In the late January of the fifth year of Qiande (967), the dark clouds on the horizon gathered more and more, and it seemed that the sky was about to start snowing.

All the ministers of Jiangning Mansion have arrived, the door of the Guangzheng Hall has been closed, and the charcoal fire has begun to ignite.

Although the Guangzheng Hall was full of many Tang courtiers and burned a lot of charcoal, it made people a little drowsy.

Now the biggest headache is Li Congqing on the dragon seat, but he feels that the dragon chair he is sitting on is like sitting on pins and needles, which keeps making him feel that he is in the Flame Sword Mountain, which makes him feel very sober.

"Some time ago, the Shenwei Water Army Du Yuhou, Hongzhou Jiedu made Zhu Lingyun fight with the forest thieves, but I lost some of the elite of the Shenwei Water Army, and now the forest thieves are leading the army to go against the grain of King Qin." Li Congqinglong's eyes were angry, and he looked at the ministers of the Tang State sitting in the hall, and he said slowly, "I am still young when I ascended the throne, but there are thieves and bandits in Runzhou, east of Jinling, who are demagoguery, and if you want to shake my Tang Dynasty, I will lead my Wang Shi to attack it in one fell swoop, but I don't know which general is willing to fight outside the city?" ”

When Li Congqing asked about the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, everyone sat in their positions, shaking their heads from side to side, in a state of hard contemplation, and because of the warmth and warmth in the hall, some elderly ministers fell into a coma from time to time, and their heads were like chickens pecking rice, and they almost fell asleep when they listened to it.

The state of the courtiers sitting below, Li Congqing had an unobstructed view, and he was very angry when he looked at all this at this moment, but because of the urgent military situation along the Runzhou line, Li Congqing had to make a tireless appearance.

The emperor's shouts were like air, and after a long time no one answered, and the hall fell silent and lifeless.

When Li Congqing saw this, his face was a little unbearable.

"Master Chen, what do you think?" Li Congqing looked at Chen Qiao and said.

"Your Majesty, the minister has no high opinions, and now the minister is old and can't solve problems for the king, and the minister plans to make a virtuous man today." Chen Qiao, who is the head of the military department and the assistant minister of the Guangzheng Yuan, is sitting on the seat in front of the Guangzheng Palace at the moment, but every time Li Congqing asks, he answers the question differently, looking absent-minded, and Chen Qiao has also thought of a way to deal with it in the past few days, since Li Yu is still alive in this world, he will definitely not be loyal to another emperor.

"Your Majesty, please." After Chen Qiao finished speaking, he took off the official hat on his head, bent down and put the jade wat hanging on his waist on the ground again, then straightened up, arched his body towards Li Congqing in the high position, and finally walked out of the Guangzheng Hall slowly, with his back slumped.

Chen Qiao took one step at a time, the sound of landing,

Han Xizai and the others looked sideways at Chen Qiao, feeling a little lonely in their hearts, but Han Xizai didn't have any expression in the end.

What Chen Qiao did in the Guangzheng Hall today stirred the hearts of everyone in the hall.

Chen Qiao opened the door, only to see that as soon as the door opened, a cold wind blew in through the cracks, mixed with scattered small snowflakes, and the snowflakes fluttered in, dancing with Chen Qiao's silver hair.

"It's snowing." Only Chen Qiao heard what was coming out of his mouth.

Chen Qiao left, but the hall was as dead silent.

Li Congqing's face was already black with anger, he watched Chen Qiao walk out of the hall, his eyes widened with all his might, and then he suddenly raised his voice and said, "Quasi, play-"

The rest of the ministers also watched Chen Qiao leave, and now although Li Congqing didn't seem to be angry, they didn't want to touch the new emperor's dragon anger, so they shrank their heads tightly around their necks.

Li Congqing was angry, and suddenly remembered the words of General Wang, and he held back his arrogance.

As the emperor of a country and the newly enthroned emperor, the government is unstable, and now there is no anger and it cannot be casually released, at this critical juncture, stabilizing the situation between the DPRK and China is the most crucial. It's just that at a critical time, Chen Qiao has become like this, Li Congqing is a little angry in his heart, if he waits for the war to end, he swears that anyone who disobeys his orders will destroy the Nine Clans.

"Y-who else?" In the hall where there was an empty position, I remembered a sound, which was sent by Li Congqing on the dragon throne.

None of the other ministers in the Guangzheng Hall answered, they glanced at Li Congqing, and then lowered their heads again.

And the member of the Ministry of Rites, Zhang Xun, he glanced at Li Congqing and sighed, now the situation is indeed not conducive to the imperial court, but I heard that this Li Yu is still alive in the world, Zhang Xun still has some extravagant hopes in his heart, but this Li Congqing is compared with Li Yu, how can I see that this Li Congqing is like a tyrant, and Li Yu is like a benevolent monarch.

Zhang Xun shook his head suddenly, trying to make this thought disappear from his mind, but Chen Qiao's resignation today made him a little stunned. However, as soon as Chen Qiao left, Zhang Xun felt that his opportunity had come. Even if it wasn't Li Yu sitting on the dragon throne, after all, he was the emperor of the Tang Dynasty now.

However, there are basically some ministers in the hall today, but not many people have spoken, Chen Qiao is gone, and Zhang Xun doesn't know what to say.

Last night, on Han Xizai's mansion, a dance banquet was held, Han Xizai stayed awake all night, singing and dancing, in order to dispel Li Congqing's suspicions, Han Xizai discussed in his heart why this Li family is so suspicious of the northern scholars, now the Tang Dynasty is declining, and the northerners come to the south, in trouble, Han Xizai has long been deeply touched by this, and Li Yu was also like this at the beginning.

At this moment, Han Xizai, the secretary of the military department, and the scholar of the Filled Political Palace, sat in his position, and he bowed his head and smiled. As the secretary of the military department, he has the duty to make suggestions on the war, but he doesn't want to serve the Tang State at the moment, but where the duty is, he has to pretend to be something, and then he got up and said: "Your Majesty, now there are guards on the side of the Qinhuai River outside the city, such as Yan Yan, Ma Chengcheng, and Ma Chengjun, who are guarding Jinling, and these three people are quite brave in battle, and they should be able to resist for a while." After Han Xizai finished speaking, he deliberately lowered his head and stopped talking.

"What do you mean?" Li Congqing came with a wave of anger,

Zhang Xun arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, what Han Shangshu said is extremely true, now my court has the largest army, how can I be ashamed of myself because of the defeat of a water battle, the top priority is to gather the army to garrison the Qinhuai River, fortify the wilderness, and stick to the city, so as to drag down the Runzhou army that has been running for a long time, so Your Majesty does not have to worry." ”

"It's okay." Li Congqing listened, and his heart seemed a little more relaxed.

Secretary Lang and Jixian School Manager Diao Yan said: "Your Majesty, at the beginning, the ancestors had a country, and all those who had more than 2,000 people had a pawn and called the righteous army; The one who divides is another pawn, and the army is born; The new property is also out of the army, and the new army is proposed. The customer has three dings, out of a pawn, the number of the mountain army. If Your Majesty is worried about the lack of troops, you may wish to recruit troops and horses. ”

Xu Yuanyu, the edict of the inner temple, agreed with Diao Yin's opinion, and then he said: "If Your Majesty wants to break the thief army, you can behead the rebel party of King Zheng in prison in front of the thief army, so that the thief leader can see the facts clearly with the heart of the world." ”

Xu Yuanyu's words made Li Congqing feel inexplicably relieved, this Zheng King Li Congshan has been locked up in prison, since Lin Renzhao wants to give Li Yu justice, why not let Li Congshan wear this hat.

"Just do it according to what Xu Neizhao said, and as for the troops, it will be done according to what Zhang Wai said."

Han Hee-jae listened to all this quietly, his eyes often smiling.

After the meeting, everything went according to plan.

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Han Xizai greeted the snowflakes and stepped on the road of the palace to come out, and at this moment outside the palace gate, Han Si had been waiting at the door, and his cloak was already covered with snowflakes.

Han Xizai glanced at Han Si and whispered solemnly: "Han Si, go to Qianjin Yixiao Building immediately, and let King Wei and them rescue Li Congshan from Dali Temple tonight no matter what." ”

"Yes, Aaron." After Han Si sent Han Xi to the car, he immediately instigated the carriage and drove the carriage to the Qianjin Yixiao Building in the Qinhuai River.

The wind and snow fell from the sky, the horses' hooves splashed layers of wet dirt, and the wheels of the horses and horses imprinted the traces of the wheels on the ground, and as the horses and horses went away, all this returned to peace.

The cold wind blew, Han Xizai took a sharp breath, he poked his head out of the carriage and horses, looked at everything in Jinling City, shook his head at first, and then nodded.

Half an hour later, the secret report had already been sent to Qianjin Yixiaolou, and Zhao Dezhao also knew Li Congqing's plan.

Standing on the side was Chen Yuan, and at this moment Zhao Dezhao instructed him: "Chen Yuan, send someone to attack Dali Temple at night tonight and rescue Li Congshan and others." ”

"Yes." Chen Yuan got the order and went down immediately.

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Outside the city outside the wind and snow, a river flows to the sea, and this river is the Qinhuai River.

The Qinhuai River, originating from the two rivers of Jurong and Lishui in the upper reaches of the river, eventually converges on the Yangtze River, and in the upper reaches of the Qinhuai River, Jurong and Lishui are also the gateways of Jinling City, Jiangning Prefecture, the two arches guarding the capital.

In Qinhuai River and other places, Li Congqing ordered Jinling's guards Yu Yan, Ma Chengcheng, and Ma Chengjun to guard Jinling, and newly gathered 5,000 troops in the city, and at the same time ordered Jurong and Lishui to strengthen protection in case Lin Renzhao raided these two places.

The guards Yan Yan, Ma Chengcheng, and Ma Chengjun were strictly guarded on the west bank of the Qinhuai River, and the army of 100,000 was already stationed here.

At night, the fire was lit up one after another on the top of the Jinling City Tower and in the distance of the Qinhuai River on the east, south and west sides of Jinling.

The light of the fire was a little far away, and they were stationed there in the Qinhuai River, and through the light of the torches, the Jinling city with candles lit was shining taller and taller.

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(1) Jurong: Jurong has a long history and culture, and there are many places of interest and historic sites. Jurong was placed in the first year of Yuanshuo in the Western Han Dynasty (128 BC), and has a history of more than 2,000 years. Located in southern Jiangsu, it is connected to Zhenjiang in the east and Nanjing in the west, and is the southeast gateway of Nanjing.

(2) Lishui: the birthplace of the Qinhuai River, the birthplace of the Qinhuai River, is the southern gate of Nanjing.