected himself after being reprimanded by you that time. Don't worry, the old man used wild rabbits for his experiments."

Walking to the door and pushing it open, Sun Simiao signaled Li Chengqian to go in first, and continued: "But you really have to think of a way, I always feel that what works is not the green hair, but something contained in it, which needs to be purified before it can be used. use."

Without entertaining, Li Chengqian found a chair and sat down.

It was just a short conversation, and he was already completely shattered by the shock of Sun Simiao.I just said it casually, who would have thought that Sun Simiao really experimented.Fortunately, the old man didn't use his own experiments.Since penicillin is known as a milestone discovery in the history of anti-inflammatory, how could it be produced so easily?

We must know that from the discovery to the production of penicillin, even during the period when the industrial strength was already strong, it was finally produced after twists and turns.

In Datang, in the sixth year of Zhenguan, you want to extract penicillin?Dreams should be done at night.