"I'm still too young."

Next to the desk, Li Mu sat on the rocking chair, looked at Tang Guan who was holding the pen and said, "Write, why don't you write?"

"Oh oh oh..." Tang Guan nodded quickly and wrote down what Li Mu had just said on the paper. In front of this paper, there was a 'title', which read 'There is only one truth, approach the inner world of Li Mu, Zhulu Hou'.

Li Mu sighed, shook his chair and continued, "That day, Wang Pu found me and talked about the many problems encountered by the Tang Dynasty mining industry. I didn't want to care about it, but first, I was seriously injured and everyone knew that Li Mu was the son of the people and was not the same as them. If it weren't for the country, how could I be with them?"

"How can I bow my eyebrows and serve the powerful and unhappy? I am still in my ears, how can I forget it?" Li Mu said with all his heart. Seeing Tang Guan a little stunned, he glared and said, "Write it! I'm so stupid, are I talking fake?"

"True, true..." Tang Guan quickly lowered his head and wrote down again.

"However, mining is the foundation of the country. If the mining industry does not prosper, the fuel, utensils, plowshares, tools, etc. needed by the people in their lives will not be found. Therefore, although I was unwilling to be with the clans, I still endured it and made an idea for them."

Li Mu sighed and said, "The road must be built. However, after years of war, the national treasury is empty. Thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are full of devastation. The people are in trouble and the people live in poverty. At this time of crisis, how can I bear to advise Your Majesty, recruit labor for the people and make the people suffer more?"

"I had no choice but to rack my brains and come up with a compromise method. I first used family money and grain to build the road, and then collected subsidies for passing expenses. This was obtained in one fell swoop. First, the people did not need to be corveted, second, to reduce the expenses of the court, and third, to build the road, it could also solve the crisis of the mining industry in the Tang Dynasty." Li Mu glanced at Tang Guan and said, "Have you finished writing?"

"It's finished."

"Add a mark in front of it, and when Zhuluhou said this, he sighed."

"Oh oh oh..." Tang Guan was stunned for a moment, understood what Li Mu meant, and invented the punctuation without any instruction.

Li Mu continued: "However, I am still too young. I guess others with the greatest kindness, but others revenge me with the greatest malice. I plan for the court, benefit the people, and solve problems for the family with my selfless heart. In the whole thing, I did not get any benefit, nor did I think about getting any benefit. But in the end, I was falsely accused of "colluding with each other, privately giving and stealing national wealth"!"

"Ahhh! It's unfair!" Li Mu sighed and said, "I never thought that one day would be so infamous. This is a huge insult to me. I beg you to think about it carefully, is Li Mu short of money?"

Tang Guan felt that he couldn't continue writing anymore, so he was so generous and sad. Why did he suddenly start to show off?

"Build a road, how much money can I make? Is Li Mu planning? Go for a traitor? Go for private grants?"

"Oh! It's painful!" Li Mu came to Tang Guan and watched him continue to write: "It's not a day or two that the world slandered me. I can tolerate it, but this time, I really can't stand it. In order to prove to everyone, Li Mu really has no need to give it to you. I decided to spend money and rebuild the alleyways in Chang'an to benefit the people of Chang'an. Although the preliminary calculations require at least 100,000 guan, it doesn't matter. As long as I can prove my innocence, 100,000 guan, I will get it!"

Tang Guan was so scared that his hands were trembling. He looked up at Li Mu and said, "Big, big brother, 100,000 yuan..."

"Write!"

"Oh." Tang Guan wrote the word "100,000" and his hands were trembling.

"My dear Tang people, the words of Zhulu Hou will always be counted. Everyone will see craftsmen repairing alleys soon. All the expenses will be taken out of Zhulu Hou's Mansion without the court's stake. When the road is repaired, I will get another 100,000 yuan to set up public buses and horses in eight directions, east, south, north, south, west, south, west, north, west, north, west, north, and north, and north, and then everyone can take the bus to and from. Everything promised will be mine, Li Mu, the Marquis of Zhulu, and complete it with one effort."

"In the end, the people's eyes are sharp. Who is good and bad, it is clear at a glance from what he does. If I don't defend myself, the world will prove it to me!"

After writing the last sentence, Tang Guanbiao couldn't help asking: "Brother, is it so much trouble? Let's find a few people to arrest Wang Jingze and beat him up so that he dare not say anything else-"

"Fart!" Li Mu glared angrily, "Zi said, "I will conquer people with virtue. If you hit people at any time, are you a thug?"

"Ah?" Tang Guan said blankly: "Brother, don't you feed people all the feces..."

Li Mu's face turned slightly red and said, "That was the past, not now. Your elder brother, I will be the top scorer next year. Now I am a poetic and self-cultivated person. I don't want to fight, kill, and I am a scholar."

"..." Tang Guan closed his mouth tightly. He was afraid that he would open it a little, so he couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Li Mu ignored him and took the "interview record" copied by Tang Guan and looked at it. He pointed out several subtle points that needed to be modified, so that Tang Guan could take it back to polish it and see it tomorrow.

As soon as Tang Guan was sent away, Zhao Youcai, the gatekeeper of the front yard, came to report again, and Wang Pu asked for a meeting.

"Let him get out of here!" Li Mu cursed: "Tell him that friends are so hard to make friends. If you don't do anything like this, just put them on the tank if something happens. I'm yours? Drive it out!"

Zhao Youcai responded aloud and ran back soon.

Li Mu was about to change his clothes and go to Jingdongji, but when he saw Zhao Youcai running around endlessly, he said unhappily: "Who is here again?"

"Uncle is here."

Changsun Wuji had to give him face, but Li Mu had no choice but to button it up again and went to the front yard lobby to greet him.

"Marquis Zhulu, I'm here to bother you."

"If you can come to my residence, it will definitely be a bright future for me." Li Mu signaled Changsun Wuji to sit down, and he sat with him.

"I wonder if my uncle is here today, is there something wrong?"

"Is there something wrong." Changsun Wuji said straight to the point: "I heard that the Censor Wang Jingze impeached you?"

Li Mu quickly waved his hand and said, "I'm so annoying! People are sitting at home, and they are notoriously famous from heaven. Uncle, you know my situation. I want money and don't want to be an official. Why do I collude with them? This is a good thing. Wang Jingze said this and became a traitor. I'm so angry that I'm really angry. I feel that my illness is serious again. It seems that I can't do anything in recent days."

The speaker has a heart, and the listener has a heart. Changsun Wuji is a smart man. From Li Mu's short words, he could already hear that Li Mu seemed to be angry and didn't want to care about road construction anymore and wanted to let go!

This is not possible!

"Li Mu, we are not outsiders either. Let's be honest. I came to see you this time because Longyou also needs to build a road."

"Ah..." Li Mu suddenly realized, blinked his eyes and said, "So, based on the relationship between the uncle and His Majesty, this is not a trivial matter. Let the Ministry of Civil Affairs allocate money and food, and start doing it!"

"The treasury is empty, and you don't know where there is money and food for road construction."

"That's easy to deal with. The treasury has money, and there is still a dozen or two hundred thousand jin. It can be taken away for a while. But I have to tell Your Majesty about this matter. Although I add it to the treasury order, it is just an treasury order for Your Majesty to make money, and the money is not under my control."

Seeing that Li Mu was just concerned about circles and never got along, Changsun Wuji felt unhappy, but had no choice but to say again: "My idea is to share your worries--"

"Okay!" Li Mu slapped his thigh and said, "I personally invested 50,000 yuan, and I just want to be a sponsor! It's up to the face of the uncle!"

Changsun Wuji's forehead was full of blue veins, and he couldn't help it. Before meeting Li Mu, he thought that his qi cultivation skills were good. Not only among his peers, but also among older people, he could still keep his breath.

But when I met Li Mu, the qi cultivation skills that I had practiced for more than 20 years were in vain. This kid is capable and can make people angry anytime and anywhere!

"No need for your 50,000 guan, just say it! We also need to build a road, just like the Wang family in Taiyuan. When the Wang family in Taiyuan takes food, we also have food. No matter how he collects tolls, we can charge it. It can be no more than him, but it can't be less than him."

Li Mu's face gradually became darker, and he said with a blank expression: "Uncle Guo is forcing me. I have been called a traitor now. You still ask me to help you plan. I want to ask Uncle Guo, what am I trying to do? People say that I have gained wisdom and I have suffered a loss on the head of the Wang family in Taiyuan. Wouldn't I be foolish? Or did the uncle think that if I suffer the loss from the Wang family in Taiyuan, I should suffer the loss from the Changsun family? If you think so, I can only see off guests."

Changsun Wuji did not expect Li Mu to say so directly. He thought that even if Li Mu refused, he would still refuse. Who would have thought that this kid would not give face?

But when I thought about it, there was nothing wrong with not giving face. If I were myself, I would definitely not give face.

Changsun Wuji took a deep breath, his tone calmed down, and said, "Li Mu, you misunderstood, I'm here to discuss with you. We are relatives. You have been a clan and are the same as the prince and the king of Yue. I am the prince's uncle, so you have to call me uncle."

"It's okay to call my uncle, but you can't push my nephew into the fire pit when you are an uncle." Li Mu said angrily: "Because of the road to the Wang family in Taiyuan, Your Majesty has already criticized me. I'm sorry for being mute. I've already eaten. I thought, be honest these days and avoid the limelight. Who would have thought that Wang family in Taiyuan is so incompetent that there was a Wang Jingze coming out! How can I not be angry? Now I can't breathe, and I have to burn incense and worship Buddha to ask Wang Jingze to do nothing. If he gets beaten, I will beat him if he is not beaten. What should I do with my reputation?"

Changsun Wuji thought to himself, you still know that you have a bad reputation. But you must never say this now. He selectively filtered out this sentence and continued to say to himself: "As uncle, I have to have a heart to you. Li Mu, do you know the difference between nobles and nobles?"

"I don't know."

"The nobles are the nobles of the Tang Dynasty. The honor and even everything come from the Tang Dynasty, from Your Majesty. However, the family members are different, the dynasty changes, and the family members are still a clan. What does this mean? The nobles are loyal to the country and Your Majesty, while the family members only care about themselves."

Li Mu nodded blankly, saying something reasonable.

"You are still young and deceived by the Wang family in Taiyuan. You gave them such an idea, allowing them to take advantage of them, and you still ended up being a whole person. It would be fine if this matter ended here, but after Wang Jingze's trouble, everyone in the court knew about it. Do you know the consequences?"

Li Mu already knew what Changsun Wuji was going to say, but he still cooperated with the acting and said, "What does it mean?"

"A nobleman has made great contributions to the court. He naturally believes in his heart that as nobles, we share weal and woe with the country. If the family is not allowed, the nobles will be rewarded, and there is nothing wrong. Because the family also knows that nobles have made contributions and cannot match them. But if the family is not allowed, think about it, how do the nobles feel in their hearts?"

Li Mu guessed: "Unjust?"

"That's right!" Changsun Wuji focused his attention and said, "I have told you just now the difference between a family and a noble family. A family can never be united with the court. And a noble must be loyal to the court. If the nobles are disinterested in this matter, it will be an irreparable thing for the court and Your Majesty. This matter does not depend on the amount of benefits, but on the inequality."

"So that's it." Li Mu murmured with a sudden realization, "I'm still too young."

"It's okay, after this experience, you will understand after experiencing it. You won't make such a mistake next time." Changsun Wuji smiled and said, "So this matter?"

Li Mu said in a difficult situation: "Uncle Guo, my uncle, my good uncle, you made me so confused! You forced me so much, how do you explain to Your Majesty and to the people!"

Seeing that there was a door, Changsun Wuji quickly praised it and said, "You can think of a solution. You have always been wise and can you be stumped by a small matter?"

"Um..." Li Mu pondered for a while and said, "But there is no way. It's just this way. The Taiyuan Wang family has to cooperate."

Changsun Wuji's eyes lit up and he said, "How to cooperate?"

Li Mu approached Changsun Wuji and said, "Now the Wang family in Taiyuan is the target of public criticism, because everyone believes that he builds roads to make money. If he wants to solve this problem, he needs to prove that he builds roads not to make money, but just to make money. But everyone knows that building roads must make money. So how to solve it?"

"Yes, how do you prove yourself?"

"This is about what Wang Jingze said."

"What sentence?"

"Since building roads does not make money, why don't you share ten shares and donate them together? As long as the Wang family in Taiyuan is willing to spit out this hole and is willing to divide it, it can prove that he is not trying to take advantage of it. At that time, everyone builds the roads and divides the money together, which may be a good thing."

Changsun Wuji frowned and said, "But there is another problem. If you want to make a profit in building a road, you will be very slow to make a profit. If several companies cooperate, the benefits will be too small, right?"
Chapter completed!