Li Mu shook his head and said, "This is inappropriate, but on the other hand. He told the people that in order to better implement the new policy and accurately divide the fields into everyone's hands, he needed to register and make a book. If the registration journalist cannot be completed before the specified date, he would not be able to obtain his own cultivated land. If he could complete the registration journalist within the specified time, he would receive preferential treatment for some corvee. In this way, the people would inevitably rush to the forefront."

"If someone still doesn't register-"

Li Mu sneered and said, "If you don't come to register under such conditions, what's wrong with being guilty? There must be a problem. The people of my Tang Dynasty are upright. If there are unidentified people, they will be treated as detailed and thrown into the mine as a coolie!"

Ma Zhou thought to himself that no one dared to hide it if this happens. It was the same as the effect, but it was much more tactful. Obviously, Li Mu's idea was better.

The two said goodbye. When Li Mu returned to the Hou's Mansion, the children had already fallen asleep.

In the room of several ladies, only Qiaoqiao's room lights were still on. Li Mu smiled and rushed to Qiaoqiao's room.

Today, the child was taken away by the old mother, and Qiaoqiao was the only one. Obviously, she was waiting specifically for Li Mu to come back. However, the waiting time was a bit long, and Qiaoqiao was already asleep. Li Mu approached Qiaoqiao and looked at Qiaoqiao's sleeping soundly. He couldn't bear to disturb her. He quietly took off his clothes and lay beside Qiaoqiao.

Qiaoqiao seemed to feel Li Mu's body temperature, and subconsciously crawled into his arms and leaned against his chest. Li Mu lowered his head and glanced at him, but couldn't tell whether Qiaoqiao had fallen asleep or not. So he looked at her sideways. After waiting for a while, he didn't see Qiaoqiao open his eyes. Only then did he realize that she was asleep, so he smiled and went to bed.

The next day, Li Mu asked Wei Yingluo to check the itinerary and found that today was a rare day without any arrangement. There was only one meeting with Gongsun Kang, which was not very important and could be postponed for a day. Li Mu thought about it and asked Wei Yingluo to inform Ikkyu and Gem to come over. He had been in the free-range state and it was time to take care of it.

Li Mu has never given Ikkyu a good look. One reason is to kill Yikyu and the other is that he is really unable to get close to Ikkyu because of his Japanese identity. However, this is all a small problem. He recently learned a new news that forced him to reposition Ikkyu.

And Gem is something he must meet. Not to mention that Gem is his disciple, if Li Yuan says, he has to do the matter. Whether it is successful or not, Gem will definitely meet.

After Li Mu had breakfast, Gem and Ikkyu arrived. What surprised Li Mu was that they knew each other and were good friends. After thinking about it carefully, it was not entirely unexpected. After all, they had lived in Honglu Temple together, so it was possible to get to know each other.

I haven't seen each other for another half a year, and both of them have changed a little. Ikkyu's hair has completely grown, and the scar on his head is no longer visible. Now he looks like an ordinary Tang Dynasty boy. Gem is developing towards the direction of a reckless man, with more muscles on his body and he has grown taller.

Li Mu waved his hand, and the maid took off the remaining plate and brought a cup of fragrant tea. He blew it, took a sip, and asked casually: "I haven't seen you for several months, have you both grown a little?"

The two teenagers couldn't help but complain, saying that you are so embarrassed to improve. What have you taught?

Gem glanced at Ikkyu, and Ikkyu glanced at Gem. Gem was helpless and said, "I don't dare to take it if you know the Marquis' words. Instead, I found a small thing that can better solve the test questions given by the Marquis before."

"What test questions?" Li Mu had completely forgotten it after too long.

"It's the problem of water flowing to a high place." Ikkyu almost turned his back without anger. How could such a person have forgotten such a tormenting question? He actually forgot!

"Oh." Li Mu remembered and said, "Then why are you making any progress?"

"Please move to the side yard." Yixiu kept his back, but Gem remembered it and said, "You mean the one in our yard-"

Ikkyu nodded, Gem smiled and said to Li Mu. "Teacher, Ikkyu did invent a new thing, but that thing is not very useful. He can only be used as a toy, and he didn't just carry it quickly with his hands!"

"I'm really curious about what you two said."

Li Mu stood up and followed the two to the small courtyard where Gem lived. There was a well in the northwest corner of the courtyard. Gem lived here and washed by this well.

When I arrived at the well, a familiar thing came into Li Mu's eyes.

"Hand pressure pump!"

Li Mu was a little surprised. He reached out and pressed the handle of the water pump skillfully. After a few clicks, he pumped up the well water more than ten feet deep. The faucet on the pump body drifted out of water. However, the amount of water was a bit worrying, and the problem was obvious. The airtightness of this thing was not very strong.

However, looking at the entire device, it is infinitely close to the hand-pressure pumps in the backyard wells of the orphanage that Li Mu saw when he was a child. In the era when electric pumps were not popular, hand-pressure pumps were a must-have for countless Chinese farmers.

"He really knew this thing long ago..."

Seeing that Li Mu was skillful in manipulating and didn't even need to explain, his self-confidence was slightly hit.

He originally planned to demonstrate to Li Mu, but now it seems that there is no need to...

He wanted to use this to show his excitement, but he did not know that the invention he had made was something that Li Mu had already played with. When he was depressed, he heard Li Mu say, "You can change the water lifting device to manual and create practical machinery without prompting me." Li Mu nodded with satisfaction, patted Ikkyu's shoulder with encouragement and said, "What a fucking genius!"

He clearly heard a vulgar word, but Ikkyu felt like he heard the fairy sound. He looked at Li Mu in surprise, and suddenly felt a little sore. In his memory, this was Li Mutou once praised him...

Ikki instantly felt that he was full of energy!

Resisting the soreness of his nose, Ichikyu choked and said, "I will continue to work hard!"

"Um."

In fact, there are many drawings in the system, and there are all kinds of hand-pressure pumps. But Li Mu didn't think about it, but don't forget that this is a situation where he has the help of the system. If he doesn't have a system, he can make a hand-pressure pump out of thin air. Li Mu asked himself that he can't do it. Maybe he can do it without a system, but that is because he has knowledge that has exceeded thousands of years and has seen a hand-pressure pump. If he has never seen it and thinks out of thin air, he will definitely not be able to do it.

Ikkyu showed him a possibility that smart people in this era could invent things that cross the era.

Only such progress is normal progress, and the progress brought by the system is inevitably suspected of being able to grow.

From this incident, Li Mu saw a possibility, which was the reason why he praised Ikki.

After praising Yixiu, Li Mu looked at Gem again. Gem shrugged and said, "Teacher, I didn't invent anything. But I was not idle either. I took a job in the Foreign Affairs Office and was very busy every day. If you hadn't been to me today, I would have gone to the goods station to collect taxes."

"What tax do you charge?"

"Cargo tax, isn't it what you stipulate?"

Of course, Li Mu knew about the goods tax, but he didn't expect that Gem would actually get involved and become a civil servant. In fact, this was the arrangement of Changsun Chong. When the Foreign Affairs Office was just built, Changsun Chong came to help. Later, Li Mu returned to Chang'an, and Changsun Chong also went back. Before leaving, Changsun Chong arranged his junior brother to the Foreign Affairs Office for training.

After that, Changsun Chong was busy with the banking matter and forgot about this matter. Gem kept doing this job, and he continued to this day.

Li Mu looked at the two of them and said, "You two are talented. Do you know what you want to do in the future? In other words, what dreams do you have?"

"I want to be your disciple." Ikkyu blurted out without thinking. This time he no longer concealed his thoughts and no longer took turns: "I want to learn skills, bring them back to my country, and let the people come out of ignorance!"

Li Mu nodded slightly, and did not rush to agree, but looked at Gem. Gem blurted out without thinking, "I want to marry Princess Huanzhu as her wife!"

Sure enough, there was no accident.

Li Mu did not scold or shirk this time, and said, "I can help you realize your dreams. However, before you realize your dreams, you have to take a little test!"

"No problem with any test!" the two of them said in unison, looking like they were not afraid.

However, the corners of Li Mu's mouth curled up. Seeing the corners of Li Mu's curled mouth, the two of them suddenly felt a little cool breeze behind them.

It seems that it is not that simple anymore-

"My previous disciples were also very outstanding. For example, your senior brother, Changsun Chong, whether it is the Office of the Internal Affairs, the Office of the Foreign Affairs, or the current bank, can stand alone and be my most proud disciple. For example, your second senior brother, King Li Tai of Wei, has a philosophical and geography, and is a versatile arithmetic and painting. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is an all-round talent. Your third senior brother, Qin Huaidao, is not very promising, but also a talent of the Three Ages, which is barely reasonable."

"But you two!" Li Mu shook his head and said, "I can't tell you any advantage!"

Both of them lowered their heads, but they complained in their hearts: Which of the old people you are talking about is what you taught? They are all self-aware and geniuses, okay? But they dare not say this, for fear that if they say it, Li Mu will regret it?

"I can't accept disciples with such qualifications as you are. But by chance, we are destined to be together. Since I have accepted you, I can't teach you nothing-but!" Li Mu increased his tone and said, "There is one thing we have to say before!"

"The old saying goes, respect teachers and respect the truth! I will teach you the ability, and you serve me. Whoever serves harder will teach me more skills. This has been the case since ancient times. Are you willing or unwilling?"

The two of them looked at each other and thought that there was indeed nothing good. But after weighing the pros and cons, they agreed and said, "The disciple is willing to serve the master!"

"Okay, let's start from now on." Li Mu glanced at the courtyard and ordered: "Give up the main room of this courtyard, and you both live in a side room. When you teach you in the future, you will be in this courtyard. From now on, there will be no servants to serve this courtyard. Make a bed, fold quilts, sweep the courtyard, and hit the teacher's back and legs..." Li Mu paused for a moment and said word by word: "You have to do it!"

The two agreed in a daze and did as Li Mu told him. While they were cleaning up, Li Mu went to his studio and tinkered with a small thing out. When he came back, he saw Ikki and Gem, his condition was a little different.

Ikkyu has suffered hardships since he was a child and also served his master Huiri, so he can do almost anything and is working diligently. Although Gem is in a down-and-out position now, he has been a serious prince since he was a child, especially in the slavery places like Tubo. He has served dozens of servants since he was a child, and he doesn't even have to do anything by himself when drinking water. He just opens his mouth and waits for people to feed him.

During this period, although I have done a good job in self-care in Datang, I have been doing it well compared to before, but I can’t help but be a little lazy.

When Li Mu was there, it was a little better. Li Mu left and his true nature was revealed.

"Cough!" Li Mu coughed, causing the lazy Gem to jump up in shock, and hurriedly grabbed a broom.

"Where are you lazy?"

"No, absolutely not!" Gem denied, saying, "I'm a little tired from working. Take a break and take a breath!"

Ikkyu raised his head, his lips squirmed, but he didn't say much.

Li Mu snorted and said, "My eyes are not blind either. I know very well who has done the work or who has not done it." As he said that, he sat on the recliner that he had just moved. The backrest of the recliner was completely in line with his spine. Li Mu was so comfortable that his eyes narrowed.

While sweeping the floor, Gem looked at Li Mu's face. Suddenly he couldn't help it and leaned closer and said, "Why did Master ask his disciples to learn to do these trivial things? Learning such trivial things is not a real skill. Princess Huanzhu won't like me because of these!"

Li Mu lay on the chair and did not answer directly, but asked back: "What do you think?"

"The disciple just couldn't figure it out, so he asked the master." Gem said in a muffled voice. The education he received since childhood was how to rule slaves, but he had never heard of being a servant who could become kings.

"Ask others everything, what is the purpose of growing your brain?" Li Mu took out the ruler from his sleeve and gave it to Gem. Gem was sore that he covered his butt and ran away. Li Mu took the ruler back, closed his eyes, and said in his heart, "What are you doing with this kind of nonsense? Can I tell you that I am just bored and want to make fun of you?"
Chapter completed!