Chapter Ninety-Four: Left and Right
Seeing Zhao Yi take the gold and silver before, Zhang Rang and Li Zhong both thought that Zhao Yi was a greedy person, but now they saw that Zhao Yi actually gave the gold and silver to Zuo Feng without changing his face. It seems that Zhao Yi is not a greedy person. Li Zhong shook his head slightly: "Zhao Yi loves money, but he doesn't gather money. is a difficult person to deal with. ”
This is exactly Zhao Yi's cleverness, after receiving the silver, he did not seal it, but gave the gold and silver to the people he needed to settle his heart, which can really be said to be scheming. Zhang Rang added: "And just now when I heard my promise of official position, Zhao Yi's face did not change in the slightest, or Zhao Yi was scheming, and his joy and anger were invisible. Either he has little interest in official positions. ”
Zhang Rang has a very thorough analysis of human nature, especially contemporary men, and a young talent like Zhao Yi either wants to be famous or power. As for the beauty, as long as you have power and fame, beautiful girls can have.
Zhang Rang stared at Zhao Yi's back, thinking that he had seen Zhao Yi through just now, but Zhao Yi's move made Zhang Rang a little puzzled: "Because of the repeated breaking of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhao Yi's reputation in Youzhou, Jizhou and other places has been very loud. He had promised Zhao Yi an official position just now, but Zhao Yi didn't seem to be interested, which made Zhang Rang and Li Wang a little puzzled, as long as it was a person's pursuit, it would be like grabbing a person's hope. Zhang Rang and Li Wangcai can prescribe the right medicine for this hope. Let those friends see hope in them, and then they are willing to give them their lives.
"Zhao Yi is very restrained, he has been watching his family's performance intently before, but when we promised to give it to him, Zhao Yi's eyes immediately returned to clear." Li Zhong groped his chin: "I don't think Zhao Yi doesn't like beauties. It's that the identities of those family members are too special, and Zhao Yi doesn't want to accept it, so he excuses himself to resign. As for the excuses that Zhao Yi said, Li Zhong and Zhang Rang knew that they were all Zhao Yi's words, if a person was determined to do something, he would do it by all means.
"This son is thoughtful, and he has not lost his mind in the face of women, but he is a rare talent. Our power in the DPRK is too weak, and the ministers we have gathered will not be able to get on the stage. If we can take Zhao Yi for our own use, we may be able to draw Zhao Yun into our camp. If so, we will have a lot of strength. Zhang Rang likes Zhao Yi very much, because there are almost no thoughtful and capable talents like Zhao Yi in Zhang Rang's camp. And Zhao Yi's father, Zhao Yun, has a lot of prestige in the Yanguan and is friendly with many neutral ministers in the court. Over the years, the Ten Standing Servants have never relaxed their efforts to win over Zhao Yun, nor have they stopped. But Zhao Yun didn't respond in the slightest. The Ten Standing Servants were very helpless, and wanted the emperor to remove Zhao Yun from office, but he was afraid that if he did so, the ministers who were good friends with Zhao Yun would be inclined to He Jin.
It would be good if a breakthrough could be found from Zhao Yi. The son is a lobbyist, which is naturally better than Zhang Rang and others.
Li Zhong nodded, he also knew that his relatives and officials would only do nonsense outside, and they would not help him at all. Therefore, winning Zhao Yi's talent will be of great help in the future: "Some court officials, we can use money and beauties to win over, but for talents like Zhao Yi, in addition to using money to win over, we must also exchange kindness for his sincerity." To put it bluntly, the so-called benevolence is actually very simple, that is, if Zhao Yi is in danger in the future, he will help Zhao Yi.
And for characters of the level of Zhang Rang and Li Zhong, they can arrange a catastrophe for Zhao Yi, a trouble that Zhao Yi can't solve, and at the moment of emergency, Zhang Rang and Li Zhong will take another shot to help Zhao Yi solve the trouble. Doesn't this make Zhao Yi owe himself a favor?
Zuo Feng enthusiastically sent Zhao Yi out of the palace gate, secretly saying that Zhao Yi would be a man and speak. When they were parting just now, Zhao Yi said in Zuo Feng's ear: "Father-in-law, you may be able to become the second ten permanent servants." These words made Zuo Feng very happy, the Ten Standing Servants are the ultimate goal of the eunuchs in the palace, because the Ten Standing Servants are so powerful that even the emperor respects Zhang Rang and Li Zhong very much.
At this time, the dictatorship of the eunuchs had been nearly eighty years. There are many people who have many brothers and want to follow this evil path. At this time, the officials are all based on filial piety, at the beginning of this system, it did recommend a lot of virtuous people, but in this era, filial piety is no longer simply filial piety, as long as you have money or power in your family, it is easy to become filial piety. If you don't have money or power, you have to go some other way.
Zuo Feng is one of those people, he has been in the palace for many years, and finally got to where he is today. And several brothers in the family were also promoted to filial piety because of Zuo Feng, and became the county commander who controlled the life and death of one party. This makes Zuo Feng feel a sense of accomplishment, although he is not a sound man, but the men in the family have to rely on themselves to flourish.
Not only Zuo Feng, but also the little eunuchs who work in the palace, all of them want to become eunuchs like the Ten Standing Servants who cover the sky with one hand. Zuo Feng really hopes that Zhao Yi's words can become a reality. But when he walked through the rockery with a smile on his face, and wanted to go back to the house to see how much gold and silver was in the box, he saw Zhang Rang and Li Zhong looking at him with gloomy faces. Zuo Feng's smile suddenly froze on his face, and he took two quick steps and knelt on the ground: "My lord." Although Zuo Feng has the ambition to be the second of the ten permanent servants, Zhang Rang and Li Zhong are still in power at this time. It is common for eunuchs to kill little eunuchs and palace maids, and there are so many wells in the palace, just find one and throw it into it.
Zuo Feng's body trembled a little when he spoke, and the two in front of him were both murderous and bloodless masters. Zuo Feng didn't know about his acceptance of Zhao Yi's silver, Zhang Rang and the two would be to blame, if he was executed for this matter, then all his previous efforts would be in vain.
"My lord, this silver was given to me by General Zhao, and I don't want it." Saying that, Zuo Feng presented the box with both hands, hoping that Zhang Rang and the two would forgive themselves when they saw that they took the initiative to hand over the silver taels.
Zhang Rang didn't have the slightest expression on his face: "Get up, since it was given to you by General Zhao, you can accept it." ”
Zuo Feng was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Zhang Rang to let him go, so he hurriedly thanked Zhang Rang and Li Zhong, and retired and walked down.
Zhang Rang stared at Zuo Feng's back, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "When a person's life is in danger, even the things you like can be thrown away." That's human nature. "Zhang Rang and Li Zhong didn't care about Zuo Feng's greed for money, because greed for money is a weakness, a weakness that can be easily controlled. Greedy people are not terrible, but those who pretend to be indifferent to everything, because you don't know what he is looking for, and you can't control a person's actions.
Zhao Yi was the first person Zhang Rang and Li Zhong couldn't see through. There are no people in the world who have no desires and no desires, and the Taoist priests who cultivate in the deep mountains seem to be separated from the red dust world, isn't it also to seek the Tao. Later generations gave up greed, hatred, ignorance, hatred, love, evil, and desire, and purified the world's high monks, isn't it also for the sake of becoming a Buddha?
"Let the people below pay close attention to Zhao Yi's movements." Zhang Rang commanded. He wanted to see Zhao Yi's pursuit from Zhao Yi's actions.
Zhao Yi, who returned home, put the box in his hand on the table and stretched his waist, Zhao Yun opened the box and looked at it, and saw the gold and silver in the box, and buttoned it with a "snap". Excitedly pointed at Zhao Yi: "You rebel, how can you attach to the eunuch!" "The gold and silver in this box, Zhao Yun has not had so much money in his life, it is definitely used by the ten permanent servants to win over Zhao Yi, and Zhao Yi actually took back the gold and silver, which means that Zhao Yi has received the silver of the ten permanent servants, which means that he is attached to the ten permanent servants.
Zhao Yun just praised Zhao Yi for doing a good job in He Jin Mansion at noon, and no one was offended, how could he have thought that Zhao Yi would be attached to the ten permanent servants. If you know this, it is better to let Zhao Yi follow He Jin, anyway, He Jin has the slogan of Qingjun side, even if he is defeated and killed, Zhao Yi is also a loyal minister, and he can be remembered for eternity. But with a minister like Shichang, even if no one dares to comment on right and wrong in the world, Shi Bi can't spare Zhao Yi, and Zhao Yi will definitely be stinking for 10,000 years.
One misstep turned into a thousand years of hatred, Zhao Yun was originally very relieved of Zhao Yi, but he didn't expect things to turn out like this. "My Zhao family's reputation has been ruined by you!" Now that the wood has been completed, Zhao Yun is very helpless.
Zhao Yi was a little surprised by Zhao Yun's excited emotions: "Why is my father so excited, I don't attach myself to the Ten Standing Servants." ”
Zhao Yun's beard trembled, pacing back and forth in the room, and when he heard Zhao Yi's words, Zhao Yun pointed to the gold and silver in the box and snorted: "Then what's the matter with this gold and silver?" This is obviously a bribe. How can you not clean yourself and be in the company of eunuchs! "If you continue to talk about it, Zhao Yun is afraid that Zhao Yi will be expelled from the family. Because Zhao Yun can't afford to lose this person.
Zhao Yi was a little strange: "Does receiving the money mean that you have to work for the ten permanent servants?" I'm not selling it to them. "It's the so-called taking people's money and eliminating disasters with others. But Zhao Yi is the kind of person who doesn't help people eliminate disasters.
"The Ten Permanent Servants are powerful in the court, and if you take money and don't help them, they will definitely attack you. Your future will be ruined. Zhao Yun stroked his beard and kept blaming Zhao Yi for accepting the silver from the ten permanent servants.
Zhao Yi stroked the box and smiled: "Zhang Rangdu sent the silver to me, wouldn't it be a lift if I didn't accept it again, my father can rest assured, the ten permanent servants will not attack me at this time." They want to use me, they want to support me. I can also take the opportunity to develop my power. "As long as Zhao Yi's power has developed to a certain extent, there is no need to pay attention to the likes of the Ten Standing Servants and He Jin.
Zhao Yun didn't know what Zhao Yi was thinking, even if Zhao Yi was powerful in his eyes, he was just a royal minion. And the ten permanent servants are in control of the emperor, and when the time comes, Zhao Yi will be summoned back with an edict. "At this time, the struggle between the Ten Standing Servants and He Jin is becoming more and more intense, this kind of peaceful life, I'm afraid it won't last for a few years, how can you be able to develop your power no matter how strong it is?"
Zhao Yi didn't say anything about the future, but smiled mysteriously: "When the time comes, you will have your own way." ”
At this time, the servant came in and said, "Master, Huangfu Song." The two generals Zhu Jun came to visit the second son. ”