The weather is getting warmer day by day, the snow on the northern grassland is slowly melting, and the trade routes are also unblocked, countless caravans that have been holding back for a winter have set off, with their respective goods to the grassland to do business, after all, they all know that the grassland was hit by the snow disaster last year, and countless livestock died, not to mention, the fur of these animals alone is a great wealth, and now the grassland people lack everything, so they can use a small piece of tea brick to replace a lot of good fur. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

However, these merchants soon found that their goods would be strictly inspected when they passed through some passes, and grain, iron ingots and other materials were strictly forbidden to be brought into the grassland, because these would increase the military strength of the grassland people.

It is precisely with the opening of the trade route again that Datang knows more information about the snow disaster on the grassland, most of which are related to Jieli, for example, Jieli once wanted to take advantage of the beginning of spring to go south to loot, but he was worried that his strength was insufficient, and there was Xue Yantuo next to him, so he could only dispel this idea in the end.

However, the loss of Jieli this time is too great, the loss of population is secondary, the key is that the death and injury of cattle and sheep is too serious, before the weather was cold, frozen cattle and sheep can still be eaten, but now the weather is hot, they can only peel off the thawed cattle and sheep skins, and sell them to merchants to reduce a little loss, but the beef and mutton can only watch them rot and deteriorate.

If it was placed in previous years, the canning workshop opened by Datang on the border would also go to the grassland to buy beef and mutton, but this year I don't know why it suddenly didn't accept it, which made Jieli's loss even greater, seeing that he couldn't even eat, and finally the angry Jieli could only annex some of the rich tribes around, and some tribes were even Turkic vassals.

Many weak tribes are unable to protect themselves, so they will choose to become vassals of the big tribes, and hand over a large number of cattle and sheep to the tribes they depend on every year, and the big tribes are responsible for protecting their safety, and the Turks are the most powerful tribes in the steppe, so they also have countless vassal tribes.

However, this time, in order to survive, Jieli actually attacked his vassal tribes, breaking the tradition on the grassland at once, which also made countless tribes denounce Jieli, and many tribes announced their separation from the Turks and no longer recognized Jieli's rule over them, which greatly weakened Jieli's strength.

In the face of the betrayal of the vassal tribes, Jieli was also angry and angry, in his opinion, these vassal tribes were his slaves, he could do whatever he wanted, but now these slaves actually stood up to resist, they simply didn't know whether they were alive or dead, and it just happened that his subordinates still couldn't eat, so he simply let go, and once again used troops to loot abroad, and for a time the grassland was wailing everywhere, and there were wolf smoke and war everywhere.

The grassland is full of wars, but it is a good news for Datang, and it even strengthened Li Shimin's determination to attack the Turks, but Li Shimin did this very secretively, and only a few people in the entire Datang knew about it, because in case the news leaked, it was likely to make Jieli ready, even if he couldn't beat Datang, but the grassland area was vast, maybe he would flee directly to the Mobei area, and then Datang would probably only be able to attack him.

Li Xiu is one of the few people who knows that the Tang Dynasty is about to attack the Turks, and his task is also very heavy this year, to be precise, it should be that the affairs of their Ministry of Agriculture are very heavy, because last year's sweet potatoes have been promoted to the Guanzhong area, and this year not only to consolidate the planting area in Guanzhong, but also to expand outward, in addition to the promotion of corn.

According to Li Shimin's plan, after this year's autumn harvest, sweet potatoes and corn, plus wheat and other crops, should be enough to supply the use of this attack on the Turks, so the task of the Ministry of Agriculture is more important than last year.

"Qiyu donkey, here are official documents sent by local officials in Luozhou, Dengzhou, Xuzhou and other places, all of which ask us to send someone to guide them to plant sweet potatoes, and you need to deal with them personally!" In the yamen of the Ministry of Agriculture, Shangguan Yi put a thick stack of official documents in front of Li Xiu and said.

"Put it down!" Li Xiu didn't raise his head and said, he was dealing with an urgent official document at this time, so he didn't have time to pay attention to these for the time being, Shangguan Yi also knew that Li Xiu was very busy, and he was also standing aside at the moment, because he had other official business to report to Li Xiu.

After about half an hour, Li Xiu finished processing the official document in his hand, and then raised his head, only to find that Shangguan Yi had not left, and couldn't help but ask in surprise: "What's the matter, do you have anything else?" ”

"Qi Yu donkey, Yang Yuanwailang asked the officials to report to you, because there were not enough officials sent by our Ministry of Agriculture before, so he recruited some officials and trained them to learn the cultivation of sweet potatoes and corn, and now these officials have been trained, and it just so happens that the officials in other places are also anxious to ask for people, so this group of people can just be used!" Shangguan Yi reported again at this time.

"Yes, yes, Yang Dui is thoughtful, I also feel that there is a shortage of manpower in the Ministry of Agriculture during this time, but I didn't expect him to be ready!" Li Xiu couldn't help but praise Yang Dui a few words when he heard this, and then looked at the official documents sent by Shangguan Yi just now, these days the officials everywhere are urging him to ask for people, and all the officials who can be sent out in the Ministry of Agriculture have been sent out, but it is still not enough, after all, the promotion of sweet potatoes is too smooth, and at the beginning of spring this year, all parts of the country have asked their Ministry of Agriculture for sweet potato seedlings.

"Donkey, Xiaguan actually has something he wants to ask you!" At this moment, he suddenly saw Shangguan Yi speaking to Li Xiu with a sad face.

"Oh? What's the matter? Li Xiu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, thinking that it wouldn't be Shangguan Yi who wanted to propose marriage to Ha'er, right?

Speaking of this year's Shangyuan Festival, Hate Er and Shangguan Yi traveled together, and afterwards Li Xiu asked Qi Niang, and learned that Shangguan Yi and Hate Er had exchanged love tokens, Ma Ye was also very excited after knowing about it, and the county lord of Guanghua stayed at home and waited for Shangguan Yi to come to the door to propose, but Shangguan Yi has not moved here, and Hate Er doesn't seem to be in a hurry at all, but she is not in a hurry, but Ma Ye is in a hurry, and she comes to Li Xiu two times in three days, so that he can be free to urge Shangguan Yi, But Li Xiu was really embarrassed to say this kind of thing.

Thinking of the above, Li Xiu also sat up straight, waiting for Shangguan Yi to open his mouth to propose marriage, but soon he was a little disappointed, because what Shangguan Yi wanted to say was not a matter of proposing marriage at all.