(There has always been a brother who often votes for me, and he is the third brother who is not calm)

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Since September 9, Li Chongjin was quickly put down the rebellion, and then An Yougui and others surrendered, and directly reported the distribution of troops in Yangzhou City, as well as the hoarding of grain and grass, to Zhao Dezhao, who asked Chen Siyan and others to temporarily take care of Yangzhou affairs, and then sent people to the north to tell Zhao Kuangyin about the Yangzhou counterinsurgency.

Yangzhou was pacified, Li Chongjin died of the news transmitted back to Tokyo Kaifeng Mansion, Zhao Kuangyin repeatedly marveled at the performance of his son Zhao Dezhao, and then the court was very amazed at the Liangjun Wang to deal with Li Chongjin's rebellion, and Wang Pu and others praised the emperor's eldest son for benevolence and righteousness, only the head of the evil, the rest of the people surrendered, the situation in Yangzhou quickly calmed down, the people were also saved from the war, and Huainan also ensured that the armament was complete, if there was a slight mistake, it would be taken advantage of by the Tang State.

After the ministers discussed in the temple, Zhao Kuangyin issued an order to allow Zhao Dezhao to continue to inspect the 14 prefectures of Huainan and Jiangbei, and then conduct military exercises in Yingluan.

An Yougui was appointed as the assassin of Chuzhou, and the rest of the meritorious people were rewarded, and Zhai Shouxun was recruited into Kaifeng, Zhao Kuangyin previously used Li Chuyun to pacify Li Yun's rebellion, and was promoted to the general of Yulin and the envoy of the Xuanhui North Academy, and since Li Chongjin's death, he issued an edict appointing Li Chuyun as the governor of Yangzhou, and went to Yangzhou on the same day.

After the end of the counterinsurgency, Zhao Dezhao inspected the city defense, public opinion, cultivation and harvest, commerce, and others in Yangzhou City.

On that day, Zhao Dezhao, Zhao Xin, Wan Song, Wu Yongzi and his apprentice Wu Xiaowu paid a private visit to their own Guangwei restaurant in Yangzhou City on the grounds of inspecting the people's situation, and went all the way along the main street of Yangzhou to their own Guangwei restaurant.

In Yangzhou City, Zhao Dezhao and his entourage walked to Guangwei Restaurant, most people in the capital knew that Guangwei Restaurant was Zhao Dezhao's industry, but Li Chongjin didn't know.

Five people walked into the Guangwei Restaurant, since the opening of the Yangzhou Guangwei Restaurant, he has not visited, today to investigate.

After Zhao Dezhao used the food in his restaurant, he sighed with emotion: "If I hadn't planned it properly, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to eat this kind of food in the future." ”

And everyone stopped smiling, and Wu Yongzi said: "Your Highness, I am happy today, and Li Thief has died, I only talk about fun today, the food in His Highness's restaurant is good, I haven't tasted it for a long time." ”

Zhao Dezhao gossiped: "Dao Chief, Xiao Goro, how did you meet?" ”

Wu Yongzi's old face was red, and then he smiled: "When I was wandering around Chuzhou, I heard that the people called a local thief named "Phantom World Thief Xiao Goro", and Xiao Wulang lost every time he fought with me, so he worshipped me as a teacher. Lao Dao just accepted an apprentice, His Royal Highness made fun of it, my master has accepted several apprentices, and I only have one apprentice now, although the qualifications are ordinary, but I have an appetite for my old way. Haha-"

"Master, how can there be, you are begging me to let me worship you as a teacher."

Wu Yongzi glared at Wu Xiaowu, and then Wu Xiaowu withdrew his innocent gaze, and then Wu Yongzi at the table told Zhao Dezhao about meeting Wu Xiaowu, and then Zhao Dezhao proposed to let Wu Yongzi put this person by his side, and there was a shortage of such humorous and useful people around him.

"Wu Xiaowu is grateful for the kindness of the county king."

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And Jiangning City in the Tang Kingdom, one is separated by water, one is south and one is north.

According to the information gathered by Li Jing from below, on September 9, Li Chongjin was killed in a mutiny.

After receiving this report, Li Jing secretly said that he was fortunate because of his foresight and did not resist the Song State, otherwise he would not know how to die.

Therefore, the entire court praised Li Jing Shengming, and Li Jing was happy and triumphant.

However, there is one person who feels critical about the situation in the imperial court, this person is "Lin Huzi", speaking of his real name, is "Lin Renzhao", in the first battle of Huainan, he burned Zhengyang Bridge against the wind, and almost hurt Zhao Kuangyin's life.

At this moment, he came out and said: "Your Majesty, now the Song State is stable, but the situation is not conducive to my Tang Dynasty, if the Song ** team goes south, then Jiangning Mansion is not guaranteed, it is better to let the ministers and others lead the army to be stationed in Runzhou, and always guard against the Song army going south." ”

Li Jing knew Lin Huzi's prestige, he thought about it for a while, and felt that his suggestion was good, so he had to let him garrison Runzhou to prevent the Song army from going south. "You go to Runzhou, Runzhou is the Jiangbei ferry, and now Yangzhou is stable, it's just ...... All right...... It's okay to be prepared, but you have to obey the arrangements of the imperial court, and don't be private. ”

"Command!"

Later, Li Jing sent Feng Yanlu and his son Li Congyi to leave Jiangning Mansion and go to Yangzhou Zhao Dezhao to meet him.

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In the middle of September, the weather was slightly cool, and at this moment, Zhao Dezhao and his party lived in the original Li Chongjin's house, and Li Chongjin's family had moved out of here, and under Zhao Dezhao's arrangement, their tragic death was avoided. And the Li family is grateful to Dade and thanks to his subordinates for their mercy.

A few days ago, Lin Renzhao, the general of the Tang State, had led 10,000 soldiers and horses of the imperial court to be stationed in Runzhou, and Yangzhou was facing the south of Runzhou [Zhenjiang].

Several people were discussing government affairs and military affairs, and Zhao Xin and others thought that it was better to go south to take Runzhou directly at this moment, while Zhao Dezhao shook his head, although Huainan had been pacified, but the strength of the Tang State was still strong and could not be underestimated, and Wu Yongzi also insisted on Zhao Dezhao's idea.

Zhao Xin said: "Your Highness, the Tang Kingdom has sent more troops to Runzhou, and a tiger general has been transferred. This tiger will be Lin Renzhao. In the battle of Huainan, this man was very brave, and I once fought against him, but I could only barely get a draw. ”

Wan Song said: "That's true, he almost hurt His Majesty back then." If he comes uninvited, I will come forward to meet him. ”

Wu Yongzi said: "It turned out to be him, Lin Renzhao will be my great rival of the Great Song Dynasty, with him, my Great Song Army will not be able to stand up Runzhou, if you want to capture Runzhou, you must not be able to fight quickly." So think about it in the long run. Lao Dao thought that it would take at least five to ten years to prepare, and build warships, train a naval army, and capture Jiangnan, without a naval army. ”

Zhao Dezhao said: "What the Taoist chief said is very true, now that Song Yanwu has mastered my Great Song Water Division, one of the ways I left Beijing to inspect this time is to see how my Great Song Water Master is, whether it is on the rivers and seas, and the Tang Kingdom, I don't know if it can be compared with it." ”

"The water master is important, but I once met a person, his name is Fan Ruoshui, maybe he can help His Highness solve the problem."

"Fan Ruoshui, do you know the Dao Chief?" Hearing Fan Ruoshui mentioned Wuyongzi, Zhao Dezhao immediately remembered the name. Fan Ruoshui, Zhao Dezhao is no stranger, in the previous life, the Great Song Dynasty relied on this person to offer advice and advice, and offered a plan to lay a pontoon bridge in front of his father Zhao Kuangyin, so that he could successfully destroy the Tang Dynasty. Now that Zhao Dezhao heard about this person from Wu Yongzi's mouth, he thought that if he found Fan Ruoshui, it would be feasible to destroy Tang.

But at the moment, it is said that Fan Ruoshui seems to be a monk in a certain monastery, Zhao Dezhao really admires this person, dormant for several years, killing the years, secretly investigating the hydrological situation of the Yangtze River, at that time as a Tang country, he took refuge in the enemy Song State is also a courage, and he dared to risk the world's disapproval, conform to the general trend of reunification, and make sacrifices, which makes the nation proud.

However, he now knew the approximate location of Fan Ruoshui, and he didn't want to go to him for the time being, so he told Wu Yongzi that he could use it in the future, and Wu Yongzi also nodded.

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Three days later, on September 18, the imperial court report from Kaifeng Kuaima had reached Zhao Dezhao's hands, one of which was a letter of appointment, Zhao Dezhao knew the general content, and the other was for Zhao Dezhao to pass on the order for Song Yanwu to lead the naval division to conduct military exercises in Yingluan Town, since the first battle of Huainan, Yingluan Town has existed as a military town, and it is also one of the garrison points of the Song Army's naval division.

The military exercise is very important, Zhao Dezhao immediately found Yangzhou officials, planning to leave Yangzhou in the afternoon and go to Yingluan Town [In the fifth dynasty, he took over the drive of Yang Pu, the emperor of Wu State, and changed his name to "Yingluan". Later, it was changed to Zhenzhou, now Yizheng, Jiangsu], and Yingluan Town is not far from Yangzhou, and it can be reached in half a day.

Leaving Yangzhou, the officials and the people bid farewell on the street, Zhao Dezhao and his entourage set off, and arrived at Yingluan Town at sunset, Yingluan Town is high in the north and low in the south, the landform is diverse, the south is the alluvial plain of the Yangtze River, and the north and the middle are the hilly areas of the slow gang.

Then he met with Song Yanwu, the commander of the navy, and discussed the training of the navy.

This will be followed by a naval drill on 20 September.

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On September 20, Feng Yanlu and Li Congyi set off from Jiangning Mansion, took a boat from the ferry, and went all the way north.

Could it be that the Song people planned to directly cross the river to attack the Tang Kingdom? How so? Li Congyi looked at Feng Yanlu with a face, and found that Feng Shangshu, who had always been calm, was also suspicious and worried, completely unaware of the intentions of the Song people.

And today is the 20th, at this moment Zhao Dezhao was on the warship, and saw an extremely uncoordinated big ship passing by in the distance, which seemed to be the ship of the Tang Kingdom, and he hurriedly ordered to go down, let the helmsman turn around, and sailed towards the big ship of the Tang Kingdom.

Along the river, the two boats were about to collide, and Tang Guo suddenly stopped the boat, and then shouted to the Song army ship opposite: "We are the envoys of the Tang State, this time we went north to Yangzhou to meet the King of Liang County, I don't know that the ship of the Song State is opposite?" Please forgive me, I have something important to tell you! ”

When Zhao Dezhao heard this, he thought to himself, it turned out that the envoys of the Tang State wanted to see him, and then asked his subordinates to reply: "That is it, let the ship dock at Yingluan Town, on this big ship, the king of Liangjun and Qincha are also there." ”

Half an hour later, the two ships docked at the pier of Yingluan Town.

Zhao Dezhao got off the boat first, and then Feng Yanlu, the envoy of the Tang State, and Li Congyi, the Duke of Jiangguo, got off the boat, and saw a ten-year-old child dressed in the prince's costume standing on the ferry, and then the two greeted each other and said: "Li Congyi (Feng Yanlu) of the Tang State has seen the king of Liangjun and the angel of Qincha in the upper kingdom. ”

"You two don't have to be polite."

"Your Highness."

"Why do you two want to see me?"

"Tang Guo was troubled by Li Chongjin's incident, and he was afraid that Shangguo would blame him, so he asked the minister and Jiang Guogong to go north to Yangzhou and apologize in person!"

Zhao Dezhao smiled slightly, and then returned with an unfathomable smile, and said: "It's okay, it's okay, Li Chongjin is dead!" You don't have to! ”

Feng Yanlu said: "Your Highness is so benevolent and righteous, it makes my Tang Kingdom feel embarrassed, but today I don't know why, the Shangguo is here to operate a naval army, whether to attack my Tang Dynasty!" ”

Seeing that the two of them were scared, Zhao Dezhao laughed and said: "Today, my Great Song Navy is practicing in Yingluan, please Feng Shangshu and Jiang Guogong to watch together." ”

It turned out to be a drill, Li Congyi was a little relieved, and the big stone hanging in his heart also fell.

However, Feng Yanlu was extremely nervous, and he could only look at Zhao Dezhao with an inquiring gaze, he didn't know what medicine was sold in Song Jun's gourd. As an old man who traveled back and forth between the (Zhou) Song and Tang dynasties, he knew too well the grievances between the Tang Kingdom and the Central Plains Dynasty.

The place of Yingluan Town, the fortress of Linjiang, the place where soldiers must fight, has extremely important significance in the Jianghuai War.

In the early years, when the Tang State occupied Huainan, Yongzhen County was set up here, and the naval army was stationed here to control the river and canal near Yangzhou.

Yingluan Wharf is available, the Song army has many warships, and Song Yanwu is in charge of the navy. The Song people can also threaten the south, starting from Yingluan, tracing the river, and directly attacking Jinling Jiangning Mansion, which is not far away.

In the battle of Huainan, the lord of his own country heard that Guo Rongqin led a large army to capture Yingluan Town, and after gathering warships to go out of the river mouth, he was terrified, so he gave up resistance and officially declared himself a minister to Zhou, and rowed the river to rule.

Yingluan, this place is destined to be remembered by history, representing a period of shame in the past of the Tang Kingdom, both in reality and spiritually, it is a threat to the Tang Kingdom.

Feng Yanlu clearly grasped the message that Zhao Dezhao wanted to convey, a thousand sails racing, and the warship drill was done for them to see.

Zhao Dezhao smiled and said nothing, today is not so much a drill, but a military exercise, this is his proposal, and he not only has to look at the current strength of the Song Army's naval division, but also secretly observe the shortcomings of the Song Army's naval army, of course, it can deter the Tang State.

When the Song Dynasty was first established, it did not have the strength to conquer Jiangnan, not to mention that there was no excuse at the moment, and the division was unknown!

Zhao Kuangyin knew this early on, and this time Zhao Dezhao inspected Jiangnan, Zhao Kuangyin and his son thought of naval drills, so as to deter Tang Guo's undivided thoughts.

Military exercises are a very common thing in later generations, and they are also quite effective deterrents.

Anyway, Zhao Dezhao didn't really want to fight, but just to scare and scare Tang Guo, one military exercise was enough.

On the river, large and small warships shuttled back and forth.

The content of the drill covered many small items such as outflanking, attacking, and tracking on the water.

The bow of the ship went hand in hand, the thousand sails were raised, and the water surface was turbulent, Zhao Dezhao frowned, he found that the Great Song Dynasty Sailor lacked a lot of things, it seemed to be more of a tool for reconnaissance, harassment and transportation, and the direct engagement of the naval warship was very ordinary.

The point is that there is a lack of combat weapons, and the only means that can be used are bows, crossbows, slapsticks, fire attacks, etc., and in many cases, ships meet each other and directly engage each other.

Zhao Dezhao shook his head, it seems that after the drill, talk to Song Yanwu about the development of the future water army. If you install artillery on a warship, can you be invincible on the rivers and seas? Gunpowder, let it be born early...... Will......

The Tang State has the south of the Yangtze River and is known for its naval army, and the Song army is not weak now, but in the future, his goal is not only domestic, but also overseas, and such a requirement cannot reach the level measured in Zhao Dezhao's mind.

The Song army that Feng Yanlu saw did not seem to be weak, and it was already on par with the Tang State. Surface warfare is like this, and when the acting enters the link of beach-grabbing and landing, it makes them even more uneasy.

The Song army seemed to be telling them that they had the strength to storm and land in Jiangnan.

Of course, Feng Yanlu also knew that the Song army was currently limited in numbers, and a large-scale landing was probably impossible.

However, over time, the Song army built more warships, and after continuous training, northern soldiers who were not accustomed to water could also crisscross the rivers.

At that time, it may be the end of the Southern Tang Dynasty!

Li Congyi deeply thought of this, and he even felt that if the Song army set sail directly from Yingluan Town at this moment, it would be possible to land in Jiangning Mansion in a short time. Then even if you can't capture Jiangning Mansion, it will definitely shake Jiangnan...... No, it's too dangerous.

After the two stayed in Yingluan Town for a long time, Zhao Dezhao asked them to return to China with confidence.

Li Congyi and Feng Yanlu left in a panic, and what they saw and heard in Yingluan Town made them tremble.

Zhao Dezhao was quite satisfied with such a result, and the deterrent effect was achieved.

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