"What's the news?" Li Xiu heard Ma Ye say that there was a news from the Western Regions, thinking that it was related to cotton, and asked with great concern at the moment, cotton is an important cash crop, and even Li Xiu plans to wait until the cotton planting area reaches a certain level, open a textile factory by himself, and then improve the loom, I don't know if the industrial revolution can be advanced?

"Hehe, this news is related to the Western Turks, to put it simply, the Western Turks are going to be chaotic again!" Ma Ye showed a gloating expression at this time and said, after Jieli was destroyed, the Western Turks entrenched in the Western Regions became the most likely force to threaten the Tang Dynasty, of course, the Western Turks are too far away from the Tang Dynasty, so this threat is much smaller, but it has to be guarded against. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ma Ye said that he told the Western Turks about the past two years, not long after Li Shimin ascended the throne, there was a civil strife in the Western Turks, the original Khan was killed by his uncle, and then the Western Turks split into two forces, one of which was mainly based on the Mohelu Khan who killed the original Khan, and the other was mainly the son of the old Khan, that is, the Khan of the Wanton Yehu.

Originally, these two forces were incompatible, which led to continuous wars in the Western Regions, and even they asked Li Shimin for peace together, but Li Shimin did not agree, in which Li Xiu also played a key role, but after Mo Hedu and Ye Hu fought for a few years, they found that they couldn't help each other, so they slowly made a truce, and the two sides maintained a strategic balance.

However, the balance of the Western Turks was broken after the Tang Dynasty destroyed Jieli, because Mo Helu has always been friendly with Jieli, and the two sides are also allied with each other, but with the destruction of Jieli, Mo Helu also panicked all of a sudden, and Ye Hu also seized the opportunity at once, and did not hesitate to send troops to attack Mo Helu, and as a result, Mo Helu's forces were wiped out in one fell swoop, and even Mo Helu himself was killed by the general Ni Xiao under Ye Hu, which also made Ye Hu officially inherit his father's position and become the Khan of the Western Turks.

Originally, Ye Hu pacified the civil strife in the Western Turks in one fell swoop, and he could almost become the master of the revival of the Western Turks, but Ye Hu was suspicious in life, and he was very ruthless, and immediately began to act on the heroes around him after quelling the civil strife, from this point of view, he was almost no different from Zhu Yuanzhang in later generations.

However, he did not have Zhu Yuanzhang's skill, nor did he have Zhu Yuanzhang's prestige in the country, he first killed the biggest hero of Mo Hedu, Yili Little Khan, and wiped out the entire other party, so that everyone in the Western Content was in danger, and then forced the general who killed Mo Helu to escape from the country, and implemented iron-blooded rule over the Western Turks, and anyone who dared to disobey him was all executed by him, and the entire Western Turks trembled under the iron fist of the Western Turks.

Maybe it's because the Khan has done too many things that anger and resentment, just when he has just cleaned the Western Turks and completely mastered the military and political power of the Western Turks, he may have felt that there is nothing worth paying attention to in the country, so he turned his attention to the outside of the Western Turks.

However, it is a pity that Ye Hu kicked the iron plate this time, Xue Yantuo and Hui Hui and other Tiele tribes are getting stronger and stronger, and Jieli has repeatedly suffered big losses in their hands, not to mention that Ye Hu has just pacified the civil strife, so when he led the army to attack the Tiele tribes, he was soon attacked by the Tiele tribes, and the army also suffered heavy losses.

"That's the way it is, the Wild Leaf Protector was already unpopular in the Western Turks, and now he has been beaten so badly by the Tiele tribes, it is estimated that it won't be long before the Western Turks will be in chaos again!" Ma Ye finally concluded.

"The Western Regions are so chaotic, will it affect our introduction of cotton?" At this time, Li Xiu did not care about the affairs of the Western Turks at all, but asked about cotton, as if cotton was more important than the entire Western Turks.

"It is true that there will be some impacts, but the more chaotic the Western Regions, the more we will affect the cotton seeds, so in general, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages!" Ma Ye replied with a smile at this time.

"As long as it doesn't affect our cotton, as for the Western Turks, it has nothing to do with us!" Li Xiu immediately sighed when he heard this, and said with an indifferent expression.

"Huh?" Ma Ye was stunned when he heard Li Xiu's words, and then looked Li Xiu up and down a few times, and then said a little incredible, "This is not like what you said, with your temperament, there is a civil strife in the Western Turks, isn't our Tang Dynasty just right to expand its power in the Western Regions?" ”

"Hehe, these things are naturally worrying about Your Majesty, I'm just a small Ministry of Agriculture, it's good to be able to manage the Ministry of Agriculture, as for other things, I won't be involved anymore." Li Xiu said with a smile at the moment.

"You kid......" Ma Ye was also very surprised when he heard Li Xiu's words, but then he understood what Li Xiu meant, and he couldn't help pointing at him and laughing, "I see, I didn't expect you to escape quite quickly, but it's okay like this, so as not to really be able to get out in the future, but Your Majesty is probably not so easy to let you go." ”

"It doesn't matter, anyway, I don't plan to work as hard as I did some time ago, it's a big deal that I've been sick for a year and a half, is it possible that Your Majesty can still force me to bring me sick to the court?" Li Xiu was full of indifference at this time, although Ma Ye was in charge of the Fei Nu Division, he would never tell Li Shimin these words, and Li Xiu also had absolute confidence in this.

"I knew that you kid would use this kind of scoundrel means, but it's okay, I'm getting older, and in two years I want to hand over the errand of Feinusi to others, and then you can chat and fish with me more, so that I won't be lonely when I get old." When Ma Ye said the end, he couldn't help but show an emotional expression, especially now that he was about to get married, it made him feel a little depressed.

"Uncle Ma, don't worry, there are so many children in my family, they all like to hear you tell the story of the war, I guess it is impossible for you to be lonely in the future!" Li Xiu saw that Ma Ye's expression was wrong, and he deliberately joked at the moment, but what he said was also true, for example, Jin'er and Ping An Lang often pestered Ma Ye to tell stories.

Hearing Li Xiu talk about Jin'er's children, Ma Ye finally smiled a little, the older a person gets, the more he likes children, it just so happens that Li Xiu has the most children in his family, so when he is fine, he also likes to go to Li Xiu to talk to the children, which also adds a lot of color to his life.

In the next few days, Li Xiu put down all other things and devoted himself to the preparation of the wedding of Hate'er, and the county lord of Guanghua also went to Luoyang in person, and then took Hate'er's younger brother, that is, Yang Fan to Chang'an, after all, Hate'er got married, and Yang Fan naturally had to participate.

However, although the wedding of Hate Er has been prepared for a long time, the scale of the whole wedding is not very large, firstly, Hate Er's identity is more embarrassing, after all, she is Yang Guang's daughter, the princess of the former Sui, it is really not too public, in addition, Shangguan Yi's parents died early, and there are no relatives at home, and he is just a junior official who has just entered his career, if the wedding is too extravagant, it will also be detrimental to his career.

Soon it came to the twenty-fifth of this month, that is, the day when Hate Er got married, Ma Ye had rummaged through the Yellow Calendar, and then found such a good day to marry, Li Xiu also came to Ma Ye's house early, busy with Hate Er's marriage, and also helped Ma Ye welcome guests.

Although Ma Ye is alone, he has a lot of friends and subordinates in the army, so early this morning, Qin Qiong and He Panren, these generals came with congratulatory gifts, and there were more people on the side of the county lord of Guanghua, in addition to her mother and the eldest princess of Tong'an, there were also many cousins and sisters, such as Princess Pingyang came with a group of children, and even Queen Xiao, who never went out, also brought Yang Zhengdao to congratulate.

However, among these guests who came to congratulate, Li Xiu found that there was a special person, and he didn't even expect that the other party would come in person.