Kou Ji thought for a moment and asked: "Do the officials intend to submit to the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, or do they intend to continue to resist?"
A firm look flashed in Zhao Zhen's eyes, and he said fiercely: "I have no intention of giving in to them. Not only do I not want to give in to them, I also want to slap them and make them shut up. The noise will give me a headache."
When Kou Ji heard this, he felt relieved.
He was really afraid that Zhao Zhen would bow his head easily when faced with the civil and military persecution of the Manchu Dynasty, as recorded in the history books.
Kou Ji looked at Zhao Zhen and laughed softly: "Since the official has a headache, just rest for a few days and it will be fine."
Hearing this, Zhao Zhen grimaced and muttered: "I can't handle the impeachment of those courtiers, so I don't have time to rest."
Kou Ji said naturally: "But after you have a rest, won't you no longer have to listen to the civil and military impeachments of the entire dynasty? And no one will nag you in your ears?"
Zhao Zhen was stunned for a moment, rolled his eyes, and said in shock: "Do you want me to... stop going to court?"
"No?"
Kou Ji asked with a smile.
Zhao Zhen clasped his hands behind his back, thinking as if he was thinking, and said: "Okay, that's okay, the government affairs are handled by the Grand Master. Even if I don't go to court, there will be no chaos in the court..."
After thinking again and again, Zhao Zhen looked at Kou Ji and said in a deep voice: "It's just that I escaped from the court. Will the courtiers think that I am weak and easy to bully?"
Kou Ji explained: "The official family is young now, and there is no one who is in charge. Facing the difficulties faced by the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, it is a wise move to avoid their edge. How can it be seen as weak?"
Zhao Zhen nodded thoughtfully and said, "You're right...but I always feel a little unhappy just huddled in the palace like this."
Kou Ji grinned and said: "The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty did not allow officials to compete for profits with the people. How can the officials not allow them to compete for profits with the people?"
Zhao Zhen's eyes lit up and he said: "I remember that Mr. Xiang once told me when he was teaching me that many officials in the DPRK are running large and small businesses behind the scenes."
Zhao Zhen withdrew his hands from behind, put them together, rubbed them, and said excitedly: "Then can we use the method we used to punish corrupt officials to punish those noisy guys who give me a headache?"
Kou Ji raised his eyebrows with a strange look on his face.
Is Zhao Zhen a bad learner?
Seeing that Kou Ji looked wrong, the excitement on Zhao Zhen's face dimmed for a moment, and he said with some disappointment in his heart: "Can't it be done?"
Kou Ji thought about it: "It's not impossible. It's just that if you use the same method twice, the civil and military officials in the dynasty will definitely become wary. It will be difficult if you want to use it again."
The excitement reappeared on Zhao Zhen's face, "We will talk about the future later, first after punishing these noisy guys who give me a headache."
Seeing that Zhao Zhen insisted on punishing the officials in the court, he made it clear that if he did not punish them, he would not feel comfortable in his heart.
Kou Jidao: "Since the officials insist on punishing them, why don't I tell them?"
Zhao Zhen nodded with a bright smile.
Kou Ji pondered: "There are many courtiers impeaching officials this time. If the officials want to punish them all, it may not be easy. If there are too many officials to be punished, they will impeach even more fiercely.
Therefore, officials should pick out one or two people who have a big business, impeach the most vicious ones, and punish one or two.
Through them, we can kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.
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Zhao Zhen nodded thoughtfully. After thinking for a while, he clapped his hands and said, "I will do as you say."
"Chen Lin?"
"The slave is here!"
"Go and check for me. Check whether the officials who are most vicious in impeaching me in the court are doing business behind the scenes and what kind of business they are doing... Pick one or two fishy ones and report them to me."
"My slave obeys the order."
"..."
Chen Lin left the side hall.
Zhao Zhen took Kou Ji with him, and the two of them discussed together in the palace how to trick people.
After discussing for about an hour and coming up with a specific plan, Kou Ji bowed his hands in Zhao Zhen's excited expression and exited the side hall.
As soon as she appeared outside the side hall door, she heard Chen Lin's sinister voice, "You are becoming more and more like a slanderer..."
Kou Ji looked at him sideways, "Are you accusing me of slander?"
Chen Lin snorted coldly: "Isn't it?"
Kou Ji spread his hands and said seriously: "Everything I said is based on the official's wishes."
Chen Lin curled her lips and said, "Ding said it was like this back then."
The corner of Kou Ji's mouth twitched and said: "Do you think I am willing to tell the officials this? As long as you have some skills, or if the officials can learn from other people how to deal with the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, there is no need to ask me."
Chen Lin instantly stared and gritted her teeth and said, "Are you complaining about our family's incompetence?"
Kou Ji glanced at Chen Lin and hummed: "Isn't it?"
Chen Lin said angrily: "We are just a eunuch, and eunuchs should not discuss government affairs arbitrarily!"
Kou Ji said disdainfully: "There is Wang Jien in the front, Zhou Huaizheng in the back, and Guo Huai in addition. They talk about government affairs a lot."
Chen Lin said with an angry face: "How can they be compared with our family?"
Kou Ji snorted twice, ignored Chen Lin, and left the palace with his hands behind his back.
The day after Kou Ji left the palace.
Zhao Zhen shook his sleeves angrily and left Chui Gong Hall amid the cries of impeachment from the civil and military officials of the court.
From that day on, it lasted for three days.
Zhao Zhen did not go to court either.
It was announced to the public that he was infected with cold and needed to stay in bed for a few days.
After the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty learned about this, they were in an uproar.
Kou Zhun took this opportunity to reprimand them.
It was a bit excessive to threaten that they would join forces to bully young officials.
Under Kou Zhun's scolding, all civil and military officials in the dynasty admitted their mistake.
After leaving the palace, he quickly sent someone to inquire about the news to see if Zhao Zhen was really sick.
However, the information they found out left them speechless.
Zhao Zhen was not ill, but he excused himself from court.
They were full of anger, but there was nothing they could do.
Zhao Zhen has the final say whether he is sick or not.
Only Kou Zhun, Li Di and Wang Zeng were qualified to go to the palace to check whether Zhao Zhen was really ill.
The rest of the people need to be summoned by Zhao Zhen, or led by Kou Zhun, the three of them, before they are qualified to meet Zhao Zhen.
Therefore, as long as Zhao Zhen kept claiming to be ill, the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty would do nothing to stop him.
Seeing that they could no longer continue to spray Zhao Zhen, the civil and military officials in the court turned their guns and started spraying Kou Ji.
Kou Ji is also a bachelor.
At the height of the civil and military turmoil in the Manchu Dynasty, he went to court alone and faced the impeachment of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military officials, leaving behind a single word.
"You hold office and don't compete with the people, so you want to impeach me? But you are doing business behind the scenes? Why don't you see me impeaching you? It's okay to do business with your government, but not our government?
Do you think our Kou government is easy to bully?
If you don't let our government do business or compete with the people for profit, that's fine.
As long as the imperial court grants me the power to investigate and deal with merchants all over the world, I will find out the businesses behind your houses and close them one by one.
I will close the business under Kou Mansion."
Kou Ji's words left all the civil and military officials in the court speechless.
Kou Ji stopped talking to them and took care of Jiaozipu and the resettlement place for the refugees outside the city.
From then on, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty never impeached Kou Ji again.
Zhao Zhen defeated the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty in Kou Ji, and seven days later, he appeared in Chui Gong Hall again.
Faced with the impeachment of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, he pointed out on the spot that some officials in the DPRK and China were doing business behind the scenes, and pointed out the evidence that they took advantage of their powers to collude with officials and businessmen to seek huge profits.
Kou Zhun was not polite either.
When he learned that someone was colluding with government officials and businessmen to seek huge profits, he decisively ordered the Ministry of Punishment to investigate the matter.
After verifying that it was true, he was handed over to Dali Temple for interrogation.
Since then, the voices of civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty impeaching Zhao Zhen have become much quieter.
Zhao Zhen also felt much more relaxed.
The matter at Jiaozipu has since come to an end.
Although those unrepentant civil and military nobles saw that the impeachment of Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji failed, they secretly created many obstacles for Jiaozipu in an attempt to bring down Jiaozipu.
But they were all resolved one by one by Kou Ji.
The civil and military nobles tried their best, but could not bring down Jiaozipu.
After seeing those merchants who verified that the Jiaozi shops in Jiangning Prefecture and Sichuan Prefecture could exchange Jiaozi and deposited a large amount of money into Jiaozi Shop, they were heartbroken and followed the example of Yizi Jiaozi Shop and opened other exchanges.
Zipu.
After Kou Ji saw other Jiaozi shops opening, he was completely relieved.
Since those civil and military nobles have chosen to open Jiaozi Shop, they will no longer deliberately trouble themselves with Yizi Jiaozi Shop in the future.
As for whether those Jiaozi shops opened by civil and military nobles would steal the business of Yizi Jiaozi shops, Kou Ji never thought about it.
With the reputation of the royal family and Kou Ji's mind, if the Jiaozi Shop opened by those civil and military nobles can still take away the business, then he will stop running the Jiaozi Shop.
After the dust settled on Jiaozipu, the first textile workshop built by the refugees outside the city was completely completed.
Kou Ji invited Liu Heng, Cao Yi, and Mu Chong, who had just returned to Bianjing City after dealing with corrupt officials for a long time, who had accompanied Li Di and Wang Zeng, to rush outside the city together to prepare for the first place.
Celebrating the completion of the textile workshop.
The group left Bianjing City in a carriage and with their entourage, a total of dozens of people.
As soon as we left Bianjing City, flakes of snow fell slowly.
Snowflakes are very small and melt when touched.
After falling to the ground, it instantly turned into a drop of water.
Kou Ji opened the curtain of the carriage, stretched out his hand, felt the coldness of the snowflakes' tentacles, and sighed: "Is it snowing?"
Liu Heng wrapped his cloak tightly around his body to resist the cold wind pouring in from the carriage window. He turned his head and looked outside, and said lightly: "The snow is too light to fall."
Ko Ji nodded, lowered the curtain of the carriage, and gave instructions to the coachman driving the carriage outside, asking him to drive the carriage and continue moving forward.
Then after he sat firmly, he smiled at Liu Heng and said: "There is a saying among the people, which is that in winter, you will sleep with a three-layer wheat quilt, and you will sleep with cooking cakes on your pillow next year. There was an autumn flood in Bianjing this year. Many people were displaced and many crops were destroyed by the flood.
submerged.
If the snow falls thicker and moistens the ground, the people will plant food after spring next year, and there will definitely be a good harvest in autumn."
Liu Heng nodded in agreement.
Cao Yan, who was holding a hand warmer, shook his head and said, "Don't dare to rain too thickly. If it is rained too thickly, it will cause a white disaster, which is not a good thing."
Kou Ji glanced at Cao Yi and complained: "Just saying depressing words..."
Cao Yi raised his head, looked at Kou Ji, and said seriously: "What I said is not depressing words, but the truth. If you didn't follow Li Gong and Wang Gong out, you don't know what has become of Chang Pingcang, the Great Song Dynasty. Look.
Among ten normal warehouses, there can be four empty, three half-full, and three full.
The grain piled in the warehouse is either old grain or moldy grain.
What's more, half of it is sand and half of it is grain.
A flood in Bianjing City has already consumed 778% of the old grain in Kaifeng Prefecture and the surrounding prefectures.
If there is a white disaster, Bianjing City will be really in chaos."
Liu Heng nodded at the side and said: "I followed the prince, and Mr. Li went out for half a month. I caught hundreds of profiteers and found out that they had resold more than two million tons of grain.
The prince was surprisingly ruthless towards those profiteers and corrupt officials, and killed them all in one go.
Although those profiteers and corrupt officials were punished, it shocked the government and the public.
The imperial court also harvested a large amount of gold and silver treasures by confiscating homes and exterminating clans.
But not much food was recovered, so if there is a white disaster in Bianjing City, there will definitely be chaos."
After listening to what the two said, Kou Ji pondered: "In this case, the imperial court should find ways to mobilize food from other places to the capital. Even if there is no white disaster in Bianjing City in winter, it will be a disaster if there is not enough food supply. .
Once the river freezes and the roads are blocked by heavy snow, if food from various places cannot be transported into Bianjing, there will be trouble."
Liu Heng and Cao Yi were both stunned when they heard this.
The two of them looked at Kou Ji with strange eyes.
Kou Ji looked up and down at the cloak he was wearing, and unconsciously touched his cheek, but didn't notice anything wrong.
He asked suspiciously: "What's wrong?"
Liu Heng sighed and said with emotion: "When you said what you just said, you looked so much like a prince."
Cao Yi nodded and said: "The prince said the same thing when he was investigating Chang Pingcang in Jingzhao Mansion."
The two looked at each other.
Liu Heng praised: "Fourth brother, you are looking more and more like an important minister in the court."
Kou Ji said in astonishment: "Really?"
Liu Heng and Cao Yi nodded in unison.
Kou Ji was stunned and laughed out loud: "You two are training me? Do you still want to make money?"
Liu Heng and Cao Yi hurriedly said: "Think!"
Although they are both rich and powerful now.
But who would dislike too much money?
Ever since Kou Ji transported 10 million yuan and showed off in Bianjing City.
Everyone in Bianjing has a new understanding of money.
Nowadays, all wealthy families who cannot afford ten million copper coins at a time are embarrassed to call themselves wealthy.
It is precisely because of this that the rich and powerful have become more greedy.
Although Liu Heng and Cao Yi had just returned to Bianjing City, they were more or less influenced by other people in the house.
While the three of them were talking and laughing, they arrived at the resettlement place for the refugees.
Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others led the refugees; Bi Sheng led officials from the Ministry of Works and craftsmen.
They all gathered on the road where the refugees were resettled, waiting for the arrival of Kou Ji and his entourage.