Cao Tong rolled his eyes, not wanting to quarrel with Kou Ji, and sat in the main hall of Kou Mansion without an image.
Kou Ji said quietly: "You are sitting in the place where my grandfather likes to sit on weekdays."
As if stung by a scorpion, Cao Tong quickly got up and changed his position.
Seeing this, Kou Ji smiled and said: "This time, I would like to thank you for helping Kou Mansion."
Cao Yu stared and said: "You put me on the fire and roasted me. You know how scared I was when I walked over the crowd of people just now. I'm afraid that the people will come together and attack me. Then I will It was torn to pieces."
Kou Ji laughed in a low voice: "They dare not..."
"What if?"
Cao Tong raised his voice and questioned.
Kou Ji said indifferently: "You are a national uncle. If you are beaten to death by the people, then those people will not end well. In order to maintain the authority of the court, the officials up and down the court, They would agree to send their family thousands of miles away to be with the savages.
The people are neither stupid nor stupid.
They know what can and cannot be done. "
Cao Tong scratched his hair and said dejectedly: "Can you stop making fun of me as the uncle of the country?"
Kou Ji said seriously: "But you are really a national uncle."
Cao Yu said quietly: "Uncle Guo sounds great, and his status is also high, but you know, my Cao Mansion doesn't lack these."
Kou Ji questioned: "You have been a country uncle for less than a long time, so you don't want to be anymore?"
Cao Fei whispered in a slightly dark voice: "The edict that the imperial court canonized me as the uncle of the country has been sent to Cao's mansion. However, I have also sent it along with a document that dismissed my official position in the Criminal Ministry.
After I first got the canonized edict from Uncle Guo, I was also excited and happy.
Didn't fall asleep all night of excitement.
I didn't react until this morning.
My status is high, and my status is also high.
But since then, I have never been involved in political affairs in the court.
In the future, apart from eating and waiting to die and making money, I really don't know what else I can do. "
Kou Ji stunned: "When I said that I wanted to help you out in the Cao Mansion with a queen, you didn't think about your future situation?"
Cao Tong nodded, "I've thought about it... I probably expected it... and made enough mental preparations... But when things come, it's still a little hard to accept..."
"Regret it?"
Kou Ji questioned.
Cao Yu shook his head and said, "I don't regret... My sister becomes a queen, and her life in the palace will be better. Cao's family will follow suit. Compared to these, my own career is nothing. "
Kou Ji clicked his mouth and said in admiration, "Aren't the children of your big family all so enlightened?"
Cao Yu rolled his eyes and looked contemptuous.
"Now, in the city of Bianjing, is there another house that dare to be in front of your Kou Mansion and claim to be a big household? Compared to your Kou Mansion, the other mansions are all ruined. The other mansions are piled up with yellow and white. Things are not unusual. There is a living saint in your Kou Mansion."
Kou Ji smiled indifferently: "My grandfather just did some things that a courtier should do, so he is a saint."
Cao Yu rolled his eyes again and hummed: "Today I helped you rescue the Kou Mansion and beat a lot of people. Tomorrow, my reputation for being arrogant and domineering will spread throughout Bianjing."
Kou Ji said in a huff: "Your grandfather is a famous general, your fourth uncle is a famous general in the world, your father is invisible, and your sister is a queen. You have two grandfathers in the Cao Mansion, and other officials, big and small. A lot.
If you don't have one or two scum, the people in your Cao Mansion will sleep restlessly.
I'm helping you Cao Mansion. "
Cao Yu curled his lips, "I don't need your help, you have Kou Mansion in front of you. What's terrible about my Cao Mansion.
Kou Ji snorted coldly, "I have decided to disband 90% of the servants in the mansion, sell 90% of the property in the mansion, and become an unknown person in the future."
Cao Tong stared, and said in astonishment: "So cruel?"
Kou Ji continued, "Not only that, but I also plan to send a letter to the imperial court to transfer my food town in Gangneung to Rui'an Village outside the city of Bianjing, as well as my grandfather's real town and food town."
Cao Tong said in a daze, "All under everyone's eyelids?"
Kou Ji nodded heavily.
Cao Yu hurriedly leaned in front of Kou Ji, "Are you willing?"
Kou Ji said neither salty nor lightly: "What is reluctant to bear? Whether it is my grandfather's Shiyi, Shiyi, or mine, as well as those Kou Mansion's properties, they are all trivial things.
Keeping them will only help our Kou Mansion incur misfortune, and let people slander our Kou Mansion.
I might as well sell it.
Anyway, our Kou Mansion is not short of that money. "
Cao Chu said in amazement: "Others don't have enough to eat, and they can't wait to eat everything in their stomachs. It's good for you. Not only do you not eat more, but you also throw it out."
Kou Ji said lightly: "There are few industries and small goals. Yizijiaozipu, forging steel workshops, the biggest owners are officials. Even if something goes wrong, the first to find trouble is the official.
Textile workshops also include Vientiane House and Vientiane Pawn Shop.
You all have members.
If something happens, you can help me share the notoriety.
Even less notoriety fell on me. "
Cao Tong suddenly got up and said in an incredible way: "Your grandfather has become a sage, do you still care about this?"
Kou Ji glanced at Cao Tong and hummed: "The more so, the more I have to reduce the Kou Mansion's property, and the more I have to protect my grandfather's reputation."
Cao Tong sat down slowly and fell into contemplation.
Kou Ji raised the corner of his mouth, but did not disturb Cao Tong's contemplation.
What Kou Ji said was true or false, and only he knew it.
The reduction of the Kou Mansion’s industry does have the meaning of safeguarding Kou's reputation.
But it also has other purposes.
Nowadays, there are many industries under the name of Kou Mansion, and they are also very complicated and difficult to manage at all.
Some small businesses not only failed to help the Kou Mansion earn more money, but often caused a lot of trouble to the Kou Mansion.
Instead of keeping them and continuing to waste energy, it is better to take this opportunity to sell them all at once.
Those who have withdrawn from the small business of Koufu can just be assigned to Baozhou and Leizhou to take care of the major workshops of Koufu in Baozhou and Leizhou.
It just can make up for the vacancies of management personnel in Baozhou and Leizhou.
Kou Ji's move can be described as killing three birds with one stone.
But there are some things that can't be told to Cao Tong clearly.
After Cao Yu pondered for a long time, he stared at Kou Ji and asked, "I'm Cao Mansion..."
Kou Ji decisively raised his hand and said: "Don't... You Cao Mansion can't learn from my Kou Mansion. Your Cao Mansion has a lot of people, so you need a lot of money, and there are also many greedy people. Many people are attached to your Cao Mansion. I have to pass through those small businesses.
If your Cao Mansion imitates my Kou Mansion, you will only be hated by others.
There are so many unfamiliar white-eyed wolves who go out to slander your Cao Mansion and help your opponents deal with your Cao Mansion.
Moreover, your Cao Mansion is a general and a big clan. What do you want a good reputation for
Afraid that you will not die fast enough? "
Cao Tong was taken aback, and said with a smile: "What you said is also..."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "This time I am looking for you. Apart from asking you to help me out, I just want to ask you if your Cao Mansion intends to take over the properties of our Kou Mansion."
Cao Tong looked astonished.
"You took my sister to sit as a queen. My Cao Mansion hasn't thanked you yet. You gave us such a big gift again?"
Kou Ji smiled and said: "In the future, there will be opportunities for you to pay back favors from the Cao Mansion. Now I will ask you whether your Cao Mansion should take over the properties of our Kou Mansion."
Cao Tong did not rush to agree, but said in a puzzled way: "Fourth brother, you can sell a lot of favors, why did you choose my Cao Mansion?"
Kou Ji was taken aback for a moment, and smiled: "There are not many big households who can eat so many properties in Kou Mansion in one go. Among these big households, I have the best friendship with your Cao Mansion.
More importantly, although your Cao Mansion is greedy, it treats the people under his hands as the most generous among the generals.
Those guys who helped our Kou Mansion manage the property, as well as those tenants who helped our Kou Mansion farm the fields, can be regarded as masters and servants with my Kou Mansion.
I want to sell them, so naturally I have to find a good owner for them. "
Cao Qi stared at Kou Ji in amazement. After watching for a long time, he sighed: "Fourth brother, you really don't have to say what you are under your opponent..."
Kou Ji smiled brilliantly.
Cao Yu said in deep thought, "I can't be the master of this matter. I still need to go back and talk to my uncle and my father in detail."
Kou Ji nodded and sent Cao Yu out.
When he arrived at the door, Kou Ji reminded Cao Tong in a low voice, "If you look for me in the future, you will find me in Ruian Bieyuan in Ruian Town outside the city."
Cao Tong nodded and left Kou Mansion across the horse.
Cao Yu left.
Kou Ji immediately closed the door and found Kou Zhong who was admonishing the people.
"Hurry up and pack things and move out of the house."
Kou Ji instructed Kou Zhong.
Kou Zhong looked stunned, "Little Master, there are so many things in the house that I can't finish packing for a while."
Kou Ji hurriedly said: "Pick some frequently used things and take them away first, and move other things later."
Kou Zhong pondered for a while, and did not ask why, so he went to do it immediately.
Kou Ji let out a sigh of relief when he saw Kou Zhong instruct the housekeepers and servants to pack things.
He used Cao Yu's power to disperse the people, and he could only quench his thirst.
Tomorrow, those people will gather in front of the Kou Mansion again.
If you want to get it right once and for all, you can only move to live outside the city.
As long as they moved to Rui'an Village, it would be difficult for the people to gather again.
Today, Ruianzhuang is half of the military powerhouse.
There are nearly four thousand soldiers and horses guarding it.
The people dare not gather outside the military powerhouse.
Kou Ji had people tidy up their things, and immediately moved out of Kou's Mansion and went straight to the Ruian Courtyard outside the city.
After Kou Ji arrived outside the city, he saw Kou Zhun leisurely taking a maid, holding a big teapot, squatting under an old tree not far from the courtyard, chatting with a group of old men.
A group of people chatted happily, and they didn't know what they were bragging about.
Anyway, everyone was smiling happily.
As for whether the old men knew Kou Zhun’s identity and sought after Kou Zhun, or did not know Kou Zhun’s identity, they simply regarded Kou Zhun as a leisurely rich man, Kou Ji didn’t know.
After Kou Ji took the people to the other yard, they immediately packed their things.
It wasn't until the night that I finished cleaning up.
Then fell asleep.
Until the next day.
Kou Zhun pulled his ears and woke up from the bed.
As soon as Kou Ji was lined, he crawled out of the bed with a grin, and said bitterly, "Grandfather, what are you doing?"
Kou Zhun coldly snorted: "You don't stay in the house, run here to disturb the old man's leisure."
Kou Ji broke free of Kou Zhun's ears and said helplessly: "The mansion can't stay any longer..."
Kou Zhun smiled indifferently: "It feels uncomfortable to be sought after, isn't it?"
Kou Ji sat up and said, "Those people are here to chase you."
Kou Zhun waved his sleeves and said faintly: "Why do you need others to flatter me, old man?"
Kou Ji said perfunctorily: "What you said is reasonable..."
Kou Zhun looked at Kou Ji, and venomously told: "I ran into an old man outside the courtyard in the future, so he must not call him the old man's grandfather."
Kou Ji looked stunned.
Kou Zhun hummed, "Most of the old men in the town don't know the old man. But they do know you. If you call the old man a grandfather in front of them, wouldn't the identity of the old man be exposed?"
The corner of Kou Ji's mouth twitched, and he looked strangely: "What are you doing this for?"
Hearing this, Kou Zhun said with a slight sense of meaning: "Many of the old men in the town do not know the old man. The old man chatted with them, and it was very enjoyable. Yesterday, the old man talked to them about the official house, and they actually said, "The official house is too bad." All meals were mutton soup and white flour cooking cakes.
The old man told them that it was wrong, and the officials ate a large bowl of mutton and a dozen patties.
They actually believed it!
Hahaha...
There is also an old man. Seeing the stalwart father of the old man, he has some money, and he does not have a wife, so he plans to introduce a pretty widow to the old man.
I have to take the old man to see him in a few days. "
When Kou Ji heard the words, the corners of his mouth twitched.
"You are always a sage now, so can't you pay attention to your identity?"
Kou Zhun said dissatisfied: "The old man, a sage, is not to scare the people."
Kou Ji curled his lips and said, "Those old men obviously know your identity, and you guessed that they know your identity. Why are they so nasty?"
Kou Zhun stared: "I like it, you can control it?"
Kou Ji smiled bitterly: "I don't care... So you really plan to find me a grandmother."
Kou Zhun gave Kou Ji a sideways look, "People are also joking with the old man. When you are a man, would you really introduce a pretty widow to the old man? Doesn't they don't know the identity of the old man."
Kou Ji pondered: "When you lived in the other hospital, you revealed your identity."
Kou Zhun rolled his eyes and said: "The old man has been in a high position for a long time, and his life and death are all based on one heart. The official power has already penetrated into his bones. Even if it is intentional, those old guys who have lived for many years can feel it.
The old man was the old man who appeared near the courtyard of Kou's Mansion, with a handsome and unspoken maid by his side.
As long as you are not stupid, you can guess the identity of the old man.
They are unwilling to reveal the identity of the old man, and treat the old man as a laid-back rich man. Why does the old man want to reveal the matter again.
It made everyone embarrassed.
There is no way to sit down and talk calmly in the future. "