When Kou Ji finished speaking, his personal officials and followers had already disappeared into the Liaoyang City Lord's Mansion.
Kou Ji did not pursue them, nor did he send anyone to bring them back.
Whether one is an official or a follower, they are all part of the Kou government.
The lives of father and son Kou Ji and Kou Tianci are not only related to the rise and fall of Kou's house, but also to the rise and fall of their families.
Therefore, their only mission is to protect Kou Ji and Kou Tianci and his son.
For the safety of Kou Ji and Kou Tianci and his son, they will disobey Kou Ji's orders when necessary.
Just like before on the hilltop outside Shangjing City, Kou Ji insisted on helping the soldiers to defend against the enemy, but his subordinates ordered his followers to fight Kou Ji down.
It's the same now, for the sake of Kou Tianci's safety, they chose to disobey Kou Ji's order.
Only on such matters would they dare to speak loudly to Kou Ji.
Because when they spoke, they had put life and death aside.
They were not afraid of death and would not hesitate to sacrifice their lives for Kou Ji and Kou Tianci and his son.
But they were afraid that the lives of Kou Ji and Kou Tianci and his son would be in danger.
Kou Ji couldn't blame them.
There is no way to completely wipe out their good intentions.
In addition to helping the main family defend against enemies, Buqu also helps the main family block swords and swords.
Kou Ji is also a beneficiary of this rule.
When he was in Xixia before, Li Deming sent someone to assassinate him. If his subordinates hadn't tried their best, he would have died long ago.
"Forget it, let them go. If God's gift cannot suppress the Kou family members, I will ask the tribe to intimidate them. If that doesn't work, I will dispatch Jiaozhi's horse patrol veterans to the fiefdom. Yuanshan
The horse patrol over there also dispatched some of them.
When the time comes, he will have a large number of troops and his fiefdom will be high and the emperor will be far away. It will be difficult for secular ethics to restrain him.
If the Kou clan members really want to cause trouble, they will be severely punished.
Neither Cao Liang nor Yuan Shan is a fuel-efficient person.
They have helped me do this for more than ten years, and I have left them to fend for themselves for the rest of their lives.
Whether they claim to be kings and hegemons, or whether they expand territories and claim to be emperors.
Let them be.
Leaving some wealth for them is their reward."
Kou Ji muttered to himself, sighed, returned to the seat in the main hall with his hands behind his back, sat down, and handled official duties.
Just as Kou Ji said.
Di Qing is not a fool.
After Kou Tianci and Zhao Run were sent to Di Qing's army, Di Qing was stunned for a long time and thought about it for a long time.
In the end, Di Qing threw the two of them to the scout camp to help the fire-headed soldiers in the scout camp.
Although the scout camp in Di Qing's army is very dangerous, there are also safe places.
The fire-headed soldier is the safest place in the scout camp.
On weekdays, he is responsible for boiling water and cooking for the scouts.
Now he is responsible for boiling water and removing lice from the prisoners together with other fire-headed soldiers.
The fire-headed soldiers in the scout camp also have opportunities to go into battle, but not many.
The prerequisite is that the other scouts in the scout camp are dead before the fire-headed soldiers can go into battle.
As long as there are still a few scouts left in the scout camp, the fire-headed soldiers can only cook and cook in the camp with peace of mind.
Although Di Qing is loyal and brave, he is not a rigid person.
Publicly or privately, Di Qing would not send Zhao Run and Kou Tianci to take risks.
In private, he is Zhao Run's uncle, Kou Tianci's uncle, and the elder of the two little guys. The two little guys are under his control. It is too late for him to protect them. How can he let the two little guys die.
If his son appears in the army, he will definitely throw his son into the most dangerous place in the army without hesitation.
But he was unwilling to throw his brother's son and sister's son into the most dangerous place.
Even when the two little guys are in danger, he will fight for them.
In the thinking of the ancients, when relatives and friends entrust their children to you, that means they trust you. Your whole family can die, but nothing can happen to the children entrusted by your relatives and friends.
Di Qing is a pure ancient, and one of the ancients who is very disciplined, so he has always followed this idea.
Yu Gong, Zhao Run and Kou Tianci are not old enough to enlist in the army.
After the reform of the military system in the Song Dynasty, the age requirements for new recruits to join the army were very strict. The minimum age should not be less than sixteen years old, and the maximum age should not be more than forty-five years old.
The only military affairs that civil servants can now intervene in is the age of the soldiers when the court recruits soldiers.
In order to prove that they still had an influence on the military affairs, they kept a close eye on the imperial court when recruiting soldiers.
If a young soldier or an over-aged soldier appears, the civil servants are likely to bring the matter to Chui Gong Hall.
It is precisely because of this that the Ministry of War is very strict about age when it is in charge of recruiting soldiers.
Not to mention they won't accept people who are not of sufficient age, even if their age is relatively vague or doubtful, they won't accept them.
The ages of Zhao Run and Kou Tianci did not meet the standards.
If Kou Ji hadn't thrown them into Di Qing's hands, Di Qing wouldn't have let them enter the military camp.
They have not reached the age to enlist in the army, so it is impossible for Di Qing to send them into battle.
Unless Kou Ji personally issued a document asking Di Qing to send the two men to the battlefield.
Otherwise, Di Qing will act according to the set of rules in the army.
Di Qing was doing things according to the rules, but the two little guys Zhao Run and Kou Tianci were a little confused. The two little guys encouraged each other and entered the military camp with the determination to die.
Then Di Qing asked them to chop wood and boil water?
Forget about chopping firewood and boiling water, you also need to give those Liao people those smelly clothes that can kill people.
The two little guys only worked for half a day before they vomited and couldn't stand up straight.
It made the veterans in the army laugh.
The two little guys became angry and went to Di Qing and asked Di Qing to put them in the most dangerous place.
Then Di Qing showed them what military orders are like mountains.
One man was beaten with ten sticks, and his buttocks were all rotten.
On their first day in the military camp, the two little guys climbed into bed before they could adapt to military life.
After Kou Ji's personal officers and personal followers arrived at the army and learned about this, they rolled their eyes at Di Qing.
But they didn't complain about Di Qing.
Di Qing fought Zhao Run and Kou Tianci according to military regulations. Let alone them, even Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji could only say that they fought well.
Nothing else can be said.
The two little guys just settled in the army.
Kou Ji didn't pay much attention either.
He didn't have time to pay attention.
After the soldiers and horsemen of the Song Dynasty entered the capital, they captured less than one million people.
However, the territory occupied by the Song Dynasty was enough to cover three prefectures.
One million prisoners were allocated to three prefectures, each with more than 300,000 prisoners.
After redistributing it to various states, counties, and towns, the land is almost completely divided.
It cannot be set up in rural areas.
Because if it is further divided, there may only be one or two households in each village or township.
Nearly 80% of the land in Liao is in a state of desolation.
Seeing that the spring plowing is almost over, no one is plowing the land, and no one is herding horses and sheep.
Kou Ji sent someone to deliver a document to the court, asking the court to send some officials and move a large number of people here.
After the documents were delivered to Bianjing City.
Zhao Zhen, Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, and Zhang Zhibai pulled their hair as they looked at him.
"Although after Liao Territory was placed under military control, the demand for officials has decreased, but the area of three prefectures still needs more than 2,000 officials at least.
Where can we find more than two thousand officials?"
Inside the Zishi Hall.
Zhang Zhibai looked at Zhao Zhen, Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng with a bitter face and whispered.
Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng frowned and said nothing.
Zhao Zhen glanced at the three of them and said in a serious tone: "Now you don't blame me for being the king? If this trend continues, the speed of selecting officials for the imperial court will not be able to keep up with the speed of territorial expansion.
If I don't appoint local kings, they will have to stand on their own.
If they don't stand on their own feet, those barbarians will rise again."
Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng frowned even more when they heard this.
Zhang Zhibai smiled bitterly and said: "There is no need to follow this trend. The speed of selecting officials in the imperial court can no longer keep up with the speed of territorial expansion.
Even if the imperial court stops now and does not expand.
The imperial court could not keep up with the speed of selecting officials.
As our newly added territory continues to be Sinicized, the government offices at prefecture, prefecture, and county levels are also gradually improving.
The number of officials needed is also constantly increasing.
Li Di, who was in charge of Hexi a few months ago, wrote a letter asking the court to send three hundred officials to Hexi to improve Hexi's government system.
Li Di said that after several years of education in Xiliang, Suzhou and other places in Hexi, the local people have become completely accustomed to the laws of the Song Dynasty.
The new children, under the guidance of Meng Xue, have become accustomed to writing Chinese characters and speaking Chinese.
Some places in Hexi are now no different from other places in the Song Dynasty.
We must improve local government offices.
The situation in Xingqing Mansion, Dongping Mansion, Xiping Mansion, Yinzhou, Xiazhou and other places where Wang Sui is stationed is similar to that of Xiliang and Suzhou west of Li Di River.
Wang Sui had long ago petitioned the imperial court to end local military control and restore civil administration.
So Xingqing Mansion still needs a large number of officials."
After listening to Zhang Zhibai's words, Wang Zeng took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "If my prediction is correct, by the end of the year, the territory occupied by the Donghai Nuzhi and the Wei family will also become the territory of my Song Dynasty.
At that time, more officials will be needed."
The area occupied by the Donghai Nuzhi and the Wei family, if broken down, is roughly equivalent to the area of the Four Prefectures of the Song Dynasty.
The Song Dynasty did not initially designate the area occupied by the Nüzhi and the Wei family in the East China Sea as a must-conquer area.
But the attack was too fast, and he was killed accidentally.
Now that we have fought, there is no reason to give up halfway.
According to the number and tyranny of the Song Dynasty soldiers and horses who have entered the Donghai Nuzhi and Wei Dynasties.
The place occupied by Donghai Nuzhi and Wei Shi would eventually fall into the hands of the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, Da Song must make preparations in advance.
After hearing what Wang Zeng said, Lu Yijian finally spoke, "We have been making preparations for a long time, but we didn't expect the Liao people to be so careless.
The speed at which we select officials cannot keep up with the speed at which the Liao people retreat."
Zhao Zhen said helplessly: "Now is not the time to talk about this. Now let's first prepare all the officials from the three mansions that Kou Ji needs.
We’ll talk about other places later.
As for Hexi and Xingqing Prefecture and other places' requests for additional officials, let them wait."
Lu Yijian frowned and said thoughtfully: "It's not that the Song Dynasty cannot find officials. The key is that after the newly conquered areas were placed under military control, the demand for lower-level officials dropped sharply, but the demand for middle-level and upper-level officials did not decrease.
If lower-level officials still want them, they can make an exception and choose them from among some scholars among the people.
Even if that doesn't work, you can just recruit a group of people from among the petty officials.
But for middle- and upper-level officials, there is no way to make exceptions.
They can only be drawn from the existing middle- and upper-level officials in the court."
The most difficult problem is to recruit officials from the middle and upper levels.
The current officials of the Song Dynasty have been transferred several times.
Nowadays, government offices at all levels have been streamlined to an unprecedented level.
If you try again, something will happen.
Wang Zeng said in a deep voice: "If we don't recruit officials from the imperial court, should we let Kou Ji find a way to staff the newly acquired three prefectures with officials?"
"no!"
Lu Yijian spoke decisively.
If Kou Ji is really asked to staff the newly acquired Three Prefectures with officials, then the newly acquired Three Prefectures will probably become the Kou family's private land in the future.
Kou Ji's power is now astonishing.
Add more bricks and stones to Kou Ji. If Kou Ji himself doesn't rebel, the people under him will have to rebel too.
Wang Zeng said in a deep voice: "Of course I know it won't work, so even if we bite the bullet, we still have to find a way to get the officials Kou Ji wants."
Lu Yijian was silent for a while and said: "Some doctors from the Imperial College and Imperial College can be transferred appropriately. Some adjutants from the Sixth Department and other yamen can also be transferred."
Wang Zeng thought about it and said: "The chief officials of each government cannot be moved, but the adjutants of each government can be transferred. After the transfer, if there are no officials to fill them, the vacancies will be left temporarily, and then they will be filled slowly."
Zhang Zhibai pondered and said: "In this way, we can barely equip the officials that Kou Ji needs. But when it comes to doing things at the court and local level, it may become very difficult."
Lu Yijian sighed and said: "It will be difficult if it is difficult. It will be fine if you get over it."
Speaking of this, Lu Yijian bowed to Zhao Zhen and said, "Guan family, last year several princes and princesses were born, and the Guan family did not celebrate with the whole country. This year, why not do it again to celebrate the birthdays of several princes and princesses? Guan family
What do you think?"
Zhao Zhen stared at Lu Yijian and said, "I've already added it once."
There was a regular subject this year, and Zhao Zhen had previously found reasons to add an enke, and with the addition of enke, it was the third subject.
Taking the imperial examination three times in the same year is a bit crazy.
Lu Yijian solemnly said: "Our Song Dynasty is in urgent need of talents, so it is reasonable to use some extraordinary means."
Zhao Zhen said dumbfounded: "Then add it...the three subjects will be tested together. This has never happened since the emergence of the imperial examination system. I don't know if the people will call me a fool."
Lu Yijian said seriously: "The common people only sing praises to the officials."
Zhao Zhen shook his head and smiled, and said: "Let's handle the affairs of officials like this. What do the three beloved ministers think of the matter of relocating the people?"
Lu Yijian said without hesitation, "During the previous inspection by the Ministry of Household Affairs, many extremely poor people were found. Officials can order local governments to send those extremely poor people there."
Zhao Zhen was stunned and said: "It seems that the poor people are not enough..."
Kou Ji was not the only one to point out the need for people in Liaoyang Prefecture and other places for new conquests.
Bohai Prefecture, Langya Prefecture, and Gumeng Prefecture also need it.
The extremely poor people are not enough to fill the gap between the teeth of these six governments.
Lu Yijian hesitated for a moment and did not speak.
Of course he knows that there are not enough people in extreme poverty.
But the poor people are reluctant to move.
The extremely poor people are really so poor that they have no place to stand.
The local officials are too lazy to pay attention to them, and so are the local powerful.
In the past, when the poor people could no longer survive, they would fall into trouble.
Now that the imperial court has strengthened local soldiers, the grass bandits have been beaten to the point where they cannot survive.
The extremely poor people have no choice but to turn into bandits again.
If the imperial court had not had certain requirements for relocating people, local officials would have packed up the extremely poor people and sent them to places such as Hexi and Xingqing Prefecture.
Local tycoons rarely use destitute people as tenants.
They will only look for poor people with little land to be tenants.
There is no other reason.
If something goes wrong when the poor people work for them as tenants, they can find a way to recover the losses from the poor people.
The extremely poor people have nothing. If the extremely poor people have nothing, they can only consider themselves unlucky.
This is the usual form of plundering and plundering in land annexation.
The local tycoons used the tenants to help them farm, and problems occurred when they were helping them farm, and then put the responsibility on the tenants, so as to get the little land in the hands of the tenants.
Therefore, local powerful people generally will not use the poor people unless the poor people sign a long contract with them, which is like a contract of sale.
But most of the poor people will not sign a long contract with the local powerful, which is like a contract of betrayal.
Once you sign a long-term contract, you will be squeezed to death by local tyrants.
In ancient times when imperial power did not go to the countryside, local tyrants had many ways to kill people without repaying their lives.
It is precisely because of this that the extremely poor people are willing to become bandits rather than sign a long contract like a contract of betrayal.
When the imperial court moved these people to the newly acquired Three Prefectures, the local powerful people would not object and no one would say anything.
But if the imperial court touches the poor people and the meat on the plates of the local powerful, they will definitely jump up and fight against the imperial court.
Lu Yijian did not mention the poor people because of the consequences of touching them.
Lu Yijian knew the consequences of touching those poor people, and Zhao Zhen also knew it.
When Zhao Zhen saw that Lu Yijian was silent, he mused: "Can't we just move some poor people there?"
Lu Yijian hesitated for a moment and said frankly: "Finding a reason to gather hundreds of thousands of people from various places should have no impact. If it exceeds a certain number, I'm afraid there will be big problems."
Zhao Zhen sighed and said: "A hundred thousand or a hundred thousand, it's better than nothing."
Speaking of this, Zhao Zhen said to Lu Yijian and the other three: "Three beloved ministers, please get this matter done as soon as possible. Try to send the person there before the spring plowing ends.
If the spring plowing was missed, the court would have to feed the captives and relocated people for a year.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the imperial court are fighting abroad, and money and food are flowing out like water.
If you add more than one million prisoners and nearly one million poor people, the cost will be even greater."
Lu Yijian and three others saluted Zhao Zhen together.
"I know the seriousness of this matter and will handle it properly as soon as possible."
Zhao Zhen waved his hand and asked Lu Yijian and the others to go down and do their work.
After Lu Yijian and the others left.
Zhao Zhen sighed, "These people are simply not enough. Nowadays, almost all the imperial troops are fighting outside, and I can't even use force.
Since the Liao land has been conquered, it cannot be abandoned.
I will write a letter to Fourth Brother and let Fourth Brother decide what to do."
Zhao Zhen made a decision, so he wrote a letter and left it on the Long case.
Kou Ji won't receive Zhao Zhen's letter for a while.
After Kou Ji sent documents to the court, he took some of the injured soldiers who had retired and led the prisoners, and began to divide the land and houses in Liaoyang Mansion and other places.
Let the prisoners farm and herd sheep under the supervision of the soldiers.
During this period.
Kou Ji has also been paying attention to military affairs.
The military affairs of several parties, except Di Qing's tribe, have completely stopped.
Gao Chugong, Liu Heng, Zhu Neng, Zhong Shiheng and others are still fighting.
Under the powerful military front of the Song Dynasty, no matter whether it was the Liao people who fled into the Wei Dynasty, the Wei people, or the female straight women from the East China Sea, they were almost no match.
However, Nuzhi and Wei Shi did not give up their resistance completely because of the tyranny of Song Dynasty Bingfeng.
They were no match for the Song Dynasty soldiers and horses on the frontal battlefield.
He hid in the mountains and forests, and frequently sent small groups of soldiers and horses to harass and raid the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty.
Wei Shi and Nuzhi sent them off like this, which really caused a lot of trouble for the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty.
Such tactics are the basis for the survival of all tribes in this land.
When facing the Liao people's attack, they used such tactics to deal with the Liao people.
The Liao people would retreat every time after wiping out the largest tribe among them.
The largest one was the Liao people's attack on Goryeo.
When the Liao people conquered Goryeo, they once reached Kaicheng, the capital of Goryeo.
The regular soldiers and horses of Goryeo were beaten until they lost their armor.
Killed most of Goryeo's royal family and nobles.
It can almost be said that Goryeo is about to be destroyed.
At that time, Emperor Xianzong of Goryeo adopted the tactics of surprise attack and harassment, and frequently harassed Liao soldiers.
The Liao Kingdom was eventually forced to retreat.
As a result, Goryeo was preserved.
Otherwise, I am afraid that Korea would have ceased to exist a long time ago.
Today, Donghai Nüzhi and Wei Shi borrow the same tactics.
They probably wanted to learn from Goryeo and use such tactics to make the Song Dynasty troops retreat in the face of difficulties.
It's just that neither Gao Changgong, Liu Heng, Zhong Shiheng, or Zhu Neng are the kind of people who give up when faced with difficulties.
Gao Chugong and Liu Heng dealt with the people of the Wei family by finding a group and killing them together, and conquered the Wei family through killing.
Zhong Shiheng and Zhu Neng were different. When they were in Dali, they had dealt with many tribes and had experience in dealing with small tribes.
They adopted the strategy of pulling in groups and attacking groups, using straight women to deal with straight women.
With straight women leading the way, Zhong Shiheng and Zhu Neng entered the country very quickly.
In half a month, Zhong Shiheng and Zhu Neng captured half of the territory occupied by the female straight women in the East China Sea.
Within half a month, Zhao Zhen's letter to Kou Ji also arrived.
At this time, the King of Goryeo finally gave Koo Ji a response.
The main palace of Liaoyang City.
Main hall.
Kou Ji held the good news about Zhong Shiheng and Zhu Neng in one hand, and the letter sent by Zhao Zhen in the other hand, and was about to read it.
A civilian official accompanying the army hurried to the main hall and reported: "Privy Minister Kou, the Korean envoy has arrived."
Kou Ji put down the good news and letters in his hands, "Nearly a month has passed since I sent the envoy to Goryeo, and the Goryeo envoy has just arrived.