So the two women involuntarily walked out of their hiding place, and then they were stunned to see three... Kunlun slaves standing at the door of Zichen Palace
Under the steps of Zichen Hall, there were dozens of people with faces that were also smoky and disfigured. After a closer look at their clothes, it was confirmed that they were official uniforms of the Tang Dynasty, and they were snoring in order. Climbing up the steps of Zichen Palace, it was like... Wu Mei and Bai Chun were temporarily at a loss for words. Apart from being in a state of embarrassment and defeated, they really couldn't think of any other suitable words to describe this group of people.
Li Dan was quite unconvinced. Neither he nor Li Hong nor Li Zhe noticed the stunned Wu Mei and Bai Chun from the Zichen Palace. Their faces were full of shock and disbelief, and they slowly walked toward them from the palace. come over.
"But no matter what, at least I can start and run. This can be considered an improvement, right?" Li Dan showed two rows of white teeth and said with a white eyeball. His shiny black cheeks were in tatters. , covered with smoke and dust, as if it had just come out of coal mining.
"Fart, I have the nerve to say it is an improvement. I really want to ask you, is the firewood burning in your boiler? Can the smoke be bigger? Looking at your current virtue, what do you think? Is it still progress? The whole carriage was filled with black smoke. I couldn't see clearly who was sitting opposite me, so I almost stuck my head out the window and shouted: Elder Sun, please use your magic power now. Are you serious about saying this is progress? "Li Hong, whose cheeks are also dark and shiny, has changed from a yellow robe to a black robe.
But he also didn't notice the door. Because he said Elder Sun, he quickly stopped his magical words, while Wu Mei and Bai Chun were laughing so hard that they couldn't stand up straight.
Wu Mei and Bai Chun couldn't hold back their smiles. They looked at Li Hong, Li Zhe, Li Dan, Yu Tu Fin who ran up, and the embarrassed looks of the ministers, and finally couldn't help it. And Fangsheng laughed out loud.
The reason why Li Hong was so indulged by Wu Mei in the past three years, and that he was no longer taught to be emperor by Wu Mei from time to time as before, was absolutely related to the fact that he recruited a group of students from the Imperial College and then compiled "Journey to the West".
Although after being compiled by a group of students from the Imperial College, this "Journey to the West" is completely different from that "Journey to the West", but in terms of the overall concept, it is completely based on Li Hong's oral description of the general situation of the previous life's "Journey to the West". , and began to let those students add details to compile it, so it became another "Journey to the West".
According to the current emperor of the Tang Dynasty, I have been dreaming for several days, dreaming about my father looking for eminent monks to go to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures, etc. Therefore, in order to commemorate the late emperor, I hope that the Imperial Academy can compile my dreams into a book.
Therefore, a "Journey to the West" with completely different content from the previous one, but with a similar conceptual framework, was published in the Tang Dynasty. It also took five people, including Tang Monk, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Monk, and Bai Longma, as the main clues. A story about gods and demons.
After three years of compilation, and the fact that movable type printing has now reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty, "Journey to the West" also has a very large readership in the Tang Dynasty.
Afterwards, through the design and dramatization by Yan Lingbin and others, Journey to the West is no longer limited to books. Like The Legend of White Snake, The Romance of the West Chamber, etc., it has become a major opera in this period of the Tang Dynasty.
So when Wu Mei heard Li Hong's words about Elder Sun quickly withdrawing his magical powers, she could no longer suppress the smile in her heart, and began to ignore the image of the Queen Mother and join Bai Chun in front of the ministers, Li Hong and others. Laughed loudly.
Li Hong, Li Dan, and Li Zhe naturally did not expect that the Queen Mother and Bai Chun would appear here, and the ministers even more did not expect that the Empress Dowager would run to the Zichen Palace at this time.
So when the dark faces and white eyeballs blinked, and they saw Wu Mei who was laughing so hard that she couldn't stand up straight at the door of Zichen Palace, the ministers all panicked and hurriedly knelt on the ground, shouting: "Chen I have seen the empress and ministers behave in such a manner, which is disrespectful to etiquette and disgraceful to the royal family. Please punish the empress dowager."
The dark-faced Li Hong turned around and saw Bai Chun, who had burst into tears from laughter, holding Wu Mei's arm, still out of breath from laughing.
"My son has met my mother." Li Hong blushed rarely, but at this time, no matter who they were, even if they blushed, they couldn't see it.
Wu Mei, who also burst into tears from laughter, had no intention of holding them accountable for their lack of etiquette at this time. There were a few tears of laughter on her graceful cheeks, while she held Bai Chun's arm and the other hand on her waist. , gasping and asked: "You... what are you doing? Did you get into the coal pile?"
Li Zhe and Li Dan stood behind Li Hong, and were afraid that Li Hong would scold them in front of his mother, so they both said in a hurry: "The train can start now. Although it has only traveled two miles, it is already It’s enough to shock people all over the world. You don’t need animals to pull it, you just need to fill it with more coal and you can start running.”
"This is a good thing, but..." Wu Mei pointed to the ministers who were still kneeling on the ground, especially looking at Li Hong's twitching black face, and couldn't help laughing again: "Everyone, get up. , How is it appropriate to look like this? If you have something to do, please discuss it with your ministers tomorrow. Everyone should go home and wash themselves. "
Wu Mei, who was supported by Bai Chun, still couldn't help but want to smile after saying that. However, as the empress dowager, she couldn't lose all her Fengyi in front of the ministers. After all, because of the sudden scene in front of her, she couldn't help but smile. It's already very embarrassing.
"What a bullshit. I'm telling you, it's not over! If you can't run to Luoyang in one go, then this train is useless." After saying that, he waved his hand casually to let the officials Go down.
Then she walked up to Wu Mei with a dark face and exposed her white teeth, and said flatteringly: "Why did the Queen suddenly come to Zichen Palace in such a mood today?"
As he spoke, he was about to step forward to help Wu Mei, but Wu Mei and Bai Chun hurriedly took a few steps back and said: "You stay away from me, and you two, why are you standing there? Why don't you go back and take a shower?" Wash, the majestic Prince of the Tang Dynasty, you are so unbecoming, the royal family has lost all face."
Wu Mei, who had regained her grace and splendor, and the majesty of her mother-in-law in the world, pointed to the only three people left in front of her and said, and then she and Bai Chun walked to the Zichen Palace on their own.
Li Hong turned to Li Dan and Li Zhe and said, "Go back and think of other solutions tomorrow, but..." Li Hong sighed, thought for a moment and said, "It's already rare to be able to run, but it seems... our The technology is still not up to par. It might be better if every part can be perfectly integrated, instead of being put together in such a hurry to make him run. It’s more haste than speed.”
"But we have used everything we can use now. This is already the best and most sophisticated technology in Datang. If we want to keep improving, I am afraid we will need to put in more effort and spend more money. "Li Dan is like an engineer in his previous life, but even so, Li Dan is shocked by the money he has spent over the years. It is simply an astronomical figure.
Thinking about it, he broke out in a cold sweat. He couldn't even believe it. After a rough calculation, he had spent so much money on the Tang Dynasty in the past few years. The total amount of money could be more than the national strength of a foreign country in one year. , it can even pay for two to three small countries for a year.
"You can't give up halfway. Money is for spending, but technology cannot be bought with money, but it is accumulated with money. Now that Datang has money, if we don't spend, create, and develop, sooner or later, our country will be Tang will be surpassed by others, so in order to maintain our own strength and advantage, we must always push ourselves." Li Hong sat on the threshold of Zichen Palace, and Bai Chun brought three hot and wet towels, two of which were handed over by the palace maid. Li Zhe and Li Dan, the other one, she was holding in her hand at the moment, helping Li Hong wipe the black smoke from his face.
Li Zhe took the towel from the palace maid's hand and wiped it himself. Because Li Dan was too fat, he could only ask the palace maid to help him wipe the black ash on his face.
"Li Dan needs a lot of money here, and the power plant... now has funds..." Li Zhe looked at Li Hong's painted face, which was being wiped by Bai Chun, and then he trembled when he saw himself talking about funds.
Li Hong also felt Bai Chun's hand shaking involuntarily, and even Long Ma, who was drinking tea leisurely in the Zichen Palace, coughed.
He grabbed Bai Chun's hand that was resting on his face, then pulled it down. He looked at Bai Chun and asked, "Are you... with the Queen... again?"
"What's wrong? I, the Empress Dowager, can't interfere with you, the Emperor's private affairs anymore? I don't ask about the government affairs of the Tang Dynasty, but I can't do anything about your private affairs either? What do you want to ask? Today it's me Call Bai Chun over for questioning. If you have any dissatisfaction, come to me." Behind Li Hong, Wu Mei's calm and confident tone sounded in the Zichen Hall.
When Li Zhe and Li Dan heard their mother's tone, they were like two bastards who had encountered a natural enemy. They shrank their necks involuntarily and conditionally. They had just been busy discussing and completely forgot that their mother was in the Zichen Palace behind them.
"I'm not dissatisfied." Li Hong stood up from the threshold of Zichen Palace, took the wet handkerchief in Bai Chun's hand and wiped his face carelessly, then walked into the palace, looked at the leisurely Wu Mei and said, "Your minister is just I don’t think I can be a miser. Bai Chun earns so much money in a year, but it’s all rusty if he can’t bear to spend it. Besides, you can’t make money and have children...”
"Does your train make money, or does your power plant make money? Let's not talk about the train. It's been old for many years. I'm afraid it's all rusty. And what kind of power plant have you been working on in the past three years? Can that make money? ? You can earn even a penny for me." Wu Mei raised her eyelids and glanced at the arrogant emperor, and then continued to read the memorials on the table casually.
"Don't worry, sooner or later you will... what did you say?" Li Dan next to Li Hong pulled his sleeve, making Li Hong confused about what he wanted to say.
"Brother Emperor, what the Queen Mother said is very true. How could we have forgotten this. Brother Emperor, give the order to dismantle the train, dismantle it immediately..."
"Did your brain suffer from the smoke? Did you dismantle it? This is all my years of hard work..." Li Hong was startled by Li Dan's words and immediately asked.
But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Wu Mei: "Listen, your right and left armies are gone. How long will you continue to be authoritarian and domineering? It's better to listen to Li Dan and break it up quickly..."
As soon as Li Dan heard that the two people had misunderstood what he meant, he ignored the etiquette and said hurriedly: "Empress Mother, Brother Emperor, you have misunderstood. The Empress just said that this train has been in storage for so many years, and I am afraid that some parts may have been damaged." It’s already rusty, and we didn’t do the preliminary work well during this test run, so we might as well tear it down and rebuild it.”
Li Dan's face shone with an extremely confident light. If his mother hadn't accidentally reminded him that the train was rusty, he wouldn't have thought about where the problem was. Now that his mother reminded him, Li Dan knew the crux of the problem in an instant. At this moment, I was cursing myself for being as stupid as a pig.
(End of chapter)