Liu Shilin did serve in Taiyuan a few years ago, and even if there were no accidents, he may still be in Taiyuan, but a few years ago the Turks were exterminated, and the remaining Turks were also moved to the south. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Xiu was also a little helpless when he heard the news, he didn't expect Liu Shilin's fate to change because of himself, but it's not surprising to think about it, after all, with his increasing influence, the historical trajectory of the Tang Dynasty has also begun to undergo some changes, even if the inertia of history is still very huge, but I have to admit that the current history has begun to shift to another unknowable aspect, and Li Xiu can't predict the future historical development.

"Uncle Liu, their family has moved to the south? That ......" When Xue Rengui heard the above news, he couldn't help but show a helpless expression, and finally seemed to want to ask something, but he opened his mouth several times and was embarrassed to ask.

Li Xiu guessed what Xue Rengui was thinking, and said with a smile at the moment: "Although Liu Shilin's family moved to the south, there are still some people who know him in Taiyuan, according to the news I heard, Liu Shilin has three sons and a daughter, the sons are all adults, and they are also officials in other places, and the only daughter is the youngest, and she has been living with them, and when she left Taiyuan, this woman did not marry. ”

Hearing Li Xiu's words, Xue Rengui couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, after all, the other party was his unmarried wife, although he had no contact in the middle, he didn't want the other party to marry someone else, after all, people are selfish, not to mention that the two parties still have a marriage contract. It's just that then he was a little worried, after all, the little lady of the Liu family only didn't get married when she left Taiyuan, but the Liu family has been to the south for several years, although even if the little lady of the Liu family is a few years younger than him, but now it should be the age to get married.

"Since Liu Shilin and his family are going to the south, it just so happens that I don't have a good relationship with Zhao Deyan, wait for me to write a letter to send to him, and ask him to help check the situation of Liu Shilin, if the little lady of the Liu family is not married, it can just fulfill your marriage!" Li Xiu also said with a smile at this time, and he also saw the worry on Xue Rengui's face, so he opened his mouth to comfort him.

"Thank you Guogong for your success!" Xue Rengui was no longer reserved at this time, and solemnly saluted Li Xiu at the moment, after all, this was related to his lifelong event, and this marriage was still set by his father, so he also attached great importance to it.

A few days later, it was finally the day of the relocation, Li Xiu and Li Xiaogong, the royal family, had been trained by the officials of the Ministry of Rites in accordance with etiquette a few days ago, when to do what to do, which link had what necessary etiquette, etc., all had to be in place, although Li Xiu was very disdainful of these etiquettes, but there was no need to go against this social rule, so he also did it honestly with a group of royal families, and waited until the coffin of Queen Dou was lifted onto a special hearse, which was the end.

However, after completing a set of etiquette, Li Xiu was also tired, after resting for one night, Li Xiu and they were ready to return to Chang'an the next day, according to Li Xiu's estimate, the imperial tomb on Pei Lian's side should have already broken ground, and according to their plan, the first place to build the imperial tomb should be a spirit hall, and then Queen Dou's coffin will be parked there first, and then put it in after the imperial tomb is repaired.

It's just that what Li Xiu didn't expect was that just when their team of supporting spirits was about to leave the next morning, Zhou Shaofan, who had been talked about by Li Xiaogong before, but had been avoided, finally appeared.

Zhou Shaofan looks about forty years old, it is the golden age of a man, and his appearance is also very powerful, when Li Xiu and Li Xiu went out of the city, he rode out of the city to see them off, and when he saw Li Xiu, who was the leader, he immediately saluted and said: "The last general Zhou Shaofan visited the horse, the last general should have come a long time ago, but he had something important to go out of the city some time ago, and he came back in the middle of the night last night, so please don't blame the horse!" ”

"Zhou Jiedu envoy guards one side, naturally he has to focus on state affairs, and there are no boundless troubles in the northern grassland over the years, thanks to Zhou Jiedu's hard work day and night!" Li Xiu also replied with a smile at this time, although Zhou Shaofan's character may have problems, he can't afford to get along with the other party.

"You're polite, if you hadn't wiped out the Turks with General Li and the others in one fell swoop, how could there be peace on the northern border now?" Zhou Shaofan also said very politely at this time, but he was only polite to Li Xiu, as for Li Xiaogong, who was not far from Li Xiu, he kept pretending not to see it, which made Li Xiaogong also snort angrily, flicked his sleeves and turned away, simply out of sight and out of mind.

Li Xiu and Zhou Shaofan exchanged a few words, and then left on the grounds that the time had come, and Zhou Shaofan personally sent them out of Taiyuan, but when Li Xiu was talking to Zhou Shaofan, he obviously felt the arrogance of the other party, even if he was a first-class prince of the Tang Dynasty, Zhou Shaofan was only superficially respectful, and the arrogance and selfishness in his bones could not be concealed.

But think about it seriously, Zhou Shaofan does have the ability to be proud, first, he is one of Li Shimin's most trusted generals, although he is a former Sui general, but now he is holding the position of Hedong Jiedu Envoy, holding tens of thousands of troops in Hedong, and the power of the Jiedu Envoy is very great, it can be said that he has the right to ask about local military and political affairs, this is a real feudal official, and even to put it mildly, in this place in Hedong, Zhou Shaofan is almost the emperor here.

Thinking of this, Li Xiu thought of the Zhongtang Dynasty, the various festivals made the army self-respecting, and even the change of the emperor, it is necessary to look at the eyes of these festival envoys, especially worth mentioning that the Ansi Rebellion that led to the prosperity and decline of the Tang Dynasty, among which An Lushan served as the Hedong Jiedu envoy, and the reason why he was able to rebel was because the power in the hands of the Jiedu envoy was too large, and the army, government affairs, and finances were all controlled by the Jiedu envoy.

Of course, in the early Tang Dynasty, the central military of the Tang Dynasty was strong, and the local Jiedu envoys were not able to form their own factions in the locality, so at the beginning, the Tang Dynasty was not worried about these Jiedu envoys, but as time went by, the central forces of the Tang Dynasty weakened, and the Jiedu envoys also formed their own forces, and even passed on from father to son, so that a country within a country was formed, and the orders of the Tang Emperor could also be ignored, so that the Tang Dynasty repeated the tragedy of Zhou Tianzi.

"Temperance! Jie Du Envoy! Li Xiu said softly to himself, while walking thinking about the necessity of the official position of the Jiedu envoy, the military and political power in one, it is naturally more convenient for the Jiedu to act, and it is also convenient for them to fight the invasion of foreign enemies, and they do not have to ask the court for instructions on everything, from this point of view, it is naturally good, but the power is too large, and it is naturally easy to form a situation in the future.

"The reason why the festival is set up to make this special official position is that the territory of Datang is too large, and the communication between the local government and the central government is not smooth, and the second is that Datang has been plagued by constant troubles in the past, and it has not begun to decrease until the past few years, and it will be less in the future, so it is not a matter of concern, it seems that if you want to solve this problem, you still have to solve the problems of transportation and message transmission!" Li Xiu muttered to himself again at this time.

But when it came to the end, Li Xiu couldn't help but smile a little wryly, because with the technology of Datang's era, it is too difficult to solve the problem of traffic and information transmission, although Fei Nusi can use carrier pigeons to transmit news, but carrier pigeons are easily affected by weather, natural enemies, etc., many times carrier pigeons can not reach their destination, as for the traffic is even worse, even if it is an official road, after a few days of heavy rain, the road has become muddy, and it is impassable at all.

"Although Datang is strong, the road ahead is still very bumpy!" Li Xiu couldn't help but sigh again in the end, but when he said this, he suddenly smiled a little self-deprecatingly, he had already decided to stay away from the court this place of right and wrong, and sometimes he was still worried about these things in the court, it was really ridiculous to think about it.

After leaving Taiyuan, Li Xiu and they walked very slowly along the way, the key is that the hearse transporting Queen Dou's coffin can not go too fast, and even when the road is not good, it is necessary to let the local officials organize the people's flat road, it is said that the coffin of Queen Dou can not have any bumps, otherwise it will disturb the queen's spirit in the sky, of course, for this statement, Li Xiu naturally does not believe it, but some Qin Tianlin and the officials of the Ministry of Rites said that there is a matter, and no one dares to argue with them on this matter.

Xue Rengui also went to Chang'an with Li Xiu, the road was slow, and Li Jin also felt very bored, so he asked Xue Rengui for advice on riding archery and martial arts while walking, and sometimes when waiting for the road to be repaired, they simply rode horses to hunt in the nearby mountains and forests, with bodyguards like Xue Rengui there, Li Xiu was not worried about Li Jin's safety.

Li Xiu and their stop-and-go along the way, it took nearly two months to finally return to Chang'an, at this time it was the end of November, and there was still a month to go before the New Year, but Li Shimin received the news that Li Xiu and they came back, or personally led the civil and military officials out of the city to meet the coffin of Queen Dou, and then personally placed the coffin in the coffin of the imperial tomb of Sanyuan County.

During the period when Li Xiu went to Taiyuan, Pei Lin has also been busy with the construction of the imperial mausoleum, and the people of several surrounding counties have all been recruited and divided into three shifts for day and night construction.

Fortunately, the early Tang Dynasty has not yet formed the atmosphere of opening mountains for mausoleums, even the imperial tombs are built on the plains, otherwise if it is built like the Qianling of Li Zhi later, I am afraid it will take at least ten years to complete, of course, the mausoleum built in this way also has advantages, that is, it is extremely strong, for example, the Qianling is the only imperial tomb in the Tang Tombs that has not been stolen.

However, not long after Li Xiu came back, when he saw that the New Year was about to be celebrated, he suddenly heard a news that Tubo had finally sent an envoy to come and asked the Tang Dynasty for peace!