Zhu Neng was stopped by Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen in unison, and could only lie on the couch with a suffocated face to recuperate.

He lost a lot of blood, and after lying on the couch for a while, he fell asleep.

Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji exited the tent, leaving the eunuch to serve him carefully.

Tent doorway.

Zhao Zhen said to Kou Ji: "The follow-up in Xingqing Mansion will be handed over to the fourth brother, and I will give an order to the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty to rush to Xingqing Mansion to celebrate the New Year." I promised the soldiers that I would reward them in Xingqing Mansion and praise them in front of the Manchu civil and military forces, and I would definitely do it. ”

Kou Ji nodded slowly.

Zhao Zhen hurried to the big tent of the Chinese army.

Kou Ji rode into Xingqing Mansion.

The shouting and killing in Xingqing Mansion did not stop, even when Kou Ji entered the city, it had already entered the night, and the shouting and killing still did not stop, but became more violent.

When Kou Ji rode into Xingqing Mansion, he saw a large number of wounded people being carried out of Xingqing Mansion.

Kou Ji crossed his horse all the way to Liu Heng's location, and saw Liu Heng frowning, leading the army to attack the inner city.

Kou Ji rushed to Liu Heng's side and asked, "How is the situation?" ”

Liu Heng frowned and asked Kou Ji in a low voice, "Can the people in the city be killed?" ”

Kou Ji knew the inside story, so when Liu Heng asked this sentence, he was not moved, but asked in a deep voice: "There are a lot of soldiers who are lost in the hands of the people?" ”

Liu Heng nodded slowly and said, "There are more than a thousand people on my side, and I'm afraid there are even more on the side of Chong Shiheng." ”

Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "Temporarily suspend the offensive, the official family intends to recruit Li Deming again." ”

Liu Heng frowned and said: "The battle has come to this point, what else is there to surrender, just kill it in one go." I can guarantee that by the time dawn tomorrow dawns, we will be able to enter the palace of the Western Xia king. ”

Kou Ji glanced at Liu Heng and said, "I also know that Li Deming is stubborn and won't last long." But if the official family wants to recruit Li Deming, it naturally has the intention of the official family. ”

Liu Heng said in a low voice: "What can be the intention, it can't be to invite Li Deming to Bianjing City to enjoy wealth, right?" ”

Kou Ji glanced at Liu Heng and said, "It's to appease the people of Western Xia." ”

"Appeased? Popular Hearts? ”

Liu Heng looked puzzled.

Kou Ji nodded slowly.

Liu Heng frowned again.

Seeing this, Kou Ji explained: "Since my Great Song Dynasty successively took back Dongping Road, Xiping Road, and Hexi Road from Western Xia and Western Regions, most of the poor people, prisoners and others in the Great Song Dynasty have moved to these places.

Now we have taken the land of Wuzhou from the Liao people, and we have taken the whole of Western Xia.

These places need to be cultivated.

At present, there are no more people in the imperial court to move out, so we must appease the people of Western Xia and let the people of Western Xia help us cultivate and graze.

The official family recruited Li Deming for this purpose. ”

Liu Heng suddenly realized and asked, "Then what if Li Deming doesn't agree?" ”

Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "If Li Deming doesn't agree, then he can only use the knife." ”

Liu Heng pouted and said: "Li Deming must want to resist to the end, and in the end, we will inevitably use the knife." To persuade Li Deming to surrender now is just a waste of time. ”

Kou Ji rolled his eyes and said, "So you plan to be the master of the official family?" ”

Liu Heng smiled dryly and did not speak.

Kou Ji glared at Liu Heng and said, "Send someone to shout and ask Li Deming if he will surrender." ”

Liu Heng obeyed Kou Ji's instructions, selected a few loud ones, and went out to shout.

It didn't take long for the caller to come back and tell Liu Heng and Kou Ji that Li Deming would rather die than surrender.

After Kou Ji heard this, he sneered and said, "Quickly pass on this news to all the people in Xingqing Mansion." told the people of Xingqing Mansion that Li Deming only cared about his own country, and did not care about the life or death of the people of Xingqing Mansion at all. ”

Liu Heng asked, "Will the people believe it?" ”

Kou Ji snorted coldly: "The people believe it or not, that's their business." We've done what was supposed to be done. If someone attacks my Great Song soldiers, they can be regarded as thieves and killed on the spot. ”

Liu Heng was slightly stunned, looked at Kou Ji suspiciously, and said, "Fourth brother actually doesn't approve of recruiting Li Deming, right?" ”

Kou Ji glanced at Liu Heng, "Do your thing!" ”

Liu Heng smiled and didn't chase after the roots.

Liu Heng sent people to give orders to the soldiers under his command, so that they could do things freely and no longer need to follow some rules.

After the soldiers let go of their hands and feet, there were indeed a lot fewer injured soldiers.

Kou Ji ran to the place where Chong Shiheng was and conveyed the same order to Chong Shiheng.

After passing the order, Kou Ji left Xingqing Mansion.

The shouting and killing in Xingqing Mansion rang out all night.

At the time of the second watch.

Liu Heng sent someone to report that the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty had broken through the inner city and were attacking the palace.

At the time of the third watch.

The news of the breach of the palace did not come, but the scouts who were lying in ambush came back with news.

There are soldiers and horses coming from the northeast, and it seems that they have broken through the blockade of the Great Song Dynasty soldiers and horses in the northeast, and are rushing towards the direction of Xingqing Mansion.

After Kou Ji got the news, he immediately gathered the soldiers who were resting in the barracks, and quickly rushed to the northeast of Xingqing Mansion and set up a pocket formation.

Not long after Kou Ji laid down the pocket array, a group of soldiers and horses, against the night, lit torches, rushed over.

It was a force of 30,000 men.

The leader is Kou Ji's old opponent Li Yuanhao.

After Kou Ji figured out the origin of the other party, he was also surprised.

He didn't expect that at the critical juncture of the fall of Western Xia, Li Yuanhao was not in Xingqing Mansion, but appeared outside Xingqing Mansion.

But Koji didn't have time to follow the doorway.

After Li Yuanhao led the cavalry to rush into the pocket array, he decisively contracted the pocket array.

Besieged Li Yuanhao and his soldiers and horses.

Li Yuanhao led the soldiers and horses, and while rushing to kill in the siege, he shouted loudly in the direction of Xingqing Mansion.

Kou Ji rode his horse and stood on the side, quietly watching Li Yuanhao and the soldiers and horses he led were strangled.

The soldiers and horses led by Li Yuanhao were like trapped beasts, and after being surrounded, they struggled very hard.

Kou Ji saw that Li Yuanhao led the cavalry and caused a lot of damage to the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty, so he summoned the students of the martial arts hall and joined the battlefield with muskets.

Li Yuanhao, as well as the soldiers and horses led by Li Yuanhao, were besieged by the regiments, and they couldn't escape, and they couldn't rush out, so they could only go around in the circle.

The students in the lecture hall held muskets as if they were shooting targets.

With the light of torches, they are not afraid that they will not be able to hit people.

With the students of the Lecture Martial Arts Hall joining, Li Yuanhao's soldiers and horses decreased at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Li Yuanhao saw that the 30,000 soldiers and horses under his command were rapidly reduced under the killing of the Song soldiers, so he desperately gathered the remaining soldiers together and charged towards Kou Ji's position.

He probably realized that he might not be able to rush to Xingqing Mansion, so he wanted to take Kou Ji and use Kou Ji's life to make a fuss.

But he was slightly inferior to the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty.

One after another Great Song soldiers and horses appeared next to the soldiers and horses led by him, scraping off some of the soldiers and horses he led.

By the time he rushed in front of Kou Ji, there were less than three hundred soldiers left.

He was greeted by more than 3,000 muskets.

"Koji !!"

Li Yuanhao looked at Kou Ji close at hand, furious, and roared loudly.

The Western Xia can have today, all of which originated from Kou Ji.

Kou Ji was his great enemy in Western Xia.

is also his Li Yuanhao's great enemy.

Li Yuanhao brandished a knife, eager to break Kou Ji's body to pieces.

But as he rushed about ten feet in front of Kou Ji, the musket went off.

"Bang ......"

More than three thousand muskets fired a salvo.

Li Yuanhao and Li Yuanhao's three hundred soldiers were shot into a sieve and fell off their horses.

After Li Yuanhao fell off his horse, Kou Ji put away the smoking musket.

The guards beside him also put away their muskets.

Li Yuanhao was killed by Kou Ji himself.

The first shot fired by Kou Ji, the gun made up by the guards of Kou Mansion.

More than 30 shots hit Li Yuanhao in unison, and Li Yuanhao was really beaten into a sieve.

As soon as Li Yuanhao died, the Western Xia soldiers and horses who were divided by the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty showed two extremes.

Some soldiers, quick surrender, without any hesitation.

Some soldiers and horses fought to the death, and there was no intention of retreating at all.

At the time of the fourth watch.

Li Yuanhao, as well as the soldiers and horses led by Li Yuanhao, were annihilated by Kou Ji, beheaded more than 10,000 people, and captured more than 10,000 people.

Kou Ji had Li Yuanhao's body carried back to the barracks.

After returning to the camp.

Kou Ji ordered someone to tell the news to Liu Heng and Chong Shiheng, who were attacking the palace.

After Liu Heng and Chong Shiheng told the news to Li Deming, who was resisting, Li Deming actually surrendered.

Li Deming's actions were beyond everyone's expectations.

Inside the big tent of the Chinese army.

Zhao Zhen said in disbelief: "Li Deming actually surrendered? So what's the point of his stubborn resistance before? ”

Kou Ji groaned: "Li Deming should have the intention of co-dying with Western Xia. After he learned that Li Yuanhao was dead, he chose to surrender, and eighty percent came at me. ”

Zhao Zhen was stunned for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "He wants to kill you and avenge his son?" ”

Kou Ji pondered: "Eighty percent ......"

Zhao Zhen asked, "What about two percent?" ”

Kou Ji looked at Zhao Zhen and smiled: "There is still a possibility that it is to avenge Western Xia." ”

Zhao Zhen nodded slowly, "In this way, Li Deming's real intention to surrender to my Great Song is you." ”

Kou Ji nodded and said, "It is possible that he will follow us to Bianjing City, and then quietly hibernate, and when he has the opportunity to deal with me, he will make a move." ”

"Hoo ......"

Zhao Zhen exhaled and sighed: "In this way, then he can't be kept." I thought he was an interesting man and wanted to meet him, but since he had sinister intentions, I had no choice but to kill him. ”

Kou Ji looked at Zhao Zhen and said seriously: "Li Deming is the lord of a state after all, if the official family kills him, not only will the people in Western Xia be difficult to subdue, but the civil and military forces in the court will probably have a lot of complaints." ”

Zhao Zhen said nonchalantly: "Since Li Deming has already surrendered, I told the people of Western Xia that I took Li Deming back to Bianjing, can they still chase after Bianjing?"

Besides, those civil servants in the court did not eat rice, and they had a way to help me subdue the hearts of the people of Western Xia.

As for the court's martial arts, I don't care.

I took the land of Yanyun Wuzhou, and conquered the entire territory of Western Xia, even in the Taimiao, facing the ancestors, I can speak loudly.

If you are more domineering in front of civil and military officials, what can they do with me?

For those who are interested, I will serve them with good food and drink, and if they are not interested, I will let them come to Xixia to herdsmen, so that they can feel the hardships of the borderlands. ”

When Zhao Zhen said this, he looked at Kou Ji and asked very seriously: "Tell me, with my current merits, are you qualified to take a stand?" ”

When Koji heard this, he was happy.

"The official family has made achievements in civil and martial arts, and they can naturally command the ministers to do everything they want to do."

Zhao Zhen smiled and nodded, "That's very good......"

Zhao Zhen's voice just fell.

Liu Heng's voice came from outside the big tent of the Chinese army.

"The official family, the subordinate Li Deming, has been escorted!"

Zhao Zhen said very calmly: "Find a place where no one is, cut it off, clean up the head for me, and I will take it back to pay tribute to my ancestors." ”

Zhao Zhen's words came out.

Everyone outside the big tent of the Chinese army was stunned.

Chong Shiheng and Liu Heng glanced at each other, looking dazed.

The same is true for the other generals.

is reasonable, Zhao Zhen should meet Li Deming and then make a decision.

But now Zhao Zhen didn't even look at Li Deming, so he ordered to be beheaded.

Chong Shiheng, Liu Heng and others suddenly didn't understand the intention of Zhao Zhen's move.

Li Deming, who knelt on the ground, was tied with a rope on his body, and when he heard Zhao Zhen's words, he sighed in his heart, he originally wanted to live and die with the Western Xia, but just when he was about to lead his soldiers to make a final fight with the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty, he suddenly got the news that Li Yuanhao was beheaded.

Li Yuanhao was secretly sent to the borders of Western Xia and Liao, and not many people knew about it.

Only he and his personal eunuch Murle knew.

Murle was loyal to him and would not betray him, and it was impossible to reveal the news of Li Yuanhao.

Then the news of Li Yuanhao's beheading from the Great Song Dynasty is nine percent true.

Li Deming originally thought that when Li Yuanhao knew that Xingqing Mansion was attacked, he would guess his intentions, lead the soldiers and horses to hibernate, and then secretly grow stronger, make a comeback, and recover Western Xia.

Unexpectedly, Li Yuanhao actually returned to Xingqing Mansion with soldiers and horses, or returned to Xingqing Mansion when the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty had already broken through the outer and inner cities of Xingqing Mansion.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty surrounded Xingqing Mansion.

That's hundreds of thousands of soldiers, not hundreds of thousands of trees.

He led 300,000 soldiers and horses, but he did not dare to fight head-on.

Li Yuanhao led 30,000 horses and horses, and dared to rush inside.

Li Deming was stupidly cried by Li Yuanhao.

It was useless to complain in my heart that Li Yuanhao was useless, so I could only ask the Great Song Dynasty to surrender in addition to grief, hoping to ask for a life, and then slowly figure it out to see if there was any possibility of recovering Western Xia.

Even if he can't recover Western Xia, he can still use some means in Bianjing City to bring about the fall of Western Xia and kill Kou Ji, who killed his son.

Although the lords of the vassal who surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty before, they did not end well one by one.

But at the beginning of their surrender to the Great Song Dynasty, the treatment they should have was still very good.

The Great Song Dynasty advertised itself as a state of etiquette, and in the face of those who surrendered, they all treated each other with courtesy.

As long as he is willing to surrender, he can live for the time being.

Most of the kings who surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty have died, but their descendants have lived a very nourishing life in the Great Song Dynasty, and some have even stepped into the ranks of important ministers.

For example, Wu Yue Qian's.

Li Deming had this kind of thought, so he chose to surrender at a critical time.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that Zhao Zhen didn't play cards according to the routine at all, and when he heard that he was escorted outside the big tent of the Chinese army, he couldn't see it, and he was going to be killed when he opened his mouth.

Li Deming gritted his teeth and shouted loudly: "The guilty minister has descended, the criminal minister has descended, ask the official family for mercy......

Didn't the official say that as long as the criminal minister is willing to surrender, he will let the criminal minister live? ”

Inside the big tent of the Chinese army.

Zhao Zhen heard Li Deming's words, and said coldly: "I have said this, I have always done what I say and never change. But could you be wrong?

I said this when my Great Song soldiers and horses attacked the inner city of Xingqing Mansion.

If you had descended at that time, I would have been able to take no blame.

But you didn't, so I gave an order to kill you. ”

"Official!"

"Enough!"

Li Deming was about to speak, but was stopped by Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen snorted coldly: "If you still don't obey my orders, what are you waiting for?" Could it be that he felt that the credit for the destruction of Western Xia was too great, and he was afraid that my reward would be too rich, so he wanted to take the opportunity to disobey my will and let me reduce the credit of your peers? ”

When Chong Shiheng and Liu Heng heard this, their hearts were shocked.

The two glanced at each other, and both saw the consternation in each other's eyes.

Zhao Zhen is different from before.

He has become more domineering, more like a domineering king.

Such tough and majestic words, Zhao Zhen couldn't say it before.

"Official ......"

Li Deming also has to fight for his own life.

Liu Heng quickly went up and covered Li Deming's mouth.

Chong Shiheng also stepped forward, and the two of them took matters into their own hands and dragged Li Deming out of the Chinese army's tent.

Inside the big tent of the Chinese army.

Kou Ji said with some embarrassment: "The official family is becoming more and more majestic......

"Am I majestic?"

Zhao Zhen sighed and said with a wry smile: "It's not my fault, I also want to talk to everyone with a pleasant face." But when I spoke to them with a pleasant face, they thought I was a bully, bargained with me, and acted against me.

How can there be so much room for bargaining in matters between the government and the opposition?

I give them three points, and they will be able to scrape three layers of oil on the people.

When there is a flaw in my words, they can extract a marrow from the bones of the people.

They forced me to be like this, not that I had to be like this. ”

Kou Ji muttered: "Now that the Liao State is soft, the Western Xia has been pacified, and the thoughts of the officials have shifted from war to politics?" ”

Zhao Zhen nodded slowly, "Now that the war has subsided, it's time to handle government affairs well." There are five states in the land of Yanyun that have returned to my Great Song Dynasty, and the huge territory of Western Xia is now also the thing of my Great Song Dynasty.

I have added so much territory to the Great Song Dynasty, I can't just leave it alone, right?

The land of Yanyun is okay, there are people inherent in the land of Yanyun.

But in the territory of Western Xia, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there are many deserts, and I really don't know how to govern it. ”

Zhao Zhen looked at Kou Ji and said with a smile: "I'm not afraid of the fourth brother's jokes when I say it, I used to be a poor people in the Song Dynasty, and I grabbed a lot of them, and there were countless prisoners in the cell."

But now, there are no poor people in my Great Song Dynasty, and there are prisoners who can be recruited here. ”

Kou Ji said frankly: "There are indeed not many poor people on the surface, but there are many behind the scenes. Many of the people have become tenants of wealthy families, with long-term deeds, and it is impossible for them to leave without the permission of the wealthy families. They can only stay in their hometowns and let those wealthy families squeeze them. ”

"I ......"

Kou Ji saw that Zhao Zhen had the intention of making bold statements, so he hurriedly spoke: "What the official family thinks, the minister understands, and the official family doesn't have to say it clearly." This matter is very implicated, and it needs to be done slowly, otherwise it will cause big trouble. ”

The Great Song Dynasty is rich.

But the prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty stemmed from the foundation of commerce.

Most of the taxes in the Great Song Dynasty were not agricultural taxes, but commercial taxes.

Therefore, the fact that the Great Song Dynasty is rich does not mean that the people of the Great Song Dynasty are very rich.

On the contrary, the people of the Great Song Dynasty can be said to be the poorest of all dynasties.

Otherwise, they would not have been able to embark on the road of rebellion every once in a while.

You must know that the number of civil rebellions in the Great Song Dynasty is the highest among all dynasties.

If the people of the Great Song Dynasty were really rich, how could they rebel?

Many dynasties had the problem of land annexation, and the land annexation of the Great Song Dynasty was particularly serious.

Kou Ji, Zhu Neng, Li Zhaoliang and others have divided millions of acres of fertile land in Hexi, and there are countless people who know about it, but no one has ever impeached them for this, why?

It is because everyone has taken advantage of their positions to occupy a lot of fertile land.

So no one took this matter as a handle to impeach Kou Ji, Zhu Neng, and Li Zhaoliang.

Because at this point, everybody is not clean.

This shows how serious the land annexation of the Great Song Dynasty was.

If the problem of land annexation is not resolved, it will be impossible for the people who are bound to the land to be liberated.

The issue of land annexation was aimed at all the wealthy families and all the landlords and wealthy households in the Great Song Dynasty.

The implication is widespread.

It's not something that can be solved easily.

Boldly bringing this issue out will surely cause a huge backlash.

The "Qingli New Deal" and "Wang Anshi's Reform" recorded in the history books all ended in fiasco, which is an example.

Zhao Zhen heard Kou Ji's words, took a deep breath, and said, "It's me who is sudden, and this matter is indeed widely implicated. Right now, my Great Song Dynasty has just quelled the war, and I need to cultivate a thing or two, and I can't start another incident.

The fourth brother thinks that we should do it as a top priority? ”

Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "The land of Western Xia can be distributed to the soldiers, so that they can move to the territory of Western Xia with their families and enrich the population of Western Xia."

If you can't share it, you will leave it to them for the time being.

At the same time, the people of Western Xia in the territory of Western Xia were divided into several shares and supervised by them, if the people really helped to attach themselves to my Great Song Dynasty, then the official family could naturally treat them preferentially. If they were not sincere, then treat them as if they were the Uighurs of Ganzhou, and organize them into a wasteland clearing corps, so that they can help the imperial court clear the wasteland.

Now that the imperial court already has a granary in Hexi, and then build a large granary in Western Xia, then the imperial court will not have to worry about food in the future. ”

Zhao Zhen smiled: "I have money now, and with more food, I can do many things I want to do, right?" ”

Koji nodded again.

Zhao Zhen continued to laugh and said, "That's very good...... This matter will be discussed later. Now that the Xingqing Mansion has been laid, the fourth brother accompanied me to the Xingqing Mansion to see what the difference between the Xixia Palace and the palace where I lived. ”