Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan has attached great importance to business.

Commerce is a place where wealth gathers, commerce is the source of taxation, and it is an important industry for rich and powerful countries.

Merchants, on the other hand, are well-informed and have come into contact with numerous states, sometimes gaining access to important information that ordinary people cannot obtain.

Every year on the Midyear Festival, Li Yuan would summon the big businessmen of the Tang West City to the palace for a banquet.

At the banquet, Li Yuan once agreed with the businessmen that if there is an opportunity to serve the country on the way to business, I hope that you can support it, and Datang will not treat those who have contributed to the country.

The merchants were grateful to Li Yuan for his preferential business policies, and unanimously expressed that they would do their best to help the unification of the Li and Tang dynasties in their own business networks.

At this time, as the four seas gradually calmed down, large cities such as Chang'an and Luoyang also began to show prosperity.

In the Tang West Market, there is no shortage of wealthy businessmen.

Because the Tang Dynasty was politically harmonious, the sea gradually became a sign of peace, so Hu merchants from the Western Regions came one after another.

Many large merchants as far away as Persia, Egypt, Eastern Rome, and East Africa set up industries in Changchang as a long-term trading base.

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On this day, Li Yuan was reviewing the chapter in the Wude Palace, and An Xiren, a big merchant in the West Market, handed over the name thorn and asked to face the saint.

This person and Liangguo Gongan Xinggui, the founder of the Tang Dynasty, are distant relatives, Sogdians, and Anguo people in the Western Regions.

An Xinggui's An family is a Liangzhou wang family, and the family has been in business for generations and has a huge fortune.

Not only that, but his family is also the leader of the Zoroastrian religion in Liangzhou, Sa Bao, and the position of Sa Bao has been passed down from generation to generation in his family.

Since the Northern Wei Dynasty, the family has been walking on the trade route from the Hexi Corridor to the Western Regions.

An Xinggui and An Xiren's distant ancestors were both members of the Wang clan of the Western Regions Anguo......

At this time, Anxiren and his merchant group of more than 1,000 people under his management walked all the year round in Luoyang, Chang'an, Dunhuang, Khan Futu City, Broken Leaf City, and even as far as Baghdad and Alexandria.

In the merchant network, Anxiren's merchant group used the peregrine falcon he personally domesticated to send messages. As a result, information is extremely fast and convenient.

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Li Yuan saw the famous thorn handed by An Xiren and knew that the matter was not small, so he stopped what he was doing and immediately summoned him.

After Li Yuan saw him, he hurriedly retreated. Anxiren hurriedly performed the courtesy of the monarch and the minister.

Then he said straight to the point: "Your Majesty, our minister has something important to report, which is related to the fortunes of the Tang Dynasty." ”

Li Yuan was very easy-going and said, "You might as well speak up!" ”

"The Western Turks will be defeated, Xue Yantuo and the Eastern Turks will prosper!"

"How so!"

"The uncle of the Tongyehu Khan, He Molu, controlled the financial power of the Western Turks, and became increasingly separated from the Tongyehu Khan, who relied on his strong martial arts and used his politics harshly, and often forced his uncle's opinions to solve them. According to the words of the Han people, this is a sign of decay in the same room. ”

Li Yuan sighed and asked again: "Xue Yantuo doesn't need to say it, they have formed an alliance with my Tang Dynasty, how can you foresee that the Eastern Turks will rise again?" ”

"Your Majesty, do you know that Tuyuhun is preparing to attack Chang'an in the spring?"

"Is that true?"

"It's true. In order to dissuade the Tuyuhun Khan Fu Yun, my minister gave him all the income I had gained from doing business in the Western Regions this year. and persuaded him to withdraw his troops as soon as possible, offending the Tang Dynasty, and disaster and even destruction would come soon. Because although the Tang Dynasty has not unified the country, it is thriving and will become strong sooner or later. Only then did he tell the truth, saying that he didn't want to be an enemy of the Tang Dynasty, and it was Jieli Khan who asked him to attack Chang'an with him on the condition of sending troops to support. ”

Although Li Yuan's face did not change, he was really shocked in his heart. At that time, the battle of Wujiaoguan exhausted the elite soldiers and materials of the Tang Dynasty, and Chang'an was empty.

The Yin Owl of Jieli Khan let him understand it again.

At this time, he has not yet unified all the forces in the Mobei grassland, and if he gains power, he will definitely be a great rival of Datang.

Words, point to point.

Li Yuan waved his hand to stop: "Aiqing doesn't need to say it, I understand it." Love the public and forget the selfishness, and the loss of your goods will be paid by the treasury. Besides, why is the spring incident reported now? ”

At that time, the minister thought that the matter had been settled, and that it was a suspicion of inviting merit to report it like that, and that he was deeply ashamed to do so. I will report it again now, because I hope that Your Majesty will be on guard against what will happen in the future. ”

Li Yuan couldn't stop nodding, and then said: "Your clan brother An Xinggui is now the Duke of Liangguo of my Datang, if you are interested in being an official in Datang, I can also arrange it for you." ”

"My minister is a lazy person, and I can't afford to bear the burden of being an official, so Your Majesty's will will be understood by my minister."

"What a pure minister! You are as sensible as your brother, he led more than 10,000 Zoroastrian followers to protect the territory and the people in Liangzhou, and persuaded Li Liang, who had seized Liangzhou, to join the Tang Dynasty. And now you have sacrificed your wealth to help Datang avoid a disaster. ”

"I have also read "Spring and Autumn", and Zheng Guo's businessman is high and righteous, which makes my minister admire! The love of the family and the country, from the heart, is it avoided because of blessings and misfortunes? ”

Li Yuan laughed and said: "Aiqing Gaoyi, I'm afraid it's not as high!" ”

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In order to make up for Anxiren's losses, and also to take care of his mission of spying intelligence for the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan simply handed over the official trade of leather, horses, iron tools, medicinal materials, etc. in the Hexi Corridor to him.