There is no shortage of hard-working people in the Tang Dynasty. After all, the locust plague has come, and the food in many farmers' fields has been eaten away.
The Tang government provided work-for-relief services and provided many job opportunities so that these farmers could go out and do a job in exchange for enough food.
Because of this, the new academy built for Tang Ping was very fast, but in just half a month, it was already completed.
When Tang Ping led people to the other side of the river, he found that not only the usual craftsmen and civilians were here today, but also many people dressed as imperial officials.
"Tang Ping is here!" Li Shimin walked over with a group of people with a smile.
If Tang Ping thought more about it, even Fang and Du would be standing behind him, and he would have guessed his identity.
But at this moment, he just thought that General Li Er saw him first, so he came to say hello to him.
"Long time no see, General Li!"
"Haha, no need to be too polite. This time you called me third brother, but you gave the court a big gift!"
Tang Ping knew that he was talking about asking Li San to hand over the forged sword steel to the court, so he joked: "Then your Majesty will give him a lot of rewards, right? I didn't hear that he wanted to treat me to dinner!"
After speaking, he looked teasingly at Li Yuanji, who was standing behind Li Shimin.
Li Yuanji goes to Tang Ping's store the most, and the two of them usually joke with each other.
"Isn't it that other people's food is not as delicious as yours?" Li Yuanji didn't want to be known as stingy: "You don't know, now Bazhenlou has bought your MSG and asked their chef to come After learning a few tricks from your little Luo, she is so popular in Chang'an."
This is true. Fatty Liu, the shopkeeper of Bazhenlou, will cause trouble. Ever since he found out that the banquet he had at Tang Ping's place was cooked by Xiaoluo, he has been looking for someone to give Xiaoluo some gadgets that girls like every now and then. .
Or just deliver some rare delicacies and game to the convenience store in Shanghe Village.
After going back and forth, Tang Ping felt a little embarrassed. He didn't plan to start a catering business in Chang'an anyway, so he simply asked Xiao Luo to hand over some cooking skills to the chef of Bazhenlou, and also gave him two big irons. Give the pot to Fatty Liu.
Now Bazhen Restaurant is the only one in the restaurant world in Chang'an. Wangshu Restaurant in the past has long been overtaken.
As he spoke, Li Yuanji took something from the entourage behind him and handed it to Tang Ping: "Don't you like collecting these things? Look, I bought them specially for you."
Tang Ping took it and felt it was a little heavy. He estimated it weighed seven or eight pounds.
When he opened it, he found an unevenly shaped jar lying inside.
To be honest, not only is it ugly and dusty, it's even a bit ugly.
"What is this?" Tang Ping pursed his lips in disgust: "It's not as good as the jar of chili peppers you gave me last time!"
"Just come back if you don't want it!" Li Yuanji said anxiously: "These are the two tomb robbers we caught last time. They said they were brought from the Chu State Tomb."
"Chu State? Which Chu State?" Tang Ping did not turn around for a moment.
"The Chu State was destroyed by the Qin State!"
"Oh..." Tang Ping said oh at first, and then he was stunned, Chu State, isn't that the Warring States Period?
In other words, the porcelain in my hand is from the Warring States Period?
Tang Ping's hand shook and he almost dropped the box in his hand.
This thing took less than a thousand years from the Warring States Period to the Tang Dynasty, but by the time of Tang Pinglai, it was a full two thousand three to four hundred years.
In addition, porcelain is such a fragile thing. It can be said that in Tang Ping's era, unless a Warring States tomb was excavated, it was almost impossible for any Warring States porcelain to be handed down.
Even Tang Ping, a guy who doesn't know anything about antiques, still thinks this jar looks good depending on how it looks.
"In that case, I'd like to thank General Li!" Tang Ping smiled and carefully covered the box before handing it to Lao Cui.
The steel he originally gave to Datang was exchanged for a hundred taels of gold. He was already very satisfied, but he didn't expect that there would be an unexpected gain now.
This thing is not for sale. If you put it in your own store in the future, the quality will be improved a lot.
"By the way, why are there so many people here today?" Tang Ping asked curiously. Looking behind them, in addition to Fang and Du, there were so many unknown officials wearing various official uniforms.
"You don't know?" Li Yuanji looked suspicious: "Then why are you here?"
"I came here today to connect the electricity!" Tang Ping raised the light bulb in his hand and pointed to the wire in Lao Du's hand.
"Electrical connection?"
"Yes, in this case, electric lights can be used here at night in the future, and if I teach them, they may also use electricity sometimes."
"Are you saying that in the future this new school will be able to light up like the lights in your store?" Li Yuanji looked surprised. Of course he now knew that the lights in Tang Ping's store were not luminous pearls, but a kind of lamp called electric lamp. It's just that he didn't expect Tang Ping to be able to connect the light to such a far place.
"Then, can this thing be taken to the palace...can it be taken to Chang'an City?"
Li Yuanji was not the only one who was greedy for this stuff. The last time he went back to Tang Ping for hotpot, Li Shimin had been envious for a long time that his convenience store was as bright at night as it was during the day.
No matter how many candles and oil lamps I light in my Xiande Hall, they can't compare to the lights of this convenience store.
"That probably won't work!" Tang Ping estimated that the length from his store to the new school on the other side of the river is only more than 300 meters, so it wouldn't be a big problem to pull an ordinary wire.
But it was several miles away from the Chang'an City Wall alone, and he really couldn't do it if he was asked to connect the electricity.
"That's it!" Although he had expected it, Li Shimin was still a little disappointed.
"But I also have two solar power panels there. If you just want to light up at night, it's not a big problem!"
Tang Ping felt a little sorry when he thought that someone gave him such a valuable antique today. He also had two solar power panels he bought last time in his store. If he didn't do anything else and just used them to look at each other at night, there would basically be no problem. big.
"Two?" Li Shimin and Li Yuanji looked at each other. It happened that their eldest brother Li Jiancheng was absent today.
otherwise……
If there wasn't something else to do now, the two of them would have wanted to follow Tang Ping to get it right now.
"You really don't know what day today is?" Li Yuanji pointed at the new school: "Today is the day when the new school is completed!"
"Today? Is everything repaired?"
Tang Ping came here a few days ago and heard from the master craftsman here that it would be repaired in a few days.
But he was busy going back to modern times, and he really didn't know that today was the day of completion. No wonder so many court officials came.
The fact that so many courtiers came to the new academy after it was completed shows that the Tang Dynasty still attached great importance to the new academy.
