With the issuance of the two holy decrees, Zhao Kuangyin's rebellion and the battle of Kaifeng, which were noisy and shook the world, also came to an end. Although in the hearts of different people, this "full stop" is either perfect or extremely ugly, whether it is perfect or ugly, this event that is enough to affect the general trend of the world and the trend of history has finally come to fruition. Next, the crossing team focused on deploying its own members to the south and gradually taking control of Hou Zhou's power.

According to the committee's resolution, while nearly 80,000 people from the "Ranger Battalion," the Second Independent Cavalry Regiment, the Second Independent Artillery Regiment, and the "Security Army" reserve unit regiment and some standing regiments of the "Security Army" were left Kaifeng to return to the Beiping Army, most of the members of the main functional departments of the crossing team, including Zhang Weixin, Xu Shaoan, and Li Junwu, as well as a large number of local officials of the Beiping Army who were trusted by the crossing team, will go south to Kaifeng in phases and batches. So, with the order of the committee, the entire crossing team and even the entire Beiping Army took action.

Since other departments are mostly working behind the scenes, the personnel adjustment will not cause obvious changes on the surface, so in comparison, the personnel adjustment of the crossing team in government affairs and military affairs is more prominent in the eyes of outsiders.

Among them, in terms of government affairs, as Xie Tian and Huangshan went south with Zhang Weixin, among the seven prefectures of the Beiping Army, only Zhao Dawei of Beiping Mansion, Song Feiyang of Jinzhou Mansion and Sun Yangyang of Datong Mansion were left as the three prefects of the traverser. This means that the focus of the work of the crossing team has begun to change from the grassroots to the high-level, from the local to the central, thus laying the foundation for further achievements and achievements in the future; In terms of military affairs, with Zeng Zhilin being appointed as the deputy commander of the former division of the palace, his original position as the chief soldier of Pinglu Town of the Beiping Army was bound to be taken over by others. And the candidate to take over fell on Wu Peng without surprise. As for Wu Peng's original responsibility for the training of recruits in the Beiping Army, his deputy Zou Zhenyuan took over. As a result, Zou Zhenyuan, who has been serving as a deputy to other brothers since he joined the crossing team, has never participated in any military operations, and has never had the opportunity to take charge in the military field, got rid of the embarrassing situation of "millennium assistant" and truly became a valuable member of the crossing team.

As a large number of cadres of the crossing team and the Beiping Army went south to Kaifeng, as the situation in the Later Zhou court gradually stabilized, and as Kaifeng City slowly returned to its former calm, the members of the crossing team who had just entered the center of the world also packed up their moods, adjusted their state, put aside the victories they had achieved, and began to concentrate on court affairs. On the one hand, the brothers did a good job in the aftermath of Zhao Kuangyin's rebellion, screened and reorganized the rebels outside the city, and straightened out the relationship between the court; On the other hand, we must always pay attention to the southeast direction, the nephew of Taizu who showed his countermarks before Zhao Kuangyin raised troops to plot against him, and intended to make Li Yun attack north and south with Zhaoyi Jiedu, and replace the Chai family to sit in the country, Huainan Jiedu made Li Chongjin, in case this guy does not know how to follow in the footsteps of Zhao Kuangyin, and then stage a farce of plotting to usurp the throne.

Speaking of which, although this Li Chongjin is a general who can fight habitually, he is a master who lacks assertiveness and decisiveness when it comes to matters other than going into battle. At the beginning, he saw that the Later Zhou court intended to cut off the military power of the leading generals in the court, and even suppressed Zhang Yongde repeatedly by the hand of Zhao Kuangyin, so that the latter raised troops to rebel in the unbearable situation, and he was inevitably empathetic to the emperor's relatives, and Guo Wei, the Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, chose the former with a farther blood relationship between Chai Rong's wife and nephew and his nephew, which also made him feel a little lost and unconvinced - even if he was forced to bow down to Chai Rong in front of Guo Wei to show his loyalty. Therefore, at the beginning of Zhang Yongde's rebellion, he did have the intention of raising troops to respond and enter Kaifeng. Moreover, in order to win more allies, he also sent his staff Zhai Shouxun as a secret envoy to form an alliance with Li Yun, the envoy of the Zhaoyi Army, intending to enhance his strength. It's just that what he didn't expect was that Zhai Shouxun turned his heart to the court, took the letter he wrote, and turned his head and went to Kaifeng. This Zhai Shouxun not only secretly told him that Li Chongjin intended to rebel, but also relied on his three-inch incorruptible tongue to make Li Chongjin believe that Li Yun was not enough to conspire, and then gave up the idea of forming an alliance with Li Yun and raising troops together, and instead strengthened the city, rested the armor, and secretly sent people to contact the Southern Tang Dynasty, trying to strengthen his own strength in order to have the ability to fight with the imperial court. If it weren't for the fact that Zhang Yongde's rebellion had not subsided at that time, it would not have been possible that when Zhai Shouxun entered Beijing to report secretly, the imperial army would have already arrived in Yangzhou City.

Although Li Chongjin did not really respond to Zhang Yongde's rebellion, he thought that the imperial court would not attack him for a while until he had conclusive evidence, but he was still a little worried in his heart. Especially when Zhao Kuangyin led the army to quell Zhang Yongde's rebellion in a very short period of time, and returned to his division and went straight to his Huainan, Li Chongjin was even more terrified. On the one hand, he strengthened his strength, and on the other hand, he colluded with the Southern Tang Dynasty more frequently, hoping that the other party could give him support, or simply send troops to fight against the Later Zhou court with him. But what Li Chongjin didn't expect was that just when he thought that the imperial army was coming, and the attitude of the Southern Tang Dynasty was still unclear, and he might have to face Zhao Kuangyin's army alone, and then possibly follow in the footsteps of Zhang Yongde, Zhao Kuangyin suddenly attacked under Kaifeng City, and in an instant, he changed from a hero to a chaotic thief.

It stands to reason that Li Chongjin, who once wanted to rebel against the Later Zhou court and wanted to raise troops to protect himself, when the battle of Kaifeng entered a stalemate, he should send troops in time to help Zhao Kuangyin and defeat Liliang on the court side, so as not to slow down the court and deal with him again. But as a relative of the emperor, he was worried that once he helped Zhao Kuangyin defeat the imperial court, the chair in the palace would be snatched away by Zhao Kuangyin, who was stronger than him, and he was feared by the new monarch because he had heavy troops and could be regarded as the imperial relatives of the previous dynasty, and finally ended up in a situation where he was suppressed, excluded, or even eliminated. Therefore, whether to send troops or not, Li Chongjin can be said to be entangled. The Battle of Kaifeng was fought for more than half a month, and he Li Chongjin struggled with it for more than half a month. It wasn't until the news came from the front that the Beiping Army was ordered to rebel and form the "Jingnan Army" to go south to Qinwang, which not only surrounded Zhao Kuangyin's rebels in one fell swoop, but also entered Kaifeng and mastered the military and political power of the imperial court. He secretly rejoiced that he was patient, did not have an impulse, and raised troops to help Zhao Kuangyin; I was glad that I had a foresight and did not make a rash choice when the situation was unclear.

It's just that the good times didn't last long, and before Li Chongjin could be on his side for a long time, as the members of the crossing team who were ordered to go south to Kaifeng and the local officials of the Beiping Army arrived in Kaifeng one after another, and smoothly entered the various departments of the Later Zhou Imperial Court, as the removal and sanctions of the remnants of Zhao Kuangyin's henchmen were nearing the end, and with the screening and reorganization of the Later Zhou Forbidden Army in Kaifeng City presided over by Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin, Wang Feng and others was basically completed, nearly 70,000 soldiers and horses were eliminated to more than 30,000 people, and mixed with the Beiping Army left in Kaifeng to form a new Great Zhou Forbidden Army- Originally, the Later Zhou Forbidden Army was only allowed to be incorporated into the "Security Army", and the eyes of the Later Zhou Imperial Court, or the crossing team, finally fell on Li Chongjin, a fish who had obvious antipathy and had already appeared, but was at large for various reasons.

On the fifteenth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar of the ninth year of Xiande, under the instruction of the crossing team, the Later Zhou court ordered Li Chongjin to enter Beijing to see and report on his work. Li Chongjin, who had a ghost in his heart and knew that he was wrong, was afraid that once he entered Beijing, he would become a turtle in the urn and would never return to the south, so he finally chose to resist the order and refused to enter Beijing.

On the 25th day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar of the ninth year of Xiande, the Later Zhou court declared Li Chongjin a rebel in the name of disobeying the holy order and having ill intentions, and issued an edict on the same day.