Chapter 0454 Arranged clearly and clearly Xiao Su Xun
Su Xun's little face tightened, with a slight blush of embarrassment on her cheeks, as she stared at Kou Ji.
"Who are you anyway?"
Su Xun's voice was high and trembling.
Kou Ji stretched out his hand, rubbed Su Xun's head twice while he was dodging around, and said with a smile: "You are a good boy..."
Su Xun yelled angrily.
Kou Ji teased him, then his eyes fell on Ouyang Xiu and others. Seeing them looking at him respectfully, he smiled lightly and said, "I wanted to chat with you, but I didn't expect that you all guessed my identity."
, I’m sitting here, and you can’t have fun anymore.
I'll take the first step.
Farewell..."
Kou Ji stood up, thought about it, and walked to the front yard.
Ouyang Xiu and others stood up, saluted Kou Ji and respectfully sent Kou Ji off.
Su Xun did not salute, but chased Ouyang Xiu and others, loudly asking, "Who is he?"
The elder Fu Bi was amused by his younger brother Su Xun and said with a smile: "You will know who he is sooner or later. There is no need to rush."
"Yes, yes... what Brother Rich said makes sense."
"..."
A group of older people all shouted in agreement.
Su Xun screamed in anger.
Kou Ji left the gallery and entered the front yard, where he saw Kou Zhun dancing and writing with a group of great scholars.
Met Kou Ji.
Kou Zhun immediately called Kou Ji over.
There were a bunch of great scholars who were all higher than Kou Ji in terms of age and knowledge. Kou Ji didn't dare to show off in front of them, so he bowed his head and saw them one by one.
Those great scholars also returned the favor one after another.
In order to avoid being caught by a bunch of great scholars taking the academic test, Kou Ji brought the topic to printing.
After agreeing to help a large group of great Confucians print their books and their collections, he successfully avoided the examinations of the great Confucians.
Kou Zhun saw that Kou Ji didn't like hanging around among the great scholars, so he arranged for him to receive high-ranking officials who had resigned.
Kou Ji was also happy to discuss some political affairs in the court with those senior officials who had resigned and listen to their advice.
The old waiters are very talkative and tireless.
Drink and talk all night long.
Talk about current affairs, poetry, poetry, and beauties.
Kou Zhun's party at his house to help Wenchang Academy recruit students turned into a poetry gathering.
Kou Ji stayed with them until midnight, and then escaped from the front yard with some excuse.
The female relatives in the backyard did not leave, and Kou Ji couldn't go back to the backyard. He thought about it and decided to find a free place to stay in one of the two major workshops in Ruian Town.
As soon as he went out, he saw Su Xun dragging a middle-aged man, pointing at Kou Ji and yelling.
"Shibo, he is the one bullying me!"
Kou Ji raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect the little guy to be so vindictive and even complain.
When the middle-aged man saw Kou Ji, he was slightly startled and quickly bowed and saluted.
"Cheng Wenying, the Prime Minister of Dali Temple, met with the bandits."
Su Xun's eyes widened stupidly.
"Corps?"
Cheng Wenying quickly glared at Su Xun and shouted in a low voice: "It's rude... why don't you salute the bandits?"
Su Xun was stunned as Cheng Wenying pulled him hard and bowed to Kou Ji.
Kou Ji nodded and said with a smile: "No need to be polite..."
Cheng Wenying pulled Su Xun to stand up.
Kou Ji looked at the two of them, stared at Cheng Wenying, and asked, "Is little Su Xun your nephew?"
Cheng Wenying was stunned and didn't understand what Kou Ji asked what he meant. He immediately said seriously: "Xia Guan and Su Xun's father Su Xu are family friends."
Kou Ji nodded thoughtfully and continued to ask: "Is little Su Xun engaged?"
When Cheng Wenying heard this, his face changed, and he said with a stiff expression: "Su Xun and my daughter are engaged."
Su Xun had just recovered from the shock caused by Kou Ji's identity. When he heard Kou Ji's question, two blushes appeared on his face, and he said angrily: "Why do you ask this?"
Cheng Wenying was startled and shouted quickly: "You are rude! Make amends to the officials immediately!"
Su Xun was very rude in front of Kou Ji, which really frightened Cheng Wenying.
Cheng Wenying was a wealthy man from Meishan, Meizhou, and he got the position of Prime Minister of Dali Temple through someone's recommendation.
I don’t sit in the Yamen of Dali Temple on weekdays either.
But it doesn't mean that he doesn't know what Kou Ji did in the court.
From the time Kou Ji entered Bianjing City to now, no one who has offended Kou Ji has had a good ending.
Among them were Ding Wei, the treacherous prime minister who was in power at the beginning, and Liu E, the empress dowager who was as stable as a mountain.
He was a small Dali Temple minister, but he was not even a grasshopper in Kou Ji's hands, he could easily be crushed to death.
Kou Ji had previously beheaded a group of officials at Caishikou. If he picked out any one of them, he might have a higher official position than Cheng Wenying.
Precisely because he knew how powerful Kou Ji was, he was frightened when he heard that Su Xun was disrespectful to Kou Ji.
If Su Xun didn't know Kou Ji's identity, he could still defend Su Xun by saying that an ignorant person shouldn't do too much.
But now that Su Xun knew Kou Ji's identity, he was still so rude to Kou Ji.
That's a bit unjustifiable.
Under Cheng Wenying's scolding, Su Xun gritted his teeth and lowered his head to apologize to Kou Ji.
Kou Ji saw through Cheng Wenying's thoughts and said with a smile: "Don't be nervous, Cheng Sicheng. I don't blame Su Xun, but I like him quite a lot. I have no intention of recruiting him into my Kou residence as my son-in-law."
After all, even if he wants to join the Kou family as his son-in-law, we don’t have any female relatives to marry him."
When Cheng Wenying heard this, he smiled dryly.
I was speculating in my mind whether what Kou Ji said was true or false.
Just now when Kou Ji asked Su Xun if he was engaged, he was very nervous.
He was afraid that Kou Ji would take action and steal his son-in-law.
Although Su Xun is a bit aloof and likes to play around, he has a good character. He and his daughter are also childhood sweethearts. Their temperaments are also compatible, and they will let their daughter go when things happen.
He does not ask for his daughter's husband to be a prince for eternity, he only wants his daughter to follow his husband and live a peaceful and happy life.
He is not short of money anyway.
When his daughter gets married, he will give her a sufficient dowry.
Seeing that Cheng Wenying was still a little worried, Kou Ji smiled and said, "I just think that this guy is a good talent, but unfortunately he is too out-of-touch and too aloof. He should get married as soon as possible and be properly controlled."
Seeing that Kou Ji's words were sincere, Cheng Wenying immediately felt relieved and said with a wry smile: "To be honest, this boy is naughty by nature, but my elder brother ignored him and allowed him to run amok in the countryside.
My sister-in-law couldn't stand it, and when she heard that Kou openly ran a school and invited many famous teachers and Confucian scholars to teach, she asked me to take him to Beijing, hoping that he would join Kou's open school."
After a pause, the bitterness on Cheng Wenying's face became even stronger, "I hung out in the Kou Mansion for a few days, intending to help Kou Gong with some money and help Su Xun get a place in school. But Kou Gong has been busy with official duties and has not seen me."
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Su Xun. Seeing some anger on Su Xun's stern face, he knew that he was very dissatisfied with Cheng Wenying paying him to enter Wenchang Academy.
Adults have self-esteem, and so do children.
A smart child like Su Xun has much stronger self-esteem than others.
However, in order to successfully send Su Xun to the Wenchang Academy, Cheng Wenying, a small official, wandered around the Kou Mansion and was probably looked down upon a lot.
It's a pity that Su Xun doesn't seem to understand his father-in-law's painstaking efforts.
Kou Ji smiled and said: "My grandfather founded the school and never took in too much money from outside, otherwise it would go against his original intention of running the school. In addition to some daily expenses for food and clothing, it also costs some money to purchase pens, inks, paper and inkstones. The rest don't need it. Even if they are Shu cultivators, they only receive six rites of worship."
Cheng Wenying looked a little sad when he heard this.
The reason why he didn't want to rest until late at night was because he wanted to take a chance and see if he could meet Kou Zhun and help Su Xun find a place for admission.
Seeing this, Kou Ji added: "However, you don't have to be discouraged. As far as I know, when my grandfather recruits students this time, the most important thing is not the students' knowledge, but the students' character."
Cheng Wenying was slightly stunned.
Kou Ji smiled and said: "If you are worried, you can leave this kid to me and I will ensure that he successfully enters school."
Cheng Wenying was stunned at first, then he was delighted and said in disbelief: "Really?"
Kou Ji smiled and said nothing.
Cheng Wenying realized that he was a little rude, and quickly bowed and said: "I am rude... As a member of the Kou officials, there is no need to trick me."
After a pause, Cheng Wenying hesitated and said: "Why do the officials want to help me?"
Kou Ji smiled and said: "Help you? I don't mean to help you. I just think that little Su Xun doesn't know etiquette, so I plan to send him to Wenchang Academy to learn etiquette."
Cheng Wenying was stunned.
I felt a little dumbfounded in my heart.
If Kou Ji's words spread, I'm afraid the door of Kou's mansion will be lined with scholars, asking Kou Ji to send him to Wenchang Academy to receive the punishment of etiquette lessons.
He secretly guessed that it might be Su Xun's out-of-the-box character that attracted Kou Ji's attention, and Kou Ji wanted to help Yi Er.
Cheng Wen bowed deeply to Kou Ji.
After giving the gift.
With excitement, Cheng Wenying turned around and told Su Xun, "Follow the bandits carefully and do whatever he asks you to do. As long as you can successfully enter the Wenchang Academy to study and return to Meishan, I will I can also give an explanation to my sister-in-law."
Su Xun stared at Cheng Wenying blankly.
'Father-in-law! I came to you to help me avenge myself, not to betray me!'
However.
Cheng Wenying couldn't hear his voice.
Cheng Wenying bowed his hand to Kou Ji and left Kou's house in large strides.
Cheng Wenying handed Su Xun over to Kou Ji with great relief.
Cheng Wenying was not worried at all about whether Kou Ji would harm Su Xun.
Because Cheng Wenying knew that there was nothing in Su Xun worthy of Kou Ji's plot.
There is nothing in the Cheng and Su family that can catch the eye of Kou Ji.
After Cheng Wenying left.
Kou Ji glanced at Su Xun, who was standing aside stupidly, and waved to the servant not far away.
"Arrange for him to rest in the wing."
"When my grandfather opened a school to accept students, he needed someone to kill the chicken for the monkeys, and he was the one."
"..."
The servant agreed and left the door of Kou Mansion with Su Xun, who was still in a daze.
Little did he know that he had become the chicken to be killed in Wenchang Academy.
Kou Ji left the other courtyard.
I met Chen Jing who was leading a patrol of Ruian Town.
Chen Jing warmly invited Kou Ji to rest in his newly built two-entry mansion.
Since the people in Ruian Town have earned enough wages in textile workshops and steel forging workshops, most of them have also gotten rid of the gregarious life.
Purchased some vacant land in the town and built some private residences.
now.
In Ruian Town, except for some lazy people living alone, most people have moved out of the adobe houses that Ko Ji built when he first housed them.
Some vacated adobe houses have been demolished.
The land occupied by the adobe houses was also divided into pieces and sold to the people.
The imperial court also gained a lot of money from this.
After Kou Ji arrived at Chen Jing's house, Chen Jing boiled a pot of wine, sat down with Kou Ji and chatted for a while, talking about the current situation of Ruian Town.
Then they asked the family to boil some hot water, let Kou Ji wash up, and arranged for Kou Ji to sleep.
Kou Ji hid in Chen Jing's house for three days.
On the fourth day, Kou Zhun sent someone to call him back to the other courtyard.
As soon as I entered the other courtyard, I saw that the great scholars and senior officials who had resigned from their posts who had been surrounding the other courtyard in the past few days disappeared one after another.
Kou Zhun was the only one sitting in the main hall with a sad face, not knowing what he was thinking.
Kou Ji stepped forward slightly and bowed, "Grandpa..."
Kou Zhun slowly came back to his senses. After seeing Kou Ji, he hurriedly said: "There are two things that I need you to help me with."
Kou Ji walked up to Kou Zhun and touched the tea on the table in front of Kou Zhun. Seeing that the tea was cold, he ordered someone to change it, then sat down next to Kou Zhun and asked, "Who runs the school?"
Something went wrong?"
Kou Zhun sighed and said: "An old man told me that all the expenses in Wenchang Academy cannot be spent with the money of our Kou Mansion. He said that all the expenses in Wenchang Academy can't be spent with the money of our Kou Mansion.
If money is lost, Wenchang Academy will not be able to operate for a long time.
What do you think?"
Kou Ji thought for a moment and nodded slowly, "I think what he said makes sense."
Kou Zhun said with some dissatisfaction: "I want to run a school, why can't I use my own money?"
When Kou Ji heard this, he smiled bitterly.
If he had never met Su Xun, Ouyang Xiu, Han Qi and others, he would strongly agree with Kou Zhun's statement.
Anyway, the school was opened to relieve Kou Zhun's boredom.
As long as he is here, Wenchang Academy will not be unable to run due to lack of money and food.
It can be seen that after passing Su Xun, Ouyang Xiu and others.
Kou Ji changed his mind.
All the talented people have entered Wenchang Academy, but nothing can be seen now.
But more than ten years later, when a group of talented people from Wenchang Academy took high positions in the court.
That would be different.
At that time, a group of courtiers who have received favor from the Kou Mansion will give the Kou Mansion some face.
What the Kou government says will probably be more effective than what the officials say.
It is easy to control the imperial power.
Kou Ji actually didn't have much scruples about matters affecting the imperial power.
He is afraid that when the time comes, some people with ulterior motives will take the opportunity to cause trouble and destroy everything he has worked so hard to build.