When Zhao Dezhao and others were about to leave Jiangling Mansion, the emperor ordered the post soldiers to escort all the way to the south and summoned the edict to Jiangling, Zhao Dezhao did not expect that the plan could not catch up with the changes, he planned to return to Beijing at the right time, he never thought that Zhao Kuangyin asked him to lead the envoys to the (southern) Tang, in the name of the emperor to comfort the Tang lord Li Yu, this time he was going to return east with the mission to Jinling City.

Today's lake only needs a tiny stone to throw down to stir up a wave, and the direction of the rolling wheel of history will be off. In history, Zhao Dezhao did not remember this trip, perhaps he changed history to a certain extent, but Zhao Dezhao was not afraid to retreat. As the saying goes: who can ignore a subtle change, and who can conclude that the trend of history will not change? As long as you grasp the long game yourself, everything is so much easier.

Since he was going to send an envoy to the (southern) Tang Dynasty, Zhao Dezhao could meet some of the situation in Jiangnan this time and explore the reality of Jinling, and at the same time, he could also meet Li Yu, Fan Ruoshui, Lin Renzhao and others in Jinling City.

…… Early in the morning of 21 August, Zhao Dezhao, Dong Zhongyan and their entourage packed up and planned to leave Jiangling Mansion today and take a big boat down the river.

When I arrived at the wharf on the bank of the river in Gangneung Province, a thin thick fog shrouded the surface of the river, and the direction of the entire river was no longer visible, and the thick fog gradually dispersed as the sun rose. After a while, when the fog had cleared, the whole river could be seen clearly.

The water was turbulent, afraid of hitting the river bank and the boats, stirring up layers of white waves, and the big boats also swayed little by little.

And to the east of the east side of Jiangling is Yunmengze, in the Tang and Song dynasties, Yunmengze has disintegrated into a group of small lakes dotted around, so far it is rare to see the kind of "steam Yunmengze" magnificent situation.

Zhao Dezhao and others boarded the big ship, and the boatmen were pulling up pieces of sails along the mast, and the wind had already puffed up the sails. With the sound of the boatman's horn, the big ship started at this time, Zhao Dezhao saw that the officials on the shore were still standing there, and the city of Jiangling Mansion in the distance was also shrinking little by little, and the boat was running downstream along the river smoothly.

A day and a half later, the ship had arrived in Ezhou [Zhijiangxia, Wuchang, Hubei]. After Ezhou, it has actually entered the territory of the (southern) Tang Dynasty, but it is only a distance away from Jinling City, Jiangning Prefecture, which is quite far away.

The big boat went down the river, the speed was extremely fast, and a day later it arrived at the mouth of the lake, that is, near the Jiujiang River in later generations, and now Jiujiang is called Jiangzhou, and it is also the main place where the Tang State Naval Division is stationed, and the Fenghua Army was set up here in Jiangzhou in the third year of Tang Shengyuan (939).

The water is choppy, the scenery on both sides of the strait quickly passes through Zhao Dezhao's eyes, and in the distance, there are a large number of (southern) Tang naval troops stationed near the mouth of the lake.

Strategically speaking, the mouth of the lake is a water barrier in the upper reaches of Jinling City, and it is also a pass to hold the western defense line, which cannot be lost. Only by stationing here can the Tang navy hold the southward movement of the northern navy and ensure the safety of Jinling City.

In the past, during the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan of Jiangdong Wu State built the capital in Jianye City [Jinling], and the metropolitan governor Zhou Yu was stationed in Chaisang [Hukou] to guard the safety of Jinling, the guardian here. In the future, if the Great Song Dynasty conquered the (Southern) Tang Dynasty, the Hukou Naval Division would inevitably become a strong enemy of the Great Song Dynasty Naval Division.

When Zhao Dezhao, a Song ship from Jiangling Mansion, sailed over, the camp of the (southern) Tang naval army did not see it, but the warship appeared, and the (southern) Tang side had also sent a warship to monitor, and they were routinely patrolling the river.

At this time, Zhu Lingyun's ship had already arrived from afar, and when he saw a big flag with the word "Song" erected on the bow of the other party's ship, he quickly put the bow of the ship on the big ship of the Song envoys.

Zhao Dezhao saw that the two ships were about to collide, so he immediately ordered someone to shout at the bow of the ship: "I am an envoy of the Song State, and this eastward trip is to show my Great Song Emperor Tianwei, to visit Jiangnan and other places, and I don't want to trespass." ”

Zhu Lingyun, the Marquis of the Divine Guard, immediately said: "The last general is Zhu Lingyun, the Marquis of the Tang Divine Guard, who is the other party of the Song Dynasty, please report yourself!" ”

"This is my Great Song and Wei King ship!"

Since the First World War of Jianghuai, the two kingdoms of Zhou and Tang have been bounded by the Great River, with the north belonging to the Zhou State and the south belonging to the Tang State. Now it is already the case in the Song Kingdom, but when Zhao Dezhao traveled eastward by boat, he drove along the north shore all the way, but he did not invade the other party's territory, and the ships coming from the Tang Kingdom were only monitored from a distance, and it was not routine to come over now.

Zhu Lingyun, the Marquis of the Divine Guard, is very familiar with Zhao Dezhao, Zhu Lingyun is eagle-eyed, agile and good at shooting, and is known as "Zhu Shenyan" in the army, and Zhu Lingyun finally died when the Song army attacked Jinling City, so Zhao Dezhao did not take such a historical figure to heart.

Zhu Lingyun was just a routine, and then Zhao Dezhao's boat continued to sail in the river...... At this moment, there is a strong wind blowing on the river, the wind and waves are strong, the river is turbulent, the boat is slightly swaying, and after passing the lake, the river is stable, the river surface is open and horizontal, and the scenery on both sides of the north and south of the river is suddenly displayed in front of everyone.

More than a few days, the boat has successfully arrived in Anqing, Chizhou, Wuhu, to the vicinity of Dangtu, soon after this day is exactly noon, Zhao Dezhao deliberately stood at the bow of the boat, looking at a small stone mountain by the river silently.

The small stone mountain in the distance is Cuiluo Mountain, it is 30 zhang high, probing into the big river on the west side, and the crescent-shaped Suoxi River surrounds the east side of the mountain.

According to the shipwright's temple, this is a quarry rock.

Quarry Rock is one of the three famous rocks of the Yangtze River (the other two are the Swallow Rock of Nanjing and the Chengling Rock of Yueyang), and the river level is gentle here, and it is indeed convenient to cross the river, and it is also the place where the Song army builds a pontoon bridge in this place and attacks Jinling in the south in the future.

And the person who offered the pontoon bridge was Fan Ruoshui, who was recuperating in a courtyard in Jinling City at the moment, and he was almost well at this time. However, Zhao Dezhao believes that Fan Ruoshui is also a generation of capable people.

The Song army went south to attack the Tang Dynasty, which was the third large-scale river operation in the history of Chinese warfare after the battle of Jin to destroy Wu and the battle of Sui to destroy Chen, and the Song army successfully built a pontoon bridge in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which was a pioneering achievement in the history of ancient Chinese warfare, so that the army overcame natural dangers, divided troops to break the (southern) Tang garrison, captured Jiangning, and forced to land (southern) Tang.

After passing the quarry rock, the river level is stable, and the Jinling city in the east is already in sight, and the day is exactly August 27, and after the quarry rock stops, the post soldiers and post households on the first shore have led the Song envoys to Jinling to inform the Tang lord Li Yu.

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And in the Yaoguang Hall in the backyard of the palace, since the death of Empress Ehuang of Zhou, Li Yu's heart has been depressed, he has always gone to Emperor E's palace to drink, and at this time he also remembered the past, every time he thought of Jiamin, he felt a little ashamed of Emperor E.

Li Yu sat on the couch, and dimly felt that there was a young woman sitting in the Yaoguang Hall in front of him, wearing a pink gauze dress, wearing jewels and jade butterflies and beads...... The young woman's onion-like jade fingers kept plucking on the strings of a scorched tail, and the music was smart and elegant...... It's just that all this has ceased to exist with the passing of the young woman.

"Emperor E-" Li Yu cried out in pain, but everything in front of him was a phantom and no longer existed.

At this moment, outside the Yaoguang Palace, a palace maid stood outside the hall for a long time, not knowing how to enter the hall to make a confession, for fear of disturbing the lord of the country.

Li Yu was stunned at the moment, Siren had passed away, so he got up from the couch and pushed the door out, only to see a palace lady panicked.

And the palace maid said: "Your Majesty, the soldiers of the quarry post have arrived in the palace to spread the news, and the envoys of the Song State have arrived near the quarry. ”

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At this moment, in the imperial palace of the Tang Kingdom, many courtiers have gathered, such as the servant of the Ministry of Officials, the scholar of Hanlin Chengzhi and the auxiliary of the Guangzheng Yuan, Chen Qiao, the scholar of the Zhongshu Sheren, Zhang Xun of the Zhizhi system, Han Xizai, the scholar of the Hanlin Academy, the scholar Xu Xuan, the disciple of the Langzhong Xiao Yan, the Gong Shenyi in the matter, and the general Huangfu Jixun, the king of Zheng Li Congshan and other civil and military officials and princes.

Li Yu was wearing a moon-white round-necked plain cloud pattern dragon robe, wearing a hat on his head, and he was already sitting on the dragon throne at this moment, not angry and arrogant, facing a large group of courtiers and generals, he was listening.

Han Xizai felt a little happy in his heart, and he said loudly: "Your Majesty, now the envoy sent by the Song State is Zhao Dezhao, the son of the Song Emperor, the King of Wei, and it must be that the Song Emperor attaches great importance to it and specially visits my Tang Kingdom." ”

King Wei and Gong Shenyi have the grace to save their lives, if it weren't for the Song envoy to the (southern) Han this time, I'm afraid I would have to give Liu Gang I don't know how long he will be detained, and this time the King of Wei visited, he also wanted to take this opportunity to repay His Royal Highness the King of Wei, so Gong Shenyi owed himself and said: "Your Majesty, this Song envoy must also be for the affairs of the Han Kingdom, if it wasn't for the Song envoy, I'm afraid the minister would have to stay in that dim place for I don't know how long?" ”

However, some people think that Zhao Kuangyin sent a seventeen-year-old boy to envoy to the Tang State, I don't know what the intention is, and according to the secret agents of the Tang State, this Wei King Zhao Dezhao is not a person to be messed with.

"Seventeen? Zhao Kuangyin sent a stinky boy to envoy, obviously not taking my Tang Kingdom in his eyes. "Huangfu Jixun naturally did not take the King of Wei of the Song State to heart, and Huangfu Jixun and Zhao Kuangyin had a grudge against his father, in the battle of Qingliuguan that year, Zhao Kuangyin is said to have cut off the back of his father Huangfuhui's neck, which later caused Huangfuhui to die in the Zhou army camp.

Now that Zhao Kuangyin has ascended the throne as the emperor, although he is the king of a country, but Huangfu Jixun also wants to take revenge, and now Zhao Kuangyin's son is envoy to the Tang Kingdom, he will naturally not let go of such a good opportunity.

Li Yu leaned on the dragon chair, and when he heard Huangfu Jixun say this, he naturally knew such a past, but after all, the other party was also a prince and prince, so it was naturally not easy to offend.

And other courtiers such as Han Xizai, Xu Xuan, and Gong Shenyi all looked at Huangfu Jixun with contempt when they heard this, they knew what kind of person King Wei was, and what kind of person Huangfu Jixun was, they naturally scoffed. Now that the Song State has sent the King of Wei to come, it is presumable that the King of Wei will be the emperor of the Song State, and such specifications are naturally very honorable.

Chen Qiao bowed and said: "Your Majesty, General Huangfu's words are not true, General Huangfu's personal enmity is small, and Your Majesty's great cause is important, how can you lose big because of small." ”

Pan You, Zhang Xun and others also agreed with this theory, and Huangfu Jixun stood aside, staring at these ministers angrily, and his eyes were already looking towards Li Yu on the dragon throne.

As the king of a country, Li Yu is naturally not allowed to act willfully and recklessly, and the Tang State has already regarded the Song State as the upper country, and the Song envoy is also the angel of the upper country......

Ps.

(1) There is no "you" in the title of the Song Dynasty, only you.

(2) Three famous rocks of the Yangtze River: 1. Yanzi Rock, 2. Chengling Rock, 3. Quarry Rock

(3) Emperor Zhou E (936-965), the eldest daughter of Situ Zhouzong of the Southern Tang Dynasty, entered the palace as a concubine at the age of nineteen, and was favored by the queen Li Yu.

(4) Zhou Nuying (950-978 AD) was named Zhou Jiamin, the word Nuying, known as "Little Zhou Hou" in history; His sister Emperor Zhou E, known as the "Great Zhou Queen" in history. The two are the daughters of Situ Zhouzong and are from famous families.