The autumn colors are getting thicker and thicker.

Qin Tian took his soldiers and horses and stationed them outside Yangzhou City.

Soon, a spy sent the news.

"Childe, the spies came to report, and they found that Li An, the king of Huainan, sent someone to contact Duan Lun."

"Ang Lee?" Qin Tian frowned slightly, quickly remembered, and said, "This King Huainan seems to be the son of the first emperor, right?" ”

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

Hearing this, Qin Tian sighed, there didn't seem to be any problem with having dealings with his brother-in-law, but it was a bit worrying that a prince had a private relationship with a governor.

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

Luo Huang shook his head: "It's not clear what they are plotting for the time being, our people are paying close attention, and I think there will be results soon." ”

"Okay, if you have the news, I'll report it immediately."

Li An, as the king of Huainan, can be regarded as a vassal king in a very large place, and the fact that the vassal kings in various places have ambitions is only known to everyone, after all, Li Shimin can win the throne through the Xuanwumen Change, so why can't they rebel?

In fact, all kinds of rebellions in the Tang Dynasty emerged one after another, and the reason why this was the case was that Li Shimin's Xuanwumen Revolution played a very bad start.

Everyone thinks that the predecessors can do it, why can't they?

Once the emperor in power does not have so much power, the local feudal kings will naturally be ready to move.

Today's Li Shimin has a lot of power and prestige, and it seems that there is no problem with deterring some people, but this is just a deterrent, and it is normal for some people to have objections and say that it is normal.

And since he has encountered this matter, he has to make sure of it.

Luo Huang led the order to retreat.

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

Two days later.

Qin Tian stayed in the barracks, he had been waiting for news, but he had not waited.

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

Luo Huang grimaced and said, "Childe, our people are already investigating, but so far, we haven't found any useful clues. ”

The reason why Duan Lun asked Song Gan to do the iron thing was because he was very confident in the secrecy of this matter, and what could make Duan Lun so confident, Qin Tian's spies wanted to find out easily, how easy was it?

Seeing this, Qin Tian felt that things might be a little difficult to do.

His heart suddenly became a little uneasy.

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

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

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

It's bustling and lively.

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

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

Qin Tian didn't really care about this, but just as he walked over, he suddenly heard the conversation between the vendor selling kitchen knives and a customer.

"Why is this knife suddenly so expensive, and so expensive? I used to be able to buy a handful for 300 yuan, but now I need 500 yuan? ”

The hawker has a lot of opinions on the price increase of kitchen knives, and the vendor who sells kitchen knives smiled bitterly and said: "The market is like this, I have no choice, you go to inquire now, we don't know how much more expensive the iron in Yangzhou City is than before, and now it has risen to 500 yuan, which is already cheap, you go to other places to buy, you can buy it for 500 yuan, count me as losing." ”

"Hmph, I'm going to see ............."

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

"Is the iron in Yangzhou City very expensive?" Qin Tian walked up to the vendor and asked, and the vendor nodded: "Expensive, it's been a lot more expensive recently, I don't know what's going on, my current business is not good." ”

"Is it the same everywhere?"

"That's right, it's the same everywhere, you can go and see other places."

Qin Tian bowed his head, and then took someone to really go to other places to take a look, and after reading it like this, he became more and more sure of the thoughts in his heart.

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

Qin Tian nodded: "Yes, the price of the item, sometimes it can explain a lot of problems, the price of iron has risen, indicating that Yangzhou City lacks iron, but as far as I know, Yangzhou City has always been short of iron somehow, you said so much iron, where did it go?" ”

Although Qin Tian didn't say it explicitly, even Cheng Chumo understood what he meant at this time.

Those irons, I'm afraid they were got by Duan Lun, and then gave them to the king of Huainan, they got the iron tools, they must be plotting against them, and according to the rules of the Tang Dynasty, the vassal king must not make weapons privately, otherwise it will be judged according to the rebellion.

"Childe, 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 iron weapon to the King of Huainan."

There is no evidence, just because the price of iron in Yangzhou City has risen, it is a bit unreasonable to say that Duan Lun colluded with King Huainan and intended to rebel.

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

Qin Tian naturally knew this truth, he nodded, and said, "Send me more manpower, pay attention to some movements in the Governor's Mansion and even the entire Yangzhou City, I must find some evidence." ”

If you can nip things in the bud, then it will naturally minimize the losses, if the rebellion really happens, then I'm afraid things will be a little bad.

Luo Huang nodded: "Don't worry, Childe, I will send someone to increase the search." ”

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

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

"What's going on, how much of the ironware is left that hasn't been transported?" Although he didn't think that Qin Tian would be able to find anything, this kind of thing could still be transported away as soon as possible.

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

Three batches is not much, and five days is not too long, after listening to Song Gan's answer, Duan Lun nodded: "Okay, let our people be faster, and be more cautious and careful, the governor of Pontus doesn't want to have any accidents at this last moment." ”

Song Gan said: "The governor can rest assured that there was no accident in the previous batches, and there will definitely be no accidents in the next few batches, rest assured, rest assured." ”