Recaps

Yang Zhengshan led a cavalry charge that broke the Hu Tribe assault on Linguan Fortress, then pursued Bo'erha toward the Hu Tribe camp. He failed to kill Bo'erha and turned away as enemy scouts closed in.

• Yang Zhengshan and his cavalry charged Bo'erha's riders, while Bo'erha and Bato wounded Yang Zhengshan's armor but could not stop his force.
• Yang Mingwu and Yang Chengze attacked the disordered Hu troops, and Bo'erha ordered a retreat as the defenders routed the invaders.
• Yang Zhengshan pursued Bo'erha with Red Cloud, hurling short spears that brought down Hu cavalrymen as Ding Qiu and Song Dashan turned back to clear the fleeing troops.
• Liang Chu learned that Linguan Fortress had repelled the attack and watched Yang Zhengshan chase the Hu riders toward their camp.
• Bo'erha cut Yang Zhengshan's final short spear out of the air, and Yang Zhengshan abandoned the pursuit and turned away from the approaching scouts.

Yang Zhengshan reported Linguan Fortress’s costly victory over the Hu cavalry, and Zhao Yuan arrived to confirm the battle merits. When the Hu Tribe’s main camp was set ablaze in a surprise attack, Yang Zhengshan and Zhao Yuan rode out to pursue the fleeing Hu forces and seek further merit.

• Yang Zhengshan returned to Linguan Fortress, where Yang Chengze reported 842 enemy heads taken, 123 captives, and heavy casualties among the defenders.
• Yang Zhengshan ordered care for the wounded and sent men to Jianning Guard to report the battle merit.
• Zhao Yuan arrived with clerks to confirm the results, and Yang Zhengshan told him that Yinghe Fortress also held more than three hundred enemy heads.
• Yang Mingwu reported that Chongshan Pass’s forces had launched a surprise attack on the Hu Tribe’s main camp, which was burning as fighting continued.
• Yang Zhengshan and Zhao Yuan rode out with a hundred cavalrymen, saw Hu figures fleeing north, and pursued them to earn more merit.

Yang Zhengshan helped hunt down fleeing Hu Tribe soldiers, then learned that Liang Chu had used an empty-city stratagem to lure the enemy into complacency before routing them. After the war ended, Yang Zhengshan honored the fallen, prepared for spring plowing and troop replacements, and visited the Yang Family horse farm, where he took three young horses for the children to learn riding.

• Yang Zhengshan and Zhao Yuan’s cavalrymen hunted stragglers from the defeated Hu Tribe army, collecting hundreds of heads without losing a man.
• Zhao Yuan learned that Liang Chu had secretly moved the Zhenbiao Five Battalions into the eastern mountain forests and held Chongshan Pass with an empty-city stratagem for more than half a month.
• Yang Zhengshan returned to Yinghe Fortress, where he led officials in burying the fallen soldiers, and the Zhenbiao Five Battalions later cleared the remaining Hu Cavalry from the border.
• After the war, Yang Zhengshan organized spring plowing and planned to replenish his depleted troops.
• Yang Zhengshan visited the Yang Family horse farm, inspected its newborn foal, and scattered spirit spring water across the grounds.
• Yang Zhengshan took three young horses for Yang Yunxue, Wang Yunqiao, and Lin Zhan, and told Yang Mingcheng and Jiang He to teach the children horsemanship.

Zhou Lan visited Yinghe Fortress to praise Yang Zhengshan and deliver battle rewards, pensions, and a printed copy of his Thirty-Six Stratagems. She left after asking him to meet Marquis Changping and accepting his offer of two foals, while Yang Zhengshan worried that Zhou Lan saw him only as an elder.

• Zhou Lan praised Yang Zhengshan's defense against the Hu Cavalry and gave him a printed copy of Thirty-Six Stratagems, explaining that Marquis Changping wanted to meet him.
• Yang Zhengshan noticed Zhou Lan's disappointment at being overlooked after the battle and encouraged her to trust in her own abilities.
• Zhou Lan told Yang Zhengshan that talking with him felt like talking to an elder, leaving him flustered.
• Zhou Lan gave Yang Zhengshan seventy-two hundred-tael silver notes as reward money and the full pension money for the fallen soldiers, while warning that he was unlikely to be promoted again soon.
• Zhou Lan saw the three foals Yang Zhengshan had brought from his horse farm and accepted his offer to send her two for her nephews.

Yang Zhengshan distributed battle rewards and pensions, then invested in Pass City shops before meeting Regional Commander Liang Chu. Liang Chu tried to recruit him, but after Yang Zhengshan declined, he gave him a stack of martial arts manuals, and Yang Zhengshan left delighted.

• Yang Zhengshan distributed reward silver and pensions to the soldiers and military households, earning their gratitude.
• Yang Zhengshan told Yang Mingzhi to deliver two foals to Zhou Lan and gave Yang Mingcheng silver to buy shops in Pass City.
• Yang Zhengshan traveled to Pass City with Yang Mingcheng and Jiang He, then went to the Regional Commander's Mansion to meet Liang Chu.
• Liang Chu recognized Yang Zhengshan as the author of the Thirty-Six Stratagems and asked him to serve as his strategist, but Yang Zhengshan declined because he wanted to remain in Jianning Guard.
• Liang Chu gave Yang Zhengshan a stack of booklets, including what appeared to be martial arts manuals, and had Hu Wan see him out.

Yang Zhengshan selected the Primordial Body Tempering Art and Thousand Mechanism Hand from the manuals he acquired, then returned to Yinghe Fortress and reviewed its troops and family. He approved expanding the crowded fortress and planned to fund the work by selling captured horses and other spoils, while setting some horses aside for the family horse farm.

• Yang Zhengshan chose the Primordial Body Tempering Art and Thousand Mechanism Hand to cultivate and kept the other manuals as potential family inheritance.
• Yang Mingcheng reported that he and Jiang He had bought seven shops in Pass City for fifteen hundred taels, and Yang Zhengshan approved of the purchases.
• On the journey home, Yang Zhengshan inspected the Fire Road Mounds and Signal Fire Towers and found the soldiers enthusiastic about training and cultivation.
• Yang Zhengshan returned to Yinghe Fortress, greeted the children, and learned that Yang Yunyan was pregnant again.
• Yang Mingzhi told Yang Zhengshan that expanding Yinghe Fortress would cost about fifteen hundred taels plus grain for workers, so Yang Zhengshan ordered captured horses and other spoils sold.
• Yang Zhengshan told Yang Mingzhi to have his eldest brother select horses for the family horse farm, citing Zhou Lan's promise of another three hundred warhorses.

Yang Zhengshan began expanding Yinghe Fortress and explained to Yang Mingzhi that officials were targeting him to test Zhou Lan amid her purge of Jianning Guard. After Yang Mingzhi linked Xie Yunchuan and Guan Shanhe to the opposition and mentioned Xie’s possible ties to Prince Qing, Yang Zhengshan sent Zhou Lan a letter, leaving the matter in her hands.

• Yang Zhengshan began expanding Yinghe Fortress northward, planning new residences, a moat, gates, and a commercial street.
• Yang Mingzhi reported that Duan Heshun had accused Yang Zhengshan of fishing for fame, and Yang Zhengshan explained that the attack was a probe against Zhou Lan.
• Yang Zhengshan identified several Jianning Guard officials who might oppose Zhou Lan and considered whether Xie Yunchuan was involved.
• Yang Mingzhi said Xie Yunchuan and Guan Shanhe were in-laws and that Xie might have ties to Prince Qing Mansion.
• Yang Zhengshan wrote a letter to Zhou Lan and instructed Yang Mingzhi to deliver it the next day.

Yang Zhengshan oversaw Yinghe Fortress’s expansion and the opening of its commercial street while Zhou Lan’s crackdown unsettled Jianning Guard. When Luo Shang revealed that his growing cloth business lacked enough supplies, Yang Zhengshan agreed to seek help through his connections.

• Yang Zhengshan accelerated Yinghe Fortress’s construction and had workers plant trees as they cut timber for charcoal.
• Nearly four months later, Yinghe Fortress’s expansion was complete, and more than twenty military households opened shops on its new commercial street.
• Yang Zhengshan learned from Luo Shang that Zhou Lan had driven several officers from their posts and imprisoned Duan Heshun on multiple charges.
• Luo Shang told Yang Zhengshan that the Qizhou Luo Family could no longer supply enough cloth for his three shops and two embroidery workshops.
• Yang Zhengshan agreed to seek a new source through the Liang or Lu families and sent a letter for Third Master Liang through Luo Shang and the Lu Family’s merchant caravan.

Yang Zhengshan welcomed Third Master Liang, confirmed that Yang Minghao and Liang Zhen would marry, and helped the Liang Family consider expanding its cloth business. He then focused on improving the livelihoods of Yinghe Fortress’s surrounding military households by proposing that they make cloth shoes for the Needlework Workshop to sell.

• Third Master Liang visited Yang Zhengshan, who reassured him that he still intended to honor the marriage agreement and offered to help the Liang Family open a shop in Ning Prefecture City.
• Third Master Liang and Yang Zhengshan agreed to arrange Yang Minghao and Liang Zhen’s wedding, and Yang Zhengshan sent Yang Mingcheng, Yang Mingzhi, Wang, Wu Hai, and Ding Qiu back to Anning County with Third Master Liang to make preparations.
• After the group departed, Yang Zhengshan assessed Yinghe Fortress’s growing market and decided to find additional income for military households in the surrounding tun fortresses, Fire Road Mounds, and signal fire towers.
• Yang Zhengshan proposed that those households make cloth shoes and have Yang Chengze arrange their collection and sale through Luo Shang’s shop, and Yang Chengze agreed to help.

Yang Mingcheng returned to Yinghe Fortress with Yang Minghao and Liang Zhen, who had married after Third Master Liang hurried the arrangements. Yang Zhengshan welcomed Liang Zhen into the family and discussed the Yang family’s farmland and the Liang Family’s plans for Ning Prefecture City with Yang Mingcheng.

• Third Master Liang rushed through the wedding arrangements, and Yang Minghao and Liang Zhen married within half a month.
• Yang Zhengshan welcomed Liang Zhen with tea gifts, while Yang Minghao received a small pouch of silver and complained that his share was too little.
• Wang, Li, Yang Mingcheng, and other family members gave Liang Zhen gifts as the newlyweds completed introductions with the household.
• Yang Zhengshan asked Yang Mingcheng to buy more farmland in Yang Family Village after repaying the official office, and Yang Mingcheng reported that the crops were doing well.
• Yang Mingcheng said Third Master Liang had connected Shopkeeper Luo with the Liang Family's caravan, which would deliver cloth to Pass City before the Liang Family pursued business in Ning Prefecture City.

After Wang rejected a servant family with a pretty maid, Yang Zhengshan established rules limiting concubinage and requiring women to be at least sixteen before marriage. Liang settled into the Yang household and began learning martial arts as the family’s growing number of practitioners strengthened its faith in Yang Zhengshan.

• Liang grew close to Wang, who sent away a newly purchased servant family because its teenage daughter was too pretty and could threaten marital harmony.
• Yang Zhengshan praised Wang’s decision and established rules forbidding concubines and bedchamber maids unless a man had no son by thirty, and barring women under sixteen from marrying.
• Wang, Li, and Liang welcomed the new rules, while Yang Mingcheng and the other Yang family men accepted them calmly.
• Li told Liang that Yang family women read and practiced martial arts, and explained that Wang had already become a martial artist while Li’s progress had been delayed by pregnancy and childbirth.
• The chapter described how Spirit Spring Water helped dozens of Yang Clan members and soldiers become martial artists, leading people to credit Yang Zhengshan’s guidance.
• Yang Yunxue took Liang to begin practicing the Yang Family Spear Technique.

Yang Zhengshan arranged for Yang Mingwu and Yang Chengxu to leave Yinghe Fortress, expanding the Yang Family’s influence into nearby cities. Zhou Lan redirected the appointments, offering Yang Mingzhi a pacification officer post and Yang Mingwu command of Tianhe Fortress, which Yang Zhengshan accepted.

• Yang Zhengshan learned that Yang Zhengxiang wanted more Yang Family martial artists to join the army and planned to make room for them by sending Yang Mingwu and Yang Chengxu away from Yinghe Fortress.
• Yang Zhengshan proposed that Yang Chengxu assist Zhao Yuan and that Yang Mingwu serve as pacification officer in Jianning Guard, and both men agreed.
• Yang Zhengshan brought Yang Mingwu to meet Zhou Lan, who chose Yang Mingzhi for the pacification officer position instead.
• Zhou Lan offered Yang Mingwu the defense officer post at Tianhe Fortress with the rank of a thousand-man commander, and Yang Zhengshan agreed to the arrangement.

Yang Zhengshan arranged promotions and transfers for his officers, then welcomed Third Master Liang and more than ten Yang Family Disciples to Yinghe Fortress. The new arrivals were eager to serve, but he assigned them to Yang Qinwu for further training before giving them posts.

• Yang Zhengshan sent Yang Mingwu, Yang Mingzhi, and Yang Chengxu to their new positions, then promoted Yang Chengze, Lu Wenchun, Ren Sheng, and Yang Minghao to fill vacancies.
• Yang Zhengshan gave Third Master Liang the deed to a shop in Ning Prefecture City, while Liang Lin learned from Liang that the Yang family treated her well and forbade men from taking concubines before age thirty if they had no sons.
• Yang Mingcheng and Lu Wenchun arranged lodgings for the arriving Yang Family Disciples and showed them around Yinghe Fortress.
• Yang Zhengshan met the Yang Family Disciples and assigned them to Yang Qinwu to learn military skills, literacy, and other requirements before receiving official posts.

Yang Zhengshan visited Zhou Lan and presented the Military Training Records he had compiled, including ideas for organizing special forces. After Zhou Lan revealed the dangerous history of the Blood Blade, Yang Zhengshan burned the volume about special forces, leaving the rest of his military manual with Zhou Lan.

• Yang Zhengshan visited Yang Mingzhi at the Assistant General's Shogunate, and Yang Mingzhi said he missed his family.
• Yang Zhengshan asked Zhou Lan about the East Sea Hu Tribe and military pay, and Zhou Lan said the tribe was unlikely to raid in force and that he could collect the pay.
• Yang Zhengshan gave Zhou Lan his three-volume Military Training Records, and she read it and praised its ideas about special forces, military doctors, and agents.
• Yang Zhengshan explained that his proposed special forces would be small units of martial artists trained for missions such as infiltration and assassination.
• Zhou Lan connected the proposal to the Blood Blade, an organization founded by the Grand Ancestor that she said had hidden within the Secret Martial Guard.
• Yang Zhengshan tore out and burned the special-forces volume, and Zhou Lan said she still liked the remaining book.

After Lü Hua secured an imperial transfer for Yang Zhengshan to serve as Garrison Commander of Anyuan Prefecture City, Zhou Lan reluctantly delivered the promotion and warned him to act cautiously. Yang Zhengshan was left uncertain about the reason for the transfer but prepared to report to the Songzhou Guard within a month.

• Yang Zhengshan left Zhou Lan’s shogunate relieved that she had allowed him to burn his dangerous written volume, then visited Yang Mingzhi’s courtyard and Third Master Liang’s shop before returning to Yinghe Fortress.
• Lü Hua asked Zhou Lan to transfer Yang Zhengshan to Anyuan Prefecture City for use in the Secret Martial Guard’s mission, and promised not to abandon him if danger arose.
• Zhou Lan reluctantly agreed to Lü Hua’s request, then visited Yinghe Fortress and inspected Yang Zhengshan’s prosperous defenses and commercial street.
• Zhou Lan gave Yang Zhengshan an order promoting him two substantive ranks to Assistant Commander of the Songzhou Guard and appointing him Garrison Commander of Anyuan Prefecture City.
• Zhou Lan warned Yang Zhengshan to be cautious, gave him a letter for Assistant General Wang Bin, and told him to report to the Songzhou Guard within a month.

Yang Zhengshan prepared to leave Yinghe Fortress after being promoted to Songzhou Guard Vice Commander and assigned to Anyuan Prefecture City. He arranged for Yang Chengze to take over and reassured the worried military households, while Yang Mingcheng headed ahead to learn about the city.

• Zhou Lan agreed that Yang Chengze would temporarily serve as Defense Officer of Yinghe Fortress and offered Yang Zhengshan help with his move.
• Yang Zhengshan decided to keep the Horse Farm, wrote letters to Yang Mingwu, Yang Mingzhi, and Yang Chengxu, and told Yang Mingcheng to go ahead to Anyuan Prefecture City with Ding Qiu and several men.
• Yang Mingcheng announced Yang Zhengshan’s promotion to the Yang Family, and news of the promotion spread through Yinghe Fortress.
• Worried military households gathered outside the official office, and Yang Zhengshan went out to tell them Yang Chengze would take over and that their lives would continue to improve.

Yang Zhengshan prepared to leave Yinghe Fortress for Anyuan Prefecture City, reassuring Yang Chengze and deciding who would accompany him. He left Yang Chengze in charge of the fortress with Lu Wenchun to support him, while Song Dashan was approved to join the move.

• Yang Zhengshan encouraged the anxious seventeen-year-old Yang Chengze to take charge after he left, and Yang Chengze promised to do well.
• Yang Zhengshan rebuked Yang Mingcheng at dinner, then learned that Yang Minghao and Liang planned to ask whether they could move to Anyuan Prefecture City with him.
• Yang Mingcheng, Ding Qiu, Yang Chengzhen, and others went ahead to Anyuan Prefecture City as Yang Zhengshan began arranging the handover and selecting his traveling party.
• Yang Zhengshan advised Lu Wenchun to stay in Yinghe Fortress and help Yang Chengze, and Lu Wenchun agreed.
• Song Dashan asked to follow Yang Zhengshan to Anyuan Prefecture City, and Yang Zhengshan approved his request.

Yang Zhengshan left Yinghe Fortress and traveled to Anyuan Prefecture City to take up his new post, receiving guarded welcomes from his superiors along the way. He arrived to find his unfamiliar subordinates greeting him with conspicuous silence.

• Several thousand people saw Yang Zhengshan off from Yinghe Fortress, and Liu Yuanfu gave him a copy of the Doctrine of the Mean as a parting gift.
• Yang Zhengshan led his family and attendants to Songzhou Guard, where Sha Pingchuan urged him to take up the vacant garrison commander post in Anyuan Prefecture City.
• Sha Pingchuan brought Yang Zhengshan to meet Wang Bin, who read Zhou Lan's letter and told Yang Zhengshan to report to Anyuan Prefecture City promptly.
• Yang Zhengshan reached Anyuan Prefecture City with his family and attendants and met the military officials waiting at the south gate.
• The officials greeted Yang Zhengshan without speaking further, and he suspected they were trying to intimidate him.

Yang Zhengshan took up his post as garrison commander in Anyuan Prefecture City, inspected his lavish new residence, and began assessing the people and risks around him. He left the waiting military officials to wait until the next day and grew suspicious of the long-serving clerk Zhou Ren.

• Yang Zhengshan bypassed the military officials who had left him waiting and ordered clerk Zhou Ren to lead him to the Garrison Commander's Office.
• Xu Wanfu told Tian Gui and the other officials to return to the office and await Yang Zhengshan's orders.
• Yang Zhengshan entered Anyuan Prefecture City, observed its streets and residents, and arrived at the Garrison Commander's Office.
• Yang Zhengshan inspected the enormous rear compound, assigned residences to his family and companions, and ordered Song Dashan to guard him and search the grounds.
• Yang Zhengshan learned Zhou Ren had served as clerk for twelve years, suspected he knew about Cao Han's embezzlement, and sent him to tell the waiting officials to return tomorrow.

Yang Zhengshan settled into the rear courtyard of the Anyuan Prefecture City garrison office, where he discovered a vast underground chamber connected to a collapsed tunnel. Suspecting trouble in the city, he learned that martial artists were watching the office and sent Yang Mingcheng and Ding Qiu to investigate key officials.

• Yang Zhengshan admired the courtyard’s fine furniture but told Wu Hai to sell it secretly and replace the bedroom’s bed with a heated kang.
• Song Dashan led Yang Zhengshan to a huge underground chamber hidden beneath the garden, where they found a tunnel that had collapsed inside an unoccupied house.
• Yang Zhengshan warned his family to avoid going out while he tried to understand the dangers surrounding Anyuan Prefecture City.
• Ding Qiu reported that at least a dozen martial artists were watching the garrison office and its rear courtyard.
• Yang Mingcheng gave Yang Zhengshan a booklet of information about local officials and wealthy households, though it revealed no clear irregularities.
• Yang Zhengshan told Yang Mingcheng and Ding Qiu to stay hidden and investigate Qianzong Xu Wanfu, garrison-farm officer Tian Gui, and clerk Zhou Ren.

Yang Zhengshan assessed the officials and resources of the Garrison Commander's Office, deciding to wait for his opponents to act while preparing to take control of the office. He then gave Zhou Ren a booklet containing details about his life and family, leaving Zhou Ren shaken as he read it.

• Yang Zhengshan questioned Xu Wanfu and Tian Gui, learned that the officials and troops were not under his control, and told them to continue as before.
• Yang Zhengshan chose to avoid acting against Xu Wanfu until he understood the situation, then began inspecting the Garrison Commander's Office with Zhou Ren.
• Yang Zhengshan spent six days reviewing the office and found adequate supplies, disorderly accounts, and a dispirited atmosphere.
• Yang Zhengshan handed Zhou Ren a booklet about his past and family, and Zhou Ren grew pale and broke into a cold sweat as he read it.

Yang Zhengshan interrogated Zhou Ren about Anyuan Prefecture City and learned that Cao Han had secretly sent grain outside the city with unknown soldiers, possibly supplying the East Sea Hu Tribe. Zhou Ren’s account deepened Yang Zhengshan’s suspicions about a hidden force, and the chapter left him questioning whether Xu Wanfu knew about it.

• Yang Zhengshan threatened Zhou Ren with his power and persuaded him to reveal everything he knew about Anyuan Prefecture City.
• Zhou Ren said Cao Han had been convicted of embezzling army grain and withholding provisions and pay, but suspected Cao Han had also secretly dealt with the East Sea Hu Tribe.
• Zhou Ren told Yang Zhengshan that Cao Han sent grain outside the city using soldiers Zhou Ren did not recognize.
• Yang Zhengshan suspected that people in Anyuan Prefecture City had been selling supplies to the East Sea Hu Tribe and wondered whether Lü Hua had arranged his transfer to stir up the situation.
• Yang Zhengshan learned that Xu Wanfu had served as Qianzong for ten years and wondered whether he knew about the hidden soldiers and Cao Han’s dealings.

Yang Zhengshan questioned Zhou Ren about the Garrison Commander's Office and concluded that removing Xu Wanfu might let him control its soldiers. The next morning, he received Liang Rong of the Jing'an Liang Family, whose lavish gifts made him suspect the visit was a test of his integrity.

• Yang Zhengshan warned Zhou Ren to keep their conversation secret and sent him away after learning that Zhou knew little about the hidden dealings at the Garrison Commander's Office.
• Yang Zhengshan reached the fifth level of the Postnatal Realm and practiced spear techniques in the courtyard.
• Yang Qingwan asked Yang Zhengshan to take her outside, but a visiting card from Liang Rong interrupted their plans.
• Yang Zhengshan welcomed Liang Rong as an in-law and accepted a gift list that included three shops in Jing'an Prefecture City.
• Yang Zhengshan wondered what the Jing'an Liang Family wanted and whether its lavish gift was testing him as an official.

Yang Zhengshan became suspicious that the Liang Family was trying to recruit him to help move grain, while the family’s associates debated how to test him. That night, an intruder slipped into his room and left a booklet on the tea table as Yang Zhengshan watched from hiding.

• Liang Rong asked Yang Zhengshan to help the Liang Family move grain out of the city, and Yang agreed while concealing his doubts.
• The Man in Green Shirt learned that Yang had accepted the gifts and agreed to help, then decided to wait and see whether Yang made any moves before testing him further.
• Yang Zhengshan tended the medicinal herbs in his expanding Spirit Spring Space and estimated that his first harvest would come at the end of the following year.
• After hearing someone approach across the roof, Yang Zhengshan hid in his room with his Gilded Flying Fish Spear.
• An intruder quietly entered Yang Zhengshan’s outer room and placed a booklet on the tea table while Yang watched from hiding.

Yang Zhengshan intercepted Wei Cen, a Secret Martial Guard centurion, who delivered a booklet detailing officials in Anyuan Prefecture and the crimes of Xu Wanfu. The next morning, Yang took Yang Qingwan, Yang Chengye, and Wang Mingzhe to Fu'an Street, where they entered Fuyun Restaurant.

• Yang Zhengshan caught Wei Cen placing a booklet in his room and learned that Wei was a Secret Martial Guard centurion sent by Eunuch Lu.
• Yang Zhengshan read the booklet, which documented Xu Wanfu’s violent crimes, and concluded that the Secret Martial Guard wanted him to remove Xu Wanfu.
• Yang Zhengshan asked Wei Cen to tell Eunuch Lu that he would serve the Secret Martial Guard but wanted to know what it expected of him.
• Yang Zhengshan took Yang Qingwan, Yang Chengye, and Wang Mingzhe to Fu'an Street after promising Yang Qingwan an outing.
• Yang Zhengshan and the children arrived at Fuyun Restaurant, where Wu Hai asked for a private room facing the street.