After Fu Ying got a few important letters, he quickly handed them over to Song Zhengben, and after Song Zhengben's complicated operation, those letters were finally handed to Li Yuan.

After Li Yuan read the letters one by one, he was immediately furious, and asked people to immediately summon Dou Wei to see him.

After Dou Wei's martial arts hall, Li Yuan gave the letter to Dou Wei with a gloomy face, and after Dou Wei looked at it for a while, he immediately trembled and said, "King Tang, this is ...... This is obviously someone making up nonsense to frame me! ”

Li Yuan gave the last letter in his hand to Dou Wei again, and said sharply: "Then what do you say about this letter?" Could it be that someone has imitated your notes? ”

The letter was written by Dou Wei to Xue Rengao, and after Dou Wei read it, he was powerless to refute it, and his face was dejected. If it were one or two letters alone, he could still refute one or two, but now there were six or seven in a row, including his own handwritten letters, Dou Wei really didn't know how to answer.

Dou Wei didn't say anything in the letter he wrote to Xue Rengao, just to express the goodwill of the Dou family. After all, Xue Ju's Western Qin State has a strong army, although it was defeated by Li Shimin once last year, but its strength has not been damaged, and it is still possible to attack Chang'an.

In fact, in Chang'an City, there are few people who have the same behavior as the Dou family, and Li Yuan is also well aware of this, but he can see the people of other families, and he can't tolerate Dou Wei's conclusive evidence.

"You don't have to take on the responsibility of joining the army in the Prime Minister's Mansion, go home and reflect first!" Li Yuan said, and immediately brushed his sleeves away.

After Dou Wei returned to Dou Mansion with a tired face, he took off his heavy coat and sat in the courtyard.

At this time, although it is nearly three months, Chang'an at night still makes people feel a little cold, and Dou Wei in the winter of last year, occasionally felt a cold, has not healed, Lang Zhong said, you must be careful to recuperate, otherwise you may be sick at any time.

Therefore, when the people in Dou Mansion saw Dou Wei's situation at this time, they immediately nervously told him to hurry back to the house so as not to suffer from the cold again. However, Dou Wei waved his hand and drove away all the people who persuaded him.

Dou Wei blew the cold wind in the courtyard all night, fell ill in bed the next day, and died within a few days.

After Li Yuan learned of this, he sighed a few times, ordered Dou Wei to be buried thickly, and posthumously presented him as the Assassin of Tongzhou and the Duke of Yan'an County, nicknamed Jing, and did not blame the rest of the Dou family, as before, but the Dou family fell a lot because of Dou Wei's death, and the children of the clan who were previously higher than Xiang immediately became a lot more cowardly.

Li Yuan was old in conspiracy and knew that someone must have pushed this matter behind him, so he asked people to investigate secretly, but after checking and checking, there was no breakthrough except for the Chang'an petty official who sent a letter to Li Yuan, so in the end he had no choice but to stop it.

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Hedong County, Anyi County.

There is an east-west mountain in the Hedong area, named Zhongtiao Mountain, the northern foot of Zhongtiao Mountain, near Anyi County, is a famous salt lake, also known as "Jiechi", rich in "Lu salt" that is exported to Hedong, Henan and Guanzhong.

However, because of the war this year, the output of Lu salt produced by the government has declined, and the private production of "Lu Yan" is very widespread, which has greatly reduced the tax of Hedong County, and because it is very easy for private salt sellers to gather force, the public security near Jiechi is very bad.

After Li Yin returned to Hedong County with his troops, because Hedong County had not yet dispatched Taishou, Li Yuan asked Li Yin to temporarily manage civil affairs, so the first thing Li Yin did after he took office was to solve the chaos of Jiechi, crack down on illegal salt, and restore official salt production.

Those who blatantly manufactured and sold illicit salt directly sent troops to wipe them out, although those people had a lot of private soldiers, but how could they resist Li Yin's regular army? So those people were quickly uprooted by Li Yin.

However, there are many people who manufacture and sell illicit salt, but they are carried out secretly, and there are many landlords and gentry among them, and they are well hidden, and after seeing Li Yin's rectification of the chaos of Jiechi, they immediately died down, planning to return to the old business after the limelight.

Li Yin first led people out of Anyi, and released a rumor, saying that he would soon lead his troops to join Li Jiancheng and others.

However, when they had just exposed the salt and had no time to sell it, Li Yin suddenly attacked, led people to more than 20 dens, seized countless illegal salt, and the prison was immediately crowded with people.

Li Yin did not embarrass the smuggler of salt, let them pay a large ransom and then let him go, and said that he was welcome to continue to make illicit salt after he was released from prison, so that he would not worry about receiving no ransom......

After fighting a few guerrilla wars with these smugglers back and forth, Li Yin really seized a lot of money, and those smuggler salt dealers all wanted to cry without tears, and they all said that if they continued like this, they would have to go bankrupt, so they all started to do good and started to make a living, although the profits were a little smaller, but they didn't have to be frightened by Li Yin again and again.

With the gradual recovery of the government's salt-making, the taxes of Hedong County suddenly increased a lot, and the people and officials of Hedong County, everyone praised Li Yin for not only being good at fighting, but also higher than ordinary people in terms of civil governance.

In March, the fifth day of the first lunar month, in order to strengthen the defense capability of the Hedong region, Li Yuan changed Hedong Road to Taiyuan Province, and took Li Yuanji, the Duke of Qi, as the general of Zhenbei, the marshal of the Taiyuan Road march, and the military governor of the fifteen counties of Taiyuan Province.

The reason why Li Jiancheng, Li Yin, and Li Shimin are in high positions and hold great power is that in addition to being Li Yuan's sons, they themselves are quite meritorious in war, and the three of them hold great power, and the big and small officials and generals in Li Tang's forces are all convinced.

But Li Yuanji is a person who has no credit, and there is news that when the Li family raised troops to march into Guanzhong and was trapped in Huoyi by heavy rain, the news that almost caused Li Yuan to decide to return to Taiyuan (Liu Wuzhou and the Turkic army attacked Taiyuan) was falsely spread by Li Yuanji.

At that time, Liu Wuzhou was just taking hundreds of men and horses to hunt in Loufu County, and Li Yuanji thought that Liu Wuzhou was going to attack Taiyuan, so frightened that he hurriedly sent someone to spread the news, hoping that Li Yuan could lead the army back.

So at this time, Li Yuan handed over the entire Taiyuan Road to Li Yuanji to guard, and none of the officials and generals in Li Tang's forces were convinced.