After clarifying the distinction between "people" and "court", Liu Xing once again handed over the right to speak to Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen was obviously a little puzzled by Liu Xing's way of being knighted but using two systems at the same time. But when he walked to the front of the high platform again, and saw the happy and slightly arrogant looks on the faces of those Chinese martial artists who had just been knighted in the field, Zhao Zhen suddenly understood.

What did he understand? Zhao Zhen understood that Liu Xing was doing "Liu Bei dropping children and buying people's hearts" again.

The inheritance and hereditary succession of the "civil lord" disappeared after a few generations, but as long as the Chinese martial arts were made a marquis, they had the opportunity to be hereditary. As long as the hereditary succession is replaced, then at least one of the descendants of the Chinese Wude knighthood will still be a nobleman and a cloud cavalry captain after a few generations.

Even those counts and barons who have not been replaced can at least pass on their titles for a few generations, and in the end, some of their descendants will retain a noble title.

With such a sharp contrast, Liu Xing directly used this two-line system to firmly pull the heart of obtaining the title and the heart of the Chinese martial arts closer to himself.

If you want to regain the supreme power, which group of talents is the real main force? Obviously, the lords of the "people's lords" are not the main force, and it is the people in the court who can really decide the supreme power of the court, or those civil and military officials, or those "courtiers".

Liu Xing's move is tantamount to adding another layer of insurance to his grasp of power, and it is equivalent to tying those courtiers more firmly to his chariot.

As a result, Zhao Zhen and the imperial family lost a possibility of regaining power, so that the Great Song Dynasty was more in charge of the courtiers and the king was only a national symbol, and it really took another big step towards the system of "constitutional monarchy......

Whoever holds the highest power will be able to dominate the trend. Zhao Zhen knew that the current situation was completely dominated by Liu Xing, so he could only sigh secretly and read out the list of the seventh and eighth batches of worshippers.

These two batches of beaverlist lists made Zhao Zhen read out at the top of his voice for nearly an hour. Because these two lists are really long enough, there are a full 2,000 people on them.

Among the 800 barons and 1,200 cavalry lieutenants, Kou Yuan, the big boss of the Wynn Trading Company, was the only first-class baron in this list of "peoples" in the grassland who captured the largest territory and killed the most people in Shanxi.

Kou Yuan, who is he? As soon as they heard that surname, many people in the audience were secretly speculating whether he was also a cousin of the brothers Kou Ning and Kou Xing? After all, in the big families in Hedong, most of the Kou family are the descendants of "Lao Xi'er" Kou Zhun.

Just when everyone was whispering and secretly speculating, Zong Xin walked off the high platform on the left side and walked to Kou Yuan's side.

Following the figure of Zong Xin, everyone looked away and saw Kou Yuan, and when they saw the appearance of that person, there was no longer any guessing.

Because of that Kou Yuan's appearance, he was five points similar to Kou Ning, who was standing under the Baijue stage, leading the troops to be responsible for the guard, and had just been awarded the title of First Class Earl. Just from that appearance, people can know at a glance that Kou Yuan, who was unknown in the past, must be after Kou Zhun.

So who is this Kou Yuan? Why did Zong Xin go to Zhao Zhen's side first after reading out the list?

The reason is that Kou Yuan is actually a member of the Kou family, and he is also a concubine. According to the clan rules of the Kou family, and even if they have not been completely eradicated, it is impossible for Kou Yuan to be developed, and even reach the situation of being a first-class man today.

He was a man who was guarded by God, and before he left the military intelligence system to do business, he once created a major incident in Suiyuan that shocked the world at that time.

It was a year ago, when Yue Fei swept away the remnants of Suiyuan's army, Kou Yuan was just a standard envoy in the army.

But when Yue Fei captured a small city called "Ningbei", the target where Kou Yuan was located suddenly fell seriously ill and handed over all the military power to him.

As soon as Kou Yuan, who took over the military power, led his troops into the city, he ordered all the aliens in the city to be captured except for the Han Chinese, driven to an open space outside the city, and then killed and buried all the more than 40,000 aliens.

Such a brutal act was not a heinous act when the two races were fighting. Because the golden dog also treats the Han people like this, Kou Yuan is just "using the other way and giving back to the other".

But what he did next was what really shocked the aliens. A standard envoy actually ordered all aliens who entered its defense area to arrest and kill one by one, and even shouted a slogan similar to that of the murderous demon king Ran Min back then.

Kill Hu, kill Hu, Kou Yuan killed Hu on the one hand, and constantly sent troops around to attack the nearby foreign cities. After the defeat, while killing people, he actually openly plundered and insulted foreign women, and then gathered those foreign women and sold them directly to secret liaos all over Shanxi for money......

At that time, Liu Xing had only finished sweeping the southern city in Bianjing City, and only then did he issue an order to ban all prostitutes and Qinglou, and since then the Great Song Dynasty has banned prostitution. Although Kou Yuan's move was to raise military expenses, he went too far. After the matter was publicized, he was hidden by Liang Xing and disappeared for a few months like evaporating from the world.

By the time he reappeared, he was already the owner of the Yongli firm in Daizhou City, which had been dismissed from the military and turned into a company. After that, it only took him a few months to expand rapidly with the help of the loans of the four major government-run banks, and opened his Wynn firm all over Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan provinces.

When Liu Xing issued the recruitment order for the merchant army and marched north to the grassland, Kou Yuan made another shocking move. While he paid off all his loans, he used the profits he made from his business to recruit merchant troops. Later, when the merchant army flew out of Saibei with Yue, he turned all the twenty-seven merchants in Shanxi into transshipment businesses in an instant.

As a result, while the other merchant army was worried about food, clothing, and supplies, Kou Yuan's merchant army was not worried at all, but was very rich.

His own merchant army was rich, and then he did something unthinkable: his transshipment could supply supplies in time, and when he went out in excess, he directly bartered and exchanged for battlefields, and used his grain and arms directly from other merchant armies in exchange for cattle, sheep, and treasures that were much higher than the original value.

The result of such a battlefield replacement was that Kou Yuan's strength not only did not weaken in just a few months, but his merchant army became the only one among many merchant army that became stronger and stronger.

But at the same time, he naturally became the biggest enemy of the alien race, and even the king of Ningyuan County, Guan Xie Nu, who was sitting on the Baijue platform.

The reason why Zong Xin walked to his side first was to prevent some people from being impulsive, and some of the foreign generals and soldiers present would be burned by the fire of hatred and assassinate him. (To be continued.) )