North Song

Chapter 321: The Yellow River embankment... collapsed

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The second day Kou Ji returned home.

Xiang Minzhong's memorial was handed to the inner court.

He is already at home with his resignation, so his memorials don't have much substantial effect.

At best, it was a suggestion to the court.

Three slayers in the inner court, after getting Xiang Minzhong's memorial.

Everyone complained about Kou Ji, and then decisively adopted Xiang Minzhong's suggestion, and handed over the printing of the court newspaper to Kou Ji.

The three of them were not stupid, and naturally knew that Xiang Minzhong was handing memorials to the inner court to help Kou Ji speak.

After Kou Ji got the documents approved by the inner court, he immediately returned to the Ministry of Industry and called the officials from the top and bottom of the Ministry of Engineering.

He ordered the Ministry of Industry's doctor to preside over the construction of the Ministry of Industry's printing workshop.

At the same time, they ordered the other two principals of the Ministry of Engineering to cooperate with Bi Sheng and lead the staff of the Ministry of Engineering to prepare things for movable type printing together.

Kou Mansion has a full set of things used in movable type printing.

But Kou Ji didn't need to move the things from Kou Mansion to the Ministry of Engineering.

There are no rules to follow for private devices for public use.

But using Kou's stuff to help the court will only make the corrupt officials who report public expenses to the Ministry of Households and the Third Division cheaper.

Kou Ji didn't feel distressed at all for doing things with court money.

At his reminder, Bi Sheng abandoned the cement and directly used lead to cast the printing stamp.

After accounting for the required expenses, they were directly reported to the Third Division and the Ministry of Households.

The Third Division and the Ministry of Households did not embarrass Kou Ji at all. Within three days, the expenses Kou Ji needed were sent to the Ministry of Industry one after another.

After the public funds were sent to the Ministry of Engineering, Kou Ji stared at the officials of the Ministry of Engineering and began to do things.

Under the watch of Kou Ji, the subordinate officials of the Ministry of Industry did not dare to be lazy and were busy day and night.

They all know that Kou Ji is a ruthless person.

In all the yamen he has been to, there will always be some officials who will be unlucky.

They don't want to be the next batch.

With the busy days and nights of the officials and staff of the Ministry of Industry, the printing workshop of the Ministry of Industry was quickly completed.

Since the public housing of the printing workshop is existing, there is no need to build another house.

After the workshop was completed, Kou Ji took over the job of printing the Dibao from the imperial court.

Under Kou Ji's suggestion, the first Di Bao printed by the printing workshop of the Ministry of Industry was to promote movable type printing.

Kou Ji didn't do anything with the printed Dibao, and even followed the previous rules of the imperial court for printing Dibao.

He just added a few more words to Di Baohang.

'Pi's movable type printing, created by the Ministry of Industry'.

No one knew Kou Ji's intention to add these words, and no one stopped him.

Businessmen may understand brand effects.

Some officials in North Korea who do business at home also know a little bit.

But they don't think anyone will use this to the court.

I don't even think that someone will use this to plan something in the court.

After the Dibao was printed, it passed through the imperial court’s station and was distributed.

Bi's movable type printing will also spread throughout the Song Dynasty in a very short time.

The word "Ministry of Industry" has also been mentioned many times by the people in and outside the country.

After the Di Bao of Bi's movable type printing was issued.

Kou Ji spent a few days in the Ministry of Industry and dealt with some officials and officials who sneaked and raped when the Ministry of Industry was busy.

After the work of the Ministry of Industry's printing of the newspaper was stable, he returned to the house and continued to salt the fish.

Time flies.

It's time to alternate between autumn and winter.

The alternation of the autumn and winter seasons this year is different from last year.

More autumn rain.

The autumn rain lasted from mid-October until the end of October.

People in the city of Bianjing stayed in the mansion for half a month, and they couldn't go out to play.

Kou Ji was covered with a large cloak, lying under the eaves, watching the raindrops converge into a stream, and quickly rolled down the eaves.

Xiang Yan holding a tea bowl, sitting beside Kou Ji, sighed: "Msang Gong, it's been raining for half a month, when are you heads?"

Kou Ji lazily said: "I'm not God, how do I know?"

Xiang Yan sighed, turned her head and asked Kou Ji, "Miangong, when will Jiaozipu, which you have high hopes for, open?"

Kou Ji turned over and faced Xiang Yan and said: "It has been raining for half a month, and the roads are muddy. Song Qian, escorted by the Jiangling Money Foundry Workshop, is still blocked outside Kaifeng Mansion.

If the money is less than one day, Jiaozi Shop will not be able to open. "

Xiang Yan wondered: "Isn't Jiaozipu a place to save money? Why do you have to wait for Songqian to open? You can't use them. Besides, the three houses of Qian, Mu and Meng have already invested a sum of money. Is it in Jiaozipu?"

Kou Ji laughed in a low voice: "Why do you have to wait until Song Qian arrives at Jiaozipu before opening, in order to deal with the process of copper coin exchange?"

Xiang Yan stared at Kou Ji seemingly.

Kou Ji explained with a smile: "What is my purpose for casting Song Qian? Of course, it is to make Bianjing City and even the whole world use Song Qian. Jiaozipu is an excellent place to promote Song Qian. .

Jiaozi is a very novel thing in Bianjing City.

Therefore, at the place where Jiaozi shop is opened, there will be a lot of people holding copper coins, depositing them in Jiaozi shop, and then taking them out with excuses, and so on, to find out the role of Jiaozi shop and the credit of Jiaozi shop.

When they saved money, we recovered the old copper coins. When they withdrew the money, they took the Song coins cast by our Kou Mansion. "

Xiang Yan frowned and said: "The newly minted Song Qian on the mansion contains 80% of copper. Most of the copper coins on the market also contain about 80% of the copper. Once in and out, our Kou Mansion is not only unprofitable, but also has to be added. Fire consumption.

Isn't this a money-losing business? "

Kou Jishi smiled and said: "How can you lose money? Jiaozipu has to pay fees for depositing money, and it also charges a lot of fees for lending. These are all the money Jiaozipu makes. Compared with the money, the consumption of fire is nothing.

Song money cast in the mansion not only contains high copper content, but is also exquisite, which is more conducive to promotion.

The three families of Mu, Qian, and Meng have agreed to use Jiaozipu to save money and pay for the profits to make up for the fire. "

Xiang Yan frowned again, and said, "The profit of Kejiaozipu's savings can obviously be saved. Why should it be spent?"

Kou Ji smiled and said: "As long as Song Qian can pass through the world, this cost is not a big deal."

Xiang Yan gritted his teeth and said: "Msang Gong, why do you have to issue Song Qian? The court clearly has a money-making workshop, which will make money every year. Why do you want to do it too much

Not only do you have to spend a lot of money, but you also get into trouble because of this.

Obviously thankless. "

Kou Ji smiled calmly: "The court is making money, but it is not doing well enough. I just helped the court make up for what the court can do but did not do. By the way, let the copper money in the world be made of Song money. The ruler of measurement."

"I don't understand..."

Although Kou Ji had already spoken thoroughly, Xiang Yan still couldn't understand the meaning of Kou Ji's words.

She didn't understand what benefit Kou Mansion could get if the whole world used Song Qian as a yardstick.

Kou Ji saw that Xiang Yan did not understand, nor did he forcefully instill this set of knowledge into Xiang Yan.

He just told Xiang Yan to send someone to call Liu Heng to come back.

After Jiaozi is opened, it will definitely attract a large number of deposits in a very short time.

The warehouse at Yizijiaozipu couldn't save so much money.

The warehouse in Kou's Mansion can't survive either.

Therefore, Kou Ji must discuss with Liu Heng and Chen Lin, and then report to the court to buy some abandoned warehouses and save money.

In the past, the Taizu Zhao Kuangyin established a closed pile library for the purpose of conquest of Liao.

The conquest of the Liao Kingdom was not a matter of overnight, so the deposit of money in the closed warehouse was not a matter of overnight.

Therefore, the warehouses of the closed pile warehouses are built to be extraordinarily hard and can prevent the erosion and impact of floods. They are like war fortresses, vulnerable to attack, and each building area is huge.

Far better than the national treasury and the internal treasury.

There are a total of 134 warehouses in the closed pile warehouse.

At present, more than 70 rooms have been used. About 60 rooms are left vacant and 36 rooms are abandoned.

What Kou Ji fancy was the 36 abandoned rooms.

They are also kept, and it is better to make the best use of them.

Although the closed pile library is a public instrument of the imperial court, it does not mean that it cannot be sold.

Anyway, those abandoned warehouses are also kept, and he wants to spend money to sell them, and the court has no reason not to agree.

There is another reason why Kou Ji chose to seal the warehouse.

That is to borrow the hands of Chen Lin and Liu Heng to protect the warehouse.

After all, in Chen Lin's eyes, some of the money belonged to the official family. Whoever used the official's money was tantamount to killing him, and he would definitely try to kill the whole family.

In fact, Kou Ji didn't use much, he only needed ten as a temporary warehouse for Jiaozipu.

Kou Ji did not intend to set up the real warehouse of Jiaozipu in Bianjing.

Because when Jiaozipu's savings reach a certain amount, everyone in Bianjing will be jealous.

Perhaps the first to bear the brunt is the court.

Kou Ji didn't want to make wedding dresses for others.

Kou Ji said to Xiang Yan.

Xiang Yan sent someone to find Liu Heng.

It's just that the people sent to Yan haven't left the gate of Kou Mansion.

Seeing the supervisor of the Kou Mansion in the workshop outside the city, he rushed into the mansion with a look of horror.

"It's not good! Something has happened!"

"Oh no!"

"..."

The steward rushed into Sijunyuan all the way, shouting loudly.

Kou Ji lifted the Greatcloak, straightened up, and questioned: "What happened? So panicked?"

The manager stared in horror, and trembled: "The Yellow River... the Yellow River embankment... collapsed!"

"bass!"

Kou Ji stood up abruptly with a look of astonishment.

Xiang Yanzui Pizi shivered and said, "The Yellow River embankment... has it collapsed again?"

After saying this, she abruptly got up and said in horror: "Quickly leave people and tell Xiangfu about this."

Kou Zhong followed in the footsteps of the steward and ran to Sijunyuan, and his heart trembled when she heard what steward said.

Hearing Xiang Yan's instructions, he immediately sent someone to spread a message to the mansion.

After Kou Zhong ordered the people to report to the mansion, he returned to the Sijun Garden again.

Seeing all the stewards of the mansion that Xiang Yan had already recruited, they instructed one by one: "Go to one person, lead the servants in the mansion, and immediately go to the major grain shops in Bianjing to buy food."

"Go to someone and take the servants from the mansion, you can pack the food from the mansion, transport it from the north gate, and transport it to the other courtyard beside the Durui Shengyuan outside the north gate."

"Go to someone and inform the servants who are still running outside the house, and let them all go to the other courtyard next to Ruisheng Garden."

"The craftsmen of the mansion, take the remaining servants, nail all the doors and windows of the mansion, and seal the door of the warehouse with huge stones."

"fast!"

"..."

In Xiang Yansheng's hoarse urging sound, all the servants in the mansion moved.

Kou Ji had returned to the room in Xiang Yan's shout, put on an official uniform, and appeared outside the door.

When Xiang Yan saw Kou Ji put on an official uniform and was about to go out, she grabbed Kou Ji's arm.

"Miangong? Where are you going?"

"My husband, you can't go out at this time, you have to accompany your concubine to escape disaster."

"..."

Xiang Yan's expression was a little anxious and a little panicked.

Obviously, this is not the first time she has faced this situation.

It seems that I have experienced something terrible.

Kou Ji grabbed Xiang Yan's hand and said in a deep voice, "You take the people from the house out to escape disaster. Grandfather is still in the palace, I'm going to the palace."

Xiang Yan gritted her teeth and dragged Kou Ji's sleeves and refused to let go.

She couldn't say anything that was rebellious, but she didn't want to let Kou Ji go.

Kou Ji patted her hand and said, "An Xin! Wait for me in a courtyard outside the city, I will be fine."

Xiang Yan stubbornly shook his head, dragged Kou Ji and refused to let go.

Kou Ji gave her a hug, broke her hand, and walked outside the house.

When passing by Kou Zhong, he reminded him in a low voice, "Take care of Madam."

Kou Zhong nodded heavily.

Kou Ji walked out of the house without looking back.

Kou Zhong rushed to the place where the guards of the mansion lived and called a few people to let them follow Kou Ji out to protect Kou Ji.

The moment Xiang Yan disappeared from Kou Ji, tears came down.

She knows the horror of the flood far better than Koj.

She has lived in Bianjing for a long time and has experienced floods more than once.

Every time a flood flows through the city of Bianjing, what remains is a corpse.

Kou Ji left the house.

As far as I can see, there is chaos.

The news of the collapse of the Yellow River's embankment has obviously reached Bianjing.

The people in Bianjing are madly running for their lives.

Someone fell to the ground and never got up again.

Kou Ji had a sullen face, passing among the frantically fleeing people, running all the way to the palace.

Along the way, Kou Ji was almost hit twice.

Had it not been for the guards of the Kou Mansion to arrive in time and the guards were by his side, he would have been trampled into mud.

When Kou Ji rushed to the gate of the palace, he saw Kou Zhun, Li Di, and Wang Zeng rushing to the outer city with the official Zhao Zhen, as well as some officials and eunuchs.

Kou Zhun frowned when he saw Kou Ji coming, but didn't speak.

Li Di just whispered, "Keep up..."

Kou Ji followed Kou Zhun and the others, and hurried to the wall of the outer city.

Along the way, no one spoke, everyone with a gloomy face could bleed.

The atmosphere is very depressing.

Whenever you meet someone who takes the opportunity to make trouble, you don't even ask, and you just cut your head.

When the group reached the city wall outside Bianjing, the knives in the hands of the guards who followed them all turned blood red.