Li Jing couldn't help nodding, it seemed that he was still satisfied with what his son said, and several people led by Feng Yansi also praised Li Congjia's words.

"Then what do you mean, we are not united with Li Chongjin?"

This Li Jing is really a failure to be the emperor, your son can only say that he understands it so clearly, and you still ask if your father Li Yu is still alive, he can really die of anger.

"Yes, father, I don't agree, not only do I disagree, but I also tell the Song Dynasty at this time, in this case, the Song Dynasty will still have a certain good impression of us, and besides, even if Li Chongjin is defeated in the future, there will be nothing to do with us, right?"

Li Congjia was afraid that Li Chongjin would be defeated by the Song Dynasty if he really raised troops in the future, so once the Song Dynasty knew that he had written a letter to the Southern Tang Dynasty asking for help, maybe the Song Dynasty would take the opportunity to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Everyone didn't think of this, and it was really the case when he said this, but in fact, it wasn't that everyone didn't think of this, but they didn't think about this little thing.

Han Xizai wanted to say something, but Li Jing didn't give him a chance: "Okay, just do what King Wu said, you go down first, I'm tired." ”

Half a month later, the envoy of the Southern Tang Dynasty came to Bianjing with Li Chongjin's letter and met with the emperor Zhao Kuangyin, of course, Zhao Kuangyin read the letter from Li Chongjin forwarded by the Southern Tang Dynasty and did not say anything at that time.

"Go back and tell your lord that I am very glad that he can see the situation clearly, and rest assured that I will not blame him, on the contrary, I will be rewarded." The envoy of the Southern Tang Dynasty was very grateful.

"This Li Chongjin is really too bold, and he dares to collude with the Southern Tang Dynasty, the last time the prince said that Li Chongjin plundered the money of merchants and forcibly pulled the people in the city to repair the city, I still don't believe it, now where is the test true, Zhongqing still has suggestions to say."

"The emperor's minister, Zhao Guangyi, implored the imperial court to send a large army to recruit Li Chongjin."

"Chenshi is trustworthy and hopes to lead the army to the battle."

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For a time, the military generals in the court were one-sided and supported the imperial court to immediately recruit Li Chongjin, and even the civil official Fan Zhen and others agreed, only the crown prince Zhao Xu did not say a word.

Zhao Kuangyin's eyes glanced at him: "What do you think, prince?" ”

"Father and son think that this Li Chongjin must be defeated, but now we can't directly send troops."

After Zhao Xu calmly finished saying this, there was already a burst of restlessness below, Zhao Kuangyin didn't know what medicine was sold in his son's gourd, he looked at Zhao Pu with his eyes, and this guy quickly understood the master's mind.

"Dare to ask His Royal Highness the Prince, why can't we send troops directly now, Li Chongjin's reverses have already appeared, why can't we send troops yet?" Others also have the same questions as Zhao Pu

"Presumably your lordship and Lord Zhao have the same question, then Lone will tell you the reason now, the purpose of our great world is to live and work in peace and contentment in the world, and now there are tens of thousands of my people in Yangzhou City, we can easily take Yangzhou City, but I believe that Li Chongjin will definitely use the people in the city as a shield."

"At that time, although we can take Yangzhou City in one fell swoop, but we will pay a lot of price, and more importantly, we may lose a large number of people because of this, we can't do such a thing."

"I am right to the prince, the purpose of my establishment of the Great Song Dynasty is to end the war and let the people live a good life, so we can't only take care of our own interests to the detriment of the interests of the people."

Zhao Kuangyin said firmly, as soon as he finished speaking, the ministers below shouted that the emperor was shengming, but what Lao Zhao said was really the truth.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, do you have any suggestions?" Fan Zhen is a little old now, and he has lost a few teeth, and his speech is a little leaky.

"Fan Xiang, I don't have any good way, but I think Yangzhou is not his lair Li Chongjin, then we will let him leave where and go somewhere else to serve as an envoy."

The Great Song Dynasty has implemented the system of rotation of the festival degree, that is, the festival degree envoy shall not serve in a place for a certain period of time, and the rotation must be made when it expires, that is, the place of defense with other festival degree envoys.

Originally, this system should have been implemented in Henan, but most of the people who hold military power now are Zhao Kuangyin's brothers, so it was quickly implemented.

"What the prince said is good, but this is not enough, we can also secretly persuade the families of those soldiers, they are not all local people in Yangzhou, so that the army's heart will be shaken, even if Li Chongjin wants to threaten the people in the city, there is no way."

Although Fan Zhen is a civil official, he is also very proficient in the tactics used to fight, and it can be accepted that he is used to this kind of conspiracy.

In short, although he did not send troops to the court, he also formulated some strategies against Li Chongjin, and Zhao Kuangyin handed over the affairs of Yangzhou to the crown prince Zhao Xu to deal with.

The news that the imperial court ordered Li Chongjin to change his guard to Zhenqingzhou to serve as an envoy has reached Yangzhou. Everyone watched Li Chongjin's choice.

Especially those festival envoys who have already suffered losses in this regard, are waiting to see Li Chongjin's jokes, and the court of the Great Song Dynasty has always treated Li Chongjin with courtesy.

If Li Chongjin agrees to this appointment, it means that he has completely surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty, and the Huainan Jiedu envoy and Qingzhou are simply one heaven and one underground. If you don't accept it, it's even worse. If you don't accept it, it's a rebellion.

No one wants to leave their own nest once they leave their base, what awaits them is destruction, even if they don't clean you up now, in fact, letting you leave your nest is already a signal.

Li Chongjin is really a little uneasy now, he doesn't care about the orders of the imperial court, because he is already preparing to rebel, and the uneasiness is still because of the lack of food.

Recently, according to Zhang Chongyi's suggestion, he forcibly borrowed some merchants' money and bought some grain and grass, but the quantity was limited, and it could not even meet the needs of the army for a month, and the grain and grass of the imperial court would not arrive until next month.

At this time, some of his men reported that some soldiers had left the barracks without permission and had never returned, and at first they thought it was an accident, but by the afternoon hundreds of them were no longer in the barracks, and even their families were no longer here.

It will also be attributed to Fan Qian's strategy, although the army in Yangzhou belongs to the Huainan Army, they have a record in the military department.

Zhao Xu quickly called up the files of these soldiers, and even their families were clearly recorded, and now Zi Fengying and Jinyiwei had a place to use, and went deep into Yangzhou City to persuade their families.

In this way, many soldiers moved away overnight, although the military regulations are very strict, but the nickname is more important, and some soldiers also saw that Li Chongjin was not the opponent of the imperial court at all, and following him was to find death.

Hundreds of people disappeared in one day, no one was alive, no one died, no corpse was seen, there were not many people in Yangzhou City, at this rate, Yangzhou would have no soldiers to defend in a few days.

Li Chongjin, who pondered for a while, announced that from now on, Yangzhou City would be under martial law, and everyone who entered and left the city would be strictly inspected, and they would not be allowed to leave the city without permission.

Now Yangzhou's supervisor is An Yougui, and he used to be an official such as a deputy festival envoy, but unfortunately he was wrong when he was established in the Later Zhou Dynasty, and first blocked a supervisor in Yangzhou.

Although it is very different from his previous official position, the court trusts him very much, so he is still loyal to his duties. Although it is not a great achievement, it is not a great fault.

Hearing that Li Chongjin is now strictly inspecting the people passing by the city gate, he can't sit still, this Yangzhou is a big city that pays taxes, and now it is strictly checking the people who come and go, how much effort will be delayed, he immediately prepared to see Li Chongjin, and wanted to ask the reason.

Originally, this matter was not under his control, this was the responsibility of the Yangzhou prefect, but I heard that the army was also involved, so there was his business.

But An Yougui didn't expect that he was locked up by Li Chongjin before he saw Li Chongjin say a word, the reason was very simple, someone accused An Yougui. Said he instructed the soldiers to flee.

It turned out that when martial law was imposed in Yangzhou, there were still many soldiers who wanted to go out of the city and were caught.

So he tortured the soldiers he caught, and some of them were even beaten to death, and each soldier was covered in bruises. That's not all, Li Chongjin is still clever enough to let them recruit their accomplices who want to escape.

In Li Chongjin's cognition, these people can't just be these and there must be other people, so let them confess to each other the companions they want to escape, and whoever says it will be released.

But it's true that there are no accomplices, this is determined by themselves when they hear the rumors, where do they know who else, but if they can't say it, they will be severely punished every day.

How could they have been able to be influenced by some people who began to tell lies against their will, confessed some of his comrades-in-arms, and some of them told their superiors who had conflicts with him, and some of them said that the prison army was safe and well-behaved.

Li Chongjin also jumped when he got the list of confessions, there are many high-ranking officers here, fortunately he found it early, and he is still secretly rejoicing.

Faced with such a crisis, Li Chongjin had to adopt a high-pressure terrorist policy in order to maintain his rule! Immediately ordered to kill and catch the people above.

Li Chongjin and even dozens of generals who had a bad relationship with him and did not listen to him much in ordinary times were all imprisoned and beheaded indiscriminately.

When An Yougui walked into the prison and saw Chen Siyu and Zhai Shouxun, he knew that Li Chongjin was going to rebel, because one of them was a messenger of the imperial court and the other was Li Chongjin's strategist, plus he, the supervisor of the imperial court, was all imprisoned by Li Chongjin.

You locked up the officials of the court silently, and there was also a messenger who passed the decree, you are not clearly going to rebel, these three people have gathered together, they are really difficult brothers.

When I got together, I couldn't help but talk about the current situation outside, when I heard that Li Chongjin was carrying out a big purge, they all secretly scolded Li Chongjin for being stupid, so who would give you your life? .

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