It was four more days in a blink of an eye.
In the Daqing Hall, everyone knelt on the ground and drowsy, only Kou Ji was knelt upright.
He was also sleepy, but he had to pretend to be very energetic.
He was shocked by the note just now.
In Daqing Hall, most of the people kneeling were concubines. The eunuchs and Gong'e only appeared in the hall when they added fuel to the eternal lantern or delivered food. Most of the time, they were waiting outside the hall.
Therefore, 80% of the note handed to Kou Ji was secretly given to him by the concubine in the palace.
Kou Ji didn't find out who this person was, but Kou Ji probably guessed the purpose of the note she handed to Kou Ji.
According to the rules of the palace, after Zhao Heng's death, most of the remaining concubines, except for the concubines who were entrusted, were sent to the Guzi Temple to be imprisoned for a lifetime.
Some of them were unwilling to accept such a fate, so they wanted to get themselves out of the palace through Kou Ji.
With Kou Ji's status today and Kou Zhun's power, it would be easy to get a concubine from the palace.
But once it is known to outsiders, it is a big trouble.
Although this kind of trouble is not fatal to Kou Ji nowadays, Kou Ji still does not want to get into this trouble.
Once this kind of trouble is contaminated, follow-up troubles will follow endlessly.
Kou Ji had nourished his spirits, and knelt in the Daqing Hall until the daylight was bright, and saw that no one would put a note for him again, which relieved him a lot.
As soon as he relaxed, sleepiness swept through his body in an instant.
He knelt there, dropped his head, and fell asleep.
It was not until the eunuchs and Gong'e brought breakfast that Zhao Zhen shook Kou Ji's arm and woke him up.
"Eat something..."
Zhao Zhen stuffed Kou Ji a piece of cold meat and two pieces of vegetable cake when Kou Ji was in a daze.
It's not that the imperial kitchen in the palace can't make delicious food, but that when Zhao Heng is guarding the spirit, there is no way to eat big fish and meat.
Kou Jiyou woke up, looked at the cold meat and two pieces of vegetable cakes in his hand, and said disgustedly: "Obviously you can eat well..."
Zhao Zhen chewed the vegetable cake in his hand, and said with a contented expression: "It's already very good..."
Hearing this, Kou Ji shook his head and sighed.
Zhao Zhen, as the supreme of the world, does not have the consciousness of the supreme of the world. Instead, he is like a child next door. Holding a piece of hard and banged vegetable cake can be as sweet as the delicacy of the mountain and the sea. Kou Ji didn’t know. How to talk about him.
Kou Ji picked up the vegetable cake in his hand, took a bite, and muttered to Zhao Zhen: "If you want to drink mutton soup in the middle of the night, you must let the royal chef kill ten or eight sheep and boil a big pot. Drink a bowl, pour a bowl."
Zhao Zhen was holding the vegetable cake, staring at Kou Ji in a daze, and said seriously: "Will it be too wasteful... Mr. I said that every bit of my food and clothing in the palace is nothing but a lot of people's cream, and can't be wasted. "
Kou Ji curled his lips in disdain and said, "Mr. taught you to be frugal. Did you ask Mr., did he do it?"
When Zhao Zhen heard the words, holding the vegetable cake, he froze on the spot stupidly.
In the past it was always what the husband said and what he listened to.
He has never questioned his husband, nor has he thought about what the husband said, the husband can't do it himself.
Kou Ji saw that Zhao Zhen was stunned. He looked around and saw that Liu E, Concubine Yang, and Concubine Li hadn’t paid attention to this, so he stuffed the vegetable cake to Zhao Zhen and took the meat in Zhao Zhen’s hand. Bring it over to eat.
Upon seeing this, Zhao Zhen stared, staring at Kou Ji in amazement.
Kou Ji ate Zhao Zhen’s meat and said, “This cold meat is too much to eat, which is not good for your health. I will help you eat it... Your gentlemen, they usually tell you those great truths. But they They couldn't do the truths they said.
Who told you about your food and clothing costs, every single bit is nothing but a lot of people's care? "
Zhao Zhen stared at the meat in Kou Ji's hand and whispered: "Mr. Li..."
Kou Ji was taken aback for a moment, then he clicked his lips and said, "Who else?"
Kou Ji originally wanted to tell Zhao Zhen about the extravagance of those gentlemen outside the palace, but Zhao Zhen opened his mouth and moved out of Li Di.
Kou Ji really couldn't tell.
No one can compare Li Di in terms of cruelty in the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty.
Li Di is not only cruel to others, but also cruel to himself.
He can basically do all the principles he talked to Zhao Zhen.
So Kou Ji couldn't pick Li Di.
Zhao Zhen watched Kou Ji swallow his own piece of meat, with a slight disappointment in his eyes. His eyes fell on Kou Ji's own piece of meat, and murmured: "Mr. Ding also said... "
Kou Ji was happy when he heard the words, "Then let's talk about Ding Wei. Do you know what kind of life Ding Wei lives outside the palace?"
Zhao Zhen shook his head blankly.
Kou Ji said earnestly: "Let’s start with the food. Ding said that every meal requires 20 dishes, and they don’t duplicate the dishes every day. Not only are there treasures such as bear paws and bird’s nests on the table, but there are also many remote places in Yongzhou. Treasures produced in the region.
More importantly, Ding said that he only ate one bite of each dish, and the rest was rewarded to his servants.
Ding said that the cost of each meal is about hundreds of guan, three meals a day, that is three to four hundred guan.
That's tens of thousands in a month.
Besides wearing..."
Kou Ji told Zhao Zhen about Ding Wei's luxurious life in terms of food and clothing.
Zhao Zhen listened, his small mouth was big and big.
After Kou Ji finished speaking, Zhao Zhen said in a daze, "Ding Wei's salary is not enough for him to spend so much, right?"
Kou Ji put the last bit of meat into his mouth and exclaimed: "So he is corrupt!"
"Nonsense!"
"Ding Aiqing is the humerus of the country. If it gets into your mouth, it becomes a person of corruption and bribery."
"..."
Liu E's voice rang in Kou Ji's ears.
Kou Ji rubbed her mouth with her sleeve and gave Liu E a salute, "The empress dowager, Ding called her person, whether it is good or bad, you and I know well. The minister does not know what purpose the mother will use him to achieve. But the minister knows. , He exists in the court for one day, it will corrupt the court for one day.
Like him, if there are too many people in the court, then the country and the community will be in danger. "
Liu E narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at Kou Ji, and said: "Although Ding Aiqing is a bit greedy, he is decisive and capable of managing politics. He is a rare talent.
Compared with his administrative talents, his little greediness is negligible. "
Kou Ji said indifferently: "The empress is talking about Ding Wei before entering Bianjing."
Kou Ji looked at Zhao Heng's coffin and said to Liu E: "If Ding said that if the mother said so well, the first emperor would not lie here. Although the first emperor burned the Yuqing Zhaoying Palace on fire, he wiped out the demons in one fell swoop. Tao. But Ding said that he is still at large.
Although the first emperor advocated Taoism, he also had a bottom line.
If Ding Wei didn't confuse him from the side, how could he give up his bottom line step by step, and eventually become very poisonous
If it weren't for the minister to appear, I'm afraid that the mother and the official would be in distress. "
Liu E glared at Kou Ji and said coldly: "The Aijia owes you a favor, the Aijia remembers it, and you don't need to remind you."
Kou Ji shook his head and said: "The minister didn't mean to ask the queen mother for favor. The minister just wanted to say that Ding said that he is not suitable for the court anymore."
Liu E looked at Kou Ji up and down, and snorted coldly, "Is this your advice to Ai's family?"
Kou Ji pondered for a moment and nodded: "It's..."
Liu E said coldly: "What if the Aijia doesn't accept it?"
Kou Ji stared at Liu E and said earnestly: "The minister has done his duty as a minister and can't accept advice. Naturally, the queen mother is the master."
After a pause, Kou Ji said again: "But the court is now at the time of internal and external troubles, the empress should not leave Ding Wei and disputes again."
Liu E's eyes fell on Kou Ji, slightly deep, "How does the Aijia feel that nowadays, there is peace between the ruling and the opposition."
Kou Ji said solemnly: "The first emperor died, and the Liao Kingdom looked forward to it. It is possible at any time to take this opportunity to go south. Xixia is ambitious, and it is possible at any time to take this opportunity to stand on its own.
Where did the Queen Mother see peace? "
Liu E coldly snorted: "The Liao Kingdom is an ally to the Song Dynasty. My Song Dynasty pays hundreds of thousands of coins to the Liao Kingdom every year. How can the Liao Kingdom take advantage of it, and how can it move the people to the south
As for Xixia, it is a vassal of my Great Song Dynasty. The court has generous gifts every year and will appease them. They can't stand on their own. "
Kou Ji stared at Liu E blankly, and asked: "The Queen Mother thinks that you can buy peace with money?"
Liu E said coldly: "Even if you can't buy a lifetime peace, you can still buy a temporary peace. After the official parents are up, they will naturally settle accounts with Liao and Xixia."
Kou Ji gritted his teeth and said: "The imperial court frequently acquires the enemy, and the final result is that the enemy is strong and we are weak. At that time, if you want to liquidate, I am afraid that you will not have the power, but will be bullied by others.
Liu E's face sank, and he whispered: "The Ai family is just a woman, not so capable of dealing with Liao and Xixia. The Ai family only wants to steadily help the official family to guard the country, and wait until the official parents are older. he."
Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "You can obviously join forces with my grandfather to deal with Liao and Xixia..."
Liu Efeng raised her eyebrows and said with disdain: "One mountain can't tolerate two tigers. Your grandfather can't tolerate Ai Jia, how can Ai Jia's allow your grandfather."
Hearing this, Kou Ji didn't say much. He arched his hands to Liu E, lowered his head, and continued to kneel in front of the spirit.
Now that Liu E and Kou Zhun are in charge of the regency, Kou Ji finally found the opportunity to speak to Liu E alone, so he wanted to try it and see if he could persuade Liu E to give up the fight and join forces with his grandfather. Unanimously external.
After all, Xixia rose rapidly in the past few years when Zhao Heng died.
Kou Ji thought, to see if he could kill them in the cradle in advance before Xixia grew up.
But after talking with Liu E, Kou Ji found that Liu E didn't intend to join forces with Kou Zhun, and even had to fight Kou Zhun to the end.
He also gave up his plan to continue to persuade Liu E.
He had already released his kindness to Liu E, but Liu E did not accept it, so he could only continue along the path he planned and proceed silently.
Seeing Kou Ji's head down, Liu E said lightly: "The Ai family owes you a favor, and the official owes you a favor, and you are a student of the emperor. There is really going to be that day when the Ai family will let you make a living. "
The implication is that if Kou Zhun loses in the battle between her and Kou Zhun, she will let Kou Ji a way out.
Kou Ji slowly raised her head, looked at Liu E, and smiled calmly: "How does the mother decide that she will win?"
Liu E resolutely said: "The Aijia can't lose!"
Kou Ji sighed in his heart, and said no more.
Liu E is not blindly self-confident, but the truth.
She can't lose, and once she loses, she won't end well.
Liu E and Kou Ji talked about the topic to death, and there is no need to continue talking.
Liu E took Zhao Zhen and sent Zhao Zhen to Concubine Yang and Concubine Li to take care of them.
She felt that if Zhao Zhen stayed with Kou Ji for a long time, he would be badly taught by Kou Ji sooner or later, so Zhao Zhen stayed away from Kou Ji.
Kou Ji didn't care, still kneeling in front of the spirit.
Time flies, and it's evening.
Guo Huai quietly entered the Daqing Hall, and muttered a few words in Liu E's ear.
Liu E left the Daqing Hall with a sullen face and frowning.
Kou Ji looked at Liu E's leaving back, thoughtfully.
He probably guessed why Liu E would leave Daqing Palace.
When he was enthroned yesterday, Kou Zhun used his authority to subdue hundreds of officials.
But the matter of Liu E's birth to a child through his belly did not stop there.
Instead, it will intensify.
Yesterday it was only the officials who attacked Liu E. Today, there may not be only the officials. I am afraid that more officials will also participate, and even the Zhao clan will take this attack.
For example, Zhao Yuanyan, since he already has a disagreement, then he will not sit and wait for death anymore.
He will definitely take this opportunity to do something.
Although it may not be able to bring down Liu E, it can cause trouble to Liu E, which is also a good thing for him.
Liu E left the Daqing Palace and never appeared again.
I was probably arguing with Baiguan.
Without Liu E's stare, Concubine Li and Concubine Yang could not restrain Zhao Zhen.
When it was nightfall, Zhao Zhen approached Kou Ji again.
He took out a piece of cold meat from his arms and handed it to Kou Ji, "Here you eat..."
Kou Ji looked at the meat in Zhao Zhen's hand in a daze, and said in a daze, "You didn't eat it?"
Zhao Zhen whispered: "I ate the one that came in the evening... The concubine gave me her piece, and I'll give it to you."
Seeing Kou Ji still staring at him blankly, Zhao Zhen said embarrassedly: "I knew that Shou Ling was so miserable, I shouldn't have forced you to stay and let you accompany me to suffer.
I caused you to suffer, so I should make up for you. "
Kou Ji looked at Zhao Zhen and said seriously: "Could you not be so good to me, you are so good to me, I am embarrassed to think about some things."
Zhao Zhen looked at Kou Ji in confusion, "What's the matter?"
Kou Ji shook his head and said, "Nothing..."
Kou Ji pushed back the meat that Zhao Zhen handed over, gave it back to Zhao Zhen, and exhorted: "This is what your mother and concubine gave to you. It is her heart. You should not share it with others and waste you. The heart of the mother and concubine."
When Zhao Zhen heard the words, he nodded heavily, and he took a bite of the meat with a big smile on his face.
Kou Ji sighed inwardly.
(Zhao Zhen's temperament is so good, it's not a straw invented, it's not a straw brag. He is such a man after he takes power, he has to drink a bowl of mutton soup at night, and he has to consider whether he will cause trouble to others or waste the people's fat emperor.)