The golden city gate opened wide, and a surging wave of people rushed towards us.
There have long been Zaoyi Wuhou maintaining order on both sides of the street, but this cannot stop people's enthusiasm.
The second step was to welcome the heroes who captured the enemy thieves in Bianzhou. The main event was to prepare rotten leaves and rotten eggs and smash them against the traitors who were making trouble.
The people of Chang'an acted so quickly that the guards protecting Jia Sibo were a little slow. After he was beaten into a state of disarray, they protected him with a smile.
This kind of important criminal who needs strict interrogation cannot be beaten to death.
But the first few prisoners whose interrogation could no longer produce any information were irrelevant.
Sure enough, those spies were quickly drowned in the people's anger and were beaten to death alive.
Li Yan watched this scene with both pleasure and vigilance.
The traitors met this fate and deserved to die. But if the country continues to turn from prosperity to decline, how many traitors will emerge from various places?
Of course, no matter how affluent a society is, there will always be greedy national thieves, but he has only been in Chang'an for two days, and what he saw and heard was shocking.
Due to the limitations of backward productivity in ancient times, it was unrealistic to change the fundamentals, but Li Yan felt that when he came to this world, he should do something to witness a truly prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Compared with Li Yan's change of mentality, Qiu Ying nervously pushed the prisoners all the way to the Penal Department Prison. After the handover was completed, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Pei Sijian took the envoys to the Chang'an Posthouse, and then entered the palace to meet the emperor.
Before leaving, Li Yan heard that the Second Saint, leading the ministers, was planning to summon the Tibetan envoys at the Hanyuan Hall in a few days.
Hanyuan Hall is the main hall of the outer dynasty. It made full use of the high ground during its construction. It is condescending, majestic and has a wide view, even overlooking Chang'an City.
The palace is closed and closed by the Nine Heavens, and the clothes and hats of all nations are worshiped. Such a majestic momentum is just suitable for letting the barbarians know what the heavenly kingdom is.
However, the idea of Empress Li Zhiwu was destined to fail.
The Tubo army won the war this time, not when Songtsen Gampo was defeated and took the compensation as a betrothal gift to ask for Princess Wencheng's hand in marriage.
The barbarians are afraid of power but not moral. After winning the war, and seeing the Daming Palace like this, they will not feel awe, but will only be more eager.
Desire to plunder the wealth of the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, Brenzan Blade is now completely honest and will stay safe in the Tang Dynasty. If he wants to do it again, he will do it after he returns.
However, Kumarajiva left soon and wanted to go to the temple in Chang'an to talk about Buddhism and Dharma.
After Li Yan paid attention, he took Wang Xiaojie all the way to the imperial city.
Wang Xiaojie is the captain of the Zhe Chongfu team. For this meritorious service, Li Yan will fight for him to be appointed as the inner guard leader and moral guard.
It was about the future, and Wang Xiaojie couldn't help but feel a little nervous as he followed behind.
Arriving at the Imperial City, before entering the city gate, An Shengan came up to greet him and greeted with a slightly unnatural expression: "Yuanfang!"
Li Yan said: "Brother An, you informed Qiu Pavilion as soon as possible about yesterday's incident. You have already helped a lot. You really don't have to worry about it."
"But I am not loyal enough after all..."
An Shengan gave a wry smile, calmed down his emotions, and invited again: "Ninth brother came home last night, and when he found out that Yuan Fang was coming to Beijing, he still blamed me for not notifying him. If you have time, come to my house as a guest."
Li Yan nodded repeatedly: "Okay, I will definitely come to visit General An Zhonglang."
An Shengan smiled and said: "I'm afraid Yuanfang and I, Aye, will meet frequently in the near future, and he will also come to serve as an internal guard."
Li Yan was startled: "An Zhonglang will become one of the five cabinet leaders of the inner guard?"
An Shengan saluted in the direction of the Daming Palace and said with loyalty: "Aye has the trust of the saint and takes on this important position. I, the An family, are deeply impressed by this!"
Li Yan thought about it and didn't find it strange.
In terms of loyalty and qualifications, at the level of fourth grade, there is indeed no one more suitable than An Yuanshou.
At that time, the Turkic army took advantage of Li Shimin's recent accession to the throne and the internal instability to threaten Chang'an. Li Shimin personally led six cavalry to see Jie Li.
Those six people are Gao Shilian, Fang Xuanling, Xiao Yu (doubtful), Li Mengchang, Zhou Fan and An Yuanshou.
Later, when the alliance was signed, only An Yuanshou was guarding Li Shimin. This is recorded in the epitaphs unearthed by later generations.
When Li Zhi ascended the throne, An Yuanshou was still trusted. When he was enshrined in Mount Tai, the altar was enshrined by An Yuanshou who personally handed it to Li Zhi.
This Sogdian general with the ninth surname of Zhaowu has never been able to be promoted to the third rank. This is because his merits are not enough, and hard work is enough.
Now Li Zhi has established the inner guard and Ding'an Yuanshou as one of the cabinet leaders, expressing full trust and expectations.
Taking advantage of this turmoil in Liangzhou, the Wuwei An family may become more loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and An Yuanshou may also want to reach the third rank.
As expected, An Shengan said excitedly: "In the past, Aye led the troops to quell the Helu rebellion and tried his best. Now the Tibetan thieves invade the border. It is the time to show off his skills!"
Wang Xiaojie was also gearing up behind him, and said with great arrogance: "It's very, very, very important that we can make great contributions today!"
Li Yan looked at the two of them, feeling a little helpless.
It only brings peace of mind. After all, he was born as a guard and is used to being pampered, so he doesn't know the dangers.
Wang Xiaojie wouldn't think that after defeating the Brenzan Blade once, he would go crazy and regard Tubo as nothing, right?
If history continues to develop normally, you will be captured alive by Tubo. If it weren't for the grandson who looks like Songtsan Gampo, Zampu's father would have been chopped off by Chaka!
In fact, the country of Tubo did not reach its peak for a long time, and the only general who could be called the God of War was Qin Ling. After Qin Ling's death, he began to compete with the Tang Dynasty.
But as luck would have it, it was during the peak period of just over thirty years that they encountered it.
Is it possible that, like the original history, when Qinling won consecutive battles, Tubo's domestic fear of this great scholar reached its extreme level and countermeasures were taken?
The reason why that strategy worked was not so much the cleverness of the strategy, but rather the fact that the Tang Dynasty had suffered enough losses and that Qinling's prestige had reached its peak.
In addition, Qin Ling's political skills were far inferior to his military ability, so he was killed by his own people.
The Gar family fell from the altar overnight, and Qinling's younger brother and son were forced to defect to the Tang Dynasty, and in turn guard the border states for the Tang Dynasty. It has to be said to be a kind of irony.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! When entering the imperial city and taking Wang Xiaojie to the Ministry of War, Li Yan was silently thinking:
"Qiu Ying, Pei Xingjian, and An Yuanshou have been selected as the five cabinet leaders of the inner guard. Will the two fourth-rank officials be transferred or promoted from the fifth rank?"
"The main competition between the DPRK and China is for the positions of these two ministers. Well, there are also twelve envoys."
"The Grand Pavilion Leader sits at the center and directs the overall situation. He will not move lightly. I don't think Li Zhi will reset it. After all, Changsun Wuji has cast too great a shadow on him."
"The Pavilion Leader is actually equivalent to the commander-in-chief of an army on the battlefield, while the Jiyi Envoy is the general, fighting on one side."
"Nowadays, many people are jealous of these positions, because in wartime, it is convenient to perform meritorious service!"
Li Yan knew the progress of history and knew very well that the position of internal guard was about the coexistence of risks and opportunities, and he had to keep his head in mind to make meritorious deeds.
But in the face of huge interests, the risks of internal defense are underestimated by many people.
For example, at the previous banquet of Wu Minzhi, he was so crazy about placing officials without considering the issue of competency.
This guy is not an exception.
At present, the overall concept of the Tang Dynasty still looks down on Tibet, with an arrogant attitude, and does not know itself or the enemy.
Such a re-establishment of internal guards would probably suffer a loss when faced with the commander-in-chief Qin Ling who was at the peak of his power and the Tibetans who also attached great importance to espionage activities.
Those officials who are driven by greed deserve to die, but unfortunately they often fail to die, and the mistakes they make cause the innocent soldiers below to die in vain.
"Fortunately, Pei Xingjian is here. This big boss joined the war early. This should be the result of the revelation of the truth in Liangzhou, which attracted the attention of the top management."
"It would be great if I could take advantage of the opportunity and learn more from him."
Li Yan was thinking about his future and helped Wang Xiaojie go through the formalities.
He didn't have many acquaintances in the Ministry of War, but fortunately he was a princeling. As soon as he got the "Yaoshan Jade Color", Shi suddenly burst into smiles, and he went all out to record the merits for Wang Xiaojie.
After half an hour, everything was done. Wang Xiaojie was astonished. When had Beijing officials been so efficient?
As for determining the merits and then joining the internal guards, it is actually a matter of a word from the cabinet leader Qiu Ying.
That's what Li Yan said.
As a result, after entering the internal station, which was gradually getting more impressive, Wang Xiaojie gloriously became an internal guard with martial virtue in just a quarter of an hour.
There is no change in the external position for the time being. He is still the ninth-grade Zhechongfu team leader, which is considered the lowest among the Wu De Guards.
But after taking this step, there is a huge difference in difficulty in obtaining meritorious deeds.
Corresponding to later generations, he was equivalent to a local garrison and was transferred to the National Security Headquarters. Wang Xiaojie was ecstatic and full of energy. He solemnly performed a military salute: "Thank you Liu Lang for the promotion. Xiaojie is grateful from the heart!"
"Xiaojie, go somewhere with me."
Li Yan is not polite either. In this era, the kindness of knowing someone and meeting someone is to be acknowledged as a mentor. If you are polite, it will be an insult to others.
Sure enough, Wang Xiaojie took the initiative to take the position of his personal attendant, ready to ask: "Where are you going?"