When it's hot, anything related to the cool is popular. When the gunpowder workshop purified saltpeter, it produced a large amount of ice, some of which were kept for their own use, and some of which were covered with thick quilts, and transported into the palace for the use of the royal family.

The army that went to Gaochang took with them about 2,000 people with gunpowder weapons, and the gunpowder workshops that had been emptied of their stocks needed to be redeployed.

At least this year in Guanzhong will be a bad harvest year, the continuous heat has led to a reduction in grain production, and troops should not have been sent in such a year, but the gradual development of transportation conditions has made it possible to empty the Chang'an granary and send troops.

It was only after Li Chengqian learned about the situation that he realized how terrible the development of business was. Zhou Shuren said that there is no road in the world, and when there are more people walking, there will be a road. This sentence was supposed to talk about a certain thing, but in fact, such a situation really appeared. There was no need for officials to pay for the maintenance of official roads, and wealthy merchants from all over the country spontaneously began to build roads in order to make their goods transportation more secure, and some rivers that had grown wildly have also been opened up into smooth waterways. In this way, even if there is no harvest in Guanzhong, the grain from the surrounding provinces can still be transported.

One of the most productive people in the world is the businessman.

The imperial court was still very much in favor of the local spontaneous road construction, and even if they charged for it, they did not interfere. There is no need to make a fuss about a few copper things.

However, even if the road from Chang'an to the gunpowder workshop was renovated many times, it could not allow the ice cubes to be transported to the palace safely, so the emperor, who enjoyed the benefits of ice cubes, simply moved the process of purifying saltpeter to the imperial city. In this way, it is not only the royal family that can enjoy the ice, but even some ministers on duty can also get the ice.

When a weapon is easy to use, you always want to make more. After establishing a sufficiently meticulous mechanism for the supervision of gunpowder weapons, the armament of the major frontiers was also put on the agenda.

Seeing that in addition to the distribution, a large amount of ice was wasted, Li Chengqian moved his mind.

There is no shortage of cows specializing in milk production, there is no shortage of farms, and there is no shortage of masters in dairy production, and there is no shortage of Donggong, as for the production method of ice cream, I have already learned it when I was waiting for an order in a cold drink shop, and I even occasionally help a familiar clerk.

So, after a morning of tossing and wasting some ingredients, the delicious ice cream was made. There is no way to set the shape, so it can only be served in a small bowl.

After repeatedly changing the recipe to make the perfect ice cream, Li Chengqian ordered Zhang Yun to wrap the food box in a thick quilt and enter the palace with him.

When the weather is hot and dry, people will also become irritable, especially when dealing with twists and turns, they will always hold back a fire. So, in the summer, the emperor always liked to deal with government affairs in a small pavilion by the pond.

After the emperor stopped writing, Li Chengqian opened the lid of the food box like a treasure, took out a bowl of ice cream and put it on the emperor's table.

"What is this?"

I picked up the bowl and looked at it, but I could only smell a faint milky aroma.

Pushing away Li Jian, who was about to try it, Li Shimin moved the spoon without hesitation.

After taking a bite, I felt that the heat that was almost gushing out of my chest and abdomen had subsided a lot.

"Good thing, Fang Zi remember to send it to the imperial dining room, I like this very much."

"It's been sent over, but although this thing is delicious, it shouldn't be used more, otherwise it will hurt your stomach, and my father must pay attention."

Nodding his head, he was about to pick up the fold, Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian in confusion and said, "It's not your style to be courteous when you have nothing to do. ”

Li Chengqian shook his head again and again: "How dare Erchen, this is not the time for the pro-ploughing ceremony, it will make you unhappy, and now that you have made delicious ice cream, you naturally have to pat your ass." ”

The emperor, who was slapped so bluntly for the first time, laughed: "Okay, I didn't take it to heart, what happened between you and Hou Junji, I was too lazy to care, it was hot, this thing was easy to melt, I knew that you were going to your mother's place, so hurry up." ”

Seeing that the emperor's father really didn't take it to heart, Li Chengqian breathed a sigh of relief.

In the past few years of getting along, he has thoroughly known this so-called emperor of the ages.

Arrogance, arrogance, Lao Tzu is the best in the world, who does not accept and beats whom.

Narcissistic, so happy, I don't like slander but I like sycophants.

With a black belly and a calculating belly, even his own son dares to make a pit.

Thinking of his previous experience, Li Chengqian didn't want to be cheated by him again because of this incident, so he could only come over and pat himself in a low voice.

The word "sycophant" would be weird when applied to father and son, but it would be right to use it for the crown prince and the emperor.

Sending something to the emperor's father is called patting the fart, and sending something to the queen's wife is filial piety. However, when he entered the Liangyi Hall and saw Su Yuan, Li Chengqian almost fell to the ground.

"What's the matter with staring at other girls so bluntly, I don't know if it's rude? Don't get out yet. ”

The harshest words were said in his mouth, but the eldest grandson was smiling.

There's nothing to say, although I've met a lot in private, kissed and touched, and simply slept together, but at least on the surface, the two should still not know each other. Now that it has been taken alive, the word embarrassment alone is not enough to describe the current scene.

"Queen Mother, since you recognize this daughter-in-law, don't want to be captured, you don't know what happened before if you don't believe it, don't you punish your son."

Li Chengqian's words made the eldest grandson laugh, leaning forward and closing back. Su Yuan on the side also blushed, in terms of etiquette, the wife who has not passed through the door is still laughing at the same room with the gentleman's mother-in-law, this is probably the first time.

Lift the quilt, take out the sorbet, and divide the bowl for each person. Fortunately, I brought enough ice cream today, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to share my wife's share.

After tasting the sorbet, the eldest grandson, who was very satisfied, asked, "Did your father send it there?" ”

Seeing Li Chengqian nodding, he enjoyed it with peace of mind.

Just a bowl of sorbet, you can see that the emperor and queen really love each other. Sadly speaking, such a situation is really rare in the past royal dynasties.

Before sitting down, Su Yuan looked at Changle and the others who were feasting around him, and asked, "Your Highness, don't you have it yourself?" Why don't you eat my portion? ”

Li Chengqian smiled and shook his head: "No, I have already eaten it when I was in the East Palace, that is, your house is a little far away from the palace, even if you send it with a quilt, it will melt away, if you want to eat it in the future, you have to enter the palace." ”

"Then let's take a spoonful for each person, if you don't eat it, I always feel weird."

"Okay, then you feed me."

Seeing that his son and future daughter-in-law were flirting with no one next to him, the eldest grandson couldn't help coughing, and Su Yuan was so shocked that he almost poked a spoon into Li Chengqian's nose.

Seeing that the Su family was scrambling to wipe it, the eldest grandson said: "Cheng Qian, you were originally so nonsense with the Su family before, and this palace wanted to ask for guilt, but looking at the harmony and beauty you get along with now, forget it." However, the East Palace has no owner, it is not good after all, it is better for you to get married as soon as possible. You must know that there are not one or two ministers urging marriage, as the crown prince, you have to have your own descendants to gag their mouths. ”

Hearing the words of the eldest grandson, Li Chengqian sighed: "Queen Mother, you also married your father when you were a teenager, you should know the hard work of early marriage, children, it's no problem to get it later, my father is in the prime of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the prince of Erchen will be the prince for many years, why be in a hurry." ”

"Do you know that you two are going to meet like cheating in the future? Your father said that you don't care, I can pretend not to see the queen mother, but let outsiders know what it is like! As long as you are married, who will dare to talk too much? ”

In the matter of urging marriage, it is the same in ancient and modern times, but modern young people still have their own position and can delay it a little, but in ancient times, especially the royal family, this kind of matter has no right to speak. Therefore, Li Chengqian knows that most of the time, this is already the queen's ultimatum, if she directly announces the prince's wedding, he has no other choice but to accept it.

However, being in a hurry to hold his grandson may be just a pretext. As long as he gets married, then Li Ke can also get married immediately, and after getting married, Li Ke will not have Li Tai's treatment, and it should be a vassal.

Since you can't resist, then accept it.

Li Chengqian said helplessly: "Since the queen mother thinks it should be like this, then arrange it, the words of the matchmaker of the parents' order, you have discussed it with the son, and you have already given the son's face." ”

Seeing that the prince agreed, the eldest grandson immediately laughed.

Changle also came over and said, "You're going to marry your sister-in-law?" When you get married, remember to give me a big red envelope! ”

Changle, who was accustomed to taking red envelopes from the royal brother during the Chinese New Year, should feel that when the royal brother got married, he also had to give red envelopes.

"Okay, okay, I'll definitely give you a big one."

Hearing the red envelope, Li Zhi's ears moved, and he ran over and wanted it, but was slapped to the side by Li Chengqian.

It is appropriate to spoil my sister, and besides, Changle has also helped a lot, what are you doing here with your full meal.

Hearing that she was finally going to get married, Su Yuan's face suddenly turned red into a red apple, and she didn't dare to see anyone when she lowered her head.

The eldest grandson's mouth never closed, and he said with a smile: "Since this is the case, this palace will go to Yuan Daochang tomorrow to see the day." ”

Parents in the world are probably the same when they plan weddings for their children, don't disturb the old lady's Yaxing, and after comforting Su Yuan, Li Chengqian got up and prepared to go out of the palace.

It just so happened that Li Ke's daughter-in-law had already found out, and in addition to the big wedding, she had to meet Li Ke and talk to him anyway.

Today's Li Ke is just hanging on to the work of the academy's sports coach, and he never even asks about the fief, but hands it over to the chief of Wu Wangfu's long history to deal with it, and he is waiting to collect the money. That's it, Li Ke was also praised by the emperor for being very talented, and he should be a model for the kings.

Since he was born with a golden spoon in his mouth, as long as he does not die, he will definitely not run away from wealth in his life. What the emperor wants is for all princes to be honest, and not always have a desire for power.

Li Ke is different from Li Tai, no matter what it is, he can calm down and do it.

It is rare to go out of the palace to meet once, so naturally the three brothers gathered, and Li Tai was also very interested in the candidate for Concubine Li Ke.

"There is no surprise, it is absolutely impossible for my mother to find me a family that is too good."

After hearing that his daughter-in-law was born in the family of an unpowerful old minister in the Sui Dynasty, Li Ke was not surprised. However, mothers have hard work, and although the daughter of the old minister of the Sui Dynasty has an average family background, her appearance is beautiful and moving. These are all revealed by Concubine Yang's mouth, she herself is glamorous and moving, and the beauty that comes out of her mouth must be added.

"However, the queen mother is already ready to marry me, and I am the eldest to get married, and you two are about to get married. Qingque is nothing, but it's you, Li Ke, it is estimated that you are going to the fiefdom. ”

"The expected thing, although the land of Wu is far away, it is not a land of miasma, anyway, I am ready to throw away all the duties of King Wu, and the house is closed, brother Huang, if you want me not to be bored, you have to find something for me to do." Your orders, no one will come to me to be unlucky. ”

After speaking, Li Ke drank all the tea in the cup as if he were drinking. He hates not doing anything at home, because it makes him smell rotten from the inside out. And if he doesn't want to be bored, he can only ask the imperial brother to find him some work to do.

After taking a sip of tea, Li Chengqian knocked on the cup and said: "You must do the matter of river transportation, but the work of cleaning up the river must be done by your long history." In addition, several families in Wuzhong need you to watch it, since you are going to the fiefdom, you will open another bank in Wudi, which can be regarded as sharing the worries of the imperial court. ”

Li Ke nodded with satisfaction, as long as there is something to do, even if he goes to Wudi, there is nothing unacceptable.

Li Tai sighed: "After a while, our brothers will be separated, and only during the ceremony can we meet again." Hey, third brother, before you leave, why don't we have a drink? The drunk kind. ”

Li Chengqian slapped Li Tai without hesitation: "What to drink, it's okay to drink pleasantly, drinking too much wine will damage the nerves." Oh, you don't know what nerves are, just know that drinking addiction makes people stupid. ”

"Stupid?"

Li Tai immediately jumped up as if he had been stepped on by his tail, and if he was stupid, it would be better to kill him. All that has to be said is done, and the evening tea party between the brothers ends here.

They went back to sleep, and it was night, and it was naturally unrealistic to go back to Chang'an, so Li Chengqian lived in the courtyard of No. 001.

After waking up in the morning, he still practiced in the morning, and after persisting for so many years, Li Chengqian finally felt a little bit of the so-called "bottleneck" feeling.

It's not that I haven't competed with the team members and Zhang Yun in terms of swordsmanship, and it's definitely not narcissistic to say that Dacheng is definitely not a fist.... No, but whether it is wrestling or life-and-death fighting, Li Chengqian thinks that he is not a showman.

In terms of archery, although I haven't tried it now, it's still no problem to pull the wind when hunting.

I've been practicing riding, at least there's no fear of falling off my horse.

But what's going on with this feeling of being so hard to get in?

Zhang Yun himself is also an expert in martial arts, how can he not know what this feeling is. To put it bluntly, there is no goal, and the height is unbearable.

However, after a sparring exercise in the morning, Li Chengqian's feeling suddenly disappeared without a trace. Because, he was beaten by Zhang Yun. Even if he feels that he is already very powerful now, but when he really fights Zhang Yun, he still falls behind with a face 1, and he will be directly defeated after a while. Of course, it's still!! Zhang Yun left his hand. According to his words, he really couldn't really have a murderous intent in his master's heart.

What is exercised in the fight between life and death is the real martial arts.

However, where does a prince have the opportunity to fight with others in life and death, he can only shoot arrows from a distance on the last battlefield, and the inner and outer three layers are protected. can spontaneously exercise to the extent that he has had a few tricks with Zhang Yun, a dead pervert, Li Chengqian is already very content.

After breakfast, the cheeks that were punched by Zhang Yun didn't hurt anymore, and Li Dahai waited at the table, very respectful.

His family is now in the limelight in the clan, the family is working hard for the prince, not to mention, a son is now serving as a chief steward in Lingnan, and the younger son has now gotten rid of the business status, and is a chief of Menxia Province, although it is only from the eighth grade, but the future is promising.

What Li Chengqian hates the most is that his subordinates look like slaves, obviously they are not dressed properly, and they are in a hurry to see it, and they insist that they have eaten it.

After drinking a bowl of gruel, Li Chengqian said: "If there is anything, just say it, I'm afraid that eating with Gu will be unruly, and those guards can still eat there after speaking." ”

Li Dahai smiled and said, "Eating at the same table with you is a long time for the old slave." But this time the old slave has something important to say, and it is not something that can be finished in a while, so it is better to wait until you finish eating. ”

The two poured down the gruel, picked up a bun and walked out, Li Chengqian said as he walked: "Lone has finished eating, if you have something to say, don't let Lone kick you." ”

Li Dahai knew that the prince kicked people, which was already a very serious punishment, so he immediately did not sell Guanzi, and said directly: "Your Highness, the steward of our coal yard has replied that the Wang family has been engaged in the transportation of money between the two places recently, but unlike us, they are five surnames and seven families united to exchange in their respective clan lands. You must know that these places in Taiyuan are all Tongzhou Dayi, and there is no shortage of business and rich businessmen, and if they do this, your bank may suffer losses because of this. ”

"Hehe, awesome, someone is imitating my bank?"

Chewing buns in his mouth, Li Chengqian didn't have much reaction to what the five surnames and seven families did.

According to the plagiarism of the gourd painting scoop, the decree prohibiting private lending has been promulgated, and there is no doubt that the first to be affected are the Buddhism and the major families. The monk dared not speak out, after all, this was not something to be said in front of the Buddha, but the big family didn't care about it.

Since the imperial court issued this decree, since it was to create conditions for banks, then I also learned from banks to do so. Lending can't work, savings can't work, and I'm not allowed to exchange money? Learn from the bank to do this, charge fees, and you can also make profits.

As for prestige, there is no shortage of five surnames and seven families, don't look at only seven, but it definitely does not instigate the eleven families in Jiangnan and the royal union.