Gathering of Storms (29)
The reason why Kou Zhun was degraded was to teach him a lesson and make him converge. In the entire court, Zhao Heng thought that it was more than enough to deter the ministers, but he was faintly afraid of this courtier. When there is nothing to do, it can be peaceful, and when there is something, under the guise of the greatest pretense of the great government of the world and the earth, he will pound you in your ear early in the morning, and he will not stop until he is interested, and he will not stop until he reaches his goal. But for this war, peace is what he expects, and what he is faintly worried about, the current Great Song Dynasty is planning a reform that has no predecessors and no one after it, and the court needs peace.
Zhao Heng didn't look at Kou Zhun, turned his back to him, and said coldly: "What you said lightly is light." Kou Zhun responded: "If Your Majesty doesn't kill the minister, the minister won't know what's wrong." Zhao Heng sneered twice and said, "Even if you have a great crime, do you dare to kill you?" Kou Zhun responded: "If the king wants the minister to die, the minister must die without turning a blind eye, and it is difficult to repay His Majesty's holy grace." That familiar feeling came again, Zhao Heng turned around, sighed, and said, "You get up." With less courtesy, I'm impatient. Kou Zhun accepted it when he saw it, and responded: "Your Majesty has mercy, and the ministers are grateful and thank the emperor." As he spoke, he bowed three times before getting up. Zhao Heng asked the guards to give him a seat, and said: "I had some scruples before, but now I finally know that I can't retreat, and only the Qing family can do it." Kou Zhun knelt down and replied, "The minister bows and thanks Your Majesty for his kindness." Zhao Heng nodded and said: "You don't want to pick your head, I know that you have a request, you and the lion open your mouth, I can give, try to give." Kou Zhun couldn't help kowtowing and shouting, "The minister is a capital crime, the minister is a capital crime." Zhao Heng's heart sank, this courtier who has committed many crimes always likes this trick, as the emperor, as the source of civilization in the Great Song Dynasty, he is a reasonable person, and this courtier has caught this, so he is an unreasonable person. If you are reasonable, you are not a king, and if you are unreasonable, you are not a minister, and you have each other's strengths and weaknesses. Zhao Heng was a little bored, and responded: "You can say what you want, I have my own measure." Kou Zhun replied: "The minister returned all the way north, and he thought about it." His Majesty has been given seven major crimes, so he is guilty of death. ”
Zhao Heng sneered a few times and said, "Do you still have fewer charges against me? Kou Zhun just kept kowtowing and responded: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty's sin, one is improper use, the second is improper use, and the third is far and near." The fourth is tangible and intangible, and the fifth is the heaviest sin, which is the wish of the emperor through the ages, and he is obsessed with the heart. Hearing this, Zhao Heng, who has always been gentle and elegant, suddenly tightened his heart, this is his last dignity as the emperor in front of this courtier. Although immortality is not achieved, it is true to prolong life, and it is true to be 100 years old. The king of a country. The king reigned over the world, looking at the tens of millions of subjects of the Great Song Dynasty. No one could get a Bodhi fruit for him, but he had to accumulate his friendship with the lord of the ancient time and moon of Hengshan in order to plot. No matter how sharp Kou Zhun's words were, he could endure even the so-called first few crimes, because it was a fact that the ministers were talking about. It's good that Kou Zhun is scruples about this when he is in phase. How could he endure this time when he met so sharply in just a few words? Even though he knew this person's loyalty, knew this person's talent, and knew this person's wisdom, he didn't save a trace of face for him. Directly reprimanding the Son of Heaven, where is the majesty of the Son of Heaven? Where is the program of the monarch and the ministers? However, after a moment of thought, in the entire court, only this person dares to say this, he is loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, and is not loyal to the monarch, if he is not the Son of Heaven, how will this courtier view him?
For the courtiers, Kou Zhun has achieved the simple but rare duty of the courtiers, in front of this courtier, he even has an uncontrollable fatigue, but he does not dare to take it lightly, perhaps it is the deep shame in his heart, the so-called Son of Heaven, the so-called Mandate of Heaven, everything in it, is nothing more than the person who created it, it is just a trick to deceive himself, and for this courtier, he can only be restrained as the emperor. He once asked Kou Zhun about his evaluation, but it was the eight characters of "more than enough to keep it, and it is difficult to open up", and Zhao Heng also recognized these eight characters, and the four words of more than one thing show that he is not bad as a son of heaven, and Zhao Heng is satisfied with this answer. In fact, there are many troubles, and it only takes one edict from him to kick this hateful courtier far away, but he wants to be a benevolent and holy king, and such a courtier is exactly what he needs. The former Tang Taizong had Wei Zheng to have the rule of Zhenguan, and now the Great Song Dynasty is doing what the three emperors and five emperors have never done, he has to be around such a courtier who dares to give direct advice and is not afraid of dragon scales, and he can't control him It's just that his authority of the Son of Heaven is not enough, which is a fact that he can't erase.
Zhao Heng held his breath and said gently: "Such a defeat, I, I don't know." Today, especially awake, it is not what Kou Qing can do. Kou Zhun said: "What the ministers want, the country is peaceful, and His Majesty's heart is still known to the ministers." However, the hidden dangers in the country have been hidden for a long time, and the future dynasty will be troubled, and the opening of the heavens in the eyes of His Majesty is secretly happy, but with His Majesty's wishes, how can a generation of imperial dynasties have a perfect prosperity? How can a generation of imperial dynasties have a thousand years of deeds? The ministers dare to ask Your Majesty, how many years can the Great Song Dynasty be? Yes, it is easy to fight the world, but it is difficult to govern the world, throughout history, a generation of dynasties is long, no matter how strong the Han and Tang dynasties are, only one faint monarch is needed, and the sky will fall, which is indelible, the truth imprinted by ancient history. Zhao Heng sighed slightly and said, "Say it." Kou Zhun said: "Your Majesty's prosperous life, the ministers do not refuse, but it is beyond the reach of Your Majesty. The turbulence of several roads in the south must be won by the emperor's grace to have the opportunity to calm down, which is for His Majesty's grand ceremony, that is, quickly and accurately, and Sheng, there is the emperor's grace and prestige, so as to determine the people's hearts. The minister thinks that no matter how determined His Majesty is, it is better to appreciate the situation in the world. Zhao Heng immediately understood when he heard this, and asked, "What is wrong with me?" Kou Zhun bowed to the ground and said, "Please ask Your Majesty to allow the ministers to figure out the details." Zhao Heng took a deep breath and let Kou Zhun get up, he didn't want to let him kneel for a long time, but knowing that he was moved by compassion, this hateful courtier took advantage of the situation, and his face was extremely thick.
On the imperial case, Kou Zhun wrote, the six characters of the dynasty, martial arts, and the people, and three ways before and after. Kou Zhun said respectfully: "With the minister's strategy, Your Majesty will not be able to do it." Zhao Heng responded: "Of course, the change of dynasty, the so-called martial arts, the so-called people are under it. Kou Zhun immediately said: "This is exactly what Your Majesty can't reach." Zhao Hengyin was displeased, and responded: "Speak." Kou Zhun responded: "Among the three, this is the only one, Your Majesty chose the dynasty, which is not enough." Whether it is the dynasty, or the martial arts, or the people, although the identities are very different, they all have one thing in common, since ancient times, the three parties are eternal, and they are equal. The fear of the dynasty should be for the people, the people should be afraid of the martial arts, and the fear of the martial arts should be the dynasty. "Zhao Heng was already angry, but he finally endured it, how could the Ninety-Five Venerable have been with the people? But he is a reasonable emperor, as long as you have a reason to convince him, he can accept it. Isn't what Kou Zhun said the truth? What Wulin said is good is martial arts, and what is not good is Hey Dao, killing people and setting fires, doing all kinds of evil, even if it is chivalry, it is forbidden to use martial arts. However, the three are interlocking, but it is a fact that has never changed for thousands of years, the dynasty is not benevolent, the people are not benevolent, the people are not benevolent, the martial arts are not benevolent, the dynasty is not benevolent, this is a pattern that has not changed since ancient times, even in the future. There is always rebellion in a dynasty, there is always killing in a martial arts, there is always a death in the common people, the supremacy of survival in the imperial dynasty, the martial arts has the ability to overthrow the dynasty by force, the existence of the three is parallel, Kou Zhun let him understand the truth that can be seen outside the radius.
Zhao Heng asked: "Do you think that if you continue to fight, it will be a tie after all?" Kou Zhunyu said: "It must be a tie." Zhao Heng said angrily: "Are the tens of millions of Li people in the Great Song Dynasty still afraid of the millions of people in the martial arts?" Kou Zhunyu said: "It is not a contest of manpower, but the destiny of their own existence." Zhao Heng flicked his sleeves angrily and said: "The inner troubles, I will plant them, even if it is difficult to break their roots, it will also make it difficult for them to improve in the final Song Dynasty, and the great cause of the thousand years will never be blocked." Kou Zhun said: "Your Majesty is deep in the palace, which is not conducive to the outside. As His Majesty can see, thousands of dawn people dare not obey, but teach and martial arts, the ministers use the imperial inner class, and the upper and lower Luomen face nearly 200 masters of martial arts, and the persecuted killing atmosphere, the foolish ministers are trembling. If you don't see it, you can't see it, in the martial arts, there is still a difference between high and low killing, when it is not fame and fortune, it is also elegant. Zhao Heng couldn't hold back his anger and shouted coldly: "Killing can be called an elegant state? Kou Zhun said: "Benevolence and virtue are above all else in the eyes of His Majesty, while martial arts are the opposite. Your Majesty's idea of "seeing the beautiful and rejecting the ugly" is nothing but self-deception. As the old saying goes, only by knowing oneself and knowing oneself can one not be defeated in a hundred battles, Your Majesty does not know his enemy, how can this battle be fought?" Zhao Heng calmed down and said in a cold voice: "These I know that I only need you to win this war, not that you teach me a lesson here." Kou Zhunyu said: "What the foolish minister has seen, dare to ask Your Majesty, how many years has the Immortal Sect been? How many years has the Immortal Sect been? How many years has the Medicine Sect been? How many years has the Instrument Sect been Emperor Taizu, Emperor Taizong founded the Four Gates not to compete with martial arts, but to protect the peace of the world and the stability of the royal family. Since His Majesty ascended the throne, the four gates have been vast and powerful, and the intricacies of them are not taught by manpower, so the ministers have always advocated reducing the number of people. ”
Zhao Heng was already a little impatient, and asked in a cold voice: "I only ask one word, should you or shouldn't?" Kou Zhun sighed secretly, unable to hide his disappointment, knowing that His Majesty has had the heart to compete with martial arts since the vast four gates, which is irreversible. As a courtier, this is beyond his grasp, so he has to respond: "The minister has received the grace of His Majesty, and he will share the worries of the country and will not give up." Zhao Heng nodded and responded: "This is what I need, although the south gate is down, the literary system is still there, it can still be used, the east gate is built, and the current is an opportunity to serve the country, everything is measured by me, you get up." Kou Zhun knew what he meant as soon as he heard it, and he rose up with gratitude, and responded: "The minister is going south, but I don't know how His Majesty will send it?" Zhao Heng said in a deep voice: "He Jin was captured, Dao Zu was killed, Mr. Hu, Lin Bin, and Bu Ting were all killed in battle, although these people lived up to my expectations, they were all loyal and commendable, and I will not abandon them." You don't have to worry about this matter, I will wait for you to return victoriously, and then enter the Zhongshu to assist me. (Want to know more exciting news about "The Legend of the Immortals"?Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right, select Add Friends to add the official account, search for "Qidianzhongwenwang", pay attention to the official account, and never miss every update!......)