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Before I knew it, another two days had passed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the past two days, the major parties in the imperial court have been secretly accumulating strength, preparing for the upcoming "Jingcha", and several powerful ministers are sharpening their knives, ready to do a big job, and take the opportunity to consolidate the foundation of their respective factions.

After all, "Jingcha" is directly related to their future career direction, for middle-level officials, Beijing officials are bitter after all, and local officials are a good place for them to make money.

Therefore, in order to be able to evaluate the excellence in the "Four Grid and Eight Laws" and win the opportunity to be promoted and released, the Beijing officials are doing their best to fight for all opportunities for themselves during this time, or to go to the door, or to trust the relationship, or to send silver, in order to make their chances of winning during the "Jingcha" period be greater, everyone is trying their best!

It can be said that during this period of time, almost all the attention of officials has been focused on "Jingcha".

But on this day, another thing happened, which attracted the attention of many people and diverted the attention of the government and the opposition.

That is, Zhao Junchen officially accepted Fang Ru as a side room on this day.

This was originally just a trivial matter, there are many officials in the capital, and every auspicious day there will be officials who take concubines to fill the house, but most officials will be extremely low-key when taking concubines, for fear that they will attract too much attention, and eventually let themselves fall into a notoriety of "indulgence and lust". However, Zhao Junchen was diametrically opposed and went against the grain, not only inviting most of the officials of the "Zhao Party" to the Zhao Mansion to watch the ceremony and witness, but also holding a large flowing water banquet, making a big disturbance, lest the world not know.

Some people expressed disdain, some people expressed disdain, some people expressed disdain, some people took the opportunity to impeach Zhao Junchen, and of course some people went to Zhao Mansion to shoot Zhao Junchen's sycophants.

But Zhao Junchen also has his own considerations and ideas.

Fang Ru, as Zhao Junchen's only confidant woman in this era, Zhao Junchen is naturally unwilling to let her be wronged, and now due to the rules and situation of the imperial court, Zhao Junchen can only make her a lowly concubine, and she will inevitably feel a little guilty in her heart, so Zhao Junchen can only do his best to compensate Fang Ru, and such a big affair and a wedding ceremony witnessed by a large number of distinguished guests is undoubtedly the best means.

With such a wedding, anyone knows that Zhao Junchen attaches great importance to Fang Ru, Fang Ru's position in the Zhao Mansion will be completely stable in the future, even if Zhao Junchen has a wife in the future, Fang Ru's status will not be shaken in any way, she is Mrs. Ru of the Zhao Mansion, and no one dares to bully at will.

Of course, Zhao Junchen's considerations are not only that.

Now Zhao Junchen's status and power are getting higher and higher, and there are more and more lackeys of the friends under his door, but the relationship between Zhao Junchen and the middle and lower-level officials of the "Zhao Party" is inevitably getting farther and farther away.

Now that the "Jingcha" is imminent, Zhao Junchen needs to select some of the middle and lower-level officials of the "Zhao Party" for key promotion, and these "Zhao Party" officials who have been promoted will be the fundamental force of the "Zhao Party" in the future, so Zhao Junchen must also meet and talk with them in person, emphasize his existence to these "Zhao Party" officials, give them favors, and further understand their temperament!

However, Zhao Junchen's current status and every move are all in the spotlight, if Zhao Junchen suddenly deliberately contacts these middle and lower-level officials of the "Zhao Party", then anyone will guess which officials Zhao Junchen will focus on promoting during the "Jingcha" period, and it is easy to be deliberately targeted by political opponents, which will cause a lot of unnecessary trouble.

Therefore, Zhao Junchen took advantage of the opportunity to accommodate Fang Ru as a side room, but he held a banquet and invited all the officials of the "Zhao Party" to participate together, so that no one could guess who Zhao Junchen wanted to focus on.

In addition, taking advantage of the opportunity of the "Zhao Party" officials gathering in the Zhao Mansion on this day, Zhao Junchen will also announce some things to give the "Zhao Party" officials a part of the benefits, and take the opportunity to further unite the people's hearts and enhance Zhao Junchen's prestige and appeal in the "Zhao Party."

Of course, Zhao Junchen made such a big move for the matter of taking a concubine, which will eventually cause some bad influences, and will definitely fall into the hands of people and cause criticism, and some people will even take the opportunity to impeach Zhao Junchen, but with Zhao Junchen's current status and authority, this kind of trivial crime and criticism is not enough to affect the fundamentals, at most, it is just a little trouble.

What's more, Zhao Junchen's performance has been too good in recent times, and Emperor Deqing may be a little unaccustomed to it, occasionally stabbing Emperor Deqing into a mess and throwing out some small flaws, which can also make Emperor Deqing feel at ease.

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said that the Zhao Mansion on this day can be described as lively and busy.

Pavilion Lao Zuo Lanshan arrived at the Zhao Mansion early, and then sat in the living room of the Zhao Mansion all the time, helping Zhao Junchen entertain the guests.

Chen Dongxiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was even more afraid that the world would not know that he was Zhao Junchen's cronies, and as a second-class member of the imperial court, he didn't care about his identity at all, and he was sent to and after running, as if he was an ordinary housekeeper in Zhao Mansion.

Yin Huo Zhengyuan, a scholar and Shuntian Mansion, also led Lin Youlun, the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, and Situ Han, the right deputy inspector of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, to rush to the Zhao Mansion to support the scene, and jointly sent a heavy gift.

Then, Zhan Shanchang, the head of the household department, arrived with Tong Huan, the envoy of the General Administration, Liu Changan, the head of the Ministry of Officials, and Qin Huaiyuan, the head of the Criminal Department......

For a time, the Zhao Mansion was full of guests, a large number of important ministers of the imperial court gathered, and the banquet filled the entire Zhao Mansion vestibule.

The extent of Zhao Junchen's authority and influence is undoubtedly evident at this moment.

Seeing such a grand scene, even Xu Qingyan, who had never been in harmony with Fang Ru, had a smile on his face.

When the guests rushed to the Zhao Mansion, Zhao Junchen was naturally not idle as the host, constantly walking around the banquet, after seeing every "Zhao Party" official, he would deliberately stop and talk a few words, or express his connection, or get closer to him, after seeing those "Zhao Party" officials who were about to be promoted, Zhao Junchen took the opportunity to investigate, but also hinted a few words between words, saying that "this official has always been paying attention to you, and will do things well in the future" Yunyun, and those who have been hinted at the "Zhao Party" Naturally, the officials were ecstatic in their hearts.

By the time Zhao Junchen had personally met the vast majority of the "Zhao Party" officials, it was almost noon before he knew it.

Because it was just a concubine, the ceremony was not very formal, and many links were omitted, but some due processes would still appear, such as the formal ceremony of passing through the door.

As early as two days ago, in order to prepare for this ceremony, Fang Ru had already left the Zhao Mansion and temporarily lived in a separate courtyard in the eastern part of the capital, and then entered the Zhao Mansion in a sedan chair at noon today, which was considered to be an official pass.

Before Fang Ru officially passed the door, Zhao Junchen returned to the main seat of the banquet, picked up his wine glass and announced to the officials of the "Zhao Party": "Today, this official officially accepts Fang Ru as a side room, this is a great joy, thank you relatives, friends and colleagues for coming to witness the ceremony in person, and your heart will always be remembered by the official!" ”

After speaking, Zhao Junchen raised his glass and drank lightly, and many guests during the banquet naturally did not dare to slack off, and raised their glasses to drink together.

Although most of the guests were "Zhao Party" officials, there were still some outsiders present after all, so Zhao Junchen had a lot of things that were not convenient to say directly, but after saying some words that were appropriate to the situation, Zhao Junchen suddenly changed his words, but he suddenly talked about the right thing.

"Among all the relatives, friends and colleagues here, some of you are very familiar with this official, and some people are only a few times related to this official, but your willingness to come to this official mansion today to watch and witness means that you are all your own people...... On weekdays, everyone is busy with their own affairs, and there are very few opportunities to gather together like today, so taking advantage of the opportunity that everyone is here today, this official has the cheekiness to ask you to help me solve a little trouble! ”

Hearing Zhao Junchen's words, all the guests present were stunned.

With Zhao Junchen's powerful position, what else do you need their help with? If even Zhao Junchen can't do something, they will all work together, I'm afraid it won't help, right?

However, in addition to the doubts in their hearts, all the guests still said that they would definitely help, and if there was anything Zhao Junchen commanded.

Seeing that all the guests were all righteous, Zhao Junchen smiled lightly and said: "You also know that this official is trusted by His Majesty to be responsible for the rectification of commercial taxes in the imperial court, and invited many businessmen to join and established the 'United Shipping Company' to fund the force, and now the establishment of the 'United Shipping Company' is quite smooth, but if you want to achieve the goals of the imperial court, there are still some deficiencies in terms of financial, manpower, and material resources!" Therefore, the official also thought of you...... Most of them are court officials with extensive connections, if they can persuade their relatives and friends to invest a part of the silver taels in the United Shipping Company, and accumulate a lot, it must be able to greatly alleviate the shortcomings of the United Shipping Company, and can also provide a boost for the imperial court, but I don't know if you are willing to contribute a force? ”

Hearing Zhao Junchen's words, all the guests were stunned at first, and then they were overjoyed!

Where is Zhao Junchen asking them for help? It's obviously a way to give them a fortune!

The next situation, naturally, there is no need to mention it, all the guests have loudly agreed to Zhao Junchen's "request", only to feel that they did not come in vain today! In the Zhao Mansion, the atmosphere suddenly became more and more festive!

However, just when the Zhao Mansion was full of guests, jubilant, and laughing, the Prince's East Palace at this time was another sad scene!

Zhao Shancai, who has been suffering from illness for many days and has been overdrawing his body, has finally reached his limit at this moment and is about to pass away!

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PS: The content of this chapter, the bug has been dissatisfied, and has been pushed down and rewritten twice, but I still feel that I haven't written it well. But seeing that it was almost twelve o'clock, I still reluctantly updated.

So, this chapter is only 3,000 words, and I will write more tomorrow, so forgive me!

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