The entrance to the Imperial Garden.

Kou Ji heard Zhao Zhen's long sigh, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

The same is true for Chen Lin.

Kou Ji thought about it for a moment and walked towards Zhao Zhen.

Chen Lin was stunned for a moment, raised his hand, opened his mouth, but did not speak.

As he walked, Kou Ji said loudly: "Kou Ji, see the official family." ”

When Zhao Zhen heard this, a flash of joy flashed on his face.

"Kou Aiqing has arrived?!"

Zhao Zhen saw Kou Ji striding over, and his mind changed.

whispered to Empress Cao and Zhang beside him, "You stay here, I will try Kou Aiqing's skills." ”

The smiles on Empress Cao and Zhang's faces were a little stiff.

Zhao Zhen didn't talk to them anymore, and suddenly stepped forward and rushed towards Kou Ji.

"Kou Aiqing looks at the boxing ......"

Kou Ji saw Zhao Zhen running over, and raised his eyebrows.

The fist was slightly clenched, and when Zhao Zhen pounced, he avoided it sideways and threw a punch.

Correct.

Zhao Zhen has practiced martial arts for many years, and his dodge pace is several times more proficient than Kou Ji, and he dodged Kou Ji's fist just by bowing his head.

Seeing that the blow missed, Kou Ji quickly pulled away.

Since Zhao Zhen learned martial arts, he has kept in mind Kou Ji's reminder that he has never slackened off on martial arts, and has practiced diligently for several years, and his martial arts are not weak.

Kou Ji only followed Cao Xu and learned some superficial methods, far from being Zhao Zhen's opponent.

Naturally, he would not be stupid enough to go head-to-head with Zhao Zhen, but chose to deal with it with skill.

Chen Lin, Empress Cao, and the Zhang family saw Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji fighting together, and their faces were sad, and they didn't have the smiles they had just now when they saw Zhao Zhen and the eunuchs playing.

There is no other reason.

Kou Ji really dared to make a move.

As long as he grabs the opportunity, he will definitely give Zhao Zhen a ruthless one.

Previously, Zhao Zhen was sad alone in the palace, and when Kou Ji entered the palace to comfort him, he was once pulled by Zhao Zhen and beaten up.

Zhao Zhen relied on his martial arts to be stronger than Kou Ji, and pressed Kou Ji to fight.

Kou Ji's nose was blue and his face was swollen.

Kou Ji is also ruthless enough.

Don't shout, don't shout.

Accompany Zhao Zhen around.

When Zhao Zhen's patience ran out and his flaws were revealed, he struck Zhao Zhen hard in the abdomen.

Zhao Zhen sat on the ground on the spot, and he didn't get up after a few breaths.

Queen Cao, Zhang, and Chen Lin, who were watching the game at the time, were almost scared to death.

If it weren't for Zhao Zhen to stop him, I'm afraid Kou Ji would have to go to the prison of the Criminal Department.

……

"Bang!"

Zhao Zhen smashed a punch into Kou Ji's chest, and Kou Ji felt that his five organs instantly became hot, and he was very uncomfortable.

Zhao Zhen hit it and shot again.

Kou Ji hurriedly retreated.

Zhao Zhen shouted while chasing: "Don't run ......"

"Watching a shooting star?!"

Kou Ji's retreating figure suddenly stood still, staring at the sky, and screamed in shock.

Zhao Zhen was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked back into the distance.

Seeing this, Empress Cao and Zhang hurriedly shouted.

"Official, you've been tricked!"

However, they were too late to remind.

Kou Ji clenched his fists, rushed forward, and punched Zhao Zhen's stunned cheek.

"Bang!"

The nosebleed flowed down Zhao Zhen's nostrils in an instant.

Empress Cao, Zhang, Chen Lin, and a group of eunuchs and palace ladies hurriedly rushed over.

"Koji! You are bold! ”

"It's none of Kou Aiqing's business!"

Chen Lin screamed.

Zhao Zhen covered his nose and defended Kou Ji.

Kou Ji just stood in place, rolled his eyes, and bowed down very cohesively: "The minister is guilty of capital crimes......"

Chen Lin shouted fiercely, but he ignored Kou Ji and quickly pounced in front of Zhao Zhen.

Everyone was rushing towards Zhao Zhen in a hurry.

Kou Ji stood alone.

Kou Ji looked at Zhao Zhen, who was surrounded in the middle, rubbed his chest, rubbed his eye sockets, pulled the corners of his mouth in pain, and muttered.

"Childish ......"

Zhao Zhen stopped the nosebleed under the service of everyone, checked two hemostatic items in his nostrils that he didn't know what they were, pushed everyone away, and appeared in front of Kou Ji.

"I was still hit by you......"

"The ...... of capital crimes"

Coji pleaded guilty again.

Empress Cao, Zhang's family, and Chen Lin knew that Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen had a deep relationship between the two monarchs and ministers, but they just looked at Kou Ji with resentment, but they didn't chase Kou Ji and shout and kill.

Zhao Zhen waved his hand and said: "I forgive you for your innocence, there is only you in the whole world, and you will not get used to me." You are the only one who can make me see myself. ”

Kou Ji squeezed out a perfunctory smile on his face and said, "Official, have we made enough trouble?" ”

The expression on Zhao Zhen's face froze, and he instructed the people beside him, "You go down first." ”

Empress Cao, Zhang, and a group of palace ladies and eunuchs withdrew from the imperial garden.

Only Zhao Zhen, Kou Ji, and Chen Lin were left in the imperial garden.

Zhao Zhen sighed, "Fourth brother, in front of people, can't you help me maintain my face?" ”

Kou Ji arched his hand and said: "The minister is also to let the officials see themselves clearly. ”

Zhao Zhen pursed his lips, knowing that he couldn't fight Kou Ji, so he didn't continue to pull it off.

"The fourth brother entered the palace to find me this time, what happened?"

Kou Ji covered his chest and said angrily: "The official family is angry with the minister, and the minister is injured, don't you plan to find the imperial doctor to show the minister?" ”

When Zhao Zhen heard this, he immediately instructed Chen Lin: "Go find the imperial doctor, and prepare some mountain ginseng, deer antler velvet and other things, and bring them to the fourth brother." ”

Chen Lin glanced at Kou Ji, agreed, and left the Imperial Garden.

Zhao Zhen stared at Kou Ji and said faintly, "Is it enough?" ”

Kou Ji smiled indifferently, "Enough is enough......"

Zhao Zhen led Kou Ji to sit down in the pavilion in the imperial garden, and asked, "What happened to the fourth brother entering the palace this time?" ”

Kou Ji took out an invitation from his chest and put it in front of Zhao Zhen.

"Seven days later, the Wenchang School will open, and my grandfather will invite you to come over."

Zhao Zhen picked up the invitation, glanced at it twice, and said in a deep voice: "The invitation of the Taishi is also for the important event of cultivating talents in the imperial court, so I will naturally go." ”

Kou Ji nodded and said, "In addition, there is one more thing that needs to be discussed with the official family. ”

Zhao Zhen spread his hand, "But it's okay to say." ”

Kou Ji said: "The minister funded the Wenchang Academy alone, and was criticized. My grandfather, as well as some famous Confucian scholars, also felt that it was a little inappropriate for the Kou Mansion to fund the Wenchang School alone.

Therefore, the minister plans to let Yizizipu fund the Wenchang School in the name of the official family.

I don't know what the official family wants. ”

Zhao Zhen's tender cheeks revealed a deep thought, and he said slowly: "The Taishi founded the academy for the sake of cultivating talents in the imperial court. I originally thought of using the money from the inner treasury to support the Taishi.

It's just that Li Aiqing felt that it was inappropriate and blocked the matter.

After thinking about it carefully, I felt that if I privately funded the Wenchang Academy, I was afraid that Taixue, Guozijian's sacrificial wine, and doctors would not agree.

I was still annoyed that I couldn't fund the Wenchang Academy, but I didn't expect that the fourth brother had already helped me come up with a solution. ”

Kou Ji rolled his eyes after listening to Zhao Zhen's words.

Zhao Zhen was stunned for a moment, and said with a bitter face: "In recent days, in order to deal with the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, I have become accustomed to the scene...... Fourth brother, don't mind. ”

After a pause, Zhao Zhen said magnificently: "The fourth brother plans to let Yizizipu fund the Wenchang Academy, which is also to help me become famous and buy people's hearts, so I naturally agreed."

It's just that the fourth brother must not let Li Aiqing know about this matter. ”

Kou Ji nodded slowly.

Zhao Zhen mentioned Li Di, a little helpless, "In order to support Zhu Aiqing to lead the army on an expedition, Li Aiqing emptied the treasury. Now there is not a penny in the treasury, but it still owes a foreign debt.

Li Aiqing now regards money as his life, as long as he can seize the opportunity to bite the money, he will never let go.

Vowed to fill the treasury.

If he knew that I used the money of Yizizipu to fund the Wenchang Academy, he would definitely notice that I had made a lot of money from Yizijiaozipu, and he would definitely be worried about my inner treasury. ”

It's okay that Zhao Zhen didn't mention this stubble, but when he mentioned this stubble, Kou Ji was angry in his heart.

Kou Ji said faintly: "The minister listened to Li Gong, you told him that the minister is rich. ”

Zhao Zhen laughed dryly and said, "I was also forced by Li Aiqing to have no choice. ”

Kou Ji groaned: "The official family has money in their hands, and there is a lot of money. The minister didn't see the official family squandering, what the official family did with so much money. ”

Zhao Zhen was stunned for a moment, clenched his fists, and said in a deep voice: "I want to make the savings in the pile vault more abundant. ”

Kou Ji was puzzled: "As far as the minister knows, there is already a lot of money in the sealing warehouse......

Zhao Zhen shook his head with a gloomy expression, "There are some things that I only discovered recently. Some insiders are either dead or afraid to mention it.

When Taizu was in power, he saved a lot of money in the sealing warehouse.

After Taizong ascended the throne, he attacked the Liao State three times and spent all of them.

In his later years, he tried his best to fill up the money in the pile vault.

After my father ascended the throne, not only did he not save money in the stake vault, but he also spent most of it. ”

When Kou Ji heard this, he looked surprised.

The pile sealing warehouse is now in the hands of Liu Heng.

Kou Ji talked to Liu Heng about the stake vault, but Liu Heng never mentioned the huge change in the money in the stake vault.

Liu Heng will not hide Kou Ji in this kind of thing.

Therefore, Liu Heng must not know the changes in the money in the pile sealing warehouse before he took over the pile sealing warehouse.

It must be Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi and Emperor Zhenzong Zhao Heng, when they embezzled the money from the sealing pile treasury in private, they made a lot of cover-ups and swept away the beginnings and tails.

Zhao Zhen should have known about this from Chen Lin, or some old eunuchs and grandmothers living in the deep palace.

Through Zhao Zhen's words, Kou Ji could easily judge these.

Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi and Emperor Zhenzong Zhao Heng, the two embezzled the money from the sealing warehouse, Kou Ji was not surprised at all.

During the reign of Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi, he fought in the south and north for many years.

Although it has little effect, but after so many battles, it must be burned money, and a lot of money must be burned.

Therefore, it is inevitable to move the money in the pile warehouse.

When Emperor Zhenzong Zhao Heng was in power, he did a lot of ridiculous things to burn money.

For example, going to Mount Tai to seal Zen with great fanfare, building a large number of palaces for cultivating immortals, and launching the ten-year 'Book of Heaven' movement, etc., are all things that burn money.

A large amount of money in the treasury was spent on state use, raising a large group of idle and useless officials, as well as a large group of soldiers and horses that had been decayed.

There is not much money that can supply Emperor Zhenzong Zhao Heng to spend.

If Emperor Zhenzong Zhao Heng wants to do something ridiculous, he will inevitably have to embezzle the money in the stake vault.

So, Kou Ji wasn't surprised by this.

What surprised him really was that in the Taizong and Zhenzong dynasties, the Great Song Palace, which couldn't hide the secret, actually hid a secret.

Kou Ji sighed in his heart, and said: "The imperial court will allocate a part of the money from the treasury every year to deposit it in the sealing warehouse, why should the official family work hard to post money for the sealing warehouse?" ”

Zhao Zhen said: "During Taizong's reign, he spent most of the money in the sealing warehouse, and he conquered the Liao State three times, but there was no result. I thought that maybe I didn't have enough money to provide for the results of the army's long-term expedition.

I want to save more money, more money than Taizong had spent before.

When I have the ability, I will wave my troops to the north and conquer the Liao State again.

At that time, I will use the money to pile up, and I will also tear off a piece of meat from the Liao State. ”

When Kou Ji heard this, he was in a trance.

He was a little skeptical that the Zhao Zhen in front of him was really the emperor in history with the name of benevolence.

Zhao Zhen saw Kou Ji's strange expression, and asked in a deep voice, "Fourth brother doubts my determination?" ”

Kou Ji was slightly stunned and didn't say anything.

He had a lot going through his head.

It is recorded in the history books that during Zhao Zhen's reign, he did a lot of things.

There is a determination to restructure, so there is a new deal in Qingli.

He was determined to fight in the south and in the north, so he sent troops to Western Xia.

It's just that in the end, they all ended in failure.

Determined, unpersistent and impatient.

This is Kou Ji's evaluation of Zhao Zhen when he watched the history books at that time.

Now under the influence of Zhao Zhen, Kou Jiyou remembered his evaluation of Zhao Zhen when he watched the history books.

Kou Ji pondered slightly, and said, "The minister doesn't doubt the determination of the official family, the minister just doubts the patience and perseverance of the official family. ”

Zhao Zhen said suspiciously: "Is there something in the fourth brother's words?" ”

Kou Ji said seriously: "Half of the reason why Zhu Neng was able to send troops to aid Shazhou this time was because of the official family. At that time, after Cao Xianshun sent an envoy to my Great Song Dynasty, the princes in the court had different opinions on whether to send troops to help Shazhou.

In the inner court, Li Gong fought the main battle, thinking that my Great Song Dynasty should rush to the aid of Shazhou, raise the prestige of the four provinces, and show those subordinates.

Lu Gong neither approved nor opposed.

Xue Gong thought that my Great Song had just experienced many rebellions and should recuperate.

The inner court, as well as the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, argued endlessly about this, or did you come forward and agree with Li Gong's proposition.

In this regard, it is not difficult to see the determination of the official family. ”

When Zhao Zhen heard this, he nodded with satisfaction, and just as he was about to speak, he heard Kou Ji say again: "If Zhu can send troops to help Shazhou smoothly, then there is nothing to say."

But if Zhu Neng suffered a fiasco in Shazhou, how would the officials prepare to deal with it? ”

Zhao Zhen opened his mouth and stopped talking.

He was ready to say that if Zhu Neng was defeated, he would recall Zhu Neng and replace him with someone to lead the troops.

Or simply withdraw.

But when he saw Kou Ji staring straight at him, he knew that the answer Kou Ji wanted was far from being as simple as he thought.

Seeing that Zhao Zhen was deep in thought, Kou Ji asked, "The official family only needs to answer with his own heart, and he doesn't need to think about it." ”

Zhao Zhen hesitated again and again, and said, "I will send someone to take Zhu Neng's place." ”