A night of silence.
At Mao hour the next day, the sky was bright.
Outside the moat of Prince Yan's Mansion, there were dozens of figures wandering back and forth.
Gu Dengyun stood on the gate tower of Prince Yan's Mansion, clasping his hands behind his back and looking quietly at the figure outside the moat in the distance.
After a while, a small boat sailed next to the empty suspension bridge.
A soldier in half armor quickly walked out of the boat and ran towards the gate tower of the palace.
"Report!" The soldiers walked to the palace gate downstairs and saluted with fists clasped in their hands and shouted loudly: "Report to a hundred households, there are fifty-two old people wandering outside the moat."
"The leader's name is Zuo Shengyuan. According to what he said, he was originally the Flattery Officer of the Flattery Department of Prince Yan's Palace."
Upon hearing this, Gu Dengyun glanced at the dozens of figures still lingering outside the moat and murmured in a low voice: "The former flattery officer of King Yan's flattery department?"
Gu Dengyun, who was once an effective general of the Xuanping Sect in Chang'an City, naturally understood what the Flattery Department represented.
There are not many such official positions in Chang'an City.
Every prince's palace that moves to Chang'an City will have such an organization.
After the soldier downstairs of the city gate told what he had heard one by one.
Gu Dengyun withdrew his gaze and ordered: "Everyone should perform their duties and guard the moat. Anyone who steps across the moat without His Highness's order will be killed without mercy."
After finishing his words, Gu Dengyun whispered a few words to the two uncles beside him, then turned around and ran quickly towards the main entrance of the palace.
The news was passed layer by layer and finally reached Xu Yi's ears.
In the study room of the side hall of Chengyun Hall.
Xu Yi put down the tea cup in his hand and looked up at Zhao Shou who was reporting in front of him and confirmed: "Zuo Shengyuan? The former flattering officer of the Yan Palace? He brought more than fifty flattering officers outside the moat to ask for an audience?"
Zhao Shou nodded and said, "Back to Master Six, the news coming from the city gate is exactly like this."
Hearing this, Xu Yi frowned slightly and pondered for a few breaths before ordering: "Invite Zuo Shengyuan to Chengyun Hall, and the others to Duanlimen."
"Obey the order." Zhao Shou saluted respectfully and then quickly turned around and left.
After Zhao Shou left, Xu Yi got up and paced back and forth in the study.
'The Flattery Department, Zuo Shengyuan, has more than fifty officials in the Flattery Department. , Xu Yi murmured in a low voice while pacing.
After finishing his words, Xu Yi paused and said with an unexplainable smile on his face: "Interesting, interesting, it's really interesting."
Yesterday, Xu Yi was still wondering why Sun Daohua and Li Yu didn't take advantage of the fact that he had not yet entered the vassal state to put their spies in Prince Yan's Mansion.
Today, Zuo Shengyuan came to see him with more than fifty old people from the former Yan Palace.
It really fulfilled Xu Yi's second guess about this - he had other motives.
And the plot is not small.
If Xu Yi accepted these fifty eunuchs, it would be equivalent to having more than fifty mouths for eating in Prince Yan's palace, plus some of the informants of Sun Daohua and Li Yu.
If Xu Yi refuses to accept it, then within a few days, Xu Yi's refusal to treat the old man of the former Prince Yan's house well will spread throughout the entire Yan land.
The former King of Yan had managed Yan land for many years and participated in dozens of wars, large and small.
Eventually died in the war with the Huns.
What kind of image would such a prince have in the hearts of the people of the fiefdom, who kept his country safe from war and eventually died on the battlefield?
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It is true that the former King of Yan died in battle for more than 20 years, but this does not mean that the 20,000 soldiers and their descendants who served under the former King of Yan more than 20 years ago are all dead.
And more than twenty years are not enough to make all the people of Yan forget the kindness of the former King of Yan.
What if Xu Yi drove Zuo Shengyuan and others out this time?
So what's the difference between cutting off one's arm?
How can an incompetent prince win back the hearts of the people of Yan?
How can we recruit troops from the land of Yan and gain a firm foothold?
Thinking of this, Xu Yi calmed down and sneered, then walked to the Grand Master
He sat down safely in the chair and silently waited for Zuo Shengyuan's arrival.
After a while.
Suddenly, a very familiar voice came from outside the study door.
"Sixth Master, Zuo Shengyuan has arrived." Zhao Shou reported outside the study door.
Xu Yi slowly sat up straight and said calmly: "Invite him in."
"Follow the order." Zhao Shou agreed, then quickly turned around and took Zuo Shengyuan to the side hall study.
After a while, an old man with gray hair, a haggard face, and a skeletal figure followed Zhao Shou into the side hall study.
"My servant, Zuo Shengyuan, the former flattery officer of Prince Yan's Palace, comes to see the prince." As soon as Zuo Shengyuan entered, he tremblingly bowed and paid homage.
"There is no need to be polite when flattering Zuo." Xu Yi stood up and walked to Zuo Shengyuan, slowly raising his hand to help him up.
As soon as Xu Yi's hands touched Zuo Shengyuan, Zuo Shengyuan's body suddenly stiffened.
Under the lowered head, there was a look of surprise.
Zuo Shengyuan came to his senses and hurriedly bowed again: "Your Majesty, you're welcome."
Xu Yi looked at Zuo Shengyuan, who was bending down to bow again, and could not help but flash across his mind the surprised look on Zuo Shengyuan's face just now when he bowed again.
Xu Yi calmed down and helped him again: "Zuo Feng, will you be honored this year?"
Hearing the word "Gui Geng", Zuo Shengyuan quickly bent down and said, "Don't dare, I don't dare. This slave has three years of success this year."
Xu Yi nodded slightly, then looked at Zhao Shou who was waiting beside him and said, "Take a seat."
"Yes." Zhao Shou agreed, then quickly walked outside the study room and whispered a few words, then quickly returned to Xu Yi's side.
From the beginning to the end, Zhao Shou never took his eyes away from Zuo Shengyuan for more than three breaths.
"Don't dare, don't dare." Zuo Shengyuan waved his hands repeatedly when he heard this, "Your Majesty, you have killed your servant."
Xu Yi chuckled and said, "Zuo Fengcheng is an old man in the palace, and he is already very old. I have always been very particular about respecting the old and loving the young, so how can I say that?"
Before Zuo Shengyuan could refuse again, two servants slowly walked into the study carrying an imperial chair.
"Put it there." Xu Yi pointed at the opposite side of the book and ordered.
After finishing his words, Xu Yi looked at Zuo Shengyuan again and chuckled: "Zuo Fengcheng, don't continue to decline, please take a seat."
Xu Yi's words have reached this point, how dare Zuo Shengyuan continue to decline.
He quickly raised his hands in salute and said, "I would like to thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."
Xu Yi didn't say much. He walked towards the chair and said, "Watch the tea."
When Xu Yi was completely seated, Zuo Shengyuan slowed down and walked to the opposite side of Xu Yi, then half-pushed his buttocks and sat on the Taishi chair.
After Zhao Shou personally poured Zuo Shengyuan a cup of tea.
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Xu Yi's eyes were calm and he said straight to the point: "I wonder what Zuo Fengcheng is talking about when he meets me this time?"
After hearing this, Zuo Shengyuan stood up and walked to the side. He knelt down with difficulty with a trembling body, and said with a sad face: "I came here this time, firstly, to see the prince."
"The second is to ask the prince for something."
"Get up and talk. This is the king's order." Xu Yi stood up and helped Zuo Shengyuan up.
I don't know where Zuo Shengyuan got the habit of kneeling and saluting at every turn.
After hearing the word "Wang Ling", Zuo Shengyuan did not dare to delay and stood up in a hurry.
Xu Yi sat down again, with a calm but majestic expression on his face and said, "Don't be impatient with your flattery. Sit down and speak slowly."
After hearing this, Zuo Shengyuan thanked him, then sat down again and told the whole story of the incident.
According to Zuo Shengyuan, after the news of the death of the former King of Yan reached the Prince of Yan's palace.
The former Crown Prince of Yan fell seriously ill due to excessive grief.
The former Princess of Yan even left a personal letter and left with the former Prince of Yan.
The autographed letter from the former Princess of Yan mentioned more than once that the body of the former Prince of Yan must be recovered and buried together with the former Prince of Yan.
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The two wives were able to reunite underground.
After the news came out, hundreds of officials and servants of the Yan Palace spontaneously walked out of the palace and rushed outside the customs.
Zuo Shengyuan had to take care of the former Yan King's crown prince who was seriously ill and the other young children of the former Yan King, so he did not participate in this matter.
Because of this, Zuo Shengyuan originally did not know what happened next.
However, after the former Crown Prince of Yan recovered from his illness, he wrote to the court to voluntarily give up the title of Prince Yan and asked for the title of Prince of County, while he sold off the property of Prince Yan's mansion in a large amount.
Among the subordinate officials who spontaneously walked out of the palace and rushed outside the customs, two of them were injured and helped each other back to the palace.
At that time, the former Crown Prince of Yan was busy selling off his property and applying for the title of Duke, and had no time to meet the two subordinate officials.
He immediately sent Zuo Shengyuan to meet him.
It was precisely because of this that Zuo Shengyuan learned about the follow-up to this matter.
After the hundreds of subordinate officials came out of seclusion, they were not reckless enough to go directly to the Huns to fight for their lives.
Instead, he first went to find the guard camp of the former King of Yan.
After this battle, the three guard battalions that originally had a strength of 21,000 men were suddenly reduced to less than 3,000 troops.
The rest were killed in battle and lost.
And among the less than 3,000 troops left, there are just over 1,000 capable warriors.
The rest all had injuries of varying sizes.
As for Xiaowei, Quhou, Quchang and others, they all died in the battle with the former King of Yan.
Hundreds of officials from the Yan Palace, led by an official named Pan Lianghu, gathered the lost soldiers and rushed towards the place where the former King of Yan died in battle.
Under the organization of Pan Lianghu, when everyone rushed to the place where the former King of Yan died in battle, the total number of subordinate officers and soldiers of the guard camp had reached two thousand.
However, the place where the battle took place was nothing but towering mass graves one after another.
At that time, someone proposed to continue the pursuit. The bones of the former King of Yan must not be in these mass graves.
Some people directly opposed it, believing that even if they caught up with the existing troops, it would be nothing more than a total annihilation.
Besides, what if the bones of King Yan are in this mass grave?
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It was night, one party insisted on pursuing, and the other insisted on digging mass graves to ensure nothing was missed.
Just when the two parties were arguing, Pan Lianghu made a decisive decision and ordered the division of troops.
Those who are willing to pursue can pursue with him until they are all killed or the bones of the former King of Yan are recovered.
Those who are unwilling to continue the pursuit can go back home directly after dawn tomorrow, or they can stay where they are and dig mass graves.
As soon as these words came out, the army of more than 2,000 people fell silent with only the sound of wind.
Pan Lianghu did not tell Zuo Shengyuan what happened that night.
It only said that after that night, he led 1,500 soldiers and chased the Huns along the traces of their retreat.
The hard work paid off. After three days of continuous pursuit, Pan Lianghu and others finally found the Huns who destroyed the former King of Yan at a riverside place.
At the same time, the body of the former King of Yan and the bodies of more than a dozen generals under the former King of Yan were also discovered hanging at the entrance of the camp.
After the news reached the hiding place of the 1,500 soldiers, as expected, the 1,500 soldiers exploded again.
After Pan Lianghu finally suppressed the soldiers' indignation, he walked out of his hiding place alone to think about countermeasures.
There were at least 30,000 to 40,000 Huns in the camp at that time, and the Huns may not have meant to lure the snake out of its hole by hanging the body of the former King of Yan outside the camp.
Pan Lianghu thought for a long time and finally decided to attack at night.
As for the reason, it is very simple. Although he is Zuo Changshi, the chief historian of the palace, he is a fifth-rank official.
However, he was not from the military, and the reason why he was able to suppress the soldiers in the guard camp was because of two reasons.
First, as a man from Yan land, although he is a civil servant, he has excellent martial arts.
The men of Yan admired force and had a sense of awe for those with superb martial arts.
Secondly, the people of the Zhou Dynasty all paid attention to returning fallen leaves to their roots. However, at that time, whether they were officials in the Yan Palace or soldiers in the guard camp.
They all have the determination to seize the corpse, but they have no strategy to seize the corpse.
It is precisely because of various factors that Pan Lianghu became the leader of this team.
However, this kind of leader is not static, especially when it is learned that the body of the former King of Yan was hung outside the camp by the Huns, the instability of the team will increase sharply.
By that time, even if Pan Lianghu thought of a more suitable strategy to deal with the enemy, it would be useless.
As soon as the team's hearts and minds dispersed, so did the people.
Secondly, during this period, it is inevitable that some people will be so impulsive as to launch a suicidal charge. This is just useless, but it will also alert the enemy.
Pan Lianghu thought hard for a long time and finally decided to attack at night.
Pan Lianghu did not tell Zuo Shengyuan how to implement it specifically.
The results are only briefly mentioned.
That means the night attack was successful, and they really took back the body of the former King of Yan.
But the team of 1,500 people was almost wiped out.
After that, Pan Lianghu and the remaining 100 people fled toward Shanggu County with the body of the former King of Yan.
The Huns who reacted were naturally unwilling to let Pan Lianghu and others go.
More than a thousand cavalry were immediately sent to chase him.
While the enemy was chasing us and we were fleeing, the remaining few hundred people were once again on the verge of being wiped out.
Fortunately, at the last moment, he encountered a large army coming for revenge.
Otherwise, Pan Lianghu and others would never have been able to see Zuo Shengyuan alive.
After the army took over the body of the former King of Yan, they went directly to kill the Huns.
As for Pan Lianghu and the remaining ten people, no one paid attention.
More than ten people had no choice but to support each other and walk towards Juyang City.
Along the way, we met Hun soldiers who had become separated from the army from time to time.
Every encounter is a life-or-death battle.
When Pan Lianghu and another soldier brought the news of the recovery of the body of the former King of Yan to the Prince of Yan's Mansion.
The only two people left were already dying and their lives would not be long.
In the study room of the side hall of Chengyun Hall.
Zuo Shengyuan wiped the tears that couldn't stop on his face and took out several pieces of yellowed rice paper from his arms.
Place it very solemnly on the bookcase in front of Xu Yi.
He couldn't hold back his tears and said, "This is Pan Lianghu's last request."
The emperor who came out of Zongzheng Temple through the ages.
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