Chapter 1071 The Secret Agency in His Majesty's Imperial Palace: The Tang Army
Chapter 1071 The secret agency in His Majesty’s Imperial Palace: the Tang Dynasty Ordnance Supervision and Gunpowder Administration
"Your Highness, why are you sighing?" In the East Palace, in the pavilion not far from Yichun Palace.
Cheng Chubi and His Highness the Crown Prince were having a great time here, eating ice cream and playing checkers.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was not very happy to play cards, and seemed to find it embarrassing to have to talk all the time while playing cards.
He preferred some more polite chess and card activities, so Cheng Chubi simply played checkers.
Anyway, this thing is very simple. If there is no paper shell, just use a wooden board to make the chessboard.
Then, Cheng Chubi went to Zhao's Western Region Liulicang to get a batch of glass beads.
Although there are not many colors, we can still get together six types of glass beads: red, yellow, blue, green, translucent, and brown.
Although the shape is not so round, it can still play checkers.
Li Chengqian stuck out his tongue and licked the ice cream, smacked his mouth happily, and said while moving the chess pieces.
"In a few days, it will be my wife's birthday, but I don't know what kind of gift to give her."
"I am worried about this matter..."
Cheng Chubi couldn't help but roll his eyes when he saw Li Chengqian's obscene posture eating ice cream.
If you were a girl and licked like this, it would still be pleasing to others, but the question is, are you a big man?
Forget it, after all, he is the Crown Prince, and he eats the same way as his father. I think of the time when I delivered ice cream to the palace a few days ago.
The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty also stuck out his tongue and licked it so happily. The scene was so irritating that I couldn't bear to witness it.
Cheng Chubi took a vicious bite of the ice cream in his hand, showed His Highness the Crown Prince how to eat it as a pure man, and then inhaled.
"Since your Highness can't think of it, how about I take you for a walk in Dongshi later?"
"Going to Dongshi?" Li Chengqian's eyes suddenly lit up. Although his expression was honest, his tone seemed very hypocritical.
"This is not good. If you go to a place like that, Yu Qing will have to nag you again..."
Hearing this, Cheng Chubi couldn't help but have a headache. Yu Zhining's prince Zhan Shi was as guarding against himself as he was guarding against thieves.
It's so annoying that I took the prince out for a walk a few days ago.
Then they went to a very unique restaurant, where a trio of unemployed people ate and drank together.
Unexpectedly, Yu Zhining came to the door and blocked her door. At that time, Yu Zhining's expression was like that of a resentful woman who had been abandoned.
It really makes Cheng Chubi feel sore when thinking about it now.
"Hey, there is a way. In a few days, the third crop of rice that I have planted will be harvested. Let's use this as an excuse to leave the palace."
"Let's leave early. Let's go for a walk in Dongshi first. After His Highness has picked out a gift for the Crown Princess, how about we go out of the city?"
Hearing this, Li Chengqian's eyes suddenly lit up, and he stretched out his tongue to lick the ice cream. "Wonderful..."
Ning Zhong, who was standing aside, was holding the ice cream cone that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had just given to him, licking it with a face full of happiness and emotion.
"..." Cheng Chubi took another bite of the ice cream with a dark look on his face, and was so cold that he breathed heavily.
Damn it, I bit off too much, my mouth is frozen...
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Li Shimin glanced at Liu Yuanwai and Deng Zhubo from the Farming Department of the former Ministry of Industry, stroking his long beard that looked very supple, and his eyes fell on the folder they handed over.
It records what outrageous or bizarre things Cheng Chubi did to those three crops of rice over the past month or so.
When his eyes fell on that line of words, Li Shimin raised his eyebrows. "What does it mean to sweep ears with bamboo poles to pollinate them?"
Liu Yuanwai bowed respectfully to Li Shimin and then answered.
"When the rice bloomed in the previous three seasons, Cheng Taichang ordered people to bring bamboo poles to sweep the rice ears."
"At that time, both the minister and Master Deng felt that Cheng Taichang was fooling around, and they specifically advised him not to act recklessly."
"But he said that since the rice has flowers, it must be pollinated. If you use a bamboo pole to sweep the rice ears, it will help the rice to pollinate..."
"...Looking at it now, the ears of those three-season rice are very plump and swollen, and there is almost no hollow phenomenon."
Deng Zhubo on the side continued what Liu Yuanwailang said.
"Your Majesty, the three-crop rice field cultivated by Cheng Taichang will be harvested soon. In my opinion, the output of this acre of land may be more than three stones."
These words made Li Shimin raise his eyebrows again, looking at the two ministers in front of him who looked a little excited.
Li Shimin put the folder in his hand on the table and asked.
"In this way, the two of you carefully draw up an article about Cheng Sanlang's farming method and the farming method of ordinary people."
"Look back and let me take a closer look. Since the harvest is about to begin, you should go and find out what day it will be harvested.
Well, don't let him know that it's me who wants to ask. When the time comes, I will quietly go and have a look."
"It would be a good thing if one acre of rice field could yield three stones."
"I obey my orders..." The two of them bowed respectfully to Li Shimin and exited the Ganlu Hall.
We have to ask clearly to see when Cheng Chubi, a young agricultural expert, is going to harvest that acre of third-season rice that is almost fully mature.
As for His Majesty's obscene development and not wanting Cheng Taichang to know about his arrival at the scene, they naturally did not dare to disobey him.
Maybe this is the boss's privacy and hobby.
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The Ordnance Supervision and Gunpowder Administration of the Tang Dynasty were secret agencies housed in an imperial palace under the name of His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
So far, there are only fourteen craftsmen working inside, each working in teams of two, responsible for different tasks.
Some are responsible for processing sulfur, some are responsible for processing charcoal, and some are responsible for processing saltpeter.
There are also people responsible for stirring, and two people responsible for granulating gunpowder.
And two craftsmen specifically responsible for making leads. Because making leads requires soaking in wax liquid.
So the lead is not made here, but in a small house by the lake.
The last two are responsible for packaging and sealing. There are also two eunuchs.
Their responsibility is to prepare the gunpowder in proportion.
Except for the two eunuchs, the people who mastered this gunpowder formula were in charge.
Only Cheng Chubi, the young supervisor of the Ordnance Supervision and the commander of the Gunpowder Department, who was transferred from the Ordnance Supervision and Nufang Department, knew about it.
This official was actually a distant relative of the Li Tang royal family, also named Li, and his last name was Chengguang, also from Longxi Chengji.
It's just that this distant relative is a bit far away, but he has always been Li Shimin's personal bodyguard.
However, when Li Shimin led his army to quell Liu Heitai's battle, he was seriously injured and lost an arm.
Li Shimin assigned him, who was quite literate, to the Nufang Department. Now, with the construction of the Gunpowder Department, he was transferred over to work as a partner with Cheng Chubi.
Fortunately, although he was literate, his acting style was very military, which suited Cheng Chubi very well.