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The next day, at three o'clock, under the congratulations of all walks of life in Yangzhou, the southern patrol fleet finally left Yangzhou after staying for seven days, and slowly sailed to the next stop - Changzhou.

At this time, Suzhou was getting closer and closer, and the matter of the secret battle between Emperor Deqing and Zhou Shangjingming was gradually known and could no longer be concealed.

As the so-called "immortal fighting method, mortals suffer", the game conflict between the emperor and the cabinet chief assistant will never be much inferior to the immortal fighting method. In this way, no one knows whether they will be implicated, especially those middle and lower-level officials in the imperial court, they have no access to detailed information at all, and can only get some specious rumors, and they can't help but panic in their hearts, but they don't know what they are panicking about.

The accompanying court officials have their own news channels, but they have gotten some news, but in the past two days, most of them have been co-opted by Emperor Deqing and Zhou Shangjing, either considering self-preservation, or considering taking sides, all of them look worried, and their performance has further aggravated the anxiety of the officials below.

Therefore, when leaving Yangzhou, the atmosphere of the southern tour team could not help but be a little weird and calm.

Among all the people, there are only two people who are still calm and calm.

These two people are none other than the two protagonists of this game - Emperor Deqing and Zhou Shangjing!

Obviously, they are all full of confidence!

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And at this moment, the capital, which is thousands of miles away, is also a turbulent scene.

A few days ago, in the officialdom of the capital. Suddenly, there was a rumor that spread more and more widely - it was said that it was an alliance between Huang Yourong and Shen Changmao, but it was actually ill-intentioned and evil. The alliance was just an illusion, and Huang Yourong planned to take advantage of the opportunity of Emperor Deqing's southern tour and Shen Changmao's escort to leave Beijing. Annexed Shen Changmao's forces and bribed Shen Changmao's henchmen!

Officialdom is a gathering place for gossip, and there are 80 similar rumors every day, even if there are not 100 or 100, no one will take it seriously, but this rumor is really flesh and blood, vivid and expressive, not only logical and clear, but also lists a lot of supporting evidence, which makes people have to believe it.

Most importantly, this rumor is not just an indoctrination of opinions, but also a series of questions. In this way, people's thinking is guided, and it is up to people to analyze doubts and draw conclusions on their own.

For example, the timing of Huang Yourong's alliance with Shen Changmao is really strange, not forming an alliance early, not forming an alliance late, but waiting until the southern tour is about to start forming an alliance, which is inevitably too coincidental. You must know that after the start of the southern tour, Huang Yourong stayed in Beijing as an auxiliary politician and a dominant family, and Shen Changmao accompanied the southern tour, and the whip was beyond his reach. Isn't this a good time for Huang Yourong to annex the Shen Party?

For another example, during this period of time, Huang Yourong deliberately gave many favors to Shen Party officials, just to win over and buy. Today, the position of many Shen Party officials is already biased towards Huang Yourong and leaving Shen Changmao behind, which can only be seen by how many Shen Party officials actively go to Huang Yourong's mansion every day to say goodbye. What will be the result in the long run?

Another example. Shen Changmao has been running the court for many years, and naturally he has many cronies. It is completely impossible for these cronies to be bought by Huang Yourong, but where are Shen Changmao's cronies now? As long as you investigate in detail, you will find that they were either transferred to work outside the capital by Huang Yourong for a reason, or they were secretly promoted by Huang Yourong and lost their positions of real power, so what is Huang Yourong's purpose in doing this?

Many doubts are thought-provoking,

Above the officialdom, everyone prides themselves on being smart, and they are convinced of the conclusions drawn by their own analysis, and when people are guided by rumors, after carefully analyzing many doubts, they naturally come to similar conclusions! As a result, most people also believe the content of the rumors, because in the eyes of everyone, these conclusions are analyzed "independently" by themselves, and they can never be wrong!

It can be said that this rumor not only takes advantage of people's gossip psychology and dark psychology, but also takes advantage of people's self-confidence, so that the more intelligent people are, the more they will believe this rumor!

It's just that in just two or three days, in the capital, this rumor is already known to everyone! Then, the Shen and Huang parties, which were originally closely coordinated, gradually became more subtle.

If this was the case, Huang Yourong could barely control the situation, and at this moment, a seemingly unexpected incident completely broke down the cooperative relationship between Shen and Huang.

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Before the Shen and Huang factions joined hands, in order to compete for power and power, it was naturally inevitable that they would fight openly and covertly and stumble on each other, so that there were also many mortal enemies among the two parties.

Among them, Wang Yi of the Yellow Party and Sima Zhuo of the Shen Party are a pair of mortal enemies!

Wang Jie is the left general government of the General Administration Division, Sima Zhuo is the right general government of the General Political Division, the two belong to the same yamen, and they are such a crucial yamen as the General Political Division, for the interests of their respective backers, the two have naturally fought countless times before, and they have formed mortal enemies with each other, although the Shen and Huang factions have worked together, but the two still don't like each other, but under the strict orders of the two elders, they can still maintain restraint.

However, although Wang Jie and Sima Zhuo could maintain restraint, the people around them were used to fighting each other, but there was no such city.

On this day, Wang Ye's son Wang Ye and Sima Zhuo's nephew Dong Qing met in a green building, under the pampering of some well-intentioned people, the two were jealous for a red card, and then I don't know who made the first move, the two fought together, and the entourage also participated, and finally, in the melee, I don't know who made a heavy hand, Dong Qing was seriously injured!

This matter is not trivial, and in the end, it naturally went to Huang Yourong, Sima Zhuo wanted Huang Yourong to administer justice, and Wang naturally resisted to the end in order to protect his son.

In this way, Huang Yourong naturally felt embarrassed, on the one hand, Wang Cheng has followed Huang Yourong for many years, and has always done his best, and he is one of Huang Yourong's right-hand men, Huang Yourong is unwilling to treat Wang Ye badly; On the other hand, Sima Zhuo's nephew of the Shen Party was seriously injured after all, and Huang Yourong was worried that if he favored Wang Yi, it would cause a backlash from the officials of the Shen Party.

Coupled with the interference of rumors, Huang Yourong was even more hesitant and undecided.

According to Zhao Junchen's evaluation, Huang Yourong is more than sleek, not courageous, and when he encounters things, he only knows how to compromise the interests of all parties, but it is a symptom but not a cure, Huang Yourong's performance at this time also proves the correctness of Zhao Junchen's evaluation!

In the end, Huang Yourong actually brought together the main figures of Shen and Huang's parties to solve the problem through mutual consultation!

It was this decision that completely broke the cooperation between Shen and Huang!

Prior to this, Huang Yourong did have the intention to take advantage of the opportunity of the southern tour to gradually encroach on Shen Changmao's sphere of influence and buy Shen Party officials for his own use.

Therefore, when the officials of the two factions met for consultation, the position of some Shen Party officials was surprising, not only did they not uphold justice for Sima Zhuo of the Shen Party, but they said good things for Wang Cheng of the Yellow Party everywhere.

In the face of such a result, how can Sima Zhuo be convinced? In addition, he is not a deep city person, so he made a big fuss on the spot!

In addition to making a fuss, he was disturbed by rumors, and Sima Zhuo was even more unscrupulous, claiming that some Shen Party officials had been bought by Huang Yourong, so they turned their elbows out! Huang Yourong was also uneasy and kind-hearted, and took the opportunity of the southern tour to dig up the corner of Shen Ge Lao! also said that the people of the Shen Party had no vigilance at all, and watched Huang Yourong encroach on the Shen Party, but they were indifferent!

Then, Sima Zhuo also repeated all the rumors he had heard in public!

Then, it can be seen that all the Yellow Party officials have strange faces, some of the Shen Party officials have a calm expression, as if they are worried, and another part of the Shen Party officials have uncertain expressions, as if they are a little weak-hearted.

Shen Changmao is not an unscrupulous person, before he left Beijing, he also thought of the possibility that Huang Yourong would take the opportunity to encroach on the Shen Party, and also left many countermeasures!

After Shen Changmao left Beijing, the person who presided over the Shen Party was Shaobao Zhao Zhenghe, these days, Zhao Zhenghe also heard a lot of rumors, and he was quite suspicious in his heart, and he already had the mind to guard against Huang Yourong, and at this time he was guided by Sima Zhuo, plus this consultation did let Zhao Zhenghe see many clues, so Zhao Zhenghe finally made up his mind, got up and appeased Sima Zhuo, and suddenly announced to Huang Yourong that the cooperation between Shen and Huang was temporarily suspended, and everything would wait until Shen Changmao returned to Beijing!

Then, Zhao Zhenghe didn't say anything more, and didn't give Huang Yourong a chance to explain at all, so he led all the officials of the Shen Party to leave Huang Yourong's mansion, leaving Huang Yourong stunned and looking at their departing backs, and his heart was in turmoil!

In fact, Huang Yourong's troublesome things are still to come!

The crown prince Zhu Heyu wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of Emperor Deqing's southern tour to carry out commercial tax reform, but it was only under the suppression of Huang Yourong that it could not be carried out. However, the reason why Huang Yourong was able to suppress the crown prince Zhu and Yu was also because of the strong assistance of Shen Party officials, and now the Shen and Huang parties suddenly broke up, because of Sima Zhuo's matter, there may be a conflict next, Huang Yourong only relies on the power of the Yellow Party, and the power is about to be partially contained by the Shen Party, how can he continue to suppress the prince Zhu and Yu?

In this way, the ambitious commercial tax reform plan of Prince Zhu and Yu is imperative!

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…… (To be continued......)