Kou Ji looked at Cao Ji and said calmly: "Rebellion? They don't dare to do it for the time being, but they want the officials to feel pain, so naturally they have to choose a person to hand over."
Cao Ji asked: "What do they want to do with Yizijiaozipu?"
Kou Ji shook his head and said, "Don't ask, and I won't tell you. Anyway, just watch. When it happens, you will naturally know."
Cao Ji was anxious, "But as the person in charge of Yizijiaozipu, seeing that Yizijiaozipu is about to be in turmoil, how could I remain indifferent."
Kou Ji glanced at Cao Ji and said in a neutral tone: "As the owner of Yizijiaozi Shop, Guan Jia can watch others tossing over Yizijiaozi Shop. You are just the shopkeeper.
What are you anxious about?"
Cao Yi opened his mouth unwillingly.
But no words were spoken.
As Kou Ji said, Yizijiaozipu is Zhao Zhen's property, and Zhao Zhen is not in a hurry, he is.
Zhao Zhen watched helplessly as others tossed around Yizijiaozipu. Even if he was anxious, it would be useless.
Seeing Cao Ji's worried look, Kou Ji reminded him, "You don't have to worry too much. Since the official family and I have received the news in advance, we will naturally make some preparations.
Yizijiaozipu will not suffer any big losses."
Cao Yan let out a long breath and said with a wry smile: "I just stayed bored in Yizijiaozi shop for a few months. Why do I feel like several years have passed outside? I can't understand why."
Kou Ji smiled calmly and said: "If you don't understand, just read slowly. You will eventually understand."
Cao Yi nodded helplessly, as that was all he could do now.
Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen were unwilling to tell him the truth, and obviously did not want him to intervene. It was useless for him to ask further.
Cao Yi accompanied Kou Ji and chatted for a long time in the Kou Mansion. It was not until nightfall that he quietly left the Kou Mansion's courtyard and returned to the Cao Mansion.
After Cao Yi returned to his house, he found Cao Wei and his father, and handed over the family affairs of Cao's house on the grounds that he was working at Yizijiaozipu.
Cao Wei and his father knew the importance of Yizijiaozipu, so they naturally agreed to Cao Ji's request.
Cao Yi said goodbye to Cao Wei and his father, returned to his room, cut off his sleeves and sent someone to deliver it to Pan Su overnight.
Pan Mansion.
Pan Su, Shi Yuansun and others sat down respectively, plotting something, just when they came to a critical moment.
A servant hurriedly appeared next to Pan Su with a piece of broken sleeve, whispered a few words, and handed the broken sleeve to Pan Su.
After Pan Su got the cut sleeve, he felt mixed emotions.
Under the gaze of Shi Yuansun and others, Pan Su threw the broken sleeve in his hand on the table in front of several people, sighed and said: "Cao Yi sent someone to deliver it."
Shi Yuansun gritted his teeth and said, "Is Cao Yi cutting off his robe and severing ties with you?"
Pan Su sighed and said: "We shouldn't plot against Cao Yan. If we tell the truth to Cao Yan, Cao Yan might help us. Now that Cao Yan knows that we are plotting against him, he has completely separated from us.
If we want to ask Cao Ji for help in the future, it will be difficult."
"snort!"
Shi Yuansun snorted coldly and said: "Cao Yi and Kou Ji are in the same den of snakes and rats. The officials are going to deal with us ruthlessly this time. The two of them must have some bad ideas behind our backs."
We are where we are today, most likely because of Cao Yi's contribution.
We are plotting against Cao Yi, and Cao Yi is probably plotting against us.
Cao Yi had been working in Yizijiaozipu for several months and collected so much evidence of our crimes, but not a single leak was revealed.
Now the officials want to deal with Wu Xun, but he comes out again.
The officials must have sent him out to get information from us.
We didn't give him any news, but instead plotted against him.
He knew he was no match for us, so he retreated despite the difficulties.
As the leader of our martial arts, the Cao family refused to stand up and help when our martial arts was in trouble, which is ironclad proof.
The Cao family must have secretly taken refuge with the officials and got promises from the officials, so they refused to help us and instead wanted to harm us."
Pan Su frowned and said: "This matter is just your guess and there is no evidence. Cao Yi's decision does not represent the Cao family. The Cao family is a great help to us, so we cannot give up on the Cao family."
Shi Yuansun said coldly: "Then you go visit the person who is really in charge of the Cao family tomorrow and see if he will see you. If he sees you and agrees to help us, it means that the Cao family and we are still together.
If he refuses to help us, that means my guess is correct."
Pan Su stared at Shi Yuansun and said, "Are you saying that too extreme?"
Shi Yuansun said angrily: "The Gao family has fallen. Although the imperial court gave the Gao family a new title after the incident, all the Gao family members in the court and in the army have been eliminated.
Today, the Gao family has nothing but a pile of empty names and a pile of useless money.
He can give those names and money to the Gao family casually, and he can also take them back casually.
The Gao family is now a fish on the pallet, and he can do whatever he wants.
Isn’t the fate of the Gao family enough to wake you up?
He made many excuses and used many tricks to eradicate all of us martial artists.
He just wants to drive us all to death with that hypocritical face.
If we don't resist, if we don't resist fiercely, we will only die."
Pan Su frowned and said: "We didn't say we wouldn't resist. Aren't we thinking about countermeasures? It's just that we haven't reached the worst situation yet, so we shouldn't get too excited.
What we are plotting now involves the lives of all of us, so we must be cautious, even more cautious."
Shi Yuansun sneered: "Think about it? Be careful? Is it useful? Gao Chugong was like you at that time, and ended up dead."
Pan Su frowned even more when he heard this.
Shi Yuansun said coldly: "I have already written to the people of my Shi family who are hiding in various places. Soon they will take action. If he wants to dig out our flesh, we will drink his blood first."
Pan Su stared at Shi Yuansun, "Wait a minute..."
Shi Yuansun gritted his teeth and said, "I can't wait any longer."
Pan Su said in a deep voice: "Once this is done, we will have no way out. We will have no choice but to fight him to the end. You have been using the Gao family to remind us, but have you ever thought about the Fu family?
It was because the Fu family failed to withstand the pressure from Emperor Taizong that they rebelled, and the entire family was eventually wiped out.
Do we want to follow in the footsteps of the Fu family?
Although the power of the Gao family is gone and Gao Chugong is dead, the other members of the Gao family are still alive."
As soon as Pan Su said this, other people spoke out one after another, expressing their agreement with Pan Su's idea.
Unless absolutely necessary, you must not take the initiative to go against the court.
Under the persuasion of Pan Su and others, Shi Yuansun said unwillingly: "Three days, I will wait for three more days at most. We, the people of Shi Mansion, can only wait three days."
Pan Su sighed and said nothing more.
In fact.
They couldn't wait three days.
Because that night, Zhang Zhibai, who was responsible for investigating and handling military pay in previous years, handed a batch of lists to Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhen wrote and copied some of the names onto another document, checked out their names, and then gave Chen Lin the document handed over by Zhang Zhibai and asked Chen Lin to send it to Kou Ji, who asked Kou Ji to arrest people according to the list.
people.
Chen Lin left the palace overnight and sent the list to Kou Ji.
Kou Ji rode into Bianjing City early in the morning and arrived at the Privy Council.
He wrote down several documents and sent them to the military camp outside the city, Kaifeng Mansion, and the Ministry of Punishment.
Later.
The Japanese army officers and soldiers, Kaifeng government officials, and officials from the Ministry of Justice cooperated with each other to start arresting people.
They rushed into some Wu Xun's mansions and took all those Wu Xun's families to the prison of the Ministry of Punishments.
It's night.
Pan Su and others got together again.
Pan Su said in a deep voice: "Three of the Wu Xuns who were attached to my Pan Mansion were arrested."
Shi Yuansun gritted his teeth and said: "I have six subordinates in Shifu, and one of them is from my Shi family."
"I have three subordinates..."
"Five..."
"one……"
"..."
After they had finished speaking, Shi Yuansun stared at Pan Su angrily and said, "Did you see it? He arrested our people without caring about our face at all, and didn't even summon us into the palace to comfort us.
If you say you want to arrest, you will arrest. Once you arrest, it will be the same.
I sent someone to the Ministry of Justice to ask for someone.
Do you know what the Ministry of Justice told me?
The Ministry of Punishment told me that Zhang Zhibai, the old man, had investigated and dealt with evidence of their embezzlement of military pay from the account books over the years.
They have a plan, and the evidence is conclusive.
They will be beheaded by Qiu Houwen, and their families will be exiled."
Pan Su and others frowned and said nothing.
Shi Yuansun continued to roar: "How much are they greedy? What they are greedy is less than one percent or one thousandth of ours. They will be beheaded and their families will be exiled. If we are caught, we will become the Yi tribe."
.
Chai Zongqing just took away 2.4 million yuan.
What we got is more than what Chai Zongqing got."
Pan Su and others still remained silent.
Shi Yuansun said angrily: "If we don't resist, he will catch us."
Pan Su closed his eyes, sighed, and said: "Then let the people below move."
Shi Yuansun put away his anger and snorted coldly: "It should have been like this a long time ago. If we had taken action earlier, our men would not have been arrested. Now they are not only arrested, but they are also questioned
cut.
Now some people in Bianjing City have begun to talk that we cannot protect our people."
Pan Su opened his eyes and said in a deep voice: "The civil servants in the court have been impeaching us recently, and I'm afraid they got his instructions. We should all be careful, lest we capsize in the gutter."
"..."
A night of silence.
The next day.
In the early morning, a few riders left Bianjing City quietly.
The people sitting astride the horses were all fierce soldiers, all of whom had superb riding skills. After leaving Bianjing City, they rode Juechen and quickly disappeared from sight.
On the gate tower of the outer city.
Kou Ji watched Qi Juechen go away, put down the tea bowl in his hand, and said softly: "The officials invited me to see the scenery. Is this Qi Juechen the one I wanted to see?"
Zhao Zhen sat opposite Kou Ji, nodded with a smile, and said, "What do you think of the scenery I asked you to see?"
Kou Ji smiled and said: "It's wonderful..."
Zhao Zhen laughed.
Kou Jixiao asked: "Are they going to take action?"
Zhao Zhen suppressed the smile on his face and said: "Yes, they are going to take action. They are really powerful. If they don't take action, they will pierce my heart."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "No matter how ruthless they are, they can't compare to the superior methods of the officials."
Zhao Zhen shook his head and said: "What means do I have... I just spent a lot of money to train a group of people to help me find out the news."
Kou Ji continued to smile and said: "The Wude Division has only been established for a long time, but it has already cultivated so many spies, and they can accurately help the officials to find out any information they want. I'm afraid the price the officials have spent on it is not high.
Small."
Zhao Zhen said with a smile: "I contributed some money. The person was selected by Chen Lin and the Wude Division, and he was also trained by them. The equipment supervisor has now been integrated into the Wude Division, and there are also many people in the Imperial City Division.
A few people have been transferred to the Wude Department."
Kou Ji nodded slowly, but said no more.
What Zhao Zhen said was simple, but Kou Ji heard many unknown secrets from it.
Zhao Zhen reestablished the Wude Division, and transferred all the elites from the Equipment Supervisor and the Imperial City Division to the Wude Division. He also secretly cultivated some people, and the number of secret agents in the Wude Division has probably already exceeded that of the previous Imperial City Division.
The information they can gather is probably more and more accurate than that of the Imperial City Department before. The Wude Department seems to have become the number one spy office in the Song Dynasty.
Now Wude Si is just helping Zhao Zhen to find out some useful information.
In the future, Wude Si will probably be able to do a lot of things for Zhao Zhen.
Kou Ji didn't want to talk about Wude Si's problem with Zhao Zhen. He smiled and said to Zhao Zhen: "Since they have already made a move, we, the monarchs and ministers, must also be prepared to deal with it."
Zhao Zhen nodded slowly.
The monarch and his ministers did not stay in the city gate building for long, and each left the city gate building hiding their whereabouts.
After Kou Ji returned home, he immediately got into his study and wrote several long letters.
After sealing the letter, he was about to send someone to send it out quickly, but after thinking about it, he burned the letter and then sent for his personal bodyguard.
After the personal guards arrived, Kou Ji summoned each of them individually and whispered a few instructions.
Then several people left Kou Ji's study, but did not leave Kou's mansion.
After giving orders to his personal guards, Kou Ji sat alone in the study and let out a long breath.
Zhao Zhen's speed in developing secret agents is a bit ridiculously fast.
It has only been a short year and a half since the establishment of Wudesi.
Bianjing City no longer has any secrets from Zhao Zhen.
After a few more years of development, I'm afraid there won't be many things in the world that can be hidden from Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhen has now passed the secret service and has repeatedly obtained some important information. Now he has tasted the sweetness of spying on information.
Kou Ji can be sure that Zhao Zhen will never stop expanding his secret agents.
Because few people who have tasted the benefits of spying on information can stop them.
Kou Ji had no intention of stopping this.
Because before Wudesi was restored, the Song Dynasty Intelligence Network could be said to have been in a state of paralysis.
The Imperial City Division is called a secret agent agency, but it doesn't do many of the things that a secret agent agency should do.
Most of the time, the Imperial City Secretary was helping the emperor to do some chores, dirty work, and spying on intelligence, but it became less important errands.
This also led to the fact that after many things happened, the court only became aware of them later.
For example, the Liao people appeared in the northwest.
If the Song Dynasty had a complete intelligence network, it would be absolutely impossible for the Liao people to find out after they touched Linzhou City.
If the Song Dynasty had a complete intelligence network, I am afraid that when the Liao people appeared in Xixia, the Song Dynasty would have already known all the news.
The Song Dynasty suffered a lot because of its imperfect intelligence network.
For example, when the late emperor was in power, Zongge monk Li Lizun led an invasion of 30,000 Tibetan troops.
At that time, Cao Wei, who was stationed on the border of Tubo, had only a few thousand troops.
Cao Wei wrote to the court asking for help.
The late emperor did not believe Cao Wei's words and thought that Cao Wei was afraid, so he passed down a few words of ridicule to Cao Wei.
Not only did the late emperor not send reinforcements, he also changed Cao Wei's posture.
Finally he was persuaded to stop.
Cao Wei failed to find any reinforcements, so in the end he could only rely on a few thousand troops to fight against the 30,000 Tibetan coalition forces.
Fortunately, Cao Wei won the battle. Not only did the weak defeat the strong, he also chased the enemy for thousands of miles and captured a large number of cattle and sheep.
This battle was one of Cao Wei's famous battles, the Battle of Sandu Valley.
Seeing the big from the small.
From Cao Wei's small experience, it is not difficult to see how bad the Song Dynasty's intelligence network was.
If the Song Dynasty had a complete intelligence network, I am afraid that before Zongge monk Li Lizun led his troops to Sandu Valley, the Song Dynasty court had already received the news that Zongge monk Li Lizun was dispatching troops and generals with the intention of invading the border.
Before Cao Wei can ask for help, the soldiers and horses going to support him may already be on the way.
Cao Wei won the battle in Sandu Valley, so he couldn't see the horror of the lack of intelligence.
What if Cao Wei loses?
The enemy hasn't marched in yet?
I am afraid that the imperial court will not be able to truly react until the three or two states are captured.
Therefore, it is necessary for the Song Dynasty to have a complete intelligence network.
Kou Ji did not object to Zhao Zhen's establishment of a spy agency.
However, Zhao Zhen currently uses most of his spies on the civil and military personnel of the Manchu Dynasty, and Kou Ji feels that this should not be the case.
But considering that he and Zhao Zhen wanted to innovate in the future, mainly targeting the civil and military affairs of the Manchu dynasty, and needed to rely on the intelligence gathered by spies, Kou Jicai did not point out Zhao Zhen's mistakes.
Secret agencies can be established, but they cannot be relied upon too much.
It is easy for the court to develop into a pathological state.
What Kou Ji has to do now is to completely erase some of the inappropriate things Zhao Zhen left in the Song Dynasty before Zhao Zhen's spies spread all over the world.
What if Zhao Zhen's spies reach Leizhou, know what he did in Leizhou, and know that Cao Lili is still alive?
When the monarch and his ministers met again, it became extremely awkward.
It's hard to say whether the monarch and his ministers can still get along happily by then.
Kou Ji wanted to write a letter to explain the matter, but considering that writing a letter might leave evidence, he chose to ask his personal guards to go there in person and deliver the order on his behalf.
Kou Ji's personal bodyguards are all people who have followed Kou Ji through life and death, and are also part of the Kou family.
If they can't believe it, no one will be able to believe it that day.
Several personal guards ordered by Kou Ji stayed at the house for several days.
On the pretext of protecting the caravan of the Kou Mansion, they left Bianjing City in all directions.
The place they want to go may not be in the direction they took when they left the city, but they will eventually arrive at the place they want to go through different roads.
Kou Ji did this very secretly, and no one discovered it.
Because the Kou government controls the production of most of the fabrics in the world, caravans leave every day, and caravans come back every day. Three or two people hide among them anonymously. Unless they are caught, checked one by one, and interrogated repeatedly, it is difficult to find anything wrong with them.
place.
So far, no one has dared to stop the Kou Mansion's caravan.
Just after Kou Ji's personal bodyguards left Bianjing City.
Several horses entered Bianjing City one after another, bringing bad news one after another into Bianjing City.
Bad news has just been delivered to the palace.
Zhao Zhen sent people to summon Kou Ji, Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng into the palace.
Zhang Zhibai was still checking the whereabouts of military pay from previous years, so he was not disturbed.
Kou Ji and the others entered the palace and arrived at Zishi Hall, where they saw Zhao Zhen's gloomy face.
After the three people saluted, Zhao Zhen ordered Chen Lin: "Give the three beloved ministers the documents that were sent in just now."
Chen Lin took the document and sent it to Lu Yijian and the others.
The three of them took the document and looked at it carefully, with different expressions on their faces.
Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng looked solemn, showing that they were indeed like this.
Kou Ji looked angry.
Seeing the angry look on Kou Ji's face, Lu Yijian said in a neutral tone: "Privy Minister Kou seems to be surprised?"
Kou Ji said angrily: "Damn thief, he is simply crazy."
Wang Zeng curled his lips and said: "You shouldn't be surprised..."
The implication is that he is telling Kou Ji to stop acting.
It's you and the officials who instigated the trouble. There will be resistance, and you two won't know it.
The officials are acting, and we can't expose it.
But if you are performing here, who will you perform for?
Kou Ji seemed to have not heard Wang Zeng's words, and still looked angry.
After Lu Yijian and the others read the documents, Zhao Zhen said angrily: "South of Jiangning Mansion, including Jiangning Mansion, eight Yizijiaozi shops were looted and burned down. It's really heartbreaking.
Yizijiaozipu is my property and the imperial court's property.
Jiangning Prefecture and other places are prosperous places, and the local people have little wealth. The annual savings of the eight Jiaozi shops can almost be compared with the two Jiaozi shops in Bianjing City.
Now that it has been burned to the ground by thieves and robbed of all their money, the local people must be in panic.
If this causes a civil uprising, it may be difficult to end.
These thieves are trying to steal money, and they are clearly trying to bring trouble to our country, the Song Dynasty.
Anyone who messes up our country in the Song Dynasty should be cut into pieces by a thousand swords."
Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng hesitated for a while after Zhao Zhen roared.
Wang Zeng mused: "I'm afraid there is a hidden secret behind this matter. The officials need to send someone to investigate carefully."
The implication is that robbing a Yizijiaozi store is not simply robbing a Yizijiaozi store, but more of a demonstration.
All Yizijiaozi shops were guarded by soldiers and horses. To rob eight Yizijiaozi shops in one go was not something ordinary people could do.