Tong Yan has been raised at home for more than ten days, and Miao Yuyu has come to see her, but since the doctor explained that he can't blow the wind, he only chatted in the house for a long time. In the past ten days, Tong Yan has hardly been out of his yard. But Master Tong has had a hard time in the past ten days. Master Tong's difficulty is a matter in the court, and Master Tong feels that he has been pushed to the knife again, and he is going to be slaughtered inexplicably.

It turns out that recently, the emperor no longer goes to the court every day, but every seven or eight days, he will definitely rest for two or three days, and if there is a very urgent matter to play during the rest, he will also meet the courtiers in the side hall alone. So there began to be rumors in the court that the emperor's body was not very good, but the prince had not yet been established, and some courtiers in the court began to urge the emperor to establish the prince.

Dacheng's crown prince is a virtuous and not a long, and the current emperor is also a prince who was established when the first emperor was approaching his year. And now the emperor is fifty-three years old, and the eight sons under his knees have all begun to serve in various ministries as adults, but the position of the crown prince has been vacant. If the rumors are true, and the emperor still does not set up a prince, if the emperor suddenly can't wake up one day, for this dragon chair, the eight princes will inevitably fight for life and death, and the dynasty will be in chaos, and Dacheng will have no owner; And even if the emperor doesn't fall ill suddenly, but this person, when he is old, he is easy to be confused, and he likes to with people. Of course, these words were said by the courtiers in private, and no one would be stupid enough to say it to the emperor in the open, so some old ministers began to hand over the folds, looking for various reasons for the emperor to finalize the position of the crown prince.

But the emperor is the emperor, and the words that these courtiers passed on in private have already been reported to the emperor word by word by the emperor's secret agents scattered everywhere. The emperor is not happy, although I am not feeling well today, but it is just a small problem, you have begun to discuss it in private, it seems that the life is too leisurely, you have to knock and knock. So the emperor said when he went to court one day, the autumn harvest is imminent, and last year your household department said that the tax and silver were not collected enough, because there were disasters and famines in many places, and this year is more than half, and I have not heard you report any disasters or famines, but most of this tax and silver are still missing, and the treasury is empty, so you should check and give me an answer.

The household department is dumbfounded, this tax and silver collection is not enough, it's really not that they don't work hard to collect it, you look at the tax silver has to be collected from the county government and handed over to the state government yamen, and the state government yamen is handed over to the Daotai yamen, and finally it can be returned to the household department, but at this level, everyone has to take a little bit to get some hard money, and the household department has not enough tax and silver to talk to the emperor under pressure. So the Ministry of Rites began to look for all kinds of other things to divert the emperor's attention, and the people of the Ministry of Rites were put out by the Ministry of Household in the matter of greedy ink, and then the Ministry of Rites exposed the shortcomings of the Ministry of Works, and the Ministry of Industry revealed the shortcomings of the Ministry of Officials, so the matter of the Ministry of Officials selling officials was presented to the emperor.

The emperor was furious, what kind of trouble are you guys making about, isn't that place clean? What do I want you to do? The courtiers were in a hurry, and hurriedly looked for someone everywhere to bear this sin. At this time, someone took a fancy to Master Tong.

Master Tong is stupid. In fact, when the imperial examination was held, Master Tong was unsuccessful, so Tong Yan and his mother never received the news of Master Tong becoming an official in their hometown in Jiangnan, and they always thought that Master Tong was in trouble in the capital. But in fact, Master Tong is the granddaughter of the original Guozi Sacrifice Wine, and asked the Guozi Sacrifice Wine to help ask for a literary official to make face, this is really not a buying official. But the son of the country has returned to his hometown with wine, and the imperial doctor doesn't care about Master Tong, and the old man Tong has not had time to climb the relationship, that is to say, the current Master Tong is a powerless, powerless, helpless and helpless small loose official in the court, as for whether this official is bought or begged, the emperor will not go to the detailed investigation, and the old man Tong is a piece of meat on the chopping board. And everyone in the court knows that Master Tong relied on the relationship of the country's sacrificial wine, and made a lot of money in some of the court's purchasing business, and also entrusted the relationship of the country's sacrificial wine, and stuffed two or three people into the court, if you want to say that none of them fell into the pocket of the old man, then no one will believe it. Therefore, Master Tong has been very troubled recently, and he is afraid that the black gauze hat on his head will not be guaranteed, so Master Tong has been more anxious to find a good in-law for Tong Yan recently, so as not to have a place to retire in the future, and Tong Xunfan may not even have a book to read.

Tong Yan, a woman in the inner house, doesn't know these things, but Shi Tianyu knows, so Su Hao also knows. The Su family's Shu embroidery has always been for the royal family, so the Su family is also worried that this change in the court will affect the Su family's business, so Su Hao has been very diligent in going to Shifu these days. In the end, even Miao Yuyu knew that there might be something wrong with the Tong Mansion.

This time, Miao Yuyu was in a hurry first. Miao Yuyu has not been in the capital for a long time, and she came from southern Xinjiang, the etiquette of the Central Plains is not very familiar, and she does not disdain to follow some rigid rules, although Mrs. Shi is her cousin, but after all, some people still know about her father's expulsion from the family tree, so like Tong Yan, there is no young lady from an official eunuch family in the capital who is willing to take the initiative to make such a friend who has no interests to gain and may lose face. Miao Yuyu can be said to have sympathy for Tong Yan, she likes this sister very much, after knowing what happened in the court, she was worried that Tong Yan would be implicated, but she couldn't tell Tong Yan about it, and the things in the court couldn't be spread around, and the corners of her mouth were blistered.

However, Shi Tianyu looked like he had nothing to do with himself, and Su Hao was even more indifferent to the possible changes in Tongfu, and Miao Yu's rumors became popular.

"I said you two, no matter how you say it, you can be regarded as having a little friendship with Sister Yan, why don't you just watch her being thrown into the pit!" Miao Yuyu was very angry, and stared at Su Hao Shi Tianyu.

Shi Tianyu touched his nose and glanced at Su Hao, the woman should be handed over to Su Hao to deal with. Su Hao spread his hands and didn't care about Miao Yu's indignation: "We don't have much friendship with her, but her father seems to want to stuff her to Shi Tianyu or me, and neither Tianyu nor I plan to accept this kind of 'gift'." ”

"You, okay, even if you don't have any friendship with Sister Yan, but I think Sister Yan is very good, even if you help me, keep Sister Yan safe, I am such a female companion in the capital." Miao Yuyu quickly changed her strategy and began to coquettish Su Hao.

Su Hao had a cold war, his hair was upside down, Miao Yuyu had always been very arrogant, and he was really uncomfortable with being coquettish suddenly.

Shi Tianyu finally opened his mouth and said to Miao Yuyu: "Rumors, it's not a matter of whether we can help or not, now that the emperor is angry, the emperor will not really move these old ministers and ministers, but he just wants to teach them a lesson, in order to kill chickens and monkeys, someone will inevitably come to take this knife, Tong Huai and others are just the most suitable." ”

Miao Yu stopped talking, yes, this is the emperor's business, and it is useless for him to lose his temper with Su Hao Shi Tianyu here.

Looking at Miao Yuyu's depressed appearance, Shi Tianyu was a little unbearable, and continued: "However, this matter is not a foregone conclusion, and it will not necessarily implicate Tong Yan, at most Tong Yan will just go back to Jiangnan, you don't have to worry too much." ”

Miao Yuyu was silent, the affairs of the court were not something that she could control, so she could only pray silently for Tong Yan in her heart, hoping that Tong Yan would not suffer any crime because of her father, which was a good result.