Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji were both speechless, and they both stared at Xia Song coldly.
Now that Xia Song had opened his mouth, he had no intention of stopping. He pointed at Zhao Zhen and shouted loudly: "He has methods and scheming, knows how to attract people's hearts, knows how to make money, and knows how to make things that are more tyrannical than Bu Renjia."
The magical weapon can better understand your thoughts.
He is less than thirty years old and has already entered the second rank.
By the time he captured Xixia, he would have reached the point where he could no longer be sealed.
He is still young and will have many achievements in the future. How will you reward him then?
You have nothing to give."
Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji remained unmoved.
Xia Song's eyes widened and he shouted: "I know that you are as close as brothers and trust each other. But he has reached the point where he can't be sealed. Even if he doesn't complain, the people under him do.
All the civil servants in power in the Song Dynasty were close to him.
Most of the emerging military officials in the Song Dynasty were promoted by him.
If you don't reward your merits, they will help Kou Ji open his eyes.
When the civil and military dissatisfaction of the entire dynasty against you has accumulated to the point where it is difficult for you to suppress it, that will be the day when they will wear yellow robes and send him to the throne."
When Xia Song said this, he roared at the top of his lungs, "Your Zhao family's empire was taken away by Huangpao Jia, and Huangpao Jia will give it back when the time comes. This is retribution!"
"Hahaha!"
"Hahahahaha!"
Xia Song laughed wildly, as if he had seen what he was talking about.
Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji looked at Xia Song as if they were idiots.
Zhao Zhen slowly said: "Xia Song, you have been playing with your lips and tongue for most of your life, and in the end, you still want to play with your lips and tongue? Do you think that if you say these words, I will be jealous of the fourth brother, be suspicious of the fourth brother, and even try every means to guard against him?
Fourth brother, or simply kill him to get rid of future troubles?
You are wrong.
You have underestimated me and your fourth brother.
My brother and I are far more generous than you think.
What my fourth brother and I have to do will probably take us a lifetime to complete.
My fourth brother and I may offend everyone in the world.
By that time, the people in the world who least want to see us are probably me and my fourth brother."
When Xia Song heard this, the smile on his face slowly faded, and he stared at Zhao Zhen in shock, "You... what are you going to do..."
Zhao Zhen subconsciously looked at Kou Ji, and Kou Ji also looked at Zhao Zhen.
The two looked at each other and smiled, stared at Xia Song, and said in unison: "Innovation!"
Xia Song's eyes widened in horror.
innovation?
reform?!
Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji want to reform the bad government?
"You...how dare you?"
Xia Song shouted in horror.
The reason why Xia Song reacted so strongly is because innovation requires a lot of things, and if you are not careful, you will end up in a situation where war is everywhere.
Even if Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji carry out reforms with their identities, status, and authority, it is very likely that they will fail.
The consequences of failure are horrific.
Zhao Zhen's throne may be shaken.
Even if Zhao Zhen's throne remains unchanged, he will lose a lot of power in his hands.
Kou Ji will die, and he will die miserably.
Innovation must touch the interests of some people.
It may arouse the hostility of everyone in the world.
Why everyone?
Because the imperial power does not go to the countryside.
When Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji's reform decree threatened the interests of wealthy businessmen, wealthy families, official families, and even all officials.
They will join forces to deal with Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji.
When the imperial power does not go to the countryside.
How to interpret the decrees implemented by Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji? It is the wealthy businessmen, wealthy families, official families, and local officials who have the final say.
When they explain government orders to the people, they can misinterpret the meaning of the government orders, turn good into bad, and turn bad into worse.
Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji made innovations for the sake of the people.
But when it comes to their mouths, innovation is to kill people.
In this era when news and transportation are not smooth, it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish the authenticity of the news.
If those wealthy businessmen, wealthy families, noble families, and local officials say too much, the people will most likely believe it.
Then they will follow those wealthy businessmen, wealthy families, and official families to deal with Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji.
Kou Zhun, Li Di and others only changed part of the imperial decree and affected the interests of some people, which had huge consequences.
During the period when Kou Zhun was reducing the number of soldiers and horses in the world, soldiers and horses from all over the country mutinied, and the smoke spread everywhere. In the end, he was suppressed with the help of heavy troops.
Li Di changed the titles and official positions of some officials, but was framed and almost lost his life.
The actions of the two of them can only be regarded as rectifying the government's affairs, not any innovation.
Even so, it caused so much turmoil.
If we really carry out reforms and move the interests of all the nobles in the world, then the power of resistance will be even greater.
Under such circumstances, indeed no one would put a yellow robe on Kou Ji and let Kou Ji succeed Zhao Zhen and proclaim himself emperor.
Not only did no one support Kou Ji as emperor.
Maybe everyone still wants to unseat Zhao Zhen.
Even if Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji withstand the pressure, suppress all resistance, carry out the reform to the end, and succeed, they will be hated by many people in the end.
In this way, Xia Song's words became a big joke.
"Why don't we dare? If we succeed, one will become an emperor throughout the ages, and the other will become a sage worshiped by thousands of people. And the Song Dynasty will enter an unprecedented heyday."
Zhao Zhen stared at Xia Song and said, "You, Xia Song, are just a short-sighted person. I looked up to you in the past, but I was blind. Just wait quietly to pay for those 180,000 wronged souls."
"Plop!"
Xia Song fell to the ground with a look of horror on his face.
What he fears is not the countless punishments.
What he was afraid of was Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji Junchen.
Because he found that there was nothing he could do to Zhao Zhen and Kou Jijunchen, and he would never want or be able to take revenge.
Kou Ji casually slapped the wine jar in his hand away, spilled the wine on the ground, and said to Xia Song, "This wine is for the 180,000 innocent souls!"
Kou Ji finished spilling the wine and threw down the wine jar.
Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji stopped looking at Xia Song and walked out of the cell.
After Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji left, Xia Song sat on the ground motionless.
It wasn't until Xia Anqi knelt on the ground and called for a long time that he woke him up.
The first thing Xia Song did when he woke up was to slam into the wall of the cell.
"father?!"
Xia Anqi quickly went to catch Xia Song.
But a flash of light was faster than him.
"Whoosh~"
A sleeve arrow shot out from a dark corner and pierced into Xia Song's thigh.
Xia Song screamed and fell to the ground.
He struggled a few times but failed to get up.
Finally, he simply lay down straight on the ground, motionless.
"Come here! Help! There is an assassin!"
Xia Anqi shouted for help, but no one answered.
Up and down the cell.
Only Xia Anqi's voice echoed, lasting.
…
Outside the cell.
Zhao Zhen and Kou Jijunchen walked out of the cell together.
Although the monarch and his ministers never spoke of innovation, they had the same thoughts.
The deeper the two of them came into contact with the government affairs of the Song Dynasty, the deeper their understanding became.
The current bad governance in the Song Dynasty has become so numerous that the two of them felt their scalps go numb just looking at it.
Without innovation, even if they conquer a huge territory, they will soon be wiped out.
After the monarch and his ministers had the idea of renovation, they have been digging into the bad government of the Song Dynasty.
Although the two of them have never explicitly stated innovation, they both know in their hearts that the other party has innovation in mind.
If not for what Xia Song said today, Zhao Zhen was forced to speak.
I am afraid that the monarch and his ministers will always hide the word innovation, and then do it silently, only doing it and not talking about it.
They, the monarch and his ministers, have experienced a lot and know how to do practical things far better than some of the ministers in the court.
The ministers in the court, no matter what they do, must publicize it, for fear that others will not know that they are going to do something big.
Then after they spread the word, their opponents, or people who are affected by what they want to do, will decisively attack them.
The final result was that they were jointly suppressed.
The emperor and his ministers knew this very well, so they always did it first and declared it later.
Take Kou Ji's campaign in the Western Region as an example.
The imperial court always used the excuse of Kou Jiwai to go out to aid Shazhou.
The same was true for the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.
But after Kou Ji arrived in Shazhou, did he really go to help Shazhou?
No.
After Kou Ji arrived in Shazhou, he first killed a lot of people in Shazhou City.
Then they defeated the Xixia soldiers and horses and took Shazhou back to the Song Dynasty.
Immediately afterwards, taking advantage of the fact that Shazhou was far away from Bianjing and it was inconvenient to transmit news, he quickly launched a strategy to capture the entire Hexi.
By the time the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty learned the news, Kou Ji had already captured the three lands in Hexi.
By the time the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty wanted to interfere, Kou Ji had already captured the entire Hexi.
From the beginning to the end, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty had no chance to react.
He could only watch and watch Kou Ji act according to his own thoughts, without being able to interfere at all.
The same is true for attacking Xixia now.
Suddenly troops were raised.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses were dispatched to Xixia.
There was no chance for the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty to participate in the decision-making process.
When the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty knew that Kou Ji had captured Xiazhou, it was also when the news of Kou Ji's assassination reached Bianjing City.
Kou Ji repeatedly avoided the Manchu civil and military affairs, and each time he acted very quickly, he gradually figured out a way to deal with the Manchu civil and military affairs.
The same is true for Zhao Zhen.
Although he left the palace after receiving the news of Kou Ji's assassination.
But after arriving in the northwest and confirming that Kou Ji's life was not in danger, he realized a problem.
That is, when he left Beijing, most people in the civil and military dynasties only stared at him, but not at the soldiers and horses he dispatched.
Cao Wei led 300,000 soldiers and horses to the land of Yanyun, and the civil and military opposition from the Manchu Dynasty never stopped.
But he led more troops to the northwest, and there has been no opposition from the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.
Although the impeachment memorial from both civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty may come later.
But by the time the civil and military impeachment memorials of the Manchu Dynasty were sent to him, all the soldiers and horses under his command had probably already entered Xixia.
By the time the civil and military opposition in the Manchu Dynasty formed a wave, his troops should have captured half of the Xixia territory.
When the time comes, when the war achievements are thrown in front of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, they will definitely shut up obediently.
"Xia Song, you have to send someone to watch you carefully and don't make any noise..."
Kou Ji reminded Zhao Zhen in a low voice.
Zhao Zhen smiled and nodded, "Do things quietly..."
Kou Ji nodded and said, "I wonder how the war in Yanyun Land is going?"
The smile on Zhao Zhen's face faded slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "I also want to know..."
…
Inside Tongtai Pass.
Cao Wei, Lu Yijian, and Di Qing were sitting in the city gate building, listening to their men report on the situation in Bianjing City, with confused expressions on their faces.
Wait until his subordinates have finished explaining the situation in Bianjing City.
Cao Wei was a little dumbfounded. He said in shock: "So, no one pays attention to the fact that the officials dispatched all the soldiers and horses north of Bianjing City to the Xixia border?"
The man nodded.
Cao Wei sighed and looked at Lu Yijian, "What is this? We led 300,000 soldiers and horses to the land of Yanyun and opened the land of three states. We have such merits, but the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty impeached us.
The officials and Kou Ji dispatched 700,000 to 800,000 soldiers and horses to the border of Xixia, and to this day, no one in the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty has objected.
The thing they talk about the most is how to bring the official family back from the northwest?"
When Lu Yijian heard Cao Wei's words, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Cao Wei felt aggrieved, and he felt even more aggrieved.
He didn't dare to compare with Zhao Zhen.
But why is Kou Ji better than him and Cao Wei?
He made peace with Zhongshu's family, and Cao Wei was the secret envoy.
Two men who played an important role in the court led 300,000 people to fight fiercely with the Liao people in the land of Yanyun.
After just spending a little military pay, he was impeached by the civil and military officials of the dynasty.
Kou Ji, it sounds like he is the Northwest Economic and Strategic Envoy, a pretty big official, but he is obviously inferior to his fellow privy envoys Ping Zhangshi and Cao Wei, who are under the command of Tong Zhongshu.
Kou Ji opened his mouth, and nearly three hundred thousand soldiers and horses entered Xixia.
No civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty have ever impeached him.
Kou Ji opened his mouth and the land in Xiazhou and other places was distributed to the soldiers at will.
Still no one in the civil and military circles of the Manchu Dynasty impeached him.
The two things Kou Ji did were far more than ten times more expensive than the military salary they spent.
Just the matter of privately distributing cultivated land is already a serious crime that will kill one's head.
But no one has impeached him so far?
What is this?
"Are you afraid of bullying? Do you think we are easy to bully?"
Lu Yijian slapped the table and shouted dissatisfied.
Cao Wei had a wry smile on his face, and after a long sigh he said: "We are easy to bully... Kou Ji dares to point his finger at the civil and military officials in the court and scold them, but we don't dare...
It is often said that the older a person gets, the less courageous he becomes.
This word applies very well to us.”
Lu Yijian glared and said, "Are we cowardly? We are not as favored as him! If the officials protect me at all costs, I can poke a hole in the sky."
Speaking of which.
Lu Yijian said angrily: "Kou Ji is a treacherous sycophant and a slanderer! He is the same thing as Ding Wei, blindly catering to the holy will and seeking the saint's favor!"
Cao Wei said in a faint tone: "I didn't see Kou Ji turning into a slanderer, but I saw you, Lu Yijian, turning into a jealous person!"