Three years can be said to pass by in a blink of an eye in the long river of history, but for people of an era, three years also occupies absolute significance in life.
Li Xian asked himself to be Li Zhi's filial piety for three years, and the shadow of King Pei appeared every day in the Qianling Mausoleum. Even in the winter three years later, King Pei still reported to Emperor Li Hong, hoping to continue guarding the tomb for a few more months. , when spring comes and the flowers bloom, the green vegetation on the Qianling Mausoleum begins to show vitality. When the Qianling Mausoleum is no longer withered and yellow, we will return to Chang'an.
In the past three years, many people have been looking for the restored King of Pei. Some people respected Li Xian's filial piety, while others hoped to win over Li Xian to fight against Emperor Li Hong, so that in these three years, he would be completely wiped out. The five surnames and seven hopes can retain even a little bit of hope.
But no one persuaded Li Xian to leave Qianling. Even when Li Sujie, Li Shangjin, Li Dan, and Li Zhe were guarding the tomb at the same time, King Pei made up his mind and would never leave Qianling. One step forward.
As the only hope of life-saving straw for the five surnames and Qiwang, Li Xian was not even interested in hearing what they had to say. Once he realized that someone with ulterior motives came to Qianling to visit him for impure purposes, he immediately Will wave my sleeves to see guests off without leaving any emotion behind.
Among the princes, Li Dan and Li Zhe spent the shortest time guarding the mausoleum. Of course, compared with Emperor Li Hong of the Tang Dynasty, their time guarding the mausoleum was not short. But after all, the emperor could not neglect the government and guard the mausoleum every day. In Qianling.
So in the past three years, Li Zhe and Li Dan basically traveled between Qianling and Chang'an. In three years, the diesel locomotive still has not overcome the bottleneck. The rumbling sound that Li Hong was looking forward to appeared in his sleep. No less than eight hundred times, but in reality, it has never happened once.
Of course, someone is not a single-minded person, and he does not have to hang himself from a tree. Just as Wu Mei was praying secretly in her heart, and quickly let the big iron block scream, his son started again Put your attention elsewhere.
In the past three years, every time Li Hong went to the Qianling Mausoleum, he basically accompanied Wu Mei. However, every year during the Qingming Festival, His Majesty the Emperor would also take the Queen, civil and military officials, and the Supreme Emperor to the Qianling Mausoleum to observe the three principles of filial piety. day.
Wu Mei was now completely taken care of by Li Hong, and Wu Mei's palace was even moved to the Daming Palace, Penglai Pavilion where Wu Mei originally lived.
As a result, in the harem of the Daming Palace, Queen Pei Wanying originally thought that she needed to ask her mother for instructions on everything, but Wu Mei obviously had no intention of doing so, and she just smiled and did not express her opinion every time. Either chatting about household matters with Pei Wanying, or talking about folk things with Yan Lingbin, Shangguan Wan'er, Wen Rou, Bai Chun and others.
And precisely because of this, Wu Mei accidentally learned from Bai Chun, who came to the palace every three or five days, that many wooden poles with equal intervals were erected in the imperial city by His Majesty and King Li Dan of Yin. Moreover, some wooden poles are equipped with large boxes next to them, extending from the imperial city to a workshop outside the city.
"What is he going to do again?" Wu Mei has lived a pretty good life in the past three years. At least her mental temperament is compared to three years ago, probably because she has less psychological pressure from Li Zhi's illness. Her appearance in the past three years has changed. Not much has changed.
"It is said that the candles in this palace are to be replaced with a different lighting method. The other servants don't know, but..." Bai Chun looked confused. Over the years, he has been His Majesty's money bag, from His Majesty to the Crown Prince. Since then, she has never frowned at the splurge of spending money for His Majesty.
But this time it was different. The money Taiyi City earned each year was hurriedly taken away by His Majesty before he could use it. His Majesty even borrowed a lot of money from two banks without telling himself and the Queen Mother. Less money.
Nowadays... It’s okay to say that His Majesty is an extremely wealthy emperor, because after His Majesty learned the lessons from the famines in the past few years, the money in the Ministry of Revenue will not be touched arbitrarily now, so the Ministry of Revenue still has a lot of money. .
But to say that His Majesty is the person with the most debts in the world now is truly true. According to what he does and thinks, in order to mess with that electric light, he has already tied up a bank.
Therefore, when the cost was extremely huge and completely exceeded her imagination and endurance, she had to go into the palace to report to the Empress Dowager. After all, the only one who could suppress His Majesty now, looking at the entire Tang Dynasty, was the Empress Dowager. The Queen Mother is alone.
"Lighting? What do you mean? What are you using without candles? Light an oil lamp?" Wu Mei listened to Bai Chun's chatter and began to think in her mind. A few days ago, when she walked into Li Hong's office without letting Hua Meng inform her, Then he saw Li Hong and Li Dan lying on the table covered with paper pages, not knowing what they were discussing.
After the two of them realized that they had come in, they immediately hurriedly packed up the papers, which were covered with drawings that looked like ghost drawings. Wu Mei glanced at it casually and found that there were several thick piles next to them, filled with drawings. Paper that looks like ghostly drawings.
At that time, Li Dan looked nervous while holding the papers on the table. Looking back now, he was not nervous about coming in, but nervous about the ghost-like things in his hands.
"Are those papers so important? They are all strange symbols that cannot be written or painted. Could it be that... the secret on them is this lighting or something?" Wu Mei frowned and murmured.
"I don't know the specific slave, but I heard His Majesty say when he asked for money that after we have this thing, we can hang it on the roof in the future and control it with a mechanism. When you pull it, it will light up, and when you pull it again, it will go out. , but you can't touch it casually, as it will kill someone." Bai Chun took the tea from the palace maid, and now he was much more relaxed in front of Wu Mei than before.
And now, she was the only one in the harem who could sit down and have a long talk with Wu Mei, even about the current situation in the world and in the DPRK.
"By the way, it seems that carbon blocks are used, but they are not lit in the palace. They are lit outside the city. Then the... electricity? can be sent to the palace, and then the... candles in the palace can be lit?" The vocabulary in Bai Chun's mind seemed a little insufficient. When Li Hong told her, his tone was fast and urgent, and he seemed very excited.
So at that time, she only focused on looking at the beaming expression on His Majesty's face. She didn't remember much about what ranking His Majesty used and how he said it.
Wu Mei looked at the candle in the glass lampshade next to her, then looked up at the top of her head. She couldn't figure it out. Should the candle stand upside down on the roof
And according to Bai Chun, there is also a bright glass outside, but... why is it controlled by a switch
"Where is the other person? Let him come over." Wu Mei looked at Bai Chun, and then said to Wang Lou next to her.
"Back to the Empress Dowager, Your Majesty will leave the palace after the morning court today." Wang Lou's heart skipped a beat and he bowed hurriedly and said.
"Where have you gone?" It was Bai Chun who asked this time, but she had already vaguely guessed in her mind that she might have gone to the workshop outside the city... No, it was called a power plant. It seemed like it.
"Are you willing to give him so much money? He also owes a lot of debt to the bank. What can he use to repay him later?" Wu Mei said a little discouraged when she heard that Li Hong left the palace.
And she also knew that in the past few years since Li Zhi's death, Li Hong's only focus was on these strange things. Things in Jiling City in Anxi are still the same as they were before Li Xian came back three years ago. Various princes came to the Tang Dynasty to pay homage to Li Hong more than once or twice.
But every time Li Hong avoided seeing him, he always threw him to the Ministry of Rites to receive him, while he hid far away, as if he was afraid that envoys from various princes might make other requests to him.
It is because of this incident that Li Hong and Ye Yue had a small quarrel every three days and a big quarrel every five days. Seeing that his country was still torn apart and war-torn, Ye Yue originally did not dare to argue too much. But when Saleh wrote letters one after another urging her to help her brother, Yeyue finally couldn't sit still.
He and Li Hong's son found Li Hong, but the two did not reach any agreement. Li Hong flatly refused Yeyue's request, but also agreed to Yeyue, ensuring that her brother Saleh would not She was defeated by other princes in a short period of time, and would even give her brother a helping hand when the time was right.
But when it came to the specific time, Li Hong said that the time had not come yet, and he would deal with Ye Yue in a few days. Ye Yue was so angry that she would have thrown herself into Li Hong's arms and bit Li Hong. Their son is next to the words.
Yeyue's matter didn't give Li Hong a headache at all, but after Yeyue left, Princess Dalai also led her son to the Zichen Palace, weeping like pear blossoms with rain, looking pitiful, hoping that Li Hong When he was able to send troops to help his younger brother, Prince Ojin, to suppress the opposition forces of Japan, Li Hong flatly refused.
As for the reason, it is the same as the reason given to Yeyue. Before the time comes, let them mess around for now and talk about it some time later.
Whether it is Yeyue or Princess Dalai, they have been with Li Hong and his wife for many years. They believe that His Majesty must have had an idea in his mind for a long time, but He did not say it.
In their view, this does not require any timing. As long as His Majesty says a word, as long as the navy of the Tang Dynasty approaches the coast of Japan, the opposition forces will immediately flee and surrender.
Just like the influence of the Tang Dynasty on Dashi, as long as the cavalry of the Anxi Corps crosses Jiling City and enters the land of Dashi, Yeyue believes that no matter which prince it is, no matter how powerful the prince is in Dashi, Strong, in the face of the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, they can only surrender and obey orders, unless the prince is deceived by the lard and does not want to live anymore, and he seeks death and takes the initiative to go against the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty.
In the eyes of the two women, it should be a very simple matter. Why is it so difficult to get His Majesty to agree to them
(End of chapter)