"Knowing Liu Heng's whereabouts, I feel relieved."
What Kou Ji was most afraid of was that Zhao Zhen would stuff Liu Heng into a corner that no one could find.
Now that he learned that Zhao Zhen had assigned Liu Heng to the country, Kou Ji had nothing to worry about.
The errand of Liu Heng moving to Yinshan in Wa was led by Zhao Zhen. Zhao Zhen did not discuss the matter with him. Liu Heng did not reveal the meaning, and Kou Ji was not easy to get the bottom line.
Kou Ji stared at the middle-aged man and said, "Since you are Liu Heng's person, you are your own."
The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief, just about to get up.
But Kou Ji said again: "But do you want to tell me clearly about you following my son?"
The middle-aged man had a bitter expression on his face when he heard the words, "Private Kou, you have misunderstood the villain, and the villain dare not follow the young man Godsend. The villain protects the young master Bo Xu in secret. The young master Bo Xu has been staying with the young master Tianci these days Together, the villain will follow Young Master Bo Xu, and naturally cannot avoid the God-given Young Master."
Kou Ji snorted coldly, "Since he is his own, and he is doing business, why don't he show up openly."
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly: "The villain doesn't want to cause you trouble. After all, the villain is now a pawn."
Kou Ji frowned slightly.
"Looking back, I will find a reason to help you smooth this matter. Don't follow Tianci and Boxu sneakily in the future."
The middle-aged nodded solemnly.
The middle-aged man followed Liu Boxu, mainly because he got the order of Liu Heng to protect Liu Boxu secretly.
When the middle-aged man was following Liu Boxu, he found that Liu Boxu and Kou Tianci were followed by others both overtly and secretly, and they did not need the protection of their brothers.
Due to the tyrannical guards around Kou Tianci and Liu Boxu, the middle-aged man did not dare to get too close, so the guards around Kou Tianci and Liu Boxu did not find them.
But even so, he did not escape.
He followed Liu Boxu and showed his head at the gate of the Kou Mansion's courtyard, and was discovered by Du Hu. As soon as Du Hu showed up, he was arrested.
There are so many capable people in the Kou Mansion protecting Liu Boxu's safety, he really doesn't need to worry too much.
After the middle-aged man nodded, Kou Ji said, "Although the officials copied Liu's mansion, there is one place he didn't move. That is the Vientiane Pawnshop and Vientiane House.
Therefore, Liu Heng is still a member of the Vientiane Pawnshop and Vientiane House.
You take someone to the Vientiane Building to find Zhang Cheng and ask him to arrange an errand for you.
While you are working, you help Liu Heng save the year-end dividend.
When Liu Boxu grows up, you can come to him as a long-term follower.
Liu Heng's dividends from the Vientiane Pawnshop and Vientiane House can also be given to him. "
The middle-aged man agreed without hesitation.
Kou Ji and Liu Heng are brothers. Kou Ji tells Liu Heng's people to do things. They have no room for bargaining.
"Take your brothers, first go to the Yunlai Inn in Ruian Town and stay. When everything is ready, I will send someone to tell you."
Kou Ji gave an order.
The middle-aged man got up, gave an answer, and left the study.
After the middle-aged man left, Kou Ji let out a sigh of relief, "I thought that some gangster was eyeing Godsend, but I didn't expect it to be a false alarm."
After muttering to himself, Kou Ji looked at the kid hiding in the dark and frowned again.
Those mud men hiding under the ground, abducting and selling young children, kidnapping young children, and mutilating young children have touched his bottom line of life.
He felt that it was necessary to give a good lesson to the beasts in the ground.
Duhu and Lu Ming went underground with all the guards in the house who were capable of fighting, and there should be a result.
Kou Ji ordered the maid to take the child down to wash, and sat in the study to wait for news.
Kou Ji waited until the evening when Lu Ming rushed into the study, covered in blood.
Seeing this, Kou Ji stood up suddenly, "How?"
As Lu Ming panted, he said: "Those people hiding underground are like rats. They are running around underground. The villain is not familiar with the underground terrain and is not easy to chase. They have set up many institutions underground, the villain. Almost all the guards who were brought with him were injured.
If it weren't for Mr. Dumb's support, the guards would probably die. "
Kou Ji's brows became a ball in an instant.
Lu Ming continued: "There are a lot of them, not only underground, but also on the ground. They are anxiously chased by the little people, and sometimes they rush to the ground and get mixed into the crowd.
The little people fought for most of the day, but they killed more than a hundred villains and rescued more than a dozen young children and women. "
Kou Ji raised his brows, "Listen to you, there are a lot of young children and women in their hands."
Lu Ming slowly nodded, "They made their fortune through kidnapping, extortion and human trafficking. Some young children and family members of women stayed in their hands because they could not pay the ransom.
Women who look beautiful will be sold to brothels.
The young children were thrown into the street to beg after being disabled by them.
In any case, they have a profit. "
After a pause, Lu Ming said solemnly: "In fact, this matter is not uncommon among the folks. They are called Mud People in Bianjing City. They are called Huazi Gang outside Bianjing City."
"They all deserve to die!"
Kou Ji sighed in a deep voice.
Lu Ming smiled bitterly: "They are as slippery as loach..."
Kou Ji snorted: "Under the thunderbolt, no slippery loach will be crushed into meat. Go to Li Mansion, tell Li Zhaoliang, let him play the court, mobilize the Five Cities Soldiers and Marshals and the inspectors, and The people in the various detention centers in Bianjing City gave me all these loaches to be glued to death."
"Will it be a little exciting?"
"I just want to mobilize the people, and I want to use this to tell all the wicked people in the world. I don't care about killing and setting fire, but I dare to attack young children and women. Even if I hide under Jiuyou, I will dig them out. "
Seeing that Kou Ji's idea had been decided, Lu Ming didn't say any more, and after an answer, he left the study.
Lu Ming rushed to the Li Mansion. Li Zhaoliang was shocked when he heard Kou Ji's instructions, and hurried into the palace by car.
As soon as he entered the palace and saw Zhao Zhen, Li Zhaoliang hurriedly shouted: "Officials, Privy Councilor Kou wants to mobilize the soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Inspections Department to clean up the mudmen in Bianjing."
Inside Shishi Hall.
Zhao Zhen, Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, and Zhang Zhibai frowned when they heard the words'mud man'.
Obviously, they have also heard of the notoriety of Mud Man.
The mud man has been a misfortune in Bianjing for a long time.
Kaifeng Mansion has also cleaned up mud men several times.
But every time it is cleaned up, the mud man will come back to life.
The imperial court has had a lot of headaches for this, but it has never been completely resolved.
"Why did Kou Ji target those scumbags? Do you have to use heavy troops?"
Wang Zengning frowned and murmured.
Zhao Zhen's expression changed when he heard this, he got up suddenly and rushed out.
The three of Lu Yijian were stunned.
After thinking about it for a while, Lu Yijian's eyes widened in horror, "No way..."
"No... Are they crazy?"
Wang Zenggang wanted to agree with Lu Yijian's words, but he was half talking, and he realized the true meaning of Lu Yijian's words, and he was shocked.
Zhang Zhibai's face was pale, "It shouldn't be... Kou Tianci has a master to follow..."
Lu Yijian gritted his teeth and said: "That group of lunatics have a precedent for attacking officials' heirs. If their heads are hot, they will hit Kou Tianci with their attention, it is not impossible."
Wang Zeng resolutely said: "Impossible! They can't attack Kou Tianci. If they attack Kou Tianci, it is to die. If they were so stupid, they would have been annihilated by the court."
Lu Yijian retorted and said, "Nothing is impossible. They abducted Chen Yi's son under the noses of Mrs. Chen Yi, who will be the prisoner. When they were found, Chen Yi's son had been dug out of his eyes. Ruined his face.
Unless Mrs. Chen Yi was in person, she would not have recognized her son.
In the end, it was the birthmark on the back of Chen Yi's son that he was able to verify his identity.
It is not the first time that they have dealt with officials' heirs. "
(There was a similar case in the Ming Dynasty. The person who was abducted was an imperial daughter. When he was found, his face was completely ruined and difficult to identify.)
Wang Zeng snorted: "But don't forget, the court sent Sansi, Wucheng Soldiers Masi, and Kaifeng Mansion to wipe out the mud men together. There is a precedent, and they dare to attack officials' heirs. ?"
"What if someone instigates behind?"
"You wish that something happened to Kou Tianci, didn't you?"
"The old man doesn't mean it, the old man just thinks that we have to plan ahead."
"It's useless to say more, go to Kou Mansion first, and then make more decisions."
Zhang Zhibai spoke last, but got up first and left the palace following Zhao Zhen's footsteps.
After Zhang Zhibai left, Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng also got up and left the Shishitang and rushed to the Kou Mansion Courtyard.
When the group rushed to the courtyard of the Kou Mansion, it was getting late.
Zhao Zhen arbitrarily broke into the courtyard of the Kou Mansion, and asked, "Where is my husband?"
The three of Lu Yijian followed in Zhao Zhen's footsteps and entered the Kou Mansion's courtyard. Hearing Zhao Zhen's words, they were stunned in place.
Kou Tianci really became a consort
Kou Ji received a notice from his subordinates, and when he knew that Zhao Zhen had arrived, he hurriedly greeted him.
After hearing what Zhao Zhen said, Kou Ji said in amazement: "The gift of heaven is already asleep, the official is looking for the gift of heaven?"
"Godsend is okay?"
"It's all right... It's all right..."
Zhao Zhen let go of his hanging heart, and the three of Lu Yijian also let go of their hanging heart.
After putting it down, the three of Lu Yijian noticed another thing.
When Zhao Zhen referred to Kou Tianci as a consort, Kou Ji didn't seem to deny it.
Could it be that the two of them have already settled this matter in private
That is the marriage of a princess of a country, don't you need to tell the world
Don’t you need to discuss with the three of us
Are our three prime ministers furnishings
Lu Yijian and the three have mixed feelings.
Zhao Zhen didn't care about it. Zhao Zhen stared at Kou Ji and said, "Four brother, since Godsend is fine, why are you going to fight?"
When Zhao Zhen asked questions, the three of Lu Yijian looked at Kou Ji and waited for Kou Ji's answer.
Kou Ji sighed and said: "The official, please come with the minister..."
Kou Ji led Zhao Zhen and Lu Yijian to a side courtyard of the Kou Mansion's courtyard.
As soon as I entered the door of the courtyard, I heard a cry.
Entering the door, there is no one in the yard, lights are burning in the wing rooms in the yard, people are shaking inside, and crying is heard from inside.
Kou Ji had no words, and led the four of them to the front of a wing, motioning them to knock in through the crack of the door.
The four people looked in through the crack of the door.
I saw a few young children standing blankly in the room.
Xiang Yan and Xiangjia sister are wiping their tears and washing one of the young children.
The child was missing one eye, and the eye socket was hollow, looking very crippled, with several welts and knife marks on the young body.
While wiping tears, Xiang Yan washed the children.
The young boy stared at Xiang Yan blankly for a long time, and then stretched out his hand in fear to help Xiang Yan wipe away tears.
"Children are pure..."
Wang Zeng closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and said in a low voice.
Zhang Zhibai said with undisguised resentment: "Those beasts deserve to die!"
Zhao Zhen took a deep breath, retracted his gaze, looked around the side room in the yard, and asked Kou Ji in a deep voice, "How many children are there?"
Kou Ji said solemnly: "Sixteen have been rescued so far, and seven women have been rescued, of which eleven young children have been mutilated."
Zhao Zhen, Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, and Zhang Zhibai tugged.
Zhao Zhen resisted the anger in his heart, and said, "It's all those beasts who did it?"
Kou Ji nodded slowly and said, "The guards of the mansion reported that there are many more underground."
Zhao Zhen's eyes fell on the three of Lu Yijian, and asked: "How can there be such a bunch of beasts under my feet?"
The three of Lu Yijian bowed their heads and said, "The minister is guilty!"
Zhao Zhen snorted coldly: "The Five Cities Soldiers and the Inspectorate Department are not enough. He ordered the Kaifeng Mansion and the Criminal Department to participate in it together. Let me dig out all the beasts, and no one is allowed to stay. "
"Here!"
The three of Lu Yijian agreed.
Lu Yijian hesitated: "The young children and women rescued are going to be sent to the orphans?"
Zhao Zhen thought for a while and said: "First put them in the city, let Kaifeng government report the missing people in recent years, and identify them one by one. Those who have a home will let them go home, those who are homeless, or those whose parents refuse to recognize them. , I raise them."
The three of Lu Yijian immediately bowed and said, "The officials are kind..."
Zhao Zhen snorted coldly: "They will deduct from all the Beijing officials' salaries as soon as they should pay. It was your negligence that caused them to suffer, and you should make up for it.
The three of Lu Yijian were taken aback when they heard the words.
Then Lu Yijian looked bitter.
Wang Zeng's face was indifferent.
Zhang Zhibai had such an expression on his face.
Zhao Zhen saw that they had different expressions and added: "Don't worry, I will be the big head. The court does not need you to get some salary. The reason why I deduct the money for their food and clothing from your salary is to let you remember. Because your negligence or negligence in your duties has harmed people, you should bear the price.
I also want you to remember the evil deeds of those beasts, stare at Bianjing City, stare at the world, so that such things will never happen again. "
"Hey..."
"Okay, don't be pestering here. Go and notify Kaifeng Mansion and the Criminal Department immediately, and immediately cooperate with the Wucheng Soldier Ma Division and the Inspection Division to arrest people."
"It's already night, will this matter wait until tomorrow..."
"Whoever has any objections, let them come here to take a look, look at these young children, if he is leisurely and elegant and continue to sleep, I will promote him!"
Zhao Zhen was obviously telling an irony.
After seeing the tragedies suffered by the young children, Zhao Zhen could not dig out the scum and beasts, and obviously couldn't sleep.
He couldn't sleep anymore, so why did the Manchurian civil servants fall asleep peacefully
If someone really disagrees with this, Zhao Zhen will definitely promote him well.
The three of Lu Yijian got Zhao Zhen's verbal order and left the Kou Mansion's courtyard to go to work.
Zhao Zhen couldn't bear to look at the young children, so he took Kou Ji to Xiaozhuyuan.
Randomly found a place. After sitting down, Zhao Zhen said with a long sigh: "Four brother, tell me, how can those beasts meet those young children?"
"Because it is profitable!"
Kou Ji gave the answer.
Zhao Zhen gritted his teeth and said: "For a little money, do these utterly conscientious things? Are they still human?"
Kou Ji sighed, "Maybe they shouldn't be called people."
Zhao Zhen nodded solemnly and said, "I feel so too."
Kou Ji pondered for a moment and said, "The official should have made the matter of establishing a school of education public."
Zhao Zhen was startled, and said in a deep voice, "I have to wait for those studying people to make trouble again."
Kou Ji took a deep breath and said, "For the sake of those children, let the scholars go for the time being. Once the matter of learning is made public, the local government will definitely care about it.
For the sake of their political achievements, they will definitely try their best to protect those young children.
Nowadays, government officials everywhere have ya soldiers to help each other.
Those beasts and scumbags who dare to do things will definitely be captured. "
Zhao Zhen gritted his teeth and said, "Then let go of those scholars for the time being, and deal with them when I have some free time later."
Kou Ji nodded slowly.
Zhao Zhen sighed: "Fourth brother, tell me, we used to do things almost without any disadvantages. Why do we get frustrated everywhere when we do things now?"
Kou Ji thought about it, and said: "In the past, our enemies were very clear, so we only need to look at them and start directly. Now, our enemies are hidden among the people.
If we act directly, it is very likely to harm the people.
So we must proceed with caution.
We can't let go of our hands and feet, and we will naturally be frustrated. "
Zhao Zhen pondered for a moment, nodded in agreement, and said: "It is a hundred times harder to govern the country than it is to fight the country..."
Hearing Zhao Zhen's sigh, Kou Ji pursed his mouth and said nothing.
When Zhao Zhen saw that Kou Ji did not speak, he stopped talking about this topic. He asked: "How is the book compilation and translation work going on?"
Kou Ji said frankly: "The phonological book has already been compiled into a prototype. Now it is only waiting for the great scholars from all walks of life to gather and jointly research the simplified characters before they can be printed and promoted.
The book translation has just begun, but the progress is not fast. "
"Why?"
Zhao Zhen questioned.
Kou Ji bluntly said: "What we translated for the first time was the medical technique of the big food. There are many rare words in the medical technique, which need careful scrutiny, and some medicines also require careful dialectics.
So it takes a lot of time.
Officials should understand that no matter whether it is medical skills or medicine, the slightest difference will be a thousand miles away.
A small mistake is very likely to turn a good prescription into a poisonous prescription. "
Zhao Zhen nodded slowly, "This matter is indeed not anxious. However, the dialectics are too cumbersome, so just find something and try it directly."
Kou Ji heard the overtones of Zhao Zhen's words, but did not speak.
Zhao Zhen said to himself: "Looking back, I will give orders to local government offices, as well as various transshipment envoys and governors, to check those patting flowers. Anything that hurts or cripples people, or kills them. Yes, I will order people to escort them back to Beijing.
They don't treat people as human beings, and I have no reason to treat them as human beings. "
Kou Ji pursed his lips, but did not speak.
If the three of Lu Yijian were here, they would definitely admonish Zhao Zhen and tell Zhao Zhen that this matter would hurt Tianhe.
But Kou Ji will not.
Because Kou Ji felt that no matter how cruel Zhao Zhen used to deal with those scumbags, it should be.
A Jiangyang thief who committed murder and murder is certainly abhorrent, but they are more or less human.
In the face of these people, Kou Ji would never have much anger in his heart. At most, he ordered them to be arrested and brought to justice and handed over to the state law for punishment.
But those who shoot flowers and maimed young children are completely inhuman.
As a person, Kou Ji has no reason to forgive them.
Zhao Zhen made the decision, but Kou Ji did not advise.
The two did not mention the matter again, they sat quietly in the small bamboo garden waiting for news.
After the three of Lu Yijian returned to the city of Bianjing, together with Li Zhaoliang, they mobilized the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division, the Inspection Department, the Kaifeng Mansion, the Criminal Department, and the owners of the various prisons to start a thorough battle against the mudmen in the city of Bianjing. Great cleaning.
Tens of thousands of people swept past Bianjing like plowing, and the mud people hiding under the ground of Bianjing had nowhere to hide.
In Bianjing, a five-hundred-step arresting facility, they knew exactly where the arresting facility was located.
With their cooperation, no one can hide.
The three of Lu Yijian came forward in person, and naturally it was impossible to leave any beginning and end to make people laugh at them.
They took enough people to plough the ground twice in the city of Bianjing, and dug out all the mud men.
Not only dug out the mud man, but also dug out some important criminals hidden in the city of Bianjing.
After counting, the number of mud men hidden underground and connected on the ground totaled a thousand people.
As many as four hundred women and children were rescued.
to this end.
The imperial court paid the lives of nearly five hundred soldiers.
Nearly a thousand soldiers were injured.
Those mud guys are far better than ordinary street gangsters.
They have knives and guns in their hands and even crossbows.
Five hundred soldiers of the imperial court died tragically while fighting them underground.
After the crossbow was captured, the three of Lu Yijian followed the clues of the crossbow and dug up some dirty officials who lurked behind the mudman.
Although the mud men scraped off the inscription on the crossbow, they took the court-style crossbow, and there is still a trace to follow.
"More than four hundred women and children..."
Inside the small bamboo garden.
Zhao Zhen took the number reported by the three of Lu Yijian, and said with a gloomy expression: "It's shocking! This is only left in their hands, sold by them, and women and children killed by them. I don't know how many.
There is such a wicked person hidden under my feet, I don't even know.
It is my sin. "
"Pass on the decree, Ling Chi!"
"In the inspection department, all rank 8 and above are dismissed! All the arrested soldiers will be sent to the border areas to open up wasteland! Re-recruit the arrested soldiers and settle in each arresting station! Similar things will happen in the future, I will not forgive!"