The maid was a little hesitant, Kou Zhong waved his hand to the maid, and the maid strangely exited Kou Ji's bedroom.
Kou Zhun took matters into his own hands, soaked the sweat towel, and helped Kou Ji wipe his face, hands, and neck...
Kou Zhong bowed and watched.
After a long time, Kou Zhun finished wiping Kou Ji, sighed, and said, "It's my fault that he fell ill."
Kou Zhong was stunned for a moment, with a confused look on his face.
Kou Zhun opened Kou Ji's trouser legs, exposing Kou Ji's knees, and pointed at Kou Ji's bruised knees, "None of you noticed it, right?"
Kou Zhong stared at the bruises on Kou Ji's knees in astonishment, and said in a deep voice: "How could it be?"
Kou Zhun covered Kou Ji's knees again, and then covered Kou Ji with the quilt, "This must have happened after kneeling in the palace for forty-nine days. He didn't tell anyone, and none of us found out. I
This grandfather is incompetent at his job.
You are incompetent as a servant."
Kou Zhong said guiltily: "Old servant is at fault..."
Kou Zhun shook his head and sighed: "Both you and I are wrong...none of us has ever paid serious attention to him."
Kou Zhun looked at Kou Ji and lamented: "He knelt in the palace for forty-nine days, ate cold rice for forty-nine days, and drank cold water for forty-nine days. Three meals a day were not enough, no matter how good he was,
The bones in your body will also go wrong, and you will fall ill when the wind blows."
"Go find the doctor at home and let him take a look at your knee."
"Old servant, go right away..."
Kou Zhong left the Sijun Garden and summoned the officials from his residence.
The doctor at the house opened Kou Ji's trousers and saw the bruises on Kou Ji's legs. He frowned slightly and said, "Master, there is blood bruises..."
(Some people may think that with Kou Ji’s intelligence, how could he not be lazy in the palace. With so many people watching in the palace and the rules being so strict, there was no chance for him to be lazy.)
Kou Zhun raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice: "Is it serious?"
The doctor shook his head and said: "It's not serious, but the blood stasis needs to be drained and it needs to be rested for a long time. It's almost winter now. If you don't rest well, I'm afraid it will lead to the root cause of the disease."
Kou Zhun said with a gloomy face: "Let's do the acupuncture..."
The doctor nodded and helped Kou Ji administer the acupuncture.
After letting out the blood stasis, the doctor bowed his hand to Kou Zhun and left Kou Ji's bedroom.
Kou Zhun stared at Kou Ji on the bed and sighed.
Kou Zhun raised his head, looked at Kou Ji's empty house, and ordered Kou Zhong: "Push me for a walk around Sijun Garden..."
Kou Zhong nodded and pushed Kou Zhun to start walking in the Four Lords Garden.
Kou Zhun looked at every plant and tree in the Sijun Garden. When he returned to Kou Ji's bedroom, he said quietly: "It's too deserted..."
Kou Zhong nodded and said: "The old servant also feels that it is too deserted..."
Kou Zhun added: "There should be a mistress..."
Kou Zhong was stunned for a moment and then said thoughtfully: "Master, do you want to help the young master arrange a marriage?"
Kou Zhun did not answer Kou Zhong's words, but asked: "He is old, shouldn't he find someone to take care of him?"
Kou Zhong said quickly: "What I said makes sense."
Kou Zhun seemed to have remembered something and sighed: "This boy is nothing like his father. He is not greedy for beauty at all. Not long after his father returned to Huazhou, he took eight concubines in one breath."
I was deceived by Kou Li, but since he gave me a well-behaved grandson, I won’t deal with him anymore.”
Kou Zhong bowed his back and said nothing.
Kou Zhun said again: "When the mourning period for the late emperor is over, you can help him find a wife and a wife."
Kou Zhong smiled dryly and said: "Master, isn't there something ready-made?"
Kou Zhun was stunned, looked at Kou Zhong, and said with a smile: "If you didn't tell me, I almost forgot. That old man Xiang Minzhong has taken a fancy to Ji'er and plans to marry his granddaughter to Ji'er.
Xiang Minzhong is not a very good old man, but he is good at educating people, and the granddaughter he has taught will certainly be good.
His granddaughter’s reputation in Bianjing City is not bad either.”
Kou Zhun muttered: "When the mourning period of the late Emperor is over, you can go and tell the government about this matter."
Kou Zhong nodded and said, "Old servant, I understand."
The master and the servant talked like this until evening.
Kou Zhun originally wanted to stay by Kou Ji's bedside.
But in the evening, someone from the palace came to deliver the message.
It is said that after going to court, the officials of the Sixth Ministry were eager to seize power from the Punishment Division, and they got into trouble with the Punishment Division officials and got into a fight.
Liu E has already rushed over, and Kou Zhun needs to go over and deal with it.
"These idiots don't know how to take their time..."
Kou Zhun cursed fiercely and told Kou Zhong to keep an eye on Kou Ji, and he rushed to the punishment department.
He didn't come back until nightfall.
It seems that the Criminal Division is in charge of handling matters overnight.
…
The next day.
early morning.
Kou Ji was woken up by intermittent calls.
"Young master, get up and take medicine..."
The maids called softly, and Kou Ji quietly changed his mind.
When he opened his eyes, he saw a wooden spoon and handed it to him.
Without thinking, Kou Ji raised his hand and swept away the wooden spoon.
He still knew how Wu Dalang died.
Without knowing anything, someone poured something into his mouth, who knew whether it was medicine or poison.
The wooden spoon was swept away, and the maid holding the medicine bowl and spoon was startled. She squatted on her butt and fell to the ground, and the medicine spilled all over the floor.
Kou Zhong heard exclamations in the room and hurried to the bedroom.
"What's wrong?"
The maid got up from the ground, pointed at Kou Ji, and said: "Young Master...Young Master..."
Kou Zhong was stunned and said in surprise: "Did the young master touch you?"
As soon as Kou Zhong finished speaking, the maid said the second half of the sentence, "The young master refused to drink the medicine and even knocked it over."
When Kou Zhong heard this, he felt a little disappointed and didn't know why.
Kou Zhong looked at Kou Ji on the bed and asked, "Young Master, why don't you take medicine?"
Kou Ji slowly got up from the bed, felt a pain in his knees, and fell down on the bed.
Seeing this, Kou Zhong rushed forward and held down Kou Ji who was about to get up again. "Don't get up. The doctor said you need to stay in bed to rest."
Kou Ji felt a twinge of pain in his knees. He frowned and ignored Kou Zhong. Instead, he waved his hands to the maids and said, "You guys go out first..."
The maids exited the bedroom.
Kou Ji lifted up the quilt, lifted up his trouser legs, looked at the blue color on his knees, and frowned.
Kou Zhong hurriedly explained: "Young master, you have been kneeling in the palace for a long time and there are bruises on your legs. The doctor helped you drain the blood and told you to stay in bed and rest."
Kou Ji frowned and said in a deep voice: "Is it so serious?"
Kou Zhong nodded heavily.
Kou Ji stretched out his hand and said, "Help me sit up. I don't like lying down."
Kou Zhong quickly helped Kou Ji get up.
Kou Ji sat up, and Kou Zhong put a cushion behind him so that he could sit comfortably.
Kou Ji asked: "That was the medicine to treat the injury on the knee just now?"
Kou Zhong stared at Kou Ji and said seriously: "Not only are you injured on your knees, you are also infected with the cold."
Kou Ji was stunned, "Is it so serious?"
Kou Zhong nodded.
Kou Ji hurriedly said: "Go and tell the kitchen to boil another portion of the medicine just now and bring it to me immediately."
Kou Zhong was shocked when he heard this.
Kou Ji stared, and Kou Zhong immediately left Kou Ji's bedroom.
After a while.
Kou Zhong reappeared in Kou Ji's bedroom with a bowl of medicine.
Kou Ji was holding the medicine, not afraid of the pain, and drank it all in one gulp.
After drinking the medicine, Kou Ji said again: "Go and ask the doctor at home if there is any medicine to treat bruises, and give it to me."
Kou Zhong looked sideways at Kou Ji.
Kou Ji stared at him and said, "I don't want to sit on Kou's bus for the rest of my life."
Kou Zhong said quietly: "The doctor at home said that the injury on your knee does not require medication, you just need to rest in bed."
When Kou Ji heard this, he took a deep breath and said, "That's good..."
In fact, half of what Kou Zhun said in Kou Ji's room last night was right, and half of it was wrong.
The reason why Kou Ji didn't tell him about the bruise on his leg was entirely because Kou Ji didn't pay much attention to it.
Kou Ji had been kneeling in the palace for forty-nine days and had already discovered bruises on his knees.
It was just that I had been kneeling for a long time and my knees were numb, so I didn't feel the seriousness of the bruises, so I didn't take it to heart.
Otherwise, with how much Kou Ji cares about his life, he will definitely recruit a lot of doctors to help him treat his legs when he returns to the mansion.
"By the way, how's the matter with the Criminal Division?"
Kou Ji asked.
Kou Zhong said: "The imperial court has issued a decree to remove the Criminal Division and return power to the Six Ministries."
Kou Ji said unexpectedly: "So fast? I thought it would take a few days."
After a pause, Kou Ji asked, "How long have I been asleep?"
Kou Zhong said: "One day and one night..."
Kou Ji nodded slowly and said, "I thought it had been a few days."
Kou Zhong whispered: "Wang Qinruo played a key role in the reason why the Criminal Division was dismissed so quickly."
Kou Ji wondered: "What did he do?"
Kou Zhong said: "He learned about the frost disaster in Sichuan and regarded it as a punishment from God. He mobilized all officials to report to Liu E to depose the criminal magistrate."
Kou Ji sighed: "The old fox is indeed an old fox. He will hit with one hit."
Kou Zhong stood aside and said nothing.
At noon, Kou Zhun hurried back to his house after a busy night. After seeing Kou Ji awake, he felt relieved.
After giving Kou Ji a few words of advice, he left Kou's house again.
It was obvious that he came back specifically to see Kou Ji.
In the evening.
Liu Heng rushed to Kou Mansion in a hurry. As soon as he entered the door of Kou Ji's bedroom, he shouted loudly: "Fourth brother, fourth brother, I heard that you are ill?"
Kou Ji waited until Liu Heng's figure appeared in front of the bed before saying, "It's okay..."
Liu Heng shouted: "How can it not be in the way? I heard that you can't even get out of bed."
Kou Ji frowned slightly and asked, "Who told you?"
Liu Heng said: "Kou Gong met me in the punishment department last night and told me."
Kou Ji raised his brows and said with a smile: "The Sixth Department went to the Criminal Division to seize power?"
Liu Heng nodded heavily and said: "Yesterday morning, the imperial court just issued a decree to depose the punishment department. After the court, the six officials rushed to the punishment department. They are like bandits, robbing everything they see."
After a pause, Liu Heng seemed to realize that there was something wrong with his words, and added: "They rob everything except people."
Liu Heng curled his lips and said disdainfully: "Those civil servants all pretend to be human beings. They look down on this and look down on that. After revealing their true colors, they are worse than animals."
Kou Ji looked sideways at Liu Heng.
Liu Heng said quickly: "Fourth brother, I'm not talking about you. You are different from those civil servants."
Kou Ji shook his head and asked, "Is it okay to seal up one room?"
Liu Heng was stunned, shook his head and said: "That's not true. Although the imperial court dismissed the punishment department, Fengzhuang Yifang is special. He was not dismissed, but was proposed separately and promoted to the first department."
Liu Heng smiled and said: "I have also been promoted. The imperial court has set up a special promotion and sealing department, and I am an official of the sixth rank."
Hearing this, Kou Ji nodded with a smile and said, "That's good. Finally, our plan was not in vain."
After a pause, Kou Ji asked again: "Did our people have a conflict with the people from the Sixth Department?"
Liu Heng shook his head and said: "With Fan Zhongyan, the people in the first room of Qiangu followed him obediently. Although there was a conflict between the first room of the prison and the people from the sixth department, Cao Bingbu said a few words to Cao Yi after they arrived.
, the people in the prison cell did not make any fuss.
The commotion was caused by people in other rooms.
Nowadays, people from the first room of the Penal Prison and the people from the first room of Qiangu have all gone to the Sixth Department."
Kou Ji grinned and said: "We haven't been working in vain for a few months. Tell the people below to behave well after they go to the Sixth Department. If there is a conflict with the people from the Sixth Department, don't do anything or act recklessly. I will tell you beforehand.
Give it a shout and I'll take care of it."
The power of the grassroots is infinite, which is a truth that Kou Ji has known for a long time.
The officials in the court also knew.
But their eyes rarely fall on those petty officials at the grassroots level.
Only then did Kou Ji take advantage of it, and slowly infiltrated into the six departments through the help of junior officials and officials at the grassroots level.
Finally, I have all six parts in my hands.
Kou Ji's request to dismiss the Criminal Division is nothing more than a small reform.
There have been many reforms in the past dynasties in history, but few of them were successful. Even if they were successful, they would eventually be overthrown.
If we look at the vast majority of successful reforms in history, most of them cannot escape the form of coups or rebellions.
Kou Ji was unwilling to choose either of these methods.
Because every reform will harm the interests of some people.
And these people are not willing to lose their interests, so they will naturally resist.
And the resistance was fierce.
Kou Ji's body is too thin and he is not willing to confront others head-on.
So after much thought, I came up with this method of uniting the majority and attacking the small group.
This is a quiet way to moisturize things, and it is also a way that does not require provoking large-scale conflicts.
Facts have proved that his method was successful.
For Liu E, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty belonged to the grassroots, and there were a lot of people in this grassroots, which was the majority that Kou Ji wanted to unite. That's why he petitioned to depose the Six Ministries in order to provoke the officials of the Six Ministries to seize power.
desire.
Similarly, after those petty officials in the Criminal Division enter the Sixth Department, they will also become the grassroots of the Sixth Department.
As long as they gain a foothold in the Sixth Ministry, Kou Ji can use the same method to oust the Sixth Ministry officials he wants to oust.
Maybe after the officials of the Six Departments find out about this, they will use their power to replace their junior officials and officials, so as to clean up the traces of Kou Ji in the Six Departments.