Kou Ji looked forward to finding out a result after Chen Lin returned to the palace, so that he could rule out Zhao Zhen's suspicion.

It's just that Chen Lin entered the palace for an hour, and he didn't see any movement.

Instead, Zhao Zhen hurried to the bamboo courtyard in a carriage.

When Zhao Zhen arrived at the bamboo courtyard, Kou Ji was checking on the horseman's injuries.

After the groom exploded in Changxinglong's artillery workshop, he was taken off his horse by the startled horse and disappeared without a trace.

Kou Ji instructed the soldiers and horses of the Five Cities and the people of Kaifeng Mansion to search for his traces.

Less than half an hour after Kou Ji returned to the house, the horseman was sent to the bamboo courtyard by the officials of Kaifeng Mansion.

The groom had multiple abrasions all over his body, and the blood oozing out had formed a streaked scab at the wound, and one leg was broken and both arms were dislocated, looking very miserable.

The doctor who accompanied the army in the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division helped the horseman diagnose and treat, and his techniques were a little rough.

After the groom returned home, Kou Ji immediately asked the doctor in the house to help the groom again.

When the doctor was helping the groom, the groom grinned in pain, but seeing Kou Ji standing in front of him intact, he gasped and smirked.

"It's okay if the master is fine......"

After surviving the most painful process of diagnosis and treatment, the groom gritted his teeth, stared, and said with a smile.

Kou Ji sighed secretly, "When your injuries are healed, I will have someone send your family to Handi." ”

The sweat on the groom's forehead flowed into the corners of his eyes, and he blinked, inhaled, and whispered, "Just let the cub of the family go." The villain is not old, and he has not yet reached the age of happiness, and now he goes to South Korea to enjoy happiness, and he will lose his life. ”

Kou Ji glanced at the groom and said angrily: "Then stay in the house to watch the door." ”

The groom grinned and said: "People say that the prime minister is a seven-grade official in front of the door, sir, your official position is higher than the prime minister, if the villain becomes a doorman, at least it is a six-grade ......."

Kou Ji rolled his eyes, he saw that the groom could still laugh with him, and he knew that the groom was not in trouble.

After telling the doctors and servants of the house to take care of the grooms, Kou Ji left the wing.

Out of the courtyard where the wing room was located, he saw Zhao Zhen hurriedly cross the moon gate and appear in front of him.

Zhao Zhen was full of people in front of him, left and right, all holding lanterns in his hands, illuminating the moon gate around him.

"Fourth brother?"

Zhao Zhen saw Kou Ji at a glance by the light of the lantern.

Zhao Zhen pounced on Kou Ji and dragged Kou Ji to look around carefully before he let out a sigh of relief.

"Is the fourth brother okay?"

After Kou Ji bowed down, he said with a smile: "Thank you for the official family's concern, the minister just fell and had bruises on his body, but it was fine." ”

Zhao Zhen hurriedly said: "Have you ever asked a doctor for treatment?" I brought the Imperial Doctor. ”

As he spoke, Zhao Zhen shouted at the group of people behind him.

"Imperial Doctor, come over quickly to treat my fourth brother."

The imperial doctor hurriedly walked out of the crowd and came to Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen, and after giving the salute, he poked out two fingers and touched Kou Ji's neck, then his forehead, and finally his wrist.

A cautious doctor will definitely not only check the pulse on the wrist, but also on the neck and forehead.

After cautiously diagnosing Kou Ji's pulse, the imperial doctor saluted Zhao Zhen and said, "Official, Kou Gong's pulse is stable, and there is no big problem. ”

Zhao Zhen completely let go of his hanging heart and spit out a breath of turbidity, "Fourth brother is fine, I will rest assured." ”

Zhao Zhen looked at Kou Ji and smiled bitterly, "I was reviewing the music in the council hall, and when I heard an explosion in Bianjing City, I immediately sent someone out to find out the news.

Before the people I sent out came back, I saw Chen Linti sneaking into the palace with a bloody hand.

I was taken aback.

After carefully questioning Chen Lin, I realized that the situation at that time was very dangerous.

I immediately brought people to see the fourth brother. ”

After Kou Ji thanked Zhao Zhen again for his concern, he asked, "How is Chen Lin?" ”

Zhao Zhen said frankly: "The imperial doctor has already seen it, but it is just some skin trauma. ”

Kou Ji said in a heavy voice: "What the other party did this time is indeed a bit excessive. ”

When Zhao Zhen heard this, the anger in his heart rose, and he said angrily: "I have ordered the people of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division to block the three streets where Changxinglong's Artillery Workshop is located, and let them arrest all the suspicious people.

I also instructed Yang Wenguang to take the transfer documents to the camp outside the city, and dispatched 5,000 elite forbidden troops to block all the main roads outside Bianjing.

As long as I catch someone, I will kill them. ”

Kou Ji hesitated for a moment and said, "The imperial court hasn't used Ling Chi's punishment for a long time......

Zhao Zhen glared and asked, "When did the fourth brother become so soft-hearted?" In the past, if the fourth brother encountered such a thing, he would never stop if he didn't kill a person's head.

Now he actually intends to persuade me not to use the punishment of Ling Chi?

I tell you that not only will I use Ling Chi's great punishment, but I will also bring a pack of vicious dogs from the hunting ground and devour their flesh alive. ”

Kou Ji shook his head and smiled: "It's not that the minister is benevolent, but that this matter is by no means that simple. It's better not to kill people until you find out about it.

After the investigation is clear, it is not too late to kill slowly.

When the time comes, I am afraid that the official family will be reluctant to do it. ”

Zhao Zhen's face sank, he knew what Kou Ji meant by this.

The explosion of Changxinglong's artillery workshop is obviously inseparable from the palace, and in the end, if someone in the palace is found, whether Zhao Zhen can be ruthless is a problem.

"I will not tolerate it!"

Kou Ji nodded: "If there is an official, just say it." ”

Zhao Zhen still has to speak.

Kou Ji spoke again, "The official family should return to the palace as soon as possible." The palace people in the palace are connected with Chang Xinglong's artillery workshop, and no one knows whether they brought gunpowder into the palace.

The most important thing for the official family to do now is to send someone to carefully check the palace to see if anyone has hidden gunpowder. ”

After a pause, Kou Ji added, "The Queen Mother, the Empress, the Crown Prince, and the princes and princesses are all the hearts and minds of the official family, and there is no room for loss. ”

Zhao Zhen pondered for a moment and said solemnly: "I will ask Chen Lin to send you the military seal tomorrow." If necessary, you can transfer troops to Beijing. ”

Kou Ji refused, "The military seal is an important weapon of the country, and it is related to the dispatch of more than one million soldiers in the Great Song Dynasty.

If the official family is not at ease, Xu Chen can sound thirty-three arrows. ”

Zhao Zhen thought about it for a moment.

"...... you"

Kou Ji gave up his hand and sent Zhao Zhen away.

As soon as Zhao Zhen and Zhao Zhen's people disappeared at the Moon Gate, Liu Heng appeared beside Kou Ji and asked in a low voice, "How many percent?" ”

Koji put his hands behind his back and gave a pertinent answer.

"Forty percent ......"

Liu Heng raised his eyebrows and sighed: "Forty percent...... Not a lot...... Is it really an official job? ”

Kou Ji smiled and said, "Everyone else is sixty percent. ”

Liu Heng was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "That means that the official family is the least suspicious." ”

Koji nodded.

Liu Heng slightly restrained the smile on his face, and whispered to Kou Ji: "I have already dispatched people from the three military departments to Beijing......

"The Three Services Division?"

Kou Jihu looked at Liu Heng suspiciously.

Kou Ji can be regarded as having a thorough understanding of the Great Song Dynasty, and he also understands Liu Heng thoroughly, and he has not heard of any three military divisions in the Great Song Dynasty.

Liu Heng saw Kou Ji's puzzled face, and explained in a low voice: "Some of the people I stayed in the Great Song Dynasty were on the river transport, I called them the water army, and some of them were carrying camels to trade in the Western Regions, I called them camel troops, and the rest were all over Bianjing City.

Together, they are the three armies. ”

Kou Ji said funny: "How did you get all the bells and whistles?" You plan to follow the example of the Imperial City Division and the Wude Division, and also give Bo Xu a yamen that can't be put on the table. ”

Liu Heng didn't hide it, nodded and said: "Some dirty things and unsightly things need these people to do." ”

Kou Ji nodded and said, "In this way, you have not been idle in the years that you have been with me in Bianjing City. ”

Liu Heng looked at Kou Ji with a bright smile and did not speak.

Kou Ji said to himself: "Bo Xu sits in Xiyang, and his family background is a little thinner. If you don't help him dig up the wall footing from the Great Song Dynasty, it will be very slow for him to gain a foothold in Xiyang completely.

You're finally looking like a father. ”

Liu Heng smiled and wanted to speak, but he heard Kou Ji say: "However, there is no need to send them to Beijing. There is no danger for us to stay in Bianjing. It's not easy for you to run some people, if you put it on the bright side, those people won't be able to stay in the Great Song Dynasty. ”

The smile on Liu Heng's face froze, and he glared, "It's not dangerous yet?" If the thieves light the cannon again when you arrive at the gate of Changxinglong's cannon tonight, then you will be gone.

The thieves first took the concubines, then the artillery workshop, and maybe muskets and cannons in the future.

You made the artillery, and you don't know how powerful it is when you blast it out? ”

Kou Ji's face sank and he frowned.

"If someone really wants to use muskets and artillery, they are looking for death. Whoever it is, they will die a terrible death. ”

For Zhu Neng, Li Zhaoliang, Chong Shiheng and others, muskets and artillery are things they can't ask for.

For the Great Song Dynasty, especially the Song people at the top of the ruling class, that thing was not unwanted.

As long as you are willing to spend your blood, there will definitely be people in the army who will take risks.

Like those nobles in the palace, it is still easy to buy the hearts of one or two forbidden army generals.

If you buy off the forbidden army generals, you can get firearms.

In recent years, there have been many cases of gun theft in the army, and no less than 100 soldiers have beheaded for this purpose.

"The human heart is complex, and it cannot withstand temptation or testing. So I would never watch you put your life in the hands of someone else.

I can't trust anyone. ”

Liu Heng's words are very straightforward.

His attitude towards the human heart has never changed.

Kou Ji knew that he was like this because Liu Congmei killed the people of Liu's mansion.

Kou Ji also knew that it was not appropriate to put his life in the hands of others, but he was still unwilling to put his hands in the open, giving people an ambitious posture.

He is already a powerful minister, and he has to be cautious in what he says and does.

The slightest mistake will make the people under him misunderstand, and then do something angry and resentful.

Kou Ji said to Liu Heng: "I will carry a musket, and you will also carry a gun when you turn around." There is no need for people to be dispatched. ”

Liu Heng's voice was raised a little higher, and he asked, "What are two guns enough for?" ”

Kou Ji sighed in his heart, he felt that he had to show Liu Heng some of his background in order to make Liu Heng give up the idea of sending people to Beijing.

Kou Ji said to Liu Heng angrily: "Do you think that only you can manage people?" Do you think you're the only one who can hide? When I was running the manpower across the Western Regions, you were still eating your old book in the Imperial City Division.

When I was a Tibetan, you were still a fool. ”

Liu Heng was stunned for a moment, and suddenly smiled, "I knew that the fourth brother would not do things honestly." ”

Kou Ji rolled his eyes, "Then you still send people into Beijing?" ”

Liu Heng smiled dryly and said, "I'm not afraid that you will be carried away by love and give up some means that can't be put on the table." ”

Kou Ji asked, "What kind of person am I?" ”

Liu Heng said: "Cao Yu and Zhang Yuan, those two people who have no conscience are your people, right?" By your people and by your guidance, they have laid down a great territory.

You think of old feelings and don't clean them up.

One by one, they are like white-eyed wolves, forgetting your kindness.

Now that the ripping soil is king, it doesn't say that the benefits of profit will be given to you.

You have affection and righteousness for Cao Yu and Zhang Yuan, but they can't be called affectionate and righteous to you.

You have affection and righteousness for the official family, but what does the official family think in their hearts, you know?

It is said that the emperor's mind is the most complex and ruthless.

So you can't put your life on the emperor. ”

Kou Ji glared at Liu Heng, "I also have feelings for you. ”

Liu Heng puffed up his chest and said, "I can lay down my life for you!" They can't! ”

Kou Ji waved his hand, "Alright, go tell those people what they need to do." ”

Liu Heng did not leave, but chased after Kou Ji and asked, "Fourth brother, where are you here?" ”

Kou Ji said nonchalantly: "Half of the people in the steel forging workshop and the instrument workshop are from the infantry camp. The men of the baggage camp are now in charge of the two docks in Bianjing. The people of the Firehead Army are now running foot shops and tea sheds.

The people of the scout camp are now working as postmen in various post stations outside Bianjing City. ”

Liu Heng's eyes lit up, and he said with a bright smile: "There are people on land and water, just like I thought." ”

Kou Ji waved his hand, "Now you are relieved, right?" Go down and find your people. ”

Liu Heng hurriedly nodded and walked away.

After walking two steps, he suddenly paused, turned around and reminded: "Fourth brother, when you go out in the future, bring a few more guards." ”

Koji nodded.

Liu Heng strode out of the courtyard where the wing room was.

Kou Ji let out a cloudy breath.

In fact, Kou Ji has planted far more people in Bianjing City than he said.

Kou Ji couldn't count with Liu Heng for a while, so he picked a few important ones and said them.

For example, Chen Datou, who used to be the number one sharpshooter in the Kou Mansion, is now the captain of the Imperial Forest Guard.

There is also a person who is hidden deeper, and it is now the treasury management document of the imperial firearms warehouse.

Among the two forbidden armies stationed outside Bianjing City, there were two generals who were willing to die for Kou Ji.

And many, many more.

The Koufu family has a big business, has been in business for many years, and has been gracious for many years, and there are countless people who have taken the benefits of the Koufu, and there are countless people who are willing to serve the Koufu.

After Kou Ji left the courtyard where the wing room was located, he returned to the backyard, and was pulled by Xiang Yan to carefully check the bruises on his body before falling asleep.

Next.

The sun is shining.

Before Ko Ji could wake up, a horse broke through the door of the bamboo courtyard.

When Kou Ji opened his eyes at the sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping, he saw a man walking in a dragon, wearing armor, carrying a knife, carrying a robbery, and carrying a musket, appeared in front of him.

"Brother......

"Do you think I'm dying fast enough?"

Kou Ji rolled his eyes, sat up slowly, and shouted angrily.

Di Qing approached Kou Ji with the smell of sweat, and after carefully looking around Kou Ji, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's okay if my brother is okay."

Kou Ji stared at Di Qing, took a good look, and saw Di Qing standing there with a bear on his back, with a short beard on the corner of his mouth, so he smiled and said, "You have matured a lot......

The ignorant young man who was brought out by him from the Criminal Division in the past has now become a big man who exudes a mature and stable atmosphere.

Kou Ji was very emotional.

Di Qing smiled and said, "It's already over thirty......

Kou Ji nodded and said, "Aren't you lecturing on the martial arts hall in Bishan?" ”

Di Qing said frankly: "In the second half of last night, Yang Shumi sent someone to the lecture hall to tell me that you were attacked, and I rushed back overnight. ”

Kou Ji pointed to Di Qing's outfit and said with a smile: "Then you can't dress up like this, right?" How can you be the envoy of the forbidden army, in charge of hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops in the Great Song Dynasty, and your identity is very sensitive.

I am also the first minister of the Great Song Dynasty.

If you disguise yourself in my house like this, others will think that I have a bad plan. ”

Di Qing Zhengse said: "I know the severity, so I didn't bring any of them." It is filial piety for me to come and visit my brother alone, and to punish him for his wickedness.

Whoever dares to make irresponsible remarks, I will take him to the vertical arch hall to theorize well. ”

Di Qing said in the end, his voice was unconsciously much higher, very hard.

Kou Ji nodded in satisfaction.

This is how the great generals of the Great Song Dynasty should be.

You have to be tough when you speak, and you have to be domineering when you do things.

He couldn't be ridden on his head by Wen Chen anymore, and he couldn't watch Wen Chen slaughter his lieutenant, but he didn't dare to say a word, he could only cry secretly.

You dare to behead my adjutant general without an edict or for no reason.

I dare to carry your head to the official's house.

That's the real general.

Kou Ji believed that with Di Qing's toughness now, even if Han Qi sat in the position of participating in the affairs of the political compound, he would not dare to touch a single hair of Deputy General Di Qing.

"How is the matter of Bishan Martial Arts being promoted to Chinese culture?"

Kou Ji asked with a smile.

Di Qing said with a smile: "It's going well, but it's not allowed to set up the school hall in Bianjing City." ”

Kou Ji nodded and said: "The martial arts hall is a martial arts academy, and it involves many military secrets, so it really shouldn't be set up in the downtown area." You should pick a remote place outside Bianjing. ”

Di Qing nodded and said, "It's already chosen, it's five miles west of the Tianwu Army and the camp of the Japanese army." Now it is building a school building in accordance with the appearance of the Bishan Lecture Hall. ”

Kou Ji groaned: "After the new martial academy is on the right track, you should immediately return to the Privy Council and handle government affairs with peace of mind." ”

Di Qing was stunned for a moment, "I preside over the Martial Academy, and I will be suspicious of others." ”

Kou Ji rolled his eyes, "I didn't say anyone was suspicious of you. I just wanted to tell you, don't waste all your time on the martial arts. You also have to take care of the affairs of the Forbidden Military Division.

You are the envoy of the Forbidden Army, you don't bother to take care of the affairs of the Forbidden Army, once your subordinates do something wrong, you are the one who bears the blame. ”

Di Qing hesitated for a moment and said, "It's okay to let me serve as the mountain chief in the new martial academy." ”

Kou Ji glared at Di Qing, "Then we have to wait until you are sixty years old." In principle, the envoy of the Third Academy cannot reign for more than ten years, that is to say, in a few years, Yang Wenguang will retire.

When the time comes, you will have to go up and take Yang Wenguang's place. ”

Whether Di Qing can successfully take over Yang Wenguang's position, Kou Ji and Di Qing are not worried.

Kou Ji had told Di Qing a long time ago.

Di Qing has made outstanding achievements, and it is enough to be crowned king.

Zhao Zhen did not give Di Qing the title of king, but kept Di Qing as a privy envoy.

Yang Wenguang served as a privy envoy just to build a ladder for Di Qing.

However, Yang Wenguang has good ability, and after serving as the privy envoy, he quietly kept the privy council in order, and also silently did many important things.

It is precisely because of this that both Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen hope that Yang Wenguang can sit in the position of privy envoy for ten years.

Ten years later, Yang Wenguang will be old, and it will be a good choice whether it is a foreign town or a mountain chief of the Wuyuan Academy.

Ten years later, Di Qing was in his forties.

Just at the golden age of a military general.

The art of war, strategy, government affairs, and so on are all at their peak.

Just enough to take on the big responsibility.

However, Di Qing had his own ideas, and he didn't like to be idle in Bianjing City.

"Brother, I want to go to the battlefield and kill him, and I want to find an enemy to teach me."

Di Qing stared at Kou Ji and said seriously.

Now Di Qing has reached middle age, and what he has learned is rapidly climbing to the peak.

He really wanted to find an enemy who could sharpen himself and test what he had learned.

Kou Ji glanced at Di Qing and said, "Who do you want to fight?" The lord of the East Tianzhu Kingdom? Zhu Neng? Li Zhaoliang? Gao Weizhao? Or is it a God-given Korean land? ”

When Di Qing heard this, his face drooped and he let out a long sigh.

The lord of the Eastern Tianzhu Kingdom gave up a huge Jiaozhi to the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty has turned Jiaozhi into a big granary after nearly two years of operation.

Every three or four months, new grain from Cochin would flock into the Great Song Dynasty, impacting the grain prices of the Great Song Dynasty to an extremely low position.

In addition, there are two granaries in Liaodi and Hexi.

Grain prices have reached a low point in the history of the Great Song Dynasty.

The people of the Great Song Dynasty, as long as they did not eat, drink and gamble to death, basically did not starve to death.

Although there are still some people at the bottom who do not have enough to eat, they do not starve to death.

It is precisely because of this that the Great Song Dynasty, from the officials to the common people, has a good impression of the lord of Dongtianzhu.

Even those grain merchants who scolded their mothers in their hearts had to say good things about the lord of Dongtianzhu on the surface.

Therefore, if Di Qing wants to fight the Eastern Tianzhu Kingdom, he can't do it at all.

Neither the officials nor the people would agree.

As for Zhu Neng, Li Zhaoliang, and Gao Weizhao, they are all vassal kings of the Great Song Dynasty, as long as they don't rebel, they are their own people.

Unless Zhao Zhen wanted to find an excuse to cut the domain, Da Song would not be able to find trouble with others.

As for Kou Tianci's fiefdom Han Land, it is even worse.

Can Di Qing still bully his nephew?