"Mr. Marquis invites you back, you cannot leave the mansion."

"I want to go to supervise the worker. This is His Majesty's order. Has it delayed you from suffering from sin?"

"The order of confinement is also the order of Your Majesty. Please come back."

“…”

This was Li Mu's seventh attempt to leave the mansion and was blocked by the imperial guards. After Li Shimin's decree was issued, a group of imperial guards came that day and guarded the doors in front and behind the Zhulu Marquis' Mansion. No one cared about others' entry and exit, but Li Mu was absolutely impossible to go out.

Li Mu was a human being in his two lives, and finally tasted the taste of being in prison. Not to mention how uncomfortable it was. It was strange that Li Mu was a otakus in his previous life. If he didn't have to go to work and had food and drink, he could stay at home until the end of the world, and he didn't feel uncomfortable. However, after coming to the Tang Dynasty, he was a little unable to sit still after only staying at home for three days, and he couldn't figure out why.

Li Mu returned to the back house, fell on the recliner in the yard, shaking gently, looking at the clouds in the sky boredly, staring at the clouds in the sky in a daze. Bai Qiaoqiao brought Li Zhien to the front. Li Mu glanced at them and said, "If you are sorry, don't say anything more. If you feel sorry, go and make me something delicious."

"Yeah!" Bai Qiaoqiao agreed happily, but Li Zhien was about to cry. She couldn't cook. Li Mu glanced at her and said, "Don't cook?"

"Well..." Li Zhien lowered his head and responded depressedly.

"Then you don't go to learn yet?"

"Oh, oh, I'll go and learn now."

After sending his wife and the maid who was in trouble, Li Mu became bored again. Before he was confined, he went out early every morning and wandered around forging a day. When he came back, he still had the energy to knock and beat, and to improve his forging proficiency. But he suddenly became idle and had time to upgrade him. He suddenly became lazy and fell on the recliner and didn't want to do anything. He only had one mind in his head, wanting to leave the house and wanting freedom!

"Boss, Yuwen Man Wailang is here." Li Chongyi walked over and said, Li Mu opened his eyes and said lazily: "What is he here?"

"You asked him to find a craftsman who could carve, and he found him and waited in the lobby."

"Ah, right!" Li Mu remembered that day he thought of a good way to do without practicing calligraphy, printing!

When Li Mu was working on the game "The Legend of the Tang Dynasty", although he was responsible for data balance, he had also read some information on the game background setting. One of them was about printing. Because the content he saw surprised him, he had a deep memory.

Printing was an invention in the Tang Dynasty and was widely used in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. The earliest carved plate discovered now is a single page of the Sanskrit Dharani Sutra, engraved in the Wu Zetian period, which means that there was no printing technique in the early Tang Dynasty.

This surprised Li Mu very much. In his subconscious, printing technology is a very basic thing. Find a wooden board, carve characters, apply ink, and use a piece of paper to print it. What a simple thing. How could it be that there was no such thing as in the Tang Dynasty?

But the fact is that there is no.

Another thing that surprised Li Mu was the evolutionary version of woodblock printing and movable type printing. After the invented woodblock printing in the middle Tang Dynasty, nearly three hundred years later, people realized that it was not necessary to carve a board every time they printed. They could be carved into single words and arranged and combined. In later generations, such a simple thing was taken by the ancient people for nearly three hundred years to accumulate and summarize, which made Li Mu somewhat uncomprehensible.

But perhaps this is the progress of human civilization. Sometimes it takes an opportunity to bring about rapid development. This is like in modern times, in three hundred years, people can fly into space, and in the past three thousand years, humans lived almost the same life. It’s like a piece of window paper, if you don’t break it, you will never see the scene inside the window.

In order to be lazy, Li Mu remembered printing. He also decided to do movable type printing in one step. He asked Yu Wengui for a few craftsmen who were good at carving and planned to carve a set of commonly used movable type.

Yuwengui found all the craftsmen of stone carvings. Li Mu asked them to carve them in hardwood. Although the materials were different, they got started very quickly. They didn't understand why Li Mu asked them to carve words, and Li Mu didn't explain much. They found a thousand-character text and asked them to tear off one page and start the carving. After carving, they tear off one page and give ten cents of money. The craftsmen were very happy. With their carving speed, they could engrave at least two hundred words a day, and two cents of money were obtained. Who wouldn't be happy?

Li Mu squatted beside him and looked at him, secretly yelling in his heart. He really can't underestimate the abilities of the working people in ancient times. Take these craftsmen as an example. They didn't recognize words, but the words engraved were exactly the same as those in the Thousand Characters text. Li Mu admired this ability, at least he would definitely not be able to do it himself.

"Boss, the general is here and brings two more people."

"Two people?"

Li Mu's heart moved and he quickly got up and ran towards the lobby. He heard Li Shimin's voice from afar, and he thought to himself that he had indeed accelerated his pace.

"I am late to welcome you, I hope Your Majesty will forgive you." Li Mu bowed and bowed. Li Shimin was already happy. When he saw Li Mu coming, his face immediately drooped, and snorted, "Marquis Zhulu is so powerful. He hung the eldest son of the Cui family in Boling on the street to whip it. It was indeed arrogant."

Li Mu heard Li Shimin's teasing intention, but he still cooperated with the acting and said: "Your Majesty, there is a reason for the matter..."

"Stop! Don't argue, I'm too lazy to listen to you." When Li Shimin heard the four words "Yongchen Debate", the scene of Li Mu making Kong Yingda dizzy that day appeared in his mind. There was a buzzing sound in his ears. He really didn't want to listen. He said, "I already know what happened. If it weren't for excuse, how could I just punish you for being confined to ten days?" As he said that, Li Shimin signaled Changsun Wuji next to him and said, "You must thank Duke Zhao, he has said a lot of good things for you."

Li Mu quickly bowed to Changsun Wuji and said, "Thank you for your good words."

Changsun Wuji smiled and said, "I just told the truth, so I don't need to thank you. But you should be calm in the future and not be so reckless."

"I understand."

Li Shimin said: "Don't say polite words. I came here today to hear Mao Gong say that you have made the new plough. I want to see if it can double the efficiency as you said."

Li Shimin was busy with all kinds of things, so he naturally would not come to his ministers' home for no reason. However, the new ploughing matter was related to the foundation of the country, and Li Shimin was very concerned about it. Li Mu was confined to the palace and could not enter the palace to demonstrate to him. Only then did Li Shimin come. If Li Mu messed up the matter, the consequences could be imagined.
Chapter completed!