Cao Wei was boldly speculating, but Kou Ji was thinking carefully.

He knew that Kou Zhun had teamed up with Wenchen to suppress Wuxun and implement the decree of elite soldiers.

After the box army on the border of the Great Song Dynasty was streamlined, he thought that Kou Zhun had temporarily shelved the order of the elite soldiers.

Unexpectedly, Kou Zhun was still secretly implementing.

It is also preparing to streamline the box army in the hinterland of the Central Plains.

Compared with the box army on the border of the four directions, the box army in the hinterland of the Central Plains is rotten to the bone.

They can now be regarded as a cancer of the imperial court.

Most of the strongmen who fell into the grass and occupied the mountains were the kings of the mountains came out of the Xiang army.

And even more, they were both soldiers and thieves.

If they can be eradicated by the decree of the elite soldiers, the entire Great Song Dynasty will also be cleared.

Kou Zhun probably thought so too, so he took the risk of being counterattacked by the martial artists, and began to secretly implement the elite military orders of the troops in the hinterland of the Central Plains.

If Kou Zhun is really allowed to do it, I am afraid that the thieves in various parts of the Great Song Dynasty will be sharply reduced, and the national strength will also rise.

Speaking of which, the order of the elite soldiers has something to do with him to some extent.

But he didn't expect Kou Zhun to do this.

Could it be because Kou Zhun secretly wanted to streamline the Central Plains hinterland army, which made Cao Wei and others feel the crisis.

So you want to listen to some rumors from him in advance, and then prepare some countermeasures?

Kou Ji thought to himself in his heart, but he didn't say anything, and quietly listened to Cao Wei continue to speak.

Cao Wei continued: "Actually...... If the imperial court really wants to streamline the box army, we are also willing to pay the empty salaries in those box army. I'm afraid that the imperial court has other thoughts......"

When Kou Ji heard this, he was slightly stunned.

Listening to the meaning of Cao Wei's words, the martial artists seemed to be willing to give up the vacancies and salaries in the Xiang army.

Willing to sacrifice such a big profit......

For what?

To preserve what?

Kou Ji looked at Cao Wei and Li Zhaoliang.

The two also looked at Kou Ji, their expressions were a little gloomy, but their eyes were very determined.

Koji felt their gaze, and probably guessed their true purpose.

Kou Ji said with some uncertain temptation: "Forbidden army? ”

The word forbidden army came out.

Cao Wei and Li Zhaoliang's faces changed.

Li Zhaoliang said with an ugly face: "The forbidden army is our bottom line...... We can hand over all the Xiang army, and the court can toss it as much as it wants. But the forbidden army is not good, and the forbidden army is the capital of our life.

Without the Praetor, we would be lambs to the slaughter. ”

Li Zhaoliang's words have already been said obviously.

The imperial court wants to streamline and abolish the box army, and they can endure the pain of cutting meat.

But if the imperial court wanted to move the forbidden army, they would never agree, not only would they not agree, but they would also rise up to resist.

Kou Zhun prepared to completely streamline the Xiang army, which made the martial artists feel an unprecedented threat.

Let them feel that after Kou Zhun has moved the Xiang army, he will move the forbidden army.

Cao Wei and Li Zhaoliang found Kou Ji, and they had the intention of talking to Kou Ji, and they also had the intention of asking Kou Ji to talk to Kou Zhun.

Kou Ji understood their thoughts, and said faintly: "Can't you not drink the blood of the soldiers?" Isn't it a shame to drink? ”

When Cao Wei and Li Zhaoliang heard this, their hearts trembled.

The two of them bowed their heads gloomily.

There was silence in the conservatory.

After a long time.

Li Zhaoliang gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "Are you willing to drink it?" Since Taizu released the military power with a cup of wine, he forced us to drink the blood of the soldiers. If you don't drink the blood of soldiers, you have two hearts.

After Taizong ascended the throne, it was even worse.

If we do not drink the blood of soldiers and are not greedy for money, we have two hearts.

The Fu family was forced to rebel.

By now, drinking the blood of soldiers has become a habit for all generals.

How many people live on the blood of soldiers.

The entanglement of interests in it is twisted into a mess, like a mess, and it is impossible to sort it out.

Even if Brother Cao and I wanted to withdraw, we couldn't.

We were willing to say yes, but the others were not. ”

Cao Wei closed his eyes in grief and muttered: "The gate is one, advance and retreat together." Once there is an anomaly, you should know better than us what will happen to you. ”

Kou Ji let out a long sigh when he heard the words of the two of them, not knowing what to say.

Saying that they are wrong, they are also forced to drink the blood of soldiers, and it has become a habit.

Even if some of them tried to break the habit, they couldn't do it.

Those martial artists who have become addicted to greed do not agree.

Once one of them breaks away from the group, they will be attacked by all the martial artists.

More importantly, there was no one to help them.

Whether it is the courtiers or the royal family, they all want them to fight together and fight to the death.

It's better to all of them die cleanly, leaving them with a court where they can do whatever they want.

But if they're right......

How could it be right to drink the blood of soldiers.

Cao Wei opened his eyes, stared at Kou Ji, and sighed: "You really don't know how to sympathize with the soldiers and don't know how to cherish them?" When they went to the battlefield, they entrusted their lives to me one by one.

They may have to pay with their lives for the sake of me.

How can they not take them to heart?

I don't know what about others, but I remember the names of every soldier who died for me, Cao Wei, for many years. ”

Li Zhaoliang gritted his teeth and said: "So am I!" ”

Kou Ji got up, arched his hand, and said solemnly: "Whether the imperial court will move the forbidden army, I am not enough." I will remember what you say, and I will tell my grandfather the truth. As for helping you install children in the court, I won't agree.

Unless one day you will no longer drink the blood of soldiers.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have helped you with this kind of thing. ”

Kou Ji withdrew his hand and proudly straightened his waist, "Since I Kou Ji joined the office, any copper plate I have has has been exchanged for my hands and wisdom.

I have never lost my conscience, and I don't want to lose my conscience.

Leave. ”

Kou Ji gave up again and withdrew from the conservatory.

Two deep sighs rang out from the conservatory.

Out of the Li Mansion Courtyard.

Kou Ji hurried back to the mansion.

I slept for more than an hour.

The bell on the Donghua Gate rings.

He got up under Xiang Yan's service, washed up, put on a sacrificial dress that matched his identity and rushed to the palace.

Then he went to Jingling Palace with Zhao Zhen, the royal family, and the minister of civil and military affairs.

A busy day is a whole day.

It wasn't until the evening, after helping Kou Zhun back home, that he had leisure and conveyed the meaning of Cao Wei and Li Zhaoliang to Kou Zhun.

In Kou Zhun's study.

The grandfather and grandson sat opposite each other.

Kou Zhun tasted tea, Kou Ji held the teacup, and said, "Grandfather plans to streamline the box army in the hinterland of the Central Plains?" ”

Kou Zhun glanced at Kou Ji, sipped the tea, and said lightly: "If you are allowed to help the court plan, you are not allowed to help the court plan?" ”

Kou Ji smiled dryly: "I didn't mean that......"

Kou Zhun put down the teacup and snorted, "That's what the old man thinks you mean." The old man is the chief regent, if he is in the court, he will not do anything. Others still think that the old man is papier-mâché.

The old man doesn't want to be judged a hundred years later.

Since the decree of the elite soldiers has worked on the borders of the four directions, it should be implemented throughout the Great Song Dynasty.

The old man calculated with Li Di and Wang Zeng that if the order of the elite soldiers was implemented in the entire Great Song Dynasty, the annual military salary that my Great Song Dynasty needed to pay would be thrifty by nearly one million. ”

"Only a million?"

Kou Ji muttered in his heart.

The Xiang army is really raised by the stepmother, so many people have been cut, and the military salary saved is only one million.

Kou Zhun didn't know what Kou Ji was thinking, he seemed to remember something to be happy about, and suddenly grinned: "Do you know how much surplus the imperial court has this year?" ”

Seeing this, Kou Ji guessed that the surplus of the imperial court was probably quite a lot.

Otherwise, Kou Zhun would not have shown such a look.

But he still asked very cooperatively, "How much?" ”

Kou Zhun smiled and said, "Thirteen million ......"

Kou Ji looked stunned and said in surprise: "How can there be so many?" When the disaster relief was carried out before, the imperial court was picking and searching, and it looked like there was not a single copper coin in the treasury. ”

Kou Zhun laughed in a low voice: "That's because some money hasn't been transported to Beijing yet. ”

"Where did you get all that money?"

Koji still didn't believe it.

With the bloated officials of the Great Song Dynasty and the bloated yamen at all levels of the imperial court, it is impossible for the treasury to have such a surplus.

Mentioning the origin of these money, the smile on Kou Zhun's face slowly retracted, he let out a long sigh, and said faintly: "A large part of it is to confiscate the Kong family's property.

It has only been a few decades since Wenxuan was sealed, and he has controlled all the land in Qufu and collected millions of dollars.

If you hadn't proposed to investigate, Lu Yijian would have dared to be ruthless, I'm afraid no one in the world would know that the Kong family has so much money. ”

Kou Ji groaned: "Even if the Kong family is forced by Lu Yijian to hand over some fertile land, it is impossible to easily hand over so much floating wealth, right?" ”

Kou Zhun pursed his lips disdainfully, "Otherwise, how can the old man say that Lu Yijian is ruthless." The old man sent people to move the people who had been dismissed from the Xiang army to Qufu.

Lu Yijian left these people behind.

Some people in the Confucian family, unable to bear it, wanted to continue to oppress those people in the name of saints, and planned to take back the fertile land they had just acquired and let them become tenants of the Confucian family.

But who are the people to be messed with? ”

One by one, the killing talents who have been trained on the battlefield are gathered together, and they can pull up a team casually.

Of course it's not easy to mess with.

The people live on food.

Fertile land is their lifeblood.

The Kong family wants to take away the fertile land in their hands, how can they easily agree?

The consequences of the Kong family's seizure of land do not need to be thought about at all.

It must have aroused public indignation.

Kou Ji secretly guessed in his heart, but did not speak, listening to Kou Zhun continue to talk about the following.

Seeing Kou Zhun said sarcastically: "The front foot of the Kong family sent people to collect the fields, and the people on the back foot formed a rebel army and killed the Kong family. If it weren't for Lu Yijian's timely appearance with soldiers and horses, he stopped them.

I am afraid that the Kong family will be killed, and the tomb of the saint will also be overturned. ”

When Kou Ji heard this, he secretly screamed.

Obviously, all this is Lu Yijian's calculation.

Lu Yijian knew that if he was too ruthless against the Kong family, he would inevitably be criticized by the scholars in the literary world, so he achieved his goal by the hands of the people.

not only overthrew the Confucian family, but also confiscated a large amount of floating wealth, and more importantly, helped those people to completely take the fertile land in their hands, so that they could completely take root in Qufu.

Speaking of Lu Yijian, Kou Zhun said quietly: "The treasury can have so much surplus this year, and more than half of it is contributed by Lu Yijian. In addition to the floating wealth of the Kong family, there are also many stolen money collected by corrupt officials and corrupt officials in various places.

Lu Yijian entered the inner court, and he was already unstoppable.

As long as one of the three old men withdraws from the inner court, he will inevitably make up for it. ”

Kou Ji opened his mouth, and was just about to speak, when he heard Kou Zhun say again: "Leave him alone for the time being, the three old husbands are still strong." As long as the official family is not in charge of the government for a day, the three old men cannot be dismissed for a day, unless the three old men ask for their own begging bones.

The old man just said that a large part of the money was contributed by Lu Yijian.

The other part was contributed by Li Di and Wang Zeng.

For more than two months, Li Di and Wang Zeng have traveled to various places one after another......"

Kou Zhun seemed to think of something, the corners of his mouth twitched, and said, "In short, they investigated and punished a lot of corrupt officials and confiscated a lot of floating wealth. The sum of the floating wealth seized by the three of them is 13 million. ”

Why the corners of Kou Zhun's mouth twitched, Kou Ji could probably guess some reasons.

The reason is on Wang Zeng.

Who would have thought that Li Di, who has a hot temper on weekdays, after leaving Bianjing, will work steadily step by step, carefully investigated, for fear of wishing for a good person.

There is no tension at all.

Who would have thought that Wang Zeng, who usually looks mild, would become an iron-blooded official after leaving Bianjing City, killing people without mercy at all.

Anyone who can be involved in Chang Ping's corruption case will inevitably have to go under his butcher's knife.

Even some people who are related to the royal family, he is not soft.

There are several royal relatives who were sent to Zongzheng Temple by him and handed over to Zhao Yuanyan for severe punishment.

Among them, there was a man who was related to the royal family, and when he went to the palace to arrest people, he led people to surround him, and he was slaughtered on the spot on the charge of rebellion.

Now the impeachment of him has surpassed Kou Ji and Lu Yijian.

Prior to this, the impeachment of Kou Ji and Lu Yijian had the most twists and turns.

Regarding Wang's impeachment, Kou Ji didn't care much about it.

Wang Zeng is far more secure than him, and since Wang Zeng dares to kill, it proves that he is confident that after killing these people, he can still maintain his position unshakable.

After Kou Ji talked to Kou Zhun about the issue of the treasury surplus, he began to talk about the issue of the elite army order again.

Kou Ji asked tentatively: "Grandfather, after you abolished the Xiang Army, do you have any plans to take action against the forbidden army?" ”

When Kou Zhun heard this, he raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice, "Who told you?" ”

Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly in his heart.

It's really ......

Kou Ji said: "But no one told me that you were going to do something against the forbidden army. But someone guessed that you might want to do something to the Forbidden Army, so I approached me. Let me give you a few words. ”

Kou Zhun glanced at Kou Ji and asked, "Cao family? Or the Li family? ”

Kou Ji said unexpectedly: "You know everything? ”

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