Without contrast, there is no harm.

In the inherent thinking of the Song people, under the rule of officials, they did not close their doors at night and did not leave their roads behind, which was the realm of great governance.

The one who can make his rule like this is Daxian.

But Kou Ji's words helped Fan Zhongyan and his party open a door, allowing them to see a different way of being an official.

When officials govern the localities, they not only have to keep their doors closed at night and the roads not left behind, but also lead the people to make a fortune, so that the people can have enough to eat, and the people can have money to spend.

When the people have money, the court will become richer.

When the court is rich, it can do many, many things.

Build water conservancy, promote education, temper soldiers, and conquer the four provinces.

When the four Yi surrendered, the people were rich, the soldiers were brave, and everyone was literate, who dared to say that the country was not strong?

Who dares to stand on the vertical arch hall of the Great Song Dynasty and put down arrogant and arrogant words?

Kou Ji saw that Fan Zhongyan led the prison guards to salute him, and said with a bitter face: "You don't have to be polite...... What I say today has not been confirmed. When Shazhou really becomes rich, it will not be too late for you to give me another salute. ”

The enthusiasm of the prison guards, Kou Ji was unwilling to erase it, so he didn't say anything frustrating, just said a word of shirk.

Fan Zhongyan was the first to speak: "The student union will take them to confirm Mr.'s decree together." ”

Kou Ji nodded with a smile and said, "In addition to developing Shazhou, I have one more thing to explain to you. This matter is out of my mouth and into your ears. You can only do it, you can't say it, and you can't tell others. ”

"Please sir...... command"

This time the Shazhou Uighurs were destroyed, and many women were left behind. Even if I give three wives to the husbands of the people who are left behind, there are many women left.

We can't leave these women behind, and we can't watch them die alone.

Therefore, I hope that you can secretly acquiesce to those people and soldiers who are unwilling to stay in Shazhou to go to them.

But we must keep an eye on the people and soldiers secretly.

A man and a soldier are only allowed to find one woman.

Don't mess around.

I hope that when the people and soldiers return to Bianjing, the women who stay in Shazhou City can successfully conceive. ”

Kou Ji's voice landed, and the prison guards stared at Kou Ji in amazement.

Kou Ji coughed and said solemnly: "Ten years later, this place will be all the people of my Great Song Dynasty." ”

When the overseers heard this, they instantly understood what Kou Ji meant.

Ten years later, after the arrival of the newborn, they all spoke Chinese, all flowed with the blood of the Han family, and they were all Han.

Ten years later, there were no more Uighurs in Shazhou.

Only Shazhou under the rule of the Han family.

Even if the Great Song Dynasty could not occupy Shazhou for a long time, the people of Shazhou were also Han.

The overseers all agreed.

Koji told them to go down and prepare.

After the prison guards left, Kou Ji looked at Fan Zhongyan, who was still in the hall, and said with a smile: "Brother Fan, you and I are brothers, why do you have to ......?"

Before Kou Ji's words were finished, he heard Fan Zhongyan say with a straight face: "Brother Xian, I will call you Brother Xian for the last time." I'm not kidding you, I'm serious about you being a gentleman.

Your way of being an official and your teachings are exactly what I have been pursuing for many years as an official.

If you can carry forward your way of being an official and lead all officials in the world to follow suit, who will dare to inferiorize me in the future.

Just Liaoguo, how dare you talk to me loudly. ”

Kou Ji saw that Fan Zhongyan stubbornly took what he said as the truth, so he could only smile bitterly.

Fan Zhongyan is a famous virtuous minister in the history books.

But anyone who can become a famous virtuous minister in the history books has a somewhat stubborn temper.

What they believe in is easily not changed.

It's not someone who can convince in a few words.

Kou Ji persuaded Fan Zhongyan, but seeing that the persuasion could not be moved, he knew that Fan Zhongyan had made up his mind and took his words as reasonable, which was difficult to shake.

Kou Ji smiled bitterly and sighed.

Fan Zhongyan said with emotion: "When I first entered Bianjing, you once told me that you should worry about the worries of the world before the officials, and enjoy the joys of the world after the world. I've always kept this sentence in my heart, and I've been trying to get closer to it.

It's just that after a long time in the DPRK and China, I have seen more officials, and my mind is slightly shaken.

I always feel that no one in the world can do it.

It wasn't until today that I heard what you said, and I understood.

You did it, and you did it well.

I shouldn't be swayed, I should do what I say. ”

Rao is Kou Ji is thick-skinned enough, and when he heard Fan Zhongyan say this, his cheeks also blushed a little.

He used what Fan Zhongyan said to conquer Fan Zhongyan.

didn't expect that one day, Fan Zhongyan would praise himself with his famous words.

"Brother Fan......"

"Sir, in the future, you can call the student Xiwen."

“……”

Kou Ji couldn't resist Fan Zhongyan, so he could only cry and laugh and say, "Xiwen...... There's a place where you need to go and sit in person......"

Fan Zhongyan was stunned for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "The place Mr. said is the Thousand Buddha Cave? ”

Kou Ji nodded slowly, "Those monks are hostile to us, and they are powerful and powerful, very extraordinary, let them reclaim wasteland, let them go to farming, I am afraid they will not compromise easily."

So I need you to guide it. ”

Fan Zhongyan nodded slowly, and said with a straight face: "Give it to the student, it's ......."

After a pause, Fan Zhongyan asked: "Sir, there were a lot of people just now, and there are some things that are inconvenient for students to say." Now that you and I are left, the student wants to ask Mr. ”

Kou Ji gestured, "But it doesn't hurt to say it......"

Fan Zhongyan groaned: "Tens of thousands of people have cultivated wasteland, and according to the requirements, tens of millions of acres of fertile land must be reclaimed, but Shazhou does not have so much fertile land. ”

Kou Ji smiled: "You don't have to worry about this, when our army takes Guazhou, it will be there." ”

Fan Zhongyan nodded slowly and continued: "If the cultivated fertile land exceeds the number, how should it be distributed? Migrated people from my Great Song Dynasty, or ......"

Kou Ji continued to laugh and said, "You don't have to worry about this matter, I have my own plans. ”

Fan Zhongyan saw that Kou Ji knew what he knew, so he didn't ask any more.

He arched his hand and said, "Then the student will quit first......

After Fan Zhongyan bowed his hand, he withdrew from the hall.

Kou Ji stood alone in the hall and sighed faintly, "What is this......

After sighing, Kou Ji sent someone to recruit Liu Heng.

After Liu Heng arrived.

Kou Ji instructed Liu Heng to divide the 20,000 soldiers and horses in Shazhou City into a team of 100 people and send them to various parts of Shazhou.

Wipe out the fugitives from the Uighurs in Shazhou who are entrenched in various parts of Shazhou, deserters and the like, and by the way, drive out those wolves, insects, tigers and leopards.

Avoid them becoming stumbling blocks on the way to the people's wasteland.

After Liu Heng agreed, he went down and arranged according to Kou Ji's instructions.

Fan Zhongyan, Jian Jun, Liu Heng and others were busy for two days before they properly assigned the people and soldiers, and then took them out of the city.

More than 10,000 people left in the city, under the assignment of the prison army, began to clean up the ruins and ruins in the city.

Some of them are proceeding in an orderly manner according to Koji's orders.

When Kou Ji left Bianjing, it was a cold winter.

After Kou Ji arranged everything in Shazhou City, early spring had already arrived.

The severe cold in Shazhou ended much later than the severe cold in Bianjing.

So when the earth recovered, the cold wind in Shazhou was still cold.

While supervising the people to clean up the ruins and ruins in the city and the people outside the city to reclaim the wasteland, Kou Ji was waiting for news from Bianjing City.

Counting the days, Xiang Yan should have been born a long time ago, but he hasn't gotten any news yet.

He was a little anxious in his heart, faintly worried about his children and Xiang Yan.

As for the military situation of Yang Wenguang, Zhu Neng, and Li Zhaoliang, Kou Ji didn't care at all.

Yang Wenguang went to Huangtou to return to the Yellow Head, that is, to pick up cheap.

The heavy soldiers of the Huangtou Hui have been inseparable from the Jishi Army in Qingtang at this moment, and those who remain in the territory of the Huangtou Hui are all some tribal private soldiers who are not very well-equipped and have average combat effectiveness.

The two guards of the Dragon God led by Yang Wenguang were armed to the teeth.

Coupled with the cooperation of the horse thieves in Zhang Yuan's hands, it was still easy to deal with the private soldiers of those tribes.

The people of the Western Regions are not very attached to the city, and the people of the Western Regions do not care about the gains and losses of one place after another.

Therefore, the defense of many cities in the Western Regions is not very comprehensive, and the city walls are very low.

The walls of some cities may not be as high as the inner city of Shazhou City.

Yang Wenguang doesn't need to formulate too many tactical strategies, he just needs to push all the way through.

So Yang Wenguang hit the yellow head and returned to the city, and he was going to pick up the city.

At least until he hits the hinterland of the Yellow Head Hui Hui, he will not encounter too powerful Yellow Head Hui soldiers and horses.

As for Zhu Neng and Li Zhaoliang, they are both veteran generals who have been fighting on the battlefield for many years, and their subordinates lead the elite of the forbidden army who are twice as many as Li Yuanhao, and all the supervisors in the army have been transferred by Kou Ji, they can deal with Li Yuanhao at will, if they are defeated, then they should commit suicide by swallowing dung.

Kou Ji waited anxiously for a few days, but he didn't wait for news from Bianjing City.

In a few days, the people in the city have cleaned up the inner city, and the people outside the city have reclaimed and sown 100,000 acres of fertile land (50,000 acres of fertile land planted with trees do not need to be cultivated, but they are counted within the number of words).

The seeds were all seized from the treasury of the Uighur nobles of Shazhou.

Zhu Neng and Li Zhaoliang sent heralds back to report on the military situation twice.

The two have arrived in Guazhou and are discussing how to break the city.

Yang Wenguang and Zhang Yuan sent heralds to report back a military situation.

They had already entered the territory of Huangtou Hui, and within one day, they had conquered three cities at the junction of Huangtou Hui and Shazhou.

The news that Kou Ji didn't care much about came one after another, but none of the news he cared about came one after another.

Time flies.

It's the first day of February.

Early in the morning.

Riding a fast horse, he cut through the silent Shazhou City and rushed to the palace.

The soldiers on horseback shouted loudly as they rushed into the palace.

"The city of Guazhou has been broken...... The city of Guazhou has been broken...... Li Yuanhao led the army to retreat to Yumen Pass......"

When Kou Ji got the news, he was also stunned.

He didn't expect that he had waited for a long time, and he didn't wait for the news of his wife and children, but first waited for the news that Guazhou was breached.

Kou Ji asked the soldiers to be welcomed into the side hall of the palace, and when the soldiers were out of breath, he asked: "How was the war in Guazhou fought?" ”

The soldiers hurriedly reported: "Five days ago, General Li and our General Zhu joined forces to storm Guazhou City. Li Yuanhao led the crowd on the city wall of Guazhou City and resisted for a full day and a night.

Our army broke through the wall of Guazhou City several times, and the last time, it broke through the entire west wall of Guazhou City.

Li Yuanhao knew that he was invincible, so he led the Iron Harrier to break out of the encirclement of our army, led the other servant troops, and retreated to Yumen Pass.

The city of Guazhou was occupied by our army. ”

Kou Ji nodded slowly when he heard this, it was expected that he could take Guazhou so quickly.

In terms of military strength, the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty occupied an absolute advantage.

In terms of armament, the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty also occupied an absolute advantage.

Li Yuanhao's iron harrier has been beaten to a half-crippled piece, and it will not be able to recover for a while.

The servant army under Li Yuanhao's command is not weak in combat.

But it was difficult to compete head-on with the huge number of Great Song soldiers and horses.

There is not much favorable terrain in Guazhou to ambush, he can't calculate the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty, and he can't compete with the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty head-on.

Except after the Great Song Dynasty, among the surrounding states, when fighting, they did not count the gains and losses of a city.

Often in order to win a big victory, they can give up a lot when it comes to fighting.

For example, when Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi conquered the Liao State.

Yelu Xiuge, the king of the Southern Court of Liao, once gave up most of the sixteen states of Yanyun in order to invite the king into the urn.

Cheng Attack led the Song army into an ambush circle and routed it.

Therefore, strategic retreat, among the Western Xia and Liao, is definitely not a shameful thing, but a manifestation of wisdom.

After learning about the battle in Guazhou, Kou Ji asked: "What are the casualties of our army, and are the losses heavy?" ”

The soldier took a sip of water and continued: "Our army has no casualties, and if the iron harrier does not come out, few Western Xia soldiers and horses can hurt the officers and soldiers of our army.

However, the soldiers who accompanied the army were injured a lot, and a lot of food was burned. ”

Kou Ji raised his eyebrows slightly, looking questioning.

Seeing this, the soldiers hurriedly said: "The Western Xia soldiers and horses relied on the advantage of cavalry to constantly harass our army's escort team. Most of the soldiers and horses of our army are foot, and the two newly formed cavalry are not the opponents of the Western Xia soldiers and horses.

Therefore, a lot of grain and grass were burned, and many people were killed or wounded. ”

Kou Ji pondered for a while and said, "In terms of grain and grass, I will send someone to replenish it for you as soon as possible." There's not much I can say about the war. You go back and tell Zhu Neng and Li Zhaoliang that they can fight steadily and steadily, and they don't have to rush in.

If you are not 60% sure, be cautious.

Tell them that now that Guazhou has been won, the situation has opened up.

Even if the imperial court doesn't let us take Hexi, it will be impossible.

So they don't have to take any chances.

Tell them that what we have is time to spend with Li Yuanhao.

There is no need to go head-to-head with Li Yuanhao. ”