Chapter 0888 Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses gathered together
Bao Zheng did not stay long at Kou Ji's place. He only stayed one night and led his people down the mountain early the next morning.
Bao Zheng rushed to Kou Ji this time mainly to get Kou Ji to acknowledge the house deed and land deed.
Since Kou Ji had already agreed, he had no reason to stay any longer.
Bohai Mansion is now in dire straits, and the prodigal Su Xun has now restrained himself, sitting in a temporary government office running errands day and night.
A person like Bao Zheng, who has the people in mind and intends to benefit the people, naturally does not dare to waste a single minute.
When Bao Zheng left, Kou Ji gave him a ride.
Before leaving, Bao Zheng seemed to have remembered something and took out a book and handed it to Kou Ji.
It was a hand-written, thread-bound book.
It seems to have been read frequently, so the corners of the book are slightly rolled up.
After Bao Zheng handed the book to Kou Ji, he didn't say anything more, got on his horse, and left the ravine in the snow with the accompanying Bohai government officials.
"He is a good official who can do things for the people. As long as he does not go astray in the future, he should be able to achieve something."
Chen Lin didn't know when she appeared next to Kou Ji. Seeing Bao Zheng riding away, she couldn't help but sigh.
Kou Ji stared at the place where Bao Zheng left and said nothing.
The two of them watched as Bao Zheng's figure disappeared from sight.
Chen Lin spoke again, "Our family has to admit that you are indeed the reincarnation of Bole. Di Qing and Bao Zheng are all talented people you selected for the court. As long as you don't grow crooked in the future, you should be able to help the people support themselves."
Kou Ji glanced at Chen Lin with disdain and said nothing.
The talented people he selected were not only Di Qing and Bao Zheng.
Ouyang Xiu, Wen Yanbo, Han Qi and many other guys are simple characters.
They haven't entered Bianjing City yet, so as long as people in Bianjing City don't have in-depth contact with them, they don't know what they are capable of.
Once they entered Bianjing City, they showed their abilities.
By then everyone in the Song Dynasty will know how poisonous his gaze is, and every person he chooses is a good person.
Titles such as "Reincarnated Bole" and "Living Bole" will not be suitable to address him at that time.
Maybe new words will appear to describe him.
For example, idioms such as Kou Ji measuring talents, or Kou Ji selecting talents.
Zhao Guangyi just often held the book in his hand, which gave rise to the idiom of never letting go of the book.
He sent some charcoal to the people in Bianjing City in winter, which gave rise to an idiom about giving charcoal in times of need.
Kou Ji felt that his brilliance in selecting talents for the Song Dynasty was more dazzling than that of Zhao Guangyi holding a scroll and providing help in times of need.
Therefore, it is easy to create an idiom.
Kou Ji ignored Chen Lin and casually opened the book that Bao Zheng left for him. When he saw three large characters in white on the cover, Kou Ji was slightly stunned.
"Peach Blossom Spring?!"
On the cover of the book, there are three words: Peach Blossom Spring.
After reading it, Kou Ji felt a little confused and muttered in a low voice, "Did this kid write a short story book in his spare time for me to correct? We are not interested in short story books now. Is this guy trying to set a historical precedent and steal others?
rice bowl?"
With doubts in his heart, Kou Ji opened the book signed Peach Blossom Spring. After scanning it up and down, he realized that he had made a mistake.
After carefully flipping through a page or two, Kou Ji saw something familiar.
After reading through it carefully, Kou Ji finally understood what kind of book Bao Zheng signed Peach Blossom Spring was.
A masterpiece that will be very famous in later generations.
It covers culture in many fields such as political science, education, ethics, philosophy, etc.
It has a very familiar name, called "Utopia".
The author is the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates.
The reason why Bao Zheng signed it as Peach Blossom Spring was probably to facilitate its spread in the Song Dynasty.
The reason why Bao Zheng did not send it to the Tiansheng Hall in Bianjing City, but sent it to Kou Ji instead, was probably because he felt that some of the knowledge in it would impact the knowledge of the saint.
Once the saint's disciples discover it, they may label it as an evil book.
Or simply set up a school or poetry club and boycott it through revolving doors.
Bao Zheng had obviously read this book and carefully studied the knowledge in it. He knew that this book was a rare good book and the knowledge in it was rare and good knowledge, so he personally handed it to Kou Ji.
I want Koji to protect this book.
"What book?"
When Chen Lin saw Kou Ji standing there silently holding a book, she couldn't help but crane her neck and look over.
Kou Ji casually stuffed the book into his arms, glanced at Chen Lin and said calmly: "A colorful erotic album. If you want it, I will ask Bao Zheng to give you one later."
When Chen Lin heard this, she stared angrily, "Are you humiliating our family?!"
Chen Lin was not stupid, so she naturally knew that what Bao Zheng gave to Kou Ji was not some erotic album.
After all, Kou Ji is famous in Bianjing city for not being pretty.
If he really likes this kind of thing, he can just recruit a group of women into his house to perform a show, and there is no need for any pornographic books.
Bao Zheng had had close contact with Zhao Xu for a period of time before.
Zhao Zhen thought that Zhao Xu was attracted to Bao Zheng, and secretly sent Chen Lin to find out the details about Bao Zheng.
So Chen Lin also knew that Bao Zheng was not a lecherous person.
Therefore, what Bao Zheng gave to Kou Ji was definitely not an erotic book.
Kou Ji deliberately used the erotic book to squeeze one of his eunuchs, which was obviously an attempt to humiliate him.
In the face of Chen Lin's furious look, Kou Ji said calmly: "Since I know it's not an erotic album, and I don't want to show it to you, it is naturally a secret.
Why do you know so much about secret things?"
Chen Lin said angrily: "In the Song Dynasty, there are no secrets that our family cannot know."
Kou Ji slowly raised his eyebrows and looked at Chen Lin.
Chen Lin was stunned, her face turned slightly pale, and she whispered: "Our family has made a mistake. We will apologize to the officials after we return to Beijing."
Kou Ji glanced at Chen Lin and ignored him.
What Chen Lin just said was somewhere between transcendence and seeking death.
Even if he can pretend to be powerful, using Zhao Zhen's authority, he can despise the rest of the world.
But there is one person he cannot despise, and that is the source of his prestige.
In front of Zhao Zhen, he will always be just a servant.
He said, "There are no secrets in the Song Dynasty that our family cannot know." So where to put Zhao Zhen?
You have to know all Zhao Zhen’s secrets, so do you deserve to die?
Although Zhao Zhen has no secrets from Chen Lin now, it doesn't mean there won't be secrets in the future.
Kou Ji left Chen Lin behind, walked up the hill, and returned to the yard in front of his cave dwelling. He glanced at Zhong Shiheng who was not far away instructing the soldiers to dig a cave dwelling for him, sighed, and shook his head.
Entered his cave dwelling.
The construction cost of cave dwellings is not high, and they have the effect of keeping people warm in winter and cool in summer. Many people in the north like to use them.
Now that the army is idle anyway, it is just right to build one or two cave dwellings to replace the tents that are relatively low in keeping out the cold.
Kou Ji had a premonition that he might have many more neighbors in the near future.
When they leave here, there will probably be many more cave dwellings here.
Kou Ji didn't have time to deal with this matter. After he returned to his cave dwelling, he took out the "Peach Blossom Spring" given by Bao Zheng and read it carefully.
When Kou Ji was in later generations, he actually had little interest in philosophy, education, or politics.
Therefore, he only casually flipped through the book "Utopia" without studying it in depth.
Today we need to use some of the things in it, and we are reading a book that is closer to the original work than later generations.
Naturally, he had to study it carefully.
A book that has been passed down for thousands of years.
Because of political needs, cultural needs, or some other factors, some will inevitably be deleted or some private items will be added.
Therefore, a book that has been passed down for thousands of years is likely to be somewhat different from the original work.
Kou Jizao studied this book more than 900 years ago, and what he saw may be closer to the original work.
After flipping through a few pages, Kou Ji suddenly discovered something interesting.
Bao Zheng actually made annotations in the book.
The words are very sharp.
He did not agree with some of the principles Socrates showed in the article.
The further back Kou Ji turned, the more notes there were.
Bao Zheng's annotations are also constantly changing.
From the sharp-tongued defense at the beginning, to the gradual acceptance, in the end, they even commented that this book is a masterpiece and the author of this book is a great person of the generation.
Just everyone.
Although Bao Zheng agrees with some of the principles in this book, he still has doubts about some of the things that are obviously different from the culture of the Song Dynasty.
I strongly disagree with something that is very different.
The initial collision of two cultures will inevitably cause friction, which Kou Ji can completely understand.
Since Bao Zheng was not influenced by things that worshiped foreigners and favored foreigners, he did not blindly agree that all the principles in this book were correct.
On the contrary, Bao Zheng held a contemptuous attitude toward some of the principles in it that were quite different from those in the Song Dynasty.
It’s not that the people of the Song Dynasty were rampant.
Rather, the culture of the Song Dynasty and the mainstream views in the cultural circle were like this.
Influenced by the culture of the Song Dynasty, everyone from top to bottom of the Song Dynasty felt that.
Except for the Song people, everyone else is barbarian.
For the barbarians, Bao Zheng can give everyone a very fair evaluation.
If it were some radical Song Dynasty literati, after seeing this book, they would definitely throw it into the brazier without hesitation, and then spit it out with disdain and say something arrogantly.
"The barbarians' crooked theories are really unsightly. If my army of the Song Dynasty is lucky enough to fall on you, I can be very compassionate and tell you what truth is."
There is no way, the ancients were so arrogant.
The Song Dynasty was bullied by the Liao Kingdom for decades, and the Song people still felt that the Liao people were barbarians.
When the powerful Han Dynasty prospered in the Tang Dynasty, the ancients were even more arrogant.
In their eyes, if anyone other than Han people and Tang people can be called barbarians, it is a compliment.
Because if you are not a barbarian, you can only become their slave, or a piece of meat under their iron heel.
Kou Ji spent three days reading the book translated by Bao Zheng, as well as Bao Zheng's annotations.
The time was a bit short, so Kou Ji could only read it in one gulp, and he couldn't talk about studying it carefully, because he didn't have the time.
Three days.
Yang Wenguang, Gao Chugong and others led their troops to this place one after another.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses were stationed up and down the mountain, and the scene was very spectacular.
There are many banners and armors everywhere.
Any outsider who sees it will have to admire it.
What a majestic and mighty army.
What a tyrannical country that makes people tremble.
Kou Ji didn't have time to look at the many flags.
After Yang Wenguang and others arrived, his cave dwelling was filled up instantly.
When Yang Wenguang was inspecting the battlefield after the war, he was stabbed by an enemy who was pretending to be dead, leaving a gash in his back.
He couldn't live in those tents that were extremely cold-proof.
Kou Ji ordered someone to arrange a bed in his cave dwelling for Yang Wenguang to stay.
Seeing this, Liu Heng moved a bed for himself and placed it in Kou Ji's cave dwelling.
Then Zhu Neng and Gao Chugong followed suit and arranged a bed for themselves in Kou Ji's cave dwelling.
Kou Ji couldn't refuse even if he wanted to.
These guys have very good reasons.
Liu Heng felt that since we were all brothers and we were fighting abroad, we should live together.
Zhu Neng felt that everyone was his own people and there was no need to be divided.
Gao Chugong felt that he was old and might freeze to death if he continued to live in a tent.
Kou Ji watched helplessly as a group of villains occupied his cave dwelling.
After the bad guys have settled down.
The military giants who controlled nearly 80% of the Song Dynasty's military strength gathered together.
A meeting that was enough to make all the officials in the Song Dynasty go numb was officially opened.
After all, the few of them control a military force that is enough to overturn all the countries under the starry sky.
Including the Song Dynasty.
However, the giants obviously do not have the consciousness of giants.
They gathered together in the cave, some squatting, some sitting, some lying on their stomachs, some wrapped in quilts, and some with their feet tied.
"Gao Chugong, you are also the commander-in-chief of an army. Do you want to be embarrassed when you tap your feet in front of so many people?"
Kou Ji stared at Gao Guanggong, whose feet were still steaming, and couldn't help but scold him.
Gao Chugong looked like a dead pig not afraid of boiling water and said: "My toes are frostbitten. They itch and I have to scratch them."
Kou Ji resisted the urge to rush up and strangle him, snorted coldly and said, "Do you understand the war on Shangjing Road?"
Yang Wenguang lay on the bed and said: "Basically there are no living people. The people left behind by the Wulie tribe to look after the house are quite fierce. When they encounter us, they fight to the death with us, and few surrender.
The wounds on my back were scratched and pulled by people from the Wulie tribe.
So we can only clean up the Shangjing Road."
Liu Heng squatted in a corner of the cave, stretched, yawned, and added, "The leaders of the Wulie tribe should have brought the bones to the capital."
Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "I don't care if there are any survivors on the Shangjing Road. I just need to make sure that the Shangjing Road is captured and that all Song soil is behind us.
Have you found the treasure I asked you to look for?"
Yang Wenguang, Gao Zhonggong and others looked at each other and all looked at Zhu Neng.
Zhu Neng crossed his arms and said: "The people of the Wulie tribe didn't hide it at all, so after we wiped out the remnants of the Wulie tribe, we found the money.
The Tuoba tribe's treasure was also found, but we didn't find it.
It was found by Zhang Fangping, the prefect of Gumeng Prefecture.
He wanted to leave 30% for the people of Gumeng Prefecture to survive, but we didn't agree.
You still need to make a decision on this matter.
Most of the treasures of other tribes have also been found.
Only the one from Ayanbe was not found."
Gao Chugong curled his lips and said: "It was a little early for us to occupy Jingnan Road in the Liao Kingdom. We didn't capture many prisoners, and there weren't many important people among them. We interrogated them for a long time, but we didn't find out why."
Zhong Shiheng said in a deep voice: "Then we can only attack the leader of the Ayan tribe outside Shangjing City."
After saying this, Zhong Shiheng looked at Chen Lin and said, "Would you like your people to try and see if they can kidnap the leader of the Ayan tribe?"
When Chen Lin heard this, she couldn't help but rolled her eyes, "The people in our family are just humans, not gods. It's more reliable to kill people in the midst of thousands of armies, but it's impossible to kidnap a living person."
Kou Ji glared at Zhong Shiheng, "Aren't you trying to make things difficult for others?"
Zhong Shiheng smiled dryly, "I just said it casually, just in case Chen Lin's people can do it."
Chen Lin snorted coldly and said, "Is that just a casual comment? That's just talking out of your head."
It is a hundred times more difficult to tie up the commander of an army in the midst of thousands of troops than to annihilate an army of ten thousand.
Almost impossible to accomplish.
Unless the people under Chen Lin know how to escape from the earth.
"Okay, let's not mention the treasure hidden by the Ayan tribe for now. Anyway, the leader of the Ayan tribe is outside Shangjing City. After next spring, as long as we capture him alive, we can ask about the treasure hidden.
The money is ultimately ours and cannot be escaped."
Kou Ji scolded, and Chen Lin and Zhong Shiheng shut their mouths.
Kou Ji continued: "Thirty percent of all the money seized this time will be given to Chen Lin and asked to send people back to the court. The rest will be distributed to the soldiers below according to military merit."
When Zhong Shiheng and others heard that they wanted to share the money, there was no joy on their faces.
With their current achievements, the imperial court will definitely reward Banshi greatly after he returns to the court.
So they don't need to worry about the money, and they don't need to compete with their subordinates for a piece of life money.
"The old rule is that the money is given to the soldiers and they are allowed to keep it for a few days. Then I will send people from Yizijiaozipu to find them and help them send the money back.
At that time, the officials will send someone to give their money to their families."
Zhong Shiheng and others nodded without objection.
They are used to this way of distributing rewards.
I was also used to helping the soldiers send money home.
The soldiers also trusted them, because no one in the court dared to think of them selling their lives for money.
In order to let the soldiers' sacrifice money fall into the hands of his family.
Zhao Zhen, Kou Ji, Zhong Shiheng, Zhu Neng and others killed more than hundreds of people one after another.
Nowadays, even if officials in the Song Dynasty are corrupt, no one dares to touch the life money of the soldiers.
If anyone moves, no gods can save them.
Chen Lin had no objection to Kou Ji's approach.
Although it was a dangerous move for Kou Ji to distribute rewards to hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, it was Zhao Zhen who ultimately delivered the money to the families of the soldiers.
Zhao Zhen was the one who finally showed mercy.
Seeing that no one had any objections, Kou Ji continued: "That's it. Let's all disperse."
Several people looked at each other, and in the end, only Di Qing, Zhong Shiheng, and Chen Lin left the cave dwelling.
The few remaining guys have already settled in Kou Ji's cave dwelling.
After that, a few days passed.
Everything was calm.
Apart from picnics, snow viewing, drills, and sleeping, there was almost nothing else in the army.
Until a letter sent from Bianjing fell into Kou Ji's hands.
A bunch of people got together.
Kou Ji took the letter sent by Zhao Zhen and glared at Zhong Shiheng and others who were gathered in the cave again, "The official sent me a private letter, not an official document. Why are you all gathering here?"
Zhong Shiheng said with a smile: "I have nothing to do, so I came over to take a look."
Di Qing followed: "Now that the road is blocked by heavy snow, we have nothing to do. I heard that the officials sent someone to deliver a message to you, so I came over to see if the officials have sent us any other errands."
The others were speechless, but their thoughts were similar to those of Zhong Shiheng and Di Qing.
Kou Ji couldn't help but rolled his eyes, walked aside, opened the letter sent by Zhao Zhen, and after a cursory glance, he roughly understood the purpose of Zhao Zhen sending him the letter.
Putting away the letter, Kou Ji slightly rubbed his eyebrows, glanced at Zhong Shiheng and others and said: "The officials have nothing to do for you. It was my boy who got into trouble and angered the officials. The officials wrote to ask me to hold him accountable.
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Hearing this, Zhong Shiheng and others immediately became interested.
"My nephew, at such a young age, can actually offend officials. It's really amazing."
Zhong Shiheng admired seriously.
Zhu Neng nodded in agreement and said, "When I was as old as him, I was still hanging out in the countryside."
Di Qing implicitly praised him, "A tiger father has no dog son."
Gao Chugong pondered and said: "I am more curious, how did he offend the officials? How dare he offend the officials?"
After Gao Chugong said this, everyone's eyes fell on Kou Ji.
Chen Lin stared at Kou Ji with a smile and said, "Privy Minister Kou, would you like to tell everyone about Kou Shidu's great achievements?"
Kou Ji glanced at Zhong Shiheng and others, and finally his eyes fell on Yang Wenguang.
"This matter has something to do with the Yang family. Ever since we recovered the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, the old lady of the Yang family has been sitting alone in the tea shed in Bianjing City, and has been muttering the name of General Yang.
You should be able to understand why the old lady of the Yang family behaves like this."
Kou Ji mentioned the old lady of the Yang family, and the laughter on everyone's faces disappeared instantly, replaced by solemn expressions, and all eyes fell on Yang Wenguang.
Yang Wenguang closed his eyes in pain and whispered: "I am unfilial and failed to fulfill my filial piety in front of my grandmother..."
Zhong Shiheng shook his head and said in a deep voice: "Since ancient times, it has been difficult to have both loyalty and filial piety. I don't blame you for this."
Yang Wenguang gritted his teeth, shook his head and said nothing more.
Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "The old lady of the Yang family is waiting for the bones of General Yang to return to Bianjing City. After my boy and the boys of the Yang family learned about this, they couldn't bear to see the old lady of the Yang family waiting, so
He set up a trap and escaped from Bianjing City, heading to Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures.
They want to take back the remains of General Yang, and fulfill the wishes of the old lady of the Yang family."
After Zhong Shiheng and others heard this, their faces changed.
Di Qing said with a look of astonishment: "They are trying to do bad things out of good intentions."
Zhong Shiheng and others nodded in unison.
It has been several months since the Great Song Dynasty took over the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.
If he had wanted to help the old lady of the Yang family, he would have sent back General Yang's bones long ago.