Kou Ji whispered with red eyes.
Zhao Zhen's face was full of tears, but there was no word, but she quietly looked at Queen Mother Li who was sleeping on the dirty bed.
Behind them, the eunuch and Gong E knelt on the ground.
Zhao Zhen did not dare to disturb the Queen Mother Li, as did Kou Ji.
Kou Ji waved to the eunuch and Gong E behind him.
The eunuch and Gong'e hesitated, and after hesitating again and again, they withdrew from the cold palace.
In the cold palace, Kou Ji, Zhao Zhen and the Queen Mother Li who were already asleep were left in the end.
Zhao Zhen suddenly retracted his gaze toward the Queen Mother Li, and glanced at Kou Ji.
Kou Ji was taken aback, sighed inwardly, arched his hands, and withdrew from the cold palace.
After leaving the door of the cold palace, I saw Empress Cao and the prince Zhao Run hurriedly rushing to the door of the cold palace.
Concubine Zhang Gui, Concubine Zhang Xian, Concubine He De, and Concubine Zhou Shu also rushed here one after another with the palace.
Kou Ji stopped them.
"The official family wants to be alone with the empress dowager for a while."
When the Queen Cao and others heard this, their faces were full of deep worries, and they did not embarrass Kou Ji based on their status.
Empress Cao asked worriedly: "How is the Queen Mother?"
Kou Ji glanced back at the cold palace behind him, and said bluntly: "The minister dare not assert. The official doesn't let anyone in at the moment, just a few dignitaries stay here.
It is best to call an imperial doctor to wait here.
After dawn, the officials may summon them. "
Empress Cao solemnly nodded and said: "The palace immediately sent people to call the imperial doctor."
Kou Ji arched his hands and said: "There is Lao Niang Niang here. The minister is going to see the Manchu civil and military at the Chuigong Hall. It is not suitable for officials to go to court today. The minister will go and talk to the Manchu civil and military.
Empress Cao nodded and said, "Then there will be Lao Kouqing's house."
"Don't dare..."
Kou Ji handed over again and left the cold palace.
Kou Ji sighed long after walking all the way out of the place where Leng Palace was.
Although Kou Ji didn't understand medical skills, he could still feel that Queen Mother Li's life had come to an end.
Human life is like an oil lamp. When Empress Dowager Li was in Lenggong in her early years, she had already used up the oil in the lamp.
After coming out of the cold palace, I have enjoyed the blessing for almost 20 years, and I have already earned it.
Lived more than ten years longer than in the history books.
The only pity is that after she went.
No one in the world will selflessly cherish Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhen has been in a royal family that lacks family affection since childhood, and every family affection is extremely precious to him.
For every point missing, he will be lonely.
"An ordinary woman, an ordinary woman from a humble background... and a selfless mother..."
When Kou Ji left the position of Leng Gong, he gave the Queen Mother Li a very pertinent evaluation.
In terms of tactics, methods, talent, appearance, etc., Queen Mother Li is undoubtedly an ordinary person.
In the land of tigers and wolves, the imperial palace, people like her caught a lot of them.
She can live till now, not because people in the palace pity her.
But she made two choices right.
The first is that she followed a strong enough noble person, that is, Liu E.
The second is that she obediently handed over her son to Liu E at the most critical moment.
It is precisely because of this that she can survive.
If it weren't for this, she would have become the fertilizer of the imperial garden a long time ago.
So Kou Ji commented on her as an ordinary person.
But her selfless and pure maternal love is unforgettable for a long time.
After Kou Ji left the Cold Palace, he went straight to the Chuigong Hall.
When it came to the Chuigong Hall, the Manchu dynasty civil and military had gathered in the Chuigong Hall.
Seeing Kou Ji appear, they all saluteed together.
Kou Ji stood in the middle of the hanging arch hall, and said lightly: "The Queen Mother is in a hug, and the official family must be filial to the Queen Mother. So she quit for a day.
If you have any important political affairs, just pass the memo to the chamber.
I will deal with it later. "
After hearing the words of Manchu civil and military warriors, you look at me, and I look at you.
After a while.
Fan Zhongyan arched his hands and asked, "Can the officials and others know the details?"
Kou Ji shook his head, "No!"
Fan Zhongyan closed his mouth, and no one of the other civil and military ministers spoke again.
Kou Ji tossed his sleeves, "Let's loose it."
"Hey..."
The Manchu civil and military replied, and left the Chuggong Hall in twos and threes.
Only Yang Wenguang, Fan Zhongyan, and Ouyang Xiu were left behind.
When the Manchu dynasty was about to leave for civil and military affairs, Fan Zhongyan stepped forward and said in a deep voice, "What is the body of the Queen Mother?"
Kou Ji sighed and said, "The imperial doctor said that there is no doctor for medicine stones."
Fan Zhongyan's expressions suddenly changed.
Kou Ji continued: "No matter what the Queen Mother’s body is, the officials probably have no intention of ruling. The ruling will be handled by the three of you for the time being.
Government affairs that cannot be handled will be sent to the Senate. I will sit in the Senate in the next few days. "
Fan Zhongyan nodded and said nothing.
The three of them arched their hands towards Kou Ji and left the Chui Gong Hall.
Kou Ji only revealed to them a little bit, but didn't mean to tell them the details, and they were not easy to follow up.
After the three left the Chuigong Hall, Kou Ji also left the Chuigong Hall.
Kou Ji returned to the Leng Palace again, and saw that only Empress Cao, Concubine Zhang Guifei, Concubine Zhang Xian, Concubine He De, and Concubine Zhou Shu were left at the entrance of the Palace.
After Kou Ji stepped forward to give a salute, before they waited for them to speak, he took the lead and said: "The Manchu dynasty's civil and military ministers have made arrangements."
Empress Cao nodded and said, "There is Lao Kouqing's house."
Kou Ji glanced at the cold palace and asked, "What's the situation inside?"
Empress Cao sighed and said: "The official family came out and let the imperial doctor in. Let the others go back, leaving only our five sisters."
Kou Ji nodded slightly when he heard this.
Facing Concubine Zhang Xian, he arched his hands, "The next official has something to ask the concubine and the concubine.
Concubine Zhang Xian was taken aback for a moment and nodded.
Concubine Zhang frowned slightly.
Kou Ji took Concubine Zhang Xian to a short distance from the entrance of the Leng Palace, and after another hand, he asked: "Concubine Xian remembers a person named Zhang Bing?"
Concubine Zhang Xian said softly: "My husband doesn't need to be so polite..."
Kou Ji sternly said: "The courtesy can't be abandoned."
Concubine Zhang Xian gave a wry smile, and said: "This person Zhang Bing, this palace remembers. Fang Meiren's old acquaintance, with Fang Meiren's relationship, climbed up to the palace, I beg my palace to give him a hint.
My palace didn't want to talk to him, but he prepared a generous gift and sent it to my family's family.
My uncle accepted the gift.
My palace couldn't order my uncle to return the gift, so I could only help him up. "
Kou Ji said with a look of emotion: "With this kind of praise, there will be a fourth-rank official in the court. The fourth-rank official in Bianjing City can already be regarded as a high-ranking official."
The smile on Concubine Zhang Xianfei’s face was even more bitter, "He can serve as a head of the military department, but it has nothing to do with the palace. It is the protégés of the in-laws, who can’t understand the pedantic veterans in the court, and the promotion of Lu Yijian. The person who came up, so he was placed in the position of the main department of the military department.
Although he is not talented, he is also your protégé.
It is inevitable that your disciples take care of each other. "
Kou Ji was taken aback for a moment, and said in amazement, "Zhang Bingneng became a head of the military department. Is it my reason?"
Concubine Zhang Xian nodded and said, "Otherwise, how do you think that a civil servant with no background can get into the circle of military ministers? Even if he previously served as a military supervisor in the local army, after returning to Bianjing, can he enter the Privy Council? It's not that he has the final say.
It's not even the civil servants in the court who have the final say.
It doesn't matter if I say it.
Then Yang Wenguang, the affairs of the Privy Council's compound, said it.
Yang Wenguang saw that he was your protégé, so he opened one eye and closed the other and let him into the Privy Council. "
Kou Ji thoughtfully said: "In this way, Zhang Bingneng's official rank 4 is actually because of me?"
Concubine Zhang Xian nodded and chuckled softly: "Your protégés are all over the court, and those who come out of yours enter the court as officials. Who dares not give face
Kou Ji said solemnly: "This is not a good thing."
Concubine Zhang Xian smiled indifferently: "In-law, Weng will leave Beijing soon. After you leave Beijing, naturally no one will be promoted under your banner."
Kou Ji shook his head and said, "This matter is set aside for now. Concubine Xian, how did Zhang Bing pass the news into the palace?"
Concubine Zhang Xian was taken aback and looked at Kou Ji in amazement.
Kou Ji bluntly said: "The fact that willow bark can treat fever was discovered in the big food books. Except for the officials involved in translating the big food books, no one else knew about it.
And Zhang Bing happened to be one of the officials who translated Da Shi books with me back then.
Fang Meiren's use of willow bark to treat fever must have been directed by Zhang Bing. "
Concubine Zhang Xian took a deep look at Kou Ji and whispered: "In-law Weng suspects this palace?"
Kou Ji didn't hide it, and said frankly: "Fang Meiren's death is full of doubts behind it. Once Fang Meiren's things are done, the ones who benefit the most will be the imperial concubine, the concubine, and the concubine Shu.
Until the matter is clear, the minister will doubt it. "
Concubine Zhang Xian sighed and said, "Among the three you mentioned, there is no this palace. Now when you inquire about this palace in private, you clearly suspect it."
Kou Ji smiled calmly: "Isn't the concubine and the concubine the same?"
Concubine Zhang Xian gave a wry smile.
"Fine, this palace is not only one with my sister, but also one with you Kou. After all, if this palace commits any heinous crime, you Kou will not escape punishment.
You are forgiven for staring at Hongu and Sister Hongu. "
Kou Ji smiled and asked: "So does the empress know how Zhang Bing and Fang Meiren pass the news?"
Concubine Zhang Xian glanced at Kou Ji, "Didn't you have found Tiewenxiong? Zhang Bing can't walk in the palace, but Tiewenxiong, as the prince's gentleman, can walk in the palace.
It is naturally easy to pass the news to them. "
Kou Ji raised his brows, and he didn't expect that Tiewenxiong, who committed suicide, did so many things behind his back.
Kou Ji smiled and asked, "Do you know who belongs to Tiewenxiong?"
Concubine Zhang Xian shook her head and smiled: "Anyway, it's not from my palace and my sister."
Kou Ji handed over.
Concubine Zhang Xian smiled indifferently: "In-law, Weng is polite."
Kou Ji sent Concubine Zhang Xian to the door of the Leng Palace, and asked Concubine Zhou Shu to talk aside.
Concubine Zhou Shu went to the side with Kou Ji, and before Kou Ji could speak, she bluntly said: "This palace knows that you have found Fang Zhong. Fang Zhong has nothing to do with this palace.
He is Fang Meiren's cousin.
Fang Meiren begged to the head of the palace. Seeing that she was pitiful, the palace didn't decline, so she let people help Fang Zhong. "
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, and said in deep thought: "The next official found out that Fang Meiren helped Fang Zhong get promoted, mainly to help her younger brothers solve their problems.
Before Fang Zhong appeared, Fang Meiren had asked the nobles to help her brother solve the trouble.
Youdao means nothing to bother the two masters.
She helped Fang Meiren’s brothers to solve the trouble before, so I’m afraid it was Concubine Shu. "
Concubine Zhou Shu said indifferently: "The official said that the harem must not be involved in politics. So this palace is not capable of that. All the affairs are entrusted by the palace to Lv Aiqing.
Kou Qing has something to do, so he goes directly to Lu Aiqing, he knows the whole story better than my palace. "
Kou Ji stared at Concubine Zhou Shu and said: "For some trivial matters, you don't need to go to Qingtang to find Lu Yijian. The minister doesn't care how Lu Yijian helps Fang Meiren's brothers solve the trouble.
The minister just thinks that Concubine Shu has helped Fang Meiren so much, she is a great kindness to Fang Meiren.
If Concubine Shu wants to ask Fang Meiren to do something, Fang Meiren will not refuse, right? "
Concubine Zhou Shu stared and shouted: "Do you suspect that my palace instructed Fang Meiren to frame the prince?"
Kou Ji stared at Concubine Zhou Shu without a word.
Concubine Zhou Shu snorted coldly and scolded: "Why would this palace be so stupid to use the reputation of the women in the palace to frame the prince? If this matter is really settled, this palace will be criticized by the people."
Kou Ji said indifferently: "You said this, Niang Niang, but the minister didn't say it."
Concubine Zhou Shu gave Kou Ji a vicious look.
Kou Ji continued: "I wonder if the empress can know Tiewenxiong?"
Concubine Zhou Shu glared at Kou Ji again, and said angrily: "Yes, Sister De concubine's guest. She often goes to Sister De Concubine's palace to explain some obscure things in Taoism to Sister De Concubine.
I've been to this palace once or twice.
Every time I get confused. "
Kou Ji nodded, and said to Concubine Zhou Shu: "I have a lady."
"Humph!"
Concubine Zhou Shu snorted and left with her sleeves.
Kou Ji returned to the door of the Cold Palace and invited Fei He De to leave again.
He Defei was quiet and elegant, and after walking aside with Kou Ji, her expression was indifferent.
After Kou Ji bowed his hand to the salute, he asked, "Does Concubine De concubine know Tiewenxiong?"
He Defei did not answer Kou Ji's question, but said indifferently: "Kou Qing's family is really hard-hearted."
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, with a look of confusion.
Seeing this, Concubine He De faintly said, "Does Kou Qing's family think this palace is a beauty?"
Kou Ji bluntly said: "The name of the empress moves the capital, and she is known as a fairy who descends to the earth. How can she not be regarded as a beauty?"
He Defei sighed and asked, "Then Kou Qing's family doesn't like beauties?"
Kou Ji frowned and said: "What do you mean by Niang Niang?"
Consort He Defei shook her head and said, "That stupid sister in this palace, who looks like an alluring city, and she is infatuated with you. Why did you keep her out of the door?"
Kou Ji didn't expect that Concubine He Dee still cares about this to this day.
Kou Ji said neither salty nor light: "Weak water is three thousand, and the minister only takes one scoop."
Concubine He De sneered: "Kou Qing's family wants to say that she is a lover?"
Kou Ji shook his head decisively, "The minister didn't mean that."
Concubine He De coldly said: "When you run into a hard-hearted person like you, the poor sister in this palace may be alone for a lifetime."
Speaking of this, Fei He Defei stared at Kou Ji and asked: "Back then, the Kou Qing family shouted and screamed at the Dao Sect. There were as many as tens of thousands of Taoists who died directly and indirectly in the hands of Kou Qing's family.
Today, the Taoist temple in the world has ten rooms and nine empty spaces.
The idol inside has also become a place for beasts to live and live.
Nowadays the imperial court's payment is reduced three times a year.
Now only a few of the ancestral courts still have incense, and the rest is empty.
Is Kou Qing's family planning to punish the Dao Sect? "
Kou Ji frowned, "The minister does not mean to punish the Daomen. I have read many classics of the Daomen. It can be said that it has benefited a lot."
Concubine He Defei stared and asked, "Even so, why does the Dao Sect fall apart in the hands of the Qing family?"
Kou Ji said unceremoniously: "The minister is not the sect, what the sect is the selfishness of the disciples. If the sect is a person who seeks the way or does good deeds, not only will the minister not hurt them, but will help them. .
But in addition to some hermits and great sages, and the real great sages, the rest is not only a few mediocre people, but also greedy people.
Seeking officials and nobility, with the intention of using theocratic power to influence the emperor's power, his heart is punishable.
I don’t care about production, and I don’t know how to treat people kindly.
Make money and kill, do everything.
Occupy people's land, privately put money in prints, and defraud the people of money with all kinds of so-called panacea and magic talismans.
It seems to have become a big cancer of the Song Dynasty, and it is impossible to get rid of it. "
He Defei gritted her teeth and said: "I am a member of the door, I don't know how many good deeds I have done..."
Kou Ji sneered: "The good deeds done by three or two people can offset the evil deeds done by a large group of people? That's what you said.
In my eyes, there are rewards and punishments.
Never generalize. "
He Defei gritted her teeth and said with a sneer: "The reason why you are targeting my Dao Sect is only because my Dao Sect has won the favor of the first emperor.
You are targeting my Dao Sect to make money for the officials.
Don't take yourself so noble. "
Kou Jile said, "So you don't have to produce, you just moved your lips, or made some deceptive things to fool the people, took the fertile land from the people, and let the people plant it by themselves.
In the end, the bargain is taken care of, and the people who hurt the people sell their sons and daughters, but are you justified
You occupy the world's tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, and do not pay taxes to the court, forcing the court to squeeze the people.
Are you more reasonable
The gods you believe in teach you to do good deeds like this? Is it for you to practice like this
There are similar words in those Taoist scriptures. Tell me, I will go and read it? "
He Defei was speechless by Kou Jizha.
She stared at Kou Ji for a long time, and snorted coldly: "Our Dao Sect does not pay taxes. That is the grace of the emperor. Taizu and Taizong also allowed me to occupy a mountain and river.
Do you think Taizu, Taizong, and Xiandi did something wrong? "
Kou Ji shook his head and said: "You don't have to use Taizu, Taizong, and the first emperor to press me. People are not sages, who can do nothing. Taizu, Taizong, and the first emperor sometimes do wrong things.
There is no way to make up for the wrong things Taizu, Taizong, and Xiandi did.
Therefore, we children and grandchildren have to find ways to make up and find ways to correct errors.
It is impossible to watch the error continue, causing the Great Song to be broken.
These words are what I said by Kou Ji, and I agree.
If you publicize this and let people impeach me to despise Taizu, Taizong, and Xiandi, I will not refute it.
As long as everything I do is beneficial to the Song Dynasty and the people of the world, I will have a clear conscience and no regrets.
Now, should you tell me if you know Tiewenxiong? "
"Arrogant! You rely on the official's favor of you, you are arrogant. Once the official loses your favor of you, my palace wants to see what you are arrogant."
"I just want to know, do you know Tiewenxiong?"
"I know, I'm still very familiar. In the past, when the Japanese Palace settled outside Bianjing, Tiewenxiong was a guest of this palace. The palace also introduced Tiewenxiong to several other sisters.
Tiewenxiong was chosen as the prince's husband, and the queen's sister was also the master. "
He Defei said a lot in one breath, and finally even snorted at Kou Ji, saying: "But this palace has never instructed Tiewenxiong to do anything. Everything he did has nothing to do with this palace."
After saying this, Consort He departed as soon as she flicked her sleeves.
Kou Ji stood there, frowned and thought about it.
After a long time, faintly said: "Does human temperament change? Or is it that people are good at hiding their true temperament? Quiet and elegant people suddenly become so vicious; the young ladies who come out of the scholarly family suddenly become so. Vulgar; people who have always spoken little, actually learned to have a relationship with me.
Three empresses, are you acting too fake or too much? "
The attitudes of Zhang Xianfei, Zhou Shufei, and He Defei when facing Kou Ji are completely different from their usual performance.
If there was a different person, Kou Ji wouldn't think there was anything.
But the three have become different, so there is a problem.
More importantly, none of the three people should be ambiguous about what should be admitted and explained.
They shouldn't admit it, they didn't say a word.
There was no omission in the middle, which was obviously discussed in advance.
"In that case, the three of you might have intervened in Fang Meiren's death. Maybe you have to include a concubine Zhang..."
"One of you threatens Fang Meiren with kindness... Another threatens Tiewenxiong with official routes or other... The remaining one plots..."
"In this way, a big picture can be formed. No matter how others investigate, there is no way to involve all the threads on one of you.
Three people, three lines, as long as the three of you don't admit it, no one can do anything with you.
It's really good calculation. "
"..."
Concubine Zhang Xian, Concubine Zhou Shu, Concubine He De, did not say a word that shouldn't be said.
But through their words, Kou Ji guessed a little, and roughly guessed the truth behind it.
Kou Ji had to admit that they had a good game.
Three people and three lines can't find the whole picture.
Unless the three of them confessed to it together.
But people are not stupid, how can they admit this
The two most critical parties have already died.
There is no personal evidence, no physical evidence, and it is impossible to find someone to verify it.
With the identity of the three of them, Kou Ji couldn't use it.
"It's difficult..."