The Yamen of the Ministry of Officials.

Kou Ji was copying people's names in the main hall, and Zhang Yuan, who had already turned into Kou Ji's long-term follower, hurriedly entered the door.

"Little master, there is an echo in the court. The officials had already thrown out the files of those officials in the court, and half of the officials in the court agreed to give them promotions.

The lord instructed the three divisions to meet with the officials and give them rewards for their merits. ”

After Zhang Yuan entered the main hall, he hunched his waist and quickly finished his words.

Kou Ji paused his pen and said with a smile: "This is very good, you go to the account office in the house to withdraw some money, and then you can rush to Xinping County to make some noise among the bandits on Fotou Mountain." ”

Zhang Yuan was stunned for a moment, bowed down and agreed, and withdrew from the yamen of the ministry.

Kou Ji lowered his head and continued to copy people's names.

He copied a large chapter, then took the list of people, went out of the main hall, found the test Shi Langzhong, handed it to him, and instructed lightly: "After these people's political achievements and style evaluations are handed over, they will all be evaluated." ”

Gong Shi Lang Zhong looked at the dense list and said blankly: "Kou Shilang, why is this?" ”

"Why?"

Kou Ji smiled coldly, "Because they offended me." ”

When Shi Lang heard this, he was stunned.

After a long time, he took the list and bowed, "The lower official understands......

Kou Ji put his hands behind his back, and after waiting for the Gong Shi Lang to leave, he smiled and said, "One by one, I think they have offended me, and it will be fine if I don't pursue it?" That's because I'm not in power, and as long as I'm in power, I'll make your life worse than death. ”

"As long as I'm in the ministry for a day, you people don't want to be promoted."

“……”

Previously, when Kou Ji was in Baozhou, many people had stumbling over Kou Ji behind his back.

For example, those officials who didn't dare to come forward themselves, but sent people to come to Kou Ji to ask for horses behind their backs.

Kou Ji wrote them down one by one in a small notebook.

Now that he is in charge of the ministry, he naturally wants to take revenge unceremoniously.

Although at present, a large part of the power of official promotion is in the three divisions.

However, the power to help officials judge their political performance and reputation is in the hands of the officials.

Kou Ji only needs to give these people a lower evaluation, even if the third division wants to help these people get promoted, they can't do it.

Unless they find Kou Ji and re-evaluate and judge the officials' political achievements and styles.

After doing this, Kou Ji left the yamen of the ministry and returned home in a sedan chair.

After returning home.

He washed up as usual, and after eating a light meal, he changed into clothes and rushed to have a tryst with Xiang Yan.

After a month of in-depth understanding, under the coaxing and deception of Kou Ji, Xiang Yan, a well-informed lady, was still stolen by Kou Ji and ate rouge.

Xiang Yan was ashamed to ignore Kou Ji for three days.

Kou Ji also knew that Xiang Yan was shy, but he knew that once this kind of thing started, he had to work harder.

So Kou Ji drew a few pictures in his spare time, and asked the craftsmen in the house to make some gadgets and use them to make Xiang Yan happy.

It's just that the heavens don't follow people's wishes.

As soon as Kou Ji left the mansion, he didn't go far before Liu Heng straddled his horse to Kou Ji's side.

Looking at his appearance, he seems to be in a hurry.

He rode too fast, and when he got to Kou Ji, he tightened the reins of his horse, and the horse did not stop, until he was a foot behind Kou Ji, and then the horse stopped.

He jumped off his horse and ran quickly in front of Koji.

"Fourth brother, something is wrong."

Liu Heng shouted anxiously.

Kou Ji took out a sweat towel from his arms and handed it to the sweaty Liu Heng, "Wipe off the sweat and talk about it." ”

Liu Heng took the sweat towel, wiped it on his forehead, and said to Kou Ji anxiously: "The people of Sichuan Mansion have smashed the yamen of Sichuan Mansion!" ”

"Huh?"

Kou Ji blinked his eyes and said with a little doubt: "The people of Sichuan Mansion have rebelled? Is it serious, does the imperial court need to send an army to quell the rebellion? Why haven't I heard anything? Didn't see my grandfather send troops? ”

Liu Heng waved his hand and said, "The people didn't rebel. ”

Kou Ji was even more puzzled, "Didn't you say that the people smashed the yamen?" The yamen was smashed, and it wasn't a rebellion? ”

Liu Heng stomped his feet and anxiously explained: "The people smashed the yamen, and there was a reason for it, and it was not a rebellion. ”

Kou Ji suddenly realized and muttered: "Since it is not a rebellion, the local officials will naturally deal with it. What are you doing in such a hurry? Does this have anything to do with you? ”

Liu Heng shook his head and said, "This matter has nothing to do with me, but my brother is implicated." ”

"That?"

"Liu Congde!"

"The mallet?"

Liu Heng looked at Kou Ji with a resentful expression.

Kou Ji haha: "Lost your words, lost your words......"

Seeing that Liu Heng still had a grudge on his face, Kou Ji changed the topic and said, "Your brother Liu Congde lives in Bianjing City all the year round, how can he have anything to do with the Sichuan Mansion?" Could it be that he sent a large number of dogs to Sichuan Mansion to rob him? ”

Liu Heng snorted: "It's not ......"

Kou Ji wondered, "What is that?" As far as I know, there are not many things that can provoke the people's resentment and smash the government in anger. ”

Liu Heng sighed, "I'll tell you the truth, my brother is also a victim." Fourth brother, do you remember that the Mu family approached us to co-found Jiaozi before? ”

Kou Ji was slightly stunned, his eyes slowly widened, and he said in astonishment: "The Mu family founded Jiaozi, got into trouble, and found you and me, but you and I didn't help." Then I found your brother Liu Congde, and now there is a problem with the establishment of the Mu family, and your brother is also planted? ”

Liu Heng said dejectedly: "It's not my brother who was found by the Mu family, but the Mu family that my brother found." The Mu family originally looked down on him, but he went to talk to the Mu family in the name of you and me, and the Mu family thought that he was sent by you and me to talk about business, so they agreed to him. ”

When Kou Ji heard this, he suddenly didn't know what to say.

Liu Congde is a person with great ambitions and talents, and he knows this.

It's just that he didn't expect that Liu Congde would actually play a little clever, and what he didn't expect was that Liu Congde couldn't be clever once, so he was planted in the ditch.

It's still a bottomless ditch.

Kou Ji glanced left and right, found a wine shop on the side of the road, and invited Liu Heng to sit down in the wine shop and chat slowly.

When Liu Heng arrived at the wine shop, he threw the horse reins in his hand to Xiao Er in the wine shop, and shouted to the guests who settled in the wine shop, "Get out......

He was in a bad mood, so he inevitably took a bit of a smug out.

When the owner of the wine shop saw Liu Heng, a gentleman, appear, he was not afraid, but took the initiative to meet him, bowed down and said, "The villain has seen Gongzi, although he doesn't know that Gongzi is a noble person in that mansion."

But please don't embarrass the villain.

Don't hide it from the son, although the villain's wine shop is not big, but there are often imperial historians who come to settle down, not far away is still the mansion of Kou Taishi, if they bump into the son, the son will inevitably be punished. ”

The words of the owner of the wine shop were reasonable, obviously threatening Liu Heng, but what he said seemed to be thinking about Liu Heng.

Liu Heng wants to get angry.

Kou Ji stopped him, took out a few gold leaves from his cuffs, and handed them to the owner of the wine shop, "Today I will charter the venue, and with the rest of the money, I will invite the guests in the wine shop to eat and drink elsewhere." ”

The owner of the liquor store was a little embarrassed.

Although the gold leaves given by Kou Ji are attractive, he is unwilling to drive away some old customers in the wine shop because of some small profits.

"Childe ......"

The owner of the liquor store was embarrassed.

Kou Ji saw through his thoughts, and said indifferently: "My brother has a bad temper, if he overturns your wine shop, you will be empty of people and money at that time." The Imperial Historian is powerful, but he can't threaten our brothers.

As for the Kou Mansion you mentioned, it is awe-inspiring.

But without the consent of the Koufu, you use the name of the Koufu to scare people, and if you let the people of the Koufu know, you will not be able to please you.

What's more, my brother also has some friendship with the son of Koufu. ”

"Bang!"

As soon as Kou Ji's words fell, the owner of the wine shop had not yet spoken, and several men who had settled in the wine shop slapped the table.

They hugged their fists at Kou Ji and said, "Since you are a friend of the prince of Kou Fu, then our brother will take your money and change places to eat and drink." ”

Kou Ji was stunned, and said with a smile: "You are giving face to the prince of Kou Mansion." ”

When several men heard Kou Ji mention Kou Ji, they immediately said with respect: "Little Kou Gong is a rare righteous person, and we naturally admire him." ”

"Little Kou?"

Kou Jihu asked, "You are from the north?" ”

Several men shook their heads and said, "My brother and I are from the northwest." Righteous people like Xiao Kou Gong, our brothers have no blessings to meet. But what he did deserved the awe of our brothers. ”

"Farewell!"

"Please!"

A few men took the lead, and the other people in the wine shop also left the wine store with interest.

Kou Ji threw the gold leaf in his hand to the owner of the wine shop, let him serve some good wine and food, and then pulled Liu Heng to sit down, "You have to restrain your temper."

You are also a chief officer now, and you can't do things by temperament. ”

Liu Heng snorted: "I know ......"

At this time, the owner of the wine shop served the wine and food, and Liu Heng picked up the wine jug and took a sip.

Kou Ji took out a plate of meat from the plate, put it aside, and asked while handing Liu Heng chopsticks, "You tell me in detail about your brother Liu Congde and the Mu family." ”

Liu Heng put down the wine jug and said with a gloomy face: "A month ago, the steward of the Mu family found me and said that he wanted to cooperate with us and establish Jiaozipu together. When I heard the news, I came to talk to you.

You said that there were some tricks in it, and if you didn't let me participate, I didn't pay attention to them anymore.

But the people of the Mu family still came to the door again and again.

I closed the door, and my brother didn't know how to find out about it, and took the initiative to contact the people of the Mu family.

At first, the people of the Mu family knew that my brother wanted to cooperate with them, but they just shirked left and right, and did not agree.

Later, my brother stole my post in Vientiane Building, took the people of the Mu family to participate in a sale in Vientiane Building, and gave up his blood to find a few gadgets from the store and gave them to the Mu family.

When I checked out, Zhang Cheng saw that my brother was taking my post, so he waived all the money.

The people of the Mu family thought that my brother could take the place of me in Vientiane Building, and they also thought that my brother was in contact with them at the behest of you and me, so they agreed to cooperate with him. ”

"Bang!"

Liu Heng slapped the table and shouted, "The people of the Mu family let my brother give 100,000 yuan to take a share of the Jiaozi shop. ”

Kou Ji raised his eyebrows and asked suspiciously: "One hundred thousand? How could your brother get a hundred thousand? ”

Liu Heng gritted his teeth and said: "He asked me to help him arrange a few positions in the Sealing Pile Division, so he made 50,000 yuan, and stole some valuable things from the house, took them out and pawned them, and made up 50,000 yuan." ”

Kou Ji was stunned and said, "Liu Congde has such a big courage? ”

Kou Ji couldn't believe it.

100,000 is not a small amount for Kou Ji and Liu Heng today.

For Liu Congde, that is a huge amount of money.

As far as Liu Congde's mallet is concerned, it is impossible for him to have the courage to buy officials for profit, let alone steal valuable things from the house.

Liu Heng's face was a little gloomy and said, "My brother has learned to be obedient since he was taught by you. He didn't know where to hire a kobold military advisor to secretly help him with advice.

The idea of buying officials for profit, and stealing things from the government to pawn, was the dog-headed military master. ”

Referring to Liu Congde's dog-headed military division, Liu Heng gritted his teeth and said: "This dog-headed military division is a character. He knew that if my brother found my father, he would inevitably be rejected and scolded by my father. He knew that my brother and I were brothers, and it was impossible to see him go to a dead end, so he caught me alone.

Buying officials for profit, looking for me.

The things that were stolen from the house and pawned were also pawned to our Vientiane Pawnshop. ”

Kou Ji said thoughtfully: "He expected that once your father tracked it down, you would buy back those things and help your brother plug the hole?" ”

Liu Heng nodded gloomily.

Kou Ji exclaimed: "What a talent...... Where is he? ”

Liu Heng snorted coldly: "I had him chopped into sixteen pieces and threw him outside the city to feed the wild dogs." ”

Kou Jiba smacked his lips and said, "It's a pity that there is a talent." ”

Liu Heng complained: "Fourth brother! ”

Kou Ji hurriedly changed the topic and said, "What happened later? ”

Liu Heng took a sip of wine, "Later...... Later, I planted it in. As you expected, Fourth Brother, the Mu family went wrong when they founded Jiaozi. In the beginning, they were only created to facilitate the transaction of large purchases. But after the establishment of Jiaozi Shop, they found that just issuing Jiaozi made them a lot of profits.

So they stood on the advantage of being businessmen, and began to constantly win over other businessmen, sending money to their Jiaozi shop in exchange for a deal.

They make more and more money with it.

Later, they themselves did not forget to save money in the shop.

Not only did they not save money, but they also took the Jiaozi they issued and bought goods from others with empty gloves and white wolves.

They make more and more money from this, but when others come to redeem the money with their coupes, the money in their treasury is stretched.

In order to hide the fact that they were hollow glove white wolves, they had to recruit more merchants to join the Jiaozi shop.

As they wooed more and more merchants, they became more and more emboldened.

In the end, they didn't even spare the people. ”