Seeing that Li Shimin's mood seemed to improve, Fang Xuanling lowered his head and pondered for a while, and then said, "Your Majesty, there is a small loophole in the urgent report of Hong Ling, I don't know..."

"You mean why there are only prisoners but no supplies, right?" Li Shimin snorted: "I guess this is the trick of that boy Li Muyun, but forget it, seeing that he is still pragmatic and has not forgotten the 500,000 kilograms of steel making, I won't care about him."

"Your Majesty is generous!" Fang Xuanling bowed slightly and flattered him a little.

Li Shimin was photographed comfortably and a smile appeared on his face: "Okay, if nothing happens, Xuanling will do the business. Xue Yantuo's affairs are not trivial, you have to deal with them well."

"No, I understand!"

...

In the following period, there were some explanations about Xue Yantuo's offense in the border incident one after another. They were sent to Chang'an, and the statements were almost the same. This was not a big deal for Fang Xuanling, and he easily handled the matter.

Because of Li Shimin's order, although the Ministry of War was dissatisfied with Li Muyun's detainment of more than 6,000 war horses, he did not say much in the end.

Everyone knows this kind of thing. Judging from the war report, the military has not made any effort this time. It is considered to be a waste of money to get the credit of three thousand prisoners of war. If they want to fight again, it would be a bit unreasonable.

Since the last battle to destroy the Turks, Tang Jian was transferred to the Ministry of Civil Affairs and did nothing all day long. His money was not something he was good at. In addition, the Minister of Civil Affairs was a man who offended people, so he didn't care much about it.

Now that Li Shimin sent him to Mobei again, he was in tune with his wishes. Without saying a word, he took his people all the way to Shuozhou, intending to learn about some situations before going on a mission.

...

At this time, Shanyin County was also in full swing to prepare for steelmaking.

Wang Wei agreed to Li Muyun's conditions and iron ore was being sent to the county through the power of the Wang family.

With these ores, Li Muyun's plan to make steel has also begun to be put on the agenda.

Under the scorching sun, the small blast furnace by the river was emitting thick smoke. Groups of civilians carried loads and poured the iron ore mixed with coke into the hole on the small blast furnace, even though they were sweating profusely.

Li Muyun held a copper-skinned loudspeaker made by Blacksmith Zhong in his hand, constantly cheering the civilians and not forgetting to direct the work.

"Mu Yun, no, the fire here can't be burned!" Wang Jie was shirtless, covered with fine sweat beads, and rushed over from the other side of the small blast furnace.

"If you can't burn it, use a bellows to blow the air. No matter what method you use, the fire inside must be burned." Li Muyun didn't even look at Wang Jie, but just shouted and looked at the fat man on the other side: "Fatty, are you stupid? Where is the lime I asked you to prepare?"

"Just behind you, don't bother me, I'm very busy too!" The fat man was directing a group of people to install bellows into the air inlet of a blast furnace. His nose was not the nose, his face was not the face, and he shouted back.

After all, it was the first time to smelve iron, and it was such a large scale. Not to mention Shanyin County, no one had any experience in the entire Tang Dynasty.

So Li Muyun and the young men were almost busy slapping the back of their heads. Even so, they still did this and forgot that, and they were completely indifferent.

Li Yuan and Yu Zhining sat far away by the river, watching Li Muyun bring Wang Jie, Fang Yizhi, and the fat man and the others live there, smiling very unkindly.

"Zhi Ning, what do you think of my adopted son?" With no outsiders around, Li Yuan no longer concealed his identity. His waist and back were straight, and he asked Zhining with a faint smile.

"The Supreme Emperor, Xiaoyao Hou is full of gold and jade. It is hard for the old minister to judge what he will be like in the future. However, looking at his behavior, the old minister thinks that if this son does not go on the evil path, he will be a pillar of the Tang Dynasty!" Yu Zhining said without any hesitation. Even though he was picky about Li Muyun in daily life, he was just a pity. Now facing Old Li Yuan, he didn't mind revealing his true thoughts without any scruples.

After hearing Yu Zhining's words, Li Yuan's smile became stronger and stronger. He smacked his lips and said, "In my opinion, this kid is very smart. If he is a military general, he is not as good as Li Ji, and if he is a civil servant, he will not be as good as a room, Du. But... it's just that this kid is lazy. Don't look at him being so busy now, but the central idea is to make himself feel more comfortable, otherwise he would not work so hard."

"Ah? This..." Yu Zhining could hardly believe his ears. He never expected Li Yuan to make such a high evaluation of Li Muyun.

"Why, don't believe it?" Li Yuan glanced at Yu Zhining indifferently, and then said, "Although my old eyes don't dare to say that I can see through everything, I'm still very accurate in seeing people in general. But even so, I have been in contact with this guy for more than half a year, but I still can't see through him."

"You say he is smart. Some things are as stupid as a pig. Take the second boy's sword as an example. He would actually use 500,000 kilograms of steel to exchange for the opportunity to use that sword."

"But you say he is stupid. This example of designing an ambush Xueyantuo people can tell you clearly that this kid's ability to plot against people is not worse than that of Li Ji, and I think Li Ji could not reach his current ability when he was in his twenties."

Li Yuan said these words to Zhining, or muttered to himself.

Yu Zhining listened to Lao Li Yuan's evaluation and fell into deep thought.

Li Yuan was observing Li Muyun, and he was also observing Li Muyun during this period. Through this period of observation, he found that he, a student, had extraordinary comprehension. As long as he said many things, the student could immediately learn from them and connect them with certain things in reality.

This ability to learn made Yu Zhining both surprised and worried, because if he continued like this, he could only persist for another half a year, and he would have no way to teach in half a year.

Of course, there is another more serious problem here, that is, this kid actually knows everything, just pretending to be confused by it on purpose. This made Yu Zhining grit his teeth in hatred, but there was no way out.
Chapter completed!