What kind of person is Kou Zhun? Is Kou Zhun a good official?

Kou Zhun

Kou Zhun was a famous minister in the Northern Song Dynasty, and played a key role in the alliance of Song and Liao m

What kind of person is Kou Zhun? Is Kou Zhun a good official?

Kou Zhun

Kou Zhun was a famous minister in the Northern Song Dynasty, and played a key role in the alliance of Song and Liao monasteries. However, after signing the Covenant, he was given a cold shoulder by Song Zhenzong, and it did not come to a good end.

Speaking of Kou Zhun, a famous minister in the Northern Song Dynasty, many people will see the image of Kou Lao Xi 'er wearing a patched coat and a vinegar gourd hanging around his waist, which is clean and simple to the extreme. In Liu Lanfang's long tune Yang Jiajiang, Kou Zhun appears like this:? The wings of the gauze cap may be too old, old and broken, and one wing is tied by something and hangs down. ? And how did Kou Laoxi 'er entertain the imperial envoys from Beijing? Take off the straw hat, tear off a circle, rub it with your hands and put it in a pot to soak in water? And there is also a name called? Tea smashing? .

Kou Zhun's Quality However, what is the real image of Kou Zhun in history? In the Song Dynasty, there was a passage in the Biography of Kou Zhun, which described the quasi-teenagers who were rich, indulged in sex and drank comedies. Every time they entertain guests, they close the door and stay away from it. My family has never seen Ruo oil lamps, but I will definitely light candles. ? As a descendant of Kou Zhun, Sima Guang, in teaching his son, also talked about the recent Koulaigong in Kou Zhun (named Laiguogong in Kou Zhun). But he contributed a lot, and later generations learned his family style. Now he is poor. ?

What kind of person is Kou Zhun? Why did playboy Kou Zhun become Kou Laoxi 'er by word of mouth? This is analyzed from the psychology of ordinary people.

For thousands of years, people have always idealized loyalty and honesty with simple poverty, and consciously or unconsciously established an equation. Loyal officials must be clean and honest, and honest officials must be poor, as if they were not honest.

In history, Kou Zhun is undoubtedly a famous loyal minister. Especially in the first year of Jingde (1004), Liao soldiers went south to attack the Song Dynasty and arrived on the north bank of the Yellow River, which shocked the ruling and opposition parties in the Northern Song Dynasty. Many people even advocate abandoning the capital and fleeing to the south. At that time, it was Kou Zhun who saved the day, insisted on the true clan affiliation and opposed the southward migration, which gradually stabilized the morale of the army. After shooting Xiao Talan, the pioneer of the Liao army, and crushing the arrogance of the Liao army, Kou Zhun presided over the negotiations and concluded with the Liao country on relatively favorable conditions? Yuan Geng League? It ended the nearly one hundred years' war between Liao State and Central Plains Dynasty, and started the more than one hundred years' peaceful period between Song and Liao. What Yang Jiajiang couldn't do, Kou Zhun did it, that's amazing!

Since he is a famous loyal minister, according to the theory of Facebook, Kou Zhun should be a red face; Since you are a red face, you should be poor. What if you are red-faced all day? Sexual luxury, comedy drinks? How hard should it be to accept? ! As a result, the feast of wine and meat in Kou Zhun was gone, the candles were turned off, and we still had to drink? Tea smashing? People will be comfortable.

Although in the ideal, ordinary people always expect officials to be public servants, do their best to die, bow their heads and be willing to be a willing ox, eat grass or eat milk? But unfortunately, in the real world, such a situation hardly exists, if not completely. Honest officials are also human beings! Except for a few sages and ascetics, people just want to live a good life and don't want to drink? Tea smashing? Qian Qian, including Kou Zhun, is no exception. This is the basic human nature and social law, and there is nothing surprising.

Of course, this is by no means to say that corruption is innocent and justified. People's desires are endless. Can not meet all the needs of officials, we must crack down on excessive greed. However, a good system should enable an honest official to live a decent and normal life. Otherwise, you won't see the difference? Corruption? No matter out of normal demand or excessive greed, it is impossible to effectively combat corruption.

Actually, Kou Zhun's? Luxury? There is no contradiction between honesty and honesty. You know, the treatment of ministers in the Northern Song Dynasty is good. The annual salary of prime ministers and ministers in power in the Tang Dynasty is 3,600 yuan, 1, 200 stone millet, 40 silks, 60 silks, 1, 000 winter cotton, 1, 400 bundles of salary, 1, 600 scales of charcoal, and 7 stone salt. Even Sima Guang, who took Kou Zhun as a negative example, just said that he didn't teach his children and grandchildren well, so that? How poor are you today? And admit himself? Great achievements, people are right? .

It should be said that Kou Lao Xi 'er is just a saint who exists in the illusory world, and Kou Zhun is a real person.

If it's just storytelling and addiction, people's yearning for Kou Lao Xi 'er is actually harmless, and it's not bad to set up a virtual moral model for the society. However, if this unrealistic fantasy is turned into a reality and a system, it will be serious if officials are really required to be old.