"Nonsense!"

Li Di jumped to his feet angrily, "The civil strife in the imperial court has just been settled, and all localities need money and food assistance, and the surplus that has just accumulated in the treasury has almost been consumed, and I have borrowed some money from Yizipu." Now every penny of the imperial court, that is the people's life-saving money, at this time your grandfather opened his mouth to the lion of the court, that is, he is plundering the people's life-saving money, the old man, as the prime minister, how can he not stop it? ”

Kou Ji rolled his eyes, "What about you old liar?" There is a surplus that has been accumulated in the treasury for several years, and there is not a lot of money. I led people to confiscate the family property of those criminal officials, confiscated the family property of the Chu king's mansion, and filled the treasury.

In addition to filling the gap of the Jiaozi shop opened by the Eight Kings, there is still a lot left.

It was enough for the court to appease the people.

It's clearly you, looking at the word Jiaozi shop to make money, but it is not under the control of the imperial court, so I feel uncomfortable.

He poured some of the money from the treasury into the inner treasury of the official family to provide for the expenses of the official family for three years.

Then he went to the Yizi Jiaozi shop to cry poor, and took a lot of money away from the Yizi Jiaozi shop on the grounds of tax reduction and exemption. ”

Li Di glared and scolded: "The one-word Jiaozi shop under your jurisdiction makes a lot of profits every year, but the taxes paid are only a little. In the long run, the money of the court will not be scraped away by you.

The old man did this for the sake of the people and the court.

Besides, the king of Chu burned down many palaces in the palace, and now the palace is scorched, and the old man allocates some money to the official family to let the official family rebuild the palace, what's wrong.

My Great Song Dynasty is the upper state of the Heavenly Empire, if those envoys of Fanbang see the scorched earth in my Great Song Palace, they will not laugh at my Great Song Dynasty. ”

As soon as Kou Ji was about to fight back, he heard Xiang Yan cry and laugh: "Xianggong, the concubine should go back to the house and rest by herself." You take Li Gong and go to the main hall to sit down. ”

Kou Ji said righteously: "That's not good, you are pregnant, someone must take care of you." ”

Xiang Yan looked at her flat belly and said with a smile: "The concubine is not so delicate, and the concubine is not yet pregnant, so she doesn't need to be taken care of." It was enough to have two girls sent by my grandfather to serve them.

Xianggong, you are now an important minister in the court, and you are dealing with major affairs in the court, so don't waste time for the sake of concubines. ”

Kou Ji pursed his lips, and reluctantly handed Xiang Yan to the maid who was waiting behind him.

Xiang Yan was relieved and left the courtyard in a hurry, accompanied by the maid.

Whether it was her father-in-law or her two grandfathers, after learning that she was pregnant, she was too exaggerated and too enthusiastic, which made her a little unbearable.

How did she know?

What does that little life in her belly mean to Kou Zhun, Xiang Minzhong, and Kou Ji.

For Kou Zhun, that is the inheritance of incense.

For Xiang Minzhong, it is a guarantee for whether the Xiang family can continue to be rich in the future.

For Kou Ji, that is the soul that really takes root.

To a certain extent, the little guy in Xiang Yan's belly represents the lives of Kou Zhun and the others.

How could Kou Zhun and the three of them not pay attention to it.

After Xiang Yan left, Kou Ji took Li Di to the main hall of Kou Mansion with dissatisfaction.

After sitting down.

Li Di said in a weird manner: "Now that the Ministry of Kou has been promoted, his temper has also risen a lot?" In front of the old man, they are all starting to be neither big nor small. ”

Kou Ji didn't hear Li Di's words, and pouted: "The word Jiaozipu has been handed over to Cao Tong to be in charge, Cao Tong is the uncle of the country, a relative of the official family, and a cronie of the official family.

The largest owner of Yizi Jiaozi Shop is also an official family.

Whether you pay taxes or not, how much taxes you pay, you go to the official family and tell me something.

The palace in the palace was destroyed and wanted to be rebuilt, which was a matter for the imperial court.

The official family and the queen gave my grandfather money, so that he could have enough money to treat those poor children, that is grace, but you have to come forward to stop it.

My grandfather didn't eat for three days because of this.

threatens to cut off your robe and break your righteousness. ”

The corners of Li Di's mouth twitched, and he said viciously: "Do you lack that share of money in Kou Mansion?" ”

Kou Ji looked strange and said, "Who thinks they have a lot of money?" The money of my Kou Mansion is not blown by a strong wind. Every share of the money you have, that's earned by yourself. Where you want to spend it, it's just up to your own mind.

My grandfather founded the academy for the sake of the imperial court.

Shouldn't the imperial court pay for it? ”

Li Di gritted his teeth and said: "The court has no money!" ”

Kou Ji pouted and said, "I didn't notice it before, you always pick like this." ”

Li Di glared and gritted his teeth: "Are you still finished?" Your grandfather complained that the old man had stopped the money that the official family and the queen had rewarded him, and that was his complaint.

He is qualified, you don't.

Do you really think that the old man will not dare to treat you? ”

Kou Ji suddenly grinned, "The kid is just addicted, don't be angry." ”

Li Di snorted coldly: "The old man can see that your kid is addicted, so he didn't bother with you." Otherwise, I would have hung you up and beaten you a long time ago. Don't think that now that you have been promoted to Cao Shangshu, the old man will not dare to beat you. ”

Kou Ji smiled dryly, "You are now the first person in the Great Song Dynasty, so naturally you can fight whoever you want." ”

Li Di glared and scolded, "Nonsense." The official family is the first person in the Great Song Dynasty! ”

Kou Ji hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, the official family is the first person in the Great Song Dynasty, and you are the second person in the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Li Di opened his mouth, but he didn't bother to argue with Kou Ji again.

Seeing this, Kou Ji smiled and said, "If you always want to find my grandfather, I'm afraid you will have to wait until the evening." My grandfather would only come back in the evening. ”

Li Di glanced at Kou Ji and snorted coldly: "The old man is not looking for your grandfather, he is looking for you." ”

Kou Ji was slightly stunned, "Looking for me?" ”

Li Di nodded.

Kou Jihu said suspiciously: "I have already handed over the errand of the ministry to Fan Zhongyan to do, could it be that Fan Zhongyan has something wrong?" ”

Li Di shook his head and said in a deep voice: "The old man is looking for you because he has two things to tell you, and these two things have nothing to do with the officials. ”

Kou Ji was silent, staring at Li Di, waiting for the next step.

Li Di said in a deep voice: "Disobeying the order of Hou Li Deming, he sent his son Li Yuanhao to raid the Uighurs in Ganzhou and occupy the affairs of Ganzhou, you know." The court has recently received news that Li Yuanhao did not lead the army back after occupying Ganzhou.

Instead, he led an army to attack the Uighurs in Shazhou.

The Guiyi army in Guazhou was defeated, and the Guiyi army made Cao Xianshun and asked the Gaochang Uighurs for help.

The request for help was unsuccessful, and the Guiyi Army made Cao Xianshun ask for help from my Great Song Dynasty.

After deliberation in the inner court, it was decided to send troops and horses to the aid of the Uighurs in Shazhou. ”

Kou Ji listened to Li Di's words thoughtfully.

The Shazhou Uighurs were adjacent to the Ganzhou Uighurs, and it was not surprising that Li Yuanhao led his troops and horses to capture the Ganzhou Uighurs.

Most of the territory south of Western Xia has been invaded by the Great Song Dynasty.

There is a kind of Shiheng, Zhe Weizhong and the two of them are guarding the junction of Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty, and the Western Xia invades the south, which is extremely difficult.

The Liao State in the east now dominates the world, and the Western Xia cannot afford to provoke it.

If Western Xia wants to rise again, it can only go west and north.

Kou Ji was surprised that after the attack on the Uighurs in Shazhou, Cao Xianshun, the commander of the Guiyi Army, did not first ask for help from the Great Song Dynasty, but instead asked the Uighurs from Gaochang for help.

The Gaochang Uighurs, also known as the Western Uighurs.

Luntai, Xizhou and other famous cities under the rule of the Han Dynasty are now all Gaochang Uighurs.

Some of the smaller Uighurs, such as the Uighurs of Qiuzi, were all Uighurs of Gaochang.

In the Western Regions, the Uighurs of Qocho were the most powerful of the many Uighurs.

Its strength is comparable to that of the current Western Xia.

But even so, the strength of the Gaochang Uighurs was 108,000 miles worse than that of the Great Song Dynasty.

Cao Xianshun was a Han Chinese, and after the attack on the Shazhou Uighurs under his rule, he did not first ask for help from the Great Song Dynasty, but first went to the Gaochang Uighurs.

Cao Xianshun believed in the Uighurs of Gaochang more than in the Great Song Dynasty?

After failing to ask for help from the Uighurs in Gaochang, did he choose the Great Song Dynasty?

Li Di saw that Kou Ji fell into deep thought, and said in a deep voice: "You also see the problem? ”

Kou Ji frowned and said: "Cao Xianshun, he can't trust my Great Song, to be precise, he believes in the Gaochang Uighurs more than in my Great Song." ”

Li Di nodded and said: "It is precisely because of this that the imperial court decided to agree to Cao Xianshun's request and send soldiers and horses to help." The first is to fight the rise of Western Xia, and the second is to set an example for those Fanbangs who are attached to the knees of my Great Song Dynasty. ”

Kou Ji suddenly realized: "No wonder you suddenly became so picky, it turned out that you were preparing for the expedition." ”

Li Di glared at Kou Ji.

Kou Ji was a little embarrassed and said: "Yan'er is pregnant, and it is inconvenient for me to leave Beijing." Xiang Gong is not in good health, and my grandson-in-law, I have to stay in Bianjing City to take care of him. ”

When Li Di heard this, he said angrily and funny: "The inner court has no intention of sending an expedition with the army. ”

Kou Ji let out a sigh and said with a smile: "That's good......"

Hearing Li Di say that the imperial court was going to send troops to aid the Uighurs in Shazhou, Kou Ji's first reaction was that Li Di was ready to let him join the army and go to the Western Regions.

So immediately knocked on the side and began to refuse.

Li Di stared at Kou Ji and said, "The inner court originally planned to let Chong Shiheng lead the army to aid the Uighurs in Shazhou. However, Chong Shiheng stated in his letter that this matter may not be a plan for Western Xia to divert the tiger from the mountain.

After all, compared to the Western Regions, the Great Song Dynasty south of the Great Wall was even richer.

The old man and Lu Yijian discussed it for a while, and felt that what Chong Shiheng said was reasonable, so they dispelled this idea.

Now.

Zhu Neng took the initiative to ask for battle on the grounds that the two guards of the dragon god had not been in battle for a long time and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers was low.

The old man and Lu Yijian, as well as the official family, discussed it and agreed to Zhu Neng's request.

Zhu Neng was allowed to lead Long Wei to the Western Regions to aid the Uighurs in Shazhou.

Xue Tian also took the initiative to ask Ying to serve as a supervisor. ”

Kou Ji was a little stunned, and muttered, "Then what are you looking for me to do?" I have the commander who leads the army, and the important minister who supervises the army also has it, and I am still a governor of the government, so I can't be used. ”

"No!"

Li Di shook his head and said, "Zhu Neng wrote to the imperial court and said that you have some extremely lethal weapons in your hands, which are very suitable for dealing with the cavalry of Western Xia." ”

Kou Ji raised an eyebrow, "Fire Ballista Meteor Arrow? Didn't I equip Zhu Neng with 10,000? ”

Li Di glared and said, "That box with a hundred arrows flying together." ”

Kou Ji was stunned and said, "Zhu Neng is worried about a hundred tigers running together? ”

Li Di said thoughtfully: "It turns out that that thing is called a hundred tigers running together...... It's a good name......

Kou Ji bard his mouth and said: "A hundred tigers are running together, and if they are made, they will be used by the imperial court, not that they can't be given to Zhu Neng." It's just that it's not cheap......"

Li Di raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is it comparable to step people?" ”

Kou Ji shook his head and said, "That's not ......."

Li Di said magnificently: "Then let's have 100,000 planes first!" ”

Kou Ji glared, "Are you crazy? ”

Li Di rolled his eyes and said, "It's not that the old man is crazy, it's that all the forbidden troops are crazy." Since seeing the power of that hundred tigers running together, the generals of the forbidden army stationed inside and outside Bianjing City have all applied to the imperial court to equip this thing.

After the generals of the forbidden army in other places knew about this thing, they also wanted the court to look like they wanted to equip this thing.

100,000 planes, of course, are many, but they are distributed in various places, and there are not many.

A battalion of bows and crossbows, which can be equipped with one or two, is already a miracle. ”

Kou Ji stared at Li Di in amazement and asked, "When did the imperial court become so generous?" You, Lu Yijian, and Xue Tian were exchanged hearts? Did you secretly change the imperial court's strategy of emphasizing literature and suppressing military force? ”

Li Di said without being salty or light: "To suppress the martial arts, you need to relax one by one, and you can't blindly suppress them." The inner court was the master of streamlining all the Xiang troops in the Great Song Dynasty, and reduced the hundreds of thousands of Xiang troops, township soldiers, and vassal soldiers to more than 100,000.

cut a knife of flesh on the martial arts, so naturally he needs to compensate for it. ”

When Kou Ji heard this, he pouted and said, "I thought your conscience had found out." ”

Li Di's eyes widened instantly.

Kou Ji smiled dryly: "100,000 hundred tigers are running together, but they can't be built in a while. Even if the steel forging workshops outside the city and the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry joined forces, they could only produce 1,000 planes a month.

If Zhu Neng wants to go out to fight, I can first sell the more than 1,000 planes in the hands of the Tiger Army, as well as the 1,000 Hundred Tigers stored in the forging steel workshop, to Zhu Neng.

Others can only be sold while they are made.

The craftsman who made a hundred tigers galloping, and the craftsman who made the fire crossbow meteor arrow, the court should give a certain reward. ”

Li Di frowned and said, "For the matter of rewarding the craftsman, you go directly to discuss it with Wang Yunsheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry." As long as Wang Yunsheng submits the relevant reward documents, the three old men will sign them decisively. ”

Kou Ji nodded with a bright smile.

Li Di continued: "The next thing is about the officials of the DPRK and China. ”

Kou Ji glared in astonishment, "Where's the money?" ”

Li Di pretended to be stupid and said: "What money?" ”

Kou Ji shouted: "The imperial court buys the money for a hundred tigers." ”

Li Di frowned and said: "The inner court is the master, and the tax of the forging workshop has been reduced by thirty percent to pay off the debt of 100,000 tigers, what money do you need?" ”

Kou Ji was immediately unhappy.

"Together, you're always planning to empty the gloves of the white wolf?"

Li Di shouted: "What are you not happy about reducing the tax of the forging steel workshop. ”

Kou Ji slapped the table and said angrily: "In the forging steel workshop, there are also officials in the workshop. Why didn't you go and tell the officials about it, but you came to tell me. You must have found the official family first, but the official family didn't promise you, that's why you came to fool me, am I stupid?

Since the officials didn't agree, why should I agree?

If the official family investigates it, how can I explain it to the official family?

Besides.

Once the steel forging workshop undertook the errand of helping the imperial court forge a hundred tigers.

All the craftsmen in the forging steel workshop, in the next few years, will help the imperial court to build a hundred tigers.

They're going to eat.

They want to be paid.

The court doesn't give money, do you want to watch their family starve to death? ”

When Li Di heard this, he was a little weak.

The craftsmen in the forging steel workshop are basically ordinary people in the Great Song Dynasty, and what they hold in their hands is the innocent household registration of the Great Song Dynasty.

It's not a servitarian deed.

People not only have to eat, but also have to be paid.

If the imperial court wants to use people, it has to give money, and there is no reason to talk about it.

The imperial court can recruit them to serve, but it is only three or two months, and they can't use them for a long time.

The imperial court could also send someone to take over the steel forging workshop.

But that is the industry of Zhao Zhen, Kou Ji and others, and it is still private property.

Li Di and the three of them can bully Kou Ji and Mu Chong, but they can't bully Zhao Zhen, the big owner of the forging steel workshop.

Li Di didn't negotiate with Zhao Zhen when he negotiated wages, so he planned to come out and fool Kou Ji, but was debunked by Kou Ji on the spot.

Li Di said with an ugly face: "The imperial court has no money now!" ”

Kou Ji rolled his eyes, "There are no tigers running together in that workshop. ”

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