Chapter 0898 Seal a hundred generals in one day! (One more tonight, make up tomorrow!)
"Do you think I can be the head of the official family?"
Kou Ji wondered whether he should laugh or cry.
The title of king is a matter of the Sacred Heart's dictatorship. If it can be negotiated, Cao Wei will not be able to be made the king of Nanhai County, and the entire Cao family will not be able to move to Liuqiu.
Kou Ji was sure that everyone in the Cao family would rather go to the far northwest to eat sand than go to Liuqiu.
The Cao family has lived inland for a long time, and life on land has long been ingrained in their bones.
They are not familiar with the ocean at all.
Not being familiar with it means you can't adapt, which means you have to deal with countless dangers.
It is not difficult to judge from the experiences of the Cao family.
There is absolutely no room for negotiation on the matter of being crowned king.
You have to go wherever Zhao Zhen seals you.
Liu Heng slowly sat upright and said with a smile: "Although you can't be the master of the official family, but based on your friendship with the official family, it should be okay to discuss this matter, right?"
Kou Ji shook his head, "Even if I persuade the officials, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty will not agree to the two of us being sealed together. If the two of us are in the same place, we will be able to form a strong army in a few years.
The Song Dynasty posed a threat.
The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty can tolerate our external sealing, but they will never tolerate us threatening the Song Dynasty."
Speaking of this, Kou Ji paused and said frankly: "And I won't leave the Song Dynasty in a short time, so even if the court wants to make me a king, it will probably fall on God."
When Liu Heng heard this, the smile on his face froze. He took a deep breath, leaned back, slumped on the seat again, and said lazily: "Then I don't want this prince anymore. Let me.
I really can't stand it when I go to a remote place to live alone."
Liu Heng stayed in Japan for several years and had really had enough.
Kou Ji glared at Liu Heng and said, "You don't want the king's title promised by the official? It's not like you don't know the sin of disobeying an order."
Liu Heng spread his hands and said: "Fourth brother, I know how many pounds I have. Apart from leading troops to fight, I don't know anything else.
If I hadn't met you in Bianjing City, I probably wouldn't have attended any big events in my life.
My current status is 30% due to my own efforts and 70% to your support.
The officials want to appoint kings from all over the country, and they want us to govern those remote areas. I'm really not good at it.
Instead of waiting until the local people riot in the future, they will overthrow me and kill me.
I might as well reject Wang Jue as soon as possible.
Besides, without my brother by my side, there is really no point in being such a useless prince.
I would rather stay with you in Bianjing than become a useless prince."
Kou Ji frowned slightly, "The fiefdom given by the officials should not be too big. It should be between the land of one mansion and the land of two mansions. It is not difficult to manage the land of one mansion and two mansions."
Liu Heng smiled bitterly and said: "That's for you, but it's really difficult for me."
Kou Ji stared at Liu Heng and said, "If you insist on staying in Bianjing City, you can only be a lazy idler. Apart from eating, drinking and having fun, you can't do anything else."
When Zhao Zhen was granted the title of king, in addition to rewarding meritorious officials, he was also seizing power.
What was taken away from the kings was the military power and the right to participate in and discuss government affairs.
Once the kings were granted titles, they could not do anything except send people to pay tribute at the end of each year. They could not participate in any government decisions of the Song Dynasty, and they could not dispatch any official soldiers of the Song Dynasty.
In other words, Zhao Zhen relied on a few remote areas to offset the contribution of the kings to the establishment of the Song Dynasty, and also took away the power in the hands of the kings, thereby eliminating the troubles caused by the kings in Bianjing City.
It can be said that this move definitely achieves multiple goals with one stone.
Since Zhao Zhen has implemented this move, he will not let others destroy it.
Therefore, Zhao Zhen will definitely give Liu Heng his title.
If Liu Heng insists on staying in Bianjing, then his title will most likely fall on his son.
Once Liu Heng's son was granted the title of king, he moved out of the Song Dynasty.
Then Liu Heng became a loner in Bianjing City.
Still the kind of lonely person with nothing.
Liu Heng heard Kou Ji's words and said with a smile: "It's good to be an idle person. I have been fighting for half my life, and it's time to enjoy it.
It's just going to hurt my kid, but it's useless if it's not polished.
He has reached the age where he can stand on his own, so it’s time to go out and stand on his own.”
Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "You should spend more time with him."
Liu Heng was silent for a moment and whispered: "I don't know how to face him."
Kou Ji sighed and said, "It's not your fault what happened back then."
Liu Heng sighed and said: "But it's my fault that I, the father, didn't keep his mother."
Kou Ji frowned and said, "You're not a charlatan, so there's no need to act out of emotion."
Liu Heng hesitated for a moment, "Then I'll try to accompany him later."
Kou Ji took a long breath and said no more.
When Di Qing saw that the two of them had finished speaking, he slowly said, "When I become king in the future, I also want to be sealed with my brother."
Kou Ji and Liu Heng looked at each other and laughed loudly.
Seeing this, Di Qing realized that he had said something stupid.
Unless Zhao Zhen had objections to his children and grandchildren and did not want to see them inherit the throne, he would never entrust two people who had served as privy envoys of the Song Dynasty together.
Kou Ji, Liu Heng, and Di Qing chatted until the evening, ordered someone to prepare a table of food and wine, and chatted until late at night.
The three of them were extremely drunk and lay in a mess in the main hall of the city lord's mansion.
The next day.
After getting up, the three of them got down to business.
Kou Ji sent someone to summon Zhong Shiheng. The two of them were in the city lord's palace and divided the newly acquired territory into one mansion after another according to the size of the newly acquired territory.
Then, according to the size of the mansion, the degree of barrenness of the land, and the degree of resource confinement, prisoners and soldiers were allocated.
Liu Heng, Di Qing, Gao Chugong, Zhu Neng and others selected those soldiers in the army who were willing to stay here and stated their interests to them.
Then let the soldiers who are willing to stay here and serve as local soldiers be brought out of the military camp and let them select the prisoners.
In terms of the distribution of prisoners, Kou Ji adopted a distribution ratio of 5,221.
A soldier can be assigned to five households of Liao people, two households of Wei people, two households of straight women, and one household of Koreans.
The purpose of such distribution is to prevent them from getting together to cause chaos.
After allocating the prisoners, Liu Heng, Di Qing and others took the soldiers to the female prisoner camp to win the hearts of the female prisoners.
Since the time is short, it is impossible to give them the opportunity to pursue women.
Almost all the soldiers came with translators and explained everything to the female prisoners. If they liked him and were willing to go with him, he would take them away. If they were unwilling to go with him, he would have to find them.
Next.
Then not many female prisoners agreed.
Because they were prisoners of war, they did not dare to trust the soldiers easily. They did not know what kind of life they would face after they were taken out of the prison camp after agreeing.
Seeing that the soldiers were not making good progress, Liu Heng, Di Qing and others were running around anxiously.
From time to time, he would go to the Liaoyang City Lord's Mansion to ask Kou Ji for advice.
Kou Ji couldn't think of a good solution for a while.
Until Zhu Neng came to the door.
Inside the main palace of Liaoyang City.
Zhu Neng happily entered the main hall of the city lord's palace. Before he could speak, Kou Ji, who was already busy and exhausted, said decisively: "Don't let me think of ways to help your soldiers win the hearts of those female prisoners.
Don’t force me to give you orders to match up with you casually.”
The idea of La Lang Pei came from Gao Shang Gong.
Kou Ji scolded Gao Chugong for this.
Zhu Neng heard Kou Ji's words and said with a smile: "You are worrying too much. I am not here to help you, but to give you orders."
Kou Ji stared at Zhu Neng in astonishment and asked in disbelief: "All your soldiers successfully brought out the women from the prison camp?"
Zhu Neng said with a bright smile: "That's not true..."
Kou Ji asked Zhu Neng to sit down and asked curiously: "How did you do it?"
Zhu Neng did not show off, and said bluntly: "I didn't do anything. I just asked my soldiers to tell the women that if they agreed to marry my soldiers, I would allow them to take an old man and a child out of the camp. Then they would
Agreed."
Hearing this, Kou Ji frowned slightly and reminded Zhu Neng in a deep voice, "I originally planned to hand over those children to the people who migrated from the Song Dynasty to raise them.
Only in this way can those children become Song people who wear Song clothes and speak Chinese when they grow up.
If it is taught to those Korean women, it will be raised by them.
They are likely to cultivate those children into seeds of revenge.
This move will bring endless harm to our country, the Song Dynasty."
Zhu Neng smiled and said: "You don't have to worry. I have also considered this matter, so I chose old women and girls. And after they leave the camp, they can only live like other prisoners."
Kou Ji pondered for a moment and said, "Tell the soldiers in the army to treat old women and girls more kindly."
Zhu Neng looked at Kou Ji in shock.
Kou Ji stared at Zhu Neng and said: "If the old woman and girl were humiliated in the hands of other captives, do you think the Korean woman they married would live with them peacefully?
The old women and girls chosen by the Korean women must be related to them."
Zhu Neng suddenly realized, "I understand this, and I will go down immediately to tell them."
Kou Ji nodded and said: "When they leave the camp, they can take away everything except their armor and long muskets. Before the local soldiers and horses are fully equipped, they must have enough force to frighten the prisoners."
"clear……"
"After they arrive at the local level, as soon as they respond to their duties, they will be converted into local duties according to their positions in the military. Those who have meritorious service will be promoted when they deserve it, and those who have made mistakes will be punished when they deserve it."
"..."
Zhu Neng hesitated and said: "I'm afraid there will be many more generals in that place all of a sudden."
Kou Ji glanced at Zhu Neng and said, "So what? They have seen big battles and blood. If we don't promote them to officials and control the new soldiers recruited by the imperial court, how can we let those new soldiers control them?"
Can the new recruits be held in check?
Even if the imperial court dispatched local generals from other places, would it be able to suppress such a group of arrogant and powerful generals?
This place needs over a hundred generals ranging from third-grade to fifth-grade officers.
Do you think that among the remaining soldiers, a hundred generals can be promoted?"
But there is no general or captain in the Forbidden Army who cannot afford a wife.
They had families in the Song Dynasty, and their family fortune was probably not small. How could they stay in the vast and sparsely populated Liao land to open up wasteland?
Therefore, those who are willing to stay here are those grassroots military officials with the rank of captain.
Among them, only the low-level officials in the two forbidden armies led by Zhong Shiheng and Di Qing could barely achieve so much merit and rose to the rank of local general.
The two imperial armies led by Zhong Shiheng and Di Qing participated in all the battles.
The other Imperial Guards fought one less battle against the Black Khanate and one less battle against Qingtang.
Therefore, it would be good for other basic officers in the Forbidden Army to be promoted to a captain.
General, don't even think about it.
After Zhu Neng heard what Kou Ji said, he smiled dryly and said: "If you allow them to marry seven or eight beautiful Korean women, the number of generals should be over a hundred."
Kou Ji rolled his eyes, "Let those perverts go back to Bianjing City. They will not stay here and bring trouble to good families. In Bianjing City, any person who comes out can cut off their troubles."
After saying this, Kou Ji waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's go down and let the soldiers go on their way quickly. The impoverished people who will be relocated by the imperial court will arrive in a few days.
By the time they arrive, we won't have anything ready."
Zhu Neng agreed and left the Liaoyang City Lord's Palace.
After Zhu Neng left, Kou Ji decisively told his subordinates: "Go down and tell Liu Heng and Di Qing this method, so that they can arrange their people as soon as possible."
The subordinate officer agreed and hurriedly left the city lord's mansion.
With the method provided by Zhu Neng, the efficiency of Liu Heng, Di Qing and others has been greatly improved.
Only three days.
The officers and soldiers in their respective armies found the Korean girl they liked.
Kou Ji sent someone to count and found that there were 130,000 soldiers willing to stay here.
The number of people seemed large, but more than 80,000 of them were wounded soldiers.
There was no way for wounded soldiers to survive in the Forbidden Army, so those wounded soldiers decisively took advantage of the convenience provided by Kou Ji to stay here as local soldiers and big landowners.
There are only 50,000 intact soldiers.
Kou Ji distributed them to various places according to the distribution method previously agreed with Zhong Shiheng.
Before they left, Kou Ji gave them a collective promotion based on their merits, and rewarded them with pensions for the wounded soldiers and the gold and silver that the court should reward them with.
Watching each battalion leader and department leader enter the Liaoyang City Lord's Palace, they transformed into generals.
Zhao Run and Kou Tianci looked shocked.
Zhao Run swallowed a mouthful of saliva and whispered: "Today, your father promoted seven generals from the third rank to the town government and ninety-eight from the fifth rank to the state guerrillas.
There are more than a hundred generals.
Each of them is just a battalion leader or a department head.
Isn’t that crazy?”
Kou Tianci had a sullen face and said nothing.
He also felt that his father was too crazy, but he couldn't speak out.
Promoting more than a hundred battalion and division leaders to generals at one time was such a crazy thing that Zhao Zhen had never done since he had been on the throne for more than ten years.
"What are you two little guys talking about?"
Zhu Neng didn't know when he appeared next to Zhao Run and Kou Tianci, and asked with a smile.
He didn't care at all about the identities of Zhao Run and Kou Tianci.
He is Kou Tianci's elder, so it makes sense to call Kou Tianci a boy.
As for Zhao Run, the longevity king, Zhu Neng doesn't care much anymore.
After his master returns to the court, 90% of the time he will be crowned king.
It’s time to leave Bianjing City.
From now on, all the problems in Bianjing City will have nothing to do with him.
As long as Zhao Run does not ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor, he has no right to ask Zhu Neng to bow to him.
Seeing Zhu Neng, Kou Tianci, who had been silent all this time, spoke first, "Grandpa Zhu, is it inappropriate for my father to do this?"
In Kou Tianci's mind, it was too exaggerated to promote a hundred officials from fifth rank and above in one go.
Zhao Zhen has never done this. If Kou Ji does it, will he be impeached?
When Zhu Neng heard what Kou Tianci said, he laughed, "You kid, you are still worried about your father."
Kou Tianci curled his lips and said stiffly: "I'm not worried about him, I'm just afraid that he will harm my mother and my sister."
Zhu Neng could see that Kou Tianci was being tough, but he didn't expose it.
Men, no matter how big or small, are all face-saving.
He will never care about Kou Tianci's face just because Kou Tianci is young.
Zhu Neng patted Kou Tianci on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't worry, since your father dares to do this, it means there won't be any problems.
Your father has never done anything he was unsure about since he became an official.
And this is nothing, when you come back and follow us back to the court, you will know what a big scene is."
Speaking of this, Zhu Neng said cheerfully: "By then, not to mention generals, even those who have been awarded titles, I'm afraid they will all be over a thousand, and half of them will be hereditary and replaceable."
Kou Tianci breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.
Zhao Runzhao said: "Winning a title of more than a thousand people? Can I, the Song Dynasty, afford it?"
"Hahaha……"
Zhu Neng heard Zhao Run's words and laughed loudly, "Of course I can afford it in the Song Dynasty. Before the Song Dynasty, I could support thousands of people. Now the territory is vast, more than twice as much as before. How can I not support it?"
How about an extra thousand princes?"
Zhao Run hissed and inhaled: "Then there won't be people with titles everywhere in Bianjing City by then?"
Zhu Neng was stunned and laughed: "Yes, when a tile falls in Bianjing City, a lord may be killed."
Zhao Run sighed: "Then it's worthless..."
Zhu Neng nodded and smiled: "It's not worth it."
Kou Tianci calmly interjected: "Does it have anything to do with us whether it's worth it or not?"
Zhu Neng and Zhao Run were both stunned when they heard this.
Immediately.
A bright smile appeared on Zhu Neng's face, "It seems...it's really not..."
Zhao Run hesitated for a moment, "Maybe, it will have a little bit to do with me."
Kou Tianci curled his lips and said nothing.
Zhu Neng stared at Zhao Run and said with a half-smile: "For the sake of your favor, I will remind you. You can do anything, just don't touch the soldiers, and don't make friends with Wu Xun."
Zhao Run and Kou Tianci both looked at Zhu Neng, wondering what Zhu Neng meant.
Zhu Neng said lightly, "Guan Jia is a long-lived person."
Having said that, Zhu Neng stopped talking and walked away from the gate of Liaoyang City Lord's Mansion.
After Zhu Neng left, Zhao Run stared at Kou Tianci and asked, "What do he mean?"
Kou Tianci was silent for a while, thought about it, and said to Zhao Run, "What do you think?"
Zhao Run gritted his teeth slightly, glanced left and right, and when he saw no one was around, he whispered: "Is he afraid that I will use troops?"
Kou Tianci raised his eyebrows slightly.
Zhao Run immediately said: "I'm definitely not that kind of person."
Kou Tianci glanced at his mouth and said, "I don't doubt that you are that kind of person. I just want to tell you that whether it is my father or my father, as long as the military power is in the hands of any of them, you will not have that chance."
Zhao Run stared at Kou Tianci and said, "What does Zhu Neng mean?"
Kou Tianci said bluntly: "No matter what Zhu Neng means, just do it."
Zhao Run glared at Kou Tianci, "You were trying to trick me into establishing prestige in the army..."
Kou Tianci rolled his eyes, "Since you knew it was a lie, why did you say it?"
Zhao Run said with a sad look on his face: "I really made careless friends..."
Kou Tianci rolled his eyes again and did not talk to Zhao Run.
No one cares about what the two little guys say in private.
After Kou Ji promoted the Forbidden Army officers and soldiers who were about to stay in the local area, he asked each of them to leave a home letter so that the court could later move their families here.
After everything was settled, Kou Ji rejected Zhong Shiheng and others' proposal to hold a grand wedding for the soldiers and sent them away from the Liaoyang City Lord's Palace.
In ancient times, no less than later generations, there were certain requirements when it came to things like marriage.
That is, when both parties get married, their parents must be present. If there are no parents, then an elder must come forward.
Marriage that is not witnessed by parents and elders is basically not recognized by the world.
It was only late spring now, and their family had enough time to come over, so Kou Ji did not go overboard to take over.
Leaving their marriage to their families can be regarded as a surprise for their families who have moved here, giving their families some sense of belonging to this place and making it easier for the imperial court to rule this place.
In addition, Kou Ji also issued a series of decrees for the prisoners to deregister.
Compared with Dali, Xingqingfu and other places, it is relatively harsh for prisoners here to deregister.
The elderly, middle-aged and young have almost no possibility of deportation.
The child is deregistered and needs to study.
The elderly, middle-aged, and young people who want to leave the country need their children to succeed in school and gain a certain degree of fame.
If a child passes the provincial examination, one person in the family may be expelled from the country.
If a child passes the exam, two people in the family can leave the country.
If the child passes the palace examination, the whole family can withdraw from the family.
In other words, if the children in the captives' families do not study and do not gain any fame, the family members may be prisoners for the rest of their lives.
After prisoners enter various places, they are no longer suitable to be called prisoners.
Kou Ji classified their records as criminal records.
One day is a crime, the other day is a servant.
Kou Ji set this rule just to stimulate all the captives and let them try their best to get their children to study.
The current cost of elementary school education in the Song Dynasty is zero.
The captives did not have to pay anything to have their children study.
There are only advantages and no disadvantages to reading for their children. They have no reason not to let their children study.
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(PS: I just took a look at the backend. There have been almost 290,000 updates this month. The number of updates is definitely huge. Take a rest tonight and update tomorrow!)