Tang Dynasty: The beginning of the game is to touch the Princess Changle

Early the next morning.

"Are you sure you don't want to go back to Chang'an with us?" Su Chen asked Li Tai with a smile.

Li Tai waved his hand, "I won't go back to the palace for now. I made an appointment with the villagers yesterday to try to replace the window paper with glass."

Su Chen smiled and nodded, "Okay, I will help you give the gift to His Majesty and the Queen."

"Li Zhi, let's go. It's not too hot outside now. Get to the palace as soon as possible."

Li Tai waved at them and turned to leave.

Now there is a cement road from the manor to Chang'an, and it will take less than an hour to reach the palace.

Su Chen and Princess Changle took a carriage, followed by three carriages loaded with goods.

Two carriages were loaded with various glass artworks made by Li Tai's craftsmen based on the patterns drawn by Su Chen.

Another carriage was loaded with peanuts and corn. Corn is no longer suitable for eating raw or cooked now.

You can get some popcorn, but unfortunately there is no white sugar now.

…

After more than half an hour, the carriage entered the Vermillion Bird Gate. This time, no one stopped Su Chen.

“Li Zhi, take these to the Queen Mother first. I’ll go talk to my brother-in-law first.”

Su Chen took out two bags of fried peanuts wrapped in oil paper and gave them to Princess Changle.

“Don’t let the two little guys eat too much. Eating too much of this stuff really makes you angry!” Su Chen reminded again.

“Okay, I got it.” Princess Changle took Jin’er and several palace maids to the palace.

“Send these to the imperial kitchen and teach them how to fry peanuts and popcorn.” Su Chen turned around and told the cook brought from the manor.

“Yes, Lord!” The cook and the servant drove the carriage to the imperial kitchen.

“Wait here first. Be careful when unloading the things on the carriage.”

“Yes, Lord!” The remaining servants carefully unloaded the glassware from the carriage.

Su Chen took a bag of fried peanuts and went to the East Palace where Li Chengqian was. Wang Defa took Su Chen to the East Palace last time, and he still remembered the way.

…

"Your Majesty, the Marquis and Princess Changle have come to the palace, accompanied by two carriages."

Wang Defa whispered beside Li Shimin.

"Oh! Two carriages? It seems that there are a lot of things!" Li Shimin nodded and thought with a smile.

"Where are they?"

"Your Majesty, Princess Changle took something to the harem, and the Marquis has gone to the Prince's East Palace."

Li Shimin frowned, "Where are the two carriages now?"

"Your Majesty, one carriage drove to the imperial kitchen, and the other carriage stopped outside the Taiji Hall."

Li Shimin nodded and looked at the ministers, "Everyone, follow me to see what this kid has sent to the palace."

Li Shimin and others came to the outside of the Taiji Hall, and the servants had just unloaded the glass products from the carriage.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you..."

"No thanks!" Li Shimin raised his hand to interrupt the servants' greetings. These servants were real servants, not sent by the palace.

"Your Majesty, it's colored glaze... top-grade colored glaze!" Zhangsun Wuji rushed to the glassware like crazy, forgetting even the etiquette between the monarch and his subjects.

When Li Shimin heard about colored glaze, he hurried over.

Looking at the colored glaze randomly placed on the ground, Li Shimin was very confused. Where did Su Chen get so much colored glaze?

These colored glazes cost at least several million taels of silver.

"Your Majesty, look, that's a dragon! And that eagle..." Li Shimin nodded, he was also shocked.

Each of these objects made of colored glaze is lifelike.

"Do you know where the Marquis got these colored glazes?" Li Shimin asked the servants.

"Your Majesty, this is not colored glaze. The Marquis and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wei call it: glass!"

The servant bowed his head and answered respectfully.

"What nonsense! This is clearly colored glaze, and it is top-grade colored glaze. What is glass?"

The servant was frightened by Li Shimin's nonsense.

"Your Majesty, I dare not speak nonsense. This glass was made by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wei himself."

When Li Shimin heard that it was made by Li Tai himself, he did not dare to believe it and looked at the ministers.

Except for Changsun Wuji who was squatting on the ground, the other ministers shook their heads repeatedly, expressing their disbelief.

"Your Majesty, this glass was provided by the Marquis, and the Prince of Wei made it himself, and asked craftsmen to make it into various shapes. I dare not deceive Your Majesty!"

"Okay, I already know, and I don't blame you, don't be afraid!" Li Shimin had believed the servant's words and did not comfort the servant.

Then Li Shimin also squatted down to appreciate these exquisite glass artworks.

"Did the Marquis name this object?" Li Shimin pointed at the pair of glass sculptures of dragons and phoenixes.

"Your Majesty, the Marquis did not mention it." The servant did not know what it was called.

Li Shimin nodded.There was no need to ask anything else, his eyes fell on the glass eagle.

"This eagle is magnificent and spectacular!"

This is the 'Eagle Spreading Wings' that Su Chen intends to give to Li Chengqian. This glass product is very large.

A pair of wings spread out is about five feet, and together with the base, it is about five feet high.

There are also three figures, the 'Fu Lu Shou' three stars given to Li Yuan, and the 'Dragon and Phoenix Presenting Auspiciousness' given to Li Shimin and Empress Changsun.

Then there are glass beads of various colors, used for playing checkers.

Suddenly Li Shimin thought of something, "Oh no, everyone, hurry up and go to the East Palace, there will be a show to watch!"

"Old man, order the guards to guard this place well, and no one can touch it!"

Li Shimin led everyone to the Prince's East Palace in a hurry.

Today happened to be the day when the Prince's East Palace had classes arranged. If Su Chen broke in, those great scholars would definitely criticize Su Chen.

...

Su Chen wandered all the way to the East Palace.

He found five people inside, discussing something with Li Chengqian, and it seemed that no one was convinced by the other.

"Gentlemen, please forgive me for not agreeing with you. I think Confucius would never advocate that the monarch should fool the people."

"Your Highness, are you questioning that we are not talented and have misunderstood the words of the sages?"

Su Chen did not interrupt, but listened at the door for a while, smiled and shook his head, slowed down and walked in slowly.

Li Chengqian had his back to the door at this time and did not notice Su Chen coming.

After Su Chen came in, those people looked at Su Chen and sat down next to Li Chengqian.

"Su Chen, why are you here?" Li Chengqian found someone next to him, turned around and saw that it was Su Chen.

"Yes, I just came!" Su Chen stood up and bowed to those people, saying:

"Sorry! No intention to disturb you, please continue!"

It happened that Li Shimin and others also rushed to the East Palace. Those teachers were about to salute, but were stopped by Li Shimin.

Li Shimin and others were waiting outside the door to watch the show, thinking:

'This kid always finds this and that wrong, today is just the right time for these great scholars to confront him'

"May I ask who you are?" After Su Chen bowed to apologize, the five people also bowed in response to Su Chen, and one of them asked Su Chen.

The one who asked the question was Zhang Xuansu. Logically, he should not use the word "Your Excellency", but he saw Su Chen sitting next to the prince casually, so he must have an extraordinary identity.

"Boy Su Chen, no official position!" Su Chen bowed again.

One of them heard Su Chen's name and his eyes lit up.

Zhang Xuansu continued to ask Su Chen: "Just now I saw you shaking your head outside the door, what do you think of our lectures?"

Su Chen smiled and said: "I am not very knowledgeable, so I dare not have an opinion, but it is meaningless for you to argue like this."

"Oh? I wonder what your opinion is?"

This time it was Kong Yingda, the 31st generation grandson of Confucius, who spoke.