(Thank you for the monthly passes of brothers such as ACXLD, Dream into the Crow, Face Ruo Peach Blossom, and Old Flower Bear, and thank you for the generous rewards of the two brothers, Moshaocong and Uncle Xianshi.) Chapter 334

Song Nan stood for a while, thinking about it for a while, and vaguely understood the intention of Kang Ning to come to congratulate him in person, whether it was public or private, the princess's trip seemed abrupt, if you had to find a proper reason, it could only be said that it was a friendship between the princess of the inner palace and the lord of the Guogong Mansion.

Song Nan knew that the little county lord and Princess Kangning only knew each other, and the two did not have a deep friendship, and they couldn't come to congratulate the little county lord on his marriage in person. Today's arrival of Kang Ning is intriguing, and Kang Ning is obviously aware of some of the recent things that have happened in Lu Dao, including some of the emperor's dissatisfaction with himself and some of Liu Jin's words in front of the emperor.

Kang Ning is a smart woman, she knows that Song Nan is under great pressure at this time, and this time she came to congratulate her newlywed, one is to comfort him, and the other is afraid to publicly show that Song Nan has not fallen out of favor in the eyes of the royal family; Song Nan could even conclude that Kang Ning's arrival was approved by Zhengde, otherwise it would be impossible for a royal princess to attend the wedding of the foreign minister.

All in all, this wedding at least revealed some clues, after he stopped investigating the case of Maang and changed his attitude towards the inner court from confrontation to cooperation, Zhengde obviously changed his attitude towards himself, and today Zhengde fulfilled his promise to send someone to send a plaque to congratulate him and allowed the princess to come is a subtle hint.

Song Nan understands Zhengde, and in the past few days, Song Nan has carefully thought about the causes and consequences, and basically came to some conclusions. Zhengde is essentially a good man, and he is a good man who values feelings, the reason why he has some strange behaviors, on the one hand, is the unwilling resistance in his character, and on the other hand, Liu Jin's instigation and temptation, to himself, Zhengde still has a close heart.

If it weren't for the fact that he acted too high-profile recently, and almost pierced Zhengde's bottom line, so that he was exposed to the danger of being criticized by foreign ministers and could not step down, Zhengde would not have agreed to Liu Jin's suggestion, and he would not have fallen into such a passive situation.

His low-key behavior and deliberate swallowing his anger, in addition to confusing Liu Jin to facilitate the implementation of the plan, is also to win the sympathy of Zhengde, today's wedding is the touchstone, if Zhengde does not come to congratulate, it means that he still has no change in his opinion of himself, and since he sent the congratulatory gifts and congratulatory plaques, it means that the plan has worked, which is exactly the result that Song Nan expects to see.

Now what Song Nan can do is to hide behind the scenes, in the opening play, his role has been played, and the key to the next plan is to watch the performance of another person, this person is the eunuch Zhang Yong, the head of the imperial prison of the inner court, this is the key person in this plan.

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In the southeast of the Taiye Pond outside the Xihua Gate, the public house of the imperial eunuch is here, the environment here is quiet, the people are inaccessible, except for the local eunuch palace maid on duty, there are few outsiders here. The environment is clean and good, but it also shows the status of the imperial prison in the inner court, some of the twenty-four prisons are hot, some are short of oil, water and fertilizer, and some have no oil and water and no power, but they are better than being able to serve the emperor around and be familiar with their faces. And the royal prison is almost not touched, there are still some oil and water, but it can't be regarded as fat, it can only be said that compared to some of the internal prison yamen with clear soup and little water, it is quite passable, obviously if it is useless, Liu Jin will be Zhang Yongfa here, I am afraid that I will not be able to get over it.

For Zhang Yong, since he came to serve as the imperial supervisor, his situation has been like a concubine who has been beaten into the cold palace; When he served the prince with Liu Jin and others, he really hoped that after the prince ascended the throne, he would have the opportunity to win the authority of the inner court, but unfortunately, compared with Liu Jin, he was too tender. The family recruited a few other people early, and also set up people in the outer court, which can be described as a careful plan.

Zhang Yong is not Liu Jin's opponent in terms of means and character, but he has a bit of a donkey temper, and he is not very welcome to Liu Jin even with Liu Jin.

Zhang Yong was naturally unwilling, and said something in front of Zhengde, but among the Eight Tigers, except for Zhang Yong, he had been closely united around Liu Jin, in front of Zhengde, Qiu Ju, Gao Feng and others unanimously gave Zhang Yong some bad evaluations, which made Zhengde's impression of Zhang Yong plummet, and finally Zhang Yong chose not to make noise or make trouble and obediently stayed in the imperial prison, because if he continued to make trouble, I am afraid that he would not even be able to keep this position.

In any case, Zhang Yong was holding a fire in his heart, how could he be willing to be trampled under Liu Jin's feet, not to mention that he was not in charge of the inner court, just being bullied by Liu Jin and a few other guys, this was what Zhang Yong could not tolerate. In the imperial prison, Zhang Yong did not stop speculating and judging the situation for a moment, seeing that Liu Jin's power was getting bigger and bigger, and at the same time, it also attracted the opposition of all parties, and even Song Nan, who had always cooperated with Liu Jin, was offended, and the contradictions between the two were no longer hidden, Zhang Yong felt that the opportunity had come. In terms of choosing the object of cooperation, Zhang Yong thinks that Song Nan is the best candidate, and the outer court and Xun Qi obviously will not treat him, and since Song Nan and Liu Jin are at odds, in the inner court, he obviously needs someone like himself to cooperate with him.

More importantly, Zhang Yong understands Song Nan's ability, along the way, others may not be able to see Song Nan's ability clearly, Zhang Yongke has been silently looking at everything in his eyes, Liu Jin can have today, Song Nan's help has played a great role, this person is the best opportunity for himself to turn over.

Because of this, Zhang Yong chose the opportunity for Liu Jin to reopen the West Factory, and gave this news to Song Nan as a meeting gift, and then proposed a cooperative relationship with Song Nan.

Sure enough, after the most abrupt conversation with the Jinyi Wei Yamen that night, Song Nan made it clear that he was willing to cooperate, and Zhang Yong did not doubt the sincerity of the alliance between himself and Song Nan, under the current situation, both of them were on the verge of drowning, and the alliance in this situation was the most stable.

I have to say that Zhang Yong was a little disappointed that Song Nan failed to prevent the reopening of the West Factory and the fact that there was another inner factory yamen, but that night, Wan Zhi took him to meet Song Nan again, and Song Nan said a plan that made him stunned, all of which was intentionally done by Song Nan.

Zhang Yong had a skeptical attitude towards Song Nan's plan at first, but after Song Nan analyzed the entire plan in detail, Zhang Yong had to admit that Song Nan was several times smarter than himself, although he was not a person from the inner court, but Song Nan's analysis of the situation in the inner court was more accurate than his own, especially in the grasp of people's hearts, Song Nan was like a roundworm drilled in a person's stomach, which was scary to think about.

Zhang Yong was glad that he was finally able to partner with Song Nan, but the difficult part of the whole plan was how he stirred up the storm in the inner court and instigated the subtle weaknesses in people's hearts. In a nutshell, the essence of Song Nan's plan is nothing more than to make the inner court chaotic. Song Nan said very vividly: two pieces of big fat meat thrown in the vicious dog group, causing robbery and biting is inevitable, this kind of bite is often a fight for life, when the flesh and blood they bite are blurred, the owner of the dog will inevitably come out to drink and punish, at that time, even if the dogs stop fighting, they will not be reconciled with each other.

Zhang Yong fully understands this, just like in the distribution of official positions in the inner court after the overthrow of Fan Heng Wang Yue, although he did not reap the benefits, even Gao Fengqiu, Ju Wei Bin and others around Liu Jin also secretly have their own complaints, and there will never be absolute equality in the distribution of spoils, even if they belong to the same group, there are still subtle differences between relatives and relatives, which creates differences in distribution, thus becoming a hidden flashpoint.

In the past seven or eight days, Zhang Yong racked his brains to draw up a list of internal eunuchs, and after layers of screening, there were only five people left in the list of dozens of people, one was Ma Yongcheng of the inner transport warehouse, and the other was Gao Feng, the master of ceremonies, both of whom were old brothers in the past, but they were no longer on the same road as themselves; The other three, one is Zhang Zhong, the eunuch of the imperial horse, one is Zhang Rui, the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, and the other is Qian Ning, the second head of the East Factory.

These three people are all rising stars in the inner court, all of them are Liu Jin's newly cultivated core subordinates, and they all have a common errand, that is, they serve in the Xiyuan Leopard Room, and their relationship with the emperor is also extremely familiar.

For the sake of prudence, Zhang Yong went out of the palace to study this list with Song Nan for a few hours, and finally circled the breakthrough, the two agreed on the same opinion, and wanted to stir up the inner court, and it was necessary to start with the three chief and deputy directors of the leopard room.

By the Taiye Pool, in the small courtyard of the royal prison in the bright winter sun, Zhang Yong sat in the sun, slowly drinking hot tea. There was a clatter of horses' hooves outside the courtyard gate, which was also mixed with the jingle of copper bells on the horse's neck, Zhang Yongzhi said, it was a carriage sent by the leopard room to get things, every other day, Zhang Zhong, the deputy head of the leopard room, would bring people to get the things needed in the leopard room, and these royal things without exception needed to be sent out from the treasury by the royal supervisor.

At the gate of the courtyard, the black, thin and capable Zhang Zhong came slowly, two little eunuchs followed behind him, and several leopard palace maids and a carriage also appeared at the gate of the courtyard.