Since the war was launched in March, Li Jing was nervous and worried that he would repeat the mistakes of the last battle against Fujian, so he would do everything himself and would ask about the front-line food and pay logistics issues every morning.

Soon, Li Jing's mood turned into loss.

The Qingyuan and Wuyue war launched by Lin Feng strongly was essentially a short-term "blitzkrieg" and the five local military forces dispatched their troops would have three to six months of grain storage. Even if the grain use increased sharply during the battle, the short-term war consumption did not require emergency dispatch at all. When attacking Fuzhou, Lin Feng called on the stockpile of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou on the spot, and mobilized local wealthy businessmen to transport grain to the front line. There was no problem of not being able to continue food and grass. In other words, Li Jing, the self-proclaimed "food and grass officer", was not useful at all.

When the Central Army that attacked Wu and Yue were defeated, the news of the victory of the Northern Army came one after another, and Li Jing was in a roller coaster, rising and falling, and was unwilling to take care of business. It was not until late March that the victory reports of Quanzhou and Fuzhou were spread to the rear in a hurry with 800 miles. Only then did Li Jing fall into the ground with a big rock. When people went to court for several consecutive days, they were dancing and excited.

However, excitement is always temporary, and distress is the theme of life.

After Li Jing's excitement fell a little, he realized with the reminder of the ministers that this victory scene not only brought glory, but also brought many tribulations of victory:

First of all, it is in terms of political influence. The recapture of the Qingyuan Army is not very important. After all, the Qingyuan Army was originally a nominal territory of the Southern Tang Dynasty, but it was different if it occupied Fuzhou. The protests from Wu and Yue need to be responded to, and there must be a formal statement about the nominal sect leader of Wu and Yue, the Later Zhou Dynasty.

After the court discussion, the Southern Tang sent a delegation of envoys with the highest standards, led by Shangshu Youpus Sun Sheng, and rushed to Houzhou with a large amount of money and property, explaining the reason for sending troops to Wuyue, and stating that the Southern Tang was just to take back the Fuzhou area, which belonged to him, and requested the understanding of the Houzhou people.

The second was ruled by Xinshoudi. How to manage Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Fuzhou is an important decision that may affect the future. After urgent consultation, the court formally abolished the Qingyuan Army and established the governor of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou. Chen Yuanzao, the former Minister of Revenue, was changed to Quanzhou Governor, and Chen Hongjin was appointed as Quanzhou Governor; Liu Cong continued to serve as Zhangzhou Governor, and Zhang Hansi was appointed as Zhangzhou Governor; Fuzhou area still had the Zhangwu Army, and Chen Hui, the governor of Jianzhou and the chief of the army.

Finally, there was the issue of rewards from the victorious army. All the more than 100,000 soldiers involved in the attack were rewarded, and the court issued money. In addition, there was originally accumulating wealth in Quanzhou, Fuzhou and other places, which was nothing more than spending more money. As for the three infantry generals who attacked Wu and Yue, the navy generals were all ready to reward money; and the governor of Guizhou, Ma Jiwei, made contributions to defending the land, removed the word "xing" and officially became the governor of Guizhou;

There is only one person who is most difficult to reward: Lin Feng. The most important person in the Southern Tang Dynasty was Lin Feng.

Lin Feng led the special forces to successfully seek the Qingyuan Army and Wu Yue Fuzhou. This contribution was as dazzling as the sun and could not be ignored. It was because Lin Feng had a very visionary establishment of the Yihan Alliance that the Gui-managed area could easily defeat the invading Southern Han army, and this contribution could not be ignored. It was because of Lin Feng's war of attrition that the powerful enemy Zhou was repeatedly frustrated under the city of Jinzhou, which successfully attracted the attention of the Later Zhou and was even more rewarded.

Rewards are necessary, but how to reward should be carefully considered. Therefore, when the Shangshu Youpushe Sun Sheng raised the question of how to reward Lin Feng in the court discussion the day before the Later Zhou Dynasty, he immediately detonated an extremely huge "thunderclap" in the court.

The deputy envoy of the Privy Councillor Chang Mengxi, the Minister of the Dali Temple and the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Jiang Wenwei, the Right Censor of the Ministry of Rites, and Han Xizai, the member of the Yu Ministry of Fight, and other Lin School naturally agreed with the grand prize, believing that Lin Fengshu must be established as a benchmark and symbol for the Southern Tang Dynasty to attach importance to talents and clearly distinguish between rewards and punishments;

As for Feng Yansi, the Privy Councilor who had always been unfamiliar with Lin Feng, Wei Cen and others tried their best to attribute the victory of the Wuyue War to the emperor's decision and wisdom, the wise command of the King of Qi, and at the same time attributed the victory in the Guizhou area to the former deputy general of the Wuchang Army and the governor of Guizhou, Ma Jiwei, who tried his best to downplay and erase Lin Feng's contributions in all wars.

However, one thing that everyone remembers is that in this court dispute, even the most stubborn opposition spoke a little cautiously, and no one would jump around and pour sewage on Lin Feng. After all, the fact that Wang Tai, the assistant coach of the Imperial College, was slaughtered. Although the case was not solved, everyone knew that this matter was inseparable from Lin Feng, so naturally he didn't want to over-stimulate Lin Feng anymore. Only then would he know how crazy he or his subordinates would be.

The first wave of debates about Lin Feng’s reward in the court were originally quite dull, but due to the participation of two heavyweights, the debate immediately escalated.

After Lin Feng's future father-in-law, Situ Zhouzong, met Xi Mucheng one night, visited his close friends and allies in the court. Therefore, more and more bigwigs joined the team supporting Lin Feng on the morning court the next morning.

At this time, Fang Hongjian, the censor who is known for his integrity, jumped out and presented a long memorial, listing the important role played by all the introduced talents since the founding of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Then, he turned his pen and counted Lin Feng's outstanding contributions in political and diplomacy, social change, economic development, military strategy, scientific and technological invention, and pointed out that Lin Feng would be one of the key factors for the Tang Dynasty to dominate the world in the future. If such talents are not rewarded, no one in the world can be rewarded; if this contribution is not rewarded, no one in the world can be rewarded.

Fang Hongjian's righteousness made Li Jing, who had been silent and unspoken, feel a fever on his face. The last time Lin Feng came back from a visit to the north, he should have received a great reward, but was suppressed by himself out of selfishness. Now it seems that he can no longer avoid this problem.

At this moment, a memorial from the Eastern Capital temporarily saved Li Jing, who was a little in a difficult situation. King Yan Li Hongji actually strongly recommended Lin Feng as the commander of Qingfeng Palace to be in charge of the reform of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, this idea was not thought of by Li Hongji himself, but was ordered by his "guest minister" and former Shangshu Ling Song Qiqiu.

After the New Year's amnesty was issued, Li Hongji submitted a memorial to his son, saying that he was still young after all, and wanted to hire Song Qiqiu, who was thinking behind closed doors, as his commander, to guide the reform of Dongdu. After Li Jing thought deeply, he approved it and agreed. Song Qiqiu officially announced that he had ended his retreat and officially returned to the secular world.

Over the past three months, Song Qiqiu, who has become more and more immortal, has been writing and scribing in the small courtyard of the Dongdu left-behind mansion every day. He changed his previous luxury habits and never required food, drinking and dressing. He only asked Li Hongji to provide any news about Lin Feng every two days.

Since the news about Quanzhou and the Fuzhou War came from various channels, Song Qiqiu locked him up for two consecutive days, and finally found Li Hongji with a heavy expression. The first sentence was to ask in a daze: "Does Your Highness Yan trust me?"

Li Hongji was a little puzzled and replied without hesitation: "Of course, Xiao Wang trusts Master Song."

Song Qiqiu placed a map of the world covered with brush marks and ink marks in front of Li Hongji and said solemnly: "I suspect that Lin Feng is creating an extremely huge situation, so please make sure that your Highness must stop Lin Feng from taking charge of Shouzhou."

The unfinished statement completely made the young King of Yan dizzy. I really doubt whether Song Qiqiu was a little confused.

Song Qiqiu said anxiously: "The matter is urgent. Please write a memorial with your own hands and ask the emperor to seal Lin Feng in charge of the reform."

Li Hongji became even more confused and immediately stepped back and asked Song Qiqiu to explain the reason in detail. Half an hour later, three fast horses drove out of the eastern capital Yangzhou and rushed to Jinling with His Highness the King of Yan.

Li Hongji's urgent sound immediately caused another wave of storm in the court.

Now, the two factions that were arguing in the court completely changed their positions. The original anti-Lin faction opposed the proposal in unison, saying that the reform was extremely important, and how could a person who had been in the government for less than a year be in charge? Isn’t this a joke about the future of the country?

The original Lins and the faction was even more unanimously opposed.

The hidden heart of Sima Zhao in this memorial can be seen by anyone who is discerning at a glance. More than a dozen ministers are fighting openly and secretly in the Qingfeng Hall, and have been struggling for more than half a year, but basically no substantial results have been achieved. Now that Lin Feng has suddenly been promoted to this position, he is to put him on fire, and this is to kill him.

Unlike the unanimous opposition of the ministers, Li Jing agreed with Li Hongji's view in his heart. It would be a good idea to control Lin Feng, a surreptitious dangerous person, under his nose. Besides, if these changes are broken through, wouldn't it be even more a good thing?

At this time, Xiao Yan stood up and pointed out a fact: the current reform of Qingfeng Hall cannot see obvious progress. It is precisely because everyone is working behind closed doors and has not obtained practical evidence in the prefectures and counties. It is better to let Lin Feng go to a state to conduct a reform experiment and test the effect.

Xiao Yan's throwing stone immediately aroused another wave of waves. The original anti-Lin faction strongly agreed with this idea and began to actively select the prefectures for Lin Feng that can make major breakthroughs through reform. Without exception, these places are all old, young, and poor areas, and their intentions are also very obvious. First, throw this extremely annoying Lin Feng into a corner.

Of course, the Linshe faction did not agree, believing that time was too late and that the major events of change were imminent. We must find a large province with moderate scale and long-term impact to conduct experiments. The two sides had a new wave of debates about the location of Lin Feng's "departure".
Chapter completed!