Zhao Su mentioned the old lady of the Yang family, and Zhao Zhen was silent.

The old lady of the Yang family has been guarding the tea shed outside the city for a month, and this matter is no secret in Bianjing City.

Although Zhao Zhen does not leave the palace, he also knows.

What the old lady of the Yang family is asking for, Zhao Zhen also knows it in his heart.

If it weren't for the fact that state affairs were greater than family affairs, Yang Wenguang would still be busy with military affairs now, and Zhao Zhen would probably have ordered Yang Wenguang to invite Yang Ye's bones back to Bianjing.

Now Yang Wenguang is busy with military affairs, and there is no way to welcome Yang Ye's bones.

Kou Tianci and Yang Huaiyu, two juniors, for the wish of the old lady of the Yang family, took great pains to escape from Bianjing City and go to the north, which can be regarded as a piece of filial piety.

In the Great Song Dynasty, anything that can be associated with the word filial piety is something worthy of the respect of everyone in the government and the opposition.

Zhao Zhen had no reason to continue to stop the two of them.

Zhao Zhen sighed and said: "That's it, since it's a piece of filial piety, let the two of them get their best once." ”

When Zhao Xu, Baoqing and others heard Zhao Zhen's words, they all breathed a sigh of relief, as if they were glad to have survived a difficulty.

After Zhao Zhen sighed, his eyes lingered on Zhao Xu and Princess Baoqing, and he pouted: "That stinky boy can be regarded as knowing the severity, he knows that he can't take you to danger, so he deliberately took Baoqing from Bianjing City, so that I can find you as soon as possible and bring you back."

What's smarter is that you know how to tell me about this through your mouth, so that I can't send anyone to arrest them. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Zhen's face turned cold, "For the sake of your filial piety, I won't embarrass you this time." ”

Zhao Xu, Baoqing and others hurriedly gave gifts.

"Thank you to my father (royal brother) Longen......"

"Thank you, Official, Longen......"

Zhao Zhen waved his hand and asked them to leave on their own.

Zhao Xu, Baoqing and the others glanced at each other and hurriedly withdrew from the palace.

After they left the palace, Zhao Zhen rubbed his eyebrows with a little headache and muttered: "These little guys, when they don't grow up, always want them to grow up." When I grow up, I make all kinds of troubles and worries. ”

After Zhao Zhen muttered, he instructed the eunuchs beside him, "Fang Jing, you go to see my sister-in-law and tell her about this matter clearly, so as not to worry her." ”

The eunuch said yes and withdrew from the palace.

When Zhao Zhen was left alone in the palace, Zhao Zhen said quietly: "Everyone in Bianjing City knows the wish of the old lady of the Yang family, and there are many people in Bianjing City who want to fulfill the wish of the old lady of the Yang family, but they have not done it for a long time, nor have they spoken, and there is a reason."

That's not something you two little ones can afford.

I have to write a letter and send it to the fourth brother, so that the fourth brother can watch and deal with the matter, so that the two little ones will not get into a big disaster. ”

Zhao Zhen made a decision, walked to the desk in the palace, picked up the pen, wrote a long letter, put it in the letter box, sealed it with fire paint, put it on the table, and then gave a faint command to no one.

"Send it to Chen Lin, and let Chen Lin hand it over to my fourth brother."

"......"

Although Zhao Zhen's voice landed, another voice actually sounded in the palace where there was originally only Zhao Zhen.

It's just that there are only voices in the palace, but no one.

Zhao Zhen dropped the letter, put his hands behind his back, and walked out of the palace.

The palace was suddenly empty.

And the long letter that Zhao Zhen put down disappeared at some point.

Just when Zhao Zhen sent someone to deliver a letter to Kou Ji, Kou Ji was sneezing.

"Ah sneeze~"

Koji opened his mouth and let out a big sneeze, almost snotting.

Kou Ji wrapped himself in a blanket and squatted tightly on the bed.

Di Qing held a brazier and placed it next to his bed, and there was a hand warmer on the brazier.

After Di Qing set up the brazier, he picked up the hand warmer and gave it to Kou Ji.

Kou Ji hugged the hand warmer and sneezed again.

Chong Shiheng and Chen Lin sat in front of another brazier, on which was a clay pot, and the water in the pot was boiling.

The two of them used chopsticks to hold the tender mutton, put it in a clay pot, dipped it in some spices, and stuffed it into their mouths.

From time to time, he also let out a satisfied grunt.

While eating meat, Chong Shiheng also opened his collar and wiped his sweat with his hands.

Chen Lin also learned to look like Shiheng, opened his collar and wiped his sweat.

It's just that he doesn't sweat on him.

Kou Ji glanced at the two of them from time to time, rolling his eyes vigorously.

The reason why Chong Shiheng and Chen Lin behaved like this was to mock him.

Others are sweating hot, but you are cold from the cold.

How weak do you have to be?

Kou Ji didn't bother to deal with them, and when Di Qing was cooking tea for him, he asked in a low voice, "How is the military affairs?" ”

Di Qing said while making tea: "It snowed heavily for a day and a night, and it was more than two feet thick, and the horses couldn't run in the snow at all.

The enemy has no way to attack us.

Now on the entire battlefield, only our scouts and spies are active. ”

Kou Ji sniffed and said, "The snow is still falling, and I'm afraid it will be thicker later." The enemy will not be the slightest threat to us before the beginning of spring. ”

Di Qing nodded and said, "The enemy is indeed no threat to us, but we ourselves are not safe. Heavy snow will close the roads, and our own baggage transportation will be much slower.

We now have 200,000 soldiers here, and counting the 150,000 captives, there are 350,000 men.

The amount of grain and grass consumed every day is a huge number.

We don't have a lot of food in our army. ”

Kou Ji pondered for a moment and said, "Send soldiers to clear the snow with the captives to ensure that our baggage can be delivered on time." ”

Di Qing said bluntly: "I sent 3,000 soldiers and escorted 20,000 prisoners to clear the snow. It's just that the captives are a little uncooperative. ”

Kou Ji snorted coldly and said, "If you don't cooperate, you'll be killed." They have been wandering in Liaodi for more than half a year, they are used to a life of plundering, and they have lost the instinct to endure hardships and stand hard work, so we will help them find them. ”

Di Qing hesitated: "If you kill too much, will it cause a backlash?" The woman, Tuktu Dudoi, said that she had a way to make the captives obedient, and that she would be willing to help us as long as we gave her an identity. ”

Kou Ji glanced at Di Qing and said coldly: "I will not accept any negotiations, nor will I compromise with anyone. If a captive bounces back because of too much killing, then I don't mind slaughtering them all. ”

During the Song Dynasty, there were no Geneva Conventions.

If a treaty had to be concluded because of the needs of the war, it could only be the "Bianjing Convention" or the "Letter of the Great Song Privy Envoy to the World".

The terms in it must be the final say of Da Song, and it must be Kou Ji's final say.

So Kou Ji has the right and strength to do whatever he wants on the battlefield.

When Di Qing heard this, he groaned: "Liaodi has fallen into chaos this time, and many people have died. After the end of the war, I am afraid that the number of people will drop sharply.

If you kill too much, there will be no one to help the court farm and pay taxes to the court. ”

Kou Ji squinted at Di Qing and asked, "Is this something you should consider?" ”

Di Qing was stunned when he heard this, and closed his mouth with tears and laughter.

Kou Ji snorted and said, "No one has migrated people from the hinterland of the Central Plains. The official family had sent people from the household department to do some investigations, and it was found that there were many people in abject poverty in our Great Song Dynasty.

Others, if not abjectly poor, are also very poor.

When the time comes, the court can move them along with them.

When the time comes, give them a few thousand acres of land for each family, and then give them some prisoners and some horses.

I'm sure they can grow it. ”

Di Qing looked at Kou Ji with a stunned expression.

Chong Shiheng and Chen Lin, who were eating mutton, also stopped their chopsticks and looked at Kou Ji with a stunned expression.

Seeing this, Kou Ji asked lightly, "Something?" ”

Chong Shiheng put down his chopsticks and exclaimed, "It's a big problem!" If you really do this, how many people will be left in my Great Song hinterland? ”

When Kou Ji took Hexi before, he did this without causing much turmoil.

That's because many people in the Great Song Dynasty didn't finish with Hexi, and felt that Hexi was located in the Western Regions, a poor place, and couldn't grow any good crops at all.

So few people want to go.

Due to the relationship between more monks and less porridge, the imperial court did not dare to move people to Hexi on a large scale.

But with the continuous development of Hexi, a large number of grain from Hexi appeared on the market, and the people of the Great Song Dynasty knew that Hexi was a good place, and they also knew that the group of people who went to Hexi before have now become big landlords.

When the people wanted to go, they couldn't go, because there was a Lord in all parts of Hexi.

After the imperial court took the Western Xia, the imperial court did not move people to the Western Xia on a large scale, because most of the land that could be cultivated in the Western Xia was allocated to the soldiers by Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen.

Western Xia looks big, but half of the territory is desert.

The rest of the land that can be cultivated and can be used as grassland is only equivalent to one and a half of the land of the Great Song Dynasty.

After it was distributed to the soldiers, some were left for the prisoners to plant, and there were almost no more.

If the imperial court had taken the Liao State, it would have been different.

Since its birth, the Liao State has been in an embarrassing situation of being vast and sparsely populated.

Most of the fertile land in Liao, as well as most of the people who like to plough the fields, are in the sixteen states of Yanyun.

In the hinterland of the Liao State, there are hardly many people farming, and they all make a living by herding horses and sheep.

It is precisely because of this that the Liao people do not feel that their Liao country is vast and sparsely populated.

But for the Song people, it was a great waste for the Liao State to use the good fertile land for grazing horses and sheep.

Once the Song people moved in, they were bound to turn most of the Liao land into fertile land.

At that time, thousands of acres of fertile land will be reclaimed.

Before the rise of the Great Song Dynasty, the territory of the Liao State had always been larger than that of the Great Song Dynasty.

After the Great Song Dynasty conquered Hexi and Western Xia, the territory was still not as large as the Liao State.

After the Great Song Dynasty took Dali, the territory barely caught up with the Liao State.

It is precisely because the territory of the Liao State is large enough that it can reclaim an unimaginably large amount of fertile land.

Therefore, once the imperial court moved the people over and promised one or two thousand acres of land, the people of the Great Song Dynasty would definitely fall into madness.

Those who are destitute, poor, and even those who have a small surplus of money will go crazy.

If they go crazy and rush to Liaodi desperately, the court will not be able to stop them.

And they are precisely the most important components of the Great Song Dynasty.

Liaodi can't press down all of them, but at least he can protect nearly fifty percent of them.

Without them, nine out of nine wealthy families in the Great Song Dynasty will fall into a situation of extreme embarrassment.

At that time, the wealthy families held a large amount of fertile land, but they could not cultivate it.

A large number of fertile fields will be turned into wasteland again.

Even if people from wealthy families hide at home all day long to create people and work hard to create labor, it will take more than ten or twenty years before they can recover.

"The most important thing is not the people, but the wealthy families. When the wealthy know about this, they will definitely stop it. They will even find a way to come to Liaodi first and enclose land in Liaodi. ”

Chen Lin said in a deep voice after Chong Shiheng exclaimed.

What Chong Shiheng saw was the madness of the people, but Chen Lin saw the madness of the wealthy families.

In order to stop the loss of tenants, the only thing the wealthy families could do was to swallow the land that was to be distributed to the tenants.

The aristocratic circle of the Great Song Dynasty is composed of wealthy families, so they control a large part of the Great Song Dynasty's right to speak, and they also control a lot of power.

They can use their voice and power to occupy in their names what should belong to the people and what should be distributed to the people.

They can even use their voice and power to turn what should have been good governance for the people into bad governance.

This is the reason for the failure of many reforms in the history books.

Wang Anshi launched the green seedling method, and Zhang Juzheng launched a whip method.

The original intention of the implementation is to help the people for profit.

However, the laws they implemented touched the interests of the nobles, so when the nobles helped them implement the laws they had made, they would wantonly distort their laws, take advantage of the loopholes in their laws, and turn good government into bad government.

Therefore, if the reform wants to succeed and the people want to gain rights and benefits in the reform, the only way is to change the dynasty.

Of course, they may not be able to obtain any rights and benefits from the change of dynasty.

Unless they can take charge of their own affairs.

Only when they are the masters of their own affairs can they win some of their own rights and benefits.

Seeing that Chong Shiheng and Chen Lin were overreacting, Kou Ji sniffed slightly, and said lightly: "Whether the people are frantically rushing over, or the crazy enclosure of the wealthy families, what does it have to do with us?"

It is the official family and the three Zaifu who should worry about this matter.

Of the four of us, three were the head of the soldiers and one was an attendant.

There is little power to interfere in civil affairs.

So what are you excited about? ”

When the three of them heard this, they were stunned for a moment, and then shook their heads together with a wry smile.

Chong Shiheng sighed with emotion: "What you said is also right, we are salty and eat radishes and worry about it." ”

Chen Lin groaned, "You can't say that. If you really do this, the official family and the three Zaifu may not be able to handle it, and they may not be able to withstand the pressure.

When the time comes, the wealthy families will make trouble, and the official family and the three Zaifu will definitely have a headache.

By doing this, you are making trouble for the officials. ”

Kou Ji said nonchalantly: "The official family has handed over all the military and political power here to me. I can do whatever I want here, and no one else can control it.

If the official family really can't stand it, they can let people from wealthy families come here to find me.

I can guarantee that they will come in alive. ”

At this point, Koji did not speak again.

Chen Lin knew Kou Ji's voiceover.

Koji could guarantee that those people would come in alive, but not that they would get out alive.

In Liaodi, Kou Ji's military and political government grabbed it, and it was too easy to kill a person.

He didn't even need to send his own men.

It is only necessary to tell the captives who are in a hurry to get out of their country.

The captives would pounce on them like wolves, eating all the people that Koji wanted to kill.

The prisoners in Xingqing Mansion are a living example.

In order to get out of their nationality, they carried a blade and entered the Liao State.

stunned, the southwest road and the west section of the northwest road of Liao were killed cleanly.

Chen Lin rolled her eyes, "If you do this, you will be impeached." ”

After a pause, Chen Lin said again: "If the impeachment fails, they are likely to frame you." Some people in wealthy families have no lower limit to deal with their opponents.

Li Di was framed and dismissed, which is an example.

You have a sensitive identity and a lot of credit.

It is not an exaggeration to say that you are a master of high merit.

It's easier for them to frame you than it is for Li Di. ”

Kou Ji pursed his lips and said with a smile: "They can only be like bed bugs, playing these tricks that can't be put on the table." ”

Chen Lin hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but remind: "If you can't use the means on the table, it will be difficult to suppress." ”

Kou Ji smiled dryly: "That's something that the official family and the three zai should consider, I'm just a privy envoy." ”

Chen Lin glanced at Kou Ji and said nothing.

Chen Lin is not a kind of Shiheng and Di Qing, and he will be deceived by Kou Ji's words.

He knew some inside information, and knew that Zhao Zhen would promote Kou Ji to Tongzhongshu in the future.

He also vaguely guessed that Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen might have to fight against Wen.

Kou Ji's words just now looked like a joke.

But Chen Lin felt that Kou Ji should be paving the way for the subsequent literary innovation.

As Zhao Zhen's most loyal servant, Chen Lin naturally would not dismantle Zhao Zhen's platform, let alone leak Zhao Zhen's plan.

So he couldn't expose Koji's lies.

Di Qing saw that Kou Ji seemed to be joking, so he didn't take it seriously, but said with a smile: "We are discussing the matter of the captives, why is the topic of the common people and wealthy families?"

Even if you want to divide the land, brother, I'm afraid it will be more than half a year later. ”

Kou Ji laughed and said, "It's a bit far." Speaking of captives, you will do as I tell you when you turn around, and those who are obedient will be left behind, and those who are disobedient will be cut down.

We don't have the leisure to teach them to be obedient right now.

They can only be treated in such a rough way. ”

Di Qing nodded with a wry smile and said to Kou Ji, "There are two other things that need to be decided by you, brother. ”

Kou Ji gestured, "Let's talk about it." ”

Di Qing said frankly: "Jiaozhi is all year round, and you can't see winter, so some soldiers are not cold-tolerant among the Jiaozhi soldiers and horses. When it's not snowing, it's nothing. As soon as it snowed, there were many frostbitten soldiers.

Some of them scratched their skins.

Even though the doctor who accompanied the army told them that they couldn't scratch the chilblains, they still scratched it.

Not only did they scratch themselves bloodily, but they also yelled in the middle of the night.

Now some people are panicking.

I mean let them withdraw to the rear for the time being.

There were no enemies to deal with in the rear, and there were ondols, so as long as they stayed in their rooms, they should not suffer from frostbite again.

This matter still needs the approval of the elder brother. ”

When Kou Ji heard this, he thought for a while and said, "It turned out to be a guest, and people helped us kill the enemy, and we can't treat people harshly." Anyway, it is almost impossible to have a war this winter, and even if there is an accident and there is a war, the scale will not be too large.

We have more than enough soldiers and horses to deal with it.

It will be done according to your wishes.

When the next time the soldiers and horses who sent the baggage arrived, let them lead the way and take the Jiaozhi soldiers to the back. ”

Among the Jiaozhi soldiers and horses, only some of the elites, and the characters who led the troops were Song people.

Almost all of the rest were absorbed by Cao from the captured islands and from within Cochin.

Those people live in places where the seasons are like spring, and they are used to it.

Suddenly, he didn't adapt to the cold of the Northland, and Kou Ji could understand it.

Now that there is no big war, there is no need for the Jiaozhi soldiers to stay here.

Naturally, there was no need for Koji to leave them to suffer.

Seeing that Kou Ji had agreed to this, Di Qing nodded and said, "Then I'll arrange this time later." ”

Kou Ji nodded, looked at Chong Shiheng on the side and asked, "Yang Wenguang and Gao Gongbu, how is the current battle situation?" ”

Chong Shiheng replied: "This morning, a messenger came over, Yang Wenguang and Gao Chugong have successively taken the eastern section of the Northwest Road and the Jingnan Road of the Liao Kingdom, and are now conquering the Shangjing Road.

At present, Kamikyo Province has won two-thirds.

In five days, we should be able to conquer all parts of Kamikyo Road. ”

Kou Ji nodded, "You go back and send someone to tell them that after you take the Shangjing Road, you don't need to rush over, send someone to search and search carefully, and be sure to find out the gold, silver and jewelry hidden by the Wulie Department and other departments."

Grain, cattle, sheep and horses were also searched as much as possible.

Then it is assigned to the local government offices, and the local government offices are uniformly distributed.

Now in Liaodi, except for us, the rest are prisoners of war.

We should use this means to get them to adjust to our rule as soon as possible. ”

Chong Shiheng nodded and said, "Understood......"

Kou Ji seemed to remember something, and continued to ask, "The officials of the Bohai Mansion, the Langxi Mansion, and the Gumeng Mansion are all in place, right?" ”

Chong Shiheng was stunned for a moment, and was just about to speak.

But I heard Chen Lin say slowly: "Su Xun, the prefect of Bohai Mansion, has already taken office. Bao Zheng, the supervisor of Bohai Prefecture, also arrived in Bohai Prefecture five days ago.

The governors of other states have also arrived.

The local soldiers temporarily recruited by the imperial court were also assigned to various yamen.

Now the Su Governor and Bao Inspector should be taking the officials of Bohai Mansion to busy the winter for the prisoners.

Wen Yanbo, the governor of Langxie Mansion, also took office.

Through his family's connections, he bought a large amount of grain on credit from Hedong and Hexi, and now the grain should have been transported to Langxifu.

He was the first of the three prefects to settle the captives of the prefecture.

Zhang Fangping, the prefect of Gumeng Mansion, has just arrived.

He should be the toughest of the three prefects.

He couldn't take the captives to the sea to fish like the Su Governor's Mansion.

There is no way to get food on credit through the family like the prefect of Wen.

Now you can only use the little food you have allocated to help the captives survive the winter.

Fortunately, he didn't have many captives.

So the food you have allocated is enough for him.

But only until January next year.

Now he should be worried about the prisoners' subsequent rations. ”