After some twists and turns, the spy sent by Li Shimin into the Western Regions finally escaped from Dunhuang County without danger. He came to a village in the southeast of Dunhuang County, from which he took horses and clothes from a family in the south, as well as a rich sum of money, and bid farewell to the family who had come out to see them off. Then he raised his whip high and whipped it on the buttocks of his mount under his crotch, and the horse ran out in a joyful southeast direction in pain. When he disappeared from the family's sight, he dismounted in a deserted place, hid the gunpowder tied to his waist in the saddle, and then galloped away in the direction of Chang'an City.

This family in the village is not an ordinary ordinary person, it is the logistics intelligence personnel who Li Shimin has been planted in the Western Regions a long time ago, specially used to deal with the spies who infiltrated Dunhuang County. They were originally local households, because the runners often carried large quantities of goods in and out of Chang'an City under Li Yuan's rule.

Although the world is in turmoil now, Chang'an City is the ancient capital of several dynasties anyway, and it has experienced several dynasties for hundreds of years, and this land has long contained extremely rich wealth. At this time, Chang'an City was relatively stable under Li Yuan's control, and generally as long as merchants carrying goods came to Chang'an City, it was rare for them to return empty-handed or even lose their capital, so Chang'an City was also the first foothold for many merchants from the Western Regions after coming to the Central Plains.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Wenyuan sent a lot of night owls to Chang'an City as merchants to investigate Li Yuan's intelligence, but the merchants who went in and out of Chang'an City to do business were not all night owls, and there were also many ordinary people. The head of this family is one of the caravan leaders who has several commercial routes, and the goods transported are all goods with a relatively high retention rate, although the trade volume is not very high each time, and it is not a lot of money, but at least it can achieve drought and flood protection.

Businessmen are profitable, and the easiest way to threaten a businessman is to make him lose money. To grasp the interests of a businessman is to grasp his weakness, and Li Shimin naturally knows this. However, Chang'an City's open and inclusive attitude towards all forces is the rule set by Li Yuan, and now Li Yuan is still alive, no matter how good Li Shimin is, he will never be able to replace Li Yuan politically. Therefore, for the situation that a large number of merchants from the Western Regions came to Chang'an City to sell goods and loot the wealth of the people in Chang'an City, Li Shimin really had more than enough strength and could only watch a large amount of wealth flow into Li Wenyuan's pocket in the Western Regions through the hands of these merchants.

Although Li Shimin had no way to prevent the merchants of the Western Regions from coming to Chang'an City to trade, this did not mean that Li Shimin had no way to do something about these merchants. In addition to sealing the shops, Li Shimin also found various reasons to delay and detain the goods shipped from these stores, and the shopkeeper would not return the goods until the shopkeeper paid a little money to redeem the goods. In this way, although there is no direct intervention in the normal trade of these merchants. There is no reason to collect all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes from these merchants, but there are government officials who come to the store every three days, and they are often out of stock, which makes people panic and the customer flow has dropped significantly, which really makes these merchants miserable.

These businessmen are not stupid, and after a few times, they felt the targeting of the Li Yuan government. So they joined forces to discuss countermeasures with the leader of the caravan. After listening to the words of these merchants, the leader of the caravan personally went to Chang'an City to meet Li Shimin, hoping that Li Shimin could give an explanation for these things. Li Shimin was naturally very happy to see that he had finally caught the big fish he wanted the most, and immediately let the leader of the caravan into his residence, and talked with him in the living room for a whole morning, and the two shared lunch before Li Shimin sent the merchant away.

During the entire banquet, including the previous morning's exchanges, Li Shimin bought the businessman's heart with a series of preferential policies and promises, and Li Shimin's request for him was very simple, but to pick up the people sent by Li Shimin when necessary. Compared with the promise of various preferential policies obtained by this businessman, he does not need to pay any actual benefits, and he can be said to be a white wolf with empty gloves.

Li Shimin also kept an eye on it here, and did not directly say that the person who asked him to answer was an intelligence spy, if he knew that he was dealing with such a dangerous person, this businessman would refuse nine times out of ten. Therefore, Li Shimin only said in terms of wording that he hoped that this businessman could help the people sent by Li Shimin to help them get through the difficulties when they were in trouble. Besides, nothing else needs to be bothered by the businessman. At that time, this businessman was not familiar with the business and lacked ability, so he did bad things with good intentions and ruined Li Shimin's careful planning.

This rich family originally had his own mansion and family business in the Western Regions, and it was still easy to accept some people, so the businessman didn't think about it for too long and agreed to it, and Li Shimin's promises to this businessman were fulfilled one by one. First of all, all the shops of this businessman were exempted from part of the tax every month, and in addition, Li Shimin contracted the best store in the middle of Chang'an Chengfang City and gave it to this businessman.

As the saying goes, eating people with a soft mouth and short hands. How could this businessman refuse to serve Li Shimin after enjoying so many preferential policies in Chang'an City? No, this spy came here today, showed the token given by Li Shimin to show his identity, and roughly told the merchant about the predicament he was currently facing, and hoped that the businessman could give him a fast horse. Let yourself leave this place of right and wrong earlier, and return to Chang'an City to report to Li Shimin.

Hearing this, the merchant did not refuse, and ordered his men to give the spy one of the finest horses in his stables. At the same time, he paid out of his own pocket to prepare a large number of coils for this spy. Then he invited the spy into his home, arranged for his servants to boil water and cook, let the spy wash off the dust and ashes on his body, put on the clean clothes prepared for him by the merchant, and had a beautiful and full meal. Only then did he leave Dunhuang County on a fast horse and head towards Chang'an City.

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