In September, Wuyuan County has reached the harvest season. The wheat is ripe. The fields are endless wheat fields, like a golden carpet covered with golden sea. Thick wheat ears press the wheat straw down. Occasionally, a gust of wind blows, and the wheat waves are rolling, and golden waves are rising and falling. In the wheat fields, farmers, soldiers, scholars and officials are seeing harvesting everywhere. Almost the entire Wuyuan County mobilized.

On the official road south of Jiuyuan County, a caravan from Hedong was slowly moving. Hundreds of mules and horses were loaded with goods from the Central Plains, tea, sugar, paper, stationery and paint. These were the best-selling goods in Wuyuan County. It can be seen that this caravan was very familiar with the market conditions in Wuyuan County.

Since the six counties in Guanbei became the sphere of influence of the Fengzhou army, the court's trade ban on Wuyuan County has basically been in name only. In order to make profits, merchants have formed teams from Guanzhong to Wuyuan County from Hedong to do business. They transported various urgently needed goods in Wuyuan County, including various military supplies, but took away the copper coins cast by Wuyuan County. This is the best five-plant Kaihuang coins and is very popular in the Central Plains.

The leader of the caravan was a man with thick eyebrows and strong eyes and strong figure. He rode a horse and looked at the busy harvesting in the farmland from afar. Beside him was a young friend, and he looked at this tempting harvest scene with envy. This endless wheat field is no longer common in the Central Plains.

"Brother Li, it would be great if the world was like Wuyuan County!" the guy sighed in a low voice.

"Don't think too much. This time we come to Wuyuan County, not to make you sigh." The man surnamed Li stared at the guy with a serious look. The guy was so scared that he dared not say anything again.

The caravan walked past the last wheat field and arrived in front of Jiuyuan County. He was immediately stopped by the soldiers guarding the city gate. An officer asked, "Where did you come from?"

The man hurriedly bowed and smiled, "We came from Hedong and came to Fengzhou for trafficking goods."

"Can you carry weapons and military supplies?"

Wuyuan County also has strict regulations on merchants, not allowing any weapons to be brought into the city. It is not that it is not allowed to traffic weapons and military funds, but it is absolutely fine. It is just that you must register in detail before entering the city and store them in the warehouse outside the city. Then special officials will come to receive them, but foreign merchants are not allowed to carry weapons to the city with you.

The man hurriedly said, "You know that only the self-defense weapons you carry with you are not safe along the way."

"Our Wuyuan County is very safe, you can't bring it into the city!"

A soldier brought a wooden box and said, "Put all the weapons in! I will give them to you when I leave."

The man had no choice but to give orders to his followers. Everyone untied the swords and bows and arrows on their waists and put them into the wooden box. The officer said coldly: "The dagger must be put in too!"

Several followers had to pull out daggers from their boots and threw them into the box. The officer said to everyone again: "If not, I will seal the box. I want to remind you that if there are weapons after sealing the box, it is illegal. Once seized, there will be lawsuits. If there are still some, please put them in quickly!"

The officer confirmed it several times, but when he saw that there was no response, he waved his hand. "Closed the box!"

The soldier sealed the box, the officer counted the number of people, and handed a square bronze medal to the man, "Receive the weapon with this bronze medal, remember it for three days!"

He ordered the soldiers again, "Search for the goods!"

Dozens of soldiers rushed forward and began to search their bodies and check the merchants' goods. After confirming that there were no military products or weapons, the officer waved his hand and let them into the city.

The inspection at the city gate took half an hour. The young guy was shocked and said, "I didn't have that strictness since last year!"

"Don't talk too much!"

The man glared at him again, and everyone walked forward. When he walked to a grocery store, the man glanced at the signboard, "Han Ji Grocery Store", it's here.

The shopkeeper in the store had already come out and smiled and said, "Why are you here now? I thought you should have arrived yesterday."

"I encountered wind and sand on the road, which was delayed."

The man turned over and dismounted and asked the guys to deliver the goods to the store. Several guys also ran out of the store to help.

The shopkeeper took the man into the inner courtyard and sat down in a room. The shopkeeper's surname was Han and named Han Chang. He has been in Wuyuan County for more than a year. This grocery store is his industry and the business is very good. The man who came from afar was named Li Shouzhong. He was nominally a businessman, but in fact, he was the head of the Li Yuan Mansion's family.

This Li Ji grocery store is naturally also an intelligence site located in Fengzhou by Li Yuan. It specializes in collecting various intelligences from Wuyuan County and Fengzhou Army and mastering Yang Yuanqing's movements.

Since Yang Yuanqing advanced to the Sui Dynasty in Fengzhou in the ninth year of Daye, Li Yuan knew that Yang Yuanqing would sooner or later become his strong enemy. Since then, he has begun to pay attention to Fengzhou. At present, Li Yuan has set up two intelligence points in total, one in Chang'an and the other in Fengzhou, with the eldest son Li Jiancheng fully responsible. Whether it is the shopkeeper Han Chang or the businessman Li Shouzhong, they are all Li Jiancheng's confidant.

The two sat down, and Li Shouzhong said in confusion: "Today we entered the city, the soldiers checked it very strictly. It wasn't like this last time. What happened?"

"Nothing happened. After the Battle of Yanmen, Fengzhou began to strictly control it. Local residents, in fact, every household has swords, spears, bows and arrows, but this has to be numbered in the government. Non-local residents like us cannot own weapons, and even supplies to make weapons. Once they are discovered, they will be in jail. Last month, a shopkeeper who runs a restaurant in Licheng, I also knew this person. He was found to have dozens of weapons hidden, and he was considered to be a Turkic spy. Now he is serious and no one dares to hide weapons privately."

Li Shouzhong pondered for a moment and said, "You mean, mainly to investigate Turkic spies?"

"As about the same, there are Sui army patrols on the other side of Yinshan. People who come from the north will be strictly investigated. Now there are many Han people who defect to the Turks, which are hard to guard against. I have lived in Wuyuan County for two years and have reached the qualification. I applied for Wuyuan County household registration a few days ago. Yesterday, the government came to review it. I guess I will get the household registration in two days. In this way, I will be promoted to Class A person. There will be no army to search in the future. There will also be weapons, so it will be more convenient for us."

"What kind of A person?" Li Shouzhong was a little confused.

Han Chang smiled slightly, "Category A people are people with household registration in Wuyuan County, but they have weapons, and they are the most free. They will not be inspected if there is no special situation. Category B people live in Wuyuan County, but people without household registration cannot own weapons. They have to go to the county government every ten days to order Mao, and they are often investigated. I am a Class B person now, and businessmen like you are a Class C person. You should have a bronze medal when you enter the city!"

Li Shouzhong took out the bronze medal and handed it to him. Han Chang looked at the back of the bronze medal and smiled and said, "Did you see? There is a word "three" on it, which means that you can only stay in the city for three days. If you have more than three days, you will be in trouble. You will be interrogated by the government first. If you fail to interrogate, you will have to be detained and handed over to the military, which means you are suspected of enemy detectives."

Only then did Li Shouzhong understand, no wonder the officer emphasized that it was only three days, and it turned out to be that. He asked in confusion: "What about you, are there signs to enter and exit the city?"

"Of course there is!"

Han Chang took out a round bronze medal from his waist and placed it on the table and smiled: "This is my round medal. I have to show it when I enter and exit the city and be searched. After I apply for my household registration, I can change the fish medal and go out of the city freely. In fact, there are many details in it, such as living in the city or outside the city, which is different. If the registered person outside the city enters the city, there will be no problem in one or two days. If it exceeds three days, he will have to go to the county government to file a record. It is very strict. After all, it is just one sentence: to prevent internal responses and detectives."

Li Shouzhong sighed slightly. If this is the case, one of his tasks might not be completed.

"This time I was ordered by the eldest son to come to Wuyuan County. In addition to bringing the information you collected back to Taiyuan, there are two other tasks."

"What mission do you say?"

"One task is to ask me to recruit an army in Wuyuan, about two or three hundred people, lurking in Dali and Jiuyuan counties..."

Before he finished speaking, Han Chang shook his head and said, "This is absolutely impossible. The Fengzhou army has strictly controlled the gathering of multiple people. If more than fifty people enter the country, there will be soldiers following and surveillance throughout the journey. More than ten people are not allowed to enter the city. Merchants open stores, and no more than five non-local household registration workers hired. If the total number of people exceeds twenty, then there will be soldiers stationed in the store to monitor them. Therefore, no one in each store in Jiuyuan County has more than twenty people. Even if you open a branch, you won't be able to recruit two or three hundred people. Where can you go to recruit? The locals' family is here, so they won't do such a thing at all. Instead, they will report you to win a heavy reward."

Li Shouzhong said helplessly: "Okay! I won't mention this task for now. I will report to the eldest son. Another task requires you to find a way."

"What mission?"

"The Fengzhou Army has a very powerful heavy armored infantry. The eldest son asked us to spend a high price to get a set of heavy armored infantry equipment. We didn't want it immediately, but we would get it within at least one year."

Han Chang didn't say anything for a long time. He walked into the inner room and took out a flat wooden box and handed it to Li Shouzhong, "This is some information I have collected. You can go back and hand it over to the eldest son. As for the equipment of the heavy armored infantry, I will find a way. This is difficult and the risk is also very high. I will try my best!"

Just then, a noise came from outside, and a guy ran over in a panic, "Shopkeeper, there was a team of internal guards outside."

When Han Chang heard that it was an inner guard, he was shocked and asked hurriedly: "What happened?"

The guy looked at Li Shouzhong and whispered: "It seems that this Mr. Li has violated the rules in something. The guards outside asked Mr. Li to go out to answer immediately, otherwise they would come in and arrest people."

Han Chang and Li Shouzhong looked at each other, and Han Chang said anxiously: "Master Li will deal with it first! The inner guards have great power, and it will be troublesome if they are targeted."

Li Shouzhong didn't know what was wrong with him, so he had to bite the bullet and walk out of the store. There were more than 20 soldiers standing outside the store. What's unique is that their helmets were red. These were the inner guards of the Fengzhou Army, with a total of 5,000 people stationed in various parts of Wuyuan County. Their helmets were all red, so they were also called the Red Helmet Soldiers.

Next to him was an officer who was guarding the city gate just now. When he saw Li Shouzhong walk out, he pointed at him and said, "It's this person!"

An inner guard officer stepped forward and looked at Li Shouzhong, "Go with us!"

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