After Kou Ji dispatched his troops and horses, he sat in Tie Yewu and waited for news.
Little did he know that the biggest crisis in his life was quietly coming.
A team of a thousand people passed through Dijinze and appeared in Xiazhou when they were training to attack Xiazhou at Tiemenguan.
After they arrived in Xiazhou, they found the chief officer of the Xixia Left Wing Divine Brave Army Division in Xiazhou. After showing their badges, they stayed in a tent prepared by the chief officer of the Western Xia Left Wing Divine Brave Army Division.
They lie dormant day and night and are very mysterious.
People who have seen them mostly focus on their strong arms and the special strong bows carried by hundreds of them.
Those strong bows are all strong bows with more than four stones, and they are different from all the strong bows in the army.
Among them, there is likely to be a five-stone strong bow, or even a six-stone bow.
You know, most of the ordinary soldiers in the army can use one-stone bows, and the more powerful ones can only use two-stone or three-stone bows.
Only those with extraordinary arm strength and bravery can shoot the four-stone bow.
Anyone who can shoot a powerful four-stone bow will have a high status in the army.
A group of people who can shoot four-stone or even four-stone strong bows are not gathering together to compete in archery skills.
They are very likely to have earth-shattering things to do.
After they arrived in Xiazhou, they stayed day and night and remained in obscurity for several days.
Until a moonlit night with few stars, they all disappeared in Xiazhou.
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"Bang!"
In Tieyewu, Kou Ji slapped a document in his hand on the table and cursed loudly.
"A group of idiots who couldn't bear to see the Song Dynasty become stronger. They always like to stand up and help the enemy at critical moments. The officials killed a group of people, but they didn't kill these people to the point of fear."
Liu Heng stood up, took the document from the desk, glanced at it twice, frowned and said: "Some people are impeaching Commander Cao for wasting national wealth in the land of Yanyun and delaying military aircraft. They are also impeaching us for committing crimes and destroying our Song Dynasty.
A harmonious relationship with Xixia."
Kou Ji gritted his teeth and said: "If Cao Wei can have a duel with Emperor Yelu Longxu of Liao, why wait until now? They don't want to think about what kind of impact it will have on our Song Dynasty after losing the war in Yanyun.
I saw that Cao Wei was leading his troops outside and was consuming money from the treasury.
The 300,000-strong army has been in Yanyun land for more than half a year, and the money spent has not reached tens of millions.
Cao Wei has obviously started to save money through his teeth, and they are still not satisfied.
What are they?
Did they plan the money for the imperial court?
That money was obtained by me through planning for the imperial court, and I don’t even feel sorry for it. They feel sorry for me like a hammer.”
The army of 300,000, plus the auxiliary troops, is a very large number. They are fighting in the field, and every day they eat people and horses, and consume a huge number.
More than half a year has passed since the 300,000-strong army rushed to Yanyun.
However, nine million coins were spent, which was only three times the annual coins originally promised to the Liao Kingdom by Emperor Zhenzong Zhao Heng. Some people in the court cried out in pain.
Nine million coins, if divided into the hands of each soldier, would probably be only about twenty copper coins (not that the author is not good at arithmetic, but horses and auxiliary soldiers must also be taken into account).
With more than twenty copper coins, they ate for most of half a year. You can imagine what they ate.
Each soldier eats two meals a day, and each meal has a little bran, which is just enough.
The soldiers must not have received any military pay.
The soldiers have no military pay, but they are willing to fight in Yanyun. What qualifications do those pampered people in the court have?!
Liu Heng said with a gloomy face: "Cao Shuai may have realized that spending a lot of money with the Liao people would cost a lot of money and cause dissatisfaction among some people in the court, so he started to save money as soon as the war started.
The imperial court should not reduce or reduce the taxes of Zhuozhou, Shuozhou, and Huanzhou. With the tax support of these three states, it should be able to relieve some pressure on Cao Shuai."
Kou Ji frowned and said: "The people of Zhuozhou, Shuozhou and Huanzhou have been oppressed by the Liao people. After nearly a hundred years, they are not rich either. They need to cultivate their vitality. The court's approach is right.
The court's fault was that it was not generous enough.
The soldiers were on the front line, fighting with their lives against the Liao people.
The imperial court should not pick at Sosou and let the soldiers starve."
Liu Heng said with a bitter look on his face: "It's not all the fault of the imperial court. Lu Yijian and Cao Wei don't want to cry about poverty, and it's not easy for the officials to send them large sums of money with a stroke of their pen.
Every time the officials sent someone to ask them if they had enough food and grass, they would say it was enough.
Even if the officials want to send money, they can't."
Kou Ji said with a dark face: "It's not that they don't want it, but they don't dare to open their mouths. Three hundred thousand soldiers and horses, plus auxiliary soldiers and horses, if they eat enough every day, they will have to spend at least one thousand three thousand in half a year."
It's about a million dollars. If you add military pay and rewards for meritorious service, it's likely to be even more.
If they dared to shout out a number exceeding 10 million, the whole government and the public would be shocked.
By that time, there will be even more people impeaching them.
More importantly, they are not sure how long they will spend with Emperor Yelu Longxu of Liao, so they save whatever they can."
Liu Heng understood what Kou Ji said.
The longer Cao Wei spends time with Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu, the more money he will waste.
Cao Wei led 300,000 troops and spent 9 million guan in half a year.
It would cost 18 million dollars a year.
The total amount of military pay allocated by the imperial court to all the imperial troops, Xiang troops, regiment training, and rural soldiers every year is 30 million yuan.
The 300,000 soldiers and horses led by Cao Wei consumed three-fifths of the entire military expenditure of the Song Dynasty in one year.
But the soldiers and horses led by Cao Wei were not three-fifths of the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty.
Cao Wei's expenses were a huge overrun.
Although the soldiers and horses led by Cao Wei are fighting, it belongs to a special period.
But some people in the government don't care whether you are in a special period or not.
They only care about whether their annual distribution will be reduced based on the normal expenditure of the imperial court.
If the imperial court spends a lot on military affairs, its expenditure on political affairs will be reduced accordingly.
Naturally some officials would not agree.
After all, the Song Dynasty court treated officials well.
Officials can use public funds to do whatever they want.
The imperial court would reimburse the expenses for food and clothing, hiring servants, carriages and horses, business trips and entertainment, and even escorting prostitutes.
The imperial court spent a huge amount of money on the use of troops, and some expenses for officials would naturally be reduced sharply.
Naturally the officials would not agree.
Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, set high salaries for officials of the Song Dynasty. The purpose was to maintain integrity through high salaries.
But his goal was not achieved at all.
Instead, they have fostered a group of greedy people who lie on the court and drink blood.
Li Di just touched the idle positions on them and was almost forced to death by them.
Now that Cao Wei is fighting in the land of Yanyun, it may affect their food and clothing expenses, so they will naturally not sit idly by.
Cao Wei's war in the land of Yanyun has yet to come to an end.
If it takes three to five years.
The money in the treasury is very likely to be drained, and they may live a hard life, so naturally they will not agree.
Although Zhao Zhen, Kou Zhun, Li Di, Lu Yijian, and Kou Ji had cleaned up many moths in the court, they were unable to remove all the officials from both the government and the public.
Although they all know the bad governance of the government and the public.
But if all the officials were eliminated in one go, the world of the Song Dynasty would be in chaos.
They also rarely affect the collective interests of all officials.
The only time Li Di took over the sinecures of all officials in the government and the public was to take action. What Li Di's fate is now is obvious to all.
It can be said that Cao Wei's spending of money in the land of Yanyun is likely to affect the interests of all officials in the government and the public. Naturally, all officials in the government and the government will not sit still and wait for death.
There is no end to the killing of corrupt officials.
Even greedy people can never be killed.
Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji killed many people, but they still could not stop their greed.
Liu Heng saw that Kou Ji's face turned dark and thought that Kou Ji was worried about Cao Wei's war in Yanyun, so he comforted him in a low voice: "You don't have to worry about Commander Cao. Didn't the officials secretly send someone to take out five coins from the inner treasury?"
Did you give the million dollars to Cao Shuai? : :
With the secret support of the officials, even if the court openly sends a small amount of money to Cao Shuai, Cao Shuai will not change anything."
Kou Ji opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
An emperor would give military expenses to a minister and do so secretly.
"Cao Wei should be lucky to have met such a good emperor..."
Kou Ji was silent for a long time and sighed.
If Zhenzong Zhao Heng were in power, the 300,000 troops led by Cao Wei would probably starve to death in the land of Yanyun.
With Zhenzong Zhao Heng's temperament, it was impossible for him to take the initiative to share the money from his inner treasury. He even wanted to move some from the treasury to fill his inner treasury.
If you don’t have money, don’t fight if you don’t have money.
Talk to the Liao people and give them three million guan so that they will not fight with me in the Song Dynasty in the future.
Zhenzong Zhao Heng had money by subsidizing military pay for the enemy, but had no money by paying military pay for his own troops.
If Taizong Zhao Guangyi were in power, Cao Wei would probably cry to death.
Taizong Zhao Guangyi was not stingy.
However, if he sent people to deliver food and grass to Cao Wei, Cao Wei would probably not be able to see it until he retreated to the Song Dynasty after his defeat.
Zhao Zhen is still kind and does not deceive others.
Not only was he helping Cao Wei obtain military pay openly, he also secretly took a sum of money from the small treasury and sent it to Cao Wei.
Liu Heng heard Kou Ji's words and nodded decisively: "Of course the official is a good emperor..."
Speaking of this, Liu Heng looked at Kou Jida and said: "Don't worry about Commander Cao. The officials are secretly helping, and nothing will happen to Commander Cao. You should worry about yourself. Someone in the court has already started to impeach you."
,Aren’t you going to take care of it?”
Kou Ji looked sideways at Liu Heng and asked, "Are the officials in charge?"
Liu Heng was stunned for a moment, and said with a mixture of laughter and tears: "With the relationship between the official family and you, how could we possibly listen to those people's slander and convict you?"
Kou Ji curled his lips and said: "Since the officials won't accuse me, then why should I care about them? If you like impeachment, go ahead and impeach me. I want to care about them. I will take their surname."
Liu Heng looked at Kou Ji in astonishment.
Kou Ji glanced at Liu Heng and said in a neutral tone: "I am different from Cao Wei. Cao Wei is afraid of their impeachment, so he is restrained in doing things. I am not afraid of their impeachment. If they like it, just impeach me.
Cao Wei fell down and would not stand up again, because he was already old and had reached the pinnacle of military service, and could not be raised up again.
I am still young. If I fall down today, I will rise up tomorrow.
If I retaliate, they will be the first to be killed, so why am I afraid of them?"
Liu Heng was stunned and speechless by Kou Ji's words.
If you think about it carefully, what Kou Ji said really makes sense.
Considering the relationship between Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen, it's not like they fall down today and rise up tomorrow.
Even without relying on Zhao Zhen, Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, Zhang Zhibai, Wang Yunsheng, or even the voice of the people, Kou Ji can be pushed back to the court.
The four words "disciple and old friend" are not just mentioned casually.
Kou Ji not only had his own political resources, but also had huge political resources accumulated by Kou Zhun throughout his life.
As long as Kou Zhun is alive, all the disciples who have the slightest connection with Kou Ji will have to speak for Kou Ji.
So Kou Ji really doesn't have to worry about impeachment.
If you really want to step Kou Ji into the quagmire, you must first clean up the old relationship between Kou Zhun and Kou Ji's disciples in the court.
The question is, is it clean?
The one who is closest to Kou Zhun and Kou Ji is now sitting on the highest throne in Chui Gong Hall. Who can pull him down?
So Kou Ji wasn't worried at all.
When Kou Ji saw Liu Heng standing there silently, he mused: "Send someone back to Beijing to deliver a few private messages for me. These guys really think that I can't deal with them if I'm not in Bianjing City."
Liu Heng slowly came back to his senses and asked: "What message is it sending?"
Kou Ji narrowed his eyes and said: "Two letters, one to Xiang Yan and one to Empress Cao. Let the two of them take the lead in donating cotton clothes to the soldiers far away in Yanyun."
Liu Heng said in astonishment: "It's still early for winter..."
Kou Ji sneered and said: "We have donated cotton clothes, how can we be short of quilts... It will take a lot of time to collect donations and prepare a complete set of winter items."
Liu Heng thought about it: "Are you planning to ask the Queen and Madam-in-law to take the ladies to donate cotton-padded clothes, quilts and other items?"
The smile on Kou Ji's face became even colder, "Not only that, I'm also going to ask the Queen and General Xiang Yan to write the donation list into a newspaper and distribute it to the entire Song Dynasty."
Liu Heng took a breath of air when he heard this.
"Are you trying to drain the fire from under the cauldron?!"
Kou Ji smiled coldly and said: "As long as we set the number higher, those officials who are full and holding on will have to bleed out."
Liu Heng said in a deep voice: "If they are not willing to bleed, they will be scolded by the people in the world."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "The eyes of the common people are sharp. They will help us find out how much property those officials who are full of food and support have. They will also know who did not contribute in this donation.
Don’t those officials who are well fed and supported often like to use public opinion to impeach others?
Then I will let them see the real public opinion."
Liu Heng pondered: "Our family is rich and there are many people who know about it. Even if we set a high number, it may not work."
Kou Ji glanced at Liu Heng and said with a smile: "So I am going to write to Zhang Zhibai, asking him to sell the big house given to him by the court and donate 10,000 cotton-padded clothes."
Liu Heng's eyes widened in horror and he gave Kou Ji a thumbs up, "You are cruel!"
Can you not be cruel?!
An official like Zhang Zhibai, who was so honest and honest that he could only eat rice bran, had to donate 10,000 pieces of cotton-padded clothes to him even after selling the house given by the imperial court.
Other officials who were so full of food that they could not draw more blood.
If you don’t come out, you will be scolded if you don’t come out.
Once the people's curses come out, the annual review of the Ministry of Personnel will undoubtedly turn into a low-grade one.