Kou Ji didn't speak, but Li Di already understood through Kou Ji's attitude that his guess was probably right.

Li Di's eyes were a little red, "These corrupt officials and profiteers deserve to die." ”

He tried his best to help the homeless people survive, but these corrupt officials and profiteers ruined all his thoughts, and he was already angry to the extreme, eager to lift his sword and kill people.

Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "The top priority is not to investigate corrupt officials and profiteers. It's about finding out about the matter as soon as possible and then coming up with a way to deal with it. ”

After a pause, Kou Ji gritted his teeth and reminded: "Tomorrow, the largest number of 50,000 displaced people is coming. ”

When it comes to the homeless, Li Di is a lot more sober, and the largest group of homeless people will arrive tomorrow.

If it's not handled well, a lot of people will die.

"You just stay here and wait for news, and the old man will go to your grandfather and Wang Zeng to negotiate."

Li Di dropped this sentence, hurriedly got off the city gate building, and walked towards the palace.

Koji stood alone on the city gate.

It was kept vigil until midnight.

The soldiers of the forbidden army who went to meet the third batch of grain and grass sent a scout and rode a fast horse to the south gate of Bianjing City.

The scout's expression was very solemn, and when he arrived at the gate of the south city, he saw that Li Di was not there, so he stood at the gate of the city and waited for Li Di.

When Koji got the news, he hurried down the gate tower and found the scout.

The scout saw Kou Ji and bowed, "The villain has seen Kou Gong. ”

When Kou Ji saw that the scout's face was not good-looking, he knew that the situation was not good.

But he did not chase the scout to ask questions, but led the scout up the wall, and when he reached the gate building, he withdrew everyone before he opened his mouth to ask questions.

"Isn't it good?"

Koji asked.

The scout hesitated and nodded.

Seeing this, Kou Ji's mood fell to the bottom.

He chased after the scout and said, "Tell me carefully! ”

The scout hesitated for a moment and said, "My captain knows that the matter is very important, so he specially reminds the villain that he can only show the truth to Li Xiang, and cannot tell anyone else. ”

The scout bowed and said, "The military order is like a mountain, and I also ask the Ministry of Kou Gong not to embarrass the villain." ”

Kou Ji let out a long sigh, and did not continue to chase the scout to ask questions, but asked people to enter the palace quickly and tell Li Di.

After Li Di got the news, he hurried to the south city gate.

After arriving at the city gate building, Li Di saw the scout and asked directly, "How is the situation?" ”

The scout bowed his hand to Li Di and said: "Back to Li Xiang, the villain and the others were ordered to pick up the third batch of grain and grass, and bumped into the team escorting the grain and grass on the pipeline. I also bumped into a group of homeless people looting grain and grass.

The villain and others defeated the outcasts.

But the grain governor suddenly set fire to the grain and grass.

The villain and the others risked their lives to snatch out a cart of grain and grass, and found that the grain cart was full of hay and not a grain of grain.

Those homeless people, as well as the soldiers who escorted the grain and grass, villains and others were taken down together. ”

When Li Di and Kou Ji heard this, their faces were very ugly.

The little hope they had in their hearts vanished with the scout's words.

Li Di gritted his teeth and a sentence popped out from between his teeth, "Is there any interrogation?" ”

The scout nodded, "After being interrogated by the captain of our battalion, it was found that those homeless people and the grain overseer were in the same group. They were ordered to cooperate on the way to Bianjing on the way to Bianjing City, and burned the grain and grass. ”

"Whose order?!"

"The captain of my battalion did not interrogate him."

"Then let them escort the evil leader to Bianjing City, and the old man will interrogate him personally."

"What about the others?"

"Kill them together! Not a single one to stay! ”

Li Di has no good impression of these abusive people.

The order to kill was given directly.

The scout clenched his fists and withdrew from the city gate building to pass on Li Di's order.

Kou Ji stared at Li Di, who was trembling, and asked, "What should I do now?" ”

Li Di closed his eyes in pain and muttered: "Dispatch the Tianwu and Japanese armies into the city......"

When Kou Ji heard this, his eyes widened in astonishment, and his face was incredulous.

The inner court decided to mobilize the Tianwu and Japanese armies into the city, what should they do?

It is necessary to cooperate with the two guards of the dragon god to defend Bianjing City.

Prevent the displaced people outside the city from turning into mobs and storming Bianjing.

Kou Ji clenched his fists and asked, "The imperial court wants to give up these exiles?" ”

Li Di said in a trembling voice: "The imperial court did not give up ......"

Kou Ji asked: "If the imperial court did not give up on these displaced people, why did it mobilize the Tianwu and Japanese armies into the city?" ”

Since the imperial court mobilized the Tianwu and Japanese armies into the city, it means that they have no intention of releasing the exiles into Bianjing.

Displaced people gathered outside the city, with no food to eat, will inevitably turn into mobs.

When the mob storms Bianjing, the Tianwu and Japanese armies can only kill the killers.

Kill a group of homeless people and deter other homeless people.

Then, when the homeless people were mourning, they were mobilizing food from other places to appease the homeless.

Use the lives of the displaced people to make up for the mistakes of the imperial court.

Use the lives of the displaced people to buy time for the imperial court to provide disaster relief.

This is probably the idea of the imperial court.

But it is obviously the fault of the imperial court, why should the displaced people bear the price of their mistakes?

The four words Ci is not in power, is it really so bloody?

Under Kou Ji's questioning, Li Di trembled and said: "What others think, the old man doesn't know, but the old man has never given up the idea of those homeless people." ”

Kou Ji gritted his teeth and said: "Then the exiles should be released into Bianjing City, and let them find ways to find food in Bianjing City." I believe that there is enough food in Bianjing City to feed them.

Just my Kou Mansion, your Li Mansion, Wang Mansion, Xiang Mansion, Cao Mansion, Liu Mansion, and the stock in several mansions can support tens of thousands of displaced people for a day.

Then the grain in the hands of other wealthy families must be enough for those displaced people to eat other grains that are often closed when they are delivered. ”

Li Di said bitterly: "Bianjing City cannot afford to be lost, if there is turmoil, or there is a plague, then the entire Great Song Dynasty will be in chaos." ”

Kou Ji stared at Li Di and asked, "Grandpa Li, you said that you can't treat people like us as beasts. But what the imperial court is doing now is treating people as animals.

You also said at the beginning that if I took a single person's life, you would blow my head.

But what the imperial court is doing now is worse than careless about human life. ”

Kou Ji's words were like nails that pierced Li Di's heart.

Li Di felt very painful and tormented in his heart.

On the one hand, he has guarded the court for half his life, and on the other hand, he has protected the people for half his life.

He can't let go of either side, and he cares about both sides.

But when the two sides collide together, as a governor of political affairs, he must make a choice.

No matter which side he is on, it will be a painful choice for him.

But in the end, he chose to side with the court.

Because his reason told him that if the displaced people poured into Bianjing, they would definitely disturb Bianjing City because they lacked food and clothing.

If Bianjing City is in chaos, some ambitious people in various places will inevitably take the opportunity to cause chaos, and the entire Central Plains will be full of wolf smoke.

When the time comes, a lot of people will die.

There were so many that he didn't dare to count them in detail.

When he, Kou Zhun and Wang Zeng made this decision, all three of them sat down on their chairs in the capital hall and did not speak for a long time.

The three of them were not at peace either, but if there was any other choice, they would not do it.

But they had no other choice.

But for the sake of the Great Song Dynasty, they had to do it.

They had also considered the proposal that Koji had just mentioned.

But after careful discussion, they found that if they forcibly took grain from those wealthy families, they would not wait for the displaced people to disturb Bianjing, and those wealthy families would take the lead in disturbing Bianjing.

The method of taking grain from the hands of wealthy families is obviously not advisable.

Li Di had tears in his eyes and said to Kou Ji: "If you feel unfair, when the matter is over, you will take the old man's life to give justice to those homeless people." ”

Kou Ji stared at Li Di for a long time and sighed.

He was in a hurry just now, and he said those heart-piercing words.

Now that I think about it, I feel that what I said is unreasonable.

Li Di is a governor of the government and an important minister in the DPRK, and there is nothing wrong with attaching importance to the affairs of the country.

Things have come to this point.

In the face of two evils, Li Di chose the light and the most correct choice.

Li Di made this decision, and he was afraid that he was also dripping blood in his heart.

He's tried to do everything he could.

Things have developed to this point, and it is not what Li Di wants to see.

Kou Ji thought a lot of words in his heart to excuse Li Di, Kou Zhun, and Wang Zeng, and also thought of a lot of words to excuse himself.

But his heart still couldn't be calm.

The thought that those homeless people were about to die under the butcher's knife because of the mistakes of the imperial court made him feel a wave of anger burning in his heart.

He is not a saint, and he never thought of saving the world from fire and water.

He just remembered what Li Di told him in the cave of the city gate.

The saying 'man is not a beast'.

"You'd better save your life. Saving your life to slaughter the beasts who resold the grain that was often closed, and caused this disaster. ”

Kou Ji said quietly.

After this sentence is finished.

The two stayed in the gate building and did not say a word.

It's time for the third watch.

Liu Heng crossed his horse and rushed to the city gate building, panting and rushing up to the city gate building, and the first sentence he said when he saw Kou Ji was shocked.

"Fourth brother, it's not good, the victims have found out that we used sand and soil to pass off as food, and now they are gathering people to make trouble."

Kou Ji and Li Di were all shocked when they heard this.

Kou Ji asked, "What's going on?" ”

Liu Heng wiped the sweat stains from his head and said in a deep voice: "In the evening, a few people mixed in with the homeless people and spread rumors. It is said that the second batch of grain and grass used by the imperial court for disaster relief was burned by thieves.

It is said that the place where we stack grain is not grain at all, but sand.

Under the appeasement of me, Cao Tong, Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others, they did not listen to the rumors.

But in the middle of the night, someone sneaked into the place where the grain was stacked, stole a bag of grain with sand, tied it to the horse's tail, and put a string of cannons on the horse's tail, and then lit the cannonball, and let the horse run wild outside the tent where the homeless people lived.

Almost all the homeless people were woken up, and almost all the homeless people knew that the food package was not food, but sand. ”

Kou Ji and Li Di glanced at each other, and almost unanimously guessed that someone was secretly stirring up trouble.

Li Di's face was gloomy, he almost didn't grit his teeth, and he said with murderous intent in his tone: "Have you caught the person spreading rumors?" ”

Liu Heng shook his head gloomily, "They are all dead soldiers, and when I led people to catch them, they all bit their tongues and committed suicide, and there was no one alive." ”

Li Di gritted his teeth and said coldly: "As long as it is artificial, there are always clues to be found." The old man went to the criminal department to give the paperwork, and asked the people from the criminal department to come and check, as long as he found the people behind the trouble, the old man must pick their skin. ”

Kou Ji didn't say anything, arched his hand to Li Di, and left the city gate building with Liu Heng.

Who is the person behind the trouble, Kou Ji has probably guessed a little.

After all, Bianjing City, and even the entire Great Song Dynasty, can afford to raise dead soldiers, and there are not many people who dare to raise dead soldiers.

But he was in no hurry to deal with the matter.

He was going to appease the displaced people first.

When Kou Ji arrived at the north gate of Bianjing City, the displaced people were fighting against the officials.

Tens of thousands of displaced people crowded into one place, full of momentum.

The officials were forced to retreat to the place where the grain was stacked.

On the weak side.

The grain bales filled with sand had been torn to pieces by the displaced people, and the sand was scattered all over the ground.

If it weren't for the strong restraint of Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others, I am afraid that the officials would also be torn apart by the displaced people.

After Kou Ji arrived, his face was gloomy and he scolded, "What are you doing? Rebellion? ”

Chen Jing, Wang Tiansheng and others saw Kou Ji, as if they had seen a savior.

Chen Jing shouted to the displaced people: "The Ministry of Kou Gong has arrived, the Ministry of Kou Gong has arrived." The Ministry of Kou Gong will give you an explanation, don't do stupid things. ”

Kou Ji walked to the place where the homeless and the servants were facing each other, frowned and asked the homeless, "What are you going to do?" ”

"We want an explanation!"

"Obviously there is no food, why are you lying to us?"

“……”

"If we don't have food to eat, how can we survive the winter? How to survive? ”

“……”

Among the homeless people, some of them were timid, and they shouted at Kou Ji with their necks stalked.

Kou Ji snorted coldly and asked, "Since this official took over you, which of you has been hungry?" ”

When the homeless people heard this, they were a little speechless.

They were silent for a moment, and then shouted to Kou Ji, "But there is obviously no food here, why are you lying to us?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes! Why lie to us? ”

“……”

"The court clearly doesn't want to care about us, let us fend for ourselves."

"Yes, yes, if the imperial court wants to control us, it should let us enter Bianjing, instead of blocking us out of the city."

“……”

Kou Ji glared at the homeless people and said coldly, "Who told you that there is no food? Call it out and show it to the officer. ”

Without waiting for the homeless people to speak, Kou Ji said again: "Is there a grain official who still doesn't know?" Need a reminder? Need you to make trouble? ”

When the homeless people heard this, they were stirred up and were about to speak.

Kou Ji took the first step and said: "This official finally asked someone to get a batch of sand and soil and piled it here, preparing to build a workshop that can give you a bite to eat in the future."

but you have disturbed it.

Which of you gives this official an explanation? ”