At the end of the court meeting, Li Shimin returned to the Taiji Hall, his face sinking like water.

Gao Gonggong followed cautiously step by step, and kept glancing at the little eunuchs and palace maids around him, His Majesty was in a bad mood today, and he was eye-catching, hiding a little, in case it was wrong, it would make Long Yan angry, and there was still a shortage of people in the palace.

Li Shimin sat behind the desk with an expressionless face, and the two little eunuchs carried today's music over and placed it on the left hand side of the desk at the suggestion of Gonggong Gao.

"Gao Gan."

"Yes." Gao Gonggong hurriedly agreed and came to the front.

"Find out the trick of the auxiliary machine and Wang Jue's joint name."

"No." Gao Gonggong flipped through the fold pile, and it was at the top, and the thickest one was. I found it, unfolded it and put it in front of Li Shimin.

Li Shimin kept a calm face, looked at it again from beginning to end, and suddenly became angry and threw the fold to the ground.

"Let Li Mu kid say it right! I can't even trust the auxiliary machine, who else can I trust?! ”

With these words, Gonggong Gao was so frightened that he was drenched in cold sweat, and quickly knelt on the ground and shouted: "Your Majesty, the old slave is single-minded—"

"You get up, I didn't say anything about you." Li Shimin suppressed his anger and raised his hand. Gao Gonggong got up, still frightened, and didn't dare to say more.

Li Shimin sighed: "Gao Gan, you are loyal to me, I know it in my heart. But I think that your loyalty to me has nothing to do with the fact that you are a eunuch. If you are like them, you have your own family and the interests behind it, the same is true! I never doubted the loyalty of the auxiliary machine before, but today, it seems that what the auxiliary machine thinks may not all be for me, he has changed, and he has begun to think about his eldest grandson's family! ”

This is the logic of the emperor, as long as the courtiers do not agree, it is the courtiers who have changed their minds. I? How could I change? Even if I change, you forced it.

It was about the eldest grandson Wuji, how could Gao Gonggong dare to get involved, so he resignedly responded and passed in confusion.

Li Shimin didn't take his opinion seriously, and sighed to himself: "Why can't I hand them over!" Haven't I been good enough for them? Given high-ranking officials, rich clothes and food, and high power, why are they not satisfied? Why can't you be like Li Mu and share my worries? ”

When Gao Gonggong heard this, his eyes rolled, and he said in his heart What is a master, Zhuluhou is a master. A simple sentence actually played such a divisive role. It made His Majesty suspicious of Uncle Guo, if he didn't do it on purpose, it would be fine, if he did it on purpose, how deep the city would be.

Fortunately, he is a eunuch, and this kind of fighting has nothing to do with him. Father-in-law Gao naturally won't go to ventilate and report the reminder, what is the benefit? Sandwiched in the middle of being a man, the final result is that he is not a person inside and out, following the emperor's side for many years, Gao Gonggong has long been well versed in it, and many times, it is best to be confused.

Li Shimin was also angry, this matter had already been decided, since there were eldest grandsons Wuji and Wang Qi to check and balance each other, from his point of view, he would only be more assured. The direction of the matter was in line with his heart, but the eldest grandson Wuji finally couldn't help jumping out, which made him quite unhappy.

With the comparison between Wang Jue and the eldest grandson Wuji's greed and selfishness, Li Mu's character of 'Gao Feng Liang Festival' instantly became clear. Li Shimin couldn't help but think of Li Mu and asked, "Gao Gan, is there any news about Li Mu today, what is this kid doing?" ”

"Yes." Gao Gonggong hurriedly responded, took out today's copy of "Datang Daily" from his arms, turned to the front page and pointed it to Li Shimin, and said: "Your Majesty, please see, today's front page of Datang Daily published an interview with Zhulu Hou. ”

"Interview?" When Li Shimin heard this word for the first time, he wondered: "What is an interview?" ”

"Isn't it marked here," Gao Gonggong found the label and pointed it to Li Shimin: "The purpose of the interview is to find a special person to give a special answer to a special matter." Recently, the road construction has been boiling, involving Zhulu Hou, there are many criticisms between the government and the opposition, coupled with the impeachment of King Jingze in the imperial history, the reputation of Zhulu Hou has been damaged, and as a last resort, Zhulu Hou had to accept an exclusive interview with Datang Daily and give a reply to the recent incident. ”

Li Shimin couldn't help but laugh and said: "You don't need to look at me to know that it's a new trick made by this kid again." Tang Guannai, the editor of Datang Daily, is his stepbrother, this so-called interview, if I didn't guess wrong, I must have shirked my responsibility and lost all my faults to the Taiyuan Wang family, right? ”

"Not really." Gao Gonggong every morning, the first thing is to read the newspaper, so as to save time for Li Shimin, flipped through the newspaper, to the second page, pointed to Li Shimin, and said: "Your Majesty, please see, Zhuluhou did not blame others too much, he just repeatedly mentioned that it was because he was too young, he only wanted to solve the problem, and thought about things simply, so he was on the door valve." In order to prove that he did not profit from it and formed a party for personal gain, he wanted to spend 100,000 yuan to repair the lanes of Chang'an City——"

"100,000!" Li Shimin's attention instantly focused, he stared at the place pointed out by Gonggong Gao and looked at it several times, frowned, and said: "Not only take out 100,000 yuan to build roads, but also set up carriages and horses in eight directions in the city, is this kid crazy?" ”

"The old slave doesn't know, I guess it's gas."

"Alas!" Li Shimin sighed and said, "This kid, it's really too presumptuous. Li Shimin sighed, and immediately couldn't help the corners of his mouth, laughed, and said: "Since the former Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty repaired the eastern capital, Chang'an has gradually fallen into ruin. My father set the capital of Chang'an, and I thought that if I had to recuperate, I would repair it sooner or later. Now, with Li Mu's funding to repair the laneway, it has saved the court a lot of money. ”

Li Shimin said: "Gao Gan, in this way, it seems that they are competing with each other, and I am sitting and reaping the profits." ”

Gao Gonggong didn't dare to spoil Li Shimin's interest, but he still reminded: "At present, it seems that this is indeed the case, but the Hou of Zhulu is not the master who suffers, he has put in 100,000 yuan for nothing this time, the old slave sees that this anger is not small, sooner or later, he has to make up for it." ”

"Hmm-" Li Shimin nodded and said, "Your concerns are reasonable, Li Mu, this kid has never suffered losses, and he will definitely make up for it." But this is really normal, you can't always lose him, when it comes to him to make up for it, I will help him a little bit, and it can be regarded as repaying his personal favor. ”

Hearing this, Gonggong Gao began to slander again in his heart, look, look at the means of others, so that His Majesty feels that he owes favors, what a master!

Thinking like this in his heart, he said, "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

"Shengming, okay, I'm in a better mood now, summon Yu Shinan over, I want to ask him about Ju Wentai and his party."

"No."

Gao Gonggong answered, turned around and went out, Li Shimin looked at the newspaper again, and when he saw '100,000 Guan', he couldn't help laughing again. Money is a trivial matter, the main thing is that Li Mu was cheated, and his mood was inexplicably happy, I don't know when this feeling started, but I just enjoyed it.

At the same time, heaven and earth.

In the private room on the second floor, Wang Jue placed a table of wine banquet and invited the eldest grandson Wuji, as well as Dugu Xiude and others, one is to celebrate the approval of the two families to work together to build the road, and the other is mainly to apologize to Li Mu. 100,000 times, which can be described as massive bleeding. Don't look at the people sitting at this table, all the people at the head of the family, the lord level, but if you take out 100,000 yuan, it is not an easy thing.

The property of the gate valve family is scattered on many things. For example, the land, the shop, and so on. Real cash, in the words of later generations, the so-called 'cash flow', is not necessarily much. Otherwise, when the previous shares were invested, the lonely family would not use food to offset the money.

In this regard, Li Mu is much stronger than them. Because Li Mu's winery has always been settled in person, he can't take away the wine without giving money, and people don't worry about selling it. Since the division of the winery, all the sales in the east and south directions of Chang'an have been obtained by Li Mu, and the workers are already proficient, bringing out a lot of apprentices, and adding two more production lines, and now the sales volume of a month has reached three times that of the past, and 100,000 yuan is only two or three months of income.

And Li Mu is not the only one, the horse farm also has a profit sharing, and Bai Qiaoqiao's shop is about to open, perfume, mirrors, and soap are all profitable, so he doesn't worry about money at all.

But if you say how much he has in his hands now, he really doesn't have 100,000 yuan, these days, he has spent a lot of money, Sun Simiao's 1,000 taels of gold is 10,000 yuan, Bai Qiaoqiao's shop spent 30,000 yuan before and after, and then paid the craftsmen, and the miscellaneous things together are more than 20,000 yuan, and the money in the house is only about 50,000 or 60,000 yuan. But Li Mu has this kind of ability, he said 100,000 yuan, no one thinks he can't take it out, because his impression of 'not bad money' has already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

A person who has money and no place to spend it, and publishes it in the newspapers, will he have no money?

Hearing that Li Mu was going to take out 100,000 yuan to repair the Chang'an lane, everyone was surprised, but they also admired his courage. At least this kind of thing, if it were any one of them, would not have been able to do it. But at the same time, Wang Jue and the eldest grandson Wuji also understand that money is not spent in vain. Li Mu took 100,000 yuan in order to build the road, and he didn't get any benefits himself, so sooner or later it would be a matter.

Therefore, Wang Jue set up this banquet in order to have a good chat during the banquet and find a way to compensate Li Mu. The two have even privately agreed that they can give up to 30% of the benefits to Li Mu, which can be regarded as not letting him work in vain.

But the person sent to invite has been gone for a long time, Li Mu has not arrived yet, and the others have arrived early, everyone can't help whispering, is it possible that Li Mu is so faceless, Wang Qi is a Zai Fu and an elder, and he condescended to invite, didn't he come?

Time passed little by little, Wang Jue's face was a little unbearable, and he whispered to Wang Pu: "Little brother, why don't you go and have a look?" ”

Wang Pu had a headache and said, "Big brother, I really don't have the face to come to the door." ”

"How is this good-"

Before the words fell, a person pushed the door in.