Chapter 218: Xu Dian defected
Peng Huaicai's plans seem to be shrewd, but in fact they are too petty, like two sinister villains hiding behind and making small moves, no matter how you look at it, they don't look like people who do big things.
Zhao Di himself didn't expect that Xu Dian would have a good impression of himself because of his unintentional actions, and even resented Zhao Zhen and his gang because of this, the reason why he said that to Xu Dian at that time was because he really needed a staff member who could help him take care of the affairs of the house, and in his opinion, the position of Tianwei City Lord was not so important, if Zhao Zhen was really willing to exchange, Zhao Di would never mind changing Zhao Zhen's person to be the city lord.
Because in Zhao Di's opinion, if he wants to change people, he can make Tianwei City change at any time.
This is the gap in strength, a person with real strength will never fight for the gains and losses of a city or a place, on the contrary, he will focus on the overall situation.
Zhao Di saw the situation in the Great Song Dynasty very clearly, and he also knew who his real opponent was.
Why did he kill Ding Yi in the first place, it wasn't just to stir up the wind and clouds and point at Zhao Di, he actually had a lot of doubts about Zhao Di's attitude, moving Ding Yi and Wang Anshi was actually not his real purpose, everything was just a temptation.
In the Great Song Dynasty, there is only one opponent, that is Zhao Di, if he can't pull him off the horse, then everything he does has no meaning to him, so he doesn't care about the position of a Tianwei city lord at all, even if he grabs it, if he can't fight Zhao Di in the end, all this is just a fortress in the sand, and as long as the other party touches everything, it will collapse like a sand city.
Zhao Di has this vision and courage, so he can proudly throw out the position of the Tianwei City Lord as a bargaining chip, and Zhao Zhen, he will never have the courage to resist Zhao Di, he can only hide in the shadows pitifully and speculate, hoping that he will one day be able to ascend to the ninety-five throne, but he does not have the courage to fight.
This is the essential difference between Zhao Di and Zhao Zhen, and why after seeing Zhao Di's arrogance, Xu Dian was able to taste Zhao Zhen's obscenity and childishness.
There is really no comparison between people, some people are really born with a personality charm that is very different from ordinary people, as long as you have contact with him, you will unconsciously be attracted by his charm, and unconsciously want to follow him.
Of course, Xu Dian did not show any abnormal colors when facing Zhao Zhen and Peng Huaicai, but instead sat beside the two with a smile, watching the two praise each other and nodding slightly, as if he agreed with the views of the two very much.
However, after the meeting, when Xu Dian returned to the courtyard where he lived, he was walking in circles in the study alone, and the whole person seemed a little restless, walking and stopping in the study, as if something was difficult to decide.
After a full quarter of an hour in the study, a look of determination appeared on his face, and he gritted his teeth and took out a sunglasses from his arms, activated them and began to communicate.
Of course, the contact of these sunglasses is no one else, it is Zhao Di, obviously the thing that Xu Dian hesitated about before was to communicate with Zhao Di, because this matter is not a trivial matter for him, once it is found that he is communicating with Zhao Di in private, then Zhao Zhen will definitely not believe him, and it is even possible to directly execute him as a traitor.
No one will allow their men to get too close to their opponents, because no one can afford to take such a risk.
The relationship between Zhao Di and Zhao Zhen is very mysterious, it is a relationship that is not an enemy but is better than an enemy, because Zhao Zhen is Zhao Di's person in the real sense, and between Zhao Di and Zhao Di is a great enemy of life and death.
In the court dispute, Zhao Zhen can secretly join forces with Zhao Di, but Zhao Zhen must not be ambiguous about the major rights and wrongs, otherwise he is looking for death.
Why Zhao Zhen sent Xu Dian to visit Zhao Di with great fanfare, that is, in order to avoid suspicion, he wanted to let everyone know about his contact with Zhao Di openly, so as to avoid Zhao Di's suspicion.
Pull Zhao Di together to deal with Wen Yanbo, because Wen Yanbo is the common enemy of the royal family like him and Zhao Di, and this kind of behavior will not disgust Zhao Di, after all, the emperor's way of domination lies in differentiation and balance, but at a critical time, as long as Zhao Di gives the order, Zhao Zhen will definitely not have any hesitation to turn the gun to deal with Zhao Di.
Zhao Di naturally knows the real relationship between himself and Zhao Zhen, so he will not really regard Zhao Zhen as a close ally, which is why he dares to dig Zhao Zhen's corner directly, because everyone is destined to become friends, Lao Tzu does not have any psychological burden to dig your corner, even outsiders can't say that Lao Tzu is not.
Xu Dian quickly got Zhao Di's reply through the sunglasses, and after checking the reply in the sunglasses, the expression on Xu Dian's face finally calmed down a lot, and he was no longer as anxious as when he made the decision before.
Xu Dian summoned Zhao Di through sunglasses for a while, and almost told Zhao Di everything that happened in Bianjing City, as well as the decisions they made about Zhao Zhen, and the purpose of this was of course to show sincerity to Zhao Di, because Zhao Di had promised to help him get out of King An's Mansion.
Xu Dian is not a small person, otherwise he would not have recommended himself to join King An's Mansion after Zhao Zhen won the title of king, because he saw that Zhao Di would inevitably set up Zhao Zhen as a model of the royal family to show his tolerance and wash away the stain of his usurpation of his brother's throne, which also made him see the opportunity to get ahead.
Ambitious people never stop at the status quo of being rich and peaceful, so over the years, he has been constantly pushing the royal family led by King An to forge ahead, but he has always felt that the royal family is weak and a little lonely.
Before, he tried his best to plan for the Anwang Mansion, but he often couldn't move an inch, and he felt that in the face of Wen Yanbo, these old rivers and lakes were like grasshoppers shaking trees, and he always felt in his subjective mind that it was not that Zhao Zhen and his royal relatives did not work hard, but that Wen Yanbo and these people were too powerful.
But Zhao Di's birth, as well as Zhao Di's series of operations, easily swept Wen Yanbo's group into prison, and at this time he suddenly discovered that it was not that the enemy was too strong, but that his people were too bad.
This is to make Xu Dian understand that he is destined to have no future in King An's Mansion, and he is excluded by Peng Huaicai, so for the sake of his own future, of course he has to think about the possibility of falling into Zhao Di's side.
Of course, he also thought that he might be despised by Zhao Di, but Peng Huaicai's sudden abnormal suppression made Xu Dian keenly smell a hint of crisis, which was the key factor that Xu Dian had to make a choice.