The next day, Li Chen planned to continue the unfinished work and visit the Jiafang Department. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 After getting up, when he was getting dressed, Li Chen saw that he was going to accompany him to visit Dechao's today, his face was uncertain, and he said, "If you don't like to go, don't go, you are pregnant, but you want to rest more." ’

Although it is still the palace inside, the position of the ordnance supervisor is already regarded as the outer court. The place is not clean, Xiaohong, who accompanied him yesterday, didn't like it very much, Li Chen thought that Chao's was too, and under his hard work, now Chao's is pregnant with a second child, Li Chen dissuaded.

No, everybody, it's not like that. Chao got up, and his own palace maid changed his clothes, and Li Chen had already dressed them. He liked his ancestor, Emperor Taizong. One reason is his great achievements, and the other reason is that this old ancestor has a surname, convenience, and even clothes.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, in terms of the code system, it also followed the former Sui Dynasty. Reflected in the dressing, it is more solemn and cumbersome. It's just that this ancestor hates this the most, so he wears clothes casually, and hats are also worn casually.

Later children and grandchildren will thank him, who likes to wear such cumbersome clothes when they have nothing to do, especially Li Chen. So although he got up a little earlier than Chao, he got dressed in two clicks. Then the thief grinned and said, 'Come, concubine, change your clothes.' In exchange for a white eye.

In fact, Li Chen also broke some rules, for example, he and the concubine should not share the same bed, after the concubine went to bed, he should return to his bedroom, but he didn't care, he couldn't be the same cotton, and he wanted him to sleep alone, how boring.

'Everyone, isn't it time to say hello to the Queen Mother? After hesitating for a while, Chao said like this, "Queen Mother? Li Chen said strangely, "I often invite An Ah like the Queen Mother, once every two or three days." What's the matter, is my mother wanting to see me? Why don't you just let someone tell me and ask you to convey it? ’

'It's not the Empress Dowager, it's the Empress Dowager Jiqing and...'. Chao Shi paused and said, "And the Empress Dowager." ', 'Empress Dowager Jiqing? Grand empress dowager? Li Chen thought for a moment, "You mean..." ’

This queen mother is different from the empress, only when the son becomes the emperor can he be named the queen mother. In everyone's impression, a dynasty is a queen mother. But Li Chen is not, he wants to respect the Queen Mother, there are three. One is his biological mother, Empress Dowager Zheng. One was the biological mother of Emperor Wenzong, known as the Empress Dowager Jiqing.

'Empress Dowager Jiqing... It's okay. The main thing is the Empress Dowager. Chao hesitated, "The concubine heard that many ministers are dissatisfied with the emperor and think that His Majesty has not fulfilled his due filial piety. ’

The Queen Mother of Jiqing, said to be the Queen Mother, carefully counted the generations, in fact, the two should be considered equals. She is Wen Zongde's biological mother and Mu Zong's maid. And he, Li Chen, is a brother of the same generation as Mu Zong, and it doesn't matter much whether he goes to ask for peace or not.

The main reason is that the inheritance system of the Tang Dynasty is too chaotic, and if it is replaced by the Ming Dynasty, it will really be noisy again. Therefore, if you don't go to ask for peace like the Empress Dowager Jiqing, it doesn't matter much. It can be said that there is not much difference between her identity and his, and there is a reason not to go.

But what about the Queen Mother... If you don't go, it's a bigger problem. Her identity is that she is the empress of Emperor Xianzong. So no matter what side of the attendant is, he has a reason to ask for peace.

'The Empress Dowager... You know,... Hearing Chao's persuasion, Li Chen was embarrassed. He knew that the Chao family was for his good, it didn't matter if Taoguang was obscure, it was okay to be stupid, but he had to do everything and show filial piety. This does not affect his plan to keep a low profile.

In all Chinese dynasties, filial piety ruled the world, so the emperor had to show some filial piety. However, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, in this regard, was probably the worst among the several great unified dynasties in China.

It doesn't matter if it's bad or not, it can be better to look like it. However, going to visit the Empress Dowager is afraid that he will deeply offend his biological mother, Empress Dowager Zheng. This is the reason why Chao wanted to speak and stopped.

Because the relationship between the two is really bad, it is said that the Zheng family was always bullied by the Empress Dowager in the early years. Now that she has turned over and her son has become the emperor, she is still the current one, of course she wants to take revenge. One yard counts as one yard.

However, Zheng didn't have any excessive words and deeds, but just made up his mind that he would never get along with each other. is also in front of her son, constantly talking about how she was bullied by Queen Guo back then. Li Chen was very annoyed by it, and every time she started to chatter, he began to wander outside the object.

Oh, by the way, Li Chen still remembers that the Zheng family pretended to pass on his order, so that the **** Zhen cut off all the supplies in her palace. I don't know what the **** is doing.

"If you have time, let's go visit the Empress Dowager Jiqing first." The Chao family was also embarrassed by Li Chen, but she had to remind Li Chen that now that she saw Li Chen's rare appearance, she mediated, "Since the death of the first emperor, the Empress Dowager Jiqing's body and bones are almost like a day, everyone goes to visit the Empress Dowager Jiqing, you can visit the Empress Dowager by the way, and the mother can also explain there." ’

This is a good way, under the pretext of visiting the seriously ill Empress Dowager Jiqing, and by the way, visit the Empress Dowager Guo. You can gag the courtiers, and you won't make your mother angry. By the way, this Empress Dowager Guo, her father is very famous, it is Guo Ziyi.

After changing his clothes and having breakfast, Li Chen leisurely passed through the Rihua Gate, and in the eyes of the ministers, he had to go to the Ordnance Prison leisurely. Seeing this scene, those courtiers shook their heads, this emperor made it clear that he didn't care about everything. It doesn't matter if you're a fool, you can go to court and take care of something. As a result, now that everything is so careless, it has cooled the hearts of many courtiers even more.

However, more people don't care at all, anyway, I have to be a high-ranking official, and I have to take it, and I don't care who you are. It is the right way to tie up with the old eunuch in front of you and continue to be promoted and make a fortune.

Li Chen came to the Jiafang Department again, and the Jiafang Order was also waiting at the door. Salute, because Jiafang Ling has already received a notice from the guards, so he has prepared a lot of styles of armor, and Gong Li Chen visited.

The Jiafang Department is composed, and the crossbow workshop is the same, without special introduction, Li Chen saw here the thirteen kinds of armor recorded in the Tang Liudian.

'Your Majesty, I have a total of thirteen kinds of armor in the Tang Dynasty, which can be divided into several categories according to the materials used to make them. Among them, Mingguang, Guangyao, Chain, Shanwen, Wuqi, Fine Scale Armor, Step Armor, and Vest are iron armor. First of all, the Jiafang Order showed several types of iron armor.

'Hey, so majestic. Li Chen looked at the bright light armor on display, and motioned for him to put it on left and right, and after wearing it, it looked majestic. There are two large pieces of armor on the chest, and the head of a beast is carved on the shoulder. With a helmet, a lion head helmet that imitates the lion's head manufacturing process, Li Chen walked a few steps, and his body was full of armor leaves, and Li Chen felt as if he had become a majestic general.

'This is the step armor. Jiafang Ling showed another set of armor, and Li Chen looked at this set of armor and felt quite familiar. 'This is Shanwenjia?' 'Back to Your Majesty, this is Shan Wenjia.' ''Wow, this work... It's time-consuming to build one. Indeed, every suit of armor is the brainchild of the heart. ’

Jiafang Ling said that Wenshan Jia is actually a kind of craft name, this kind of step armor, is the armor built by Jiafang, more than half of the soldiers in the Tang Dynasty have armor, with this kind of armor that looks quite majestic.

Li Chen remembered where he had seen this kind of armor, it turned out to be inside the temple. Some gods will wear this kind of armor, and at that time they thought it was general armor, but it turned out to be ordinary soldier armor. It's a lot of money...

I saw this set of armor, the whole body is a piece of iron, similar to the word inlaid with iron sheets, the outermost part is a circle of leather, the middle is an iron piece, and the front and back are connected by ties. It will be called Shanwen Jia because of these

The font-shaped iron piece has a protruding part to prevent arrows, and this part looks like a mountain character.

This kind of armor is well-defended and lightweight. In front of the body is a large piece of armor, and the back is very wide.

Li Chen didn't know how to describe it, the back armor would have two wing-like things, and after putting on the armor, the two wing-like nail leaves could just wrap the thighs and form protection.

The central part of the stomach has a belt to tie, and then a chest protector is in front of the stomach. There is also protection on the shoulders, and with the addition of helmets, a set of infantry armor is formed.

The style of the helmet is very beautiful, there is a red cherry on the head, and the bright yellow helmet with red cherry blossoms also looks vigorous. The same is true of the horsemen's vests. Jiafang Ling explained, "It's just that the knee skirt is slightly shorter." ’

Horse armor is not the kind of horse armor on the Internet, nor is it armor for horses, the armor used for horses is called armor, and heavy cavalry is also called equipped cavalry. The vest is worn by the knight on the horse, so it is called the vest.

Then he showed a set of pitch-black armor, which looked inconspicuous, and the armor was ordered, "This is the black hammer armor. ''What's so special about it?'' This armor is made of pieces of iron, which is different from the thin scale armor that is like a string of fine scales, and it is a square piece of iron, which looks very inconspicuous.

'Your Majesty, don't underestimate this black hammer armor, because the process is more cumbersome, so you don't do it much. Jiafang Ling explained, "Each of these iron leaves has been tempered thousands of times, so it is named Wuqi Jia." Then the Jiafang Order showed other types of armor.

'Your Majesty, this is leather armor, and these pieces are, in order, soap, cloth, white cloth, and wooden armor. ''Can this cloth and juan also be used as armor?'' Li Chen pointed to these good-looking and shiny armors, "Your Majesty, these kinds of armor are ritual armors, not used on the battlefield." ’

"This is wooden armor, and my soldiers of the Tang Dynasty Navy love this, so that when you fall into the water, you won't drown because of the weight of the armor." ’

After watching the demonstration of the armor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Chen then took a turn in the Jiafang Office to see how the craftsmen worked. When it was time to leave, the god of Jiafang mysteriously took out a set of armor.

'This is a new tribute armor in the locality, and I know that Your Majesty likes it, so I specially offer it to Your Majesty. The Jiafang Ling presented a very beautiful set of armor, "This armor, the Jiafang is trying to imitate, and please take a look at it." ’

Li Chen's curiosity rose, nodded, and went back to the palace with the loot, the set of Mingguang armor, and this gift. (To be continued.) )