Chapter 157: The Hidden Dragon Society

"Qiro, wait!"

As soon as Li Qingan walked out of Xingqing Palace, Yang Huahua followed him.

"Madam, are you okay?" Li Qingan stopped and smiled.

"Don't call me Mrs., we are the only one here."

Yang Huahua slowly walked forward and smiled and said, "You are unwilling to invite you to enjoy the lantern just now. Then I invite you, are you willing?"

Li Qingan apologized and said, "Madam, this is not a question of who invited me. I do have something tonight."

Yang Huahua's face immediately sank and said, "Are you really going to find Mingyue?"

Li Qingan immediately became disgusted. Whoever he wanted to ask for was her business, and what power she had to ask about her private affairs? He restrained his inner dissatisfaction and bowed and smiled, "If there is nothing wrong with Madam, then I will leave first!"

"Stop!"

Yang Huahua ran to him, opened her arms to stop him, stared at Li Qing'an's eyes and said, "You must explain it to me clearly today, who am I in your heart?"

Li Qing'an looked at both sides, and the guard closest to them was fifty steps away. He sighed secretly and lowered his voice and said, "Maybe I once had a good impression of you, and your unconstrained etiquette left a deep impression on me."

Yang Huahua's eyes became gentle, and she whispered: "What about now? Why can't it work now? Qilang, is it because you still hate me for slapping you? You know, that's because I like you!"

Li Qingan shook his head, "The problem is not that you slapped me, but that you like too many men. I don't want to be one of them. Do you understand?"

"Aren't you the same? You like a lot of women, but I don't care. Then why do you care about me?"

Li Qing'an couldn't speak for a long time, and he smiled bitterly and shook his head. Yang Huahua was right. She had her freedom and liked her. She demanded equality between men and women. These were not wrong in themselves. He could appreciate and comment as a bystander, but he could not accept it if he was one of them.

"Huahua, can we be friends? Don't involve the relationship between men and women, so that we may get along better."

"What if I insist on involving the private interests between men and women?" Yang Huahua bit her lip.

"Madam, I know you never force yourself to do what you don't want to do. The same is true for me. I don't want to force myself, Madam, sorry!"

Li Qingan pushed Yang Huahua's arm away and walked away quickly. Yang Huahua stared at his back and suddenly said loudly: "Li Qingan, do you know what the end of a man who rejects me will be?"

Li Qingan stopped, turned around and glanced at her and said, "I really want to know what the outcome of a man who refuses you will end up."

Yang Huahua sneered and said, "At the beginning of the year, Fang Yuyu, the left guard, was like you. He claimed to be aloof and dared to reject me. But in less than half a month, he came and knelt down and begged me. Humph! I ordered someone to beat him hard and throw him out of the mansion. He is still in prison and regretful. Li Qing'an, do you believe it or not, if you dare to reject me, you will have this day!"

Li Qing'an raised his head and laughed, strided, and heard his voice coming from afar, "Thank you, Madam, for untiing my heart knot."

Anger ejaculated in Yang Huahua's eyes, and she gritted her teeth and said, "Li Qing'an, one day, you will kneel down and beg me!"

She was unwilling to give up, and she must ask Li Qingan to kneel under her pomegranate skirt.

Li Qing'an rode back to the mansion. As soon as he entered the door, the female guard Zhang Xiu'er came to report: "General, Mr. Yan has woken up, he wants to see you."

"I was just about to see him, too."

Li Qing'an quickly walked into Yan Zhuang's ward, and saw Yan Zhuang leaning against the soft mattress and drinking medicine. Li Qing'an bowed and smiled and said, "Congratulations to Mr. Yan for getting out of danger."

Yan Zhuang quickly put down the bowl and lay on the couch and cried, "General Li ignored his past grudges and rescued me. Yan Zhuang was very grateful and was willing to serve General Li."

Li Qing'an quickly supported him, "Mr. Yan, your injury has not healed, so don't move rashly."

He helped Yan Zhuang sit down and asked, "Mr. Yan, what happened? Is it that Mr. Yan suffered this poisonous punishment?"

"I misread An Lushan."

Yan Zhuang sighed, then told the story, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "I thought he was just doing it, just beat him up, but I didn't expect that he would even cut off my tendons, which made me disabled for life. What's even more disappointing is that he actually ordered his personal soldiers to kill me to silence me. If it weren't for my kindness, I would have died last night. I, Yan Zhuang, accidentally chose the master and took it upon himself!"

It turned out that Dong Yanguang was killed by An Lushan. Li Qingan suddenly realized that it was actually a Turkic spirit cavalry to plot against Abushi. He pondered for a moment and asked, "Why did Mr. Yan think of coming to surrender to me?"

Yan Zhuang sighed and smiled bitterly: "Last Polo Competition, my series of plans were perfect. I had no idea that they were cracked by General Li. Since then, I have always regarded General Li as An Lushan's strong enemy. Now that the hostility has disappeared, General Li is naturally my wise ruler. For nothing else, General Li refuses to enter the capital to show his merits and comfort his relatives. With this, I, Yan Zhuang, will follow General Li wholeheartedly."

Li Qing'an was overjoyed. Yan Zhuang's conspiracy and tricks were so vicious that he had always remembered him deeply. Now that he has the loyalty of this person, wouldn't it be like a tiger's wings? He quickly bowed and said, "Mr. Yan is willing to be loyal to me, and I will never treat Mr. Yan badly. Now, Mr. Yan heals his wounds well. I will find a way to get Mr. Yan back to stand up again. I have something to do, and come to visit again in the afternoon."

After saying that, he stood up and instructed several personal soldiers: "Take good care of Mr. Yan and do not neglect."

Several personal soldiers agreed, and Li Qing'an walked out of the door. At this time, Nan Jiyun stepped forward and said, "General, be careful that this Yan Zhuang is a tough plan."

Li Qingan patted his shoulder and smiled and said, "If you use a bitter plan, you won't break your tendons unless I am Wang Zhongsi, don't worry! I treat him with sincerity. Even if he has selfishness, he will truly convince me after a long time."

Li Qingan smiled, took out Wang Changling's inn address and handed it to Nan Jiyun and said, "Take a few brothers to move Mr. Wang's luggage to our side. He will be my aide in the future. In addition, he will give him another 500 taels of silver and ask him to transfer it to Li Bai, and he will say it is my congratulations."

After explaining a few more words, Li Qing'an went out and took more than a dozen personal soldiers to the west market. Today is the 14th day of the first lunar month, the first day of the Shangyuan Lantern. Although it is still dark, there are already crowds on the streets. Many Chang'an residents are already excited to take their wives and daughters out for fun. There are lanterns on both sides of the street, including huge and exquisitely made official lanterns, as well as private lanterns offered by various large households. They stretch for more than ten miles and are densely packed on the streets. There are also oceans of lights in the west market, mainly the novel and unique shop lanterns of each shop, with the names of each shop, which is considered an advertisement.

At this time, Li Qing'an suddenly discovered something interesting. At the gate of Xishi City, there was a young man dressed like he last night, wearing an imitation military uniform, holding a sword in his right hand and a wine bottle in his left hand. He was singing something in his mouth, and was dancing with his sword drunk, surrounded by a large group of girls, slapped and laughed.

"General, he is learning from you!" Jiang Xiaonian and several personal soldiers couldn't help laughing.

Li Qingan touched his chin and couldn't help laughing. He thought it was only one, but after a few steps, he saw two young golfers holding wine bottles and long swords. Last time, he started a craze for throwing pots, and this time he caught the sword and wine bottles. The prosperity of the wind in Chang'an made Li Qingan admire him.

They walked into Xiling Lane, and deep in the alley in front was Rehaiju. He remembered that the owner named Chang was a Han from Sui Ye last time, and he seemed to have a good status in Sui Ye. Maybe he could help him make up for the final loophole in his life experience.

"Guest, welcome!"

Two Hu Ji smiled and greeted her. They suddenly recognized Li Qing'an and his party and said in surprise: "Aren't you the General Li from last time?"

"That's right, can you always come here?"

"Here, General Li, please come in!" One Hu Ji arranged the room, while the other ran to report to the boss.

In a small hut on the third floor, five men were discussing something. One of them was Chang Jin, the owner of Rehaiju, and the other was covered in white hair. Last time Chang Jin had found him for Li Qing'an's affairs, and they were several leaders of the Yinlong Society.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were many organizations in the court and the opposition. They were not a sect in the martial arts world, nor were they the leader of the martial arts world. They were just a combination of common interests or pursuit of common goals. To be honest, in the court, there were Li Linfu's Prime Minister's Party, the Prince's Eastern Palace Party, Li Cong's King Qing Party, Zhang Yun's Zhang Party, Yang Zhao's Yang Party, and later Li Party and Niu Party. These were sects in the court. In the opposition, there were countless various interest sects, such as the Jianghuai Cao Transport Gang, the Salt Gang, etc., which were industry gangs.

One of the characteristics of the Hidden Dragon Society is that the main leaders are from the Sailing Ye, who are the Sailing Ye Han people. This does not mean that they are the Sailing Ye Gang, and their common ideals have nothing to do with Sailing Ye.

The Hidden Dragon Society has been established for a hundred years, and the members' ideals have been passed down from generation to generation. It was founded in the early Tang Dynasty: the Xuanwu Gate Incident.

On the fourth day of the sixth month of the ninth year of Wude, Li Shimin launched a bloody coup at Xuanwu Gate, killing Prince Jiancheng and King Yuanji of Qi. The news reached the Eastern Palace. Jiancheng's generals knew that it was difficult to have a complete egg after the collapse of the nest. In order to save the prince's bloodline, eighteen generals escorted the prince's concubine Chang Fei, who was already pregnant with April, and fled westward to Suiye. They were protected by Ye Hu Khan, the Western Turkic throne who had a deal with Prince Jiancheng, and settled down in Suiye. Concubine Chang gave birth to Li Jiancheng's only surviving son, named Li Chengsi.

In the 16th year of Zhenguan, Li Jiancheng was named the Prince of Yin. In that year, Li Chengsi was already sixteen years old. In order to restore the throne that Li Chengsi deserved, eighteen generals of the family established the Yinlong Society in the Sailing Ye and made a bloody oath in front of the prince's spirit that if they could not fulfill their great ambitions in their lifetime, their descendants would continue to complete this great cause.

A hundred years passed in a flash, and the vast ocean became mulberry fields, but the oaths made by the eighteen generals were still inherited by their descendants and passed down from generation to generation, and Li Jiancheng's bloodline was also passed down to the generation of great-grandson Li Jin.

However, the members of the Hidden Dragon Society only grew from the original eighteen to twenty-four, and they were all descendants of the 18 master generals back then.

There are eight people in the Yinlong Association in Chang'an. Five of them attended the meeting today. Among the five, except for Chang Jin, the head of Rehai Ju, most of the others are merchants. For example, the white-haired old man is the head of the famous tea shop in Xicheng City, named Li Huichun. His Lingxi Tea House monopolized the tea trade in the entire west of the Pamir Mountains. At the same time, his other identity is the Huicheng of the Yinlong Association.

There are two other two who are famous merchants, and one is an official of the court, Du Run, the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, who is the highest official of the Yinlong Society in the court.

Whether they were big merchants or high-ranking officials of the court, they were just a cover of identity. Their ideals were the same, in order to regain the dream of their ancestors a hundred years ago.

"I told my elder brother last time that Li Qing'an could have been brought into our Hidden Dragon Society. His background is simple and he is not from a clan. More importantly, he is a general in Anxi, which will be of great help to strengthen our connection with the headquarters of Suoye. Now he has become the governor of Beiting. We cannot let this opportunity go. If he is a member, our headquarters can be moved from Suoye to Beiting, which will play a crucial role in our development and growth in Anxi, and even realize the will of our ancestors."

Chang Jin was a descendant of Chang Miao, the third brother of Concubine Chang back then. He always advocated that Yinlong would change and absorb fresh blood, and Li Qing'an was the one he liked.

Li Huichun glanced at Du Run and said, "Fourth brother, what do you think?"

Du Run pondered for a moment and said, "Li Qing'an is a princeling, and this is a secret published in the court. I am very worried that he will not only not join us, but will expose us, causing us to suffer heavy losses. The reason why our Hidden Dragon Society has not been destroyed for a hundred years is that the members would rather be short than to be confined to extreme secrets. Brother, I think we should act cautiously."

Li Huichun nodded, "The fourth brother said it makes sense. We tried our best to pull him into the association. It was probably wishful thinking, but unfortunately it would be a waste of time. However, the fifth brother was right. This is indeed our opportunity. A hundred years have passed. There are still a few people in the Tang Dynasty who remember the orthodox Tang family. If we don't take any action, our dream is really just a dream, and we will not be able to fulfill the wishes of our ancestors."

The room was silent. A hundred years have passed. Their grandfathers and great-grandfathers have passed away in regret. Seeing that they are getting older, can they still leave this dream for the next generation?

"Why not do this!" Li Huichun said with a final say: "Let me find a way to join the Broken Ye Han Tang Association first, and then slowly pull him into the Hidden Dragon Association."

The Hidden Dragon Society is an extremely secret organization with only twenty-four people. However, in order to expand its members and influence, the Hidden Dragon Society established the Shattered Ye Han Tang Association, with the purpose of making Shattered Ye return to the Tang Dynasty. There are nearly 10,000 members in various parts of the Tang Dynasty, and the Hidden Dragon Society is the core of the Shattered Ye Han Tang Association.

At this moment, a friend's report came from outside the door: "Master Chang, General Li Qing'an came again last time, and he wanted to see you."

The five people in the room were stunned at the same time, and then they were overjoyed, saying that Cao Cao was coming, and Chang Jin quickly stood up and said, "I'll talk to him first and see what he asked me to do."

He got up and went, and after a while, Chang Jin said at the door: "Brother, can you come out, okay?"

Li Huichun walked out and asked, "What's wrong with him?"

Li Huichun smiled and her face bloomed, and said in a low voice: "The opportunity is here. He wants to ask me for help. He said that his grandfather is also a shattered Yehan. He wanted us to help him find the record of his grandfather in shattered Yehan. The condition he offered was that I could go to and from the Beiting border at will. Brother, I understand what he meant. He just wanted to be a shattered Yehan and asked me to help."

Li Huichun's eyes lit up and he hurriedly said, "Then have you told him that if you want to become a shattered Yehan, you must join the shattered Yehan Tang Association."

"I said that, so he wants to meet you."

The sudden good news made Li Huichun feel hope in his heart. Perhaps this is a great opportunity.

Li Qingan was waiting patiently in the Heli City Hall on the second floor. This was the first time he heard that the Han people in Broken Ye actually had a Broken Ye Han Tang Association, and their leader was also here. Li Qingan vaguely felt that things might not be that simple.

At this time, a cough came from the door. Chang Jin led an old man with white beard and white hair. The old man bowed and smiled and said, "I have heard of General Li's name for a long time. Today I can see it with my own eyes. I have the honor of three lives."

Li Qing'an stood up and returned the greeting, glanced at Chang Jin, who quickly introduced to him: "This is the owner of Lingxi Tea House, and his surname is Li. He is the most respected elder among our Yehan people. He only arrived in Chang'an last year."

Li Huichun quickly added: "Li Huichun is just a businessman, and he has a little prestige among the Ye Han people. Brother Chang has over-rewarded."

Li Qing'an said straight to the point: "It turns out it is Master Li. I have something to do today and I want to ask for help. I believe Master Chang also said that. I wonder if Master Li can do it?"

"It's easy to say! It's easy to say! General Li, please sit down and talk slowly."

The three of them sat down, and the guy served them tea. Li Huichun took a sip of the tea and said, "I don't know who General Li's grandfather's surname is, maybe I know him."

Li Qingan smiled and said, "My grandfather's name is Li Zengyun. He is so happy to travel around the world. His ancestors escaped the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty."

"Oh! Li Zengyun, I seem to have heard of it." Li Huichun looked at Li Qingan with a smile, which meant, 'I may know, or I may not know it, it depends on you.'

Li Qingan also smiled and said, "In the future, you can travel to and from the Tang Dynasty, and you can enter and exit the country in Beiting. I will give you the greatest convenience."

Li Huichun shook his head and smiled, "General Li may not know that the Yehan people are all members of the Yehan Tang Association. If General Li's grandfather is really the Yehan people, then he must be no exception."

‘Broken Ye Han Tang Meeting!’ Li Qing'an pondered for a moment and asked, “What does it do?”

Chang Jin next to him smiled and said, "Last time I told General Li that all our Han people in Shattered Ye hope that Shanye can return to the Tang Dynasty as soon as possible. For this ideal, everyone came together. This is the Tang Dynasty Association of Shattered Ye. Not only after Shanye, a large number of Han people moved back to the Central Plains after the sixth year of Kaiyuan. They are still members of our Han and Tang Association, and they also serve loyally. Therefore, our power is extremely strong in the Tang Dynasty. If General Li is willing to join us, we can regard General Li as one of the leaders of the Han and Tang Association, which will also be beneficial to General Li."

Li Qingan sneered, and actually wanted to join some inexplicable gang. He was a prince but became a member of the gang. Isn't this funny? His disdain was not revealed in his heart, but he just smiled faintly and said, "Does the court know your existence?"

Chang Jin and Li Huichun looked at each other, and Li Huichun said: "In the 18th year of Kaiyuan, three hundred of us, the 300 people from the Slash Ye Han, jointly wrote a letter to the court, asking for the Slash Ye to return. At that time, it was named the Slash Ye Han Tang Association. I think the court should know that we exist."

Li Qingan pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "Let's do this! My father and grandfather are all members of the Tang Association of the Thunder Ye Han. I was young when I left Thunder Ye and had not had time to officially join. I am yours, that nominal member. What do you think?"

Li Huichun knew that Li Qingan had not completely believed them, so he was not in a hurry, so he nodded and smiled happily: "Okay! Please give me the information about his father and grandfather, and I will add them to the Shattered Yehan people."

They looked at each other and laughed in a deep understanding. At this moment, a loud noise suddenly came from outside.

"I have something urgent to ask Brother Li. Tell me where is he?"
Chapter completed!