Xiao Jiu came back to his senses and said with a somewhat embarrassed smile: "If it is really a country and a city, I can't afford it, I can't afford it." Wu Yingying and Xin Gu both laughed when they heard this.

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"Xu Xiang, if Wu Qiao and Wu Yingying continue like this, they will rebel against the big country, and the day Jinling City is broken, I am afraid that the jade will be burned!" Seeing that the Song army had suffered a great loss under the city, they all pretended to be happy and cheered when they were discussing, but they immediately gathered in Xu Xian's mansion to discuss countermeasures.

"Since the last time Wu Yingying burned the pontoon bridge of the army, the henchmen I sent to contact the Song State have not returned, maybe General Cao thinks that we and Wu Yingying conspired to frame the army and be angry with us, what can we do?"

"You still have the face to say, if it weren't for the good armor and ordnance for Wu Yingying, could he be so arrogant?" Zhang Xun angrily reprimanded, he was in a high position, and he was deeply trusted by Cai Yu, so that Liu Chengxun didn't dare to refute, and just explained in a low voice: "Xiaguan obviously only gave him some inferior armor. It caused Zhang Xun to give a heavy "snort", which scared Liu Chengxun not to talk more.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Your Majesty was bewitched by Wu Qiao and Wu Yingying, and insisted on going his own way, and we must work together to save this crisis. Xu Xian is worthy of the demeanor of the prime minister, as soon as he opened his mouth, some angry colleagues quieted down to listen to him, he nodded with satisfaction, and continued: "Wu Yingying has a saying of 'forcing peace with war', although it is not self-sufficient, but there are also merits, let them jump out and fight a dozen, the Northern Dynasty can know that to appease the people of Jiangnan, you have to rely on us and others." ”

"Xu Xiang, you must not also be bewitched by Wu Yingying's madman, I heard that there have been rumors in the Southern Expeditionary Army that the city will be slaughtered after Jinling is captured, if Wu Yingying provokes the Song people again, I am afraid that there will be no eggs under the nest. Although Liu Chengxun, the envoy of Changdeok Palace, was very in awe of Xu Xian, he had to open his mouth to persuade at this time.

"Are you so confused that I am?" Xu Xian glanced at him and said in a deep voice: "Fight, let him fight, but at the critical moment, I still need to wait to turn the tide." He didn't want to say too much here, so he turned his head and asked Zhang Yan: "The third division will interrogate the little elder Jiang Zheng who was imprisoned by Wu Yingying, have you ever confessed that he is indeed a fine worker sent by Jiangbei?"

Zhang Yan frowned and said: "This person knows that he can't escape death if he confesses, and he still can't be killed now, but from the perspective of the following officials, this person must be Jiangbei's meticulous work." ”

Xu Xian sighed: "If it's really as you expected, I'm afraid that the matter of negotiating peace with the Southern Expeditionary Army will still fall on this person." ”

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"The hall is full of three thousand guests, and one sword is frosty and cold in fourteen states. He was holding a piece of white paper in his hand, on which the inscription was written in silver hook and iron painting, "If there is no self today, how can there be a king tomorrow?"

"Since King Qian has decided to submit to the Northern Dynasty, why should he keep making decisions. If it is the two ends of the first rat, I am afraid that it will be jealous of the British lord. Seeing that Qian Yu couldn't give up the glory of the secession party, he took out the letter written by Cai Yu to persuade him to fight against the Song Dynasty together, and looked at it, and persuaded him out loud.

Qian Yu nodded and asked, "Today, Ding Deyu has come to urge the army again?"

Fan Yin nodded and said, "The lower official shirked him on the grounds that the lord was unwell, but Ding Deyu claimed that within ten days, if our army did not send troops to attack Changzhou, he would lead the five thousand forbidden troops from Jiangbei to fight alone, and at the same time write to His Majesty." ”

"This reckless man. Qian Yu, the king of Wuyue, shook his head a little painfully, it would be good if the Northern Dynasty were all Wenchen, Jinling Wenchen was in power, and he was polite to Wu Yue, not only did he come to send money and rice every time he came to the famine, even if some villains were in the main battle, they would definitely be attacked by these Wenchen immediately. It's a pity that the Tang State is too weak, and Wu Yue's national policy is to do his best to make a big country.

Seeing the look of annoyance on Qian Li's face, Fan Yin's eyes rolled, and he leaned closer and said: "Anyway, there is still a ten-day delay, and the subordinates of the lower officials have collected a pair of stunning beauties from the countryside, and they have been sent to the back account, why don't you go to relieve the troubles first, and then discuss?"

Qian Yu's face turned pale when he heard this

Outside the gate of the mound and ruins, who cried in the cold food.

The wind blows the paper money in the wilderness, and the ancient tombs are full of spring grass and green.

The pear blossoms reflect the poplar trees, and they are all dead and parting.

The lonely Chongquan cried and didn't hear it, and the rain of Xiao Xiao's tomb returned.

Bai Juyi's poem "Cold Food Wild Hope" describes the situation of families going to the tomb to worship on the day of the Cold Food Festival. On this day, it was a cold meal, and the willow trees in Changdeokgung Palace began to sprout tender yellow sprouts, and the palace ladies hung colorful ropes in the garden, swinged, and competed to laugh and play. Faced with the scene of spring, Cai Yu, the lord of Jiangnan, chanted this sad poem.

On the ancestral mountain in the southwest of Jinling, there are two generations of Southern Tang emperors buried, in previous years, Cai Yu will lead the ministers of civil and military affairs to hold a huge memorial ceremony, but this year's cold food, due to the Song army besieging Jinling, but also in the north of the ancestral mountain Niushou Mountain set up a large camp, Cai Yu wanted to worship the previous king but could not make the trip, the heart was depressed and invincible, it was to summon the god guard to the palace Marquis Wu Yingying to discuss.

Seeing Cai Yu's frowns, Wu Yingying's evaluation of this person's pure filial piety in the annals of Wu Yingxing's heart is pertinent, and he arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty misses the ancestors of the past dynasties in your heart, and you have the heart to go to the ancestral hall mountain to worship?"

Cai Yu sighed and nodded: "When the first king was here, although he never thought of passing on to me at the beginning, he was the most kind to me, and when he had a banquet with famous ministers such as Han Xizai and Feng Yanji, he loved to let me write poems on the spot, and then he would give me some precious calligraphy and painting scriptures." In retrospect, these scenes are still vivid. ”

Wu Yingying also sighed: "Everyone in the world says that the family affection of the heavenly family is weak, but the emperor and His Majesty are both affectionate people. ”

Cai Yu looked at Wu Yingying with some surprise, and said after a while: "Wu Qing is really a straightforward person, although I feel the weakness of the emperor's family, it is the first time I have heard it from the mouth of a courtier. ”

Wu Yingying woke up and hurriedly bowed his head to confess, Cai Yu waved his hand and said: "You say that everyone in the world says so, it must be a rumor in the market, but others dare not speak out in front of me." After speaking, he stared at Wu Yingying, and said slowly: "Seeing the invasion of the Song army, I don't know if I am still in Jinling at this time next year, Wu Qing, can you protect Gu to go to the ancestral hall and pay homage to the two emperors?"

Wu Yingying smiled bitterly and said: "Although the enemy army has just suffered a big loss, but the 50,000 army is entrenched outside the city, and Your Majesty has a body of ten thousand gold, even if he is a little frightened when he rashly goes out of the city, the prime minister will not punish the last general of the nine clans?"

Cai Yu saw that he did not refuse, but deliberately made this appearance, and said with a smile: "You worship the Marquis of Yu, even if the prime minister wants to move you, it is not easy for the prime minister to move you, but he describes himself as pitiful as the officials of the six subordinates, and besides, you came to Jiangnan alone, where are the nine clans to be punished?"

Wu Yingying could only clasp his fists and said: "Since the holy order cannot be violated, the minister has no choice but to obey the order, but Your Majesty needs to be slightly subdued when he goes out of the city this time, and he cannot use the Heavenly Family Honor Guard." ”

Cai Yu nodded in agreement, so Wu Yingying went down to find Xin Gu, and accompanied Cai Yu out of the city to look at Zutang Mountain with a hundred cavalry.

It is said that after the pontoon bridge of the Song army was burned by Wu Hero, morale was frustrated, and the Jiangnan camp lacked food and grass, although it still insisted on besieging Jinling under the strict order of Cao Bin to deploy Cao Bin in the camp, but the plundering outside the city was much more restrained, and it was Wu Hero who escorted Cai Yu from the east gate of Jinling and went around in a circle to Zutang Mountain, and did not encounter any Song army along the way.

Wu Yingying sent thirty sergeants to stand guard around the cemetery, while he waited for Cai Yu while looking at the surrounding terrain. The Qin Tomb of the first lord Cai Ben and the Shun Tomb of the middle lord Cai Jing are all here, the two tombs are adjacent to each other, the east is adjacent to the Red Mountain, the north is close to the White Mountain, the west is the valley, the mountains are seen from afar, the shape is like a swimming dragon, the ancestral hall mountain is the head of the dragon, the two tombs are located in the position of the dragon's mouth, it is really a good feng shui treasure land.

At this time, the Tang Kingdom was not destroyed, and the Song army who was bent on attacking Jinling had not yet thought of invading the mausoleum of the ancestors of the lord of the Jiangnan State, so the maintenance of the two tombs was quite good, the surrounding pine and cypress forests exuded a faint and ancient meaning, the palace was magnificent and solemn, the stele pavilion, the imperial bridge, the Huabiao and the stone people, and the stone beasts stood in the mausoleum area within a radius of several miles.

Wu Yingying thought in his heart, it is said that Jinling is a place where dragons and tigers sit, but it is a short-lived dynasty, and even the Southern Tang Dynasty, which is very well located in this mausoleum, is only three generations, to be honest, the three emperors of the Southern Tang Dynasty are really not tyrants or faint monarchs among the kings of the Chinese dynasties. Even Cai Yu, who was widely criticized by later generations, was more than a little stronger than Song Huizong later, except for being a little less domineering than Zhao Kuangyin. Could it really be that Qin Shi Huang sent Jin to suppress the royal spirit here?

I saw Cai Yu in front of the mausoleum suddenly silent for a long time, and suddenly muttered to himself, and after a while, he actually burst into tears. Wu Yingying couldn't bear it in his heart, paced away, and when he met Xin Gu who came in a hurry, he asked, "What's the alarm?"

Xin Gu said: "The sentinel came to report that there were about 2,000 cavalry of the Song army, all the way to this place. ”

"What?" Wu Yingying was shocked in his heart, it was rare for the Song army to have such a large group of cavalry dispatched at the same time, could it be that another fine work had passed on the news to the Song army? He hurriedly walked behind Cai Yu and said in a low voice: "Please mourn Your Majesty." Today, there is a cavalry brigade of the Song army approaching this place, I am afraid that the comer is not good, please Your Majesty quickly move back to the palace. ”

Cai Yu turned around, his face was miserable, and he said in a low voice: "I remember the emperor, I have lost every inch, everything is arranged by you." ”

Wu Yingying immediately asked Cai Yu to get on his horse, and Xin Gu led 70 cavalry to escort him to the south gate of Jinling, and he took 30 cavalry to the Song army to investigate the truth. Zhuan Xi, patted Fan Yin on the shoulder and said: "Okay, you go and tell the generals to get ready, if Ding Deyu still insists on sending troops alone after ten days, then we will attack Changzhou with him." Turning his fat body, Shi Shiran walked towards the back tent, Fan Yin looked at his back as he left, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.