In the eastern capital Luoyang, under the luminous clouds and rays of clouds in the afternoon, it is still so majestic and majestic; but once you get closer, it looks like a disrepaired mansion, beginning to show a certain kind of trend between east, west, south and north, from the moment of prosperity to the momentum of glory, and then to the gradual decline and the ultimate decay of decay.

Compared with the southern bank of Luoshui, which has already shown obvious decay and decline, the large outer urban area is located in many buildings on the north bank, but it is still in the Zoumazhangtai where music and singing every night, maintaining the gorgeous and exquisiteness of the flowers and fires of the past.

In the imperial city where the emperor stayed in Ye, the Jiuzhou Pool in Taoguang Garden was a time when people were roaring and roaming.

As an important entertainment event loved by the emperor of the dynasty, countless knights wearing colorful clothes, tied with garlands and silk, and wearing colorful star officials, and wearing silk-colored mounts, waving long poles decorated with gold and jade patterns on the horse, and chasing a porous ball wrapped in the inner liner of the bell, ramming and roaring together, causing a burst of roars and shouts.

As the most powerful "father" and "shangfu" of the dynasty, Tian Lingzi, a lieutenant of the Shence Army who was more like the prime minister than most prime ministers, also squinted his eyes at the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty during the joyful galloping, and Emperor Xizong of Tang, known as the "Polo Emperor". Only when the other party's eyes accidentally saw it showed a trace of loyal, sincere, kind and kind expression.

Except for his lack of beard, he has fair and bright skin as white as jade. He looks like a rich middle-aged man with a well-maintained and broad face, kind-eyed and pampered atmosphere. Only when he is surrounded by stars like the moon, those great officials in purple-clothed and gold-haired fish bags, with all kinds of flattery and careful expressions, can he show and print the best portrayal of his power and great influence.

You should know that among them, even when facing ministers and even prime ministers in the foreign court, they can be arrogant and not polite; but here, they have to follow the look or subtle expression and action of this "Tian Afu" and rush toward and run around.

Tian Lingzi was originally a cake seller from Jiannan Road. Because his family was too poor in his early years, he was castrated as a private waste and sold it into the palace as a private waste. He became a young master of the bottom. Later, he finally became an adopted son under the knee of an old official Tian Shin-ben, so he was able to follow his adoptive father to join the provincial school and become a Xiaomafang envoy, one of the five houses responsible for raising rare birds and animals for the palace. He also met and made friends with the son of the young king who loved polo and was still the young prince, and thus began to gain the opportunity to make a fortune.

(Note: The private castration of the people is called private white. In the southern Fujian area, the most popular trends in Lingnan are often the most powerful households colluded with officials and abducted children, and castration was trained as private white white. The surname Feng Zushang of the family was Feng Ang and Lady Xian who ruled Lingnan. They are also the prototype of the four lords of the Lingnan family in the world in "The Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty". Gao Lishi, the number one official in Kaiyuan, was the private white white white white white hair of King Huo Jinxian)

Today, the son is the fifth son of Emperor Xizong of Tang, known as later generations, and his real name is Li Yan. He is the fifth son of Emperor Yizong of Tang. It can be said that he is neither the eldest lord nor the legitimate descendant. He is a very inconspicuous existence among the sons of the late emperor. However, in July of the 14th year of Xiantong (873), after Emperor Yizong of Tang was seriously ill, he was supported by eunuchs Liu Xingshen, Han Wenyue and other eunuch groups as crown princes, and changed his name to Li Yan. He then was in Lingqian with a 12-year-old life, becoming the youngest emperor to ascend the throne in the entire Tang Dynasty.

Because Tian Lingzi, who was the envoy of Xiaomafang since childhood, accompanied the left and right people and took care of his daily life, he was very emotionally dependent and called Tian Lingzi "Afu". After ascending the throne, he appointed him as the right Privy Councilor and the general of the gatekeeper, and since then he became one of the four nobles. ("Four nobles" refer to the internal and external Privy Councilor who could only be served by eunuchs and the lieutenant of the left and right Shence Army);

Then they joined forces with Yang Fuguang, Yang Fugong brothers, Ximen Sigong of the Ximen family, and other eunuchs, and successfully squeezed out and cut off the senior senior official Liu Xingshen and Han Wen's agreement, who had the merits of enthroning; thus they also served as the lieutenant of the Shence Army and were in charge of the troops in prison.

He also used his strength to use the party struggle to indirectly squeeze out and exiled. Wang Duo, the prime minister of Yuan Su of the Three Dynasties, Zheng Ting and his followers, surpassed the successor Prime Minister Lu Zi, and became the first person in power in the court and the opposition, and was above many powerful officials and prime ministers.

Nowadays, because of the great world and the high temple, the ones who can make him taboo and pay attention to it are just one of the heroes who came from the eunuch group and supported the emperor. Yang Fugong, the Privy Councilor of the Inner Dynasty, and his brother who has good military merits and military reputations, Yang Fuguang, the military commander of the Eight Towns of the Pass;

It was just because he had grasped the zeal and hobbies of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty since he was a child.

Emperor Xizong of Tang, who was young and reigned, was very fond of entertainment. He almost all made a living from fighting cocks, gambling geese, riding and shooting, swords and spears, calculations, music, Go, gambling, and all kinds of fun. He regarded the palace's gardens as a place. He used gold coins from the Zuozang and Qitian treasury in Chang'an, and rewarded musicians and crafts, which cost tens of thousands of dollars, resulting in the exhaustion of national use.

Tian Lingzi made a plan to Emperor Xizong of Tang Dynasty to register the treasures of Chinese and foreign merchants in the two cities of Chang'an into the treasury, and sent them all into the inner treasury for the emperor to squander. If a merchant was dissatisfied and reported to the government, he would be sent to Jingzhao Yin to death with a stick. The court and the country did not dare to speak, but the world was in a way.

In the near future, in order to cultivate his followers, Tian Lingzi arranged his confidants to guard Sanchuan, that is, Sichuan area as a retreat and foreign aid; he submitted a request to Emperor Xizong to focus on Sanchuan with his elder brother Chen Jingxuan and the generals of the Zuo Shence Army, Yang Shili, Niu Xu, Luo Yuangao, etc., while Emperor Xizong of Tang asked four people to hit the ball and bet on Sanchuan, and appointed the chief minister of the border to play the country's affairs as a joke.

In the end, Chen Jingxuan was named after the title of Xichuan Jiedushi, and appointed him as the governor of Xichuan Jiedushi, and replaced Cui Anqian, the governor of Dongchuan Jiedushi, and Niu Xu was appointed as the governor of Shannan West Road. Since then, everyone knows the absurd name of this Polo emperor.

Liu Yunzhang, who was a Hanlin scholar at the time, used the "Nine Destruction of the State" to describe the urgent situation at that time in his "Nine Destruction of the State": "All the troops gathered all year round, one destruction, the barbarians were in full swing, two destruction, and two destruction, and three destruction. Generals did not attend court, four destruction, and four destruction. Build Buddhist temples, five destruction, and six destruction. The officials were brutal, and seven destruction. The taxes and labor were not equal, and eight destruction. There were many people who were in the world, and few people who were in taxes were lost. "He summarized the "eight sufferings" and "five destruction" for the living conditions of the people in the world.

But all this seems to have no effect on the extravagant and fun spirit of today. This is also the matter that the officials and nobles in power, led by Tian Lingzi, are happy to see the success and encourage and indulge them more; because in this way, they can take advantage of the fact that the emperor is unintentional to inquire about state affairs and indulge in fun, and better grasp and manage the power and military and national plans of this country.

Therefore, he was thinking about the players among these players who seemed to be more favored and cared about by the emperor, and could win over wealth and reputation and corresponding means of beating;

And among the emperor's side, who is an inappropriate and direct advice who likes to seek fame and reputation, and who may make some disgraceful remarks, they need to use the power around the emperor to eliminate and derogate, and even fabricate corresponding charges to intimidate those potential "rebel" and "clear stream" in the court...

"We must always remember that we are all servants of the Tian family..."

But what he said was another situation:

"I just use this humble body to take the world as the Lord shows his face and runs out for the time being..."

"Don't forget your duty and origin in daily life..."

"Those officials of the Pavilion, the elders of the Tang (prime minister) and the chief ministers of the Tai family are the legitimate people who are appointed by the Tian family."

"You usually have to leave a bit of decency to have a long life of being intimate in the future..."

"After all, the world is so big, so many things on the table still need to be used by these people."

"We must not humiliate or be slighted to those servants, otherwise the power and power of the Tian family will be destroyed in the end."

"Now the state is difficult, and those foreign military towns that are both concerned about are watching the court's actions."

"There are people in and out that are connected in a series of ways, and I hope something will happen from the beginning."

"So, you must never give such opportunities, otherwise..."

Speaking of this, Tian Lingzi narrowed his eyes without laughing, and looked around and said.

"Not to mention that the Tian family cannot tolerate it, even the old man will ask for an explanation..."

"What the Great Father said is very...."

"I was kept in mind by Jingdang, and I was reminded every day."

There was a sudden sound of response and flattery around.

"The noble man...the thief entered Guangzhou"

"Li Zhao, the governor of the Lingnan East Road, all died for the country..."

"I know..."

Tian Lingzi raised his eyebrows calmly and said.

"How can you tell the emperor clearly afterwards..."

"But don't spread it randomly before this, it will ruin the interest that everyone can easily develop..."

After all, he personally said that the emperor ordered the contemporary general and old commander in the southeast, Gao Pian, the Jiedushi of Zhenhai Army, was not allowed to continue to pursue the thieves outside the Nanzhe River after the breaking of the intersection of Fujian and Zhejiang, so as to avoid any disturbances in the southeast. Later, he was transferred to the Jiedushi of Huainan and focused on plundering and accumulating a lot of financial resources for the court.

Later, he led the court to deny the prime minister's proposal to surrender the thief Huang Chao, and rejected the Zhejiang East Observer Cui Miu, and the Lingnan East Railway governor Li Tiao, who took the initiative to submit a petition to surrender Huang Chao, and only gave a symbolic low-ranking military position "the reign of the East Palace".

Therefore, he would definitely not let this news be the reason and excuse for the potential opposition in the court to question and shake his authority, but he would take the lead in setting up a good position and argument around the emperor, and use the young man's greed for fun and disliked political affairs, so he would not be able to turn the bad things that seem to be a good thing that continues to expand his authority and interests;

As for the so-called thief tribes, even if they are temporarily in Guangzhou, it may be a way to kill themselves. As long as the troops in the south of the Yangtze River are blocking the five ridges, they will follow the example of the old wisdom of the prime minister Wang Duo splitting the thief head Wang Xianzhi's subordinates, these thiefs trapped outside the ridge will be rebelled without fighting and will be easily a foreign trouble in the court.

Compared with these scabies that are thousands of miles away, what he has to worry more about and worry about are the dynamics and trends of the vassal states, which are close to the two capitals; such as the Hedong Army chaos and the Yishuai incident of the Tianping Army that had just happened:

First, in February of the sixth year of Qianfu (879), the soldiers of the Hedong Army arrived in Jingle (now Jingle, Shanxi) killed the Kongmu official Shi Yu and others to cause rebellion. On the 12th, the Jiedushi Cui Jikang fled to Jinyang, and on the 14th, the rebel soldiers entered the palace to kill Jikang. On the 21st, the Tang Dynasty was re-elected as the Jiedushi Li Kan of the Bining Jiedushi.

In March of the sixth year of Qianfu (879), Zhang Qi, the governor of the Tianping Army (station in Yunzhou), died, and the general Cui Junyu was in charge of the prefecture affairs. The judge of Zibo Shi Cao Quanshi was punished for the execution.

In May, the soldiers rebelled again and burned and plundered three cities in Jinyang (now Taiyuan, Shanxi). Li Kan led the charge of Kongmu Wang Jing, and the matter was pacified. Afterwards, the soldiers were secretly arrested and rioted. A hundred remaining members called "revenge generals" and plundered them. The Jiedushi Li Kan ordered the arresting and robbery department and all the arrests and revenge generals were killed. The matter was settled. Li Kan said that there were chaos in the military palace and asked him to return to the capital. On August 7, Kan left office. Li Wei, the capital of Yidong, was in charge of Pingzhang, and was appointed as the governor of Hedong.

Later, Li Wei, the governor of Hedong, was ill, and was appointed as the deputy envoy of the army, Li Shaoquan, and the supervisor of the army, Li Fenggaoquan, and the troops were kept. Three days ago, Li Wei was killed. Zhang Kai, the governor of the capital, and Guo Duo signed a letter to Qian Li Shao, and said that the young Yin Ding Qiu was accused of the observer. In November, he ordered Wang Chuancun to be the governor of Yiwu; Sima, the commander of Yanmen Pass, had already been appointed to establish Kang Chuangui as the governor of Hedong. At the end of that month, Kang Chuangui went to Jinyang (now Taiyuan, Shanxi). Zhang Kai and Guo Duo were on the road. They were killed by Gui with random swords. When they arrived at the palace, they destroyed the two families.

In addition, Cui Anqian, the governor of Xichuan, had great achievements in governing Shu and pacifying thieves. He also reported that the Shu soldiers were cowardly and weak, and sent generals to Chen to collect heroes and mixed with Shu people. He trained them to use them and obtained three thousand people, divided into three armies, and also wore yellow hats and called Huangtou Army. He also reported that the crossbowmen in Hongzhou were taught to use crossbows and shoot them, and selected thousands of people, and called them Shenji Crossbow Camp. Since then, the Shu soldiers have been Jinqiang;

However, Cui Anqian was not his person, but the brother of former prime minister Cui Shenyou. The Cui family in Wucheng, Henan, who was one of the famous prime minister lineages. He was also his political enemy Wang Duo and the candidate for the giant sword of the Zheng Institute of Dynamics. He made great contributions to the suppression of the thief King Xianzhi. Therefore, the incident later caused the incident where Tian Lingzi encouraged the emperor to play polo to privately decide the ownership of the Sanchuan Jieshou.

Thinking of this, he once again showed a bright and sincere smile at the red young face of Emperor Xizong of Tang who was watching. He waved his head and raised his head like a fat goose, and urged his sleeves with all his strength and shouted loudly.

"Everyone is mighty... ten thousand victories... ten thousand victories..."
Chapter completed!