"Go ahead and do your job, and don't forget that you have a lot of responsibility right now. The lives of tens of thousands of people in the northwest are weighed on you. ”

The old lady of the Yang family admonished Kou Ji earnestly.

Kou Ji sighed in his heart, got up and respectfully saluted the old lady of the Yang family.

The old lady of the Yang family sat on the kang and did not move, and received Kou Ji's gift.

She can afford it.

Even if Zhao Zhen personally gave her a gift, she could afford it.

After Kou Ji gave the salute, he exited the wing.

Standing outside the door of the wing room, looking back at the inside of the wing room, Kou Ji looked worried.

The sorrow that does not provoke it is far more terrible than the hysterical crying of bitter tears.

Hysterical crying and weeping will not be fatal.

After a painful cry, after comfort, it will slowly get better.

Sadness that does not cause it may cause heart disease.

Heart disease accumulates more and more, and eventually it will overwhelm the whole body, leading to life-threatening concerns.

Kou Ji very much hoped that the old lady of the Yang family would cry bitterly, but the old lady of the Yang family did not shed a single tear.

The old lady of the Yang family told Kou Ji that her tears had long since dried up.

Koji believed her words.

She has no tears to shed, so she can only bleed, or her heart is bloody.

Kou Ji returned to his own wing from the old lady's wing room of the Yang family, and Liu Heng waited in the wing room and did not leave.

After seeing Kou Ji, he hurriedly stepped forward and asked eagerly, "How is the old lady's expression?" ”

Kou Ji glanced at Liu Heng, sighed and said, "I didn't cry or shout, and even laughed at me a few times." ”

"Hiss~"

Liu Heng gasped, and said in a heavy voice: "She is holding the pain in her heart......"

Koji lamented, "Who's to say it's not. ”

Liu Heng frowned and said in a deep voice: "We have to think of a way to let her vent the pain in her heart." ”

Kou Ji said with a bitter face: "If I had a way, I would have used it a long time ago, and I would have waited until now." ”

After hesitating for a moment, Kou Ji said again: "Actually, I feel very contradictory in my heart, do you say that it is better for the old lady to live a long life or a short life?" ”

Kou Ji's words, if he dared to say it to others, he would definitely be pointed at his nose and scolded.

The old lady of the Yang family has lived to eighty, and she is already one of the few people, but everyone hopes that she can live longer, the longer she lives, and it is best to live more than 100 years old.

Liu Heng didn't point at Kou Ji's nose and scold, because he understood the meaning of Kou Ji's words.

Longevity, for many, many people, is a thing to be happy about.

But for the old lady of the Yang family, it may not be.

If she lives a quarter of an hour, she will suffer a quarter of an hour of pain and torture in her heart.

When Kou Ji was in later life, he heard of an old man who lived a very long life, and he survived his son, grandson, and great-grandson, and his body was still strong.

In the end, he made a move that puzzled many people, that is, he stopped eating and starved himself to death.

Kou Ji didn't quite understand this old man's move before, but now he can more or less understand it.

The white-haired person sends the black-haired person, and if you send it once, it is already a tragedy in the world.

If you send it once, it will already make people lose their hearts and intestines.

Send it a few more times, and the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys will all crumble into a puddle of meat puree.

To be alive is a torment, not a gift.

Liu Heng hesitated for a long time and gave the answer, "Naturally, it's better ......to live a long life."

Kou Ji looked at Liu Heng, and Liu Heng said solemnly: "General Yang's bones are still in Gubeikou, even if she wants to go west, she will have to wait for General Yang's bones to be welcomed back and buried with General Yang." ”

Kou Ji thought so deeply and nodded, "You're right!" She deserves to live a little longer. As juniors, we should bring back General Yang's bones and bury them with her.

Before that, we have to defeat the Liao. ”

Liu Heng nodded heavily.

Kou Ji instructed: "Take your people, go north immediately, non-stop, rush to the south bank of the Yellow River north of Jia County, and stop the Liao people north of the Yellow River at all costs."

When necessary, Wang Yunsheng can be ordered to use a knife on Zhi Jixuan's neck to force the Zhe family army to move. ”

When Liu Heng heard this, he was slightly worried, "We want to raise troops in the northwest, and it is indispensable to fold the family army to help." If Wang Yunsheng did this, would the Zhejia army be hostile to us? ”

Kou Ji frowned and said: "The northwest is the northwest of the imperial court, not the northwest of the Zhe family. If the official family entrusts me with all the military and political power in the northwest, then I have the right to decide all affairs in the northwest. If they want to be hostile to us, they will have to pass the old lady's level. ”

When Liu Heng heard Kou Ji's tough tone, he knew that Kou Ji had made up his mind.

He didn't say anything more, hugged his fist at Kou Ji, and left Kou Ji's room.

Liu Heng went all the way to the barracks outside the post station, mobilized 10,000 Qingtang soldiers, and rushed to the northwest.

Koji was in no hurry to leave.

In order to take care of the old lady of the Yang family, he stayed in the post station for a day, and did not set off with his servants until the second day.

Koji led a large baggage team, so the pace of the march was slow.

When he led the servants of Kou Mansion to escort the baggage out of Jinzhou, Wang Kai had already led his troops to Jia County.

The chief general of the Jinning Army stationed in Jia County, when he learned that Wang Kai was going to take over the military power of the Jinning Army, he did not happily hand over the military power of the Jinning Army, but he did not dare to embarrass Wang Kai, so he found an excuse to delay time.

Wang Kai knew that the military situation was urgent, and he held the arrow order given by Kou Ji in his hand, so he naturally would not sit idly by.

With an arrow order in hand, he secretly contacted the supervisors and pushers of the Jinning army, conveyed Kou Ji's orders to them, and asked them to help restrain the Jinning army.

Then when the chief general of the Jinning army invited him to eat in the restaurant of Jiaxian County that night, he led the troops and ambushed and killed the chief general of the Jinning army.

The reason why Wang Kai chose to ambush instead of asking Kou Ji's arrow order to directly kill the chief general of the Jinning Army in the Jinning Army barracks was because there were many henchmen of the Jinning Army in the Jinning Army.

If they are instigated by the Jinning army commander and completely mess up, they will not care if you give an arrow order or not, and they will definitely hack Wang Kai to death on the spot.

There is an unwritten rule that has been used since ancient times, and this rule is called "not holding the public accountable".

In the way of the imperial court, when there is a mutiny among the local soldiers, whoever causes the mutiny is the culprit, no matter what your purpose is, whether you are wronged or not.

Therefore, under the instigation of the chief general of the Jinning army, the officers and soldiers of the Jinning army hacked Wang Kai to death with a knife, and they definitely did not have much concern.

As soon as Wang Kai died, the chief general of the Jinning Army would definitely flee from the Great Song Dynasty with his henchmen.

Will the imperial court take out the anger of a group of ordinary soldiers who have been instigated?

Everyone is at fault, it is impossible for the imperial court to cut down tens of thousands of people for Wang Kai alone.

Wang Kai just guessed what the result would be if he asked for an arrow order in the Jinning army camp, so he decisively chose to ambush him.

After Wang Kaifu killed the chief general of the Jinning army, he carried the head of the chief general of the Jinning army and quietly entered the barracks.

He first controlled the henchmen of the Jinning Army General in the army through the supervisors and pushers in the army.

Then he took out the arrow order and the head of the chief general of the Jinning Army in public, and announced to the soldiers of the Jinning Army that he was ordered to take over the military power of the Jinning Army.

There were supervisors and officials who cooperated with Wang Kai to persuade the soldiers of the Jinning Army, and the soldiers quickly accepted this fact.

In order to control the Jinning Army as soon as possible and mobilize the morale of the Jinning Army.

After Wang Kai persuaded the soldiers of Jinning County, he successively dismissed the officials of the confidants of the Jinning army commanders, and gave them the vacated officials to those who had high prestige in the army.

With the help of the supervising army, the pusher, the head of the department, the chief and others, Wang Kai completely controlled the Jinning army.

After taking control of the Jinning army, Wang Kai sent someone to send a document to Kou Ji asking for guilt, and then took the Jinning army to the Yellow River near Baode and Linzhou to resist the Liao.

The reason why Wang Kai wanted to ask for guilt was because he gave the rank of the general to others without authorization.

Although he was in a hurry, Kou Ji would not necessarily blame him.

But he had to make a statement to Kou Ji and admit that he was wrong.

That's the rule.

As it turned out, Kou Ji was very comfortable with his set of rules.

After Kou Ji got Wang Kai's petition paperwork, he was very satisfied with Wang Kai's approach.

Not arrogant or impatient, dare to do things, dare to admit mistakes, and understand the rules.

Such a subordinate can be regarded as a good subordinate.

Kou Ji's evaluation of Wang Kai in his heart has improved by a few points.

When replying to Wang Kai, Kou Ji scolded Wang Kai in the letter, but did not give any substantive punishment.

The biggest punishment was to let Wang Kai pay a sum of money to settle the families of those entourages who were ambushed and killed by Wang Kai along with the main general of the Jinning army.

The punishment in terms of money is really nothing to Wang Kai, who has a rich family.

Wang Kai led the Jinning army to the edge of the Yellow River, and just happened to bump into a partial division divided by the Liao people to prepare to cross the river.

Wang Kai did not order the Jinning army to cross the river to meet the enemy, but took the Jinning army soldiers and stood on the bank and waited for the Liao people to cross the river.

The Liao people did not dare to cross the river, so they could only look across the river and look at the soldiers of the Jinning Army led by Wang Kai.

Not long after Wang Kai arrived on the bank of the Yellow River, Liu Heng also appeared on the bank of the Yellow River with 10,000 Qingtang soldiers and horses.

Seeing this, the Liao people resolutely retreated.

There are tens of thousands of troops waiting for them by the river, and they are not good at fighting on the water, and forcibly crossing the river is looking for death.

Even if the strength of the Jinning army and Qingtang soldiers and horses is not as good as them, they can give them a head-on blow when they cross the river.

There is no shelter on the river, and most of them do not know how to water.

Once they set foot on the road to cross the river, they are live targets.

It is true that the Liao people are good at fighting, but they can't be stupid to die.

When the river could not be crossed, the Liao people turned around and rushed to Yinzhou to poke Yinzhou's eyes.

After Wang Kai and Liu Heng saw the Liao people retreating, they immediately divided their troops into two routes, rushed all the way to Baode, galloped to the Qingshan army, stayed in place all the way, and began to deploy defenses to prevent the Liao people from sending other partial divisions to cross the river.

When Kou Ji got the military information sent by Wang Kai and Liu Heng, he had already arrived in Fenzhou.

Kou Ji was also relieved to learn that Wang Kai and Liu Heng had blocked the Liao people on the other side of the river.

The Liao people on the north bank of the Yellow River and on the south bank of the Yellow River are completely two different concepts.

The Liao people are on the north bank of the Yellow River, and with the help of the natural barrier of the Yellow River, Kou Ji can resist the Liao people a lot easier.

If the Liao people had crossed the Yellow River and appeared on the south bank of the Yellow River, the situation would not have been good.

On the south bank of the Yellow River, there is a flat official road that leads directly to Bianjing.

Once the Liao people crossed the Yellow River, they could completely join forces in one place, give up attacking all places, and go straight to Bianjing.

Once the Liao people hit Bianjing, the entire Great Song Dynasty would have to be in turmoil.

After Kou Ji arrived in Fenzhou, he did not rush to leave, but stayed in Fenzhou for two days.

The old lady of the folded family was in Fenzhou, parted ways with Kou Ji, and rushed to Fuzhou.

Kou Ji was in Fenzhou to wait for someone, and the old lady of the Zhe family was in a hurry to go to Fuzhou in order to see the bones of Zhe Weizhong.

After Kou Ji sent away the old lady of the Zhe family, he didn't wait long in Fenzhou.

A group of very unique people appeared in the post station in Fenzhou.

At the head was an old man with a half-length mask, surrounded by several men in armor and blades, and behind him was a group of teenagers and young men in leather armor and carrying muskets.

Several men in armor and blades were very enthusiastic when they saw Kou Ji, and they jumped off their horses one by one and pounced in front of Kou Ji.

"I've seen the young master......"

A few men in armor and blades hurriedly gave a salute in front of Kou Ji, and after the salute, they began to complain vigorously.

"Young master, let the villain go home. The place you send the villain to is not a place for people, you have to be angry with a bunch of little rabbits all day long, the villain is about to be, and his hair is about to fall out......"

"Young master, the people you let the villain teach are all a bunch of elm heads, the villain can't teach well, do you still ask another master?"

"Young master, the villain should go back to the house to help you raise horses."

“……”

Kou Ji was a little troubled by their gossip, rubbed his eyebrows and shouted: "Okay, if you shout and scream again, hang up and fight!" ”

As soon as Kou Ji's head of the guards heard this, he immediately stood in front of the people.

A few men in armor and blades immediately shut up.

The old man, who had been sitting on the back of the horse without speaking, stared at Kou Ji and snorted coldly after several men in armor and blades shut up: "Have your masters and servants finished talking about the past?"

The old man didn't have the time to spend here with you. ”

Before Kou Ji could speak, several men in armor and blades immediately turned their heads and glared at the old man on horseback.

One of the men even took the musket off his back and threatened the old man: "Be polite to my young master, otherwise I will blow you up in the head with one shot!" ”

When the old man heard this, his old face turned red, and he stared at Kou Ji and shouted angrily: "Kou Ji, you have to make it clear, this time it is the court asking the old man, not the old man asking the court, you had better be polite to the old man, and let your dogs be polite to the old man." ”

"Phew! Got your face?! You are a hairy phoenix, and you dare to threaten my young master. ”

Chen Datou was holding a gun, and he was about to start firing immediately.

Kou Ji frowned and said in a deep voice, "Enough! ”