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After finishing speaking, Zhao Junchen stood up, led everyone outside the living room, and greeted them personally. Lok Man Novels
Seeing Zhao Junchen's attitude, Zuo Lanshan, Gu Quan, Zhan Shanchang, and Liu Chang'an were all curious. They didn't know what kind of guest it was that Zhao Junchen could personally lower his rank to greet him.
Soon, the two guests arrived in front of everyone one after another.
After seeing these two guests, everyone except Zhao Junchen was shocked!
It turns out that these two guests are both acquaintances, but they are not friends either!
The first guest is Huang Yourong's confidant, wise and courageous, and the current great scholar Huo Zhengyuan!
As for the second guest, he is the "Zhao Party" traitor, Chen Dongxiang, the minister of the Ministry of Industry who is now prosperous under Huang Yourong's family!
It stands to reason that these two people are enemies rather than friends with the "Zhao Party". Huo Zhengyuan is Huang Yourong's confidant and wise man, helping Huang Yourong to make troubles with the Zhao Party many times. But after all, it is just a conflict between different parties and each has his own master. Although everyone will be hostile. To him, but there won’t be too much resentment in my heart!
However, Chen Dongxiang has been the biggest traitor of the "Zhao Party" since its establishment. After he betrayed Zhao Junchen, he simply defected to Zhao Junchen's political enemy Huang Yourong, and then provided Huang Yourong with many evidences of "Zhao Party" officials. Especially officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry lost a lot of people because of the evidence provided by Chen Dongxiang.
In addition, when Zhao Junchen and Zuo Lanshan accompanied him on the southern tour, Chen Dongxiang was Huang Yourong's vanguard in suppressing the "Zhao Party". Not only did he contribute the most, he was also the most active! During Emperor Deqing's southern tour, probably two-thirds of those officials who betrayed the "Zhao Party" were prompted by Chen Dongxiang! Moreover, Gu Quan, Zhan Shanchang, Liu Changan and others lost their official positions. Chen Dongxiang also takes great credit!
It can be said that traitors are often more hated than enemies on the surface. Compared with Huo Zhengyuan, the relationship between Chen Dongxiang and Zhao Dang can be called "the hatred is as deep as the sea"!
In fact. Gu Quan, Zhan Shanchang and Liu Changan all lost their official positions because of Chen Dongxiang some time ago. Now after seeing Chen Dongxiang's appearance, they all became red-eyed and planned to yell at Chen Dongxiang because Zhao Junchen was right in front of them.
However, before they had time to speak, Zhao Junchen spoke first. Introducing to Zuo Lanshan, Gu Quan, Zhan Shanchang, Liu Changan and others: "Everyone is already familiar with these two, but now let me introduce again, Huo Zhengyuan, Bachelor Huo, who is extremely intelligent and knowledgeable. There are few people in the dynasty who have a long-term vision. From now on, Academician Huo is one of our own, and everyone should get closer to him from now on."
After hearing Zhao Junchen's introduction, Zuo Lanshan, Zhan Shanchang and others were all shocked!
They all know it. Once Huang Yourong collapses, power will inevitably be divided among the major factions in the DPRK, and they are also ready to make a move. I had some ideas in my mind and was about to propose it to Zhao Junchen, but I didn't expect that Zhao Junchen had already planned well and bribed Huo Zhengyuan, one of the three top cadres of the "Yellow Party"!
The "Zhao Party" and the "Yellow Party" have fought many times. They naturally know that among the three major generals of the "Yellow Party", Huo Zhengyuan's existence is far more threatening than Lin Wei and Zhang Cheng. If only in terms of strategic vision, If so, Huo Zhengyuan would even be stronger than Huang Yourong! In addition, Huo Zhengyuan has a very high reputation and popularity among the "yellow party". Therefore, after Huo Zhengyuan defected to Zhao Junchen, the "Zhao Party" was in the process of carving up the power and influence of the "Yellow Party". I am afraid that I have already taken the advantage and can obtain the greatest benefits!
Thinking of this, no matter it is Zuolan Mountain. Or Zhan Shanchang, Gu Quan, and Liu Changan all welcomed Huo Zhengyuan with very friendly expressions.
On the other side, although Huo Zhengyuan is quite intelligent and has a noble status, he is new to the Zhao party, but he does not act too arrogant, and he nods to everyone very kindly.
After some polite exchanges, everyone's eyes turned to Chen Dongxiang, including Huo Zhengyuan!
Chen Dongxiang's betrayal has caused great harm to the Zhao party. The hatred between the two parties has become difficult to resolve. No one knows the purpose of Chen Dongxiang's request to see Zhao Junchen!
Is it possible that Chen Dongxiang unexpectedly decided to join Zhao Junchen again? If this is the case, what will greet Chen Dongxiang will only be humiliation.
Under the attention of everyone, Chen Dongxiang behaved very calmly, just waiting quietly for Zhao Junchen to introduce himself.
Then, Zhao Junchen introduced again: "As for this person, everyone knows that he is Chen Dongxiang, the minister of the Ministry of Industry. In the eyes of the world, Chen Dongxiang is a traitor among us and an accomplice of Huang Yourong. But now the situation has been determined, and many things There is no need to keep it secret anymore, so I will explain it to everyone... that is, Mr. Chen is one of my own from the beginning to the end, and his actions of seeking refuge with Huang Yourong were all based on my instructions from the beginning to the end. ! In fact, in recent days, in the various conflicts between us and the Yellow Party, Mr. Chen has indeed made the greatest contribution to the reason why we have been able to take the lead! Therefore, everyone must not misunderstand Mr. Chen in the future and get along well with him. That’s it!”
After hearing Zhao Junchen's introduction, everyone was silent for a while.
After all, Chen Dongxiang has caused too much damage to "Zhao Party" these days, and it is very difficult for everyone to accept Chen Dongxiang's existence again.
Especially, thinking about Chen Dongxiang's various actions, so many "Zhao Party" officials were dismissed from office and questioned because of Chen Dongxiang. All of this was actually at the instruction of Zhao Junchen, and everyone didn't know what to do for a while. What does it mean?
Should we blame Zhao Junchen for betraying his own people at all costs?
Even if they do have such an idea in their hearts, how can anyone dare to bring it up in person?
Therefore, the atmosphere became awkward.
In the end, it was Huo Zhengyuan who carefully looked at Chen Dongxiang for a few times before he broke the awkward atmosphere and said, "So, I have long suspected that Mr. Chen's intention of seeking refuge with Huang Yourong was impure. Based on the evidence provided by Mr. Chen, Huang Yourong will certainly be punished. Some Zhao party officials often fall into the trap because of this, and their own losses are much greater. It turns out that all this is Master Zhao's plan!"
On the other side, Zuo Lanshan relied on his identity to be equal to Zhao Junchen. After hesitating for a while, he finally asked: "Master Zhao. After Chen Dongxiang took refuge with Huang Yourong, he exposed the 'Huaihe River Flood Case' to Huang Yourong. Because of this incident, our Ministry of Household Affairs and Ministry of Industry suffered heavy losses, and a total of 19 officials were dismissed from their posts. Could it be that this incident was also caused by your instruction?"
Facing Zuo Lanshan's questioning, Zhao Junchen's expression remained calm and he said slowly: "I have said that everything Chen Dongxiang did was with my instruction! Not only did he expose the 'Huaihe River Flood Disaster' to Huang Yourong Case', during His Majesty's southern tour, Chen Dongxiang also provided Huang Yourong with some evidence of the crimes of Lord Gu Quangu, Lord Zhan Shanchangzhan, and Lord Liu Changan and Liu. It was because of these evidence that the three adults were dismissed from their official positions! In addition, during this period, Since then, Chen Dongxiang has either threatened or instigated many people, causing many people to betray us and turn to Huang Yourong, and this matter also came from my instruction!"
After hearing Zhao Junchen's explanation, everyone's expressions changed again. They felt that Zhao Junchen was so scheming and ruthless that he actually instigated Chen Dongxiang to do so many things that betrayed his own people! For a time, Zuo Lanshan, Zhan Shanchang and others. They all don’t know how they should face Zhao Junchen!
However, Huo Zhengyuan's intelligence and vision were deeply valued by Zhao Junchen, and now he has lived up to Zhao Junchen's high expectations. After pondering for a moment, he vaguely guessed Zhao Junchen's thoughts, so he spoke again: "But I think there must be another reason why Mr. Zhao did this, right?"
After Zhao Junchen smiled softly, he nodded and said: "That's right. These decisions of mine are all for the long-term development of us people! Let's talk about the 'Huaihe River Flood Case' first. This matter was caused by someone from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs. Some officials committed crimes secretly without telling us. It is not an exaggeration to say that this behavior is betrayal. Even without Huang Yourong, I would punish them! In addition. These people are as greedy as wolves, but as stupid as pigs. Because of their greed and Being stupid will harm us sooner or later, so I’m just borrowing Huang Yourong’s hand to help us clean up the house!"
After hearing Zhao Junchen's explanation, everyone nodded slightly to express their agreement, which was deemed to have approved Zhao Junchen's explanation.
After all, it is the biggest taboo in the officialdom for officials to do things without telling their superiors. Not only do they not share the benefits, but they are also very likely to implicate others. Such behavior is indeed resented by others. Zhao Junchen used Huang Yourong's hands to clean up the family, but it turned out that That makes sense.
The only thing worthy of discussion is that Zhao Junchen did not inform others and just made the decision arbitrarily. However, as the largest leader of the "Zhao Party", Zhao Junchen also has the qualifications to act arbitrarily, and it is difficult for others to say anything. .
On the other side, after Zhao Junchen saw that everyone accepted his explanation, he added: "As for Chen Dongxiang's continuous instigation of close colleagues in the government to betray us during this period, it was also because of my instructions. After all, our power has expanded too fast in recent times. Of course, there are many people who have taken refuge with us, but they are mixed and have different people's hearts. Many people are not trustworthy at all, so I am taking this opportunity to screen them. Otherwise, this situation may happen sometime. Become our biggest weakness!"
This time, everyone still nodded in agreement.
There is a saying in later generations called "No loyalty can withstand the test."
As a boss, of course you cannot blindly trust your subordinates, but you cannot set up a trap to test the loyalty of your subordinates because of suspicion. Otherwise, it will only hurt people's hearts and shake their loyalty. In addition, any loyalty has its limit. If the temptation you provide is too great, don't blame your subordinates for betraying you!
However, this sentence only applies to those old people who have served you for many years, or those gentlemen with noble character! However, most of the officials under Zhao Junchen were newcomers who had joined the army not long ago, and most of them were villains who were unscrupulous in their pursuit of profit. It was understandable to test their loyalty occasionally.
Therefore, everyone still accepted Zhao Junchen's explanation.
Then, Zhao Junchen turned his attention to Zhan Shanchang, Gu Quan and Liu Changan, and said: "As for Chen Dongxiang providing evidence to Huang Yourong, which caused the three of you to be dismissed from office, it was also due to my instructions, but the reason why I did this I did it to protect the three of you!"
After hearing Zhao Junchen's explanation, Zhan Shanchang, Gu Quan and Liu Changan all looked puzzled and did not understand what Zhao Junchen meant.
After Zhao Junchen smiled softly, he further explained: "You three have been with me the longest and your position in the court is the most important. Therefore, after I accompany you on the southern tour, you three will inevitably become Huang Yourong and Prince Zhu Heyu. They will definitely target you with all their strength! Even without the evidence provided by Chen Dongxiang, Huang Yourong and the prince will definitely look for other evidence, so I simply asked Chen Dongxiang to provide Huang Yourong with some flawed evidence. In this way, Although the three of you will lose your official positions in a short period of time, after I return to Beijing, I can easily restore your official positions through the various flaws in these criminal evidences! All this is for the safety of you three, and for the sake of acting. , I did not tell the truth beforehand, and I ask the three adults not to blame me for this."
After hearing Zhao Junchen's explanation, how could Zhan Shanchang, Gu Quan and Liu Changan really dare to blame Zhao Junchen? After looking at each other, they all saluted Zhao Junchen and said: "Master Zhao, your love for us is so well-intentioned, how can we dare to blame you? Your Excellency, you are so clever, we admire you so much." !”
When things got to this point, all of Chen Dongxiang's "evil deeds" were explained, and with Zhao Junchen's deliberate protection, everyone finally accepted Chen Dongxiang's existence again.
But at the same time, everyone also saw Zhao Junchen's methods again because of this incident. They felt that Zhao Junchen had a long-term vision and had already anticipated everything. He just used his methods lightly and toyed with everyone, so they He became even more in awe of Zhao Junchen.
Especially Zhan Shanchang, Gu Quan and Liu Changan, they were still a little proud of themselves. They just felt that they had done a great job for not betraying Zhao Junchen during these times, and they had suffered so much for Zhao Junchen. Zhao Junchen deserved it. To comfort and compensate them, so after they saw Zhao Junchen, they repeatedly hinted benefits to Zhao Junchen, but after this incident, these thoughts were gone!
Because, they discovered that the reason why the three of them did not betray Zhao Junchen was just because there was no such item in Zhao Junchen's plan. Therefore, when Chen Dongxiang encouraged others to betray Zhao Junchen and promised a lot of benefits, he repeatedly forced They, so that they could only hug Zhao Junchen's thigh tightly, unable to have other thoughts.
On the other hand, if they broke away from Zhao Junchen's plan and actually betrayed Zhao Junchen, then they would also face the most severe punishment now!
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ps: Well, there will be a small outbreak tomorrow and the next two days.
…(To be continued.)
