"A prodigal son!"

Li Shimin was in the private room next to the terrace, and there were crowds of people outside. How could he not hear it? He saw the whole process of Li Mu's scattering money, and was heartbroken. He had just calmed down yesterday and was once again worried after witnessing Li Mu's scattering money. He watched Li Mu throw the money down, as if he saw that on the battlefield, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty gave the weapons and armor to the enemy. Such a way of spending money was really too much for a poor emperor!

Li Shimin suddenly poured a glass of wine and shouted angrily: "Good guy, go and bring that bastard Li Mu to me!"

"Your Majesty..." Empress Changsun wanted to persuade him, but Li Shimin could no longer listen. She suppressed her anger and said, "Empress, don't persuade him again. I must tell him carefully today. I don't want to take his money for myself, but I don't think of him as a ruthless person. If this continues, this kid must go on a wrong path!"

Empress Changsun felt something was right when she heard this, but she still said, "Your Majesty, Li Mu is still young after all, and he is a talented person. When speaking, he should be more tactful."

"Hmph, I don't need to be tactful with him!"

As he spoke, Li Mu followed Eunuch Gao in with a blush on his face. He saw Li Shimin's long face, as if he didn't see it. He was not ashamed, but proud. He walked over with a smile and said, "What do you think about the scene just now? Are you so generous?"

Li Shimin glanced at Li Mu, and looked at his ignorant appearance, so he didn't get angry, and cursed: "When will you still be angry with me? Aren't you yelling that you have no money and are poor? Yesterday, I made this one again today. What do you mean? I'm angry?!"

Li Mu was stunned, his expression was very good, his smile froze on his face, and he looked at Li Shimin blankly, as if something unreasonable happened to him. If he hadn't been really angry, Li Shimin would really doubt whether he had something wrong with him when he looked like this, and he had such an innocent face!

"Your Majesty, I really have no money, it's not that I'm fake. I haven't cheated on Your Majesty!"

"You dare to say it?" Li Shimin became even more angry when he saw Li Mu's argument and asked, "Where did the 100,000 yuan he proposed to Li Siwen yesterday come from?"

"That was a one-year supply contract with a merchant from Jiangnan. A total of 10,000 jars were poured, and a total of 10,000 jars were poured. He received an 80,000 guan. Then he cleaned up the surplus at home, collected 20,000 guan, and took it to the bank to exchange for gold-" Li Mu explained very seriously. In fact, he was completely nonsense. Most of the gold was given to him by Ju Zhisheng. Ju Zhisheng gave him 1,000 jin of gold and 1,000 jin of silver. A total of 110,000 jin, he offered 20,000 jin and 90,000 jin. He raised some by himself, but only 10,000 jin.

Only he and Ju Zhisheng know the most about what happened here. Unless Ju Zhisheng comes forward to report him, Li Shimin will never know. As for the statement of winery orders, who has done him in this era?

Suddenly, he looked at Li Shimin strangely and said, "Your Majesty, why are you asking me about this? The Interior Department still owes me money now. Could it be that Your Majesty thinks that I am greedy for the Interior Department's money? How can Your Majesty think of me so much!"

Li Mu's eyes were red, like an aggrieved child, shamelessly slandered by adults. Li Shimin couldn't speak for a moment, opened his mouth, closed his eyes, and looked at Empress Changsun for help.

Empress Changsun glanced at him helplessly, took over the words and said, "Li Mu, Your Majesty is just worried that you will go astray and have no other intentions."

"Oh." Li Mu seemed to be much more relaxed and said with a smile: "Thank you for your concern. Please rest assured. I know what I am doing and will never go astray."

Li Shimin looked at Li Mu's appearance and felt as if his IQ was crushed. His intuition told him that things were not that simple. Li Mu was definitely not what he said, but he was just having no evidence. Seeing Li Mu say this, he took over and said, "Yes, I'm just worried that you will go astray. Look at what you were like just now. Others are paying attention to making money. You're good, you're going to be spread out before you make money? Isn't this absurd? What's the use of scattering the money? There are people at the door, and they can't get in your gambling house! Wouldn't this all be wasted? You do this just to show off your wealth. Isn't this a mistake?"

"Your Majesty, I dare not agree with your words!"

Li Mu suddenly changed into an extremely serious look and retorted loudly. Regardless of Li Shimin's ugly face, Li Mu continued: "Your Majesty, I don't agree with it. If Your Majesty forgives me for being innocent, I will say it."

"Hmph, just say it, why do you have to forgive you for being innocent?"

"Your Majesty will not forgive me, so I will not say it."

Li Shimin said with a treacherous face: "You said!"

"Your Majesty, this is my minister's money."

When Li Shimin heard this, his face became extremely ugly. This sentence obviously touched his mind, and he could not say that if I want your money, your money is mine. As the emperor and Li Mu's elder, Li Shimin really doesn't have such a thick face. He can't show anger. If he shows it, wouldn't it be equivalent to acquiescing Li Mu's words? He had to have no expression on his face, as if it had nothing to do with him, but in fact he was already angry.

Li Mu said to himself: "Your Majesty, I feel so. If Your Majesty wants to be a wise ruler, the first thing you must abide by is that you cannot plunder the people's wealth. Why do I say this? It is not for the sake of myself, but for the truth summarized by me after reading "Records of the Grand Historian".

"Is it going to "Records of the Grand Historian" again?" Li Shimin couldn't help it and said angrily: "Records of the Grand Historian is your shield? Just say whatever you want, and don't have to pretend to be the mouth of the ancients!"

"Your Majesty, I really got the truth from "Records of the Grand Historian"." Li Mu said stubbornly. He is not a fool. He is not asking Sima Qian to wait for his little shoes to wear?

Li Mu glanced at Li Shimin's face, held a sentence first, and said, "Your Majesty and the Queen are both people who read "Records of the Grand Historian". I will not give specific examples, I will only talk about one phenomenon. The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors began, and until the Spring and Autumn Period, to the Warring States Period, and then to the Qin, Han, and Three Kingdoms... Looking forward from now on, you will find one thing, that is, no matter how powerful a country is, when it begins to perish, there will be signs."

"All the signs finally come down to one place, which is the four words "Un-Daoyijun". Zhou Zhou and Zhou You were all unrighteous. So what is unrighteous? When I look at it, I all start with being unable to control myself."

"Who doesn't love money? Who doesn't like beauty? If the people want to get these, they may have to work hard for a lifetime, and the king wants to get them in a single thought."

"But, are the money and beauty in this world all belong to the king alone? It must be not. The king relies on his own power to rob. People dare not speak, but dare to be angry. When anger accumulates to a certain level, it will definitely erupt. Because the people's hearts and opinions cannot be violated, and the root cause of these anger is caused by the king's inability to control himself."

"Your Majesty, it is very simple for the people to live and work in peace. First, let them fill their stomachs, and then let them live, have food, clothing, housing and transportation. What Rao Shun did in ancient times was nothing more than trying to get the people to get these four things. But even Rao Shun, they could not do it and give it to the people. So what can be done? It can only be to guide the people and work hard towards this goal."

"The amount of money a person pays is different, and the amount of money he gets is also different. How to quantify how much a person pays, this will bring the concept of money. As long as every citizen is not cheating or stealing money, money earned through any channel should be protected and respected because he pays. And if a king sees someone has a lot of money and wants to use it for his own selfishness, then it is the beginning of his inability to control himself."

Li Shimin's face turned red and said, "Don't blame me, have I snatched your money?"

"Your Majesty!" Li Mu said seriously: "Why don't your Majesty understand what I mean? I'm not just talking about myself. I'm reminding Your Majesty that I'm a person who doesn't love money. Even if Your Majesty confiscates my family, I will receive your kindness and repay it with this. But will Your Majesty stop? Today, I'm rich in my family, and Your Majesty gets it in one sentence. Because I'm a minister and your Majesty is the king, and you can't rebel against the king, Your Majesty succeeds. If you squander all your family wealth tomorrow, at this time, Your Majesty has tasted the sweetness, will you still wait for taxes?"

"Your Majesty will not help but think that Li Mu is a minister. If I rob his family wealth, he has no choice. Changsun Wuji is also a minister. He also has a wealth of thousands of yuan. If I rob him, he has no choice. Wang's family in Taiyuan is even richer. If he asks Wang Gui for it, he has no choice..."

"One can't do anything, two can't do anything. If there are thousands, ten thousand... family, aristocratic families, and gentry, can't they do it?"

"The souls of Emperor Yang of Sui are not far away. Your Majesty still remember how Emperor Yang of Sui was trapped in the midst of water and fire in order to achieve his own achievements, so that all the heroes emerged and the country was destroyed only in the evening?"

The more Li Mu said, the more excited he became, and Li Shimin had to become serious. He didn't expect so much, nor did he think so deeply, but after Li Mu said this, he could not deny that Li Mu was right.

Not to mention anything else, Li Mu alone shook his will in two days. It can be seen that this example cannot be opened, but it cannot be stopped.

"I remember this great kindness."

Li Mu sighed and said, "I am really afraid that Your Majesty will not recognize me. If Your Majesty does not agree, there is no need for me to say what I am going to say below."

Li Shimin became serious and said, "Let me say it, I'll listen."

"Your Majesty, I think that only by ensuring that the people's property they have obtained from their struggle belongs to them, the people will have the motivation to work hard for a good life. Your Majesty, I have said long ago that Rao Shun is Rao Shun, and cannot help the king. Similarly, Rao Shun's people cannot teach the people to do it. Only the people themselves want to do it can achieve Rao Shun's life. As a successful prince, it is absolutely not enough to have "wise" alone."

"I advise Your Majesty to set up an Office of the Internal Affairs and operate in the current way, just to find a way out."

"Does your Majesty know the order?"

Li Shimin nodded and said, "I have heard of it many times recently."

"Your Majesty, the order is a method I use." This is what Li Mu had wanted to say for a long time, but he had never found an opportunity. Today, he was finally able to spit it out: "Your Majesty, wood is in the mountains, and it is worthless, and can only be used to burn wood. But the Ministry of Works now wants to make Zhenguan plows, and wood is needed. So, the minister placed a batch of orders. Someone took this batch of orders and they would log wood. The logging required people, the merchant would give wages, and the transportation of wood required people, and the horseman would give people.

You can make some money, you need to use a car, and you have to build a car to make money, you need to buy a horse, and the horse vendor can make money. When you transport it to Chang'an for processing, the carpenter can make money. They made the parts of the Zhenguan plow, and the Ministry of Industry purchased this batch of parts and made it into a Zhenguan plow, and sold it to farmers who farmed the land. Therefore, the farmers can have more than ten acres of land. In the first year, they may not make money in order to give the plow money, but in the second year, they returned the money and added more land, and they would make money."

"And Your Majesty will give you a lot of extra commercial taxes, agricultural taxes, etc. Did Your Majesty find out? The Office of the Internal Affairs just placed a batch of orders, and many people benefited from it. They will be very happy because their efforts are rewarded, able to support their families, and able to make a living. Their motivation comes from this."

“But what if I don’t use this method?”

"Your Majesty, you can imagine that there is no office for the Internal Affairs Office. Your Majesty collects corvee labor, and stipulates that all roads and governments must collect enough young and strong people to go into the mountains to log wood, then transport it to Chang'an, and then recruit craftsmen to do it. It doesn't cost money, but did Your Majesty really save it?"

"Where is no one who can't die? Let's put this aside, and if you don't pay for money, you will be treated the same as a commoner?"

"If you really do this, the parts of the Zhenguan Plow that Your Majesty obtains must be of inferior quality. In this way, how can you cultivate more land?"

Li Mu's mouth became hot and his mouth was dry. He poured a glass of wine to moisten his throat. Finally, he concluded: "In short, I think selfishness is human nature and motivation. This is an inevitable thing, and Your Majesty cannot change it, so he can only take advantage of the situation. After all, people in the world cannot do what I am like, who is selfless, treats money as dirt, and values ​​friendship as life..."

here we go again!

After hearing Li Mu's long speech, Li Shimin was about to praise him, but suddenly heard these words, and instantly destroyed all the atmosphere.

Why can't this kid be more serious?

It’s okay to say that he is pretending, and being able to pretend consistently cannot be considered as pretending. But saying that he is not pretending, it is obviously the appearance of two people. Could it be that it is because of brain disease and the soul is confused?

Li Shimin couldn't figure it out, but he knew what to do now.

He pointed at the door.

Li Mu closed his mouth, squatted down, and lay on the ground.

"Get out!"
Chapter completed!