After dinner, the whole family went back to the room, and Zhang Tingyu sat alone at the table in the West Flower Hall. Mrs. Wang's stomach was obviously swollen, and after eating, he asked her to go back to her room to rest, and the nurse dragged Ruoyu to follow. The master and the maid cleaned up the dining table, Zitong soaked a cup of Biluochun, and asked with a bright face:

"Master, do you want to go back to the upper room, or to the study?"

He waved his hand and said nothing. Zitong had no choice but to retreat to the outer room and wait for the master's call.

At this time, Zhang Tingyu silently stroked the "Palace Officials Yaji Cup" resting on the rosewood wine case, and couldn't tell what it was like in his heart. Suo Etu was the son of Sonny, the founding father of the Qing Dynasty. Sony first supported Shunzhi Ye to ascend the throne, Shunzhi died, and then supported Kangxi, who was one of the four auxiliary ministers who took care of his life when the eight-year-old Kangxi ascended the throne. Suo Etu is the second son of Sony, and in the early years of Kangxi, he assisted Kangxi Zhi in capturing Aobai and strengthening the imperial power, which was also indispensable. On the other hand, the crown prince Yinren's late biological mother, Empress Hesheri, is Suo Etu's niece, and now Suo Etu's sudden detention in the secluded place must not only be Suo Etu's problem. Could it be that the emperor has any second thoughts about the crown prince? Thinking of this, Zhang Tingyu broke out in a cold sweat.

It is often said that a companion is like a tiger, and when you are in the palace, you have to be careful every step of the way. I was a little careless, and my head moved, and I don't know how it fell off.

Fortunately, his father Zhishi left the capital where the government changed three times a day. When the prince was young, his father was a university scholar and a prince lecturer, and it is said that he still had a teacher-student friendship with the prince. If something happens to the prince, can his father get out of it? He rubbed the "Yaji Cup" that seemed to leave his father's body temperature, and touched the ups and downs experienced by that generation of old ministers in the imperial court.

There are a total of ten pieces of palace bureaucratic cups, all of which are made of white gold into cups, weighing twenty-eight taels. The outside of the cup is engraved with black silk flowers and plants, and the surname of "palace bureaucrats" is engraved inside, and the words "palace bureaucrats are elegantly gathered" are engraved next to it. The wine glasses are sorted according to the amount of alcohol they drink, in order: Tang Bin, Ziqian'an, Suizhou, Henan; Shen Quan, the word Yitang, Jiangnan Huating people; Guo Di, the word is fast, and he is a native of Qingyuan; Wang Zehong, the word Wulu, a native of Huanggang, Hubei; Geng Jie, the word Yi'an, a native of Dengfeng, Henan; Tian Xixiu, Zimei, a native of Daizhou, Shanxi; Zhang Ying, the word Dunfu, a native of Tongcheng, Anhui Province; **Yu, the word Shangong, Shuntian Daxing people; Zhu Fu, the word is mountain, a native of Shanyin, Zhejiang; Wang Shizhen, the word Ruan Ting, and the people of Shandong Xincheng, are all readers of the same official in the palace for a while. Among them, Tang Bin, Zhang Ying, Shen Quan, and Wang Shizhen are all a generation of celebrities or celebrities. "Palace Bureaucratic Collection" became a beautiful talk for a while, and later generations have poems to praise and say:

Celebrities as elegant gatherings,

To pass it on or not to pass it on.

This cup is full of ridicule,

The emphasis is on the surname engraving.

At that time, the Ten Monarchs,

One by one.

There are large and small winemakers,

The cup also follows the shoulder.

Leader of the Hidden Temple,

Virtue should come first.

Yuyang Cup is small,

Doubts at least a year.

Tongcheng and Huating,

Prestige Qi Lingyan.

……

At this moment, what Zhang Tingyu can touch is the helplessness of the old ministers of the previous Xiangguo. Whether they are by the side of the emperor or the crown prince, in the face of the court's bitter admonitions, or the court dispute between life and death, honor and disgrace, their nervous nerves will be broken. When they dragged their tired bodies and heavy footsteps, they gathered outside the palace gate, and they were invited to a certain house to drink wine and chant poems to relax their bodies and minds that were about to collapse.

Zhang Tingyu put on a soap coat and was about to go to the back garden to breathe, when his brother Tingzan walked in. Waiting outside, the purple tung flew in like a butterfly, and shouted sweetly:

"Uncle, have you eaten it?"

"Eat."

"Would you like to have tea first, or should you have some wine?" Even the girl from his brother's family knew that he liked to drink and have fun.

"Nothing." This old man, in fact, is more like his father by nature, humorous and funny, loves to drink, loves to talk and laugh. This time, he bluntly rejected Zitong's good intentions to be a concubine.

"Then let's go for a walk in the garden!" In the court, Tingyu is the prime minister of the second grade, and the elder brother is only the fourth grade Shaozhan Shi, but when he arrives at home, behind closed doors, he still carries out the gift of his younger brother. He turned around and instructed Zitong, "You send the wine and food that the eldest master likes to the back garden to listen to Yuxuan." ”

Then, taking his brother's arm, he walked towards the back garden.

Ting Zan has been a jinshi since the eighteenth year of Kangxi, edited by the Hanlin Academy, and promoted to the prince Zhan Shifu Shao Zhan Shi. This is an envoy who is the secretary and chief manager of the crown prince Yinren, and it is not small to say that the official is not small, nor is it big. If the crown prince ascends the throne and ascends to heaven with the chicken dog, this young Zhan thing must at least be a bachelor, a scholar, a scholar or something. But Prince Yinren has been a prince for more than 20 years, and he is already an "old prince" with a long beard. The crown prince couldn't ascend the throne, and suppressed the East Palace Prince's Mansion Shao Bao and Shao Zhanshi's large group of subordinate officials, and could only watch the promotion of the younger brothers and younger brothers in the same department, and his "Shao Bao" and "Shao Zhan" also became "Lao Bao" and "Lao Zhan". It's like watching people eat meat, and I always drink porridge, and I always feel a little bad in my heart. Zhang Tingzan came to his younger brother Tingyu's house with this mood.

"Brother, how are your sisters-in-law and nephews?"

"Okay."

"Hey, it's been a long time since I've been to my brother's mansion, and I will definitely invite my younger brothers to my brother's side to enjoy the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival." Walking into the garden where the brothers read and played together when they were children, Tingyu knew that the eldest brother was awkward, so he said something relaxed.

"You're the prime minister, a busy man!" Shao Zhanshi said without yin or yang, "I heard that the emperor detained Suo Etu, and you also participated in it?" ”

To be easy and not easy. I have come to the lotus leaf field, the pond water ripples to listen to the rain, and the moonlight is just right. Ting Yu looked at the moonlight and replied:

"I only heard from someone when I was on duty today."

"The emperor belittled him for a while, and used it again for a while," Ting Zan said dissatisfiedly, "Now that he is arrested again, I don't know what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd." ”

"Shhh Then chanted Cao Mengde's "Short Song Xing" as a cover:

Singing to wine,

What is the geometry of life?

For example, morning dew,

It's hard to go to the end.

Be generous,

Unforgettable.

How to solve worries,

Only Du Kang.

……

"Well, the master is really in a good mood tonight, and he is chanting poetry." Zitong thought that his wife had promised him to take a concubine for the master, so he made a show, and Ma Marili put the wine and food on the stone table. Pouring the wine into the two "palace bureaucratic cups" specially brought, she stood aside, ready to wait for the two masters to drink, "Big master, second master, do you want Zitong to sing a tune for you?" ”

"Presumptuous!" This is not the time, Zhang Tingyu stretched his face and gestured to Zitong, "Go down, go down!" ”

Zitong pouted and left, and Tingyu turned to say with a pleasant face:

"Brother, my brother is not strong enough to drink, and I will accompany my brother to drink enough tonight." He picked up the "Yaji Cup" and handed Tang Wenzhenggong's one to his brother, but he served his father-in-law's smallest "Yuyang Cup".

Zhang Tingzan picked up "Tang Wenzhenggong" and drank it all, wiped his mouth and said:

"Suo Etu has made great contributions to the world for two generations, the prince is kind and amiable by nature, he studies and learns martial arts hard, and he is the only biological child of the first queen. If it weren't for the elder brother who coveted the crown prince's throne, fought openly and secretly, and confused the present, how could Suo Laoxiang end up like this? ”

"If the elder brother wants to protect the master, don't involve the prince with Suo Etu." Ting Yu took a sip of wine, filled Ting Zan again, and said, "Besides, the current emperor is not easy to be confused. ”

"Do you think that the emperor knows all the things that the eldest brother, the fourth elder brother, the eighth elder brother, the ninth elder brother, and the tenth elder brother do?" Ting Zan simply took the wine jug by himself and drank it by himself, cup after glass. The strength of the wine made his face flushed, his mind dizzy, and he spoke more presumptuously, "What kind of man do you think you are today? ”

"Naturally, it's Mingjun!"

"Mingjun? Of the four auxiliary ministers of the previous dynasty, Sukh Saha was hanged, Ao Bai died in prison, and Suppilon was imprisoned for his crimes, and only Sonny died a good death. Now Sony's son is being detained again, is this also Mingjun? ”

"It's not just Mingjun!" Tingyu Zhengse said, "It is a saint who has not been seen in a hundred years!" Although Ming Taizu has today's literary and martial arts, he does not have today's knowledge and foresight. That is, he can learn a lot, be able to write poetry, be good at calligraphy and painting, distinguish the law of eight sounds, understand arithmetic geometry, fine astronomy, Ming geography, have self-measured yellow and white, and can also speak seven kinds of Yi. This kind of knowledge, brother, even if you are not the emperor, can you compare to him? ”

Ting Zan was already six or seven points drunk, and his speech was slurred, just shaking his head.

"But now I have a lot of knowledge, so I have both foresight and tolerance." Tingyu put down the "Yuyang Cup" and said with a sigh of relief, "Do you remember the fifty birthday of the Pearl Change?" Oh, you didn't go that time, my dad told me to go. It was the twenty-sixth year of Kangxi, I was still young, but the candle was faint, and the bystanders were clear. At that time, Mingzhu and Suo Etu competed for power in the court and for the benefit of the city. For the king of a country, it is human favor that seeks personal gain, and it is still tolerable; Snatching power is a holy taboo, so it must be overthrown. Mingzhu and Suo Etu just can't see through this. You should remember what happened next—"

"Remember, remember a ......" and the word "毬" has not yet been exported, and Ting Zan is already drunk.

"As soon as the pearl fell, in the twenty-eighth year, the emperor ordered Suo Etu to go to Nibuchu to sign a contract with the Rakshasa Kingdom, and promoted Tong Guowei, who was in his thirties, as the prime minister, replacing Suo Etu. At the beginning of Tong's tenure, relying on being the uncle of the country, he made bold moves, played inscriptions one after another, rectified the officials above the six departments, eliminated the redundant and promoted the virtuous, and ruled the new officials, which was quite popular for a while. In the twenty-ninth year, when Suo Etu returned from the Northeast, the situation of the DPRK was completely changed. The emperor was generous, he didn't take Suo Etu to the end, and he still hung the false title of prime minister, and let him sit on the cold bench for more than ten years, give some color, and learn a lesson. The resumption of detention is a plan to reap the consequences of his own ......"

I don't know if I heard it or not, Ting Zan suddenly cried. Tingyu didn't know if his brother was drunk after all, or if he was emotionally moved and looked out, but he cried like a mourner:

"Too much, too ...... Son, let's, let's ...... Both, all ...... Finish...... Finish...... It's ......."

In the end, he fell crookedly on the stone drum. At this time, Zitong ran over when he heard the sound, and Zhang Tingyu, who had already helped his eldest brother up, shouted at the future concubine with a little embarrassment:

"Zitong, the eldest master is drunk, quickly call someone to set up a car and send him back to the house!" Zitong was about to leave, and he told again, "You also go with me and tell the grandmother that you don't let the master go out to drink nonsense if you have nothing to do recently." ”

After Zitong and the servants sent the eldest brother away, Zhang Tingyu couldn't calm down for a long time. Suo Etu detained the Zongren Mansion, not to mention whether the prince was implicated or not, just talking about the six ministries, I don't know how many people were mourning, and people were panicked.

Zhang Tingyu's analysis is good. In the fifth month of the summer calendar, Kangxi returned to Beijing from the Yellow River to inspect the river workers, and the next day, that is, he served Que, visited the court, and at the meeting in the study, he dictated the edict of punishing Suo Etu, and asked Zhang Tingyu to record it:

The family told Er that he stayed in the country for three years, which meant to be lenient, and he complained behind his back, discussed state affairs, and formed a party

recklessness; The whole country is a person who has received deep favors, and if half of those who have received favors and half of those who have not received favors, they will all obey you.

When the crown prince was in Texas last year, he rode a horse to the middle door of the crown prince, which was the place where you should die, and you regarded yourself as such

Why wait for someone? I wanted to send someone to Er's house to search, but I was afraid that there would be many people, so I stopped. If you will act

Point out one end, and you can correct the Fa. Nian Er was originally a minister, and I couldn't bear it, so I made Er idle, and I was afraid of forming a party

matter, behind the scenes, especially complaining, Jiao Zongren Mansion detained......

The emperor's edict is reasonable and restrained, soft and rigid, and convincing. Suo Etu finally failed to escape this catastrophe, and before the end of the year, he died in the secluded Zongren Mansion.