It was already mid-May when he returned to Taiyuan. Yang Yuanqing left Beijing in early April to inspect the shipbuilding station, but it took more than a month to return to the capital.

Yang Yuanqing sat quietly in his study. The light in the study was hazy. He hung a thin gauze on the window, making the light less thorough and making it impossible to see the situation in the house in the yard.

At this time, there were one hundred personal female guards in the mansion. Although it was much safer, the ubiquitous female guards made the family a problem. There were two female guards hidden in the courtyard outside the study. Although they were invisible, Yang Yuanqing could feel their existence, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.

It has been two days since he was back, but Yang Yuanqing has not recovered from his trip to Hebei. In the morning, the room was very quiet. Yang Yuanqing was sitting on a couch reading a book. At this time, the door opened and his wife Pei Minqiu walked in from outside with a cup of tea.

"Why don't you go to court today?" Pei Minqiu asked with a smile.

Yang Yuanqing replied lazily: "Stay for three days and go to court tomorrow."

Pei Minqiu placed the teacup on the table and sat sideways beside her husband, pinching his earlobe mischievously. She touched her earlobes again and said with a giggle: "I found that your earlobes are fat and big. Why are my earlobes so small? It's said that the earlobes are very blessed. Am I destined to work hard?"

Yang Yuanqing picked up the teacup, sucked the fragrant tea gently, and smiled and said, "The pig's ear is bigger. Can it rule the world more than me?"

"You guy, I say human ears, but you compare yourself to a pig, okay! Even if you are a pig, what am I? Am I marrying a pig and following the pig?"

Pei Minqiu spread her imagination and thought of her husband as a big-eared pig that ruled the world in the pig kingdom. She hugged her husband's neck and smiled so hard that her branches trembled.

Yang Yuanqing gently hugged her slender waist like a girl. She was already a mother of two children and still kept it so slim. He couldn't help but think of Pei You's waist. She was the only one who was hardworking.

"Minqiu. I wrote to you half a month......"

Yang Yuanqing reminded him a little, and Pei Minqiu immediately remembered Pei You's incident, his smile was restrained, and his eyebrows were slightly frowned, "Is that true? Sister You really sells wine as a trunk?"

"It's not like selling wine in a house. Her restaurant is very good, and the business should be good, but it's because of the war. The business is light. She can only support her family, but she is very capable and will get better in the future. I want to know, how do you plan to help her?"

Pei Minqiu sighed, "The day after I received your letter, I asked Butler Fu to go to Xinshi City, Taiyuan to buy a Sanyuan Restaurant on the street. Butler Fu has already gone to Qinghe County to exchange the deeds with the Cui family. I also planned to fund her another 10,000 yuan to make her bigger. In short, I will do this, so don't worry, hey! Sister You never writes me. I don't know that she is living such a hard life, but fortunately you met her."

Pei Minqiu felt a little uncomfortable when she thought about the deep sisterly love they had in the past. She wanted to go to Qinghe County in person and take Pei You to her mansion.

Yang Yuanqing knew that his wife was a kind-hearted person and had a good relationship, so she would do her best to help Pei You. She would not need to ask about these things.

At this moment, the housekeeper's voice came from outside the door, "Master! General Wei is here, waiting in the living room."

General Wei was Wei Ben, and he came to find him. There must be a result of investigation. Yang Yuanqing immediately ordered: "Please wait in the study outside."

Yang Yuanqing took another sip of tea and smiled at his wife, "I've been back for two days and haven't reunited with everyone yet. A family dinner and a family gathering tonight."

Pei Minqiu nodded and agreed. Yang Yuanqing stood up and quickly walked towards the study room.

In the outer study, Wei Ben, the general of the inner guard, was walking back and forth with his hands behind his back. After Yang Yuanqing returned to Taiyuan, he was the first person to look for. Wei Ben was extremely guilty and conquered Hebei. His inner guard deployment was not improved in time, so that the Maitreya Cult was so rampant that he didn't know that if the general manager had encountered this incident by chance, there would be a big mess.

In fact, the matter of worshiping Maitreya cannot completely blame the inner guards. After all, the inner guard's intelligence system is mainly aimed at the enemy, and has been deployed in Chang'an, Luoyang, Jiangdu, and the enemy's main cities.

Their internal responsibilities are mainly anti-enemy intelligence, and they are generally only deployed in big cities and strategic locations, such as Taiyuan, Hedong, Youzhou, Anyang, Yan'an, Fengzhou and other places. They cannot take into account the third-tier small counties like Pingyuan County.

Another more important point is that since the Han and Tang dynasties, rulers of all dynasties have no precedent for surveillance of their own people. For example, the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Tang Dynasty's Office of Observation and Affairs was basically targeted at officials. It was not until the fall of the Song Dynasty that it was strengthened, and the scope of surveillance was gradually expanded.

The management of folk religions like the Baimaitre religion is the responsibility of the local government. If the folk religion is out of control, it is also the dereliction of duty of the local government and the responsibility cannot be attributed to the inner guards.

So Yang Yuanqing told Wei Ben that this incident did not mean to blame him, but Wei Ben felt ashamed.

At this time, footsteps came from outside the door. Yang Yuanqing walked in. Wei Ben hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down on one knee, "See the general manager!"

"Get up!"

Yang Yuanqing sat down and asked him, "How is it done when I explain to you?"

Wei Ben took out a thick booklet from his arms and presented it to Yang Yuanqing, "This is formulated by the Neiwei Office. Please give a look at some supplements to expanding the surveillance rights of Neiwei."

Yang Yuanqing took the booklet and read it. It had a plan to expand the army by 10,000, and set up surveillance points in each county, set up yamen, directly take responsibility for the inner guards, and have the right to deal with arrests and other temporary disposals.

Yang Yuanqing looked disappointed. What he asked Wei Ben to do was not do this, but Wei Ben actually misinterpreted his meaning.

"General Wei, the responsibility of the inner guard is to defend against enemy spies and explore enemy intelligence, rather than surveillance of his own people internally. You cannot arbitrarily expand the power of the inner guard just because of the Maitreya Cult. Do you understand what I mean?"

Wei Ben organized dozens of people and took two days to write this new Wei Lu. He thought he would get praise, but he was rejected by the general manager, which really surprised him.

"But... Bei Zhi is worried that a similar Maitreya uprising would break out."

"That's not something you are worried about. The court will set up a field recruit to understand the people's conditions and customs. The Censorate has an inspector to monitor officials. How to manage the people is the court's business and has nothing to do with the military. Even if you find anything, you can only inform the government in time. You cannot overestimate your authority without authorization. Moreover, what I told you to do is not this."

Although Yang Yuanqing's tone was not high, his words were very strict and his attitude was firm. He handed the book back to Wei Ben, "I hope there will be no next time!"

Wei Ben took the booklet and wiped the sweat beads on his forehead. Only then did he understand what the general manager meant. The general manager told him about Pingyuan County, just to tell him that the inner guard should not participate, but he misunderstood the general manager's intention on the contrary.

"I understand that I will never overstep my authority."

Yang Yuanqing asked again: "How is the investigation of the situation in Bafang Restaurant?"

Yang Yuanqing was concerned about this matter. When he was in Hebei, he received a news report from Wei Ben, saying that he discovered that the Bafang Tavern located in the Beishi City of Taiyuan might be an important intelligence point of the Tang Dynasty.

But what Yang Yuanqing is concerned about is whether this bargaining restaurant is Li Shimin's "Tang style" or Li Jiancheng's external supervision hall.

There were two intelligence agencies in the Tang Dynasty, one belonged to the court, called the Foreign Supervision Hall, which was under the charge of Li Jiancheng and the other belonged to the army, called "Tang Feng" and Li Shimin.

The difference between the two intelligence agencies is that they have different responsibilities. The Foreign Supervision Hall mainly understands the customs and conditions of the people in various places outside the Tang Dynasty, as well as the taxes and official backgrounds of the government, etc.

Tang Feng mainly investigates enemy intelligence, military deployment, military combat power, equipment, military rations and other military intelligence. Tang Feng's leader is Changsun Wuji.

This is what Yang Yuanqing asked Wei Ben to investigate. Wei Ben hurriedly said: "I have found out that this restaurant in Bafang belongs to Tang Feng."

Yang Yuanqing walked a few steps behind his back, turned to Wei Ben and said, "Don't alert the enemy for the time being, it's best that our people can penetrate in or buy those who win over each other."

Wei Ben laughed, "There is a way to be humble. Does the supervisor still remember Han Chang, the grocery store manager in Fengzhou?"

Yang Yuanqing still remembers that at that time, Li Yuan set up an intelligence point in Wuyuan County, which was a grocery store. The shopkeeper was Han Chang, who had been controlled by the Sui army.

"What, this person is also in Taiyuan?"

"Report to the general manager, this person is in Taiyuan, but he is from Li Jiancheng and is in charge of the Taiyuan Foreign Supervision Hall, but he can use his humble position."

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "I will just ask how to do these things in detail. You can arrange them yourself, but I will explain to you that matter and must be done for me."

"I understand, I will definitely do it!"

Wei Ben said goodbye and left. Yang Yuanqing stood in front of the map with his hands behind his back, staring at Chang'an on the map, and couldn't help but sneer, "It's not polite to come but not come!"

...........

Bafang Tavern is located outside the gate of Taiyuan North City. This area is the most prosperous commercial place in Taiyuan. It is filled with wine shops, brothels and inns. There are more than 20 big and small wine shops. The Sanyuan Tavern bought by Pei Minqiu is also located here.

Among the many wine shops, the wine shops in Bafang can only be considered middle and upper-middle, covering an area of ​​about three acres and four floors, facing the gate of Taipei City. The entrance of the city is good and the business is booming.

This winery was originally the property of the Yuan family of Guanlong nobles. The Yuan family was defeated and sold to the Dou family. Now the Dou family has been transferred to the Tang Dynasty military and became the base of the Tang army's intelligence agency "Tang Feng" in Taiyuan. It has only three floors of business. However, the fourth floor of the winery is not accessible to ordinary people, which is the secret of the entire winery.

Tang Feng's general manager in Taiyuan was Li Shouzhong, who had been to Fengzhou at that time, and Li Yuan's family general, who later became Li Shimin's confidant.

In the afternoon, a man went straight to the fourth floor from the back of the tavern and brought back some collected information.

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