Tai Chi Temple.

Li Mu is no stranger to this place, when Li Yuan lived here before, he had been here several times. But after Li Shimin entered the Taiji Palace, he stayed here for the first time.

The palace at night adds a touch of mystery.

The palace maids and eunuchs were holding the lamps and filling the lamps with oil. Li Mu watched their movements, and a thought suddenly popped up in his head.

Gotta make candles!

I can't even afford candles in the palace, so I can imagine what the situation of the people is, there is not even a light at night, how can the nightlife be rich?

If the nightlife is not abundant, how to implement the plan to make money?

Li Mu thought about things in his heart, and couldn't help but be a little stunned, Li Shimin walked and walked, feeling that Li Mu was not behind him, and when he turned around, he saw him stunned at the palace lamp, and said dissatisfiedly: "What are you looking at?" What's so nice about the lights? ”

"Huh?" Li Mu eased his mind and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is thinking, the palace lamp cannot be illuminated by candles, but the minister's home has always used candles, which is really too luxurious." ”

Li Shimin's heart warmed, and he secretly said, this kid still knows how to introspect, so he asked: "Since you know about luxury, change it, don't feel guilty." ”

"Huh?" Li Mu looked dazed and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has no guilt." ”

"No guilt?" Li Shimin frowned and said, "Then what do you mean by this, you don't want to replace the candle with lamp oil-"

Li Mu shook his head with a smile and said, "The minister didn't mean this at all, how bright the candles were, and the smell of lamp oil was choking." What the minister means is, sure enough, the minister is a capable young man, and the candles that His Majesty can't even use, the minister can afford to use them-"

Li Shimin gritted his teeth: "Li Mu! How dare you joke?! ”

"Your Majesty is angry!" Li Mu said with a smile: "You misunderstood the minister, there are only a few people in the minister's small family, how many candles can be used, even if it is extravagant, it is limited." The minister has made so much money, he can't spend it at all. The minister thinks it's reasonable, as for His Majesty's use, isn't the minister responsible for the internal money, let the minister figure out a way, within half a year, he must let the palace use high-quality candles, what does Your Majesty think? ”

"Humph! Count you kid acquaintance! Turning around and just about to take a step, he paused, and said: "The cost of candles is not low, and it is still too luxurious to use candles in such a big place in the palace." The money you earn is of great use, you can't spend it indiscriminately, the lamp oil is the lamp oil, it's always used like this, I'm used to it, I don't need to change it. ”

Li Mu trotted two steps, came to Li Shimin's side, and said, "Then the minister can take Your Majesty first?" Send some candles to Your Majesty, so that Your Majesty can see more clearly when he reviews the folds in the evening. ”

Li Shimin still shook his head and said, "If I use it, but the queen doesn't, how can I feel at ease?" ”

Li Mu understood, and hurriedly said: "Then can you prepare it for the queen?" Although the candle is expensive, if it is only used by His Majesty and the Empress, it is not very much, and this money is out. ”

The two walked into the hall, and Li Shimin sighed: "Don't you know the queen's personality?" If she is willing to use it herself, I will have peace of mind. For so many years, whatever I give her, she has to share it with others, even if she can't do everything, the fourth concubine also wants it. ”

Li Shimin sat down on the Hu bed, stretched his legs, pointed to the side, motioned for Li Mu to sit down as well, took off his shoes and socks, and the smell of Laotan sauerkraut permeated.

Li Mu held his breath and quietly turned his head a little.

Li Shimin didn't seem to notice it, and was still sighing: "Zi said: Don't suffer from widowhood but suffer from inequality, and don't suffer from poverty but suffer from anxiety." It's true that women are like this, and I'm already too annoyed—"

At this time, Father-in-law Gao brought dinner over and ate in the palace, which was naturally a separate meal system. Li Muchang let out a sigh, and he could finally escape the range of Li Shimin's 'poisonous gas', otherwise he would definitely not be able to eat anything at this distance.

Gonggong Gao handed over a futon, Li Mu thanked him, and sat under his buttocks. Gao Gonggong wanted to remind him that it was used to sit on his knees, but when the words came to his lips, he smiled and didn't make a sound.

Li Shimin waved his hand, and Gao Gonggong bowed and withdrew.

Li Mu glanced at tonight's food, a dish, a soup, a bowl of corn, a steamed bun, and a piece of roasted, I don't know what kind of meat it was, and couldn't help frowning.

The emperor eats this?

Li Mu was a little sad.

Without contrast, there is no harm. In the Zhulu Hou Mansion, on the dining table of the subordinates, there is meat to eat at every meal. Not to mention Li Chongyi and Dugu Jiu, the two of them have to kill four leg of mutton every day.

As the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin's usual dinner turned out to be this kind of coarse tea and light rice.

What does this emperor mean in front of you!

Li Shimin picked up the rice bowl, and he didn't look like he was eating, and he ate it with a slurp. Suddenly, he saw Li Mu not moving his chopsticks and asked, "What, it's not as good as the food in your house, can't you eat it?" ”

Li Mu looked at Li Shimin with a pair of red eyes, and said: "Your Majesty, you don't have to be so frugal, what you want to eat and what you use, you can tell the minister, no matter how bad the minister is, he can earn you this money." ”

"I think it's good." Li Shimin smiled and said, "When you were in Mayi, did you have meat to eat?" ”

Li Mu shook his head: "No, at that time, the family was surrounded by walls, where did I have the money to buy meat to eat?" Not only the minister, but even the county commander, he didn't have meat to eat, because the cattle and sheep were all robbed by the Turks. ”

"So the minister swore that if I had the opportunity to eat meat in the future, even if I vomited, I would eat it. I can't go back to when I couldn't afford to eat meat, never! ”

Li Shimin pointed to Li Mu's bowl and said, "Isn't this also meat?" Cured meat, although not as fresh as freshly slaughtered, tastes good. ”

"I can't eat it." Li Mu didn't feel good in his heart, and said, "Your Majesty, do you know that it is useless for you to save like this. Under you, this Manchu Dynasty civil and military, the family of gate valves, which one doesn't eat meat, can you control yourself, can you still control them? How much can you save by saving yourself? It's just a drop in the bucket, can you save armor, or can you save weapons? ”

Seeing that Li Mu was so excited, Li Shimin put down his chopsticks, pondered for a while, and said, "Li Mu, you are right, I am frugal alone, it is useless, and I can't change anything. Civil and military officials, a family of gate valves, they should eat and drink...... But I want to ask you, is it really useless? ”

"If I am like the former Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, for my own selfish desires, I am tyrannical and extravagant, and I am extremely extravagant, everyone in the world will think that if it is the case for the superiors, will the people still have a good life?"

"If I can be more diligent and thrifty, others will know that in my heart, I don't agree with arrogance. In this way, when they do things, they will be restrained. The results you see now are already convergent. ”

"Then why didn't Your Majesty make an edict and make a rule......

"Huh!" Li Shimin smiled again and said, "Li Mu, what do you think the gate lords and nobles, civil and military officials, support me for?" If it weren't for the generous gifts of the high-ranking officials, how many people would be willing to do things for me? ”

When Li Mu heard these words, he only felt depressed in his heart, but he couldn't refute it. He understands the truth, but in his subconscious, he thinks that being an emperor, if he is so aggrieved, then what is the point!

"Don't be wronged by me, the ambition in my heart is not in these eating and drinking. As long as you earn me a million guan and create an invincible army for me, even if I eat bran every day, my heart will be happy. ”

"Alas......" Shepherd Li sighed, stopped talking, and picked up the bowl and put the rice in his mouth. He is not so delicate that he can't eat it, when he was a cook in a Turkic camp, he has eaten everything he can eat, he has eaten all the grassroots, what else can't he swallow?

After eating in a muffled voice, he still carried forward the 'disc spirit', and there was not a grain of rice left. Li Shimin was also very satisfied when he saw that he had eaten cleanly, called Gao Gonggong in to clean up, and nodded to him again.

Li Mu didn't know what this nod meant, and his eyes were a little dazed.

Not long after, Grandpa Gao walked in with a woman. When Li Mu saw this person, he was so frightened that he almost cried out. Wang Ou? She—how could she be in the palace!

Li Mu instantly felt that a green grassland had grown on his head!

After thinking about it, it seems that something is wrong, according to the first come, first come, although nothing has happened to Li Shimin and Wang Ou, but after all, they met first, and they should have greened Li Shimin.

No, no, the green one should be Wang Ou's dead husband.

Still not right!

Li Mu calmed down, why did Wang Ou appear here at this time? Could it be that Li Shimin has discovered something?

It seems that today is a dead end!

Li Mu's heart was gloomy, and he watched this 'Wang Ou' walk up to him, and suddenly he was stunned and noticed something strange. This person doesn't seem to be Wang Ou.

Although it looks alike, it shouldn't be. This person looks to be in his thirties, and he has a plump figure, he looks like a woman, unlike Wang Ou, although he is thirty-two years old, he has a slender figure, and his face does not have a trace of wrinkles, and he looks like he is twenty-five or sixteen.

The woman's looks and body shape are in line with her age. Beauty is beautiful, but it is a completely different temperament from Wang Ou. When you look at it from a distance, there are ninety percent similar, and when you walk in and see these details, only seventy percent are similar.

But this is enough to surprise Li Mu, he hasn't heard Wang Ou say that she has a twin sister!

Li Shimin was not surprised at all when he saw Li Mu's shock, he pulled the woman closer to his arms, pointed at Li Mu, and said: "This is the one you always want to see Li Mu, the Hou of the Deer, how is it, younger than you imagined?" ”

The woman looked over, and Li Mu quickly got up and saluted.

Li Shimin smiled: "Don't be so nervous, this is the Yang family." You also heard the imperial sister-in-law talk about her just now, now do you know the reason? ”

Just heard?

Li Mu recalled what Zheng Guanyin had said-

She said that Li Shimin killed his younger brother Manmen and accepted his wife into the palace as a concubine...... Yang's, Wang Ou, and Li Mu instantly understood, so it was, so it was!!