After Zhao Run rushed into the corridor in a hurry, he shouted to Kou Ji: "Sir, Lu Yijian sent his third son Lu Gongzhu to replace Han Yang."
After Zhao Run finished shouting, he noticed a burly man standing next to Kou Ji.
Just as Zhao Run was about to speak, Kou Ji said calmly: "You go out first..."
Zhao Run glanced at the big man, said "Oh" and exited the corridor.
Kou Ji sat on the beauty chair in the corridor (the railing of the corridor beside the ancient pond), staring at the big man in front of him.
"You mean, Yuan Shan wants you to stay for one more month?"
The big man nodded solemnly and said: "Previously, Yuanshan sent people to negotiate with Chen Yaozi to conquer Qingtang together. Chen Yaozi reported the matter to the officials, and the officials agreed.
Yuanshan and Chen Yaozi began to prepare for the attack on Qingtang.
And nearly 60% of the Yuanshan tribe's strong soldiers are our people.
The brothers have packed their things and are preparing to go to Han to find the young master according to your order.
Yuanshan stopped the brothers and wanted them to stay in Yuanshan for one more month and help him attack Qingtang."
After hearing this, Kou Ji shook his head without hesitation and said: "I don't believe that nearly 60% of Yuanshan's strong soldiers are our people. Yuanshan should know in his heart that I will transfer you sooner or later. He can't Don’t prepare any capital for yourself.”
Hearing this, the big man was stunned for a moment and said: "Brothers have been watching. Yuanshan doesn't have the energy to prepare other troops."
Kou Ji pondered and said: "If Yuanshan wants to hide things from you, you won't be able to find out. He probably hasn't prepared troops and horses, and he has little to do with us.
He didn't mention the attack on Qingtang earlier, and he didn't mention the attack on Qingtang later. But when I sent people to evacuate you, he mentioned the attack on Qingtang.
He wants to use this to get you to help him again."
The big man was stunned for a moment, then glared and said, "How dare he plot against you?"
Kou Ji shook his head and said with a smile: "It's not about calculations. Although he didn't send anyone to explain the matter to me, he knew that once the matter of him and Chen Yaozi joining hands to attack Qingtang was reported to the court, I would definitely guess it. his purpose.
After the official agreed to this matter, he did not directly ask you to participate in the war. Instead, he asked you to explain the matter to me.
I didn't nod, and he didn't drag you to the battlefield.
So he didn't go overboard."
The big man said fiercely: "If he dares to plot against you, my brothers will definitely kill him."
Kou Ji rolled his eyes, "Okay. Stop pretending in front of me. You are not stupid. Even if you can't see the full set of Yuanshan's plan, you can at least see half of it clearly.
If you are really willing to kill Yuan Shan, Yuan Shan’s head should be placed in front of me at this moment.”
When the big man heard this, his expression changed and he was about to bow his head.
Kou Ji continued: "I don't blame you... You have been dependent on Yuanshan for many years, and you don't want to fight with Yuanshan because of a trivial matter. I can understand.
After all, if it were me, I wouldn't be able to casually kill someone who has been dependent on me for many years."
The big man said with a guilty look on his face: "It's not that the brothers don't want to fight Yuanshan, it's not that the brothers don't want to kill Yuanshan.
Brothers will kill anyone for you."
Kou Ji nodded and said, "I know..."
After all, they are a group of people who want to push themselves to the throne of God, so they are naturally willing to help him kill anyone.
But Kou Ji still firmly believes that they still have friendship with Yuan Shan.
If Kou Ji wants them to kill Yuan Shan, he must give the order.
It's not that they are disloyal, but Yuanshan also belongs to Kou Ji.
Yuan Shan has done so many things for Kou Ji for so many years. If Kou Ji didn't have a reasonable reason to kill Yuan Shan, they would be heartbroken.
Kou Ji knows what kind of person Yuanshan is.
But they don't know.
Even though they have been with Yuanshan for many years.
They only knew that Yuanshan had sacrificed his life for Kou Ji, and had gone through life and death for Kou Ji.
Yuan Shan had both merit and hard work for Kou Ji.
The big man spoke again, "Brothers just feel that you have been planning in the Western Regions for so many years, and the brothers have been in the Western Regions for so many years, and it seems that the Western Regions are about to be wiped out. But the brothers can't participate, and they feel unhappy."
When Kou Ji heard this, he laughed and said, "You dare to say anything."
The big man said solemnly: "Brothers will never deceive you."
Kou Ji glanced at the big man and said: "Okay, no need to say more. Since you want to fight, then go ahead and fight. Anyway, there are no fierce battles in Qingtang now. As long as you act carefully, there shouldn't be any big problems.
However, although there are no serious battles in Qingtang, it is not an open space for you to take.
You still have to be careful when you should be careful.
Don't rush forward foolishly.
If necessary, let other members of the Yuanshan Department take the lead."
"The villain understands."
"In addition, the number of people who stay in the Yuanshan tribe cannot exceed 50%. If you rush to Korea together, the target is a bit big. Divide it into two groups, and then divide it into hundreds of shares to enter Korea, so that it will not attract anyone's attention."
Kou Ji warned.
The big man nodded and said: "I understand..."
Not all of the Yuanshan Iron Cavalry wanted to stay and join the war.
Among them there are some who are warlike and crazy, and there are also many who are unwilling to stay in the Western Regions any longer.
So it's not difficult to follow Kou Ji's advice.
"Okay, let's go down and deliver the message. By the way, let your family members move to Korea one after another. There are ships in Dengzhou and Leizhou to send your family members to Korea.
Someone in Han will make arrangements for your family.
After you go to Korea, you won't need to ask me for instructions when something happens.
When the time comes, you can go to Ci'er for advice. If Ci'er is still unsure, you can go to my grandfather for advice."
"Here..."
The big man agreed.
Kou Ji waved his hand and said no more.
The big man did not leave, but instead took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Kou Ji.
Kou Ji looked at the letter and was slightly stunned.
"Whose?"
"General Zhu's..."
"Zhu Neng?"
Kou Ji asked suspiciously: "Why did Zhu Neng send me a message through you?"
The big man reminded: "Have you forgotten that there are some people in the Yuanshan Department who were General Zhu's former subordinates. General Zhu asked them to deliver a message. They knew that the villain came back to Beijing to find you, so they gave the letter to the villain and asked him to
The villain will pass it on for you."
Kou Ji pondered and said: "Zhu Neng did not go to the official post station, but took such a big turn to send me a letter. That means the content of the letter is not suitable for the imperial court to know."
Kou Ji took the letter smoothly and waved to the big man.
The big man bowed and exited the corridor.
After the big man left, Kou Ji took out the letter, opened it and took a look. After seeing the content, he was slightly stunned, and then he read it carefully.
After reading it, I couldn't help but sigh.
"None of them are fuel-efficient lamps. Yuanshan is thinking about the Qingtang and Heihan people and plans to use them to expand the territory. The same goes for Zhu Neng. He only went there for a few days and hooked up with Gargamel.
.
Gargamel was actually willing to give up the four Uighur cities in Xizhou and invited Zhu Neng to send troops to help him in his western expedition.
This is a sore point for Zhu Neng."
Kou Ji muttered at this point, paused, and then muttered: "Zhu Neng doesn't have many troops in his hands now... Gargamel actually invited Zhu Neng sincerely... Ninety-nine percent of the time, he chose Zhu Neng to lead the army.
talent...or maybe he wants Zhu Neng to help him train his soldiers and horses...
After all, the Black Khanate rarely lacks people, and even if it does, they can still go out and grab them.
If they wanted to capture the city, what they needed was a general like Zhu Neng.
Gargamel actually sacrificed the land of four cities in order for Zhu Neng to help him. It seems that he has completely understood the importance of military strategy.
Zhu Neng said that he had brought my words to Gargamel for me, and Gargamel would send someone to find me later.
When Gargamel's people arrive, I will be able to clearly judge Gargamel's purpose."
Kou Ji slowly put away the letter, squinted his eyes and whispered: "Zhu Neng actually didn't mention a word in the letter about when Gargamel will fulfill my promise.
It seems that Gargamel didn't tell him, but wanted to send someone to talk to me personally.
Eighty percent of the time you have to bargain again.”
After Kou Ji muttered to himself, he stood up and left the corridor.
Three days later.
The disciple reported to Kou Ji that someone was visiting.
Kou Ji asked his disciples to invite the people into the courtyard.
Kou Ji sat in the yard and waited.
Not long after, Menzi brought the elderly Hatuk into the courtyard.
Hatuk saw Koji, and tremblingly knelt down in front of Koji, and said humbly: "Noble divine envoy, your servant Hatuk, I offer you my most sincere respect..."
Koji stared at Hatuk who was kneeling at his feet, and said in a neutral tone: "After so many years of separation, you have aged a lot. Logically speaking, you are Gargamel's most loyal servant. Gargamel has now conquered a kingdom.
, I will definitely grant you a high position.
You can also be regarded as a minister of a country.
There is no reason to kneel to me anymore."
Hatuk lowered his head and said solemnly: "Hatuk will always be your servant..."
Kou Ji said faintly: "You speak Chinese well. In recent years, you should have interacted with people from the Song Dynasty a lot, or asked me from the Song Dynasty to teach you knowledge.
Even so, you should know a saying, "Everyone must ask for something".
As a minister of a country, you behave so humbly in front of me, a common man.
You must be asking for something from me."
Hatuk hurriedly said: "I dare not deceive the divine envoy. The great Lion King really wants something from you."
Kou Ji raised his eyebrows and asked in surprise: "Since Gargamel has inherited Yu Sufu's kingship?"
Hatuk solemnly said: "The title of Lion King belongs to the Black Khanate, not Yu Sufu. Yu Sufu almost brought the destruction of the Black Khanate. He does not deserve to be called the Lion King."
Kou Ji rubbed his eyebrows, he didn't like hearing such brainwashing remarks.
Koji stared at Hatuk and said, "I can't believe you actually stated your purpose so directly."
Hatuk said frankly: "A Song man told your servant that in terms of scheming, it is difficult for outsiders to defeat the Song people. Therefore, when you know that you cannot defeat the Song people, it is best to tell the truth."
Kou Ji admired: "It's not bad that you can meet a discerning person. Tell me your purpose."
Hatuk raised his head, stared at Koji and said solemnly: "The great Lion King hopes to purchase the firearms of the Song Dynasty. No matter how high the price is, he is willing to bear it."
Kou Ji was stunned and asked with a smile: "How about letting the Black Khanate attach itself to the Song Dynasty?"
Hatuk said decisively: "The great Lion King has sent an envoy here and will present his credentials in the near future. We, the Black Khanate, are willing to accept the Song Dynasty as our suzerain state."
Koji said with a bright smile: "Baghdad is no longer wanted?"
Khatuk solemnly said: "If the Great Song Dynasty can support our Black Khanate in retaking Baghdad, even if we let our Black Khanate take all the subjects of Baghdad to attach themselves to the Great Song Dynasty, we, the Black Khanate, will be willing."
Kou Ji nodded and said: "The dependence I am talking about is complete dependence. Except for Gargamel's kingship, everything in the Black Khanate is decided by me, the Song Dynasty."
Hatuk lowered his head and said no more words.
Seeing this, Koji understood what Hatuk meant.
Hatuk will not agree, and neither will Gargamel.
They will not give up their power over the Black Khanate.
Kou Ji continued: "In this case, I cannot sell the firearms of my Song Dynasty to you. At the current position, only the people of my Song Dynasty can use the firearms of my Song Dynasty."
Khatuk was silent for a moment, and then suddenly said: "Even if I exchange all the books in the Baghdad Wisdom Museum, wouldn't it work?"
Koji's face turned cold, "All the books in the Baghdad Wisdom Museum were promised to me by Gargamel a long time ago. I have already cashed in the chips that should be cashed out.
Does he want to break the contract?"
Before Hatuk could speak, Kou Ji said coldly without hesitation: "So far, I have never seen anyone who dares to break the agreement made by me, Kou Ji."
Koji stood up slowly, stared at Hatuk and shouted: "Do all the people in the Black Khanate want to die? Are you ready to die together?"
Hatuk trembled all over and said hurriedly: "God's envoy must not be angry. The great Lion King has no intention of breaking his promise."
In the eyes of the people of the Song Dynasty, Kou Ji was a powerful figure who helped the Song Dynasty do many great things.
But in the eyes of everyone outside the Song Dynasty, Kou Ji was an overlord, a dictator, and a murderous demon king.
Khatuk had no doubt that after he offended Koji, Koji would send troops to destroy the Black Khanate.
So after feeling Kou Ji's anger, he decisively surrendered.
Koji asked: "Then why did you say that you would trade the Baghdad Wisdom Museum for firearms? Are you kidding me?"
Khatuk said hurriedly: "Your servant is talking about another wisdom museum in Baghdad."
Kou Ji sneered: "Do you think I don't understand Baghdad and the Wisdom Hall? You actually used such lies to deceive me."
Khatuk raised his head and said seriously: "Everything your servant said is true. In Baghdad, in addition to the huge wisdom hall, there is also a small wisdom hall, which is hidden in the palace where the Caliph lives.
"
When Kou Ji heard this, he was slightly stunned.
According to the habits of Westerners, it is possible to have a small library in your living place.
Just the collection of books in the palace where the Caliph lived, 80% of which were religious classics.
After all, religious classics were what he studied and used.
It's useless for Kou Ji to ask for those things.
Koji glared at Hattuk and said calmly: "We'll talk about the small Wisdom Hall later. First, let Gargamel fulfill his promise and send me all the books in the big Wisdom Hall that he promised me.
If he can't even fulfill his previous agreement, how can I make a new agreement with him?"
Hatuk quickly lowered his head and said: "Your servant will definitely bring your words to the great Lion King."
After saying this, Hatuk added: "The great Lion King hopes to purchase sophisticated armor and weapons from the Song Dynasty."
Hearing this, Kou Ji pondered and said: "This is something we can consider. You can ask your Black Khanate's envoy to raise this matter when he comes to Bianjing City to meet with our imperial officials.
The officials will agree when the time comes.
People from Honglu Temple and the Ministry of Industry will discuss with you how to purchase and deliver the goods."
Hatuk knelt on the ground and said nothing.
Kou Ji sighed and said, "I will discuss this matter with the officials."
Hatuk immediately said: "Thank you so much, the envoy."
Obviously, Hatuk needs Koji's commitment before he is willing to believe this.
After Koji thanked Hatuk, he waved his hand and said, "If there is anything else, you can go down if there is nothing else."
Hatuk hurriedly said: "The great Lion King hopes to send several talents from the Black Khanate to the Song Dynasty to learn the art of war."
Kou Ji raised his eyebrows, "Didn't someone teach you before?"
Hatuk solemnly said: "The great Lion King hopes to learn more about the art of war."
Kou Ji said calmly: "Everything that can be taught to you has been taught. What cannot be taught is something that cannot be taught lightly. If you want to learn more military skills, you have to pay a certain price."
Hatuk immediately said: "The great Lion King is willing to pay the price."
After Kou Ji pondered for a while, he said: "Equal weight of gold..."
Hartuk was stunned.
Kou Ji continued: "One share of gold of the same weight as Zhu Neng."
Hatuk recalled Zhu Neng's huge body, gritted his teeth and said: "Your servant will report the truth to the great Lion King. If the great Lion King agrees, he will send people and gold together."
Kou Ji nodded and said, "I will make arrangements after he delivers the things."
Hatuk hurriedly said: "Thank you so much, the envoy."
Kou Ji asked: "Is there anything else?"
Hatuk raised his head and said: "The great Lion King has prepared a small gift for you, just outside the courtyard."
"Then bring it in. For Gargamel's sake, I can send someone later to take you to find a comfortable place to live in the city."
"Thank you, God Envoy..."
Hatuk thanked Koji, got up and went to the door, and had people carry in all the gifts that Gargamel had prepared for Koji.
Gargamel prepared many rich gifts for Koji.
There are not only gold and silver jewelry, agates and jade, but also many boxes of books, as well as three exotic beauties.
Gargamel probably thought that Koji liked books very much.
So after taking over the Black Khanate, he ordered people to make copies of all the books in the Black Khanate.
Taking this opportunity, I specially asked Hatuk to send it over.
Kou Ji was not polite and accepted them all.
Not only that, Hatuk was not left to eat.
After he accepted the gift, he ruthlessly sent Hatuk out of the yard.
After Kou Ji ordered people to carry all the gold, silver, jewelry, agate, jade, and books down, he also ordered people to send the three exotic beauties to Liu Heng's room.
Ever since Liu Heng went to Japan, he became obsessed with beauty.
In the Japanese country, there were many little princesses who caused harm to the Tojo family.
He probably wouldn't refuse these three exotic beauties.
After Kou Ji arranged everything, he rushed to the study.
"None of them are fuel-efficient lamps, and all of them are ambitious. They must write a letter and send it to Zhu Neng, asking him to correct it when necessary to prevent them from having wrong ideas...
When Gargamel sincerely invites Zhu Neng to send troops, he must be seeking Zhu Neng's talent and military skills in leading troops. Zhu Neng must be reminded of this matter, so that he should not teach everything, but should hide something when he should..."
Kou Ji muttered to himself, wrote a long letter, and sent someone to send it out of the Bamboo Garden immediately.
He believed that Zhu Neng would know what to do after reading his letter.
After Kou Ji sent someone to deliver the message to Zhu Neng, he asked Zhao Run to send a message to the palace and asked Chen Lin to come over.
Kou Ji told Chen Lin that the Black Khanate wanted to purchase sophisticated armor and weapons, and asked Chen Lin to talk to Zhao Zhen about it when she returned to the palace.
Selling armor and weapons is now a business for the Song Dynasty.
A business that is sure to make money without losing money.
Previously, under the auspices of Kou Ji, the Song Dynasty sold armor and weapons everywhere, often making money through this.
Nowadays, the Song Dynasty is peaceful in all parts of the world, and there are no enemies to be killed by the Song Dynasty.
Now there is an enemy coming to my door.
Da Song will naturally not miss it.
Hatuk only stayed in Bianjing for two days. After spending a lot of money to buy some books in the market, he left Bianjing with his people.
Hatuk left not long ago.
The envoys of the Black Khanate arrived in Bianjing.
Khatuk and the envoys of the Black Khanate came together from the Black Khanate.
But when they arrived outside Kaifeng Mansion, the envoy of the Black Khanate stayed at the inn outside Kaifeng Mansion.
They waited until Hatuk sent them a message before they rushed to Bianjing City to meet Zhao Zhen.
When the envoy of the Black Khanate met with Zhao Zhen, he indeed proposed to purchase armaments.
Zhao Zhen had already understood the specific matter, so after the Black Khanate envoy raised the matter, he nodded in agreement and handed the matter over to the people from Honglu Temple and the Ministry of War.
After the purchase of armaments was on the right track, Kou Ji stopped paying attention to the matter.
Kou Ji turned his attention again to the recruitment of troops in Jiangnan and Hedong.
After Lu Gongzhu arrived at Jiangning Mansion and replaced Han Yang, the first thing he did was to send Han Yang back to Bianjing.
After seeing Han Yang off, Lu Gong invited some of the famous and wealthy heads of families in Jiangning Mansion to have a meal and told them that the imperial court had given up recruiting troops in Jiangning Mansion, so that they no longer had to go on strike.
The wealthy families in Jiangning Mansion chose to believe the words of the Third Young Master Zai Zhi.
So they resumed the market.
It is worth mentioning that the murder case that caused Han Yang to be unable to leave the house was never mentioned again after Mr. Lu invited the wealthy family owner to dinner.
It was as if that man's murder was a bargaining chip in the struggle between the two sides.
When the battle is decided, the chips don't matter.
No one mentioned it, and no one pursued it.
It seems that the person who died in the struggle never appeared.