Traveling through the Gaowu Tang Dynasty, Li Kuan and Li Shimin became the second sons of the Prince

Li Kuan, who was forced to have an after-dinner exercise with his father, limped out of the Manna Hall with his butt in his hands. Behind him, Li Shimin, who was out of breath, couldn't help but put his hands on his hips, shook his head and smiled bitterly: " Shuzi!"

For the first time in his life, His Majesty Li Er felt that educating children was a strenuous task.

On the other side, Li Kuan returned to his dormitory. As soon as he entered the palace, he put away his disguise, strode to the desk, and took out an ancient book containing the universe from the bookshelf at the back.

Spread the ancient books on the desk, take out a thin booklet from the pages, grind the ink, and pick up the pen.

——On the fifth day of the fifth month of the second year of Zhenguan, I was killed by an adulterer. I was beaten by my father because I left the palace to inspect the Bieyuan workshop.

Li Kuan stopped writing and looked at his calligraphy with satisfaction. After thinking for a while, he added another paragraph to the signature: "(The "treacherous" here refers specifically to Wei Zheng.)"

After finishing this "top priority", Li Kuan returned to the bed and lay down leisurely. When he left the garden earlier, Li Kuan had a thought in his mind and summoned two hundred shadow assassins in a small courtyard hundreds of meters away. , these people are the forces that he has put in the spotlight for the first time.

Of course, this was also one of the family assets that Queen Taimu "left" to his precious grandson in the eyes of others.

Li Kuan's plan is actually very simple. The locust plague is now unstoppable.

The only thing he can do now is to raise money and stockpile food as soon as possible to deal with the severe disaster in Guanzhong.

However, these money and grains are destined to be an astronomical sum.

If we want to follow Li Kuan's original idea, so that everyone who was affected by the disaster can survive this catastrophe and not starve to death, the money in the treasury may not be enough.

What's more, in order to maintain the normal operation of the country, even if the national treasury has money, it cannot be all used for disaster relief. Otherwise, real chaos in the world is not far away.

Therefore, Li Kuan can only find a way on his own now.

But there was not much time left for him, only less than three months.

In this way, Li Kuan could only choose to take the wrong approach.

Things are rare and valuable. In the Tang Dynasty, what was the most valuable thing?

Calligraphy, painting and entertainment? Gold, jade and gems?

Li Kuan could find a way to sneak out one or two items from Taiji Palace and Hongyi Palace. However, even if he could withstand the beating of the Dongchuang Incident, these treasures worth thousands of gold would only be a drop in the bucket in the face of the huge disaster relief funds. .

Then, there is only one way left in front of Li Kuan.

Firing colored glaze was the first pot of gold for him to start his business.

That night, just before Li Kuan fell asleep, the Shadow Assassin had already followed his instructions and started building a kiln at the racecourse in that villa.

As the summoner, Li Kuan can switch the perspective to each shadow assassin at will and hold all the information in his hands. With such a huge convenience, he will naturally be even more powerful for the next actions.

Two days later, when everything was ready, Li Kuan, who was in the palace and was ordered to copy textbooks, ate lychees from Lingnan as tribute while supervising his two younger brothers, Li Ke and Li Tai, to copy his homework for him.

"Be serious, don't write so well. You have to know what level your second brother is!" Li Kuan, who was multitasking, reached out and gave each of his two brothers a chestnut, and then began to command the shadows far away in the garden. The assassins made colored glaze.

In view of the high-temperature conditions required for firing colored glaze, Li Kuan adapted to local conditions and simply used a set of local steel-making methods to make a small blast furnace, and then poured the river sand collected from the Qingliang River at the foot of Yushan into the preparation In a good big iron pot.

Then add limestone and soda ash to the iron pot to start smelting. After the materials are mixed, and after a series of processes of blowing, shaping, and annealing, the fired glass will be placed in the established heat preservation kiln. Here, after four or five days, if the glass does not break, it means that the glass has cooled down to take shape and the firing is completed.

In this way, after another five days, the colored glaze in the villa outside the city was finished, and His Royal Highness Li Kuan, the second prince, finally ushered in the first highlight moment of his life.

I don’t know if His Majesty Li Er felt guilty because he beat his son. After beating Li Kuan that day, he called Pei Ji, Xiao Yu and others and expressed that he wanted to canonize Li Kuan as the King of Chu and grant him the title of Xiangzhou. .

Li Er originally thought that his decision would be blocked by these veterans, but Pei Ji was the first to stand up and say, "Your Majesty is wise."

This made Li Er begin to doubt whether he was really wise.

However, the emperor had the final say on the matter of being crowned king, and Li Er only regarded the other party as a belated flatterer. In other words, in view of the deep love between his son and the grandson of the Supreme Emperor, even Pei Ji, as the number one loser, had to weigh it carefully. consequences of obstructing this matter.

Li Kuan is not a master who can swallow his anger.

Therefore, the edict to confer Li Kuan as King of Chu was submitted to the Shangshu Province, approved by the Zhongshu Province, and reviewed by the Menxia Province. The day after Li Kuan successfully fired the first batch of glazed glazes, the edict to confer the title of king was sent to him. .

Li Kuan, who was awarded the title of Xingxi and somehow became the King of Chu, first went to the Ancestral Temple to sue his ancestors, and then went to the Taiji Palace to thank his father Li Shimin in person.

"The little king has thanked your majesty for your great kindness!" Outside the Taiji Hall, Li Kuan shouted with his nondescript thank-you method, which once again shocked Li Shimin and the ministers who were discussing matters in the hall.

"You bastard!" Li Er almost gritted his teeth, carrying the jade Ruyi he picked up from the bookshelf, and rushed out of the hall in a hurry: "Who are you calling the little king here? I should kill the person who was responsible for teaching you etiquette. chamberlain!"

"Dad, what are you talking about?" Li Kuan's eyes suddenly widened: "When did I learn royal etiquette?"

Li Er suddenly slapped his head, and he was indeed confused by anger.

It is true that no one taught this boy these things. He relied on his mother's childhood teachings and this boy's adaptability to adapt to circumstances, and he has been fooled until now.

"The words of thanks you just expressed could only be said by foreign vassal kings!" Li Er mentioned Yu Ruyi with a somewhat unkind tone.

"Ah?" Li Kuan said in shock: "Dad, what should I say?"

"You..." Li Er was about to reprimand, but he thought that there were still a large group of people in the palace waiting for him to make a decision on whether to continue the war in the northwest. At that moment, His Majesty Li Er, who was not in a good mood, waved his hand to his son: "Okay, okay. Come on, you brat, get out of here, dad has no time to talk to you."

"Dad, this is what you said." Li Kuan pursed his lips and pretended to be aggrieved that he came to worship at the top of the mountain but was ostracized: "Then I'm leaving."

Li Er was already used to his son's behavior of playing tricks. He glared at his son, turned around and went in to discuss business with the ministers who had heard the movement at the door and were all suppressing laughter at this time.