Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1147 The King of Huainan

Autumn colors are getting stronger and stronger.

Qin Tian took his soldiers and horses to station outside Yangzhou City.

Soon, spies sent news.

"My lord, the spies came to report that they discovered that Li An, King of Huainan, sent someone to contact Duan Lun."

"Li An?" Qin Tian frowned slightly, and soon remembered, and said: "This Huainan king seems to be the son of the former emperor, right?"

Luo Huang nodded: "Not only the son of the late emperor, but also Princess Gaomi's younger brother, Duan Lun's brother-in-law."

Hearing this, Qin Tian let out a sigh. It seemed that there was nothing wrong with having contacts with his brother-in-law. However, it was a bit worrying for a prince to have a private relationship with a governor.

Qin Tian thought for a moment and said, "Do you know what they are going to do?"

Luo Huang shook her head: "It is not clear what they are plotting for the time being, our people are paying close attention, and there will be results soon."

"Okay, if you have news, report it immediately."

Li An, as the king of Huainan, can be regarded as the vassal king of a very large place. It is well known that the vassal kings of various places have ambitions. After all, Li Shimin was able to win the throne through the Xuanwumen incident, so why can't they rebel? ?
Various rebellions in the Tang Dynasty actually emerged in endlessly, and the reason for this is that Li Shimin's Xuanwumen change played a very bad start.

Everyone thinks that the predecessors could do it, why couldn't they?
Once the emperor in power loses that much power, the local vassals will naturally be ready to move.

Today's Li Shimin has great power and great prestige. It seems that there is no problem in deterring some people, but this is just a deterrent. It is normal for some people to say it is normal.

And since he encountered this matter, he had to make sure.

Luo Huang led the order to retreat.

At this time, some changes are quietly taking place in Yangzhou City.

Two days later.

Qin Tian stayed in the barracks, he had been waiting for news, but he never got it.

"Luo Huang, haven't our people found out any conspiracy between King Huainan and Duan Lun?"

Luo Huang said with a bitter face, "My lord, our people are already investigating, but so far, we haven't found any useful clues."

The reason why Duan Lun asked Song Gan to make ironware was because he was very confident in the secrecy of this matter, and it was easy for Qin Tian's spies to find out such a confident thing about Duan Lun.

Seeing this, Qin Tian felt that the matter might be a bit difficult.

His heart suddenly became a little uneasy.

He walked back and forth in the big tent. After walking a few steps like this, Qin Tian shook his head and said, "Let's go to Yangzhou City for a stroll."

He was really bored and wanted to go to Yangzhou City for a walk.

Although it is already autumn, the scenery of Yangzhou City is still very beautiful, and the weather at this time is very comfortable, so you can see different people walking back and forth in the streets and alleys, or selling things.

It's bustling here.

Qin Tian didn't have any purpose, he just wanted to go for a walk so that he could relax.

Some people on the street are selling kitchen knives and other iron tools.

Qin Tian didn't care much about this, but just as he was walking over, he suddenly heard the conversation between the kitchen knife vendor and a customer.

"Why is this knife so expensive all of a sudden, and it's so expensive? I used to be able to buy one for three hundred Wen, but now it's asking me for five hundred Wen?"

The peddler has a lot of opinions on the price increase of kitchen knives. The peddler who sells kitchen knives smiled bitterly and said: "The market is like this, and I can't help it. You can go and inquire now. The iron in our Yangzhou city is more expensive than before. Now that it has risen to [-] Wen, it is already considered cheap, you can go to other places to buy it, and if you can buy it for [-] Wen, I will lose."

"Hmph, I'm going to take a look..."

The customer left, the business was not completed, but Qin Tian was suddenly awakened by their words, he seemed to understand a little bit.

"Is the iron in Yangzhou City very expensive?" Qin Tian walked up to the peddler and asked, and the peddler nodded: "It's expensive, it's been quite expensive recently, I don't know what's going on, my business is not doing well now gone."

"Is it the same everywhere?"

"That's right, it's the same everywhere, you can look elsewhere."

Qin Tian nodded, and then took people to look at other places. After looking at it like this, he became more and more sure of his thoughts.

"My lord, the price of iron in Yangzhou City has increased." Luo Huang looked at Qin Tian and said, he seemed to understand something.

Qin Tian nodded: "Yes, the price of items can sometimes explain a lot of problems. The price of iron has increased, which means that Yangzhou City is short of iron. But as far as I know, Yangzhou City has always been short of iron for some reason. What do you say? Duodie, where have they all gone?"

Although Qin Tian didn't say it clearly, even Cheng Chumo understood what he meant.

I'm afraid that those irons were obtained by Duan Lun, and then given to the King of Huainan. They must have plotted to do something wrong when they obtained iron weapons. .

"My lord, that's what I said, but judging from the current situation, we don't seem to have any evidence to prove that Duan Lun gave the ironware to King Huainan."

Without evidence, it is a bit unreasonable to say that Duan Lun colluded with King Huainan and intended to rebel just because the price of iron in Yangzhou City had increased.

Rebellion is a big deal, but it should not be said casually.

Qin Tian naturally understood this truth, he nodded, and said: "Send me more people, and pay attention to some movements in the Dudu Mansion and even the entire Yangzhou City. I must find some evidence."

Rebellion is really too serious. If you can nip the matter in the bud, the loss will be minimized. If the rebellion really happens, things will be a little bit bad.

Luo Huang nodded: "Young master, don't worry, I will send people to increase the search."

After saying this, Qin Tian and the others went straight back to the barracks.

At the same time, Duan Lun was chatting with Song Gan at the Governor's Mansion.

"What's the matter, how many iron artifacts are left?" Although Qin Tian didn't think he could find anything, this kind of thing should be removed as soon as possible.

Song Gan said: "There are three more batches, all of which can be shipped away in about five days."

Three batches is not too much, and five days is not too long. After listening to Song Gan's answer, Duan Lun nodded: "Okay, let our people hurry up and be more careful. At this last moment, something unexpected happened."

Song Gan said: "Don't worry, the governor. The previous few batches have not had any accidents, and the next few batches will definitely not have any accidents. Don't worry, don't worry."

(End of this chapter)