"The temperature is good, cabbage doesn't like high temperatures, so we must control the combustion of fuel, and the soil should not be too wet, otherwise it is easy to get sick, when the weather is fine, we must uncover the straw mats on it and let them bask in the sun more, so that the leaves of the cabbage will not be so yellow!" Li Xiu held his fur fur in his hand and talked eloquently to Yang Dui and the others in the greenhouse. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, winter came again, and the greenhouses behind the yamen of the Ministry of Agriculture were also built, but because of the limited time, the number of greenhouses was not much, and cabbage, sweet potatoes and corn were planted each, so that it was easy to observe their growth in the greenhouse.

"Yes, thank you Li Xianjiu for your advice, we will definitely pay more attention in the future!" Yang Dui said very respectfully at this time, the more he came into contact with Li Xiu, the more he felt that Li Xiu was knowledgeable, and sometimes he wondered where did this young man in front of him, who was not a few years younger than himself, learn this knowledge?

"Okay, you guys are busy, I still have something to do at home, so I'll leave first!" Li Xiu stood up straight at this time and said, I came here today to see how the cabbage in the greenhouse is growing, just now he has explained everything that should be explained, so naturally there is no need to stay here anymore, even if it is only ordered now.

"Okay, if there is anything, I will visit Li Xijiu, and I will send you out!" Yang Dui was accustomed to Li Xiu's late arrival and early departure, and personally sent him out of the greenhouse, and then went back to continue his work.

Li Xiu did not go back immediately when he got out of the greenhouse, but went to the greenhouse where corn and sweet potatoes are planted to take a look, although the number of corn and sweet potatoes is limited, but these are mainly planted here to study and familiarize themselves with their habits, so the requirements for the quantity are not high, and enough corn and sweet potatoes have been harvested this autumn, and the greenhouse of Princess Pingyang is full of sweet potato seedlings, and when it comes to next spring, the planting scale will be expanded several times.

In the end, Li Xiu went out of the yamen of the Ministry of Agriculture, and then came to the market outside, in just a few months, the market has become bigger and bigger, and even people have built fixed stalls on the side of the road, although it is just a simple small shack, but it is estimated that it will not be long before there will be two rows of real shops here, and then people will settle here, until a small village and town is formed.

The New Year is coming in another month, and the market at this time is also very lively, full of vendors selling New Year's goods, such as cloth, meat, oil and salt, etc., and even Li Xiu also saw someone selling "firecrackers", that is, the kind of thing stuffed with saltpeter in the bamboo, Li Chengdao had given him a lot before, and it would "crackle" in the fire, but it was still much worse than the real firecrackers.

In addition to the New Year's goods, the most is a variety of food, especially the stalls that sell Hu cakes alone There are four, and three of them are real Hu people, but people who often eat Hu cakes know that most of the really delicious Hu cakes are made by Han people, and Hu people make Hu cakes with only one advantage, that is, they are full, which is also very in line with the needs of most villagers, after all, they are not very provocative about the taste, the key is to be hungry.

Li Xiu came to the only Han Hu cake stall, bought a freshly baked Hu cake, and cut half a catty of mutton and stuffed it inside, in the morning Yi Niang had to drink tofu brain, Li Xiu didn't like to eat, whether it was sweet or salty, so he only ate two buns when he went out, and he didn't eat enough at all.

The hot Hu Cake is sandwiched with salty mutton, and the mouth is full of fragrance, Li Xiu can't help but admire, this skill of selling Hu Cake is getting better and better, don't look at the three Hu people stalls next to it, but the officials in the official office also like to come to him to buy Hu Cake, although the portion is a little smaller, but the taste is really amazing.

Li Xiu began to walk home eating Hu cakes, passing by the old house, only to see a long row of cars parked in front of the old house, and a bunch of all kinds of people stood in front of the car, these are all businessmen who come to purchase tea, among them there are also some servants of the powerful family, but there are very few, these people will purchase tea, sell to Chang'an, Luoyang and other places, and even Hu merchants take tea on the Silk Road where risks and opportunities coexist, and sell it to Central Asia and West Asia and other places.

On the hillside behind the tea workshop, there is the new tea garden that Liu Boss and they have cultivated, but some tea trees have been transplanted on it, but the number is very small, taking advantage of this winter, they have to remove some weeds and trees on the mountain, as well as some stones and the like, so that after the beginning of spring, they can plant more tea trees, but it will take at least a few years for the entire tea garden to produce tea.

Just when Li Xiu looked at the tea garden on the back mountain, he suddenly saw the door of the workshop being opened, and then he saw the pungent Qiu Niang come out, and took out a note to call out the name of a merchant, and immediately a black fat businessman ran over with a smile, and then under the command of Qiu Niang, the black fat merchant took his men into the workshop to move tea, and soon filled his carriage, and then he paid for it and set off, and he didn't dare to say a word to Qiu Niang during the whole process.

Seeing this, Li Xiu couldn't help but feel funny, the tea workshop was full of women, for the safety of here, so Yuechan transferred Qiu Niang here, and also recruited a few female guards who retired from Princess Pingyang, and there were businessmen who saw Qiu Niang's beauty and wanted to flirt, but they were repaired by Qiu Niang, these tigresses, and no one cared about it when they sued the government, and since then, Qiu Niang's notoriety has spread, and the businessmen who come here to do business have never dared to cause trouble.

Qiu Niang also saw Li Xiu at this time, but she still had something to do, so she just nodded at Li Xiu, and then called the next merchant and supervised them to transport the goods. Li Xiu didn't bother her, and left quietly after watching it for a while.

Now there are a lot of problems in the tea workshop, the most important thing is that the output can not go up, which is caused by two reasons, one is that the workshop is too small, resulting in the inability to recruit more workers, and the other is that the raw materials are insufficient, and the tea garden is not available.

The Hu cake in his hand was quickly eaten, Li Xiu came home humming a little song, Yi Niang is now sitting in the inner hall with a big belly, orthodox Qi Niang and Hate Er and other girls learn embroidery, originally Qu Yi also likes to learn embroidery, but now the weather is cold, she is worried that her daughter will freeze on the road, so there is no way to come.

Qi Niang is a character who can't sit still, and when she learns embroidery, she also looks around, but Li Xiu immediately glared at her when she came in, but it attracted a grimace from Qi Niang, and then she pretended to be serious and learned, but soon made the old mistake again, which made Li Xiu a little helpless, maybe she really spoiled this sister too much, resulting in her never being a lady in the traditional sense.

Looking at the sky outside, there was still a period of time before noon, Li Xiu thought about it seriously, and found that he had nothing to do, if the weather was warm, he could still go fishing, but now the river was frozen, and he didn't want to sit by the river and blow the cold wind, in addition, he only had one thing left to do.

Thinking of this, Li Xiu immediately stepped out again, ready to find Princess Pingyang, it is strange to say, he has worked hard for so long, but Princess Pingyang still has no signs of pregnancy, and she will not live in Li Xiu's house if she is not pregnant, which makes Li Xiu a little frustrated, could it be that his efforts are not enough?

However, just when Li Xiu came to the front yard from the inner house, and had not yet gone out of the gate, he saw Ma Ye hurriedly break in and almost bumped into Li Xiu, and when he saw him, he immediately grabbed him to the living room, and then said with a solemn face: "The court is going to change!" ”

"What's the matter, King Qin has been promoted again?" Li Xiu couldn't help but joke when he saw Ma Ye's appearance, after Li Shimin was promoted last time, he thought that the next step would be the dismantling of Tiance Mansion by the imperial court, but he didn't expect that after waiting for nearly half a year, there was no big movement, which made him a little skeptical of his original judgment.

"Promoted to a fart officer, the Turks are going south!" Ma Ye said anxiously at this time.

"Turks!" Li Xiu was also stunned when he heard the news, and then said with some puzzlement, "Come on, anyway, it's not the first time that the Turks have gone south, although our Datang is on the defensive, but the Turks don't want to take advantage!" ”

Li Xiu does have the confidence to say this, after all, since Li Shimin defeated the Turks last time, Li Yuan has adopted his method of dividing the Turks, which has caused continuous internal contradictions among the Turks, and the strength has plummeted, in contrast, the strength of the Tang Dynasty has skyrocketed, so although the Turks have a crisis for the Tang Dynasty, it is not too serious.

"This time it's not actually the Turkic people's own problem, but the problem on the side of the imperial court, you may not know, now the imperial court has been arguing about this matter!" Ma Ye said anxiously again.

"What's so noisy about this, the soldiers are coming to block, the water is coming to cover the earth, the Turks are coming, let's send troops to defend, as long as we can keep the Turks out of the country!" Li Xiu said even more puzzled at this time.

"Is that simple?" Ma Ye sat on the chair at this time, picked up the teapot next to him and drank a few sips, and then said with a swipe of his beard, "Let me ask you, who did the Turks send to resist when the Turks came before?" ”

"Do you still need to ask, of course it's King Qin?" Li Xiu replied very casually, but after he finished speaking, he reacted, and his face suddenly became solemn, "Could it be that the imperial court doesn't plan to send King Qin to lead the troops this time?" ”

"That's right, this time the news of the Turks going south came, and the King of Qin naturally wanted to take this opportunity to consolidate his power in the army, so he took the initiative to ask the order to go north to resist the Turks, but the princes and Pei Lin all opposed it, and strongly recommended the King of Qi to lead the troops instead of the King of Qin, so I don't need to say why?" When Ma Ye said the end, he also showed an embarrassed expression on his face.

"I see, when the Turks go south, they will naturally send elite troops to resist, and the most elite troops of the Tang Dynasty are all in the hands of the generals of Tiance Mansion. Li Xiu couldn't help but say to himself when he heard this, he thought that Li Yuan had suspended the suppression of Li Shimin, but he didn't expect that Li Yuan would not make a move, and if he made a move, he would force Li Shimin to death!

"That's right, Your Majesty wants to take this opportunity to support King Qi to seize the military power in the hands of King Qin, and this time the Turks are going south!" Ma Ye spoke again at this time, and a smile full of conspiracy appeared on his face.

"Weird?" Li Xiu also showed a contemplative expression when he heard Ma Ye's last words, but he quickly understood what he meant, so he raised his head and said, "Uncle Ma, you mean to say that in the past, the Turks went south, either during the autumn harvest or after the beginning of spring, and they could grab a large amount of grain during the autumn harvest, and after the beginning of spring, it was the hungriest time for the Turks, but now it is a cold winter, if the Turks go south, a heavy snow may cut off their back road, so it is indeed very unreasonable for them to go south at this time!" ”

"That's right, many of my brothers were sent to the north, but they didn't receive any signs of the Turks going south in advance, and all of a sudden, the Turks began to gather their forces and make preparations for going south, but they didn't want to think about it, going south in winter is risking the annihilation of the whole army, Jieli shouldn't be so reckless, right?" When Ma Ye said the end, he couldn't help laughing a few times, he felt that there was a huge conspiracy in this, maybe the Turks were helping Li Yuan act.

"In this way, this matter is indeed very strange, we can guess it, and the King of Qin will definitely be able to guess it, but if the imperial court really decides to let the King of Qi lead the troops to the battle, I'm afraid he can't stop it, right?" Li Xiu also sighed at this time and said, the relationship between him and Li Shimin is very strange, although he doesn't want to admit that the other party is his friend, but he is also very sympathetic to Li Shimin's current situation.

"King Qin must have guessed it, so when he was in the court, he desperately grabbed the military power and refused to let go, but unfortunately he is now a rebel, and even some of the ministers who supported him before have changed the direction of the wind, and ****** is now a large number of people, and the king of Qin alone cannot save the situation, for example, although His Majesty did not make a decision immediately today, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that he has hinted that the king of Qin handed over the military power to the king of Qi!" Ma Ye couldn't help but show a little sympathy at this time, who would have thought that King Qin, who had made great achievements in the war, would end up like this now?

However, what Ma Ye didn't expect was that after listening to his words, Li Xiu was silent for a long time, and the expression on his face was also uncertain, and finally he suddenly sighed and said a meaningful sentence: "Your Majesty is pressing too hard!" (To be continued.) )