Liu Yong felt more free and easy. When faced with Kou Ji's question, he chuckled and said: "In three and a half years, the student will be sixty. When he is almost sixty, he enters Bianjing City and only hangs around for a few days.
It's better not to mix.
Besides, the official system of the Song Dynasty is now very different from before, and students cannot understand the government affairs in some places.
Instead of sitting there and eating nothing, it would be better to leave in style.
A student is absurd in the first half of his life and cautious in the second half of his life.
It can be said that students work hard for their career.
After entering the official career, students realize that the official career is just like that.
Instead of continuing to hang out in the officialdom in a rigid manner, it is better to live the rest of your life as you please."
Kou Ji sighed: "I remember that in the past, you valued your career more than your life."
Liu Yong smiled calmly and said: "That was the Liu Yong of the past, not the Liu Yong of today. Ever since the students saw Mr. Kou Gonghe retire, the students' pursuit of an official career has become much weaker."
Kou Ji smiled and shook his head, "Since you have arrived in Qingguo, I can't ignore you. Tell me, how do you want to live in the future?"
Liu Yong said proudly: "The student is going to stay in Wenchang Academy to teach the first class of poetry. I dare not say anything else. But in the first class of poetry, no one in the world can beat the student with more than one hand."
Kou Ji grinned and said, "Don't talk too much. I'll introduce a little guy to you later."
Liu Yong was stunned, stroking his beard and said, "The little guy you are talking about is the Su Shi, the youngest son of the Su family?"
Kou Ji nodded.
Liu Yong said boldly: "Su Shi, the youngest son of the Su family, has some talent in poetry and is very spiritual, but the rough jade still needs to be carved.
The student believes that no one is more suitable than the student to carve this piece of rough jade."
Kou Ji nodded and said with a smile: "That's very good. I will make arrangements for you later."
Hearing this, Liu Yong stood up and cupped his hands and said, "Then I won't disturb you, student. I just arrived here and my wife and children still need to be settled at home, so I left first."
Kou Ji stood up to see them off, and after walking to the door, he asked curiously: "Mrs. Chong is over fifty and has given you two sons. How did you do it?"
Liu Yong was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly and said: "Nothing else, just work hard."
Kou Ji laughed.
After sending Liu Yong away, Zhao Run appeared in front of Kou Ji in a cunning manner.
"Student Zhao Run, I met Mr...."
Kou Ji returned to the tea room. He took a seat at the front table with a golden sword, took a sip of tea, and asked Zhao Run in a moderate and moderate manner, "If you are not the prince in Bianjing City, what are you doing here?"
Zhao Run grinned and said, "I dare not lie to you sir. The student has been appointed as the magistrate of Longyuan County under the rule of Liaoyang Prefecture. This time he came here just to take office.
Longyuan County is separated from Qingguo by a river.
When students arrive in Longyuan County, they will naturally come to visit Mr.
"Magistrate of Longyuan County?"
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment and asked suspiciously: "How did you think of going to Longyuan County to serve as the county magistrate? Have you been framed again?"
Zhao Run shook his head, "That's not true. This matter was decided by my father. My father has decreed that after the older prince leaves the cabinet, he must remain anonymous and serve as a local official.
If you can achieve some success, you will be qualified to inherit his throne.
If you remain unknown, you will remain ordinary for the rest of your life."
When Kou Ji heard this, he pondered for a moment and said with emotion: "Your father is raising Gu."
Zhao Run smiled bitterly and nodded.
Kou Ji said frankly: "Although it is a bit cruel, it is good for the Song Dynasty. It's just unfair to you, the crown prince. Seeing that there is an extra layer of variables in the throne.
It is very likely that I will lose the throne because of this change."
Zhao Run said bluntly: "Students are mentally prepared."
Kou Ji thought for a while and said with a smile: "If you really want to be the emperor, you don't have to go to so much trouble. Although your husband and I have left the Song Dynasty, I still have some influence on all parties in the Song Dynasty.
Especially the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty.
As long as Di Qing and I help you get involved, and as long as you are willing to spend money, 90% of the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty will join you.
You just have to wave your hand, millions of troops will come to Bianjing, and the throne will be at your fingertips."
When Zhao Run heard this, he trembled and stared at Kou Ji with a horrified expression: "No... no need..."
Kou Ji curiously said: "This opportunity is rare! Since I dare to publicly support you in winning the throne, I have at least a 70% chance of winning. Do you really not think about it?"
Zhao Run looked sad and said sadly: "I don't know how to get up and how to get down."
Kou Ji laughed and scolded: "Cowardly people..."
Zhao Run hurriedly raised his hand and said, "Sir, Tianci and I haven't seen each other for a long time. I miss you very much. I went to find Tianci."
After saying this, Zhao Run hurriedly escaped from the waiter before Kou Ji could speak again.
Kou Ji looked at the back of Zhao Run who escaped from the tea room and laughed.
After Liu Yong and Zhao Run met Kou Ji, one settled his family in the teacher's residence in Wenchang Academy, and the other found Kou Tianci and asked Kou Tianci to take him around Qingguo.
Three or five days passed like this.
The envoy from Xiyang appeared in front of Kou Ji with a letter.
The person who delivered the letter was a retainer of the Kou Mansion who had been sent by Kou Ji to assist Liu Boxu.
After the retainer saw Kou Ji, he quickly gave the letter to Kou Ji without saying much to him.
Kou Ji originally thought it was a letter from Liu Heng, but when he saw the words "uncle father Qi" written on the envelope, he knew that the letter was written by Liu Boxu.
Kou Ji opened the letter, glanced at it briefly, was slightly stunned, and then read Liu Boxu's letter carefully.
After reading Liu Boxu's letter carefully, Kou Ji looked at the retainer with a strange expression.
"Is what Bo Xu said in the letter true?"
The retainer nodded dumbfounded and said: "With the help of the villain and many other advisers, the King of Xiyang has learned how to manage politics, and he even manages things more properly than the villain and others.
Everything in Xiyang is proceeding in an orderly manner according to the arrangements of the Prince of Xiyang.
But since the old prince returned to Xiyang, everything has changed."
At this point, the customer looked hesitant.
Kou Ji finished his unfinished words for his retainer, "Liu Heng clearly didn't know how to govern the place, but he felt that he knew more about everything than Bo Xu after being an official for many years, so he made unbridled accusations and undermined the decrees carried out by Bo Xu.
The mess?"
The doorman smiled wryly and nodded.
Kou Ji shook his head and said with a smile: "I thought Liu Heng would recognize me clearly and would only interfere in Xiyang's military affairs after returning to Xiyang. Unexpectedly, Liu Heng was still too much.
He was not only intervening in Xiyang's military affairs, but also in Xiyang's government affairs.
Doesn't he know how much he weighs?"
The retainer said to Kou Ji: "It doesn't matter if the old prince interferes in Xiyang's government affairs. As long as he does the right thing, the people under his command will naturally believe in the old prince.
But the old prince was completely messing around.
The prince of Xiyang County finally made a decree based on the situation in Xiyang, but he overturned nearly 30% of the decrees.
If he continues to cause trouble, the years of hard work of Prince Xiyang may be in vain."
Kou Ji said angrily: "So Bo Xu asked you to send me a letter and asked me to bring Liu Heng here. It is best to tie Liu Heng here firmly and prevent him from returning to Xiyang to cause trouble?"
Is he still considered a son?
How can a son treat his father like this?"
The retainer hurriedly said: "The Prince of Xiyang County has said that he can send his two sons to the old prince for him to play with."
The corner of Kou Ji's mouth twitched.
"That's all, you can't blame others for this. After all, Liu Heng spent so little time with Bo Xu that Bo Xu didn't have much affection for him, so it was difficult to get close to him again.
Liu Heng's messing around in Xiyang is indeed detrimental to the development of Xiyang.
Xiyang is not as good as Qingguo, and it takes a lot of time to digest.
I will edit a book in a while and bring it to Liu Heng when I go back.
As for whether Liu Heng is willing to come over, that's not up to me."
The retainer nodded fiercely, "Your letter will definitely be useful. The old prince doesn't listen to anyone, he just listens to you."
Kou Ji glanced at the retainer and said, "Are you planning to follow Bo Xu to the end and not return to the Kou Mansion?"
When the disciple heard this, he said with a guilty look on his face: "I am not an ungrateful person, but I will do even greater things if I stay in Xiyang."
Kou Ji said with a smile: "You don't have to be like this. When I sent you to Xiyang, I had the intention of keeping you in Xiyang. I was just afraid that you wouldn't agree, so I never spoke.
Now that you are willing to stay in Xiyang, I have solved a heart problem."
The guest knelt at Kou Ji's feet with a solemn expression, and kowtowed three times to Kou Ji in a polite manner.
Kou Ji helped him up, wrote a long letter, and handed it to him.
After the retainer received the long letter, he did not stay in Qingdu any longer. He processed the goods he had brought from Xiyang and left by boat.
It is not easy to travel from Xiyang to Qingguo.
No matter what you do, you have to bring some goods back and forth.
The Qing Dynasty is currently undergoing major construction and there is not enough goods, so the customers need to go down the coast to Dengzhoucai in the Song Dynasty to buy a batch of goods, and then return to Xiyang. If they encounter the warships of the Zhendong Army at sea,
, and they can also support each other.
After Kou Ji sent away the people from Xiyang, he met Di Qing again in Wenchang Academy.
In just a few months, Di Qing had completely cleared away the savages on his land.
A group of those who resisted were killed, and a large group of obedient ones were left behind to carry out infrastructure construction on the fiefdom.
Most of the Di Qing fiefdom is populated by nomadic peoples and some savages in the mountains and forests.
They almost always live in tents and have no fixed place.
Therefore, Di Qing's fiefdom can be said to be still in a relatively primitive state.
Kou Ji combined the actual situation in Di Qing's fiefdom and designed a plan for Di Qing to manage the fiefdom.
The first is to build a city.
With a city, local people have a gathering place and can develop.
There are not many people in Di Qing's fiefdom, so it is impossible to build too many cities.
Kou Ji's suggestion to Di Qing was to build a city with thirty-six forts.
Kou Ji suggested that Di Qing build a complete city in the middle of the fiefdom, and then set up thirty-six ring fortresses on the edges of the fiefdom.
The fortress was used to garrison troops and residents, and was also considered the prototype of a city.
When the number of people in Di Qing's fiefdom gradually increases, the thirty-six ring fortresses can be turned into cities.
Anyway, the Song Dynasty didn't bother to care about foreign lands.
Di Qing could take as much as he wanted.
Even if Di Qing expanded the three hundred miles of land under his control to the north and west for thousands of miles, no one would care about it.
Therefore, Di Qing can build a city on the fiefdom as he likes.
The first thing Di Qing needs to do now is to build the fief's first city and a dock near the sea.
Kou Ji invited some construction masters to discuss it together and formulated a city construction plan for Di Qing that would save money and manpower.
Kou Ji also allocated a group of ships and craftsmen to Di Qing.
Di Qing did not refuse and accepted them all.
It's not that Di Qing is thick-skinned, it's that Di Qing feels that he and Kou Ji are one and the same.
He is not good at running a place and only knows how to fight.
Therefore, he took over all the wars between the Qing Kingdom and the Beihai County Prince's fiefdom, and left all the management to Kou Ji.
Di Qing didn't care about those things in terms of status, nor did he care about the Qing Kingdom and the Beihai County Prince's fiefdom being mixed together.
Di Qing once mentioned to Kou Ji that he was willing to annex the Beihai County Prince's fiefdom to the Qing Kingdom, but Kou Ji refused.
So Di Qing could only bite the bullet and manage the fiefdom by himself.
If this matter were told, others might think Di Qing was stupid.
But in the eyes of a true wise man, Di Qing's move was very smart.
Di Qing himself was not good at running a place, so he decisively gave up his place and let others run it.
This is a wise choice.
If you don't know how to run a fiefdom and run it by yourself, you will only make things worse.
Maybe it will make the people under its rule miserable and eventually fall apart.
Therefore, it is definitely a very wise choice to hand over the management of the fiefdom to Kou Ji.
As for whether Kou Ji would be greedy for his own fiefdom, Di Qing was not worried at all.
Di Qing didn't care about his fiefdom at all.
After Kou Ji finished planning the construction of the fiefdom for Di Qing, Di Qing once again took the people by boat and rushed to his fiefdom.
This time, the number of people Di Qing brought with him was considerable.
After Di Qing left.
Together, Kou Ji met with the Liuqiu Cao family, the Cao family in Eastern Tianzhu, the Zhang family in Western Tianzhu, the envoys from the Black Khanate, the envoys from Dongyang, and the envoys from the two vassal kings of the Song Dynasty who occupied most of the territory further west.
The person sent by Liuqiu Cao family was Cao Yi from Cao family.
The person sent by the Cao family in Eastern Tianzhu was a man whom Kou Ji didn't know. He was another grandson of Cao Lili, his name was Cao Zhan.
The Zhang family in Western Tianzhu sent Zhang Bao, Zhang Yuan’s son.
The envoy of the Black Khanate is still Gargamel's confidant Hatuk.
The Li family sent Li Chun, Li Zhaoliang’s son.
The person sent by the Zhu family was Zhu Neng's son Zhu Fu.
The person sent by the Dongyang Zhong family was Zhong Shiheng’s second son, Zhong Shi.
Several people, old and young, were brought together by Kou Ji into a reception hall in Wenchang Academy.
Kou Ji invited everyone to sit down and ordered tea to be served.
After nodding to Cao Yi and others, he smiled and said: "I just took a look, the gifts you all brought are not light. I deserve it."
Cao Yi said with a smile: "Fourth brother is joking. It's all because of fourth brother's plan that our family can break the earth and become kings. Without fourth brother, we wouldn't be what we are today."
In the past, when Fourth Brother was in the Song Dynasty, we couldn't give each other generous gifts for fear of being gossiped about.
Now that Fourth Brother has left the Song Dynasty, we naturally don’t need to worry."
Kou Ji laughed and said: "The scene you have created is not small, it is comparable to when you entered Bianjing City to meet His Majesty the Emperor of the Song Dynasty."
When Cao Ji and others heard Kou Ji's name, they were slightly stunned. They made eye contact, and then looked at Kou Ji with smiles.
Kou Ji pretended not to see them communicating with their eyes. He stared at Cao Yi and said, "Liuqiu is developing well. I heard that you bought many women from East Tianzhu and West Tianzhu and shipped them to Liuqiu.
The common people are matched with officials.
Now the population of Liuqiu has reached 150,000."
Hearing this, Cao Yi said with emotion: "Although I have 150,000 people in Liuqiu, more than 90,000 of them are childish and naughty children. I'm afraid it will take more than ten years for them to grow up.
Now I only have 60,000 people I can use.
Among them, there are only ten thousand soldiers and horses capable of fighting."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "The soldiers and horses that can be evaluated by your Cao family as capable of fighting must be strong soldiers. Ten thousand strong soldiers is already a lot. It is more than enough to guard Liuqiu."
Cao Yi said bluntly: "There are too few people and the land is too small..."
Kou Ji raised his eyebrows, pointed at Cao Yi, shook his head and smiled.
Cao Yi smiled and said nothing.
Kou Ji looked at the breeder and asked with a smile: "How is the breeder?"
He was younger than Kou Ji. Hearing Kou Ji's words, he said implicitly: "My father can eat and sleep, and he can also lift the biggest stone lock on the school field."
Kou Ji nodded and said with a smile: "So, does it mean that old age makes you stronger?"
Zhongxian cupped his fists and said, "Uncle Lao is worried about me."
Kou Ji waved his hand, "I heard that after your family arrived in Dongyang, they recruited many Japanese people?"
Seed Clinic did not hide anything and said bluntly: "My father incorporated some Japanese people from Dongyang into the army and established a servant army. But my father has never forgotten that if he is not of my race, his heart will be different. So my father used Japanese people, but
Do not reuse Japanese people.
In addition, my father is also following the methods of Xiyang and gradually eliminating the Japanese.
It's just that my father's methods were not as brutal as King Xiyang's, so the results were a bit slow.
My father once said that war is the most convenient way to control population, and as long as we fight a few battles, everything will be solved."
Kou Ji nodded with a smile and looked at Cao Zhan from the Cao family in East Tianzhu.
"Is it good to use it for public use?"
Yongzhi is the word used by Cao Lili.
Cao Lili is now regarded as the leader of a country. Kou Ji cannot call him by his first name in front of his descendants, so he calls him by his first name.
Cao Zhan cupped his hands and said, "My grandfather has been suffering from a serious illness recently and is resting on his bed."
When Kou Ji heard this, he sighed with emotion: "I have fought hard all my life and made great achievements. I should enjoy my old age in peace."
Cao Zhan said with a wry smile: "It's because my descendants have failed to live up to expectations and few are capable. So my grandfather, who is nearly seventy years old, is still working hard for us."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "The Cao and Zhang families share Tianzhu, and they have successively occupied the small states on the east and west sides of Tianzhu. It seems that there is nothing to work hard for, right?
What the Cao and Zhang families should do now is to recuperate and completely digest the territory they occupied.
It would be best to turn it into a place completely ruled by the two of you in a very short period of time."
Cao Zhan said bluntly: "My father said the same thing. But my grandfather said that the most people in Dongtianzhu today are outsiders, and outsiders are the most unreliable. My grandfather also said that you have never liked outsiders, and the most people in Dongtianzhu now are
outsider.
If after our Cao family has controlled the Eastern Tianzhu Kingdom for several generations, the Eastern Tianzhu Kingdom is taken back by those outsiders, you will definitely scold him.
So my grandfather’s idea is the same as that of Prince Dongyang, and he wants to kill those outsiders through war.”
Kou Ji, dumbfounded, pointed at Cao Zhan and said, "You are good at talking."
Cao Zhan smiled shyly.
Kou Ji looked at Zhang Bao again. He did not directly ask about Zhang Yuan's current situation, but first asked about Zhang Bao's current situation, "You grew up in Bianjing City. Are you still used to it when you go to Western Tianzhu? With you
What habits do those unusual-looking younger siblings have to deal with?”
Zhang Bao was very close to Kou Ji when he faced him.
After all, when he was young, Zhang Yuan was in the Western Regions, and Kou Ji played the role of father in Zhang Bao's childhood life.
Kou Ji would visit the mother and son almost every half month. Every time he went, he would bring them a lot of food and drink, and he would often take Zhang Bao out to play.
Zhang Bao was bullied in school, and it was Kou Ji who secretly sent someone to punish him.
So Zhang Bao has special feelings for Kou Ji.
Faced with Kou Ji's questions, Zhang Bao was very relaxed. He smiled and said: "Returning to my uncle, I was a little uncomfortable at first. But after getting along for a long time, I found that they are stupid.
My nephew was able to eat them to death by just using some elementary school knowledge.
To use more profound knowledge is to bully them.
Now my nephew's younger brothers and sisters all look up to him."
Kou Ji nodded with satisfaction, "That's good. What I'm most afraid of is that you are not close to your father and will be bullied by your weird-looking younger brothers and sisters.
Now that I hear you are doing well, I feel relieved."
Zhang Bao pursed his lips, cupped his hands and said, "Thank you uncle for your concern."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "When you go back, pick a big boat and take it with you. In the future, when you have free time, you can come over and play in the big boat."
Zhang Bao nodded heavily.
Although he is already an adult.
But when faced with the word "play" spoken by Kou Ji, he didn't feel disgusted at all.
After all, no matter how old he is, his Uncle Kou is still his Uncle Kou.
Kou Ji continued to ask: "How is your father?"
Zhang Bao did not hide anything, he said decisively: "My father is ambitious. My father asked me to tell you that he will not change his original intention. As long as you need it, the 100,000-strong army of Western Tianzhu will obey your orders."
Cao Yi and others had different expressions when they heard this.
Kou Ji shook his head dumbfounded and said, "I'm not going to rebel, so what's the use of Western Tianzhu's 100,000-strong army?"
Zhang Bao grinned.
Kou Ji pointed at Zhang Bao and said nothing.
Koji looked at Hattuk and asked straight to the point without making any further detours: "When did Gargamel reach Baghdad?"
He invited the Seljuk people for help and must have entered Baghdad, right?"
Hatuk said in a deep voice: "Returning to the gods, originally our king's plan went well, but some heretics defected to the Roman Empire and relied on the soldiers and horses of the Roman Empire to resist our king's Black Khan coalition and Seljuk soldiers.
horse.
Although the Seljuks have now occupied Baghdad, they have also promised to return Baghdad to our king.
But people from the Roman Empire frequently appear on our battlefields.
We should not act rashly."
Koji couldn't believe it, "Roman Empire? Will your people join the Roman Empire?"
With the domineering style of Gargamel's religion, conquering others is their main theme, and taking refuge in others is just a joke.