blue shirt oath

Chapter 298: The King and the Minister

At the age of 19, Kou Zhun was a Jinshi and became an official. After decades of ups and downs in his career, he has always dared to say, dare to do, and dare to refuse.

During Taizong's period, Kou Zhun directly remonstrated many times, and was gradually reused by Taizong.

Taizong once said: "I won Kou Xuan, just like Emperor Wen won Wei Zheng."

Comparing Kou Zhun to Wei Zheng in the Tang Dynasty is enough to show Emperor Taizong's trust and appreciation for Kou Zhun.

However, after Zhenzong came to the throne, Kou Zhun was demoted again and again, and worked in a place far away from the capital for decades.

Now that he is nearly sixty years old and has a white beard, he finally returned to Beijing to be a prime minister. He thought he could continue to show his talents, but unexpectedly, the emperor threatened him with the position of prime minister and served as Yuqing Zhaoying palace envoy.

Concurrently serving as the envoy of Yuqing Zhaoying Palace is a small job, but it represents a great significance.

This means that Kou Zhun fully agrees with the Book of Heaven, and it also subverts his attitude towards Ding Wei and his like who have been doing a lot of writing on the Book of Heaven in the past few years.

The emperor looked calmly at Kou Zhun who was astonished and ashen-faced.

At the beginning, this "Kou Laoxi" fought against the emperor many times because of the Tianshu, which made the emperor unable to hold his head up in front of all the officials.

Seeing him bowing his head and bowing his back this time, the emperor couldn't help being in a good mood, but on his face he showed a heartbroken look:

"Kou Xianqing, you have to think about it."

The emperor pressed on every step of the way, while Ding Wei watched the play from the sidelines.

The atmosphere became tense for a moment.

The servant Zhou Huaizheng stepped forward at the right time and advised, "Master Kou, don't refuse any more."

Kou Zhun was tormented in his heart, but finally bit the bullet and nodded helplessly.

"The minister is willing to take up this position."

After finishing his sentence, Kou Zhun felt that all his strength had been exhausted, and then collapsed, staring blankly at the smiling emperor and Ding Wei.

"Okay! That's it!" The emperor was overjoyed, "Hurry up, Ding will participate in politics, and immediately draw up an imperial edict to appoint Kou Xianqing as Yuqing Zhaoying palace envoy."

"According to the order."

Zhou Huaizheng pushed Kou Zhun in a daze: "Master Kou, thank you soon."

Kou Zhun: "Oh, my lord, thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!"

"Hahaha, Kou Xianqing, get up quickly, get up quickly." The emperor laughed and helped Kou Zhun up, "Kou Xianqing, you new envoy, you should know that I ordered the construction of the Yuqing Zhaoying Palace back then to thank the heavens. Book Cheng Tianmen, at that time you did not believe in the heavenly book, so you repeatedly complained. Now you also found the heavenly book in Qianyou Mountain, and you believe it is not false, so you said that building this palace should be right?"

The emperor's words pierced Kou Zhun's heart every word.

Kou Zhun could only helplessly agree: "Should, should"

"Hahaha, now you say it should be. But I still remember that back then you and Zhang Yong wrote a letter together, saying that it is not appropriate to build palaces and temples, exhaust the talents of the world, and hurt the lives of the people. This is all a lie Woe to Your Majesty, beg to cut off Wei's head and set up the gate of the country to thank the world, and then'"

"Then put the beheaded head at Ding's gate to thank Wei." Ding Wei also laughed and took the emperor's words, and looked at the dumbfounded Kou Zhun, who was filled with shame and indignation, "How is it? words?"

Faced with the two men's old stories being brought up again, Kou Zhun only felt that there was an infinite coolness in the huge palace, and the laughter in his ears seemed to be coming from the distant sky, hazy, indistinct, and inaudible.

I only heard the emperor say: "It's true that this time and that time, Ding Xianqing, do you still have a grudge about Kou Pingzhong's impeachment?"

Ding Wei quickly put away his smile, cupped his hands and said in trepidation:

"Returning to the emperor, when I first entered the official career, I was greatly supported by Kou Xiangye, and I have always been grateful for it. Even if I was impeached by him later, I was sincere and fearful. I dared not have the slightest complaint, let alone hold it in my heart."

(End of this chapter)