Nantang was really wealthy, and within ten days, he escorted hundreds of carts totaling five million taels of silver to Tanzhou.

Baili Wuji then ordered Baili Kang to hand over Hongzhou and Zhaowu Jiedu envoys of the Southern Tang Dynasty. At the end, Baili Wuji added a sentence and brought the family of Zhou Zong, the envoy of Zhennan Jiedu, back to Tanzhou.

Unexpectedly, Bai Likang was not embarrassed at all, and asked Zhou Xingfeng to lead the army to empty the entire Hongzhou treasury before the handover. An empty city was left behind and handed back to the Southern Tang Dynasty.

The first day of the fifth month.

The king of Chu has no taboo order.

The palace of the king of Chu is set up with the left and right prime ministers.

Xu Shiming was moved to the prime minister of Zuo and knew the internal affairs of Chu. Moved Sun Guangxian to the right prime minister, knowing the military of Chu.

At the same time, Zhou Zong was appointed as the governor of the government.

The Jingnan Army was reorganized into the Seventh Army of the Black Flag Army from now on, with Sun Shixu as the commander of the capital, stationed in Jiangling.

Ordered the Shipyard to go to Zhenzhou in Xingwangfu and Zhuya (Hainan Island) to establish a large shipyard, so that Yang Shi began to build Hezhou and large merchant ships, and started construction at the same time in the two shipyards.

……。

On this day, Zhou Zong took his family to the palace to ask for a meeting.

"The minister brought his family to thank the king." Zhou Zong took his family to kneel down and give Baili Wuji a snort.

"Zhou Shenzhi doesn't need to be polite." Baili Wuji waved his hand and helped Zhou Zong up.

"This is the clumsy Jing Liu clan." Zhou Zong introduced.

Baili Wuji looked at it, and the woman's face was born beautifully.

"These children are a little girl. The big name Xian, the word Emperor E, is five years old. The small name is ....... ”

Baili Wuji was stunned when he heard this, and rushed out, "I don't know how to say a girl." ”

Zhou Zong was stunned for a moment, and then said: "King Xie gave the word to the little girl." ”

"Uh......."

The second day of the fifth month.

The king of Chu has no taboo order.

Ding Sijing, the former commander of the special operations army, changed his orders without authorization, and should have been beheaded, but remembering that he had meritorious service in wartime, he was punished with 30 rods and a three-year fine, and he was stripped of his post as a commander and made his temporary replacement. And erase the military merits of this battle.

At the insistence of Xu Shiming and others, although Baili Wuji has the heart of Bao Ding Siji, the military regulations are like iron, and the meaning is still meaningful.

Afterwards, Baili Wuji secretly ordered someone to send three hundred taels of silver to Ding Sijin as a comfort. Secretly ordered to select and transfer 100 special combat troops, and after changing their disguises, they went to the Wu Dynasty through Yongzhou, and then continued southward to Zhancheng to retrieve the local rice seeds, the more the better. At the same time, he assisted the intelligence officers sent by Xu Shiming, the left minister, to explore the terrain along the way.

Since the strategic change, Baili Wuji hopes that in these years, all the terrain of the surrounding countries can be made into a sand table and placed in the palace of the king of Chu for future use.

Since then, the territory of Chu has been larger than that of Shu, the suzerain, the land of Chu, Southern Han, Jingnan, Qingzhou, and Yuanzhou.

Since then, the strategy has also shifted and entered a period of internal affairs in an all-round way.

……。

The Jin kingdom in Shijingtang in the north was already in danger.

On the seventh day of the sixth month, An Congjin prepared to rebel and ask for help from the Chu State. After discussing with Xu and Sun, the king of Chu, Baili Wuji, rejected him. Then he sent an envoy to Shu with a seal, asking for troops to attack Jinzhou and Shangzhou as support; The envoy arrived in Chengdu. Meng Chang, the lord of Shu, and his ministers conspired, and they all said that Jinzhou and Shangzhou were far away, and it was not enough to subdue the enemy if there were fewer troops, and it was impossible to keep up with the grain and straw transported by land and water. Meng Chang dismissed the matter and sent a message to the king of Chu.

Coincidentally, An Chongrong also began to be restless, and his excuse was ashamed to be a vassal to the Khitan, and when he met with the Khitan envoy, he must stretch out his legs and scold, and the envoy passed through his territory, and sometimes secretly sent someone to kill the envoy; The Khitan blamed Shi Jingtang for this, and Shi Jingtang was helpless, and often apologized for An Chongrong.

But An Chongrong didn't appreciate it, but intensified it.

In June, An Chongrong detained the Khitan envoy and sent cavalry to plunder the southern border of Youzhou, and stationed the army in Boye. The party and others also sent envoys to hand over the Khitan appointment, complaining that they had been bullied and abused by the Khitan, and said that since February this year, the Khitan had ordered them to prepare their own elite troops and horses, and they were going to plunder to the south in the autumn, and they were afraid that God would not bless them and perish together with the Khitan, and they were willing to prepare 100,000 horses and horses to attack the Khitan together with the Jin State. In addition, Zhao Chong, the deputy envoy of Shuozhou Jiedu, has expelled Liu Shan, the envoy of Jiedu appointed by the Khitan, and asked to return to the imperial court. I have already reported these facts to the imperial court. His Majesty has repeatedly ordered me to worship and worship the Khitan, and not to provoke provocations myself; But now the way of heaven and the hearts of the people, it is difficult to disobey, the opportunity must not be lost, and the time will not come again. Zhujiedu made those who were trapped in Hulu stretch their necks and raise their heels to wait for the northern expedition of the king's division, which is really worthy of sympathy and pity. May the court make a decision sooner. ”

There are thousands of words written in the table chapter, which are generally reprimanded by the Later Jin Gaozu for serving the Khitan as his father, and exhausting all the flattering and greedy Hulu in the Central Plains.

An Chongrong wrote a letter to the dignitaries of the court in this sense, and sent it to the feudal towns, saying that the generals had been mobilized and were determined to fight a decisive battle with the Khitan.

After Shi Jingtang learned about it, he was extremely worried. But An Chongrong is in control of a strong force, and he can't control him, so he can only go with the flow.

At that time, Ye Du stayed behind, and the guards Ma Budu commanded Liu Zhiyuan to enter the court in Daliang; Taining Jiedu made Sang Weihan know that Daoan Chongrong had a treacherous plan, and he was afraid that the imperial court would be difficult to disobey his will, so he sent a messenger to say: "Your Majesty has exempted the difficulties of Jinyang and has the world, which is the merit of the Khitan, and you must not fail him." Now, An Chongrong is brave and brave, despises the enemy, and Tuyuhun wants to borrow our hand to take revenge, but it is not for the benefit of the country, and we cannot listen to them. I have observed that in the past few years of the Khitan, the horses have been strong, annexed the neighbors, won the battle, attacked and taken, seized the land of the Central Plains, and confiscated the equipment of the Central Plains; His ruler is wise and courageous, his ministers are in harmony with each other, his cattle and sheep are flourishing, and his country is free from natural disasters, so he must not be regarded as an enemy. Moreover, the Central Plains had just been defeated to them, and their morale was low and depressed, and they used such an army to resist the power of the Khitan victory, and this situation was too far away. In addition, the relationship with relatives has been severed, and troops should be sent to defend the border fortresses, but a small number of troops is not enough to deal with the enemy, and a large number of troops makes it impossible to provide logistics and transportation. When our army went to war, he retreated, and when our army returned to defend, he came out to harass again, and I was worried that the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard would be exhausted, and there would be no more people to be repatriated in Zhenzhou and Dingzhou. Now, the world has just stabilized a little, the country's wounds have not recovered, the treasury is empty and exhausted, the people are suffering and suffering, and they are afraid that they will not be able to help if they come to protect it calmly, how can they act recklessly! The Khitan is very kind to our country, and they attach great importance to each other's observance of their oaths, and he is not wrong and we are provoking ourselves, even if we defeat him, the future troubles will be more serious; If you can't defeat him, the big thing will be over. ”