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The rain stopped and fell again, the sky was gloomy and the sun was not visible for most of the month. The whole air was covered with cold and humid. It was only August, but it was already so cold that it made people tremble. Especially at night, holding the wet quilt can make people sleep uneasy in the middle of the night.

Early in the morning, Julie, the tenth general of the Ritao Fleet stationed in the Dasha Islands, came to Shamen Town and brought people that Li Yan did not want to see at this time. "This is an angel from Chang'an, saying that the emperor has a decree to you!" Julie still said in that usual cold tone. Li Yan, who was discussing the matter, looked at each other and Zhang Chengye, the military commander, looked at each other, and almost guessed what decree the Chang'an mission was going to issue.

If nothing unexpected happens, he will definitely send troops to deal with Li Keyong or Wang Ying's rebels.

"Let's go, welcome the angel together!" Li Yan's face was calm, making people unable to guess what he was thinking at this moment.

As soon as he left the door, he happened to see a group of people standing in front of the sky wolf stone statue outside the mansion. Originally there was a blue wolf stone statue. However, after Li Guan was promoted to the governor of Dengzhou, Duke of Zhendong County, Protector of Andong, Champion General, and Envoy of Zhendong Army, Zhang Hong decided to find a group of stonemasons with better skills and replaced the blue wolf with a sky wolf with wings. Moreover, the new sky wolf stone statue was three meters taller than the previous one. The location was moved from the door of the mansion to the small square in front of the mansion. The small square was also expanded after the demolition of a zinc house around it.

The demolition of the houses around the mansion and converted into a square, in the words of the generals, this also increases the safety of Li Guan. It allows a broad vision in front of the mansion to effectively prevent assassins and other situations. The three-meter-high giant Tianlang stone statue standing in the square is not just a stone statue.

This winged Tianlang made of marble is actually a secret fortress. It is hollow inside and divided into three layers. The Tianlang's mouth, eyes and nostrils are all arrow holes. There are three layers on the ground and two layers underground. There is an authentic tunnel that leads directly to the General's Mansion. This fortress is secret. It is usually guarded by Li Guan's guard camp, and the entrance and exit are through tunnels, which are not known to outsiders.

According to Zhang Hong and others, this is just in case. If it weren't for the official dragon and tiger, Zhang Hong would have directly left the two fortresses of the blue dragon and the white tiger on the right. However, even if it was changed to a wolf, these three-meter-high giant winged sky wolf standing in front of the mansion were still full of deterrence.

At present, these Chang'an envoys were looking around the huge winged heavenly wolf, and they were amazed.

There were about a hundred people in this group. Among them was an old man with purple robe and gray hair, and it was obvious that he was the head of the group. Next to him, there were two middle-aged eunuchs in vermilion robes, eight eunuchs in yellow behind them, and then about a hundred men in sacred armor. When Li Yan saw the exquisite and gorgeous armor of these people, and the horizontal swords in their hands, he guessed that these people might be the Shence Imperial Army. Although these people were well equipped and majestic, they lacked a sense of bravery. They obviously had a silver-like gun head.

However, the old man in purple robe had a sense of intimidation while looking at him. While Li Yan looked at him, the old man also looked at Li Yan, with a slight smile on his lips.

Li Guan was about to step forward, but Zhang Chengye next to him suddenly took a few steps. He knelt down in front of the old man and said respectfully: "Why did the adoptive father come to Dengzhou in person? He didn't inform the child in advance, so the child could go to the road to greet him in person."

The old man smiled and helped Zhang Chengye up and said gently: "Although we are over fifty years old, we are still strong. What's more, Your Majesty is still missing a hundred Shen Ce Army escorts. How could there be anything happening?"

Only then did Li Guan realize that the old man was Zhang Chengye's adoptive father Zhang Tai. He is now appointed as the military officer of the right magistrate guard Damen Town, and he is also a real eunuch in the palace. And it seems that he and Zhang Chengye have a good relationship.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the most awesome eunuchs in history in the Tang Dynasty, like the aristocratic tribes of the Tang Dynasty, formed a family of eunuchs in the palace. The eunuchs could not have children, but by adopting the small eunuchs who entered the palace, they finally reached an adoption relationship and then connected to each other.

In the late Tang Dynasty, the top aristocratic families in the Chang'an Palace were the Qiu family of the eunuch Qiu Shiliang, Liang Shouqian's Liang family, Yang Fugong's Yang family, and Ximen Sigong's Ximen family.

These four families are known as the four powerful families in the palace. For generations, they have served as the envoy of the Left and Right Privy Council and Lieutenant of the Left and Right Shence, which is known as the Four Nobles, to control the government.

For example, Tian Lingzi, who is now powerful, actually, after entering the palace in his early years, when he was a child in the eunuch Tian, ​​he was just a small eunuch. Therefore, for a long time, Tian Lingzi only climbed to Xiaomafang to serve as an official position of raising horses. Later, with his intimate relationship with the emperor, Tian Lingzi relied on joining the eunuch Ximen Sigong in the palace to defeat Lieutenant Yang Fugong, and finally became the first eunuch.

Although Zhang Tai is now serving as the real position of the right guard, he is still far behind the positions of the Left and Right Privy Council Envoy and the Left and Right Shence Lieutenant, and the Sixth Army Twelve Guards and the Sixth Army.

In the palace today, Tian Lingzi is the biggest eunuch, and Ximen Sigong is also extremely powerful. Although Yang Fugong was suppressed by joint forces, he is also very powerful. Zhang Tai, who was originally just a regular attendant, also took advantage of the light of Li Guan and his adopted son Zhang Chengye to be promoted to the position of General of the Right Supervision Sect.

The eunuchs were powerful in the palace, but they also actively cultivated their own power outside the palace. For example, the prime minister Lu Xie in the court is actually Tian Lingzi's person. Zheng Ting, who had never dealt with Lu Xie, was a member of Ximen Sigong. When Zheng Ting's father Zheng Ya was the inspector of Guiguan, Ximen Sigong was the military supervisor. Later, Zheng Ya died early, and Ximen Sigong tried to find Zheng Ting, raise him in the mansion, and treated him like a son and nephew. When Zheng Ting was eighteen years old, he helped Zheng Ting to obtain the position of Jinshi, setting a record for becoming a young Jinshi in the Tang Dynasty.

Zhang Tai was neither from a powerful family in the palace, nor had any firm allies or backstage in the court. After all, only Li Yan, the current envoy of the Zhendong Army, was his powerful ally.

Before Li Guan stepped forward, Zhang Tai, who helped Zhang Chengye, took the initiative to step forward a few steps, grabbed Li Guan's hand and smiled: "Sword-browed and starry eyes, bright and heroic posture, this must be a stunning and powerful figure in Ziqing. He defeated the rebel Wang Jingwu in the battle on the Zishui River. Now he has recovered General Li Guan and Li Jiyu from southern Liaoning in one fell swoop. Although we are far away in the Chang'an Palace, we have also heard of Yong Sanlang's reputation several times. In the palace, even the emperor praised the general's courage several times, and sighed several times that he wished he could summon the general to the capital immediately."

Li Guan smiled slightly: "Li Guan has met the general and is late to welcome him. Please forgive me."

"Chengye is my Yier, Ji Yu is the superior official of Chengye's assistant. Why should you and I be so polite?" While saying that, he also held Li Yan's hand and refused to let go. Li Yan was not disgusted with Zhang Tai's enthusiasm. Zhang Tai was not only Zhang Chengye's adoptive father, but also a big eunuch in the palace. Now he has turned a flirting with Tian Lingzi, and it is good to have a support in the palace.

Zhang Chengye greeted several other eunuchs and a group of Shen Ce soldiers from behind. He also knew that although these people were little devils, they could not offend them the most. Therefore, after he came, he immediately gave each of them ten taels of silver. As soon as he came, he accepted such a generous gift. The soldiers of Shen Ce soldiers and the eunuchs sat down to have tea and rest with satisfaction.

Entering the hall, Zhang Jian opened Li Guan's hand and said, "We are here to announce the edict this time, so let's set up an incense table to welcome the edict!"

Li Guan ordered people to set up incense tables, and called the generals and civil servants from Shamen Town to come and listen to the orders.

After everyone was kneeling down, Zhang Tai took out a yellow silk imperial edict from a box, turned north and south, and read loudly: "Duke Zhendong County, the champion general, General Jinwu, the envoy of Zhendong Army, the governor of Dengzhou, and the guardian of Andong, Li Guan, listened to the order!"

"My minister, Li Guan, listen to the order!"

"The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is ordered by this, Li Guan will accept the order!"

"Li Guan received the order, long live my emperor!" Li Guan stepped forward and took the imperial edict with both hands.

After the ceremony, Zhang Tai pulled Li Yan's hand and said, "This matter was entirely Lieutenant Tian slandering the emperor. We also advised His Majesty. We wanted to stop it, but our family was not as good as Lieutenant Tian."

Li Yan was speechless. The imperial edict brought by Zhang Tai was the same as Li Yan expected, even exceeding his expectations. Tian Lingzi advised the emperor and asked the Zhendong Army to divide the troops into two groups, one of which passed through Youzhou and crossed the Sanggan River to enter the Weizhou, the defense envoy of Datong, Hedong, to attack Li Keyong. For this reason, in the imperial edict, Li Yan specially added the position of the commander of the Eastern Frontier. Not only that, in the imperial edict, Li Yan also ordered the navy fleet of the Zhendong Army and a part of the infantry and horses to go to east and west Zhejiang to pacify the rebellion of Wang Ying, and also added Li Yan to a unified position of the commander of the northern frontier to attack Wang Ying.

Datong is in the northwest of Dengzhou and in the east of Zhejiang is in the southeast of Dengzhou. The two places are thousands of miles apart. If the imperial court only dispatched him and the Zhendong Army to Ping Yilu's rebels, it would be said that. Now he actually wants to dispatch Li Guan's troops to two groups, and send troops to the north at the same time. What made him even more angry was that Tian Lingzi actually added him to the position of commander-in-chief of two camps, one south and one north. He, Li Guan, is not three heads and six arms, and he does not know how to clone the skills. How to command these two battles at the same time.
Chapter completed!