After the court meeting was over, Li Shimin returned to Tai Chi Hall, his face as sinking as water.
Eunuch Gao followed carefully step by step, winking at the little eunuchs and maids around him. His Majesty was in a bad mood today, so he was keeping his eyes open and hiding. If something went wrong and Long Yan was furious, would the Yeting Palace still be able to do it?
There's a shortage of people.
Li Shimin sat behind the desk expressionlessly. Two young eunuchs carried today's memorial and placed it on the left side of the desk at Eunuch Gao's signal.
"High cadre."
"Yes." Eunuch Gao hurriedly agreed and came closer.
"Find out the memorial jointly signed by the auxiliary machine and Wang."
"No." Eunuch Gao rummaged through the pile of memorials and found the thickest one at the top. He found it and unfolded it in front of Li Shimin.
Li Shimin had a sullen face and read it again from beginning to end. Suddenly he became furious and threw the memorial to the ground.
"Young man Li Mu got it right! Even the auxiliary machines can't be trusted. Who else can I trust?!"
These words were so heartbreaking that Eunuch Gao was so frightened that he broke into cold sweat. He quickly knelt on the ground and shouted: "Your Majesty, this old slave is wholehearted."
"Get up, I didn't tell you anything." Li Shimin suppressed his anger and raised his hand. Eunuch Gao got up, still too frightened to say anything.
Li Shimin sighed: "Gao Gan, I know your loyalty to me. But I think that your loyalty to me has nothing to do with you being an eunuch. If you are like the assistants and others, you have your own family, and you have
The interests involved behind the scenes are the same! I have never doubted Auxiliary Machine's loyalty before, but today it seems that Auxiliary Machine's thoughts may not be all for me. He has changed, and he has begun to consider his eldest grandson's family!"
This is the logic of the emperor. As long as the minister does not like what he wants, it means that the minister has changed his mind. Me? How could I change? Even if I changed, it was because of you.
It was about Changsun Wuji. How could Eunuch Gao dare to interfere? He just responded and passed by.
Li Shimin didn't take his opinion seriously, and sighed to himself: "Why can't I hand them over to them? I'm not good enough to them? I've given high-ranking officials generous salaries, fine clothes, good food, and high positions, so why do they
Are you not satisfied? Why can't you be like Li Mu and share my worries?"
When Eunuch Gao heard this, he rolled his eyes and thought, "What is a master? Zhuluhou is the master." This simple sentence has such a big effect on alienating the country. It actually made His Majesty suspicious of his uncle. If he
It's okay if it wasn't done on purpose. If it was done on purpose, how deep the city would be.
Fortunately, he is a eunuch, so this kind of fight has nothing to do with him. Naturally, Eunuch Gao will not go out to inform the public, so what is the benefit? Being caught in the middle, the final result will be that he is not a human being inside and outside, and follows the emperor's side.
Over the years, Eunuch Gao has long been familiar with this. In many cases, it is best to be confused.
Li Shimin was also angry. This matter had been planned for a long time. Since Changsun Wuji and Wang had checks and balances, from his point of view, he would be more reassured. The direction of the matter was in line with his wishes, but Changsun Wuji finally
Still couldn't help but jump out, which made him quite unhappy.
Comparing the greed and selfishness of Wang and Changsun Wuji, Li Mu's "high-spirited and upright" persona instantly became clear. Li Shimin couldn't help but think of Li Mu and asked: "Gao Gan, is there any news about Li Mu today? What is this guy doing?"
What?"
"Yes." Eunuch Gao hurriedly responded, took out today's "Datang Daily" from his arms, turned to the front page headline and pointed it to Li Shimin, saying: "Your Majesty, please take a look, today's Datang Daily headline is published on the front page
An exclusive interview with Zhulu Hou."
"Exclusive interview?" Li Shimin heard this word for the first time and asked in confusion: "What is an exclusive interview?"
"You see, isn't it marked here?" Eunuch Gao found the mark and pointed it to Li Shimin: "Exclusive interview means to find specialized people to give specialized answers on specialized matters. Recently, there has been a lot of talk about road construction, involving Zhulu.
There was a lot of criticism about him between the government and the public. In addition, the impeachment of King Jingze, the imperial censor, Zhuluhou’s reputation was damaged. As a last resort, Zhuluhou had no choice but to accept an exclusive interview with Datang Daily and give an answer to the recent events.”
Li Shimin couldn't help but laugh and said: "You don't need to look at me to know that this is another new trick used by this kid. Tang Guan, the editor of Datang Daily, is his stepbrother. If I guessed correctly, this so-called exclusive interview must be
Are you shirking responsibility and throwing all the blame on the Taiyuan Wang family?"
"Not at all." The first thing Gao Eunuch did every morning was to read the newspaper, so as to save Li Shimin time. He flipped through the newspaper, and when he got to the second page, he pointed it to Li Shimin and said, "Your Majesty, please read this.
Zhulu Hou did not blame others too much. He just repeatedly mentioned that it was because he was too young and only wanted to solve problems and thought things simply, so he fell into the trap of the powerful family. In order to prove that he did not profit from it,
To form a clique for personal gain, he wants to spend 100,000 yuan to repair the lanes of Chang'an City."
"One hundred thousand guan!" Li Shimin's attention instantly focused. He stared at the place pointed out by Gao Eunuch and looked at it several times. He frowned and said, "Not only did he spend 100,000 guan to build the road, but he also spent eight hundred thousand guan in the city.
Set up a horse and carriage depot in this direction, is this guy crazy?"
"I don't know what I'm doing, I guess it's because I'm angry."
"Alas!" Li Shimin sighed and said, "This boy is so impulsive." Li Shimin sighed, and then couldn't help but twitching the corners of his mouth, laughing, and said: "Since the former Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty built the Eastern Capital,
Chang'an gradually fell into disrepair. When my father made Chang'an his capital, he thought that if he had to rest and recuperate, he would have to repair it sooner or later. Now, with Li Mu funding the repair of the lanes, it has saved the court a lot of money."
Li Shimin said happily: "High-ranking cadres, it seems like they are fighting with each other, and I am reaping the benefits."
Eunuch Gao didn't dare to spoil Li Shimin's interest, but he still reminded him: "At present, it seems that it is indeed the case, but Zhuluhou is not the one who suffered the loss. He got 100,000 yuan for nothing this time. This old slave can't see this anger.
Xiao, sooner or later, he will have to make up for it."
"Yes." Li Shimin nodded and said, "Your concerns are justified. Li Mu never suffers losses, and he will definitely make up for it. But this is normal. You can't keep losing money to him. If the situation gets worse, he will make up for it."
When he was in trouble, I helped him more or less, as a way of returning a favor to him."
Hearing this, Eunuch Gao began to curse again in his heart. Look, look at this method of making Your Majesty feel that he owes a favor. He is really a master!
I thought so in my heart, but said: "Your Majesty is wise."
"Sheng Ming, okay, I'm feeling better now. I'll call Yu Shinan over. I want to ask him about Ju Wentai and his party."
"promise."
Eunuch Gao responded, turned around and went out. Li Shimin looked at the newspaper again and saw 'one hundred thousand dollars', and couldn't help laughing again. The amount of money is a trivial matter, the main reason is that Li Mu was cheated, and his mood was inexplicable.
Pleasure, I don’t know when this feeling started, but I never tire of it.
At the same time, heaven and earth.
In the private room on the second floor, Wang Zhi hosted a banquet and invited Changsun Wuji, Dugu Xiude and others. Firstly, it was to celebrate the approval of the two families to jointly build the road, and secondly, it was mainly to apologize to Li Mu. Today's
Everyone in the Datang Daily read it. In order to prove his innocence, Li Mu promised to go out with 100,000 guan to repair the alleyway. 100,000 guan, it can be said to be a huge hemorrhage. Don’t look at the people sitting at this table are family heads and lord-level figures.
But if you take out one hundred thousand guan, it will not be easy.
The property of a wealthy family is scattered in many things. For example, land, shops, etc. The real cash, in the words of later generations, the so-called 'cash flow', may not necessarily be much. Otherwise, when buying shares earlier, the Lonely Family would also
I won’t use grain to offset money.
In this regard, Li Mu is much better than them. Because Li Mu's winery has always been settled in person, and he can't take away the wine without giving money, so people don't have to worry about selling it. After the winery was separated, Chang'an East and South
All sales in both directions were obtained by Li Mu. In addition, the workers were already experienced, and he brought out many apprentices and added two more production lines. Now, the sales volume in one month has tripled the previous one, ten times.
Wan Guan is just two or three months' income.
And Li Mu is not the only one with this leg. He also has a profit share at the racecourse, and Bai Qiaoqiao's shop is about to open, with perfume, mirrors, and soaps all making huge profits, so he doesn't worry about money at all.
But if we say how much money he has in hand now, it is really not 100,000 guan. In recent days, he has spent a lot of money. Sun Simiao's 1,000 taels of gold is equivalent to 10,000 guan, and Bai Qiaoqiao's shop has spent 30,000 guan.
Guan, and then paid the wages to the craftsmen, and the miscellaneous things added up to more than 20,000 Guan, and the money in the house was only about 50,000 or 60,000 Guan. But Li Mu had this ability, he said 100,000 Guan,
No one thinks he can't get it out, because his impression of being "not short of money" has already been deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Will a person who has money but no place to spend it and spreads it in newspapers without money?
When they heard that Li Mu was going to spend 100,000 yuan to repair Chang'an lanes, everyone was surprised and admired his courage. At least this kind of thing would not be possible for any of them. But at the same time, Wang and Changsun
Wuji also understands that money is never wasted. Li Mu spent a hundred thousand yuan to build roads, but he didn't get any benefits. Sooner or later, it would be a problem.
Therefore, Wang Cai set up this banquet in order to have a good chat during the banquet and find a way to compensate Li Mu. The two of them had even agreed privately that they could give up to 30% of the profit to Li Mu, which was regarded as not letting him
All the work was in vain.
However, the person sent to invite him had been there for a long time. Li Mu hadn't arrived yet, but everyone else had arrived early. Everyone couldn't help but whisper. Is it possible that Li Mu was so disrespectful? After all, the king was the prime minister and an elder, so he condescended to him.
Please, why don’t you come?
Time passed little by little, and Wang's face became a little uneasy. He whispered to Wang Pu: "Brother, why don't you go and take a look?"
Wang Pu said with a headache: "Brother, I really don't have the shame to come to the door."
"What's wrong with this?"
Before he finished speaking, a person pushed open the door and entered.