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Regarding the impeachment of Su Changzhen by the censors, Zhao Junchen smelled the smell of conspiracy, and his first reaction was to think of Chen Zhirong, the daughter of Chen You, the Duke of Jing, and believed that this woman was probably the person behind the scenes. Pinshu.com ( . .
Speaking of which, before the southern tour, there was no friendship or connection between Zhao Junchen and Su Changzhen. To Zhao Junchen, Su Changzhen was just an ordinary feudal official. Although he needed to win over, it was not necessarily the case. To have a deep friendship.
However, before the southern tour, perhaps for the purpose of wining over, Emperor Deqing saw that Zhao Junchen had never been married despite his age, so he took the initiative to act as a matchmaker and brought in Cui Qianxue, the granddaughter of Cui Mian, the former cabinet minister, and Su Xiuning, the daughter of Su Changjin, the governor of Southern Zhili. , and Chen Zhirong, the daughter of Chen You, the Duke of Jing, were introduced to Zhao Junchen.
Emperor Deqing took the initiative to act as a matchmaker, which was condescending and gave Zhao Junchen a great honor. However, because of this, out of respect for Emperor Deqing, Zhao Junchen also lost the room for independent choice. Being able to choose one of these three women to marry as his wife - otherwise, if Zhao Junchen chooses another woman to become his wife, it will be a disgrace to Emperor Deqing, it will be disrespectful, and it will attract the anger of Emperor Deqing. .
Among the three women, Zhao Junchen has always been non-committal about the choice of his future wife and has not shown any inclination.
This is because Zhao Junchen has no special feelings for these three women. Although the three of them are all ladies from well-known families, talented and beautiful, and each has their own merits - Cui Qianxue is naive and willful, but she and Zhao Junchen are not the same people. Their values are completely different; Su Xiuning is a talented woman who can be said to be dignified and virtuous, but it is a pity that Zhao Junchen does not get along with her; Chen Zhirong is scheming, capable, and even has some ambitions that women should not have, so she and Zhao Junchen have the same chemistry. , but Zhao Junchen didn't trust her at all.
Of course, the main reason is the consideration of interests - the backgrounds of these three women each have advantages and disadvantages for Zhao Junchen, but it also makes Zhao Junchen difficult to make a choice for a while - Cui Qianxue's grandfather Cui Mian is from Qingliu. Leader. If Zhao Junchen marries Cui Qianxue, his reputation may be improved, but other than that, it will not bring any substantial help to Zhao Junchen; and Su Xiuning's father, Su Changzhen, is a feudal official of the imperial court, and can be said to be a powerful and important official. , but he is also a notorious corrupt official. If Zhao Junchen marries Su Xiuning. Although it can enhance the power of connections, she may be implicated by Su Changzhen in the future; as for Chen Zhirong, she is the youngest daughter of Chen You, the Duke of Jing. The eldest daughter of Chen You, Duke of Jing, is the fiancée of the seventh prince Zhu Hejian. If Zhao Junchen marries Chen Zhirong, the advantage is that he can deepen his relationship with the seventh prince Zhu Hejian, and even take the opportunity to spy on Zhu Hejian's details, but the disadvantage is that Zhao Junchen will never be married again. He will be tied to Zhu Hejian, and his own power will be easily penetrated by Zhu Hejian.
As a result, with the pros and cons unpredictable, Zhao Junchen kept delaying Emperor Deqing's matchmaking. No decision has been made yet.
At the same time, the three women had different feelings towards Zhao Junchen. Cui Qianxue was probably just curious about Zhao Junchen, while Su Xiuning had to get close to Zhao Junchen due to the pressure from her father Su Changjin, but she could only Chen Zhirong, a woman with an unusual temperament, really hoped that she could marry Zhao Junchen out of various considerations. And continue to work hard for this.
In fact, Chen Zhirong was a man of action and took action quickly.
Chen Zhirong knew very well that when Zhao Junchen chose his first wife, he mainly considered profit factors, so she also started from this aspect. Try every means to weaken the advantages of Cui Qianxue and Su Xiuning. According to Chen Zhirong, as long as Cui Qianxue and Su Xiuning cannot bring clear benefits to Zhao Junchen, then Zhao Junchen will not marry them. At that time, Chen Zhirong will also become Zhao Junchen. The only candidate for Junchen's main wife can marry Zhao Junchen as a matter of course. Becoming the hostess of the Zhao Mansion - In a certain respect, Zhao Junchen is indeed a person who puts interests first, so Chen Zhirong's idea is not wrong.
Therefore, before the start of the southern tour, Chen Zhirong first used rumors to frame Cui Qianxue, so that Cui Qianxue's reputation was ruined. Finally, under the pressure of public opinion, Cui Qianxue and Cui Qianxue's father Cui Yu were expelled from Cui Qianxue. Every family has cut off the Cui family's contact with them. In this way, even if Zhao Junchen marries Cui Qianxue, it is impossible to improve his reputation, so the possibility of Zhao Junchen marrying Cui Qianxue is extremely small.
It was precisely because of this criminal record that when Zhao Junchen saw someone deliberately collecting evidence and secretly inciting the censors to impeach Su Changjin, he immediately thought of Chen Zhirong and subconsciously believed that Chen Zhirong was the person behind the scenes.
This approach is in line with Chen Zhirong's interests and Chen Zhirong's thinking - as long as Su Changzhen falls, then even if Zhao Junchen marries Su Xiuning, he will not be able to increase his own power, but will be affected by Su Changzhen. In this way, With Zhao Junchen's profit-oriented nature, how could he still marry Su Xiuning?
At that time, considering all the pros and cons, Zhao Junchen was left with the only option of marrying Chen Zhirong - this was probably Chen Zhirong's wishful thinking.
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"No wonder, when the Southern Patrol Fleet arrived in Southern Zhili, Chen Zhirong was uncharacteristically uncharacteristic and stopped pestering me. At that time, I thought she understood that I had too many things to deal with during that period, so she knew enough not to bother me. Me, but if she was really behind the impeachment of Su Changzhen by the imperial censors, then she was probably not idle during that time, but was collecting evidence of Su Changzhen's crimes from all over the place, maybe even more so than me. You are busy, so of course you don’t have time to look for me..."
While thinking secretly, Zhao Junchen frowned slightly.
To be honest, Zhao Junchen could understand Chen Zhirong's various little moves, but he didn't like them.
Zhao Junchen is also an unscrupulous person, but after all, he still has some bottom line. When doing things, he will always try to avoid involving innocent people, but Chen Zhirong is different. In order to achieve her goal, she has destroyed Cui Qianxue's family before, and now she still Wanting to destroy Su Xiuning's family - although Su Changzhen was indeed a corrupt official and deserved to be destroyed, Su Xiuning was always innocent.
Thinking of this, Zhao Junchen shook his head slightly and sighed softly.
Zhao Junchen knew very well that with Chen Zhirong's scheming methods, as long as she wanted to destroy Su Changzhen and his daughter, then today's impeachment of the censor was just the beginning. There would be other actions in the future. If Chen Zhirong's series of plans went smoothly If it continues, Su Changzhen will definitely be in big trouble.
Therefore, Zhao Junchen was a little hesitant, not knowing whether he should take action to help Su Changjin.
The relationship between Su Changzhen and Zhao Junchen was just average. Under normal circumstances, Zhao Junchen would not deliberately help him, but now that it was related to the choice of Zhao Junchen's future wife, Zhao Junchen was not willing to let Chen Zhirong get too happy.
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Nowadays, Zhao Junchen's prestige within the "Zhao Party" is gradually deepening. When Zhao Junchen left the Huangji Palace, although there were "Zhao Party" officials such as Zuo Lanshan, Tong Huan, and Qin Huaiyuan accompanying him, they saw Zhao Junchen When Junchen was frowning and thinking, he didn't dare to speak at all, for fear of disturbing Zhao Junchen's thoughts, so he just followed him quietly step by step.
At this moment, someone suddenly called out from behind Zhao Junchen, interrupting the quiet atmosphere around Zhao Junchen.
"Master Zhao, please stay!"
After hearing the call, Zhao Junchen turned around and saw that Huo Zhengyuan and Chen Dongxiang were leading several "yellow party" officials towards him quickly.
Seeing Huo Zhengyuan contacting him so blatantly without worrying about arousing suspicion, Zhao Junchen knew that his plan to annex the "Yellow Party" was about to begin the next stage.
Sure enough, after arriving in front of Zhao Junchen, Huo Zhengyuan said: "Sir Zhao, some close colleagues in the imperial court and the imperial court will have a banquet tonight at Fushou Pavilion in the south of the city. Those colleagues have always admired Mr. Zhao and hope to be able to communicate with him. Lord Zhao has deepened our friendship, so I entrusted my subordinates to invite Lord Zhao to the banquet, but I wonder if Lord Zhao is willing to reward me?"
Obviously, this gathering is not simple, but an opportunity deliberately created by Huo Zhengyuan - an opportunity for Zhao Junchen to meet privately with those "yellow party" officials. Through this gathering, Zhao Junchen can take the opportunity to win over the "yellow party" Officials, "yellow party" officials can also take advantage of the opportunity to express their feelings to Zhao Junchen.
It can be said that how many "yellow party" officials will defect to Zhao Junchen in the future depends largely on the outcome of this banquet.
After understanding this, Zhao Junchen naturally would not refuse Huo Zhengyuan's invitation, but he smiled and said: "I see, since all my colleagues think so highly of me, I will definitely go to Fushou Pavilion on time tonight, and I will also take the opportunity to meet with you. Colleagues, get close to me."
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ps: Everyone knows that there has been something going on in Chongzi’s family during this period of time. I don’t want to say more about the specific situation, otherwise it will be suspected of gaining sympathy - and in this matter, Chongzi doesn’t want to get sympathy.
However, tonight, the family members talked to Chongzi, thinking that apart from taking care of family and official affairs, Chongzi also took time to write words every night, and often couldn't go to bed until after early morning, fearing that Chongzi's body wouldn't be able to bear it; most importantly, This book is difficult to write, but it does not make any money at all. Instead, it will delay things, so the family hopes that Chongzi will make a choice.
So, Chongzi thought for a while and decided to continue coding, but he could give up his cheap reserve and his limited rest time.
Prior to this, Chongzi’s updates had been weak, so Chongzi was embarrassed to ask for subscriptions and rewards from everyone.
But starting from today, I beg everyone to give Chongzi some practical support so that the income from this book can be a little more affordable, so that Chongzi can withstand the pressure of family and continue to write books with peace of mind.
Of course, at the same time, updates will also be accelerated while ensuring quality.
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…(To be continued.)
