Kou Ji and Liu Heng entered Xiazhou City.

On the streets of Xiazhou City, except for the soldiers and horses stationed there, no one else moved.

The people of Xiazhou City hid in their own houses, not daring to go out, lying in the cracks of the doors and windows one by one, looking out, watching the Song soldiers on the street.

Kou Ji rode through the streets of Xiazhou City, and saw the figure swaying in the crack of the door and in front of the window, and frowned slightly.

Kou Ji turned his head sideways and asked Liu Heng, "Someone committed an arson after entering the city?" ”

Liu Heng shook his head decisively.

The city lord of Xiazhou City took the initiative to surrender to Cheng, and before surrendering, Gao Di Gong agreed to him, and the people in Xiazhou City were not moved. After we entered the city, we restrained our soldiers and horses, and did not let our soldiers and horses offend the people. ”

Kou Jihu wondered: "Why are the people hiding in the house and refusing to come out?" ”

Liu Heng glanced at Kou Ji and did not speak.

Kou Ji was slightly stunned for a moment, and said in amazement: "Something to do with me?" ”

Liu Heng nodded slowly, and said with a smile: "When someone entered the city, someone walked around and rumored that you were murderous, and now that you have been assassinated, after entering Xiazhou City, you will inevitably slaughter the people for revenge." ”

Kou Ji laughed angrily when he heard this, "If I want to be really murderous, they can escape by hiding in the room?" ”

Liu Heng also laughed, "Maybe the people think it's safer to hide in the house." ”

Kou Ji put away the smile on his face slightly, and asked in a deep voice, "Who did it, and what is the purpose?" ”

Liu Heng replied: "Several scholars, they have been caught and interrogated, and they say that they are for self-preservation. ”

"Reader? Captive? ”

Kou Ji was stunned.

Liu Heng explained: "They are all scholars who escaped from our Great Song Dynasty, and when they were in the Great Song Dynasty, they slandered the imperial court, were punished by the local yamen, and sent people to arrest them.

After they were captured, they made some money, dredged up the relationship, bought a chance to escape, and fled to Western Xia. ”

Kou Ji frowned and said: "Lying and slandering the court, even if they are caught, they are just cane punishment, and they will not be killed, and they will not be distributed, which money do they make, and which one escapes?" ”

The scholar was in the Great Song Dynasty, and his status was transcendent.

Talking about government affairs is also a common thing.

Even if he slandered the imperial court, he could not be severely punished.

It is simply impossible to spend money on life.

Liu Heng pouted and said: "I think so too, so I asked people to retry it, but they have always been this set of rhetoric and have never changed." ”

Kou Ji narrowed his eyes and said coldly: "Your people are all from the Imperial City Division, and they are proficient in all kinds of punishments. How could ordinary readers resist their means.

Those few scholars can withstand their interrogation and do not change their words, which means that they are not ordinary readers at all, and they may be hiding big secrets.

Let your people have another good trial. ”

Liu Heng nodded and said, "My subordinates have been interrogating. ”

Kou Ji nodded slowly.

The two rode through the streets of Xiazhou City and arrived at the Yamen of the Divine Warrior Army in the left wing of Western Xia.

The reason why I went to the Yamen of the Left Wing of the Divine Brave Army of Western Xia, instead of going to the City Lord's Mansion of Xiazhou City, was because the Yamen of the Divine Brave Army of the Left Wing of the Western Xia Dynasty was far more generous than the City Lord's Mansion of Xiazhou City.

There are office spaces such as public halls, class rooms, barracks, etc.

The Hengshan Army has now cleared the south of Baichi City.

Before the three armies of Zhenguo, Xingguo, and Zhenge arrived in Xiazhou, it was impossible for Kou Ji to continue to wave his troops north.

Kou Ji had to wait until the three armies of Zhenguo, Xingguo, and Zhenge arrived in Xiazhou, waited for Zhu Neng and Chong Shiheng to join forces in Qingjian City, and waited for Wang Kai to lead his troops to raid from the easternmost border of Western Xia.

While he was waiting, he needed to run errands in Xiazhou City and digest the Western Xia territory occupied by the Great Song Dynasty as soon as possible.

Kou Ji entered the Yamen of the Divine Warrior Army Division in the Left Wing of Western Xia.

Gao Chu Gong had already taken the city lord of Xiazhou City to wait for Kou Ji inside.

After Kou Ji arrived, after the salute, he began to get straight to the point.

Kou Ji sat in the middle of the public hall and asked, "Can the garrisons in various places be properly placed?" ”

Liu Heng arched his hand and said: "I have already assigned the soldiers and horses of the Iron Gate Pass to garrison in various places. ”

Kou Ji nodded slowly, "Then tell them to take the people to restore farming as soon as possible." ”

The expression on Liu Heng's face was a little unnatural.

Kou Ji asked, "Something?" ”

Liu Heng didn't speak, Gao Di Gong said: "As the so-called, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and now we occupy Xiazhou and other places, there is no shortage of soldiers, horses and people, but there is a shortage of herdsmen's officials.

Without the help of the herdsmen's officials to appease the people, the people would not have believed us, let alone obeyed our orders to restore the farming.

It's like the people of Xiazhou City today......"

Kou Ji frowned and said, "The people of Xiazhou City don't believe us, it's because of rumors. I'll send someone to clear up the rumors later. And for what are the people of other places for? Is it because of rumors?

Before I started killing people, the reputation of murderous sex had already spread all over Western Xia? ”

Gao Di said dryly: "The main thing is that no one appeases the people, and the people dare not believe us." ”

Kou Ji's brows furrowed into a Sichuan character, "Even if I write to the imperial court now and ask for the transfer of officials, I am afraid that it will take a month for the imperial court to gather people and send them to us."

We don't have that much time to wait.

If they don't believe us, they won't believe us.

Command to go down and arrange the people in Xiazhou and other places we occupy into regimental exercises, and restrain them with the same set of rules in the barracks. ”

When the city lord of Xiazhou City heard Kou Ji's words, he was startled and hurriedly said, "Kou Jingluo shouldn't treat the people so harshly. There were many good men among them. ”

"Many good men among them?"

Kou Ji sneered, "Does that mean that there are more wicked people among them?" ”

Xiazhou Chengcheng opened his mouth, but did not speak.

A large part of the people who lived in the frontiers of Western Xia fled from the Great Song Dynasty.

Some were prisoners, and some had fled to Western Xia.

After they arrived in Western Xia, they helped the Western Xia people to fight for the tiger.

It was precisely because of this that the Western Xia people placed them on the border.

The purpose is to let them also contribute when they invade the Great Song Dynasty.

Most of the good people who were really plundered by the Tangut people were placed in Xingqing Mansion for a generation.

Helped those nobles in Western Xia to herd horses and farm, and was guarded by heavy soldiers.

The city lord of Xiazhou City couldn't refute Kou Ji's words, and gritted his teeth and said: "If the Great Song Dynasty can't send officials for a while, you can select one or two from those captured officials and temporarily appoint them as herdsmen's officials. ”

Kou Ji said lightly: "I don't like to be demoted, and I don't like those national thieves who were depressed in the Great Song Dynasty and ran to Western Xia to fight for the tiger." ”

The city lord of Xiazhou City stared at Kou Ji in astonishment.

Kou Ji no longer took care of him, and instructed Gao Chu Gong and Liu Heng: "First distribute the idle fields in the place we occupy to the soldiers, so that they can move their families over."

After their families came over, the original people of Western Xia were arranged into a group exercise.

When the time comes, there will be our soldiers, and the families of the soldiers will help us take them, and we won't have to worry about what they will do to us.

There are many villains among them, and in order to prevent those evildoers from going violent and hurting people, they must be restrained by strict military law.

Within three years, if there are no evil deeds, you can leave the military and restore the civil status.

When the time comes, they will be given land according to their merits in farming in the regimental training. ”

Gao Chu Gong and Liu Heng glanced at each other and nodded in unison.

Kou Ji continued: "We don't have much time, so we must handle the government affairs in Xiazhou and other places as soon as possible, and go down on errands." ”

Kou Ji didn't have much spare time to screen the good and evil among the people, so he could only use this stupid method to let the good people take the initiative to jump out.

Three years is a hope for those good people.

After three years, they will have a real place to live the life they want.

Three years is a kind of torture for those villains.

They can't bear the loneliness, and they will definitely take the opportunity to make waves, and Kou Ji can just clean them up when they are making waves.

Three years is also Kou Ji's punishment for them.

They fled to the Western Xia, and helped the Western Xia people to fight against the tiger, and they must be punished.

What's more, Kou Ji has obviously given birth to a mind that he is not guilty of the past, and is ready to treat them as ordinary people.

But they don't trust the court at all like ordinary people.

A simple rumor stirred them up to confront the imperial court.

Then it is necessary for them to work hard to reform.

After Kou Ji's order was conveyed, Gao Chu Gong and Liu Heng took the soldiers under their command to divide the land, sent the soldiers back to pick up their families, and arranged group drills.

Flash.

A few days have passed.

Zhenguo, Xingguo, and Zhenge, three armies of soldiers and horses arrived in Xiazhou.

150,000 soldiers and horses poured into Xiazhou City, filling Xiazhou City to the brim.

Kou Ji met with the chief generals of the three armies in the Yamen of the Divine Warrior Army in the left wing of the Western Xia.

Just when Kou Ji met with the three main generals of the army in the left wing of the Western Xia.

A group of eunuchs carrying torture rods entered Xiazhou City.

……

Kou Ji was drinking with the main generals of Zhenguo, Xingguo, and Zhenge in the squad room, when he suddenly heard a report from his subordinates that a eunuch had come from Bianjing City, and Kou Ji was slightly stunned.

"What did the eunuch come to Xiazhou for?"

Kou Ji muttered, and asked the masters of the three armies of Zhenguo, Xingguo, and Zhenge to drink first, and he went out of the squad to meet the eunuch.

After leaving the class room, I didn't walk long before I saw several eunuchs straddling horses.

Unlike other weak and weak eunuchs, these eunuchs looked very tall, powerful, and not lost to the fierce generals who rushed to kill on the battlefield in terms of appearance.

When several eunuchs saw Kou Ji, they didn't get off the horse, but sat on the horseback, stared at Kou Ji with a complicated expression, and saluted from afar, "Kou Jing is a little okay?" ”

Kou Ji was slightly stunned, nodded slowly, and asked, "What are you doing in the northwest when you don't take it with you in the palace?" Does the official family have something important to explain? ”

Several eunuchs nodded in unison.

Koji continued, "What's the matter?" ”

The eunuch did not hide it, and said decisively: "The official family sent slaves and maids and others to come and punish them with rods. ”

Kou Ji raised his eyebrows, took a few steps back, and stared at several eunuchs vigilantly.

Kou Ji coughed dryly and asked, "Who annoyed the official family and actually let the official family send people all the way to the northwest to execute the cane?" ”

The first thing that came to Kou Ji's mind was himself.

Because only by treating him would Zhao Zhen act so absurdly.

If someone else annoyed Zhao Zhen, it would be impossible for Zhao Zhen to send people to the northwest to torture him with a cane.

Zhao Zhen only needed to sit on the vertical arch hall and give a faint order.

The guy who annoyed Zhao Zhen had to be arrested and escorted to Bianjing City to be tortured.

The eunuch still didn't hide it, and said, "It's Liu Heng, the Duke of Ningguo......"

"Liu Heng?"

Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, relaxed his vigilance, and then said with a stunned face: "Liu Heng annoyed the official family? ”

Kou Ji frowned and said, "Liu Heng has been thousands of miles away, how can he provoke the official family?" ”

Kou Ji looked at the eunuchs.

Several eunuchs glanced at each other.

The eunuch at the head said to Kou Ji: "Don't ask Kou Jingluo, the official family won't let the slaves and maids say." ”

Kou Ji pouted and said, "I also gave a gag order, it seems that Liu Heng has caused a lot of trouble this time." ”

The eunuch at the head saluted Kou Ji and said, "Please also ask Kou Jingluo to inform the slave and the others of the whereabouts of Liu Heng, the Duke of Ningguo, and the slave and the maid will be executed with a cane." ”

Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "There has been a change in Baichi City, I sent him to Baichi City." ”

"Fourth brother, the trial is out! Big secret! ”

As soon as Kou Ji finished lying with a few eunuchs, Liu Heng appeared in front of people with an exclamation.

Kou Ji's face turned black in an instant.

Several eunuchs looked at Kou Ji with very strange eyes.

The eunuchs received the emperor's orders, and deceived them as if they were deceiving the king.

Kou Ji coughed dryly, and scolded Liu Heng who was running over, "Didn't I send you to Baichi City?" How did you get back? ”

"White Pond City? What ......"

Liu Heng was stunned, and just as he was about to defend himself, he saw several eunuchs sitting on horseback, staring at him quietly, and he swallowed the rest of the words in an instant.

Looking at the water and fire sticks that the eunuchs were carrying behind them, he felt that they were coming at him.

Liu Heng also had to talk to Kou Ji, ready to round up the lie.

Several eunuchs did not give him a chance.

The eunuchs jumped off their horses and quickly circled him.

The eunuch at the head stared at Liu Heng and said in a deep voice: "Ning Guogong, the official family said that you deceived the king, and you should have been dismissed from office and sent to prison." However, for the sake of you cutting off Xiao Xiaomu's head and helping him gain face, I will let you go.

But the punishment that should be deserved is still not less.

Please Ning Guogong come to the bench. ”

As soon as the eunuch led by the leader gave the order, other eunuchs found a bench and placed it in front of Liu Heng.

Liu Heng knew why Zhao Zhen sent people all the way to beat him, so he didn't resist, and fell on the bench with a bitter face.

"Rip off your pants!"

The head eunuch ordered again.

A eunuch stepped forward to rip off Liu Heng's pants.

Liu Heng was shocked.

Kou Ji, who had been stunned, was even more stunned when he saw this.

"It's not too big to kill people, Liu Heng is a national duke, even if the official family wants to punish him, they shouldn't humiliate him like this."