Kou Ji was excerpting names of people in the main hall. Zhang Yuan, who had transformed into Kou Ji's Changsui, hurriedly entered the door.
"Young Master, there is a response from the court. The officials have already thrown out the files of those officials at the court, and half of the officials in the court agreed to promote them.
The master ordered the three divisions to work with the officials to give them rewards based on their merits."
After Zhang Yuan entered the main hall, he bowed his back and finished these words quickly.
Kou Ji stopped holding the pen and said with a smile: "That's very good. You can go to the accounting office in the house to withdraw some money, and then rush to Xinping County to make some noise among the bandits on Fotou Mountain."
Zhang Yuan was stunned for a moment, bowed and agreed, and exited the official office.
Kou Ji lowered his head and continued to excerpt people's names.
He excerpted a large chapter, then took the list of people, walked out of the main hall, found the doctor of the examination department, handed it to him, and said lightly: "These people's political achievements this year, after the wind review is handed over, all
Leave a comment."
The examination director looked at the dense list of names and said blankly: "Master Kou, why is this?"
"Why?"
Kou Ji smiled coldly, "Because they offended me."
When the doctor from the exam department heard this, he was stunned.
After a long time, he took the list and bowed, "I understand..."
Kou Ji clasped his hands behind his back, and after the doctor from the examination department left, he said with a sinister smile: "Everyone thinks that if they offend me, it will be fine if I don't pursue it? That's because I am not in power. As long as I am in power, I will
Let your life be worse than death."
"As long as I am in the official department, you people will not be able to get promoted."
"..."
When Kou Ji was in Baozhou before, many people secretly made trouble for Kou Ji.
For example, those officials who did not dare to come forward, but secretly sent people to come to Kou Ji to ask for a horse.
Kou Ji wrote them down one by one in a small notebook.
Now that he has taken control of the civil service, he will naturally take revenge without mercy.
Although at present, a large part of the power for official promotion lies with the third division.
However, the power to help officials judge their political performance and conduct evaluations is in the hands of the Ministry of Personnel.
Kou Ji only needs to give these people a low rating. Even if the Third Division wants to help these people get promoted, they can't do it.
Unless they find Kou Ji and re-evaluate the officials' performance and conduct.
After finishing this, Kou Ji left the official office, got on the sedan and returned home.
After returning home.
He washed up as usual, had a light meal, put on some clothes, and rushed to have a tryst with Xiang Yan.
After a month of in-depth understanding, Kou Ji continued to coax and deceive Xiang Yan, a well-educated lady, but Kou Ji secretly ate her rouge.
Xiang Yan was embarrassed and ignored Kou Ji for three days.
Kou Ji also knew that Xiang Yan was shy, but he also knew that once this kind of thing started, he would have to be even more aggressive.
So Kou Ji drew a few pictures in his spare time and asked the craftsmen at his house to make some gadgets to make Xiang Yan happy.
It's just that God doesn't follow people's wishes.
As soon as Kou Ji left the house, Liu Heng rode up to Kou Ji's side before he had gone far.
Look at his look, he seems very anxious.
His horse was riding too fast. He tightened the reins even when he was in front of Kou Ji, but the horse didn't stop. It didn't stop until it was about ten feet behind Kou Ji.
He jumped off the horse and ran quickly to Kou Ji. : :
"Fourth brother, something big happened."
Liu Heng shouted anxiously.
Kou Ji took out a sweat towel from his arms and handed it to the sweaty Liu Heng, "Wipe off the sweat before talking."
Liu Heng took the sweat towel, wiped it on his forehead indiscriminately, and said anxiously to Kou Ji: "The people of Sichuan Mansion smashed the Sichuan Mansion's Yamen!"
"Um?"
Kou Ji blinked his eyes and said with a slight doubt: "The people of Sichuan have rebelled? Is it serious? Does the court need to dispatch an army to quell the rebellion? Why didn't I hear any news? I didn't see my grandfather dispatching troops either.
Send generals?"
Liu Heng waved his hand and said: "The people did not rebel."
Kou Ji became even more confused, "Didn't you say that the common people smashed the government office? If the government office is smashed, does it not count as a rebellion?"
Liu Heng stamped his feet and explained anxiously: "The common people smashed the yamen. It happened for a reason and it is not considered a rebellion."
Kou Ji suddenly realized it and said in deep thought: "Since it is not a rebellion, the local officials will naturally deal with it. Why are you so anxious? Does this matter have anything to do with you?"
Liu Heng shook his head and said: "This matter has nothing to do with me, but my brother is involved."
"that?"
"Liu Congde!"
"The mallet?"
Liu Heng looked at Kou Ji with a resentful look.
Kou Ji laughed and said: "I made a mistake, I made a mistake..."
Seeing that Liu Heng still had a resentful look on his face, Kou Ji changed the subject and said, "Your brother Liu Congde has lived in Bianjing all year round. How could he have anything to do with the Sichuan government? Could it be that he sent a large number of scoundrels to rob the Sichuan government?"
Liu Heng hummed: "No..."
Kou Ji asked in confusion: "What is that? As far as I know, there are not many things that can make the people angry and smash the government offices."
Liu Heng sighed, "To tell you the truth, my brother is also a victim. Fourth brother, do you still remember the time when the Mu family came to us to co-found Jiaozi?"
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, slowly widened his eyes, and said in astonishment: "The Mu family founded Jiaozi and got into trouble. They found you and me, but you and I didn't help. Then they found your brother Liu Congde, and now Mu
There was a problem with the family's relationship, and your brother was also involved?"
Liu Heng said dejectedly: "My brother was not approached by the Mu family, but by the Mu family. The Mu family originally looked down on him, but he used your and my names to negotiate with the Mu family.
, the Mu family thought he was sent by you and me to discuss business, so they agreed to him."
When Kou Ji heard this, he suddenly didn't know what to say.
Liu Congde was a man of great ambition and talent, and he knew this.
But he didn't expect that Liu Congde would actually be a little clever. What he didn't expect was that Liu Congde fell into a ditch after trying to be clever once.
It's still a big, bottomless ditch.
Kou Ji glanced around and found a wine shop on the roadside. He invited Liu Heng to sit down in the wine shop and chat slowly.
When Liu Heng arrived at the wine shop, he threw the horse's reins to the waiter, and shouted to the guests who were staying in the wine shop, "Get out of here..."
He was in a bad mood, so he was inevitably a little domineering when he spoke.
When the owner of the wine shop saw Liu Heng, a playboy, appearing, he was not afraid, but took the initiative to greet him, bowed and said: "I have seen the young master, although I don't know that the young master is a nobleman in that house.
But please don’t embarrass the villain.
To be honest with you, although this wine shop is not big, the imperial censors often come to stay, and not far away is Grand Master Kou's residence. If they bump into you, he will inevitably be punished."
The wine shop owner's words were reasonable and well-founded. He was clearly threatening Liu Heng, but his words seemed to be for Liu Heng's sake.
Liu Heng is going to get angry.
Kou Ji stopped him, took out a few gold leaves from his sleeves, and handed them to the owner of the wine shop, "I will reserve the place for today, and I will use the remaining money to treat the guests in the wine shop to other places for drinks."
The wine shop owner was a little embarrassed.
Although the gold leaves given by Kou Ji were attractive, he was unwilling to drive away some regular patrons of the wine shop just because of some petty profits.
"Son..."
The owner of the wine shop looked embarrassed.
Kou Ji saw through his mind and said calmly: "My brother has a bad temper. If he overthrows your wine shop, you will lose both your life and wealth. Although the censor Yan Guan is powerful, he is not a threat.
We are brothers.
As for the Kou Mansion you mentioned, it is quite awe-inspiring.
But you used the name of the Kou government to scare people without the consent of the Kou government. If the people of the Kou government knew about it, you would not be able to gain favor.
What's more important is that my brother also has some friendship with the young master of Kou Mansion."
"Bang!"
As soon as Kou Ji finished speaking, the owner of the wine shop had not yet opened his mouth. Several men who had settled in the wine shop slapped the table and stood up.
They clasped their fists at Kou Ji and said, "Since we are friends of Young Master Kou, then our brothers will take your money and eat and drink somewhere else."
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "You are giving face to Mr. Kou's family."
When several men heard Kou Ji mentioning Kou Ji, they immediately said with respect: "Little Kou Gong is a rare and righteous person, and we naturally admire him."
"Little Kou Gong?"
Kou Ji asked suspiciously: "Are you from the north?"
Several men shook their heads and said: "We brothers are from the northwest. We brothers are not lucky enough to meet such a righteous man as Xiao Kou Gong. But the things he did are worthy of our brothers' awe."
"Farewell!"
"please!"
Several men took the lead, and other people in the wine shop also left the wine shop wisely.
Kou Ji threw the gold leaf in his hand to the owner of the wine shop and asked him to serve some good wine and food. Then he pulled Liu Heng to sit down and said, "You have to control your temper.
Now that you are also a chief officer, you cannot do things according to your temper."
Liu Heng hummed: "I know..."
The owner of the restaurant served wine and food at this time, and Liu Heng picked up the wine bottle and took a sip.
Kou Ji took out a plate of meat from the plate and put it aside. While handing Liu Heng the chopsticks, he asked: "Tell me in detail about your brother Liu Congde and the Mu family."
Liu Heng put down the jug and said with a gloomy face: "A month ago, the steward of the Mu family found me and said that he would cooperate with us to establish Jiaozi Pu. After I learned the news, I came to discuss it with you.
.
You said there might be something fishy going on and you didn't want me to participate, so I never talked to them again.
But people from the Mu family still came to my door again and again to bother me.
I stayed behind closed doors. Somehow my brother found out about this matter and took the initiative to contact the Mu family.
The people of the Mu family knew at first that my brother wanted to cooperate with them, but they just pushed around and didn't agree.
Later, my brother stole my post at Wanxiang House and took the Mu family to a auction at Wanxiang House. He also spent his money and bought a few trinkets from the auction and gave them to the Mu family.
When paying the bill, Zhang Cheng saw that my brother took my post, so he waived all the money.
People in the Mu family thought that my brother could take the decision on my behalf in the Wanxiang Building, and they also thought that my brother’s contact with them was the result of you and me, so they agreed to cooperate with him.”
"Bang!"
Liu Heng slapped the table and shouted: "The Mu family asked my brother to pay 100,000 yuan to occupy 10% of the Jiaozi Shop."
Kou Ji raised his brows and asked in confusion: "One hundred thousand strings? How could your brother get one hundred thousand strings?"
Liu Heng gritted his teeth and said: "He asked me to help him arrange several positions in the Fengzhuang Department, and he used this to earn 50,000 guan. He also stole some valuable things from the house, pawned them out, and collected 50,000 guan.
.”
Kou Ji said in astonishment: "Liu Congde has such courage?"
Kou Ji couldn't believe it.
One hundred thousand coins is not a small amount of money for Kou Ji and Liu Heng today.
For Liu Congde, that was a huge sum of money.
As far as Liu Congde is concerned, it is impossible for him to have the courage to buy an official position for profit, let alone steal valuable things from the house.
Liu Heng said with a gloomy face: "My brother has learned well since you taught him a lesson. He also hired a dog-headed military advisor from somewhere to help him secretly.
The idea of buying an official position for profit and stealing things from the house to pawn were the ideas of that dog-headed military advisor."
Mentioning Liu Congde's dog-headed military advisor, Liu Heng gritted his teeth and said: "This dog-headed military advisor is a person. He knows that if my brother comes to my father, he will definitely be rejected and scolded by my father. He knows that my brother and I are close.
Brother, it was impossible to see him go to a dead end, so he caught me and trapped him alone.
If you want to buy an official position and make a profit, you are looking for me.
The things stolen from the house and pawned were also pawned to our Wanxiang Pawn Shop."
Kou Ji said thoughtfully: "Has he expected that once your father tracks it down, you will buy those things back and help your brother plug the hole?"
Liu Heng nodded gloomily.
Kou Ji admired: "What a talent...where are the others?"
Liu Heng snorted coldly: "I had him chopped into sixteen pieces and thrown outside the city to feed the wild dogs."
Kou Ji clicked his lips and said, "It's a pity that such a talented person is missing."
Liu Heng complained: "Fourth brother!"
Kou Ji quickly changed the subject and said, "What happened next?"
Liu Heng took a sip of wine and said, "Then...then I fell into it. As you expected, fourth brother, something went wrong when the Mu family founded Jiaozi. When they were founded, they were just to facilitate large-scale transactions.
.But after establishing Jiaozi Shop, they found that just issuing Jiaozi made them huge profits.
So they took advantage of being businessmen and began to constantly win over other businessmen, sending money to their Jiaozi shops and exchanging money for Jiaozi.
They make more and more money through this.
Later, they themselves did not forget to deposit money in the sub-shop.
Not only did they not save money, but they also used the Jiaozi issued by them to buy goods from others with nothing.
They earn more and more through this, but when others come to exchange money with Jiaozi, the money in their treasury is stretched thin.
In order to cover up the fact that they had stolen the white wolf from the hollow, they had to recruit more businessmen to join the Jiaozi Shop.
As they attract more and more businessmen, their courage becomes greater and greater.
In the end, they didn’t even spare the common people.”