Li Shimin turned around and entered the small courtyard. Li Mu and Baiguan stood up one after another and looked at each other. Li Mu said in a hesitant voice: "Let's go, let's discuss it."
No one answered, but no one objected, they all followed him silently.
The group of people arrived at the military tent where Chang Sun Wuji and others had just interrogated the assassin. There were several chairs in the tent, prepared for the chief interrogator and the clerk. Li Mu had just been kneeling on the ground, and his knees hurt from a small stone, so he found one nearby.
The chair is sat.
There are many people but few chairs. Who sits and who stands? There are different statuses and ages. The people who came in later were not as handsome as Li Mu. They all hesitated to sit down and looked at each other.
Seeing everyone like this, Li Mu thought to himself, how long has it been since he was still here? He was so fussy and carefree. But among the people present, he was the youngest and did not sit down. He was too embarrassed to sit down, so he had to hold on to the table.
He also stood up.
Wang stepped forward and pulled Li Mu to sit on the main seat. Li Mu refused, so he pushed Li Mu on the main seat.
Wang Lang said: "Everyone, please listen to my words. We have all seen it just now. If it were not for the righteous remonstrance of Lord Zhulu, Your Majesty must have made up his mind. It is the righteous deed of Lord Zhulu that gave tens of thousands of people a chance to breathe. Yes.
He has won this precious opportunity for tens of thousands of people. Therefore, the Lord Zhulu has no choice but to take the throne. Are you right?"
Everyone echoed, and even Wei Zheng nodded in approval.
Li Mu sighed. When Wang saw him sighing, he thought he was being flattered, so he quickly asked: "Why did the Marquis sigh? Did I say something wrong?"
Li Mu sighed again and said: "Mu, I am a junior. Sitting or standing is a trivial matter and insignificant. I sighed because..." He suddenly choked up and said: "Now your Majesty just gave you a chance, but you didn't
There is no result yet. Instead of brainstorming solutions, you are still worrying about seats."
Li Mu's eyes were slightly red and he looked like he couldn't go on. Wang was ashamed and said repeatedly: "I'm confused, I'm confused!"
Li Mu sighed again and said: "Whoever is tired, please sit down. I have just been kneeling and crawling for a long time, and my knees are so painful that I won't let you sit down for a while."
Everyone hurriedly complimented them, looked at each other a few times, and then asked the older ones to sit down while everyone else stood.
Li Mu frowned, looked at everyone, and said: "You have heard what His Majesty means. If anyone still doesn't understand, I will explain it again. Assassin is a trivial matter, whether the target is me or the target is Your Majesty, this is not
The point. The point is, someone is disobeying His Majesty’s ideas. This makes Your Majesty feel that no matter how hard he tries, he will never get the support of the noble family!”
"Our Majesty is a great hero of the generation. He is both the emperor who conquers the country and the emperor who sits on the country. I don't need to explain this, you all know it in your heart. Let me ask you, if your majesty really turns his back on you,
, I dare to ask the five surnames Qi Wang, who can stop His Majesty's raging anger? "
No one answered, who dares to answer?
Li Mu looked at the king and said, "Servant Wang, does the Wang family in Taiyuan dare to rebel?"
Wang was so frightened that he almost bit his tongue and said repeatedly: "I don't dare, I don't dare. The Wang family of Taiyuan has always supported His Majesty, absolutely!"
Li Mu then looked at some officials with rich family backgrounds. Like Wang, they all expressed their support.
His eyes swept over everyone's faces, and finally landed on Wei Zheng: "What do you think, Mr. Wei?"
Wei Zheng glanced at the "ally" gate like grass on the wall, and felt his face burning. He gritted his teeth and said: "I have never seen a wise king who resists foreign enemies, and I have never seen a hero wielding a sword at the people. If your Majesty,
If you do this, you will be infamy for thousands of years..."
Changsun Wuji was about to retort when suddenly, with a bang, Li Mu smashed the inkstone and broke it into seven or eight pieces, which were scattered on the ground. When everyone looked over, Li Mu became angry and shouted: "Wei Gong, in addition to the yin and yang weird energy,
What else can you do? Why didn't you say these words when you just met His Majesty? Who are you talking about now? To me? Is it useful?"
"I don't know about thousands of years, because I can't live that long. Before I'm eighty, I will definitely be old and confused! Not only me, you, Your Majesty, anyone here can't live for thousands of years, but
After today, tens of thousands of people will be dead. At this critical moment, you are still talking about what the historian will write? Is there something wrong with you?"
Wei Zheng's face turned red and white after being scolded. He opened his mouth to refute, but he didn't know where to start. He sighed heavily, turned his head to the side, and said, "Then tell me, what can you do?"
"Didn't His Majesty already say that? He believed that the people had broken their trust with him first, and he wanted to find a way to prove that the people had not broken their trust with him. Most of the big families, especially those who had assassins, loved him
There are only a few of them who have lost their minds and gone crazy. If they are killed, won't the matter be solved? Now I ask you, sir, can you put aside your distracting thoughts and brainstorm a way to prove this?
!”
Li Mu said with red eyes: "Gentlemen, this matter has nothing to do with me! I, Li Mu, a wild boy from a remote place, which family is related to me? Whose son will I die? Whose grandson will I die? But,
I have more or less something to do with you. I won’t point it out clearly, but you know it in your mind. At this time, why don’t we put aside our past grudges and work together to help each other?”
Li Mu gritted his teeth and said: "Then I don't care, I can't do it, kill or die, do whatever you want. Anyway, my relatives are not mine, and my country has nothing to do with me. I will go back to Dingxiang to farm!"
After that, Li Mu looked like he hated iron, and stood up to leave. Changsun Wuji stretched out his hand to stop him, but he was thrown away by Li Mu. He strode out of the military tent, mounted a horse and disappeared.
Wang chased out, only to see a horse's butt in the sunset, and he didn't even have time to pat it. At this scene, Wang couldn't help but burst into tears and murmured: "What should I do, what should I do..."
At this time, Changsun Wuji was horrified. He retracted his right hand into his sleeve to confirm that when he just stopped Li Mu, Li Mu stuffed a small note into his hand.
Changsun Wuji sat on the chair where Li Mu had just been sitting. He glanced at the note secretly under the cover of the table, then retracted his sleeves and tore the note into pieces.
"My lords! Put away your dejection! Li Mu is right, it is time to put aside the past grudges and work together. It is not for any one family, but for the lives of tens of thousands of people. As courtiers, you and I will
You should take on this responsibility! Let’s take a break for a quarter of an hour and I’ll go make some arrangements for dinner. Let’s all eat and think about it together!”
At this time of hesitation, Changsun Wuji's words were like a needle that calmed the sea, instantly calming the hearts of many people. Everyone looked at him and couldn't help but admire him.
Only Wei Zheng, looking at the scraps of paper at Changsun Wuji's feet, frowned, as if he thought of something, but couldn't figure it out.
…
Li Mu rode a horse around the mountain, using the cover of the woods to avoid all sight, and entered Li Shimin's small courtyard through the back door. Bai Qiaoqiao and Li Zhien had already come over, and after Li Mu took the people away,
, Bai Qiaoqiao and Li Zhien came over to deliver food. Li Mu felt sorry for Bai Qiaoqiao who had to prepare meals for several people, so he thought of a way to stop cooking and eat hot pot.
There happened to be frozen Chengfu beef legs in the warehouse, so Li Mu asked Eunuch Gao to secretly bring the legs over, along with a plane used by Li Mu for carpentry. Between the push and pull, pure natural and unprocessed beef slices came out.
Yes, the copper pot is still the same copper pot, the coke is ready, boil the water, add a little Li Mu's secret seasoning, and the fragrant hot pot is ready.
This was Li Shimin's second time eating hot pot. He didn't eat enough last time. This time he saw Li Mu pushing beef slices with a planer, and kept asking him to get more beef slices, for fear that it wouldn't be enough. Li Mu cursed in his heart while pushing, but he didn't
I know who this fool is. The last time I had hot pot, I was almost full. I heard it was beef. He talked about the principle of eating cattle and destroying agriculture. It was so hypocritical. This time, I just lost my face.
When I saw it was a cow leg, I kept grinding it on the edge.
Who made him the emperor? Li Mu pushed and pushed until his arms were sore. Finally, ten plates of beef came out. The beef legs were gone, leaving only a bone stick. He simply smashed it with a hammer and threw it directly into the copper pot.
, I made a bone soup hot pot, and the aroma was even better.
Everyone washed their hands and sat around the stone table. Needless to say, Li Shimin and Empress Changsun sat down on their own without being asked. Li Mu, a thick-skinned man who had done a lot of work, of course sat down. But
Bai Qiaoqiao and Li Zhien were not so comfortable. In the presence of the emperor and empress, although they both had official orders, they did not dare to be too casual.
Li Mu felt very uncomfortable when he saw that his wife and concubines were not sitting down. He glanced at Li Shimin, who was staring at the meat, and secretly complained, what kind of emperor is this? He has such no eyesight. He should just say something!
Empress Changsun reacted in time, stretched out her hand and pulled Bai Qiaoqiao to sit down. Li Zhien took a peek and followed suit.
Eunuch Gao was the only one left standing, and his life was not so good. As a slave, how could he deserve to eat food from the same container with his master? He didn't have that kind of wishful thinking, secretly pursed his lips, and
His face turned to the other side.
Li Mu is not the kind of snobbish person, but in this situation, he can't make the decision. After thinking about it, he took a bowl, took out a bowl of meat, bumped his father-in-law Gao with his elbow, and put the bowl and chopsticks
handed it to him together.
Eunuch Gao glanced at Li Shimin and saw that he had no intention of stopping him. He secretly thanked Li Mu, took the bowl and chopsticks and hid in a corner to eat secretly.
How could Li Shimin not see such an obvious move? Seeing Eunuch Gao walking away, Li Shimin stuffed a chopstick of meat into his mouth, glanced at Li Mu, and said, "Li Mu, what kind of person are you? Now I realize that
, I can’t see through you more and more.”
Li Mu took a spoon, scraped out the marrow from the cow bones, and secretly put it into Bai Qiaoqiao's bowl. This stuff is a great supplement. It can't be taken advantage of by Hunjun, it must be given to his own son. While digging, he said in a voice: "Your Majesty.
His eyes are like a torch, and he can see through me at a glance. How could he not see through me? Your Majesty, you are joking."
"Hmph." Li Shimin shut his nose, took a sip of Zhuangyuan Red, and said, "Stop talking about these useless things, and don't mention anything else." Li Shimin pointed at Eunuch Gao and said, "I'm here to ask you, why did you give
Eating high-dry meat and eating it separately? Is it to win people's hearts? Or is there some other purpose?"
Li Mu looked up at Li Shimin and said confusedly: "Your Majesty, what are you talking about? I don't understand. It's just a bowl of meat. What can I buy from this? Even beef is not worth three or five. If this can
Invited to buy it, Eunuch Gao is too worthless."
"You think I don't understand this? As a slave, what matters most is not money, but respect. This is another way to win people's hearts, am I right?"
Li Mu frowned and didn't say anything for a long time. Finally he smiled, shook his head and said, "Your Majesty said yes, I eat meat, no more."
However, Li Shimin refused to let him go and asked: "What do you mean, I just said yes? You can tell me clearly whether it is true or not."
Seeing his reluctance, Li Mu knew that he couldn't finish the meal, so he put down his chopsticks, looked back at Eunuch Gao, and said: "Your Majesty wants to know, I can't tell you. I want to ask your Majesty a question first. Your Majesty,
Do you really regard Eunuch Gao as your slave?"
Li Shimin was stunned, thought for a moment, and said: "He is a eunuch, so of course he is a slave."
Li Mu shook his head and said: "Your Majesty is lying. You should know that when the assassins attacked, it was Eunuch Gao who risked his life to save him. If it were other eunuchs in the palace, would they do the same thing?"
Li Shimin thought for a moment and had no words.
Li Mu added: "Your Majesty, it is true that Eunuch Gao is your slave. But how many slaves are willing to sacrifice their lives for their master? I'm afraid there are not many. This is called loyalty. Of course, Your Majesty does not have to feel that he has wronged Eunuch Gao.
, because his loyalty must be earned by His Majesty's dedication to him. This is the truth when a scholar dies for a confidant. I gave Eunuch Gao a bowl of meat because I respect Eunuch Gao as a loyal person.
. He deserves my respect, so I have this bowl of meat to eat. This is also one of the principles for making friends. Your Majesty, please don’t think too complicated. I am still a child and don’t have that much scheming."
Li Shimin automatically filtered out the last sentence and asked: "What are the rules for making friends? This is the first time I've heard you talk about it. Are there any other rules? Please tell me a few more."
"Hmm..." Li Mu thought for a moment and said, "Let me just say one more thing. When I make friends, I never look at whether the other person has money. Anyway, they can't be richer than me. Even if he comes from a wealthy family, he certainly doesn't.
I dare to spend money, so I still can't compare with me. When I make friends, I don't care whether the other person's family background is prominent or not. How prominent is it? It's not earned by this person. Those who rely on the support of their ancestors are idiots. I will never care about them.
In my eyes, when I make friends, I look at whether this person is a person worth making friends with. He must have a skill and a commendable ability. It can make me feel in my heart that some of the things this person can do are my
What I can't do is that my role model or some of his ideas can resonate with me and make me feel that we are on the same path. We can do something together to make the world a better place. Only such people