Early in the morning, Li Mu was having breakfast, and the concierge came to report that someone came from the palace and was waiting in the lobby. Li Mu quickly pulled a bowl of porridge, wiped his mouth, and came to the lobby of the front yard.

"Eunuch Gao?" Li Mu was stunned when he saw the visitor and said, "Why did Eunuch Gao come so early? Is there anything urgent?"

Eunuch Gao smiled and said, "Don't panic, there is no urgent matter. Our family is here today to bring clothes to the Marquis." As Eunuch Gao patted, the little eunuch behind him quickly came to the front with a tray. Eunuch Gao sorted out his expression and said solemnly, "Marquis Zhulu listen to the emperor."

Li Mu quickly bowed, and Eunuch Gao learned from Li Shimin's expression and said in a rough voice: "Your Majesty said: Li Mu, you have never been to court once after you have been promoted. Although there is a reason for this, it will inevitably cause criticism. I have made a court uniform for you and put it on to participate in court tomorrow. You must get it!"

After saying that, Eunuch Gao immediately smiled again and said, "What we say is His Majesty's original words, and there is no word wrong. Zhulu Marquis, do you know what Your Majesty means?"

"Uh..." Li Mu didn't react a little, but he knew what to do. He shook his wrist and handed over a piece of silver without leaving any trace.

Eunuch Gao put his smile on his sleeve and pointed out: "Marty, someone has sued you. Do you still remember what memorial was written two days ago?"

"Memorial?" Li Mu recalled that he had published two memorials these days, one was a memorial to recommend officials of the Ministry of Works, and the other was a memorial to recommend Tang Guanren's "Walking in the Front". The former had already been yelled with Li Shimin, so there should be no problem. Then the problem must be Tang Guan's memorial to him. It seems that someone was jealous of Tang Guan and did not dare to provoke his father Tang Jian, so he pointed his finger at himself.

Li Mu understood, bowed to Eunuch Gao and said, "Thank you, Eunuch Gao for your advice, I know what you think."

Eunuch Gao still looked smiling. He knew in his heart that this kind of impeachment was irrelevant to Li Mu and he didn't take it seriously.

"Mr. Marquis, there is no constant consent, which shows your Majesty's favor to you. There is another thing that our family doesn't say, I'm afraid that the Marquis will not know. Marquis knows, who did this set of court uniforms?"

"This...how can I know."

Eunuch Gao said righteously: "This set of court robes was sewn by the queen himself."

"Ah?!" Li Mu said in surprise: "It was the queen who sewed it himself?" Li Mu quickly bowed to Tai Chi Palace and shouted: "What kind of virtue is Li Mu? He can get such love from His Majesty and the Queen, and he cannot repay him. Only by dedicating his life to complete everything that His Majesty has assigned to him can he repay his kindness if he is so kind!"

In fact, he had just guessed that this part was just to cooperate with Eunuch Gao's performance. He knew that after Eunuch Gao returned, he would reply to Li Shimin and Empress Changsun. He said this to make it easier for him to explain and to make Li Shimin and Empress Changsun feel comfortable.

How could Eunuch Gao not see Li Mu's little thoughts? He pretended to be confused and pretended not to know.

"Mr. Zhulu's heart will be passed on to His Majesty. Okay, after we have finished our business, we have to go back to the palace to reply to the imperial edict, so we won't bother you anymore, so let's go."

Li Mu sent it to the door and gave a wink to the doorman. The doorman quickly ran to the warehouse and asked someone to bring in two jars of top scholar Hong. Eunuch Gao was helped onto the carriage by the eunuch. Li Mu handed over the two jars of wine and said, "Today I made a new wine, and there are two jars left. Please help me pass it to His Majesty and the Supreme Emperor for a taste."

"Our family will live up to their entrustion."

Eunuch Gao put the wine next to him, held it with his hands, said goodbye to Li Mu, and returned to the palace.

Li Mu returned to the lobby, picked up the court robes that were said to have been sewn by Empress Changsun himself, and looked at them carefully. It has to be said that the stitches are indeed excellent. The queen actually has such achievements in the field of female red, which is really impressive.

After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan issued an edict to stipulate the colors of all officials' uniforms. The princes and the third grade were made of purple large silk silk, and the belt was made of jade belt hooks. The fifth grade was above was made of scarlet small silk silk, and the belt was made of grass gold hooks. The sixth grade was made of yellow double bracelets, and the belt was made of rhinoceros hooks. The seventh grade was made of green tortoise shell, double giant, and ten flower diamonds. The belt was made of silver, the ninth grade was made of blue silk cloth, and the belt was made of yu stone belt hooks.

If we look at official positions, Li Mu, as the Minister of Works, was a fourth-rank minister, and could only wear scarlet official uniforms, but because he was still from the third-rank Kaiguo County Marquis, he just happened to have a purple edge. Therefore, the set of court uniforms sewn for him by Empress Changsun was purple, and he specially used gold threads. Although it was not obvious if he didn't get close, it was a low-key show-off. It would be fine if others didn't find gold threads. As long as they found gold threads, they knew that the clothes came from the palace.

What an honor is this to be given to imperial court robes?

Li Mu returned to the backyard with a tray and showed it to Bai Qiaoqiao. Bai Qiaoqiao was also very happy. He looked at the stitches of the clothes carefully and envied the queen's girl. Zhang Tianai couldn't see anything. She had never touched needles and threads in her life. She couldn't see whether it was good or bad.

After a while of chatting, the concierge came to see him again. Lu Wenfeng, the doctor of Yu's department, arrived. Lu Wenfeng sorted out the information Li Mu asked for yesterday and planned to send someone to deliver it, but he was worried that Li Mu would ask for any questions, so he sent it himself.

When we met in the lobby, Li Mu first looked at the things that Lu Wenfeng sorted out. But unfortunately, he didn't understand. Due to the changes in place names in ancient and modern times, even though Lu Wenfeng had already written it very clearly, there were iron ore, copper ore, and silver ore, Li Mu didn't know where these were. Li Mu had to ask one place and one place, using Chang'an as the coordinate, which direction in Chang'an and how far away it was, and then in my mind, I still remember the distribution map of China's minerals that I learned in junior high school geography. After a long time of right, I didn't meet a few names.

This gave Li Mu a headache.

There was really no way, so I had to put the mining search first. Li Mu put the information in his hand aside and asked a key question: "Dr. Lu, are the various minerals in the Tang Dynasty now state-owned or private?"

"Minerals are all state-owned, but minerals are spread all over the country, so mining still requires the cooperation of local states and prefectures. The specific implementation plan is to operate the two official projects of salt and iron, and the rest are organized by the states and prefectures to mine personnel and collect taxes from the court."

"Oh!" Li Mu sighed long, and the most troublesome thing happened. Although he had thought of this for a long time, he was still lucky. Now that his hope was shattered, his head suddenly hurt.

If these minerals are state-owned and state-owned, Li Mu, as the Minister of Works, could naturally be fully allocated. No matter how they do it, it is almost cost-effective. Although it will definitely be more difficult at the beginning, as long as it is on track, it will be smooth sailing in the future.

But now it seems that the imperial court's control over the local area is far lower than Li Mu imagined. Although Lu Wenfeng said it tactfully, his meaning has been clearly expressed. Minerals are all states, but if the country wants to mine minerals, local cooperation is indispensable. What is a local? Are they a local official? Are they a local people? Obviously not. The word "local" is still a family.

Li Mu can now understand the reason why Li Shimin is afraid of the aristocratic families. Just imagine that although the country is surnamed Li, the talents are in the hands of the aristocratic families, the land is in the hands of the aristocratic families, the population is in the hands of the aristocratic families, and even the minerals are nominally owned by the court, but in fact they are still in the hands of the aristocratic families. If you are not afraid of this, then unless the emperor is a fool.

Fortunately, these aristocratic families also restrain each other and fight openly and secretly. Otherwise, if they join forces, they will probably be able to rebel. Thinking of this, Li Mu suddenly smiled bitterly, what else can he guess? It can be able to succeed. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the heroes rose up together. Isn’t these “heroes” mean the aristocratic families in various places? Some, like Li Tang, rose up by themselves, while others supported behind their backs. The so-called competition among the world is a war between these aristocratic families!

Li Mu picked up the information compiled by Lu Wenfeng and looked at it. Suddenly he found a problem and said, "Dr. Lu, why are there no coal mine distributions in the things you sorted out?"

"Ah, sir, coal stone is not a mine, so there is no record."

"Is coal considered a mine?" This was the first time Li Mu heard such words and said, "How can coal not be considered a mine?"

"Sir, didn't the Xiaguan explain it to you yesterday? Coal stones are everywhere, more or less, not uncommon. And unless iron is smelted, few people use it and has no value, how can it be considered a mineral?"

"You..." Li Mu looked at Lu Wenfeng and wanted to say something, but suddenly sighed without saying anything. Lu Wenfeng's deep-rooted concept would make him change for a while, and it would be difficult to change it. Unless he could see the use of coal, it would definitely not be possible by just talking.

"Yesterday you said there was a place full of coal and pits and valleys. What's the name of that place?"

"Sir Hui is Shuozhou, north of Taiyuan."

Li Mu recorded the place name and said to Lu Wenfeng: "If you go back, try to find it and see if there are any places like Shuozhou that don't need to be dug, there is coal directly on the ground. If you find it, tell me immediately, I will use it."

Lu Wenfeng couldn't help it and said, "Sir, coal stones really cannot be used to keep warm, it will kill people. The officials are not exaggerating! The officials have seen it with their own eyes!"

Li Mu explained helplessly: "I know that coal stones can kill people, but that's not the fault of coal stone, but the use of them is not appropriate. This marquis has developed a new method of using coal stones to keep warm. Using my method to avoid the risk of poisoning. In this way, will coal come in handy? Therefore, this marquis wants to find coal, which can make the people warm to spend the winter. Isn't it a huge good thing?"
Chapter completed!