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"This Zhan Shanchang ...... I'm afraid I can't stay! ”

Hearing Zhao Junchen's words, Fang Ru and Zhang Yuer were both shocked.

"Sir, you want to ......"

As she spoke, Zhang Yuer stretched out her palm and waved her hand to make a decapitation motion.

Zhao Junchen nodded lightly and said: "Zhan Shanchang's identity is too sensitive, he is the first member of the court to serve my subordinates, if the news of his betrayal of me spreads, everyone will think that my majesty is incompetent, and no one knows if the people of the 'Zhao Party' will have other ideas."

What's more, he is now working for His Majesty, and he thinks that he has peace of mind and a bright future, but I am afraid that he will not change his mind, and I can't target him in the open, if it is just in normal times, keeping him can make His Majesty feel at ease, and you can also give Your Majesty some true or false news through him!

But the period ahead is the stage of success or failure of several of my key plans, so I must not continue to keep him by my side, I will only tie my hands and feet and delay the opportunity...... So, after thinking about it, it would be more appropriate to cut the grass and eradicate the roots to prevent future troubles! ”

Speaking of which, the separation between Zhan Shanchang and Zhao Junchen is also the reason why Zhao Junchen took the lead in secretly suppressing Zhan Shanchang, and it can be said that Zhao Junchen couldn't stand Zhan Shanchang in the first place.

But in the officialdom, he has always only talked about his position, not about right or wrong, since Zhan Shanchang chose the wrong position at the wrong time, Zhao Junchen could only stand up to him again.

Seeing Zhao Junchen's calm expression when he made a statement, Zhang Yuer's expression was a little surprised, but he suddenly found that after Zhao Junchen returned to the capital from Shaanxi and Gansu this time, his personality had changed a lot, and he became much more decisive.

Previously, such a method of cutting grass and eradicating roots has always been the style of the Seventh Prince Zhu Hejian, and Zhao Junchen always leaves some leeway when doing things, and the methods are more tactful, and he will never harm people's lives easily-but now, Zhao Junchen seems to have gradually developed such a tendency.

After discovering such a situation, Zhang Yuer looked at Zhao Junchen in a daze, but she didn't come back to her senses for a while.

This is also a matter of course, after experiencing the Shaanxi and Gansu wars, witnessing the death of countless lives, and being accustomed to treating the casualties of the soldiers as a string of cold numbers, Zhao Junchen's personality has naturally undergone some changes, and he is no longer as indecisive as before.

On the other hand, Fang Ru didn't have any doubts.

Fang Ru's heart could only accommodate Zhao Junchen alone, so in her eyes, all those who betrayed Zhao Junchen deserved to die.

After hearing Zhao Junchen's decision, Fang Ru just reminded: "Master, even if Zhan Shanchang loses his official position, he used to be a member of the imperial court, and now he is also His Majesty's eyeliner, if he dies suddenly, it will inevitably attract the attention of the government and the opposition, and Your Majesty will definitely be suspicious in his heart, and the factory guards will investigate in detail, and we may be caught, but we have to guard against it!" ”

Zhao Junchen smiled at the corner of his mouth, and said leisurely: "Therefore, he has to die naturally, so that people can't find any flaws!" Well, let him kill himself! ”

Zhang Yuer finally came back to her senses and asked, "Suicide?" People like Zhan Shanchang must be extremely cowardly and spare his life, will he be willing to commit suicide? ”

Zhao Junchen's tone was still calm and calm, and he said slowly: "Whether he wants to commit suicide or not, he will soon have to decide for himself!" ”

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Just when Zhao Junchen, Fang Ru and Zhang Yuer were discussing in the study, the day's court discussion was finally over.

During this court meeting, Hong Zhengshuo and Ma Sen presented the three strategies for raising grain to Emperor Deqing with a bitter face.

There was no accident, when Hong Zhengshuo and Ma Sen put forward three strategies for raising food, it immediately caused an uproar among hundreds of officials.

Under the controversy, the court discussion lasted until noon, and finally came to an end.

For reasons of their own position, most officials have expressed their opposition.

But in the end, the three strategies for raising food were still passed.

There is no other reason, just because the treasury is indeed out of grain, and the logistics of the Hetao war must be guaranteed, which is the top priority of the imperial court, but the officials are unable to come up with a better way to raise food.

Therefore, whenever an official expresses his opposition to the three strategies for raising grain, Emperor Deqing will use a seemingly impartial attitude to ask rhetorically, "Since this Aiqing is strongly opposed, he must have a better way in his heart?" ”

In this way, after several rhetorical questions from Emperor Deqing, the officials who were questioned were all stammering and silent, so the opposition of the officials soon became insignificant.

After the officials were forced to agree to the three strategies for raising grain, they naturally did not dare to hold a grudge against Emperor Deqing, so they vented their anger at the household yamen, especially Hong Zhengshuo and Ma Sen, who personally proposed the three strategies for raising grain, which aroused the hostility of the officials and became a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of the officials!

For a time, the chaos in the household yamen became more and more presumptuous, and all the household officials did not dare to raise their heads to see people, and Hong Zhengshuo and Ma Sen were even more disgraced and embarrassed.

Under such circumstances, many officials have begun to miss the "good times" when Zhao Junchen was in charge of the household department.

As the saying goes, "people are more dead than people, and goods are lost than goods"!

I think that at the beginning, when Zhao Junchen personally presided over the household yamen, the officials did not think that Zhao Junchen had any benefit, and even thought that Zhao Junchen's temperament was too stingy.

If the officials of the major yamen go to the household yamen theory, the household officials will also take out the account book to carefully calculate the accounts for you, and the final conclusion is that the silver is enough for the major yamen to do things, and even reserve some oil and water for the major yamen.

However, after the household yamen left Zhao Junchen, when the major yamen reached out to the household department to ask for money, let alone get three or four percent of the silver, most of the time they couldn't even get one percent of the silver, and the household yamen would only repeat repeatedly that the treasury was out of money, so that the major yamen would find a way to hold on for a while longer.

Today, seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, all factions and yamen are trying to get some oil and water and give some benefits to middle- and lower-level officials in order to win people's hearts, and they are counting on the household department to open the door of the treasury to distribute silver, but they only wait for the word "no money" - in fact, Zhou Shangjing has been eyeing the silver of Xiuhe during this time, and it is precisely because of this.

What is even more unacceptable is that the household yamen not only can't get the silver, but also stares at the rice of the hundred officials, and the hundred officials are naturally full of indignation.

"Zhao Junchen has only been away from the household department for more than three months, and the household yamen has fallen to such a state? From this point of view, the household department is really inseparable from Zhao Junchen! ”

For a while, many officials remembered Zhao Junchen's feelings before he fainted yesterday, and their attitudes and positions gradually changed.

In this way, after involving the vital interests of hundreds of officials, although Zhao Junchen did nothing, his officialdom evaluation was further improved.

Public opinion is brewing in the dark.

It is conceivable that once Zhao Junchen regains the power of the household department in the future, the officials will not show strong opposition.

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However, he said that after returning to the yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate after returning to the Yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate after the early dynasty, he recalled the scene of the morning court today, and his heart was also full of emotion.

He's "too. The core members of the "sub-party" have always looked down on Zhao Junchen in the past, and only thought that Zhao Junchen was a traitor who brought disaster to the country and the people.

But now, after really leaving Zhao Junchen, Lu Chunxiao realized the importance of Zhao Junchen to the temple.

"Alas! The Metropolitan Inspectorate is a clear water yamen, many rooms have fallen into disrepair, and the imperial historians do not have much foreign wealth, and they have always been hard......

A few years ago, at the end of the year, the household department will also sympathize with the difficulties of the officials, and I have always been generous when approving silver, I originally wanted to take the opportunity to ask the household department for a sum of silver, not only to renovate the houses of the Metropolitan Inspectorate, but also to give some benefits to the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Inspectorate, so that they can be a little more generous during the New Year......

But looking at the current embarrassment of the household yamen, it is inevitable that they will not be able to get the money! Alas, the household officials are really incompetent, and after leaving Zhao Junchen, they can't even maintain their basic operations! ”

Thinking of this, Lu Chunxiao also couldn't help but despise the incompetence of the household officials, and secretly missed the period when Zhao Junchen presided over the household department.

"Speaking of which, Zhao Junchen is indeed very capable! In the past two years, the household yamen has also encountered difficulties many times, but Zhao Junchen can come up with money and find a way to tide over the difficulties no matter what, where will there be today's chaos?

Zhao Junchen also knows the importance and proportion, even if the Metropolitan Procuratorate has always been a gathering place of clear streams, and his attitude towards him is full of hostility, but he also understands the hardships of the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and when approving silver for the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he will be more generous, and when other yamen reach out to the household department for medicine money, they can often only get three or four percent of silver, but when the Metropolitan Procuratorate asks for money from the household department, they can often receive five or six percent of silver......

During this period of time, His Royal Highness the Prince's attitude towards Zhao Junchen has gradually changed, unlike in the past, which is always deliberately targeted, I was still a little unconvinced, but I only felt that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had compromised...... But now it seems that Zhao Junchen is still very useful to the imperial court, and he is not just an ordinary corrupt official and traitor!

Well, Zhao Junchen is indeed not an ordinary corrupt official and traitor, if he is an ordinary corrupt official and traitor, where can he accomplish those great achievements in Shaanxi and Gansu? Since this period of time, Zhao Junchen's clear stream evaluation has gradually reversed a lot, obviously there are many people who think the same as me, and gradually realize the role of Zhao Junchen, but they can no longer regard him as an ordinary corrupt official! ”

After thinking about it, Lu Chunxiao suddenly found that his bad feelings for Zhao Junchen had gradually disappeared.

Such a change in concept made Lu Chunxiao's mood a little strange.

And just when Lu Chunxiao's thoughts were turning, someone suddenly knocked on the door of Lu Chunxiao's office room, and reported: "Lord Zuo, someone just sent a secret letter to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which is about some criminal information about the former household servant Zhan Shanchang, because the matter is very important, all the imperial historians dare not make a decision, so I want to ask you to make a decision yourself!" ”

After hearing the report, Lu Chunxiao couldn't help but be shocked.

Lu Chunxiao has presided over the yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate for many years, and he is very clear about the nature of the yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

In short, the yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the knife that the various factions use to borrow knives to kill people!

Whenever various factions want to secretly target an official, they will collect the official's incriminating evidence and information, and then secretly send it to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so that the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate can come forward to impeach.

Therefore, almost every few days, the Metropolitan Procuratorate receives some incriminating information that is unknown.

The imperial historians of the Imperial Procuratorate are all officials, and they themselves do not have the ability to collect detailed evidence of the crimes of officials, but they want to sell their direct names, and once the impeachment of the imperial historians is effective, they will also make meritorious contributions, so they are also willing to be used.

Some time ago, it was obvious that someone wanted to target Zhan Shanchang, so the Metropolitan Procuratorate received a lot of evidence and information about Zhan Shanchang's crimes, and the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate also impeached Zhan Shanchang one after another, so that Zhan Shanchang not only lost his official position, but also almost went to prison for questioning.

But the imperial historians did not dare to make a decision after receiving the information of the crime, and they needed Lu Chunxiao to make a decision in person, but it was the first time.

This is obviously because the nature of Zhan Shanchang's crime this time is extremely serious.

Therefore, Lu Chunxiao did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly left his office room and rushed towards the main hall of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

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