Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji were speechless, and the two stared at Xia Zhu coldly together.

Since Xia Zhu opened his mouth, he had no intention of stopping, he pointed at Zhao Zhen and shouted loudly: "He has the means, has the scheming, knows how to attract people's hearts, knows how to collect money, knows how to make magic weapons that are stronger than Bu Ren Jia, and can better understand your thoughts."

He is less than thirty years old, and he has already entered the second rank.

When he took the Western Xia, he reached the point where he could not be sealed.

He is still young, and he will have a lot of achievements in the future, what will you reward him with when the time comes?

You can't give anything. ”

Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji were still unmoved.

Xia Zhu's eyes widened, and he shouted, "I know that you are like brothers and trust each other. But he has reached the point where he cannot be sealed, and even if he has no complaints, his subordinates have complaints.

The ministers in power in the Great Song Dynasty were all close to him.

Most of the emerging military ministers in the Great Song Dynasty were promoted by him.

If you don't reward your merits, they will help Kou Ji.

Wait until the day when the dissatisfaction of the Manchu civil and military forces with you accumulates to the point where you can hardly suppress it, that is, the day when they add yellow robes and send him to the throne. ”

When Xia Zhu said this, he roared hoarsely, "Your Zhao family's country was taken by the yellow robe, and you will have to return the yellow robe when the time comes." This is retribution! ”

"Hahaha!"

"Hahaha!"

Xia Zhu laughed wildly, as if he had seen the scene he said.

Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji looked at Xia Zhu like idiots.

Zhao Zhen said slowly: "Xia Zhu, you have been playing with your lips and tongue for most of your life, and in the end, you still want to play with your lips and tongue?" Do you think that if you say these words, I will be jealous of the fourth brother, suspicious of the fourth brother, and even try to prevent the fourth brother, or simply kill him to get rid of future troubles?

You're wrong.

You look down on me, and you look down on the fourth brother.

I and the fourth brother are far more open-minded than you think.

I'm afraid it will take a lifetime for me and my fourth brother to do something.

I and the fourth brother may offend the whole world.

At that time, the last person in the world wants to see is probably me and the fourth brother. ”

When Xia Zhu heard this, the smile on his face slowly faded, and he stared at Zhao Zhen in dismay, "You...... What are you going to do......

Zhao Zhen subconsciously looked at Kou Ji, and Kou Ji also looked at Zhao Zhen.

The two looked at each other and smiled, stared at Xia Zhu, and said faintly in unison: "Innovation!" ”

Xia Zhu's eyes widened in horror.

Innovation?

Reform?!

Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji want to reform bad governance?

"You ...... How dare you? ”

Xia Zhu shouted in horror.

The reason why Xia Zhu reacted so much was because there were many things that needed to be carried for innovation, and if he was not careful, he would end up in a situation full of flames.

Even with the identity, status, and authority of Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji, it is very likely that the implementation of innovation will fail.

The consequences of failure are terrifying.

Zhao Zhen's throne is likely to be shaken.

Even if Zhao Zhen's throne does not move, the authority in his hands will be lost a lot.

Kou Ji will die, and he will die a terrible death.

Innovation will inevitably touch the interests of some people.

It may arouse the hostility of everyone in the world.

Why everyone?

Because the imperial power does not go to the countryside.

When Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji's reform decrees threatened the interests of wealthy businessmen, wealthy families, official families, and even all officials.

They will join forces to deal with Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji.

In the case that the imperial power does not go to the countryside.

How to interpret the decrees implemented by Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji is that those rich businessmen, wealthy families, official families, and local officials have the final say.

When they explain the decree to the people, they can misinterpret the meaning of the decree and turn the good into bad and the bad into worse.

Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji innovated for the sake of the people.

But in their mouths, innovation is about the lives of the people.

In this era when the news is not smooth and the traffic is not smooth, it is difficult for the people to distinguish the authenticity of the news for a while.

Those rich businessmen, wealthy families, official families, and local officials have said too much, and the people are likely to believe it.

Then they will follow those rich businessmen, wealthy families, and official eunuchs to deal with Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji together.

Kou Zhun, Li Di and others only changed some of the decrees of the imperial court and moved the interests of some people, which produced huge consequences.

During the period of streamlining the world's soldiers and horses, Kou Zhun caused soldiers and horses from all over the country to mutiny, and wolf smoke was everywhere, and finally he borrowed heavy troops to suppress it.

Li Di moved the titles and official positions of some officials, and he was framed by people, and he almost didn't put his life into it.

The actions of the two of them can only be regarded as rectifying the government and government, not talking about any innovation.

Even so, it caused so much turmoil.

If we really carry out innovation and move the interests of the whole world, then the power of resistance will be even greater.

In this case, there is indeed no one who will put the yellow robe on Kou Ji and let Kou Ji replace Zhao Zhen as emperor.

Not only did no one support Kou Ji as emperor.

Maybe everyone still wants to pull Zhao Zhen off the horse.

Even if Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji withstood the pressure, suppressed all resistance, carried out the innovation to the end, and succeeded, in the end, the two of them would be hated by many people.

In this way, Xia Zhu's words became a big joke.

"Why wouldn't we? If we do, one will become an emperor through the ages, and the other will become a sage worshipped by all people. And the Great Song Dynasty will enter an unprecedented heyday. ”

Zhao Zhen stared at Xia Zhu and said, "You Xia Zhu are just a man with a small eye in the eyes." I used to look up to you, but I was blind. You just wait quietly to pay for the lives of the 180,000 unjust souls. ”

"Poof!"

Xia Zhu sat down on the ground with a frightened expression.

He was not afraid of the countless punishments.

What he was afraid of was Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji Junchen.

Because he found that he couldn't help Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji Junchen, and he would never be able to take revenge.

Kou Ji casually slapped the wine jar in his hand open, spilled the wine inside on the ground, and said to Xia Zhu: "This wine is for the 180,000 souls!" ”

Kou Ji finished the wine and threw it down.

Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji didn't look at Xia Zhu anymore and left the cell.

After Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji left, Xia Zhu sat motionless on the ground.

It wasn't until Cheyenne on the ground and called for a long time that he woke him up.

The first thing Xia Zhu did when he woke up was to hit the wall in the cell and hit it hard.

"Daddy?!"

During the Xia An period, he quickly went to catch Xia Zhu.

But a flash of light was faster than his.

"Whoosh~"

A hidden arrow shot out of the dark corner and pierced Xia Zhu's thigh.

Xia Zhu screamed and fell to the ground.

He struggled a few times and didn't get up.

In the end, he simply lay straight on the ground, motionless.

"Someone! Help me! There are assassins! ”

Cheyenne shouted for help, but no one answered.

Up and down the cell.

Only the voice of the Cheyenne period reverberates, and it endures for a long time.

……

Outside the cell.

Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji Junchen walked out of the cell together.

Although the two monarchs and ministers have never said anything innovative, they have the same thoughts.

The more the two of them understand the government affairs of the Great Song Dynasty, the deeper they understand.

The current maladministration of the Great Song Dynasty has reached the point where the two of them look at their scalps numb.

If they don't innovate, even if they open up a huge territory, they will be buried in a hurry.

After the two monarchs and ministers had the idea of innovation, they have been digging out the malpractices of the Great Song Dynasty.

Although the two of them have never explicitly said innovation, they both know in their hearts that the other has the intention of innovation.

If it weren't for Xia Zhu's words today, Zhao Zhen opened his mouth.

I'm afraid that the two monarchs and ministers will keep the word innovation hidden, and then do it silently, just do it and don't say it.

The two of them have experienced a lot of things, and they are far more sophisticated than some ministers in the court.

Those ministers in the court, no matter what they do, must publicize it loudly, for fear that others will not know that they are going to do great things.

And then after they preach it, their opponents, or people who are influenced by what they are going to do, will take a decisive action against them.

The end result is that they are jointly suppressed.

The two monarchs and ministers know this very well, so they do everything first, and then declare it.

Take, for example, Koji's campaign in the Western Regions.

The imperial court has always used the excuse that Kou Ji went out to help Shazhou.

The same is true for the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

But after Kou Ji arrived in Shazhou, did he really go to help Shazhou?

No.

After Kou Ji arrived in Shazhou, he first killed in Shazhou City.

Then he defeated the Western Xia soldiers and horses, and took back Shazhou to the Great Song Dynasty.

Immediately afterwards, taking advantage of the fact that Shazhou is far away from Bianjing City and it is inconvenient to transmit news, he quickly withdrew from the strategy of taking the entire Hexi.

By the time the Manchu civil and military knew the news, Kou Ji had already captured the three places in Hexi.

By the time the Manchu civil and military wanted to mix and mingle, Kou Ji had already taken the entire Hexi.

From beginning to end, the Manchu civil and military forces actually had no chance to react.

can only watch Kou Ji act according to his own thoughts, and he can't intervene at all.

The same is true of the attack on Western Xia today.

Suddenly, there was a rise in the army.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses were dispatched to Western Xia.

The Manchu civil and military forces were not given the opportunity to participate in the decision.

When the Manchu civil and military knew that Kou Ji had taken Xiazhou, it was when the news of Kou Ji's assassination reached Bianjing.

Kou Ji avoided the Manchu civil and military actions again and again, and each time he acted very quickly, and gradually found a set of ways to deal with the Manchu civil and military forces.

The same is true for Zhao Zhen.

Although he left the palace after getting the news of Koji's assassination.

But after arriving in the northwest and confirming that Kou Ji's life was not in danger, he realized a problem.

That is, when the Manchu civil and military forces left Beijing, most people only stared at him, but did not stare at the soldiers and horses he dispatched.

Cao Wei led 300,000 soldiers and horses to the land of Yanyun, and the opposition of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military did not stop.

But he led more soldiers and horses to the northwest, and there has been no opposition from the Manchu civil and military forces so far.

Although the impeachment of the Manchu civil and military forces may come later.

But by the time the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military impeachment was sent to him, all the soldiers and horses under his command had probably entered Western Xia.

By the time the civil and military opposition of the Manchu Dynasty formed a wave, the soldiers and horses under his command should have taken half of the territory of Western Xia.

When the time comes, if the military exploits are thrown in front of the Manchu civil and military, they will definitely shut up obediently.

"Xia Zhu, you have to send someone to watch closely, you can't make a noise......"

Kou Ji reminded Zhao Zhen in a whisper.

Zhao Zhen smiled and nodded, "Do things quietly......"

Kou Ji nodded and said, "I don't know how the war in the land of Yanyun is going?" ”

The smile on Zhao Zhen's face dissipated slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "I also want to know ......"

……

Inside Tongtai Pass.

Cao Wei, Lu Yijian, and Di Qing sat in the city gate building, listening to the reports of their subordinates on the situation in Bianjing City, with a blank expression.

Wait until your subordinates finish talking about the situation in Bianjing.

Cao Wei was a little dumbfounded, and he said in astonishment: "So, no one pays attention to the matter of the official family dispatching all the soldiers and horses north of Bianjing City to the border of Western Xia?" ”

The man nodded.

Cao Wei let out a long sigh and looked at Lu Yijian, "What is this?" We led 300,000 soldiers and horses to the land of Yanyun and the land of three states. We have such a merit, and the Manchu civil and military also impeached us.

The official family and Kou Ji dispatched 780,000 soldiers and horses to the border of Western Xia, and there is still no opposition from the Manchu civil and military forces.

The thing they talked about the most was how to get the official family back from the northwest? ”

When Lu Yijian heard Cao Wei's words, she couldn't cry or laugh.

Cao Wei felt wronged, and he was even more aggrieved in his heart.

Zhao Zhen, he didn't dare to compare.

But why is Koji better than him?

He was the same as the Zhongshu Sect and Cao Wei's privy envoy.

Two people who played a pivotal role in the court, led 300,000 people, and fought against the Liao people in the land of Yanyun.

It's just that it took a little bit of military salary, and it was sprayed with blood by the Manchu civil and military impeachment.

Kou Ji, who sounds like a strategic envoy to the Northwest Economic Route, is quite a big official, but he is obviously inferior to his Tongzhongshu Sect Pingzhangshi and Cao Wei's privy envoy.

Kou Ji opened his mouth, and nearly 300,000 soldiers and horses entered Western Xia.

So far, none of the Manchu civil and military forces have been impeached.

Kou Ji opened his mouth, and the land in Xiazhou and other places was casually distributed to the soldiers.

There was still no impeachment of the Manchu civil and military forces.

The two things that Kou Ji did were far more than ten times more than what they had spent on military salaries.

Just distributing the cultivated land without permission is enough to become a big sin of losing your head.

But so far no one has been impeached?

What is this?

"Is bullying the soft afraid of the hard? Do you think we're easy to bully? ”

Lu Yijian slapped the table and shouted dissatisfiedly.

Cao Wei smiled bitterly, and after a long time, he sighed and said, "We are easy to bully...... Kou Ji dared to point at the nose of the Manchu Dynasty and scold him in the court, we didn't dare to ......

It is often said that the older a person is, the less courageous he becomes.

This is a very good word for us. ”

Lu Yijian glared and said, "Are we cowardly? We are not favored without him! If the official family is desperate to protect me, I can poke a hole in the sky. ”

Speaking of which.

Lu Yijian said indignantly: "Kou Ji is a traitor, a slanderer!" is a commodity with Ding, blindly catering to the holy will and seeking the grace of the saint! ”

Cao Wei said in a quiet tone: "I didn't see Kou Ji become a slanderer, but I saw you Lu Yijian and turned into a vinegar jar!" ”