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"Zhan is suspicious? Talk too much? …… Zhan Shanchang? ”

After Fang Ru finished reading Huo Zhengyuan's letter, she raised her head and asked Zhao Junchen.

Zhao Junchen nodded lightly and said slowly: "It can only be him!" Huo Zhengyuan has always been resourceful and scheming, but he is a little lacking in courage, he should have noticed some signs, but he can't determine whether it's true or false, so the words in this letter are also vague, just a warning. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Junchen pondered for a moment, and then ordered: "Take all the information related to Zhan Shanchang in the past three months, and I want to take a closer look." ”

The file management method of the Zhao Mansion's study was formulated by Zhao Junchen himself, so Fang Ru quickly found all the intelligence information about Zhan Shanchang.

So far, Zhao Junchen has a total of three independent intelligence channels.

The first intelligence channel is the "Zhao Party", the source of information is mainly concentrated on Zhao Junchen's friends, and the information collected is mainly aimed at officialdom movements, but this information channel can only be mobilized by Zhao Junchen himself.

The second intelligence channel is the Tongji Temple, which has become more and more influential in the past year, has been using the way of spreading faith and contacting believers to collect information, and most of the intelligence personnel are low-level officials and officials of the imperial court, the subordinates and concubines of the court officials, and the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, and the scope of activities is mainly concentrated in the capital, the advantage is that it is the most targeted, and the disadvantage is that it is easy to be exposed.

The third intelligence channel is the various trading houses controlled by Zhao Junchen, this news channel has the largest range of activities, and the news from all over the territory of the Ming Dynasty can be collected, but the disadvantage is that the efficiency is slow, and the information collected is also extremely messy.

In fact, with the establishment of the Storytellers' Guild, Zhao Junchen is currently building a fourth intelligence channel, that is, using the Storytellers' Guild to infiltrate taverns and teahouses in various places and establish eyes and ears, this intelligence channel is mainly aimed at the news between the market, the means of collecting intelligence are more hidden, but the efficiency is also slower, and it also shoulders the task of influencing public opinion and disseminating certain ideas.

In this way, when Zhao Junchen collects news, he often uses a four-pronged approach, even if he does not deliberately collect intelligence, there is not much to hide from Zhao Junchen's ears and eyes between the government and the opposition.

At this time, all kinds of information about Zhan Shanchang are also the news collected by these intelligence channels, which is more than ten pages long, and the content is quite detailed.

After Zhao Junchen carefully reviewed the content of the intelligence, his expression became more solemn, and his expression was a little embarrassed.

"According to the intelligence, during the three months that I left the capital, Zhan Shanchang has been deliberately targeted by His Majesty, almost every day, the imperial history impeached him, and also turned out many of his old accounts, the situation is quite bad, and it looks like he is not only going to lose his official position and be dismissed, but also to be imprisoned...... But just before I returned to the capital, Zhan Shanchang went to the palace to meet His Majesty once, and then most of his troubles suddenly disappeared, although he still lost his official position, but there was no longer any danger of raiding his house and going to prison. ”

After Zhang Yu'er received Zhan Shanchang's information from Zhao Junchen, she also carefully reviewed it for a moment, and then added: "The imperial historians are talking about He Zhan Shanchang because they suddenly received a lot of information about Zhan Shanchang's crimes...... If you want to come up with so much information about Zhan Shanchang's crimes in a short period of time, only the celebrant can do it, and there are all the scripts of the hundreds of officials over the years. ”

Zhao Junchen nodded again, sighed lightly, and said, "In this way, Zhan Shanchang has betrayed me nine times out of ten, and now he has served His Majesty." ”

Seeing the dilemma between Zhao Junchen's expressions, Fang Ru was puzzled: "Master, it's just a Zhan Shanchang, he has never been an important person, he betrayed and betrayed, we have a lot of ways to punish him, why do we need to feel embarrassed for him?" ”

Zhao Junchen replied slowly: "If it was an ordinary time, Zhan Shanchang's betrayal would not be important, but now this time is a bit of a dilemma for me!" Speaking of which, my current situation is somewhat similar to that of the Seventh Prince Zhu Hejian, both of whom are in poor physical condition, but it is not a serious illness that is difficult to return, so I use my physical condition to make benefits......

When facing His Majesty and the officials, I will pretend that my illness is getting worse, and take the opportunity to avoid the current chaos of the situation in the court, and also take the opportunity to bargain with Your Majesty; But when facing my own people, I have to show that I am physically fine, only in this way can my friends follow with peace of mind, if I still look critically ill when I see them, they are afraid that they will be afraid of people and secretly think about the way back......"

After a pause, Zhao Junchen continued: "Originally, I planned to convene the 'Zhao Party' in two more days, and tell them that my body is fine, and I can still shelter them, so that they can do things for me with peace of mind!"

But at present, Zhan Shanchang has been bought by His Majesty, but all this is just speculation, we have no tangible evidence, he is the first member of the court to serve me, and he has the most seniority among the 'Zhao Party', and there is a general political envoy Tong Huan who advances and retreats with him, and the 'Zhao Party' can't get around him no matter what!

In this way, when I gather the 'Zhao Party' to talk, how should I behave? If I behave weaker, it will make the 'Zhao Party' lose confidence, and if I behave healthier, it will let His Majesty seize the handle and force me to take over the mess of the household again......"

Speaking of this, Zhao Junchen's expression was a little annoyed.

This kind of frustration is mainly aimed at his own mistakes.

After confirming the news of Zhan Shanchang's betrayal, Zhao Junchen was soon able to guess the reason for Zhan Shanchang's betrayal.

Emperor Deqing's persecution and threats were only superficial reasons, but the deep reason was that Zhan Shanchang's position within the "Zhao Party" was gradually marginalized, which made Zhan Shanchang dissatisfied, and his relationship with Zhao Junchen gradually became estranged.

In fact, Zhan Shanchang's status within the "Zhao Party" gradually became marginalized, which was also deliberately done by Zhao Junchen.

At the beginning, when Zhao Junchen initially established the "Zhao Party" forces, almost all of the "Zhao Party" team were former "Wen Party" officials who Zhan Shanchang personally rebelled, such as Zuo Lanshan, Chen Dongxiang, Li Lide and others.

In this way, Zhan Shanchang's influence within the "Zhao Party" is too great, and Zhan Shanchang's connection with the "Zhao Party" is too deep and his experience is similar, so it is easy to override Zhao Junchen.

It is precisely because of this consideration that Zhao Junchen will secretly suppress Zhan Shanchang, so that the status of Zuo Lanshan, Chen Dongxiang, Huo Zhengyuan and others will gradually surpass him, so Zhan Shanchang's status as "Zhao Party" will gradually be marginalized.

Things have come to this point, and there is actually nothing wrong with that.

The real problem is that after Zhao Junchen secretly suppressed Zhan Shanchang, he did not appease him in time!

Zhan Shanchang was the first court member to serve Zhao Junchen, and he was a golden bone, and when Zhao Junchen completely controlled the "Zhao Party" forces, he should have deliberately appeased him.

It's a pity that Zhao Junchen was busy with all kinds of things at that time, and Zhan Shanchang's own ability and mind were ordinary, so Zhao Junchen subconsciously ignored a little, which eventually caused Zhan Shanchang's dissatisfaction and betrayal.

Thinking of this, Zhao Junchen shook his head lightly.

Growth always comes at a price.

Even Zhao Junchen is the same.

Zhao Junchen was not able to have today's foresight from the beginning, and when he initially had power, he actually made a lot of mistakes!

The wrong attitude towards Zhan Shanchang was just one of Zhao Junchen's mistakes.

When Zhao Junchen targeted the crown prince Zhu Heyu, his methods were also too hasty, and now he saw that Zhu Heyu was about to be deposed, but the new crown prince became the more threatening seventh prince Zhu Hejian, which was also one of Zhao Junchen's mistakes.

At the same time, Zhao Junchen did not perceive Zhou Shangjing's true plan in time, and only thought about expanding his power, but he unknowingly replaced Zhou Shangjing and became the most hostile confidant of Emperor Deqing, which was one of Zhao Junchen's mistakes.

In addition to these mistakes, when Zhao Junchen checked all kinds of information in the past three months, he also found that his "new Zhao Party" plan was on the verge of failure!

At the beginning, Zhao Junchen thought that the "Zhao Party" was just a collection of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and it would be difficult to achieve great things after all, so he wanted to start anew, recruit a group of young scholars into his door while the meeting was going to take advantage of the examination, and take advantage of the period when these young scholars were more malleable to form a relatively honest "New Zhao Party" force.

But Zhao Junchen underestimated the big dye vat of officialdom after all, and the lotus flowers that can come out of the mud without dyeing are only a few after all.

Before the vast majority of people enter the officialdom, they always pat their chests to ensure that they are strong-willed and have the world in mind, and they strongly despise those corrupt officials, but in fact, it often takes only half a year for them to completely degenerate, forget their original intentions, and become a member of the corrupt officials.

When Zhao Junchen checked the information just now, he found that most of the members of the "New Zhao Party" in his mind had committed corruption and bribery, and they were gradually no different from those old officials of the "Zhao Party."

This can be regarded as one of Zhao Junchen's mistakes at the beginning, he underestimated the temptation of officialdom, but also overestimated human nature, and once spent a lot of effort and energy to promote the "new Zhao Party" plan, and the final result was only to add a batch of fresh blood to the corrupt officials of the "Zhao Party".

Fortunately, these mistakes can either be reversed, or the loss is not large, and it will not affect the final success or failure of Zhao Junchen.

Therefore, Zhao Junchen only lamented his immaturity a little, and then shifted his attention to Zhan Shanchang's affairs again.

Under the gaze of Fang Ru and Zhang Yu'er, Zhao Junchen pondered for a moment before finally saying, "This Zhan Shanchang ...... I'm afraid I can't stay! ”

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The continuous outbreaks in the past few days have made the bugs drift a little, and many hallucinations have surfaced in their minds - "Am I no longer a handicap?" "Can I keep exploding? "Am I the kind of child who can do what he wants to do?" ”

But today, sitting in front of the computer for an afternoon, I held back a total of 3,000 words, and the cruel thing suddenly shattered the beautiful illusion of the bug.

So, today there are only three thousand words.

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