Unparalleled Concubine

After entering the inner palace, Ji Lingxiu searched around, and finally found the seventh prince, Ji Wen, on the square in front of the Changle Palace. At this time, His Royal Highness Prince Wei was wearing a prince's crown, with his hands in his sleeves, and Waiting here to be summoned.

Ji Lingxiu stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, and said cheerfully, "Brother Seven!"

Li Xin also bowed his head and cupped his fists: "Your Highness."

The Seventh Prince was resting his eyes with his eyes closed. Seeing this, he glared at his sister, then he clasped his fists at Li Xin as a salute, and said with a smile, "Brother Xin was also brought here by this girl."

Although the dress he was wearing was a summer dress, it was still quite cumbersome. At this time, the sun was just rising, and His Royal Highness King Wei had already begun to sweat on his forehead.

It's just that there is no way, the gate of Changle Palace has not been opened, no matter whether it is the prince or the officials, they have to wait here.

Seeing that her brother paid attention to Li Xin and ignored herself, Ji Lingxiu snorted angrily and turned her face away.

Li Xin stood a little closer, and asked in a low voice, "Your Highness, what happened to the matter of promoting alcohol in the army?"

In the past few days, Li Xin was busy in the Deyi Building, while the Seventh Prince was busy in the court. Although the two of them were busy with one thing, they hadn't seen each other for several days.

His Royal Highness King Wei let out a breath, and said slowly: "A batch of wine has been sent to the north through the Ministry of War. The follow-up will depend on how the soldiers in the north react."

Having said that, the Seventh Prince also lowered his voice and asked, "You went to Ye's house yesterday, how was it?"

Colonel Li smiled wryly and said: "Chen Guogong is very difficult to mess with, he almost beat me up, but he still likes wine very much, he wants us to send a few jars over there every month."

"As long as he wants to accept it."

The seventh prince nodded and said, "The Ye family has a great influence in the north. Ye Ming, the son of General Ye, is still serving as a general in the north. The first batch of wine we sent over was sent to Ye Ming. Go, it is always beneficial to have a good relationship with the Ye family."

With an existence of Ye Cheng's level, no matter what it is, as long as he is willing to accept it, countless people will rush to send it to Chen Guogong's mansion.

And it's best to give it away for free, without charging money.

Li Xin was at the gate of Chen Guogong's mansion that day, and the reason why he told Ye Mao that he wanted to collect money was to reassure the Ye family's doubts and let the Ye family know that this was not a bribe, but just a simple kindness.

After all, it might be counterproductive to play tricks in front of old guys like Ye Cheng. Only by treating people with sincerity can you reap the goodwill of the Ye family.

After the two communicated in low voices, they heard the morning bell ringing at the gate of Yongle Palace.

The great eunuch Chen Ju stood at the gate of the palace and sang loudly: "The Son of Heaven has a holy birthday, and all officials come to celebrate."

His Royal Highness King Wei tidied up his clothes, and said in a low voice to Li Xin: "The gate of the palace is open, I will go in first, the specific matters will wait until today, let's talk in detail later."

Li Xin suddenly raised his head to look at the Seventh Prince, and asked, "Your Highness, I helped the Ninth Princess make a little thing for His Majesty, Your Highness probably won't mind."

Ji Wen rushed towards Changle Palace with Chaohu in one hand, and waved freely with the other hand.

"I don't mind, I don't mind. If Father likes it, it's Xiao Jiu's blessing."

Chapter 155 I have something to do with you

The night before yesterday, Li Xin made the two top-quality water jade into two convex lenses in Yongle Square.

Then yesterday, Li Xin spent another day to adjust the appropriate focal length, then fixed it with a wooden tube, and made the world's first monocular telescope!

Although this telescope is extremely simple, it only has a magnification effect of about seven or eight times, and the cost is very expensive, but I have to say that this is a unique and rare thing in this era, and it will definitely make Chengde Emperor feel novel.

More importantly, if this thing can be applied to the army, it will mean that Dajin has more clairvoyance. Some military scouts who are born with better eyesight can even borrow this telescope to become a veritable "clairvoyance".

You know, this is an era of extremely poor combat conditions, and the generals may even get lost. If they can predict the enemy's opportunities on the battlefield, then they will take advantage of it innately.

However, if this thing is to be mass-produced in the future, the glass must first be produced. Although Li Xin has never been in contact with the glass industry in his previous life, he probably knows that quartz sand and soda ash are mixed together and fired, but he has no specific details. If you want to figure out the formula, it will take at least several years or even more than ten years to figure it out slowly.

Right now, the telescope made of natural crystal is the only one he wears.

Of course, the Dajin royal family is sitting on the world. If the emperor of Chengde likes it, he can make a lot of it with only natural crystals.

The process of the emperor's birthday is that all the officials go in first to present the congratulations, and then the emperor accepts the worship of all the officials, and in the evening, he holds a banquet in the palace for all civil and military officials.

At this time, the Seventh Prince and all civil and military officials had already entered Changle Palace, and Ji Lingxiu also tidied up her clothes and prepared to enter.

However, there is no place for Li Xin in the main hall of Changle Palace. Li Xin can only wait outside the hall. In desperation, Captain Li handed a wooden box in his arms to Princess Jiu, and whispered: "Your Highness, This is the congratulatory gift I prepared for your majesty, when your majesty asked, you said that this thing is called a telescope, and it can see extremely far."

Ji Lingxiu accepted the wooden box with some vague understanding, turned around and entered the Changle Palace.

Li Xin was waiting in the shade of the gate of Changle Palace. He knew that it would not be long before someone would summon him in.

Because this thing is very magical, once the Emperor Chengde asked what happened, the nine princesses would "confess" Li Xin if they couldn't tell the reason.

Of course, this is not a bad thing, but a very good thing.

Li Xin is now just a vine attached to others. If he is attached to the Seventh Prince, he will only be a vine for a long time in the future, but if he can enter the sight of the Emperor Chengde, he may become a tree by himself. Even a slender tree is much better than a vine.

After resting his eyes at the entrance of the main hall for more than half an hour, a young eunuch hurried out from Changle Palace, looked around, and asked sharply, "Who is Li Xin?"

At this time, besides Li Xin, there were some people waiting outside the hall, most of whom were not qualified to enter the arena just like Li Xin.

Li Xin looked calm and took a step forward.

"The next official is Li Xin."

The little eunuch bent over to Li Xin: "Lieutenant Li, Your Majesty has called you, come in with me."

Li Xin nodded, straightened his clothes, followed the little eunuch, and stepped into Changle Palace.

It is not the first time for Li Xin to come to the main hall of Changle Palace. The last time he came, he just came back from southern Xinjiang, and the emperor of Chengde asked him a question. Therefore, Li Xin also understood the rules. After entering the main hall, Li Xin Xin took a deep breath and fell to his knees on the ground: "Habayashi guard Li Xin, kowtow to the Holy Son of Heaven, the Holy Son of Heaven will live forever."

This sentence was taught to Li Xin by Ji Lingxiu in the morning, and it was regarded as a congratulatory speech to the emperor's birthday.

At this time, Emperor Chengde was playing with a wooden cylinder in his hand, and he put it on his eyes to look at the distance from time to time. Princess Qinghe was standing beside the emperor, with a somewhat embarrassed expression.

In this way, it is not difficult to guess what happened just now.

Emperor Chengde played with it for a while, looked at Li Xin who was kneeling on the ground, and smiled: "Get up and talk."

Li Xin stood up, still bowing his head.

Emperor Chengde put the binoculars on his right eye, closed his left eye, pointed the mirror at Li Xin at the bottom of the imperial steps, and could easily see the young man's hair hanging down. Tut tut: "It is indeed a wonderful thing. Xiao Jiu sent it up just now. I still don't believe it. Li Xin, how did this thing be made?"

Emperor Chengde is an extremely clever emperor. After seeing this thing, he immediately thought of its use.

military!

On the surface, Dajin is singing and dancing on the surface, but there are hidden dangers on both sides of the north and south, especially the south. If this thing can be used in large-scale military, then it will be like a normal person bullying a blind man in a war, taking advantage of the opportunity.

Li Xin said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, this thing can only be made of top-quality water jade, and the cost is extremely expensive. Princess Qinghe spent a lot of money to get such a thing out of filial piety, and wanted to make Your Majesty happy. .”

Emperor Chengde put down the binoculars in his hand with some disappointment, turned his head to look at Princess Jiu, and said with a smile: "Xiao Jiu has a heart, and you can go back with things in the palace later, and you can't let my little daughter suffer."

Ji Lingxiu hurriedly saluted the Emperor Chengde, and said with a smile: "Father is celebrating his birthday today. It is normal for sons and daughters to give some things. As long as the father likes it, the daughter dare not ask for anything from the father, lest the mother and concubine have to talk about it again." daughter."