Chapter 1010 The rich man Kou Ji, the prodigal Weng Kou Zhun (make up tonight and tomorrow
Zhang Zhibai felt that the truth realized by Kou Ji was too extreme and too crude.
Kou Ji saw Zhang Zhibai's frown and knew what Zhang Zhibai was thinking, but he didn't explain much.
Kou Ji smiled and said to Zhang Zhibai: "I accept the decree for your sake, and you don't need to say anything else. Linheng Mansion is not far from Han, nor is it close.
If you want to chat with me on weekdays, just send someone to say hello and I will send someone to pick you up."
After saying this, Kou Ji didn't wait for Zhang Zhibai to continue speaking, stood up and cupped his hands and said: "Farewell..."
"etc……"
Zhang Zhibai made a sound to stop him, and tremblingly took out another imperial edict from his sleeve.
Kou Ji was slightly stunned when he saw the second imperial edict in Zhang Zhibai's hand.
Zhang Zhibai sighed, "Di Qing's..."
Kou Ji signaled Di Qing to take the imperial edict and opened it. It said that Di Qing was conferred as the Prince of Beihai County and the land 300 miles north of the Wei family was granted to Di Qing as a land seal.
The area north of the Wei Dynasty was not the territory of the Song Dynasty.
Zhao Zhen was being generous to others, but no one thought his approach was wrong.
With the current tyranny of the Song Dynasty, the territory outside the Song Dynasty can be taken at will.
In the past, the Song Dynasty liked to reason with others, but now the Song Dynasty likes to use fists.
However, around the Song Dynasty, there was no one with a bigger fist than the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, everything around the Song Dynasty was decided by the Song Dynasty itself.
Therefore, no one thought it was inappropriate for Zhao Zhen to use other people's territory to reward his own meritorious officials.
Di Qing saw that Kou Ji did not refuse Zhao Zhen's reward, so he did not refuse either.
After receiving the imperial edict, the group bid farewell to Zhang Zhibai and embarked on their journey again.
It took ten days to travel from Linheng Prefecture to Liaoyang Prefecture.
Along the way, I saw many people from the Song Dynasty working as prisoners.
The scene is very harmonious.
Linhengfu City, which was burned to ashes by the flames of war in the past, has now become the largest enlightenment city in Liao.
The Liao Palace in Linheng Mansion has been transformed into the Song Dynasty Palace.
The Liao Imperial Academy in Linheng Prefecture became the base of Linheng Imperial Academy.
In just a few years, Linheng Mansion has recovered some of its culture, and there are scholars lingering in the streets and alleys.
There are as many as thirty-two bookstores selling books.
I believe that in the near future, there will be more scholars in Linheng Mansion.
After leaving Linhengfu, there is an endless plain.
There are countless plants and crops planted on the plains, as far as the eye can see.
When Kou Ji returned to the court last time, there were only scattered virtual people in the fields on the plain. After several migrations, the population on the plain has increased a lot.
There are people working in the fields, woods, and riversides.
As long as the Song Dynasty can maintain the current political decrees implemented in the Liao region, I believe that in a few years, the Liao region will be completely integrated into the Song Dynasty and become a part of the Song Dynasty.
When they arrived at Liaoyang Mansion, Kou Ji and his party took a rest.
Liaoyang Mansion is now much more prosperous. It no longer has the scene of weapons and weapons in the past, and there are many more merchants.
There is a huge border market on the Yalu River east of Liaoyang Prefecture.
It communicated goods between the Song Dynasty and South Korea.
Many merchants from the Song Dynasty went to the border market of Liaoyang Prefecture to 'dig for gold'.
Some specialties from the north of Liaoyang Prefecture and South Korea are the favorite goods of merchants.
In addition, the Kou family, who occupied Han territory, was a famous rich man in the Song Dynasty.
Kou almost spared no expense when governing Korea.
So the quantity of goods required is very large.
Merchants could not only buy Korean specialties at the border markets, but also sell many goods shipped from the Song Dynasty to Korea.
The border market between Liaoyang Prefecture and Han Dynasty is located on the edge of the Yalu River and is jointly governed by the Song Dynasty and Han Dynasty.
There is no one who bullies whom.
Even if there was a problem of bullying, it was the border market stewards of Han who bullied the border market stewards of the Song Dynasty.
The Border City Manager of the Song Dynasty was an official of the Song Dynasty, the manager of the border city in Han Dynasty, and the chief official of Princess Baoqing's palace.
Although Princess Baoqing is married, she is still the princess of the Song Dynasty and one of the most noble princesses of the Song Dynasty.
It was easy for the long history of Princess Mansion to bully and bully the officials in the border cities of the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, in the border market, once the two sides encounter friction, it is usually the Song border market manager who makes concessions in advance.
The managers of the border cities of the Great Song Dynasty were not in a good position to seek support from the Imperial Guards of the Great Song Town.
The Imperial Guards at the border of Song Dynasty in Liao were the confidants of Kou Ji and Di Qing.
Those older Forbidden Army generals looked upon Kou Tianci as if they were their own nephews.
Find a group of uncles to bully your nephew.
They won't beat you to death with their backhand.
As for asking Zhang Zhibai to come forward, that's even more impossible.
If Zhang Zhibai dares to come to the border market, Kou Zhun will appear in front of him at the right time.
Facing Kou Zhun, Zhang Zhibai could not afford to be a frontier official.
So when there was a conflict between the two parties, the border city manager of Song Dynasty gave in in advance.
Kou Ji stayed in Liaoyang Mansion for a day and got to know the border market well. He felt that the management of the border market in South Korea was a bit overbearing.
So I asked Xiang Yan to go over and give her some training.
After Xiang Yan had finished training the stewards of the border city of Han, Kou Ji led the people onto the bridge over the Yalu River and entered Han.
After crossing the bridge, they saw Kou Tianci leading a large group of people waiting at the bridge.
Most of them are subordinate officials of the Han Palace and chief officials of the two palaces of Han Dynasty.
Kou Ji opened the curtain of the carriage and saw Kou Tianci and a group of people, bowing and waiting for him.
Kou Ji got off the carriage.
When he walked up to Kou Tianci, he looked at Kou Tianci up and down, and laughed softly: "I've grown taller, and my beard has sprouted a little."
Kou Tianci raised his head, smiled and shouted, "Dad..."
Kou Ji smiled and nodded, "I'm afraid your father-in-law will take back your title as King of Han soon. You won't have to be imprisoned here in the future."
Kou Tianci was stunned for a moment.
Kou Ji took out Zhao Zhen's edict and handed it to Kou Tianci.
Kou Tianci quickly opened the imperial edict and looked through it carefully, then said with a stunned look on his face: "Has this place become the Qing Kingdom?"
Kou Ji nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, Qingguo. Your father-in-law Jinguo said that this place will be Qingguo from now on. The capital can no longer be called Handu, it should be called Qingdu."
The names of the two mansions were also changed.
The northern mansion is called Kaiqing mansion, the southern mansion is called Yuanqing mansion, and everything else remains as usual."
Kou Tianci silently closed the imperial edict, looked at Kou Ji with a dumbfounded look and said, "So you always come back to seize power?"
Kou Ji was stunned and laughed loudly, "Seizing power? I would like this power? It's just jail time. If you don't want to, I can give you the position of the leader of the Qing Kingdom."
Kou Tianci shook his head decisively and said with a smile: "It's up to you to do it. I don't want to continue to nest in Han. In a place with big bullets, there is no point in being the king."
That’s why the Koreans enjoyed it.
The child feels that this place is a prison.
My child has spent so many years in jail for you.
Now it's your turn to sit down.
The child wants to take a big boat out to sea for a swim, go to Xiyang to see Bo Xu, and go to Bianjing to see Zhao Run."
Kou Ji smiled and scolded: "Bao Qing is pregnant and will give birth soon. In the meantime, don't even want to go there."
Kou Tianci felt a little embarrassed when he heard this.
He consummated the marriage with Bao Qing without Kou Ji's permission, and he was a little embarrassed to face Kou Ji.
Kou Ji knew in his heart that Kou Tianci didn't like this topic, so he changed the subject and said, "I saw the big ship you and Bo Xu built when we were in Bohai Mansion.
It is much better than the ships used by the Zhendong Army and Zhennan Army of the Song Dynasty.
But it’s still not enough.”
Kou Tianci was stunned, frowned and said: "Bo Xu and I communicated for a long time, and studied with the master craftsmen for a long time, and built a sea ship that can carry 1,300 people, which is already the limit.
It can't get any bigger.
There is no wood that big to make a bigger keel.”
Kou Ji smiled indifferently, "Have you never thought about forging a big ship with steel? If a ship is made of steel as a whole, and it encounters other big ships, it will not need to use any weapons at all, and it will be able to destroy the wooden ship by running into it.
Crash into pieces."
"Iron ship? Who can row it?"
Kou Tianci's eyes widened and he looked at Kou Ji in astonishment.
Kou Ji patted Kou Tianci on the shoulder and said nothing more.
Kou Ji asked Kou Tianci to stand aside. After he accepted the tributes from the subordinate officials of the Han Palace and the prefects of the Northern and Southern Prefectures, he smiled and said a few words to them, and then asked Kou Tianci to lead them to see Xiang Yan.
Kou Ji did not put the status of the leader of the Qing Kingdom in front of them.
As Kou Tianci said, Qingguo is just a small place.
That is the place where the Great Song Dynasty was founded.
It is really difficult for Koji to treat it as a country.
Kou Ji, Su Xun, and Bao Zheng all governed the Song Dynasty, which was more than thirty times larger than the Qing Dynasty.
The small Qingguo is not worthy of their mobilization of troops.
Any one of the three of them can cook Qingguo well while drinking tea.
When Kou Tianci led the officials of Prince Han's Mansion to visit Xiang Yan, he arrived not far from the Yalu River and met several commanders of the original Yuanshan Iron Cavalry and the original Hanshan Army.
They are Kou Ji's confidants and Kou Ji's foundation.
Kou Ji chatted with them for a long time, chatting all over the world for two days. He visited the camp where they were stationed and asked them what difficulties they had.
They were not polite when facing Kou Ji.
In terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, they have almost no requirements.
In the Qing Kingdom, they are the masters of society. Each of them has a crime record at home to help them farm and make money, so they have no shortage of food and clothing.
They only hope that Kou Ji can take care of the problem of marrying wives in Qingguo.
What are the problems with marrying a wife in Qingguo?
If you can't find a wife for your sins, people in Song Dynasty will marry you out of ten.
In the eyes of those criminals, marrying a woman from the Song dynasty means a successful career.
In addition, women here have the habit of relying on strong men.
Then, almost all the women in the criminal record tried their best to marry Song people.
A man with a criminal record cannot marry a wife at all.
If it were just that, they wouldn't care in their hearts.
The crux of the problem is that their descendants took ten or eight wives one by one, fell into Wenwen Township, and refused to come out.
None of them have much fighting spirit and just want to enjoy happiness.
No one wants his son to inherit his father's legacy.
They have been fighting for half their lives, and the war has penetrated deep into their bones.
They hope that their descendants can succeed them and become strong soldiers in the army.
But their descendants have no intention of inheriting their father's legacy.
So they were very unhappy.
After Kou Ji learned about this situation, he thought about it for a while and made a decisive decision to implement the national service system.
Kou Ji knows better than anyone else that force is the foundation of a political power.
If a regime loses its force, it is not far from death.
The people of Song Dynasty in Qing Dynasty were qualified to enjoy blessings because all their wealth was created by their own hands.
But while enjoying happiness, one must not neglect force.
Not only that, but we must continue to strengthen our force.
Kou Ji expressed his thoughts to several generals in the army and received unanimous responses from them.
After bidding farewell to the generals in the army, Kou Ji led his men and followed Kou Tianci to Handu, which had been renamed Qingdu.
The city of Handu is not large, less than one-third of the size of Bianjing City. It has been developed for many years, and the population has not increased dramatically.
The level of prosperity cannot be compared with Bianjing City.
The only saving grace is that there is the largest academy in the world in Handu, which covers an area and has a good stock of books, surpassing any other traditional Chinese school in the Song Dynasty.
Mountain Chief Kou Zhun is even known as a sage in the world.
Kou Ji stood outside Handu, looking at the low city wall for a long time, and finally decided to demolish Handu and rebuild it.
Except for Wenchang Academy, all the remaining places in Handu were demolished and rebuilt, including the former Goryeo Palace, which looked not much bigger than the original Kou mansion in Bianjing City.
It's not that Kou Ji wants to waste people and money, but there is really nothing in Han that Kou Ji likes.
If nothing else, let’s just take water.
Horses can race in the sewers of Bianjing City, and the sewer channels of Jiangning Prefecture are six feet long.
The sewers in Handu are only as thick as the mouth of a barrel.
The most important thing is that it does not cover the entire Korean capital, but leads directly to the former Goryeo Palace and the residences of several great Goryeo nobles.
When Kou Ji led the people into the city, he inspected Handu and considered the reconstruction plan.
Arriving at the former Goryeo Palace in Handu, Kou Ji asked Kou Tianci and Xiang Yan to look at the people who were following them. He took Su Xun, Di Qing, and Bao Zheng to visit Kou Zhun in Wenchang Academy.
Wenchang Academy is very large, with woods, rockeries, flowing water, ponds, corridors, and countless pavilions and attics.
In Wenchang Academy, there are two huge buildings.
One is the Sixian Hall for collective lectures, and the other is the Baishi Building for collecting books.
Sixian Hall is very large and circular.
The outer ring is a circle of corridors, with various sage texts carved on the walls.
Scholars can read in the corridor, or sit on the benches beside the corridor and enjoy the classics of the sages.
The inner ring is also a circle that looks like a corridor, but there are not as many columns as there are in the corridor.
There are three steps at the foot, each step is eight feet long.
There are tables and chairs on it, and a bookshelf stands next to the table and chairs.
Each set of desks, chairs and bookshelves is equipped with one student.
The teacher lectures on the open-air round platform in the middle.
The round platform is surrounded by a circular water ring, which seems to be connected to underground water veins and flowing with running water.
The rain that falls on rainy days will also flow into the water ring.
Baishilou is a library that covers an area ten times larger than Sixian Hall.
The whole building is made of white stone, with three floors and four pillars high. It is carved with many things in the Han style.
Surrounding the Baishi Building is a ring-shaped lake. The purpose of the ring-shaped lake is to prevent fire.
Three-story white stone building.
The first floor is a huge library of manuscripts and printed books.
The second floor, where the original books are stored, is generally not open to the public.
The third floor is where some unique copies of famous writers are hidden.
There are currently 200,000 books on the first floor, and the second and third floors are relatively empty.
After all, Qingguo Wenchang Academy was established not long ago, and its foundation is not that deep yet.
Later some treasures from Dashi books were hidden in it.
Some less precious items will be placed on the second floor.
All the manuscripts or printed copies are placed on the first floor for people to read.
If it's destroyed, it's destroyed, don't feel bad.
Kou Ji led people to search around Wenchang Academy, and finally found Kou Zhun in Sixian Hall.
Kou Zhun sat on the round platform in the Sixian Hall and took a nap, with two old servants waiting on him.
After Kou Ji arrived, he did not disturb Kou Zhun, and several people were waiting aside.
It wasn't until Kou Zhun woke up that Kou Ji, Su Xun, Bao Zheng, and Di Qing stepped forward to greet him.
Kou Zhun didn't know what magic medicine he took. Not only did he not age, but he became much younger. His black and white hair now completely turned into black hair.
If the wrinkles on his face hadn't faded, Kou Ji would have thought that he had truly rejuvenated.
"grandfather……"
Kou Ji knelt in front of Kou Zhun and called out.
Kou Zhun looked at Kou Ji blankly, lingered around Kou Ji, and asked suspiciously: "Wang Shu can't give up his wealth?"
Kou Zhun was very thoughtful and knew that Wang Shu was reluctant to part with the wealth of Bianjing City and did not go to Qing Kingdom with Kou Ji without seeing Wang Shu's figure.
Kou Ji knew clearly that what Kou Zhun cared about was not Wang Shu, but Wang Kou and Wang Yuan.
Kou Ji shook his head slightly.
Kou Zhun curled his lips and cursed in a low voice, "Idiot... he still wants to stay in Bianjing City and enjoy the blessings after losing the protection of you and my grandparents. He wants to be happy.
With his little ability, he wouldn't be able to maintain his current position without the protection of you and my grandparents.
It's only a matter of time before someone pulls you down."
Kou Ji said bluntly: "I can't help him make a choice about this kind of thing. He decided to stay in Bianjing, so I can only go along with his wishes."
Kou Zhun sighed, waved his hand and said: "That's all, let him go. He made his own stupidity. Our grandparents can help him once, but we cannot help him forever.
Relying on the blessings left by you and my ancestors, no matter how big the crime he commits, he can save his life. As for the official title, let’s not mention it.”
Kou Ji nodded.
Kou Zhun looked at Kou Ji and asked with a smile: "Doesn't it feel particularly bad to retire after you have achieved great success?"
Kou Ji smiled calmly and said: "It's okay..."
Kou Zhun laughed loudly, "When you advised me to retire after my success, I felt uncomfortable for several years. Now it's your turn to feel uncomfortable.
I don’t know what’s going on, but when I think about you feeling uncomfortable, I just want to laugh.”
Kou Ji looked at Kou Zhun dumbfounded.
Kou Zhun laughed for a long time and said nonchalantly: "Now that you are here, I don't have to worry about everything in Han. I can indulge in learning.
How happy it is to be light and free without any worries! How beautiful!”
Kou Ji said funnyly: "It's just a place as big as sesame seeds and mung beans. Why do you still need to worry about it? Your student Liang Shi can manage this place with ease."
Kou Zhun sighed, "Some people are careless."
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, frowned and said, "Clansman?"
Kou Zhun nodded.
Kou Ji pondered and said, "I don't remember granting them any privileges."
Kou Zhun said quietly: "Our Kou family has never regarded ourselves as a royal family, but the people here regard my Kou family as a royal family. Some members of the clan naturally become inflated when they are praised too much."
Kou Ji frowned and said, "Grandpa is not the kind of kind-hearted person."
Kou Zhun smiled softly and said: "The reason why I indulge them is because I want to give my God-given child some practice. But now that you have taken over the authority here, they are useless.
These people are the result of my indulgence, but I have no intention of paying attention to them.
So I leave it to you."
Kou Ji frowned, dumbfounded.
Kou Zhun smiled and asked: "I heard that you are going to demolish Handu and rebuild it?"
Kou Ji smiled and said: "I just sighed at the gate of Handu, and my grandfather knew?"
Kou Zhun said with a smile: "Some people always think that by currying favor with a good old man, they can get great benefits."
Kou Ji nodded and smiled: "You don't need to pay attention to these villains. I do have the idea of rebuilding this place."
Kou Zhun said bluntly: "Building a city requires a lot of money. The current taxes in Han are not enough to help you build the city you want."
Kou Ji smiled heartily and said, "I'm afraid you may have misunderstood my financial resources."
Kou Zhun hesitated and said: "After Tianci arrived here, in order to manage this place, he spent 40 million yuan one after another. Do you still have money?
Nowadays, let alone serious people, even those who have committed crimes are living a life of eating flour every day.
There has never been any trouble in the criminal record here, partly because you established the household head system, and partly because you have white flour to eat every day."
Kou Ji smiled and said, "I'm afraid you have never cared about how much money your family has."
Kou Zhun pondered: "Forty million strings is just a part of it?"
Kou Ji smiled and said: "About 10%."
Kou Zhun took a breath of air.
Su Xun, Bao Zheng, and Di Qing around Kou Ji also widened their eyes.
"so much?!"
Kou Zhun asked in loss of voice.
Kou Ji said with a smile: "I, the God of Wealth of the Song Dynasty, am not just a boast. When the Yuanshan Cavalry and the Hanshan Army were outside, they were just robbing, and they were robbing rich places. If you don't have a rich family, then you can
It’s strange.”
Kou Zhun suppressed the shock in his heart and said in a moderate tone: "Then you can make it... make it as big as you can."
After a pause, Kou Zhun added: "The equipment workshop and shipbuilding workshop also need to be expanded. It is best to rebuild the three piers on the seaside.
There are also banks, which are a good thing. It would be best if they could be established in every prefecture, state, and county at once.
The official roads leading to everywhere must be re-expanded.
It is best to rebuild the post houses and government offices.
Elementary schools, county schools, and government schools in various places also need to be rebuilt, and it is best to build libraries inside.
The most important thing is that we must use our craftsmen from the Song Dynasty."
Kou Ji was stunned, then laughed and said, "You are really rude. You know I have some spare money in my hand, so I can spend it as much as I can."
Kou Zhun glared at Kou Ji, "I say this for your own good."
Kou Ji nodded and smiled: "Of course I know what you are thinking, grandfather. You want to use this reconstruction of the entire territory to erase all traces of Goryeo here and lay a solid foundation for our Kou family."