All three members of the Zhengshitang expressed their views, and other civil servants naturally followed suit.
The military ministers hesitated for a long time, and finally followed suit.
In the end, nearly 80% of Manchu civil and military officials agreed with Li Zhaoliang's title of king.
Seeing this, Zhao Zhen thought for a while and said, "Even so, then Li Aiqing will go to the Western Regions."
What can Li Zhaoliang say
Can you refuse
Can't refuse.
Sooner or later, he will be crowned king, but now he has rejected it, and Zhao Zhen will remember it. The next time he is sealed, the land may be even worse.
Da Song is not without a place where the environment is worse than the intersection of Qingtang and Yuanshan.
For example, the location of Great Song Jidong, outside the territory where the Wei room was once occupied, is a very harsh environment.
"Li Zhaoliang, the minister, is willing to die for the officials."
Li Zhaoliang bowed solemnly.
Since it must be agreed, it is natural to say beautiful.
Zhao Zhen nodded with satisfaction, and ordered: "Zhongshusheren, Cao Zhao, named Li Zhaoliang the king of Xishan County, and the fief is Nagqu..."
Nagqu is the place name of a Qingtang territory at the intersection of Qingtang and Yuanshan.
After hearing what Zhao Zhen said, Li Zhaoliang respectfully said: "Leader Li Zhaoliang, thank you for your decree..."
Zhao Zhen stroked his hand, "Flat body..."
After Li Zhaoliang straightened up, Zhao Zhen said again: "Zhongshu Sheren, Cao Zhao, moved Yongning Army General Chen Yaozi to the Ministry of War, and named the Duke of Qin, the first class..."
Chen Yaozuo thanked Chen Yaozi instead.
Zhao Zhen announced a dismissal of the dynasty.
One more sentence was added.
"Four brothers stay..."
Seeing that Zhao Zhen left Kou Ji with something to say, the Manchumen and Martial Arts left the Chui Gong Hall one by one.
Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji were left in the Chui Gong Hall, and when Chen Lin was waiting on the side, Zhao Zhen ordered Chen Lin to take a stool for Kou Ji. After Kou Ji was seated, Zhao Zhen slowly spoke.
"Fourth brother, I originally decided on Chen Yaozi, and the fourth brother knew about this. Why did the fourth brother propose to let Li Zhaoliang go to the song in the court today?"
Kou Ji said frankly: "The minister didn't feel anything wrong at first, but after careful consideration later, he noticed something wrong.
Although Chen Yaozi has a hundred steps to wear Yang Zhineng, but the Chen family is a scholar.
Children in the family learn more literature and less martial arts.
If he were alive, it would be fine to sit in that song.
If he were to die, the scholars of the Chen family would probably not be able to keep that song.
The Li family is different.
The Li family is a family of generals, and the children in the family mostly practice martial arts and are proficient in the art of war.
Most of the people in the clan also have some martial arts.
If they go to keep Nagong, they can keep me stable on the border of Song Dynasty. "
Zhao Zhen thought about Kou Ji's words, and nodded: "The Yuanshan Tribe has absorbed the Qingtang people and the Black Khan people, and the strength will inevitably skyrocket. It is indeed necessary to send a fighter who can fight against the Yuanshan Tribe.
The fourth brother is still thoughtful. "
Kou Ji smiled and said, "The official word is heavy."
Zhao Zhen slapped his thigh and said, "Then this matter is settled. But I think Li Zhaoliang seems a little reluctant, and he will definitely find you in private. Then you can tell him well."
Kou Ji nodded and said: "The minister understands."
Zhao Zhen continued: "It has been more than three months since the fourth elder brother has served as the subordinate Pingzhang of Tongzhong. Within three months, there hasn't been any movement, and the people are now talking about it.
When is the fourth brother going to do it? "
Kou Ji smiled and said: "The minister is waiting for the Privy Council's recruitment and local recruitment to end, and is also waiting for Liu Heng to return to Beijing. If the minister starts now, then the Privy Council's recruitment and local recruitment will probably be difficult to handle.
If Liu Heng returned to Beijing, he brought back bad news.
The court is bound to fight Jiaozhi.
At that time, we must prepare for military affairs.
In terms of government affairs, I am afraid that it will be abandoned halfway. "
Zhao Zhen nodded slowly, and said: "I have been staring at the Taxation Department recently. After Fan Zhongyan's unremitting efforts, the Taxation Department has won the tax collection rights of the four prefectures.
Now it has reached ten houses.
Afterwards, as long as you slowly figure it out, you should get more. "
Kou Ji groaned: "It's less than half, Fan Zhongyan has a long way to go."
Zhao Zhen nodded and said: "This matter can't be put on the bright side, it can only be done in secret, and the time is naturally slow."
Kou Ji said, "When we turn around and free our hands, we will focus on this matter."
Zhao Zhen nodded in agreement.
The monarch and the minister chatted for a while, and Kou Ji left the palace.
After returning to the Zhengshitang, he had just entered the public house and lay down like a salted fish. Wang Zeng looked for the door again.
"Kou Xiangye plans to go to work today without any effort?"
Wang Zeng was very dissatisfied with Kou Ji's current way of handling errands.
Kou Ji glanced at Wang Zeng and said, "My role, didn't you see it in the court today? If you can't solve the problem, I will come forward."
Can you solve it, what am I going to do? "
Wang Zeng glared at Kou Ji, "You have so many important things to do, don't do it now, do you wait until you are old? I'm afraid you will be powerless at that time."
Kou Ji raised his eyebrows and said, "Does everyone think that after I take up the post of Tongzhong Shushu, I will have to do something big? Can't I stay in this position for retirement?"
Wang Zeng said angrily: "I'm not an outsider, do you need to use such words to prevaricate me?"
Seeing Wang Zeng's anger, Kou Ji smiled dryly: "When it's time to do it, I will naturally do it. But it's not the time yet."
Wang Zeng stared fiercely and said, "I'm afraid I won't wait for that time."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "It's coming soon..."
Wang Zeng snorted coldly, took out a melodrama from his cuff, and handed it to Kou Ji, and said angrily: "Li Di handed it over. Cai Xiang and I can't solve it, you look at it."
Kou Ji took the memo, glanced slightly, and said in amazement: "The officials needed by Hexi Mansion have not been resolved yet?"
Wang Zeng said: "All the people who can be transferred from the government and the opposition have been transferred to the Liaodi. Now there are nearly three thousand official vacancies in the Liaodi, so we can still allocate manpower to Li Di."
Kou Ji knew something, so Wang Zeng didn't say it.
Nowadays, there is a real shortage of officials in Da Song Dynasty.
Military control is implemented in nearly half of Liaodi, and the demand for officials has plummeted. As for this, there are more than 3,000 vacancies for officials in Liaodi.
Kou Ji pondered for a moment and said: "After you go to the court, go to the various prefectures, look at the children and doormen of the various prefectures, and see if there are any deacons, persuade them to let them go to Hexi and Liaodi ."
Wang Zeng sighed and said, "I tried to persuade him before, and it didn't work at all."
Kou Ji snorted coldly, and said: "There are talents in the mansion, but they are not willing to use them for the country. Each of them still claims to be loyal and courageous in front of the officials. What kind of loyalty are they."
Wang Zeng said in a deep voice, "They kept those people in order to let them participate in the imperial examinations and enter official positions in the right way."
Kou Ji said indifferently: "Then you go and tell them that if they don't use half of them, then the disciples and disciples in their family don't even want to participate in the imperial examination.
Let them stay in each house and waste time. "
Wang Zeng stared at Kou Ji in amazement, and asked, "Do you still dare to suspend the imperial examination? My Da Song officials are already in short supply. If you suspend the imperial examination, that would be terrible."
Kou Ji said indifferently: "Suspending the imperial examination, that is the authority of the official, I dare not go over and do it on behalf of the official. But I will ask the official to serve as the head of the imperial examination for four or five times
Their children participated in the imperial examination, and I didn't record any of them. "
Wang Zeng said solemnly: "If you really did this, you would have offended all the civil servants of the Manchu court."
Kou Ji asked: "Can they give up my Kou's throne?"
Wang Zeng shook his head, "Can't..."
"Then I'm afraid what they do?"
Kou Ji asked again.
Wang Zeng has nothing to say.
Kou Ji continued: "I am the head of the civil servants. They should be afraid of me, not that I am afraid of them."
Wang Zeng thought for a while and solemnly said: "If they work together to embarrass you, your decree will be difficult to implement."
Kou Ji yawned and said, "If they are not afraid of my substitution, then let them toss."
"Can you still replace the Manchu civil servants?"
"My grandfather's disciples and grandchildren, my disciples, combined have long been more than a thousand people. Among them, there are so many outstanding ones. Do you think I can change it
One by one they were accustomed to their problems, and asked them to put out some people to contribute to the court, but they were reluctant to do so.
He evaded left and right, and dared to embarrass the court.
I really thought that everything the court had to follow their temperament, how old are they
They always look down on those military ministers, but in my eyes, they are far less loyal and courageous than military ministers.
The imperial court wanted to employ people, and the military officials offered the people out without hesitation.
where are they
None of them took the initiative to send their children to Liaodi or Hexi.
This is what they call loyalty? "
"..."
When Kou Ji finished speaking, Wang Zeng was speechless.
Kou Ji coldly hummed: "The court values talents, but it does not mean that talents can make conditions with the court. If you have to talk about conditions with the court for everything, then what is the court? Is it a vegetable market
You turn around and tell them my words intact, if they don't send half of the children out of the family.
Then let them wait to support those children in old age.
By the way, I will tell them that if the children in their family were beaten and disabled by the children of the military ministers and went to the court, I would definitely turn to the military ministers. "
When Wang Zeng heard Kou Ji's words, his eyes almost fell off.
Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, no one has so blatantly threatened the civil servants of the Manchu dynasty.
"Aren't you afraid of being stinky forever?"
Wang Zeng spoke subconsciously.
As a literati, Wang Zeng naturally knew the nature of literati.
If Kou Ji had killed the civil servants, he would most likely appear in the poems and books of all the civil servants in the form of various clowns.
Kou Ji heard Wang Zeng's words and reminded him: "Mengxue has completely spread to every corner of the Song Dynasty. The same is true for subsequent county schools and government schools.
The pen is no longer a unique weapon in their hands.
They dared to oppose the court, so I dared to compile a book, treat them as traitors, write it in the book, and then send it to universities everywhere. "
Wang Zeng cursed, "You lunatic!"
Kou Ji snorted: "Knowing that I am a lunatic, dare to fight with me? Tired of life?!"
Wang Zeng flicked his sleeves and rushed out of Kou Ji's public house angrily.
Kou Ji had power in his hands, it was really crazy and outrageous. He dared to say everything and do everything.
If you really let him do that.
Ninety-nine percent of the civil servants in the court were crazy.
Half of them had to be knocked to death in front of Kou's mansion, proving their innocence.
At the end of the trouble, Kou Ji had to follow her reputation.
It's completely a dry method of death.
Although Wang Zeng was very dissatisfied with what Kou Ji said, but after leaving Kou Ji's public house, he still followed Kou Ji's statement.
He visited the residences of all the officials, and stiffly conveyed what Kou Ji had said to all the civil officials.
For a time.
The official residences in Bianjing were wailing everywhere.
The civil officials are ready to impeach Kou Ji on the Hanging Arch Hall, filled with righteous indignation.
But by coincidence, Zhao Zhen suddenly became ill at this moment.
The civil servants were crying without tears in an instant.
When Zhao Zhen became ill, they didn't even have a place to be called Qu.
If they follow the convention to impeach Kou Ji, the memorial will inevitably go through Kou Ji's hands.
Kou Ji will be able to knock back their memorials at will.
Helping Zhao Zhen to screen memorials is one of the functions of the Zhengshitang.
Just when the civil servants got together to prepare an idea to deal with the matter.
A rumor spread that Kou Ji asked Zhao Zhen to add Enke when he was visiting the sick Zhao Zhen.
After the civilian officials learned the news, they exploded in an instant.
"Wang Xiang, he is demonstrating! He is demonstrating to us! He is telling us that if we don't listen to him, he will really ruin the official career of the heirs in our family!"
"Wang Xiang, I have never seen such a madman since I established the Great Song Dynasty! When Ding Wei controlled the government, he was not so mad!"
"Wang Xiang, you have to call the shots for us!"
"..."
After the civilian officials were bombed, they all flocked to Wang Zeng's mansion, denounced Kou Ji, and asked Wang Zeng to stand up for justice.
Wang Zeng sat in the seat of the main hall.
The civil servants wailed and wailed.
"enough!"
Wang Zeng yelled angrily.
The civil servants closed their mouths instantly.
Wang Zeng glared at the civil servants and cursed: "You keep telling me to call you the shots. Tell me, how can I call you the shots
The official said that he could not get ill, and that he would handle all affairs of the government and the opposition. "
Implications.
Without Zhao Zhen, Kou Ji is the biggest.
No one has a temper what he wants to do.
"Wang Xiang, we can't let him do anything wrong. Let him go on like this, then how can we do things?"
"Yes, yes, he is acting like crazy, we can't do anything at all."
"Wang Xiang, since the official family is not going out, then we will knock on the palace gate. The official family must be handed over to stop Kou Ji's crazy behavior."
"..."
The civil servants shouted.
Wang Zeng glared and shouted: "You are going to go, I won't go, I don't have that face. Although Kou Ji's move is nonsense, there is one thing that is correct.
That is loyalty and courage, we can't compare with the military minister.
The imperial court is now in the process of employing people, and the military ministers hardly hesitate to dedicate their own people.
But what about us
One by one hides the talented and capable children of the mansion, for fear that they will be sent to Liaodi and Hexi.
What happened to Liaodi
What happened to Hexi
Isn't it the territory of my Da Song? "
"Wang Xiang, the children and disciples in our family are still very knowledgeable, and we will only mislead them when we go out. That's why we don't allow them to go into official positions, not because they don't allow them to contribute to the court."
Someone called Qu.
Wang Zeng exclaimed angrily: "Do you regard me as a club? I don't know the virtues of the children and disciples in your family
Use these words to prevaricate me
Get out of here! "
The civilian officials were taken aback, and looked at Wang Zeng in amazement.
Wang Zeng stood up at the table and continued to shout: "I think Kou Ji is right. You people have been used to getting sick by the court.
When the Great Song Dynasty was inaugurated, there was no place for scholars to choose.
Before they saw the vacancy one by one, they pounced on like a fly.
I'm afraid I will be late and have no place.
Now the Song Dynasty is prosperous and has more official positions.
On the contrary, you are picking and choosing.
I don't want to go to remote places, I just want to stay in the hinterland of the Song Dynasty and enjoy the blessings.
You don't want the children of your family to go to remote places, because they feel that they have no future.
Then I will tell you, you dismissed this idea as soon as possible.
In view of your insatiable greed, I decided to hire an official, and when I will send an official in the future, all the scholars from official and eunuch backgrounds will be sent to remote places.
If you are unwilling to go, then you will lose your fame, and you will not be hired for the rest of your life. "
At the end, Wang Zeng almost shouted, "I let you pick, I let you pick! You guys get out of here!"
Under the roar of Wang Zeng, the officials escaped from the palace in a desperate manner.
After they left the palace, they got together and went straight to Cai's palace.
As soon as I arrived at the gate of Cai's mansion, I saw Cai Qi's youngest son, leading a group of children of the same age, and going out with the post.
"Where are the princes going?"
A civilian hurried forward to inquire about it.
Cai Qi's youngest son bowed and said, "According to my father's order, I will take the brothers from the clan to the official department to record their names."
After Cai Qi's youngest son said this, he arched his hands at the civilian officials and left their eyes.
The civil servants were ashamed for a moment.
The three Zaifu of the Zhengshitang are actually one heart.
They are determined to draw blood from each house.
The civilian officials could not find any hope of resistance.
"What shall we do now...?"
"Let the inadequate doormen and the inadequate children in the house go to Liaodi and Hexi?"
"We can't be soft. If we are soft, it is hard to guarantee that Kou Ji won't use this method against us again."
"But if we are not convinced, we have to face Sanzai, and there may be officials."
"Being targeted by the four of them, our official career is over."
"..."
"Everyone, I have decided to hand over the children in my family and leave."
"Brother Mingyi, wait for me..."
"..."
The civil servants instantly chased me away.
They can mix with officials in Bianjing and have a very keen sense of smell.
Now that there is one mind, Zhao Zhen has fallen ill again, coincidentally.
Everything is a foregone conclusion.
Resistance is futile.
Instead of struggling and being beaten to death by someone on the ground, it's better to admit the counsel.
The children, integrity, and reputation in the family are not as important as their senior officials.
In the center of power, they know better than anyone what power represents.
The civil servants returned to the mansion one after another, selected the children and clerks in the mansion, wrote a list, and sent them to the staff to register.
Just three days.
The official department included more than a thousand scholars recommended by various prefectures.
Although there are not many talents among them.
But the imperial court's demands on officials in Liaodi and Hexi were not good.
So they reluctantly shared.
With the addition of more than a thousand new troops, the demands of officials in Hexi and Liaodi can also be greatly eased.
After Kou Ji got the list submitted by the official department, he swiped a big pen and sent some of them to Hexi where he was still a little talented, and the other part was allocated to Liaodi.
Except for prefects and prefectures in Liao, officials of other ranks are not very demanding.
Keep the place intact, and when it's critical, you can go to the garrison for help.
As for governing places, they don't need them at all.
As long as there are no natural and man-made disasters in Liaodi, as long as it continues to operate in the same way as last year.
After the three million soldiers and horses recruited by the imperial court are completely settled in Liaodi, local officials at the grass-roots level will be required to implement the imperial decree.
Of the three million soldiers and horses recruited by the imperial court today, the first two million soldiers and horses recruited have just arrived in Liaodi and are being distributed among the localities.
The remaining one million is still being recruited.
After all of them were allocated to various places in Liao, they participated in the work, and saw the vast land resources of Liao, as well as the harvest of the first people who migrated to Liao.
They will inevitably take root in the Liao region and think of ways to write letters for their families and tribesmen to move there.
At that time, it will be the time when Liaodi needs local officials at the grassroots level the most.
This process can take two or three years as long as one year.
The imperial court can use this gap to train qualified local officials at the grassroots level.
It is precisely because of this that Kou Ji assigned officials to the Liao area very casually.
What is surprising is that after Kou Ji finished allocating officials and sent them to take office, Zhao Zhen healed without medicine.
After Zhao Zhen recovered from his illness, he went to court again.
The Manchu dynasty has a complete range of civil and military.
After the salute according to the rules.
The civil servants began to bombard Kou Ji.
The first to stand up to impeach Kou Ji was the political minister Cai Qi.
Hanging on the arch hall.
Cai Qi faced Zhao Zhen with a solemn expression, and said loudly: "Kou Ji, when he was appointed as the Ping Zhang Shi of Tongzhong Shushu, has acted arrogantly and arrogantly, so that it has aroused many public grievances.
Minister please dismiss Kou Jitong from the post of Pingzhang Shi! "
Although Cai Qi sent out the best children in the family and the best doormen in the house as officials.
But it does not mean that he approves of Kou Ji's approach.
In Cai Qi's eyes, Kou Ji called on the children and doormen of the civil official's family to serve as officials, adding to the prosperity of the imperial court. He was in favor.
But Kou Ji used a threat and coercive method to force the civilian officials to surrender their children and doormen at home. He did not agree.
So after Zhao Zhen recovered from illness, he unceremoniously participated in Kou Ji.
Cai Qi's words, like a fuze, instantly ignited the court officials.
The civil servants went out one after another to count Kou Ji's arrogant crimes.
They shouted fiercely and loudly.
One after another, it seemed like a righteous man who went to justice generously.
His face was full of tragic and anger.
When the civil servants went out to play Kou Ji one after another in the middle of the process.
Someone in the Wuchen queue was out of work, unceremoniously at the Wenchen, it was a violent meal.
"Nonsense! Nonsense! The book is in the belly of the dog!"
Someone in the military queue spoke, and others followed.
A wave of participating in Kou Ji, before it rushed to the end, turned into a confrontation between civil and military.
Suddenly, Chuigong Hall was chaotic like a vegetable market.