May 18 of the second year of neutralization.

On the same day, Li Keyong and Yang Fuguang conquered Fanglin Gate, Dong Jin then conquered Jingyao Gate, Feng Shou finally conquered Guanghua Gate, and the three-way coalition army broke through the nine gates of Chang'an, all of which entered Chang'an.

On the same day, Huang Chao was isolated and took advantage of the chaos to flee south; Zhu Wen, who was trapped in the north of Haoshui, suddenly heard that Chang'an had fallen, and immediately surrendered to Wang Chongrong, who was stationed north of Haoshui, Wang Chongrong accepted his surrender, placed him in Tongzhou, and immediately rushed to Chang'an.

On May 19, Zhu Li met with Shi Yan and Meng Juehai outside Chang'an City, and collected and rectified the prisoners of the grass army on the spot, and only Shi Shiran entered Chang'an two days later.

In the palace, Huang Chao fled in a hurry, and many concubines, wives and daughters became captives of all parties; What's more, often because a prisoner fights with each other, if Zhu Li hadn't arrived just in time, I am afraid that the people of Chang'an would inevitably be implicated and affected by the military disaster.

Entering Chang'an, after Zhu Li saw all the big people, he first stopped the scramble between them, and then immediately gathered everyone, discussed the merits in public, recorded them in a book, and immediately sent people to report to Chengdu.

Zhu Li has done everything he can, and he has openly written a book of merits, which has appeased the worries of all the officials, even if the Tang Court's reward is slightly biased in the future, it has nothing to do with him Zhu Li, after all, he has reported all the records of meritorious service, what else can these officials say.

During this period of waiting for news from Chengdu, Zhu Li was not idle, he collected a total of nearly 60,000 grass army routs, Chang'an was run by Huang Chao for nearly two years, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the base camp of the grass army, now Huang Chao has run, Meng Kai, Huang Ye, Shang Rang and others have fled, Zhu Wen and others have surrendered, these grass army soldiers who were forced to stay near Chang'an have thrown themselves to Zhu Li.

Why don't they take refuge in others, naturally because of the role of Meng Juehai, a benchmark figure, he is deeply trusted under Zhu Li, and it also affects the worries of these grass army soldiers, with an example like Meng Juehai, they surrendered to Zhu Li, and they are still full of hope for the future future.

Zhu Li scraped together and barely armed 40,000 people for the grass army, but these captives could not form combat power in time, so he asked Meng Juehai to take them to Fuping, and asked Zhou Dewei to bring these people back to Shuozhou, for the families and relatives of the more than 60,000 grass army soldiers, he also packed and let Meng Juehai and Zhou Dewei send them away, after all, whether it is in the past life or in this life, Zhu Li himself is the grassroots at the bottom of society, and he can better understand the bonds in the hearts of these low-level soldiers.

At the beginning of June of the second year of Zhonghe, Chengdu sent an envoy to Chang'an, and Zhu Li led the officials from all parties to greet him.

The person who came was a fair-skinned eunuch with no beard on his mouth, and he was the famous eunuch Tian Lingzi.

Don't underestimate this eunuch, he is a big celebrity in front of Xizong, and even Xizong himself calls him "Father" without taboo, and he is actually one of the most powerful eunuchs in the Tang Dynasty.

"Greetings to everyone." The old eunuch had just arrived at the Jinguang Gate in the west of the imperial city, and the emperors of all sides who had been waiting for a long time did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly put on a flattering appearance.

Zhu Li is naturally an exception, he stood at the front and bowed, which was regarded as giving the old eunuch face, after all, he was the general of Zuo Wuwei, Shan Yu Daduhu, the general of the third rank, and the leader of the second rank, and he thought that he could still be on an equal footing with this old eunuch in terms of status.

However, his posture made Tian Lingzi a little unhappy, although Zhu Li was lifted by Zheng Jin, Li Zhuo and others, but after all, he was not a member of his eunuch family, not to mention that Tian Lingzi and Zheng and Li were secretly a little dirty, and the old eunuch naturally looked at Zhu Li a little unhappy.

However, in front of the public, this powerful eunuch didn't say anything, Zhu Li was a talent, he had to admit it, and he didn't want to hate him rashly, but said very casually: "Don't torture the old slave, our family is just a slave who runs errands and rice paper, and you don't deserve such a big gift." ”

Tian Lingzi changed his words while pretending: "Let's stop clubbing outside the city, let's go to the palace and talk about it, General Zhu Li, what do you say?" ”

"Everything depends on Tian, everyone is in charge." Zhu Li seemed to feel a trace of coldness from Tian Lingzi, and immediately woke up.

"Well, let's go back to the palace together." Saying that, Tian Lingzi didn't look at Zhu Li, but approached Yang Fuguang cordially, hit his horse into the city, and walked straight in the direction of the palace.

The rest of the Jiedu envoys, the generals of all parties, and the assassin Shi glanced at Zhu Li with great meaning, and hurriedly followed closely, but in an instant, Zhu Li felt an obvious sense of alienation from everyone.

"Dudu, this eunuch is really hateful." Shi Yan stepped forward quietly, glared at Tian Lingzi who was gathered in the middle of the crowd, and said indignantly.

Zhu Li glanced at him with a smile and comforted: "Don't worry about everything, Tian Lingzi is not an ordinary person, this person is an eunuch who watched His Majesty grow up, no matter what the saint does, this person is in charge on his behalf, for this kind of person who stays by His Majesty's side at all times, we are still cautious in our words and deeds." ”

"But this old guy is obviously giving you eye medicine for the governor." Shi Yan is still indignant.

"Hey, what can I do, I heard that Zheng Sikong and Li Guogong, and Tian Lingzi are a little dirty, my current official position is highly recommended by the two of them, although the recovery of Chang'an this time is the work of everyone, but after all, I have the name of commander, according to the convention, how can I get more than half of the credit, this credit, Tian Lingzi and other eunuchs will not be willing." Zhu Li sighed and explained carefully.

"The people who can formulate a plan to attack the east and the west and hide from the sky and cross the sea are the governors of you, and they can obtain military merits by their own ability, what if they are unwilling, they will not fight for themselves if they have the ability." Shi Yan was unconvinced.

"It would be nice if they could strive for meritorious service on their own as you said, but when these people do things, they are either powerless or unable to do anything, but when it comes to grabbing benefits, they are better than anyone else." Zhu Li beat the horse, and followed behind everyone with Shi Yan unhurriedly, looking at Tian Lingzi, one of the three evils at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the representative of the eunuch who almost single-handedly destroyed the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, and said with indignation.

Covering the three evils of the Tang Dynasty, the eunuchs bore the brunt, they played with the emperor in the palm of their hands, covered the sky and listened to it, robbed the loyalty, played with right and wrong, and excluded dissidents, which was simply the number one moth that misled the country and the people.

From Jinguangmen through Taichang Temple, Shangshu Province and other important places, the group entered the Taiji Palace, above the main hall, Tian Lingzi stood under the dragon chair, the eunuchs who accompanied him held a bunch of canonization decrees, looking at those canonization decrees, the eyes of the officials of all parties were burning, it seemed that after several days of waiting, what kind of reward they could finally get, it was about to be revealed, how could these warlords not be excited.

The dignitaries of all parties involved in King Qin stood on both sides of the main hall, looking at Tian Lingzi with blank eyes, Tian Lingzi seemed to enjoy this feeling, and unhurriedly pulled a pile of canonization decrees, as if at random, but in fact deliberately pulled out a volume from the pile of holy decrees, and unfolded: "The sage said: I only rule the world with literature, and fight chaos with force. And the military commander will be the pillar of the imperial court, and the dry city of the country is also able to be both civil and military, and he can repay his achievements without pampering his life. There are soldiers and horses in the world, Jiafu Yi with the three divisions, with the Chinese system of envoys, and the title of Hongnong County Gong, and the title of 'Zizhonghui Wu Kuang Guoping Difficult Hero',...... Decree, May 26, 9th year of the Emperor's reign. ”

"Thank you Shengshang Longen, Yang Fuguang congratulates Your Majesty long live, long live." This is a letter of policy, specially rewarded Yang Fuguang, Yang Fuguang heard the order, immediately walked to the middle of the hall, bowed and thanked.

As soon as this edict came out, the rest of the people looked at Zhu Li with flickering expressions, intentionally or unintentionally, Yang Fuguang was suddenly appointed as the eunuch of the world's soldiers and horses, and the general leader of the world's soldiers and horses.

It is not so much that this is the imperial court's edict to Yang Fuguang, but that after the eunuch recovered Chang'an, he immediately took the military power from Zhu Li's hands, but Zhu Li didn't care about this at all, his face was as usual, his expression was calm, and he didn't seem to understand the meaning of this layer.

After Yang Fuguang was enthroned, followed by Wang Chongrong and Zhou Qi, Zhou Qi was Wang Chongrong's subordinate, and the East Route Army forced Zhuge Shuang to surrender, and it was Zhou Qi's work to attack Chang'an, because Zhu Wen had not surrendered at that time, and Wang Chongrong himself sat on the south bank of Haoshui to confront Zhu Wen, so this work of recovering Chang'an naturally has his share.

Tang Ting enshrined Wang Chongrong as the captain of the inspection school, the Pingzhang of the same Zhongshu Men, the king of Langya County, and the master of the inspection school; And Zhou Qi was promoted because of his merits and succeeded Yang Fuguang as the assassin of Xuzhou.

In addition, the Tang Dynasty enshrined Li Sigong (originally: Tuoba Sigong), the crown prince and the prince of Xia; Li Xiaochang's advanced inspection of the school is common; Wang Chongying advanced to inspect the school and the king of Langya; Li Keyong is the inspector of the school and the envoy of the Hedong Festival; Wang Chongying advanced to inspect the school captain, Feng Langya County Wang, tired of inspecting the school Taifu Zhong........

After a reward, only Zhu Li was not entitled, but in the hands of the eunuchs who served beside Tian Lingzi, there was still a volume of policy books left, and it seemed that the policy book was the holy decree of Tang Ting to seal Zhu Li, but for some reason Tian Lingzi stayed until the end.

Just when everyone thought that Tian Lingzi should seal Zhu Li next, Tian Lingzi said: "You have worked hard for the country for a long time, and now the sage has been rewarded, and the merit has been completed, if there is nothing else, you all step down, the old slave wants to talk to General Zhu Li." ”