Li Shimin turned around and entered the courtyard. Li Mu and the officials stood up one after another, looked at each other, and Li Mu said in a slight voice: "Let's go, everyone discusses."

No one responded, but no one objected, and they all followed him silently.

The group came to the military tent where Changsun Wuji and others interrogated the assassin just now. There were several chairs in the tent, which were prepared for the trial and the documents. Li Mu had just knelt on the ground, but was hurt by the small stone, so he found a chair nearby to sit on it.

There are many people and few chairs, who will sit and stand? There are many statuses, ages and ages, and the people coming in from behind are not as casual as Li Mu. They are all wandering and unable to sit down, looking at each other.

Seeing everyone like this, Li Mu thought to himself, when has it been, and he is still here to be so flirted, and he is really leisurely. But the youngest person present is not even sitting, so he is embarrassed to sit, so he has to hold on to the table and stand up.

Wang Gui took a step forward and pulled Li Mu to sit in the main seat. Li Mu refused, so he pressed Li Mu on the main seat.

Wang Gui said loudly: "You guys listen to my words, and we have seen it just now. If the Marquis of Zhulu were not in charge of justice and advice, Your Majesty would have decided. It was the Marquis of Zhulu that gave tens of thousands of people a chance to breathe. It was him who had won this precious opportunity for tens of thousands of people. Therefore, the Marquis of Zhulu was the leader, so everyone was right?"

Everyone agreed, and even Wei Zheng nodded in agreement.

Li Mu sighed. Seeing him sighing, Wang Gui thought he had flattered and asked, "Why did the Marquis sigh? Did I say it wrong?"

Li Mu sighed again and said, "Mu, I am a younger man. Sitting or standing is all trivial matters, not worthy. I sigh because..." He suddenly choked up and said, "Now Your Majesty has just given him a chance, but there is no result yet. The Dukes don't gather their minds to think of ways, but they are still working on the seat."

Li Mu's eyes were slightly red, and he looked like he couldn't continue to speak. Wang Gui was ashamed and kept saying, "I'm confused, I'm confused!"

Li Mu sighed again and said, "Whoever is tired, please sit down. I just knelt for a long time and my knees were so bad that I didn't let you sit down for a while."

Everyone hurriedly praised each other, looked at each other a few times, and asked the older ones to sit down, and the others stood.

Li Mu frowned, looked at everyone, and said, "You have heard what Your Majesty meant. If anyone hasn't understood it, I will explain it again. Assassin is a trivial matter. Whether the goal is me or the goal is Your Majesty, this is not the point. The point is that someone is disobeying Your Majesty's thoughts. This makes Your Majesty feel that no matter how hard he tries, he will not get the support of the clans and aristocratic families!"

"Our Majesty is a great lord. He is both the emperor who conquers the country and the emperor who sits in the country. I don't need to say this, and everyone knows it in my heart. Let me ask you, if your Majesty really turns against you, if you dare ask the five surnames and seven hopes, who can stop your Majesty's aggression?"

No one answered, who dared to answer this?

Li Mu looked at Wang Gui and said, "Wang Shizhong, can the Wang clan in Taiyuan dare to rebel?"

Wang Gui was so scared that he almost bit his tongue and said repeatedly: "I dare not, I dare not, the Wang family in Taiyuan has always supported Your Majesty, absolutely support it!"

Li Mu looked at some officials from the family again, and they all said support like Wang Gui.

His eyes swept across everyone's faces and finally stopped on Wei Zheng: "What do you think Wei Gong thinks?"

Wei Zheng looked at the "alliers" door like a fence, felt a fever on his face, and gritted his teeth, saying, "I have never seen the wise king who resists foreign enemies, and I have never seen the hero who waves the sword to the people. If Your Majesty does this, he will be infamous for thousands of years..."

Changsun Wuji was about to retort, but suddenly with a "bang", Li Mu smashed the inkstone, smashed it into seven or eight pieces, and scattered on the ground. Everyone looked over, and Li Mu was angry and shouted: "Mr. Wei, what else can you do except for the sarcastic sarcasm? Why didn't you say these words when you met Your Majesty? Now, who do you say these things to? Is it useful?"

"I don't know that for thousands of years, because I can't live that long. If I'm less than eighty, I will definitely be confused! Not only me, you, Your Majesty, no one here can live for thousands of years, but after today, tens of thousands of people will fall. At this critical moment, you are still talking about how the historian will write? Is there something wrong with you?"

Wei Zheng's face turned red and white when he was scolded. He opened his mouth to refute, but he didn't know where to start. He sighed heavily, turned his head aside, and said, "Then what can you do if you say it!"

"Hasn't Your Majesty said it? He thought that the people were breaching their trust first, and he thought of a way to prove that the people did not breach their trust. The major clans, especially the assassins, loved him, and only a few were crazy about them. Just kill them. Isn't the matter solved? Now I ask you all, can you let go of your distractions first and think of a way to prove this matter!"

Li Mu said with red eyes: "My husbands, this matter has nothing to do with me! I, Li Mu, a wild boy from a remote country, which family has been associated with me? Whose son is not dead? Who is the grandson is not dead? But it has something to do with you. I don't point it out, you know it. At this time, we must not abandon past grudges and work together."

Li Mu gritted his teeth and said, "Then I don't care. I don't need to do it. Kill me, die, do whatever I want. Anyway, my relatives are not mine, and the country has nothing to do with me. I will go back to Dingxiang to farm!"

After saying that, Li Mu looked as if he was disappointed, he got up and left. Changsun Wuji reached out and stopped him. He was thrown away by Li Mu, and strode out of the military tent. He rode a horse and disappeared.

Wang Gui chased him out and saw only a horse's butt under the sunset. He didn't have time to slap it. In this situation, Wang Gui couldn't help but burst into tears and murmured: "What should I do, what should I do..."

At this time, Changsun Wuji was shocked. He retracted his right hand into his sleeve and confirmed that when he was stopping Li Mu, Li Mu stuffed a small note into his hand.

Changsun Wuji sat on the chair Li Mu had just sat on, and secretly glanced at the note under the cover of the table, then retracted his sleeve and pulled the note to pieces.

"My Dukes! Put away the depressed spirit! Li Mu is right. It is time to abandon past grudges and work together. No matter for any family, just for the lives of tens of thousands of people, you and I, as court officials, should take on this responsibility! I will rest for a quarter of an hour, and I will arrange dinner. After dinner, I will think about it together!"

While hesitating, Changsun Wuji's words were like a magic needle for stabilizing the sea, which instantly calmed down many people's hearts. When everyone looked at him, they couldn't help but respect him.

Only Wei Zheng looked at the paper confetti at Changsun Wuji's feet and frowned. He seemed to have thought of something, but he was unable to understand the key points.

...

Li Mu rode around the mountain on a horse, avoided all his sights by the woods, and entered Li Shimin's courtyard from the back door. Bai Qiaoqiao and Li Zhien had already come over. After Li Mu took the people away, Bai Qiaoqiao and Li Zhien came to deliver food. Li Mu felt sorry for Bai Qiaoqiao to prepare food for several people, so he thought of a way to stop cooking and eat hot pot.

Just as there was a frozen Chengfu beef shank in the warehouse, Li Mu asked Eunuch Gao to bring someone to secretly move the beef shank over, and Li Mu used the plane for carpentry. Between push and pull, pure natural unprocessed beef slices came out. The copper pot was still the same copper pot, and the coke was ready. Bringing a boil of gurgling water, and a little seasoning made by Li Mu, the aroma was ready.

This was the second time that Li Shimin had eaten hot pot. He didn't eat enough last time. This time, he saw Li Mu pushing beef slices with a plane, and he kept asking him to make more beef slices, for fear that he wouldn't have enough. While pushing, Li Mu complained in his heart, and didn't know which foolish monarch was. When he ate hot pot last time, he was almost full. He heard that it was beef, so he talked about the principle of eating beef to destroy farmers. It was so hypocritical. This time, he simply didn't even want to see that it was beef legs, and he was still slugging around.

Who made me be the emperor? Li Mu pushed and pushed, his arms were sore, and finally he made ten plates of beef. The beef legs were gone, and only a bone stick was left. He simply smashed it with a hammer and threw it into the copper pot. He made a bone soup hotpot, which made the aroma even more intense.

Everyone washed their hands and sat around the stone table. Needless to say, Li Shimin and Empress Changsun didn't have to let anyone go, they sat down by themselves. Li Mu, who is thick-skinned, has done a lot of work, so of course he also sat down. But Bai Qiaoqiao and Li Zhien were not so comfortable. Although the emperor and the empress had both decrees in front of each other, they did not dare to be too casual.

Li Mu felt very uncomfortable when he saw his wife and concubine not sitting. He glanced at Li Shimin, whose eyes were a little straight, and secretly complained, "What an emperor, so he has no eyesight to see him, but he said something!"

Empress Changsun reacted in time and reached out to pull Bai Qiaoqiao and sat down. Li Zhien took a sneak glance and sat down with him.

Only Eunuch Gao was left standing, and he was not so lucky. As a slave, how could he be worthy of eating the food from a utensil with his master? He did not have the kind of delusion, so he secretly pursed his lips and turned his face to the other end.

Li Mu was not the kind of snobbish person, but in this case, he couldn't make a decision. After thinking about it, he took a bowl, took out a bowl of meat, pushed his elbow to his father-in-law Gao, and handed him the bowls and chopsticks together.

Eunuch Gao glanced at Li Shimin. Seeing that he had no intention of stopping, he secretly thanked Li Mu, took the dishes and hid in the corner and ate secretly.

How could Li Shimin not see such an obvious move? Seeing Eunuch Gao walking away, Li Shimin stuffed a chopstick into his mouth, glanced at Li Mu, and said, "Li Mu, what kind of person are you? I now realize that I can't see through you more and more."

Li Mu took a spoon, scraped out the bone marrow from the cow bones, and secretly put it into Bai Qiaoqiao's bowl. This thing is a big replenishment, and it cannot be cheaper. He has to be his son. While digging, he said, "Your Majesty's eyes are like a torch, and he can see through me at first sight. How could he not see through me? Your Majesty, he was joking."

"Hmph." Li Shimin shut up his nose, sipped the top scholar Hong, and said, "Stop talking about these useless things, don't mention anything else," Li Shimin pointed to Eunuch Gao and said, "I'm here to ask you, why are you sharing meat for high-ranking officials? Is it to buy people's hearts? Or is it another purpose?"

Li Mu looked up at Li Shimin and said in a daze: "Your Majesty, what are you talking about? I don't understand. Just a bowl of meat, what can I invite you to buy? Even beef is not worth three or five. If you can buy it, Eunuch Gao would be worthless."

"You think I don't understand these things? Those who are slaves and servants care about the most are not money, but being respected. You are another way to win people's hearts. I'm not wrong, right?"

Li Mu frowned and didn't say anything for a long time. Finally, he smiled and shook his head and said, "Your Majesty said yes, I'm eating meat, I won't say it."

Li Shimin refused to let him go and asked, "What do I mean by saying yes? Is it true? You have explained it to me."

Seeing that he was reluctant to give up, Li Mu knew that he could not explain clearly, so he couldn't stop eating this meal, so he had to put down his chopsticks, looked back at Eunuch Gao, and said, "Your Majesty wants to know, but I can't say that I want to ask Your Majesty a question first. Does Your Majesty really treat Eunuch Gao as a slave?"

Li Shimin was stunned, thought for a moment, and said, "He is an eunuch, of course he is a slave."

Li Mu shook his head and said, "Your Majesty is lying. You should know that when the assassin came, Eunuch Gao came to rescue him without hesitation. If other eunuchs in the palace were replaced, would they do this?"

Li Shimin thought for a moment, but there was no words.

Li Mu said again: "Your Majesty, Eunuch Gao is your slave, it's true. But how many slaves are willing to give their lives for the master? I'm afraid there are not many. This is called loyalty and righteousness. Of course, Your Majesty doesn't have to feel that he has treated Eunuch Gao badly, because his loyalty and righteousness must be exchanged for His Majesty's efforts to him. This is the reason why a scholar dies for his confidant. I give Eunuch Gao a bowl of meat because I respect Eunuch Gao as a loyal and righteous person. He deserves my respect, so I have this bowl of meat to eat. This is also one of the principles for me to make friends. Your Majesty must not be too complicated. I am still a child and do not have so many scheming."

Li Shimin automatically filtered out the last sentence and asked, "The guidelines for making friends? This is the first time I heard you talk about it. What other guidelines are there? Let me tell you a few more."
Chapter completed!