Zhao Zhen wanted to ask why the Liao people attacked Xixia.
But when the words came to his lips, he swallowed again. He felt that if this question came out, Kou Zhun would definitely think he was stupid.
Zhao Zhen tilted his head for a moment, and said seriously: "The Liao people want to attack Xixia, then what should we do?"
Kou Zhun arched his hands and looked at Kou Ji without replying.
Kou Ji moved a few steps, walked up to Zhao Zhen, and said in a loud voice, "Naturally, he went up and bit a piece of meat from them."
A bright light flashed in Zhao Zhen's round eyes, and he asked in surprise: "Recover Yanyun?"
Kou Ji was taken aback for a moment and shook his head.
To subdue Yanyun was a heart disease of the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Zhao Heng should have mentioned Yan Yun to Zhao Zhen frequently, otherwise Zhao Zhen would not speak about regaining Yan Yun at this time.
"It's too early to regain Yanyun."
Kou Ji whispered.
Now the Liao people are in their heyday, but the Song Dynasty is in the midst of internal and external troubles.
The internal sorrows remain unresolved, even if the Song Dynasty smashes to the end with the Liao people, it may not be able to win the sixteen states of Yanyun.
As soon as Zhao Zhen got interested, Kou Ji poured a scoop of cold water, and his face drooped in an instant.
Seeing this, Kou Ji smiled and said, "But it's still very easy to bite the land between two states."
Zhao Zhen's face rose again.
"really?"
Kou Ji nodded.
Zhao Zhen clapped his hands and said excitedly: "That's great..."
Kou Ji smiled and said, "It's good for the officials to be happy."
Kou Zhun saw this scene, glared at Kou Ji, and returned to the table full of melodies.
Zhao Zhen shook his little hand excitedly and walked to the dragon chair.
When Chen Lin passed by Kou Ji, she lowered her voice and muttered, "You look like a slanderer..."
Kou Ji rolled his eyes and murmured, "You care about me?!"
Chen Lin shook her nose and hummed twice. She didn't speak any more, and followed Zhao Zhen with small steps.
Not long after Zhao Zhen sat on the dragon chair.
Liu E, supported by Guo Huai, appeared in Shishitang from the back of the palace.
As soon as she arrived at Shishitang, and before she was seated, she asked, "How does the Taishi plan to deal with the food shortage of Huainan and Jiangsu and Zhejiang generations?"
The words Kou Zhun had dealt with on the Hanging Gong Palace before, probably had already fallen into her ears.
But she couldn't see any emotions or anger on her face, and she didn't seem to care about what happened in the Suigong Hall at all, so she opened her mouth and asked about political affairs.
Kou Zhun bowed his hand to Liu E, and said solemnly: "The queen mother, according to the investigation of the minister, the food shortage is probably not limited to the Huainan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang generations. The eleven states, including Tang, Deng, and Dai, may also have food shortages. "
Liu E sat in the chair while listening to Kou Zhun's words. After Kou Zhun finished speaking, she raised her Feng's eyebrows and said in a deep voice, "What did the Taishi find out?"
Kou Zhun nodded, and told Liu E about the Liao people's food purchase that he and Kou Ji had discovered.
After listening to Liu E, he thoughtfully said: "So, the Liao people will definitely conquer Xixia?"
Kou Zhun nodded and said: "The old official said before that the Liao people will definitely conquer Xixia, but no evidence can be found. Now that the evidence has been found, we should prepare early."
Liu E slowly nodded and said, "How does the Taishi plan to respond?"
Kou Zhun said earnestly: "We should open the warehouse and release grain to appease the people; while preparing for the war in secret."
Liu E pondered: "Opening the warehouse to release grain and appease the people, it should be the case. The Taishi is solely responsible for this matter. As for the secret preparation for war, it has to be slowed down.
After the eleven states including Tang, Deng, and Dai reported the situation of the grain famine, the decision was made. "
Kou Zhun frowned and said, "But sooner rather than later."
Liu E said solemnly: "The Liao people and Xixia didn't go to war right away. We have time and can afford to wait. Once the Liao people and Xixia go to war, we can also send a quick horse to send a decree to act cheaply to the two families.
With them intervening in the war, the battle between the Liao people and Xixia will definitely fall into a stalemate.
It is not too late for the imperial court to dispatch troops at that time.
This is what the Taishi told the Aijia, has it forgotten? "
Liu E moved out Kou Zhun's words and convinced Kou Zhun, Kou Zhun was speechless.
Kou Zhun's ancestor and grandson stayed in Shishitang for a while, and then left.
They leave.
Zhao Zhen couldn't sit down either.
Because Liu E looked at his gaze, there was a different taste.
Zhao Zhen didn't understand what Liu E was looking at him, but he felt uncomfortable, so he didn't want to stay with Liu E in Shishitang.
"Auntie, I will go back to the palace first."
Zhao Zhen arched his hand to Liu E, and before Liu E agreed, he stepped on his short legs and ran outside the Shishi Hall.
"stop!"
Liu E shouted.
Zhao Zhen stiffened in the aisle of Shishitang.
Liu E reminded in a low voice: "The official family is now the ninth-five-year-old. You must walk and sit decently. Don't panic and lose your sovereignty."
When Zhao Zhen heard this, he took a deep breath, turned around, and said to Liu E: "I see..."
"Go down."
Liu E waved his hand.
Zhao Zhen stepped out of Shishitang.
After leaving Shishitang, he looked back at Shishitang, then stepped on his short legs and ran to his bedroom.
In the Shishitang, Liu E and Guo Huai were left in an instant.
"Boom!"
Liu E patted the armrest of the seat, gritted his teeth and groaned gloomily, "Everyone hates me for not being dead..."
When Guo Huai heard this, he knelt on the ground with a puff, and said in a sad voice: "The slave servant is loyal to the empress."
Liu E lowered his head and glared at Guo Huai and shouted, "Get out of here!"
Guo Huai trembled and said, "The servants dare not."
Liu E said angrily: "Then continue to kneel and like to be a slave maid, then be a slave maid for the rest of your life."
Guo Huai nodded his head quickly, and hurriedly said, "The slave and maid must be a slave and maid for a lifetime, serving the empress for a lifetime."
Liu E stared at the place where Zhao Zhen had left, gritted his teeth and cursed: "Little unscrupulous, the Ai family is intrigue with the ministers of civil and military affairs in the court, for whom? It's not because of you, the little unscrupulous.
You actually help outsiders to speak, and help outsiders deal with Aijia.
It's really outrageous. "
Guo Huai trembles when he hears this, and he trembles: "Queen dowager, the official family is your only support. You must not complain about the official family. Once the official family has something good or bad, you can really sit down. It's stable."
"Boom!"
Liu E kicked Guo Huai. Guo Huai rolled on the ground twice like a gourd before he got up.
Liu E scolded: "The Aijia knows that the little conscience is the support of the Aijia, and you don't need to remind you. The Aijia won't do anything to him. But the Aijia can't sit still."
Guo Huai knelt on the ground, raised his head slightly, and asked timidly: "What is the Queen Mother going to do?"
Liu E patted his seat and said, "The Liao people attacked Xixia. This is an opportunity. As long as the Ai family seizes this opportunity, the Ai family will definitely be able to reappear in the Chui Gong Hall, and the power will overwhelm Kou Zhun.
At that time, the Manchu dynasty civil and military dared to say whether the Aijia was wrong, and Aijia killed them. "
Guo Huai was taken aback by Liu E's thoughts, and he carefully reminded: "The queen mother, not the merit of opening up the territory, is not enough to show her majesty in the court."
Liu E abruptly stood up and said loudly, "The Ai family is to open up the territory and expand the land, and the Ai family is to build the supreme achievement. With their assistance, the first emperor has not exhausted the land. The Ai family is to use the open territory and expand the land to tell them. , All of them together, it's not as good as Laijia.
At that time, Ai Jia wanted to see what else they had to impeach Ai Jia. "
Guo Huai shivered and said: "Queen dowager, opening up the territory is a big deal, should I discuss with Taishi Kou?"
Liu E's eyes fell coldly on Guo Huai, and he said in a deep voice, "If the Aijia is willing to discuss with Kou Zhun, I have discussed it with him just now. Are you still mentioning this matter behind your back?"
Seeing that Liu E had decided, Guo Huai stopped talking.
Liu E ordered: "Summon Cao to use and Ding Wei to enter the palace!"
Guo Huai was taken aback when he heard the words, and asked, "Where is Lu Sansi?"
Speaking of Lu Yijian, Liu E didn't get angry, she said angrily: "He doesn't listen to what Aijia said, what use does Aijia want him to do?"
Seeing Liu E's anger again, Guo Huai hurriedly said: "The queen mother calmed down her anger, and the slave maid will go and invite Cao Shu Mi and Ding Xiang into the palace.
Guo Huai left the Shishitang and walked along the sunset to Cao's Mansion and Ding's Mansion. He invited Cao Utilization and Ding Wei to enter the palace.
By the time these two entered the palace, it was already dark.
Liu E left them behind and conspired all night in the palace.
No one knows the topic of the conspiracy.
A few days later.
The officials in the court did not take a break because the New Year’s Eve was approaching. Instead, they ran around for disaster relief.
On a sunny morning, Lu Yijian bid farewell to the people in the Lu Mansion who had sent him off, set aside the honorary guard of imperial commission, and left Bianjing.
He was busy going to various roads to investigate and punish corruption, and did not intend to spend the New Year with his family in Bianjing City.
In a pavilion ten miles outside the city of Bianjing.
Kou Ji was wrapped in a bearskin coat and sat on a stone stool. Two food containers were placed on the stone table in front of him. They were tightly sealed, and he could not see what was inside.
Lv Yijian straddled his horse to the edge of the pavilion and strangled the horse.
He withdrew from the guards, servants, and government servants who followed him, and went to the pavilion alone.
Looking at Kou Ji whose cheeks were reddened by the cold wind, Lu Yijian shook the whip in his hand and joked: "In the past, Lu always listened to stories about ten miles away from each other, but he had never encountered it.
Unexpectedly, the first time I met, it was you who gave me.
You have no friendship with me, let alone a confidant, you come to send me, what picture
Did you come to see me making a joke? "
Kou Ji didn't reply, he rubbed his frozen hands and asked Lu Yijian to sit down opposite him.
After Lu Yijian sat down, he opened the food box.
The moment the food box was opened, two gusts of heat came out.
In one of the food boxes, there is a pot of hot water. Because of the long time, the hot water has become warm water, and even the hip flask soaked in the water is warm.
In the other food box, there is a bowl of wontons and a bowl of steamed meat, all relying on hot water, so they are all warm.
Lu Yijian stared at the contents of the food box, his face changed slightly, and gritted his teeth: "The wontons in Grandma's shop, Lao Huangji's steamed meat..."
His eyes fell on the jug of wine.
Lu Yijian's voice became low, "The peach blossom stuffed in Tianshui'an?!"
When Lu Yijian was in the mansion, he ate the delicacies of the mountains and the sea every day.
But those delicacies of mountains and seas are not his favorite.
His favorites are the wontons ordered with sesame oil in the grandmother's shop, the rotten steamed meat from Lao Huang Ji, and the homemade peach blossom stuffed in Tianshui'an.
Lu Yijian glared at Kou Ji and shouted: "You know my preferences clearly. Take these things to see me off, and dare you to say that you are not humiliating me? You are obviously laughing at me, laughing at me after I left Bianjing, I can't eat anymore. Here comes these things."
Kou Ji looked at Lu Yijian and finally spoke.
He pointed to the wine, meat and wontons on the table, and said lightly: "These things were mentioned by my grandfather. He said that you like these three things the most. When I come to see you, I will bring them to you.
He said that if you leave Beijing this time, I'm afraid it will take three or five years before you can come back.
So I specifically ordered me to bring you a portion so that you can try it again when you leave.
He is afraid that you will stay outside for a long time and forget the taste of eating in Bianjing. "
Lu Yijian stared at Kou Ji without speaking.
Kou Ji continued to say to himself: "You think it's humiliating you or making fun of you. It's up to you to eat or not to give it away to me."
Lu Yijian snorted coldly, picked up the hip flask in the food box, took a sip, then picked up the meat with chopsticks, and stuffed it into his mouth.
Kou Ji saw that Lu Yijian was bored eating, and continued: "My grandfather said that you are a good talent. If you hadn't voted for Liu E, this time the vacancy of participating in the political affairs of the governor should be yours.
He didn't want you to take a step wrong, so he sent me over to mention you a few words. "
Lu Yijian dropped his chopsticks, spit out the meat in his mouth, and said coldly: "What is this? Tiger's tears? Pity? Or solicitation?"
Kou Ji seemed to have not heard Lu Yijian's words, and continued: "My grandfather said, let you take a good tour of the world, investigate and punish some corrupt officials, and clean up the ruling and opposition parties.
When you are still in the court, that's when he personally welcomes you to sit on the seat of political affairs. "
Seeing that Kou Ji ignored him and was talking to himself wherever he was, Lv Yijian picked up the spoon and started eating wontons.
Kou Ji looked at Lu Yijian who was eating wontons and reminded: "What I want to tell you is, after you go out, don't keep your hands and kill more. Those corrupt officials are all damned. Living alive will only waste food. Harm the people.
Don't keep your hands on them because of their reputation in Shilin and their prestige in Shilin.
Don't keep your hands on them just because they have backers.
We are officials first and scholars second.
We have to take care of the people first and Shilin second. "
After Kou Ji finished speaking, he bowed his hand to Lu Yijian who had eaten wontons and left the pavilion.
After leaving the pavilion and bypassing Lu Yijian's support, Kou Ji took his own people and ran all the way to Bianjing without turning his head back.
Lu Yijian was so bored eating wontons without even looking at Kou Ji who had left.
His bowl of wontons seems to be a lot.
You can't finish it no matter how you eat it.
And the more you eat, the more salty it gets.