Chapter 0545 predecessors planted trees, future generations enjoy the shade
Kou Ji thought hard for three days and came up with more than thirty names for his son. He then wrote a letter and prepared to send someone back to Xiang Yan to choose.
After the letter was written, Kou Ji put it in an envelope, sealed it with fire paint, and ordered the Imperial City Chief of Staff who was guarding outside the palace to send the letter back.
The kind-faced official took the letter, sealed it in the mailbox, and when he was leaving, he seemed to remember something and turned around to remind Kou Ji.
"Corps, the imperial court's official reward documents for the meritorious soldiers in the battle against Deshengchuan have been sent to your desk."
Hearing this, Kou Ji suddenly realized.
He was so busy naming his son these days that he forgot about the real thing.
All the official documents from the imperial court that Li Di had intercepted had been delivered to him, and it seemed that he had not read any of them.
Kou Ji casually said "I am an official", picked up the official document on the desk, and started to read it casually.
Kou Ji was very satisfied when he saw that the imperial court had awarded rewards to the soldiers who fought in the battle of Shengchuan.
Kou Ji felt even more satisfied when he saw that the imperial court never mentioned the issue of the distribution of the spoils captured in the battle of Shengchuan.
He was worried about the imperial court picking peaches, but he made two preparations, fearing that the imperial court would pick peaches too harshly and suffer the consequences of his soldiers.
But the imperial court did not even mention the issue of the distribution of spoils in the Battle of Shengchuan.
"Is it because I judge a gentleman's heart with a villain's heart?"
Kou Ji muttered suspiciously.
As soon as these words came out, Kou Ji took less than three breaths and laughed at himself: "There is a bad gentleman in the court... The court never mentioned the distribution of the spoils. Eighty percent of it was the officials who contributed. And only the officials.
, so that we can suppress those hypocrites in the court."
Kou Ji made a simple guess and figured out the joints.
Kou Ji kept reading the official document excitedly because the officials still wanted to look after him. After seeing the second half, he became uneasy.
Kou Ji patted the official document and shouted furiously.
"You bitch, you really stole the right to name my son!"
"I knew it! I knew you would not be able to sit still when my son was born!"
"Repay God's gift, God's gift?! It's obviously a gift from me, okay?"
"I have been thinking about it for three days without sleep and food! I have been thinking about it for three days! Nothing has been used!"
"..."
Kou Ji cursed loudly in the palace for a long time.
After getting tired of scolding, he stopped and weakly accepted this reality.
And he comforted himself in his heart that it was nothing if Zhao Zhen named his son.
Even if Zhao Zhen doesn't name his son, I'm afraid he won't be able to name his son.
After all, his son also had a domineering great-grandfather and an unreasonable maternal great-grandfather.
After comforting himself, Kou Ji picked up the official document in disgust and continued to read it.
Kou Ji had no objection to the court assigning credit to his son.
After reading the official document carefully and confirming that there are no omissions.
Kou Ji sent people to convey the official documents to each ministry, and ordered the chief officials of each ministry to convey the imperial court's order to reward each ministry.
Those who deserve promotion will be promoted, and those who deserve more money will be given more money.
Kou Ji never likes to delay when it comes to rewards.
After the generals praised the Japanese officers and soldiers, and the civilian husbands' official reward documents were passed on, Kou Ji took Zhang Yuan's official reward documents and fell into hesitation.
It's not that the imperial court's reward for Zhang Yuan was too harsh.
On the contrary, the imperial court rewarded Zhang Yuan very generously.
He is a fifth-grade official when he takes action.
Just catch up to the horned warrior of the past.
At that time, Jiao Si Luo did not complete the unification of Qingtang, nor did he completely control the power of Qingtang, but in name, he was the co-owner of Qingtang.
It nominally controls a huge territory comparable to Xixia.
Even so, the imperial court only granted him a fifth-rank official.
Zhang Yuan is different.
The Yuanshan tribe where Zhang Yuan lives grew up from scratch, and most of the members of the tribe were picked up on the road.
The only city under its control was voluntarily abandoned under Kou Ji's instructions.
It can be said that the Yuanshan tribe where Zhang Yuan belongs is a three-no tribe.
even so.
The imperial court was still willing to grant Zhang Yuan the title of a fifth-rank official.
It can be seen that the imperial court highly recognized Zhang Yuan's contribution to helping the Song Dynasty achieve success on the westward journey.
For Zhang Yuan, with the court's favor and approval, he will save a lot of trouble when dealing with the court in the future.
For Zhang Yuan and the Yuanshan tribe, the imperial court's granting of a title was definitely a great blessing.
But for Kou Ji, it is not a good thing.
The more the court values Zhang Yuan, the greater the chance that Zhang Yuan will come to the fore in the future.
The chance of exposure will also increase.
What's more important is that once the official document conferring a seal on Zhang Yuan from the imperial court is delivered to Zhang Yuan, there will be no turning back for Zhang Yuan.
The same is true for Kou Ji.
Once it was discovered that there was a master-servant relationship between Kou Ji and Zhang Yuan.
Then there is no way to defend Kou Ji's guilt of concealing the truth from the imperial court, splitting the territory and sealing the territory outside the territory, and plotting evil intentions.
No matter how friendly Zhao Zhen was to Kou Ji, he could not tolerate Kou Ji breaking up the territory and sealing the territory outside the territory, and raising a large number of soldiers and horses in captivity.
This is why Kou Ji hesitated.
Before the official document was delivered to Zhang Yuan, he could still find a way to turn around.
Once the official document is delivered to Zhang Yuan, there is no way back for him.
Kou Ji hesitated in the palace for a long time.
He let out a long sigh.
"I'm sorry to you as my brother... There is no turning back when you shoot... Things have reached this point. Retreating is troublesome, and not retreating is also troublesome. It's better not to retreat..."
"After all, this is a chess piece set up for your Zhao family, not for my own selfish interests. On this point, I am worthy of you."
"I won't blame you for naming my son. I will treat it as compensation for you."
"..."
Kou Ji made a decision and no longer hesitated. He immediately sent someone to send the official document conferring the title of Zhang Yuan to Huangtou Huihe at high speed.
After solving the reward issue.
Kou Ji read other official documents one after another, most of which were of little nutritional value.
After Kou Ji read it, he threw it aside.
The written memorial of what he did in Shazhou City has not yet been sent back, and the court has not received accurate information about Shazhou.
Therefore, the imperial court did not know about a series of events such as forcing Xue Tian to death, massacring the Shazhou Uighurs, and beheading the military supervisors.
After finishing official business.
Kou Ji left the side hall and went to the entrance of the main hall. He chatted for a while with Li Di who was sealing the main hall door. Then he left the palace and went to Wazi City in the city for a walk.
I met Mu Chong, Qian Le and Meng Weizhong.
After the three met Kou Ji, they vaguely proposed to Kou Ji that they wanted to sell members of several major workshops such as the steel forging workshop and the textile workshop.
The three of them never mentioned anything about the members of Yizijiaozipu.
Regarding this.
Kou Ji didn't say much.
He just told the three of them that he would find ways to find people with financial resources and take over the three of them in major workshops such as the steel forging workshop and the textile workshop.
Mu and Chong thanked Kou Ji profusely and invited Kou Ji to have dinner in a newly built tavern in Shazhou City.
Kou Ji declined politely.
After Kou Ji left Wazi City, he left the city again and wandered around the cultivated farmland outside the city.
Hundreds of thousands of people are opening up wasteland at a very fast pace. They have opened up the land from the gate of Shazhou City to a location not far from the desert.
The line drawn by Kou Ji is five miles.
Stop exploring at the oasis five miles away from the desert.
The five miles of barren grassland must be planted with trees in the future to prevent wind and sand.
After the trees grow, they will gradually expand into the desert, eventually turning the desert into a forest.
This is a long-term process that will take more than a few decades to complete.
The saplings are not yet in place.
So there is no need to plant trees on it for the time being.
The huge team that was reclaiming wasteland parted ways here.
Some people will continue to stay in Shazhou and develop the land north of Shazhou City and west of Shazhou City.
To the east of Shazhou City are designated pastures and woods.
Another part of the team will rush to Guazhou in the near future to plant trees and open up wasteland in Guazhou.
Plant trees first, then open up wasteland.
The situation in Guazhou is different from that in Shazhou.
There are large oasis areas in Shazhou, but not in Guazhou.
Guazhou is very desolate.
Although it has not turned into a desert, it is not much different from a desert.
Because of the existence of Yumen Pass, whenever there was a war in the Western Regions, Guazhou was bound to be a place of chaos.
Most of the trees in Guazhou have been cut down.
There are only some short shrubs and scattered grasses floating alone around Guazhou.
If you want to develop Guazhou, you must plant trees first and then open up wasteland.
Kou Ji had a clear plan for the management of the land west of Hexi.
Kou Ji spent three days on a tour of Shazhou.
I attended a unique wedding and spent another day.
After everything is arranged in Shazhou.
Kou Ji handed over everything in Shazhou to Fan Zhongyan. He took Li Di, the patrol horse guards, and the Japanese soldiers to Guazhou.
Zhong Shiheng's scouts discovered traces of Xixia soldiers and horses outside Qingjian City.
Yeli Wangrong, the suspected leader of the Yeli tribe, was marching along the Great Wall with 50,000 Xixia elite cavalry.
Its purpose is self-evident.
Obviously he came to Hexi.
After the Song Dynasty occupied the Great Wall on the southern border of Xixia, Xixia soldiers and horses wanted to rush to Hexi, so they had to go west along the edge of the Great Wall.
South of the Great Wall was heavily guarded by Song Dynasty troops.
North of the Great Wall, there is only a small section of oasis, and the rest is a vast desert.
The Tengger Desert and the Badain Jaran Desert are connected together and occupy most of the western border of Xixia.
Unless the Xixia soldiers and horses were stupid to a certain level, they would not be able to march in the vast desert.
If you go westward along the Great Wall, you will reach the Hongshui River outside Xiliang. If you cross the Hongshui River south, you will reach Xiliang.
The first place for the Xixia reinforcements to settle was undoubtedly Xiliang.
Since the Xixia reinforcements are on the way, Kou Ji can no longer stay in Shazhou.
Kou Ji and his party rode eastward, passed Sanwei Mountain, and arrived at Changle City. They rested for a day in Changle City and crossed the Tashi River.
Crossed the Tashi River.
The group of people seemed to have entered a wasteland area.
What comes into view is a vast and flat ground.
The ground was bare, with only sporadic withered and yellow vegetation remaining.
The breeze blew and stirred up a cloud of dust.
If you want to see a little bit of green, you have to remove the withered yellow grass and trees, only then can you see the dots of green buds sprouting from their roots.
Li Di sat on the horse, looking at the barren land, and fell into self-doubt.
"This...can it be turned into fertile farmland? Can it be turned into green space?"
Kou Jicheng rode his horse to Li Di's side and said with a calm smile: "Of course... As long as the Tuanshi River does not dry up, and as long as our people work hard to open up wasteland, farm fields, and plant trees on it, one day, this place will become a green world.
"
"How long will it take?"
"Ten years...twenty years...it may take a lifetime...it may take several generations to complete..."
When Li Di heard what Kou Ji said, he couldn't say a word.
Although he has decided to die in Hexi, he has decided to devote the rest of his life to Hexi.
But facing a stretch of barren land with no end in sight, I felt completely unsure.
How many trees would it take to turn such a barren land into fertile farmland and into a forest?
How many people are involved?
Li Di didn't dare to calculate because he was afraid that he would not be able to calculate.
Kou Ji looked at the boundless land and said with emotion: "The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants enjoy the shade. Only those who pay will reap the rewards."
We cannot just ask for the land under our feet without knowing how to repay it.
If you just ask for it blindly, one day the desert will swallow everything."
Li Di understood the first half of Kou Ji's words, but he didn't understand the second half.
Li Di pondered secretly, pondering the profound meaning of Kou Ji's words.
Kou Ji had already galvanized his horse and whip and rushed to Guazhou City.
Guazhou City is an earth city with low walls and no tall buildings.
The entire city is earth-colored, and all buildings are made of earth.
Hundreds of flags standing on top of the city add a different color to the city.
After Kou Ji and his party arrived at Guazhou City.
Cao Xiong, the guard who stayed behind in Guazhou City, took the initiative to welcome him out.
Entered the city.
I simply washed up.
Cao Xiong invited Kou Ji and his entourage to the city lord's mansion and prepared a table of wine and food to entertain Kou Ji and his entourage.
In Guazhou City, everything that caught the eye was either looted or burned by Xixia soldiers and horses.
Therefore, the tables and chairs used by Cao Xiong to entertain Kou Ji and his party were very simple.
Kou Ji and his party did not feel dissatisfied.
Instead, he pulled Cao Xiong to sit down with a smile, and while eating and drinking, he asked about the war at Yumen Pass.
Cao Xiong knew everything about the battle at Yumen Pass.
"Li Gong and Kou Qinchen, since General Zhu and General Li joined forces to capture Guazhou, they divided their forces into two groups again. One group attacked Yumen Pass and the other group attacked Yangguan Pass.
Li Yuanhao stationed heavy troops at Yumen Pass, so General Zhu led his army to attack Yumen Pass several times, but failed to capture Yumen Pass.
On the contrary, General Li's troops broke through Yangguan, marched all the way, captured Suzhou, and are now heading towards Ganzhou.
In order to cooperate with General Li in the battle, General Zhu besieged Yumen Pass and adopted the method of besieging but not attacking."
"What's going on with Li Yuanhao inside Yumen Pass?"
"Li Yuanhao has been guarding Yumen Pass. If he is besieged by our army, he will send his elite cavalry out to fight for a while. After our army retreats, he will return to Yumen Pass."