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Previously, the smooth progress of this conversation made Zhu Heyu's heart relax his vigilance, and he only felt that his alliance plan with Zhao Junchen was about to succeed.

But Zhao Junchen's questions and requests were too sudden and too sensitive, completely beyond Zhu Heyu's expectations, which caught Zhu Heyu quite off guard.

When Zhu Heyu's expression changed and fell into Zhao Junchen's eyes, his hole cards and ideas were completely exposed!

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In fact, when Zhao Shancai was dying, he did leave a suicide note!

During that time, Zhao Shan realized that he was not long dying, neither frightened nor self-abandoned, but burst out with unprecedented concentration and will, and also exhausted all the remaining life and mental strength, his mind was running at a high speed all the time, sleepless to check information, sort out information, deduce the situation of the court, and think about countermeasures!

Inspired by such an incomparable consciousness and courage, Zhao Shancai's mind became extremely sharp, and his mind and vision also greatly exceeded the previous level!

In the end, he left all his thoughts and plans in his suicide note, and solemnly handed them over to Zhu Heyu on his deathbed.

It can be said that the suicide note that Zhao Shancai handed over to Zhu Heyu is not only a condensation of all the wisdom of Zhao Shancai during his lifetime, but also his last fight to assist Zhu Heyu to realize his political ambitions!

Moreover, Zhao Shancai's suicide note is not only one, but there are as many as three!

Among the three suicide letters, only one of them was really left to Zhu Heyu, and the other two suicide notes were asked to be forwarded to Emperor Yu Deqing and the new crown prince Wang Baoren respectively.

At that time, Zhu Heyu was still a gentleman who adhered to the bottom line, and did not peek at the contents of the other two suicide notes, but honestly transferred them to Emperor Deqing and Wang Baoren respectively.

Interestingly, after Emperor Deqing and Wang Baoren received Zhao Shancai's suicide note, their performance can be described as completely different.

But it was said that after Emperor Deqing read Zhao Shancai's suicide note, he quickly became gloomy, angry and worried, and after taking a deep look at Zhu Heyu, he suddenly asked Zhu Heyu if he had secretly peeked into the content of this secret letter, and after getting Zhu Heyu's negative answer, Emperor Deqing's eyes became more and more complicated and indescribable.

In the end, after Emperor Deqing shook his head and sighed, he ordered someone to bring a fire candle, and burned Zhao Shancai's suicide note to ashes, but he never revealed the contents of this secret letter to Zhu Heyu.

Speaking of which, it was after Emperor Deqing read Zhao Shancai's suicide note that his attitude towards Zhu Heyu became drastic and worse, and it was from that time that the seventh prince Zhu Hejian gradually moved from behind the scenes to the front of the stage.

On the other hand, after the new crown prince and master Wang Baoren received Zhao Shancai's suicide note, his performance was diametrically opposite, he couldn't help but be overjoyed and excited, and quickly told Zhu Heyu the content of this secret letter!

It turned out that after Zhao Shancai was recruited by the crown prince Zhu Heyu to assist in the East Palace, he had already accumulated a large amount of temple capital that could not be underestimated—including a newly established intelligence agency, dozens of middle- and lower-level court officials who were secretly recruited and bribed, and a large amount of various resources, etc.—This is quite a rich political legacy, and Zhao Shancai handed it over 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 was only half a day to officially take over the position of the crown prince and prince, which was the time when the foundation was the shallowest and the strength was weak.

In fact, if he hadn't obtained Zhao Shancai's political legacy, Wang Baoren would not have made up his mind so quickly some time ago and simply sold the entire Nanjing Sixth Department in exchange for Emperor Deqing's promise to enter the cabinet.

As for the suicide note that Zhao Shancai left to Zhu Heyu, it is even more sprinkled with dozens of pages!

The first half of this suicide note is Zhao Shancai's detailed analysis of the future trend of the temple situation, and put forward several countermeasures, which inspired Zhu Heyu and benefited a lot.

It can be said that all of Zhu Heyu's practices and decisions during this period of time, including his recent clumsy behavior and his decision to actively ally with Zhao Junchen, were all influenced by this suicide note.

However, the last few pages of this suicide note are completely different from the previous contents, with clear logic and insightful insights, all of which seem to have no meaning, no relevance, and are quite inexplicable content and suggestions.

At the beginning, Zhu Heyu thought that these incompromising contents and proposals were just Zhao Shancai's delirious performance when he was dying and seriously ill, and he didn't care too much, but deep in his heart, he faintly felt that these words had some deep meaning, so he secretly kept them in mind and waited for time to give him an answer.

Waiting for the further development of the temple situation during this period of time, it faintly echoed the seemingly meaningless contents and proposals in the secret letter, but Zhu Heyu no longer dared to despise them, and more and more thought that these contents hid some crucial clues and foreshadowing, and then waited until some critical moments in the future, maybe it would have the effect of reversing the situation!

According to Zhu Heyu's speculation, perhaps Zhao Shancai had formulated an extremely large and secret plan before his death, because Zhu Heyu was not mature at the beginning, Zhao Shancai only revealed a small part of the content to him in the suicide note, so the second half of Zhao Shancai's suicide note will seem unconnected and completely confusing!

Zhu Heyu has always admired Zhao Shancai's vision and wisdom, and when he found out this, not only did he not blame Zhao Shancai for concealing it, but he faintly looked forward to Zhao Shancai's foreshadowing and tricks to play a role at some point in the future, and regarded them as his own hole cards!

Now, after hearing Zhao Junchen's inquiries and requests, Zhu Heyu immediately thought of the seemingly useless content and proposals in the second half of Zhao Shancai's suicide note!

After all, the first half of Zhao Shancai's suicide note, those seemingly important situation analysis and strategic planning, although they are far-sighted and insightful, are also too conventional, and Zhao Junchen's strategic vision is also not bad, it is easy to guess and easy to crack.

Only the seemingly useless but profound content on the last few pages is likely to be Zhao Shancai's sword to go sideways and win by surprise, not necessarily in Zhao Junchen's calculations, but Zhao Junchen's real plan!

Of course, Zhu and Yu want to form an alliance with Zhao Junchen, but the ambition of the two is completely different after all, even if the two sides successfully form an alliance today, this alliance is very fragile, and they may break and turn their faces in the future, how dare Zhu and Yu hand over their last cards to Zhao Junchen in this case?

As a result, Zhu Heyu's expression changed greatly, but his thoughts also turned sharply in his heart, 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 matter of Zhao Shancai's secret letter must have been exposed, and if he denied it at this time, it would be a sign of insincerity, and the alliance with Zhao Junchen would naturally end in nothing.

Therefore, he could neither forcibly deny Zhao Junchen's questions and requests at this time, nor could he obediently send his hole cards to Zhao Junchen with both hands.

In the end, Zhu Heyu opened his mouth and asked a seemingly innocent question: "Lord Zhao, why do you know about Mixin?" ”

Such a rhetorical question seems to directly admit the existence of the secret letter, coupled with the panic between Zhu and Yu's expressions, it seems that Zhu and Yu have returned to the original appearance of no city for a while.

But in fact, after the secret letter could no longer be hidden, such a seemingly subconscious rhetorical question seemed to expose the hole cards, but in fact, it was to test Zhao Junchen's details, and wanted to find out how much Zhao Junchen knew.

On the other side, Zhao Junchen's expression was full of playfulness, quietly watching Zhu Heyu's panic and his quick performance after being at a loss.

How to say it, Zhu Heyu's performance is very good, but after all, he is too tender, and this little trick is too hasty, and his intentions can't hide Zhao Junchen's eyes at all.

Then, Zhao Junchen smiled and said, "Zhao Shancai left you three secret letters before he died, right?" In addition to you, I also gave His Majesty and Wang Baoren one each, right? In fact, Zhao Shancai left a total of four secret letters before his death...... Your Royal Highness the Prince, guess whose hand is there another one? ”

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I wish you all good health and success in the new year.

Well, revert to the update.

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