After Zhao Zhen heard what Lu Yijian said, he felt much better.
"Ai Qing's words make sense..."
Lu Yijian smiled calmly and said: "Guan family, now the scholars and some people who claim to be righteous people are blocking the door of Kou's mansion. Kou Ji can't go out and can't do his errands. Do you want the officials to make a decision early?"
This matter has been planned for a long time, and now it all depends on Zhao Zhen's mind whether to sit back and watch the matter develop, or to throw out the matter of promoting Mongolian education to calm the matter.
Zhao Zhen thought for a long time and said: "We, the monarchs and ministers, have been planning for so long, and it is not worthwhile to calm down the matter now. Although I cannot gain fame, scholars who are lawless and wanton in causing trouble must still be punished.
Wang Aiqing, go to the Kou Mansion and explain this matter to my fourth brother.
Let him be patient for the time being, and when the scholars do something hurtful, I will immediately put an end to the matter."
Wang Zeng bowed and accepted the errand.
After finishing his official duties, Wang Zeng left the palace and took a carriage to the annex of Kou Mansion.
As soon as I arrived at the gate of Kou's villa, I saw scholars and some righteous people shouting and scolding at the gate of Kou's villa in a passionate mood.
Someone wrote several articles condemning this and read them loudly at the gate of the Kou Mansion.
Wang Zeng frowned and ignored them. He ordered the driver to drive the carriage to the side door of Kou Mansion's courtyard, knocking on the door and entering.
After entering the Kou Mansion's annex, Kou Ji sent someone to the study.
As soon as Wang Zeng entered the study, he saw Kou Ji holding a small baby in his hand and playing with it.
The baby is very small, no more than a month old.
He can't speak, he can only cry and laugh.
The baby seemed to be very attached to Kou Ji and kept laughing in Kou Ji's arms.
Kou Ji held her with one hand, pointed the tip of her nose with the other and said with a smile: "You are much better than your heartless brother. You know how to be close to your father."
Wang Zeng watched Kou Ji talking happily to a baby who didn't understand anything. He curled his lips slightly and said, "There is going to be a commotion outside, but you are still in the mood to tease your daughter here."
Kou Ji smiled indifferently and handed his daughter over to the Xiang family's younger sister. He smiled at Wang Zeng and said, "There's a big commotion outside, what does it have to do with me?"
Having said this, Kou Ji bowed to Wang Zeng and said, "Your Majesty, please take a seat. Lu Ming will serve you tea."
Kou Ji asked the younger sister of the Xiang family to carry her daughter to the backyard. He invited Wang Zeng to sit down and talk about things while drinking tea.
"The things outside are caused by you. Do you dare to say that they have nothing to do with you?"
After Wang Zeng sat down, he said in a deep voice.
Kou Ji said with a smile: "Although I initiated the incident, the idea was indeed decided by the officials."
Wang Zeng rolled his eyes and said: "I'm too lazy to argue. I'm here to convey the official's will to you. The official asked me to tell you and ask you to endure it for a few days until the scholars cause trouble.
If something happens, he will take action again."
When Kou Ji heard this, the smile on his face faded a little, and he stared at Wang Zeng and said, "Wait for the scholars to cause harm to others? They are now in front of my Kou Mansion. If they really want to hurt someone, they will definitely be hurt.
He is from our Kou Mansion.
An ordinary member of the Kou family was injured, and the officials were unable to engage in a major war.
Only when the master of the Kou Mansion is hurt can the officials use the situation to their advantage.
My grandfather is old and cannot stand being frightened.
My wife is a prostitute and is not suitable to participate in such things.
My children are still young.
I am the only one left who can take on this important task.
The problem is, if I, a privy envoy, are injured, how will the court lose face?"
Wang Zeng said calmly: "Only if you are injured can the officials use the situation to their advantage."
Kou Ji rolled his eyes and said, "Do you want to see those scholars chopped into pieces?"
Wang Zeng was stunned for a moment, stared and said: "The officials did not allow you to do it privately."
Kou Ji curled his lips and said: "I will not take action privately, but once the news of my injury spreads, do you think the people in Ruian Town will watch helplessly?
Don't forget, when the Yellow River flooded, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced.
I was the one who took care of them when they were in danger.
Not only did he give them a meal and save their lives, he also helped them find a job to make a living.
Their prosperous life now is all given by me.
They owe me more than just their lives.
If someone really hurt me in Ruian Town, an old man in his 70s or 80s, or a urchin as young as three or four years old would be carrying a knife and fight them to the death.
Nearly 100,000 people took action together, and the crowd was excited.
Those few scholars are not enough to kill him."
Wang Zeng stared at Kou Ji in astonishment.
Kou Ji glanced at him and said, "Prince, do you think I'm telling you a joke?"
Wang Zeng shook his head solemnly, "The people in Ruian Town have received a lot of kindness from you. If you are bullied, they will definitely fight for you."
The ancients believed in the idea that a drop of water should be repaid by a spring.
If you do not repay favors from others, you will be accused of being heartless.
Kou Ji showed great kindness to the people of Ruian Town.
If Kou Ji was injured by someone in Ruian Town, many of them would pick up knives and fight for Kou Ji.
After Wang Zeng said this, before Kou Ji could speak again, he said with emotion: "No wonder you have been living in Ruian Town all these years..."
Kou Ji spread his hands and smiled calmly: "Is there any safer place than Ruian Town?"
Wang Zeng sighed: "With nearly a hundred thousand dead soldiers protecting you, you are naturally very safe."
Kou Ji smiled and said, "It's not as exaggerated as you said."
Wang Zeng shook his head and said: "As long as the person who has received your kindness lives, he will definitely repay your kindness. Maybe after three or four generations, this kind of kindness will be slowly forgotten."
Kou Ji laughed and said, "I didn't want them to be anxious for my favor."
Wang Zeng shook his head again and did not say much on this issue.
People value virtue and kindness.
It often happens among the people that several generations repay a favor.
Kou Ji saved not just a few or two people, but hundreds of thousands of people.
Among hundreds of thousands of people, there are always those who are kind-hearted.
If they themselves cannot repay Kou Ji's kindness, they will leave the matter to their descendants.
Even if future generations are unwilling to repay Kou Ji's kindness, they will still remember Kou Ji's kindness and pass it on orally.
The record of receiving favors from others for thousands of years was not an empty talk in ancient times.
Although it may not be as exaggerated as thousands of years.
But within a hundred years, it can definitely be done.
"You get the advantage but still behave..."
Wang Zeng glared at Kou Ji and said angrily.
Kou Ji stared at Wang Zeng and smiled: "Are you envious?"
Wang Zeng snorted coldly, "I also showed you a lot of kindness."
"More than me?"
“Is kindness measured by quantity?”
"..."
Kou Ji and Wang Zeng had a few words about this.
Wang Zeng said: "I have finished conveying the things that the officials have given me. Now it is time for me to leave."
"Don't!"
Kou Ji stopped Wang Zeng.
"Prince, you should know that I, Kou Ji, am definitely not the kind of person to sit back and wait for death. Nor am I the kind of person to hand over the initiative to others.
Therefore, it is impossible for me to wait quietly at home while the scholar hurts others."
Wang Zeng frowned slightly and asked, "What do you want?"
Kou Ji said frankly: "If the initiative of things is handed over to others, it is not under my control, and accidents are prone to happen. For me, it is life-threatening."
So I'm ready to take the initiative."
Wang Zeng stared at Kou Ji and waited quietly for the next sentence.
Kou Ji continued: "I'll look for two people later, mix them among the scholars, and find an opportunity to give me a stick. Then the officials will immediately mobilize the firearms battalion to destroy them."
"Those are all scholars, not bandits. How can we use the word "annihilate"?"
Wang Zeng snorted coldly.
Kou Ji said in astonishment: "My lord, you were also involved in this matter."
Wang Zeng's face darkened and he snorted, "I will inform the officials."
Before Kou Ji could speak again, Wang Zeng had already rolled up his sleeves and left the Kou mansion.
After Wang Zeng left, Kou Ji rushed to the backyard and told Xiang Yan that she had to restrain Kou Tianci and Liu Boxu in recent days and not allow them to go out.
Then Kou Ji ordered Lu Ming to find a few scholars and mingled with the scholars outside Kou's mansion.
February 2.
The day when the dragon raises its head.
Kou Ji was summoned out of the house and rushed to the palace.
When I walked out the door, I was blocked by scholars.
The scholars gathered around Kou Ji's carriage and denounced Kou Ji passionately.
Kou Ji didn't say anything, he just ordered the groom to drive the scholars away, and then drove to Bianjing City.
All the way out of Ruian Town.
The scholars got no response when they criticized Kou Ji, and each one of them became even more irritable.
As the readers shouted and cursed, two sticks flew out from the crowd.
One hit the carriage through the window, and the other hit the coachman on the forehead.
The coachman's forehead was immediately broken and he shouted in horror.
"There's an assassination attempt!"
Then, things completely changed.
The scholar's denunciation of the Kou Ji incident turned into the scholar's assassination of the privy envoy of the dynasty.
Some were smart and ran away immediately, while others were stupid and stood there without any fear.
The firearms battalion was dispatched immediately.
Three thousand musketeers left the camp and rushed to the entrance of Ruian Town.
"Don't kill me if you surrender!"
After the musketeers arrived at the entrance of Ruian Town, they shouted and fired for a long time.
Half of the young people in Ruian Town rushed out with blades in hand after learning about Kou Ji's assassination.
Some clan elders and village elders who had received Kou Ji's instructions long ago came forward and stopped them back.
When the last gunshot fell to the ground.
Kou Ji said helplessly: "I think I should go down and have a look..."
In the corner of the carriage, Du Hu was squatting, holding a stick in his hand and staring blankly at Kou Ji.
Hearing that Kou Ji was about to go down, he raised the stick in his hand.
Kou Ji sighed and explained: "This is all just acting, no one really hurt me."
The mute tiger was indifferent to this and just raised the stick in his hand.
Kou Ji lost his temper with him and could only sit upright again.
Unexpectedly, Du Hu actually rubbed his hands at him.
Kou Ji looked at the very familiar action and stared at Mute Hu in shock, "You want money?"
Du Hu nodded stiffly.
Kou Ji looked in disbelief, "You actually asked me for money?"
Du Hu hesitated for a moment and retracted his hand.
Seeing this, Kou Ji hurriedly said: "I don't mind if you ask me for money, I'm just a little surprised that you are actually interested in money."
Du Hu was stunned for a moment and opened his mouth several times to Kou Ji.
Kou Ji said in astonishment: "Are you useful?"
Dumb Tiger nodded.
"What for?"
As soon as Kou Ji said this, Mute Hu sat motionless.
Kou Ji thought for a while and said: "I don't mean to get to the bottom of it, I just want to know what you do, so that I can help you calculate how much money you need.
I'm afraid that you don't know the amount of money, and what I give you is not enough for you."
After hearing this, Mute Hu finally took action and moved his mouth again.
Kou Ji stared at Mute Hu's mouth carefully, and finally saw clearly what Mute Hu wanted to express, "You said you found an apprentice and wanted to use money to help him practice martial arts so that he could protect Tianci'er?"
Du Hu nodded stiffly.
Kou Ji narrowed his eyes slightly.
"You have never cared about worldly affairs. If there is no reason, you would not notice Tianci'er's safety. Is someone eyeing Tianci'er and you discovered it, so you plan to teach an apprentice to protect Tianci'er?"
Du Hu nodded, then shook his head.
Kou Ji frowned, "You can't figure it out either? Then go and capture that person and let me interrogate him. By the way, take your chosen disciple back to your home so that I can see if he is innocent."
If my wealth is innocent, I will stay at my house and practice martial arts with you from now on.
If you need anything, just go to the accounting office and get it.
I will tell the cashier."
Du Hu nodded and left the carriage quietly.
After the mute tiger left, Kou Ji frowned and got out of the carriage.
Outside the carriage.
Some of the scholars who made trouble were killed, some were arrested, and they were completely put to rest.
After Kou Ji got off the carriage, the captain of the firearms battalion rushed to Kou Ji and reported: "Privy Minister Kou, all your assassins have been captured. Please punish them."
Although they are soldiers of the imperial court, they are people of Zhao Zhen.
But Kou Ji was far better at giving orders to them than Zhao Zhen.
They were all from the Mangshan Firearms Camp and had been trained and brainwashed by the servants of the Kou government.
He worshiped and admired Kou Ji far more than Zhao Zhen.
If Kou Ji gives an order to kill without mercy, they will definitely execute it without hesitation.
Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "Take the living people to the Xingbu Yamen and hand them over to the Xingbu Yamen for custody. Then I will write to the officials and let them deal with them."
"Well..."
Kou Ji dismissed the people from the firearms camp and had no intention of entering the palace. He ordered people to go to Bianjing City to take a sick leave for himself, and hurried back to the palace in a carriage.
After returning home.
He just kept waiting with a gloomy face.
Until nightfall.
Du Hu appeared in Kou Ji's study carrying a person on his shoulders and holding a person in hand.
The dumb tiger is carrying a middle-aged man on his shoulders and holding a child in his hand.
The middle-aged man was a bearded man wearing very ordinary clothes. He had been knocked unconscious by the mute tiger.
The child is a child about seven years old.
The clothes on his body were dirty, his face was covered with dirt, his hair was messy, but his eyes were bright, with a bit of curiosity and fear in them.
Kou Ji's eyes lingered on the middle-aged man for a moment, and finally fell on the child.
Kou Ji said to Yahu with some disgust: "Your master is not very qualified, and you don't know how to clean him up..."
Du Hu looked at Kou Ji blankly and said nothing.
The child, on the other hand, opened his mouth slightly, as if he was trying to defend Mute Hu, but remained silent.
Kou Ji frowned slightly, "Like the mute tiger, can't he speak?"
When the child heard this, he shivered with fear and said softly, "Ah".
Kou Ji's brows furrowed even more tightly, "Let me see if your tongue sticks out."
When the child heard this, he hid behind the mute tiger in fear.
The mute tiger pulled him out ruthlessly.
After the child was pulled out, he was a little at a loss.
Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "Don't be afraid. Since you believe in dumb tigers, you should also believe in me."
The child hesitated and stuck out his tongue.
Kou Ji looked at the tongue that had been cut off a little bit with a sharp weapon, and said coldly: "Sure enough, he was not born mute..."
The child turned cold when he heard Koji's voice, as if he was frightened, and hid behind Mute Hu again.
Kou Ji didn't look at him anymore and said to Yahu: "It looks like a frightened kitten. Where did you pick it up?"
The mute tiger opened his mouth silently.
After reading what the mute tiger said, Kou Ji's face turned completely cold, "You mean, someone raised a dozen identical children?"
Kou Ji stared at Mute Hu, "Where?"
Dumb Tiger opened his mouth.
"Underground?!"
"Lu Ming!!"
Kou Ji shouted loudly.
Lu Ming quickly appeared in Kou Ji's study.
Kou Ji ordered in a cold voice, "You order three hundred guards, take my warrant, and follow the mute tiger. When the mute tiger starts killing people, you kill no one except the young children."
Lu Ming looked stunned and wanted to ask why.
But seeing Kou Ji's expression becoming colder than ever before, he agreed without hesitation.
"Here!"
After Kou Ji finished giving instructions to Lu Ming, he said to Yahu: "Go and show them the way. Your apprentice will be left in my care for the time being."
Du Hu hesitated for a moment and nodded.
Yahu left the child behind and followed Lu Ming out of the study.
The child seemed a little afraid of Kou Ji and hid in the darkness of the study.
Kou Ji said with a gloomy face: "I have long heard that there is a group of evil spirits who call themselves the 'Mud Men' underground in Bianjing City. I thought it was just a rumor, but now it seems that it is really true.
It is simply unreasonable that a bunch of bastards who kidnap women and children can be so rampant now.
All the successive magistrates of Kaifeng Prefecture should be sent out to fill in the wells."
Speaking of this, Kou Ji's eyes fell on the middle-aged man lying on the ground, "You are staring at my son, do you want to attack my son?"
Kou Ji stood up slowly, walked to the middle-aged man, raised his foot, and stepped hard on the middle-aged man's finger.
The middle-aged man woke up from the pain.
As soon as he raised his head, a black iron pipe hit his head.
"Privy Master Kou, please spare my life!"
When the middle-aged man saw the musket, he immediately screamed.
Kou Ji narrowed his eyes and said, "Do you know this thing? Who are you?"
The middle-aged man spoke with almost no hesitation: "To tell you what Privy Hui Kou said, I used to be a member of the Imperial City Division, but later joined the Liu family and worked under the Third Young Master."
Kou Ji suddenly rushed in front of the middle-aged man and pulled up the middle-aged man's collar, "Liu Heng's person?"
The middle-aged man nodded solemnly.
Kou Ji hurriedly asked: "When Liu Heng was arrested before, how did you escape?"
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and said: "Since the young master became the general of the army, he placed our brothers as scouts in the army and gave us a clean identity.
So when the young master was arrested, we were not implicated."
Kou Ji asked again: "Then why did you come to Bianjing instead of staying in the army?"
The middle-aged man said calmly: "After the young master was arrested, our brothers slipped out of the military camp in the name of spying on military intelligence and followed the young master all the way.
All the way to the edge of the Yellow River.
The people from the imperial court destroyed the ship, replaced a group of people, and secretly escorted the young master to Bianjing City.
We also followed back to Bianjing City."
Kou Ji's eyes widened in vain, "Liu Heng is in Bianjing City?"
The middle-aged man nodded and shook his head.
Kou Ji shouted: "What do you mean, are you kidding me?"
The middle-aged man hurriedly said: "After the young master returned to Beijing, he was escorted to a secret cell. When we saw the young master again, he took the initiative to find us."
Afraid that Kou Ji would not understand what he said, the middle-aged man hurriedly added: "When the young master was escorted back to Beijing, the young people also contacted the young master to save him, but the young master did not agree. The young master said that if he escaped
, people in the world will definitely think that it was you who did it, and it will be detrimental to you."
The implication was that Liu Heng knew they were following.
Kou Ji glared at the middle-aged man, "Continue!"
The middle-aged man whispered: "After the young master found us, he asked the villain and another brother to stay and secretly look after the young master. He took the rest of the people and left Bianjing City."
Kou Ji hurriedly said: "He didn't leave anything for me?"
The middle-aged man said in a deep voice: "The young master said that he is sorry for you."
"Nonsense! How can brothers be sorry for each other?"
Kou Ji shouted angrily.
Then he stared at the middle-aged man and said, "Didn't he complain that I refused to save him?"
The middle-aged man gave a bitter smile and said: "The young master said that if his eldest brother caused trouble, it would be a minor punishment to punish the Nine Clan. You can take the risk of beheading, intercede for him, and protect the Liu family's incense. Your kindness to him
You will never be able to pay it back in your lifetime.
The young master said that you are his elder brother and he does not need to say more words of thanks.
He also said that he can rest assured that you will take care of the young master.
When we meet again tomorrow, he will definitely have a drink with you."
Kou Ji looked gloomy.
The middle-aged man continued: "The young master also said that the officials spared his life for your sake. But the death penalty can be avoided, but the living penalty cannot be avoided."
The officials did not allow him to appear in front of others, and ordered him to go overseas and bring back a mountain of silver."
"Go overseas, move to Yinshan? Japan?"
Kou Ji muttered in a deep voice.
The middle-aged man said with a surprised look: "How do you know this?"
Kou Ji glared at the middle-aged man, "Nonsense! I was the one who spread the news about the Yinshan Mountain in Japan."
The middle-aged man looked stunned.
Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "The official family assigned Liu Heng."
The existence of silver mountains in Japan has not been confirmed.
Except for Kou Ji, who knew it was true, no one else believed it.
Zhao Zhen asked Liu Heng to go to Japan and move Yinshan, which was simply a distribution.
"My heart is so dark..."
Kou Ji cursed in a low voice, and he was scolding Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhen not only used this to take Kou Tianci away from him as his consort, but also asked Liu Heng to move the silver mountain.
If there were no silver mountains in the Japanese country, Kou Ji would not be able to curse.
The key is that the Japanese country really existed.
As long as Liu Heng successfully reaches the Japanese country, Yinshan of the Japanese country will have the surname Zhao from now on.
Kou Ji was not worried at all whether Liu Heng would encounter resistance after arriving in Japan.
It would be great if Liu Heng did not use the native Japanese people as slaves.