Geng Zhong, Yuzu, more than a dozen individual family members and maids heard Kou Zhun say this, and they all nodded frequently and promised earnestly: "The little one must take the words of the prime minister, and guard the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion and no one wants to come in!" ”

Ma Biao disagreed, took a step closer to Kou Zhun and said, "Xiangye's words are remembered by the villain, but how can you rest assured that the villain can go out alone!" ”

Ma Biao cleared his throat and said excitedly: "Bianliang City is not very peaceful, and Khitan spies frequently haunt it; If you give Xiang Ye a knife, how can Ma Biao explain to his hometown fathers and fellow villagers! ”

Ma Biao unswervingly stood with his sword on his shoulder: "The villain wants to follow you to guard, and you must not take it lightly!" ”

"Drop your head!" Kou Zhun bent his finger and flicked a chestnut on Ma Biao's forehead, and said angrily: "Why can't you get a carrot and bullwhip for you, kid?" Last night, the old man gave you a long night and played the piano to the cow...... What's wrong with the Khitan spies? He can stab the old man, but the old man won't stab him? Look what this is! Kou Zhun pulled out the ox ear knife from under his shirt and said happily: "What hasn't happened to sell steamed buns since I was a child?" The old man used this bull-eared knife to kill a barbarian back then, and now his strength is still undiminished! ”

Ma Biao's eyes were as wide as cowbells, staring at Kou Zhun speechlessly, Kou Zhun snorted coldly and replied to him: "Ma Bin, you are the commander of the Xiangfu guards, stay here and don't go there......"

After Kou Zhun said these words, he lifted up his robe and pinned it to his waist; Humming Guanzhong and playing randomly: "There is a king out of the palace and the mountain shakes the ground, leading Huang Huang on the left and the right Qingcang is majestic...... "Go out of the Prime Minister's Mansion......

The sun has not yet come out, and the streets of Bianjing are already full of pedestrians; Carrying the burden along the shoulder, the shouts of leading the car to sell pulp come and go one after another.

Kou Zhun glanced back at the Prime Minister's Mansion, which was fading away, and couldn't tell what it was like in his heart.

Bianliang City is divided into the outer city, the inner city and the palace city, and Kou Zhun's prime minister's mansion is in a small alley in the inner city, which is not very conspicuous and does not appear deserted.

The outer city is built close to the imperial city, and the expensive housing prices are a bit bizarre, and Kou Zhun, who is the prime minister with 3.6 million yuan a year, can't afford to buy a courtyard; It can only be rented and lived, and this kind of hindsight is simply incomprehensible to the world.

If in later generations, if you say that a first-class member like Kou Zhun is a seven-grade sesame official, he is also a cowhide coaxing; You don't have to pay out of your own pocket for travel and dining, and it's no wonder that the builder sends a mansion to raise a few concubines to enjoy it to the fullest.

However, in the Song Dynasty, which was almost scolded by later generations, Kou Zhun, a famous minister through the ages, could not afford to buy a house and rented it seemed a bit abnormal! No, the fact that the prime minister could not afford a house was nothing new in the Song Dynasty; The prime minister of the Song Dynasty who could not afford to buy a house was not only Kou Zhun; In addition to Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Zhu Mian, Liang Sicheng and other outliers, there were a large number of prime ministers in the Song Dynasty who could not afford to buy a house; Believe it or not.

Kou Zhun's salary for the year after becoming prime minister was 3.6 million yuan, with some additional allowances; There is no problem with an annual income of 4 million. 4 million is equivalent to 4 billion yuan in later generations, and there is more money than people.

However, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty was not like the later generations, and the salaries of the staff around him were all paid by the state; The expenses and salaries of the subordinates of Kou Zhun Prime Minister's Mansion must be paid from Kou Zhun's income.

In short, Kou Zhun was the prime minister, a senior official, who received his salary from the imperial court; The subordinates of the Prime Minister's Mansion worked for Kou Zhun and received wages from him.

The seven officials in the Prime Minister's Mansion, hundreds of people up and down eat, drink and Lazar, salary, profits, entertainment, Kou Zhun's salary of 3.6 million yuan is already good.

Kou Laoxi also has a stinky problem and likes to drink a few glasses, and the guests at home are constantly drinking and meat; The days when you are stretched thin, a discerning person understands it when you think about it.

It's not easy to get by, if you want to buy a house in the outer city of Tokyo, where every inch of land is expensive; It is no less difficult than Shu Road, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky.

The year before Kou Zhun became prime minister, Song Zhenzong dealt with two prime ministers; One is the big-bellied Zhang Qixian, and the other is Xiang Minzhong.

Zhang Qixian and Xiang Min are in high power, but they committed crimes because of the competition for the widow Chai; The Chai family filed a complaint against Zhang Qixian and Xiang Minzhong to Emperor Zhenzong.

Chai's father-in-law was Xue Juzheng, the prime minister of the former dynasty, and Chai sued Xiang Minzhong for buying a property in Kaifeng, the capital, at a low price; Xiang Minzhong admitted that he bought it for 5 million yuan.

Tsk, 5 million or low-level? If 5 million yuan is converted into RMB in the 21st century, it will be 5 billion yuan, and the housing prices in Bianliang Tokyo are several times higher than those in the first-tier cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.

Kou Laoxi, the prime minister, has done a lot of money, and he can't even afford a house with so much salary a year, so he can only rent it; But he was in a good mood; I can eat and drink, and I like to sing and play.

Kou Laoxi dressed himself as a tavern and walked on the streets of Bianliang today, wanting to inspect the folk customs, people's feelings, and people's things in Bianliang City, because the smoke of war has hit the extremely luxurious Bianliang Capital.

Inspecting the people's customs and people's customs and things is the prime minister's patent, but Kou Laoxi wants to pretend to be sick and give the emperor leave? Quietly walked out of the Prime Minister's Mansion, why? I'm afraid some people will drop their jaws when they say it!

Just in the past few days, Kou Zhun has received urgent reports from the front line one after another, saying that the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao State led an army of 200,000 to invade the territory; It is approaching the Bianliang.

Kou Laoxi suppressed all the military intelligence reports on the front line and did not report to Emperor Zhenzong, he was planning a century-old plan to defeat the Khitan; If successful, it will completely eliminate the Khitans' harassment of the border and the threat to the city of Bianliang.

The protagonist of the century-old plan to defeat the Khitan is inseparable from the founding general Xue Shisan and his granddaughter Xue Jin'er, and Kou Zhun secretly sent his family Ding Zhang Huan to sneak out of Bianliang City; Rushed to Fengxiang Mansion and Xue Jiaying summoned Xue Shisan and Xue Jin'er to rush into Beijing.

Xue Shisan is the thirteenth grandson of Xue Rengui, the prince of Pingyang County in the Tang Dynasty, and inherited the wisdom and courage of his ancestors.

During the Song Taizu Chenqiao Mutiny, Xue Shisan was the main general, on the same level as Shi Shouxin and Gao Huaide.

Song Taizu meditated on the Dragon Court for 16 years, and Xue Shisan had always been the commander of the palace, but Taizu's unexplained death made Xue Shisan suspect that Zhao Guangyi, the king of Jin, had done something from it.

Suspicion is suspicion, Zhao Guangyi still ascended the throne of the emperor in a grand manner; But that Golden Alliance made Xue Shisan feel that Zhao Guangyi was the murderer of Zhao Kuangyin.

Xue Shisan walked up the alley where he used wine to dispel his sorrows, and once he was drunk and revealed his truth; complained that Zhao Guangyi was too yin.

The troublesome person immediately made a small report to Zhao Guangyi, and Zhao Guangyi wanted to get rid of Xue Shisan.

After Kou Zhun got the news, he suggested that Xue Shisan follow Shi Shouxin and Gao Huaide to resign from the post of commander in front of the palace, hand over the military power, and return to the field.

Xue Shisan did according to Kou Zhun's suggestion, and Zhao Guangyi really opened up; He also named Xue Shisan as the "king side by side", and gave him gold, silver and jewelry.

Xue Shisan returned to his hometown Xuejiaying as a townsman, and Zhao Guangyi was not worried about him; Let the minister Wang Qinruo secretly monitor.

Wang Qinruo reported that Xue Shisan built Parrot Island in Xianghe Bay to express his intentions, Song Taizong twisted his beard and smiled, and said: "As long as the old Xue family does not form a party for personal gain, and does not recruit troops; If there is no such thing as Xue Gang opposing Tang, let him repair Parrot Continent! ”

Song Taizong failed to attack Liao twice, and Xue Shisan wrote a letter to Kou Zhun asking Ying to go to the front line to kill the enemy; Kou Zhun blocked it.

After Song Taizong ascended to heaven, Zhenzong succeeded to the throne, and the Khitans once again violated the border; It's time for Xue Shisan to come out of the mountain.

Xue Shisan's departure from the mountain was expected by Kou Zhun, and his granddaughter Xue Jin'er was a beautiful jade in Kou Zhun's heart.

When Xue Jin'er was ten years old, Kou Zhun recognized her as her godgranddaughter; Now Xue Jin'er is fifteen years old, and she is proficient in all eighteen martial arts; Shrewd and intelligent is no less than Fan Lihua, Kou Zhun explained to Zhang Huan: Grandpa Kou looked confused and had not been alive for a few days, and he met Jin'er before he died.

Kou Zhun invited Xue Jin'er to come to Tokyo not just to meet him, he wanted Xue Jin'er to deal with Empress Dowager Xiao; After all, Xue Shi has been in the sixth year for three years, and it is okay to make a plan for his granddaughter; It's hard to actually go to the battlefield and fight.

Empress Dowager Xiao and Wu Zetian are equally famous, and the Khitan people call her "Empress Dowager Chengtian". Xiao Zhuo, the Empress Dowager of Chengtian, was a famous politician, military strategist and reformer of the Liao Dynasty, and during her regency, the Liao Dynasty entered the most prosperous period in history.

After Liao Jingzong succeeded to the throne, he chose Xiao Zhuo as his concubine and was canonized as empress in 969. In 971, he was born in Yelu Longxu, the Holy Sect of Liao, and later gave birth to three sons and three daughters. In 982, Liao Jingzong collapsed, and Liao Shengzong succeeded to the throne, respecting Xiao Sui as the empress dowager and regent. In 983, the Holy Emperor led his ministers to give Xiao Yu the honorific title of Empress Dowager.

In 986, Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, believed that Liao Shengzong was young and his mother was the regent who drove the Song army to the Northern Expedition, and wanted to follow the old path of his second brother Zhao Kuangyin seizing power from the orphans and widows of Chai Zongxun, Emperor Gong of Later Zhou; Recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun that Shi Jingjiao dedicated to the Khitan.

In the first month of 986, the Song army marched in three routes: Youzhou on the east road, Ulzhou on the middle road, and Yunzhou and Shuozhou on the west road. On the way to retreat, the Liao army captured the Song general Yang Ye, who died without going on a hunger strike.

In 1004, Xiao Sui invaded the Song Dynasty in the name of demanding the Guannan land recovered by Zhou Shizong. In addition to being resisted in Yingzhou, the Liao army was overwhelmed and soon approached the gateway to Kaifeng, the Song capital. Kou Laoxi responded to all changes with the same attitude, and was planning a major battle that would determine the life and death of the Song Dynasty under the leadership of the 200,000 troops of the Liao Dynasty under the leadership of Empress Dowager Xiao.

The good general Kou Zhun who defeated the Empress Dowager Xiao selected Xue Jin'er, who was only 15 years old but assisted by his grandfather Xue Shisan, and the might of the Xue family's army would be re-displayed in the Great Song Dynasty......