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

The King of Chu's wedding was a grand affair, and Chang'an was bustling with activity.

This attracted many commoners and wealthy nobles from surrounding cities such as Taiyuan and Luoyang.

The Prefect of Chang'an, watching the daily influx of people into the city and its massive population, lived in constant anxiety.

Not only the Prefect of Chang'an, but also the Wuhou and Jinwu Guards patrolling Chang'an, and even the Jinyiwei under the command of Qianlou, were in a state of extreme tension.

Such a grand celebration, especially a prince's wedding, cannot afford to have any mishaps.

After all, the number of foreign merchants in Chang'an today is incomparable to that during the Wude era.

"What are they doing? Could these pillars also be lampposts?"

"No way, this is way too high. Even with a ladder, it would be difficult to climb up and add oil..."

"Is Chang'an going to come up with something new again?"

This year, the Prefect of Chang'an was given several rigid policy targets.

The city's security patrols included Wuhou, the demolition and reconstruction of some residential areas, and... the restoration of electricity and lighting in Chang'an.

Finally, this matter was mainly led by King Wei and the Imperial Workshop. Now, several batches of rubber produced by the rubber trees in the Tang Dynasty have been studied by King Wei and his team and have been used to make qualified conductor sheaths.

Outside the city of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, an area was designated, and now the first thermal power plant of the Tang Dynasty has been built there. In fact, Li Tai originally wanted to build a hydroelectric power plant using the Wei River, based on the principle proposed by Li Chengqian.

However, the water flow of the Wei River is ultimately far from sufficient, and the power generation stability of the hydroelectric power station is also poor.

Li Tai was so excited that his forehead was covered in sweat.

He knew that this would be a legendary day recorded in the world, and his name, Li Tai, the Prince of Wei of the Tang Dynasty, would be recorded along with this day.

He even felt that today was more important than his birthday and his future death anniversary.

"The section from Tonghua Gate to Kaiyuan Gate Street has been checked again, and there are no problems. The section near Chunming Gate was also the first to be completed. The East Market and West Market sections each have their own independent lines..."

Li Tai muttered to himself as he nervously waited at the control panel in front of him.

Li Chengqian stood behind him, and even he was just as nervous at that moment.

He had already invested tens of millions of Tang Yuan to prepare for this day. If it weren't for the maritime trade and commercial taxes, as well as the gold and silver mountains in Japan, today would have been postponed for a long time.

However, even so, Li Chengqian did not dare to relax until the matter was completely declared a success.

That's how science works: success is success, and failure is failure.

There is no third possibility.

To achieve what we have today, the faculty and students of the Tiangong Division and the Imperial University's Electrical Engineering Department have endured even more arduous lives than the civil engineering faculty and students of the Imperial Hydraulic Engineering University.

From the most basic electrical wires, to transformers, and then to fuses and lights at the end of the power supply.

This is no longer a simple "leapfrog" development; it is a "transcendent" development.

"Alright, no need to be so nervous. We can always try again. After all, failure is the mother of success..."

Before Li Chengqian could finish speaking, he was glared at fiercely by Li Tai.

"Brother, you should just shut up and sit there and have some tea! What are you wasting money on? Bah, bah, bah!"

Li Chengqian: ".......Tsk!"

He rolled his eyes and ignored his workaholic younger brother. He would remember this rudeness towards his older brother today, and wait until the power generation was successful and the system was running normally.

He secretly had an electric chair invented...

Li Chengqian muttered to himself about his "brat" younger brother, and sat listlessly on the sofa outside the control room. At this moment, not only he was there, but almost his entire family was present.

His father, feeling bored waiting here, rode his horse to Chang'an Street to see the staff of the Tang Dynasty's power grid.

Emperor Emeritus Li Yuan, however, wearing reading glasses, frowned and stared in bewilderment at a book in his hand, "Electricity Science." He looked at it intently, as if he understood it, but Li Chengqian felt that his expression at that moment was more like that of someone looking at a martial arts manual than an electrical textbook.

"Your Majesty, can electricity really be controlled by mortals like us?"

Her Majesty the Queen of Yang, who was begging for alms for the kingdom, tugged at Li Chengqian's sleeve, and her big eyes seemed to have another remarkable idea popped into them.

"Fourth Brother said that the rubber sheet can block electricity. If we remove the rubber sheet and stretch it into a net on the city wall, wouldn't we no longer need soldiers to guard the city?"

Even Li Chengqian had to admire his younger sister.

Look how sharp this girl's mind is when she puts her mind to something important!

He remained noncommittal: "Power generation requires coal, and the technology is currently unstable. Don't try to do it yourself; it's dangerous."

Gao Yang nodded, though it was unclear whether he had taken it all in.

However, given this guy's current debt situation, building a power plant is just a pipe dream...

It's approaching dusk.

Chang'an began to be decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations. Specially designed lanterns were lit in front of every shop. The light from a single kerosene lamp was a little dim, but when a string of seven or eight lamps was placed together, the light became quite strong under the reflection of glass mirrors and other objects.

With the curfew lifted, Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, officially entered a more vibrant nightlife.

Near the brothels and alleyways, faint, decadent music, such as that of the guzheng, began to drift in.

Brothels still exist in the Tang Dynasty today.

However, the number of women in these businesses has been decreasing, while theaters, cinemas, and painting studios are mostly run by women.

"Your Highness! The routes to the East and West Markets and all 108 wards have been fully connected and verified to be correct!"

Li Tai, who had been waiting so long he was practically wilting, suddenly jumped up from his seat.

However, before he could run outside to call Li Chengqian and the others, Li Chengqian, Li Ke, and a whole host of his brothers and sisters poured in, almost crowding the entire control room.

"Brother..." Li Tai looked at Li Chengqian excitedly, his breathing becoming rapid.

Li Chengqian nodded and took a deep breath: "Connect to the power grid!"

At the entrance to the control room, several historians, holding pencils and notebooks, were almost pushed off the ground by the crowd. Their bodies were pressed against the wall and being shoved around, but they didn't care about anything else and began to record the scene in their notebooks.

Li Chengqian did not seize this significant connection ceremony.

This opportunity was given directly to Li Tai, after all, he was the one who had been working hard with his team to study these things every day.

Li Tai nodded, took several deep breaths to calm down, and then placed his hand on the mechanical push rod on the control panel to check the status of each node one last time.

Another message came back reporting that everything was correct.

Li Tai's expression hardened instantly, and he let out a low roar.

"Turn it on, sir!"

"Click!"

As the lever was pushed to the start position, a faint buzzing sound seemed to emanate from the power plant outside Chang'an City, where thick black smoke was rising.

Followed by.

A commotion erupted as a light, brighter than a kerosene lamp and even somewhat blinding, was lit up in Chang'an, instantly spreading throughout the entire city.

"Oh my God! That thing is lit up! It's so bright!"

"Good heavens...am I dreaming? This is so bright! It doesn't look like a kerosene lamp at all!"

Inside Chang'an City, on the rooftop of the six-story Datang Power Grid building in the west of the city.

The night wind blew against the robes and hair of Li Chengqian and the others, carrying some sand that stung their eyes.

However, when everyone saw the neat and orderly scene, like a whole galaxy falling into the darkness of Chang'an City, they were all shocked and fell silent.

"On the last day of the tenth month of the eighth year of Zhenguan, the electric grid of Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, was first connected. The two markets in the east and west, the hundred and eight wards, and the palace were all lit up with electric lights, making the capital as bright as day. The one who created it was the fourth prince, Prince Wei Tai."