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The Martyrdom of Yan Zhenqing At the onset of Li Xilie’s rebellion, Prime Minister Lu Qi, harboring a deep personal grudge against the venerable Yan Zhenqing, maliciously recommended the seventy-year-old statesman as an envoy to persuade the rebel to surrender. Yan Zhenqing, a hero of the An-Shi Rebellion and a model of integrity whose…