Tang Dynasty: Father, if you don't rebel, I will!

Li Chengqian stared in astonishment at his sisters, all of whom were present and waiting for his reply with eager eyes.

After a long pause, he gradually came to his senses.

Beside him, Li Gang, the Junior Guardian of the Crown Prince, hurriedly spoke up to dissuade him.

“Your Highnesses, this is no small matter. The rain shows no signs of letting up, and some places, such as Shizhou, Xinzhou, and Jiangzhou, have already become flooded. This could be fatal. You are all of noble birth and should not take such a risk…”

The other Taiyuan Prefecture officials stood to the side.

Despite his admiration and respect for the bravery of Princess Chang Le and the other princesses.

But at this moment, just as Li Gang said.

Although it may seem that only the water level has risen a little in Taiyuan Prefecture, the continuous rain has prevented the wheat harvest.

But there are places that are even worse than this...

however.

Li Gang's words only made things worse. Upon hearing the phrase "golden branch and jade leaf," Princess Xiangcheng, as the eldest princess, narrowed her beautiful eyes and retorted with neither servility nor arrogance.

“Master Li, we are princesses, not just some precious golden branches and jade leaves. Besides... the Fifth Prince, Prince Chu, Li You, is still in Jiangzhou. Does that mean his status isn't noble?!”

Everyone was speechless.

They had no choice but to turn their attention to the Crown Prince Li Chengqian at this moment.

We can only let the crown prince make the decision.

Li Chengqian pursed his lips, his eyes flickering, and his trembling lips revealed the turmoil in his heart.

Chang Le stepped forward.

“Brother, the Tang Dynasty is yours, but it is also ours... You need to be here to coordinate, but the people suffering from disasters in various places must be eager to see our royal family help them.”

One sentence made Li Chengqian's hands clench involuntarily beneath his robes.

He took a deep breath, suppressing the slight stinging in his nose, and looked intently at the sisters.

After a long silence, he finally gritted his teeth.

"be careful!"

"Your Highness!" The officials were shocked. Even Qian Lou, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard who was standing to the side, opened his mouth as if to say something to dissuade him.

However, Li Chengqian gritted his teeth and slowly shook his head.

“They’re right, this Tang Dynasty belongs to them too… My princesses of the Li Tang Dynasty should have the same courage and spirit as Princess Pingyang!”

He looked solemnly at his sisters, whether they were his biological sisters like Chang Le, or his illegitimate daughters like Gao Yang and Cheng Yang.

At this moment, to Li Chengqian, they are undoubtedly all his sisters.

"I don't expect you to achieve anything, but at the very least... after the rain stops, all of you must return here safely, without exception... If even one of you is missing, I will never have peace of mind for the rest of my life!"

The atmosphere inside the awning grew even more somber.

The physical exhaustion vanished as the princesses boarded their carriages and disappeared from the sight of the officials of Taiyuan Prefecture, giving them a strange sense of exhilaration.

Yu Shinan stood by the awning, and cool raindrops pattered on his face.

He stood there, fixedly watching the princesses depart, his lips trembling as he murmured something.

"With the whole Tang Dynasty united in this spirit, what fear is there of any natural disasters or rainstorms!"

"God! If you've got the guts, don't stop!!!"

Everyone clenched their fists instantly when they saw Yu Shinan suddenly draw his sword from his waist, point it at the sky, and shout curses.

Wang De, standing beside Li Chengqian, looked solemn.

Looking at the map of the Tang Dynasty's waterways in front of me.

Suddenly, he cupped his hands to Li Chengqian and said, "Your Highness, let's just harvest in the rain. At worst, we can vacate the government office and temporarily develop those vacant and unsold houses in Taiyuan Prefecture."

"Fan it with a fan, roast it with a brazier."

"At least we can keep 60% of the harvest!"

Just as the other officials were about to say something...

A burst of laughter suddenly came from outside the awning.

"Hahaha! Sixty percent?! Sixty percent is too low!"

When Prince Jiang, Li Yun, wearing a raincoat and still soaked with rainwater, walked into the rain shelter, he saw his elder brother, the Emperor, and immediately came over to pay his respects.

"Your Majesty! Your humble servant has finished what he was working on! It's a resounding success!"

Li Chengqian was taken aback.

Li Yun, however, took out a carefully rolled-up booklet from his pocket.

It was handed to him.

Li Chengqian unfolded it and his eyes widened instantly.

Li Yun, however, continued to point to the drawings and text in the booklet and explain.

"Your Majesty, this is a windmill that I made based on the kind of windmill that children play with. The front part is the fan blade, and the rear part is the axle that connects to the axle of a steam engine."

"Once it starts spinning, the wind force is extremely strong!"

"Even if we spread the grain out indoors, with this thing here, we can still dry the grain even if it keeps raining outside!"

"How about it?"

Li Chengqian: "......"

He stared in shock at his younger brother, who was waiting for his praise, clutching the booklet in his hand.

Looking into the other person's eyes, it was as if they were shining.

"Seventh Brother, you're truly my second-in-command!!!"

"Hahahaha!"

When Li Yun led Li Chengqian and the others to an empty warehouse in Taiyuan City, they saw the "Wind Chaser" that Li Yun had mentioned. Standing in front of it, they felt the strong wind.

Everyone was stunned into silence.

Li Gang stroked his beard and praised repeatedly.

"Your Highness's ingenuity is truly a marvel of genius! If we added a few more braziers to raise the indoor temperature, the effect of this windmill would be even better!"

Li Chengqian nodded repeatedly.

But Li Yun was smiling confidently at that moment.

"Rest assured, Your Majesty, the machine factory has already produced more than four hundred steam engines. After completing the first test, I had people speed up the production of the fan blades. Assembling four hundred wind turbines is no problem at all!"

.......

"Harvest!!!"

Loud shouts echoed through the fields surrounding Taiyuan Prefecture.

The people, who were already prepared, put on straw raincoats, brandished sickles, and rushed into their fields.

Some families who bought Harsha slaves were even more unscrupulous in forcing all the slaves out to work.

Even more so, in order to increase efficiency.

The city guards of Taiyuan Prefecture and the local militia around Taiyuan Prefecture also participated.

And within each of the rain shelters, bonfires were lit.

As the first batch of wet wheat ears were harvested, the people shook or patted them to shake off as many raindrops as possible.

Place the wheat ears on the fire and carefully roast them.

As the wheat ears dried out slightly, the people hurried to the threshing area set up by the government in the next rain shelter.

Under the influence of a new type of mechanical threshing machine that has undergone several improvements by the Imperial University.

One by one, the wheat grains, still soaked with rainwater, detached themselves from the ears of wheat.

Pack them up and move them into the city.

"The Wuhou Yamen in the western city of Taiyuan Prefecture is open! There's a whirlwind wheel over there!"

Braving the rain, the people quickly arrived at the Wuhou Yamen in the west of the city, which was the first to be vacated at that moment.

The warriors who had already been notified were already waiting here.

"Quickly, pour the grain onto this shelf, but don't spread it too thickly. We'll help you turn it over from here."

A soldier from the Wuhou Army shouted loudly.

The whistling windmill carried a strong gust of wind from the front of the hall to the back.

Soon, the area around the Wuhou Yamen in the west of the city was completely occupied.

Seeing the people anxiously waiting in line, Wu Hou, who was guarding the entrance, quickly shouted.

"Don't wait! Hurry to the south of the city, the government office there will open soon!"

"The Wuhou Yamen in the south of the city is now open!"

"It's open in the east of the city too!"

"There's a venue at Imperial University, hurry, hurry, hurry!"

"The Hou Family Chamber of Commerce's warehouse in the east of the city is now empty!"

"Lu Wang Real Estate has space available for all the vacant houses in the west of the city! Hurry up and go!"

"......"

In the new business department, Xiao Rui was shouting.

"All chambers of commerce, if you still want to do business in the future, you better clear out at least three large warehouses for me! If any of them don't, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

At the Royal Medical Academy, physicians like Sun Simiao were extremely busy, and every now and then, some of their disappointing young apprentices would rush over to ask for help.

"For those with fever, use physical methods to lower their temperature first, and prioritize treating the elderly, children, and pregnant women! For those who can get out of bed, quickly prepare medicine and give it to them to free up beds!"

The orderly operation of Taiyuan Prefecture was disrupted by Li Chengqian's order to reap the harvest.

Scholars, farmers, artisans, merchants, and everyone else had to start operating around agricultural activities.

Prioritize food security!

In this era where food is everything, no one dares to object to this decision.

When the Northern Garrison of the Embroidered Uniform Guard had an office and warehouse vacated, it was used to dry grain for the people.

The entire Taiyuan Prefecture was now completely united as one.

In the fields, medical students were brewing warming soup, strong men were driving horse-drawn carts to transport threshed grain towards the city, and others were carrying loads and clearing straw...

The heavy rain continued to fall for several days.

However, the wheat ears that were previously soaked by the rain in the fields have disappeared at a visible speed.

Instead, the scene became one of families driving oxcarts or mules, carrying boxes of dried wheat grains, back home.

"Your Highness, you should go back to the palace and rest... You haven't slept for four or five days!"

Wang De was so heartbroken he almost cried.

At this moment, Li Chengqian was still holding a steamed bun in one hand, wolfing down his food while looking at the reports from various places with his bloodshot eyes.

Finally, unable to contain herself any longer, she knelt down before him with a thud, pleading pitifully.

Li Chengqian snapped out of his daze with a blank expression.

Just as he was about to say something, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside the tent, accompanied by the sound of footsteps clearly treading on rainwater.

Rain was still dripping from Gao Hai's headdress.

however.

The loud shouting startled Li Chengqian, whose eyes were already weary.

"The rain has stopped!"

"Your Highness! The rain has stopped! The rain has stopped!"

Li Chengqian suddenly rushed out of the tent.

When you feel that there are no more raindrops falling from the sky.

Looking up at the gloomy clouds, which seemed to be faintly tinged with the golden light of the sun, he, whose face had been somber for several days, finally broke into a relieved smile.

At this moment, in the fields not far away.

The vulgar curses were accompanied by bursts of wild laughter.

It came through clearly.

"Hahahaha! Good heavens! Is this all you've got?!"

"Useless trash!!!"

"Good heavens! Holy crap! Hahahaha..."

at the same time.

Xinzhou, Chang Le and Gao Yang looked up at the cheering people and then at the sun peeking out from behind the dark clouds.

My tense heart finally relaxed at this moment.

They stood on the carriage.

"Quickly! Harvest while the sun is shining! Get ready for threshing and drying!"

......

Taiyuan Prefecture, Imperial University.

Yuan Tiangang's screams rang out.

"Ah! The old Taoist's waist, the old Taoist's legs, the old Taoist's neck..."

Li Chunfeng looked helplessly at this fellow Daoist who had almost died. If it weren't for him feeding and watering him these past few days...

That old thing has probably already ascended to heaven on the spot.

"Master Yuan, do you know how long you've been sitting like this? The sky has cleared up!"

"If you don't wake up soon, I'm even preparing to hold your funeral!"

Li Chunfeng said this in an annoyed tone.

however.

As Yuan Tiangang was helped to lie down on the ground to relieve the soreness and numbness in his body, his gray-white eyes were full of smiles.

"It's good to take shelter under a big tree... With the Tang Dynasty so blessed by its national fortune, and the true dragon soaring to the heavens, this old Taoist priest has not yet lived enough!"

P.S.: This is chapter 300! This struggling author is begging for some gifts! Thank you!