There are talented people from generation to generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years.

The change of power in the court has not been hundreds of years.

The change of power in the court is only a few decades, or even shorter.

Chen Yaozuo and Wang Zeng's generation, and now they are still standing in the court, and there are only two of them left.

They are old.

Whether it is energy, brain, or body, they are not as good as Bao Zheng, Su Xun, Wen Yanbo and a group of people.

In the future, when Su Shi and Wang Anshi's generation grow up, the generation of Kou Ji and Fan Zhongyan may also come to an end.

No one can stand still, even if they are powerful and invincible, they cannot stand forever.

Time is everyone's worst enemy.

No one can conquer it, so it is destined to be conquered by it.

After Kou Ji sent Chen Yaozuo and Wang Zeng away, he was not in the mood to stay in the political hall.

He can understand Wang Zeng and Chen Yaozuo's feelings.

Because he also felt that he was getting closer to old age.

A person himself will not feel that he is slowly getting old, and he needs someone to remind him to realize that he has suddenly aged a lot.

The reason why Kou Ji felt old was because he was reminded by Kou Tianci.

A few days ago, Kou Tianci quietly asked someone to send him a letter, asking if he could share a room with Princess Baoqing.

Kou Tianci is already a sound man, but Princess Baoqing is still young.

For the sake of Kou Tianci and Princess Baoqing's next generation, Kou Ji had to remind Kou Tianci to endure again.

After sending a letter to Kou Tianci, Kou Ji realized that he was already old.

In Kou Ji's impression, his greedy body was still yesterday.

But the reality is crueler than the impression.

often returns to reality from the impression, and it will be cruel to find that the son has begun to gluttony.

Koji had to fumble with his beard, reminding himself that he was already a grandfather on the verge of becoming a man.

Kou Ji also thought that he was about to become a grandfather, but someone had already become a grandfather.

When Kou Ji returned to the bamboo courtyard, he saw a middle-aged man with a small figure around his neck, walking around the bamboo courtyard.

Liu Heng rarely appeared in front of people and stayed by his side.

Kou Ji was a little embarrassed when he saw the middle-aged man.

Slowly stepped forward and snorted at the middle-aged man.

"Cao Yan?!"

Cao Tong heard the call, turned his head with his grandson, and saw Kou Ji, with a bright smile on his face.

"Fourth brother!"

Cao Tong put down his grandson, walked quickly in front of Kou Ji, and gave Kou Ji a big bear hug.

Two old men in their thirties hugging each other are really a bit indecent.

But neither of them cared.

The two hugged for a long time and slowly let go.

Cao Yan held back the tears in the corners of his eyes, and said with a smile: "Fourth brother, I haven't seen you for a few years, but you still haven't changed." ”

Kou Ji patted Cao Yan on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I'm already old." In a few years, I will be a grandfather. ”

When Cao Tong heard Kou Ji's words, he remembered his grandson, and hurriedly pulled his grandson to Kou Ji's side, and whispered to his grandson: "It's called Weng Weng......."

The child blinked and shouted crisply, "Weng Weng ......"

Kou Ji happily agreed, gave a small object to the child, and touched the child's head.

Cao Tong quietly watched Kou Ji tease his grandson, and when Kou Ji teased enough, he asked the nurse to take the child aside.

After the child left, Kou Ji said to Cao Yan: "I told you a long time ago that you can't have sex before the age of eighteen, but you are good, you have an eldest son at the age of sixteen, and now your parents are probably less than sixteen?" The grandchildren are all out. ”

Cao Tong smiled bitterly and said: "My father insists on going his own way, and he insists that we have children as soon as possible and have more." When it comes to Liuqiu, I wish to have more of our brothers and our sons.

Now our brothers, and our sons, the greatest thing is to make sons. ”

Kou Ji groaned, "There is no one on Liuqiu Island? ”

Cao Tong smiled and said: "Yes, yes, but they are not good people." Either sinners who escaped from the Great Song Dynasty or bandits who dominated the sea.

When we arrived on the island of Liuqiu, we were remembered.

It took half a year of fighting to deal with the wicked people on Liuqiu Island.

Now those wicked people have become prisoners, and they are cultivating fertile land and building houses for my Cao family on the island. ”

Koji nodded and said, "What is the situation on the island?" ”

Cao Tong said with a smile: "There are mountains and rivers, the land is fertile, and there are countless catches on the sea on the island. It is a rare and rich place, but there are a few people and some desolation.

I came back by boat to sell some of the island's specialties and seafood, and then bring back some of the things that the island needs. ”

Kou Ji smiled and said, "In this way, Liuqiu Island is a paradise for the Cao family? ”

Cao Tong smiled and said nothing.

It's true that the island is now a paradise.

But for a family that has been in the most prosperous city of Bianjing in the world for decades, Liuqiu Island is still too desolate.

There are even fewer people.

Now the people brought by the Cao clan on Liuqiu Island, plus those sinners, are only 50,000 people.

Most of the island is almost undeveloped.

Some people are accustomed to living a life of fine clothes and fine food, and suddenly they come to a barren place, and they have to work and cultivate the barren land by themselves, and some are not comfortable.

Some people who were fragile in their hearts even went crazy and hanged themselves.

Cao Tong won't tell Kou Ji about this, and Kou Ji won't ask.

Although the island is deserted, it is indeed a treasure island.

Zhao Zhen did not owe the Cao family, whether the Cao family could completely turn Liuqiu Island into a rich place, and whether they could establish a habitat like a paradise overseas was the Cao family's own business.

No one will have mercy on them, and they don't need anyone's mercy.

The men are not afraid of bloodshed, but they are afraid that the blood shed is meaningless.

Kou Ji invited Cao Tong to the side hall, and after sitting down, he asked Cao Tong with a smile, "If you need anything, just ask." ”

Cao Tong was not polite, and said frankly: "There are a lot of things needed, and I don't have enough people to bring, so it will be very slow to purchase, and I need the help of the fourth brother." ”

Kou Ji nodded and said, "Give me the list, and I'll let your sister-in-law do it." ”

Cao Tong took out the list and handed it to Kou Ji.

Kou Ji glanced at it slightly, and then ordered someone to hand it over to Xiang Yan.

Xiang Yanhui sent someone to prepare the things, and then sent someone to the place where Cao Yan's fleet docked.

After Kou Ji handed the list to the steward, Cao Tong said straight to the point: "There are still some things to trouble the fourth brother." ”

Kou Ji waved his hand and said: "You and my brother don't have to be polite, if you have anything, I will definitely agree if I can agree." ”

Cao Tong nodded and said: "The Cao family's existing ships are inconvenient to sail on the sea, and once they encounter strong winds and waves, almost all of them are destroyed and killed.

Nowadays, most of the sea boats of the Cao family are left by those pirates, and they are dilapidated one by one, and it is difficult to use them for a long time.

Therefore, I would like to borrow the shipbuilding drawings of sea ships stored in the imperial court.

I also want to borrow some shipbuilding drawings of Japanese ships from Brother Liu. ”

Cao Tong just finished speaking.

Liu Heng slowly spoke, "The ships of the Japanese are worse than those of my Great Song Navy. Therefore, there is nothing to learn from the sea ships of the Japanese people.

However, the experience of the Japanese people floating on the sea can be used as a reference.

The Japanese people have traveled back and forth between our Great Song Dynasty and the Japanese country for thousands of years, and their experience in surviving at sea is far richer than ours.

I will write to Bethsu and ask him to send you a few Japanese men who are experienced in surviving at sea. ”

When Cao Tong heard this, he solemnly hugged his fists and said: "Thank you for your great kindness......"

Liu Heng shook his head and smiled: "Your Cao family's fief and my Liu family's fief are both at sea, and I am afraid that we will have more opportunities to communicate in the future than returning to Bianjing." So I help you, just help me. ”

Cao Tong nodded solemnly.

When the two of them were talking happily, Kou Ji didn't interject, and after the two finished talking, Kou Ji stared at Cao Tong and said with a smile: "The shipbuilding diagram of the imperial court is actually average. ”

Cao Tong was stunned.

Kou Ji continued to laugh and said: "The Tianci Boy and the Boxu Boy combined the shipbuilding drawings of Goryeo, Wa Kingdom, Jiaozhi, and the imperial court, and invited experienced old shipbuilders in Fuzhou and other places to build a new ship.

The ship is tall enough to hold cargo and carry armor.

There is also a set of navigational means of sailing for months at sea without getting sick.

I think you can think about it. ”

When Cao Tong heard this, he was first overjoyed, and then said with a smile: "The nephews' things, I, as an uncle, are not good at taking them."

The fourth brother is going to make me bleed. ”

Kou Ji laughed and said, "What you give you must be good things, and it won't cheat your money." The official family wanted to quote it to the two naval armies in Zhennan and Zhendong, and they also spent a lot of money to buy it. ”

Cao Tong said with a bitter face: "The problem is that the skill of shipbuilding has always been mastered by the two of them, and I, who is an uncle, will not be pressed to the ground by them for a lifetime?" ”

Kou Ji looked up to the sky and laughed: "No way, the two little guys regard this as a business, and I can't take things from them for nothing."

Managing a sea vessel, and how to sail at sea without getting sick, is a one-shot deal.

So you only have to pay once.

In the case of sea boats, you need to go out at least twice.

No less than 10 at a time.

After two times, if you still can't figure out how to build a ship, then I will ask Tianci to give you a shipbuilding drawing, and by the way, send a few skilled craftsmen to teach you. ”

Cao Tong hesitated: "The land is vast and sparsely populated, but it is very poor. ”

Kou Ji shook his head and smiled: "You can deceive others, but you can't deceive me." Although there are few people overseas, many islands are rich in products.

There are treasure islands full of spices and gemstones, and there are treasure islands hidden in gold and silver.

There are ships that can withstand strong winds and waves.

The treasures of the sea are not yet at your disposal.

What reason do you have to pretend to be poor. ”

Cao Tong sighed and said: "I also know that there are countless treasures, but when I go out to sea, if I am lucky, thirty percent of the people on the ship die, and if I am unlucky, the whole army will be wiped out."

My Cao clan doesn't have many people on Liuqiu Island, and I can't withstand the devouring of the Sea Dragon King at all.

Therefore the treasure is exchanged for life.

There aren't many people on the island now, so my Cao clan is ready to vigorously reproduce on the island, hoping to fill the population as soon as possible.

Except for sending ships to the Great Song Dynasty to exchange goods and pay tribute, we are not prepared to go to other places.

So you won't get much treasure. ”

When Kou Ji heard Cao Yan's words, he thought about it for a while, looked at Cao Tong with a smile and said, "I'm afraid your entry into the hinterland of the Central Plains this time is not just to purchase goods. Eighty percent of them still have to absorb some people to beg.

I can turn a blind eye to this matter, and let the Zhennan Army also turn a blind eye. ”

When Cao Tong heard this, he said with emotion: "I really can't hide anything from the fourth brother." ”

Kou Ji smiled and said, "It's not that you can't hide it from me, but everyone is doing this." It's just that I don't want everyone in Korea, I only need learned scholars, clever craftsmen and smart businessmen.

As long as you are a Song person, as long as you are willing to settle down in the fiefdom with you, you all want it. ”

Cao Tong smiled bitterly and said, "Looking at it, there are dozens of times more beasts than people. I can only find a way to get people. ”

Kou Ji smiled: "Actually, you can follow Liu Heng's method and invite the Zhennan Army and the Zhendong Army to be guests." You can also invite the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty and the poor girls on the Qinhuai River.

Relying on your little artificial children alone, I'm afraid it will take twenty or thirty years to see results.

With the help of merchants, it will be much faster. ”

Cao Tong looked at Kou Ji in astonishment, and then at Liu Heng in astonishment, and exclaimed, "Can you still invite the Zhennan Army and the Zhendong Army to beg?" ”

Kou Ji confessed: "Why not? Your Cao family needs someone to help you grow your clan. The Zhennan Army and the Zhendong Army needed to be familiar with how to navigate the seas, and they also needed to be familiar with how to fight at sea.

Just take what you need. ”

Cao Tong was frightened and asked: "But the Zhennan Army and the Zhendong Army are all men......

Kou Ji rolled his eyes, "The former King of Jiaozhi County is now killing people in the west of Jiaozhi. Jiaozhi West all the way to Tianzhu, and the men were almost all killed.

Now I'm trying my best to coax the people of the Great Song Dynasty from Jiaozhi Mansion to keep their seeds in the past.

He also organized countless business pairs composed of women from Tianzhu and other places to go to various places in my Great Song Dynasty to do the kind of dirty things that Japanese girls did in Bianjing City back then.

You send someone to find him, spend some money, and ask some women from Tianzhu and other places to beg for it, won't it be over? ”

When Cao Tong heard this, his eyes lit up.

Kou Ji saw that Cao Yan had already understood his intentions, so he stopped mentioning the matter.

"Our brothers finally got together, and we are not allowed to get off the table today if we are not drunk."

Kou Ji greeted with a laugh.

Cao Tong hurriedly said: "You first order someone to prepare the meal, and I will come when I go." ”

Cao Tong dropped these words and left in a hurry.

probably went down to find his own people and went to Tianzhu to contact Cao to take advantage of it.

After Cao Tong left, Liu Heng rolled his eyes and said, "Xiyang and Liuqiu are about to be made into flower boats by you for the Zhennan Army and the Zhendong Army." ”

Kou Ji said angrily: "In order to make you grow stronger as soon as possible, I, the prime minister of a big country, have acquiesced to this kind of dirty thing, which is already very embarrassing."

I didn't complain, you are embarrassed to complain about me.

Don't forget, you're going to take advantage of the benefits. ”

Liu Heng said with a smile: "Although it is true that we have taken advantage, we always feel unhappy." ”

Kou Ji glared and said, "Let the tens of thousands of people you bring over live desperately, when will you be able to give birth to a huge race?"

Cao's side will forget it.

Xiyang has to develop and grow as soon as possible.

Otherwise, after you and I die, the breeder will definitely domesticate the Dongyang people.

When the time comes, they will definitely lead their troops to the west.

If you don't develop Xiyang into a place where there are only my Song people as soon as possible, how can you use the power of the clan and the righteousness of the clan to contend with the breeders?

What's more, when Xiyang is full of Song people, and they are all children of the Zhendong Army and the Zhennan Army, if there is any danger in Xiyang, the Zhendong Army and the Zhennan Army will face you.

If someone wants to cut down the feudal domain in the future, the first thing to deal with is not your Xiyang, but the Zhennan Army and the Zhendong Army.

The advantages are all taken advantage of, and you still feel that you are losing. ”

Liu Heng laughed dryly, without words.

Not long after the two finished speaking, Cao Tong appeared in front of the two again.

The three of them arrived at the dining hall, sat down on the large table in the dining hall, ate meat and drank a full meal, and only went back to their rooms to sleep when they were drunk.

Next.

When Liu Heng was still asleep, Kou Ji and Cao Tong had already gotten up.

Kou Ji put on his big purple robe, and Cao Tong put on his clothes that symbolized the identity of the prince and entered the court together.

Cao Tong, as Zhao Zhen's brother-in-law and Zhao Run's brother-in-law, entered Bianjing City, so he naturally had to enter the Hajj.

Otherwise, it is easy to be criticized by others, and it is easy to weaken the feelings.

After Cao Tong visited Zhao Zhen in the court, he gave him the letter of state that his father asked him to hand over.

On the national letter, please set up a border city in Fuzhou to facilitate exchanges.

Zhao Zhen agreed on the spot.

Nowadays, among the major vassal kings, except for the Cao family, the remaining feudal fiefs of the feudal kings have set up border cities with the imperial court.

Even the two families of Chong and Liu, who are also far away from overseas, have set up border markets in Bohai Province and Dengzhou respectively.

Several border cities are frantically extracting a large amount of taxes for the imperial court.

So Cao Jiazuo asked to open a border market, and Zhao Zhen had no reason not to agree.

After Cao Tong submitted his credentials for the opening of a border city, he invited the Zhennan Army and the Zhenbei Army to visit Liuqiu Island from time to time.

Zhao Zhen did not refuse.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty did not oppose either.

In the eyes of Zhao Zhen and the Manchu Dynasty, the Zhennan Army and the Zhenbei Army went to inspect Liuqiu Island, which was a process of familiarizing themselves with the sea route and finding out whether the Cao family had a disobedient heart.

As long as the Cao family has the power to rebel, or has the ambition to rebel, the imperial court can also quickly send soldiers and horses to suppress it.

So there's no reason to refuse.

If Kou Tianci wrote a letter to ask Di Qing to lead the army into Han to inspect, the imperial court would not refuse.

After all, it was a very dangerous move for the imperial court to divide the feudal kings.

The vassal king took the initiative to invite the soldiers and horses of the imperial court to monitor him, but the imperial court could not ask for it.

After Zhao Zhen agreed to the two things that Cao Tong requested, Cao Tong never played again.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty thought it was quite strange.

Because of the Cao family's visit this time, they did not ask for firearms.

When many vassal kings sent people to meet them this year, only the two vassal kings of the Cao clan and the Kou clan did not ask the court to sell them firearms.

Naturally, there is no need to say much.

The firearms were made by their family, and if they wanted to use them, the court couldn't stop them, and there was no way to stop them, and no one used this as an excuse to say that the Kou clan was not a minister.

Now there are a lot of disciples of the Kou clan in the court.

Finding trouble with the Kou clan is to make yourself uncomfortable.

Either he was drowned with saliva by Kou's disciples, or he was slapped to death by Kou Ji.

So I can't make it.

The Kou clan has firearms, so they don't have to worry about firearms, but the Cao clan doesn't have firearms, they don't even worry about firearms, and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military naturally feel strange.

When Zhao Zhen and the Manchu Dynasty discussed the business, after the next dynasty, some acquaintances came to Cao Tong's side and asked about the matter.

Cao Yan's answer was simple.

'The people of the Cao clan on Liuqiu Island plus the original people on Liuqiu Island are 50,000 when they are full, and even Liuqiu Island is not satisfied, what do you want firearms for? As a mallet? The island is surrounded by the sea on all sides, and there are no enemies, so there is no need for it. ’

Cao Tong's words were very atmospheric, and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military also recognized it very much.

Only Kou Ji knew that the Cao family did not continue to ask for firearms because the Cao family knew that at this stage, the imperial court would not sell firearms to the Cao family.

The more Cao sought firearms, the more people would feel that Cao had bad intentions.

Because the Cao family is different.

Cao's daughter is now the queen, and her nephew is the most likely to become the crown prince.

If the Cao family makes people feel ill-intentioned, then the status of the Cao family's daughter and nephew will be shaken.

Although the Cao clan is now considered to have broken away from most of the system of the Great Song Dynasty.

But there are always many benefits to having a daughter who is a queen and a nephew who is a prince.

After Cao Tong went down to the next dynasty, he was invited into the harem by Queen Cao.

Zhao Run is also there.

The three blood relatives confided in each other their thoughts and said many private words.

When parting, Empress Cao took out some personal money, as well as a large sum of money scavenged from Zhao Run, and handed it over to Chen Lin, the manager of the Inner Government, to buy a large number of goods that the Cao family needed, and asked Cao Tong to take them with him when he left.

Only Queen Cao can make up for her mother's family so generously.

If you change to the daughters of several other families, you will never dare to send things out so blatantly.

The husband's family will not agree, and people who know each other will also have a lot of complaints.

As long as it is not the royal family, subsidizing the mother's family is a kind of scolding behavior, and the husband's family will not like it.

Cao Tong entered the palace, and Empress Cao swept Zhao Run clean.

Zhao Run couldn't get fair treatment from Empress Cao, and the same was true for his father, so he could only run to the bamboo courtyard to find Kou Ji.

Hopefully, Koji can give him some comfort.

After Zhao Run arrived at Kou Ji's study, he struggled for a long time, until the people in the study were gone, and Kou Ji was left alone.

Zhao Runcai said to Kou Ji with a sad face: "I don't like my uncle. ”

Kou Ji heard Zhao Run's words, sighed faintly, and said, "You are a little ungrateful when you say this!" You should know that your uncle paid with his life to get you to my door.

Although the original intention has some utilitarian intentions.

But at least they'll never hurt you.

I just took some of your money.

You don't like them anymore?

Then one day, when someone fights with you for the throne and they shed blood for you, how should you face them? ”

Zhao Run gritted his teeth and hung his head, "The student knows it's wrong. ”

Kou Ji sighed and said: "I don't blame you for this, you haven't been together for a long time, you haven't developed a strong friendship, and there is a wall in your heart, which is normal."

The heirs of the royal family, especially the eldest son of the emperor, find it difficult to feel family affection.

It's determined by who you are.

As your husband, I should help you fix your defects.

Go back and tell your mother, your brother will be able to speak, so send him to me to study in the future. ”