Chapter 0386 stubborn generals of the Imperial Guard
The next few days.
Liu Heng dispatched troops from the Imperial City Division to secretly help the Tiger Army gain fame.
Kou Ji then ordered Zhao Zhen's oral instructions to go back and forth between the palace and the Huzi Army barracks outside the city.
Zhao Zhen made a lot of money last year through Yizijiaozipu, so he was particularly generous when he rewarded the Tiger Character Army.
In addition to giving officers and knights to the generals of the Tiger Army, a lot of money was also given to the officers and men of the Tiger Army.
Some soldiers who were injured, or died of serious injuries, were given preferential compensation.
In addition, he also gave a lot of wine and meat to reward the tiger soldiers.
Kou Ji took the money that Zhao Zhen had given to the Huzi Army, and after arriving at the Huzi Army's camp, he celebrated with the soldiers for three days.
He also distributed the pensions to each of the soldiers who were injured or died of serious injuries in the Tiger Army one by one, or sent the money to Baozhou through the court's post station and handed it over to Chen Juntou, the patrolling horse guard.
With the kind of person Chen Juntou was, he would definitely send the pensions of those soldiers who died of serious injuries to their families.
Not many days after rewarding the Tiger-Charactered Army.
The reputation of the Tiger Character Army began to spread outside Bianjing City, driven by Liu Heng behind his back.
Gradually it spread to the entire Kaifeng Prefecture, and began to spread rapidly to Jingzhao Prefecture and other places.
The same style of wood-carved armor as the Tiger-Charactered Army began to be sold everywhere as the reputation of the Tiger-Charactered Army spread.
The wooden-carved armored soldiers cost three cents each. They were inexpensive and had fine workmanship. Once they were launched, they were sought after by the common people.
Children like to get together with soldiers in carved wooden armor to form a military formation and fight with each other.
Adults like to use wooden carvings of soldiers in armor as paperweights and decorations.
Just seven days.
The 30,000 wooden-carved armored soldiers sent from the Kou Mansion were all sold out.
Kou Ji had to summon the craftsmen at his house and the craftsmen at Ruisheng Village outside the city to work day and night to continue making wood carvings of armor and soldiers.
When Xiang Yan saw this, she thought Kou Ji wanted to start a wood carving business.
I specially ran to the study and asked Kou Ji.
"Ms. sir, has there been a new business in the house?"
Kou Ji was holding the pen and writing a letter. Hearing Xiang Yan's words, he put down the pen and asked, "Did you add it?"
"you……"
"I?"
Kou Ji looked confused.
Xiang Yanjiao said angrily: "It's the wood carving business..."
Kou Ji suddenly realized it and continued to pick up the pen. While writing, he smiled calmly and said: "That's not a business... you can't make much money..."
Xiang Yanran said in astonishment: "In just seven days, I made nearly 30,000 yuan. Isn't that considered making money?"
Kou Ji finished writing the letter with a flourish, stuffed it into the envelope, stamped it with a wax seal, put the letter away, and said with a smile: "If you think it's profitable, I'll leave the wood carving to you in the future."
Xiang Yan was overjoyed when she heard this, "I will go and incorporate the wood carving business into the house's business and manage it together."
After saying this, Xiang Yan left Kou Ji's study and went straight to the yard where the craftsmen were.
Kou Ji looked at her leaving figure, shook his head and smiled.
Making money from wood carving was nothing compared to what he was planning.
So he only pays attention to the sales volume of wood carvings, not whether wood carvings make money.
Since Xiang Yan wants to start wood carving as a business, then let her do it.
As long as it doesn't affect his plan, he won't stop Xiang Yan from doing anything.
Kou Ji took the letter and walked out of the study, preparing to find Kou Zhong and send someone to deliver the letter.
As soon as I walked out of the door, I was hugged by a black and white, chubby guy.
He saw the little guy hanging on his lap, staring at him with a pair of watery eyes.
Kou Ji grabbed the fur on the back of its neck, put it on his shoulders, resisted the bend, and walked out of the yard and found Kou Zhong.
"Send this letter to Baozhou quickly..."
Kou Zhong took the letter and agreed.
Just as he was about to leave, he saw the outer steward of the residence and hurried over.
The outer steward walked up to Kou Ji, bowed and said, "Young Master, someone is coming from the palace, and I have summoned you to enter the palace."
Kou Zhong paused and stopped to listen.
Kou Ji casually pulled the little guy off his shoulder and held it in his arms. While stroking its fur, he asked doubtfully: "What do you mean?"
The outer steward bowed and said, "According to people from the palace, several officials from the Ministry of Rites, Imperial College, and Imperial College jointly impeached you when they attended the court meeting in Chuigong Hall."
Kou Ji pulled the little guy who was playing with his arm as a horizontal bar, raised his eyebrows, and said in deep thought: "Impeach me? Impeach me for what?"
The outer steward smiled bitterly and said: "It is said that you promoted martial arts in Bianjing City, which affected the Imperial Academy and the students of the Imperial College studied normally."
Hearing this, Kou Ji rolled his eyes.
In order to suppress the martial arts among the people, the imperial court tried every means. The late Emperor Zhao Heng even wrote a poem full of temptations for this purpose.
I urge all ambitious people in the world to read more.
Kou Ji helped the Tiger Character Army become famous, and he also used the reputation of the Tiger Character Army to sell wood-carved armored soldiers.
There is a feeling of encouraging people to join the army and practice martial arts.
Presumably, some students in Taixue and Imperial College had the idea of abandoning their writing and joining the army after seeing the fame of the Tiger-Charactered Army.
The careful Imperial College priests and Taixue priests must have discovered this matter.
That's why they jointly submitted a letter to impeach Kou Ji.
"Eat enough to hold you up...Whether the students join the army or participate in the examination, that is everyone's ambition. They just teach them obediently and want to control their ideas..."
Kou Ji murmured disdainfully and said to the external steward: "Go and tell the people in the palace that I am ill and cannot go to court. Then send someone to inform Wang Qinruo and tell him to repay my bet."
The time has come for debt.”
When the outer steward heard this, he looked at Kou Ji in astonishment, "Don't you need to elaborate on the person who was sent to the palace to deliver the message?"
Kou Ji shook his head and said: "According to my original words, there is no need to say more. Wang Qinruo will naturally understand what I mean."
The outer steward nodded thoughtfully, cupped his hands, and exited the courtyard.
Kou Zhong held the letter in his hand and slowly moved to Kou Ji's side. He muttered: "Young Master, if the palace can send someone to send a message, it means that there must be many people behind your back to impeach you. Are you really not going to go?"
Kou Ji shook his head and said boredly: "It's just some small tricks that Wang Qinruo ordered them to play. Now that I'm directly attacking Wang Qinruo, why can't they quickly curb their little tricks?"
Hearing this, Kou Zhong nodded.
Since Kou Ji is sensible, he doesn't need to say anything.
Kou Zhong cupped his hands and left the yard.
Kou Ji walked around the yard and took the little one on his arm to nibble bamboo.
Just as Kou Ji expected.
After he sent someone to send a message to Wang Qinruo, the voices in the court that impeached him disappeared instantly.
If Wang Qin wants to continue to hang out in the court, he will never cheat on this kind of thing.
No one was sent from the palace to send messages, and Kou Ji no longer needed to pay attention to those people.
I stayed at my house for another two days.
The document stating that Kou Li was transferred to Leizhou was delivered to his house.
Kou Ji accompanied Xiang Yan, helped Kou Li pack his luggage, and sent a team of guards to take him out of Bianjing City to Leizhou for his appointment.
The news that Kou Li was transferred to Leizhou spread throughout Bianjing after he left Bianjing.
Eight Princes' Mansion.
Zhao Yuanyan was dressed in red and stood beside the coffee table with a livid face. He slammed the porcelain bowl in his hand to the ground.
"hateful!"
"Annoying!"
Zhao Yuanyan shouted angrily.
Wang Qinruo and Li Shen, who were sitting on the left and right sides of him, both sighed.
Li Zhen gritted his teeth and said: "The two grandsons of the Kou family are really difficult to deal with. We just came up with a way to deal with them, and they were cut off in an instant."
Wang Qinruo stroked his beard and said to Li Zhen in a neutral tone: "I have said long ago that your method of using Kou Li to deal with the Kou family's ancestors and grandsons will not work, but you still don't believe it."
Li Zhen said angrily: "My method was right, but it was Kou Zhun who was wrong. Who could have expected that Kou Zhun would be so ruthless that his own son could be sent to Leizhou to suffer. If it were a better place, I would
They can all think of ways to help Kou Li get all the credit and let him be promoted to Bianjing City quickly..."
Wang Qinruo hummed and said, "Kou Li is not Kou Zhun's biological child. With Kou Zhun's temperament, isn't it normal to treat Kou Li harshly?"
Li Shen frowned and said in a deep voice, "Why didn't you remind me before?"
Wang Qinruo said unhappily: "I remind you often, but you don't listen to me at all."
"you……"
"Bang!"
Li Shen wanted to argue with Wang Qinruo, and Zhao Yuanyan angrily slapped the table next to him and growled: "That's enough!"
Wang Qinruo and Li Zhen decisively shut up.
Zhao Yuanyan stared at Wang Qinruo and said in a deep voice: "Didn't you say that we could use Kou Ji's sale of wooden-carved armored soldiers to impeach Kou Ji and make Kou Ji lose control of the Tiger Character Army? We could use this opportunity to plot against the Tiger Character Army.
?
Why was there only one impeachment and nothing more?"
Wang Qinruo sighed and said: "When we performed martial arts on the school field before, I had a bet with that kid. I lost and owed the kid a bet.
The boy sent someone to your door to ask for the bet.
I can't cheat, right?
If I even lie about things in the casino, who will believe me in the future?"
Zhao Yuanyan stared at Wang Qinruo and said, "Then tell me, what should we do now? We haven't found a way to make money, and the Tiger Character Army can't make plans for the time being.
What to use to get things done?
What can we do to win over the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty?"
Wang Qinruo seemed to have expected that Zhao Yuanyan would ask this question, so after Zhao Yuanyan's words fell, he said seriously: "Of course we can't give up the method of making money. But there is no need to rush, now there are also people in our Jiaozi shop.
Save money and come in.
Although we don’t have as much savings as those at Yizijiaozi.com, it’s barely enough to last us for a while.
Therefore, we can slowly figure out how to make money.
What we have to do now is to win over the civil and military forces of North Korea and China.
Among the civil servants, except for the Queen Mother's people and Kou Zhun's people, the rest are almost all our people.
What we have to do now is to find ways to win over the people in the hands of the Queen Mother and Kou Zhun."
Zhao Yuanyan asked: "How to win over?"
Wang Qinruo said calmly: "Of course money paves the way..."
Zhao Yuanyan gritted his teeth secretly.
The greed of civil servants exceeded his imagination.
The extravagant wealth accumulated in the family for many years has been consumed by nearly 40% in less than a year.
If he continues to consume it, I'm afraid those civil servants will be able to suck out all the money in his hands before he gets into trouble.
At that time, without enough financial support, it is hard to say whether those civil servants will listen to him.
Zhao Yuanyan was determined to tighten the government's expenditure.
But I didn't say it in front of Wang Qinruo and Li Shen.
Zhao Yuanyan stared at Wang Qinruo and asked again: "What about the general?"
When mentioning military commanders, Wang Qinruo's face looked a little unnatural.
"Except for some generals of the Xiang Army who were abolished, none of the generals of the Forbidden Army have joined us for the time being..."
Wang Qinruo sighed and said.
Zhao Yuanyan frowned and said in a deep voice: "Isn't it okay for me to give them unimaginable glory and wealth?"
Wang Qinruo smiled bitterly and shook his head.
When he was wooing those generals, he had already promised all the benefits he could.
However, except for the generals of the Xiang Army who were dismissed because of their guilt, no one in the Forbidden Army agreed to help Zhao Yuanyan.
He didn't understand that those generals of the Forbidden Army who were usually greedy for money and acted recklessly showed rare stubbornness in this matter.
No matter how hard he tried to lobby, people just wouldn't be moved.
No matter how big a title he promised, others would not agree to it.
"Bang!"
Zhao Yuanyan had a sullen face, slammed the coffee table, and said angrily: "Do they think this king can't accomplish anything and can't give them the glory and wealth they want?"
Wang Qinruo opened his mouth, but said nothing.
There were some things that he couldn't tell Zhao Yuanyan.
He could probably guess some of the reasons why those generals of the Forbidden Army did not agree to his solicitation.
Some of them probably really looked down on Zhao Yuanyan.
Some people don't want to participate in the internal struggle of the royal family, they just want to protect themselves and serve the dragon throne wholeheartedly.
They didn't care much about the person sitting on the dragon chair, no matter who it was, as long as it was named Zhao.
There are also some people who have no idea about the power of following the dragon.
Because the credit is somewhat useless to them.
Most of them have reached the point where they can no longer be sealed.
If you obtain the power of following the dragon again, there will only be one death left.
Zhao Yuanyan was annoyed with himself for a long time. He clenched his fists and asked Wang Qinruo, "Without the Forbidden Army and without the generals of the Forbidden Army, how can I accomplish anything?"
Wang Qinruo thought about it for a moment and said in deep thought: "The only plan for now is to plot the Tiger-Charactered Army while continuing to win over the generals of the Forbidden Army. Human beings will always have weaknesses.
As long as we grasp the weaknesses of some generals in the Forbidden Army and use both soft and hard tactics, they will always be at our disposal."
"If the plan to plot the Tiger-Character Army fails, then what if we can't win over the generals of the Forbidden Army?"
Zhao Yuanyan had a sullen face and asked a stupid question.
If Kou Ji heard what he said, he would definitely tell Zhao Yuanyan without hesitation...
Then why are you trying to usurp the throne?
Take a shower and go to sleep.
But if Wang Qinruo is not Kou Ji, after hearing Zhao Yuanyan's question, Wang Qinruo took a deep breath and said with a faint look: "If we really can't win over the generals of the Forbidden Army, then there is only one way left."