Scattered.
The news that Kou Ji defeated Huangtouhuihe 140,000 soldiers and horses with thousands of elite soldiers in Victory River, like a gust of wind, blew all over Bianjing.
Suddenly, Bianjing city boiled.
The people draped red and hungry colors and rushed to celebrate.
The eunuchs were holding the imperial decree to reward the Kou Mansion as soon as they left the palace, the people gathered around them, followed the eunuchs one by one, and went to the Kou Mansion together.
When the news reached Kou's Mansion, Kou Zhun was holding the little man in his arms cautiously and staring at him.
His cautious expression seemed to be holding some rare treasure, and the smile on his face couldn't get rid of it.
Wen Po wanted to step forward and say a few auspicious words, but Kou Zhong stopped her.
"Go to the counter to collect your rewards, don't bother the master and grandchildren."
"Thank you for the stewardship... Thank you for the stewardship..."
Kou Zhong calmly drove away those who had come to Kou Zhun to ask for money.
Then stood carefully behind Kou Zhun, watching Kou Zhun nervously holding the little man in his arms, with a smile on his face.
"Hurry up and show the old man..."
Xiang Minzhong, who was pushed into the backyard while sitting on the Kou bus, stretched out his old arms excitedly after seeing the little baby in Kou Zhun's arms.
Kou Zhun held the little man in his arms, glanced at Xiang Minzhong, and said dissatisfied: "The great grandson of the old man, why should I show it to you?"
Xiang Minzhong hurriedly pushed Kou bus to Kou Zhun's side, and said angrily: "That's also the great grandson of the old man!"
Kou Zhun said arrogantly: "If there is a foreign word, it is an outsider. Outsiders are not qualified to read it."
When Xiang Minzhong heard this, he was blown away and stared.
After staring for a long time, it seemed that he realized that the hard way was not good, so he asked softly, "Old man... I just have a look..."
Kou Zhun stared at Xiang Minzhong vigilantly, "Just a glance?"
Xiang Minzhong nodded hurriedly.
Kou Zhun reluctantly lifted the tip of the baby.
Xiang Minzhong glanced in, and his eyes became shiny by the way.
"Good... good... good..."
Xiang Min center lay on the Kou bus contentedly, and kept applauding.
Kou Zhun didn't bother to talk to him anymore, and continued to tease his little great-grandson.
Just when Xiang Minzhong was about to leave, there was a loud noise outside the house, which disturbed the little man in Kou Zhun's arms.
The little man cried aloud.
Kou Zhun and Xiang Minzhong were furious.
"Who is outside?!"
Kou Zhun asked angrily while cautiously coaxing the little man in his arms. After a long time, he couldn't coax him well. He could only reluctantly hand it over to the nurse who was waiting on the side.
Then rushed out angrily.
Xiang Minzhong also asked his servant to push Kou bus and went out.
As soon as I arrived at the main hall, I saw two eunuchs, holding yellow scrolls, standing at the entrance of the main hall.
When going out, a large number of people gathered.
The two eunuchs met Kou Zhun and Xiang Minzhong and hurriedly gave the ceremony. After the ceremony, they took out the imperial decree and prepared to read it out.
But Kou Zhun arrogantly stretched out his hand, "Bring it..."
Seeing this, the two eunuchs hesitated.
Xiang Minzhong coldly snorted: "Let go of the imperial decree and things, and then get out quickly. If you disturb the old man's great grandson, you are disturbing the old man. If the old man is disturbed and died in front of you, see if you can survive.
When the two eunuchs heard this, they gave a wry smile, put aside the imperial decree and other rewards, and immediately withdrew from the Kou Mansion.
After the two eunuchs had left, Kou Zhun asked Kou Zhong to block the door and not see outsiders.
Kou Zhun took the imperial decree casually, glanced a few times, and threw it aside.
Xiang Minzhong asked curiously: "What does the imperial edict say?"
Kou Zhun said casually: "The old man's grandson fought a big victory outside the territory, and defeated 140,000 enemies with thousands of soldiers. The court could not reward the old man's grandson, but only the old man's great-grandson. "
"With thousands of elite soldiers, defeat 140,000 enemies?"
Xiang Minzhong repeated in astonishment, "That's really good... The old man, grandson-in-law, when did you learn the strategy of war?"
Kou Zhun said calmly: "Some people are born with them and know everything. It's nothing strange."
Xiang Minzhong looked at Kou Zhun in amazement.
Kou Zhun did not explain much, but reluctantly said: "The official family gave the old man's great-grandson a name."
"What's the name?"
"Kou Tianci..."
Xiang Minzhong was taken aback for a moment, and said with a look of disgust: "Vulgar... Vulgar is intolerable..."
Kou Zhun nodded in agreement.
Xiang Minzhong pondered: "Would you like the old man to send the imperial decree back?"
Kou Zhun thought about it for a moment, "Forget it, the official family finally accumulated some prestige, and it can't be destroyed in the hands of both of us. Kou Tianci just go to Kou Tianci, and make a cry.
Xiang Minzhong nodded slowly and suggested: "Let the old man take another look?"
Kou Zhun stared and said angrily: "Didn't you have seen it?"
Xiang Minzhong said embarrassedly: "I want to see it again, I'm afraid I will lose it."
Kou was not angrily said: "That thing grows on the body, can it be lost?"
Xiang Minzhong said with a serious face: "That's not sure."
Kou Zhun stared straight.
The two old men scolded and walked to the backyard.
In their hearts, Kou Ji used thousands of elite soldiers outside the territory to defeat 140,000 enemies, which seemed to be far less important than the little guy in the backyard.
They have left the center.
They didn't care at all about what happened in the court.
As long as it wasn't the enemy who made it into the Great Song Dynasty, they were reluctant to look at the affairs of the court.
Kou Ji has a son, and he truly has the qualifications to go out for adventure.
They have all experienced strong winds and waves, knowing that every important minister in the court has to go through some wind and rain before they can truly gain a foothold in the court.
So they didn't want to ask about what Kou Ji did in the Western Regions, and they didn't want to pay more attention to it.
however.
They don't care, it doesn't mean that others don't care.
Li Di, who lives not far from Kou’s Mansion, learned that Kou Ji’s wife had given birth to Lin'er, and immediately asked the old servant to prepare a gift, ready to come to congratulate him.
He and Kou Zhun have a very deep friendship, knowing what Kou's bloodline means for Kou Zhun.
It's just that he went out of the mansion gate, and after walking a few steps, after hearing the whispers of the people surrounding the Kou Mansion's courtyard, he lost the thought of going to the Kou Mansion.
Kou Ji defeated 140,000 enemies with thousands of elite soldiers in the Western Regions and captured countless? !
Seized countless? !
The simple four words entered Li Di's mind and kept returning to Li Di's mind.
Li Di threw the thin gift in his hand to the old servant who followed him and hurried to the palace.
Rushed to the palace, to Zhao Zhen's bedroom.
I saw Zhao Zhen put on a casual dress and seemed to be ready to leave the palace.
Li Di didn't care about giving gifts to Zhao Zhen or asking where Zhao Zhen was going. After seeing Zhao Zhen, he asked anxiously: "Officials, the officials have heard that the court officials have seized countless in the Western Regions?"
Zhao Zhen was stunned for a moment, and said in deep thought: "Kou Ji did not report the specific amount, but according to previous reports, their seizures should be very generous.
Before they encountered horse thieves in the Western Regions, they seized thousands of horses and a lot of money.
Kou Ji said in the memorial that there was a small gain.
Afterwards, Kou Ji used the armor forging method of the heavy cavalry to help the court in exchange for more than 10,000 horses, and also claimed that there was little gain.
Now it is stated in the memorial newspaper that numerous seizures have been made.
The horses, cattle, sheep, money and other things they want to seize should be more than many times before. "
When Li Di heard this, he hurriedly asked: "Kou Ji has played the Ming court, when will the seizure be sent to my Da Song?"
Zhao Zhen thought for a moment and shook his head slightly.
Seeing this, Li Di resolutely said: "The minister begs the official to allow the minister to go to the Western Regions."
Zhao Zhen was taken aback, "What does Aiqing mean?"
Li Di said loudly: "Kou Ji had obtained more than 10,000 horses for the court before. Now that Huangtouhuihe has defeated Huangtouhuihe, there are certainly not a few horses captured by Huangtouhuihe.
Chen guessed that the number of horses should exceed 30,000 or 40,000 horses.
Thirty or forty thousand horses, that's millions of dollars of money.
That's the money of the court.
The minister was willing to travel westward to help the officials get the money back. "
Zhao Zhen said solemnly: "Aiqing...For the horse fetching, I just need to send someone to go there. Why do you have to take a trip by yourself."
Li Di said in a deep voice: "Others go to town and can't live. The town can't live those Xiaoxiao who coveted my great Song Dynasty money from outside the region, can't live in Kou Ji, can't live in Manchu civil and military. Kou Ji got back the horse from Liao. Before I entered the Great Song Dynasty, many people thought about it, and because of this, life was lost.
Lessons from the past, the teacher of the next.
Only the minister personally went to the Western Regions in order to transport the horse back safely. "
Zhao Zhen sighed, "Aiqing really did her best for me."
"I got it..."
"Going to the Western Regions now, my Xu Aiqing has the right to do things cheaply..."
Li Di bowed to Zhao Zhen and solemnly said: "The minister will go back to pack some bags and rush to the Western Regions immediately..."
After obtaining Zhao Zhen's permission, Li Di returned to the mansion and packed his bags, took some guards, and rushed to the Western Regions.
at the same time.
Kou Ji has been out of Huangtou to return to the territory of Hehe for a few days and rushed to the territory of Shazhou.
The environment in Shazhou is far worse than that in Huangtouhuihe.
The sky is full of yellow sand.
The cold wind howled.
The strong cold wind made the people unable to sit still on horseback, so they could only get off the horse and rush to Shazhou on foot.
Among the large number of teams, the only people who can still use livestock as a substitute are Kou Ji and the men patrolling horse guards.
After leaving the territory of Huangtou Huihe, the men patrolling the horse guards went out for a circle and got a group of camels.
Kou Ji and the guards, riding on a camel, moved forward slowly.
Zhang Yuan, Liu Heng and others also shared some camels.
"Bah..."
The leader of the patrol guard nestled on the back of the camel, took a sip, and spit out the sand that the wind had blown into his mouth. He turned his head to look at Zhang Yuan who was riding the camel and climbing to Kou Ji's side and whispered.
Sitting on the back of a camel, Zhang Yuan covered his face with gauze to block the wind and sand, and said to Kou Ji in a low voice: "Little master, there are more horse thieves in Shazhou than there are in Huangtouhuihe. From Huangtouhuihe to Huangtouhuihe. Today, only three days have passed since the territory of the country, and the villain has already recruited 6,000 people."
Kou Ji stared at the yellow sand in the distance, and said quietly: "It's more than thirty thousand?"
Zhang Yuan nodded and said: "Actually, the villain can recruit more, but the horse thieves in Danshan City have destroyed the reputation of the villain everywhere in the Western Regions after they fled from Danshan City.
Many horse thieves heard the villain's name and left decisively, not talking to the villain at all. "
Kou Ji pondered: "You won a big victory in Deshengchuan. Isn't it enough to wash your reputation?"
Zhang Yuan smiled bitterly: "If it weren't for the villain who fought a big victory in Deshengchuan, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to recruit 30,000 horse thieves."
Kou Ji nodded slowly, and exhorted: "Digest the horse thieves as soon as possible, and let them follow you sincerely. In the future, you are likely to split the borders in the Western Regions, so are they loyal and do they recognize that they are members of the Yuanshan Tribe? , Is very important.
The ordnance you need, I'll find a way to send it to you when I look back.
Before you have gained their loyalty, it is better not to give them the weapons of interest. "
Zhang Yuan nodded decisively.
"The villain understands..."
Having achieved the goal, Zhang Yuan didn't stay with Kou Ji much. After the ceremony, he left Kou Ji and went to talk to the horse thieves.
Zhang Yuan seemed to have gathered 30,000 horse thieves, but in fact they were really horse thieves, but only 10,000.
Among the 30,000 horse thieves, only 10,000 have soldiers.
There are more than 20,000 people, most of whom don’t even have a handy weapon.
Kou Ji knew that most of them were herdsmen who had traveled in the Western Regions before.
Because Xixia, Dasong, Shazhou Huihu, and Huangtou Huihe fought fiercely in Shazhou, they couldn't live a normal life, so they could only become horse thieves.
Zhang Yuan felt that these herdsmen were Yuanshan tribesmen gifted to him by heaven.
Compared with the real horse thieves, the herdsmen are very good at managing and easy to be bought by Zhang Yuan.
Although they have no weapons, many of them even have only a thin garment wrapped around their bodies.
But their combat effectiveness is not weak.
Living in the bitter cold place all year round, fighting with jackals, tigers and leopards all the year round, so that they have strong physique and far superior combat effectiveness.
What they lack now are weapons and armor.
Armed with swords and armor, and after a little practice, they are qualified fighters.
Kou Ji saw Zhang Yuan's thoughts, and his thoughts were similar to those of Zhang Yuan.
So when Zhang Yuan came to the door, he didn't feel embarrassed and agreed with one bit.
Zhang Yuan must rely on these herdsmen if he wants to truly gain a foothold in the Western Regions.
Because he didn't have so much time to gather the hearts of those horse thieves one by one.
Zhang Yuan just left.
Liu Heng rode a camel to get close to Kou Ji with a deep voice, and said to Kou Ji in a deep voice, "Fourth brother, in four days, we will be in Shazhou City. The man I sent out was 30 miles away and hit Xixia's ride.
Li Yuanhao should have calculated that we have arrived in Shazhou, otherwise it would be impossible for him to send his ranger to such a long distance.
Do you think Li Yuanhao will send someone to set up an ambush? "
Speaking of the last sentence, Liu Heng looked worried.