Zhao Run didn't get comfort from Kou Ji, so he could only return to the palace with his head hanging down.
After returning to the palace, he saw his mother, Queen Cao, instructing the palace maids and eunuchs to carry boxes of things into the palace.
The box was sealed tightly and wrapped in a thick layer of leather.
Zhao Run only made some inquiries and knew that his uncle Cao Yan had specially sent someone to the palace.
After entering the palace, Zhao Run felt his heart tingling when he saw the female official and attendant beside his mother opening a box and counting the gold and silver treasures inside.
He realized that he was a villain in vain.
His uncle Cao Yi used his mother's personal money and his private money, but left even more money.
Seeing her son wandering around the palace in despair, Queen Cao ordered her cronies to watch the palace maids and the eunuchs move their things, and hurriedly walked to Zhao Run's side.
"Run'er?"
Queen Cao called out.
Zhao Run paused and looked at Empress Cao with a dull look.
Seeing this, Queen Cao's pupils shrank. Instead of asking softly, she asked very sternly: "What happened?"
Zhao Run did not lie or conceal, but told Queen Cao everything in a low voice.
After listening to Zhao Run's story, Queen Cao raised her eyebrows and gave Zhao Run a slap in the face.
The loud applause spread far and wide in the palace.
The eunuchs and maids who were working were startled, and they all knelt on the ground in fear, touching their heads to the ground, and covering their ears tightly with their hands.
Although Queen Cao is famous for her virtues, it does not mean that Queen Cao is a kind person.
The reason why the Sixth Palace is so harmonious now is because of Queen Cao's ruthless management.
A red slap mark appeared on Zhao Run's face.
He didn't cry or shout, he just stood in front of Queen Cao quietly.
Queen Cao stared at Zhao Run and asked coldly: "Do you know why you were beaten?"
Zhao Run lowered his head and whispered: "I shouldn't underestimate my uncle..."
"Wrong!"
Queen Cao interrupted Zhao Run rudely and said in a cold voice: "The reason why I beat you is because you are narrow-minded and short-sighted.
The royal family is rich all over the world. As the eldest son of the royal family, you actually care about some money.
How can one achieve great things with such a big heart?
It's just money, it comes when you call it and goes away when you wave it away.
As long as the person taking your money can do things for you, not only can you not blame him for taking your money, but you must also persuade him to take more.
To the royal family, and to you, the cheapest people are those who love money.
The most precious ones are those who seek neither fame nor fortune.
If you are not willing to part with a little money, how can you make the world use it for you? How can you patiently conquer those who do not seek fame or fortune?"
Zhao Run lowered his head.
Empress Cao continued in a cold voice: "Your uncle is definitely not a money-grubbing person. When he took control of Yizijiaozi Shop, he didn't take any money. How could he value my personal money and your private money?"
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I use money to help your uncle buy what he wants, because I want to tell him that no matter where the Cao family is, no matter where we, mother and son, are or what our identities are, we are all one family.
Only your uncle's family will die for you without regrets.
Your uncle traveled across the ocean to the Central Plains this time. Do you really think he bought it?
He has sent money to you and me.
He is afraid that if you and I are short of money, we will not be able to win over people's hearts, and others will take advantage of us.
I am also afraid that you and I will be looked down upon if we are short of money, food and clothing.
I am even more afraid that you and I will be short of money and lose our identity.
You are so short-sighted that you only see your little money, but do you have half a trace of friendship in your eyes?
Friendship in other people's homes, even though it is rare, can still be gained.
But in my royal family, even if you spend all your money on the treasury, you may not get even half a cent.
Your father, your husband, and your ministers have been able to support each other until today because of their friendship.
If your husband cares about money, even if your father spends all his treasury, he still won't be able to gain your husband's loyalty."
After saying this, Empress Cao went to the side hall at the back of the sleeping palace and shouted: "Go and starve in the side hall. When you think about it, you can come out again."
Zhao Run drooped his head and went to the side hall behind the palace without saying a word.
After Zhao Run left, Queen Cao looked around and said coldly: "I am not afraid that you will spread what you said today, but I am afraid that you cannot afford the price."
The eunuchs and concubines in the palace were all trembling, but no one dared to speak.
Queen Cao snorted coldly, "Do something!"
The eunuch and the palace maid hurriedly got up from the ground and went to work in a hurry.
Although Empress Cao did not say what price they would pay for their nonsense, they all knew it in their hearts.
So they absolutely dare not go out and gossip.
In addition, they are all Empress Cao's confidants, and they will both prosper and suffer losses with Empress Cao, so they will never dare to do anything that harms Empress Cao's interests.
Of course, Empress Cao raised her son in public and was not afraid of being spread.
Anyway, she didn't say anything treacherous.
Even if the news spread, it would have no impact on her.
She just put down her harsh words and let the people in her bedroom learn to behave.
Queen Cao imprisoned Zhao Run because of Cao Yi.
However, Cao Yi entered the bamboo courtyard where Kou Ji was staying, as if nothing was wrong.
Kou Ji was teaching arithmetic to his students in the courtyard. When he saw Cao Yi wandering through the door, he assigned a few arithmetic problems and asked his students to do them first. He took Cao Yi to the side to talk.
After asking Cao Yi to sit down, he ordered his servant to serve tea.
Kou Ji smiled and said: "You are quite ruthless as an uncle. As soon as you entered Bianjing City, you raided all your nephews."
Cao Yi was stunned and laughed loudly: "He complained to you?"
Kou Ji said dumbfounded: "Otherwise? If he goes to the Queen, the Queen will slap him with a big mouth."
Cao Yi smiled and said: "He didn't do anything wrong, why should he be beaten?"
Kou Jixiao asked: "I am so obsessed with money that I lose sight of friendship. Shouldn't I fight?"
Cao Yi shook his head decisively.
Kou Ji was a little surprised and said: "You don't blame him?"
Cao Yi asked back: "Why are you complaining? What kind of friendship does the royal family need? If you want friendship, don't stay in the royal family. I know that he is not greedy for money, he just likes the feeling of making money. Seeing the money he has worked so hard to earn, is being used by me.
This person who appeared out of the blue and hugged me out is right, and I should feel unhappy."
Kou Ji sighed and said, "You guys must force people into cold logs."
Cao Yan said with a smile: "I didn't want my nephew to become a piece of wood. I just thought he should be hard-hearted and ruthless.
It would be better if, while being hard-hearted and ruthless, you could also be a bit greedy.
This is how royal people should be.
What's mine is mine, you can take it after I give it to you. If I don't give it to you, but you take it, that's wrong.
You should stretch out your hands and chop your feet.
Not to mention your uncle, even if you are a brother, you can't keep your invitation when it's time to be cruel."
Kou Ji frowned subconsciously, "Your ideas are a bit biased..."
Cao Yi asked with a smile: "Isn't this the case with the royal family since ancient times? You are benevolent and righteous, but others are like tigers and wolves. In the end, you are the only one who will die.
Emperor Taizu's death was unclear, and it's not like you didn't know it.
Emperor Taizong and Zhao Pu concocted a golden alliance, which became darker and darker.
King Wei also died in unknown circumstances.
Prince Wugong was forced to commit suicide.
King Qi slept for a while, closed his eyes and never got up again. There were only three words left in the clan records: "Sleeping due to illness".
I had never heard of any illness he suffered from before.
The eldest emperor believed in friendship, but not only did he lose his throne, he also burned himself in the palace.
After all, the Eighth Emperor is more magnanimous.
Although the means are clumsy, we are going against it without any cover-up."
Having said this, Cao Yan looked in the direction of the palace and said quietly: "I wish he could be more ruthless and ruthless. At least this way he can survive in that deep palace.
My Cao family is now closed off, so there isn't much that can help him.
So he has to rely on himself most of the time."
Kou Ji said solemnly: "The royal family now is different from before."
Cao Ji sneered and said: "If you have three sons who fight for the family property together and draw swords at each other until death, who will you help?
Your beloved wife and concubines are cheering behind you, what should you do?
Unless you kill them all with one strike, their fight will never stop.
Who will tell you the truth in the end? Or is it that the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit?"
Kou Ji sighed: "There will always be a way to solve this matter. The royal family should have some feelings."
Cao Yi curled his lips and said nothing.
He felt that Kou Ji was just whimsical.
Kou Ji did not continue discussing this topic with Cao Yi. He asked Cao Yi, "When will you leave?"
Cao Ji looked at Kou Ji and said solemnly: "There are still two days."
Kou Ji nodded and said, "The next time we meet, I'm afraid it won't be until a few years later."
Cao Yi stood up slowly, solemnly cupped his fists towards Kou Ji and said, "I hope fourth brother can help that silly boy in the future."
Kou Ji was silent for a moment, and then slowly said: "I don't want to participate in the royal family's seizure of the legitimate son. I can only guarantee that while I am still in Bianjing City, his life will not be in danger.
If I leave Bianjing City, I will not be able to decide everything about the Song Dynasty."
Cao Yi smiled heartily and said: "The words of the fourth brother are enough. Cao has written down the feelings of the fourth brother. If the fourth brother can be useful in the future, Cao will not hesitate to die."
Kou Ji nodded and said nothing.
Kou Ji knew that Cao Ji was not telling lies. If something really happened in the future, if he approached Cao Ji, Cao Ji would never refuse.
Cao Yi's friendship was far less pure than Liu Heng's.
Cao Yi's friendship always has some transactional nature.
It's not that he was born with such a temperament.
But he was born in a distinguished family. If he didn't treat everything as a transaction, he wouldn't be at ease, and neither would others.
Kou Ji feels that all ruthlessness and senselessness are caused by smart people.
Smart people always want to take advantage, so they force everyone to become ruthless people, and in the end, only pure transactions are left.
Cao Yi walked very freely.
After having a drink with Kou Ji and staying one night in the Zhuyuan, he got on a big boat on the pier of the Bianhe River and drifted away.
The next meeting will probably be in a few years.
Maybe decades...
Maybe we will never see each other again in our lifetime...
The farewell of the ancients was far more cruel than that of later generations.
Often a farewell is an eternal farewell.
After Cao Yi left, Bianjing was still the same Bianjing, and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were still the same people.
It's just that Kou Ji has one more student.
Zhao Run's younger brother Zhao Ze.
The royal family pays special attention to their names. Zhao Run starts with 三点水, and the other princes also start with 三点水. Zhao Run is a single character, and the other princes also have a single character.
The only difference is that among the many princes, only Zhao Run has a title.
When Zhao Kuangyin came to dominate the world, he set a rule.
If the prince is under the age, he is not allowed to leave the palace, that is, he cannot leave the cabinet.
If you don't leave the cabinet, you can't get a title.
Only after he leaves the cabinet will he be given a house, land, and titles.
This rule came into Zhao Heng's hands, and it was completely broken by Zhao Heng.
Zhao Zhen has now picked it up again.
In order to protect his father's face, he knighted the eldest prince.
It was like patching up the rules that his father had broken, and they no longer looked in tatters.
Zhao Ze is just a little baby who has just learned to speak. He is pink and tender. He walks staggeringly and seems to fall down at any time.
Two nuns and two maids stood around him, watching with fear as he giggled and ran around.
Zhao Ze's favorite thing to do is to chase Di Yong's hand and touch Su Shi's fat belly together.
In other words, only two people close to him in age, Di Yong and Su Shi, could approach him.
When others approach him, he will hide.
Kou Ji let the three little guys play in the yard. He sat at the door of the study and looked at Wang Anshi, Zeng Gong, Zhao Run and Su Jingxian who were doing homework in the study. Then he looked at the three little guys playing outside the door. He was very excited.
Comfortable.
Ever since the demon king Kou Hui followed Zhao Xu to Mount Huashan to worship immortals, Kou Ji's life as a teacher has been extremely leisurely.
After Ouyang Xiu, Su Xun, Wen Yanbo, Bao Zheng and others returned to Beijing, Kou Ji's burden became much lighter.
No need to lie between papers every day.
Ouyang Xiu and others will cooperate with the chief officials of each department to handle the trivial matters of each department properly, leaving only some major matters to be reported to the Political Affairs Hall and handed over to Kou Ji for decision.
Kou Ji conveniently threw it to Zhao Zhen.
He is now helping Zhao Zhen take care of his children, so Zhao Zhen should be more busy.
Now Ouyang Xiu and others are busy doing inventory in various ministries, and the general direction of the court is on the inventory.
It can be regarded as a thorough investigation by the government and the public.
Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen only needed to insert the laws they had already revised silently during their investigation.
In the process of inventorying the world, some mistakes caused by untimely decrees must be corrected. The correction process is a process of revising the law.
Whether it was Kou Ji or Zhao Zhen, their ultimate goal in revising the law was to make the Song Dynasty strong and prosperous.
The two of them do not seek fame or profit, so there is no need to publicize the revision of the law in a big way, make a fuss, and cause trouble for themselves for no reason.
In Kou Ji's view, whether it was the Qingli New Deal presided over by Fan Zhongyan and others, or the reform presided over by Wang Anshi.
The shouting was too fierce in the early stage.
For fear that others would not know that they were going to do something big, they shouted so that everyone in the government and the public would know.
Tell everyone in the world clearly whose cake the imperial court wants to touch.
It would be weird if people don't cause trouble for you.
They always think that if they speak out their righteous words, countless benevolent and righteous people in the world will respond to them.
Little do they know that there are only a few benevolent and righteous people.
More of a group of opponents who hate them to death.
The common people, their biggest allies, have almost no say and no power in their hands.
They don't seem to care much about their allies' reactions.
They always stubbornly believe that as long as what they do is beneficial to their allies, their allies only need to follow suit and do not need to speak out.
It is precisely because of this that their innovation is destined to fail.
Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen are different. When they should be wild, they will be wild. When they should be moisturized, they will be quiet.
A slap in the face to give a sweet date will never be enough.
This kind of thing should be done with great fanfare.
If there are no sweet dates, we will have to moisturize things silently.
For example, the influence of the relatives of the reforming emperor on the Song Dynasty was easily eradicated after winning the battle, using the majesty brought by the victory.
And tell the whole world.
Not only did he successfully eliminate the influence of the imperial relatives on the Song Dynasty, but he also used the heads and wealth of the imperial relatives to win over a group of people.
The same goes for innovating business laws.
He severely dealt with the businessmen among the officials, introduced generous business laws, beat the officials, and won over the businessmen, so that everyone in the world applauded, and the officials had nowhere to vent their anger.
For example, the reform of criminal law that the Ministry of Punishment is currently quietly promoting is a bit moisturizing and silent.
Starting from Bao Zheng's petition to change the regulations on Dengwen Drum, Bao Zheng always found some legal flaws in some old cases and petitioned Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji.
Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji can take advantage of the situation and push out the revised laws.
As long as no big commotion was made, the civil and military opposition of the Manchu Dynasty was not very serious.
There were very few people in the government and the public making trouble.
For those involved in criminal law, a small memorial by Bao Zheng or a small legal amendment by Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji would not arouse their hostility at all.
Although there is less possibility of making profit through manipulation, it is not worth it to fight Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji for the money.
What's more, usually such matters are discussed in the court.
All the civil and military officials in the court agreed, but who among the people below would dare to say anything?
Talking too much is a slap in the face of the civil and military officials of the court.
Can they make you feel better?
Bao Zheng will play one today, Wen Yanbo will play one tomorrow, Ouyang Xiu will play one the day after tomorrow...
Passing one by one, hammer here and there, there is almost no definite number.
As long as you don't bite someone's painful spot, others won't feel any pain at all.
It's like an ant eating an elephant, or like boiling a frog in warm water.
Although the process is very long.
But the effect is unprecedentedly good, and it won't cause much backlash.
Occasionally, one or two people would shout that the ancestral system could not be changed. Before a big uproar could be caused, they would be beaten to death on the beach by the huge waves of the bandits headed by Kou Ji.
People like Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, Su Xun, Bao Zheng and others are all fighters among fighters.
When they are unanimous in speaking to the outside world, they will never lose in a quarrel.
Su Xun can hold his neck and gamble with others, and Bao Zheng can spray spittle in people's faces.
Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu, two people who could cite scriptures and scold them, hid their faces and fled.
Under their ferocious firepower, there was harmony between the government and the public.
The reason why Kou Ji trained them all and gathered them together in the court was for this reason.
Nowadays, the government and the public can feel a flourishing vitality, instead of the sluggishness and laziness of the past.
What can be seen in the government and the public today are passionate officials who are working hard for the country.
Rather than the old-fashioned official who just ate and waited to die.
Kou Ji likes this kind of atmosphere, so he won't interrupt it easily.
Zhao Zhen also liked this kind of atmosphere, so he was happy and added two more princes to the Song Dynasty.
Seeing that the heirs of the official family are gradually becoming more and more prosperous, there is no longer the problem of having heirs that was difficult during the reign of the late emperor.
The rumors of asking Zhao Zhen to establish the crown prince as soon as possible have disappeared for the time being.
But some people still don't give up.
For example, Wang Zeng.
Wang Zeng worked for the Song Dynasty for many years, almost all of which was spent lighting lamps and boiling oil.
So he gets old very quickly.
In just over half a year, Wang Zeng's beard and hair turned completely snow-white, and he looked like an immortal when he put on his Taoist robes.
According to historical records, Wang Zeng died in the first year of Baoyuan.
But according to the AD calendar, the first year of Baoyuan passed long ago, and Wang Zeng not only did not die, but also lived for two more years.
It's just that he worked hard for the Song Dynasty and never rested, so not only did he age quickly, but his body also weakened quickly.
Wang Zeng's stepson Wang Yi pushed Kou Gong's cart and pushed Wang Zeng into the bamboo garden.
Wang Zeng lay on the bandit's bus and took a nap.
When Kou Ji's bus stopped in front of Kou Ji, Wang Zeng slowly opened his eyes, glanced at Kou Ji, and said angrily: "You kid hasn't visited me at my house for a long time."
Kou Ji said frankly: "I am busy with official duties and teaching students, so naturally I don't have much free time."
Speaking of this, Kou Ji glanced at Wang Zeng and said calmly: "But you are not deaf, your eyesight is not blurred, and your legs and feet are flexible. Why do you want to take the Kou bus?"
Wang Zeng sighed, "My legs and feet are now flexible, but my body has no strength. I feel dizzy after standing for a while, so it's better to sit down."
Kou Ji joked: "Not far from death?"
Wang Zeng smiled calmly and said sadly: "I'm afraid..."
Kou Ji's expression changed.
In the past, when he would joke with Wang Zeng, Wang Zeng would get angry and defend him for a long time.
Now there is no explanation, but Kou Ji is a little flustered by the commotion.
Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "You are only sixty-three. You are much younger than the Chen family brothers, and younger than my grandfather, Li Gong and others. They are not dead, so how dare you die?"
Wang Zeng smiled and sighed: "When they were about to die, they spread their blood all over the country in the Song Dynasty. They managed to survive with the help of the kindness of the earth.
I am different. My passion has been dedicated to the court long ago.
Now it has reached the point where the oil is exhausted.
You see that I am not sick or in pain, but actually my body is already empty.
Last year when I was staying in Anmin in Yingzhou, I fainted twice.
I didn't dare to let anyone tell you, for fear that you, the tiger, would get angry and bury those people in Yingzhou alive.
Now that I'm sitting in front of you, I can tell you with confidence."
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(PS: Let me report on the results of last month. Last month I updated more than 394,000 words, which was still very hard. So please give me what you have. Anyway, the data is not very good...)