Xu Ziyuan set up the banquet on the highest tower in Hetao City.

"Xue Duhu, please!" Xu Ziyuan smiled and stretched out his hand to invite Xue Ping to sit down.

"Here you are the master." Xue Ping bowed slightly and said, "Since you should be the governor of Xu to sit down." ”

Xu Ziyuan smiled and said, "Guests are as good as they come." Besides, when Xue Du was in charge, I was still a junior character, you are a senior, so you should naturally sit down. ”

"In that case, then please sit down with General Zhang." Xue Ping turned to look at Zhang Jia on the side again.

Zhang Jia frowned and glanced at the two of them, shook his head and said: "You literati are trouble, aren't you just a seat, say this, Xue Duhu, speaking of which, although the three of us are all in charge, but your face is bigger than ours, you dare to run back from the Western Regions like this, regardless of business, but Li Xiang not only didn't say anything, but also sent someone to send a message eight hundred miles to send urgently, let us ensure your safety." If this were to change us, I'm afraid that we would be waiting for someone to supervise the Imperial History or the Weiwei Temple. With this alone, you should also sit on the top position, what are you talking about! ”

After saying these words, Zhang Jia walked to the right side and sat down.

Xu Ziyuan laughed, walked to the left and sat down.

Xue Ping paused for a moment, finally nodded, and walked to the top and sat down.

"So soon, Li Xiang has a letter coming?"

Zhang Jia said: "Three people, eight horses, sleepless, all the way to the madness, just arrived last night, just with your front and back feet." I'm still sleeping with my head covered! ”

Xue Ping was stunned for a moment and looked at Xu Ziyuan.

Xu Ziyuan got up with a smile, lifted the wine jug, and poured the glass wine glass in front of Xue Ping with red blood: "This is our local grape wine, Xue Duhu tastes it." ”

Picking up the wine glass, Xue Ping took a shallow sip and said, "You only received Li Xiang's letter last night, but this morning, Zhang Xingke greeted us. ”

Xu Ziyuan and Zhang Jia glanced at each other, Zhang Jia was slightly embarrassed, turned his head to look outside the city, but Xu Ziyuan raised his glass unhurriedly to invite Xue Ping, the two took a sip together, Xu Ziyuan said: "Du Hu is really like a torch, I know that I can't hide it from you, General Zhang thought he could be sloppy." ”

"Well, you know that they assassinated me." Xue Ping drank all the wine in his cup in one gulp.

"Not only do you know, but you know it well!" Xu Ziyuan smiled and said, "In addition to those bandits who died in your hands, the few heads who really planned this matter are in our hands at this moment. You can't survive, you can't die. ”

Zhang Jia coughed a few times and said, "Xue Duhu is so powerful, I wonder if you can guess who these people who want to kill you are?" It's not us, we're just some theater watchers. ”

Xue Ping let out a long sigh and said, "It's from the Lingnan Xiang family." ”

Zhang Jia's body shook slightly, and he gave a thumbs up to the other party, "Amazing, amazing, no wonder Li Xiang thinks so highly of you, Zhang is convinced." But let me toast you. ”

Stand up and fill the cup for Xue Ping.

Xu Ziyuan said: "The people of the Lingnan Xiang family want to kill you and frame it for Li Xiang, and I'm going to plan it, and after they arrange it, they will kill their leaders, and then quietly watch the big drama they are preparing." But it's a pity that the combat effectiveness of these bandits is so disappointing, not only did they not kill you, but they were killed by you. These people from the Sima clan have been training in the Western Regions for several years, and they are indeed three days away, so they should be impressed. ”

"After they kill me, you will collect the corpses for me, and then send these people you have captured back to Wuyi, so that the truth will be revealed to the world, right?" Xue Ping sneered. "Actually, you also prepared a second-hand plan, if these bandits can't kill me, those cavalry of Zhang Xing will complete this plan for them, right?"

Xu Ziyuan nodded: "Yes, it is indeed so prepared." If Li Xiang's messenger comes half a day late, you will die. It's a pity, I didn't expect Li Xiang to value you so much, or Li Xiang also guessed some of my thoughts. That's why I sent someone over in such a hurry. ”

"I'm afraid Li Ze can't think of so much, probably Gongsun Changming!" Xue Ping said indifferently.

"Anyway, Li Xiang saved your life." Xu Ziyuan said: "You have to remember this love." Now that Li Xiang has already spoken, he wants you Xue Ping to go back alive, then Zhang Xing can only become a guard to greet you. Xue Duhu, you won't blame me, will you? ”

Xue Ping shook his head: "There is nothing to blame. ”

"I knew that Xue Duhu was a generous person." Xu Ziyuan smiled, "General Zhang, come, let's toast Xue Duhu together." ”

"What about those people in the Xiang family?" The three of them raised their glasses, and after each drank it all, Xue Ping asked.

"If nothing can be done, what's the use of keeping them?" Xu Ziyuan spread his hands: "These people have sinister intentions, so they naturally deserve a thousand cuts." We don't need him anymore, and Xue Duhu will definitely not keep them to make himself disgusting. After returning to Wuyi, will you question Xiang Lan! ”

Xue Ping lowered his head, his face full of pain.

Xu Ziyuan stood up, walked to the battlement, held the battlement with both hands, and looked at the distance of the city wall, the endless green, the breeze blowing, the green undulating, like a wave.

"Xue Duhu, when you went to the Western Regions, you also passed through here, at that time, this place was still barren, there were no cities, no villages, no households, and no crops." Xu Ziyuan turned his head to look at Xue Ping: "Now you look at it again, there is everything here." How many years have it taken us to start from scratch? At present, Ningxia Province has 200,000 registered households and more than 800,000 registered people. Of course, this is far less than the mainland, which is probably what a state looks like, but this is only less than three years of training. This year, we have been able to become self-sufficient. ”

Zhang Jia also said proudly: "We take Hetao City, the surrendered city in the east and west as the base point, and also control the vast area of the south and north of the desert, with these, we have erected a strong shield for the Tang Dynasty." So that Datang can concentrate on the country without distraction. ”

"Not bad!" Xu Ziyuan continued: "In the past few years in the Western Regions, even if you haven't seen the great changes here, you can also feel that the support given to you from us is getting bigger and bigger, and now that the Western Regions have returned to the Tang Dynasty, it won't take a few years for the grand scene we have appeared here to inevitably reappear in the Western Regions." Li Xiang said that in the future, the Western Regions will become the real territory of the Tang Dynasty, rather than some detainted country. ”

Xue Ping nodded, Li Ze also told him about this.

Lifting the wine jug, Xu Ziyuan poured Xue Ping full of wine again, put down the wine jug, forced the other party's eyes, and said, "All this was done under the leadership of Li Xiang." When Li Xiang was in the most difficult time, he did not forget the feat of developing Ningxia and returning to the Western Regions. Xue Duhu, do you admit it? ”

"Li Xiang is naturally a great achievement."

"What did Li Yan do when he was in power?" Xu Ziyuan stood up straight suddenly: "During his reign, the feudal towns were cut off, the battles were endless, Zhang Zhongwu rebelled, what else did he do besides wailing in the imperial city?" If it weren't for Li Xiang's sudden rise to strength, Datang would have been wiped out by Zhang Zhongwu long ago. ”

"The ...... of the world in the three hundred years of the Tang Dynasty"

"The city head changes the banner of the king, in this world, there are naturally virtuous people living there!" Xu Ziyuan snorted coldly: "Li Xiang saved Li Yan once, but when Zhu Wen rebelled, Li Yan was still powerless, if it wasn't for Li Xiang's preparations, Li Yan would have died in the hands of Zhu Wen a long time ago, and what else is there in the Tang Dynasty for three hundred years." ”

Xue Ping opened his mouth to stammer, he wanted to refute, but found that he was speechless.

"Without Li Xiang, where is there any Datang?" Zhang Jia held the wine glass and sneered: "It's ridiculous that you people are thinking about how to deal with Li Xiang." Gao Shuai, haha, before Gao Shuai died, he didn't forget to set a trap to harm me, probably he thought that I Zhang Jia had a backbone in the back of his head! Pity my tens of thousands of sons, what a wrongful death! ”

Thinking of the battle of Gaoliang River, Zhang Jia immediately became angry, how sad he was at that time, he almost died without a body. If it weren't for Xu Ziyuan finding him later, if he hadn't made a quick decision and switched to Li Ze, I'm afraid that now it's a question of whether his grave can be found.

"Today's Datang is strong and strong, and the people are rich, but what does this matter to Li Yan? What's the matter with the royal family? What did they do? What can they do? Xu Ziyuan said: "All this is because of Li Xiang." Since Li Xiang has done so well, why do we need Li Ke, who doesn't know how to fart, to be this emperor who doesn't live up to his name! ”

Xue Ping said with some difficulty: "Did Li Ze ask you to tell me this?" ”

Xu Ziyuan sat down: "You are wrong, this is what I want to tell you." Li Xiang's mind, you can't imagine it at all. Xue Duhu, what you are doing now, if you change to anyone else, you are already a dead person. ”

Xue Ping was silent.

"Someone, send it!" Xu Ziyuan turned his head and shouted.

An official hurried over, placed a piece of silk on the table, and turned to retreat.

Xu Ziyuan tore off the covered silk in a hurry, and a spherical thing appeared in front of Xue Ping's eyes.

"This is what Li Xiang asked the messenger to bring and specially show you. Li Xiang said, this thing is called a globe! Xu Ziyuan turned the globe and said, "The red coating on it is the land that our Datang occupies now." What do you think? Small, right? Not remarkable at all, right? ”

Xue Ping stared at the slowly rotating thing that Xu Ziyuan called a globe.

"Li Xiang said, show you this thing, if you want to go back, then we will send someone to escort you all the way back to Wuyi, if you change your mind, then go back to the Western Regions Capital Protectorate by yourself."