Don't be a prince

The second arrow was shot, and this time the arrow hit about the seventh and eighth ring.

After a successful blow, Li Chengqian shot another arrow.My hands trembled a little from the excitement, but the third arrow just missed the target.

"Shaking what? The ups and downs of mood are the most taboo when archery. No matter whether someone is dead next to you, no matter whether the person you are going to shoot is slapping your ass, your hands should not shake. Momentary hand in archery Shake, maybe you will send the arrow to your own people. Remember!"

It must be right to listen to the lessons of experienced people. Taking a deep breath, Li Chengqian calmed down as much as possible, and sent the fourth arrow to the position of the ninth ring.

The corner of Li Shimin's mouth turned up quickly.He is not willing to praise his son's progress.Although he also longed for his father's appreciation when he was practicing archery, but now he knows that for some things that require hardship, it is the most correct to accumulate slowly.

Looking at Li Chengqian's shooting posture, and thinking of his own childhood, Li Shimin couldn't help but look in the direction of Tai Chi Hall.

It has been two years since he took the throne, and in the past two years, he has never paid his respects.Many times, he wished to forget that there was still a person alive there.

Immortal, before Chang'an was settled, you promised me that you would make me the crown prince!

The roar in his heart did not show on his face, he rubbed his cheeks against the wind, not because he was sleepy, but because he was thinking—

How long has it been since I couldn't express my emotions or anger?

Li Chengqian didn't notice the expression of his father behind him. Although his mood was no longer ups and downs at this time, after shooting the arrow, he still took the time to think about it.

Is it possible to plead for the craftsman?

No, when did I become such a saint?

But....

"Father, I have an idea about the academy."

After thinking for a long time, Li Chengqian finally spoke.

"College? Tell me, I heard that Yao Silian has gone out and wants to build a branch of history in your college. Hehe, this old guy, when I asked him to become an official in the court, he refused again and again, and finally just hung up. The crown prince has the title of washing horses, and he only receives his salary and does nothing."

Speaking of Yao Silian, Li Shimin also looked helpless.Although he was one of the eighteen bachelors in the Prince Qin's Mansion back then, there was no purely controlling relationship between the two.Yao Silian wanted to concentrate on studying history and refused to be an official, so there was nothing he could do.

Compared with Yao Silian, the five surnames and other wealthy families seem to be indifferent on the surface, but secretly they have never relaxed their penetration into the court, which can be regarded as a failure.

Li Chengqian nodded and continued: "Ever since I heard Mr. Yao's words, I have thought about it. Since the college started to educate some people and lay the foundation for the future education of the world, then naturally it will control the branches under its jurisdiction in the future. As the capital, it needs a lot of content to enrich itself. Mr. Yao’s history school is one, what else should I choose? After thinking about it, I feel that craftsmen are a category that is very suitable for entering the school.”

"artisan?"

Sure enough, after hearing the news, even Li Shimin's first reaction was to frown.

Lowly people are not allowed to enter the hall of elegance. This is not a legal principle, but an unspoken rule that exists universally.Letting a craftsman set up a branch in a college is like marrying Fang Xuanling's daughter to a craftsman, it will definitely be ridiculed.

Seeing that his father was frowning tightly, Li Chengqian hurriedly added: "Father, I know that this statement is beyond your expectation, but this is what I came up with after careful consideration. How about you continue to listen?"

Seeing the prince's serious expression, Li Shimin still nodded.Judging from the prince's performance in the past two years, even though he is still young, he is not a "young man". If he wants to do this, there must be a good reason.

"Father, if you want to talk about why craftsmen are stationed in the academy, you must first talk about the development of our people. Let's take the weapons you are familiar with. In the most primitive time, people were no different from beasts, until they learned to use sharp stones as weapons , Using wood to make wooden spears, finally have the confidence to fight in front of tigers and other wild beasts...

And the appearance of bronze ware has raised the combat capability of people to a new level.People began to build city cottages and have their own territory in the forest....

Until now, Baisteel has completely crushed the bronze wares, and weapons such as the eight-ox crossbow are such that people can obtain powerful attack power without relying on their own strength, and they exist like artifacts.if...."

Hearing this, Li Shimin waved his hands irritably: "Stop, don't worry about it, just tell me directly, what do you mean by all this?"

Seeing the emperor's irritable look, Li Chengqian laughed dumbfounded.

Those who grew up in the story of "Pangu opened the sky, Nvwa created man", even after going through the world and becoming an emperor, suddenly heard about the history of weapon evolution, especially the process of man changing from a tiger's dessert to a master of the earth , will be confused.

"I have said so much, just to explain the role of craftsmen. Bronze ware cannot be invented by a moral man. The eight-ox crossbow cannot be made by a prime minister. It can accumulate experience and work hard to explore and make existing utensils Upgraded, only artisans.

Erchen just created such a magical thing as a pulley block after tinkering in the tent for a month because of an idea he had when he was in the palace.How many craftsmen are there in my Tang Dynasty?Why didn't they find out?The reason is that they have no knowledge, and what they have in their minds are all the skills passed down from their ancestors; they also don't have time, and their stomachs can't get enough to eat. How can they have time to simply think about these uneatable things?

Therefore, Erchen wants to recruit a group of top craftsmen, and then recruit a group of apprentices, provide them with an environment where they can show their whimsy, and see if they can research something useful for my Tang Dynasty. "

After he finished speaking, Li Chengqian suddenly felt a little dry.What the craftsman needs and what the craftsman can do, he has to hurry up and say it.Otherwise, once the old man waved his hand, all the foreshadowing in front of him would be useless.

Now it seems that the effect is not bad. With the transformation of Ba Niu Crossbow, the emperor who did not have the "superior superiority and inferiority" deep-rooted in his bones was obviously shaken in his heart.

Without making a sound, Li Chengqian stood aside, waiting for an answer.

I happened to meet him today, and I remodeled the Ba Niu crossbow in front of him. Compared with the direct notification of the news, the facts in front of me are more shocking.

From the corner of his eye, he glanced at the prince's expectant gaze, Li Shimin was still weighing the pros and cons in his heart.

The reasoning is very reasonable, but getting the artisans to the academy, such a shocking thing, is likely to cause huge repercussions.When it comes to such a large-scale decision, even if he is the emperor, he cannot make it easily.

After thinking for a long time, Li Shimin said: "I understand, you are right. However, craftsmen who enter the academy can only choose from general supervisors and military supervisors, and craftsmen under the Ministry of Industry can only be approved by the Ministry of Industry Only after you can enter. That’s it, I hope they can bring me surprises!”

After finishing speaking, he picked up an arrow and handed it to Li Chengqian, motioning him to continue shooting.

After receiving the arrow, although Li Chengqian was expressionless, he still sighed in his heart.

Although the generals and military supervisors are also craftsmen, they are half craftsmen and half officials, which are completely different from ordinary craftsmen.Judging from the fact that ordinary craftsmen were only allowed to enroll after the approval of the Ministry of Industry, this person was still worried and refused to do it all at once.

An arrow shot at the sixth ring, Li Chengqian shook his head, trying to calm down.

Although it didn't achieve the expected goal, it was a good start after all.

People of the working and peasant class must not forget their roots, and it is already very good to give craftsmen a chance to stand up.

With the emperor's big head on his head, there is no need to go to the court to find someone.Ever since he went to court several times, Li Chengqian hated that place deeply.

They are all actors. In the Zhenguan court, there are only a small number of grassroots officials after all.It's embarrassing for them to be able to have a little bit of serious business under the scheming of each other.

Archery is difficult, especially when you have no experience, it is even more difficult to control the arrow's landing point.

Both wind speed and gravity will affect the shot arrows.

Li Shimin didn't know this, his proficient archery skills were all accumulated from experience.As long as you draw the bow, you don't need to calculate, and you can adjust it immediately with experience.This kind of adjustment is much better than the later generations of archers who calculated for a long time before shooting arrows.

Although the bow was equipped with a pulley block, allowing Li Chengqian to open the bow at the age of nine, but the uninterrupted practice of archery still made his arms feel numb and even a little bit of pain.

Li Shimin, who has been watching from the side, correcting his hands and feet from time to time, saw that his hands were trembling, so he said: "Let's stop here today, it's too late. If you continue, you will struggle to hold things in your hands when you wake up tomorrow."

He raised his head to look at the sun which was almost in the middle, and smiled slightly: "Since it's time for dinner, I'll have dinner in your East Palace. The cooks in the East Palace are good at roasting mutton, and I want to try other meals."

"..."

Li Chengqian had no choice but to turn around and tell Fang Sheng to go to the kitchen to deliver the order.

There is no way to roast mutton, that thing can be cooked in a while?

However, the delicacies on the Donggong menu are not the same as roast lamb now.

Since the farm was saturated with poultry, they raised a lot of pigs.

Although killing pigs under one year old is a bit wasteful, Li Chengqian has had enough of the smelly pork.

Chapter 173 Leave Sun Simiao behind

When I was very poor, I ate pork from so-called "running the fence" pigs, which were actually male pigs that had not been castrated.That smell seems to be engraved in the nucleus of the cell, and it still makes Li Chengqian sick to this day.

Originally I wanted to make some pork-based food, but because I really couldn't subdue the taste, I had to give up.

Now that he has opened a farm by himself, he has nothing to say, and naturally he has the final say.

Although it is a luxury to eat pork under one year old, for the sake of his own mouth, Li Chengqian can only do such a wasteful thing.

Entering the restaurant of the East Palace, Li Shimin was very curious about the huge round table, especially with a turntable on it.After turning around casually, he understood the purpose of this thing.

"I've heard Qing Que say that eating here with you is not sharing meals. The four of you masters and apprentices gather together to eat, which is extraordinarily enjoyable. In the canteen of Chongwen Museum, there are a group of starving ghosts robbing food, and eating is even more enjoyable. I heard that you figured out all kinds of meals in the East Palace by yourself, and Qingque also said that you have seen you add various things to the pot to taste. Tell me, what's going on? How do you Just scratching so hard on the mouth?"

Of course, Li Chengqian couldn't say that in later generations, he used his professional characteristics to eat every corner of the district, and his mouth was raised as a trickster.

Arching his hands, Li Chengqian pretended to be ashamed and said: "My son also knows that this is wrong, but no matter how he eats, he feels that there is no taste. If you eat something delicious today, you may taste it if you eat it tomorrow. Ask Sun Daochang to see it." , he only said it was a problem with the spleen, even if he took medicine, it wouldn't help much."

"That's it."

Parents should be anxious when they hear their children say they are sick.But Li Shimin wasn't anxious, instead he seemed hesitant to speak.

The Li family itself has wind disease, and the Supreme Emperor has it. He thought it was nothing before, but in the past two years, he occasionally suffered from headaches.As for the queen, there is also wind disease.I heard from the imperial doctor that this disease itself will infect the offspring, and the only way to get rid of it is to find a woman who does not have wind disease and marry him. This disease that lingers in Li's bloodline will disappear from generation to generation.

Don't think about the child in front of him, he will definitely be like him in the future.Thinking of this, Li Shimin's heart was full of guilt.

However, when the first dish was served in the kitchen, the guilt was overwhelmed by the aroma.

"What is this?"

Looking at the round things on the plate, Li Shimin couldn't help asking.

"Reporting to my father, these are just meatballs, but I tried to make the stuffed meat by adding tofu, green onion, ginger and garlic. During this period of time, you and the common people ate bran-swallowed vegetables, and your health was bad. Might as well eat some more."

The personal eunuch named Zhang Yun picked up the chopsticks with a stern face, and was very rude to try some vegetables, but Li Shimin stretched out his hand and pushed them aside.

Pick up a large ball with serving chopsticks, and after testing the temperature with a small piece, chew without hesitation.

After eating a huge meatball, Li Shimin wiped his greasy mouth, nodded in praise and said: "This dish tastes good, I will let your cook from the East Palace teach it to the Imperial Dining Room later."

Li Chengqian naturally nodded, but in order not to be blamed, he still said: "Father, Rong Rong, in fact, this dish is mainly pork."

"pork?"

Although Li Shimin was surprised, he didn't take it to heart.

There were only two meatballs left on the plate. Glancing at Zhang Yun behind him, Li Shimin ordered, "Find a food box and give this dish to the queen!"

It's really loving, Li Chengqian said in his heart.

After eating delicious food, the emperor's father will send a copy to the empress's wife as soon as possible.However, you also have to consider how can people eat so greasy when they are in confinement?

Reaching out his hand to stop Zhang Yun, Li Chengqian cupped his hands and said, "No need, father, in fact, the three meals at the mother's place were all prepared and sent to the East Palace kitchen. The mother's mother gave birth, and although the son did not come back because of retreat and study, but Don’t dare to slack off.”

Li Shimin looked back at Zhang Yun.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, what the crown prince said is true. After the empress gives birth, the three meals a day will be sent to the East Palace. Because of this, the empress is very happy."

Only then did he realize that Zhang Yun's voice was very deep, without the eunuch's femininity at all.

After learning from Niu Jinda and Li Jing for a long time, Li Chengqian also learned to judge one's martial arts.

Just look at this guy's position, and look at his body that has been vigilant all the time, you can know that this guy is not low in martial arts.

Thinking about it, the person who is ready to block the emperor's gun at any time should not be too weak in martial arts.

Since he didn't need to send it to the queen, Li Shimin stopped drooling and picked up another ball, which he ate up in a short while.

Li Chengqian only ate a small ball with him, and as for the ball that was obviously tried by others, Li Shimin did not move from the beginning to the end.

Seeing the crown prince's inquisitive look, Li Shimin said: "The round and round things are the most taboo to be incomplete. As for the dishes, you don't want to serve me with just one dish."

Li Chengqian said with a chuckle: "Of course there is not only one, but you came in a hurry today and the kitchen is not prepared. Even though we have called for staff from the imperial dining room, it will still be much slower."

As soon as the words were finished, the second dish was served again.

Stewed ribs with beans, because there is no soy sauce, braised pork ribs are temporarily unavailable, so Li Chengqian can only eat the ribs in the most common way.

Pork head meat, braised pork, cold pig ears...

One dish after another was served, but the emperor ate all of them.

It was only then that Li Chengqian realized that although the words "a bucket of rice and ten catties of meat" were bragging, there was still some truth to it.Although the portions of these dishes are not large, they can still fill up two or three strong men.

However, in front of Li Shimin, they all got into his stomach.

After eating another bowl of rice, I washed all the food into my stomach with a jug of spirits.Li Shimin looked at the jug in his hand, and suddenly didn't know what to say.

"Spirited wine, caravans in the grassland, and some things that will be used as prisons, brat, I just found out that your East Palace is not short of money!"

Li Chengqian said with a wry smile: "Of course you earn a lot of money, but if you go to the Weishui River to see the site of the academy, you will know that this little money is not enough for Erchen. In the morning, we agreed, you You can't lie to someone who speaks well and speaks well!"

After finally meeting a golden thigh, Li Chengqian didn't want to let go easily.

According to the original estimate, the first phase of the college will only build teaching buildings, dormitory buildings, office buildings and playgrounds, while Lao Yao's branch will have to be built slowly in the future.

But if the supply is obtained from the inner government, let alone the School of History, even the School of Engineering can be built directly, and I don't know how much time it can save.Anyway, it's the family's money, why spend it embarrassingly?

Li Shimin originally wanted to say that he would cancel the agreement on the supply of the inner government, but he was blocked by Li Chengqian's two four-character idioms.

I don't know if it was because of drinking, or because of something else, my face was a little red.

Patting his stomach, Li Shimin said with satisfaction: "I enjoyed my meal today, remember to ask your cook to go to the imperial dining room."

After saying these words, the emperor, who was full of wine and food, waved his sleeves and drove back to the palace.

Li Chengqian, who ordered the maid to remove the remnant seats and let go of a burden in his heart, returned to the construction site by the Weishui River after paying his respects to the old man.

Yan Liben is basically gray these days, not because he is in a bad mood, but because his body is covered in lime cement.

Seeing that he coughed lightly when he was fine, Li Chengqian couldn't help but kick his feet.

"Bastard, didn't I tell you that to make labor protection equipment, you prepared a pair of thick hemp shoes for the workers? You must know that whether it is lime or cement, the most fatal thing is not the burn of the skin, but the burn in the air. Dust. If you inhale these things into your lungs, you will get pneumoconiosis after a long time, and the lungs will gradually become fibrosis. You don’t know what fibrosis means, but think about it, the lungs that were originally soft and tender, because of this The disease turns into something as hard as wood, and people always feel that there is not enough energy, and finally suffocate to death. Who wants to get this disease?"