Chapter 226 Not asking for trouble
According to common sense, when Lin Danhan discovered that his woman was defiled by a merchant from the Southern Dynasty, his first reaction should have been to kill the merchant with a knife, and then think about how to deal with the defiled woman.

Instead of standing calmly in the tent and pondering the doubts like he is doing now.

But who could have expected that the guys Wang An brought with him were actually veterans of the Ming army, who rushed into the tent at all costs to protect their master.

Then Wang An used his eloquence to successfully make Lin Danhan feel cautious, and then he took out 20,000 taels of silver, using the trick of using money to win people's hearts.

If it happened in the Ming Dynasty, anyone who dared to play with a princess, or even the emperor's concubine, would be fined two million taels, let alone 20,000 taels, to death.

But on the grassland, and among the Tatars who really treat women as clothes, it is not necessarily strange.

After all, it was common practice for them to give each other the women they had played with, or to marry the wives of their fathers, brothers, uncles, and aunts.

After all, they did not have high requirements for women's chastity and did not have the Ming Dynasty's etiquette and Confucian concepts.

To put it bluntly, the tribes on the grassland are just a group of traditional armed forces that are still stuck in the tribal period, and the Jiannu in the east are simply slave armed forces.

Therefore, it is normal to take this matter lightly.

The trembling Sixth Lady, after hearing Wang An's speculation, couldn't help but interrupt and said, "Yes, yes, yes, I drank the mutton soup brought by the maid at midnight yesterday, and immediately fell asleep."

"I suddenly felt very hot all over at night, and then I knew nothing. Now I think there was something wrong with that bowl of mutton soup!"

With the support of the Sixth Lady, Lin Danhan looked at Ezhe with even more anger.

As the saying goes, no one knows a son better than his father. A father knows best what kind of person his son is.

Just like all the crown princes in history, he always hoped that his father would die soon so that he could inherit the throne as soon as possible.

Although Ezhe, like all the crown princes of past dynasties, tried his best to hide his ambitions, smart people could always detect from clues that his son was eager for him to abdicate and let others take over.

"Ezhe, I'll give you one last chance. Tell me yourself whether this matter has anything to do with you or not!"

Ezhe immediately broke out in a sweat. Although his face was pale, he still suppressed his fear and denied it, "Father Khan, please believe me, Father Khan, it is absolutely impossible for Cheng to do such a thing!"

Although Ezhe became a suspect, no one had any evidence at all.

But at this moment, Wang An suddenly said, "Doesn't Ezhe Taiji have guests waiting? Why not let his guests come in first?"

Wang An has gone from initial fear to calmness, and now to complete relaxation. A meaningful smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he suggested.

Seeing the puzzled look on Lin Danhan's face, Wang An added, "Maybe there will be unexpected gains!"

Although he was very angry, this lowly man from the Southern Dynasty in front of him had defiled the woman he had not even had the chance to play with.

But Lin Danhan had to admit that this Ming Dynasty imperial merchant named Wang An was indeed quite smart, or perhaps he had discovered some suspicious points?
Thinking of this, Lin Danhan immediately waved his hand and ordered his men: "Bring all those Ming merchants in, bring them to this tent!"

"If they dare to escape, kill them without mercy!"

Following this bloody order, a large group of guards immediately headed to the entrance of the camp.

Ezhe's face was visibly flustered. Seeing his reaction, Wang An's guess became more certain.

While waiting for the merchants, Lin Danhan dismissed some irrelevant people, and angrily asked people to bring clothes for the Sixth Lady to change. Finally, he sat down at the head seat, looked at Wang An who was still in dishevel, and asked:

"Wang An, now you can tell me why you want me to get close to those merchants?"

Wang An first calmed down Tian Sanlengzi and the others, and then, in order to avoid escalating the situation, he asked them to wait outside the tent.

Then he looked at Lin Danhan and said, "Your Majesty, as I said just now, even if I were given eight hundred more courages, I would not dare to have any improper thoughts about your woman."

"But such an unfortunate thing still happened. It shows that there must be something fishy going on. Someone must be framing me!"

"But who would have such a motive? What good would it do for him to frame me?"

Wang An turned his head and looked at Ezhe standing aside, sneered and continued: "I think about it, even if I accidentally offended some people when I was in the Ming Dynasty, they would not have such a deep hatred that they chased me to the grassland to frame me."

"And I believe that no one who could possibly offend a common merchant like me in the Ming Dynasty would be able to frame me in the Khan's territory!"

"But there are some people who have conflicts or conflicts of interest with me."

Although Lin Danhan was a mad dog and lacked rational and sober judgment in many situations, the fact that he was able to drag the entire Chahar tribe along with him proved that he was not a fool but a smart man.

After hearing what Wang An said, I immediately understood what Wang An meant.

"You mean, the people who framed you are most likely those merchants from Ming Dynasty like you?"

Wang An flattered him first, "Your Majesty is wise!"

"Except for them, I really can't think of anyone who has such a deep hatred for me and is willing to attack me on the grassland!"

"Strictly speaking, I am an official merchant representing the Ming Dynasty, and they are smugglers operating in the gray area. My presence will greatly harm their interests."

"As the saying goes, cutting off someone's financial resources is like killing their parents. They regard me as a thorn in their side, so it's not hard to understand why they want to get rid of me."

"I didn't understand what happened at first, but when the guards reported that a merchant was looking for Ezhe Taiji, I immediately understood!"

"You, you, you are talking nonsense!" Ezhe immediately retorted, "Are you saying that I have colluded with lowly merchants like you to frame my father, the Khan's concubine?"

"Father Khan, he is trying to sow discord between us, please allow me to kill him!"

Lin Danhan just glanced at him coldly, and Ezhe immediately swallowed the rest of his words.

Wang An sneered at Ezhe again and said confidently, "In the Khan's camp, there shouldn't be many people who have the ability and courage to use the Sixth Lady to frame me, right?"

Wang An said this and simply looked directly at Ezhe.

(End of this chapter)