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said that after Zhao Junchen left the palace, he went to Baoxing Pavilion again to visit Cui Qianxue's situation, and saw that although Cui Qianxue was still unconscious, the situation was already improving, and Zhang Decheng, Chu Jiayi and others were taking care of her, so she was slightly relieved and returned to her house.

Although, Zhao Junchen is very worried about Cui Qianxue's situation, and he also wants to accompany Cui Qianxue until Cui Qianxue comes to her senses, but unfortunately this is an extraordinary time, and Zhao Junchen has too many things to deal with.

Because of Zhao Junchen's assassination, the Zhao Mansion at this time was also in a panic, although Fang Ru was forced to control the overall situation calmly, but it could be seen that among the people in the Zhao Mansion, Fang Ru's mood was the most panicked, and when Zhao Junchen returned to the mansion, Fang Ru saw that Zhao Junchen was safe and sound, and his eyes suddenly turned red.

Zhao Junchen spent a long time comforting Fang Ru's emotions and told Fang Ru in detail about his assassination.

It's just that Fang Ru's personality has always been a bit extreme, and when he encounters things related to Zhao Junchen, he is more likely to overreact, so Zhao Junchen did not reveal to Fang Ru that the Seventh Prince Zhu Hejian was the mastermind behind the scenes, but only briefly mentioned that he planned to splash the dirty water of this matter on those ministers of the DPRK and China who opposed the rectification of commercial taxes, and took the opportunity to remove the obstacles to his next plan.

After hearing Zhao Junchen's thoughts, Fang Ru's beautiful eyes flashed with murderous intent, and said: "Master, splashing dirty water on those ministers who oppose the rectification of commercial taxes can certainly get the greatest benefits, and it will also be of great benefit to the master's next plan, but Ru'er believes that the real behind-the-scenes instructors must not be let go!" If this person dares to send someone to assassinate the master, we must retaliate, otherwise this person will definitely be lucky, and maybe when he will send someone to assassinate the master again! Only by cutting the grass and eradicating the roots and completely eradicating this person can we do it once and for all, and there will be no future troubles! Otherwise, Ru'er will not only have a hard time hating, but she will also have trouble day and night in the future! ”

After speaking, Fang Ru asked Zhao Junchen for instructions: "Master, Ru'er immediately ordered to go down, let our people mobilize immediately, find the instructive behind the scenes as soon as possible, and then Ru'er will personally solve this person, and definitely make him regret what he did!" ”

As he spoke, Fang Ru's tone had a taste of gnashing of teeth, obviously he hated the mastermind behind the assassination of Zhao Junchen to the extreme.

Zhao Junchen shook his head and said: "Don't do this for the time being, now because of my assassination, the capital is already in chaos, the major yamen, all factions, and even the factory guard forbidden army have sent a large number of eyeliners and spies to track down the truth of this matter, at this time, the situation is the most complicated, although it is easy to fish in troubled waters, but it is also easy to expose our strength, so let's slow down first, and wait until this matter is over." ”

For Zhao Junchen's orders, Fang Ru has always been unwilling to disobey. So after she heard Zhao Junchen's opinion, although she was a little reluctant, she still nodded and agreed.

Next, after Zhao Junchen and Fang Ru talked a few more words, Fang Ru left.

Because of Zhao Junchen's assassination, there are also a lot of things that need to be dealt with by Fang Ru, although Fang Ru is unwilling to leave Zhao Junchen, but at this time, he can only focus on business.

*****

When Fang Ru left, Zhao Junchen sat in the study, thinking about his next plan.

In particular, Emperor Deqing's attitude seems to have undergone some subtle changes during this period of time.

"Cui Qianxue is a good girl, and it is really rare to be willing to block the knife for you to die. Speaking of which, she was kicked out of the house by Cui Mian at the beginning, I and you have some responsibilities, I think she is a young girl, she is lonely after being kicked out of the house, her reputation has been entangled with you, and now her life is in danger, it is really pitiful...... So, don't let her down. ”

This sentence was said by Emperor Deqing seemingly unintentionally when Zhao Junchen left the imperial study.

It seems that Emperor Deqing only said such things out of pity for Cui Qianxue.

However, the emperor's mind is unfathomable, and every move contains deep meaning, Emperor Deqing looks like a casual sentence, but Zhao Junchen does not dare to underestimate it, and he still needs to think about it repeatedly.

At the beginning, Emperor Deqing took the initiative to talk to Zhao Junchen about matchmaking, in addition to encircling Zhao Junchen, he also did not have the idea of testing Zhao Junchen's mind.

This point can be glimpsed from the family background of Cui Qianxue, Su Xiuning, and Chen Zhirong.

Among them, Cui Qianxue's grandfather Cui Mian is the former cabinet elder and former leader of Qingliu, and now he still has a certain influence on Qingliu, if Zhao Junchen chooses Cui Qianxue as his wife, then it means that Zhao Junchen wants to change direction, reverse his reputation, and gradually get rid of his corrupt official image, which is the path of steady development.

And Su Xiuning's father is the head of the world's governors, Su Changyi, the governor of Nanzhili, who is powerful and well-connected, but it is a pity that he is a big corrupt official like Zhao Junchen, and even his reputation is worse than Zhao Junchen.

As for Chen Zhirong, she is the daughter of Chen You, the Duke of Jingguo, and although the line of Jing Guogong is not powerful, he has a lot of connections in the Xungui Group, if Zhao Junchen marries Chen Zhirong, it means that Zhao Junchen wants to cooperate with the Xungui Group, although he does not get much help in terms of power, but he can stabilize his position and seek self-protection through the deep-rooted Xungui Group.

Therefore, through Zhao Junchen's final choice, Emperor Deqing can also test Zhao Junchen's future plans and plans.

It's a pity that Zhao Junchen has not made a choice for a long time, and Emperor Deqing's temptation has not been fruitful.

Now, time has passed, the situation in the temple has changed greatly, Zhao Junchen's power influence is getting stronger and stronger, and he has also obtained the authority of commercial tax rectification, it is foreseeable that in the future, Zhao Junchen's power influence will be further improved.

In this way, Emperor Deqing's attitude has also quietly changed, and he no longer cares about continuing to test Zhao Junchen's future direction, but has the idea of suppressing Zhao Junchen's power expansion.

After all, Zhao Junchen is too young, and now he has not yet entered the cabinet, he has become the second only powerful minister in the court after Zhou Shangjing, and even enough to compete with the first assistant Shen Changmao, if Zhao Junchen is allowed to continue to develop, no one knows where Zhao Junchen will go, and Emperor Deqing naturally wants to take precautions.

Recovering the authority of the West Factory and the Inner Carrier Depot from Zhao Junchen is only one thing, and preventing Zhao Junchen from further expanding his power, connections, and influence through marriage is the other thing.

In this way, if Zhao Junchen marries Su Xiuning or Chen Zhirong, and Zhao Junchen gets the support of Su Changzhen or Xungui Group, it will be the next policy for Emperor Deqing.

Comparatively speaking, Cui Qianxue has been kicked out of the house by Cui Mian, after Zhao Junchen married Cui Qianxue, even if Cui Mian took Cui Qianxue back to the house, at most there were only some clear streams to say good things for Zhao Junchen and let Zhao Junchen's reputation be reversed, but Zhao Junchen will not get any help in politics, nor can he further expand his power, for Emperor Deqing, it is naturally the best choice!

Therefore, Emperor Deqing suddenly said the words "Don't let down Cui Qianxue", which seemed to be a pity attitude, but in fact it was just to influence Zhao Junchen's final choice.

Of course, with Zhao Junchen's current status, even Emperor Deqing cannot completely interfere with Zhao Junchen's marriage choice, and what Emperor Deqing can do is only the impact of side attacks.

However, Emperor Deqing's attitude still sounded the alarm for Zhao Junchen.

"It seems that since this period of time, my power has expanded too fast, which has aroused the vigilance of Emperor Deqing, and even gradually approached the red line in Emperor Deqing's heart, so Emperor Deqing will try to suppress it again and again...... I am afraid that Emperor Deqing handed over the authority of commercial tax rectification to me out of necessity, and if there is another suitable candidate in the court, Emperor Deqing will not hand over this authority to me anyway, even if the rectification of commercial tax will make me offend a huge official and business group......

…… In this case, in the next period of time, I will try to keep a low profile, except for the matter of commercial taxes, try not to make any big moves at the rest of the time, otherwise it will only cause further vigilance and suppression of Emperor Deqing...... Fortunately, I can concentrate on my business tax consolidation plan, and by the way, stabilize my foundation, after all, the rapid expansion of power is not only good......"

Thinking about Emperor Deqing's attitude, Zhao Junchen thought secretly.

At the same time, thinking that Emperor Deqing wanted to promote his attitude with Cui Qianxue, Zhao Junchen's mood was quite complicated.

After Cui Qianxue blocked the knife for herself, Zhao Junchen was full of gratitude to Cui Qianxue and was willing to try his best to make up for Cui Qianxue, but marriage is another matter.

In addition, Zhao Junchen himself is a real animal, and the pursuit of interests has become instinctive, just wanting to seek political benefits for himself through marriage and increase his life-saving capital in the future, and marrying Cui Qianxue is obviously unable to bring any benefits, so in Zhao Junchen's opinion, marrying Cui Qianxue is not a good choice.

"That's it, let's see how the situation changes in the future, anyway, I'm already overage in this era, and I'm not afraid of delaying for a while, and I think Emperor Deqing won't force me in this matter...... In addition, the matter of giving Ru'er a name must also be put on the agenda......"

*****

Just when Zhao Junchen was secretly thinking about the change in Emperor Deqing's attitude, Xu Qingyan pushed the door in, with a somewhat surprised expression, and reported to Zhao Junchen: "Young Master, the first assistant Shen Changmao and the pavilion elder Huang Yourong came to visit the mansion, do you want to see them?" ”

It's no wonder that Xu Qingyan's expression is a little weird, after all, Zhao Junchen, Shen Changmao, and Huang Yourong have completely torn their faces, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the relationship between the two sides is the same. Zhao Junchen deliberately humiliated Shen and Huang last night, and Shen and Huang also sent someone to impeach Zhao Junchen this morning, plus the conflict between the two sides is not only a struggle for power and profit, but also diametrically opposite in terms of political views, in this case, Shen Changmao and Huang Yourong will come to Zhao Mansion to visit Zhao Junchen in person, which is naturally a strange thing.

However, although Xu Qingyan would feel strange about the surprise visit of Shen Changmao and Huang Yourong, Zhao Junchen would not be surprised.

In fact, the rumors that suddenly appeared in the market were originally secretly instructed by Zhao Junchen, so Zhao Junchen could also guess that the reason why Shen Changmao and Huang Yourong suddenly visited him was nothing more than to use his own actions to counter those rumors that "Shen Changmao sent someone to assassinate Zhao Junchen".

In the sea of eunuchs, there are no eternal friends and foes, only eternal interests, and it is common for political enemies who only drew their swords yesterday to drink and talk about joy the next day -- as long as they can get benefits, all politicians are broad-minded and kind-hearted people.

What's more, Shen Changmao and Huang Yourong visited themselves this time just to make a show, and it was a trivial matter.

Therefore, after hearing Xu Qingyan's report, Zhao Junchen's expression was still calm, and he just asked, "Oh? The two of them came to visit the house in person? It's also rare! What is their attitude? ”

Xu Qingyan thought for a while and said, "It's polite." ”

Zhao Junchen thought about it for a while, and felt that he could cooperate with Shen and Huang to act, and by taking this opportunity, Zhao Junchen could also make a deal with them to achieve some of his goals.

So, Zhao Junchen stood up and said to Xu Qingyan: "Shoufu and Ge Lao came to visit the mansion in person, this is not a trivial matter, don't slack off!" Tell me to go down, let people open the front door, put on a good stand, and I will go out to greet you in person! ”

After hearing Zhao Junchen's instructions, Xu Qingyan was a little surprised, but he didn't ask anything, but hurriedly went to make arrangements.

And Zhao Junchen also left the study immediately and walked quickly towards the door of the mansion.

When Zhao Junchen came to the front door of the mansion, everything was ready, the main gate of the Zhao mansion was wide open, the stewards of the mansion were lined up on both sides, and some people even prepared firecrackers and gongs and drums, and the momentum was quite grand.

When Zhao Junchen walked outside the mansion, he saw Shen Changmao and Huang Yourong at a glance.

At this time, Shen Changmao changed his usual seriousness and coldness, and actually forced out a seemingly gentle smile, and Huang Yourong next to him also somewhat returned to his previous smiling tiger appearance, and he also smiled kindly.

After seeing the two of them, Zhao Junchen adjusted his complexion slightly, put on a flattered expression, walked towards them quickly, and said loudly: "I didn't expect Shen Shoufu and Huang Ge Lao to come to visit together, Zhao Mansion is really shining today!" ”

After Shen and Huang saw Zhao Junchen's attitude, their expressions were also a little satisfied, and they also walked towards Zhao Junchen with a smile on their faces.

Just looking at this scene, who could have guessed that the three of them were actually political enemies of the DPRK and China?

Officialdom is like a theater, and it really is.

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PS: Yesterday afternoon, there was a hail rain where the bugs lived, and the sound was very violent, and each hail was the size of a duck's egg, which was very scary. At the same time, the home also suffered heavy losses, the solar water heater was smashed, the kitchen glass was smashed, the house was flooded, and the car's rearview mirror was also smashed.

Today, the bugs need to deal with these things, and it takes a lot of time, so it's only four thousand words, forgive me. But if nothing else, there will be three watches tomorrow!

…… (To be continued.) )