"It's just...children and grandchildren have their own love for grandchildren, don't do anything for them..."
Kou Ji let out a long sigh.
Kou Ji waved his hand to Chen Lin, "You go down and rest for a while. You are not young anymore. If you get seriously ill and die because of overwork, I will lose another friend."
Chen Lin sighed and left the mountain.
Kou Ji stood on the top of the mountain with his stomach tummy, murmuring to himself, "You forced Zhao Run on me when you were dying because you wanted me to take care of Zhao Run and help Zhao Run rise to power. You also know that with Zhao Run's identity,
As long as you become my student, 90% of the time you will be able to secure the position of crown prince.
But the crown prince is not an official.
If he wants to be an official, he must first survive the official life.
The life span of an official family is not short."
After Kou Ji said this, he walked down the mountain with his hands behind his back.
A mourning hall has been set up for Cao Wei at the foot of the mountain.
After Kou Ji came down from the mountain, he led the soldiers in the army to express condolences.
Then he ordered the soldiers in the army to keep vigil for Cao Wei for three days.
Three days later.
Kou Ji gave an order, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses rushed towards Shangjing like wolves and tigers.
After they came out of the mountain, they ran away like wild horses running wild.
Kou Ji knew they were competing for credit, but he didn't stop them.
He did not follow in a hurry, but instead led the people to measure the territory of Liao Kingdom slowly and leisurely.
On the day hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses rushed out, Shangjing was defeated.
When the soldiers and horses of the nine new Khitan clans entrenched outside Shangjing City saw hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the Song Dynasty, they offered little resistance and quickly fled north.
Gao Chugong and Liu Heng pursued them with their troops and horses.
Zhong Shiheng, Zhu Neng, Di Qing and others stayed in Shangjing.
They did not send troops to attack Shangjing City, but piled up thousands of artillery pieces at the gate of Shangjing City, and fired a fierce bombardment at the south gate of Shangjing City.
Thousands of artillery pieces were fired at a city gate in the capital, turning it into rubble.
Shangjingcheng was defeated.
Yelu Zongzhen rejected Xiao Yanliu and others' proposal to flee north, and chose to hang himself in the palace in Shangjing.
After Xiao Yanliu and others were defeated in Shangjing City, they led the soldiers and civilians in Shangjing City to fight bloody battles without surrender.
Zhong Shiheng ordered the massacre of Shangjing City.
When Kou Ji arrived at Shangjing City, Zhong Shiheng and others had already led their troops and horses to leave Shangjing City.
Standing outside Shangjing City, staring at the ruins of Shangjing City, Kou Ji sighed sincerely, "A good city was ruined."
Chen Lin stood beside Kou Ji and sighed: "The Liao Kingdom has dominated this city for decades. But now it has been reduced to scorched earth."
Kou Ji curled his lips and said: "This is the general trend of the world...one family will prosper and the other will decline..."
Chen Lin solemnly said: "Our family hopes that the Song Dynasty will continue to prosper and be passed down to generations."
Kou Ji glanced at Chen Lin and said in a neutral tone: "The official is not here, so your flattery is useless."
Chen Lin glared at Kou Ji, "We are not saying this just to impress the horses. We are hoping that the people of the Song Dynasty will never suffer from military disasters."
Kou Ji was silent for a moment and said, "You know, that's impossible."
Chen Lin glared at Kou Ji fiercely and said nothing.
Kou Ji pointed to Shangjing City and said, "Go in and have a look."
The two of them entered Shangjing City together.
Except for the Liao Imperial Palace, all other places in Shangjing City have been reduced to scorched earth.
It is worth mentioning that there was not a single corpse in Shangjing City, only the bloodstains on the ground reminded Kou Ji that a battle had occurred here.
The Battle of Yumenguan made Zhong Shiheng and others realize the horror of the plague.
So after every war, they would quickly clean up the battlefield.
After cleaning the battlefield, all the corpses will be buried or burned together.
Therefore, Kou Ji did not see a single corpse in Shangjing City.
Kou Ji and Chen Lin wandered around Shangjing City, and then at Chen Lin's urging, they rushed to the Liao Palace.
The size of the Liao Palace was far twice as large as the Song Palace in Bianjing.
There is no shortage of palaces, temples, pavilions and pavilions.
Kou Ji stood at the door of the Liao Palace and said with emotion: "In the past, Emperor Yelu Longxu of Liao invited me to come here, but I refused. I didn't expect that when I really set foot here, it would be such a scene."
Chen Lin went into the palace and said again and again: "Our family is more concerned about the real body of Yelu Zong. It was specially ordered by the officials to be brought back to us."
Kou Ji shook his head and smiled, and accompanied Chen Lin into the Liao Palace.
In the main hall of the Liao Palace, I saw the real coffin of Yelu Zong.
Kou Ji was not interested in looking at the real corpse of Yelv Zong, but Chen Lin rushed forward as if he had seen a treasure, carefully inspected the real corpse of Yelv Zong, and then urged the work he brought to examine the real corpse of Yelv Zong.
Some simple anti-corrosion treatments were done.
The real body of Yelu Zong was to be sent to Bianjing City for Zhao Zhen to view.
Chen Lin didn't want Yelv Zong's real body to rot and stink after being transported to Bianjing City.
So some anti-corrosion treatment must be done.
While they were doing embalming, Kou Ji wandered around the Liao Palace, and finally returned to the main hall and said to Chen Lin: "This is a good place. It can be used as a temporary palace for officials."
The imperial palaces of the Liao Kingdom were almost filled with buildings and sculptures that fit the status of the emperor.
Others can't use it at all.
If demolished, the entire palace will be destroyed.
Moreover, the palace here must have cost countless money to build.
It would be a bit wasteful to dismantle it.
It might as well be used as Zhao Zhen's palace, with Zhao Zhen sending eunuchs to guard and maintain it.
Chen Lin felt that Kou Ji's proposal was good, so she secretly ordered the people who were worried about Wu Desi to temporarily stay here until Zhao Zhen sent the stationed eunuchs.
Kou Ji stayed in Shangjing for one night.
After waking up the next day, he mounted his horse and left Shangjing.
There were few living people in Shangjing City and the city was not very popular, so Kou Ji did not want to stay here any longer.
Kou Ji left, but Chen Lin stayed.
The city of Shangjing was captured, Yelv Zongzhen's corpse was obtained, and his mission was completed. There was no need to continue to stay in the army.
After Kou Ji left Shangjing City, he headed north.
Wherever he passed, except for some scattered cattle, sheep, and horses, he saw nothing else.
If it was like this for one or two places, Kou Jidao wouldn't think much about it, but it was the same for seven or eight places in a row.
Kou Ji's face turned dark.
"Where are the prisoners?!"
Not a single prisoner was found.
Are people like Zhong Shiheng crazy?
To the north of Shangjing City, there are four or five other prefectures.
If it became a no-man's land, how could the Song Dynasty govern this place?
Kou Ji, with a dark face, jumped on his horse and caught up with Zhong Shiheng and his party.
After seeing only a few prisoners in Zhong Shiheng's military camp, Kou Ji looked a little better.
Inside the Chinese military tent.
Zhong Shiheng and Di Qing looked at each other with helpless expressions on their faces.
Kou Ji broke into the tent and several people were shocked.
Before several people could speak, Kou Ji asked directly: "Where are the prisoners?"
Zhong Shiheng was stunned for a moment and replied: "Those people outside the camp are prisoners."
Kou Ji said with a dark face: "You have conquered more than a dozen cities north of Shangjing City and captured less than 10,000 people. Do you think I am easy to deceive?"
Zhong Shiheng hurriedly said: "This matter has nothing to do with me and others. It is the Wulie tribe and other tribes who fled Shangjing City before and took away everyone north of Shangjing City.
Wherever they passed, they robbed everything they saw.
As for the prisoners outside the camp, we managed to pick them up along the way."
"The common people were kidnapped by people from the Ullie tribe?"
Kou Ji asked with a frown.
Zhong Shiheng and others nodded in unison.
Kou Ji asked again, "So you led your troops and rushed here without fighting a single battle?"
Zhong Shiheng nodded again.
Kou Ji said with a headache: "They are also crazy. They won't leave anyone for us. Who will help us farm the land in the future?"
A general whispered, "We picked up ten thousand..."
Kou Ji stared, "What can that small number of people do? They probably can't grow it in even one county, let alone the four or five prefectures."
The general shrank his neck and did not dare to speak again.
Kou Ji didn't argue with him. Instead, he stared at Zhong Shiheng and continued to ask: "How is the battle between Gao Chugong and Liu Heng?"
Zhong Shiheng curled his lips, "They fought a lot of battles and captured a lot of people. Not only the people of the Liao Kingdom north of Shangjing City, but also many people from the nine new Khitan tribes were captured."
Zhu Neng gritted his teeth and said, "They are really thieves... They had already guessed that the Nine New Khitan Tribes would kidnap the people, so they gave up the attack and went to the capital, chasing after the Nine New Khitan Tribes and beating them up.
Now the war here has been fought by them, leaving us with no war to fight."
Di Qing hesitated for a moment and said, "They are smart. They knew that it was not worthwhile to take the credit for conquering Shangjing City from us, so they left Shangjing City to us, and then went after the people of the nine new Khitan tribes.
If you want to blame us, you can only blame us for taking the credit for conquering Shangjing City."
When Zhong Shiheng heard this, he stared at Di Qing angrily, "Where are you from? Who are you facing? Do you know that the greater your military exploits now, the greater your chances of becoming a king and the greater your fiefdom?
?
Do you dislike the king or the fief?"
Di Qing stared at Chong Shiheng and said frankly: "If the officials give it, I will take it. If the officials don't give it, I won't force it."
When Zhong Shiheng heard this, he cursed angrily.
Kou Ji frowned angrily when he heard Zhong Shiheng's dirty words.
"That's enough... shut up, everyone."
Zhong Shiheng shut his mouth in dissatisfaction, and so did everyone else.
Kou Ji snorted coldly and said: "If there is no battle to fight and no prisoners to capture, then we will occupy the Liao territory properly. Occupying a piece of Liao territory will be a reward."
As for whether he will be crowned king after the war, where the fiefdom will be allocated, and how big the fiefdom will be, are those the final say?
They all gave me a solid fight.
Whoever causes trouble for me will never be crowned king in his lifetime.
Don't think that just because you have done a great job, you are great.
If you want to act wild in front of me, you must first surpass me in merit."
Kou Ji scolded him in a cold voice, and Zhong Shiheng and others instantly became good-behaved.
Kou Ji glanced at them coldly and said, "You guys will definitely move slowly when you get together. It's normal for you to be pushed away by others.
From today on, your troops will be divided into three groups to pursue the enemy.
The enemy is holding so many people captive, so they can't run fast.
You can definitely catch up."
Zhong Shiheng and others looked at each other and agreed in unison.
Kou Ji saw that they had become more submissive and his tone became much softer.
"Capture more prisoners, otherwise no one will help us farm the land. Even if the officials want to make you a king and grant you a land, someone will still have to help you farm.
Otherwise, if you lead a group of tribesmen, you will die of poverty sooner or later.
When the time comes, not only will the king no longer be your glory, but it will become your drag."
"Here..."
Zhong Shiheng and several others agreed in unison.
Kou Ji waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's get to work."
Zhong Shiheng and others looked at each other, and Zhong Shiheng couldn't help but said: "Privy Minister Kou, this is my marching tent."
Kou Ji glanced at Zhong Shiheng, not bothering to use his power to overwhelm others, and walked out of the Chinese army's tent.
Later, Zhong Shiheng and his men divided their troops into three groups and fought along Longhua Prefecture, Tongzhou and other places, with Liaoyang Prefecture, Kaizhou and other places of the Liao Kingdom in the southeast, and Gaoli in the southeast of Kaizhou.
Among them, the Northeast is the Donghai Nvzhi, Wanyan tribe, and Five Kingdoms tribe.
Gao Chugong and Liu Heng fought along Taizhou and Changchun. There was a large area of Liao land to the north, which belonged to the Liao Kingdom's Wugu enemy Liejun Commandery and Wei Shi.
In addition to dealing with the nine new Khitan tribes, Gao Chugong and Liu Heng also had to deal with the Wugu tribe and the Wei family of the Liao Kingdom.
The nine new Khitan clans pursued by Gao Chugong and Liu Heng rushed into the Wugu tribe with the people in their arms, and looted the whole Wugu tribe. However, after invading the Wei Dynasty, they were defeated by the Wei Dynasty's coalition forces.
Gao Chugong and Liu Heng took advantage of the situation and rushed in.
Zhong Shiheng, Zhu Neng, and Di Qing completely divided their forces into three groups in Liaoyang Mansion. Di Qing led his men to attack Kaizhou, Zhong Shiheng led his men back to Babu, and Zhu Neng led his men to kill Huanglong Mansion.
After the people of the Nine New Khitan tribes broke into Huntongjiang and other places, they were severely attacked by the Wanyan tribe and the Donghai Nuzhi.
Zhong Shiheng and Zhu Neng just happened to catch up.
The three parties fought together.
Kou Ji followed Di Qing's tribe and arrived at Liaoyang Mansion. He stayed there and waited for good news to arrive from various places.
But before Kou Ji could wait for the good news, his students came to visit.
Liaoyang Mansion.
City Lord's Mansion.
Kou Ji was staring at a large box of wild ginseng at his feet in a daze.
His subordinates hurried to the main hall and reported to Kou Ji in a hurry: "Privy Minister, King Shou has arrived."
When Kou Ji heard this, he frowned slightly, "The Shou King is here, and it's not the official family, so why are you panicking?"
The official said solemnly: "Prince Shou is the eldest prince."
Kou Ji glared at the official, "So what? He is not yet the crown prince, nor is he the king yet."
After saying this, Kou Ji rubbed his eyebrows and said in a deep voice: "I don't want to see him at all. It was Cao Weifei who caused such trouble to me."
The official hesitated for a moment and said in a deep voice: "There is also the young master..."
"Um?"
Kou Ji looked at his subordinate officer in astonishment.
The officer hurriedly said: "The young master has arrived too."
Kou Ji frowned for a moment and said, "Why is he here to cause trouble?"
Kou Ji pointed to the door, "Go and bring them all in."
The official said in astonishment: "Don't you go to see King Shou in person?"
When Kou Ji heard this, he laughed angrily, "Could he be my husband?"
The official said hesitantly: "But he is the King of Shou..."
Kou Ji glared at his subordinate, "Go and do as I say. If he shows up for me, just let him go back."
The subordinate officer looked at Kou Ji with a sad face.
Kou Ji stared and shouted: "Go!"
The official officer left the main hall with a sad face.
After Kou Ji left as an official, he curled his lips, stared at the large box of ginseng at his feet, and muttered, "How can I finish eating this?"
The city lord of Liaoyang Mansion, who was standing not far away from Kou Ji, nodded and bowed and said: "Privy Minister Kou, this amount of ginseng is enough to stew a chicken. It may not be enough."
Kou Ji said angrily: "There are so many wild ginseng stewed chicken, but it still has to be eaten. How can it be used as firewood?"
The Lord of Liaoyang Mansion hurriedly said: "That's not true... I have to eat a chicken stewed with wild ginseng every month."
Kou Ji's eyes widened for a moment and he shouted: "Come here, take this thing out and chop it up for me."
When the Lord of Liaoyang Mansion heard this, he fell to the ground with a thud and shouted in horror, "Privy Minister Kou, you promised not to kill villains.
The villain has dedicated all the money he has accumulated over the years to you.
You promised to spare the villain's life."
The Lord of Liaoyang Mansion was shouting somewhere, but Kou Ji ignored him from beginning to end.
The personal followers who followed Kou Ji dragged the Lord of Liaoyang Mansion out of the main hall without any hesitation.
Outside the main hall.
Zhao Run and Kou Tianci, under the guidance of their subordinates, had just entered the Liaoyang City Lord's Mansion.
Kou Ji didn't meet them in person, they all had some ideas in their minds.
They didn't feel that Kou Ji had neglected them.
Because they knew that they did not have the qualifications to let Kou Ji greet him in person.
Even if one of them is a prince, he is still the eldest prince with the most noble status.
When Zhao Run left Beijing, Zhao Zhen warned him.
Tell him that after meeting his fourth uncle, he should be polite and not regard himself as a prince, otherwise he will not help Zhao Run seek justice if he is beaten.
Zhao Run knew that what Zhao Zhen said was true.
Because when he was beaten up by Kou Hui, Zhao Zhen couldn't help him seek justice, let alone Kou Hui's overbearing father.
Zhao Run's mother, Empress Cao, also told Zhao Run not to mess with Kou Ji when she left Beijing. He would do whatever Kou Ji said.
The Dragon Head and Phoenix Head of the Song Dynasty warned him together that he would have to lie down when he saw Kou Ji.
Zhao Run's idea was very simple. He had met Kou Ji too few times and didn't know what Kou Ji liked. If Kou Ji didn't come out to see him, did he have any objections to him?
If Kou Ji has a problem with him, how should he please Kou Ji?
Kou Tianci's thoughts were simple.
Kou Ji, a father, didn't go home for a year and didn't even have a letter from home.
I had passed by their mother and son before and ignored them.
So he decided to give Kou Ji some face.
Kou Ji didn't dare to kill him anyway.
It's just that the two of them had just entered the gate of the City Lord's Mansion and walked a few steps without any thoughts in their minds.
As soon as they entered the door, they saw the city lord of Liaoyang Mansion being carried out, shouting various words of begging for mercy, but no one paid any attention to him.
"Who is that?"
Zhao Run couldn't help but asked.
The official replied with a smile: "That is the Lord of Liaoyang Prefecture. When General Di Qingdi attacked Liaoyang Prefecture, he immediately surrendered to the Song Dynasty and gave up all his family wealth, begging us to spare his life."
Zhao Run nodded and said: "Then what rank of official is he equivalent to in our Song Dynasty?"
The official was stunned and said with a smile: "The prefect of a large government."
Zhao Run said in astonishment: "Third grade?"
The official smiled and nodded.
Zhao Run continued to ask: "Then why was he dragged out?"
The official said with a smile: "When they get close, I will ask them."
As soon as the personal official finished speaking, his personal followers appeared beside them carrying the Liaoyang City Lord.
The personal officer asked: "Privy Councilor Kou wants to deal with him?"
The entourage hurriedly said, "I said the wrong thing, and the Privy Council will drag me out and chop him up."
When Zhao Run and Kou Tianci heard this, their eyes widened.
Zhao Run exclaimed in shock: "A third-grade official kills him whenever he says?"
This is not surprising to people who have been serving as officials for a long time.
But it had a huge impact on Zhao Run.
Although he was the eldest prince and had been granted the title of king, when he was in Bianjing City, he did not dare to take advantage of those third-rank officials. Instead, he was polite to them.
This is the kind of official who kills Kou Ji whenever he says, just like killing a chicken.
His father was the number one person in the Song Dynasty. When he got angry, all the civil and military officials in the court trembled.
Even so, I don't dare to deal with a third-grade official so easily.
He is a bit overbearing as a gentleman.
Kou Tianci also felt that his father was a bit overbearing.
After all, in Bianjing City, all the third-rank officials were his elders, and he had to bend down when he saw them.
His father seemed to have no intention of even taking a second look when he was killing him.
Through their reactions, the official officer saw what they were thinking and explained with a smile: "His Royal Highness Prince Shou and the Young Master don't have to worry too much. Officials outside of the Song Dynasty are not valuable."
The corners of Zhao Run's mouth twitched and he looked at Kou Tianci. Kou Tianci lowered his head and sighed.
Seeing this, the personal officer took the two of them to the main hall of the city lord's mansion without saying anything more.
Once entering the main hall.
They saw Kou Ji stepping on a box of ginseng with a dark face.
Their hearts trembled and they both saluted.
"Zhao Run has met Fourth Uncle..."
"The child has met his father..."
"..."
Kou Ji heard their voices, raised his head, and looked them up and down.
"come over!"
Kou Ji greeted.
The two of them didn't know who Kou Ji was calling, so they looked at each other and walked to Kou Ji's side stiffly.
Kou Ji's eyes fell on Zhao Run, and he sighed and said, "I really don't want to accept you as a student."
When Zhao Run heard this, his expression changed. He hurriedly took out Cao Wei's letter from his arms and handed it to Kou Ji respectfully.
Kou Ji saw the familiar font on the envelope and sighed: "But for his sake, I have to accept it.
Later, I will ask you to arrange for you to join the army, and you will hone yourself first."
When Zhao Run heard this, he let out a sigh of relief.
Kou Ji's eyes fell on Kou Tianci again and asked, "Did you cause trouble to your mother a lot when you were in Bianjing City?"
Kou Tianci twitched his lips, "No..."
Kou Ji rolled his eyes and continued to ask: "I heard that there is a gold leaf young master in Bianjing City. He likes to scatter some gold leaves when he has nothing to do.
I heard that he is still from my Kou Mansion, do you know him?"
Kou Tianci hesitated for a moment, said nothing, and lowered his head.
Seeing this, Kou Ji nodded with satisfaction, "I know that Kou Hui did this, but if you don't acquiesce to this, Kou Hui won't dare to act rashly.
You didn't blame Kou Hui for this matter, which shows that your brother is quite qualified."