Not many people paid attention to the thoughts of the vassals.
In the eyes of the officials of the Song Dynasty, the only country that could compete with the Song Dynasty was the Liao Kingdom.
The only one who can compete with the Song Dynasty is Xixia.
Although Xixia is growing in power, it has not yet reached the point where it can compete with the Song Dynasty.
Xixia is still a minister of Song Dynasty.
Of course, Xixia was also a minister of the Liao Kingdom.
In order to win over Xixia, Emperor Yelu Longxu of Liao also granted the title of King of Liao to Xixia King Li Deming.
The rest were not enough to be taken seriously by the Song Dynasty, nor were they qualified to compete with the Song Dynasty or compete with the Song Dynasty, so the officials of the Song Dynasty did not care about their attitude.
Kou Ji entered Yanfu Palace, saluted Zhao Zhen and Liu E, and then returned to Kou Zhun's side. He cupped his hands and said to Kou Zhun, "Grandpa, I'm worrying you."
Kou Zhun twitched his nose, snorted coldly, and said with a displeased look on his face: "Next time, you should bury me first before you go."
Kou Ji couldn't laugh or cry and promised: "There will be no next time."
When Kou Zhun heard this, his expression softened a little.
He asked Kou Ji to sit down first, and after Kou Ji sat down, he said to Kou Ji seriously: "With our current status, we no longer need to go into battle in person.
If we want to employ people, naturally there will be a large group of people standing in front of us for us to dispatch."
Kou Ji clicked his lips and sighed: "If I hadn't gone out of that scene just now, those scoundrels would have died."
Kou Zhun opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
In the scene just now, no one else intervened. If Kou Ji didn't come forward, those scoundrels would definitely die.
Kou Ji's approach was not wrong in terms of character. Not only was it not wrong, he was better than everyone else in the palace.
But he still worried Kou Zhun after all.
Kou Zhun stared and scolded: "You didn't care about saving me, you made me worry, that's your fault."
When Kou Ji heard this, he quickly cupped his hands and said, "My grandson knows he was wrong."
Xiang Minzhong came over at this moment and said happily: "Kou boy, your grandfather is right. With our current status, we don't need to go into battle in person to fight hand-to-hand."
Seeing Xiang Minzhong holding the palace maid again, Kou Ji curled his lips and hummed in a low voice, "Old gangster..."
Looking at the others, they were all just like Xiang Minzhong. Kou Ji added unceremoniously, "A bunch of old hooligans..."
Xiang Minzhong's old face turned red after being scolded, and Kou Zhun quickly retracted his hand that was reaching out to Gong E.
Kou Zhun coughed dryly and scolded Kou Ji: "All of you here are your elders. Be careful when speaking and don't be ignorant of etiquette."
"My grandson knows he was wrong..."
Kou Ji promised, but he didn't think so in his heart.
He almost died of suffocation in the soup pool just now, but now he is at Yanfu Palace and sees these old hooligans playing hooligans, and naturally he is not happy.
I'm not feeling well, how can I watch you feel comfortable!
Xiang Minzhong didn't know what Kou Ji was thinking, but when he saw Kou Ji relenting, a smile appeared on his face again, "Kou boy, just know that you are wrong. These maids are all gifts from the official family. We will not accept them.
That is resistance."
Xiang Minzhong casually pointed to an official sitting at the end and said, "Did you see that? Someone not only took the maids who were rewarded by the palace, but also stole things from the palace."
Kou Ji looked at the place pointed by Xiang Minzhong and saw a fourth-grade official, who had finished a plate of meat, and then stuffed the silver plate containing the meat generously into his sleeve.
Kou Ji said in astonishment: "Can you still do this?"
Xiang Minzhong pinched Gong'e in his arms and said with a smile: "Just like this little beauty, they are all given by the palace. Although the palace did not say it clearly, but after taking these things, the palace would not be able to speak. It is considered that
Acquiesced."
When Kou Ji heard this, he lowered his head and looked at the thirty-six silver plates on the table, as well as the silver wine pot, silver chopsticks, silver chopstick pillow and other items.
Then he picked up the chopsticks on the table and started eating and drinking like crazy.
Xiang Minzhong and Kou Zhun were stunned when they saw this.
Kou Zhun asked doubtfully: "Are you hungry?"
Kou Ji shook his head while eating. He took a few bites of the food on the table. Then, under Xiang Minzhong's astonished eyes, he poured the remaining food on the table and stacked the silver plate on it.
They got together and told Gong E who was waiting beside him: "Find a piece of cloth and wrap it up for me. I will take it away later."
When Xiang Minzhong and Kou Zhun saw this, they looked at each other.
Xiang Minzhong looked at Kou Zhun blankly and asked, "Is this kid short of money?"
Kou Zhun rolled his eyes and said: "My salary is piled up in the warehouse above the house and is almost moldy. He hasn't spent a penny of it, and he has even added a lot to it."
Xiang Minzhong looked at Kou Ji in astonishment and said, "Then he is..."
Without waiting for Kou Zhun to speak, Kou Ji said: "Together, the value of these things is almost as much as my annual salary. If you don't take it, you won't get it. Anyway, nothing will happen if you take it. Who would object to having a lot of money?"
Xiang Minzhong was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment, nodded and said: "That makes sense..."
Xiang Minzhong looked at Kou Zhun and asked, "Brother Kou Xian, how about we take it too?"
Kou Zhun glanced at Xiang Minzhong with disdain and said disdainfully: "Given our status and our status, it will be very embarrassing if word spreads that we are greedy for these things."
Xiang Minzhong tugged at his beard and was about to regret it.
Kou Zhun waved his hand to Chen Lin.
Chen Lin quickly came to Kou Zhun's side. Kou Zhun pointed to the plates and other items on the table calmly and said, "I think these things are good."
Chen Lin nodded quickly and said: "I understand, I will send someone to your house later."
Seeing this, Xiang Minzhong glared at Kou Zhun and pointed to the things on the table and said to Chen Lin, "I also think these things are good."
Chen Lin nodded and said: "I understand, I will send someone to deliver it to your house later."
Kou Ji was packing the plates, bowls and chopsticks. When he saw Kou Zhun, he quickly stopped and said to Chen Lin, "Chen Lin, I also think these things are good."
However, Chen Lin ignored him, rolled her eyes and left.
Kou Zhun and Xiang Minzhong were amused.
The two prime ministers and assistants of the court accompanied Kou Ji to misbehave. They had seen that Kou Ji had just fought a fierce battle and was surrounded by dangers, and they wanted to accompany him to cause trouble and soothe his mood.
Above the court, these two were the only ones who were willing to treat Kou Ji as a junior and accompany him in his mischief.
The two of them also like to play around with Kou Ji.
They liked Kou Ji's meticulous and unrestrained temperament when doing business, but in private he was unrestrained and extremely free and easy.
With their status and salary, they really don't look down on these things.
If it were replaced by pure gold and each plate weighed a pound, then they would consider it.
He passed things from the palace, and even passed things during the banquet, and no one went back to investigate.
The palace even prepares some things every year for the officials to take with them.
Civil officials called this behavior of passing things from the palace not stealing, but stealing favors.
What they stole was not the things, but the dragon's grace stained on these things.
The imperial court was very generous to civil servants, so it was very generous in this regard and generously allowed them to steal as they pleased.
Of course, this is only during the banquet period.
The rest of the time, if you take things away from the palace, you will be investigated to the end.
Chen Lin didn't help Kou Ji pack, so Kou Ji could only pack it hard by himself.
However.
But Kou Ji didn't know that his theft was seen by someone and he was called out on the spot.
"Kou Ji, what are you doing with the things in the palace?"
Zhao Zhen sat on the dragon chair and asked seriously.
He was still young and didn't know there was such a hidden rule in the palace.
Although he had attended many such big banquets, he had never seen anyone stealing anything.
Because the people who can sit next to him are all powerful masters who are not short of money.
People don't care about these things, so they won't steal them.
The officials who would steal these things were far away from him. When those officials stole things, they would cover it up a little, so he couldn't see clearly.
So when Kou Ji took the baggage and wrapped up the plates and chopsticks, he subconsciously asked.
Huh~
In an instant, everyone's eyes fell on Kou Ji again.
The officials in the Great Song Dynasty naturally knew what Kou Ji was doing, and they wanted to see how Kou Ji would react after being caught stealing.
Those foreign envoys also knew what Kou Ji was doing. They had been envoys to the Song Dynasty in the past few years. It was not uncommon for officials in the Song Dynasty to take the dishes and chopsticks on the table, and sometimes they themselves did the same.
In full view of everyone, Kou Ji put down his baggage, stood up and cupped his hands and said, "Back to the official's house, I have soiled the plate. I plan to take it home and wash it, and then send it back later."
Hearing this, all the civil and military officials in the court looked stunned at first, and then they all pursed their lips and shrugged their shoulders.
Zhao Zhen looked confused and said in astonishment: "There are eunuchs who can wash the imperial dining room..."
Kou Ji originally planned to shirk the situation and fool Zhao Zhen, but he didn't expect that Zhao Zhen would insist on asking the question.
He could only bite the bullet and said: "When I go back to the palace, the palace maids and eunuchs can't wash them clean, but I wash them clean. And I have a habit since I was a child, that is, I must wash the dishes I have eaten on myself."
"
"Oh~"
Zhao Zhen nodded pretending to be ignorant.
When Kou Ji said that the eunuchs in the palace couldn't clean themselves, he realized that he had asked a question that he shouldn't have asked.
He didn't know much about people from other places.
But he still knew the eunuchs and concubines in the palace very well.
If the eunuchs and maids in the palace make mistakes, they will either be slapped with a stick or killed with a stick.
The punishment is quite severe. How could they not wash the dishes?
If he really couldn't wash the dishes, he would have been beaten to death long ago.
Zhao Yuanzuo, who had always been stoic, was amused by Kou Ji's true temperament.
He thought Kou Ji was really good. When he should be a hero, he didn't flinch at all, and when he should be a villain, he didn't hide it at all.
Much better than those hypocritical people.
And in his heart, the most hypocritical person is his father.
The one who had deceived him one lie after another.
Zhao Yuanzuo looked at Kou Ji and said with a smile: "Since you like washing dishes, then wash my own dishes too."
Hearing this, Zhao Zhen followed suit and said, "I'll also leave my dishes to you to wash."
Afterwards, the Zhao family members and the royal relatives also opened their mouths with smiles, threatening to give their dishes to Kou Ji to wash.
Of course, their thoughts are different from Zhao Yuanzuo and Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Yuanzuo and Zhao Zhen asked Kou Ji to wash the dishes with the purpose of giving a disguised reward.
As for the other Zhao family members and relatives of the emperor, they asked Kou Ji to wash the dishes just to embarrass him.
Seeing this scene, Xiang Minzhong pouted and said, "I suddenly don't want to marry my granddaughter to you. With the way you behave today, if you enter the inner court in the future, you won't be able to escape your reputation as a sannyasi.
If my granddaughter follows you, won't she be called the dishwashing lady?
I can’t afford to lose this person.”
The corner of Kou Zhun's mouth twitched and he said nothing.
After Kou Ji entered the inner court, if he was really called Mr. Xipan, he felt that he would be so embarrassed that he would die of shame.
When Kou Ji heard Xiang Minzhong's words, he said with a face-off attitude: "If someone gives me money, let alone ask me to wash the dishes, even if they ask me to clean the toilet, I will be happy.
As long as the money is not obtained through corruption or bribery, I can handle it with confidence and no one can make mistakes.
On the one hand, he took bribes and on the other hand, he pretended to be a blue sky to the people and gained the reputation of a blue sky.
It's better to wash dishes and make money and be a dishwasher."
Kou Ji just couldn't stand the sneaky behavior of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, so he talked about washing dishes with confidence.
Each of them holds the power of the imperial court and is in charge of the livelihood of tens of millions of people. They do not do anything upright and only do some sneaky things.
Not to mention that everyone has the title of loyal minister and good general on their head, even if they have the title of eternal saint on their head, it is just that.
When Da Song deserves to be beaten, he will still be beaten!
When Kou Zhun heard Kou Ji's words, he reluctantly praised him, "A gentleman loves money and gets it in a wise way. I agree with your statement."
Xiang Minzhong clicked his lips but said nothing.
He always felt that he had been taught a lesson by Kou Ji, but he had no evidence.
…
The night banquet ended the moment Kou Ji got into the carriage.
The carriage was sent by the palace, and it was filled with silver plates, gold plates, jade bowls and other yellow and white things.
The civil and military ministers all used silver tableware, but the emperor's relatives, the Zhao clan, Zhao Zhen and others used gold and jade.
A carriage of yellow and white things is extremely valuable.
Especially the transparent jade bowls used by Zhao Yuanzuo, Zhao Zhen, Liu E and others are priceless items.
Zhao Zhen and Zhao Yuanzuo both said that they rewarded Kou Ji. Even though Liu E felt a little pain, she could only grit her teeth and reward Kou Ji generously.
Before leaving Yanfu Palace, Wang Qinruo, that old fox, stopped Kou Ji and told Kou Ji with a smacking tongue, "If I knew that I could get so much money by being shameless, I would give up my face."
Although these words were somewhat insulting, the envy in Wang Qinruo's tone when he spoke could not be concealed.
When Kou Ji heard Wang Qinruo's words, he was a little confused at first.
It wasn't until Xiang Minzhong cryptically told him that these yellow and white things were enough for Kou Ji to buy a house like the Kou Mansion in Bianjing City that Kou Ji understood.
Although Kou Mansion is not as big as Xiang Mansion, it has a superior geographical location, so its value is not low.
When Kou Ji was buying a shop in Bianjing City, he inquired about the land price in Bianjing City and the value of the house.
The Kou Mansion's house is worth 1.5 million yuan.
It's not that Kou Zhun, with his status, can't afford to live in a more expensive house.
But there was no more expensive house for Kou Zhun to live in.
Most of the big houses in Bianjing City have owners.
Everyone is the master behind the background.
It was impossible for Kou Zhun to squeeze everyone out of the big house and provoke a bunch of enemies for no reason just to live in a big house worthy of his status.
One and a half million dollars, with Kou Ji's current salary, he would have to work for the imperial court for more than a hundred years to earn it.
Kou Ji finally understood why those officials were trying so hard to rush to Bianjing even if they were downgraded.
The rewards in the palace can only be enjoyed by officials who are close to the palace.
Often with a wave of hands from the palace, you may save yourself a lifetime of struggle.