Amid the vague fighting and rumbling sounds of attacks and rumblings in the suburbs of Chang'an, under the planning of the commander-in-chief of the commander-in-chief, the resignation of ambassadors from Longyou, Hexi, and the Secretary-General of the Central Committee, the grand court convened by the candidates for supporting a new crown prince and supervisor, was finally held as scheduled in the hastily repaired Yanying Hall.

He wore the three-liang of the yellow jade crown, the purple-science crown with seven tassels and five chapters, and the waist was covered with a jade sword, a golden beetle talisman, and a golden jade belt. He also stood in a dressed state with a solemn expression, representing the power of the emperor, above the first level of the lower left head of the Kong Yu throne, with sharp eyes and heavy eyes looking at each civil and military minister entering the hall.

The court uniforms of civil servants who entered the court successively included long ribbons, cranes, ganoderma lucidum, magpies, majestic grass, geese, handsome falcons, flowers, and yellow branches. In the court uniforms of military officers, they also turned into beautiful patterns such as auspicious horses, horned beasts, bears, flying tigers, etc.

With so many purple and blue clothes, under the singing titles and styles of the imperial envoys in the hall, they were gathered together according to the orders of superiority and inferiority. It was like animals and fairy grass and auspicious zhizhi, which was shining with each other. However, Zheng Ting, who was above the ministers, inevitably had some similar visual sense.

It was the first year of Huichang (841) during the Wuzong Dynasty.

Zheng Qi, who was born in the large house of the Zheng clan family in Xingyang, was able to serve as the clerk of the disciple Yin and was highly valued by his father Zheng Ya, and was able to serve as the clerk of the disciple Yin. It was also the first time he stood outside the Yanying Hall and stood with other clerks. He worshipped the emperor who was invisible in the hall and thought that he would thank him.

However, in the second year of Huichang (842), he stood out as the Jinshi who passed the imperial examination in that year. When he entered the official position, he became the governor of the Xuanwu Army and was appointed as the proofreader of the Secretariat. He was only eighteen years old and was also one of the youngest Tanhualangs at the tail-cooking banquet that year. He was able to stand under the colonnade outside Yanying Hall and listen to the famous memorials.

In the sixth year of Huichang (846), he participated in the subject selection of the Ministry of Personnel, took the examination of the Secretariat of the Secretariat, was awarded the title of Weinan County Magistrate and the Ministry of History, and began a local career that was completely different from that of the museum and palace. However, the good times did not last long. At that time, Li Deyu's party gradually lost power in the Niu Li party struggle.

His father Zheng Ya was demoted to Guizhou (now Guilin, Guangxi) and Xunzhou (now Meizhou, Guangdong). After two years, Zheng Qiong was appointed as the Ministry of Personnel and tried again, he went south to accompany his father. Since then, he has not served as an official and studied at home, wasting ten years of experience.

And these ten years have been enough to make most people polish their spirit and enterprising spirit, or compromise with reality; but it is obvious that Zheng Ting, who came from a famous family, is not listed here, and he is increasingly focused on studying and thinking about cultivating his mind and cultivating his hopes.

When the first year of Xiantong (860), when the late emperor ascended the throne, Bai Minzhong of the Niu Party, Linghu Bao and other prime ministers of the Niu Party successively left the throne and released the throne; he finally received the imperial edict and was first appointed as the Hedong Military Office, and was summoned to the court to serve as the Minister of the Yu Ministry.

However, as an uncle of the same clan who had a disagreement with Nai's father, Zheng Xun, the right chief of the Shangshu who had also been in the same party as Linghu Bao and others, firmly opposed him from the position of the Shangshu Province. Therefore, Zheng Wei, who was able to stand outside Yanying Palace for the third time, had to accept the edict that he would return to Hedong to serve in the office.

It was not until the fifth year of Xiantong (864) that Zheng Xun retired from illness and retired, that he was able to enter the court. He was the first to be the Minister of Justice, and soon promoted to the county magistrate of Wannian County (now Xi'an, Shaanxi, and jointly governed Chang'an City with Chang'an County), and began his second career of being close to the people. This term ended in the ninth year of Xiantong (868).

Because he was recommended by Prime Minister Liu Zhan, he was renamed as a doctor of the Ministry of Revenue, a Hanlin scholar, and was appointed as a magistrate of imperial edicts. Later, he was renamed as a Zhongshu Sheren. The following year (869), he was promoted to the Minister of Revenue for his extraordinary writing and writing, and was promoted to the Minister of Revenue, and served as a Hanlin scholar. He was able to stand on the side corridor in Yanying Hall for the first time.

In the 11th year of Xiantong (870), Emperor Yizong of Tang died of illness because of his love for Princess Tongchang. He executed Han Zongshao, the imperial physician in charge of treatment, and arrested more than 300 of their relatives. Liu Zhan, who was the prime minister at the time, made great efforts to advise and was dismissed as the governor of Jingnan. Zheng Ting, who was ranked first in Yanying Hall at that time, was regarded as the choice of his later position.

However, he praised Liu Zhan in the drafted edict to support Liu Zhan's proposal. However, he angered Emperor Yizong of Tang, who was so fond of love, and was dismissed from the charge of supporting Liu Zhan as the governor of Wuzhou (now Wuzhou, Guangxi) under the attack of Princess Tongchang and Princess Wei Baoheng.

Until the 14th year of Xiantong (873), Wei Baoheng was dismissed from the court. All the officials who were demoted by Wei Baoheng were recalled. Zheng Ting was also able to return to the court and be appointed as the General Attendant of the Left Sanqi; he was also promoted from the Minister of Personnel to the Minister of War, and returned to Yanying Hall for the second time.

After he was transferred, he was promoted to the fourth year of Qianfu (877), and had already served as the third secretary of Kaifu. He was the Minister of the Ministry of War. He was the Minister of the Ministry of War. He was the Minister of Pacification and the Minister of the State, supervised the national history, led the Grand Secretary of Jixian Hall, and joined Lu and became the prime minister to jointly control the national affairs.

At that time, although the country had been chaotic and turmoil, it was still possible to do anything and the revival was expected. The Pang Xun Rebellion, which was in trouble in the southeast, was easily suppressed. Longyou, Hexi, which had fallen into Tubo, also led the territory to return to the Tang Dynasty with the rise of the Guiyi Army. There were many foreign aggressions and famous officials who could command Gao Pian, and Cui An was in a dilemma.

However, the situation suddenly took a sharp turn. The famine in the Guandong area began to rise for years, and thieves in various places became more and more serious. First, Wang Xianzhi rushed to Changyuan, Puzhou, and the disaster was disrupted between the Yangtze and Huai Rivers. It was finally easy for Zeng Yuanyu to recruit the envoy to fight against the southeast camp in Huangmei (now northwest of Huangmei, Hubei).

In addition, Huang Chao, a remnant of the rebellion in Shandong, ravaging the Central Plains, heading south to fight against Jianghuai, Jingxiang, eastern Zhejiang, Fujian and other places, "meaning millions", defeated the official army repeatedly and openly sought the "Tianping Jiedushi".

At that time, most foreign ministers such as Zheng Ting were inclined to recruit pacification and suggested that they be appointed as the governor of Lingnan and be detained in Lingnan. However, they analyzed the situation and thought that the report was:

"The Huang Chao army was famine and plundered money and food in large numbers, which gradually grew stronger and swept across the country. It would be better to forgive their crimes and stalwarts, stabilize them with official positions, and then wipe them out when the time is right."

"The people who followed the rebellion took risks just to survive. They would definitely miss their homesickness as long as they encountered a good harvest. When the army was separated, Huang Chao would die without fighting."

However, another prime minister, Lu Xie, who colluded with the great internal officials, relied on Gao Pian, the governor of Huainan with his own selfishness. He reported that the Huainan army led by Gao Pian repeatedly won many battles and was enough to eliminate the thieves, so he strongly advocated continuing to fight. As a result, when the Zhengshi Hall was drafting an edict, the two sides had a dispute again.

The emperor also hoped that Gao Pian would succeed in one fell swoop, and finally accepted Lu Xie's proposal, who was determined to seek war. Zheng Ting, as the leader of the Fu Fu faction, had to leave Yanying Palace again for the sixth time and become a leisure minister in the branch office's east capital.

This idleness was dispersed when the court revived him and returned to Yanying Hall, but the situation was already uncontrollable. The Sanle Prime Minister Wang Duo, who was in charge of Jinghu, almost fled to the thief; the famous general (Li Shuo) he appointed, Li Shi, was a contemporary Zhao Kuo who talked about war without fighting on paper.

Liu Jurong, the commander of Shandong, and after Jiangxi recruited Cao Quanshi to defeat the invading thieves; Gao Pian, the governor of Huainan, who was highly anticipated by the court, was old and stupid. After the general Zhang Lin was defeated, he avoided the war and refused to leave after the war was eliminated by the name of cultivating.

The five vassal states in Guandong jointly intercepted the bandit army and the Sishui River on Huai, but they retreated one after another when facing the enemy. Only the most resolute fight against the bandits, Cao Quanzhi and his son, led the Tianping Army to fall into the bandits and fight to the death until the entire army was finally destroyed.

Then Zhou Ji, the governor of the Zhongwu Army, was suspected of being a bandit, died in vain in the Eastern Capital. His troops were joined by Yang Fuguang and retreated to Guanzhong to avoid the war. The governor of the Taining Army, Qi Kerang, led his troops to defend Tongguan and isolated and provide little support. He had no weapons and food and disappeared without a trace.

The several reinforcements who spontaneously came to serve the king were dissatisfied with the generous treatment of the hasty recruitment of new troops in the capital, and then scattered their troops and seized their supplies. They mutiny and surrendered to the thieves halfway. Even the emperor himself abandoned millions of subjects in the capital without caring about it, and ran away from the west to Shuzhong alone.

Therefore, Zheng Ting, who was summoned back to Beijing to preside over the situation, faced such a desperate situation of collapse and deterioration and internal and external difficulties. At that time, in the face of the overwhelming thief, even if he was called the "prime minister of saviors" by the world, he had no choice but to run away from Yanying Palace in a hurry for the seventh time.

When he ran to Fengxiang, he summoned the generals and officials of the military office to discuss the matter of defying the thief. However, all the generals thought the thief army was powerful and suggested that they wait until the king-fighting troops gathered in various places before making plans. Zheng Qi was filled with anger and fainted on the ground. Although he was awakened, he was still unable to speak out.

As a result, Huang Ni's surrender envoy arrived in Fengxiang at this time. The local military inspector actually drafted a letter of thanks in the name of Zheng Ting, expressing his intention to surrender to Huang Chao and hosted a banquet for the envoy. As a result, all the generals cried during the banquet.

When he woke up, he learned about this situation and thought that people were not tired of Tang, so he summoned generals and explained the righteousness and finally got the support of the generals. He pierced his arms and formed an alliance with the generals. He also took the opportunity to repair the city, rectify the armies, train soldiers, and secretly contacted the surrounding vassal states and made an appointment to fight against the thieves.

When the Qianshuofang Jiedushi Tang Hongfu, Jingyuan Jiedushi Cheng Zongchu and others all led their troops to Fengxiang. They also re-compiled and integrated tens of thousands of troops and horses under the west of the Jing and the Zuo Shence Camp, rewarded them with great rewards to build morale, and killed the envoys to sacrifice flags.

Therefore, at the most dangerous moment of despair in the country, he not only worked hard to persevere, but also formed a response with the brothers Yang Fugong, the flying dragon envoy who was stationed in Sanguan, and repeatedly blocked and defeated the enterprising and coercive forces of the thief army.

More things happened later. But he was always able to fight repeatedly, repeatedly defeated and repeatedly, and always fought on the front line of confrontation with the thieves; even in the end, in Fengtian, in order to avoid the division and internal strife in Fengxiang Town, he went far away to the northwest;

But after spending a long time sleeping on firewood and tasting gall, he successfully brought back a army of kings. He also rushed straight to recover most of Guanzhong, and even attacked Xijing, and forced the thief Huang Ni and his remaining evil forces to destroy the world.

Therefore, although Zheng Qi had done many things that were unsuccessful in order to combat the traitors and restore the country, he had done many things that were unsuccessful and used power and calculation methods; it can be said that he was the benchmark and principle for his lifelong actions, basically worthy of the family, country, monarch and father, and also worthy of the limits of famous officials in the world.

Now, Zheng Ting, who was able to stand in Yanying Hall for the eighth time, was in charge of the military-national plan, and under the great crisis that Sanchuan in Jiannan, wanted to continue the preaching of Li Tang and maintain the past family and country, and once again violated his will and committed a forgery of deceiving the emperor and his superiors.

Fortunately, Peng Jingrou, the chief supervisor of the camp, was also very capable. He found a child from the surviving royal family in the city, who was said to be the posthumous son of Li Yi, the eighth son of the late emperor. Li Mi, now only seven years old. After being dressed up, he was staying in the back of the palace, waiting for Xuanda’s ministers to worship him.

However, after three o'clock and the whip and the drums were raised several times that day, most of the halls were still mostly fairy grass and Ruizhi. The situation of few animals in the clothes made Zheng Ting feel a little dissatisfied and dazzling.

Then at his signal, Sima Sun Chu, a marching man who was Zuomu, rushed to walk to Zheng Ting in a hurry and whispered:
Chapter completed!