Chapter 0582 A word to wake up the dreamer (seeking the moon)
"What's the use of telling me this? I'm not in the court. You tell the officials. It's up to the officials to decide who can serve as prime minister."
Kou Zhun rolled his eyes and said slightly angrily.
He has repeatedly stated that he has no regional discrimination.
Kou Ji still regarded him as a person with regional discrimination and tried to persuade him.
When Kou Ji saw that Kou Zhun was angry, he knew that his words might be a bit excessive. Maybe it was because he hated the national traitors, so he was subconsciously excited, so he couldn't bear to talk in front of Kou Zhun.
"I will advise the officials..."
After Kou Ji said this, he said no more.
Kou Zhun pretended to yawn and waved his hands lazily, "I'm tired, you can go down now."
Kou Ji stood up, handed over his hands, and exited the study.
As soon as Kou Ji left, Kou Zhun's muttering sounded in the study, "How can the dispute between the North and the South be so easy to reconcile? The northerners have controlled the government for many years, and their party members are everywhere. Many people have regarded the court as a place for northerners.
, influenced by them, northern scholars also deliberately oppressed southern scholars after entering official careers.
It has become a habit for scholars from the north and the south to always fight when they get together.
I can't even reconcile it, let alone you."
Kou Zhun's words were naturally not heard by Kou Ji after he left the study.
If you hear it, you will definitely smile bitterly.
Because what Kou Zhun said is absolutely correct.
The struggle between the north and the south occurred not only in the Song Dynasty, but also in subsequent dynasties.
A more famous example is the North-South List Case during the Hongwu Period of the Ming Dynasty.
For this reason, Emperor Hongwu often picked up a knife to chop people.
Kou Ji didn't hear Kou Zhun's last words, so he naturally wouldn't worry about the conflict between the North and the South.
What he was more concerned about was that Kou Zhun asked him to keep a low profile and bide his time.
Kou Zhun asked him to hide his strength and bide his time, but he couldn't, at least not now.
Zhao Zhen had laid out a big picture and was going to invite all the civil and military officials of the court to join him. Kou Ji was a key figure in it. If he stayed behind closed doors at this time, Zhao Zhen's plan would most likely fail.
If Zhao Zhen loses and lets the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty carve up Yizijiaozipu, it is unknown what kind of mess that Yizijiaozipu will be in.
More importantly, once the Manchu civil and military officials took control of Yizijiaozipu, they would have the power to compete with him and Zhao Zhen.
When the time comes, it won't be that easy for him and Zhao Zhen to attack the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.
Kou Ji is not willing to tie himself up in a cocoon.
So he couldn't hide his strength and bide his time.
"If I really get to the point where I can't be sealed, and the civil and military forces of the dynasty can't tolerate me, then I'll just find a new group of people who can accommodate me..."
"..."
Kou Ji shook his head and walked back to the yard where his bedroom was.
Xiang Yan had already put Kou Tianci to sleep and ordered the servants to help Kou Ji boil hot water.
Kou Ji washed up and carried Xiang Yan into the house.
The two talked to each other all night long.
The next day, Kou Ji fell ill.
Wind and cold enter the body.
Probably because I didn't wear any clothes when I went to bed at night, so I was blown by the cold wind.
After Kou Zhun learned that Kou Ji was ill, he was very satisfied. He felt that Kou Ji had listened to his words and learned to avoid the limelight.
He never saw Kou Ji again, so he had no idea that Kou Ji was really sick.
Kou Ji's illness is a big deal.
But few people paid attention.
Everyone inside and outside Bianjing City was attracted by the team transporting grain.
The team transporting grain began to enter Bianjing City after Kou Ji returned to Bianjing City.
The grain transport team had been transporting grain to Bianjing City for a whole night. The endless grain transport team piled up outside Bianjing City still had no end in sight.
Wang Zeng and Lu Yijian, together with the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, worked all night and filled the granaries in Bianjing city, but they still had not finished loading the grain sent back by Kou Ji.
Where to put the remaining food has become a big problem.
All the civil and military officials gathered together and discussed for a long time, but still could not come up with a clue.
There was no room to store anything in the warehouses throughout the imperial court.
The treasury was filled with gold, silver and jewels, and the sealed warehouse was also packed to the brim.
The granary was also full.
Put it in the mansions of major officials?
That's inappropriate.
You can't just pile the leftover food into the palace, right?
How ugly that is.
The civil and military officials thought for a long time, and finally Zhang Zhibai gave a suggestion.
If the Kou Mansion's mansion is empty, the food can be placed in the Kou Mansion's mansion.
The masters of the Kou Mansion were not living there, leaving only a few old servants to look after it. The house was empty, just enough to store food, and there was no need to worry about it being stolen.
The grain was brought back by Kou Ji.
If Kou Ji really wanted to steal it, he would have done it in Hexi. There was no need to do it in Bianjing City in front of everyone.
After making a plan.
Wang Zeng left Bianjing City with his horse on his back and arrived at the other courtyard of the Kou Mansion.
The steward of the Kou Mansion received Wang Zeng.
"Your Majesty, my young master caught a cold wind last night and it is inconvenient to see guests."
After the manager knew Wang Zeng's intention, he said to Wang Zeng very respectfully.
Wang Zeng stared and said, "Yesterday I was lively and vigorous, but today I'm sick? Who are you kidding?"
The steward's face turned bitter and he said, "I'm really sick."
Wang Zeng frowned, thought for a moment, and hummed: "What's wrong with him? I think he is pretending to be sick and keeping a low profile. Yesterday, he was in the limelight in Bianjing City. He was afraid of being remembered, so he hid.
Pretending to be sick at home.
His little thoughts cannot be hidden from me."
The steward smiled bitterly and said nothing.
Wang Zeng kept urging the steward to invite Kou Ji.
The steward couldn't defeat Wang Zeng, so he had no choice but to go find Kou Ji.
After Kou Ji received the report from the steward, he appeared in the side hall with a pale face and a big cloak.
Wang Zeng saw that Kou Ji's expression was very abnormal. He stood up in shock and said: "I'm really sick..."
Kou Ji bowed his hands slightly, and then said in a dumbfounded voice: "Who can pretend to be sick when they are not sick?"
Wang Zeng sighed, "I misunderstood you... I thought you wanted to hide your capabilities and bide your time, so you pretended to be sick at home."
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, then pretended not to know anything and said, "Why should I pretend to be sick? And why should I hide my capabilities and bide my time?"
Wang Zeng pondered for a moment and said in a low voice: "You show too much edge, it is too dazzling, and it is easy for others to miss you."
When Kou Ji faced Wang Zeng, he was far less polite than Kou Zhun. After hearing Wang Zeng's words, he laughed and said: "If you are incompetent, you must let others be as incompetent as you. Can't you bear to see others being better than you?"
If I am stronger than them, they can still deal with me.
I'm so much stronger than them, so strong that they can't even look at me, what can they do to me?"
Wang Zeng frowned when he heard this, "Why do you think you are so much better than others? There were many smart people in the Song Dynasty, and you are not the only one."
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, frowned and said: "Does the Song Dynasty not allow people to stand out? If people are not allowed to stand out, how can they be brave? How can we talk about shaking up the world and intimidating the barbarians?
Rely on ceding territory to seek peace, or rely on the inducement of large profits?
No matter how good you are at saving face, one day it will be exposed."
Wang Zeng's brows furrowed even more tightly, "Have you talked to Mr. Kou? Are you told to hide your capabilities and bide your time? Are you unwilling?"
There was some resentment in Kou Ji's words, and Wang Zeng could hear it.
Resentment does not arise for no reason.
There must be a reason.
In both the government and the public, the only one who could suppress Kou Ji and prevent Kou Ji from expressing his grievances was Kou Zhun.
Therefore, Wang Zeng could easily guess that Kou Zhun had talked to Kou Ji about keeping a low profile.
Seeing that Wang Zeng had guessed it and didn't hide it, Kou Ji nodded and said, "Yes, my grandfather talked to me and asked me to hide my capabilities and bide my time, but I don't want to."
Wang Zeng asked in a deep voice: "Why?"
Kou Ji said with some regret: "After kneeling for a long time, I can't stand up anymore."
Wang Zeng was stunned.
Kou Ji continued: "We, the Song Dynasty, need a surge of energy to support the knees of the Song people. We cannot kneel, let alone be beaten to the point of kneeling, and we have to lick our faces and say that we like kneeling.
If you deceive yourself and others like this, you will be beaten to death one day."
When Wang Zeng heard this, his brows twisted into the character "Chuan".
Kou Ji's words are contrary to the way of being an official of many Song officials.
Wang Zeng is one of them.
Wang once wanted to scold Kou Ji, saying that what Kou Ji said was fallacy.
But he couldn't open his mouth.
Because he knew very well that the vigor that Kou Ji talked about was far more useful than the low profile and bide their time that they advocated.
Seeing Wang Zeng's frown, Kou Ji continued: "Your eyes have always stayed in the territory of our Song Dynasty, and have been staring at the one-third of an acre of my land in the Song Dynasty. But you don't know that the world outside is wider.
In your eyes, there are only internal fights and internal struggles for power.
So you can only stick to one-third of an acre of the Song Dynasty.
I am different from you. In my eyes, I see not only the Song Dynasty, but also Qingtang, Japan, Dali, Xixia, Liao, and the huge empires in the far west.
In the Western Regions, I met a businessman who came from a distant place in the West. I spent a lot of money to ask him to go back and bring the culture of a distant place in the West back to my country, the Song Dynasty.
When the time comes, you can take a look and see if everything except the Song Dynasty is really a barbarian land."
The look on Wang Zeng's face was complicated. He opened his mouth, but couldn't speak.
Kou Ji continued: "If you only focus on your own one-third of an acre of land and think that the place you are in is the best place in the world, you are deceiving yourself and others. One day, you will suffer the consequences.
What I want is to govern the Song Dynasty and manage the world.
What's the point of fighting with your own people?
What’s the point of fighting for the little money and power in your own pocket?
We should give others rights and steal their money.
Fight against the world and serve the Song Dynasty forever."
Wang Zeng opened his mouth wide and stared at Kou Ji in shock.
Kou Ji's heart was so big that it exceeded Wang Zeng's imagination.
It was so big that it exceeded the imagination of everyone in the Song Dynasty.
Governing the Song Dynasty?
Managing the world?
Emperor Qin and Emperor Wu of Han did not do it either.
The Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty were indeed heroic, but the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty only managed the Central Plains and fought in all directions.
How to talk about managing the world?
Who knows how big the world is?
Anyway, in the eyes of Song people, the world is boundless, so big that there is no end, and no one can reach the end.
Kou Ji wants to explore the boundless world?
Is this a bit wishful thinking?
Wang opened his mouth several times but didn't know what to say.
The shock that Kou Ji gave him was so great that it destroyed many of the ideas he had pursued for many years.
Faced with Kou Ji's idea, Wang Zeng didn't know how to evaluate it.
Wang Zeng stood there for a long time, emptied the ink in his stomach, and murmured a few words in his mind.
"If you stand out by yourself, it doesn't mean you really stand out. You have to lead everyone with you. Only in this way, those short-sighted people will not be able to embarrass you."
Kou Ji was slightly stunned when he heard Wang Zeng's words.
He felt that Wang Zeng's words were far more useful to him than those words of Wang Zeng and Kou Zhun about keeping a low profile.
Among a bunch of fools, a wise man appears.
Then that smart person will most likely be regarded as a madman, targeted, and killed.
But if a group of smart people appear, it will be different.
A group of smart people will replace the rulers among the fools and become the new rulers.
When a fool sees them, he can only feel sad in silence and blame himself for being stupid, and then silently help the smart people do things under the rule of smart people.
What makes Koji smarter than others?
It's knowledge!
A vast amount of knowledge.
He knew far more than anyone in the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, his vision was far broader than that of anyone else in the Song Dynasty.
If Kou Ji wants to solve the dilemma he will face in the future, he must let more people have the same vast amount of knowledge as him.
A moment.
Koji is somewhat eager to get the Wisdom Museum in Baghdad.
With the knowledge in the Baghdad Wisdom Hall, he can use that knowledge as a foundation to pass on all his knowledge.
Let more people's horizons become as broad as his.
Without the knowledge in the Baghdad Wisdom Hall, much of the knowledge in Koji's mind would be rootless.
It's hard to win people's trust based on his words alone.
There is a lot of knowledge that appears out of thin air that is nearly a thousand years in advance. It is difficult for others to regard it as the truth and regard it as knowledge.
I will only regard it as a fantasy, a fantasy, and a speculation.
Wang Zeng's words awakened the dreamer, allowing Kou Ji to see clearly all the future paths.
Kou Ji bowed to Wang Zeng very solemnly, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your guidance..."
Wang Zeng was still immersed in the shock that Kou Ji brought to him, so when Kou Ji saluted him, he just nodded blankly.
It wasn't until Kou Ji called him here that he slowly came back to his senses.
"My lord, I wonder why you came here today?"
Kou Ji questions.
Wang Zeng came back to his senses, heard Kou Ji's words, and smoothly stated the purpose of his trip.
"The grain you sent back is too much, and the imperial court's granary can't store it. So I want to temporarily store it in the Kou Mansion. The Kou Mansion happens to be empty, so you can borrow it."
Kou Ji nodded slowly and ordered the maid who was following him, "Go to Madam, take the key to the mansion in the city and give it to the prince. By the way, ask Madam to send someone to the mansion in the city and tell the old servant who is looking after the mansion,
Let them go back to other courtyards to rest temporarily."
The maid agreed and hurriedly left the side hall.
Wang Zeng had completely come to his senses when Kou Ji was talking to the maid.
He stared at Kou Ji with a complicated expression and said, "I just pretend that I didn't hear what you just said to me. Don't go out and tell others, you might be regarded as a lunatic."
Kou Ji raised his eyebrows, stared at Wang Zeng and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, don't you believe me?"
Wang Zeng gave a bitter smile, "Does it matter whether I believe it or not? I can only live until the day when Yanyun's sixteen states are recovered. As for managing the world? What does it have to do with me?"
I won’t live until that time, and I won’t be able to see it.”
When Kou Ji heard Wang Zeng's words, he clicked his lips slightly and said with emotion: "Then I'm afraid you will live forever..."
Wang Zeng's eyes suddenly widened and he yelled: "Nonsense!"