Kou Ji walked out of the courtyard where the craftsmen were, returned to his own courtyard, and had just taken off his bearskin coat and was about to wash, when he saw Kou Zhong hurrying into the door.

As soon as he entered the door, he said urgently: "Little master, go and take a look." You're going crazy in the firewood room. ”

"Who?"

The hot sweat towel that Kou Ji had just lifted fell into the water, and he questioned with a puzzled expression.

Kou Zhong hurriedly said: "It's the one named Zhang Hua." ”

Kou Ji sighed and exclaimed, "I've been busy with government affairs these days, and I actually forgot about this guy." ”

"Take me to see!"

As he spoke, Kou Ji put on his bearskin coat and walked out.

Kou Zhong hurriedly followed.

As he walked, Kou Ji asked, "How can this guy be crazy?" ”

Kou Zhong said uncertainly: "It's probably stuffy in the firewood room." ”

Kou Ji was puzzled: "There are windows in the firewood room, there are guards outside the door, there are people to talk to him, and there is light, how can he be suffocated?" ”

Kou Zhong explained: "On the second day after you interrogated the guy, the guy scolded you in the firewood room. The guard at the door couldn't listen anymore, so he nailed the door, sealed the door, and blocked the firewood room to death.

Except for the fact that when he delivered food every day, he would open a corner from the window and throw him in, but the guards did not talk to him on weekdays. ”

Kou Ji gasped and said in a deep voice: "This is a confinement that has been locked up for more than ten days......"

"What confinement?"

Kou Zhong asked.

Kou Ji shook his head and whispered, "It's nothing ......"

If ordinary people are locked up for three or five days, they are more well-behaved than dogs.

If you are locked up for ten days and half a month, you will either go crazy or commit suicide.

Kou Ji rushed to the courtyard where the firewood house was located, and saw Zhang Hua sitting in the courtyard with his hair scattered, staring blankly at the sky.

Beside him, surrounded by three guards.

Kou Ji stepped forward, smelled the stench on Zhang Hua's body, and took a few steps back.

"Zhang Hua?!"

Koji shouted.

Zhang Hua was indifferent.

Kou Ji wondered, "Really crazy? ”

Kou Zhong and the three guards nodded in unison.

Kou Jiba clicked his mouth and said in a low voice, "It's a pity...... Give him a good one and throw him to a mass grave outside the city. ”

The guard nodded, drawing the scimitar at his waist.

A little sword light flashed into Zhang Hua's eyes through the blazing sun.

Zhang Hua's eyes were a little brighter.

He yelled, "I don't want to die...... I can't die ......"

The guards swung their swords to slash.

Zhang Hua rolled smoothly, rolled three times, and rolled to Kou Ji's feet.

He suddenly hugged Kou Ji's thigh and exclaimed, "Let me go, let me go, you can do whatever I want." I will make you a cow and a horse, and I will make you a slave and a servant......"

Seeing that Kou Ji was unmoved, Zhang Hua hurriedly said: "You treat me as a dog, when I am a dog...... Reward me with a bone when you're happy, kick me out when you're unhappy......"

While talking, Zhang Hua still hugged Kou Ji's legs, rubbed them twice, and snorted twice.

At this moment, he Zhang Hua still has a little bit of arrogance.

At this moment, he Zhang Hua has been humbled to the bone.

But he had to.

He wanted to live.

All the unrealistic fantasies in his mind have vanished with the confinement of ten days.

If it weren't for his strong desire to survive, I'm afraid he would have committed suicide in the firewood room a long time ago.

In the last days of confinement.

The only thought in his mind was to see Kou Ji and beg for his life in front of Kou Ji.

As long as Koji can keep him alive, he can do anything.

When Zhang Hua followed the example of a dog, lying on the ground, with his feet facing the sky, and lifted his clothes, revealing his belly.

Kou Zhong muttered, "Can people still be so cheap? ”

Kou Ji looked at the festering scar on Zhang Hua's chest, frowned slightly, and said lightly: "You went in and locked up for ten days and half a month, and you came out like this." ”

If it was before, Kou Zhong would definitely weakly refute Kou Ji.

But seeing Zhang Hua's appearance, he couldn't say a word of rebuttal.

Actions speak louder than words.

Kou Ji's eyes circled on Kou Zhong and the three guards, and said coldly: "This matter is forbidden to spread outside, and you are not allowed to use this method to deal with the people in the house."

Otherwise, don't blame me for not being emotional. ”

Kou Zhong and the three guards trembled, and they all bowed down and agreed: "......"

Zhang Hua, a living example in front of them, how dare they go against Kou Ji's intentions.

Kou Ji looked down at Zhang Hua, who was drying his belly and was on all fours, and frowned: "Take him down, find a doctor in the house to treat him for a day or two, wash up again, change clothes, and then send him to my yard." ”

Kou Zhong agreed.

Kou Ji flicked his sleeves and left the courtyard.

Kou Zhong ordered the three guards to pick up Zhang Hua and send him to the courtyard where the doctor was located.

Kou Ji returned to his yard, threw down his bearskin coat, washed his face with cold water in a copper basin, pinched the frozen sweat towel, and said with emotion: "A generation of traitorous males has become what they are now, and I don't know if it's good or bad." ”

Kou Ji said as he pinched the sweat towel and wiped it on his face.

His face hurt from the hard shaving of the sweat towel, he threw down the sweat towel and shouted outside the door, "Come on, change me a basin of hot water." ”

The servants outside the courtyard heard Kou Ji's shout, hurried into the courtyard, and helped Kou Ji change a basin of hot water.

Kou Ji cleaned up briefly and sat in the room in a daze.

After a long time.

Kou Zhong hurriedly entered the courtyard and reported: "Little young master, the doctor in the house said that the knife wound on Zhang Hua's chest is festering, and he needs to scrape off the rotten flesh and reapply the medicine, and only after the new meat grows can it recover as before."

The doctor left him in the hospital and said that he would send it to you after he was cured. ”

Kou Ji stared at Kou Zhong's back with a faint gaze.

Kou Zhong was stunned for a moment, turned around suddenly, and saw Zhang Hua, whose face was pale, standing behind him.

He shuddered.

But it was only a trembling, and there was not much overreaction.

Kou Zhong frowned and said, "Shouldn't you stay in the medical hall?" What are you doing here? ”

Kou Zhong was a little unhappy in his heart, so he told Kou Ji that Zhang Hua was recuperating in the hospital, and Zhang Hua appeared in front of Kou Ji.

Isn't that a slap in the face?

Zhang Hua said a little sluggishly: "The little slave's injury doesn't matter, the little slave is in a hurry to come over and serve the master." ”

Kou Zhong's brows furrowed, and Kou Ji also frowned slightly.

Kou Ji instructed: "From today on, you will change your name to Zhang Yuan, first be a handyman carrying swill in the mansion, and then call you when I need to use you in the future." ”

Zhang Hua saluted Kou Ji in a proper manner, and said in a daze: "Thank you master for the name." ”

"Let's go down."

Kou Ji waved his hand, and Zhang Hua withdrew from Kou Ji's bedroom.

Kou Zhong asked Kou Ji hesitantly, "Little young master, is this person useless?" ”

Kou Ji pondered: "That's not necessarily, this person is different from others, and he is very cunning." You send someone to keep an eye on him behind your back, and if he makes any difference, you send someone to tell me. ”

Kou Zhong said unexpectedly: "What does the little young master mean, this person's appearance just now may be pretended?" He is clearly taking refuge in you, young master, and there is a possibility that he will repeat it behind his back? ”

Kou Ji nodded slowly.

Kou Zhong said in a deep voice: "That old servant has to send a clever man to keep an eye on him." ”

"As it should be!"

Kou Ji said.

Kou Zhong wanted to retire, and was just about to give a salute, as if he remembered something, and asked: "Little young master, this person doesn't look special, why do you value him so much?"

When he was in the countryside, he had a bit of fame, but when he got Bianjing City, it was not enough to see.

Not to mention other places, even those scholars who serve in our house are better educated than him. ”

Kou Ji explained simply, "The peculiarity of this person is not in his writing, but in his scheming." ”

Kou Zhong said unexpectedly: "Little young master is saying that this person has a scheming that is different from ordinary people?" ”

Kou Ji nodded slowly.

Kou Zhong said thoughtfully: "If this is the case, the little young master can also subdue him, stay by his side, and be a long-term follower." ”

Kou Ji nodded, "That's what I thought. ”

Kou Zhong said seriously: "But this person has the possibility of repeatedly, it is better for the little young master to hand him over to the old servant, and the old servant will train him one or two, and he will definitely be able to follow the little master obediently." ”

Kou Ji stared at Kou Zhong in amazement, and said in surprise: "You still have this means?" ”

Kou Zhong said embarrassedly: "The old servant has followed the master for many years, and the servants and maids who have passed through him are thousands of people. If there is no means, how can you subdue them?

In the past, this kind of dirty thing, the old servant didn't dare to take it out and pollute the ears of the little master.

Now that he has seen the methods of the little young master and understood the little master's thoughts, the old servant dared to mention it in front of the little master. ”

Kou Ji rolled his eyes and shouted, "We are all our own people, if you have any means, you should tell me truthfully." Save me from having to find the right people when I want to hire people. ”

Kou Zhong said with a smile: "The little master taught me a lesson. ”

Kou Ji glared at Kou Zhong and said, "I'll leave it to you, if you have any means, just do it." If the training is not good, I don't use it well, be careful that I hit your board. ”

Kou Zhong grinned, "Little Master, just take a look." ”

Kou Zhong didn't say anything boastful, arched his hand, and exited Kou Ji's bedroom.

He is confident enough to do this.

As an old man who has followed Kou Zhun for decades, if he hadn't had some means, he would have been killed a long time ago, and he could still stay until now.

On weekdays, he doesn't want to show his status, because no one in the palace can shake his status.

Once someone threatens his position, he will definitely show the other party what is called a thunder method.

Kou Ji looked at the back of Kou Zhong leaving, pouted, and said with emotion: "The mansion is really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, I don't care about it on weekdays, so I can't find it." So much so that a lot of talent was missed.

If Zhang Hua had been handed over to Kou Zhong for training when he first entered Beijing, I am afraid that he would have become my right-hand man by this time. ”

After sighing, Kou Ji pretended to be a dead dog in the bedroom.

It wasn't until Kou Zhun came back from the palace that he left the bedroom and went straight to the main hall to see Kou Zhun.

When Kou Ji arrived at the main hall, he saw Kou Zhun sitting with a tea bowl in his hand and a cloudy face.

Kou Ji stepped forward and asked in a deep voice, "Grandfather's entry into the palace is not going well?" ”

Kou Zhun put down the tea bowl, shook his head, stretched out his hand to pull his snow-white beard, and muttered: "It's not that it's not too smooth, but it's too smooth, and the smoothness makes the old man feel a little incredible." ”

Kou Ji exclaimed unexpectedly: "Liu E promised Xu Zhezhong the right to act cheaply? ”

Kou Zhun nodded and said: "Not only did he agree to Xu Zhezhong's right to act cheaply, but he also proposed to dispatch troops and horses in advance and arrange them on the northwest line. ”

Kou Ji said: "This is a great thing, why is my grandfather sullen." ”

Kou Zhun glanced at Kou Ji and said faintly: "Without the permission of the old man, she promised Ding Wei the authority to supervise the army, and asked Cao to use the documents that Ding Wei gave to transfer troops. ”

After a pause, Kou Zhun beat Kou's bus and said, "She also stole the official family's commander tiger talisman and gave it to Ding Wei, and asked Ding Wei to go to the northwest the day before yesterday." ”

Kou Ji hurriedly asked, "Who is the commander, and what part of the soldiers and horses are being transferred?" ”

Kou Ji did not see the mobilization of soldiers and horses in the capital, so if Liu E wanted to mobilize troops, he could only mobilize soldiers and horses outside the capital.

Kou Zhun said in a deep voice: "Yongxing Road Mabu Army is the commander of the envoy, and the head of the Daizhou Road Capital, and Li Zhaoliang is the commander of the pacification and recruitment, and the Datong Army, the Gande Army, the Yongxing Army, and the six-compartment soldiers and horses are dispatched by him, and the township soldiers and vassal soldiers from all over the Yongxing Road and Daizhou Road are all dispatched by him. ”

Kou Ji groaned: "The son of the late Zhongshu Ling Li Jilong, Li Weixian's father, Li Zhaoliang? ”

Kou Zhun nodded heavily.

Kou Ji continued: "The Datong Army, the Gande Army, and the Yongxing Army have a total of 150,000 horses. Including the township soldiers and feudal soldiers, there must be a total of 200,000 people, right? Liu E doesn't make a move, and if she makes a move, it's a big deal. ”

The military system of the Song Dynasty was dominated by two armies and 20,000 men and horses in the other.

The three armies and six carriages are 150,000 horses.

Kou Ji asked: "With the transfer of 200,000 soldiers and horses, Liu E dares to call the shots without going through the court?" ”

Kou Ji then said: "Besides, now that the food shortage in various places has not subsided, she has the courage to dispatch a large army, if it spreads, there will definitely be a lot of rumors." ”

Kou Zhun sighed, "Who's to say it's not." ”

Kou Ji asked, "Grandfather stopped it by speaking out?" ”

Kou Zhun shook his head and said in a low voice: "The old man not only stopped her, but also helped her." ”

Kou Ji looked suspicious.

Kou Zhun sighed and said, "The old man signed her name on the paperwork for her dispatch of troops and horses. ”

Kou Ji was stunned.

Kou Zhun explained: "Although Liu E is in a hurry to transfer troops, it is a bit hasty. But as you and my ancestors and grandsons said before, this Liao people's conquest of Western Xia is a rare opportunity for my Great Song Dynasty, and I can't miss a minute or a second.

Our ancestors and grandchildren were still anxious about Liu E's refusal to transfer troops, but now that Liu E is willing to transfer troops, if the old man speaks out to stop her, he will make her a stumbling block.

The old man was afraid that the spirit she had just raised would retract.

If this spirit is retracted, it will be difficult to move troops in the future.

Yanyun has not recovered, and Xixia is eyeing it.

If the imperial court keeps standing still, it is easy to become a toothless tiger, and it will only be a mermaid at that time. ”

Kou Ji heard Kou Zhun's explanation and suddenly realized.

He nodded and said, "Grandfather is right, since she has the idea of mobilizing troops, she can't be allowed to retract again." I saw Liu E hurriedly transferring troops, probably also to grab credit.

Once she takes the opportunity to bite a piece or two of meat, she will use it to expand her territory.

Her prestige in the court will definitely be re-established.

She probably also wanted to use this to reappear on the vertical arch hall. ”

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