Out of the auction hall, the two acted separately, Su Wanyan still went back to the ready-to-wear shop to change into the clothes worn by the little maid and returned to the palace from the back door, as for how Duanmu Rui entered the mansion, she didn't know.

Her clay pot Duanmu Rui helped her get it back, she changed her clothes, washed her face and went to the yard where Duanmu Rui lived, intending to take it back.

Duanmu Rui had also changed back into his outfit, put the clay pot on the table and observed, she walked in, Duanmu Rui hurriedly beckoned her to come over to look at it together, and handed her a magnifying glass.

She was surprised and asked, "What is the prince looking at, looking so closely?" ”

Duanmu Rui said: "Didn't you say hundreds of years old? Look at the pattern on it, as well as the texture of the soil tire. ”

It's really like that, Su Wanyan finished slandering, and she also took a magnifying glass to look left and right, and felt that the patterns on it were indeed quite clumsy.

Wait, she found something, there seemed to be a crack in the clay pot, she didn't see any crack in the auction hall.

Duanmu Rui also saw it, and he found that the crack was still spreading and expanding, so he hurriedly pulled Su Wanyan away and flew out of the house.

Su Wanyan was startled, and was about to ask what was going on, when she heard a noise from the house, although it was not up to the level of a loud noise, but it felt that the impact was quite strong.

The two walked in together again, the dust was quite big, they kept fanning the dust in front of them, and when they walked to the table just now, they saw that the clay pot had been blown to pieces, and there was an extra ring in the place where the clay pot was placed, this ring seemed to be still faintly shining, Su Wanyan was curious to pick it up, but was stopped by Duanmu Rui.

"We'll see later." Duanmu Rui handed her another handkerchief.

After a while, the dark light on the ring vanished, and became a normal ring, and it was dull, like a piece of scrap metal, and it was not even silver.

She pinched the ring with a handkerchief and looked at it over and over, feeling that although this ring was ordinary and worn, it gave her a sense of intimacy, and she thought that maybe she had seen it sometime, and she might not have forgotten it.

"So amazing? Why did the light suddenly disappear? Duanmu Rui muttered, taking it from Su Wanyan's hand and looking at it.

"Give it to me, I'll keep it." Su Wanyan stretched out her hand and asked for it towards Duanmu Rui.

Duanmu Rui didn't give it to her, "I think it's better to forget it, this thing is from an unknown source, it's so weird, be careful and it's not good for you, I think it's better to throw it away." ”

"How do you know it's going to be bad for me, maybe it's a good thing, and it's useful in the future."

Su Wanyan took it from Duanmu Rui's hand and walked back, Duanmu Rui knew that it was useless to persuade her, so he shook his head helplessly, but his eyes were full of doting.

She always felt that this thing had a sense of closeness to herself, and when she went back, she asked Lingxiu to weave a red rope for herself and hang the ring around her neck.

Besides, the palace received a letter from the border pass today, and it was Su Sui who asked the court for support for grain and grass materials, and now the battle is at a critical moment, if there is a shortage of grain and grass, you can only give up your efforts.

The emperor took this fold and fell on the table, without saying a word, Sun Gonggong hurriedly stepped forward to pour him ginseng tea, and reminded him to rest for a while by the way.

The emperor said: "Su Sui sent another excerpt to ask for support of grain, grass and various supplies, but now that the treasury is empty, what will he give him support." ”

Not long after the war with the Xiongnu, it was to compensate Nanyuan State, and it was not peaceful for these years, and the treasury was indeed a little powerless, but it was impossible to say that it could not be taken out, but it was like living with ordinary people's families, and it was always necessary to leave some surplus money, otherwise there would be no way to support anything in the future.

The emperor gritted his teeth, but he couldn't get out of the treasury, so he thought of a way to let Qin Qingfeng, the Taifu of Zhengyipin, lead the ministers to donate money.

Qin Qingfeng assisted the first emperor, and now when the emperor is still the prince, he is one of the prince's three divisions, the prince Taibao, at that time the emperor respected him very much, and after the emperor ascended the throne, he was promoted to the prince after a few years.

Up to now, there is only Qin Qingfeng among the three dukes and three orphans, which shows the emperor's importance to him.

Qin Qingfeng was not only valued by the emperor, but also many officials in the court and the central government followed him, but the emperor still trusted him, and rarely had suspicions, if it was other officials, the emperor would have been suspicious a long time ago.

The emperor trusted him, and he had prestige in the hearts of the officials in the court, so the emperor chose him to lead the ministers to donate.

Whether the ministers want to or not, they know that at this juncture, and for the sake of Qin Qingfeng's face, they will be generous whether they want to or not.

Qin Qingfeng, as his name suggests, has a clean breeze on his sleeves, he is a clean official, even he donated his family funds, and the wife of the family complained bitterly, this matter is also known to everyone, how can the ministers have the face not to donate.

The emperor naturally has an account in his heart, and he has a number of how much each official wants to donate, and under Qin Qingfeng's control, according to his understanding of the minister, the specific number is not far behind.

The ministers all donated, but there was one person who did not move at all, and that was the crown prince. The crown prince lived a luxurious life, the east palace was full of splendid mountains, gold and silver paved the ground, and even the two side concubines lived an extremely enjoyable life.

The ministers had heard of these things for a long time, and naturally they had also heard of them by their own people. He is the crown prince, and he is just a regular on weekdays, but now everyone is donating silver, and if he doesn't donate, he can't say it, he should be an example for the ministers. And shouting that the treasury is empty, why can he be so extravagant, which shows that he doesn't take state affairs seriously at all, can he still be a prince?

Qin Qingfeng has long been unaccustomed to the crown prince, the prince has a good reputation as a righteous man and a gentleman a few years ago, but now that he sees that there is no opponent and his position as the prince is stable, he acts recklessly, he is a good woman, and he is extravagant, so he acquiesced to the ministers to write a letter and ask for the abolition of the prince.

Several important ministers silently knelt outside the emperor's reprimanding hall for a long time, the emperor was silent in the hall for a long time, and it was easy to abolish the crown prince, but if it was really abolished, it would cause turmoil in the imperial court, and there would be many situations that he could not predict. The position of the crown prince is vacant, and others are bound to covet it, and the courtiers will redivide the forces, so there will be many incidents in the court.

And how can the crown prince be abolished under the coercion of his courtiers, where is his royal majesty.

But in addition to the ministers, the people outside also heard that the prince was extravagant, and the most unheard of by the common people was the corruption and extravagance of officials, so they complained for a while, and many people often gathered outside the palace gate to shout for the abolition of the prince.

The emperor had to pay attention to it, let the kneeling ministers go home first, he would carefully consider this matter and give everyone an explanation, and the old ministers couldn't force it too much, so they went back, waiting for the emperor to give an explanation.

When the queen heard that she was going to abolish the crown prince, she was the first to sit still, and as soon as the ministers left, she asked people to invite the emperor, and the emperor knew what she wanted to say, so she didn't leave for a long time, so the queen simply carried the tonic soup and made a look of visiting the emperor, and stood outside the palace to wait.

The emperor couldn't, so he could only come out to see the queen, and drank the cordyceps black chicken soup she made herself in the palace, and the queen knelt on the ground and begged when he finished drinking: "Your Majesty, other concubines don't say much, the pros and cons of abolishing the prince The emperor knows better than anyone else, so the concubines ask not to abolish the prince, otherwise let the concubines go to guard the ancestral cemetery." ”

She is blatantly working against those ministers, but for the sake of the prince, she is willing to do so.

The emperor didn't happen to have a step down, so the queen handed the steps to his feet, and when he went to court the next day, he tried to stop the ministers with this matter.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the abolished prince didn't say that he could be abolished, haven't you thought about the consequences?"

Qin Qingfeng and his faction stood up and said: "The prince should choose virtuous and capable people to make the courtiers and the people obey, and virtue must be ranked first, but what about the prince now, how can he be convincing if he has a loss in virtue, this is not good for the society." ”

Prime Minister Qiu Cheng and his faction spoke out the emperor's heart, "If the abolition of the crown prince will make the court turbulent, those who ask for the abolition of the prince may not be selfish, and want to break the current balance and support new forces." ”

These words were dangerous, and the ordinary ministers did not dare to speak again, and the emperor breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and after a few words on the side, more people who opposed it did not dare to speak.

But Qin Qingfeng was not an ordinary courtier, he finally stood up and knelt to plead to the emperor.

"You must abolish the prince, the border war is in full swing, it is the most critical juncture, but the prince only cares about his own pleasure, does not care about state affairs, and does not take the soldiers who sacrifice themselves for the country at the border pass in his eyes, which is a manifestation of his lack of love for his subjects. That's it now, how can he be up to the throne in the future, and can the emperor sit back and relax when he puts the country in his hands? Instead of becoming a mediocre emperor and making the world suffer, it is better to abandon it now and choose virtuous and talented people. ”

As soon as he spoke, the hall gradually fell silent, and after he finished speaking, only his voice echoed in the real hall, followed by the silence where the needle could be heard.

If an ordinary courtier didn't even dare to think about it, that is, he not only dared to think but also dared to say it, everyone was actually scared, waiting with bated breath for the emperor's reaction.

The emperor was naturally angry, but seeing Qin Qingfeng kneeling on the ground as calm as a clock, his heart was unwavering, and he didn't speak for a long time.

Qin Qingfeng spoke again: "If the emperor doesn't agree, the minister can only die." ”

He got up from the ground and slammed into the pillar in the temple, and the chamberlain and the minister in front of him hurried to help him.

The emperor also stood up nervously, and when he saw him being caught, he flicked his sleeves, and said helplessly and angrily: "Why are you bother, you are forcing me." ”

After he finished speaking, he left the hall quickly, and the chamberlain had no choice but to let the courtiers disperse and hurriedly chased after him.

The emperor then called the prince to reprimand him, and the prince knelt without saying a word.

"When you speak, on one side is the minister's death, and on the other hand, you are an uncompetitive thing, what do you say I should do?"

"Father, the sons listen to you, and you can do what you say."

"How, you're still asking me how to do it? Go, donate all the gold and silver in your East Palace, and put away all the mountains and splendor, and live a simple life in the future, put away your heart that only knows pleasure, and do something serious for them to see, otherwise I can't keep you, and I can only abolish you. ”

The Emperor breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Do you think what they said is wrong?" You only know that you are enjoying yourself, and you don't care about state affairs, I still have to live cautiously and carefully every day, and I don't dare to let them catch the wrong place, and you can't finish your heart for state affairs, you are good, live a happy life in the East Palace, and finally let me clean up the mess for you. Even if you ascend the throne in the future, not to mention my wisdom, the national society is estimated to defeat you in your hands, and at that time, what kind of face do I have to meet the ancestors who worked hard underground? ”

Speaking of this, the crown prince Duanmu Ming felt very frightened, no matter what, he didn't want to lose his family business, these reasons were enough to abolish his position as prince.

He felt a huge crisis, and hurriedly kowtowed: "Erchen knows that he is wrong, Erchen will not dare anymore, Erchen will definitely change." ”

The emperor sat down and gasped for a while, and said in a calm voice: "It's good that you know what you are wrong, go ahead, do what I say, otherwise you will not be able to calm the anger of the people." Recently, the people outside the palace gate have been making trouble every day, and after a long time, they are afraid of being used by people with intentions, so you can do it yourself. ”

"Yes, Erchen will do it."

The prince donated a large sum of money within two days, put away all the extravagant furnishings in the East Palace, and from work clothes to food, there was a thrifty style up and down.

This time, the crown prince was determined to make the minister and the emperor change his opinion of him, and there was not much money left in the East Palace, so it was not possible not to be thrifty.