"Hahahaha~, this tea is not fried by me, but fried by a little girl named Fan'er!" Li Xiu saw Princess Pingyang's surprised expression, and couldn't help laughing and explaining. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Fans? How does the name feel so familiar? Princess Pingyang couldn't help but show a thoughtful look when she heard this, she remembered that Li Xiu's family didn't seem to have a maid named Fan'er, but where did she seem to have heard this name?

"Hehe, princess don't have to think about it, this fan is actually the little maid next to the lady, during this time I fished by the river every day, and I often saw her picking wild vegetables and wild fruits in the woods, and once she even exchanged things for the fish I caught......"

Li Xiu said that he told the story of his acquaintance with Fan'er, but when he talked about tea, he suddenly paused, because he couldn't say that he moved the roasted tea of later generations to the Tang Dynasty, so he had to tell a little lie: "When I saw the tea leaves in Fan'er's hand, I thought of a kind of fried tea that I had seen in the book, which was completely different from the tea I drank now, it was fried directly in an iron pot, and I didn't know much about the specific stir-fry method, so I let Fan'er figure it out by himself, I didn't expect her to actually make fried tea! ”

Hearing that these fried teas appeared in the hands of such a little girl, Princess Pingyang was also quite surprised, she had seen Fan Er by the side of Yi Niang before, and the other party seemed to be only twelve or thirteen years old, but she didn't expect that at such a young age, she would only listen to Li Xiu mention a little bit to develop a manufacturing method for tea.

"With this tea, it can also allow Yiniang and their masters and servants to have multiple income channels, so that the princess will not worry about them because of this matter." Li Xiu spoke again at this time, the last time Princess Pingyang went to look for him, he was worried because the girl was too tough and didn't want to accept their help, and he said so face-to-face that he had the intention of helping Princess Pingyang, so as not to let Princess Pingyang guess again.

"Yes, it's really a way to kill two birds with one stone, that is, to solve the livelihood problem of the clothes and girls, and to drink such a rare and good tea, I will also go to Fan'er to buy some tea tomorrow!" Princess Pingyang's heart was far broader than Li Xiu had guessed, or she was more willing to believe Li Xiu, so she didn't think about anything else at all, which also made Li Xiu breathe a sigh of relief.

"By the way, why is Uncle Ma not here, he won't go to the north with His Royal Highness King Qin to deal with Turkic affairs, right?" Li Xiu suddenly thought of something at this time, and asked curiously at the moment, speaking of which, except for how many times he had seen Ma Ye after Yi Niang got married, he hadn't seen Ma Ye for a long time.

"Besides, Uncle Ma let your honeycomb coal be stunned, every day only thinking about where to buy more carboniferous mines, the north of Chang'an was bought up and went to the south of Chang'an, and he borrowed it when the family didn't have enough money, it seems that he will never stop if he doesn't buy all the carboniferous mines near Chang'an." When Princess Pingyang said the end, she couldn't help but cover her mouth and snicker, since she was a child, it was the first time she found that Ma Ye was so obsessed with money.

"Khan!" Li Xiu couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat when he heard this, he didn't expect Ma Ye's appetite to be so big, this is simply to completely monopolize the coal resources near Chang'an, and become the energy of Datang, think about the rich coal bosses in later generations, although the later decline in coal prices made many people lose their money, but the previous coal boss is a representative of the rich, it is said that the purchase of buildings is bought one by one, and it is definitely the existence that ordinary people look up to.

"By the way, there is new news from the second brother's side, do you want to hear it?" Li Xiu just mentioned that Li Shimin went to deal with the affairs of the Turks, and Princess Pingyang also thought of the news she had just received, so she asked Li Xiu, she knew that Li Xiu was not very willing to take care of the affairs of the court, but the affairs of the Turks were inseparable from Li Xiu, so she asked him like this.

"Oh? What happened to the Turkic side that made King Qin run away in person? Li Xiu also asked curiously, it may have been the reason for keeping it secret before, so the information that Li Xiu got was also very vague.

"It's not a good idea of yours, the Turks are about to make a mess!" Princess Pingyang was very coquettish at this time, and it could be guessed from her eyes that the Turkic changes should be a good thing for Datang.

Then Princess Pingyang told the Turkic side of the changes in detail, it turned out that since they and Li Shimin defeated the Turks last year, Jieli Khan returned to the grassland with heavy casualties, this time they not only failed to grab food, but lost a lot of young and strong, and then the harsh winter on the grassland came, and the Turks encountered several heavy snowstorms, which made many tribes suffer heavy losses, and even some small tribes were directly wiped out, and the strength of the Turks was reduced a lot.

It is also in this situation that Jieli's prestige within the Turks has also suffered a major blow, many Turkic tribes think that he should be responsible for this matter, and many dependent tribes have directly separated from the Turks, but have been eye-to-eye with the Tang Dynasty, such as Xue Yantuo, Xi, Xia and other departments, what makes Jieli even more annoyed is that there are many people who think that the young Turki is more suitable than him to be the Khan of the Turks, and even began to interact with the Turks.

In the face of this situation, Jieli naturally refused to sit still, he quickly thought of a plan to eat two birds, just after the spring of this year, Jieli ordered Tuli to gather soldiers and horses to crusade against those tribes who had dealings with the Tang Dynasty, so that whether Tuli succeeded or not, it was a good thing for him.

Although Tuli was very dissatisfied with Jieli's uncle, he was fledgling, and his strength was far inferior to Jieli, so he didn't dare to resist at all, so in the end he could only swallow his anger and accept the order, and gathered a group of tribes loyal to him to attack Xue Yantuo and other departments, but his army was not strong, and there was no legitimate reason for sending troops this time, and the morale was naturally not high, so Tuli was defeated and returned.

Seeing Tuli's defeat, it was also in line with Jieli's intentions, and he ordered someone to arrest Tuli and imprison him, and personally whipped him to show humiliation, and he didn't let people go after the beating, so he kept it locked up.

However, Jieli's behavior angered many nobles within the Turks, the Turkic father Shibi Khan had a high prestige within the Turks, even if he died for many years, there were still many nobles loyal to him, and now seeing that the Turks were so humiliated, this made the Turks immediately full of emotion, these people even began to organize to threaten Jieli to let him go, Jieli as a Turkic khan, naturally will not be easily succumbed, as a result, neither of the two factions will back down, and the situation within the Turks has become extremely tense.

In addition, in this case, Xue Yantuo and other tribes are also eyeing the Turks, and the situation on the grassland is about to erupt, after the intelligence personnel of the Tang Dynasty reported the situation on the grassland to the imperial court, Li Yuan and Li Shimin both felt that this was an opportunity to split the grassland, so Li Shimin would quietly go out of Beijing and rush to the north to sit in the town, so as to facilitate random actions.

"I see!" Li Xiu also showed a contemplative look after listening to the situation on the grassland, he didn't expect that it would be less than a year, and the situation on the grassland would have changed so much, if Tuli and Jieli really fought this time, plus Xue Yantuo and other tribes fished in troubled waters, I am afraid that the grassland will really usher in a Warring States era, and then they will be in a mess, I am afraid that in the future, as soon as Li Shimin ascended the throne, the Turks will come to the city, right? But no one can be sure of this kind of thing.

"Li Xiu, do you think the Turks will fight this time?" Princess Pingyang opened her mouth again at this time to ask for Li Xiu's opinion, she knew that Li Xiu's inferences had always been very accurate, and even sometimes magical, so she wanted to hear his opinion.

"Hmm~, I'm afraid it's difficult!" Li Xiu thought seriously for a moment, and finally shook his head and said, "The Turks are not stupid, last year's war caused them heavy losses, and the dependent tribes are also on the verge of detachment, if they fight first, I am afraid that the entire Turkic will also fall apart, this is probably a situation that all Turkic nobles do not want to see, so I guess both Jieli and Turki should not dare to really do it!" ”

Although Li Xiu was eager to see the Turks fall into civil strife, it was a pity that reason told him that this was not a big possibility. Princess Pingyang also showed a disappointed look when she heard Li Xiu's words, in fact, she herself also had such a guess, Li Shimin went to the north this time and said that it was good to sit in town, and if it was ugly, it was actually to contact the people who supported the Turks nearby, so as to provoke internal relations among the Turks, and it was best to make them have internal strife, so as to achieve the goal of the Tang Dynasty splitting the Turks.

Seeing the disappointed expression on Princess Pingyang's face, Li Xiu couldn't help but open his mouth to comfort: "The princess doesn't have to be too disappointed, even if the Turks don't mess up this time, but the seeds of their internal division have been planted, and the Turks have been so humiliated, they must hate Jieli even more, as long as there is a chance in the future, they will definitely unite all their forces to fight back, and then it will be my Datang's chance!" ”

"Well, I also understand these truths, it's just that if the Turks don't die for a day, my Datang will be unsafe for a day!" When Princess Pingyang spoke, she also set her eyes on the far north, although she didn't like war, but as the only princess in the Tang Dynasty who could lead troops, she also wanted to completely solve the threat from the north.

Speaking of the barbarians on the grassland has always been the confidant of the Central Plains Dynasty, no matter how strong the Central Plains Dynasty is, but it has never been able to completely solve the border troubles in the north, whenever the Central Plains Dynasty is weakened, it is the day when the northern barbarians go south, which is like a reincarnation circle, has been shrouded in the fate of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Thinking of the above, Li Xiu couldn't help frowning, the threat of the northern grasslands to the Central Plains, he was more profound than anyone else, thinking about the later generations of the Song and Ming dynasties, they all died at the hands of the northern barbarians, even if they were as strong as the Tang Dynasty, the final demise was inseparable from the northern barbarians, but because of his own intervention, the historical trajectory of the Tang Dynasty has undergone some changes, I don't know if with his variable, can the Tang Dynasty completely solve the old enemy of the grassland barbarians? (To be continued.) )