"Thank you for your generosity. Your servant has brought you a generous gift. Please accept it."
Old Hatuk seemed to have not heard the threat from Kou Ji. He heard that Kou Ji easily agreed to his request. The smile on his face was very bright and his expression was very pious.
Kou Ji smiled indifferently: "Don't worry, I will never turn away the things you send."
Old Hatuk gave a pious salute to Kou Ji, which is considered to have responded to Kou Ji.
Kou Ji continued: "The young men sent by Gegewu have been studying the art of war in my Da Song for more than three years. I think you can consider bringing them back when you go back.
I believe that they will definitely contribute to the Grid Wu.
In the future, under the same conditions, you can continue to send people over. "
Old Hatuk was overjoyed, "Thank you for your generosity."
Kou Ji did not speak any more, waved his hand, indicating that Old Hatuk could leave.
Old Hatuk gave a humble gift and left the bamboo courtyard.
Before leaving, Kou Ji left a rich gift.
There are animals and plants that Kou Ji asked Zhu Neng and others to search for, and a large number of gold and silver jewelry.
Kou Ji didn't rush to see it, but sat in the study and stared at Wang Anshi with a smile.
After the old Hatuk left, Wang Anshi has been following Kou Ji, obviously there is something to say.
"Sir, Zhu Neng, Li Zhaoliang and others have left the fief. In the land of the Western Regions, the fissure of the territories has violated the identity of a king.
Mr. An can deal with them
They are obviously ill-intentioned. "
Wang Anshi said to Kou Ji with a solemn expression.
Kou Ji sat on the seat and smiled and said: "The officials know what they did. But the officials didn't say anything, didn't make orders to reprimand them, and didn't send soldiers and horses to attack them."
Wang Anshi bluntly said: "The officials are raising tigers."
Kou Ji nodded and said, "There is indeed a risk of raising tigers. But my Da Song is now tentatively implemented. Various reforms are being implemented gradually, and there is no way to go on expedition.
They have penetrated farther than the Western Regions.
The officials are beyond their reach.
But the officials wanted to know what it was like outside the Western Regions.
So I can only rely on their eyes to calm down. "
Wang Anshi said solemnly: "I'm afraid they will look at me, Da Song."
Kou Ji shook his head and smiled: "The territory to the west of the Western Regions is large enough for them to toss. They will not be an enemy of Da Song until they have tossed the place to the west of the Western Regions."
Wang Anshi looked at Kou Ji with a puzzled expression.
Kou Ji explained: "You have two enemies, both of them occupy the same prosperous and fertile territory. One is strong and strong, and the other is sharp, and the other is rudimentary. It fights according to a phalanx similar to the formation.
Which one would you choose? "
Wang Anshi smiled bitterly and said: "Students naturally choose enemies with simple armaments and fighting in a square formation similar to the formation."
There is no need for Kou Ji to say more, Wang Anshi already understands what the situation is in the West.
In Wang Anshi's view, Li Zhaoliang and Zhu Neng, who are proficient in trickery, go to the West to fight the enemy who relies on a phalanx similar to the formation. It is no different from his father beating his son.
Li Zhaoliang and Zhu Neng have an absolute advantage in military force. With Da Song behind their backs, they will surely lay a lot of territory in the West.
That is, it will be more difficult to govern.
But judging from the identity of Zhu Neng and Li Zhaoliang, they should prefer to conquer.
So they must stay in the West and fight until they die.
As for the governance of localities and the management of territories, they will inevitably be thrown to their nephews.
Hit Da Song
It is unlikely.
Unless they have reached the extreme west and established a stable empire.
Otherwise, it's just brainstorming.
Seeing that Wang Anshi had figured it out, Kou Ji waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't pay too much attention to Western affairs. Just take care of those big food books.
After sorting, reprint the sheepskin rolls and human skin rolls as soon as possible.
The origin is sent to me.
The rest is as usual. "
Wang Anshi nodded and exited Kou Ji's study.
After Wang Anshi left, Kou Ji rushed to see the animals and plants sent by Old Hatuk.
For animals, Kou Ji is not very interested.
Kou Ji prefers those plants.
After carefully watching the plant seeds, most of the interest disappeared.
The seeds of potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, peppers and other crops that Kou Ji is most interested in are also missing.
Most of them are seeds that Kou Ji doesn't recognize, as well as some vegetable seeds.
And the poppy that Kou Ji least wants to see.
This object is said to have been introduced to China during the Six Dynasties and has been used as a medicine. It is clearly described in the "Supplements to Materia Medica" by Chen Zangqi, an important scholar in the Tang Dynasty.
Its flowers are called hibiscus flowers, and the roots, branches and leaves are called gutta-percha.
Li Taibai once wrote a poem by him, saying, "In the past, it was a hibiscus flower, but now it is a wild bowel. How long will it be better for Israel to do things for others? '
From the Six Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, it has always been a life-saving medicine.
By the end of the Qing Dynasty, it became a harmful thing.
Kou Ji couldn't get rid of its roots, so he could only shut his mouth tightly, not telling anyone that this thing was a great harm in the world.
Kou Ji stared at the people in the house to grind the poppy into powder, mixed it into the thin mud, and after burying it deep underground, he identified the remaining seeds one by one.
If you know, tell the people in the house about their habits, and let the people in the house use it for farming.
Those who didn't know it were handed over to the master of the house to cultivate.
After processing the seeds, the animals were thrown into the Dasong Royal Hunting Ground, and the money was thrown to Xiang Yan.
Koj entered the palace in a carriage.
When I arrived at the palace, I ran into Zhao Zhen playing with his little sons.
Kou Ji played around with the little princes, and followed Zhao Zhen to the chamber.
Arrived in the Chamber of Deputies.
After sitting down.
Zhao Zhen smiled and asked: "Did they use the actual book delivery machine to make a request to you?"
Kou Ji smiled and said: "It's not a condition either. It's a mutually beneficial thing."
Zhao Zhen looked at Kou Ji curiously.
Kou Ji smiled and said: "They should have laid down a lot of territory in the West, and they should have gained a lot of good things from an alliance with a powerful country in the West.
So I want to invite my Da Song merchants to come over and turn those things into the goods and armors they need. "
Zhao Zhen was stunned for a moment, and asked: "Aren't they those who do business? I also gave them craftsmen who can forge armor?"
Kou Ji laughed and said: "Didn't the officials just say that? They should have laid down a lot of territory. The Song people in their hands are always a minority. They are basically stretched when they are divided into various cities. They can't believe those. Aliens, so we can only ask us to take the initiative to digest their spoils.
More importantly, their eyes are now in the West, and they have no intention of expanding business.
They need our people to expand business. "
Zhao Zhen nodded and asked: "That's it?"
Kou Ji laughed louder when he heard the words, "I want to let the merchants of Da Song Dynasty keep their seeds in the West, so as to strengthen their power."
Zhao Zhen also laughed.
Such a trivial matter, after turning into a state affair, is indeed easy to make people laugh.
After Zhao Zhen laughed, he said to Kou Ji: "Didn't the fourth brother intend to expand the business way before? He also plans to send some scholars to them.
Now it just happens to be able to push the boat along the way. "
Kou Ji nodded and said: "It is easy to conquer a place, but it is difficult to completely turn a place into my Han land. Enlightenment must be promoted.
As long as they help us lay a solid foundation, it will be very easy for future generations to plot that area. "
Zhao Zhen had a look of approval.
Kou Ji continued: "As for the armor, they have to rely on me, Dasong. Although the officials have given them craftsmen, the number of craftsmen is always a small number.
They want to let artisans teach new artisans, the first thing they have to overcome is the speech barrier, and the second is the learning process of forging skills.
For these two points, they will get five or six years of work.
But they are not young and ambitious.
So if you want to achieve something before you die, you can't delay it for a moment
The Bingjia can only continue to rely on my Da Song. "
Zhao Zhen smiled and said: "So, after Jiaozhi and Qingtang, someone has begun to buy my Dasong armaments in large quantities?"
Kou Ji smiled and nodded.
Zhao Zhen laughed loudly, "I never thought that my Da Song could actually make tens of thousands of dollars by selling arms."
Kou Ji bluntly said: "As long as we continue to introduce new ones, we can continue to do this kind of business."
Zhao Zhen sighed: "Then you have to rely on the fourth brother."
Kou Ji shook his head and smiled: "Everything is up to the officials."
Zhao Zhen smiled and said, "That's it... How is the fourth brother going to do business with them?"
Kou Ji said frankly: "Ordinary merchants are too small and unsafe. Let's use soldiers and horses to transport goods. Not only can it be a hand, it can also attract small merchants to follow.
More importantly, it can ensure the safety of our goods and help us see the situation in the West clearly.
When necessary, you can share the results with them. "
"More importantly, you can also train soldiers!"
In Zhao Zhen's words.
The monarch and the minister looked at each other and laughed loudly.
Li Di, Wang Anshi and others felt that to indulge Zhu Neng, Li Zhaoliang and others in the Western Regions and the West, it is a process of raising tigers.
But they don't know.
In the eyes of Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen, Li Zhaoliang and Zhu Neng are the hounds they let out, which can help them see the West clearly and also help them earn money.
As long as Da Song has maintained a leading position in all aspects.
Most of everything that Li Zhaoliang, Zhu Neng and others grabbed in the Western Regions and the West would flow into the Song Dynasty and be swallowed by the Song Dynasty.
Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen knew very well that Li Zhaoliang, Zhu Neng and others needed a long, long period of time to fight fiercely in the Western Regions and the West to gain a firm foothold.
They don't have so much time to develop.
Even if one of them settles down to occupy a place for development, it will take a long, long time to catch up with the Song Dynasty.
During this period, money has little effect on them.
After they looted the money, they had to replace them with talents, materials, and soldiers.
Only in this way can it grow further.
And only Da Song can supply their huge demand.
Therefore, the more Zhu Neng, Li Zhaoliang and others made trouble in the Western Regions and the West, the greater Song Dynasty benefited.
Zhu Neng, Li Zhaoliang and others are like hunters.
After they caught the prey, it was Da Song who finally ate meat and soup.
Da Song will give them sharper bows and knives while eating meat and soup, allowing them to catch more prey.
Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen discussed for a while, and finally decided that some poor soldiers who would retire from the Forbidden Army should be organized into two extra-staff camps.
They took the merchants and transported the goods to the Western Regions and Western Trade.
After they leave the territory of the Song Dynasty, the restrictions of the military law will be lifted, so they are destined to do some shameful things.
So Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen did not put them in the sun.
Instead, they were put under the jurisdiction of the inner government.
To ensure that the people in the inner government do not squeeze them.
Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen set the rules.
They take a trip, and 30% of the income goes to them.
And communicate this rule to all of them.
After the matter is settled, there is no need for Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen to bother.
Just throw them all to Chen Lin and Yang Wenguang.
As Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen, there is no need to go shirtless at all.
They just have to move their mouths, and there are thousands of people for them to drive.
After Kou Ji gave some detailed rules to Chen Lin, he left the palace.
After returning home, he stopped paying attention to this matter.
Instead, he wrote to Kou Tianci, who was far away in Korea, asking him to conscript a labor force and let people build a huge library in Handu.
The library must be built with stone, and fire prevention must be done well.
Kou Ji also drew the drawing himself, put it in an envelope and sent it out.
Since then, Kou Ji has been staying at the mansion to collect the sheepskin scrolls and human skin scrolls sent by Wang Anshi.
Westerners didn't use bamboo slips for books before they had no paper, but rather liked to use sheepskin rolls.
Some precious books also like to use human skin scrolls.
Therefore, there are actually a lot of sheepskin rolls and human skin rolls sent by Gegewu.
It took more than two months for Wang Anshi to distinguish between the sheepskin scroll and the human skin scroll, and left a reprint.
Then he took people for three months to sort out the religious classics in millions of books.
Big cannibals are crazy.
To be precise, religion is crazy.
Of the million books, a full 150,000 are religious classics.
There are more than 60,000 volumes of books that record various magic arts.
Looking at the cruelty of those magic arts, Wang An Shitou's skin was numb.
Wang Anshi couldn't believe the quantity of those magic arts.
It is hard for Wang Anshi to imagine how worthless human life is in a civilization with more than 60,000 volumes of witchcraft books
The true gods, evil gods, demons, and legendary heroes all seem to need human life to communicate.
And it must be a person killed in a cruel way.
There are also some cruel punishments.
For example, the penalty of stuffing a person into a copper bull and burning alive.
In the bamboo courtyard.
Wang Anshi looked at Kou Ji suspiciously.
"Sir, you tell me that it is a place with knowledge. But the students don't see much knowledge, what they see is cruelty, ignorance, and madness."
Kou Ji put down the sheepskin scroll in his hand and asked with a smile, "Have you been hit?"
Wang Anshi said sternly: "It is difficult for students to imagine that there will be any sages in such cruel and ignorant places.
Kou Ji asked in turn: "Isn't it cruel or ignorant of punishments such as gunfire, pots, and sky lanterns?"
A struggling expression flashed across Wang Anshi's face, but he couldn't say anything to refute.
Kou Ji bluntly said: "Zi said: Three people walk, there must be my teacher. As long as there are literary groups, they are worthy of our investigation, and the sages of their ethnic groups are more worthy of our investigation.
There must be something worthy of our study among them.
We feel that our Han culture is unparalleled, and there is nothing wrong with it.
But blindly self-defense and don't know how to learn, one day you will lag behind others.
Only continuous learning, continuous comparison, and continuous improvement of our knowledge.
We can always be in an unparalleled position. "
Kou Ji didn't wait for Wang Anshi to speak again, waved his hand and said, "Go, chop up those things together with a guillotine, and mix them with night incense to fatten up.
If you don’t see your heart and don’t worry, if you ruin it, you won’t have any more troubles. "
"Hey..."
Wang Anshi agreed and left the bamboo courtyard.
Kou Ji ordered the housekeeper to follow, so that Wang Anshi would not be bothered by these trivialities.
After sending away Wang Anshi, Kou Ji stayed in the study to sort out the books on the big food.
In the evening.
The butler took Wang Anshi back to the house in a hurry, with a panic expression on his face.
Seeing them staggering into the study, Kou Ji put down the pen with a look of stunned expression, and asked, "What happened?"
Whether it is the housekeeper of Kou's house or Wang Anshi, they are all people who have seen big scenes, and nothing big is enough to disturb them.
Before they could speak, Liu Heng rushed into the study.
After entering the study, he opened his mouth and shouted at Kou Ji: "Fourth brother, something has happened!"
Kou Ji asked in a deep voice, "Tell me carefully."
It's not a trivial matter if Liu Heng can be moved.
Liu Heng took a deep breath and said with a sullen face: "Prince Zhao Run broke into the Yuchun Palace and played on Fang Meiren."
Kou Jiyu stood up, his face grimly said: "Impossible!"
Liu Heng said with a solemn expression: "We have all the evidence and evidence, and the officials have already made trouble."
Kou Ji frowned and said: "The officials have already done punishment?"
Liu Heng nodded and said, "The officials have restricted the prince to the Daqing Hall and ordered Chen Lin to seal off the palace, but the news still came out.
It is said that Chen Lin is now being ordered to investigate the truth of the matter in the palace. "
Kou Ji looked around Liu Heng, Wang Anshi, and the housekeeper, and asked coldly: "Do you think Zhao Run would do this kind of thing?"
The three shook their heads together.
As a student of Kou Ji, Zhao Run often hangs around in Kou's Mansion.
The three people often see Zhao Run and understand some of Zhao Run's character.
If it is said that Zhao Run stole money from the inner palace, or privately took some things out of the inner palace to do business, the three people would believe it.
It can be said that Zhao Run went to Zhao Zhen's harem to molest Zhao Zhen's woman, but they didn't believe it.
After seeing the three of them nodding, Kou Ji coldly snorted: "I don't believe it! When Zhao Run was in the mansion, he also went to some elegant meetings and met many women with outstanding grace.
People who can hook people are everywhere.
In this way, he was not tempted.
How could he go to find the beauty of the house who is like a walking dead.
There must be an article behind this matter.
What do you guys think? "
The butler had no words and looked at Wang Anshi and Liu Heng.
Wang Anshi and Liu Heng looked cold, and said in unison: "Section! It's starting!"
Kou Ji nodded and said, "I think so too."
After saying this, Kou Ji gritted his teeth and said coldly: "Officials are prosperous in the spring and autumn, I Kou Jihu is in the court, in such a situation, there are people who dare to provoke the seizure of the prostitute.
Do they think the tail of a real dragon is easy to touch
Still think that the tiger's head is a gadget? "
Kou Ji coldly commanded: "Wang Anshi, you go to the Tiansheng Pavilion and continue to work. Butler, you look after my students. Liu Heng, you stay at the gate of the mansion. After I leave, no one will be seen."
The three people all agreed.
Kou Ji flicked his sleeves and walked outside the study, "I want to see who is behind the scenes."
Kou Ji went out of the study and ordered the groom to put on the carriage and walked into the palace in the carriage.
When I arrived at the gate of the palace, I saw several people from Fan Zhongyan also arrived, as well as a group of officials from the Supervision Department.
Fan Zhongyan and others met Kou Ji and hurriedly greeted him.
"Sir, what is going on in the palace?"
Fan Zhongyan and others got to the side of Kou Ji's carriage. After the salute, they asked with complicated expressions.
Kou Ji said with a grim expression: "I don't know anything else, but I firmly believe that the prince will not do anything extraordinary. You go back, don't be stuck here, the official will not see you."
Ouyang Xiu said in a deep voice: "Sir, Bianjing City has spread. If this matter is true, the impact will be too great."
Kou Ji smiled coldly and said: "I just knew that before entering the palace, it was spread in Bianjing. The channels for the people to get the news are better than me?"
Fan Zhongyan's expressions changed.
They are all smart people, and they have guessed that there must be hidden secrets in this matter.
Now that they heard what Kou Ji said, they believed their guesses even more.
But they did not speak out their guess.
Ouyang Xiu pointed at Kou Ji and said, "How to deal with this matter, I still hope that Mr. will show you."
Kou Ji snorted coldly: "Since the people behind want to use this to cause the impeachment of the prince, then we can't let him get what he wants.
All three of you are staring, and a memorial about the prince is not allowed to appear.
Don't tell anyone your opinion on this matter in front of anyone.
I want to see how the people behind it deal with such a situation. "
Fan Zhongyan and the others looked at each other, and Qi Qi agreed with his hands.
Kou Ji waved his hand, "Go back, what to do and what to do."
Fan Zhongyan and others once again arched their hands, got into their carriages one by one, and left the gate of the palace.
Kou Ji told the groom to drive to the edge of Jinshui Bridge.
An eunuch stopped in the road and bowed and said, "The official has a purpose, and no one will be seen."
Kou Ji spit out a word faintly while sitting in the carriage.
"roll!"
The eunuch hurriedly stepped aside.
He knew he couldn't stop Kou Ji, so he didn't try to stop him.
He has done what he should do, and the rest has nothing to do with him.
Kou Ji drove across the Jinshui Bridge, knocked on the palace gate, and drove into the palace.
The journey to Chuigong Temple was halfway.
Chen Lin appeared in front of the carriage.
Kou Ji sat in the carriage and asked, "Where is the official house?"
Chen Lin bowed and said: "The official house is in the bedroom, and the empress and empress dowagers are also there. The prince is forbidden in the Daqing Hall."
Kou Ji thought about it for a moment, "Then I'll go to Daqing Hall first."