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Previously, the smooth progress of this conversation made Zhu Heyu relax his vigilance, and he only felt that his alliance plan with Zhao Junchen was about to succeed.
However, Zhao Junchen's questions and requests were too sudden and too sensitive, completely beyond Zhu Heyu's expectations. Zhu Heyu was caught off guard. Even though his scheming had grown a lot, he was still at this time. His face changed uncontrollably.
When the change in Zhu Heyu's expression fell into Zhao Junchen's eyes, his trump card and thoughts were completely exposed!
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In fact, Zhao Shancai did leave a secret suicide note when he was dying!
During that time, Zhao Shan discovered that he was already dead. He neither panicked nor gave up on himself. Instead, he burst out with unprecedented focus and will, and used up all the remaining life and energy. His mind was thinking every moment. They are running at extremely high speed all the time, constantly reviewing intelligence, sorting out information, deducing the situation, and thinking of countermeasures!
Inspired by such unparalleled awareness and courage, Zhao Shancai's mind became extremely sharp, and his mind and vision greatly exceeded the previous level!
In the end, he left all his thoughts and plans in his secret suicide note, which he solemnly handed over to Zhu Heyu before his death.
It can be said that the secret suicide note that Zhao Shancai handed over to Zhu Heyu not only condensed all the wisdom of Zhao Shancai during his lifetime, but was also his last ditch effort to assist Zhu Heyu in realizing his political aspirations!
Moreover, Zhao Shancai’s secret suicide note was not just one, but three!
Among these three secret suicide letters, only one of them was actually left to Zhu Heyu. The other two secret suicide letters were entrusted to Zhu Heyu to be delivered to Emperor Deqing and the new crown prince Wang Baoren respectively.
At that time, Zhu Heyu was still a gentleman who abided by the bottom line. He did not peek at the contents of the other two secret suicide notes, but honestly handed them over to Emperor Deqing and Wang Baoren respectively.
Interestingly, Emperor Deqing and Wang Baoren behaved completely differently after receiving Zhao Shancai's secret suicide note.
But it was said that after Emperor Deqing read Zhao Shancai's secret letter, his face quickly became gloomy, angry and worried. After taking a deep look at Zhu Heyu, he suddenly asked Zhu Heyu if he had secretly peeped at the secret letter. After receiving Zhu Heyu's negative answer, Emperor Deqing's eyes became extremely complicated and indescribable.
In the end, Emperor Deqing shook his head and sighed, then ordered someone to bring a candle and burn Zhao Shancai's secret suicide note to ashes. However, he never disclosed the secret letter to Zhu Heyu from the beginning to the end. Content.
Speaking of which, it was after Emperor Deqing read Zhao Shancai's secret suicide note that his attitude towards Zhu Heyu took a turn for the worse and became even worse. It was also during that period that the seventh prince Zhu Hejian began to gradually From behind the scenes to the front.
On the other side, after the new crown prince and grand master Wang Baoren received the secret letter of Zhao Shancai's suicide note, his behavior was completely opposite. He couldn't help being happy and extremely excited, and he quickly told Zhu Heyu the contents of the secret letter. !
It turned out that after Zhao Shancai was recruited by Prince Zhu Heyu to assist in the East Palace, he had already accumulated a considerable amount of temple capital - including a newly built intelligence agency and dozens of middle- and lower-level court officials who were secretly recruited and bribed. , as well as a large number of various resources, etc. - this is quite a rich political legacy, Zhao Shancai handed it all to Wang Baoren in a secret letter, and also put forward several proposals that seemed to be quite effective.
At that time, Wang Baoren had just left the Sixth Department of Nanjing, and it only took him half a day to officially take over the position of Crown Prince and Grand Master. It was at a time when his foundation was at its lowest and his power was weak. After receiving this resource, he was able to quickly establish himself. Heel was naturally overjoyed.
In fact, if he had not received this political legacy from Zhao Shancai, Wang Baoren would not have made up his mind so quickly and sold out the entire Nanjing Six Ministries in exchange for Emperor Deqing's promise to join the cabinet.
As for the secret suicide note that Zhao Shancai left for Zhu Heyu, it was even more eloquent and spanned dozens of pages!
The first half of this secret suicide note was Zhao Shancai's detailed analysis of the future direction of the temple situation, and he also proposed several countermeasures, which inspired Zhu Heyu and benefited a lot.
It can be said that Zhu Heyu's various practices and decisions during this period, including his recent hiding performance and his decision to actively form an alliance with Zhao Junchen, were all affected by this secret suicide note.
However, the last few pages of this secret suicide note are completely different from the clear logic and insights of the previous contents. They are all content and suggestions that seem to have no meaning or connection, and are quite baffling.
At the beginning, Zhu Heyu thought that these confusing contents and suggestions were just a sign of Zhao Shancai's confusion when he was dying and seriously ill. He didn't pay too much attention to it, but deep down in his heart, he felt that these words were vaguely meaningless. There are some profound meanings, so I secretly keep them in mind and wait for time to give me the answer.
The further development of the situation in the temple during this period of time actually vaguely echoed the seemingly meaningless contents and suggestions in the secret letter, but Zhu Heyu no longer dared to look down upon it, and increasingly believed that these contents were hidden. Some crucial clues and foreshadowings, at certain critical moments in the future, might have the effect of reversing the world!
According to Zhu Heyu's guess, perhaps Zhao Shancai had formulated an extremely large and secretive plan before his death. Because Zhu Heyu was not yet mature at the time, Zhao Shancai only revealed a small part of the content to him in a secret suicide note. That’s why the second half of Zhao Shancai’s secret suicide note seems completely unrelated and completely confusing!
Zhu Heyu has always highly respected Zhao Shancai's vision and wisdom. When he discovered this, not only did he not blame Zhao Shancai for concealing it, but he vaguely expected that Zhao Shancai's foreshadowing and conspiracy would come into play at some point in the future, and put it into practice. They regard it as their own trump card!
Now, after hearing Zhao Junchen's inquiry and request, Zhu Heyu immediately thought of the seemingly useless content and suggestions in the second half of Zhao Shancai's secret suicide note!
After all, although the first half of Zhao Shancai's secret suicide note and the seemingly important situation analysis and strategic planning are far-sighted and penetrating, they are all too conventional. Zhao Junchen's strategic vision is also not bad, and it is easy to guess It can be cracked easily.
Only the seemingly useless but profound contents in the last few pages are probably Zhao Shancai's deviant and unexpected strategies to win. They may not be part of Zhao Junchen's calculations, and they are Zhao Junchen's real plot!
Although Zhu Heyu wanted to form an alliance with Zhao Junchen, their ambitions and temperaments were completely different after all. Even if the two sides successfully formed an alliance today, this alliance is still very fragile. They may break up and fall out at some point in the future. In such a situation How dare Zhu Heyu hand over his final comeback card to Zhao Junchen?
As a result, Zhu Heyu's expression changed drastically, and his thoughts started to change rapidly, thinking about how to deal with it.
Zhu Heyu also knew that after the change in his expression fell into Zhao Junchen's eyes, the fact that Zhao Shancai left the secret message must have been exposed. If he denies it at this time, it would be a sign of lack of sincerity. The alliance with Zhao Junchen will naturally It will end without any illness.
Therefore, at this time, he could neither forcefully deny Zhao Junchen's questions and requests, nor could he just obediently give Zhao Junchen his trump card.
Finally, Zhu Heyu asked a seemingly innocent question: "Master Zhao, why do you know about the secret letter?"
Such a rhetorical question seemed to be a direct admission of the existence of the secret letter. Coupled with the panic on Zhu Heyu's expression, it seemed that Zhu Heyu had returned to his original appearance without any city government.
But in fact, after the secret letter could no longer be concealed, such a seemingly subconscious question seemed to expose his trump card, but in fact it was to test Zhao Junchen's background and find out how much Zhao Junchen knew.
On the other side, Zhao Junchen had a hint of amusement in his expression, quietly watching Zhu Heyu's confused expression and his quick-witted performance after the confusion.
How should I put it, Zhu Heyu's performance was very good, but after all, he was too young, and this little trick was too hasty, and his intentions could not be hidden from Zhao Junchen's eyes.
Then, Zhao Junchen said with a half-smile: "Zhao Shancai left you three secret letters before he died, right? In addition to you, he also gave one to His Majesty and Wang Baoren, right? In fact, Zhao Shancai left you three secret letters before he died. A total of four secret letters were left... Your Highness, please guess whose hand the other one is in?"
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