"I'm too lazy to talk to you."

Li Shimin has now vaguely begun to enjoy the 'Li Mu-style' life, this leisurely roast some meat, drink some wine, and the joy of life is nothing more than this.

As if he had guessed what Li Shimin was thinking, Li Mu suddenly said: "Your Majesty, the minister gave you an immature little suggestion, can you say it?" ”

"What?"

"The minister advises Your Majesty not to go to court every day."

"Huh?" Li Shimin was dumbfounded, looking at the records of the history books, being an emperor is all about diligence first, only those who think the emperor is lazy, there is no emperor who is diligent, and go to court every day, isn't it what a Ming monarch should do? Not to go up, what is this advice.

"The minister thinks it's a waste of time." Li Mu suddenly became serious and explained: "Your Majesty, the number of times the ministers go to the court is small, but occasionally these few times, I have also found a little drawback. Let's say something comes out, and His Majesty knows about it today, can it be solved tomorrow? Not necessarily, it can't be solved, Your Majesty will definitely ask, but some things take time, and they can't be solved even if they ask. In this way, His Majesty is worried, and the courtiers are also nervous. ”

Li Shimin snorted and said, "I should be worried about the world, and the courtiers should be nervous, is it in order for them not to be nervous, so I don't have to go to court?" If I don't go to court, am I still the emperor? ”

"Why not? What does this matter, the minister feels sorry for His Majesty. Do you say you're having a good time now? Every morning when I get up, I go to the court after eating, and I listen to a group of ministers who say everything you say endlessly, and when I go down to the court, there are still a bunch of twists and turns, and they are still endless. Your Majesty, how can there be a little quality of life? The last time I heard from Uncle Cheng, the original rules of the polo game were set by His Majesty. It can be seen that His Majesty is a person who loves ball, but now that the polo match has been played for almost two months, His Majesty has no time to watch one. ”

Li Mu sighed and said, "Your Majesty, whether it is you, a minister, or any person on the street of Chang'an City, our lives are only once." The gods say that they are immortal, but which one is really immortal? Princes and generals, it's the same when they die, the minister doesn't know what His Majesty thinks, anyway, in this life, the minister can't work all the time, work all the time, I have to rest, do something I like. He pointed to the sizzling barbecue and said, "This is one." ”

Li Shimin listened to Li Mu's words, pondered for a while, and suddenly smiled: "To put it old-fashioned, how old are you and have experienced life and death?" ”

"It's just a small suggestion."

"I'll think about it." After a pause, Li Shimin said again: "What were you going to do today?" I'm full, too, and see what you're up to. ”

"The minister's arrangement today is to make a batch of glass." This was not Li Mu's plan today, it was a plan that Li Shimin changed after he came, he wanted Li Shimin to 'see with his own eyes' that when he fired glass, he 'used' silver, and confirmed that silver was equivalent to glass, which was very important to his future plan.

Sure enough, Li Shimin asked Li Mu to calculate accurately, he couldn't resist his curiosity about the glass, and said, "Can I see how the glass is fired?" If it's inconvenient, I don't force it. "That being said, the expression on his face was, if you dare to say a word, I will clean you up.

Li Mu dared to say a word, and there was no need, he had already rehearsed the process to ensure that he would not be seen to make mistakes.

"Your Majesty, please."

Li Mu didn't talk nonsense, and took Li Shimin to his studio, because the windows were replaced with glass, the studio looked a lot brighter, Li Shimin looked here, looked there, and his eyes were full of curiosity.

"Father-in-law Gao, can you help me later?"

Before Father-in-law Gao could speak, Li Shimin volunteered and said, "How do you want to help, I will help you." ”

"It's fine." Li Mu pointed to the box under the table and said, "When the stove is on fire, when I say 'put', just pour the silver ingots in the box into the stove evenly in batches." ”

Li Shimin opened the box, and sure enough, it was a box of silver ingots. They are all silver ingots of ten taels and one taels, and they are heavy in their hands. The box was full, and there were at least two thousand or more than two thousand yuan by visual inspection, Li Shimin looked at the silver ingot, and then at the stove, and said suspiciously: "Li Mu, this silver ingot, want to throw it into the furnace?" ”

"Yes!" Li Muxu said: "The minister studied for a long time before he mastered the secret recipe for firing glass. The secret recipe is not difficult, in fact, the glaze is just sand and stone firing. The key is to control the heat and the silver. In the past, why couldn't the craftsmen find a way to fire the glass? One word, money! They didn't have a chance to try, but the minister had, by chance, when the minister was doing an experiment, the silver ingot in the sleeve fell into the furnace, and a miraculous thing happened, the red-hot sand and stone in the furnace crystallized, and then gradually became transparent, becoming glass! Therefore, the minister also got this secret method by mistake. ”

"It's like luck to hear what you say, hurry up and light the stove so that I can see how the sand and gravel turn into glass."

"Yes."

Li Mu filled the coke into the furnace, explained the difference between coke and coal while filling, and then lit the furnace, waited for the furnace to heat up slowly, and then brought a small sieve, crushed the quartz sand and feldspar, and then crushed the alkali stone into powder.

"Your Majesty, although it is said to be sand and gravel, sand and gravel are also different." Li Mu picked up a piece of alkali stone and showed it to Li Shimin, and said: "This kind of stone, there are very few near Chang'an City, the minister checked the file in Yubu, this kind of stone, everywhere in Tuyuhun, if it is a mass production of glass in the future, I will have to buy stones from Tuyuhun." ”

"What to buy!" Li Shimin snorted and said: "Tuyuhun has three knives on both sides, since the previous dynasty, it has been going back and forth between Tubo, the Central Plains, and the Western Turks. Am I like a fool? ”

Li Mu complained in his heart, this is the logic of the robbers. I fell in love with other people's minerals, and I didn't want to buy them with money, so I even crossed over to rob them, and directly planned to destroy them. This kind of hooligan thinking, Li Mu is still convinced.

The basic ingredients were poured into the furnace, and as the fire heated, the stones in the furnace were heated to a red, like red-hot coal, but because they did not reach the melting point, there was no sign of melting.

In essence, this kind of furnace will never reach the melting point of quartz, so it is necessary to have a 'glass auxiliary material package' sold in the system store, which is like a catalyst for chemical experiments, and only a little bit can make the raw materials fuse.

And Li Mu hid this 'catalyst' in the silver ingot.