"Yes!" Li Ji immediately bent down and bowed down and spoke.

"There's one more thing." Li Er thought for a while, and then took a deep breath, as if he had made up his mind, and said directly: "I will allocate a sum of money to you from the inner treasury first." You go to Guazhou this time, and Liangzhou has another mission. ”

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

"I want you to find some people, and then set up a secret department to gather information and pass on information for me. This department is directly accountable to me, and you are directly accountable to me, regardless of anyone else, and it is better if I can know what information I want to know. Li Shimin looked at Li Ji and said with a serious face.

"This ......" Li Ji was stunned for a moment, not that he couldn't do it, but he quickly realized what this department meant...... Intelligence, although Datang does not have a special intelligence department, but there are also related systems to operate, for example, the military supervisor in the army is responsible for Li Er, and there is also a department that transmits intelligence information to the Ministry of War.

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

Li Er didn't look at Li Ji's expression, but said very directly: "Mao Gong, do you know? This time, Huo Gang's incident made me suddenly discover one thing. ”

Li Ji didn't speak, because he knew that Li Er was just talking now, and he wasn't really asking him.

"That is, in places like Liangzhou and Guazhou, there are some things, if I want to know, if I don't rely on the family gate valve, even if I want to know the situation over there, I have no way of knowing! Even some of the documents I sent to the border gate, if some people didn't want me to see them, there was a way to prevent them from being allowed to see them. Li Er said in a leisurely tone.

Li Ji bowed and was silent, but he could understand Li Er's thoughts to some extent, but he couldn't express any meaning, but he understood why Li Er was looking for him, although his Li Ji was born in a good family, and it was a local scholar family, but it was far from the family of the family.

Their family can't be regarded as a family door valve, it can only be said that there are squires with small assets in the local area, not to mention the family door valve, and even some small families that have been inherited for many years can't compare, far behind.

This is probably the reason why Li Er asked him to do this, in order to have an intelligence system independent of the family's gate valve.

"The Li family in Longxi is doing trade with Huo Gang, and I instructed it, so Li Yi, the next head of the Dunhuang house of the Li family in Longxi, came to see me, and I asked him to pass on all the information about Huo Gang to me, but there is some information that he obviously did not pass on to me."

"And these things are all things that need you to do, from Guazhou to Chang'an for thousands of miles, there are many places with poor mountains and bad rivers along the way, and there are also many places where thieves loot, so the letters sent to Chang'an, the messengers have many deaths, and it is not a strange thing that the letters are lost." Li Er said in a strange tone.

As for what was implied in these words, Li Ji didn't dare to guess, because this thing can't be guessed, and Li Er won't say it, even if Li Er guesses countless answers, it is estimated that Li Er won't say it, as long as he understands the meaning himself.

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

"Accurate and reliable intelligence transmission system, you must find a way to establish it, you have finished reading Huo Gang's letter just now, and you have also seen the last sentence, you now look at this letter paper in the light outside, in the lower right corner of the letterhead." Li Er said lightly.

The dark seal that Huo Gang said, Li Er has already found it, and if you watch it normally, you can't see it, but you can see that there is a faint Huo character in the Dao when you look at the sun.

This thing is a bit interesting, and why Huo Gang said that sentence at the back of the letter, Li Er probably understood that it was to prevent someone from reading the letter and copying it directly as it was, and then sending it over. And after writing this sentence, it is difficult to replace it, at least this letter is estimated to be impossible for ordinary people to make, even if the person who reads the letter wants to forge it.

Of course, such a situation may also be replaced, as long as the last sentence is not written when copying, but this will expose the risk in the future is very great, because Li Shimin's reply may return from that channel, so that they can also tamper with Li Shimin's letter, so that Huo Gang can't find out.

But what if Li Shimin's letter is sent by someone? What the emperor thinks, who knows? If Li Shimin really sent someone to deliver it, wouldn't the person in the middle be finished in an instant? Because Li Shimin wanted to send someone to deliver the letter, there must be soldiers to follow, and it was impossible for him to ride on the road alone.

Therefore, this sentence seems to be nonsense, but Li Er can see it, and there is some caution in it. Because with this, it is not easy to reply. If someone really reads the letter, after seeing that sentence, the best choice is that the letter simply does not appear in front of Li Er, and pretends that the messenger has an accident halfway.

Anyway, he Li Er didn't want to reply to the letter after reading it, could Huo Gang know if it was possible? It is impossible to personally send someone to Chang'an to question him.

The problem is that if that's really the case, the person who reads the letter will have to be entangled again, because of what Huo Gang said in the letter, if Li Er doesn't reply to the letter, Huo Gang will naturally think that Li Er doesn't care, so if Huo Gang unites with Jieli, then the person who reads the letter will suffer! Because no matter who this person is, he must live in Liangzhou Guazhou, and they are the first to bear the brunt.

These are all things that Li Er thought of, and of course, the letter is now safe in his hands, proving that no one reads it. But Huo Gang's letter paper gave Li Er a lot of inspiration.

Li Ji quickly found this secret seal according to what Li Er said, and after discovering it, Li Ji also deliberately looked at the letter paper normally, and couldn't see the content on the secret seal at all.

"It's kind of magical." Li Ji said with some surprise.

"That's right, you went to the Western Regions, and remember, you must develop a set of secret intelligence transmission routes, preferably except for you and your subordinates and me, even if others get it, they can't understand it." Li Er said seriously.

"Of course, the channel for sending the letter must also be safe, and it is better to establish a new channel for sending the letter."

"Yes, the minister!" Li Ji took a deep breath, and then decisively bent down and bowed down, since Li Er found him for this task, Li Ji knew that he couldn't refuse, since he couldn't refuse, so he agreed very simply.

"Then, I wonder if the minister can meet Huo Gang?" Li Ji thought for a while and asked.

"You judge yourself, if you think it's okay, you can meet with him, but when you meet with him, it's best not to let anyone know, including the Longxi Li family, including An Xinggui, and you went this time, just to assess Huo Gang's military strength, what the Longxi Li family told me before, Huo Gang's army has a full set of Mingguang armor, horse lance, and thousands of miles, this must be confirmed." Li Er's expression was serious.

"I understand."

"Well, the war horse has been confirmed, it's true, I'm still a little unbelievable about the rest, I want you to confirm it yourself."

"Yes."

"Go, you go back and start preparing, when to leave to give me a message, I will have people secretly send money to your house in the next few days, but the amount at one time will not be too much, the cost in the early stage, you go out of your house first, I will let someone make up for it later."

"Then Your Majesty, the minister retires."

After Li Ji withdrew from the main hall, Li Er looked at the palace door for a long time before he sighed faintly and said: "Chang Lin, you have heard it, you are ready here, go to find some orphans, some information sent back by Li Ji also needs someone to pass it on when entering the palace." ”

"Minion Command!" Chang Lin unusually knelt directly on the ground and gave Li Er a big salute.

Li Er waved his hand and said nothing.

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

Li Er also once led the army to fight, of course he knew the quality of the horses, those war horses that were transported to Chang'an Li Er had seen it, except for the one given to him, if the other war horses were put in peacetime, it would not be an exaggeration to say that they were sweaty and bloody, but Huo Gang could take them out in batches!

And he said a number of three thousand, Huo Gang directly agreed, and he didn't even return it, so Huo Gang's own war horse must not be bad, thinking about it this way, the question is, how many such war horses does Huo Gang have? !

You must know that such a war horse, if you search through the entire Western Turks and want to find so much, Li Er finds it difficult, but Huo Gang just took it out!

Not to mention Huo Gang's achievements, it's just scary, right? Yi Wu aside, how many years has Loulan been in the Western Regions? The most important thing is that Huo Gang didn't take much time before and after, first destroying the Turkic Tongluo tribe, defeating Ashiye's 10,000 cavalry with 1,000 cavalry, and then destroying Loulan Yiwu, which was completed within a few months.

How could Li Er not be interested in Huo Gang, and after he became interested in Huo Gang, when he wanted to know more about Huo Gang, Li Er suddenly found that if he wanted to know these things, he couldn't avoid two people, or two families.

A Longxi Li clan, Liangzhou Wuwei An clan. Although they don't seem to be a family, they all belong to the family, and 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 caused Datang to also appear in advance an intelligence department that did not belong to this era.

Times are not static, and his influence has made the world begin to change.

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