The night owl branch in Dunhuang County is placed in a very inconspicuous small courtyard in the city, but according to Qiu Niang, several courtyards around it were also bought by the night owl, and the underground is all opened, and many compartments are made, all of which are arranged for their own purposes, as for the specifics, Li Wenyuan doesn't want to ask specifically.

The reason why Li Wenyuan is here now is because Qiu Niang said that she received a message from the night owl on the way back, and she felt that Li Wenyuan wanted it very much, so she asked Li Wenyuan to come here and wait for her to surprise Li Wenyuan.

After a while, Qiu Niang walked in from outside the house, walked in with a book of accounts and handed it to Li Wenyuan: "Take a look, the merchants who maliciously hoarded grain caught during the review after the city was broken, as well as Li Rail's military food, Li Rail's private food are all here, and our night owls have compiled them into a book overnight." ”

As soon as Li Wenyuan heard that it was food, he immediately took the account book from Qiu Niang's hand with bright eyes and looked through it. If you don't look at it, the more you look at it, the more frightened you become, the food hoarded by those merchants is about to catch up with Li Rail's military rations, and Li Rail's private grain is not much, it is estimated that it was either shipped away in advance, or used as military rations.

Sure enough, Qiu Niang said on the side: "Li Rail's private grain, we didn't find the account book, but the night owl in charge of monitoring said that before Li Rail's army set out on the expedition, a large number of carriages had entered and left Li Mansion day and night, and it was estimated that what was transported should be grain." If it is grain, it is estimated that the number of carriages is about the same as that of these merchants. ”

Li Wenyuan nodded, and said to Qiu Niang excitedly: "My little mother, you are really my lucky star, with all this grain in the account, I can buy at least half of the grain." ”

"Then can you reward us with the small money saved in these parts of the night owl and make it the start-up capital of the Western Regions Trading Company." Qiu Niangjiao smiled.

"I forgot about this, you can take the approval document that you will write when you go back and go directly to Xue Renyue to get the money." Li Wenyuan hurriedly said.

"By the way, the second surprise is that before your herald arrived in Wuwei County, Xue Ju had already set off from Jincheng and hurried to Dunhuang County, it is estimated that he will be able to arrive in the next few days, you can deal with the people with peace of mind first, and I will send someone to tell you when Xue Ju passes through Guazhou." Qiu Niang broke a heavy news for Li Wenyuan again.

"Xue Ju came in person? Why is it in such a hurry? Li Wenyuan was surprised.

"I don't know yet, but I guess it has something to do with his own incident. Since you said that we should pay attention to Xue Ju's movements, we have invested a lot of manpower and material resources to develop Xue Ju's intelligence network there, and since you instructed Zong Luohu to go to Xue Ju, Xue Ju also gave him some food, weapons, money and other materials, so that Zong Luohu and his brothers occupied a mountain near Jincheng, and then he also took this opportunity to recruit troops and horses, and expand his strength. However, he didn't seem to have the kind of treatment that won the emperor's favor, and he didn't dare to expand the army too much, but he stuffed many homeless people to Zongluohu in private. Qiu Niang said.

"How do you know such details?" Li Wenyuan frowned, the stakes are very high, no matter how much he believes in Qiu Niang's double shackles, he still has to confirm it.

"Some of our lurking eyes among the displaced people have entered Xue Ju's army, some have been sent to the top of Zongluohu by Xue Ju, and some have even become officers, and there will be no problems with intelligence." Qiu Niang said with a smile.

"That's it, then I know, I've worked hard for you, let's rest and rest after a long journey, I'll do some official business, and we'll see you at the wine shop at night, I'll do the east." Li Wenyuan said.

Qiu Niang nodded, and Shi Li withdrew. Li Wenyuan also walked out of the door, and when he came to the county guard of Dunhuang County, he saw a group of people carrying large boxes one by one inside. walked in curiously, there was no one in the county guard mansion who didn't know Li Wenyuan, so no one stood up to stop him at this time.

Li Wenyuan grabbed the new Dunhuang County Shou Yuanlun and asked, "What are these boxes?" ”

Yuan Lun saw that it was Li Wenyuan who grabbed him, so he hurriedly saluted and said: "Back to the manager, these are all books under the order, and they are all the originals of some ancient books, so they are so heavy." ”

Li Wenyuan knew that Yuan Lun was a concubine of the Yuan family, because his mother loved the master of the Yuan family very much, so he was literate and literate. Later, his mother died of illness, and the owner of the Yuan family was forced by the pressure of his wife to drive away this concubine who was somewhat similar to himself. On the day he was driven away, the owner of the Yuan family asked him what he wanted. He can give him enough wealth to make him a rich man, or he can get him an official position in the officialdom, and finally Yuan Lun got down on his knees and begged for the original of these ancient books and carefully collected them.

He is also an official selected by the imperial examination, and he was discovered during the intensive study of the political work school, Li Wenyuan also asked the night owl to investigate the matter, and finally confirmed that he was indeed an abandoned son of the Yuan family, and it was not arranged by the Yuan family into his eyeliner.

Nodding, Li Wenyuan said: "Next, I will set up the office next door to the county guard's mansion, and I will be able to find me wherever I have anything." ”

Li Wenyuan said that he would go out and left Yuan Lun, who was in place to give gifts and see him off. Yuan Lun sent Li Wenyuan away, and while continuing to direct the people who paid money to help carry these books, he kept echoing in his mind on the day he graduated from the political work school, Li Wenyuan held his shoulders and said with a smile:

I don't care what kind of Yuan family or Yuwen family you are, if you want to take a career in me, you have to make political achievements, and your political achievements are in the hands of the people under your rule, they say that you are a good official, then your promotion and fortune are just around the corner, but if you do what kind of things like selling official beards, fish and meat people, etc., you can't escape the punishment of the law, and even if the head of the family personally comes forward to protect you, you can't keep it.

Coming out of Yuan Lun, Li Wenyuan came directly to the next door of the county guard's mansion, which was also a large courtyard, enough for his own office. In the future, he will continue to conquer westward, and he needs to temporarily move the administrative center westward to Dunhuang County. As a city with a long history, Dunhuang County can afford to transport personnel and materials for the Western Expeditionary Army.

Relevant policies have long been promoted by officials who have arrived in the people, and there is also a special person in charge of population registration, which does not need to be worried about by Li Wenyuan, and Qiu Niang's side also began to build an intelligence system for the Western Turks, and after collecting a large amount of grain, Li Wenyuan's food gap in Dunhuang County is not so big. Now Li Wenyuan only needs to wait for Xue Ju to come in Dunhuang County.

(End of chapter)