Xu Ziyuan set up a banquet on the tallest tower in Hetao City.

"Protector Xue, please!" Xu Ziyuan reached out with a smile and asked Xue Ping to sit down.

"You are the master here." Xue Ping bowed slightly and said, "I will sit on Governor Xu."

Xu Ziyuan smiled and said, "The guest is at your disposal. Besides, when Xue Duhu was in power, I was still a junior. You are a senior, so you should sit down."

"Since that's the case, then please ask General Zhang to sit down." Xue Ping turned around and looked at Zhang Jia on the side.

Zhang Jia frowned and looked at the two of them, shook his head and said, "You literati are just troublesome, aren't you just a seat? It's not like this? Xue Dupu. Speaking of which, although the three of us are in charge, you have a greater face than us. You dare to run back from the Western Regions without even caring about business. But not only did Li Xiang not say anything, he also sent 800 miles to send messages in a hurry, so that we must ensure your safety. If it were the same, we would be waiting for the Censor or the Weiwei Temple. With this, you should be in the seat, why are you blind!"

After saying these words, Zhang Jia walked to the right and sat down.

Xu Ziyuan laughed, walked to the left and sat down.

Xue Ping was stunned for a moment, finally nodded, walked to the top and sat down.

"Will Li Xiang come here so soon?"

Zhang Jia said: "Three people and eight horses, sleepless and rushed all the way. I just arrived last night, and I was just having sex with you. I am still sleeping heavily!"

Xue Ping was stunned for a moment and looked at Xu Ziyuan.

Xu Ziyuan smiled and stood up, lifted the wine pot, and poured the glass wine glass in front of Xue Ping with bloody wine: "This is our local grape wine, Xue Duhuo tasted it."

Picking up the wine glass, Xue Ping took a short taste and said, "You only received the letter from Li Xiang last night, but this morning, Zhang Xingke met us."

Xu Ziyuan and Zhang Jia looked at each other, Zhang Jia was a little embarrassed, and turned to look outside the city. Xu Ziyuan calmly raised his glass to invite Xue Ping. The two of them drank together. Xu Ziyuan said, "The Protector is indeed a magical eye. I know I can't hide it from you. General Zhang thought he could be a sloppy person."

"So, you know that those people assassinate me." Xue Ping drank all the wine in his glass in one gulp.

"Not only do you know, but you know clearly!" Xu Ziyuan said with a smile: "In addition to those bandits who died in your hands, the few people who really planned this matter are now in our hands. You can't survive, and you can't die."

Zhang Jia coughed a few times and said, "Xue Duhu is so powerful, I wonder if I can guess who these people who want to kill you are? But it's not us, we are just some people watching the show."

Xue Ping sighed long and said, "It's from the Xiang family in Lingnan."

Zhang Jia shook slightly and gave him a thumbs up at the other party, "Awesome, amazing, no wonder Li Xiang looked down on you so highly, Zhang was convinced. But he allowed me to give you a cup."

He stood up and filled the cup for Xue Ping.

Xu Ziyuan said: "The people from the Xiang family in Lingnan want to kill you, and frame Li Xiang. I am ready to use the trick. After they have arranged the arrangement, they will catch all their leaders and then quietly watch the drama they have prepared. But unfortunately, the combat power of these bandits is so disappointing. Not only did they not kill you, they were killed by you. These people from the Sima family have been tempered in the Western Regions for several years. They are indeed three days apart. They should look at each other with admiration."

"After they kill me, you come and collect the body for me, and then send the people you are holding back to Wuyi to let the truth be revealed to the world, right?" Xue Ping sneered. "Actually, you have also prepared a second-hand plan. If these bandits can't kill me, Zhang Xing's cavalry will complete this plan for them, right?"

Xu Ziyuan nodded: "Yes, it's true that it's so prepared. If Li Xiang's messenger came half a day late, you would die. Unfortunately, I didn't expect Li Xiang to value you so much, or Li Xiang guessed some of my thoughts. That's why I sent someone so anxiously."

"Li Ze probably couldn't have thought so much, maybe it was Gongsun Changming!" Xue Ping said lightly.

"No matter what, Li Xiang saved your life." Xu Ziyuan said: "You have to remember this love. Since Li Xiang has already spoken and wants you Xue Ping to go back alive, then Zhang Xing can only be the guard to welcome you. Xue Dupu, you won't blame me, right?"

Xue Ping shook his head: "There is nothing to blame."

"I knew Xue Duhu was a generous person." Xu Ziyuan smiled, "General Zhang, come, let's treat Xue Duhu together."

"Where are those people in the Xiang family?" The three of them raised their glasses and signaled. After each of them drank it all, Xue Ping asked.

"Since nothing can be done, what's the use of keeping them?" Xu Ziyuan spread his hands: "These people are sinister and should naturally be cut into pieces. We don't need him anymore. I think Xue Duhu will definitely not keep them to make people feel disgusted. After returning to Wuyi, will you question Xiang Lan!"

Xue Ping lowered his head, his face full of pain.

Xu Ziyuan stood up, walked to the battlements, held the battlements with both hands, and looked at the endless green in the distance of the city wall. When the breeze blew, the green fluctuated and undulated like waves.

"Xue Dupu, when you went to the Western Regions, you used to be here. At that time, it was still deserted, without cities, villages, no households, and no crops." Xu Ziyuan turned to look at Xue Ping: "Now, look at it again, there are everything here. From nothing to something, how many years have we spent? In the Ningxia province, there are 200,000 registered households and more than 800,000 registered people. Of course, this is far from enough than the mainland, and it is probably the same as a state, but this is only less than three years of training. This year, we have been able to be self-sufficient."

Zhang Jia also said proudly: "We take Hetao City, the east and west cities as the basis, and also control the vast area in the south and north of the desert. With these, we have erected a shield for the Tang Dynasty, so that the Tang Dynasty can concentrate on the country without distraction."

"Not bad!" Xu Ziyuan continued: "Even though you have not seen the huge changes here in the Western Regions in the past few years, you can still feel that the support you have given from us is getting bigger and bigger. Now that the Western Regions return to the Tang Dynasty, it will take less than a few years to see the grand scenery we appear here. Li Xiang said that in the future, the Western Regions will become the real territory of the Tang Dynasty, rather than a surviving country."

Xue Ping nodded. Li Ze also told him about these things.

When he picked up the wine pot, Xu Ziyuan poured Xue Ping over wine, put down the wine pot, stared at the other party's eyes, and said, "All this was done under the leadership of Li Xiang. When Li Xiang was in the most difficult time, he did not forget to develop Ningxia and return to the Western Regions. Xue Dupu, do you admit it?"

"Li Xiang naturally made great achievements."

"What did Li Yan do in power?" Xu Ziyuan suddenly stood up straight: "During his reign, the vassal states severed the wars and continued to fight. Zhang Zhongwu rebelled. What else did he do besides wailing in the imperial city? If Li Xiang hadn't emerged from the sudden rise of his army, the Tang Dynasty would have been destroyed by Zhang Zhongwu long ago."

"The Tang Dynasty has been in the world for three hundred years..."

"The king's flag changes on the top of the city, and this world is naturally the one with virtue!" Xu Ziyuan snorted coldly: "Li Xiang can save Li Yan once, but when Zhu Wen rebelled, Li Yan was still powerless. If Li Xiang hadn't been prepared, Li Yan would have died at Zhu Wen's hands long ago, so what else would be the world of the Tang Dynasty for 300 years?"

Xue Ping was speechless. He wanted to refute it, but found that he was speechless.

"Where is there any Tang Dynasty without Li Xiang?" Zhang Jia held the wine glass and sneered: "It's ridiculous that you guys are all thinking about how to deal with Li Xiang. Gao Shuai, haha, before Gao Shuai died, he didn't forget to set up a trap to harm me. Maybe he thought that I, Zhang Jia, had a bone-bone behind my head! I pity my tens of thousands of erlangs, it's so unfair to die!"

When Zhang Jia thought of the battle of Gaoliang River, he suddenly became angry. At that time, he was so sad that he almost died without a complete body. If Xu Ziyuan had not found him later, if he had not made a quick decision and turned to Li Ze, now I am afraid that his grave can still be found.

"In the Tang Dynasty today, the soldiers are strong and the people are rich, but what does it have to do with Li Yan? What does the royal family? What did they do? What can they do?" Xu Ziyuan said: "All this is because of Li Xiang. Since Li Xiang has done so well, why should we still want Li Ke, who doesn't understand anything, to be this disreputable emperor!"

Xue Ping said with some difficulty: "Did Li Ze want you to say this to me?"

Xu Ziyuan sat down and said, "You are wrong. This is what I want to tell you. You can't imagine Li Xiang's mind at all. Xue Duhu, if you do this now, if you do anything else, you will be a dead person."

Xue Ping remained silent.

"Come here, send it up!" Xu Ziyuan turned his head and shouted.

An official rushed over, put a piece of silk covered in his mouth on the wine table, and turned around and retreated.

Xu Ziyuan tore off the covered silk and a ball-shaped thing appeared in front of Xue Ping.

"This is brought by Li Xiangrang's messenger, who specially showed you. Li Xiang said, this thing is called a globe!" Xu Ziyuan turned the globe and said, "The one with red paint on it is the land occupied by our Tang Dynasty now. How about it? It's very small? It's not conspicuous at all, right?"

Xue Ping stared at the slowly rotating thing Xu Ziyuan called the globe.
Chapter completed!