Looking at Yun Ye's anxiously leaving back, Lin Zhongtian couldn't help but smile faintly.

Indeed, in this era, obtaining the imperial seal before the current emperor would be a capital offense.

Unless the person who got the imperial seal was a household slave like Hong Cheng who was deeply trusted by the emperor, or someone like Yun Ye who had no possibility of rebellion.

However, Lin Zhongtian is not an ordinary person after all. He is the master of the void and the Great Emperor of Zhongtian Ziwei.

His status is so high that it is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Only when the imperial seal passes through his hands can it be truly said to be appointed by Heaven and to have a long and prosperous life.

Lin Zhongtian got the imperial seal not only on a whim but also as a test for Li Er.

If Li Er can survive, then everything will be fine. At least during his tenure, the fortunes of the Tang Dynasty will only prosper.

But if Li Er is still resentful and wants to get rid of him as soon as possible, it means that he is not worthy of taking over the imperial seal from Lin Zhongtian, and the fortunes of the Tang Dynasty will decline as a result.

By then, Lin Zhongtian would add fuel to the fire and allow the Yun family to take over, or simply ignite the spark and raise the red flag.

Anyway, the Alliance has already done things like this countless times in all the worlds, so it is no exaggeration to say that they are familiar with it.

Not long after, Hong Cheng came over with hundreds of soldiers full of murderous intent.

He ordered the numerous well-armed soldiers to surround the tent, and then he entered the tent with Yun Ye.

As soon as he entered the tent, Hong Cheng's attention was completely attracted by the open wooden box on the table.

He swallowed, reached into his arms with his trembling right hand, and pulled out a piece of old paper.

Lin Zhongtian took a glance and found that there was a seal on the paper, which should be the pattern of the imperial seal kept in the palace.

Hong Cheng walked forward, spread the paper on the table, respectfully held up the jade seal with both hands, aimed it at the mark, and slowly pressed it down.

Fits perfectly!

Only then did Hong Cheng finally breathe a sigh of relief, wipe the sweat from his forehead, put the jade seal back into the wooden box, turned around, looked at Yun Ye and Lin Zhongtian in the tent, and said solemnly: "Forget it."

Yun Ye smiled and said, "Old Hong, I don't understand what you are saying."

Hong Cheng smiled, then took out a piece of silk, wrapped the wooden box layer by layer, and tied it around his body. It seemed that he had no intention of letting the imperial seal leave his body for even a moment.

After doing all this, Hong Cheng turned around without hesitation and walked out of the tent.

Yun Ye looked at his back and said quickly, "My senior brother's matter..."

Hong Cheng said without turning his head: "Even if Yun Hou didn't say it, Brother Lin will follow me back to Chang'an."

"In consideration of your contributions to the Hundred Cavalry Division, I can say a few good words for Brother Lin in front of His Majesty, but I will never hide the truth from His Majesty. I hope Lord Yun will forgive me."

Before Yun Ye could speak, Lin Zhongtian nodded and said with a smile: "That's enough."

After Hong Cheng led hundreds of soldiers to leave in a hurry, Yun Ye slapped his head and said in annoyance: "It was too careless. It's all my fault for getting carried away. If I had known earlier, I should have put the imperial seal back and let Hong Cheng get it from Kang Sumi."

"This way, we brothers won't have to bear the bad luck of this jade seal..."

Lin Zhongtian glanced at him and said, "Why didn't you tell me earlier if you had this idea?"

Yun Ye said unhappily, "It's all because of you. You suddenly took out something like this and scared me so much that I didn't even think about it."

Lin Zhongtian smiled and said, "It's okay, it's just that Li Er will remember it. With his tolerance, I don't think he will care about it. If he really cares about it, I can just sneak into the palace at night and talk to him!"

Yun Ye was shocked and said quickly: "Don't, don't do that!"

Lin Zhongtian laughed: "It's just a joke, don't be nervous."

As he said this, he turned his head and looked outside the tent, thinking that Li Er had passed this level, and the remaining tests would depend on Li Er's own luck.

…

…

Another day, it snowed in the middle of the night, and the auxiliary soldiers in the camp were clearing the snow everywhere.

Suddenly, at the end of the snow outside the camp, red feathers appeared in the distance.

Immediately afterwards, a Hongling messenger, fully armored, came stumbling back on his horse.

Before he even reached the camp gate, he opened his hoarse throat and shouted excitedly: "Great victory, great victory!"

"Our army has beheaded 30,000 people and captured 100,000. Jie Li is on the run!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire military camp exploded like an ant nest doused with boiling water.

The officials in the camp quickly welcomed the messenger in, took off the cowhide letter box from the exhausted soldier, checked that the wax seal was intact, and then handed the cowhide letter box to the messenger who was ready to go.

Six messengers led twelve horses, galloping towards Chang'an without stopping, amidst a cloud of dust.

At the same time, Hongcheng and the 1,000 elite cavalrymen of the Hundred Cavalry Division were already ready and ready to go. Lin Zhongtian took the family letter and the jade pendant for identity verification from Yun Ye, gave Yun Ye a reassuring look, and then rushed to Chang'an with the 1,000 elite cavalrymen led by Hongcheng.

Before leaving, Lin Zhongtian gave Yun Ye two more boxes of bullets for self-protection.

On the way back, Lin Zhongtian wandered away from the Hundred Cavalry Division. Although the warhorse belonged to the Hundred Cavalry Division, when it was next to him, it was as if it had eaten some kind of tonic pill. Both its leg strength and physical strength increased dramatically.

If the style of the messenger and the Hundred Cavalry Division is to gallop and be extremely urgent.

As for Lin Zhongtian, the highlight is traveling around the mountains and rivers and strolling leisurely in the garden.

Hong Cheng and the Hundred Cavalry Division saw this situation, but no one dared to say a word against it.

They were all soldiers on horseback, and they were impressed by Lin Zhongtian's horse-riding skills.

If the situation wasn't urgent, Lian Hongcheng would have wanted to ask Lin Zhongtian for advice on horse riding.

In this way, the group rode at full speed, almost without touching the ground, and rushed to Chang'an at the fastest speed of that era.

…

The noise caused by a thousand cavalrymen galloping at full speed was naturally extremely shocking.

Therefore, before the cavalry approached Chang'an, the city had already been alarmed.

The guard level in the palace was immediately raised by two levels. The guards in Chang'an City also received a warning, and the number of soldiers on the city walls doubled.

However, even though the top of the city was filled with densely packed soldiers, the front cavalry did not slow down, and the dust raised on the horizon could already be clearly seen from the top of Chang'an City.

This is something Chang'an City cannot tolerate.

Then, a horn sounded over Chang'an, and the soldiers in the camp poured out in an orderly manner like ants leaving their nest.

Yuchi Gong, fully armed and holding a lance, came to the top of the city wall and looked ahead with murderous intent, wanting to know who was so bold as to gallop on horseback outside the city of Chang'an.

At this moment, he saw the bright red helmet feathers in front of the cavalry, which was the leading Hongling envoy.

Yuchi Gong was slightly startled, then he reacted immediately and ordered the city gate to be opened. He led thousands of cavalrymen who had rushed over to stand in front of the city gate, waiting for the arrival of Hongling's envoy.

Just a thousand cavalrymen, even if it was a trick, he was confident that he could kill them all with the city gates wide open.

Fortunately, the worst situation did not happen. Before the Hongling envoy got close, he shouted at the top of his voice: "Great victory, great victory, great victory in Yinshan, our army won a great victory, 20,000 Turks were killed in battle, and countless were captured!"

After saying this, Hong Ling ignored Yuchi Gong and rode past him.

Upon hearing the news of the great victory at Yinshan, Yuchi Gong smiled, not caring at all about Hong Ling's rudeness.

However, the more than a thousand cavalrymen who followed made him a little unhappy.

It would be fine if Hong Ling was an urgent envoy, but these guys don't need to give face to anyone unless the emperor himself comes.

But these cavalrymen behind were obviously from the Hundred Cavalry Division. Even though Hongling's urgent envoy had already arrived in Chang'an City, they still dared to ride their horses straight to the city gate, which made Yuchi Gong extremely unhappy.

Just when Yuchi Gong was wondering whether to stop the thousand-plus cavalrymen, he suddenly saw Hongcheng in the front.

As Li Er's stable boy, Hong Cheng could be considered a household slave of the emperor himself, so his loyalty to the emperor was naturally beyond doubt.

Even he did not stop attacking the city gate, which meant that this team of the Hundred Cavalry Division, in addition to the news of the great victory in Yinshan, had other extremely urgent matters to attend to.

Thinking of this, Yuchi Gong waved his hand, and the cavalry behind him immediately retreated along the city wall like a tide, clearing the way.

However, Yuchi Gong himself remained at the door, standing proudly on his horse, without taking a single step back.

Countless cavalrymen galloped past him, but Yuchi Gong remained calm. This was his duty as the gatekeeper general. No matter what the situation was, he had to live and die with the city gate.

"Make way, thank you!"

Perhaps seeing Yuchi Gong standing in the center, some people were worried that he would be crushed into meat paste by the cavalry. A polite voice suddenly came from the side, followed by a slender and powerful arm.

Yuchi Gong was stunned for a moment, then saw the hand grabbing his saddle and lightly throwing it to the side.

"Shhhhhhhh——"

The black horse neighed in panic.

Yuchi Gong opened his eyes wide, and before he could react, he found in confusion that both he and his horse were flying high into the air, leaping over the heads of many cavalrymen and landing on the ground ten steps away.

“Tatta——”

After the black horse landed, it staggered a few steps and then steadied itself.

Yuchi Gong held the spear in one hand and calmed the black horse. Then he widened his eyes and looked in doubt at the torrent of cavalry rushing past him amid the thunderous cheers from Chang'an City.

“…Who is it?!”