The initial cause of the controversy in the Southern Tang Dynasty was Xiao Yan in the Dali Temple.

As soon as the morning of the seventh day of the Lunar New Year opened, a royal historian surnamed Zhao jumped out, pointing the finger at Xiao Yan, saying that the murderer had not been identified until now in the first assassination case of Lin Feng, and now, there was no clue about the destruction of Wang Tai's family, which is enough to prove that Xiao Yan, the helmsman of Dali Temple, is incapable and ineffective, so he should ask for another master.

Privy Deputy Envoy Cha Wenhui took the lead in firing the cannon, righteously and solemnly saying that the tragedy of destroying the door was not solved, Jinling City was unsafe, and the world was also uneasy, and asked the Holy Lord to strictly order Xiao Yan to solve the case within a time limit; Guozi sacrificial wine, Dr. Guozi and other Guozi people also came out one after another, counting Wang Tai's "great achievements", and crying to ask the saint to avenge the "capable minister" Wang Tai.

Li Jing didn't know why Lu Dao was doing something, so he sat on the dragon chair with a straight face and didn't speak. Xiao Yan, who was angry and ashamed, wanted to rush to ask for his resignation, but was caught by Jiang Wenwei, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites on the side.

When it was lively, another Yushi surnamed Zhou jumped out, claiming that Wang Tai's case mainly involved Lin Feng and his subordinate Wei Wujian, according to common sense, these two people were the most suspicious, and they should be "invited" back to assist in handling the case first.

As soon as this imperial history said this, Li Jingsui, the king of Qi, who had been standing in front and did not speak, frowned, and almost wanted to scold: Lin Feng is now shouldering the great responsibility of going north, how can he come back because of this matter?

Han Xizai, a member of the Yu department, was even more unhappy, and immediately jumped out to accept the offer: Lin Feng has made a lot of meritorious contributions to the Tang Dynasty, and now he is carrying a heavy responsibility to break into the northern barbarians alone, if he turns back because of such an inexplicable suspicion, it is pure nonsense.

At this moment, the imperial history surnamed Zhou was not happy, and asked Lao Han loudly, since ancient times, the prince has committed the same crime as the common people, may I ask, is it the importance of the national laws or personal merits?

At this point, the subject of the debate suddenly changed direction.

Immediately afterwards, Yushi surnamed Li jumped out, pointing out that Lin Feng slaughtered the Southern Han army in the war with the Southern Han Dynasty, regardless of the history of friendly neighborliness between the two countries, and even entered the enemy's territory without permission, and laid down the "Jingguan", whose tragic atrocities were outrageous, damaged the image of the Tang Dynasty, and hurt the good-neighborly relationship; What's even more intolerable is that Lin Feng signed the Yi-Han alliance with the Yi people in the Chu State without authorization, and he didn't ask the Holy Lord at all, and at the same time, ordering the ministers of the Chu State was ultra vires and vain, and it was a loss of the country's reputation and personal reputation and strength, which was really a chaotic minister and thief!

As soon as this accusation came out, the slightly sane people above the court all wanted to scold, as such, Lin Feng worked hard for so long, not only did it work, but it was a big crime?! Even Li Jing, who had been sitting firmly on the dragon chair, frowned.

Chang Mengxi, the deputy envoy of the privy council, Jiang Wenwei, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and others went out one after another, bitterly showing Lin Feng's historical merits, and directly denounced such "rumors and deeds" as purely framing meritorious officials, chilling the hearts of the people of the world, and disrupting the order of the court, and requesting that this imperial historian be expelled from the court.

The court immediately turned into a pot of boiling porridge, and when it reached the climax, Li Jing, who couldn't stand it, got up and walked away, leaving courtiers who were still resentful of each other.

This kind of controversy lasted for five days, and later, the subject of the controversy expanded again, and some imperial historians said that Xiao Yan and others were working behind closed doors in the Qingsi Palace, and many of the proposed policies were out of touch with reality, not the blessing of the state, and should be stopped immediately.

At this moment, the theme is focused on how to change, and the debate is more direct and intense, an old minister hit his head on the pillar in the court, and his head was covered with blood, crying for the Tang Dynasty to calm the people from now on, and it is not a blessing for the country to change rashly.

Li Jing, who had been a bystander for five days, was furious and declared that no matter who it was, he would immediately drive him out of the court if he argued endlessly, and at the same time limited Xiao Yan to solve the case of destroying the door within 20 days.

At this time, the Northern Zhou Dynasty had already learned the shocking news of the surrender of the Chu State to the Southern Tang Dynasty from various channels, and Guo Wei, who was still troubled by the Khitan cavalry still ravaging the north, the Northern Han Dynasty was about to move, and Xuzhou raised the anti-flag.

At this time, Chai Rong handed over a letter from his secretary, Wang Pu, which caused controversy in the entire court.

"The minister heard that the Tang Dynasty lost the way and lost Wu and Shu, and the Jin lost the way and lost the seclusion, and, the reason for the loss, and the art of knowing the peace......

With the will of heaven, nothing can be done. The way to conquer begins with the one who changes. Today, only Wu and Tang are easy to map, east to the sea, south to the river, 2,000 miles of land. Wu Tang newly harvested Lin Feng, determined to change, ambitious, newly harvested Chu land, national strength accumulation, if left unchecked, it will become a big trouble...... You can scratch it first from the little preparation, and if you prepare for the east, you will scratch the west, and if you prepare for the west, you will scratch the east, and he will run to save it...... Wu Zegui and Guang are all ministers, and Min and Shu can be summoned by flying books...... Fang Jin's troops are refined, the weapons are used, the group knows the law, and the generals use their lives. ”

In fact, this is "Pingbian Ce" that will only appear four years later in real history, but there is more fresh content about the merger of Lin Feng and Chu Tang.

In 955 AD, Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong convened more than 20 scholars and talents who served in the court, and published two propositional essays "It is not easy to be a king and a minister" and "Pingbian Policy", which opened up a wide range of words. Other talents only talked in general terms, based on the traditional Confucian theory, and talked about some well-known principles of benevolence and government. Only Wang Pu knew that Chai Rong had a lot of weather in his chest, and he wrote "Pingbian Ce" very seriously about cultivating virtue and politics internally, first easy and then difficult outside, which was also praised by later generations as a great talent comparable to Zhuge Liang's "Longzhong Pair".

Because of the appearance of Lin Feng's crossing butterfly, Wang Pu, who had only been in Chai Mansion for three days, changed color and exclaimed after hearing the news of the Southern Tang Dynasty's new acquisition of Chu Land: "The great enemy of Zhou is none other than Lin Feng!" Time is not waiting for me, you must get rid of this son! Wrote this letter with a pen overnight, kneeling and hurriedly playing Chai Rong.

Born in 905 A.D., Wang Pu was only a jinshi at the age of forty-four, but he was known for his intelligence and eagerness to learn. After being promoted to Jinshi, he served as a school scholar in the Later Han Dynasty, attached to the privy envoy Yang Wei, and usually lived in Yang Wei's house. But this person is really too smart, and when he looked at the situation in the imperial court, he deduced that Yang Wei's backer was not reliable, so he found a reason to resign and return to his hometown. Not long after Wang Pu left, Liu Chengyou, the hidden emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty, under the conspiracy of his uncle Li Ye and others, exterminated the families of Yang Wei, Wang Zhang, and Shi Hongzhao and the attached officials, and only Wang Pu was easily spared.

After Chai Rong was appointed as the envoy of the Lanzhou Festival, he immediately set out to find a group of famous people in the people, Wang Pu was among them, and was appointed by Chai Rong as the secretary, which is equivalent to Chai Rong's text secretary, which shows the importance of it.

Seeing that Wang Pu, who was known for his arrogance, actually kneeled to see him, Chai Rong also changed color, and immediately listened to his detailed explanation, convinced of it, and signed his name in the excerpt, and sent it to Kaifeng City, Tokyo in an expedited manner of 800 miles.

Guo Wei has always loved Chai Rong, especially after his wife and children were all killed, he threw all his love into this nephew, and he had already set him as the successor in his heart, so he naturally gave priority to reading this excerpt, and was immediately deeply overwhelmed by the talent revealed in the excerpt, and ordered someone to read this excerpt above the court.

As soon as the excerpt came out, Zhou Chaotang immediately argued.

Some of the old ministers and many generals who stayed in office from the Later Han Dynasty dismissed this suggestion, believing that even if the Southern Tang Dynasty won Chu, it would be vulnerable and would not become a major problem, and the Liao Dynasty, the Northern Han Dynasty and Xuzhou, which raised the rebellion in the north, were imminent threats.

However, the former staff members such as Doctor Zuo and Wang Pu, who were directly studying the Privy Council, strongly agreed with this suggestion, because Wang Pu's analysis was too reasonable, and the Southern Tang Dynasty was working hard to get off to a start, and if it could not seize the opportunity to eliminate it now, once its general trend was formed, it would inevitably lead to endless troubles.

Guo Wei had often heard the news of the Southern Tang Dynasty reform as early as in the Tianxiong Army, and naturally knew Lin Feng's name, so he was very interested in this topic, and asked Wang Pu about the origin and pros and cons of the Southern Tang Dynasty reform.

Wang Pu was a world-famous genius in the Later Zhou Dynasty - in 948 AD, he was admitted to the top prize at the age of 26, promoted to prime minister at the age of 32, and returned to his hometown at the age of 42.

When Guo Wei was in office, Wang Pu had privately discussed Lin Feng's reform in the Southern Tang Dynasty with a group of staff, and their final conclusion was that Lin Feng's wish was very beautiful, but the reality was even more cruel, and the change would not come to fruition.

However, Lin Feng did several major things in a row such as the Talent Grabbing Ceremony and the Academy of Sciences, especially the success of Mouchu, which made Wang Pu and the others also a little doubt their initial conclusions.

After listening to Wang Puyang's analysis, Lin Feng's series of reform ideas were clearly displayed in front of Guo Wei: to strengthen the army with science and technology, to innovate business, to liberate agriculture, to attract talents, so as to drive the development of the whole society.

Guo Wei pondered for a long time, waved his hand to stop the debate of everyone in the hall, and announced a series of orders:

Wang Pu led a group of staff members of the original Tianxiong Army to carefully study Lin Feng's reform measures to see if they could be borrowed in the coming week;

The ministers of the DPRK and China were selected to rush to the Southern Tang Dynasty to reprimand the Southern Tang Dynasty for its reckless behavior of collecting Chu;

With the Lanzhou Festival, Chai Rong controlled the armies of Hebei and worked together to repel the Khitan enemy. At the same time, Zhu Xian, the general of Zuo Qianniuwei, was sent to accompany the Khitan envoy sent by Liu Ci, the envoy of Anguo Jiedu, to return to Liao, explain to Liao the reasons for the change of dynasty, and give a large number of gold and jade to the lord of Liao;

With the Jinzhou Festival, Wang Yan actively prepared for war to prevent the Northern Han from crossing the border to attack;

Guo Chongxiong led 7,000 cavalry south to Xuzhou and quickly quelled the Xuzhou rebellion. Gong Tingmei, the original left-hand capital, and Yang Wending, the coach of Yuancong, were unforgiving.

Hou Zhou's huge weapon quickly turned.

Lin Feng, who was on the sea, had no idea that he had once again become the center of the whirlpool of the North and South Dynasty, because he himself had suddenly broken into the danger of reality.