hsntnovel Chapter 2387 Li Shen Calls a Deer a Horse
Chapter 2387 Li Shen Calls a Deer a Horse
Li Shen had heard the story of calling a deer a horse. Zhao Gao called a deer a horse in front of Qin II.
At that time, many ministers agreed that it was a horse, but some ministers who said it was a deer were eventually killed by Zhao Gao.
This story illustrates Zhao Gao's power, and was later used as a metaphor for deliberately confusing right and wrong.
But Li Shen never thought that such a thing would happen to him.
"You mean when I say pigeon, it's just a pigeon, and no one comes out to explain it to me?"
Li Shen looked at Wang Xuance unhappily.
"Your Majesty, they probably wouldn't dare. In Prince Ji's mansion, your Majesty has the final say, and he often says other things.
For example, the prince called the raccoon cat a cat, a Persian cat.
Everyone has gotten used to it over the years. Perhaps they think that pigeon is just the prince’s new name for Fei Nu.”
Wang Xuance explained that he did not say that the servants in the palace were afraid. As servants, how could they dare to point out their master's mistakes easily?
Doing so will easily lead to punishment from the owner.
Prince Ji was moody, so the servants from the palace naturally did not dare to offend him.
It's just a bird anyway, it is whatever you say it is.
"Bullshit, I'm not Zhao Gao. I said it was a pigeon because I thought it was called a pigeon, and no one told me."
Li Shen cursed and was very dissatisfied with Wang Xuance's explanation. He was not Zhao Gao and did not have such right.
He speaks as if he were a tyrant.
"Shitou, can you explain to me why no one has ever told me in all these years that pigeons are called Feinu?"
Li Shen looked at Shi Tou with dissatisfaction. Shi Tou was his inseparable partner at this moment and the person he trusted most in the entire Prince Ji's Mansion.
"This...I also thought that this was the name the prince gave to Fei Nu."
When Shi Tou saw that his master had a bad look on his face, he immediately explained that he had already been beaten once.
"You bastard, you didn't even tell me such an important thing. I think you're just itching for trouble."
Li Shen immediately glared and shouted, although he was in the wrong, he would never admit it.
Over the years, he did say that he would keep some modern terms, for example, "Hu Deng Hu Chuang" was renamed by him, and the same was true for "Li Nu".
There are also some new business words, such as investment, rebate, and dividend, which are all new words from Li Shen.
It was Li Shen who called out the pigeon after seeing it, and no one objected.
"Does the prince want to use a flying slave to deliver a message?"
Seeing that the previous scene was about to happen again, Wang Xuance quickly spoke to divert Li Shen's attention, otherwise Li Shen would continue to make a fuss for who knows how long.
"Yes, I do have this idea." Li Shen was pulled back and nodded to express his meaning.
“Your Majesty, Fei Nu can indeed deliver messages, but only messages, not letters.
Your Majesty once used flying slaves to deliver messages to Luoyang.
However, according to my understanding, flying slaves cannot fly very far, and cannot be used to deliver letters over such a distance of thousands of miles."
Wang Xuance explained to Li Shen the story of Fei Nu delivering the letter.
The Tang Dynasty actually started using pigeons to transmit information, but the messages could not be transmitted very far.
"That's because their training is not right. I have read in ancient books that flying slaves can fly a thousand miles a day.
Even the longest distance is not a problem.
This requires specialized personnel to raise and train them. Please help me keep this in mind. After returning to Chang'an City, have the research institute study this matter.
The location is at the breeding farm of Prince Ji's Mansion."
Li Shen once saw a video of a pigeon flying from Germany to Australia, a distance of more than 10,000 kilometers.
Li Shen did not ask for so much, a few thousand kilometers would be enough. Xizhou was only about four or five thousand kilometers from Chang'an City.
Even if he can't fly, Li Shen can turn around in the middle of the journey. He should be able to fly there within a thousand or two thousand kilometers.
According to legend, pigeons can fly more than a thousand kilometers in a day.
This is much faster than the 800-mile express train.
You have to know that pigeons fly in a straight line in the sky, and the straight-line distance between Chang'an City and Xizhou is not as far as the land.
Lingnan is only more than a thousand kilometers away from Chang'an City in a straight line, and pigeons can reach it in one day.
Li Shen felt that if he had this carrier pigeon, it would be of great benefit to both him and the court, so he decided to start researching it.
Not every pigeon has this ability and needs to be carefully selected.
"Yes, Your Majesty, I will remember it." Wang Xuance agreed.
"Your Highness, a large number of carriages are arriving outside." A guard reported from outside the door.
Li Shen stood up suddenly.
"My baby is here."
After saying that, Li Shen raised his leg and ran outside, and everyone hurriedly followed.
When I arrived outside the office, I saw a row of carriages parked at the gate, stretching as far as the eye could see.
There were two corvées beside each carriage, and a cavalry squad of over a thousand men stood not far away.
"See His Highness Prince Ji."
A commander stepped forward and saluted Li Shen.
"No thanks." Li Shen nodded.
"Your Highness Prince Ji, I am here under the orders of the Grand Steward to escort your Highness's treasures, a total of 923 carts.
Please have your Highness Prince Ji check it."
The commander pointed to the endless carriages behind him and reported.
Over nine hundred carriages! Li Shen's eyes gleamed with gold as he gazed at the carriages in the distance, his heart pounding with excitement.
The joy was beyond words.
"Hurry up, get the carriage to the side door. The warehouse is over there." Li Shen happily instructed the manager beside him.
Then he shouted to the stone:
"Hurry up and send someone to open the warehouse."
Shitou hurried into the yard to make arrangements, and the convoy began to turn around and head towards the side door.
Li Shen led his men to the side door, where servants had already been arranged to prepare for inspection.
The first car stopped at the door, and the servants unloaded the box and opened it. Li Shen leaned over to take a look and saw a box of copper coins. He couldn't help but curl his lips.
According to the rules of Prince Ji’s Mansion, copper coins must be weighed, and there is no time to count the number.
The first cart was unloaded quickly, a total of 600 kilograms, all copper coins.
The corvée's vehicle was an ordinary two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, and due to its weight and the road conditions, it could only carry 600 kilograms.
The copper coins are too heavy, and this cart only carries a hundred strings of them.
"Your Highness, the warehouse is probably full." Shitou ran over and whispered in Li Shen's ear.
They have harvested so much in the past few months that no matter how many warehouses they have, they can't hold so much stuff, especially the copper coins that take up too much space.
Li Shen frowned after hearing this. This was indeed a problem. He looked around and found that there were no larger houses.
"Let's put these copper coins in the yard first. They won't be frozen anyway."
In the end, Li Shen could only think of putting the copper coins in the yard.
Copper coins are not afraid of snow, nor are they afraid of being lost.
After Shitou nodded, he immediately went to make arrangements and placed the boxes neatly on the open space in the yard.
(Go on, go on.)