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Li Yan was an official and Envoy.
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 64Volume 64: Hereditary House of Later Shu · 8 passages
彥賓已罷，重誨復以客省使李嚴為監軍。
Yanbin had already been removed, yet Chonghui appointed Guest Reception Commissioner Li Yan as army supervisor once more.
嚴前使蜀，既歸而獻策伐蜀，蜀人皆惡之，而知祥亦怒曰：「焦彥賓以例罷，而諸道皆廢監軍，獨吾軍置之，是嚴欲以蜀再為功也。」
Yan had earlier been sent to Shu and, on returning, proposed a plan to conquer it, so the people of Shu detested him. Zhixiang too said in anger: "Jiao Yanbin was dismissed by precedent and every circuit abolished its supervisor—yet mine alone gets one. Yan means to win fresh glory by attacking Shu again."
掌書記母昭裔及諸將吏皆請止嚴而無內，知祥曰：「吾將有以待其來！」
Recorder Mu Zhaoyi and the other officers all urged that Yan be stopped at the border. Zhixiang said: "I have my own way of dealing with him when he arrives!"
嚴至境上，遣人持書候知祥，知祥盛兵見之，冀嚴懼而不來，嚴聞之自若。
When Yan reached the frontier he sent ahead a letter of greeting. Zhixiang paraded his troops in force, hoping Yan would be frightened off—but Yan, hearing of it, remained unmoved.
天成二年正月，嚴至成都，知祥置酒召嚴。
In the first month of the second year of Tiancheng, Yan arrived in Chengdu, and Zhixiang held a banquet and summoned him.
是時，焦彥賓雖罷，猶在蜀，嚴於懷中出詔示知祥以誅彥賓，知祥不聽，因責嚴曰：「今諸方鎮已罷監軍，公何得來此？」
Jiao Yanbin, though dismissed, was still in Shu. Yan produced from his robe an edict ordering Yanbin's execution. Zhixiang refused to comply and rebuked him: "Every defense command has abolished its supervisor—what right have you to come here?"
目客將王彥銖執嚴下，斬之。
He signaled his guest officer Wang Yanzhen to seize Yan, drag him down, and behead him.
初，知祥鎮蜀，遣人迎其家屬於太原，行至鳳翔，鳳翔節度使李從嚴聞知祥殺李嚴，以為知祥反矣，遂留之。
When Zhixiang first took command in Shu he had sent for his family in Taiyuan. At Fengxiang, military commissioner Li Congyan, hearing that Zhixiang had killed Li Yan, assumed he had rebelled and detained them.