Knowing Liu Heng's whereabouts, I was relieved. ”

What Kou Ji was most afraid of was that Zhao Zhen would stuff Liu Heng into a corner that no one could find.

Now that he learned that Zhao Zhen sent Liu Heng to the Wa Kingdom, Kou Ji has nothing to worry about.

Liu Heng's errand to move Yinshan to the Wa Kingdom was led by Zhao Zhen, and Zhao Zhen did not discuss the matter with him, Liu Heng did not reveal his intentions, and Kou Ji was not easy to get to the bottom of it.

Kou Ji stared at the middle-aged man and said, "Since you are Liu Heng's person, you are your own person." ”

The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief and was just about to get up.

But I heard Kou Ji say again: "But do you want to explain to me clearly about your follow-up to my son?" ”

When the middle-aged man heard this, his face turned bitter, "Kou Shumi, you misunderstood the villain, the villain doesn't dare to follow the young master of Tianci." The villain is secretly protecting Young Master Boxu. Young Master Boxu has been staying with Young Master Boxu in recent days, and the villain wants to follow Young Master Boxu, so naturally he can't avoid Young Master Tianci. ”

Kou Ji snorted coldly, "Since it's your own person and you're doing the right thing, why don't you show up openly." ”

The middle-aged man smiled bitterly: "The villain doesn't want to cause you trouble." After all, the villain is now a fugitive. ”

Kou Ji frowned slightly.

"I'll find an excuse to help you settle this matter. In the future, don't sneakily follow behind Tianci and Bo Xu. ”

The middle-aged man nodded solemnly.

The middle-aged man followed Liu Boxu, mainly because of Liu Heng's orders, and secretly protected Liu Boxu.

When the middle-aged man was following Liu Boxu, he found that Liu Boxu and Kou Tianci were surrounded by people who were following them openly and secretly, and they didn't need the protection of their brothers at all.

The middle-aged man didn't dare to follow too closely because of the arrogance of the guards around Kou Tianci and Liu Boxu, so the guards around Kou Tianci and Liu Boxu didn't notice them.

But even so, he did not escape.

He followed Liu Boxu at the gate of the Koufu Courtyard and showed his head, and was discovered by the dumb tiger, and as soon as the dumb tiger appeared, he arrested him.

With so many capable people in Kou Mansion protecting Liu Boxu's safety, he really doesn't have to worry too much.

After the middle-aged man nodded, Kou Ji said, "Although the official family copied Liu's mansion, there is one place where he hasn't moved. That is Vientiane Pawnshop and Vientiane Building.

Therefore, Liu Heng still occupies a role in Vientiane Pawnshop and Vientiane Building.

You take someone to the Vientiane Building to find Zhang Cheng and ask him to arrange an errand for you.

While you are working, you are helping Liu Heng save the dividends at the end of the year.

When Liu Boxu grows up, you will go to him and be a long-term follower for him.

Liu Heng's dividends in Vientiane Pawnshop and Vientiane Building can also be handed over to him at the same time. ”

The middle-aged man agreed without hesitation.

Kou Ji and Liu Heng are brothers, Kou Ji tells Liu Heng's people to do things, and they have no room for bargaining.

"Take your brothers, go to the Yunlai Inn in Ryan Town first, and when everything is ready, I will send someone to tell you."

Kou Ji commanded.

The middle-aged man got up, said yes, and exited the study.

After the middle-aged man left, Kou Ji let out a sigh, "I thought there was some villain eyeing God, but I didn't expect it to be a false alarm." ”

After muttering to himself, Kou Ji looked at the child hiding in the shadows, and his brow furrowed again.

Those mud people hiding underground, abducting and selling young children, kidnapping young children, and mutilating young children, touched his bottom line as a human being.

He felt the need to teach the beasts under the ground a good lesson.

Dumb Tiger and Lu Ming took a guard from the house who could fight well to go underground, and there should be a result.

Kou Ji instructed the maid to take the child down to wash, and sat in the study by himself waiting for news.

Kou Ji waited until the evening, and Lu Ming was covered in blood and rushed into the study.

Seeing this, Kou Ji suddenly got up, "How?" ”

Lu Ming gasped and said: "Those people are hiding underground like rats, they are scurrying underground, the villain is not familiar with the terrain underground, it is not easy to chase, they have set up many traps underground, and almost all the guards brought by the villain are injured."

If it weren't for Mr. Dumb's protection, the guards would have died. ”

Kou Ji's brows froze for a moment.

Lu Ming continued: "There are quite a few of them, not only underground, but also on the ground. They are chased by the little people in a hurry, and sometimes they will rush to the ground and blend into the crowd, which is not easy to catch.

The villains fought for most of the day, but they slaughtered more than a hundred thugs and rescued more than a dozen young children and women. ”

Kou Ji raised his eyebrows, "Listen to what you mean, they have a lot of young children and women in their hands. ”

Lu Ming nodded slowly, "They made a fortune by kidnapping for ransom and human trafficking." Some of the young children and the families of the women could not pay the ransom and were left in their hands.

The women who look like Peugeot will be sold to the Qinglou.

The young children were maimed and thrown into the streets to beg.

Anyway, they have to earn. ”

After a pause, Lu Ming said in a deep voice: "In fact, this matter is not uncommon among the people. They are in Bianjing City, called mud people. Outside Bianjing City, it is called the Flower Gang. ”

"They all deserve to die!"

Kou Ji sighed in a deep voice.

Lu Ming smiled bitterly: "They are slippery like loaches......"

Kou Ji snorted coldly: "Under the thunder, no matter how slippery the loach is, it will be crushed into meat puree. Go to Li's Mansion and tell Li Zhaoliang to let him go to the imperial court, mobilize the people from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division and the Inspection Department, as well as the people in the fishing stations in Bianjing City, and stick all these loaches to death for me. ”

"Isn't it going to be a bit of a stir?"

"I want to stir up the people, and I want to use this to tell all the wicked people in the world. I don't care about killing people and setting fires, but if I dare to attack young children and women, even if they are hidden under the Nine Shadows, I will dig them out. ”

Lu Ming saw that Kou Ji had made up his mind, so he didn't say anything more, and after agreeing, he left the study.

Lu Ming rushed to the Li Mansion, and after Li Zhaoliang heard Kou Ji's order, he was startled and hurriedly rode into the palace.

As soon as he entered the palace and saw Zhao Zhen, Li Zhaoliang hurriedly shouted: "Official, Kou Shumi wants to mobilize the people of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division and the Inspection Department to clean up the mud people in Bianjing City. ”

Inside the Shikudo.

Zhao Zhen, Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, and Zhang Zhibai all frowned when they heard the words 'mud man'.

Apparently, they've also heard of the notoriety of the Muddy People.

The mud people have been in trouble in Bianjing City for a long time.

Kaifeng Mansion has also cleaned up mud people several times.

But after each cleanup, the mud man will resurface.

The imperial court had a headache for this, but there was never a complete solution to it.

"Why is Kou Ji eyeing those scumbags? Still have to use heavy troops? ”

Wang Zeng frowned and muttered.

When Zhao Zhen heard this, his face changed, he got up suddenly, and rushed out.

Lu Yijian and the three of them were stunned.

After thinking about it for a while, Lu Yijian's eyes widened in horror, "No......"

"No...... Are they crazy? ”

Wang Zenggang wanted to echo Lu Yijian's words, but halfway through the words, he realized the true meaning of Lu Yijian's words, and was immediately shocked.

Zhang Zhibai's face turned pale, "It shouldn't be ...... Kou Tianci has a master by his side to follow ......"

Lu Yijian gritted his teeth and said: "That group of crazy people has a precedent for attacking the children of officials. If their heads were hot, it would not be impossible for them to pay attention to Kou Tianci's head. ”

Wang Zeng said decisively: "Impossible! There's no way they're going to do anything to Kou Tianci. To attack Kou Tianci is to find death. If they were really so stupid, they would have been exterminated by the imperial court a long time ago. ”

Lu Yijian sneered: "Nothing is impossible. But they abducted Chen Yi's son under the nose of Mrs. Chen Yi, who was the general of the prison. By the time he found him, Chen Yi's son had already gouged out his eyes and disfigured his face.

If it weren't for Mrs. Chen Yi's face, she wouldn't have been able to recognize her son.

In the end, it was with a birthmark on the back of Chen Yi's son that his identity was verified.

This is not the first time they have targeted the children of officials. ”

(There was a similar public case in the Ming Dynasty, and the abducted person was the daughter of an imperial historian, and when she found it, her face was disfigured and unrecognizable.) ）

Wang Zeng snorted and said, "But don't forget, when the imperial court sent the three divisions, the five city soldiers and horses, and the Kaifeng Mansion to exterminate those mud people together." There is a precedent in the past, and they still dare to take action against the children of officials? ”

"What if someone instigates it behind the scenes?"

"You wish something had happened to Kou Tianci, right?"

"The old man didn't mean that, the old man just felt that we had to plan in advance."

"It's useless to talk more, let's go to Kou Mansion first, and then make more decisions."

Zhang Zhibai was the last to speak, but he took the lead in getting up and leaving the palace following Zhao Zhen's footsteps.

After Zhang Zhibai left, Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng also got up and left the Shishitang and rushed to the Koufu Annex.

When the group arrived at the Koufu Annex, it was getting late.

Zhao Zhen brutally broke into the courtyard of Koufu, and opened his mouth to ask, "Where is my donkey?" ”

Lu Yijian and the three of them followed Zhao Zhen's footsteps into the Koufu Courtyard, and when they heard Zhao Zhen's words, they were stunned and stunned.

Did Kou Tianci really become a colt?

Kou Ji got the help of his subordinates, knew that Zhao Zhen had arrived, and hurriedly greeted him.

After hearing Zhao Zhen's words, Kou Ji was stunned and said: "Tianci has already fallen asleep, the official family is looking for Tianci?" ”

"God-given child is okay?"

"It's fine...... It's okay to ......."

Zhao Zhen's hanging heart was put down, and Lu Yijian's hanging heart was also put down.

After putting it down, Lu Yijian and the three of them noticed another thing.

When Zhao Zhen called Kou Tianci a colt, Kou Ji didn't seem to deny it.

Could it be that the two of them have already decided this matter in private?

That's the marriage of a princess of a country, doesn't it need to be told to the world?

Don't you need to discuss it with the three of us?

Are the three of us prime ministers ornaments?

Lu Yijian and the three of them had mixed feelings in their hearts.

Zhao Zhen didn't care about it, Zhao Zhen stared at Kou Ji and said, "Fourth brother, since Tianci'er is fine, why do you want to make a big move?" ”

Lu Yijian and the three of them all looked at Kou Ji when Zhao Zhen asked, waiting for Kou Ji's answer.

Kou Ji sighed and said, "The official family invites the ministers to come ......."

Kou Ji led Zhao Zhen and Lu Yijian to a side courtyard in the Kou Mansion Courtyard.

As soon as I entered the gate of the side courtyard, I heard a cry.

When I entered the door, there was no one in the courtyard, and the wings in the courtyard were all lit with lights, and there were figures shaking inside, and the sound of crying came from inside.

Without saying a word, Kou Ji led the four of them to a side room, and motioned for the four of them to knock through the crack in the door.

The four men peeked through the crack in the door.

I saw a few young children standing in the room in a daze.

Xiang Yan and Xiang Xiaomei were wiping away tears and washing one of the young children.

The young boy was missing an eye, hollow in his sockets, and looked very terrible, with several whip marks and knife marks on his young body.

Xiang Yan wiped her tears while washing the toddler.

The young child stared at Xiang Yan blankly for a long time, and then reached out in fear to help Xiang Yan wipe away his tears.

"Childish and Pure ......"

Wang Zeng closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and whispered.

Zhang Zhibai said with undisguised indignation: "Those beasts deserve to die!" ”

Zhao Zhen took a deep breath, withdrew his gaze, looked around at the wing room in the courtyard, and asked Kou Ji in a deep voice, "How many children are there?" ”

Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "There are sixteen rescued so far, and there are seven women, and eleven of them have been mutilated. ”

Zhao Zhen, Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, and Zhang Zhibai followed suit.

Zhao Zhen held back the anger in his heart and said, "It's all those brutes who did it?" ”

Kou Ji nodded slowly: "The guards in the palace reported that there are many more underground. ”

Zhao Zhen's eyes fell on Lu Yijian and the others, and asked, "How can there be such a group of beasts at my feet?" ”

Lu Yijian and the three of them bowed their heads together and said, "The minister is guilty!" ”

Zhao Zhen snorted coldly and said: "The people of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division and the Inspection Department are not enough, so I ordered the Kaifeng Mansion and the Criminal Department to participate in it together." Dig out all those beasts for me, and not a single one will be left. ”

"Whoa!"

Lu Yijian and the three agreed.

Lu Yijian hesitated and said, "The children and women who were saved are going to be sent to the orphan's garden?" ”

Zhao Zhen pondered for a moment and said: "First place them in the city, let Kaifeng Mansion report the missing people in recent years, identify them one by one, let them return home if they have a home, and if they have no home, or if their parents refuse to recognize them, I will raise them." ”

Lu Yijian and the three of them immediately bowed down and said, "The official family is merciful......

Zhao Zhen snorted coldly and said: "They should eat and wear the degree, and deduct it from all the Beijing officials." It was your negligence that caused them to suffer, and you should make amends. ”

When Lu Yijian and the others heard this, they were stunned at first.

Then Lu Yijian had a bitter face.

Wang Zeng looked indifferent.

Zhang Zhibai has a look that should be like this.

Zhao Zhen saw that their expressions were different, and added: "Don't worry, I will come out big." The court does not lack you to take some money, and the reason why I deduct their money for food and clothing from your money is to let you remember that because of your negligence, or neglect of duty, you should bear the price.

I want you to remember the evil deeds of those beasts, keep an eye on Bianjing City, keep an eye on the world, and let this kind of thing happen again. ”

"......"

"Alright, don't stick here. Immediately go to notify the Kaifeng Mansion and the Criminal Department, and immediately cooperate with the Five Cities Terracotta Division and the Inspection Department to arrest people. ”

"It's night, is this matter waiting until tomorrow......"

"Whoever has any objections, let them come here and have a look, look at these young children, if he has the leisure and elegance to continue to sleep, I will promote him!"

Zhao Zhen is obviously talking the opposite.

After Zhao Zhen saw the tragedy that happened to those young children, he couldn't dig out those scum and beasts, and obviously couldn't sleep.

He couldn't sleep, why did the Manchu Dynasty civil and military fall asleep peacefully.

If anyone really has objections to this, Zhao Zhen will definitely give him a 'promotion'.

Lu Yijian and the three of them got Zhao Zhen's instructions, withdrew from the Koufu Courtyard, and went to do errands.

Zhao Zhen couldn't bear to look at those young children, so he pulled Kou Ji to Xiaozhuyuan.

After finding a place at random, after sitting down, Zhao Zhen sighed and said, "Fourth brother, tell me, how can those beasts do it in the face of those young children?" ”

"Because it's profitable!"

Kou Ji has the answer.

Zhao Zhen gritted his teeth and said, "For the sake of some money, do such a thing that has lost your conscience?" Are they still human? ”

Koji sighed, "They probably shouldn't be called human. ”

Zhao Zhen nodded solemnly and said, "I think so too." ”

Kou Ji pondered for a moment and said, "It's time for the official family to make the establishment of Mengxue public. ”

Zhao Zhen was stunned for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "I still have to wait for those readers to make trouble again." ”

Kou Ji took a deep breath and said, "For the sake of those children, let's let those scholars go for the time being." Once the matter of Mengxue is made public, the local government will definitely be concerned about this matter.

For the sake of political performance, they will definitely do everything they can to protect those young children.

Nowadays, the local government has soldiers to help.

Those brutes and scum who dare to do it will definitely be caught. ”

Zhao Zhen gritted his teeth and said: "Then let those scholars go for the time being, and then dispose of them when they have time to go back." ”

Kou Ji nodded slowly.

Zhao Zhen sighed and said: "Fourth brother, tell me, we used to do things, almost invincible, why are we doing things now, frustrated everywhere?" ”

Kou Ji pondered for a moment and said, "In the past, our enemies were very clear, so we only needed to look at them and attack them directly. Now, our enemies are lurking among the people.

If we do it directly, we are likely to hurt the people.

So we have to be cautious.

We can't do things freely, and we will naturally be frustrated. ”

Zhao Zhen pondered for a moment, nodded approvingly, and said: "This is far more difficult to govern the country than to fight the country......

Hearing Zhao Zhen's exclamation, Kou Ji pursed his lips and did not speak.

Zhao Zhen saw that Kou Ji didn't speak, so he stopped talking about this topic, and he asked, "How is the matter of compiling and translating books?" ”

Kou Ji said frankly: "The phonology book has already compiled a prototype. Nowadays, just wait for all the great Confucians to gather and jointly study the simplified characters, and they can be printed and promoted.

The translation has just begun, but it is not very fast. ”

"Why?"

Zhao Zhen asked.

Kou Ji said bluntly: "Our first translation is the medical technique of Da Shi. There are many obscure words in medical art, which need to be carefully scrutinized, and there are also some medicines, which also need to be carefully dialectic.

So it takes a lot of time.

Officials should understand that whether it is medical skills or medicine, the slightest difference will be a thousand miles wrong.

A small mistake can turn a good prescription into a poisonous prescription. ”

Zhao Zhen nodded slowly, "This matter is really not urgent." However, the one-to-one dialectic is too cumbersome, just find something and try it. ”

Kou Ji heard Zhao Zhen's words, but did not speak.

Zhao Zhen said to himself: "When I go back, I will order the local governments, as well as the transfer envoys and governors from all walks of life, to check those flowers." Anyone who injures or maims or kills someone, I will order them to be escorted back to Beijing.

They don't treat people as human beings, and I have no reason to treat them as human beings. ”

Kou Ji pursed his lips and did not speak.

If Lu Yijian and the others were here, they would definitely admonish Zhao Zhen and tell Zhao Zhen that this matter would hurt Tianhe.

But Koji won't.

Because Kou Ji felt in his heart that no matter how cruel Zhao Zhen used to deal with those scumbags, it was all right.

It is hateful for a Jiangyang thief to commit murder and murder, but they all have some humanity to some extent.

In the face of these people, Kou Ji would definitely not have much anger in his heart, and at most he ordered someone to arrest him and hand him over to the law of the country for punishment.

But those who shoot flowers and maim young children are completely inhumane.

As a human being, there was no reason for Koji to forgive them.

Zhao Zhen decided on this matter, and Kou Ji did not admonish.

The two didn't mention it again, they sat quietly in the small bamboo garden and waited for news.

After Lu Yijian and the three returned to Bianjing, together with Li Zhaoliang, they mobilized the soldiers and horses of the five cities, the inspection department, the Kaifeng Mansion, the criminal department, and the people of each arrest center, and began to carry out a thorough purge of the mud people in Bianjing.

Tens of thousands of people ploughed the ground in Bianjing City, and the mud people hidden under the ground of Bianjing City had nothing to hide.

There is a fishing station in Bianjing City within 500 steps, and they know the boundary of the fishing place well.

With their cooperation, no one can hide at all.

Lu Yijian and the three of them came forward in person, so naturally it was impossible to leave any heads and tails to make people laugh at them.

They led the people to plow the ground twice in Bianjing City and dug out all the mud figures.

Not only dug up the mud man, but also dug up some key criminals hiding in Bianjing City.

After counting, there are thousands of people hiding in the ground and the mud people on the ground.

As many as 400 women and children were rescued.

For this.

The imperial court paid for the lives of nearly 500 soldiers.

Nearly 1,000 soldiers were wounded.

Those mud people are far more powerful than ordinary street gangsters and flower shooters.

They had knives and guns in their hands, and even bows and crossbows.

The 500 soldiers of the imperial court died tragically when they fought them underground.

After the bow and crossbow were seized, Lu Yijian and the three of them followed the clues of the bow and crossbow, and also dug out some dirty officials who were hiding behind the back and colluding with the mud people.

Although those mud people scraped off the origin of the inscription on the bow and crossbow, they still had traces of the imperial court-style bow and crossbow.

"More than 400 women and children ......"

Inside the small bamboo garden.

Zhao Zhen took the numbers on the report of Lu Yijian and the others, and said with a gloomy face: "Shocking! I don't know how many women and children they kept in their hands, who were sold by them, and who were killed by them.

There is such a wicked person lurking at my feet, and I don't even know it.

It's my sin. ”

"Pass the order, Ling Chi!"

"In the inspection department, all of them above the eighth grade will be dismissed! The guards of each fishing station were sent to the border to open up the wasteland! Re-recruit Trappers and settle in each Trap Booth! If something like this happens in the future, I will not forgive! ”

(End of chapter)