"Okay, Xiaoya and Ha'er, you continue to study, Qi Niang, I'll learn about the transformation between various energies now!" In the back garden in the courtyard, Li Xiu smiled and gave a lecture to Qi Niang and the others in front of him. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Ma Ye and they have been away for two days, according to the news from time to time, they have been very smooth along the way, Li Shimin also kept his promise and did not embarrass them, in addition, Li Xiu also inquired that the Turks are indeed preparing to go south, and may even send troops at any time, so Li Shimin's energy is now all focused on dealing with the Turks.

"Big brother, I don't want to learn, you better teach me how to build a ship!" Qi Niang at this time was holding the horse with one hand and wrinkling her little face, since Li Chengdao left, she has been talking about wanting to learn shipbuilding, and what is even more helpless is that Princess Pingyang is also very supportive of Qi Niang's idea, after all, she also hopes to visit Li Chengdao and them often.

"Qi Niang, didn't I say it, I really don't know how to build a ship!" Li Xiu was very helpless at this time, although he knew a little more, but he was not a jack of all trades, especially shipbuilding is a very complex systematic knowledge, how could he understand this?

"Then big brother, can you help me find a gentleman who knows how to build ships, I swear, I will never delay my usual study!" Qi Niang begged again, it seemed that she was determined to learn shipbuilding technology.

"Well, when the situation calms down, I must help you find a good gentleman!" Li Xiu had no choice but to guarantee that there should be talents in this area in the Ministry of Industry, but now the Tang Dynasty is in chaos, and the Turks are about to go south, so even if he wants to find it, he may not be able to find it.

Hearing Li Xiu say this, Qi Niang finally nodded obediently, and then began to listen to the lecture seriously, but when Li Xiu was lecturing, she suddenly saw Princess Pingyang holding a little baby girl who had just turned one year old, and four little girls came over with her, these girls Li Xiu knew each other, and they were the five daughters left by Li Jiancheng.

"Princess, why are you here?" Li Xiu saw Princess Pingyang and immediately threw down the book to meet him and asked with concern, Princess Pingyang is now pregnant, although she can't see it for the time being, but the first trimester of pregnancy is the most critical period, and it is also the time when the child is most likely to have an accident.

"They can't stay at home every day and do nothing, so I want them to study together with Qi Niang." Princess Pingyang also smiled and proposed to Li Xiu at this time, and several little girls around her were also staring at him with big eyes, which made him suddenly have a delusion, feeling as if he was about to become the principal of a girls' school.

"Okay, but is this little guy going to learn too?" Princess Pingyang's request Li Xiu naturally couldn't refuse, but he deliberately looked at the little baby girl in Princess Pingyang's arms with some embarrassment.

This little baby girl is only about a year old, and she can't even speak, her mother is a concubine of Li Jiancheng, and she gave birth to two sons and a daughter, because the two brothers went to the Americas, so her mother also went with Zheng Guanyin, leaving this little guy to be taken care of by Princess Pingyang, and now Princess Pingyang has almost become a mother in advance.

"Giggle~, of course Mian Niang can't learn from you, she has just learned to call Niang, come and listen!" Princess Pingyang was also amused by Li Xiu's words.

However, when it came to Mian Niang in her arms, she also became very excited, and when she came to Li Xiu with her, she taught the little guy to call Niang, but this little guy really started to shout "Niang ~ Niang ~ Niang ......", which made Princess Pingyang laugh very happily, it seems that after pregnancy, her motherhood also burst out all of a sudden, and it is difficult to imagine that she is the same person as the three ladies on the battlefield before.

Accompanied Princess Pingyang to tease Mian Niang, she was worried about disturbing Li Xiu's class, so she left quickly, and the four sisters such as Qi Niang stayed, the four of them were the oldest, one year older than Qi Niang, and the remaining three were about the same age as Qi Niang, and the last two were still twins, and Li Xiu couldn't tell the two for a while.

"See...... Met Mr. The four sisters were obviously a little restrained, and after watching Princess Pingyang leave, they saluted Li Xiushen.

"Don't be polite, although you are women, but you also have to study seriously in the future, the biggest role of learning is to understand reason, so as to solve some doubts in life, now you may not be able to understand these words, but in the future, when you grow up, you will naturally understand!" Li Xiu said with a gentle smile at Yu Niang and the others at this time.

Then Mr. Li Xiu took a look at some of the foundations of the four of them, and found that they knew arithmetic and some basic knowledge of various subjects, which made him very surprised, but then he told him that these things were taught to them by their brother Li Chengdao, which made Li Xiu shake his head and sigh, although it was only a few days, he already missed his student.

In the next few days, Li Xiu stayed in the courtyard almost every day to teach and educate people, and when he was free, he went to visit Princess Pingyang and Yiniang, the two pregnant women, and Zhang Shiyi also left, Qu Yi also took her daughter to live in, so that the three of them also had a companion, and by the way, they could also teach Princess Pingyang and the two of them the experience of giving birth and raising children.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that Li Xiu has also persuaded Princess Pingyang that as long as the situation stabilizes, she will move directly to Li Xiu's house, although Li Xiu's family is a little smaller, but it doesn't matter, Li Xiu has already found a craftsman in the other courtyard, and is ready to double the size of his family's house on the original basis, so that the living is more relaxed.

But on this night, when Li Xiu was sleeping in a daze, he was suddenly called up by Yuechan, and then saw her report: "Master, someone outside reported that the seventh man next to Ma Ye asked to see you!" ”

As soon as he heard that Lao Qi wanted to see him, Li Xiu immediately jumped up and got dressed, and then hurriedly walked out, Ma Ye had an intelligence agency in his hands, but with the occurrence of Li Shimin's seizure of the throne, the DPRK and China became a pot of porridge, plus Li Shimin also wanted to master this intelligence agency, so that the intelligence agency was also semi-paralyzed, but with his previous connections and power, Ma Ye could still find out some news, and after he left, Lao Qi often reported some news to Li Xiu instead of him.

At that moment, Li Xiu came to the front hall, and saw Lao Qi sitting there drinking tea, and then Li Xiu said, "Lao Qi, is there any urgent news?" ”

"Yes, the Turks are going south!" Lao Qi still said with that cool expression, and his speech was very brief.

"Really went south, when did this happen, and how is the battle ahead?" Li Xiu couldn't help but show a solemn expression when he heard this, although Li Shimin had known the news for a long time, and had made some preparations in advance, but if he wanted to seize the power of such a large empire, even it was not an easy task for him, and troops were needed everywhere, otherwise there would be civil strife, so he didn't believe that Li Shimin could come up with many troops to resist the Turks.

"Just ten days ago, the Turks organized a large number of troops to the south, known as 200,000 troops, although a bit exaggerated, but there are still 1450,000, and all the way south to attack Jingzhou, with the strength of Jingzhou, it is estimated that it is difficult to hold, I am afraid that now Jingzhou has fallen, so that the Turks are likely to advance into martial arts, thus threatening the safety of Chang'an!" Lao Qi also had a serious face at this time, and his speech was no longer as brief as before.

"Two hundred thousand troops! Jingzhou has also been lost! This one...... That's not good! Li Xiu couldn't help frowning when he heard this, and said to himself, don't look at the fact that Li Shimin organized an army of 40,000 to surround them before, but later he learned that only half of the 40,000 troops were the elite of Tiance Mansion, and the other 20,000 were temporarily recruited government soldiers, but these government soldiers were hiding behind, so they didn't find out at all, and it is estimated that this is one of the reasons why Li Shimin was not sure to eliminate them in one fell swoop.

In addition to the 20,000 elite soldiers, the entire Chang'an can mobilize no more than 10,000 troops, in other words, Chang'an has less than 30,000 defenders, and it is even more difficult to contend with the 200,000 Turkic army.

"Seventh, I know, you go down and rest first!" Li Xiu first asked Lao Qi to retreat, and after the other party left, he sat on the chair again and considered this matter, originally he promised Li Shimin to give him the formula for gunpowder, the Turks came too fast, and he didn't have time to give Li Shimin the gunpowder formula, and now even if he immediately offers it to make it day and night, I'm afraid he won't be able to make much gunpowder, how can this gunpowder affect the overall situation?

Just when Li Xiu was pondering, he suddenly saw someone outside running to report again: "Qi Li sacrificed wine, and a general surnamed Cheng asked to see him, saying that he was coming on behalf of the King of Qin!" ”

"Oh? Please let him in! Li Xiu immediately opened his mouth when he heard this, and he didn't have to guess that he knew that this surname Cheng must be Cheng Biting Jin.

Sure enough, after a while, I saw Cheng Yanjin striding in, and when he saw Li Xiushi, he immediately laughed and stepped forward and saluted: "Li Xianjiu has always been good, everyone was their own master before, Cheng Mou couldn't help it, please don't blame Li Xianjiu!" ”

How else to say that people like Cheng Yanjin can get along, and he commanded the army to surround Li Xiu and them to death, but now as soon as they met, they immediately took the initiative to admit their mistakes, without any twisting, so that Li Xiu couldn't say anything if he wanted to blame, so he had to say a little reluctantly: "General Cheng is polite, thank you for your mercy before!" ”

"Haha~, Li Xianjiu is really a generous person, Cheng Mou came here to be entrusted by His Royal Highness, and specially invited you to enter the palace, saying that there is something important to discuss!" Cheng Yanjin laughed again and said, although he didn't say anything, Li Xiu didn't have to guess to know, he must have asked him to discuss dealing with the Turks.

"Good! Let's go now! The military situation was urgent, Li Xiu also nodded and agreed immediately, and then left the princess's courtyard with Cheng Yanjin, and when he went out, he found that there was a carriage prepared outside the door, and it seemed that Cheng Yanjin was really thoughtful.

At that moment, Li Xiu got into the carriage, what he didn't expect was that Cheng Yanjin, who had always only ridden horses, actually boarded the carriage in the same way, and then sat opposite Li Xiu. ”

"Huh? General Qin? How did I hurt him? Li Xiu was also very surprised when he heard this, he still didn't know Qin Qiong's negative performance in Xuanwu Gate.

"When Xuanwu Gate that day, although Shu Bao was also present, he didn't contribute at all, otherwise King Qi might not be able to insist on Ma Sanbao to rescue, which made King Qin very annoyed, and he kept snubbing Shu Bao afterwards, and Shu Bao was also a donkey temper, so he closed the door directly, and said that it was an old injury, which made King Qin even more angry, and he didn't let him participate in everything during this time." When he said this, Cheng Yanjin also kept staring at Li Xiu.

"This ...... What does this matter to me, General Qin is benevolent and righteous, and he is not used to King Qin's killing of his brother and father, so he is unwilling to intervene, this kind of thing can't be blamed on me, right? Li Xiu said with some embarrassment when he heard this, although he said so, but in fact, he was wondering in his heart if what he said that day made Qin Qiong make such a choice?

"Hehe, don't be in a hurry to deny Li Sacrifice Wine, although I asked Uncle Bao, he has always refused to say much about the events of that day, but when he arrived at Xuanwu Gate drunk that day, I smelled the smell of wine on his body, and I drank this kind of wine once, it is the distilled liquor that Li Sacrifice Liquor once said has been drunk, I won't deny this Li Sacrifice Wine, right?" Cheng Yanjin stared at Li Xiudao with a smile again, he was confident in his nose, especially the taste of distilled spirit, he would never admit it.

Hearing this, Li Xiu couldn't help but secretly scold Cheng Biting Jin in his heart for having a dog's nose, but he couldn't deny it anymore, so he had to admit helplessly: "Okay, I admit that General Qin did look for me that day, and as soon as we met, he asked me for wine, so I gave him the last jar of spirits, but he left without looking back after drinking, and didn't say anything else!" ”

"After that, how could Li Xianjiu know about the Xuanwu Gate, and also sent someone to save the family of the King of Qi and the crown prince, do you know, if this matter is known to the King of Qin, I am afraid that even Shubao will be destroyed!" Cheng Yanjin's face changed at this time, and then he lowered his voice and said, which was also the main reason why he deliberately asked Li Xiu to talk about Qin Qiong.

Hearing this, Li Xiu couldn't help but show a solemn expression, and after a long while, he whispered to Cheng Yanjin: "The reason why I know about the Xuanwu Gate is that it does have something to do with General Qin, but now that the matter has happened, what are your plans?" (To be continued.) )