Zhao Junchen has no father, and his mother, Zhao, is a "slut" who was kicked out of the clan. */.//*
To put it simply, the Zhao family was already pregnant with Zhao Junchen before she got married. Not only that, no matter how the clan elders pressed her, the Zhao family refused to tell who Zhao Junchen’s father was, let alone abort the baby. Zhao Junchen in.
At the time, this was an outrageous act.
So, naturally, Zhao was kicked out of the clan.
After being kicked out of the family, the Zhao family was helpless. She was constantly bullied but could not say anything or fight back. After going through many hardships, she finally gave birth to Zhao Junchen. After that, she relied on doing needlework for others to support her family. , but for the same job, because of her poor reputation, she received only half of the wages of others. With such a meager income, she could barely support her and Zhao Junchen's life, and they depended on each other.
No matter what mistakes Zhao made, she was indeed a great mother - with such a meager income, she did not hesitate to send Zhao Junchen to a private school to study and learn literacy, in the hope that Zhao Junchen would be successful in the future! !
However, when Zhao Junchen was eleven years old, the Zhao family was overwhelmed and died of exhaustion! ! Zhao Junchen was so sad that he died and fell seriously ill. In the end, it was Old Master Xu who taught Zhao Junchen how to read and write. Seeing that Zhao Junchen was pitiful, he took Zhao Junchen in. Not only did he continue to teach Zhao Junchen the six arts of poetry and calligraphy, but he later taught him the six arts of poetry and calligraphy. He paid for Zhao Junchen to attend the county school and become a candidate for the imperial examination.
And Zhao Junchen completely lived up to the expectations of his dead mother and the old master Xu who had been reborn by En Tong. He passed the provincial examination and the general examination one after another. Although he only just passed the exam each time and was always hovering in the last few, considering that Zhao Junchen was only seventeen or eighteen years old at that time, which was considered rare.
If things continue like this, Zhao Junchen's future is probably to barely enter the imperial examination, get a rank in the lower ranks of the top three, and after a few years of training, become a minor official like a county magistrate. If he's lucky, he might even become a prefect. mid-level officials of the Ming Dynasty.
However, what no one expected was that since the palace examination only tested current affairs policy, and the palace examination that Zhao Junchen participated in, the current affairs policy test mainly involved national financial management, and Zhao Junchen actually had knowledge of financial management techniques. An inborn talent, he became an instant sensation. In the end, he was selected as the number one scholar by Emperor Deqing, who personally presided over the palace examination. I don't know how many scholars envied him.
After the imperial examination, Zhao Junchen directly entered the household department, starting as the head of the household department of the sixth rank. He moved three times a year and rose through the ranks. In just three to five years, he became the minister of the household department of the third rank. Soon after, Emperor Deqing The internal transportation warehouse was even handed over to Zhao Junchen for management.
Such rapid rise to success is inseparable from the financial management skills that Zhao Junchen is good at.
It can be said that Zhao Junchen has indeed done a lot of practical things over the years. Before Zhao Junchen came to the court, the Ming Dynasty had difficulty in financial turnover and could not make expenditures. However, after Zhao Junchen's various suggestions and rectifications, things improved greatly, and in recent years there has been a gradual surplus!
But more importantly, the current Emperor Deqing had extraordinary favor for Zhao Junchen.
Basically, since Zhao Junchen became an official in the court, he has become a close minister around the emperor. He is always with him and he is given many rewards. Once an opportunity arises for Zhao Junchen to perform, Emperor Deqing will never let it go. Let Zhao Junchen perform as much as possible. Once Zhao Junchen performed well, Emperor Deqing would definitely seize the opportunity to promote Zhao Junchen's official position. The rewards were so generous that everyone in the government and the public would be jealous.
In this way, in less than five years, Zhao Junchen, who was only in his twenties, had already become a third-rank minister of the current dynasty! !
Precisely because the holy favor was so important, there were many rumors among the government and the public that Zhao Junchen was probably the illegitimate son of Emperor Deqing.
There are many reasons. For example, Zhao Junchen's appearance is 60-70% similar to that of Emperor Deqing when he was young. However, no one knows who Zhao Junchen's biological father is except the deceased Zhao family;
For example, in the year before Zhao gave birth to Zhao Junchen, Emperor Deqing happened to be on a tour of the south. He passed by Zhao Junchen's hometown of Yangzhou. During this period, he visited Yangzhou in secret for a period of time. During that time, what happened to Emperor Deqing? Where he went, no one knew, but it coincided with the time and place of Zhao's pregnancy;
For another example, when Zhao Junchen and His Majesty met for the first time, after learning Zhao Junchen's identity and origin, the emperor showed unusual concern for Zhao Junchen's life experience and his dead mother Zhao. After knowing that Mrs. Zhao was exhausted to death, she still looked sad and remained silent for a long time...
In short, whether in the government or in the public, the rumor that "Zhao Junchen is the illegitimate son of His Majesty" is already known to everyone and is conclusive.
Although Zhao Junchen had heard about such rumors, he was secretly proud of them, but he was not sure. The emperor himself could not deny it.
But it is undeniable that it was under the boundless divine favor that Zhao Junchen's talent in financial management was fully demonstrated, and while he made many achievements, his flaws were also clearly revealed.
Perhaps because he was afraid of poverty when he was young, Zhao Junchen has an unusual persistence and enthusiasm for money. To put it simply, he is greedy for money. As long as he sees something profitable, no matter whether it is legal or not, whether he should get it or not, he will find ways to do so. He seeks his own benefit, and the favor and even pampering of the current emperor makes him even more unscrupulous. Especially in the past two years, it has gradually evolved into insatiable greed.
Thinking about what Zhao Junchen had done over the years, Zhao Gang sighed helplessly.
Two million three hundred thousand taels of silver! !
Among Zhao Junchen's many memory fragments, even his own dynasty and environment are unclear, but this number is extremely clear.
This is what he has gained from his greed over the past five years - you must know that it was only a year ago that he was promoted to the position of Minister of Household Affairs and ranked in the court. For most of the past five years, he has only been working for the original Minister of Household Affairs. Even so, during that period of time, he could still steal as much as 400,000 taels of silver.
And after he was promoted to Minister of Household Affairs, in just six months, he made another 800,000 taels! ! After serving as the general manager of the internal transportation warehouse, in just half a year, he once again embezzled 1.1 million taels of silver! ! !
Yes, among the memory fragments received by Zhao Gang, these numbers are very clear, very clear! !
What kind of greed and madness is this.
Zhao Gang has seen corrupt officials, but he has never seen corrupt officials so crazily.
He will never refuse to give up any means, including power-for-money transactions, explicit plunder, corruption and bribery, as long as they can make him huge profits.
In addition, Zhao Junchen achieved success at a young age, and many people were jealous. He relied on Emperor Deqing's favor to act unscrupulously, offending many people. I am afraid that no less than half of the ministers in the whole court were jealous and resentful of Zhao Junchen.
However, Zhao Junchen was too favored by Emperor Deqing, and besides being corrupt, Zhao Junchen did make a lot of contributions to national financial management, which can be regarded as outstanding meritorious service. Therefore, those ministers who were envious and resentful of Zhao Junchen, For a while, there was nothing they could do to him, but secretly, they began to target him everywhere.
There are no so-called secrets in official circles. Whether Zhao Junchen has been corrupt and how much he has been corrupted are known to all the ministers who are officials in the same palace. In order to ruin Zhao Junchen's reputation and lay the groundwork for a possible closure in the future, they went all out to spread the word about Zhao Junchen's corruption and bribery, making it known to everyone on the street.
So to this day, although Zhao Junchen is not the most corrupt official in the civil and military circles of the Manchu Dynasty - after all, he has been an official for only a short time - he is definitely the most famous corrupt official in the world.
Of course, in various propaganda materials, he was still the jester beside the emperor. As for his various achievements, the ministers of the dynasty selectively ignored them, while the common people who cursed Zhao Junchen all day long, Not even the slightest clue.
Some of the above situations were obtained by Zhao Gang from Zhao Junchen's memory fragments, and some were just inferences and guesses obtained from existing intelligence, but they were not far from the actual situation.
And this is the original Zhao Junchen! !
But what makes Zhao Gang helpless is that now he is Zhao Junchen. Everything Zhao Junchen does and all the possible consequences need to be borne by him.
Thinking of this, Zhao Gang couldn't help but smile bitterly, shook his head, and said helplessly: "If God wants to destroy him, he must first make him crazy. Why do I feel that this Zhao Junchen is on the verge of destruction? I thought that although he has traveled through time, but As an ancient official, at least he is safe and has no worries about food and clothing. I didn't expect it to be like this. But now, I am Zhao Junchen, and Zhao Junchen is me. How to act in the future must be carefully planned, otherwise If the current situation continues, I'm afraid it won't end well."
