Su Xun chatted with Wen Yanbo all night like a chatterbox.

Until the next day.

Both of them stared at a pair of dark circles and appeared in front of them.

Kou Zhun asked people to beat the students with a killing stick, which was more of a deterrent.

It didn't make people ruthless.

So the thirty kills are powerful, but the students who beat the buttocks bloomed, but they didn't hurt their muscles and bones.

After applying the medicine, I can get out of bed and walk around the next day, but I can't sit.

If it is a real thirty killing, I am afraid that the students who participated in the assessment yesterday will be killed.

The cat in the killing stick is known to the famous Confucians who were present yesterday.

It's just a scare, there is no real execution.

Rao is like this, and some students were also frightened to give up the assessment on the spot.

It seems that such a guts rat is embarrassed.

Their ugliness has entered the eyes of Zhao Zhen and the Manchu Dynasty Wenchen, and it may not be difficult to enter the government in the future, if you want to sit in a high position in the court, don't even think about it.

The students rested in the Wenchang School for three days, and the scars on their buttocks scabbed.

Kou Zhun led the famous Confucian scholars in the Wenchang Academy to carry out the second assessment.

Another three days passed.

A third assessment was conducted.

After the three assessments.

Only one hundred and three students successfully entered the Wenchang School and became the students of the Wenchang School.

Those students who did not get into the exam also gained something.

The famous Confucians in the Wenchang School Museum each made their own moves, wrote letters of recommendation for them, and recommended them to study in Guozijian, Taixue, and some famous schools with high reputation among the people.

Their future achievements may not be as good as those of the students of the Wenchang Academy, but they will be much better than those students who were scared away in the assessment.

Since Su Xun got the test questions for the second and third assessments from Wen Yanbo, he has never said a word of complaint from Kou Ji.

Instead, he sent a letter to his family, threatening to study hard in the Wenchang Academy, and if he couldn't read it, he would never go down the mountain.

"The Book of Three Characters" says: Su Laoquan, twenty-seven, began to be angry......

In the future, someone will compile the "Three Character Classic", and Su Laoquan will be difficult to be selected.

Because now, fourteen-year-old Su Xun, under the humiliation of Kou Ji, has decided to work hard.

As for what he will achieve in the future, it will be up to him.

Kou Ji took him and helped him enter the Wenchang Academy, but he was just doing it casually, and he didn't deliberately want to recruit him.

Kou Ji stayed in the Wenchang Academy for a few more days, and after helping Kou Zhun settle everything in the Wenchang Academy, he left the Wenchang Academy.

He did not return to the house, but entered the palace.

Yang Wenguang, the chief general of the Second Route Army sent to Shazhou by the imperial court, had returned to Bianjing from Baozhou.

The Baosai army in Baozhou was temporarily handed over to Di Qing, who had returned to Baozhou.

Yang Wenguang needs to take the Divine Guard Army to the Western Regions and rush to the aid of Shazhou.

As the chief official of the ministry, Kou Ji has to make some cooperation.

When Kou Ji arrived at the ministry, Fan Zhongyan was waiting for him.

Kou Ji invited Fan Zhongyan to sit down in the public room.

Fan Zhongyan said to Kou Ji: "Shangguan, this time you elected the lower official to serve as the supervisor of the army, and went to Shazhou with Yang Wenguang to help, what are your orders?" ”

Kou Ji said with a little surprise: "How do you know that I have something to tell you?" ”

Fan Zhongyan smiled calmly: "I've been following Shangguan for a long time, so I naturally know that Shangguan likes to plan and then act." You elected a subordinate to replace Liu Ping as the supervisor of the army, which must have a deep meaning.

So the lower officials came to you and wanted to know what you commanded. ”

Kou Ji said with a bright smile: "When you go to Shazhou, you just need to bring your eyes and ears." In military affairs, you'd better not get involved. ”

Fan Zhongyan frowned slightly when he heard this.

Kou Ji smiled: "I know that you have served in the army for many years and know the military. If you don't interfere in military affairs, you will definitely feel unhappy in your heart. However, the war to aid Shazhou this time is different from all the wars I experienced before the Great Song Dynasty.

Once my Great Song soldiers and horses enter Shazhou, if you look around, they may be enemies.

You can't be careless, and you can't make any mistakes.

If you make the slightest mistake, you are likely to be attacked by a group. ”

Fan Zhongyan groaned: "Shangguan can trust Yang Wenguang so much. ”

Kou Ji nodded with a smile and said: "Yang Wenguang likes to plan and move, he doesn't like to attack rashly, he doesn't like the sword to go sideways, and he likes to win steadily when fighting."

Now many forces in the Western Regions are staring at the soldiers and horses of my Great Song Dynasty galloping to aid Shazhou, and after the soldiers and horses of my Great Song Dynasty arrive in Shazhou, they need to be stable and stable.

Yang Wenguang is most suitable for this kind of battlefield.

If you interfere in his military affairs, you will inevitably interfere with his judgment and his strategy.

So you try not to meddle in his military affairs as much as possible. ”

After listening to Kou Ji's words, Fan Zhongyan nodded slowly.

But he was still unwilling in his heart.

Said with a wry smile.

"Then why did the lower official go to the Western Regions?"

Implication.

After he arrived in the Western Regions, he could only listen and watch, but he was just a wooden man, so it was better not to go.

Kou Ji put away the smile on his face and said in a deep voice: "When you go to the Western Regions, you naturally have another important task. If you don't have a heavy responsibility, why should I let you go by name? ”

The smile on Fan Zhongyan's face was a little stiff, "Xia Guan heard others say that it was because you didn't like Liu Ping that you elected Xia Guan to serve as the prison army." ”

Kou Ji was slightly stunned, and said faintly: "If I discuss secretly with the official family, it can actually be passed on." ”

When Fan Zhongyan heard this, he hurriedly explained: "I heard that it was the official family who rejected Lu Yijian's proposal to nominate Liu Ping as the supervisor, and Lu Yijian asked the official family about the reason, and the official family told Lu Yijian. ”

Kou Ji heard the news that it was Zhao Zhen who leaked, frowned slightly, and said to Fan Zhongyan: "I really don't like Liu Ping, because Liu Ping seems to be powerful, but he is actually embarrassed.

But I don't have to nominate you to be the overseer.

There are countless officials in the court.

There are many eunuchs in the harem.

There are countless people who can serve as overseers.

The reason why I insist on recommending you is because there is indeed a heavy responsibility entrusted to you. ”

After listening to Kou Ji's explanation, Fan Zhongyan hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Please also ask the official to give orders." ”

Kou Ji frowned and said: "When Zhu Neng and Xue Gong left the court before, I once asked them to go to the Western Regions, investigate the many forces in the Western Regions, write documents, and send them back to the imperial court, so that the imperial court can better understand the Western Regions.

But after they arrived in the Western Regions, they blindly threw themselves into the war and did not make much effort in this regard.

So I want you to go to the Western Regions and help me investigate the many forces in the Western Regions. ”

Fan Zhongyan was stunned when he heard this, and lowered his voice and said, "The official family has the intention of plotting the Western Regions? ”

The Great Song Dynasty has not been involved in the Western Regions for a long time, and now that he suddenly wants to understand the Western Regions, it is difficult not to suspect that he has a mind about the Western Regions.

Kou Ji glanced at Fan Zhongyan and said lightly: "Whether the official family is plotting or not plotting the Western Regions, that is the official family's business." However, the Western Regions are the neighbors of our Great Song Dynasty, and it is necessary for our Great Song Dynasty to understand the Western Regions clearly.

A green pond quietly rose beside my Great Song.

And before that, my Da Song didn't know the reality of Qingtang.

I don't even know how big the area of Qingtang is.

I only know that Qingtang is one of the Tibetan in the Western Regions.

didn't know that Qingtang had become a tyrant in the Western Regions.

There are hundreds of thousands of people who control the strings, which is enough to teach the Western Xia.

Fortunately, Qingtang had no plans against my Great Song.

If Qingtang has a plot against my Great Song Dynasty, he will join forces with Western Xia and attack my Great Song Dynasty.

In the northwest of my Great Song Dynasty, how can I finish the soil? ”

Fan Zhongyan nodded solemnly.

He agreed with Koji's statement.

Today, Qingtang has emerged in the Western Regions, and in the Great Song Dynasty, there are still people who believe that Qingtang is far away from the Western Regions, and the territory is just a palm, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

This shows how terrible ignorance is.

Kou Ji clenched his fists slightly, and said in a deep voice: "There is already a Qingtang quietly rising in the Western Regions, and I don't want to see a second Qingtang appear." Once the second Qingtang appears, they are bound to decide a lord of the Western Regions.

Once the Lord of the Western Regions is born, it will inevitably invade my Great Song Dynasty. ”

Fan Zhongyan got up, and bowed his hand to Kou Ji with a solemn expression: "The lower official knows the seriousness of this matter, after the lower official arrives in the Western Regions, he will definitely investigate the situation of all the forces in the Western Regions in detail, and will compile it into a book, and send someone back to the imperial court as soon as possible."

Xiaguan ...... will definitely live up to the trust of the officials. ”

Kou Ji got up and saluted: "Whether or not my Great Song Xiqi can continue to be peaceful depends on what you have gained from this trip." ”

Fan Zhongyan arched his hand again and said: "I will not disgrace my mission!" ”

Kou Ji nodded, "You will rush to the Western Regions tomorrow, go back quickly to prepare things." I also helped you prepare some emergency items in the Western Regions, and I will send someone to your house when I get back. ”

"Thank you, Shangguan!"

After Fan Zhongyan left, Kou Ji sat on the chair and let out a sigh.

In fact, Fan Zhongyan went to the Western Regions, whether he could complete the mission or not, Kou Ji didn't care at all.

He just needed Fan Zhongyan to go to the Western Regions.

Fan Zhongyan needs to understand the many forces in the Western Regions.

As for the distribution of many forces in the Western Regions, and the strength and weakness of many forces in the Western Regions.

Kou Ji had already gotten the news from Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan has been crisscrossing the Western Regions for a long time, and the reality of many forces in the Western Regions has long been clearly understood by Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan was in the Western Regions and was a powerful horse bandit.

In and out of the tents of the major forces in the Western Regions.

What the imperial court sent people to learn, Zhang Yuan could understand, and what the imperial court sent people to understand in the past could not understand, Zhang Yuan could also understand.

Now.

The news of many forces in the Western Regions in Kou Ji's hands is complete.

But it can't be made public.

Because after he made the news in his hand public, Zhang Yuan's identity in the Western Regions would be exposed.

Some courtiers in the court who are connected with the envoys of various forces in the Western Regions are likely to leak Zhang Yuan's identity.

Once many forces in the Western Regions knew Zhang Yuan's identity, Zhang Yuan would have no way to survive in the Western Regions.

How well he is mixed in the Western Regions now, how miserable he will become after his identity is exposed.

Furthermore.

Some of the things Zhang Yuan did in the Western Regions, Kou Ji didn't intend to expose them.

For example, the tens of thousands of horse bandits in Zhang Yuan's hands.

They are called horse bandits, but they are far more powerful than the regular armies of many forces in the Western Regions.

Loose on the outside and tight on the inside.

The horse bandits inside are like a group of regular troops.

If their identities are exposed, and they are related to Kou Ji, Kou Ji will not be able to escape from a private soldier's hat.

At that time.

Even if Zhao Zhen favored Kou Ji no matter how much he believed in him, he had to depose all the officials on Kou Ji and let Kou Ji return to his hometown to retire.

Although Kou Ji did secretly raise soldiers and horses, none of them were really strong in combat and could be used as soldiers and horses.

The horse patrol guards in Baozhou, in front of people's eyes, have always been a group of old soldiers, dressed in cloth clothes, carrying knives and dangling on the horse farm, without armor.

It can only be regarded as a guard.

The other horse patrol guards, after training, were assigned by Kou Ji.

Either I went to the Western Regions, or I went to Leizhou.

Those who went to the Western Regions, their identities have all turned into horse thieves, and they are in the Western Regions, as long as Kou Ji does not find out their identities, no one can say that they are Kou Ji's private soldiers and horses.

Those horse guards who went to Leizhou had less to do with Kou Ji.

As early as after Kou Ji sent a patrol horse guard to sweep the entire territory of Leizhou, they set sail and occupied a large island.

One by one, even if they are in the Song Dynasty, they also regard themselves as overseas islanders.

If the court wanted to track them down, they could escape into the sea overnight without a trace.

Although Kou Ji raised soldiers and horses privately, he did not leave anything for the imperial court to catch.

Naturally, it is impossible for him to expose himself and let people catch him.

Therefore, if Kou Ji wants to share the news of many forces in the Western Regions with the imperial court, he must find a reasonable excuse.

Fan Zhongyan is the one who helps Kou Ji make excuses.

After Fan Zhongyan left, Kou Ji sat in the yamen for a while, then went to the Shishitang and found Zhao Zhen.

With the rhetoric of knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent and being invincible.

After explaining Zhao Zhen, seven or eight officials who were proficient in various languages in the Western Regions were seconded from Honglu Temple, and asked them to follow Fan Zhongyan to the Western Regions.

After everything is ready.

Kou Ji returned to the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials.

Previously, when Zhu Nengbing went out of the Western Regions, what the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials needed to do, now Kou Ji had to do it again.

It was not until Yang Wenguang led the soldiers and horses out of the territory of the Great Song Dynasty that he could stop.

On the day that Yang Wenguang led the troops to the expedition, Kou Ji sent Yang Wenguang and Fan Zhongyan on a ride, and then returned to the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials and sat for 15 days.

After dealing with the troubles that Yang Wenguang encountered during the march that needed to be dealt with by the officials, he stopped.

Kou Ji returned home and played with Xiang Yan, who had just shown her pregnancy, for two days.

Reappeared in the palace.

This time he entered the palace, and it was not Kou Ji who took the initiative to enter the palace.

Instead, Zhao Zhen sent someone to summon the Manchu civil and military forces, and Kou Ji was also among them.

Kou Ji wore an official uniform, entered the palace, and after rushing all the way to the vertical arch hall, he saw that most of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces had arrived.

Kou Ji got to the front of the train, found Zhang Zhibai, who was frowning, and learned about it.

The reason for the gathering of the Manchu Dynasty was because of Li Di's performance.

Li Di asked the official family to depose the false titles on the heads of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces, and save the money to fill the treasury. In addition, he also asked the government to revise the national law ......"

Zhang Zhibai said this to Kou Ji with a sad face.

Apparently.

He is not very optimistic about Li Di.