The jailer wanted to take this opportunity to climb up to Kou Ji, but judging by Kou Ji's posture, it was obvious that he wanted to leave.

Wouldn't it be a waste of the table he spent a lot of money to get for the table of Fan Lou?

Kou Ji didn't know the jailer's thoughts, and even if he knew, he wouldn't bother with the jailer.

Bringing one or two petty officials and officials is a casual thing for Kou Ji.

But he wouldn't carry the jailers.

The jailers have been in prison for a long time, and they have long been mixed into a personal essence, and seeing the wind and steering the rudder is their best skill.

This kind of person is not reliable and cannot be cultivated into henchmen, so Kou Ji will not carry them.

As long as Kou Ji always maintains a high position, they will always look groveling in front of Kou Ji.

After throwing two gold leaves on the plate held by the jailer, Kou Ji flicked his sleeves and left the cell.

The jailer did not shirk this time, accepted the two gold leaves that Kou Ji had dropped, and carried a plate of vegetables into Ding Wei's cell.

Ding Wei sat on the ground like a wooden man.

His mind kept echoing what Kou Ji had said.

"Is the old man really wrong?"

Ding Wei suddenly raised his head and stared at the jailer to ask.

The jailer was stunned and didn't know how to answer.

"The old man is right, it's Kou Ji's little cub who is wrong, he actually wants to use his set of rhetoric to influence the old man's mind."

"Murder...... Heart-wrenching...... What a wicked boy......"

Ding Wei shook his head and muttered in fragments.

The jailer didn't bother to talk to him, and after putting down the plate in his hand, he withdrew from the cell.

Ding Wei ignored the rich wine and meat on the plate, and babbled about it vigorously.

……

Kou Ji got out of the prison of the Criminal Department, let out a sigh of relief, and returned to the house in a sedan chair.

After entering the mansion gate, he walked all the way to Kou Zhun's study, and after a speech, he entered the study.

Kou Zhun was practicing calligraphy, carrying a brush and splashing ink, and when he heard Kou Ji enter the study, he glanced up, then lowered his head, and asked while splashing ink, "See?" ”

Kou Ji nodded, "I saw ......"

"How?"

"He wanted to use his set of crooked reasoning to guide me, but in the end I was speechless when I refuted it."

Kou Zhun put down his pen and said quietly: "Speaking of which, Ding Wei is indeed a talent, but unfortunately his mind is not right and he has taken the wrong path." ”

"I think so too......"

"What did he tell you, and what did you tell him?"

Kou Ji simply retold his conversation with Ding Wei.

Kou Zhun nodded again and again when he heard this, "Being a man and an official should be like this, it is commendable that you can understand this truth at your current age."

As for Ding's words, don't take it to heart.

The old man gave him a pot of turbid wine and a plate of deer tails, just to tell him that he had taken the wrong path and let him die to understand, but he didn't expect that he didn't understand what the old man meant. ”

"That's it, he's going to be a dead man soon, and the old man doesn't bother to pay attention to him."

Kou Zhun looked at Kou Ji and said, "The old man gave Xiang Minzhong, as well as Wang Zeng, you, the three of you are allowed to rest for three days, and you can rest in the house for these three days." ”

"Understand ......"

Kou Ji agreed, walked out of Kou Zhun's study, and returned to his courtyard.

He stayed in his yard for one day, and on the second day he couldn't go any longer.

Kou Zhong said that there were a few gift-givers at the door, and Kou Ji needed to receive them personally.

Kou Ji said with a puzzled expression: "The house rarely accepts gifts, you can just send them according to the previous way."

Why do you need to ask me? ”

Kou Zhong bent down and said with a smile: "The person who gave the gift this time is a little different, and the old servant can't drive people away. ”

Kou Ji looked suspicious, and under the guidance of Kou Zhong, he appeared outside the mansion.

When I raised my eyes, I understood the difference between the people who gave gifts that Kou Zhong said.

It was a group of emaciated men, escorting dozens of carts, loaded with grain.

At the head was an old man with a long whip in his hand and sitting on the wheel.

After seeing Kou Ji, he hurriedly jumped out of the car, walked quickly to Kou Ji, and said, "Little Lao'er sees Little Kou Gong'......"

Kou Ji hurriedly stepped forward and helped him up, "Why are you here?" ”

The old man grinned and said, "A few days after you left, a lot of wheat was ripe in the field, and the little old man hurriedly asked people to cut it, peel it, and send it to you."

I just want you to be the first to eat this year's new wheat and eat the wheat we grow ourselves. ”

Kou Ji helped the old man, not knowing what to say.

Looking at the old man's line, and the lines of those who came with him, Kou Ji knew that they had arrived in Bianjing City under the stars.

Because there was a lot of mud on their trouser legs.

It was covered with dew mixed with dust.

The people are simple, and if you have a little kindness to them, they will repay you with their hearts and lungs.

Although the things they give away may not be worth much, the things they can get their hands on must be the best things in their homes.

"Enter the house and say ......"

Kou Ji pulled the old man and walked towards the mansion.

At the same time, he instructed Kou Zhongdao: "Let the servants in the house go to unload the grain." Part of it was kept for the palace to be sent, and part of it was ground into flour by the mill in the house, and the cook in the kitchen was made into food. ”

Kou Zhong agreed with a smile, and hurriedly ordered the people in the house to do things.

The old man led a group of men from the Cypriot Army, and followed Kou Ji to the door, but he refused to go in.

He pulled Kou Ji hard, and asked Kou Ji to find them a casual foot shop to live in.

At first, Kou Ji thought that the old man was being polite to him, until he noticed that the old man's gaze fell on the clean floor inside the gate of Kou Mansion from time to time, and on their mud-covered clothes.

Kou Ji understood the old man's thoughts.

The old man was afraid that the dirt on his body would stain the place of Koufu.

Kou Ji called out to Kou Zhong and whispered a few words in his ear.

Kou Zhong understood and went into the house to make arrangements.

Kou Ji took the old man's hand and entered the Kou Mansion.

The old man saw that he couldn't resist Kou Ji, so he took the men he led, rubbed the dirt off his body at the door, and then followed Kou Ji into Kou's mansion.

After entering the Kou Mansion, Kou Ji did not lead them on the right path, and passed through the corridors, stepping on a messy path to a courtyard.

The old man looked at the mess on the ground, and tried to speak several times, but he couldn't help it.

But the men who followed the old man commented one by one.

said that the servants of Kou Mansion were slackers, and they couldn't even clean up the yard.

Kou Ji smiled indifferently at this and didn't say much.

Kou Ji asked Kou Zhong to arrange a clean and comfortable yard for them.

There are no tall buildings in the courtyard, and there is nothing opulent.

When the old man and the others arrived, they looked very comfortable.

After a round in the yard, they were no longer restrained, and one by one they let go and walked around the yard.

After Kou Ji arranged for them to stay, he chatted with them for a while.

By nightfall, the mill in Koufu had already ground the flour and delivered it to the kitchen in Koufu.

The cooks used fresh flour to make a series of delicacies and served them to the table.

Kou Ji accompanied the old man and the others to have a meal.

The old man and the others were afraid that after the new wheat came down, they didn't taste it, but hurriedly sent it to Kou Ji.

Therefore, Kou Ji felt that it was necessary for them to eat the heart food they had planted themselves as soon as possible.

The men don't seem to like to sit at the dinner table, they seem to be more accustomed to eating with a bowl in a squat, or sitting together in groups of three or five, sitting on the floor, sitting and eating.

The old man was holding a bowl of white noodles, without salt or vinegar, but he ate it with tears in his eyes.

When Kou Ji opened his mouth to comfort him, the old man said excitedly: "Little Lao'er and the others can eat the white noodles they grow, thanks to you." ”

Kou Ji chuckled in a low voice, "This is the ...... you deserve"

"What deserves it...... What kind of life did Xiao Lao'er and others live before, and what kind of life are they living now?

The little old man's heart is not blind, so he feels it clearly. ”

Kou Ji said in a low voice: "We are a family now, so don't say those polite words." ”

The old man nodded heavily and said, "The family ......"

After eating and drinking enough, Kou Ji asked Kou Zhong to arrange for these people to sleep, leaving the old man alone and chatting together for a while.

He inquired about Baozhou and the situation of the Baosai army.

The old man did not hide Kou Ji, and told Kou Ji about the details of Baozhou.

When mentioning this year's grain production, the old man also cautiously asked Kou Ji.

"Little Kougong, do we need to pay taxes?"

"Paying taxes? What taxes are paid? ”

Kou Ji looked suspicious.

The old man said seriously: "When the little old man left Baozhou, he bumped into a judge, who broke into the barracks of our Baosai army and insisted that we pay taxes for the Baozhou army.

said that since he won the land of the imperial court, he should pay taxes to the imperial court.

Xiao Lao'er originally wanted to ask carefully.

But the judge was driven away by General Yang.

General Yang said that we are a soldier, and we have our own land and grain we plant, and we don't have to pay a penny of grain to the imperial court. ”

Kou Ji nodded when he heard this: "Yang Wenguang is right, according to the rules of the imperial court, as a military member, you don't need to pay food to the imperial court.

Instead, the court has to give you a fortune. ”

When the old man heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "With your words, the little old man is relieved."

The rules of not having to pay food for military membership are known to the little old man.

Xiao Lao'er is just worried that the imperial court will issue any new decrees, so that you will cause trouble in order to protect Xiao Lao'er and others. ”

Kou Ji chuckled in a low voice: "You just have to be relieved, I won't have any trouble."

If I'm really in trouble, I'm not afraid of you to help me. ”

When the old man heard this, he smiled brightly and said, "What you said is reasonable. ”

Kou Ji smiled: "How about the horses? ”

The old man smiled: "Those horses are fine." Let's all be careful, and after a few years, we will definitely be able to double. ”

"That's good......"

The old man seemed to remember something, groped in his arms, pulled out a letter, and handed it to Kou Ji.

Kou Ji took the letter, glanced at it, and saw words such as Yang Wenguang.

Kou Ji took apart the fire paint and flipped through it carefully.

After reading the letter, Kou Ji showed a thoughtful expression.

Yang Wenguang stated in his letter that after he took over the leadership of the Baosai Army, he deeply felt the erosion of the military system of the Baosai Army, and deliberately sorted out the Baosai Army, eliminated the old, weak, sick and disabled in the army, and achieved the goal of being an elite soldier.

In this regard, Yang Wenguang has already made a calculation.

After his preliminary counting, the Bulgarian army was young and strong, less than 8,000 people.

The rest are all old, weak, sick and disabled.

A fully staffed Protector Army should have 50,000 men.

And once Yang Wenguang implements the order of elite soldiers, the remaining 8,000 people of the Baosai army will be dismissed.

Fifty thousand against eight thousand, the gap is a bit big.

Once someone takes the opportunity to write to the court and accuse Yang Wenguang of plotting against him, Yang Wenguang will be very troublesome.

So Yang Wenguang wrote to ask Kou Ji and wanted to know what Kou Ji meant.

Kou Ji actually agrees with Yang Wenguang's idea, in the case of the erosion of the military system, elite soldiers are very necessary.

It's just that once Yang Wenguang chooses elite soldiers, a large part of the army will be eliminated.

Among them was the old man sitting next to Koji.

Whether they will have a grudge or make trouble, no one knows.

Once they make a fuss, the good situation that Kou Ji just created in Baozhou is very likely to be ruined.

With a concern, Kou Ji looked at the old man with a deep groan.

He wanted to ask the old man what he meant, and he wanted to use the old man to find out what the other soldiers of the Bulgarian Army meant.

It's just that people treat him sincerely, but he wants to break other people's jobs, and he is a little embarrassed to speak.

"Is it a matter of disarmament?"

The old man was the first to speak and asked happily.

Kou Ji was stunned for a moment and asked, "How do you know?" ”

The old man laughed in a low voice: "General Yang is too young after all, and everything is on his face.

From the time he kept looking at us old fellows in the camp, we knew he wanted to disarm.

That kind of look, the little old man has seen it countless times.

Every general who comes to the little old man wants to dismiss us old guys.

But in the end, every general had to let us old fellows go into battle to help them defend against the enemy. ”

Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "I believe that Yang Wenguang is not that kind of person. ”

The old man grinned and said, "Little Lao'er knows that it is a good doll, but it is a little thin-skinned.

He wants to dismiss us, but he can tell us clearly, there is no need to write to you, let you test the little old man. ”

Kou Ji nodded slowly, "What do you think about this?" ”

The old man pondered for a while, and said seriously: "Actually, there is no need to be so troublesome, when it comes to the end of this year, there is no need for him to dismantle, and Xiao Lao'er and others will also withdraw from the army." ”

Kou Ji wondered, "Why? ”

The old man smiled brightly and said, "Naturally, I don't want to give up the good days in my hands to others."

I don't want to be sorry for your request. ”

When Kou Ji heard this, he thought about it slightly, and then seemed to think of something, and asked, "You mean the military system of my dynasty?" ”

The old man nodded and said, "It will not move, and the soldiers will be changed every three years."

At the end of this year, Xiao Lao'er and others went to Baozhou, and it was only three years.

According to the meaning of the imperial court, Xiao Lao'er and the others should also change places.

In the past, Xiao Lao'er was driven away by the imperial court, because if he followed the imperial court, he could still eat a little food, but if he left the imperial court, we would all be starved to death.

Now it's different, you have pressed Xiao Lao'er and others in Baozhou, and Xiao Lao'er and others have a good life, so naturally they don't need to follow the court anymore. ”