Lu Yijian didn't know Zhao Zhen's true purpose. After leaving the Imperial Garden, he went straight to the gate of Donghua.
When the courtiers saw him, they stood on tiptoes and looked behind him.
After looking for a long time, they didn't see the figure they expected appearing.
"Don't look, the officials are not here..."
Lu Yijian returned to the line of courtiers and said in a stiff tone.
The courtiers instantly became excited.
"How can the officials not come?"
"The officials are indulging these two old guys in their mischief..."
"If we let these two old guys succeed this time, if they do the same thing in the future, how can we still be officials?"
"..."
The courtiers were talking all over the place.
Lu Yijian shouted, "That's enough!"
The courtiers all shut their mouths.
Lu Yijian said with an unhappy expression: "You can stop Cao Wei from being crowned king, but why do you want to bring Kou Ji along with you? If you provoke Cao Wei, I can still handle it a little, but if you provoke Kou Zhun, who will deal with it? Turn back Kou Ji.
When Ji Banshi returns to court and looks for trouble with you, who of you can deal with it?
You don't even care how much you weigh, you dare to offend anyone."
When the courtiers heard Lu Yijian's words, some lowered their heads and some frowned.
Someone said: "Prime Minister Lu, Kou Ji's current achievements are unmatched by anyone. If we don't take action against him and let him grow up, I'm afraid he won't be able to lose his position by then."
Lu Yijian stared and scolded: "As if you can control and direct him now?"
The man looked a little ugly and said: "Mr. Lu, you should understand that this is not what we mean."
Lu Yijian's face darkened, "I know what you mean, but the official family has great trust in him. As long as the official family's favor for him continues, you will not be able to deal with him."
When the man heard this, his expression became even more ugly.
Zhang Zhibai said from the side: "Now is not the time to talk about this. What needs to be done most now is to ask those two people to leave. If we let them block us any longer, I'm afraid you will lose all face."
The news that Cao Wei and Kou Zhun had blocked the door must have quickly spread to the entire Bianjing city as Zhu Neng, Wang Shu and others left.
Those of them who are blocked will definitely have their faces damaged.
The longer Cao Wei and Kou Zhun are stuck in the situation, the greater their facial damage will be.
When Lu Yijian heard this, he gritted his teeth and said, "Cao Wei wants a king's title, so give it to him. This king's title can be given to him or not, it depends on whether Cao Wei can withstand the pressure."
If Cao Wei is granted the title of king, he will be the only living king with a different surname in the Song Dynasty.
Everyone in the government and the public will be watching him, and he will become the target of public criticism.
The Cao family will also be looked at with a magnifying glass by everyone in the government and the public.
Once someone in the Cao family makes a mistake, a memorial to impeach the Cao family will float into the palace like snowflakes.
If the Cao family cannot withstand it, then Cao Wei, a king with a different surname, will not be able to sit down.
Therefore, being granted the title of king is not a good thing for the Cao family and Cao Wei.
However, some courtiers still disagreed, "Prime Minister Lu, this case cannot be made. Once this case is made, there will be no obstacles for successive officials to grant kings with different surnames.
When the time comes, if some slanderous ministers and favored ministers become kings with different surnames through flattery, then the court will be doomed."
Lu Yijian said coldly: "It's not easy to make a king with a different surname. The officials want to make Cao Wei a king with a different surname, and we won't stop him. But some rules still have to be set.
Unless he has contributed to the destruction of the country, he cannot be crowned king.
We should ask the officials to make this rule an ironclad rule.
When the time comes when other people want to be crowned kings, they must first conquer a country for me, the Song Dynasty."
When the courtiers heard this, they looked at each other and finally nodded in unison.
If there is a rule that one cannot be crowned king unless he has contributed to the destruction of the country, then the king will not be crowned indiscriminately in the future.
The Song Dynasty's enemies on all sides have been almost wiped out.
In the future, if someone wants to be crowned king, he will have to go to far away places to fight in order to achieve the goal of destroying the country.
The key problem is that, with their restrictions, it is not easy for some military officials to go to distant places to fight.
First of all, as long as the Ministry of Revenue is stuck with money and food, it will be impossible for the military ministers to go on expeditions.
Seeing the courtiers nodding in agreement, Lu Yijian continued: "Don't mention the matter of asking Kou Ji to be crowned king in the future. Don't try to tease Kou Ji for now. Kou Ji can control all the elite soldiers of our Song Dynasty. If he
If we are confused and do something wrong, we cannot bear the consequences."
When Lu Yijian said this, he paused for a moment, and then said in an unprecedentedly serious tone: "I just went to meet with the officials, and the officials said bluntly that the military strength of our Song Dynasty can sweep across all barbarians, and it can also sweep across our Song Dynasty.
"
The courtiers were all shocked.
The implication is that if Kou Ji wanted to lead his troops into the Song Dynasty, no one could stop him.
Seeing that the courtiers were speechless, Lu Yijian continued: "I've said everything I can say. It's best to discuss with me what you want to do in the future. If you don't discuss with me and just make the decision without authorization, then don't blame me for not guaranteeing it."
you.
When people deal with you, don’t ask to come to my door.”
The courtiers looked at each other and bowed in response.
"Here..."
Seeing this, Lu Yijian's expression softened a bit, and he told the courtiers, "You guys stay here later, I'll go negotiate with those two old guys..."
After saying this, Lu Yijian stepped onto the Jinshui Bridge again.
When they arrived at the Jinshui Bridge, Lu Yijian didn't mince words. He went straight to the point and said to Cao Wei and Kou Zhun: "The officials will then crown you Cao Wei king, and we will not stop it.
The courtiers will no longer petition to crown Kou Ji the king."
Cao Wei and Kou Zhun heard Lu Yijian's words, looked at each other and laughed.
Then each of them waved to their entourage and gave a very comfortable order.
"Go home!"
"..."
The two old guys stood up slowly, ordered their followers to pack their things, and left.
Lu Yijian's teeth started to itch when he saw the two old guys looking so satisfied.
As Lu Yijian and the courtiers compromised, the voices in the court that prevented Cao Wei from being crowned king and petitioned Kou Ji to be crowned king were instantly silenced.
Just when everyone thought that Zhao Zhen would take advantage of the situation and crown Cao Wei the king, Zhao Zhen actually did nothing.
It was as if the matter of being crowned king had never happened.
No one knows what Zhao Zhen is selling.
Kou Ji, who was far away in Gubeikou, paid a little attention to this matter at first, but when a large number of murderers, driven by the nine new Khitan tribes, appeared outside the Great Wall.
Kou Ji had no intention of paying attention to this matter.
On Gubeikou Pass City.
Kou Ji, Zhong Shiheng, Liu Heng, and a Jiaozhi general named Li Si stood side by side. The four of them frowned and stared at the huge team of thugs outside the city.
"A rough estimate... there are two hundred thousand..."
After carefully observing the murderers outside the city, Zhong Shiheng gave a relative number.
Kou Ji stared at the murderers outside the city and said: "There are no rules and regulations, and there are no better armaments. Many people only have one sword in their hands. They are barely stronger than the mob, but their strength is limited. The only saving grace is the quantity."
huge."
Zhong Shiheng, Liu Heng and others nodded.
In their eyes, the thugs outside the city have no other merits except their numbers.
After Kou Ji said this, he seemed to remember something, and his eyes fell on Tojo Chuichi who was behind Liu Heng.
Kou smiled and said: "Tojo Chuichi, what do you think?"
Tojo said with a humble face: "I think what the generals said is right."
Tojo Chuichi was quite arrogant when he first arrived at Gubeikou.
After Kou Ji asked someone to take him to see several burned mass graves, when he saw Kou Ji again, he immediately knelt down to Kou Ji.
In the Japanese country, those who led thousands of soldiers and horses were all great generals.
Killing thousands of enemies would be a great victory that would go down in Japanese history.
However, on the battlefield between Song and Liao, everything about Japan seemed not enough.
With over 10,000 soldiers and horses fighting against each other, it can barely be considered a small to medium-sized battle.
With more than 100,000 soldiers and horses fighting against each other, it can be considered a medium-sized battle.
A battle can only be considered a large-scale battle if the number of soldiers and horses exceeds 100,000.
The great general of Japan, left on such a battlefield, would be nothing more than a lieutenant at best.
The number of enemies killed that was enough to leave a lasting name in the history of Japan was just a number contracted to the chief general of the Imperial Army.
Unless the thousands of enemies who were killed had some special origins, they were not qualified to report to the Privy Councilor's desk for the Privy Councilor's attention.
That is, after seeing what a truly powerful country is and seeing the real power controlled by Kou Ji.
Tojo Chuyi behaved very humbly in front of Kou Ji.
Not only did he have a respectful attitude, he even called himself an old slave.
Kou Ji seems to be very interested in scaring him, so when there is a big scene, he likes to pull him out and scare him.
After hearing Tojo Chuichi's answer, Kou Ji smiled softly, "Then what do you think, how should we fight this battle?"
Tojo was stunned for a moment and said hurriedly: "I don't know..."
Kou Ji smiled lightly, looked at Zhong Shiheng, and asked, "What do you think?"
Zhong Shiheng said solemnly: "Two hundred thousand murderers are not a threat to us. The real threat is the murderers who are constantly gathering.
Once the number of thugs exceeds what we can bear, even if we have the absolute advantage of overwhelming combat power, we may not be able to annihilate all the thugs."
Zhong Shiheng's words can be summed up simply in one sentence.
That is, once the number of murderers exceeds a certain number, they cannot kill them all even if they kill them.
Kou Ji heard what Zhong Shiheng said and said, "Do you think you can't give them a chance to continue to gather together?"
Zhong Shiheng nodded.
Kou Ji asked: "Then what are you going to do?"
Zhong Shiheng said in a deep voice: "Call all the soldiers and horses in the pass, kill them all in one go, and defeat the murderers in front of you in one fell swoop. Those who are willing to surrender will be incorporated into the military control camp, and those who are unwilling to surrender will be killed."
Kou Ji nodded and said: "In order to avoid long nights and dreams, let's just do it."
Speaking of this, Kou Ji ordered again: "Liu Heng, Li Si, you two should also go with us."
Without Kou Ji's instructions, Zhong Shiheng would not be able to mobilize Liu Heng and Li Si.
The Japanese army led by Liu Heng and the Jiaozhi army led by Li Si were not under the control of the Song Dynasty.
Liu Heng and Li Si agreed and followed Zhong Shiheng down to the top of the city.
Kou Ji was left with a few close associates to watch the battle on the top of the city.
After Zhong Shiheng landed at the top of the city, he immediately ordered his troops and horses to prepare for the attack.
It's just that the murderers are more impatient than them.
The murderers are now forced to have no way out. They don't care how many Song soldiers there are in Gubeikou, nor how strong the Song soldiers are in Gubeikou.
They just wanted to break through Gubeikou and rush into Song Dynasty, looking for a way to survive.
The thugs rushed to the city head without any plan, preparing to attack Gubeikou in a swarm-like manner.
They seemed to have used similar methods to attack Liao's cities before, so they felt that they could also capture Gubeikou using this method.
Gubeikou is not a city of Liao Kingdom.
Those stationed at Gubeikou are not the remnants of the Liao army.
The murderers have not yet crossed the ditch under Gubeikou.
The roar of artillery resounded inside and outside Gubeikou.
"Bang bang bang..."
Under the bombardment of artillery, the murderers rose into the sky one by one and fell to the ground into corpses.
Hundreds of artillery pieces bombarded together, causing the ground inside and outside Gubeikou to shake.
Tens of thousands of muskets fired along with the bombardment of artillery.
The thugs outside the city fell like wheat.
The thugs waited for their attack.
Some of the thugs turned around and ran away.
Two hundred thousand thugs stormed Gubeikou together, but were frightened by just one round of artillery and musketry attacks.
Some of the little leaders who were the masterminds among the thugs rode horses and ran rampant among the thugs, waving their knives and slashing the fleeing thugs, and driving other thugs to continue attacking Gubeikou.
The murderers became a mess for a while.
When Kou Ji saw this, he no longer had the desire to read any more.
Because when the murderers were in chaos, the Gubeikou city gate was opened, and Zhong Shiheng led his army to kill them.
The thugs were already weak in combat, but after being bombarded by artillery and muskets, they already felt timid in their hearts.
Plus it was a mess.
There was no way to withstand the impact of the Song Dynasty soldiers and horses.
With the Liao Kingdom losing all its elite troops, the Song Dynasty had the strongest troops on earth.
Against other regular armies, the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty could win with a crushing attitude, let alone against a group of unorganized thugs.
After Zhong Shiheng led his army to fight out, he penetrated the 200,000-strong army of the murderers with just one charge.
Then it bloomed everywhere.
Zhong Shiheng, Liu Heng, Li Si and others each led a group of troops and strangled the assailants from all directions. The assailants had no power to fight back.
The criminals were either killed, surrendered, or escaped.
What makes Kou Ji dissatisfied is that the number of criminals who escaped was far greater than the number who surrendered.
A battle involving 300,000 people ended in just eight hours.
After the fighting was over, it was already late at night.
Zhong Shiheng, Liu Heng, Li Si and others escorted nearly 80,000 prisoners into Gubeikou.
More than 30,000 murderers were killed, and nearly 90,000 others fled outside Gubeikou.
After Zhong Shiheng and others took the prisoners into Gubeikou, Kou Ji asked them to hand them over to the newly appointed magistrate of Datong Prefecture.
After the Song Dynasty recovered the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, it divided the eleven prefectures of the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun into two prefectures.
The states to the west of the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun such as Yun, Ying, Ru, etc. were classified as Datong Prefecture; the states to the east of the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun such as You, Ying, and Shun were classified as Shuntian Prefecture.
Datong Prefecture City is in Yunzhou City, and Shuntian Prefecture City is in Youzhou City.
According to the new government system established by the imperial court, corresponding official positions were established.
According to the military system of the imperial court, two local troops and horses were established.
Kou Ji conveniently helped the two governments to set up the framework of local troops and horses. Although the quota of local troops and horses is not full now, the general framework has been set up.
So far, almost all the criminals captured from the north of the Great Wall have been handed over to the local soldiers and horses of the two prefectures.
The new governors of the two prefectures were very happy about this.
There were two pilot projects in Hexi Prefecture and Xingqing Prefecture. All civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty knew that the so-called military control of the people was free labor for the imperial court.
With the help of a group of free labor, they can complete the reconstruction of the two provinces after the disaster as soon as possible, resume farming as soon as possible, and make the two places wealthy as soon as possible.
All of this is political achievement for them.
How could they be unhappy.
The prefect of Datong Prefecture took the officials of Datong Prefecture, and after accepting nearly 80,000 laborers, they left Gubeikou overnight.
In three or two days, these laborers will probably pick up their tools and appear on some pipelines being built in Datong Prefecture, or on some fertile fields that are now under the name of the imperial court.
Not long after the magistrate of Datong Prefecture and his people left, the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture and the people of Shuntian Prefecture rushed into Gubeikou on horseback.
After learning that all the prisoners were taken away by the prefect of Datong Prefecture.
The prefect of Shuntian Prefecture angrily stood at the door of Gubeikou and cursed the mother for a long time.
In the end, Kou Ji agreed and handed over the captured murderers to him, and the magistrate of Shuntian Prefecture stopped scolding his mother.
In order to avoid being overtaken by the Datong Prefecture Prefecture again, the Shuntian Prefecture Prefecture simply stayed at Gubeikou, waiting for the next batch of prisoners to appear.
After Kou Ji found out about this, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he didn't interfere much.
After Kou Ji waited until everything was settled, he summoned Zhong Shiheng and others to his place of residence.
Inside the largest residence in Gubeikou.
The lights are bright.
Kou Ji sat in the middle of the main hall.
Zhong Shiheng and others sat on both sides.
After everyone sat down, Kou Ji said: "I watched the whole battle today. The reaction of the murderers during the battle was no different from that of the refugees in the Song Dynasty.
But the reaction of the murderers after their defeat was very different from that of some of the refugees in the Song Dynasty."
Zhong Shiheng nodded and said: "I have also noticed this. Some tribal thugs will hardly surrender after being defeated. They will run if they can, and they will surrender only if they can't."
Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "Their refusal to surrender unless they have no choice may have something to do with their tribes. There are many tribes in various parts of the Liao Kingdom, and the people in the tribes have a deep sense of tribes.
It is not easy to leave the tribe.
So to encourage more of them to surrender, we have to start with the tribes."
Zhong Shiheng and Liu Heng were speechless.
Instead, Li Si said: "If we want to start with the tribes, we must send people to negotiate with the leaders of each tribe. Only in this way can we make them surrender obediently.
And those tribal leaders are very greedy.
Most of them can't see themselves clearly, and they always like the lion to open its mouth.
Some people are even arrogant and always think that with their little power, they can shake us.
Therefore, it is simply impossible to negotiate with those tribal leaders."
As soon as these words came out.
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment and was speechless.
Zhong Shiheng and Liu Heng looked at Li Si with surprise.
Seeing this, Li Si hurriedly explained: "In our Jiaozhi, there are countless tribes, big and small. So I understand them better."
Kou Ji stared at him and smiled: "Tell me carefully."
Li Si nodded and said: "Those big and small tribes are very arrogant. If we talk to them and ask them to surrender, they will only think that we are afraid of them and can't do anything to them, so we talk to them
of.
So when we came to discuss with them, they opened their mouths and made various demands.
The most exaggerated thing I have ever seen is that the leader of a thousand-strong tribe actually proposed to be equal to my king."
Kou Ji was stunned, then laughed and said, "They are quite confident."
"That's arrogance..."
"But they don't think they are arrogant."
"..."
After some discussion between Kou Ji and the others, Li Si continued: "So if I want to conquer them and make them surrender, I can only kill them and conquer them. There is no other way."
"Then kill!"
Zhong Shiheng spoke without hesitation.
Liu Heng also nodded in agreement.
Kou Ji, who had no womanly kindness, also nodded.
After Kou Ji nodded to confirm the matter, Liu Heng said: "When I was chasing the defeated soldiers today, I found that many of the defeated soldiers fled to the mountains outside Crouching Tiger Mountain.
I guess there must be something in the mountains outside Crouching Tiger Mountain that attracts them.
Otherwise, they would not be able to escape together to the mountains outside Crouching Tiger Mountain."
When Kou Ji heard this, he muttered: "Then send scouts to check."
Zhong Shiheng said on the side: "The scouts have been sent out, and there should be news back tomorrow."
After the discussion reaches this point.
The few people didn't say anything more and dispersed.
The next morning.
Kou Ji had just gotten up when he got the news.
There is indeed something fishy about the mountains outside Crouching Tiger Mountain.
According to reports from the scouts, the murderers hid their family members and some of the gold and silver they had robbed in a col in the mountains outside Crouching Tiger Mountain.
In addition, in the mountains outside Crouching Tiger Mountain, there are several people who are similar to the wise men of a small tribe, who get together and plan the attack on Gubeikou behind the scenes.
The previous wars were probably controlled by those so-called wise men.
After learning the news, Kou Ji almost did not hesitate and sent Zhong Shiheng's troops to clear the mountains outside Wohu Mountain.
Zhong Shiheng led 30,000 cavalry out of Gubeikou and went to the mountains outside Wohu Mountain. They blocked those people in the mountain col and killed them all.
In the end, a full 100,000 prisoners were taken in.
There are more than 40,000 women among them, and there are also many gold and silver treasures.
You know, when they were exterminating the murderers before, Zhong Shiheng and others had never encountered a woman, nor had they encountered a large amount of gold and silver treasures seized.
As this group of murderers were eliminated.
The next group of thugs gradually gathered at Gubeikou.
There seems to be no end to the gangsters. After one group is finished, another group appears.
The troops at Gubeikou are very abundant, so there are almost no loopholes for the criminals to take advantage of. Almost all the criminals who appear in Gubeikou have become prisoners.
Yuguan, where Di Qing was in charge, and along the Great Wall, where Li Zhaoliang and Wang Kai were in charge, also made their own achievements.
Something went wrong on the line of the Great Wall where Gao Chonggong was sitting.