The Cochin Envoy did not believe Kou Ji's words at first, but after listening to Kou Ji's explanation, he believed in his heart.
Judging from the various performances of Kou Ji since joining the officialdom, Kou Ji is indeed a bit like helping Zhao Zhen earn money.
For example, the word Jiaozipu, a super money collecting machine recognized by the Song Dynasty, was created by Kou Ji. At the beginning of the establishment, Zhao Zhen had participated in the work, and had almost nothing to do.
It was Kou Ji who was busy before and after running alone, making Jiaozipu bigger.
Then, after Yizijiaozipu became bigger, Zhao Zhen put it in his pocket.
Kou Ji, who contributed the most, didn't seem to get a single ingredient.
This shows that Kou Ji is indeed helping Zhao Zhen earn money.
Therefore, Zhao Zhen favors Kou Ji and protects Kou Ji, which makes sense.
Zhao Zhen favors Kou Ji because Kou Ji can help him earn money; Zhao Zhen's protection of Kou Ji is to protect his pocketbook.
It's no wonder that so many people in the Song Dynasty impeached Kou Ji, Zhao Zhen has been ignored.
Who would have trouble with his money bag
It's just that Zhao Zhen's pocketbook now seems to have some ideas of his own.
The Cochin envoy figured out the matter and looked at Kou Ji with more eager eyes.
With Kou Ji's identity and status, if he is willing to help Cochin, the benefits to Cochin are absolutely unimaginable.
Kou Ji didn't seem to see the eager gaze of the Cochin envoy. He still sighed and said to himself, "All the money I collected went into the inner treasury. The officials did not say that they were generous and divided me 10% or 20%. Now he is still fined. This is my salary for one year.
There is a big family in the family, and I can't support it, so I can only make a move. "
The Cochin envoy smiled and said: "Kou Shimi doesn't have to be scornful. If Kou Shimi is short of money, just say a word. There must be a lot of people giving you money to spend."
Kou Ji sighed and said, "I want too! But my grandfather is not happy. If I take someone else's money on the front foot, my grandfather will be driven out of the house on the back foot. I have to use my grandfather's shadow to stay in the courtroom. Stand on your feet and don’t offend him."
The Jiaozhi envoy said in deep thought: "The foreign minister heard that Gong Kou earns a lot of salary every year."
When Kou Ji heard this, a look of anger appeared on his face, "It's okay if you don't mention it. When you mention it, my heart gets angry. His old man earns a lot of salary every year, but he paid it to the Wenchang Academy. He refused. Give half a point to the family.
He wants to become famous, so I dare not stop him.
But he can't just watch his grandchildren and great-grandchildren go hungry just to be famous. "
When the Cochin Envoy heard this, the doubts in his heart disappeared. He sighed and said: "Private Envoy Kou has done a little bit of fire."
Kou Ji gritted his teeth and said: "Who said no."
The envoy of Jiaozhi groaned: "You Song people have a saying that it is convenient to be with others. It is convenient for yourself. Now that Priscilla Kou has found the head of the foreign minister, the foreign minister is not good at rejecting it.
It just so happens that in my Jiaozhi area, there are now and then there are continuous disasters and there is a lack of armaments. "
Hearing this, Kou Ji stared straight at the Jiaozhi envoy, and said, "How much do you want?"
Seeing this, the Cochin envoy was slightly stunned.
Looking at Kou Ji's posture, it seems that he can produce a lot of armaments.
The Jiaozhi envoy groaned slightly, and said: "50 thousand leather armor, 10,000 iron armor, 30,000 swords and guns each..."
Kou Ji's eyes widened in vain.
The Cochin envoy was taken aback, muttering in his heart, is it missing
Kou Ji stared at the Cochin Envoy closely, and whispered: "You want my life?"
The Cochin envoy was taken aback again.
Kou Ji roared anxiously: "Fifty thousand leather armor, ten thousand iron armor, and thirty thousand swords and guns. If I really put out so many armaments, I will definitely be found out. I will definitely be sued to court. .
You should be aware that in my Da Song Dynasty, reselling soldiers was a felony crime of robbing a family and annihilating a clan. "
The Cochin envoy opened his mouth and suddenly didn't know what to say.
He thought he was going to be less, but he didn't expect that the Secretaries of the Great Song Dynasty had made him too courageous.
He pondered for a moment, and felt that Kou Ji was timid and cautious enough to do this kind of deceitful business for the first time.
It's just that the Secretary of the Great Song Dynasty made him so courageous, how did he fight the exploits of Ping Hexi and destroying Xixia
Is it to put the credit of the subordinates on yourself
This kind of thing seems to be very common in the Song Dynasty
Everyone in the Song Dynasty and all the people knows that the Secret Envoy of the Song Dynasty cannot understand the art of war.
I am afraid that the battle exploits of pinging Hexi and destroying Xixia were really robbing his subordinates.
Thinking of this, the Cochin envoy had a little less fear of Kou Ji, but a little more contempt in his heart.
The Cozhi Envoy had no fear in Kou Ji, and the taste of his words changed.
"How much can Shumi Kou offer?"
The speech of the Cozhi Envoy was very calm.
Kou Ji gritted his teeth and said hesitantly: "Ten thousand leather armor, three thousand swords, one thousand spears, five hundred crossbows."
The Cochin Envoy frowned, "Iron Armor..."
When Kou Ji heard the word iron armor, he stared at the Jiaozhi envoy and said, "Iron armor is an important armament of the Song Dynasty. Someone in the Privy Council is staring, and the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry are all staring. I dare to sell it to you, just to die. ."
The Cochin envoy sighed in his heart.
Iron armor is what he values most.
It's just that Kou Ji obviously didn't dare to resell the iron armor.
Although leather armor and knives and guns are not as precious as iron armor, Da Song's armor-making and smelting technology is more than one grade higher than that of Jiaozhi.
Leather armor and knives and guns are also good armaments for Cochin.
He can't miss it.
More importantly, the five hundred crossbows mentioned by Kou Ji.
Da Song's crossbows are definitely good things.
It is not an exaggeration to call it No. 1 in the world.
Must not be missed.
The Cochin Envoy had already decided to trade with Kou Ji in his heart, but his face calmly said, "Too few..."
Kou Ji gritted his teeth and said: "Add five thousand leather armor..."
The Cochin envoy raised his brows and said in deep thought: "It's still too little..."
Kou Ji opened his eyes and said, "This is the limit I can come up with."
The Cochin envoy hesitated and said, "You are a privy envoy."
Kou Ji said angrily: "What about the Secret Envoy? It's not up to the officials."
Seeing that Kou Ji was already annoyed by the Cochin Envoy, he guessed that Kou Ji had already taken out everything he could and dared to take out.
"Then fifteen thousand leather armors, three thousand swords, one thousand spears, and five hundred crossbows."
The Cochin envoy spoke.
Kou Ji gritted his teeth and said: "Price!"
The Cochin envoy gave an offer.
Kou Ji bargained with him.
Come and go, and finally set a price that is acceptable to both parties.
The price is far higher than the market price by as much as 10%.
The Cozhi Envoy was able to accept it because he coveted the five hundred crossbows given by Koji.
After setting the price, the Cochin envoy asked: "Where shall we trade?"
Kou Ji said solemnly: "Of course you can't be in Bianjing City. There are many people in Bianjing City, and it is easy to be spotted. We are trading in Yongzhou, and the local generals in Yongzhou are mine.
When the time comes, you will give him the money, and he will give you the arms. "
Yongzhou is very close to Jiaozhi.
The risks that the Cochin envoys have to bear have become smaller, and there is no reason not to agree.
"Then listen to Priscilla Kou's secret."
The two agreed on the deal, so they didn't talk any more, and after a few words of greeting, they left the restaurant.
Before he left, Kou Ji still nervously reminded the Jiaozhi envoy, not to leak the wind, or he would retaliate.
The Cochin envoy naturally agreed to this matter.
After Kou Ji had gone away, the Cozhi Envoy stared at the place Kou Jiyuan had gone, with a trace of contempt on his face.
"I thought the Secret Envoy of the Great Song Dynasty was so powerful, it turned out to be just a puppet. The really powerful one is probably the Emperor of Song Dynasty."
Through Kou Ji's actions today, the Cochin Envoy judged that Kou Ji was very unbearable.
He believes that the reason why Kou Ji has today's reputation is probably due to Zhao Zhen.
He felt that Kou Ji was not only a tool for Zhao Zhen to earn money, but also a mouthpiece held by Zhao Zhen.
The Cochin envoy was full of contempt for Kou Ji.
Kou Ji did the same to him. After leaving the sight of the Cozhi Envoy, Kou Ji had a faint sneer on his face, "I want iron armor? How can it be so easy."
Kou Ji went off the court personally and traded with the Jiaozhi envoy, not to sell his arms.
After all, he, a privy envoy, wouldn't even make a move in person for a little arms deal.
The reason why he left the game in person was mainly to create a rare illusion of iron armor for the Cozhi people, thereby raising the price of iron armor.
The dignified Secret Envoy of Song Dynasty did not dare to sell iron armor, which shows that Song Dynasty was very strict with iron armor.
If someone risked their lives and put the iron armor in front of them, they would surely be able to sell it at a very high price.
Kou Ji is paving the way for future transactions.
He used the hands of the Cochin to raise the price of the iron armor.
At the same time, through their mouths, the news that someone had sold the Iron Armor of Song Dynasty was spread out.
Those who have long been thinking about the Iron Armor of the Song Dynasty will definitely not miss this opportunity.
Although the number of Da Song Iron Armor is not large, it is not enough to meet everyone's needs.
But as long as there is a huge profit, Da Song can build a few more iron-clad forging workshops to cater to the market.
As long as the war between the neighbors continued, Da Song could use this to draw blood frantically from them.
As for whether the neighbors would wear the iron armor forged by Song Dynasty to offend Song Dynasty, Kou Ji didn't worry at all.
When the neighbors have the courage and strength to challenge Da Song.
Kou Ji can consider selling firearms to them.
When the time comes, beat them fiercely with a firearm so that they can see how powerful the firearm is.
Then he continued to draw blood from them by reselling the iron armor.
"Am I being too cruel to them?"
Kou Ji sighed sincerely after sorting out his overall plan.
Kou Ji's sigh just fell.
The carriage he was sitting in stopped suddenly.
Before he could ask, a figure got into the carriage.
Kou Ji glanced intently, "Duke?"
When Wang Zeng got into the carriage, the Da Ma Jindao took a seat and said, "How much did you sell?"
Kou Ji pretended to be silly and said, "How many have been sold?"
Wang Zeng stared and shouted: "Don't pretend to be stupid in front of the old man. You and the official are acting in the vertical arch hall, and you can know what the purpose of the old man is. You just look at the people who are stupid, so you want to cheat them hard ."
Kou Ji sternly said: "I can't agree with the Prince's words. People are also envoys of a country, how can they be fools?"
Wang Zeng rolled his eyes and didn't want to talk to Kou Ji.
Kou Ji continued: "People are also our guests anyhow. We are a country of etiquette. We should treat each other with courtesy. How can we say that people are stupid?"
Wang Zeng glared at Kou Ji, "Don't pretend to be the old man, just say it."
Kou Ji suddenly closed his mouth and said nothing.
Wang Zeng shouted: "Do you think the old man would like to know about these sordid things? The old man came to ask about this, also to facilitate the records of the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of War."
Hearing this, Kou Ji didn't sell it anymore, and said dryly: "Five thousand leather armor, three thousand knives, one thousand spears, five hundred crossbows."
Wang Zeng stared at Kou Ji blankly, and shouted, "Are you crazy?"
Kou Ji said displeasedly: "I'm not crazy!"
Wang Zeng yelled: "You finally sold such a little thing after you finally caught a bully? Just such a little thing is worthy of a clerk's personal end. You are not afraid of being embarrassed?"
Kou Ji said dissatisfied: "I did this, naturally there is my intention."
Wang Zeng cursed, "You have a shit, did you know that the armaments replaced by the Dragon God Second Guard and the Tiger Wing Army are about to rust when they are placed in the Hyogo
You finally caught a bully, not knowing that you sold them more expensive iron armor, but instead sold them a little worthless leather armor. "
Kou Ji rolled his eyes and said, "I am trying to put a long line and catch big fish."
After saying this, Kou Ji told Wang Zeng of his idea of raising the armor.
After listening to Kou Ji's words, Wang Zeng was stunned for a long time.
"In that case, the old man wronged you?"
Kou Ji said angrily: "Otherwise? You are anxious to sell the iron armor in our armory. What about the leather armor? What about the cloth armor? Isn't it a waste
We first create a rare atmosphere for them.
Then use the iron armor to catch them and let them eat our leather and cloth armor willingly.
When our leather armor and cloth armor are sold out, we will sell iron armor. "
Wang Zeng thought for a moment, and said in a deep voice, "I have a lot of leather armor and cloth armor in the Da Song Hyogo, and Jiao Zhi can eat it? After they eat my Da Song's leather armor and cloth armor, they can still eat me. Song's iron armor?"
Kou Ji said faintly: "Jiaozhi is richer than you think."
Wang Zeng hummed: "But they don't have that many people."
Kou Ji glanced at Wang Zeng, "Look at the young and old together, don't you have it?"
Wang Zeng said contemptuously: "Your heart is so dark..."
Kou Ji rolled his eyes.
Wang Zeng ignored Kou Ji's eyes. After he despised Kou Ji, he thought about it a bit, and said to Kou Ji: "If Jiao Chi is really young and old, the An Nan army may not be able to withstand it.
As the privy envoy, you should help the An Nan army and get more people for them. "
Kou Ji glared at Wang Zeng and said, "You are even more darkhearted..."
Wang Zeng righteously said: "The Annan Army is my great Song soldiers and horses, and the old man, as a minister of the Song Dynasty, speaks to my great Song soldiers and horses, isn't it right?"
Kou Ji suddenly didn't want to talk to Wang Zeng. The old guy was righteous in doing bad things, and he was really speechless.
After Wang Zeng understood the details of the transaction, he did not spend much time in the carriage.
After Wang Zeng left, Kou Ji returned to the mansion in a carriage.
Not long after Kou Ji returned to the mansion, the leather armor that Kou Ji wanted to sell to Jiaozhi was transported out of Hyogo and quietly transported to Yongzhou.
Everything is going on quietly.
Except for a few insiders, the rest were kept in the dark.
…
During the New Year's Day.
Bianjing is as lively as usual.
The noise inside and outside the city is as usual.
The Manchu civil and military is as lazy as usual.
After the New Year's Day, the Jiaozhi envoy left the city of Bianjing. Before leaving, Kou Ji sent a person to follow him out of the city of Bianjing and rushed to Yongzhou.
After he arrives in Yongzhou, he will be able to take away the ordnance he bought after he has handed over the money.
Da Song's ordnance trade with Jiaozhi was only carried out in private, so no one paid attention to it.
After the beginning of spring, the people in the Song Dynasty were attracted by another thing.
That's what the imperial court promoted simplified characters.
After the matter spread out.
The scholars inevitably started to make trouble again.
There are rumors that the simplified characters are newly arranged by the imperial court, which is completely different from the original characters. The characters currently learned by scholars will become useless after the implementation of simplified characters.
Although the imperial court published news about how to arrange simplified characters, how to promote simplified characters, and the parallelism of simplified and traditional characters when they published the Di Bao.
People who read books don't believe it either.
They would rather believe the rumors than the court’s newspaper.
They didn't know where they learned that Kou Ji was the culprit in the implementation of Jianzi, and they ran to the Kou Mansion and Kou Mansion's courtyard.
There are detractors, abusers, and critics.
Kou Ji sat in the study, listening to the condemnation from outside the courtyard, and said to Lu Ming not far away: "How many people were there outside?"
Lu Ming bowed and said, "More than four hundred people..."
Kou Ji nodded slowly, "That's not much, it's not enough for the Firearms Battalion to kill in one round."
The corner of Lu Ming's mouth twitched, "Master, among the scholars outside, many of them are famous. If you kill yourself, it will be bad for you."
Kou Ji rolled his eyes and said, "I'm a privy envoy, what do I want to be famous for?"
Lu Ming said with a bitter face: "But other scholars know, they will definitely preach you as a heinous person. Once you have a heinous reputation on your back, I am afraid that you will not be a good person."
Kou Ji thought about it for a moment, and said, "It's also about..."
Kou Ji instructed Lu Ming: "You go out and tell those scholars that the implementation of simplified characters is the official's idea, and it has nothing to do with me."
Lu Ming's face changed slightly, and he said with a bitter face, "Aren't you trying to seduce officials?"
Kou Ji waved his hand and said, "The officials won't care."
Lu Ming's expression became even more bitter, "Does the official really care?"
Kou Ji rolled his eyes and shouted: "There are so many words... Go out and guard the door. If someone breaks into the house, they will be beaten out. I think about the countermeasures."
Lu Ming agreed and left Kou Ji's study.
After Lu Ming left, Kou Ji said dumbfounded: "Stupid boy, how could the official care about this as a chance to gain fame? The official is now anxious that everyone in the world will stare at him and scold him. It."
The implementation of simplified characters is certainly hated by others.
Can we promote enlightenment and enlightenment
The imperial court could clearly throw out the promotion of enlightenment first and weaken the resistance of scholars.
But now it first throws out the promotion of simplified characters, calling for scolding.
What for
In order to slap her face happily.
Just think about it, when the students make the most trouble, Zhao Zhen will be ruthless next time, and they will be cleaned up.
When Shilin made a sensation and prepared to make a big fuss.
Zhao Zhen throws out the promotion of enlightenment and education in the world.
Scholars in the Shilin who are preparing to make trouble will instantly fall apart.
Not only will they not make trouble, but they will also hold high the banner of Zhao character and praise Zhao Zhen.
Why
Is it because of Zhao Zhen's prosperous education
It's not.
It is because Zhao Zhen gave them a very well-paid job.
There are not many scholars in Da Song.
There are many gentlemen needed for the Daxing education.
With a net fishing, most of the scholars will be collected by the court as Mr. Mengxue.
Everyone has been rewarded by Zhao Zhen, so how can he say bad things about Zhao Zhen.
The end result is that the scholars who were the first to be ruthlessly cleaned up by Zhao Zhen, and some of the scholars with bad intentions, became victims.
No one will pity them, and no one will avenge them.
Why is Kou Ji aware of this overall plan
Because this overall plan was planned by Kou Ji.
When Zhao Zhen wanted to make a name for himself, Kou Ji helped him.
It's just that all plans are afraid of accidents.
The plan made by Kou Ji this time also had an accident.
According to the plan Kou Ji made for Zhao Zhen, Zhao Zhen stood up to clarify the matter when the scholars were about to make a noise, took all the infamy, and then looked for an opportunity to clean it up ruthlessly.
In the beginning, everything was developing according to Kou Ji's plan.
When Zhao Zhen stood up to clarify the matter, an accident happened.
When the number of scholars at the gate of the Kou Mansion exceeded a thousand, Zhao Zhen gave his will and clearly told all the people in the world.
It was his own idea to implement simplified characters.
The purpose of his introduction of simplified characters is to facilitate education.
however.
No one believes it.
Not only did no one believe it, but the team condemning Kou Ji grew stronger.
…
Inside Shishi Hall.
Zhao Zhen stood in front of Long An in disbelief, "Wang Aiqing, you mean, people in the world don't believe me?"
Wang Zeng stood under his head and nodded with a wry smile.
Zhao Zhen questioned: "Why?"
Standing next to Wang Zeng, Lv Yijian said quietly: "The scholars think that the official is taking care of this matter to protect and protect Kou Ji."
Zhang Zhibai added: "Not only that, but it is also said that it was Kou Ji who deceived the official, let the official come forward to help him replace the infamy. Scholars now think that Kou Ji deceived the official and trapped the official to be unrighteous. It is a slanderer and a traitor.
Some people who claim to be righteous people are now following the scholars to denounce Kou Ji. "
Zhao Zhen sat weakly on the seat and sighed: "What's the matter?"
The three Wang Zeng looked at each other and gave a wry smile.
Lu Yijian said, "The officials don't have to worry about this. Although the officials can't use this to accumulate reputation, they can see the hearts of the people.
The common people and scholars are willing to put all the faults on Kou Ji, and they are not willing to let the officials bear the slightest stigma.
It can be seen that the officials have won the hearts of the people. "