The day after the end of the quasi-plenary meeting, Wang Kunjun left the "Liangyuan" and led a platoon of guards with Xu Shaoan to Youzhou City, ready to meet Chai Rong. Although everyone thinks that Chai Rong and his ministers are reasonable people and will not do anything reckless, the preparations that should be made on the side of the crossing team will still be done.

Therefore, at the same time as Wang Kunjun and Xu Shaoan left, the armed forces of the crossing team originally stationed under the Xiayun Ridge also began to move. Under the leadership of Yang Xin, the original Xu Shao'an and the "Wolf's Tooth Battalion" marched into Youzhou City in the name of changing defenses, and Qian Yuanshan and Zeng Zhilin's troops were still led by Qian and Zeng, and they went out to Liangxiang County and Yuhe County, which were only 30 or 40 miles away from Youzhou City, to camp and prepare for battle, while the "Ranger Battalion" and the cavalry regiment now had a multi-battalion cavalry unit under the command of Mutel, wandering between the three cities of Youzhou, Liangxiang, and Yuhe, ready to respond to the friendly actions in Youzhou City, and to gain enough time for Qian and Zeng's second troops to arrive. In addition to these soldiers and horses, Zhang Weixin, Liang Ziyue, Zheng Zhiwei and others also followed Wang down the mountain. Among them, Zhang Weixin was responsible for coordinating the actions of the peripheral departments after Wang and Xu entered the Houzhou camp, and decided whether to send the "wolf's tooth battalion" to rescue people in the Houzhou camp. And Liang and Zheng did their best to mobilize all the "dark feather" Liliang who could be mobilized in Youzhou City and in the camp of Hou Zhou, so as to provide intelligence support for Wang Kunjun and Xu Shao'an's trip - originally Zhang Xiaofei also wanted to go together, but considering that she also had to take care of Xiao Wang Yue, who was only a few months old, Wang Kunjun finally persuaded her to stay in the "Liangyuan" and other news.

Wang Kunjun and Xu Shaoan and their entourage arrived in Youzhou City on the afternoon of June 20 of the lunar calendar, and they only stepped into the yamen of the former Youzhou Left-behind Mansion, which was used as a temporary headquarters by the Yellow Sea, and sat down in the main hall.

The news was sent by the hardcore informant of "Dark Feather" in the palace, Ma Ping'an and Ma Gonggong, who was already the head of the branch hall in the palace of "Dark Feather" at this time, through secret channels. The content of the news is what the crossing team is most concerned about now, about Chai Rong and the later Zhou court's civil and military generals' views and attitudes towards the "Qingyuan" brothers and the so-called "Youzhou Righteous Army" led by them. According to Ma Ping'an's secret letter sent, the relevant news was heard by him at the imperial meeting of the Later Zhou court, and there would be no mistake.

According to what Ma Ping'an said in the secret letter, at the same time as the crossing team held a quasi-plenary meeting, the imperial meeting of the Later Zhou court was also held in the imperial tent of the Later Zhou army camp. The purpose of Chai Rong's convening of this meeting was, first, for Zhao Kuangyin to introduce to a group of military generals the situation of the "Youzhou Righteous Army" under the jurisdiction of the "Qingyuan" brothers who had gone to Yuguan (Shanhaiguan) to reward the "Qingyuan" brothers, and second, to discuss with the ministers how to settle the "Qingyuan" brothers and tens of thousands of horses under their command.

Prior to this, although the crossing team was famous in the battle of Baoxingzhuang, because there was still a distance between the camp of the Later Zhou army and the camp of the Khitan army at that time, the impression of the army of the Later Zhou Dynasty was only in the rumbling sound of the battle of Baoxingzhuang, which lasted for half an hour, and the defeated soldiers of the Khitan army who collapsed like headless flies and fled in all directions under the blow of artillery fire. Now, after they listened to Zhao Kuangyin's vivid account of what he had seen and heard in Yuguan (Shanhaiguan), the thunderous momentum of artillery firing, the projectiles that splashed at the enemy like a storm when the muskets were fired, and the terrifying scenes of Khitan soldiers being crushed to pieces when they were hit by shells and bombs, all emerged in the minds of Chai Rong and his ministers of civil and military affairs. Such a scene made people's blood boil while listening to it, but it also made Hou Zhou Junchen secretly chill.

How brave and powerful it was to be able to defeat the Khitan army of 100,000 with no more than 5,000 men, although half of them were villagers and servants, and almost annihilated. Even with Chai Rong's conceit and trust in the strength of his forbidden army, he did not think that the 5,000 forbidden army—even if these 5,000 forbidden troops were all "divine army"—could confront the 100,000 Khitan army. If Zhou Jun really had such strength, he would not have confronted Xiao Siwen's 70,000 horses in Baoxingzhuang at the beginning. …,

If another person tells these things, the Later Zhou Junchen may still suspect that the narrator is deliberately exaggerating the facts and putting gold on the face of the "Youzhou Righteous Army", but these words came out from the mouth of Zhao Kuangyin, who can fight habitually, has outstanding achievements, is deeply trusted by Chai Rong, and has always been known for his faithfulness, and the Later Zhou monarchs and ministers can't help but believe it. After listening to Zhao Kuangyin's story, more than one minister secretly rejoiced in his heart, fortunately, the "Qingyuan" brothers were friends and not enemies to the imperial court, otherwise, with the nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses stationed near Youzhou now, wouldn't it be as easy as chopping melons and vegetables to deal with the 80,000 troops of the imperial court. In a sense, the army of the imperial court stationed under the city of Youzhou will not only not pose any threat to the "Qingyuan" brothers and their "Youzhou Righteous Army", but will become a bargaining chip for the other party to bargain with the imperial court, not to mention that among this bargaining chips, there is also the Ninety-Five Honor, the Great Zhou Tianzi who absolutely cannot afford to lose. Judging from the current form, the "Qingyuan" brothers must not be offended, otherwise once they annoy these guys, they are afraid that they will never see Kaifeng City again.

As the fear of the "Qingyuan" brothers and their "Youzhou Rebels" spread among the ministers, when discussing the question of how to settle the "Qingyuan" brothers and the "Youzhou Rebels", the ministers' opinions began to be one-sided. Almost all the ministers and some generals said that the "Qingyuan" brothers and their "righteous army" defeated the Khitans this time, and recovered the sixteen states of Youyun and the east of Ping, Ying, Luan, a total of 19 states, can be called a great contribution, and the "Qingyuan" brothers have always been loyal to the imperial court, obedient and obedient, for such loyal people, the imperial court should be gentle with the government, give heavy rewards, add officials to the knighthood, and make them stay in Youyun forever, for the Great Zhou Dynasty to guard the northern frontier, so that the emperor's grace is vast, In this way, it will not chill the brave and brave people in the world who serve the Son of Heaven and the court with a fierce loyalty.

Chai Rong did not say anything about the opinions of these ministers for a while, and seemed to be still weighing and deliberating, while another part of the generals headed by Zhang Yongde stood up to express their opposition, believing that it was extremely inappropriate to place the "Qingyuan" brothers and their subordinates in this way. In their opinion, although the "Qingyuan" brothers and their soldiers and horses made contributions in the process of recovering the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, judging from the fact that they concealed their true abilities and secretly raised such a large private army, these people must have ill intentions and must not let them develop, otherwise they will bring great trouble to the imperial court. The only plan now is to reward his merits first, add officials to knights, and transfer all his brothers to the capital to be some idle high-ranking officials with sufficient status but no actual power, so that they can be separated from their private soldiers. After he enters Beijing, he will send a powerful general to take over and reorganize the private soldiers he left in Youzhou, and it is the best policy to either incorporate this force into the imperial court or dissolve it on the spot, so that its threat to the imperial court can be eliminated invisibly.

As soon as the opinions of Zhang Yongde and others were raised, they were opposed by other ministers who advocated keeping the "Qingyuan" brothers in Youzhou. The officials of the two factions argued about this, and neither of them could convince anyone for a while. In the end, it was Chai Rong who interrupted the argument between the two sides. After all the civil and military generals stopped talking, and the imperial tent was quiet again, Chai Rong looked at Zhao Kuangyin and said: "Zhao Aiqing went to Yuguan this time to reward the 'Youzhou Righteous Army', and had a lot of dealings with Wang Kunjun and others, and can be said to be the minister who knows the 'Qingyuan' brothers and their 'Youzhou Righteous Army' most well in the court. In your opinion, how should the 'Qingyuan' brothers and their subordinates be resettled? ”