The "the ninth guard of Ning" was a military post that he had personally organized and compiled.
Although Zhang Jiuling looked down upon Li Xuan's policies of organizing households and collecting citizens on the grasslands, he was very meticulous in implementing Li Xuan's edicts, not daring to slip up in the slightest.
This was because he feared that Li Xuan would find an excuse to demote him to an even more remote place, such as the constantly battling Xi'an or Yunnan.
Zhang Jiuling knew that Prince Fenyang always had a thick face but a dark heart; on the surface, he appeared righteous and moral, a gentleman, but behind the scenes, he was excessively licentious and cruel.
Would it be a troublesome matter for Prince Fenyang to take the life of a civil official on the battlefield?
Zhang Jiuling, braving the heavy snow, journeyed on horseback for over two hundred miles and finally arrived at the fort of the ninth guard of Ning in the afternoon.
