Don't be a prince

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"It looks good. Even in Western Turkic, such a horse is only worthy of the owner of a big family. Small tribes will bring great disasters if they own it. It doesn't have a name yet. Since you are its owner, you can get it."

After getting along for a while, the pony was no longer afraid of people, and even came to Li Chengqian's side to smell it, wanting to taste what the crown prince's robes were like.

Looking at its appearance, Li Chengqian thought of the name "Taxue" very much.

But after taking a look at Ashina Snow, he could only change his mind and say, "Let's call it Lingyun. Look at its hooves, don't they look like they are stepping on clouds?"

Ashina Xue said the name Lingyun twice before handing the comb to Li Chengqian.

Brushing the horse is also a hard job, after all, there is not only a small one, but also a big one.

After working for a long time, Li Chengqian threw away the comb, and now he felt that he was probably overwhelmed by the smell of the stable.

After feeding the mare, Ashina Xue followed Li Chengqian out.

The moment you come out of the stable, you can feel the huge difference between cold and fresh.

Looking at Ashina Xue's thin face, Li Chengqian said: "What I told you before was not a joke. If you want to find your brother, I can help you. Seeing that you have been in Yichun Beiyuan since the beginning of winter. It’s not good for your health to stay indoors all the time.”

Ashi Naxue sighed and said: "Even if I can go, it's just a drag on He Lu now. It's not bad with you. The maids and eunuchs in your East Palace didn't make things difficult for us. If you don't go out, it's just me. I just don’t want to go out. This is not a grassland after all, even if I go out, it’s hard to get interested.”

Looking at the empty land in Yichun Beiyuan, Li Chengqian suddenly had an idea, took Ashina Xue's hand and said: "Actually, you don't need to live in such a pessimistic way. Do you think this is good? Next year I will plant this yard Grass, and then knock down your house, and build a prairie tent in the middle, as for the grass in the yard, if you want to raise sheep, you can raise sheep, and if you want to feed horses, you can feed them.”

Zhang Yungang wanted to say that he would be impeached by the officials for doing so, but seeing the sharp eyes of the prince, he could only shut up.

Hearing this sentence, Ashina Snow immediately became happy: "Really? You don't need to give me many sheep, just give me a few lambs, and find me a small horse. My horse is in the middle of the war. The time is lost, and I really want to raise another one."

Li Chengqian naturally agreed with a smile.

After planning the renovation of Yichun Beiyuan randomly with Ashina Xue, Li Chengqian left in the evening.

Just after leaving Yichun Beiyuan, Zhang Yun frowned and said, "Your Highness, if you do this, you will be impeached by the officials, and His Majesty will hold you accountable. How can you do such a thing because of a woman?"

Li Chengqian said indifferently: "The East Palace is Gu's territory. How to change it is up to Gu to decide. Besides, it was not made for Gu himself. Compared with King Zhou You, there is no comparison at all. You, how have you changed during this time?" Are you so timid?"

Of course Zhang Yun couldn't say that he had been interrogated by the emperor because of the "Old Monarch Incident", so he had to keep his mouth shut.

Now that I have come to Yichun Beiyuan, there is no need to go back to the restaurant of Chongjiao Temple for dinner.After all, this high-end restaurant is only used to entertain outsiders.

Human survival is actually very simple, just food, drink, clothing and shelter.If you don't show your back, you don't feel poor, if you eat enough, you don't feel hungry, and if you live in a place where you don't shiver at night, you are considered comfortable.Eating with elegant movements in an exquisite room with exquisite tableware is not eating, but making yourself guilty.

Therefore, Li Chengqian went directly to the East Palace kitchen, had a full meal here, and then went back to the study.

After dealing with several memorials specially sent by the emperor, Fang Sheng walked in and put a gift list on the table.

These are the New Year's gifts that Donggong received today. After all, giving New Year's gifts is a process of exchange or appreciation.The East Palace gave gifts to the officials and the royal family, and they would return the gifts.It would be embarrassing for dignified princes and princes to send a sack of grain to the East Palace, so many people gave them valuable things, and their sons who were praised for their thesis even gave important gifts.

Just skip things like gold, jade, pearls and stones, and look for interesting things.

The things Li Tai sent were very good. This guy wandered around the gunpowder weapon workshop for a while, and he had a bad idea about gunpowder. He mixed some other materials into it and made a product called "Fireworks". "Fun stuff.

Seeing the description, Li Chengqian knew that Li Tai had come up with the game of "Flower".It's fun, but it's also dangerous.The most important thing is that if this stuff spreads, then burning firecrackers during the New Year will become a bit of "firecrackers".Thinking about the lingering clouds of smoke and the pungent smell in the air in future generations every New Year and festival, Li Chengqian thought it would be better not to promote this thing.Isn't it fun to build a fire together and burn bamboo to hear the sound?

Skip Li Tai's gift and meet Li Ke's.Li Ke is now the king of Wu, and he also opened the Wu palace. There is still no shortage of good things in his fief, so he sent some special products from Wu.Knowing my brother's temper, there is something to eat.

But after flipping through Xungui's gift list, he also saw a gift from Changle, which is strange.

a pot of flower?Can this girl grow live flowers?Thinking about it, I knew it was given to me by Su Yuan.

"Go and bring that potted flower, be careful, don't be frozen by the cold wind."

Fang Sheng agreed, and walked out step by step.

Seeing that Fang Sheng's legs and feet were inconvenient, Li Chengqian stopped him, and said helplessly: "If you are not in good health, you don't have to go to work. If you feel weak, you can go out of the palace and go to the farm to provide for the elderly. A lot of old people are still in the East Palace. You're so busy, aren't you looking for guilt?"

After some words, Fang Sheng cried directly, and knelt down and said: "I also know that I am going to be a waste now, but I just don't want to part with His Highness. I always want to work under His Highness. Since His Highness thinks it's inappropriate, The old slave will leave the palace tomorrow."

Li Chengqian still doesn't like to force people around him to do things he doesn't like, so he can only pull Fang Sheng up and say, "If you want to stay in the East Palace, then stay, as long as you tell others to do things. Go and make the prisoner tomorrow." Want a wheelchair, you are also the majestic head of the Eastern Palace, being pushed by a young eunuch, how majestic."

This passage made Fang Sheng laugh again, and without hesitation, he ordered an eunuch at the door to get the flowers, while he stayed in the study.

After Changle, they were all gifts from some college disciples. Since they were not qualified to give gifts, they were sent to the East Palace in the name of Changsun Chong after the integration.

Speaking of which, they are all worthless things, or a handwritten word, or something handmade, and if you can send a chicken, it is estimated that the family is at least a rich peasant.

This is very good, he helped these students, and he didn't have the idea of ​​repaying the favor, it would be fine for them to give gifts.

After seeing the word "model boat", Li Chengqian ordered someone to bring the model boat.

Not surprisingly, it should be a gift from Qiu Haiqing.

The first ones to be brought into the study were Su Yuan's flowers. It was winter, but they were in full bloom, and there was a fresh fragrance of flowers when they were close.

It's vanilla.

The pot was also replaced with pine leaf soil, and there was a hidden note in the middle of the vanilla leaves.

When he opened it, Li Chengqian was immediately happy.

"If you die, don't come to see me."

It's really surprising that Su Yuan can use such an arrogant tone.Li Chengqian could almost guess such a scene: a beautiful girl was lying in front of the desk, writing a line of words on a piece of paper. After thinking about it, she thought it was impossible, so she had to throw it aside in a ball.In the end, in desperation, I could only write such a paragraph under the abduction of my future sister-in-law...

Thinking of this, Li Chengqian suddenly stopped thinking about it, and after a long time of arguing, it turned out that it was Changle's abduction that made her write this passage.

Putting the flower pot on the desk, those jade paperweights, pen holders and so on are all overshadowed.

Soon, the ship model was also delivered.

Good guy, it is said to be a model ship, but it needs two people to carry it. The hull of the ship is more than one meter long, and almost every part is made of simulation. The eunuch carrying the ship is afraid of damaging the delicate parts on it.

After ordering the eunuch to put the ship model on the ground, Li Chengqian immediately dismantled it. When he saw the existence of the "keel" inside the cabin, he was immediately relieved.Only a ship with a keel is strong enough, at least except for wood such as iron wood, before the advent of iron-clad ships, no sea-going ship could do without a keel.

The entire ship model is polished very brightly, and tung oil is also applied. The matching of the cabin and weapons is very reasonable.

In this era, if you want to go to sea to do business, the lack of combat power of the ship is purely courting death.You must know that the first fear of sea people is hurricanes, the second fear is lack of water, and the worst fear is pirates.

The hurricane can be resisted, and if you are lucky, you may be able to find a suitable safe haven, so that no one will die.The lack of water can last for a day or two with perseverance, and maybe fresh water can be obtained on the third day.But when it comes to pirates, there is nothing to say.After chatting with Qiu Haiqing's father, Qiu Yue, Li Chengqian knew that there was no such thing as taking hostages or taking prisoners at sea at this time.Fresh water is the lifeblood, and both of these will waste water resources for no reason.Therefore, killing people became the only option.

Chapter 282 The Capital of Drinking Blood

Sad to say, Datang is known as a country of monarchs, and everyone is a gentleman from top to bottom.Ever since, even if the naval armies of many countries in the Middle East disguised themselves as pirates to burn, kill and plunder, Datang didn't bother to follow suit.

Although violence is a sin, and peace is a beautiful state of mind, but when others use violence to destroy one's own head and maintain peace, it becomes sorrow.

In any case, Datang needs its own sea power.Perhaps, this power does not need to be too strong in a short period of time, but in any case, it is the minimum requirement to be able to vibrate all countries with ships at sea.

Thinking of this, Li Chengqian recalled Zhang Liang, the general of Datang Sea.This guy is also the Duke of the state, and he is in command of the Donghai Navy.It seems that Datang Navy is in charge, but in fact this position is really nothing.Because, Datang does not pay attention to the navy.

People have to be beaten to have a long memory. When Japanese pirates go to the seaside of China to burn, kill and rob, they will probably regret it!

"Call Zhang Yun in!"

Fang Sheng didn't need to call, Zhang Yun, who was waiting outside, opened the door and came in by himself.

"Prepare a gift, I plan to visit Zhang Liang after the year and discuss some things."

Zhang Yun nodded and went down to prepare.If the crown prince pays an official visit, the gifts that should be prepared must not be too cheap.On the side of the Code Design Bureau, the scale of travel and visits should also be formulated.

The prince likes to prepare the things he will do in advance, and everyone in the East Palace knows it well.

Li Chengqian couldn't help feeling hot when he reassembled the dismantled ship model.In Li Yongshu's reply letter, he introduced the situation of the seaport in Lingnan.Feng An's work is still very reliable. Just at the mouth of the Pearl River, the construction of the seaport is halfway through.As for the wood needed by the shipyard, it has been prepared. As long as the wood is dry in the shade, the shipbuilding can also start.

"Ask someone to inform Qiu Yue and Qiu Haiqing that in the next year, Gu will meet them and let them wait for news."

"Decree Li Dahai, there must be no shortage of supply from Lingnan? Even if there is a shortage of money when the bank is being built? There must be no shortage."

"Order the auction house to clear the inventory in the shortest possible time. It will be time to spend money after a year. It doesn't matter if you earn less at this time."

"The herald treasury? In addition to the money for daily expenses in the East Palace, there are also Gu's favorite things? All the money is sent to Li Dahai? All the items are sent to the auction house."

After giving four orders in a row, Li Chengqian breathed a sigh of relief.This is already considered a gamble. Most of his savings since he became the prince have to be invested in Lingnan's shipyards and seaports.It is no exaggeration to say that such an intensity may not even be supported by the national treasury.Datang Shuishang's power is too lacking. At this time, it is better to use the money in the right place than to sit on the money pile and have fun.

Fang Sheng also understood the prince's determination, and after carefully writing down everything, he began to arrange for people to do it.

Remove the incense burner in the center of the study? After replacing it with a model boat, it really looks much better.

After watering the vanilla a little bit? Li Chengqian realized that he was so looking forward to this year passing earlier.

Time passed slowly, did the chapter of the six years of Zhenguan turn over? Li Chengqian, who was already 14 years old, felt that his voice had begun to change.

The first few days after the new year? Naturally, it was a New Year's greeting arrangement? It wasn't until the sixth day that Qiu Yue and Qiu Haiqing and his son were summoned by the prince.

With excitement, the father and son entered the East Palace, the prince's study.

"Grassman Qiu Yue (student Qiu Haiqing), pay homage to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Seeing the father and son kneeling on the ground, Li Chengqian behind the desk frowned and said, "Although this is the Eastern Palace, there is no need to kneel down. Get up and find a chair for yourself."

Qiu Yue didn't expect to be treated like this by the prince. Sitting on the chair brought by Zhang Yun, he didn't dare to sit on his buttocks.

Compared with his father, Qiu Haiqing's performance was much better. Instead of sitting down, he circled around his favorite works, smiling proudly from time to time.

After dealing with the memorial in his hand, Li Chengqian stood up, walked to Qiu Haiqing and said, "Are you satisfied with your work?"

Qiu Haiqing cupped his hands and said: "Your Highness, not to mention the students, even the craftsmen of the engineering college are extremely satisfied with this work. When this ship model was completed, I specially asked the new military supervisor to supervise it. According to him , the five-tooth warship is far inferior to it!"

Li Chengqian stretched out his hand and patted the back of Qiu Haiqing's head, which directly knocked Qiu Haiqing into a daze, clutching the back of his head, wondering why the crown prince beat him.

"However, after integrating the shipbuilding materials from various places, and then brainstorming, you will be complacent? During the time of the lonely Chinese New Year, as long as you are in the study, you will study it, and you will find out two of the most serious shortcomings."

"two?"

Qiu Haiqing was dumbfounded. This ship model was certified by all in the engineering college. How could the prince find out two shortcomings?Or the worst?

Without questioning, Qiu Haiqing immediately bowed his hands and saluted: "Please advise, Your Highness."

Li Chengqian was still very satisfied with Qiu Haiqing's attitude.He put his arm around his shoulder and said, "Look at the rudder of the ship. After all these years, the rudder still needs to be controlled by someone at the stern? Is it difficult? Think about it, as long as you use the hook-up device to transmit the control to the bow, won't it be Can the problem be solved? At that time, the person in charge of the boat will not need to listen to the orders in front, or run back and forth, hide in the room, and enjoy the sea view in front of him while sailing. How comfortable is this? As for the change of torque, you Go to Wei Wang or Yan Liben to learn from it, no matter it is a gear set or a pulley set, it can be done. At that time, it will not be a problem to control the rudder with one finger."

While speaking, Li Chengqian showed him on the model ship.

After hearing this, Qiu Haiqing was almost dumbfounded. After imagining it hard, he realized that this idea is really feasible.

Delighted, he continued to ask: "What about the second shortcoming? Please continue to advise, Your Highness."

Straightening up, Li Chengqian said helplessly: "Your thoughts are still a bit naive. You must know that you are not only required to build a ship that can sail, but also have combat power. But take a look at what you have prepared for the ship. How powerful is such a thing as a pole? It is really good to arrange the trebuchet at the stern here, but where do you prepare so many stones in the vast sea? Even if you have them, how many times can you use them? Doesn’t it take up the cargo to load stones on a cargo ship? The space? Let you go to sea, you will pay for death."

"However, besides the ram, the weapons on the ship are just poles."

Li Chengqian smiled, picked up an arrow shaft from the table, and twitched Qiu Haiqing's butt twice, saying: "Stupid, the academy didn't teach you to stick to the old rules, right, the weapons of the river boat are the ram and the racket. But why do you have to learn from the tradition? Don’t you know how to innovate?”

Knowing that the crown prince would not whip himself with the arrow shaft for no reason, Qiu Haiqing simply took the arrow shaft from the crown prince.

It's a hollow arrow shaft, holding the arrow shaft, Qiu Haiqing doesn't know what it means.

"This is the shaft of the Thunder Arrow. Although you have never seen a gunpowder weapon, you must have heard of it."

"Your Highness, do you mean to equip the ship with such weapons?"

"Nonsense! What a good weapon. Primitive warfare at sea involves approaching, colliding, or jumping gangs, but with such weapons, when the opponent is still thinking of jumping gangs and fighting, the next moment is to feed the fish. Bows and arrows and eight bulls You can still imagine the range of the crossbow."

Qiu Haiqing laughed immediately: "In this way, won't it be that we are the only ones who beat others, and others can't beat us?"

"At least this is the case most of the time. However, even if they have to jump from the gang at that time, they must have suffered heavy losses. Facing the remnant army, do you think we Datang people are still afraid of being unable to fight in close combat?"

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Qiu Yue on the chair watched excitedly as the prince discussed with his own son, his eyes got wet unconsciously.It is said that businessmen have big arms and round waists, but who knows that businessmen also have various difficulties.One generation has been a merchant, and the next generation can't get rid of the identity of a merchant.I used to think that my son would be judged by others just like me, but who would have thought that my son would be appreciated by the prince for being so upbeat.Regardless of what official the prince will give him, as long as he is an official, he, as a father, can be worthy of his ancestors!

Seeing that the prince and his son had finished chatting, Qiu Yue quickly stood up and bowed his head.

Raising Qiu Yue's hand, Li Chengqian said with a smile: "Gu has left you alone. Don't worry, Qiu Haiqing's official certificate will be issued soon. Although he is only a loose official belonging to the East Palace, he is not yet popular, but in the future, Mr. Gu Will give him a better chance."

Qiu Yue hurriedly said: "As long as His Highness appreciates it, even letting him do odd jobs is a blessing to the Qiu family."

Seeing his father speak so humblely, Qiu Haiqing was a little embarrassed.

Li Chengqian kicked Qiu Haiqing and said: "Why, do you think your father is ashamed of doing this? You have to think about what your father is doing this for? Isn't it for you? Tell you, if you can't do good things for Gu, first of all I'm sorry It's your father."

Qiu Haiqing quickly bowed his head and admitted his mistake.

"Okay, your official certificate and official uniform are all with Fang Sheng, the manager. After you get them, you can go back. You can take a period of vacation before you go out. Cherish it. I'm going to visit tomorrow Zhang Liang, Duke of Yun, come with Gu."

Qiu Haiqing nodded and led his father out.He didn't care about the official uniform or anything, he just wanted his father to see his son's achievements, so he specially asked the prince and his father to come along.

After seeing off Qiu Haiqing and his son, Li Chengqian returned to the desk and continued to process the memorial.

It is said that a runaway wild horse runs fast, and this sentence is the same for Xungui.As soon as the ban on honorable nobles was lifted, especially after last year's safety period, many families couldn't bear to bring the hidden industries to the light, and the newly created industries were no longer hidden.When the family property that everyone tried their best to hide was exposed, it was amazing enough!

For example, Fang Xuanling, looking bored, turned out that the scale of the Fang family's property was so damn fast that it caught up with the two ordinary princes.There are only a few people who really abide by the ban!

Adding gasoline to the flames of commerce will create a huge flame, and the growing prosperity of Chang'an during this period is the proof that commerce has begun to prosper.

The disadvantages caused by commercial development have gradually emerged.The first thing to bear the brunt is naturally tax evasion. Even if it is the current tax of [-], there are still many people who are reluctant to try their best to conceal their income, even if it is a big family.