Liu Heng's face instantly turned to iron blue.
He stammered: "She wants... to be sent back..."
Kou Ji stared at Liu Heng and smiled, "Well... I'm going to be sent back, and I won't come anymore."
Liu Heng gritted his teeth and said, "How can this be? It's not the New Year's Day. How can they go back before they have seen the official."
Kou Ji faintly said: "An Ziluo's sister is only here to visit Bianjing, not an envoy, why can't she go back."
"That's not OK… "
Liu Heng blurted out.
Seeing Kou Ji staring at him with a faint smile, he hurriedly opened his cheek to prevent Kou Ji from seeing his face.
Kou Ji smiled and said, "Care about others?"
Liu Heng said in a panic without turning his head: "How... How could... How could I care about a crazy girl... Impossible..."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "That's what I said, you Liu Heng is now a person in Bianjing City. How can a mere tribal girl be worthy of you?"
When Liu Heng heard Kou Ji's words, he didn't know what was wrong, and he retorted: "What kind of person am I? In Bianjing, there are as many people as me who are better than me, and there are countless people who are higher than me.
They weren’t any vassals either. In my Dasong Dynasty, they were envoys, and when they came to Qingtang, they were the hostesses.
If I get to Qingtang, I’m afraid it’s not as good as others..."
Liu Heng's voice became smaller and smaller, because he saw Kou Ji and his eyes became stranger.
Seeing that he couldn't hide it, Liu Heng lowered his head and said in a low voice: "Okay... I admit, I admit that I have some good feelings for her..."
After saying this, Liu Heng suddenly raised his head and explained: "But there are only some good feelings, and nothing else is superfluous."
Kou Ji shook his head dumbly.
A few days ago, when Liu Heng came to see him, he saw that Liu Heng was interested in An Ziluo's sister.
If not, can Liu Heng allow An Ziluo's sister to spoil herself
When replaced by someone else, I'm afraid Liu Heng has long been holding on to the dungeon of the Imperial City Division, and 18 torture instruments have been waited on.
It's just that Liu Heng himself concealed everything in front of him, and Kou Ji was not easy to expose.
Just waiting for Liu Heng to show it himself.
In the letter he sent to An Ziluo before, he did not ask An Ziluo to restrain his sister.
I just told An Ziluo that there were many rules when entering the palace. An Ziluo entered the palace as a Qingtang envoy for the first time, and some etiquette needs to be learned.
He will send someone to help An Ziluo, so that An Ziluo and the others will learn the etiquette of entering the court to avoid making jokes and making people look down on Qingtang.
An Ziluo is very concerned about this.
Qingtang has just been calmed down, and it is in urgent need of recognition from the sovereign state of the Great Song Dynasty.
As long as the Song Dynasty recognizes Qingtang's current territory and status, Qingtang Zanpu Corner will be able to further obtain the canonization of the Song Dynasty, and will be able to develop more in-depth trade relations with the Song Dynasty.
With Da Song's abundant material and financial resources, Qingtang will develop better.
So any questions about Qingtang's reputation, An Ziluo cares.
Precisely because of this, when Kou Ji sent his mother to teach Qingtang etiquette, An Ziluo restrained everyone and stayed in the inn to learn etiquette.
Through this, Kou Ji indirectly achieved the purpose of restraining sister An Ziluo.
In order to force the truth in Liu Heng's heart.
Seeing that Liu Heng still had the meaning of explaining, Kou Ji smiled and said, "Okay, there is no need to explain... I understand your thoughts."
Liu Heng stared at Kou Ji blankly, and asked suspiciously: "Do you really understand?"
Kou Ji nodded and smiled: "I'm the one here."
Liu Heng let out a sigh of relief and nodded slowly, "That's also..."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "You like her..."
Liu Heng stared, and exclaimed: "What do you like... Brother, don't talk nonsense, I just have a good impression of her, I can't talk about liking her."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "There are thousands of ladies in Bianjing, and I haven't seen who you like. There are countless women in the Song Dynasty, and I haven't seen you have a good opinion of anyone. Only one. Qingtang girl has a good impression, tell me, is this considered fate?"
Liu Heng nodded stiffly.
Kou Ji continued: "In the past two years, there have been many women who have shown good things to you, and many of them are young ladies, but you ignore them. On the contrary, it is An Ziluo's sister who called you and killed you. But I was thinking about others in my heart.
You said, do you like it? "
Liu Heng's heart thumped, and his mouth was slightly awkward: "Really...like it?"
"Your heart is so obvious, can you still cheat?"
Koj said frankly.
There were two blushes on Liu Heng's cheeks.
The more he thought about Kou Ji's words, the more reasonable he felt.
"Then I will go find her..."
Liu Heng's face turned red, and he said seriously.
He was a little shy, but he didn't show any gesture of a little daughter.
Kou Ji waved his hand and smiled: "Go..."
Liu Heng nodded, raised his head and left Kou Mansion.
Kou Ji stared at his back and smiled knowingly.
When Liu Heng can find someone he likes, Kou Ji is happy for him in his heart.
Kou Ji hopes that Liu Heng and An Ziluo's sister will bear fruit.
After Liu Heng left, Kou Ji did not go out, and accompanied Xiang Yan in Sijun Garden, checked the account book of Kou Mansion, and counted the harvest of Kou Mansion in one year.
Kou's family has a big business, and Kou Zhun ignores Kou's affairs, so Kou Ji has to take care of some of the business and land in the mansion with Xiang Yan.
At the end of the year, it is necessary to calculate the income and expenditure of the businesses and land properties of each shop.
The administrative abilities of the major officials in the house also have to be reviewed.
Those who are able go up, those who are mediocre go down.
The reward for the reward, the penalty for the punishment.
Only in this way can Kou's family business continue to prosper.
In fact, most of Kou's family business nowadays is taken care of by Xiang Yan, and Kou Ji can at best help Xiang Yan.
Of course, the reason why Kou Ji stayed in the house and didn't go out was not because of him.
It was because he was waiting for news from Zhang Yuan.
Only two days passed.
Zhang Yuan found Kou again.
In the study.
Zhang Yuan said excitedly: "Young master, the villain has negotiated with the envoys of the vassal. According to the trading method they proposed, the number of horses we traded in the first batch was more than 10,000, of which the best horses. One thousand five hundred horses, two thousand five hundred good horses."
Zhang Yuan is not excited. Among the 10,000 horses, there are 4,000 horses that can be used as combat horses, all of which are excellent combat horses.
Kou Ji can use this to turn four thousand infantry into four thousand light cavalry, and can also use this to turn two thousand infantry into elite cavalry.
Although the remaining 6,000 horses are of average quality, after being sold to the Song Dynasty, they can also be profitable if they are sold to the private sector.
Although Qingtang people and Uighur people raised the price of good horses, the price of horses of average quality did not increase. Not only did they not increase, but they also lowered it.
I probably think that if you encounter Zhang Yuan who is taking advantage of the high price of wool and cotton, you can't make a mistake at one time, and you have to keep it slowly.
Zhang Yuan originally thought that Kou Ji would be happy when he heard the news, but he did not expect that instead of showing a happy look, Kou Ji frowned.
The excitement on Zhang Yuan's face froze, and he asked cautiously: "Young Master, are you not satisfied?"
Kou Ji frowned and said, "It's still too little..."
Zhang Yuan stunned: "Is still less?"
Kou Ji looked at Zhang Yuan and said, "From Qingtang, Ganzhou and other places, you cannot pass through Dongping Road and Xiping Road when you transport horses to Baozhou. Therefore, if you want to transport horses to Baozhou, you have to take a detour.
It would take several months to take a detour to transport a horse.
Shipped three times a year and it was dead.
Transporting 4,000 good horses at a time is 12,000 horses three times a year.
Three years is 36,000 horses.
Thirty-six thousand horses, too few..."
Zhang Yuan stared at Kou Ji blankly.
In his cognition, 36,000 good horses are already a huge number.
After all, the total number of horse monitors in the court may not be able to draw 36,000 horses at once.
That's it, Kou Ji is still too small
As for what Kou Ji said, when the horses are transported, they cannot pass through Dongping Road and Xiping Road, Zhang Yuan can understand.
Dongping Road and Xiping Road had just been recovered, and the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the two roads were all mixed with the Xixia people who belonged to them and the people who had migrated in the past.
Dragons and snakes are mixed.
It is hard to guarantee that they will not pull up a team to grab horses on the way.
In addition to the threats from the local people, it is also necessary to prevent the army from being robbed by the armies deployed along the Great Wall.
Therefore, it is not advisable to transport horses through Dongping Road and Xiping Road.
Although Dongping Road and Xiping Road are the closest roads to Baozhou in Qingtang and Ganzhou, they must be bypassed in order to ensure the safe transportation of horses to Baozhou.
Kou Jichang sighed and saw Zhang Yuan stunned in place, after a little thought, he roughly guessed what Zhang Yuan was thinking.
But he didn't intend to help Zhang Yuan's confusion, instead he opened his mouth and said: "Since you want to buy horses, then let go of your hands and feet to buy. From the hands of the envoys, you can only get 4,000 good horses. Arrived in Qingtang. In the future, in Ganzhou and other places, you can find a way to buy some good horses from other small tribes.
With various envoys taking the lead, those small tribes will inevitably do business with us and sell horses to us. "
Zhang Yuan was secretly shocked. He felt that Kou Ji had too much appetite, but he asked calmly: "If the tribes learn that we buy horses from the small clans, what about stopping them?"
Kou Ji glared: "Can't we think of a way if we are afraid of people stopping? Buy a batch of horses and ship a batch of horses. Wouldn't it be possible to accumulate less and more? Do those vassals still dare to lead soldiers into our Song Dynasty? Go back with the horse in your hand?"
Zhang Yuan hurriedly said, "It's not that the villain can't do anything about it. The villain is just afraid of causing trouble. When you turn back, the young master, you punish the villain.
Kou Ji said angrily: "If there is any trouble, even if there is trouble, I will stand by myself. As long as you can get a good horse back to me and cause any major troubles, I will help you."
When Zhang Yuan heard this, his face turned slightly straight, and he said, "The little man is relieved if he has the words of the little master. Please rest assured that the little master will help the little master get a sufficient amount of good horses."
Kou Ji nodded, "Go down to Kou Zhong, let him prepare things for you, and set off immediately. Now that you have reached a deal with the envoys, please get our horses back as soon as possible to prevent them from going back and forth."
"The villain understands."
Zhang Yuan withdrew from Kou Ji's study, found Kou Zhong, and stated his purpose.
Kou Zhong gave Zhang Yuan a volume of documents and told Zhang Yuan that the corresponding items used by the Kou Mansion to exchange horses had been transported to a warehouse in Xining Prefecture adjacent to Qingtang.
Zhang Yuan only needs to take the documents, and when he arrives in Xining Prefecture, he can directly pick up some items from the warehouse.
In addition, Kou Zhong also told Zhang Yuan that as long as the frontier guards in Xining prefecture did not change, he would send people to Xining prefecture for all the items Zhang Yuan wanted in the future.
The frontier guard in Xining Prefecture was originally Cao Wei's commander.
After Cao Wei was transferred to Beijing, the former Xiningzhou defender was also transferred to Beijing and served as the head of the first army in the Forbidden Army.
Now the guard of the border army of Xining Prefecture, he was one of Zhu Neng's confidants in the Yongxing army.
Kou Zhong just sent someone to take a letter written by Zhu Neng and gave it to the guard of the border army of Xining Prefecture and the guard of the border army of Xining Prefecture. He immediately vacated two warehouses for storing weapons for Kou's residence.
As for the supervising army in the army, under the awe of Kou Zhun and Kou Ji's two important ministers, they did not dare to put a fart, leaving Kou Mansion to toss in Xining Prefecture.
After Zhang Yuan took the documents, he immediately went to various envoys.
After discussing with the envoys, they each sent some manpower to accompany him on the road to Xining Prefecture.
It didn't take long for Zhang Yuan to leave Bianjing.
Yuyou led a group of men patrolling horses and guards, escorting trucks and trucks of goods, and embarked on the road to Xining Prefecture.
After Kou Ji got Zhang Yuan and Yuyou both rushed to Xining Prefecture, he stopped paying attention to this matter.
Kou Ji knows how capable Zhang Yuan this person is.
Not to mention letting him go to sell horses, even if he is allowed to hide in the Western Regions, stir up the wind and rain behind his back, and plan a foundation, he can do it.
So Zhang Yuan was responsible for trading horses with Qingtang people and Uighurs, and he was very relieved.
As for Yuyou transporting horses, he is also relieved.
With the skill of fish swimming, he led a thousand patrolling guards who were able to conquer, and they were enough to run wild in the Western Regions when the Qingtang and Ganzhou Uighur troops were not able to come out.
After the horses were transported to the Song Dynasty, the frontier army of Xining Prefecture took care of them, and not many people dared to grab them.
Kou Ji will help him arrange the documents on the way from Xining to Baozhou for horses.
The rest is a matter of time.
After the horse matter came to an end.
Kou Ji focused on the wrought iron workshop outside the city.
Two blast furnaces in the wrought iron workshop have been set up, and the iron ore and coal that have been transported back have also been processed.
Iron ore has turned into iron ingots.
Coal is also burned into coke.
Just wait for the furnace to make iron into steel.
On the day when the furnace was opened, the head of the Ministry of Industry, who was guarding Ruishengzhuang outside the city, sent someone to inform Kou Ji.
Early in the morning, Kou Ji rode a carriage and took Mu Chong, Qian Le, and Meng Weizhong to Ruishengzhuang.
When I arrived outside the village, before I went in, I saw Li Zi and a group of people rushing over aggressively.
Seeing this, the three Mu Chong were shocked.
Kou Ji smiled coldly at Li Zi, who rushed over with great momentum.