Li Shimin turned around and entered the small courtyard, Li Mu and Baiguan stood up one after another, looked at each other, and Li Mu said in a astringent voice: "Let's go, the big guy will discuss." ”

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

The group came to the military tent where the eldest grandson Wuji and others had just interrogated the assassins, there were several chairs in the tent, which were prepared for the chief judge and the clerk, Li Mu had just knelt on the ground, and his knees hurt from the small stones, so he found a chair nearby to sit on.

There are many people, few chairs, who sits and who stands? There are high and low identities, there are ages and young, and the people who come in behind are not as chic as Li Mu, they all hesitate to sit down, looking at each other.

Li Mu looked at everyone like this, and thought to himself, when is it, he is still here and stinky, but he is really idle. But the youngest of the people present did not sit, and he was too embarrassed to sit, so he had to hold on to the table and stand up as well.

Wang Jue stepped out and pulled Li Mu to sit on the main seat, Li Mu refused, he pressed Li Mu on the main seat.

Wang Qi said loudly: "The princes listened to me, and I saw it just now." If there is no admonition to fight for righteousness, Your Majesty must have made up his mind. It was the righteous act of chasing the deer marquis, giving tens of thousands of people a chance to breathe. It was he who won this precious opportunity for tens of thousands of people. Therefore, this main position, the Hou of the Deer is the one who will not let go, is everyone right? ”

Everyone echoed, and even Wei Zheng nodded in agreement.

Li Mu sighed, and when Wang Jue saw him sighing, he thought that his fart was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "Why is Master Hou sighing?" Am I wrong? ”

Li Mu sighed again and said, "Mu, the juniors too." Sitting or standing, it's a trivial matter, it's not trivial. I sighed because ......" He suddenly choked up and said, "Now Your Majesty has only given you a chance, but there has been no result, and the princes are not brainstorming to think of a way, but they are still fighting for the matter of the seat-"

Li Mu's eyes were slightly red, and he looked like he couldn't speak. Wang Jue was ashamed, and said repeatedly: "The old decay is confused, the old decay is confused!" ”

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

Everyone hurriedly complimented, looked at each other a few times, and still let the older ones sit down, and everyone else stood.

Li Mu frowned, looked at everyone, and said, "Your Majesty's meaning has also been heard, if anyone hasn't understood, I'll explain it again." Assassins are trifles, whether the target is me, or the target is His Majesty, that's not the point. The point is that someone is disobeying His Majesty's ideas. This made His Majesty feel that no matter how hard he tried, he would not get the support of the gate valve and the family! ”

"Our Majesty is a generation of heroes. He is not only the emperor who fights the country, but also the emperor who sits on the country. Needless to say, all the princes know this in their hearts. Let me ask you, if Your Majesty really turns his face and dares to ask the five surnames and seven hopes, who can stop Your Majesty's raging anger? ”

No one answers, who dares to answer?

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

Wang Jue was so frightened that he almost bit his tongue, and said continuously: "Don't dare, don't dare, the Taiyuan Wang family has always supported Your Majesty, absolutely support!" ”

Li Mu looked at some officials from the gate valve again, all of them were the same as Wang Qi, and they repeatedly said their support.

His eyes swept over everyone's faces, and finally stopped at Wei Zheng's body: "What does Duke Wei think?" ”

Wei Zheng glanced at the 'ally' door like the grass on the wall, felt a fever on his face, gritted his teeth, and said: "I have never seen a Ming monarch who resists foreign enemies, and I have never seen a male lord who wields a sword at the people, if Your Majesty does this, it will definitely be stinking for 10,000 years......"

The eldest grandson Wuji was about to refute, when suddenly there was a 'bang', and Li Mu smashed the inkstone, which was broken into seven or eight pieces and scattered on the ground. Everyone looked over, Li Mu was furious and shouted, "Duke Wei, apart from the sarcasm of yin and yang, what else can you do?" Why didn't you say these things when you first met Your Majesty? Now you say this, to whom? Tell me? Did it work? ”

"Ten thousand years, I don't know, because I can't live that long, less than eighty, I'm definitely old and confused! Not only me, you, Your Majesty, and any of you here will not live for thousands of years, but after today, tens of thousands of people will fall to the ground. At such a critical juncture, how do you still talk about what historians will write? Isn't there something wrong with you! ”

Wei Zheng's face was red and white after being scolded, and he opened his mouth to refute, but he didn't know where to start, sighed heavily, twisted his head to the side, and said, "Then you say, what can you do!" ”

"Didn't Your Majesty already say it? He thinks that the people are untrustworthy to him first, and think of a way to prove that the people have not broken their trust in him, and most of the gates, especially those who have come out of the assassins, love him, and only a few of them are crazy, and if they kill them, won't the matter be solved? Now I ask you to put aside the distractions for a while, and brainstorm a way to prove it! ”

Li Mu said with red eyes: "Princess, this matter has nothing to do with me!" I, Li Mu, a wild boy from a poor and remote place, which gate valve is related to me? Whose son is not dead? Who is the grandson who dies or not? However, it has something to do with you to a greater or lesser extent. I don't know, you know what you know. At this time, if you don't abandon your old suspicions, we will work together-"

Li Mu gritted his teeth and said: "Then I don't care, I can't do it, let's kill, die, what's the love, anyway, my relatives are not mine, and the country has nothing to do with me, I'll go back to Dingxiang to farm!" ”

After that, Li Mu looked like he hated iron but not steel, got up and left, the eldest grandson Wuji stretched out his hand to stop him, he was thrown away by Li Mu, strode out of the military tent, and rode a horse and disappeared.

Wang Qi chased out, only to see a horse's ass in the sunset, and he didn't have time to shoot it. In this situation, Wang Qi couldn't help but burst into tears, and muttered: "How is this good, how is it good......"

At this time, the eldest grandson Wuji was shocked in his heart. He retracted his right hand into his sleeve, confirming that when he stopped Li Mu just now, Li Mu stuffed a small note into his hand.

The eldest grandson Wuji sat on the chair that Li Mu had just sat on, and secretly glanced at the note by the cover of the table, then retracted his sleeve and tore the small note to shreds.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Put away the frustration! Li Mu is right, this is the time to abandon the previous suspicions and work together. Not for any family, but for the lives of tens of thousands of people, you and I, as courtiers, should shoulder this responsibility! After a quarter of an hour's rest, I went to arrange dinner, and everyone ate and thought together! ”

At this time of hesitation, the words of the eldest grandson Wuji were like a needle of the sea god, which instantly calmed the hearts of many people, and everyone looked at him and couldn't help but revere him.

Only Wei Zheng frowned when he looked at the confetti at the feet of the eldest grandson Wuji, as if he had thought of something, but he didn't know the point.

……

Li Mu rode around the mountain on horseback, avoided all sight by the cover of the woods, and entered Li Shimin's small courtyard through the back door. Bai Qiaoqiao and Li Zhien had already come over, and after Li Mu took people away, Bai Qiaoqiao and Li Zhien came over to deliver food. Li Mu felt sorry for Bai Qiaoqiao to prepare food for a few people, so he thought of a way to stop cooking and eat hot pot.

It happened that there were frozen Chengfu beef legs in the warehouse, so Li Mu asked Gao Gonggong to secretly bring people to move the beef legs over, plus Li Mu's planers for carpentry. Between pushing and pulling, the pure natural and unprocessed beef slices came out, the copper pot was still the same copper pot, the coke was ready-made, the water was boiled, and a little Li Mu's secret seasoning was added, and the fragrant hot pot was ready.

Li Shimin is the second time to eat hot pot, he didn't eat enough last time, this time he saw Li Mu pushing beef slices with a planer, and asked him to get more beef slices, for fear that it would not be enough. Li Mu pushed it, but he slandered in his heart, and he didn't know which faint gentleman it was, the last time he ate hot pot, he was almost full, and he heard that it was beef, and he talked about the great truth of eating cattle and destroying farmers, which was so hypocritical that it was outrageous. This time, I didn't even want to have a face, I saw that it was a corbel, and I was still grinding on the side.

Who made the family the emperor, Li Mu pushed and pushed, his arms were sour, and he finally made ten plates of beef. The corbel is gone, and only a bone stick remains. simply smashed it with a hammer, threw it directly into the copper pot, and made a bone broth hot pot, which had an even worse aroma.

The people washed their hands and sat down around the stone table. Needless to say, Li Shimin and Empress Changsun sat down by themselves without letting anyone. Li Mu is thick-skinned and has done a lot of work, of course, he also sat down. But Bai Qiaoqiao and Li Zhien were not so comfortable, in front of the emperor and queen, although they both had orders, they didn't dare to be too casual.

Li Mu saw that his wife and concubine were not sitting, and he felt very uncomfortable. He glanced at Li Shimin, who was staring at the meat slices and his eyes were a little straight, and secretly complained, what kind of emperor is this, so eyeless, say a word!

It was still Empress Changsun who reacted in time, stretched out her hand and pulled Bai Qiaoqiao to sit down, Li Zhien glanced at it, and also sat down.

There was only one standing father-in-law left, and he didn't have such a good life. As a slave, how can you be worthy to share the food of the same vessel with your master? He didn't have that kind of delusion, so he secretly pursed his mouth and twisted his face to the other end.

Li Mu is not the kind of snobbish person, but in this case, he can't be the master. After thinking about it, he took a bowl, fished out a bowl of meat, elbowed his father-in-law, and handed him the bowl and chopsticks.

Gao Gonggong glanced at Li Shimin, and seeing that he had no intention of stopping, he secretly thanked Li Mu, took the dishes and chopsticks and hid in the corner to eat secretly.

Such an obvious move, how could Li Shimin not see it. Seeing that Gonggong Gao walked away, Li Shimin stuffed a chopstick meat into his mouth, glanced at Li Mu, and said, "Li Mu, what kind of person are you?" I'm finding myself getting more and more incomprehensible to you. ”

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 supplement, and it can't be cheap, so I have to give it to my son, and while digging, I said in a cavity: "Your Majesty's eyes are like torches, and you can see through the ministers at a glance, how can you not see through it." Your Majesty, it's a joke. ”

"Hmph." Li Shimin choked his nose, took a sip of Zhuangyuan Red, and said: "Don't talk about these useless things, don't mention anything else," Li Shimin pointed to Gao Gonggong and said, "I came to ask you, why did you give Gao Gan meat to eat?" Is it to invite people's hearts? Or is there something else? ”

Li Mu looked up at Li Shimin and said in confusion: "Your Majesty, what are you talking about?" I don't understand, it's just a bowl of meat, what can I invite to buy? Even if it's beef, it's not worth three or five times, and if you can invite you to buy it, Grandpa Gao is too worthless. ”

"Don't you understand this? The most important thing for a slave or servant is not money, but respect. You're just another way to buy people's hearts, I'm not wrong, am I? ”

Li Mu furrowed his brows, he didn't say anything for a long time, and finally smiled, shook his head and said, "Your Majesty said yes, the minister eats meat, don't say it." ”

Li Shimin refused to let him go, and asked: "What I mean by saying yes, whether it is or not, you explain it to me." ”

Li Mu saw that he was unrelenting, and knew that if he didn't make it clear, this meal would not stop, so he had to put down his chopsticks, glanced back at Gonggong Gao, and said: "Your Majesty wants to know, so the minister will say - but the minister wants to ask Your Majesty a question first, does Your Majesty really treat Gonggong Gao as a slave?" ”

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

Li Mu shook his head and said, "Your Majesty is lying, you should know that when the assassins attacked, it was Gonggong Gao who came to the rescue. If the other eunuchs in the palace were changed, would they do so? ”

Li Shimin pondered for a while, but was speechless.

Li Mu said again: "Your Majesty, Gonggong Gao is your slave, this is true. But how many slaves and maidservants are willing to give their lives for their masters? I'm afraid there aren't many. This is called loyalty, of course, Your Majesty does not have to feel that he has treated Gao Gonggong badly, because his loyalty must be earned by His Majesty in exchange for his contributions. The minister gave Gao Gonggong a bowl of meat because the minister respected Gao Gonggong as a loyal and righteous person. He deserves my respect, that's why he has this bowl of meat to eat. This is also one of the rules for making friends. Your Majesty, don't think too complicated, the minister is still a child, and he doesn't have so many scheming. ”

Li Shimin automatically filtered out the last sentence and asked, "What are the criteria for making friends?" This is the first time I've heard you talk about it, and if there are any other guidelines, I'll give you a few more to hear. ”

"Well......" Li Mu thought for a while and said, "Then the minister will say one more, the minister makes friends, and never looks at whether the other party has money, anyway, it is impossible to be richer than me." Even if he comes from a wealthy family, he definitely doesn't dare to spend money on me, so he still can't compare to me. The minister makes friends, and he doesn't look at whether the other party's family background is prominent or not, how is it prominent? It's not earned by this person, those who rely on their ancestors are stupid, and I never take it seriously. When I make friends, I look at this person and whether he is a worthy person. He has to have a skill and a commendable ability. It can make me feel in my heart that there are some things that this person can do that I can't do, that it is my example, or some of his ideas, that can resonate with me, make me feel that we are like-minded people, and we can do something together to make this world a better place. Only such a person can become my friend. ”