CCTV once aired an advertisement with a total of four scenes, namely:

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Thank you! It's a little bit of a trivial. (handing out red envelopes)

You're hurting me!

Well, the patient is finally out of danger.

Thank you! It's a little bit of a trivial. (handing out red envelopes)

You're insulting me!

Your approval procedures are all done.

Thank you! (handing out red envelopes)

You're defying me!

Congratulations! Passed the exam.

Thank you! That's a little bit of a meaning. (handing out red envelopes)

Please respect me.

As the victor, Guo Chongtao just arrived in Bianliang and Luoyang, and there was an endless stream of people who came to visit and give gifts, Guo Chongtao did not refuse, and he made a lot of money in a few days, and his cronies persuaded him, Guo Chongtao just said lightly: "I am a general, and I have countless fortunes, how can I need to loot foreign wealth?"

It's just that at the end of the Liang Dynasty, bribery became a common practice, and now the officials of the feudal towns south of the Yellow River are all former ministers of the Liang Dynasty, and the emperor's former enemies, if they reject them, can they not worry about it in their hearts?

I kept these things in my house for the sake of the country. "Accepting bribes for the sake of the country, if the current officials say this, you will definitely scoff at it: hum, liars, nonsense, corrupt officials. But Guo Chongtao thinks so, and he does so.

When Li Cunqiao sacrificed to the sky in the southern suburbs, Guo Chongtao took the lead in contributing 100,000 yuan of money to comfort the army.

Previously, the eunuchs had suggested that Li Cunqiao divide the country's wealth into internal and external governments, and the state and county taxes should be handed over to the foreign government to serve as government funds; Fang Zhen's contribution was hidden in the inner house. for the Emperor to play.

As a result, the cost of the foreign government is often stretched. And the wealth of the inner government is piled up.

By the time the relevant departments were preparing for the outskirts, there was a lack of money to comfort the army. Guo Chongtao said to Li Cunqiao: "I have taken out all my family property to fund the suburban ceremony, and I hope that Your Majesty will also take out some money from the inner government to help the relevant departments." ”

Li Cunmiao, Shanxi Jiumaojiu, was silent for a long time before saying: "I have my own savings in Jinyang, and I can let the tenant use the car to pull some points to come over to fund." So he sent someone to take hundreds of thousands of gold silks from Li Jitao's residence and send them to the competent authorities. The soldiers were not satisfied with this, became resentful, and had thoughts of defection.

Guo Chongtao is conscientious and often dares to speak outly about Li Cunqiao's wrongdoings. Li Cunmiao couldn't stand the humid and hot climate in midsummer, so he chose a high and cool place in the palace to escape the heat, but it was still unbearable and not very satisfied.

The eunuchs therefore said to him: "I remember Chang'an in its heyday. There are hundreds of tall buildings such as Daming and Xingqing.

Now there is no place to escape the summer in the saint, and the magnificence of the palace is not as good as the residences of the ministers at that time. ”

Li Cunmiao's self-esteem was frustrated, so he ordered Yingyuan to make Wang Yunping build another building to give him a summer retreat. The eunuchs said: "Guo Chongtao is often worried, because Kong Qian always said that the cost is insufficient, I am afraid that His Majesty's palace will not be built in the end." ”

Li Cunmiao said: "I used the money of the inner government to build it myself, and it has nothing to do with the funds managed by the tenants. ”

However, Li Cunmiao was still worried that Guo Chongtao would contradict him, so he sent an envoy to convey his will to Guo Chongtao, saying: "This year's summer is abnormal, and I used to confront the Liang army on the edge of the Yellow River. The barracks were low and damp, and I often rode on horseback in armor to defend myself against the arrows, and I didn't feel so hot. Now living in the palace, it is difficult to survive this summer day. What should I do? ”

Guo Chongtao said without thinking: "When Your Majesty was by the Yellow River in the past, the strong enemy had not been eliminated, and every day he thought about washing away the shame and killing the enemy to take revenge. It was a scorching heat, but you didn't care too much.

Now the troubles from the outside have been removed. The princes of the country have all surrendered, so although there are precious high platforms and idle pavilions. Still feeling stuffy.

If Your Majesty had not forgotten the difficult days, then the heat would have disappeared naturally. At this time, the eunuchs said: "Guo Chongtao's mansion is no different from the imperial palace, so he does not understand the summer heat of the saint." ”

Under the repeated bewitchment of the eunuchs, Li Cunqiao finally ordered Wang Yunping to build a pavilion. As many as 10,000 workers participate in the construction every day, and the money consumed is very huge.

Guo Chongtao advised Li Cunmiao: "This year, the two rivers are dry, and the army is short of supplies, so I hope that we can stop the construction and start construction again when the harvest is in the coming year." Guo Chongtao knew about it, and said: "The palace is building a lot of buildings, wasting property, and there are disasters in some places, and the people can't eat enough, so the ministers beg to stop building." Li Cunmiao still didn't listen.

Although Guo Chongtao is loyal, shrewd and capable, he also has flaws, and his flaw is that he likes to seize power.

In order to completely control the Privy Council, he asked a eunuch Zhang Juhan, who was younger than him, to serve as a privy envoy with him, and let his former boss Li Shaohong be the Xuanhui envoy, which made Li Shaohong quite dissatisfied, so he gathered other eunuchs to attack him, Guo Chongtao gradually made a lot of enemies and became the target of public criticism.

He was also well aware of the situation he found himself in, so he said to his sons: "I have assisted Your Majesty, and I have offended many people, and I have often been falsely accused and framed by them. ”

The sons held the opposite opinion, saying: "The adult's fame has reached this point, once it has no power, it is equivalent to the dragon leaving the sea, and it will be controlled by ants, so the adult should consider other methods." ”

At first, Li Cunqiao wanted to make the Liu family the queen, but at that time, Mrs. Han was the main room, and Mrs. Yi was above the Liu family, so she felt very embarrassed. At this time, a subordinate offered advice to Guo Chongtao: "Now that you have made great achievements in the world, although there are villains framing you, you can't separate the relationship between you and Your Majesty."

For the sake of today's plan, you should resign from your official position, and Your Majesty will definitely not allow it, so that the mouth of the villain will be blocked, and you will no longer be greedy for power. Then, take advantage of the queen's unestablished opportunity to set up the Liu family as the queen, and cater to Your Majesty's heart, when the time comes, not only Your Majesty will be happy, but the Liu family will also be grateful to you, so that there is Liu's support inside, and Your Majesty is the master outside, who dares to do anything to you? ”

Mrs. Liu here is a native of Weizhou, and when she was five or six years old, Li Keyong attacked Weizhou. plundered Cheng'an, and the deputy general Yuan Jianfeng got the Liu family. Sent her to the palace of the King of Jin, Li Keyong's wife Cao taught her to play the sheng song and dance.

Growing up, Liu was very beautiful. Li Cunqiao likes her very much. In 908, Li Keyong died, Li Cunmiao succeeded to the throne, his mother Cao went to his palace to walk around, Li Cunmiao put wine for his life, personally danced, Cao was very happy, let Liu play the sheng to help the wine.

After the banquet, the Cao family gave Liu to Li Cunmiao. Afterward. Liu gave birth to a son, Li Jiqi, Li Cunqiao thought that Li Jiqi was very similar to himself, and his mother was more expensive than his son.

Liu's father, Liu Su, heard that his daughter was rich and noble, so he went to the Wei Palace to ask for a meeting. Li Cunqiao summoned Yuan Jianfeng to inquire, and Yuan Jianfeng said: "The minister first got the Liu family in Cheng'an Beiwu, and there was an old man with a yellow beard to protect her at that time. ”

Li Cunqiao asked Liu Sue to meet with Yuan Jianfeng, and Yuan Jianfeng said, "It's him." At that time, the Liu family was competing with the ladies for favor. He was furious and said, "When I left my hometown, I have a slight memory of my father's tragic death in the chaos. I was weeping around the corpse. How could this farmer come here? So he ordered him to be thrown out.

After Guo Chongtao heard this, he agreed very much and acted according to the plan. He insisted on three occasions to resign from the post of Privy Councillor. Li Cunmiao tried his best to comfort him every time, but did not agree.

See that the first step was successful. Guo Chongtao immediately performed the second step and played Li Cunqiao secretly. Please make Liu the queen, and resolutely resign from the position of the festival envoy he held concurrently, this time Li Cunqiao happily agreed.

Said a long, long time ago...... Anyway, when there was no train between Shaanxi and Shanxi, Shaanxi and Shanxi were separated by a Yellow River, which was called Tongguan on the Shaanxi side and Fenglingdu on the Shanxi side.

The boat arrived at this side of Shaanxi, because it was a cliff, and the guests on the shore of the boat got off the boat and climbed along the path on the cliff.

The boat to the Shanxi side, because there is more than a mile wide Yellow River shoal, the boat can not dock, the guests can not go ashore, I don't know what fashionable rules, there is a "packer" business, that is, the passengers who are parked in the water on the boat, wading through this more than the road of yellow mud soup back to the shore, the official price is 1 yuan.

It is said that on a certain day in a certain year, a guest from Shanxi, who made a fortune doing business in Shaanxi, wanted to go home, took a ferry boat in Tongguan, and arrived at the shallows of the Yellow River in Fenglingdu, Shanxi, and could not move forward, so he had to stop and let the "packer" who came to do the business of carrying people.

A guest from Shanxi asked the "packer": "How much does it cost to carry it?" ”

The packer replied: "Fellow, the official price is 1 yuan." ”

"Missed in five cents?"

"Five cents is missing, the official price is 1 yuan, do you carry it? If you don't carry me, you'll leave, don't hang around here! I'm standing in the water of the Yellow River. ”

When the Shanxi guests saw that they were all carrying their backs, they had to let the packers carry them and go to the shore. The packer waded through the Yellow River, and the Shanxi guests thought on his back: "He said that 1 yuan is 1 yuan?" It's all up to him? …… Can't you be a dime cheaper? ......" said, "1 yuan is too expensive, it's still 5 cents." ”

The packer said hatefully: "1 yuan! ”

"6 cents."

"1 buck!"

"Seven cents."

"1 buck!"

"8 cents."

"1 piece!"

"9 cents."

"1 piece!"

"9 Mao 1."

"1 piece!"

"9 Mao 2."

"1 piece!"

"9 Mao 3."

"1 piece!"

has been talking about 9 Mao 9, Shanxi guests thought: This point can't be let no matter what, and if you let it go again, it will become 1 yuan again? He shouted: "9 Mao 9!" ”

"1 piece!"

"9 Mao 9!"

"1 piece!"

"9 Mao 9!"

"1 piece!"

"9 Mao 9!"

Seeing that the shore is not far away, the Shanxi guests insist on 9 cents and 9 not to give the price, and they have to take advantage of this 1 penny, and they will not give up if they do not take advantage of this 1 penny. The packer not only carried people, but also spent a lot of tongues at this moment, and the belly was on fire, thinking about it, he suddenly became angry and screamed, like a thunderbolt in the sky: "Call you 9 Mao 9!" "Threw the Shanxi guest on his back into the Yellow River......

Since then, this Shanxi guest has won the glorious nickname of 9 Mao 9 for Shanxi...... This is the origin of Shanxi 9 Mao 9.

On April 15, 924 (the second year of Tongguang), Li Cunqiao sent an envoy to canonize Liu as the queen in the Civilization Palace.

Liu accepted the canonization and rode a float decorated with pheasant feathers to the temple to worship the Taimiao. Mrs. Han and others were indignant, so they named Han as a concubine and Yi as a concubine.

After that, Liu entered the harem and became the lord of the middle palace. Empress Liu likes to gather, and assigns everyone to act as merchants, selling firewood, grass and fruits in the market, just like a few days ago a hot pot restaurant in Chengdu sells the prime minister's package, and the steamed bun shop in Tianjin sells the chairman's package, Queen Liu also said that this is sold by the middle palace and used by the royal family, so she made a windfall.

The contribution of the Quartet must be divided into two parts, one goes to the Son of Heaven and the other enters the Middle Palace, and the bribed goods in the palace are piled up.

On the sixth day of December in 924 (the second year of Tongguang), Empress Liu and Li Cunmiao went to Zhang Quanyi's house, and when the wine was hot, Empress Liu asked Li Cunmiao to say that she had lost her parents since she was a child, and when she saw the old man, she remembered her parents, and now when she saw Zhang Quanyi, she remembered her father, so she asked to recognize Zhang Quanyi as her father, and Li Cunmiao agreed to her request

Zhang Quanyi was panicked and repeatedly refused. Empress Liu insisted again and again, but Zhang Quanyi had no choice but to accept her salute. The next day, Empress Liu ordered Zhao Feng, a scholar of Hanlin, to write a letter to thank Zhang Quanyi, and Zhao Feng's secretary Li Cunqiao said that since ancient times, there has been no queen who is the mother of the world to worship the minister as a father. Li Cunmiao praised him for his uprightness, but in the end he did what Empress Liu wanted. Since then, Empress Liu and Zhang Quanyi have sent envoys to greet and give gifts every day, and they have never stopped. Li Cunmiao has a love concubine, who is very beautiful but has not yet given birth to a son to Li Cunmiao, and Queen Liu is very worried. One day, Li Cunmiao was resting in the palace, Yuan Xingqin was serving on the side, Li Cunmiao said: "You just died of your wife, do you want to marry again?" I'll find one for you

Empress Liu pointed to Ai Ji and asked, "The emperor pities Yuan Xingqin, why didn't he give him this woman?" Li Cunqiao had no choice but to pretend to agree. Empress Liu hurriedly took advantage of the situation to urge Yuan Xingqin to bow and thank him, and Yuan Xingqin said goodbye, and then took Ai Ji out of the palace in a sedan chair. Li Cunmiao was depressed about this, and did not eat or drink for several days.

The official also pretended to resign, and the Liu family was also established as the queen, and everything went according to plan, but the only thing that remained unchanged was that Guo Chongtao was slandered and framed by the eunuchs as always. At that time, Luo Guan was appreciated by Guo Chongtao because of his upright temperament, and he was appointed as the county magistrate of Henan.

During his tenure, he was upright and upright, and never avoided those high-ranking officials and nobles in handling political affairs, and the letters of the eunuchs asking for entrusted affairs were piled up on the table, and he did not respond to any of them, and showed them to Guo Chongtao, Guo Chongtao played these things to Li Cunxuan, so the eunuchs hated Luo Guan to the core.

Zhang Quanyi hated Luo Guan very much, and sent someone to tell the Liu family, and the queen and the eunuchs slandered Luo Guan together, and Li Cunqiao was very angry when he heard it. At this time, Li Cunmiao personally went to Shou'an to inspect the construction progress of Kunling, and the roads he went to were muddy and many bridges were destroyed. Li Cunmiao asked who the official in charge was, and the eunuchs said that it was Luo Guan, the commander of Henan County. When Li Cunmiao heard this, he became even more angry, so he ordered Luo Guan to be arrested and put in prison. (To be continued......)