"Yes!" Li Ji immediately bent down and said.

"Besides this, there is one more thing." Li Er thought about it, then took a deep breath, and said directly as if he had made up his mind, "I will allocate some money to you from the inner treasury first. This time you go to Guazhou, Liangzhou has another task."

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Li Ji's body was shocked, and he immediately knew that this was the real key.

"I hope you find some people and then set up a secret department to collect and convey intelligence for me. This department is directly responsible to me, and you are directly responsible to me, ignoring anyone else. It is best if I want to know what information I can know." Li Shimin looked at Li Ji with a serious expression and spoke.

"This..." Li Ji was stunned for a moment. It was not that he could not do it, but that he quickly realized what this department meant... Although the Tang Dynasty did not have a special intelligence department, it also operated related systems. For example, the military supervisor in the army was responsible for Li Er, and there were also departments that conveyed intelligence information to the Ministry of War.

But Li Er now obviously wants to establish a pure intelligence-collecting department, and it is a secret collection, which means that his department may involve a lot of secrets in the future.

Li Er did not look at Li Ji's expression, but said directly: "Maogong, do you know? This time Huo Gang's incident made me suddenly discover something."

Li Ji didn't say anything because he knew that Li Er was just telling him now, not really asking him.

"That is, there are some things in places like Liangzhou and Guazhou. If I want to know, if I don't rely on the aristocratic families, even if I want to know the situation there, I can't know! Even some documents I sent to the border, if some people don't want me to see, there are ways to prevent me from seeing them." Li Er said in a leisurely tone.

Li Ji bowed silently and did not speak, but he could understand Li Er's thoughts, but he could not express any meaning, but he understood why Li Er had come to him. Although Li Ji's family was from a good family and was considered a local aristocratic family, it was far from that of aristocratic families.

Their family cannot be regarded as a family of aristocratic families. They can only be said to be a gentry with small assets in the local area. Not to mention aristocratic families, even some small families that have been passed down for many years are not as good as that. They are far inferior.

This is probably the reason why Li Er asked him to do this, in order to have an intelligence system independent of the aristocratic families.

"I was instructed by Li, the Li family in Longxi, to trade with Huo Gang. For this reason, Li Yi, the next head of the Dunhuang house of Li family in Longxi, came to see me. I asked him to pass all the information of Huo Gang to me, but there was some information that he obviously did not pass on to me."

"And these things are all things that you need to do. From Guazhou to Chang'an, there are many poor mountains and rivers along the way, and there are many places where thieves robbed. Therefore, the messengers sent to Chang'an are mostly dead, and the lost letters are not a strange thing." Li Er said in a strange tone.

As for what this sentence was implying, Li Ji didn't dare to guess because he couldn't guess this thing, and Li Er wouldn't say it. Even if Li Er guessed countless answers, Li Er probably wouldn't say it. As long as he understood the meaning himself, he would be fine.

"So, when you go to Guazhou, your current status will attract some people's attention. You can bring some people over openly and then secretly bring some people over."

"You must find a way to build an accurate and reliable intelligence transmission system. You have just finished reading Huo Gang's letter, and you have also seen the last sentence. Now you look at the letter paper in the light outside, in the lower right corner of the letter paper." Li Er said lightly.

Li Er has found the dark marks mentioned by Huo Gang. If you watch them normally, you can't see them, but you can see the vague character Huo in it when facing the sun.

This thing is interesting, and why Huo Gang said that sentence after the letter? Li Er roughly understood that it was to prevent people from copying the letter as it was and then sending it over. After writing this sentence, it would be difficult to replace it. At least this letter paper is probably not something that ordinary people cannot create, even if the person who reads the letter wants to forge it.

Of course, such a situation may be replaced by someone. As long as you don’t write the last sentence when copying, it will be very risky to be exposed in the future, because Li Shimin’s reply may return from that channel, so they can also tamper with Li Shimin’s letter, which makes Huo Gang unable to find out.

But what if Li Shimin sent someone to send a letter to him? Who knows what the emperor thought? If Li Shimin really sent someone to send a letter to him, then the people in the middle would be over in an instant? Because if Li Shimin wanted to send someone to deliver the letter, there would inevitably be soldiers following him, and it would be impossible for him to ride alone on the road alone.

So, this sentence seems nonsense, but Li Er saw that he was quite scheming. Because of this, it was difficult to reply. Someone really read the letter in the middle. After seeing that sentence, the best choice is that the letter did not appear in front of Li Er, and pretended that something happened to the messenger halfway.

Anyway, Li Er read the letter and didn't want to reply. Can Huo Gang know if he succeeded? It is impossible to send someone to Chang'an to question him personally.

The problem is that if that is true, the person who reads the letter will be confused again, because if Li Er does not reply to what Huo Gang said, Huo Gang will naturally think that Li Er doesn't care. If Huo Gang joins Jie Li, then the person who reads the letter will suffer a lot! Because no matter who this person is, he must live in Guazhou, Liangzhou, and they are the first to bear the brunt.

These were all what Li Er thought of. Of course, the letter is now safe in his hands, proving that no one has read it. But Huo Gang's letter paper gave Li Er a lot of inspiration.

Li Ji quickly discovered this dark mark as Li Er said. After discovering it, Li Ji looked at the letter paper normally, and could not see the content on the dark mark at all.

"This is a bit magical." Li Ji said in surprise.

"Right, when you go to the Western Regions, remember to develop a set of secret intelligence transmission lines. It is best if you and your subordinates have me, even if others can't understand it even if they get it." Li Er said seriously.

"Of course, the channels for sending messages must be safe, and it is best to re-establish a channel for sending messages."

"Yes, I will accept the order!" Li Ji took a deep breath, then decisively bent down and said, since Li Er had found him in this task, Li Ji knew that he could not refuse. Since he could not refuse, he agreed very simply.

"Then, I wonder if I can meet Huo Gang?" Li Ji thought about it and asked.

"You judge yourself. If you think you can, you can meet him, but when you meet him, it is best not to let anyone know, including the Li family in Longxi, An Xinggui, and you went there this time, just to evaluate Huo Gang's military strength. What the Li family in Longxi told me before, Huo Gang's army had a full set of Mingguang armor, horse spear, and thousands of miles of horses. This must be confirmed." Li Er's expression was serious.

"I understand."

"Well, the war horse has been confirmed, it is true. I can't believe the others. I want you to confirm them in person."

"yes."

"Go, start preparing when you go back. When will you leave to send me a message? I will have someone send the money to your house secretly these days, but the amount will not be too much at a time. For the early expenses, you will pay from your house first, and I will ask someone to make up for it later."

"Then your Majesty, I will leave."

After Li Ji left the hall, Li Er looked at the hall gate for a long time before sighing quietly and said, "Chang Lin, you have heard it. You are ready to find some orphans. Some of the information sent by Li Ji also needs to be passed on to the palace."

"Sister received the order!" Chang Lin knelt on the ground and gave Li Er a big gift.

Li Er waved his hand and said nothing.

Chang Lin bent down and left quickly, but Li Er sat down again in the position. The reason why he asked Li Ji to do this was because Li Er had become interested in Huo Gang before, especially the horses Huo Gang sold.

Li Er also led the army to fight. Of course, he knew the quality of the horses. Li Er had seen the war horses transported to Chang'an. Except for the one given to him, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the other war horses were sold out in normal times, but Huo Gang could take them out in batches!

And he said the number was three thousand, and Huo Gang agreed directly, and he didn't even give it back. Then the war horses Huo Gang used must not be bad. Thinking about this, the question is, how many such war horses Huo Gang has?!

You know, if you search through the entire Western Turks, Li Er thought it was difficult for him to find so many of these war horses, but Huo Gang just took them out!

Not to mention Huo Gang's achievements, they are simply scary, okay? Let's not talk about it, how many years have Loulan been in the Western Regions? The most important thing is that Huo Gang didn't take long to destroy the Turks and Luo tribes first, one thousand cavalry defeated Ashiye and ten thousand cavalry, and then destroyed Loulan Yiwu. This was completed within a few months.

How could Li Er not be interested in Huo Gang? When he was interested in Huo Gang and wanted to know more about Huo Gang, Li Er suddenly realized that if he wanted to know these things, he could not avoid two people, or two aristocratic families.

There is a Li family in Longxi and An family in Wuwei, Liangzhou. Although they do not seem to be a family, they all belong to aristocratic families. It was at this time that Li Shimin suddenly wanted to establish an intelligence department that belonged to him and only collected intelligence for him.

Of course, Huo Gang didn't know that his appearance led to the Tang Dynasty's emergence of intelligence departments that did not belong to this era.

The times are not static, and their influence has begun to change the world.

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Chapter completed!