After Chen Qiao left, Li Congqing angrily threw a pot of tea, this was the first time he was angry in front of the minister because of a disagreement, for Li Congqing, Chen Qiao was challenging his authority, but tomorrow he had to prepare for the funeral of the lord Li Yu, at this juncture, everything had to be done without leakage, and he didn't want to mess up because of this place.

Next, Li Congqing ordered the two provinces to serve the Lang, the counselor, the matter, the Zhongshu Sheren, the Jixian, and the scholar of the Qinzheng Palace to stay in the Guangzheng Palace, and talk with them until the end of the night, when talking about the matter of Runzhou, and the response of the Song army's naval army on the north bank of the Yangtze River, Li Congqing suggested that the water army and the Jinling horse infantry should be mobilized unchanged.

Han Xizai was also among them, he wrinkled his face, raised his head to look at the people in the hall, and then got up and proposed to the ministers of the Guangzheng Palace: "Tomorrow is the day of the funeral of the lord of the country, then the new monarch will be enthroned, and the lower officials think that the country cannot be without this monarch for a day, and now the commander-in-chief of the Tang Dynasty military and political affairs, the throne cannot be vacant for a day, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble, please take the state affairs as the priority, and recommend the new monarch to take the throne immediately." ”

"Yes, the prison country is benevolent and filial, after the death of the original lord, it was time to discuss the new monarch's accession to the throne, but it was only because of the eunuch's concession that it delayed for a long time." Those ministers didn't know Li Congqing's temperament, and they only saw the surface of things, and they didn't see as much as Chen Qiao and Han Xizai.

A smile quickly flashed at the corner of Han Xizai's mouth, and he disappeared, the sooner Li Congqing ascended to the throne, then Lin Renzhao of Runzhou would not let go of this opportunity, as long as Li Congqing announced his accession to the throne, then those officials and people who opposed Li Congqing's accession to the throne would attack him en masse, and then the world would be even more lively.

Han Xizai suddenly knelt on the ground, knelt down and said, "The ministers support the eunuch to ascend the throne." ”

The rest of the ministers also saw that Han Xizai let Li Congqing ascend the throne, and they did not intend to fall behind, which was not an ordinary position for the ministers of Conglong.

At this moment, in the Guangzheng Palace, with Han Xizai kneeling down, then Pan You, Gong Shenyi and other ministers also knelt down, and shouted in unison: "Please supervise the country after the funeral of the lord of the country, for the sake of my Tang Dynasty, or take the throne." ”

In the Guangzheng Palace, there was a sound of kneeling and kowtowing.

"Rise up." Li Congqing really wanted to laugh in front of him, only to see him pretend to be a prevarication, according to the time when Yao Chan let Shun, all emperors should not accept the three resignations before ascending the throne, and have to accept the routine, otherwise it is a manifestation of lack of morality, he said slowly, "This is not good, this king is ashamed, let's stop in advance, this king now has a thing lingering in his heart, I don't know how you can deal with it?" ”

"The prison country should accept it." Han Xizai raised his head and said, "I don't know what worries the prison country has in mind, and the ministers in the Guangzheng Palace can also solve the worries of the prison country today." ”

"Since these days, the envoys of the Song State have been asking about the whereabouts of the king of Wei, but the king has not found it, but the Song State does not know why, and actually trains the battleship sailor near the quarry every day, it seems that if the King of Wei does not find it again, this Song State is afraid that he will ask my Tang Xingshi about it." Li Congqing also had no way to deal with this matter, but when he mentioned it, it was not just for the sake of King Wei, but it was a very important matter to mobilize the Hukou army, and it was also necessary to discuss with these ministers, and Li Congqing did not want to lose the support of these ministers.

Pan You, a member of the Yu Department and a member of the Inner Shi She, suddenly sighed and said: "The matter of King Wei, it has been so long, the forbidden army and the state and county have not been found, it is indeed difficult to find, I am afraid that something has happened at this moment, right?" ”

Gong Shenyi stood up in the matter, and he said: "Pan Neishi, what you are saying is depressing, it's okay to talk about these things, if the Song people listen to it, you will be blamed, and this kind of talk can't be spread." ”

Pan You blamed himself again and again: "It's a mistake by the lower officials, but the matter of King Wei has now become a barrier between my Tang Dynasty and the Song Kingdom, and now I have to let the states and counties step up their search, and report it to Zhongshu Province as soon as there is news." ”

"Okay, this king also understands your thoughts, but I'm afraid that the Song Kingdom will suddenly have branches, can there be a good way to deal with it?"

Han Xizai arched his hand and said: "What the Song State is most afraid of is my Tang Dynasty Naval Army, and now my Hukou Naval Army is a strong army that guards the Tang Dynasty, and because of such a naval army, the Song Kingdom will be wary of my Tang Dynasty, if it weren't for the Yangtze River moat, the temper of Zhao Kuangyin, the honor guard, this Great Song Army would have gone south." ”

"Han Shangshu's analysis is good, since the Hukou Naval Division is the elite of my Tang Dynasty Naval Division, this king plans to mobilize a part of the naval army to the vicinity of Quarry, Jinling, and Runzhou, and step up the inspection of the northern and eastern river waters, so as to show the Great Song Dynasty the power of my Tang Naval Army." Li Congqing said in the end, he was already full of confidence, and at this moment he looked at all the officials in the Guangzheng Palace.

Han Xizai understood what Li Congqing was thinking, the naval army he planned to mobilize was not only for the Song Kingdom, but more importantly, for Lin Renzhao of Runzhou, if he hadn't known the situation in Runzhou from Zhao Dezhao in advance, he really thought it was for the sake of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Congqing struggled to get an answer from the ministers, because the mobilization of the Hukou sailors was too important, and Li Congqing felt that this matter would be a little tricky.

At this moment, Han Xizai said: "Prison country, if you want to mobilize the Hukou water army, this matter is just a patrol appearance, remember not to conflict with the Song people, otherwise I'm afraid Datang will suffer a lot." ”

Li Congqing nodded and said: "What Shangshu said about this king has also taken it into account, now that my Tang Dynasty's national strength is declining, the mobilization of the naval army is just to prevent possible variables, I don't know what Zhu Qing thinks?" ”

Pan You only has opinions on political affairs, and knows nothing about military affairs, and the others are just in deep thought.

"This matter is very important, so it's better to ask Mr. Chen." A minister said.

"It is expected that Master Chen will also adhere to the suggestion of mobilizing a naval army, although Jinling has not been harmed now, it is still necessary to take precautions."

"The minister agrees with the transfer of troops."

"The minister seconded the proposal."

“……”

Li Congqing looked at the ministers and was very proud.

"Since you all think so, then this king will quickly ask the Privy Council to order the mobilization of troops and deploy defenses near Jinling."

Today, in the Guangzheng Yuan, the matter of ascending the throne was discussed, and the safety of Jinling was the most important, so that the naval army and the Shenwei army of Hukou were all waiting for Zhu Lingzan to enter Jinling and the Shangjiang soldiers to aid Jinling, and set up defenses between Jinling and Runzhou to prepare for the battle from time to time. Li Congqing finally got his wish and achieved his plan.

On the second day, it was time for the lord of the country to go out of the Zigong to go to the Zhongshan Emperor Mausoleum for burial, on the day of the spirit, Li Congqing and the rest of the Li royal family and others, wearing filial piety clothes, wept bitterly in front of the coffin, the Jinling ministers of the Tang State and the officials such as the envoys of various festivals were also mourning in the mourning hall, and the monks who had attained the Tao near Jinling were also chanting and mourning.

When the hour came, the coffin was carried out of the palace by seventy-two people, and the banner people walked in the front with the umbrella of the people's flag, and the back was the honor guard of Lubo, which was mighty and very majestic. The bearer of the coffin, dressed in filial piety clothes, had 128 people in each shift, and they were carried in three shifts in turn. Finally, there is a team of civil and military officials, relatives of the emperor and relatives, and the carriages and horses are continuous.

In the funeral procession, there are also a large number of monks, Taoist priests, nuns, Taoist aunts, constantly blowing, chanting, the whole team is very lively, the people on the side kneel to watch the ceremony, the scene is very solemn, solemn.

From the imperial city to Zhongshan, the whole funeral procession is more than ten miles long, after the funeral procession goes out of the city, at every other distance, a reed hall is set up for the rest of the spirit and the funeral procession. This kind of reed hall is also a jade rank golden tile, Zhu Bi is intertwined, very gorgeous.

Li Congqing embarked on this road again, this time he was more prepared, and he had already let the soldiers of the forbidden army begin to explore the road and remove obstacles on the road, but this time there was no accident, on this day, Zigong was successfully buried, and there was no moth at all.

In the vicinity of Jinling City, in Qinhuai River and other places, Li Congqing ordered Jinling guards Yu Yan, Ma Chengxin, and Ma Chengjun to guard Jinling.

……

The Tang Privy Council had already sent a fast horse from the post station on the way to the Hukou Sailor.

When the fast horse passed near the quarry, I saw that the quarrying river was surrounded by hundreds of warships of all sizes, coming and going on the river, but there was no action, these were the sailors of the Great Song Dynasty, just because of the fog, they all docked on the north coast of the Jiangbei, and there was no action, just as soon as the dense fog dispersed, the sailors of the Great Song Dynasty would sail away from the original national boundary and move closer to the south bank intentionally or unintentionally.

Since the disappearance of Zhao Dezhao, the king of Wei, Zhao Kuangyin has used this excuse to train the water on the north side of the quarrying river, on the one hand, to train the water army, and on the other hand, to explore the river conditions near the quarry, cover Fan Ruoshui and others, and prepare for the battle of Tang in the coming year.

Above the vast river, there has been fog, so that people can't see the direction clearly, at this moment in the river, Fan Ruoshui is driving a boat, but there is a compass on the boat, this compass is much better than those Sinan, for this small compass, it also helped Fan Ruoshui a lot.

Fan Ruoshui drove a boat to measure the depth of the water in the river, etc., he measured without distraction, under the cover of the Great Song Dynasty Water Army, and with the help of the officials of the Ministry of Water, these data were recorded on paper one by one, and because of the advanced measurement tools, the data are more and more accurate, these data are all treasures, it took Fan Ruoshui and those officials of the Ministry of Water a lot of effort and time, and these data are more detailed and accurate than the history, with the official support of the Great Song Dynasty, it is to speed up the measurement, It also laid the groundwork for the Great War.

At this moment, on the land, these fast horses who came and went to the Datang Post Station could not see the situation of the river clearly, and they were still galloping on the land, and their goal was to quickly transmit the report of the Imperial Court Privy Council to the mouth of the lake.