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After experiencing all kinds of things, Li Mu did not make any progress at all. For example, he used to think that many things were unnecessary, and these unnecessary things constituted hypocrisy, and hypocrisy was something he hated, so when he encountered something, he preferred to go straight.

But now he understood that many things or many times hypocrisy is also necessary. Hypocrisy is sometimes a step, leaving room for each other. Li Mu did not guarantee that he would not cause trouble anymore. In order not to face a situation where his life was hanging on the line, Li Mu decided to be more hypocritical and add several protection lines to himself.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he is not going to take the lead.

Who is responsible for the great responsibilities? There are a few candidates, and the first choice is Ma Zhou. If Ma Zhou takes the lead, no matter Li Shimin, Changsun Wuji, or even the government and the government, they will not find any problems. After all, compared to Li Mu, Ma Zhou seems much more reliable. Li Mu's ability is recognized, but he is also famous for being difficult to deal with. When dealing with him, no matter what his identity is, he has no face. He has to follow the path he has drawn. Even if he is done clearly, he will make a lot of money. After all, the user experience is very poor. It is like buying things and spending money. Who doesn't want to find a better customer service?

Although Ma Zhou is very suitable, Li Mu does not plan to let him do this. There are two reasons. First, Ma Zhou is not the same as him. Ma Zhou's style of dealing with things is incompatible with Li Mu. The two people who are not in line with each other are destined to be unable to last. Li Mu asked Ma Zhou to come over, but he did not plan to last for a long time. It was just that when he was employed, Ma Zhou was suitable for all aspects and just borrowed it. He knew that Ma Zhou was not with him, and there was no way to do it now. After a year or two, he would definitely think of returning to Chang'an. Li Shimin had already made arrangements for Ma Zhou and would not let him stay in Luoyang for too long. Letting him come was a bit like stealing his master, and he wanted to learn something from Li Mu.

Another reason is that it is inequality and inappropriate. The so-called inequality can be seen from the name. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs are two equal institutions. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has now been handed over to the Crown Prince Li Chengqian, and its significance is self-evident. If the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was established, it was Ma Zhou who came to supervise him, and Ma Zhou and Li Chengqian were the heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs respectively. How could Ma Zhou compare with Li Chengqian?

Furthermore, no matter how powerful Ma Zhou is, he is a minister after all, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs involve too many interests. This person must be trusted by the emperor. Although Ma Zhou is valued by Li Shimin, he has not reached the level of trust. Although Ma Zhou is a poor family, he is close to Changsun Wuji and others. He knows people and faces but not the heart. Who knows whether he has any force behind him to surrender.

If he surrenders to a certain force, this force will definitely receive great help from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Once he has a biased help and cannot be fair, it will have a great impact on the development of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Why the Office of the Internal Affairs has developed so fast is not because the Office of the Internal Affairs was trained by Li Mu himself, with the three views and goals. Even if it was inconsistent before, it was brainwashed by him to become a group of young people who came to take charge of the matter. Anyone who has inserted several forces in various ways will have unimaginable consequences.

Taking these conditions into consideration, it is not appropriate for Ma Zhou to be the head of the Foreign Affairs Office.

The second candidate is Li Tai. Li Tai has no big problems in terms of identity. But if Li Tai is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it will easily cause controversy. After all, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is under the jurisdiction of the Prince. If the Ministry of Foreign Affairs returns to the King of Wei, wouldn’t it be obvious that the two dragons will fight for the throne? Li Shimin is only 33 years old this year, and it will take more than twenty years before he can burp. He doesn’t want to choose the side so early. At present, the thickest thigh must be Li Shimin.

So, Li Tai is not good, not only can he not, but he also has to keep a certain distance from the Foreign Affairs Office. This is why Li Mu is thinking too much. Li Tai is busy now and he can't even get in hand. Even if he wants Li Tai to help, Li Tai is not interested.

The two most suitable candidates were no longer possible, and Dou Ren came to Li Mu's mind.

He was the emperor's uncle and never got involved in court affairs. There should be no problem with trust. Although he was a nobleman, the Dou family always adhered to his duties and never formed cliques. Moreover, the Dou family's foundation was not that huge, and it did not pose a threat to the royal family and the court. Unlike the Changsun family, Li Shimin would be more afraid.

But these are not the most important. The most important thing is that Dou Ren has no talent. This is the key reason why Li Mu finally chose Dou Ren. What he needs is a puppet, a puppet who is willing to steadily implement his ideas. This is also the excellent quality of a puppet. As a puppet, if he has his own ideas, can he still be called a puppet, and it will only mess up things.

Therefore, he asked Li Tai to invite Dou Ren. But in the end, whether he can be competent must be observed. If this puppet is not qualified, even if he stays in the Foreign Affairs Office, he cannot be entrusted with important tasks.

Outside the wall of the Marquis' Mansion, there were crowds of people.

The conditions given by Li Mu are good enough and the threshold is low enough, so the people who sign up naturally flock to it. Li Mu set the theme of this talent show as a natural work, and shamelessly plagiarized the book written by Song Yingxing, a master of the late Ming Dynasty a thousand years later. The purpose of his holding of this talent show coincides with these four words.

Of course, there are also differences. Song Yingxing's Tiangong Kaiyu summarized the folk skills before the late Ming Dynasty. The things recorded in them were techniques accumulated over hundreds of years. Li Mu relied on his system.

There are differences in nature, but what is shown is not much different.

The purpose of Li Mu's creation is to find a source and reason for the system creation. In the future, he will not have to force himself to become an immortal and descend to earth. It can be said that he has learned from some skills. Isn't there such a saying that masters come from the folk.

Another reason is that Luoyang is about to be repaired and constructed, and many handicraftsmen are needed. The collection of corvee labor is not Li Mu's style of work. It is a waste of time to search one by one. It is better to have a talent show and let the craftsmen near Luoyang come out by themselves. He believes that with Luoyang's background, the number of craftsmen is completely sufficient.

Li Mu is definitely not blindly optimistic. Luoyang has this strength. You should know that when Emperor Yang of Sui built Luoyang City, he was digging the Grand Canal, he entrusted hundreds of thousands of corvee labor. Almost all craftsmen across the country were concentrated in Luoyang City. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, most of these people could not return to their original hometowns and remained scattered around Luoyang. Over the past twenty years, they all became Luoyang people.

Their hometown has changed, but their skills will not be lost. These people have built palaces for the emperor, and their level is not as good as that of Chang'an craftsmen, and they are even better. Li Mu wanted to touch the craftsmen of the early Tang Dynasty through this talent show, and how far his skills have reached. He is going to look for drawings of similar distances from the system based on the survey situation. Otherwise, if it is too much higher than this era, it is still difficult to explain, and it is also suspected that the seedlings can be used to encourage growth.

But if you sign up, Li Mu didn't have to come forward in person. He just took a few glances and went back to the back house. Bai Qiaoqiao's due date is only these few days and may give birth at any time. Li Mu was afraid of something unexpected, so he dared not stay away every day.

The news spread so quickly, Li Mu's talent recruitment was in full swing, and all parties in Chang'an also received news.

First of all, there is news about the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Li Shimin received secret reports from bad people and the Dongchang. Now, the news from Luoyang can be transmitted back to Chang'an at most no more than one and a half days. In order to quickly convey the message, inspired by Li Mu's flying pigeons, the bad people and the Dongchang also launched the flying pigeons, which means that the efficiency is reduced. Pigeons often fly away, but it doesn't matter. They all have their own secret texts. Even if they intercept their pigeons, they cannot decipher coherent sentences.

Two notes are placed on the desk and confirmed to each other, and the news is true.

Li Shimin frowned, and Chuanzi between his eyebrows could hold the flies to death. Eunuch Gao looked around, not daring to breathe loudly, and said in his heart that he was sad, "What's the trick? He just handed over the Office of the Internal Affairs to the Crown Prince, and then created another Office of the Foreign Affairs. Is he afraid that Your Majesty will not be afraid of you, and I am afraid that Your Majesty will not misunderstand that you are escaping your shell?"

"High-ranking officials."

"I'm here." Eunuch Gao did not dare to neglect and responded quickly.

"Two oral orders."

Eunuch Gao hurriedly cheered up and said, "Your Majesty, please speak, I remember it."

"I will give the oral order to the East Palace, tell the Chengqian Foreign Affairs Office what happened, tell him that I will not care about this matter, he will make a decision on his own. No matter what he does, I will not blame him, let him consider it clearly. I have decided, after finishing it, write an article to me, I will read it."

Eunuch Gao responded, "I have recorded it."

"Also, go to Honglu Temple and ask the Ministry of Rites to tell the envoys who have not left Chang'an. In the future, the Ministry of Rites will only accept tribute affairs. The trade matter is that I have handed over to Li Mu. They want to do business and go to Luoyang to find him. If the Ministry of Rites has objections, they will ask them to write a memorandum. If anyone can guarantee that Li Mu is good at buying Li Mu, the court will not suffer any losses. Whoever says this, I will hand over this authority to whom no one dares to protect him, so I will talk less. I don't want to discuss this in the court."

Hearing this, Eunuch Gao let go of his heart and smiled and said with a pity, "I'm thinking, no one dares to praise this Haikou. Luoyang Marquis does business, which is obvious to all."

"He is worthy of this skill." Li Shimin glanced at Eunuch Gao, but said nothing. Li Shimin was alert to the fact that Eunuch Gao was biased towards Li Mu. But he also thought about it, and it was normal. After all, Li Mu was not in Chang'an, so finding someone to say a few good things for him is also the only way to get a question. It is strange if you don't do this.

Just as Eunuch Gao was about to turn around and leave, another news came, but the news was not passed by the bad guy and the Dongchang. It was sent by Li Tai's Fei Ge's letter and sent by Li Zheng Hall.

In order to pay my mother a favor sooner or later, Li Tai asked Li Mu for a pair of pigeons. Every morning and evening, he would write a short note to tell Empress Changsun what he did every day. This was a communication between mother and son, but it did not involve intelligence. Moreover, Li Shimin didn't want his son to know that he was sending someone to secretly monitor Li Mu.

Today's greeting mentioned the matter about Li Mu's admission of apprentices.

He also heard Li Siwen mention it, so his words were unclear. But Empress Changsun felt that this should be told by Li Shimin, after all, her son, the dignified King of Wei, was also Li Mu's apprentice.

"What is this kid going to do?" Li Shimin looked at Li Tai's note and his eyebrows twisted even more seriously. The note also mentioned that Li Mu recruited craftsmen. Li Shimin was not surprised. After all, Changsun Wuji had already returned and talked about the situation in Luoyang. Because the locust plague delayed the construction period of Chidao, it was very normal to recruit craftsmen in order to seize the construction period.

The two things were combined together to think about them, and Li Shimin felt it was a bit ridiculous. Did Li Mu want to choose a few apprentices among these recruited craftsmen?

When did he become so diligent? Didn’t he say he didn’t like to teach his apprentices before? So far, there are only three apprentices he recognized. Changsun Wuji, Li Tai, and Qin Huaidao were all accepted by him because he had to accept them. This time he took the initiative to accept his apprentices, what was he going to do?

Do you really want to start a sect?

Li Shimin suddenly felt very tired. When Li Mu was by his side, he could still grasp Li Mu's thoughts, and when he met and talked, he could guess indefinitely. Now that Li Mu was no longer by his side, he had completely lost control of Li Mu's thoughts. Now, Li Shimin could not guess what was in his mind.

"I was only a few years old and wanted to start a sect and establish a sect. I wanted to see what sect you can start."

Li Shimin muttered, waved his hand, and signaled Eunuch Gao to do business quickly. He picked up a memorial and opened it to read it.

Changsun Wuji has been busy taking the exam recently and has no time to help him read the memorials. Li Shimin had to work overtime and stayed up until very late every day.

Li Shimin suddenly felt very tired. When Li Mu was by his side, he could still grasp Li Mu's thoughts, and when he met and talked, he could guess indefinitely. Now that Li Mu was no longer by his side, he had completely lost control of Li Mu's thoughts. Now, Li Shimin could not guess what was in his mind.

"I was only a few years old and wanted to start a sect and establish a sect. I wanted to see what sect you can start."

Li Shimin muttered, waved his hand, and signaled Eunuch Gao to do business quickly. He picked up a memorial and opened it to read it.
Chapter completed!