Chapter 12: Enough of showing affection and all that, Prince!
Li Shimin couldn't laugh at all, and even had a little heart attack.
Who is worthy of being named King of Qi?
Today is another day I want to play with my great-great-grandson!
The King of Qi was originally a good title. After all, the ancient titles of kings all came from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The larger the kingdom, the more noble the status and the more favored it was.
Qi was one of the Seven Kingdoms of the Warring States Period, after all. Erfeng should be more open-minded.
[But the good King of Qi was completely ruined by Li Yuanji!
The struggle between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin was political, but Li Yuanji was a very vicious person. Not only did he commit domestic violence, he also killed his wet nurse and hunted civilians.
Therefore, Erfeng gave Li Jiancheng a normal posthumous title, but gave Li Yuanji an unlucky one.
[Hahaha, Shimin's current mood is——
Don't get close to me! It's really unlucky.
It must be said that sometimes the way modern people express themselves can really reveal their state of mind.
However, Li Shimin could understand Li Heng's thoughts. He was probably afraid that Li Heng's achievements would surpass his own, and he had previously disobeyed orders and returned to defend Chang'an on his own. Therefore, he wanted to use the fate of Li Yuanji, the King of Qi, as a warning to suppress him.
Of course Li Shimin was not suppressed, but he was disgusted.
[Isn't this title a coincidence? I thought it was the third child's turn. I just laughed for a long time.]
[One more thing, even the creation of a title involves so many subtle thoughts, this emperor is so annoying!]
"You guys are so innocent and cute, it makes me feel much better."
These modern little cuties can always make people laugh, so Li Shimin praised them sincerely, but Tianmu was immediately furious.
【??? I always feel like I'm being scolded but I can't refute it. So angry!】
[Hehehe, Erfeng praised me for having no shoes! By the way, you can actually recruit us players to do quests!]
Wouldn't it be better to just burn the other party's imperial edict and make sure the King of Qi disappears?]
[That's right, add an insignificant palace maid or eunuch. We modern people may not be able to kill people, but we are very good at tricking people, hehehe.]
This is a good idea. After all, he really doesn't want to bear the title of King of Qi and be called the King of Qi for several years.
Li Shimin touched his chin and thought for a while, then asked in confusion:
"But the palace is strictly managed. If you were to light a fire, it would soon be discovered to be man-made."
Don't worry, we are about to introduce our modern chemistry!
[Ahhh, I hate it. It’s all my fault for not studying chemistry well in high school. Now I’ve missed this opportunity.]
[I'm a PhD in chemistry, so I'm good at it! But is it really okay for a man like me to be a eunuch? I'm scratching my head.]
[Hahaha, it’s him, President Erfeng, choose him, choose him! ]
Everyone was making a fuss, and Li Shimin was a person who liked to watch the fun.
Therefore, a task was quickly issued, designating a man and a woman as a palace maid and a eunuch to be sent to Li Heng's temporary palace.
Zhang Feng, a modern player who was dressed as a eunuch, suddenly felt very upset.
Oh no, he has no balls...
Ignoring the mocking comments on the screen, the newly appointed eunuch doctor decided to end the battle quickly.
However, what an unfortunate identity this is! It would be better for him to be a palace maid than a eunuch!
As the sky grew darker, Emperor Suzong Li Heng sat in the temporary palace, reviewing his decisions made during the day to see if there were any mistakes or omissions.
Prime Minister Fang Guan vowed that he could defeat the rebels and that his loyalty and talents would be of great use in the future.
Therefore, he immediately handed over the 40,000 troops he had recently gathered with great difficulty to Fang Guan, and asked him to lead the troops to fight immediately and quickly defeat the rebels.
At the same time, he also sent Crown Prince Li Yu to lead troops to Chang'an to support his third son, King Qi.
Speaking of the title of King of Qi, Li Heng felt secretly a little proud.
My third son has shown great promise, having achieved remarkable success in Chang'an by defeating a larger force with a smaller force. I'm afraid he'll become arrogant in the future and use the title of King of Qi, Li Yuanji, to suppress me.
Let him know that he should abide by his duties and not do anything that is beyond the rules.
This title is wonderful because it not only rewards the title and fiefdom, but also prevents the father and son from becoming estranged.
Li Heng was thinking about this while eating. Suddenly, Li Fuguo came into the palace to report.
Li Fuguo looked depressed, with even a few strands of soot stuck on his face, looking extremely miserable.
"Your Majesty, the imperial edict conferring the title of Prince of Jianning...was burned."
"How do the eunuchs who keep the imperial edicts do their work?"
Li Heng was a little surprised, but that was all:
"Just burn it and send someone to rewrite it. Why are you bothering me with such a small matter?"
Seeing that His Majesty was dissatisfied with his ability to do things, the eunuch Li Fuguo was also very depressed:
"Your Majesty, I have ordered the edict to be re-drafted, but every time I finish drafting it, it will soon spontaneously combust again..."
"Ridiculous! Who on earth would dare to set fire to an imperial edict in my palace?"
Li Heng was furious and was about to order a thorough investigation, but Li Fuguo continued to consider and said:
"But Your Majesty, I once again ordered people to strictly guard the imperial edict, but it actually caught fire again in full view of the public!
Afterwards, the imperial guards checked the palace maids, eunuchs, and imperial guards, and found that no one who had come near the imperial edict had any fire-making tools, such as flints or tinder.
Your Majesty, do you think this could be...a god?"
"absurd!"
Li Heng didn't believe it at all until the matter happened in front of him, and even suspected that Li Fuguo had colluded with Li Shimin. Therefore, he immediately asked someone to grind pen and ink, and prepared to write it himself.
"I want to see what kind of demons and monsters are causing this evil?"
Li Heng dipped the imperial brush in ink and began to write the imperial edict himself.
However, as he was writing, there was a sudden loud noise.
Right in front of him, under the eyes of all the imperial guards, palace maids, and eunuchs, the wet paper and pen still stained with ink suddenly caught fire and almost singed his eyebrows and beard.
"Your Majesty, be careful!"
"Quick! Protect His Majesty!"
Li Heng frantically tried to put out the flames on his beard with his sleeves, and watched the imperial edict in front of him burn to charcoal, stunned.
At this time, the palace maids, eunuchs, and imperial guards were all dumbfounded. They stared blankly at the burned table with their mouths wide open.
"Your Majesty, perhaps His Majesty Taizong is still in heaven and dislikes the title of King of Qi?"
Li Fuguo gave Li Heng an opportunity to back off the situation, and Li Heng suddenly came to his senses and nodded quickly.
Yes, yes, yes, change it quickly!
Grandfather Taizong, your descendants are also thinking about the Tang Dynasty. I will change my title now, please don't blame your descendants!
Li Heng didn't know that his great-grandfather Taizong not only blamed him, but also had a thick book of old accounts against him.
At this time, Li Shimin, who learned that his title had been changed, was sitting on the wall in the backyard of Guanyinbi's house.
Seeing the sky curtain announce that the mission was accomplished, the 23-year-old Li Shimin leaned against the red and green eaves, holding the handkerchief embroidered for him by Guanyin Bi, with his eyes raised.
[Ahhhhhhhhh, your majesty's smile really touched my heart! What kind of handsome young man is this, the second generation of a Beijing official?!]
[Ahhh, I can't do it anymore. I only regret that Your Majesty was born too early, more than a thousand years earlier than me!
I gave birth to you and you are already earth, woo woo woo! 】
[It should be that I have given birth to you, my dream boy, woo woo woo]
Li Shimin had just met Guanyin Bi and was in a very good mood. Therefore, facing these remarks, he was surprisingly calm. Instead, he asked curiously:
"How on earth did you manage to make the edict burn without fire in full view of the public?"
[This isn't so simple! Don't underestimate our modern science and chemistry!]
[Yes, there are actually quite a few substances that can spontaneously combust without fire. As a eunuch in charge of daily necessities, I first added magnesium powder to the box containing the imperial edict paper.
This thing will spontaneously combust very quickly with just the slightest collision or friction...]
[Oh my, you are so proud of being a eunuch?
Next it was my turn as a palace maid. After Li Fuguo had the imperial edict rewritten, I put the white phosphorus powder sealed with wax into the imperial edict axis.
White phosphorus can spontaneously combust. It's hot in summer and autumn, and as the wax melts, it naturally catches fire. There are many other substances that spontaneously combust like this.
"I see."
It was quite amazing. Li Shimin then continued to ask:
"Then how did you make Li Heng's handwritten imperial edict burn instantly?"
[This is a bit more complicated. I directly used modern metallic sodium small molecule materials, and then used modern nanotechnology to seal the nanometal with paraffin.
Sodium metal ignites when it comes into contact with water, but it's encapsulated. I put this in ink, and when the ink is absorbed into the brush, friction creates heat as it writes, melting the wax on the surface, and it ignites!
[Erfeng, are you confused? Let me explain it to you in detail. Pay attention to the key points:]
2Na + 2H2O → 2NaOH + H2↑ + heat
Li Shimin:?
What kind of writing is this? Wouldn't their descendants feel dizzy reading it?
"Have you, the descendants, not inherited the writing system of our Tang Dynasty?"
[It's inherited! However, the chemical formulas and medical knowledge all use Western teaching materials and knowledge, so they just use Western characters. It's like a foreign language, right?]
[There's nothing we can do about it. They've been ahead for the past hundred years, so we Chinese must learn from them and make progress.]
Seeing this, Li Shimin already understood how important modern people think of chemistry, medicine, and other crafts. So he nodded, thinking:
"When the world is at peace, we must continue to develop the craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty. How can we allow the barbarians to surpass the Tang Dynasty?
Everyone who comes from this world should learn the Tang Dynasty characters and language!"
[Yes, that's right! Shimin, keep working hard, and we won't have to learn English anymore!]
[Our ancestors worked hard, and our descendants enjoy happiness! It's all thanks to you, Erfeng. I'm giving you flowers.]
These descendants are really...
Li Shimin could not help laughing, when he suddenly heard someone shouting from below.
Oh, his own father-in-law is looking at him with a dark face.
Li Shimin immediately jumped off the wall and politely greeted his father-in-law.
"Why is the prince not guarding the city gates at this time, but on top of my wall?"
"My father-in-law's residence is perfectly located, with views intersecting horizontally, vertically, and horizontally. So, I was looking out over the wall at the Chang'an military defense layout. I was so lost in thought that I apologize for my impoliteness."
Li Shimin said this without blushing or getting nervous, and looked very righteous.
After hearing this, Wei Shu's eyelids twitched.
The man was unmarried and the woman was unmarried. No, not even married! He actually came to see his daughter secretly?
Even after being caught red-handed, he can still be so shameless?
Although glared at by his father-in-law, Li Shimin still had a smile on his face and a sincere expression.
What's wrong with being thick-skinned?
How could he become the emperor without being shameless? How could he survive when Wei Zheng was arguing with him every day without being shameless?
Wei Shu was angry, but he couldn't fight back, so he had to praise Li Shimin for caring about state affairs. After such a kind talk, he finally asked Li Shimin to leave.
“That’s true!”
Li Shimin's behavior was out of line. Although Wei Shu was angry, he couldn't help but secretly feel that he was sincere in his words to his daughter. He was angry and amused at the same time, but he was helpless.
After meeting Guanyinbi, Li Shimin was in a good mood for several days.
Therefore, even though the enemy rebels launched several fierce attacks in the past few days, he held an arrow in one hand and a bow in the other, leisurely commanding the defense of the city, and defeated the enemy and made them flee in panic.
Not only that, he even took out the exquisite handkerchief embroidered by Guanyin's maid to show his affection, and showed it off to Gao Shi, Du Fu, Cheng Qianli, Zhang Xiaojing and others.
I have a fiancée, do you have one?
My dear wife is both beautiful and virtuous. Are you any better?
Everyone: ………!
Good news soon came. Crown Prince Li Yu led tens of thousands of reinforcements to Chang'an, and the eunuch Yu Chaoen also read the imperial edict to Li Shimin.
This time his title was not King of Qi, but King of Yan.
Although Li Shimin still preferred the Prince of Qin, the Prince of Yan was also not bad.
An Lushan named his country Yan, which was a direct mockery.
Li Shimin did not care about the details of the rewards, but was quite interested in his new elder brother.
"Li Yu actually went from being a crown prince to becoming emperor? This is truly rare in the Tang Dynasty.
I wonder what my new big brother’s personality is like?”
I hope he is better than his previous elder brother. After all, I can’t... kill my elder brother again, right?
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