It's not that Gao Chu Gong went wrong in the military affairs, but where Gao Chu Gong was in charge, nearly 400,000 murderers suddenly emerged.

The place where Gao Di Gong sits is not a military powerhouse, nor is it a place where soldiers must fight, so Kou Ji sent him not many soldiers and horses, only 50,000 forbidden troops.

Fifty thousand against nearly four hundred thousand.

Even with the help of artillery and muskets, it is impossible to defeat.

The huge advantage in numbers allowed the murderers to attack the Great Wall dozens of miles long at the same time.

The 50,000 forbidden troops in Gao Jigong's hands gathered in one place, naturally not afraid of the murderers.

However, after being assigned to the Great Wall, which is dozens of miles long, it seems to be a little stretched.

Under the attack of the murderers, Gao Zuo Gong can only defend, and basically has no way to resist.

After the news reached Kou Ji's ears, Kou Ji immediately sent Li Si to lead the Jiaozhi soldiers to help.

Just after Li Si led his troops out of Gubeikou, a huge number of murderers emerged on the two lines of Gubeikou and Yuguan at the same time.

"Someone is manipulating the murderer behind his back!"

After seeing the number of murderers who were several times greater than before, Kou Ji spoke almost without hesitation.

Chong Shiheng stared at the overwhelming murderers outside the Gubei Entrance, and said, "I'm afraid it's not just the murderers...... The people of Jingdong Road in the entire Liao Kingdom are probably also driven over. ”

More than half of the murderers outside the Gubei Pass did not even have weapons in their hands.

They say they are murderers, but no one believes them.

They were able to appear here, and it was obvious that someone else had deliberately driven them in.

Kou Ji frowned and said, "There are a large number of ordinary people mixed in, and with the people in check, the threat of the murderers to us is greatly reduced. The crisis of the murderers breaking through our Great Song defense line can be regarded as a complete solution.

It's just that such a large number of people gathered outside the gate.

We're going to clean them all up, and I'm afraid we'll have a lot of more than a month.

In other words, we can't get out for more than a month. ”

Hearing Kou Ji's words, Chong Shiheng said almost without hesitation: "It's the New Khitan Nine Clan!" They wanted to do something to Yelu Zongzhen, and they were afraid that we would stab us in the back, so they got so many people to block us and prevent us from going out. ”

Kou Ji nodded and said, "They can be regarded as helping my Da Song solve a big problem, but I am a little dissatisfied with their approach." ”

When Chong Shiheng heard this, he said with a smile: "Unless you transfer all the remaining forbidden troops over, we can only watch others carve up the Liao Kingdom." ”

Kou Ji rolled his eyes, "The other forbidden troops are all far away from the mountains and roads, and when the order is in their hands, they will rush here, and we have dealt with these so-called murderers outside the city."

If they want to divide the Liao Kingdom, let them divide it.

When they divide the Liao Kingdom, we will go out and divide them. ”

Chong Shiheng nodded approvingly.

Kou Ji instructed: "Send someone to the Weifu Mansion of Montenegro, tell Yang Wenguang, let him move the place, and let him take his people to wait outside the Shangjing Road in the Liao Kingdom."

Then he easily solved the murderers who tried to pass through Dongkatsu.

He solved the murderers in Dongshengzhou, and Wang Kai and Li Zhaoliang could also free their hands.

Let Wang Kai and Li Zhaoliang bring the troops over. ”

Chong Shiheng hesitated for a moment and said, "Are you planning to take the opportunity to take the entire territory of Liao?" The matter reached the imperial court, can the imperial court agree? ”

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the New Khitan Nine Clans to carve up the Liao State, it is a good opportunity to take the entire territory of the Liao State.

But the Great Song Dynasty has fought a series of battles from last winter to the present.

There are more than a million soldiers and horses who know how to use them.

The consumption of money and food in the middle has exceeded the sum of all military consumption since Zhao Zhen ascended the throne.

More importantly, the First War of Hexi and the First War of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures gave birth to hundreds of high-ranking lords such as dukes, marquises, and earls, and the number of low-level titles was even larger.

The area of the entire territory of the Liao State is larger than that of the Great Song Dynasty.

If the entire territory of Liao is taken, the number of dukes of the Great Song Dynasty will probably exceed 100, and the number of marquis will probably exceed 1,000.

The huge martial arts will become the biggest force in the court in an instant.

Wenchen, the remnants of the royal family and other forces combined, are not Wu Xun's opponents.

The imperial court is still only discussing the sealing of the king, and if it really takes the entire territory of the Liao State, the imperial court will have to be crowned the king.

And a prince can't stop it.

No matter how powerful Wenchen is, he can't do it to the point of being crowned king.

Once there is a prince among the military ministers, then he can suppress the civil ministers everywhere.

Wen Chen knew this result, how could it be possible to let them go to conquer the entire territory of the Liao State smoothly.

Kou Ji asked Chong Shiheng rhetorically, "Why do you want the imperial court to agree?" The official family agrees. When the soldiers and horses led by Li Zhaoliang and Wang Kai arrive, the soldiers from all over the country will be dismissed.

At that time, the military affairs against the Liao State will be the military affairs of my Privy Council.

In the military affairs of the Privy Council, what qualifications do others have to meddle? ”

"Those Wenchen ......"

Chong Shiheng is still worried.

Kou Ji glanced at Chong Shiheng, "My Great Song Dynasty has been bullied by the Liao State for decades, and now I finally turn defeat into victory, and I have the opportunity to destroy the Liao State, why should I miss it?"

And why did you let go of the Liao State and let them sit big again?

As long as the ministers are not stupid, they will not stop this war. ”

Chong Shiheng frowned and said, "But we are big, not what they want to see." ”

Kou Ji nodded, "So it's very likely that they will try their best to replace us back and replace us with someone else." But against the war against Liao, they will definitely not stop it.

And the only one who can exchange us for going back is the official family.

If the officials don't nod their heads, it will be useless for them to read again. ”

Chong Shiheng hesitated: "Will the official family exchange us back?" ”

Kou Ji heard this, and fell silent.

Chong Shiheng stared at Kou Ji tightly, waiting for an answer.

Kou Ji thought about it for a long time, shook his head and said, "I don't know ...... either"

Although Kou Ji watched Zhao Zhen become more mature little by little, he also knew Zhao Zhen more or less.

But in this kind of matter, he is not good at making assertions.

He didn't want Zhao Zhen to exchange them back.

can empathize, if he is in Zhao Zhen's position, he will definitely replace them all.

For no other reason, the credit for their group is too high.

He's got to the point where he can't be sealed.

After Chong Shiheng established great feats in Hexi, he actually reached the point where he could not be sealed.

Previously, the imperial court rewarded all the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions in Hexi, but the rewards for the two of them were not mentioned.

It's not that the court doesn't want to reward them, but that the court has nothing left for them except for the prince.

They also held the military power of the imperial court.

It has reached the point where it can threaten Emperor Zhao Zhen's throne.

Zhao Zhen will change them back, the righteousness of the whole monarch and the ministers, and it is absolutely possible to prevent the disaster of usurping the throne.

The Zhao and Song royal families were a royal family that started through mutiny.

Now Zhao Zhenneng is the great power of the general, Kou Ji, to Chong Shiheng and others, and he can definitely be regarded as a super generous emperor.

If it were Zhao Guangyi or Zhao Heng, it is estimated that the two of them would have been surrounded by eunuchs and important ministers, and they would have put their knives behind their backs one by one.

Therefore, Zhao Zhen's trust in them has exceeded an emperor's trust in his courtiers.

So if Zhao Zhen then replaced them back, Kou Ji would be completely able to understand.

After all, even if Zhao Zhen trusted them again, it was impossible for him to take the initiative to send the throne under their butts.

Kou Ji didn't know how to choose Zhao Zhen.

But Zhao Zhen knew how to choose.

When Zhao Zhen sent someone to send an order to Wang Kai and Li Zhaoliang, he also wrote a letter and sent it to Bianjing City.

As soon as Song Shu entered Beijing, it immediately aroused heated discussions.

There was a strange scene in the court.

In the past, the civil ministers who did not deal with the military ministers actually jumped out and recommended those military ministers in the court to go to the border to fight.

What its purpose is, everyone in the government and the opposition knows very well.

It's just that you can't let Kou Ji, Chong Shiheng and others make contributions.

If Kou Ji, Chong Shiheng and others are allowed to make another great achievement, then there will really be a crisis of changing the surname on the throne.

It is worth mentioning that Kou Ji's guess was very accurate.

The courtiers only asked Zhao Zhen to send someone to replace Kou Ji and Chong Shiheng, but no one had any objection to Kou Ji's proposal to take the opportunity to attack the Liao land outside the Guan.

Inside the Posture Hall.

Lu Yijian said in a deep voice: "The minister recommended the veteran Hu Yan to be the pioneer of the Liao expedition......"

Zhang Zhibai arched his hand and said: "The minister recommended the veteran general Wang Deyong as the general of the Chinese army in Liao......"

Wang Zeng, who had just escorted a large amount of gold and silver back to the dynasty, also bowed his hand and said: "The minister recommended the veteran Gao Jixun as the pioneer of the Liao expedition......"

The people recommended by Lu Yijian and the three of them are very interesting.

Almost all of the three people nominated by the three are veterans.

Huyan Biqiu is the son of the famous general Hu Yanzan of the Great Song Dynasty, and when Emperor Zhenzong was in power, he fought a lot of battles for the Great Song Dynasty, but he was not as famous as Cao Wei and Li Jilong.

In Zhenzong's later years, Huyan Biqiu was seriously ill and almost in a state of semi-retirement.

After Zhao Zhen ascended the throne, Huyan Biqiu was almost always in a state of retirement, so his reputation was not very obvious.

Wang Deyong hardly needs to say much, it is an absolutely loyal royalist, because of his old age, he was transferred to the Imperial Forest Guard shortly after the military system reform, serving as the general of the Royal Forest Guard, responsible for Zhao Zhen's safety.

Zhao Zhen didn't take him with him when he left the palace before, so he led the remaining royal guards to help Zhao Zhen guard the palace.

Gao Jixun, that is a veteran among the veterans, his father is a subordinate of Wang Xianqi, the founding general of the Great Song Dynasty, named Gao Qiong.

Emperor Taizong of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Guangyi's minister, has made outstanding contributions.

After his death, he was posthumously named King Wei and nicknamed Liewu.

That's why many people call him King Martial Arts.

Gao Jixun is also regarded as a general, who has made a lot of contributions to the Great Song Dynasty, and is named the founding prince of Bohai County, and is now over seventy years old and riddled with diseases.

In Zhenzong's later years, Gao Jixun was in a state of semi-retirement.

After Zhao Zhen succeeded to the throne, he has also been in a state of retirement, and over the years, he only showed up when Zhao Zhen ascended the throne, and he almost didn't stay out for the rest of the time.

and tried his best to restrain the children of the family and prevent them from coming out to cause trouble.

It is precisely because of this that the children of their family were spared the disaster of Zhao Zhen's handling of Wuxun before.

It is worth mentioning that the Great Song Dynasty has two Gao families.

One is the Gao family established by Gao Huaide, and the other is the Gao family established by Gao Qiong.

A lot of times a lot of people confuse these two.

I always feel like a family.

For example, the famous female Zhongyao Shun Empress Dowager Gao Taotao recorded in the history books was from the Gao family established by Gao Qiong, not the Gao family established by Gao Huaide.

Gao Taotao's grandfather is Gao Jixun recommended by Wang.

Lu Yijian and the three of them nominated three veterans to replace Kou Ji, Chong Shiheng, and Gao Chugong, not because they thought that these three veterans could fight.

Instead, he felt that the status of these three veterans was qualified, and he could barely replace Kou Ji, Chong Shiheng, and Gao Chu Gong.

After listening to the recommendation of Lu Yijian and the others, Zhao Zhen said with a displeased face: "In order to exchange my fourth brother and Chong Shiheng back, you can also fight."

Gao Jixun, who is over 70 years old, needs help to walk.

Do you dare to nominate too?

You think that my Great Song Dynasty is not happy to watch, so you want me to lose a few battles in the Great Song Dynasty.

Or do you think that my Great Song Bingfeng is unstoppable and needs to cultivate an opponent? ”

Lu Yijian and the three of them glanced at each other.

Lu Yijian said: "Gao Jixun is old with him, but he can still fight. ”

Wang Zeng agreed: "Cao Wei is about to die, and he can still help me get back the sixteen states of Yanyun in the Great Song Dynasty." Gao Jixun's body is slightly better than his, and he can also contribute to my Great Song. ”

Zhao Zhen's face turned cold, "Is there no one under my hands, or do I have no good generals in the Great Song Dynasty, and I need to send three people who add up to more than two hundred years old to fight?" ”

When Lu Yijian and the three of them heard this, their faces were a little ugly.

It is indeed inappropriate to send three veterans into battle.

But the others, without their qualifications, are not qualified to replace the three of Koji.

Lu Yijian stubbornly said: "The three of them all have the ambition of the horse leather shroud, and I hope that the official family will give them a chance." ”

"Horse Leather Shroud?!"

Zhao Zhen slapped the table and stood up, "What a horse leather shroud!" The Horse Leather Shroud sounds good, but my heart aches when I see it. They have fought for my Great Song Dynasty all their lives, I can't let them live in peace, and I have to let them be shrouded in horse leather, so how can I be a monarch?

I was afraid that Cao Wei would die in front of the two armies, so after I recovered the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, I left behind hundreds of thousands of troops and personally brought Cao Wei back.

Now you are going to send three old ministers to the horse leather shroud, do you have no temper?! ”

Lu Yijian and the three hurriedly said: "The ministers dare not ......"

Zhao Zhen said angrily: "Don't you dare to recommend it?!" ”

Lu Yijian gritted his teeth and said, "The ministers are also thinking about the Great Song Dynasty. Kou Ji and Chong Shiheng are all ranked first. They fought a great victory in Hexi, and the imperial court had not yet awarded a reward.

They fought several great victories in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and the imperial court did not reward them.

When they took the entire territory of Liao, the imperial court had to reward.

When the time comes, it will be difficult for non-foreign kings to show their merits.

Cao Wei is about to die, and it's okay to be crowned a king with a different surname.

But they are strong and strong, and they have been crowned kings with different surnames, which is a disaster for my Great Song Dynasty.

Once one of them has a different heart, it will be a huge disaster for the court and the people. ”

Zhao Zhen said with a gloomy face: "They are loyal to me. ”

Lu Yijian said in a deep voice: "The ministers also know that they are loyal to the official family. But Emperor Taizu was also loyal to Hou Zhou Chai Rong back then, but his subordinates had two hearts and put the yellow robe on Taizu.

That's why I have a big Song Jiangshan.

The ministers can guarantee that they are loyal to the official family, but they cannot guarantee that their subordinates are also loyal to the official family.

Therefore, the minister implored the officials to think twice. ”

"Presumptuous!"

Zhao Zhen shouted angrily: "Lu Yijian, talking about Taizu in vain, are you tired of being alive?" ”

Lu Yijian said loudly: "It is the minister's fault to talk about Taizu in vain, and the minister is willing to admit his guilt." Kechen will definitely not watch Kou Ji and the others continue to sit down and become a harm to me.

For the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty for nearly a hundred years, and for tens of thousands of Li people in the world, please also ask the officials to think twice before acting. ”

"Please also ask the officials to think twice......"

"Please also ask the officials to think twice......"

Zhang Zhibai and Wang Zeng opened their mouths in unison.

"Presumptuous! Get out of here! Three years fine! ”

Zhao Zhen shouted angrily.

Chen Lin immediately appeared in front of Lu Yijian and the three of them with a few eunuchs.

Lu Yijian and the three of them were not afraid at all.

Lu Yi said simply: "Even if the official family beheads the minister, the minister will not give up to prevent Kou Ji and the others from continuing to sit big." ”

"Do you want to die?!"

Zhao Zhen gritted his teeth and asked.

However, before Zhao Zhen and Lu Yijian could speak again, Chen Lin had already led someone to take Lu Yijian and the three of them out.

After Lu Yijian and the others were put out of the capital hall, the anger on Zhao Zhen's face disappeared, and he let out a sigh of relief and said: "It's still Chen Lin who understands my thoughts, and if they let me continue to make trouble, I will be difficult to ride a tiger, so I have to deal with them." ”

Lu Yijian and the three of them made it clear that they wanted to be tough with Zhao Zhen.

If they don't give an inch, and in the end, Zhao Zhen will have to deal with them.

Chen Lin knew that Zhao Zhen didn't want to deal with them, so he really put them out before they were completely stiff.

After Chen Lin sent Lu Yijian and the others out of the palace, he returned to the Shishitang and said to Zhao Zhen with a smile: "Official, why don't you tell them your true purpose?"

If you tell them what you really want to do, they won't make any more trouble. ”

Zhao Zhen let out a sigh and said, "Now is not the time, if you tell them now, they will definitely spread the news."

If they spread the news, then how can I still plot to rob Cao Wei and others of their family business. ”

Chen Lin smiled bitterly and said, "Lu Yijian and the three of them shouldn't be the kind of people who are talkative. ”

Zhao Zhen rolled his eyes, "They all started to make trouble, which means that the civil and military forces below are even more fierce." Once I tell them the truth, they will inevitably die down, and they will definitely be seen by the civil and military forces below.

When the time comes, the civil and military forces below will not tell me about my plan and discernment?

At that time, Cao Wei and the others heard the news, and they did not quickly sell the fields, mansions, shops and other things in their hands at low prices and exchanged them for real money that was easy to carry.

I can keep their land, mansions, and shops, but I can't keep the real money in their hands. ”

Chen Lin said with a bitter face: "But they are not finished, when the slave maid sent Lu Yijian and the three of them out just now, Lu Yijian and the three of them also threatened to bring hundreds of officials to you to petition." ”

Zhao Zhen frowned, and ordered: "If you let out the wind, just say that the queen and others are about to give birth, and they can't stand the disturbance." If it were because of their fault that they harmed my children, I would have killed someone.

Go to the Queen Mother's Palace again, and ask the Queen Mother to walk around the gate of the Palace if she is fine.

When he met the courtiers, he blocked them back. ”

Hearing this, Chen Lin nodded and said, "In this way, they won't make trouble in the palace." ”

The corners of Zhao Zhen's mouth were slightly hooked, and he said with a smile: "I won't leave the palace, and they won't let me leave the palace." ”

When Chen Lin heard this, she laughed out loud.

After laughing, he seemed to remember something, and said: "With the credit of Kou's privy secret, I am afraid that the title of king is a matter of nails on the iron plate."

The slave can remember that there is a lot of real money in the Kou Mansion.

If the official family makes Kou Shumi the king, I am afraid that he will not get much land.

Moreover, is the official willing to let Kou Shumi's leave? ”

Zhao Zhen pursed his lips and said angrily: "Don't you need to give a dowry to my daughter?" ”

Chen Lin hesitated for a moment and said, "The atmosphere of marriage in Bianjing City is really a bit weird now. This mother-in-law marries a daughter, and the dowry is scary. This husband's family marries a wife, but he doesn't have to give too much dowry. ”

The Great Song Dynasty has a law that stipulates that the dowry of a woman's dowry for a woman's dowry is still the woman's property after the man's marriage, and its ownership belongs to his wife.

Therefore, when the woman marries a woman, she is not afraid of marrying too much.

Because no matter how much it is, it's also the daughter of her own family.

And the girl has a rich dowry to support, and after going to the man's house, she speaks hard.

More importantly, once the marriage is dissolved, the woman's dowry is still the woman's and can be taken away at any time without leaving it to the man.

It is precisely because of such a law that those powerful families in Bianjing City, when they marry their daughters, in order to prevent their daughters from being bullied, the dowry that accompanies them to marry out is rich one by one.

There is a typical example that has been preached for thousands of years.

It was Su Shi's younger brother Su Zhe who married his daughter.

The name of the allusion is Su Zhe's marriage daughter, also known as the bankruptcy marriage girl.

It is to tell the story of Su Zhe's younger brother, in order to marry his daughter, not only with all the money in the family, but also sold a set of mansions worth tens of millions in Bianjing City, and used the money obtained as a dowry.

It can be seen how ruthless the woman in the Great Song Dynasty was in sticking to the man.

So Chen Lin didn't talk nonsense, but explained a fact to Zhao Zhen.

After listening to Chen Lin's words, Zhao Zhen frowned slightly, "When I paint a little bigger place for their Kou family, shouldn't his Kou family leave more dowry gifts for me?" ”

When Chen Lin heard this, he couldn't cry or laugh, "As far as Kou Shumi's temperament, if you really seal him out, he won't let you take advantage." ”

Zhao Zhen snorted, "Who said that I was going to seal the fourth brother out?" ”

Chen Lin was stunned and looked at Zhao Zhen in amazement.

Kou Ji's current contribution to the Great Song Dynasty can be said to be unmatched.

If everyone else is crowned king, but Kou Ji is not crowned king, then Kou Ji will have ideas, and it is easy to have estrangement between monarchs and ministers.

Zhao Zhen saw that Chen Lin was stunned, so he said lightly: "I and the fourth brother still have a lot of things to do, so it is impossible for me to seal the fourth brother out."

Therefore, the prince of this Kou Mansion fell on the head of my son-in-law.

When my father's merit son comes to receive it, it is not uncommon in my Great Song Dynasty.

When the time comes, I asked the Kou Mansion to move everything out, leaving only the fourth brother and his wife in Bianjing City. ”

When Chen Lin heard this, his face was shocked, "I'm afraid the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will not agree......"

The purpose of moving the prince out of the country was to eliminate the influence and harm of the prince on the Great Song Dynasty.

But if you only let the people of Kou Mansion leave, and don't let Kou Ji leave, then there is no way to eliminate the influence and harm of the prince of Kou Mansion on the Great Song Dynasty.

Because the foundation of all the honor and disgrace of Kou Mansion is on Kou Ji.

Zhao Zhen smiled and said, "When I am the king of Koufu, I will depose the title of the fourth brother. The fourth brother will also hand over the military power and be transferred to Tongzhongshu.

And the people of Kou Mansion are not allowed to come back if they leave the hinterland of my Great Song Dynasty. ”

"Can Kou Shumi's Secretion agree?"

"The matter of transferring to Tongzhongshu was discussed with the fourth brother a long time ago, and the fourth brother has no reason not to agree."

(End of chapter)