Chapter 584 [Second Update] 584

Liu Tan deeply felt that Liu Ju was even more out of touch with worldly affairs than Liu Che. In order to retaliate against Liu Ju for throwing things to him, Liu Tan even secretly asked Liu Che to give Liu Ju some homework during dinner - to let him study more about crops.

If he doesn't even understand the foundation of the common people's lives, or even the foundation of the Han Dynasty, how can he be a good emperor?

Liu Che thought about it and seemed that there was indeed something missing in the prince's education in this aspect. Yes, Liu Che would take Liu Ju to the annual Xiannong Ceremony, but the problem was that at that time they were just reclaiming the land and planting had not yet begun. After the planting began, the emperor and the prince would not go - no one dared to let the emperor and the prince really go to the fields.

There are all kinds of snakes, rats, insects and ants in the fields. Who can bear the consequences if something happens?

As a result, Liu Ju was very sensitive to the tax data of the Han Dynasty, and he knew something about grain production, but he knew basically nothing about the situation of crops.

I don’t even know what some of the ingredients originally look like.

Liu Che followed Liu Tan's suggestion and planned to have someone plant some crops for Liu Ju in the Prince's Palace next year so that Liu Ju could observe carefully.

Liu Ju, now approaching thirty, had never expected to receive homework from his father at his age. He glanced at Liu Tan with a bewildered expression. Seeing the little jerk grinning so hard his teeth were visible, he immediately became furious and said softly, "I do know less than you, my younger brother, but that's precisely why I wanted you to delve into it. When we were transplanting the grapes, there were so many people at court, but no one could help Father with the problem. In the end, it was only you who stepped in to help us understand the situation."

Liu Che thought so too. Besides, his son was a little immortal. Although he had never been heard to have the ability to turn stone into gold, he seemed to have some skills in cultivating crops. So he waved his hand and said, "Okay, let Tan'er take care of this matter."

After saying that, he became worried that his son was under too much pressure. In fact, in Liu Che's view, it didn't matter even if he couldn't grow any crops. He could just buy them if he wanted to eat them. He was not short of money anyway.

So Liu Che gave another instruction: "If you can plant, plant. If you can't, forget it."

Liu Tan: ...

The two brothers who hurt each other looked at each other and wilted.

In fact, Liu Tan was relatively relaxed in this wave. After all, Liu Che had already said that it didn't matter whether the crops could be grown or not.

After Liu Tan returned, he added an item to his schedule. After he finished it, he looked at it and felt deeply that the matter of researching grain crops might have to be put on the back burner, or even wait until he returned to the Northern Border.

If he were to make such a fuss in Chang'an, how would he be able to go back if the critical moment came next spring?

If he couldn't go back then, he might have to wait until the results came out, and then he might really not be able to go back.

The next day, Liu Tan strolled out of the palace with the people sent to him by Liu Che, and first returned to the palace.

When he went over, Lu Xuan seemed to have just finished breakfast and was processing some important paperwork.

After hearing that Liu Tan had arrived, he immediately put the documents aside and went out to greet him.

When Liu Tan saw him stand up, he said, "Why are you standing up? Take care of your wound!"

Lu Xuan held his hand and said with a smile, "His Majesty sent someone to deliver a high-quality ointment. I've felt much better after using it."

Liu Tan took his hand and returned to the bedroom and asked, "Did the emperor send someone?"

Lu Xuan said, "Yes, His Majesty sent someone to inquire about me shortly after I arrived at the palace."

Liu Tan paused and couldn't help but twitching his lips, feeling like he was being tricked again.

After he returned to the palace, he first went to the kitchen to cook a dish, and then went to the Xuanshi Hall. At that time, the people sent by Liu Che had probably gone back, so Liu Che knew the extent of Lu Xuan's injury at all, but he still pretended to ask him about Lu Xuan's injury.

Liu Tan thought about it and realized that if he had exaggerated Lu Xuan's injuries for other reasons, he would probably face a loving lesson from his old father.

After he sat down, he asked, "Have you eaten the food I sent yesterday?"

Lu Xuan looked at him and smiled, "Delicious!"

Liu Tan immediately became alert: "I specifically told you not to eat too much yesterday. Did you eat too much?"

Although I don’t know if duck has any bad effects on wounds, it is indeed not suitable to eat too greasy food during the recovery period.

Lu Xuan looked at Liu Tan pitifully and said, "I didn't eat much."

Seeing how pitiful he was, Liu Tan couldn't help but laugh and said, "When you're healed, you can eat whatever you want."

As he spoke, he pinched Lu Xuan's face, which instantly brought back his hatred for Xulihu - Lu Xuan's cheeks were so thin that they seemed to be sunken!

He really suffered a lot this time, it was all because of Xuli Lake!

If Xulihu hadn't led his troops to attack, Lu Xuan wouldn't have been injured. If Lu Xuan hadn't been injured, she wouldn't have kept it a secret from him. If she hadn't kept it a secret from him, he wouldn't have secretly run out to see Lu Xuan after knowing the truth, and they wouldn't be now, one in the palace and the other outside.

In short, I am very angry!

However, Liu Tan already had several accounts with Xili Lake in his mind. He would have to settle them sooner or later when he returned, so this one didn't matter.

Lu Xuan held his hand and kissed his palm, and even gently bit Liu Tan's fingertips.

In an instant, Liu Tan threw everything aside and couldn't help but feel his face flushed - he and Lu Xuan hadn't seen each other for a long time, and they hadn't been intimate for a long time. The two of them were at the age of full of vigor and vitality, so it was natural for them to have various reactions when they got together.

That day in the carriage, Liu Tan directly pushed Lu Xuan down, but today he hesitated for a moment.

Lu Xuan is a person who will create opportunities even if there are none, let alone now.

If Liu Tan hadn't remembered that he was injured, he would have had no chance of going to Shiheyuan today.

By the time he had used all his strength to pull Lu Xuan off his body, his clothes were in disarray.

Lu Xuan hugged his waist and said reluctantly, "How long will you stay there? Otherwise, I'll go with you."

Liu Tan was a little hesitant. He thought if he couldn't get it done this time, he wouldn't come back. So the problem was, he himself didn't know how long it would take to get it done.

Seeing his wavering attitude, Lu Xuan said hurriedly, "Look, there's no point in me staying in the city alone."

If he hadn't said this, Liu Tan might have agreed, but after he said this, Liu Tan felt that if he really let him go, he was afraid that "the king would no longer attend court early in the morning."

Liu Tan said decisively, "You have to do this. Foreign envoys will be arriving in the capital in the next few days, and there is a new candidate for the Grand Herald. The Crown Prince may meet him in advance."

Lu Xuan acted like a spoiled child, hugging Liu Tan's waist and burying his face in his chest as he said, "I'm not considered a foreign envoy!"

Liu Tan stroked his dog's head and said, "Then you have to go too."

What a great signboard! It’s time to show it off. Neither Liu Che nor Liu Ju would miss this opportunity.

Lu Xuan: ...

He rushed day and night despite his injury just to spend more time with Liu Tan, but his wife had to go out and do not take him with her!

Liu Tan leaned over and kissed the corner of his mouth: "Okay, it will be fine after the New Year, then we can go together."

Lu Xuan asked cautiously, "Are you going to be busy again when you get back?"

It has been almost a year since Liu Tan came out. He will definitely have to deal with the backlog of matters first, especially since there is a group of students waiting for him to return for the palace examination!

Liu Tan originally wanted to say that with Huo Guang around, there was nothing to deal with, but after thinking about it, it seemed that... there were indeed a lot of things to do, so he simply said, "I have nothing to do between the New Year and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month."

Lu Xuan calculated and said sadly, "There's still more than a month left."

Liu Tan acted like a scumbag again and turned around and left without mercy.

Miao Rui and Bigo, who were waiting at the door, were obviously a little surprised - they had already made preparations for their prince to stay overnight in the palace.

Liu Tan looked at their expressions and thought: Why stay? Seeing but not being able to eat is torture? What if they both lose control and Lu Xuan's injury worsens? How would he save face if word got out?

But even so, Lu Xuan stayed close to Liu Tan from the bedroom to the palace square.

Liu Tan finally breathed a sigh of relief after getting on the carriage. He was really worried that Lu Xuan would carry him back at any moment.

However, it was only after returning to Shiheyuan that he discovered something very important - the problem was still the same as when he left.

These days he was busy making Kongming lanterns, busy with Nanwu, busy picking up Lu Xuan, and busy getting something new for his father to try. How could he have the mood to think about anything else?

As a result, he forgot the most important thing, so the current situation is that even if he returned to Shiheyuan, he would not be able to proceed to the next step immediately - the hot air balloon's thermal energy cannot be further increased, and the hot air balloon will never be able to fly too high.

Liu Tan pinched his brows with a headache and began to think about how to make the hot air balloon take off smoothly.

Blowers... actually they do exist these days, but now people don't call them blowers, they call them bellows.

Liu Tan said that this kind of bellows was very common in those metal smelting workshops. If it were not for the appearance of bellows, it would have been impossible to smelt ironware of good quality before coal was found.

The effect of the bellows is indeed good, but it is not suitable for use on hot air balloons. Hot air balloons are just starting out now, and it is hard to say whether they can carry people. Even if they can, the number of people they can carry is limited.

How is it possible to add another bellows?

And even if bellows were added, it would not be enough. Someone had to operate it, which would add the weight of the bellows and a strong man, and the pressure on the hot air balloon would be too great.

The most important thing is that Liu Che was standing in front admiring the scenery. If he was happy, he might even be inspired to write poetry. However, at this time, there was someone behind him who was still pumping the bellows.

What's up? Is there an accompaniment?

Don’t look at the beautiful painting!

Liu Tan thought about it and decided that the simplest way now was to place a fan under the flame. The wind generated by the high-speed rotation of the fan would blow the flame more vigorously.

So the question is, it is easy to add a fan, but it is not easy to make the fan rotate.

In an era without electricity, all he could use was either the power of nature or human power.

Manpower must be ruled out first, as he just doesn't want too many people in the hot air balloon basket.

Then we can only rely on natural resources. In mid-air, the only force we can rely on seems to be the wind.

Liu Tan laughed when he thought of this. Using wind power to convert into wind power, why does this sound so much like nesting dolls?