Cao Yun is mainly a north-south route opened by the court on the Daqing River, and the grain, salt, cloth and other materials in the south are transported to the imperial city through guò, and then dispersed to all parts of the north.

Among them, the salt market is the most mixed, the government and businessmen combined to detain the official salt privately, and lie to the upper side that the salt production is declining, in fact, the folk salt is more expensive than oil, and even some of the quality is not up to par, and the coarse salt that has not been refined is regarded as edible salt, which endangers the health of the general public. What Yan Xiaoyue didn't expect was that in the past, a parent official who loved the people like a son and was deeply loved by the people would also be fascinated by money.

If this matter is stabbed to His Majesty, even if Yang Mocheng is Mr. Qimeng who prays for peace, I am afraid that it will not be good, and he will be dismissed from office at least and imprisoned at worst.

"Father-in-law, is there a shortage of money in the house? Isn't the money I have given in the past two years enough for the expenses of the government? What did we say back then? ”

"This," Yang Mocheng couldn't speak, so he had to look at Fang Yajie.

Fang Ya cleaned her teeth and gritted, "If Yueniang wants to blame, blame me, I instigated the old man to take a stake in Caoyun." That Caoyun is really profitable, in a year and a half, we have divided more than 10,000 taels of silver, if it is not for the capital is too small, we can still share more. ”

More than 10,000 taels in a year and a half, looking at Fang Yajie's excited expression, Yan Xiaoyue smiled in her heart. No wonder, it turned out that she thought she gave less silver. However, her income in Lingnan Yuehuazhuang, except for the one that Mu Zigui took away, she almost divided half of the rest to Yang Mansion. The rest of her has to reward the people under her hands, and she has to keep her daily expenses, and the money she has in her hands is not very much.

"Father-in-law, you may have a lot of helplessness in officialdom, but Xiaoyue just wants to say to you that Zhumen dog meat stinks, and there are frozen bones on the road. Will the official reputation you earned in Lingnan be ruined by that yellow and white thing? Is material comfort more important than the love of the people? The Yang family is a noble family, and its roots in the imperial city are not deep, but it is precisely because of this that we must clean ourselves and establish a door style, rather than being in the same stream. Only in this way can we keep our family prosperous. Prosperity of the heirs. From a background like ours, if something happens, it will definitely be a pawn that will be pushed out to block the arrow, at that time. Who will speak for us? Father, figure it out for yourself. ”

Yan Xiaoyue said a long time, if it weren't for Xiaoxiao's face, if it wasn't for the sake of getting along for a few years, if it wasn't for the sake of Yang Mocheng being a good official, Yan Xiaoyue really wouldn't have said these words. looked at Fang Yajie on the side. "Stepmother, husband and wife are honorable, if your father's reputation is ruined, how should you deal with yourself, and what should Yuqing do? The prosperity of the family is not just about the immediate future. ”

After saying this, Yan Xiaoyue entered the inner room. People's hearts are fickle, she doesn't know what kind of temptation Yang Mocheng received in the imperial city, once she saw righteousness and love in Yang Mocheng, that is a person who really does practical things. is a good officer. But what I see now is not much different from those people in the imperial city who are full of fat intestines, or it is different from those real nobles, they all have a sense of arrogance from the heart.

This kind of arrogance also appeared in Yang Mocheng, who was still in Lingnan at that time, as the head of a county. Everywhere he goes, he sings the voice of love, and in that atmosphere, Yang Mocheng's atmosphere and righteousness are cultivated. But after coming to the imperial city, facing too many noble families with deep family backgrounds, Yang Mocheng also felt depressed, he was talented, but there were many talented people in the imperial city. He was able to ascend to the position of the secretary of the fourth grade. has the kindness of the former emperor, but even so, this official position is almost over for him, and it is difficult to go further. It's too hard.

In officialdom, the most important thing is to be famous and learn from famous teachers. All kinds of relationships such as the same clan, the same family, the same class, and in-laws are linked to a huge network of associations. At the beginning, Yang Mocheng did not dare to stand in line between King Ning and King Jin, because he did not have his own network. And let him struggle alone in the officialdom, which is also where Emperor Zong reassures him.

These things, the people of the great family can also see clearly, except that King Jin is bent on pulling him. Others are always in a position not close to him, even King Ning only comes to talk about the friendship between teachers and students in the past.

Emperor Zong is gone, where is the future of Yang Mocheng, he wants to find a way out, so he began to build his own relationship network, marrying Yang Xiaoer into the Jiang Mansion is his starting point, and contacting the Fang family of Yanzhong County is the most important step for him to obtain economic support, with economic resources, he can have more room for activities.

Yan Xiaoyue figured out this, and what swelled up in her heart was infinite disappointment, as if an idol in her heart was ruined by various negative news. At the beginning, Fang Yajie's change in attitude towards her, her lack of attention to Yang Xiao'er, and so on, but Yan Xiaoyue always believed that Yang Mocheng would not change. But now, her disappointment drowned her like a tide, and the whole person was in a daze, and she didn't even notice that Yang Xiao'er's shoes were misplaced on the side of the bed.

Yan Xiaoyue felt sad in her heart, not for herself, for Yang Xiao'er. Xiaoxiao worships her father like that, if she knows that her beloved father has given up on her, what will she do in the future? An unreliable person like Jiang Siqi, how can Yang Xiaoer be entrusted with it for life?

In the hall, Fang Yajie looked at Yang Mocheng worriedly, "Master? ”

Yang Mocheng raised his head, his eyes were full of pain, "You wait here for Xiao'er to wake up first." I went to the study. After speaking, he got up and walked out, and his straight body on weekdays was like an eggplant beaten by frost, full of weakness and decadence.

This night, Yang Mocheng locked himself in the study and thought about it for a night, when it was almost time, he picked up the pen and wrote a long fold, and the moment he lost the pen, he took a long breath, and the whole person seemed to be out of strength.

Fang Yajie didn't stay in Yang Xiao'er's yard forever, and when she returned to her own courtyard, the more she thought about it, the more confused she became, and the more scared she was. She was afraid of losing the qiē in front of her, which she had finally gotten here, and she had paid too much to get to this point. But on the other hand, she felt that Yan Xiaoyue was reasonable, she was married to Yang Mocheng, if Yang Mocheng had anything to do, she would definitely not be able to run, and Qing'er would also be implicated.

Looking up at the pearls in the dressing mirror, these are all newly created jewelry in the closing moon, all of them are boutiques, usually only on the heads of other ladies can be seen, at that time she was also secretly envious in her heart, thinking that it would be good if she could have a few. But now her box is full of such jewelry, and when she walks outside, she can often get envious eyes from other ladies, she is always very proud in her heart, even those ladies who are higher than her do not feel noble, she enjoys that feeling, and feels that this is the life she should live.

But is she going to lose it now? A hint of fierceness flashed in Fang Yajie's eyes, no, she couldn't give up so lightly. Thinking of this, he immediately got up and rushed directly to Yang Mocheng's study, but as soon as he walked out of the room, he was blocked by Yuqing's nurse.

"Madam, come and see the young master, it seems to be hot."

"What? Why do you get hot? ”

"The slave doesn't know, it's fine before going to bed, but it's so hot when I wake up now."

When Fang Yajie heard this, she was so anxious that she couldn't do it, Yuqing was her lifeline. She has only had such a son in her thirties, and her baby is like an eyeball on weekdays, how can she think about what she was going to do just now when she heard the news? (To be continued.) )