"I heard that His Majesty has returned from Jiucheng Palace?" Next to a waterhole in the Nanshan Courtyard, Ma Ye asked Li Xiu while making barbecue, he had nothing to do today, so he and Li Xiu and Qin Qiong came to the mountains to hunt, and when they were hungry at noon, they would barbecue and eat here, very leisurely.

"Such a big thing happened, Your Majesty is probably not in the mood to stay in Jiucheng Palace, so I came back three days ago, but now the court has been arguing for the follow-up treatment of the Turks, and it is estimated that Your Majesty is also having a headache about this matter now." Li Xiu replied while oiling the pheasants on the shelf.

In fact, the wild animals in the mountains may not be delicious by domestic animals, such as these pheasants, the meat on the body is almost no oil and water, and it must be brushed with oil when roasted to be delicious, in fact, like this pheasant boiled into soup is more delicious, but the pots and pans are too inconvenient to carry, so they can only use the most primitive way to eat.

"If you want me to say that Your Majesty is too tolerant of these Turks, and they were all thrown directly to Hongzhou at the beginning, wouldn't there be no more such incident?" Qin Qiong, who was cleaning the internal organs of the prey next to him, also said that his father died at the hands of the Turks, so he has never had a good impression of the Turks, which is a bit similar to Zhao Deyan.

"The people's grievances against the Turks are indeed very high, and Your Majesty's assassination this time just detonated these grievances, so now many people in the court are also clamoring to send the Turks to Hongzhou, and Your Majesty is probably very embarrassed." Li Xiu said again at this time, in fact, he didn't have any special views on this matter, of course, the main reason was that he was in the rivers and lakes now, and he was too lazy to worry about the affairs of the court, and even these news were overheard by others when he went to the academy to give lectures in the past two days.

"I also talked to You Shao about this matter a few days ago, and according to the information he got, it seems that someone in the court deliberately took advantage of this incident to stir up trouble, and these people are also related to the family." Ma Ye spoke again at this time, You Shao is also the word of Shangguanyi, after he and Ha'er got married, he has been living with Ma Ye and his wife, mainly because Ma Ye and his wife have no children and are old, so they need to be taken care of by Ha'er, and Shangguan Yi also has parents who died early, so he regards Ma Ye and his wife as his parents.

Li Xiu was also stunned when he heard Ma Ye's words, Shangguan Yi has now been promoted to secretary and young eunuch, although his power is not very great, but he can definitely be called a close minister of the emperor's side, so he is also very well-informed, since he said that there is a family behind this matter, then there should be no mistake.

"Don't the family have been suppressed by His Majesty, why did they suddenly jump out again, what is their purpose?" Qin Qiong is a military general after all, and these intrigues in the court are really not his strengths, so he also asked Li Xiu for advice at this time.

"This ......" Li Xiu also hesitated for a moment at this time, because it was the first time he heard the news, after all, after he resigned, he took the initiative to stay away from the court, and he rarely interacted with people in the officialdom, so some news naturally did not know.

After a long while, I saw Li Xiu say with a calm gaze: "It is indeed surprising that the family jumped out this time, but in my opinion, the family is only trying to expand the influence of this matter, so that the attention of the imperial court will be shifted to the Turks, so as to reduce the pressure on them." ”

"Hehe, I don't think it's that simple, these families have been a lot more honest in the past two years, but this time they suddenly jumped out, I think they not only divert the attention of the court, but also probably want to take the opportunity to make trouble, so as to expand their influence!" Ma Ye suddenly said at this time, Li Xiu's thoughts were too conservative, in his opinion, the family probably wanted the court to fight back and return all the losses suffered in the previous two years.

"This is also possible!" Li Xiu frowned at this time and said, but then he smiled indifferently and said, "Let's discuss these things for a while, Uncle Ma, you and General Qin have resigned and retired, and I am also unofficial and light now, and those things in the court will be left to Your Majesty and they will have a headache!" ”

"Hahahaha~, my uncle and I resigned because of old age, you are good, you resigned at a young age, do you really want to stay at home until you are old?" Ma Ye couldn't help but laugh when he heard Li Xiu's words.

"It's a blessing to be able to grow old at home, and I don't want to bother with all that mess anymore." Li Xiu spoke again at the moment, but when he said this, he suddenly smelled a mushy smell, which made him also startled, and hurriedly flipped the pheasant on the shelf a few times, it turned out that he was only thinking about the problem just now, but he forgot the pheasant on the shelf, and as a result, one side was roasted, fortunately, it can be eaten in other places.

Seeing that Li Xiu was reluctant to discuss this matter anymore, Ma Ye and Qin Qiong didn't say anything, and when the game was roasted, the three of them sat by the pond and ate it, speaking of which, Ma Ye and Qin Qiong used to be military generals, one more capable than the other, but now that they are older, the amount of food is also greatly reduced, Ma Ye only eats half of the roast chicken and can't eat it, Qin Qiong only eats one, barely on par with Li Xiu, since he came back from Liaodong, his body is not as good as day by day.

In the afternoon, Li Xiu accompanied the two old men to hunt, but in the whole afternoon, the three of them only hunted a few pheasants, and they encountered a few deer, but they failed to shoot them, which made Qin Qiong also very annoyed, feeling that he was old and useless, and he couldn't even shoot the deer to death.

In the next few days, Li Xiu was still as usual, either staying at home with his family, or going to the academy to give lectures, and now the content of his lectures is no longer limited to arithmetic, sometimes on a whim, he will also open some special courses such as astronomy, geography, chemistry and physics, although these courses have no direct relationship with the imperial examination, but they can satisfy the innate curiosity of human beings, so there are not a few people who listen to the lectures, and even a few people are very obsessed with individual courses and want to learn more content from Li Xiu.

For these studious students, although Li Xiu was very optimistic about them, and even felt that there might be some ancient scientists like Zhang Heng and Shen Kuo among these people in the future, he was not in a hurry, but slowly observed in the dark to see if their perseverance and perseverance could meet his standards for accepting students?

As for the quarrel with the Turks in the court, Li Xiu didn't particularly care, but the students in the academy were originally the group of people who were most concerned about the court and politics, as long as they were studying, there would be many people discussing the court and politics, so sometimes Li Xiu would inevitably hear some news, and half a month later, the quarrel in the court ended, because Li Shimin finally made a decision.

Although countless ministers in the court suggested that the remaining Turks should be moved to Hongzhou, Li Shimin finally withstood this pressure and did not agree to this request.

In addition, Li Shimin has a deeper consideration, that is, these remaining Turks took the initiative to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, in order to show their tolerance, so Li Shimin ordered these Turks to live in the most prosperous area of the Tang Dynasty, if these Turks are suddenly moved to Hongzhou now, then all his previous hard work will be in vain, and the benevolent name that he has managed to operate will also be in vain, which makes Li Shimin extremely reluctant.

In addition to the above, based on Li Xiu's private speculation, Li Shimin probably knew that the family was also behind this matter, and with his character, he naturally would not let the family succeed, so he rejected many people's requests under the pressure of the court.

However, the impact of the assassination of Li Shimin by the association rate this time was too bad, so Li Shimin did not simply let go of the Turks, for example, the association led the family to be executed, and although He Luohu, who was held hostage by him, was unlucky, he was also degraded and exiled to Lingnan by Li Shimin, which was even worse than going to Hongzhou, and he never wanted to come back in this life.

In addition, Datang has also tightened the management of Turkic people, for example, in the past, Datang also had many Turkic officials, and they could even be promoted normally, but after this incident, it was difficult for Turkic officials to be promoted, and even ordinary Turkic people wanted to be officials through normal channels, and it was very difficult to do it, and even business and work had to be affected, which also made many Turks find ways to change their nationality, even if this generation is not good, the next generation must change, otherwise there is no way to live normally in Datang.

With Li Shimin making a decision, this turmoil finally subsided slowly, but Li Xiu still couldn't figure out one thing, that is, why did the family make a fuss about this matter? What is their real purpose? Is it really to divert the court's attention from them, as he guessed?

Although Li Xiu doesn't want to pay attention to the affairs of the court, it is inevitable that it will be affected sometimes, especially the sentence that Chai Shao said before, "The world is going to be chaotic", and Chai Shao has a close connection with the family, so this makes Li Xiu can't help but have some associations, in addition, with Li Xiu's understanding of the family, they have always been far-sighted, and this Turkic matter is likely to be a small part of the family's plan, and there are likely to be other more long-term plans later.

Thinking of the above, Li Xiu couldn't help but feel a little headache, and finally simply shook his head and forced himself to stop thinking about this, but then he couldn't help but laugh a little self-deprecatingly, saying that he was resigning, but sometimes it was still difficult to control himself to think about these things.

However, just when Li Xiu couldn't figure out the intentions behind the family, there was a sudden crisis on the border of Datang, which was much more serious than the farce of Li Shimin's assassination, and even involved Datang in a war again.