Kou Ji said helplessly: "What's the point of not allowing it? Can you provide money to help Jiaozi pavement spread throughout the Song Dynasty, or do you have the influence to attract those businessmen to save money?"
Chen Lin was stunned by Kou Ji and was speechless.
After glaring at Kou Ji for a long time, he said angrily: "Once Jiaozipu spreads throughout the Song Dynasty, if they join hands and control Jiaozipu and control all the money in the world, who will be able to check and balance them?"
them?
If they want to turn things upside down, the Song Dynasty will not be overthrown by them."
Kou Ji looked at Chen Lin as if he were an idiot and said, "When the livestock are fattened, just kill them. Are you still worried that the livestock will overturn the pen after they are fattened?"
When Chen Lin heard this, she was stunned again and again, then stared at Kou Ji in shock and said, "You didn't intend to keep them from the beginning?"
Kou Ji said angrily: "If it were you, would you dare to stay?"
Chen Lin shook her head decisively.
Kou Jidao: "At that time, won't the members taken back from them belong to the official family? The official family will have 80% of the members at once, and they will have absolute control over Jiaozipu.
I told you clearly that everything I did was for the good of the official family, but you still don't believe me.
Always guarding me like a thief."
"Both of us are working for the government and for the good of the government. We should be natural allies. Not only do you not trust me as an ally, you also repeatedly cause trouble for me.
Do you think officials are too comfortable sitting on the throne?
Do you want to continue tossing the official family and let someone else sit on that dragon chair?"
Chen Lin had a gloomy face and gritted her teeth and said, "Our family definitely has no such intention. Everything our family does is for the sake of the official throne."
Chen Lin stared at Kou Ji and said, "Don't confuse things in front of our family. After the members of the Mu family, Meng family, and Qian family are taken back, they only have 80%. You still have 20% in your hands."
It seems that the control of something as important as Jiaozi should be entirely in the hands of the officials."
When Kou Ji heard this, his expression changed, "Are you planning to use the same methods I used on Mu, Meng, and Qian on me?"
Chen Lin said calmly: "Our family has no such intention. We just think that things like Jiaozi can only be in the hands of officials."
Kou Ji asked in a deep voice: "What if the officials lose their restraint and act arbitrarily?"
Chen Lin said matter-of-factly: "Our family doesn't care what the officials want to do."
"Oh……"
Kou Ji smiled sarcastically and said: "You are really a loyal servant. You are not qualified to do anything the official family wants to do. Then what qualifications do you have to control what I do? I am a minister of the official family, not your Chen Lin.
Minister."
Chen Lin's face turned cold and she glared at Kou Ji.
Kou Ji sneered and said: "If the official asks for the remaining two percent, I, Kou Ji, won't even frown and will give it to him immediately. But you, Chen Lin, don't have the qualifications.
I have just explained to you the powerful relationship created by Jiaozi.
If you really have the ability, you should do it yourself instead of asking for my share."
Chen Lin gritted her teeth and said nothing.
If Jiaozi was really deployed in every state, its scale would exceed that of any yamen in the imperial court, and it would be far beyond his control.
He knows very well how capable he is.
Seeing this, the smile on Kou Ji's face became even colder, "Since you don't have the ability, you should let someone who has the ability do it. And I am exactly the person who has the ability.
I exchanged my own skills for 20% of the share, and I felt at ease with it.
Just like the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty used their talents in exchange for high salaries from the court.
Could it be that because of the issue of too much salary and too much power given to officials by sharing profits, the imperial court would take back the salaries and powers of the officials, and let the officials alone oversee the world?"
Chen Lin felt that she was verbally humiliated by Kou Ji, but he couldn't say a word to refute.
His face turned green and white for a while.
Kou Ji did not intend to continue chatting with Chen Lin. He stared at Chen Lin and said calmly: "Let your manpower slowly penetrate into the Mu family, Qian family, and Meng family. When the time is right, I will tell you what to do."
Do."
Chen Lin snorted coldly: "Why do we listen to you?"
Kou Ji laughed in a low voice and said, "You don't have to listen to me, but don't blame me when the three of them join forces to make things worse."
When Chen Lin heard this, she immediately became scared and said, "We will just listen to you."
Kou Ji added: "Don't do little things behind your back, and don't tell others what I told you. If there is an accident in Jiaozipu and there is any commotion, it must be you who leaked the news.
You will have to bear this responsibility when the time comes."
Chen Lin stared, "What if you cause trouble behind your back, and you want to frame it on our family?"
Kou Ji nodded slowly, "Of course."
Chen Lin said angrily: "You are bullying our family."
Kou Ji said dissatisfiedly: "It was you who threatened me first, and I just retaliated in kind."
Chen Lin said angrily: "How could our family allow you to harm us?"
Kou Jili was happy, "If you didn't know about Jiaozi, you would still be qualified to say this. Now that you know the importance of Jiaozi, you are no longer qualified to say this."
At present, most of the people who know the inside story of Jiaozi are people who have interests in Jiaozi.
Only you don't.
So you are most likely to be suspected of leaking secrets."
Chen Lin stared at Kou Ji angrily.
Kou Ji, as if he didn't see Chen Lin's eyes, left the palace with his hands behind his back.
Chen Lin was left alone, beating her chest and stamping her feet.
He wanted to deal with Kou Ji, but he didn't expect that not only did he not deal with Kou Ji, but he was punished by Kou Ji.
He was certain that Kou Ji never told Zhao Zhen about Jiaozi's interests.
Otherwise, Zhao Zhen would not have given him the handwritten imperial letter so easily.
However, if Kou Ji doesn't tell Zhao Zhen about the stakes now, there's no guarantee that he won't tell him about it in the future.
If something unexpected happens in Jiaozipu, Kou Ji will blame it all on him. If he takes advantage of him, won't he be alienated by Zhao Zhen?
Of course, he could also take one step ahead of Kou Ji and tell Zhao Zhen about Jiaozi's powerful connections.
But he didn't dare to do this.
He and Kou Ji had the same worries, fearing that Zhao Zhen wouldn't be able to bear the secret and would tell the story.
Then Kou Zhun and Liu E will most likely interfere in Jiaozipu's affairs.
Whether it is Kou Zhun or Liu E, Chen Lin would not like to see any one of them take control of Jiaozipu.
As for whether Kou Ji would hand over Jiaozi Shop to Kou Zhun, or tell Kou Zhun the importance of Jiaozi, Chen Lin didn't worry much.
Because judging from the current performance of Kou Zhun and Kou Ji, it seems that Kou Ji has not told Kou Zhun the importance of Jiaozi, nor has he planned to tell Kou Zhun.
Chen Lin didn't know what Kou Ji's purpose was.
But he was certain that if Kou Ji didn't tell Kou Zhun the importance of Jiaozi now, then he wouldn't tell Kou Zhun in the future either.
Chen Lin still had some understanding of Kou Ji's temperament.
…
After Kou Ji left the palace and returned to his house, he sent someone to take the imperial pen given by Zhao Zhen to Jiaozipu in Bianjing City and gave it to Mu Chong and the others.
Then he stayed in the house and never came out again.
The officials had already checked out the backgrounds of the scholars that Kou Ji had bumped into on the street. They had also checked out the resumes of the fathers and brothers behind those scholars and whether they were corrupt.
After the subordinate officials found out about the matter, they sent the document to the Kou Mansion.
Kou Ji just glanced at it twice and lost interest in reading it any more.
As the saying goes, if the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked. There is a certain truth in that.
Those few scholars were arrogant and domineering in Bianjing City, and the father and brother behind them were not good people either.
Everyone has done some bad things at one time or another.
Except for the young Yin of Jiangning Prefecture who needed to be adjudicated by the inner court, Kou Ji handed over the rest of the people to the Ministry of Punishment and let Cao Ji supervise the dismissal and investigation.
As for those complacent scholars caught by the inspection department, Kou Ji also punished them to a certain extent.
His qualifications to participate in the Qiuwei scientific examination were cancelled, he was sent back to his place of origin, and he was not allowed to participate in the imperial examination for three years.
After this incident spread, the scholars in Bianjing City made a fuss for a while.
The reason why they are making a fuss is not because they are complaining about those people.
Instead, they worked hard to make Kouji famous.
Frankly speaking, Kou Ji is not afraid of powerful people and is selfless.
Frankly speaking, this Kaifeng Mansion Qiuwei scientific expedition must be the most fair one in history.
The reason why they made Kou Ji famous can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye.
According to the unwritten rules in the imperial examinations over the years, when these officials' children took part in the imperial examinations, the imperial court would more or less allocate some admission quotas to this category of people.
Kou Ji punished these people, and the places they originally occupied were freed up.
The chances of scholars in Kaifeng Prefecture taking the Mid-Autumn Examination are greatly increased.
Kou Ji didn't respond at all to the scholars' efforts to help him become famous.
Because he knew that once the test questions he gave were released, the people who helped him become famous would immediately turn around and scold him.
So there is no need for him to pay attention to these people who are about to become his enemies.
Time flies.
The day of the Qiuwei scientific examination has arrived.
Kou Ji was woken up by his maid Chun'er at midnight, put on his official uniform, and rushed to Kaifeng Mansion.
The location of Qiuwei's scientific research is in Gongyuan next to Kaifeng Mansion.
Kou Ji will first go to Kaifeng Prefecture and then go to Gongyuan together with the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture and Li Di.
After Kou Ji arrived at Kaifeng Mansion, Li Di had already arrived and was sitting in the lobby of Kaifeng Mansion.
The magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture, Qi Qi, was sitting on the side, talking to Li Di.
The prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture is a middle-aged man in his forties, tall and thin, with a goatee and a bright red official attire. He is quite powerful, but in front of Li Di, he is obviously not as powerful as Li Di.
Dee always lowered his head when he spoke.
This man's name is Xue Tian, a native of Hedong, Hezhong.
Zhong Fang, the great Confucian uncle who studied under Zhong Shiheng, knew Kaifeng Mansion as the master of Longtuge.
This person was not Lu Yijian's successor. He served as the magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture for a short period of time.
Previously, after Lu Yijian moved to Sansi Envoy, the magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture was appointed Li Zhen, the official Youjianyi.
Not long after Li Shen took office in Kaifeng Mansion, Lu Yijian resigned from his position as the third envoy and went out to patrol the sky.
Li Zhen then moved to the Third Division and served as the envoy of the Third Division.
After Li Zhentiao left Fengfu, the position of magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture made the three chief ministers of the inner court hesitate for a long time.
I haven't been able to find a suitable candidate.
After much searching, I finally settled on Xue Tian.
According to Xue Tian's resume, he actually served as the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture and was somewhat unable to control the situation.
But the inner court couldn't find a suitable candidate for a while, so they had no choice but to recruit a general from among the dwarfs and promote him to the Kaifeng Mansion.
Kou Ji didn't have a deep impression of Xue Tian. He didn't do much when he was an official, so there are only a few entries in history books.
The only political achievement he could achieve was related to Kou Ji, so Kou Ji paid attention to him.
The relationship between Kou Ji and Xue Tian is Jiaozi, who Kou Ji has been busy with these days.
recorded in historical materials.
When Jiaozi was first released, not many people paid much attention to it.
Due to the unfavorable manipulation of merchants in Shu, Jiaozi was overpopulated and devalued. After being rejected by the people, it was stopped from circulation.
Seeing that Jiaozi was about to disappear, Xue Tian petitioned the imperial court to establish Jiaozi affairs, and the imperial court issued Jiaozi.
If Kou Ji had not appeared, Xue Tian would have asked the court for the establishment of Jiaozi two years later and worked hard to promote the issuance of Jiaozi.
Now Kou Ji has appeared and revitalized Jiaozi, which can be regarded as taking away a piece of credit from Xue Tian.
Kou Ji took the credit from others and bumped into him, so he naturally had to pay attention to him.
Just as Kou Ji was looking at Xue Tian, Xue Tian also noticed Kou Ji standing at the door.
"Is Mr. Kou here?"
Xue Tian greeted warmly.
Li Di also noticed Kou Ji. He looked at Kou Ji and sighed like never before.
Kou Ji knew why Li Di sighed, but said nothing.
He just walked forward with a smile, cupped his hands and said: "I've met Li Shangshu, I've met Magistrate Xue..."
Xue Tian smiled and said: "No need to be polite, please sit down quickly. Come and serve tea!"
Kou Ji had no choice but to step forward and sit next to the two of them.
He also knew why Xue Tian was so enthusiastic about him.
It has nothing to do with the power of his grandfather Kou Zhun, but because of his grandfather-in-law Xiang Minzhong.
After Xue Tian became a Jinshi, he has been serving as a minor official.
It was Xiang Minzhong who recommended Xue Tian to the imperial court, and Xue Tian was able to rise through the ranks and become the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture.
It is precisely because of this that Xue Tian has a natural affection for Kou Ji, the son-in-law of the Xiang Mansion.
The officials from Kaifeng Mansion served tea.
Kou Jixian took a sip, but before he put down the tea bowl, he heard Li Di let out a long sigh and said, "Aren't you too cruel?"
Kou Ji wondered: "What's wrong with me?"
Li Di glared and said, "The test questions you asked...the test questions you asked...are too crazy."
Li Di weighed it for a long time and gave a "crazy" evaluation.
Kou Ji raised his eyebrows and said, "Did it leak out?"
Li Di shook his head and sighed: "The officials are very guarded against that set of test questions, but it has not been leaked. It's just that when I teach knowledge to the officials in recent days, I am always stopped by the officials and asked some strange questions.
If my guess is correct, those questions must be your test questions.
The official took a peek and couldn't find the answer, so he asked me."