How dare he! "
In the Xiande Hall, Li Shimin kicked the table in a rare move, and all the Secret Intelligence Department officials below except Tang Ping remained silent.
It's been a long time, even the last time the Wang family rebelled, Li Shimin hadn't been so angry.
After breathing heavily for a while, Li Shimin finally calmed down and looked at the people from the Secret Intelligence Department with a cold face: "This incident didn't go astray, right?"
"No, with the help of Duke Ping, we sneaked into General Hou... After the Hou's mansion, we found those weapons in the secret storehouse, and then we retreated without leaving any traces."
No wonder Li Shimin was so angry. "General Yun" explained everything that day.
His sneaking into Chang'an this time to trade those fur goods was just a pretense. What he really did was cooperate with Hou Junji's soldiers, contact the Tubo people, and sell them some weapons sent by the Tang Dynasty to the Turkic Protectorate.
In order to show his strength, he even sent a small batch of equipment back to Chang'an and hid it in a secret warehouse at home, waiting for the price to be negotiated before trading.
With the help of Tang Ping's drone, spies from the Secret Service sneaked into Hou Junji's house, and then confirmed the existence of the equipment in the secret warehouse.
"Can we continue to trade with the Tibetans now?"
Li Shimin asked.
"Your Majesty, Na Yunhua said that in addition to Lao Liu, the three of them who were responsible for the transaction back to Chang'an this time were the core ones responsible for this transaction, but how could these weapons be sold to the Tubo people?"
"If we don't sell it to the Tubo people, wouldn't we let Hou Junji know that we have discovered his secret?"
Tang Ping watched from the side. He could understand why Li Shimin was so angry. The Wang family rebelled last time, but the Wang family and other aristocratic families were originally the opposite of Li Tang. Li Tang had also been suppressing the aristocratic family, so he could understand the Wang family's rebellion. .
But Hou Junji was an important minister who worked with him to conquer the world. He even gave him the position of Minister of War.
Although letting him go to the Turkic Protectorate this time was somewhat suppressive, it also showed Li Shimin's trust in him.
The Turks were the first vassal state to surrender to the Tang Dynasty. If they were not Li Shimin's confidants, how could he trust him?
That's why he was so angry when he found out that Hou Junji secretly sold the sophisticated weapons sent by Chang'an to the enemy Tibet.
It is estimated that only Tang Ping who knew about this was not so surprised. After all, Hou Junji was also executed for treason in the 17th year of Zhenguan in history.
"Second uncle, according to what Na Yunhua said, the two soldiers of the Hou Mansion, Lao Liuhe, don't get along very well, so if we can give a reasonable explanation for Nao Liu's disappearance, I think their deal can still continue. Going down."
"Well, tell me!" Li Shimin couldn't be more satisfied with Tang Ping.
Such a nephew could discover the plague and treat it, and he could also discover Hou Junji's conspiracy during this period. He was simply a lieutenant sent by God to the Tang Dynasty.
"Aren't we going to close the city for the past two days? It is said that Lao Liu is usually arrogant. Why don't we go to the house with great fanfare and tell the people in the Marquis's residence that this man did not obey the rules during the closing of the city and had a conflict with the city guards. He was temporarily suspended. Taken into custody."
"If we come and warn him openly, they won't be suspicious. And he has always been at odds with him. Now that he knows he is being detained, he will definitely want to take credit and will definitely broker a follow-up deal with Yunhua."
"Then Yunhua is willing to cooperate?"
"Now that he has completely betrayed Hou Junji, he can only seek refuge with us to get a chance to survive."
Li Shimin thought for a while and then nodded: "Okay, then I'll leave this matter to you. The Secret Intelligence Department will fully cooperate."
After that, all those found to be infected with smallpox in Chang'an City were centralized for treatment, while other people in the city began to receive smallpox vaccination with the cooperation of the Taiyuan Hospital, urban management and others.
At the back door of the Hou Mansion, after three long and one short bird calls, an old soldier quietly stepped out.
"Yun, where have you been these past few days?"
"Don't mention it!" Yun Hua pulled up his arm to reveal the scars on it: "I accidentally contracted the plague this time and was taken for treatment."
"No one discovered your identity?"
"Nonsense, we're about to find out, do you think I can come out now?" Yunhua put down his sleeves: "Where's Lao Liu?"
"Ha!" Hehe said: "That idiot went to Shilang He's house and drank two cups of cat urine. When he came back, he happened to meet the city guard who sealed the city. He actually had a conflict with them and is now locked up. Who knows what? Time to release it?"
"What should we do? Have I contacted the Tibetan envoys? How will we do this business?"
Yunhua said with some annoyance.
"What do you mean?" He glanced at Yun Hua and said, "This time, the master asked us to come back with you to do this business. If the sixth child is imprisoned, I can't make the decision, right?"
"Yes, it's best if you can make the decision. I'll just make a big profit this time. I agreed to share my money after everything is done, but I can't lose a penny."
"Don't worry, my master is the most generous to his subordinates. Since I promised you, I won't miss a penny."
"Okay, then I will bring someone to inspect the goods this afternoon!"
The reason why the transaction location was chosen was Chang'an because there was an entire Tang Dynasty between Tibet and the Turks.
The Tubo people didn't trust Hou Junji that much. This batch of weapons was worth a lot of money. They were also afraid that Hou Junji would defraud them of their money, so they only accepted to see the samples first, and then asked Hou Junji to deliver the goods to Tubo before proceeding. trade.
The imperial court has always been encouraging and supportive of business between the powerful people in the DPRK and China, so Hou Junji took advantage of his position in the Turkic Protectorate to purchase some cowhide, sheepskin and other livestock products from there and asked his own soldiers to send them back. No one would think there was anything unusual when Changan came to sell it.
And he took advantage of this, and among the livestock products shipped back to Chang'an this time, there were many weapons that the imperial court sent to the Turkic Protectorate.
As for where the few weapons went, he alone had the power there and could only use a large stroke to say that they were lost during normal times. As long as the quantity was not too huge, it was unlikely that anyone would cause trouble for him.
The past two years have been very difficult for Tubo. Datang has almost cut off its iron trade with them, including iron ore.
Tubo is located on a plateau and was originally sparsely populated. In addition, almost the entire Tubo now raises sheep and sells their wool to the Tang Dynasty in exchange for various luxuries of the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, even Songtsen Gampo's royal army began to gradually experience a shortage of weapons.
This is also the reason why the two sides hit it off immediately.
That afternoon, two sneaky Tubo men were brought to the back door of the Hou Mansion by Yun Hua.
Then he was led to the secret vault.
"Is this your Tang Dynasty's new standard sword?" A Tibetan man's eyes flashed as he picked up a horizontal sword from the box.
This batch of horizontal knives are all made of fine steel that Tang Ping bought from Hyundai.
Today's Tang Dynasty uses a lot of wind and water power in forging, and it is unknown how much ahead of the surrounding countries in forging technology.
A steam engine was even used as power for mechanical polishing, so every sword was shiny and shiny.
"Isn't that a face person?" These two Tubo people both spoke Tang Dynasty Mandarin very well, and it was obvious that one of them was a good person and the other was a bad person.
Yunhua didn't say anything. He was anxious first. He had to finalize the business before Lao Liu was released. Then all the credit would be his. As for Yunhua, haha, let's wait until the time comes to survive. Bar.
"These horizontal knives can cut hundreds of steel and make steel!"
He took out a piece of steel from the side and said, "If you don't believe it, you can try it!"
"A knife is not for cutting pieces of iron!"
As the Tubo man spoke, he pulled out the scimitar on his body, causing Yunhua to take a half-step back with caution.
"Ha!" A barely audible laugh of contempt, the meaning was self-evident.
Then the two Tubo men, one holding the horizontal sword in the secret storehouse and the other holding their own scimitar, slashed at each other.
You must know that those who can serve as envoys in Chang'an will have good status in Tubo. Especially the Tubo scimitar they brought today was made by the craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty. It is extremely sharp.
Moreover, the two of them used some clever skills to cut off the horizontal knife and use it to lower the price.
However, the steel produced by modern steelmaking technology and the horizontal knife produced by semi-industrial manufacturing were sharper than the two men imagined.
Even this standard weapon, after a burst of sparks, cut a big gap in their Tibetan scimitar.
On the other hand, although the blade of this horizontal sword was obviously damaged, the degree of damage was far less than that of the Tibetan scimitar.
The two Tubo people were speechless for a moment. Is this the current national power of the Tang Dynasty?
As envoys in Chang'an, they are best able to understand the changes in the Tang Dynasty.
The plague a few days ago made the two of them secretly happy. You must know that the plague is now almost an irresistible natural disaster.
But I didn't expect that in a short period of time, Datang not only controlled the spread of the plague, but also developed treatments and vaccines for immunity.
Coupled with the current gap in weapons, the two even felt a little desperate.
Zanpu and Ludongzan have been the most talented and ambitious figures in Tubo in the past century, but can they really defeat the increasingly powerful Tang Dynasty?
"How's it going? Our swords are much stronger than yours, right?"
With a look of shame on their faces, the two Tubo men were too frightened by the sharpness of the knife to say anything.
If this is the case, then he can get a good price for this transaction.
You must know that the higher the price of these weapons, the greater his contribution to Hou Junji will naturally be.
"Tell me, Tang Ren, how much do you plan to sell this batch of weapons for?"
Nowadays, Tibet exports a large amount of wool to the Tang Dynasty. In fact, they are not short of money. What they are short of is materials. Fortunately, there are such borers in the Tang Dynasty!
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