Qin Shi Huang saw that Kou Zhun was talking to the truth, and glanced at him coldly and said, "Kou Laoxi, why do you know so much?" ”

Kou Zhun smiled and replied: "Lao Kou was ordered to investigate the affairs of Zhao Heng and Liu E......"

"So Kou Laoxi, you're a dog!" Qin Shi Huang interrupted Kou Zhun's words and said coldly: "When you see the marriage and make peace, you don't understand the truth when you see the lawsuit and break up; The two young people, Zhao Heng and Liu E, said that they didn't recruit you to provoke you in love, you plugged in a stick to make a dog dry ball! Qin Shi Huang actually yelled at Kou Zhun and scolded.

Kou Zhun was dumbfounded, staring at Qin Shi Huang in a daze, not knowing what to say; Zheng Shuang hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Old Qin, senior, don't blame Kou Xiangye, he can't help himself!" Emperor Taizong has a will, can Kou Xiangye not carry it out! ”

"you balls,. Don't wear a pair of pants with Kou Laoxi! "Qin Shi Huang actually started a fire!" Kou Laoxi, who Lao Qin understands like a mirror in his heart, I'm afraid you all don't know Kou Zhun's troubles; Now while he is drinking, Lao Qin will sell his cage! ”

Qin Shi Huang said and took a deep breath to tell the following matter.

During the Chunhua period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Kou Zhun was a young talent, who successfully sought justice for the Yangmen family, won the support and trust of Song Taizong, and was promoted to the governor of the government and the management of Dali Temple.

Soon, Taizong married Kou Zhun again; Marry Zhao Kuangyin's sister-in-law Song E to him.

This is probably the most period for Kou Laoxi, and the emperor personally presided over the marriage and married Emperor Taizu's sister-in-law to him; In the entire Great Song Dynasty, there was only one person, Kou Zhun.

Zhao Kuangyin's sister-in-law Song E is the youngest daughter of Song Zhun of Xing Guogong, who is beautiful and intelligent, virtuous and talented; Kou Zhun got the little beauty and feasted every day, singing and dancing every night.

One day, Kou Zhun and Song E were having a banquet when they heard a report from the doorman: "Xiangye, there is an old man outside the gate who said that he is in Xiangye's township; I have to see my grandfather. ”

When Kou Zhun heard that it was someone from his hometown, he hurriedly said, "Please come in!"

After a while, the doorman brought in an old man, dressed in tatters; The face is covered with wrinkles.

Kou Zhun saw that it was his uncle Zhao Wu, and hurriedly pulled Song E forward to meet him; The maid also hurriedly brought a chair for the old man to sit down.

Who knew that Uncle Zhao Wu was in a daze and did not answer the question of Kou Zhun and his wife, but he cried, and Kou Zhun hurriedly asked: "Uncle, what are your grievances?" Who's angry? Or is there something going on at home?"

Uncle Zhao Wu shook his head again and again, and asked for a long time before he sighed and called Kou Zhun's nickname and said, "Niu Wa, I entered this prime minister's mansion and saw you so glorious and rich; And to hear from your men that you are like this every day and every night, I cannot help but think of my poor old lady. He has suffered all his life and has not had a good day!"

Kou Zhun heard his uncle talk about his mother and knelt down in a hurry, saying: "It's all because the nephew is not good, he gets carried away, and he forgets the suffering of his mother's early years." ”

Uncle Zhao Wu wiped his tears, patted Kou Zhun on the shoulder and said, "Niu Wazi, you were only 10 years old when your father died that year; Your mother spun and weaved cloth day and night for you to study, and the blue cloth robe you wore when I sent you to Huazhou to try it was still patched; Later, you never came home, and when your mother returned to heaven, you were working outside the gate, and the king couldn't take care of the funeral; Uncle can't blame you. Now that you have become a big official and recruited an imperial aunt, you will be happy for a few days from the ground to the sky; But you feast every day and night, have you forgotten all the suffering your mother has suffered?"

Kou Zhun hurriedly kowtowed to his uncle three times and said, "Uncle advises, nephew benefits a lot; When my mother died, I couldn't have both loyalty and filial piety, which was a lifelong regret for my nephew. However, the mother's suffering, the nephew really dare not forget. The nephew is now the minister of state, and he swears to report to the king of Song to Fu Limin. ”

After that, he and Song E persuaded their uncle to eat.

Uncle Zhao Wu looked at the delicacies of the mountains and seas on the banquet and refused to enter the banquet, but pointed to the banquet and said: "This table of food is enough for our hometown family to spend a few months!" You eat so well in the capital, you can know that our Huazhou and Tongzhou have not harvested the grains in this year's drought; A bucket of rice rose to a thousand dollars. It is not yet the New Year, and there is a famine; I don't know how many people will starve to death by next spring! Thinking of this, how can I eat such a good meal?"

Kou Zhun also heard that there was a drought in his hometown, but the severity of the disaster could not be seen from the magistrate's recital; Uncle Zhao Wu said this, and suddenly felt that he was derelict in his duty and ashamed of the township.

Kou Zhun arranged for his uncle to stay, and hurriedly returned to the hall to order the banquet to be withdrawn and take it as a warning; Never sleep.

In the morning of the next day, Brigadier Kou played the drought in his hometown to Taizong truthfully; He also asked to return to Shaanxi to supervise relief and inquire about the people's situation.

After Kou Zhun returned to Shaanxi, he did a lot of good things for his hometown, and he also exempted Guanzhong from taxes for three years......

Zheng Shuang listened to Qin Shi Huang's babbling about a river beach, and he didn't understand whether he was in favor of Kou Zhun or pickling Kou Zhun; After being stunned, he looked at him and said, "Senior Qin, are you praising Kou Xiangye or belittling him?" ”

"There are both praise and disparagement!" Qin Shi Huang Zhenzhen said: "It is true that Kou Laoxi is a loyal minister, but he just loves to his tail; His uncle Zhao Wu lost a meal for him, he saved money for a few days, and did some good things for the people of Guanzhong, but after a few days, he made mistakes again! ”

After a pause, he swallowed his throat and said: "The marriage between Zhao Heng and Liu E is a real free love, and Kou Zhun actually blocked it; Play the role of a dog who aids in the abuse! ”

Zheng Shuang laughed loudly, pointed his finger at Qin Shi Huang and said: "Shibei should be impressed for three days, you have not been in vain in Qinling; It must be the little lover of later generations who came to visit the Terracotta Warriors and Horses who changed your conservative concept, if it weren't for Kou Xiangye, how could he be so angry! ”

"You. The eyed cub baby said very much! Qin Shi Huang hurt Zheng Shuang and said with a smile: "But Zheng Shuang's words also make sense, Lao Ying is indeed advancing with the times; It's not like Kou Laoxi dogs to bite carrots and gold doesn't change ......"

Qin Shi Huang's impassioned words revealed the unspeakable hidden in Kou Zhun's heart, and Kou Zhun really restrained a lot after being drunk by his uncle Zhao Wu that year.

But he soon kept the wine gourd from his body, eating, drinking and having fun, especially in the marriage of Zhao Heng and Liu E; Kou Zhun was as rigid as Mrs. Qin Guo.

Kou Zhun thinks that Liu E is a lowly woman who sells on the street, and she belongs to the demon fox to seduce the prince and a bad woman, and she can't be elegant; Taizong ordered Liu E to be driven out of the palace, and Kou Zhun was the most active and hard-working executor.

Kou Zhun is a famous minister, there is nothing to say, at the age of nineteen, he was a Jinshi, and he has been a big official in Kaifeng Yin, the prime minister, the privy envoy, and the jiedu envoy all his life, and he married a good family and married Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's sister-in-law is a relative of the emperor; Except for the last few years, when he was demoted, he was destitute, and there was no shortage of money at other times.

The officials of the Song Dynasty lived in luxury, and Kou Lian was one of them; He was very willing to show himself, so he lived a big life; Extravagance.

Kou Zhun spends money like flowing water, but his clothes are very bad, just like Qin Song of Guanzhong Thirteen Lang: "I haven't done anything to sell steamed buns since I was a child, don't look at my clothes are bad, and I have eight million in my waist; Eat and drink, let's be the same as the emperor! The goose in the sky and the goose on the earth, the goose eats the goose egg and the goose lays the goose! Let's go to the street to buy watches; You pay for me to wear a watch, and if you don't have a daughter-in-law, I'll find you ......"

In people's impressions, clean officials like Kou Zhun and Hai Rui must be clean and clean; Life is simple, but in fact, Kou Zhun's life is very extravagant.

Families in the Northern Song Dynasty generally lit oil lamps, and candles were a luxury; Kou Zhun's house never lights an oil lamp, and even places like toilets and kitchens are always lit with large candles.

In the dining hall where Zheng Shuang and his party were entertained for dinner, candles were all inserted on the walls around it.

Some of the candles are inserted directly into the wall, while others are hung in lanterns from roof beams and lampposts.

Kou Zhun's monthly salary is 360 yuan, and the consistent money in the first year of Jingde in the Song Dynasty is about 1,000 yuan in the 21st century; In other words, Kou Zhun's monthly salary is equivalent to 360,000 yuan, which is 4.32 million yuan a year; Coupled with the rewards and other income of the imperial court, Kou Zhun's annual income of 5 million yuan is a piece of cake.

Kou Zhun's prime minister's mansion had one or two hundred people, and the imperial court provided for 70 people; That is to say, the salaries of 70 family members or generals are paid by the imperial court, and the salaries of the rest of the servants are paid from Kou Zhun's salary.

5 million yuan to pay the servant's salary doesn't seem to be a problem, but Kou Zhun has money in his waist to drink, give words, and dance, and sometimes he is overstretched, and the prime minister's mansion is also leased.

Kou Zhun never spends money on drinking, listening to songs, and dancing, and he always looks like a beggar in his clothes......