When it comes to marrying a daughter, Li Shimin is actually like all ordinary fathers, and he doesn't like anyone else.

Not to mention Li Muyun, a boy who often makes him angry, even Changsun Chong, the eldest son of his uncle Changsun Wuji's family, His Majesty Li Er looked down on him.

Moreover, Li Muyun has another identity, that is, the adopted son of Old Li Yuan. In other words, although that boy is not much older than Changle, he is from his uncle in terms of seniority.

Thinking of some things, Li Shimin felt that his father was really tired. He was obviously for the sake of his son and daughter, but he was not understood. He didn't know if he owed him (they) in his previous life.

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The conversation was divided, but Li Muyun joined Su Wanqing who had come from Shuozhou and led the team on missions to head north. It took about half a month to pass through the prefecture and finally returned to the boundary of Shuozhou.

After a year, when he entered Shuozhou again, even Li Muyun was shocked. The wide cement road was almost filled with vehicles of all sizes, and there were endless flows from south to north.

"When did Shuozhou become so lively? What happened to those Hu people?" Li Muyun looked at a group of Hu merchants who were crowded together and rushing to pay the tolls and almost fought, and asked with a black line.

"Because of safety, we do business here, safety is guaranteed, and there will never be some people of unknown origin asking them for some messy money." Su Wanqing pointed at the Hu merchants who were crowded together with a hint of pride: "This is all your credit. If you hadn't comforted those gangs with backgrounds in advance and set up a development plan for our Shuozhou for the next five years, there wouldn't have been so many businessmen coming to us."

"Oh? So I am the number one hero?" Li Muyun deliberately showed a flattered expression.

Su Wanqing gave him a blank look, then sighed and said, "It's not just the number one hero. You can wait until the tax is paid at the end of this year to see it. It's guaranteed to scare a lot of people to death."

"Oh? How did you say this?" Li Muyun was attracted by Su Wanqing.

However, before Su Wanqing could answer, a small official could be seen rushing over in the distance, shouting: "Sir, sir!"

"Who is this?" Looking at the guy who was like a black charcoal head, Li Muyun frowned suspiciously.

"Me, sir, your student, my surname is Hao, Hao Zhiming! from Class Ding!" The clerk stood in front of Li Muyun's horse, pointed at his nose, and said with his eyes emitting light.

"Hao..., Oh, I hope you are you boy!" A white and quiet scholar flashed through Li Muyun's mind. He looked up and down for a long time before asking again: "But why did you become like this? It's like a charcoal head!"

"Hehe, I'm going to tell you, this is all for the show! Since the road was repaired last year, there have been more and more businessmen coming and going. At the beginning, it was time for students to take three people to get busy and have time to rest. But now the number of people has increased to twenty, and they can't be busy during the day and night." Hao Zhiming said, like a complaint, but anyone with a heart can tell that this guy is obviously showing off his work achievements.

Li Muyun could naturally hear the boy's pride. He glared at him and put on a gentleman's airs: "Don't be proud of you, kid. I'll ask you, have you ever lost your studies during this period? In less than a month, it will be a one-year period. Then you will have to go back to the Imperial Academy. If your studies are abandoned, you will be nice at that time!"

What surprised Li Muyun was that after he talked for a long time, Hao Zhiming showed a shocked expression on his face: "Sir, we have decided not to go back!"

"Don't go back? Do you want your studies?" Li Muyun asked with some surprise.

"Sir..." A trace of entanglement flashed across Hao Zhiming's face. He hesitated for a moment before he said slowly: "Sir, even if you return to the Imperial Academy and have two more years of experience, the best students after graduation can be at most a seventh-grade county magistrate. But look at me again. Although I am just a toll station now, I am also an eighth-grade master, and I am only one step away from the seventh-grade one. Do you think it is meaningful for me to go back now?"

Li Muyun himself was not very sensitive to the level of officials in the Tang Dynasty. If Hao Zhiming didn't say it, he wouldn't have noticed that the accessories on this kid were actually marked on the eighth rank.

But even so, Li Muyun frowned with some displeasure, and used the horse whip in his hand to slapped Hao Zhiming's thigh and cursed: "You are a useless thing, do you just want to be a minor official from the eighth rank in your life? Don't you want to be motivated anymore?"

Although Hao Zhiming was slapped, he was not angry. Instead, he said with a smile: "Sir, you can slowly endure the qualifications. With you in Shuozhou, students can endure for three or five years, and they can still reach the sixth grade."

"Get out of here, I'm too lazy to care about you." Li Muyun glared at him, thought for a while and said, "Anyway, I won't agree with this matter, so after the end of one year, you will all go back to the Imperial Academy and study. If you graduate in the future, I welcome you back, but if you can't graduate, huh, don't say you are my students."

"Ah?!" Hao Zhiming opened his mouth wide in surprise and looked at Li Muyun in amazement. In his opinion, he had already had an official position, and going back to study was a waste of time.

But Li Muyun was too lazy to explain anything to him and said angrily: "What, don't you see me going to go there, hurry up and clear a way for me!"

"Uh, uh, okay! Immediately, right now!" Hao Zhiming naturally did not dare to argue with this gentleman who would beat people at any time. Hearing this, he quickly called a few subordinates, drove all the merchants away, cleared a way out for someone, and then watched the irresponsible gentleman floating away speechlessly.

After entering Shuozhou, Su Wanqing, who had been silent all the time, suddenly asked, "Mu Yun, Shuozhou is so scarce, why do you still drive away all the students from the Imperial Academy? Since they have already obtained the official status, what's the point of returning to the Imperial Academy?"

"Because they can only be considered lucky to enter!" Li Muyun spread his hands and said, "As long as they have not graduated from the Imperial Academy for a day, even if they are not a disciple of the emperor, even if I can promote them, they are also losers in the eyes of some people. Being able to make officials reach the fifth rank is the limit. That's why I drove them all away and let them complete their studies well. At least they have to get the title of disciple of the emperor, so that their future opportunities can be broader."
Chapter completed!