The long procession moved forward slowly, with more than 20,000 troops, with 5,000 elite Turkic troops and more than 300,000 ordinary people, and there was no end in sight, which was very spectacular.

It's a pity that they became prisoners, and the Turkic people who traveled back and forth for more than a thousand miles in a short period of time showed some listlessness, which greatly affected the morale of the team.

Su Dingfang has already decided to stay, and the imperial court's repeated methods of aligning the king have made Su Dingfang completely disappointed, what can he do when he goes back? Looking at the long line, there were more people than cattle, sheep and horses, and the solemn expression on his face never fell: "Your Highness, you shouldn't have agreed to that bullshit distribution plan, we fought a tough battle, why let them take the lion's share?" ”

"This king has done his best to be benevolent to him, those cattle, sheep and horses, this king is just used to buy the peace of the Chang'an family." Li Yuanji is indeed worried, his family is in Chang'an, and now is not the time to completely break up.

"But what about us people? More than 300,000 mouths are waiting to eat! "Whether it's benevolence and righteousness, or for any other reason, the 300,000 mouths in front of you can't be ignored.

Li Shimin played this hand very beautifully, and threw the heavy burden to Li Yuanji, and he took away all the valuable things in these burdens.

"Forgot our old business? This season is here, it is a good time to grow food, and when winter comes, there will be enough food to ensure it. As for the rest, this king has already bought 500,000 stone of grain, and he is waiting near Daizhou. Regarding the issue of food, Li Yuanji is not in a hurry at all.

There is no shortage of water in the grassland, and there is rarely dry weather here, which is indeed the best place to grow grain, even if you can only grow one season a year, you can't support the yield brought by the land.

"Food! Pasture! In a year's time, we will no longer be short of food. Li Yuanji said with confidence.

The steppe is not barren, what is barren is only the thoughts of the Turks, it is the customs of the nomads, but now, the Turks and the Tang Dynasty are facing the same problem, one is only know how to graze, once there is heavy snow in winter, cattle and sheep will be frozen to death countless times.

The other will only cultivate, and in the event of a drought in the summer, there will be no harvest.

"What about defense? Our troops are too small, and once the Yi Nan in the north, or Jieli in the south, we will inevitably be the first to suffer, and no matter how much food is grown, a war will be completely destroyed. Su Dingfang continued to ask, staying, the burden on his shoulders is not light, but this is a responsibility, not the inexplicable pressure after going back.

"You'll find out later!" Li Yuanji smiled, deliberately left a trace of suspense, sighed, and continued: "From now on, you are the general of the Qi State, and the five thousand Turkic troops will be handed over to you, you don't need to teach them too many advanced ideas, just surrender, and if necessary, you can kill their arrogance." ”

……

Further north after Wuyuan, there is nothingness, and Wuyuan City has basically been abandoned for a long time.

The Turks are not good at management, and a good Fengzhou can be a mess, not to mention the slightly inferior location of Wuyuan, except for the occasional passing by as a fixed camp in the wild, Wuyuan City has not been visited for a long time.

Li Yuanji was naturally not in the mood to clean up, and directly ordered to camp outside Wuyuan City for the night.

"Your Highness, there is a situation!" Ma Wu stumbled into the camp tent and shouted.

"What's the situation?" Ma Wu's reaction made Li Shimin's heart tighten, and he hurriedly asked.

"We ...... We seem to have found a princess! Ma Wu said with a flustered expression.

"Bring it here!" Li Yuanji's heart was relieved, what else was the matter?

It is not surprising that the princess appeared in the Turks, but these princesses are not orthodox princesses, most of them are clan daughters, or simply canonized a commoner princess before the marriage and relatives instead of the orthodox princess to marry and kiss, this time they captured the people of Jieli Khan's headquarters, and it is not impossible that there are princesses mixed with them.

However, even if it is a princess, it is also a princess of the former Sui, and the Tang Dynasty has not really married a princess and a relative.

After a short time, two women were brought into the tent, and from the outward appearance they were about forty years old, with smooth and white skin, in stark contrast to the roughness of the Turkic women.

Seeing the appearance of these two princesses, Li Yuanji did not doubt why they were discovered.

Before, because of a mess, you can hide from the people by casually camouflaging it, but I ordered the government soldiers to choose concubines from among the captives, who doesn't want to pick a beauty out? As a result, the two princesses naturally could not continue to hide, and then they were discovered.

"Concubine body see Your Highness!"

"You must be Princess Yicheng!" In just one sentence, Li Yuanji almost confirmed the identity of the other party, and couldn't help but put his eyes on the other person, "Presumably this should be Queen Xiao, right?" ”

"The queen is just the identity of the concubine before, and now the concubine is a prisoner of His Royal Highness, and there is no queen here." Empress Xiao lowered her head slightly, bent her legs slightly, bowed, and said in a flat tone.

"It's all fate! Throne! Li Yuanji sighed helplessly, and immediately recruited someone to bring the chair.

Empress Xiao's life is still relatively bumpy, as the daughter of Emperor Xiliang, she is rich and noble, and later married Emperor Yang Guang of Sui Dynasty and became the queen of Sui Dynasty.

Immediately after Yu Wenhua and the defeat of the army, he fell into the hands of Dou Jiande, the third man he served.

Later, when Princess Yicheng heard about this, she sent someone to take him away from Dou Jiande, and the Turkic name was in front, and Dou Jiande did not dare not give it.

Then he served Jieli Khan with Princess Yicheng, the fourth man he had served.

However, all this was not what she wanted, but what could she do but be obedient? What else?

Li Yuanji has a good feeling for Empress Xiao, at least this is a respectable person, unlike the one next to her.

The eyes shifted from Empress Xiao to Princess Yicheng, and Princess Yicheng, who had already noticed the change in Li Yuanji's mentality, couldn't help but feel a little angry in her heart, but she didn't dare to show it on the surface, smiled slightly, and said with a cute attitude at the age of nearly sixty years: "The concubine body really feels worthless for His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness has repeatedly retreated, but Li Shimin's step by step has been achieved, His Royal Highness defeated the Turks and made immortal achievements, but he could only get these meager rewards, and he was driven out of the Central Plains ......"

"This king has no interest in you!" Having already guessed what Duke Yicheng was going to say, Li Yuanji interrupted first.

I'm only in my twenties, what are you doing as an old woman who is almost sixty years old? Old cows eating tender grass is not your way of eating.

"You ......" Princess Yicheng was not lightly angry, although she was a little older, but her posture and figure were also well maintained, and she looked about forty years old, even her 'son' Jieli Khan was three feet behind her beauty, and she couldn't wait to sing every night, Li Yuanji's words completely angered Princess Yicheng.

"You have merit to the former Sui, but you have no evil to the Tang Dynasty, this king can't convince himself to let you go!" Li Yuanji stared at Princess Yicheng deadly, and said viciously: "Give wine!" ”

Giving wine, naturally, is not ordinary wine, but a cup of poisonous wine, for a woman, such an ending is much better than a different head.

Several people forced Princess Yicheng to press, a cup of poisonous wine was poured into the abdomen, and after a short period of effort, Princess Yicheng convulsed, and after a struggle, a pair of vicious eyes stared at Li Yuanji until she completely lost consciousness.

From beginning to end, Empress Xiao didn't say a word, didn't plead, didn't ask for death, it seemed that the person who died had nothing to do with her.

"After a bumpy life, several disasters, two annihilations, and a widow, it seems that all the disasters in this world have been met by you!" Looking at the calm and quiet Empress Xiao, her figure and posture are also good, but she can't have the slightest greed in her heart, and some are just admiration and regret.

Some people say that she should have committed suicide to protect her chastity, and she should have gone there with Emperor Yang of Sui.

But who knows, this is a woman who repays grievances with virtue, and has persuaded Jieli several times not to go south, but it is a pity that Princess Yicheng, who advocates revenge for the Sui Dynasty, is relatively similar to Jieli in terms of status and opinions, which also led to the gradual enmity between the two.

I don't want to embarrass her, and I shouldn't embarrass her.

"Your younger brother is now the crown prince and the prince, and he has won the trust of the emperor, after arriving in Chang'an, you will live in the king's Taipingfang, where there is heating, and you don't have to be afraid of the cold in winter, as well as hot pot and other delicacies."

"Your Highness!" Empress Xiao still maintained her previous posture, neither happy nor sad, and those sad pasts seemed meaningless to her.

Princess Yicheng and Queen Xiao, who were discovered, have two completely different destinies, one has gone to the underworld to report, and the other will return to Chang'an tomorrow.

"How can Your Highness be so clear about Turkic affairs?" Su Dingfang asked with doubts in his heart, the doubts in his heart have become more and more serious recently, there seems to be nothing in the world that King Qi does not know, and the mysterious intelligence network, although it is terrifying, it did save their lives.

"As long as you inquire about these things, you can inquire about them, and they are not secret news." Li Yuanji responded lightly.

After a few months of development, the intelligence network has basically taken shape, and the rest can only fill the vacancy little by little, but looking at the present, it is still enough.

Looking at Empress Xiao who was far away, Li Yuanji gradually narrowed his eyes, hoping that his good deeds could be rewarded!

"Does His Highness really know all about the things in the world?" Chen Chun'er, who has been eating and drinking well in Fengzhou for more than a month, is still thin, looking at Li Yuanji with curiosity and innocence.