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Zhao Junchen had long expected Zhao Shancai's death, but he didn't expect it to be today, but now when he heard the news, he inevitably felt some regret in his heart. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In fact, Zhao Shancai is certainly amazing and talented, but after all, he is young and inexperienced, so he is not a qualified strategist.

After all, the first task of a good strategist is to "seek something first; If you want to seek others, you must first seek yourself. ”

The so-called "self-preservation" is self-preservation! Only by protecting ourselves can we keep the future and achieve great things.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Jia Xu even sacrificed the lives of more than 100,000 people in Chang'an in order to protect himself, which is a more extreme example.

However, today's Zhao Shan can "seek things" and "seek people", but he will not "seek himself"!

In this case, it is necessary for Zhao Shancai's master Zhu Heyu to take the initiative to protect Zhao Shancai, but unfortunately the prince Zhu Heyu can't do this at all!

Zhao Shancai did not regret his choice to assist the crown prince Zhu Heyu until his death, but Zhao Junchen is still convinced in his heart that Zhao Shancai can only give full play to his best talent by taking refuge in himself, at least Zhao Junchen can ensure his life.

Therefore, when he was changing glasses and drinking with the guests of Zhao Mansion, Zhao Junchen smiled as usual on the surface, but he inevitably felt some emotion in his heart.

After all, there are not many people like Zhao Shancai.

However, Zhao Junchen did not sigh for too long, now that the Si people have passed away, the living still have to continue to live.

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Soon, Zhao Junchen had already sorted out his thoughts, put Zhao Shancai's affairs behind, and began to silently observe the changes in the expressions of the "Zhao Party" officials, and when he saw that the "Zhao Party" officials were all happy from the bottom of their hearts at this time, and their attitude towards themselves was becoming more and more respectful and obedient, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Don't look at Zhao Junchen is now the leader of the "Zhao Party" and one of the powerful ministers in the temple, it seems that the scenery is infinite, but in fact, he knows that only Zhao Junchen himself knows how much pressure from all sides is.

Needless to say, there is a daily intrigue with the political enemies of the DPRK and China, and even within the "Zhao Party," Zhao Junchen is not the same on the surface, but in fact he is facing great pressure.

As mentioned above, Zhao Junchen has been secretly rectifying the "Zhao Party" for a period of time, and has been secretly suppressing, crowding out, and eliminating the most insatiable officials within the "Zhao Party," and has been quietly suppressing the embezzlement and bribery of the "Zhao Party" officials.

These actions of Zhao Junchen are aimed at gradually changing the nature of the "Zhao Party" and transforming the "Zhao Party" from a simple collection of corrupt officials into a bureaucratic group with common political interests!

However, the "Zhao Party" was originally a group of corrupt officials, and most of its members were corrupt officials who were insatiable, and they were willing to take refuge in Zhao Junchen and become Zhao Junchen's minions, in essence, just because Zhao Junchen himself was the most famous corrupt official in the court, and he could shelter them and make money boldly!

Now, Zhao Junchen is doing the opposite, not only did not shelter them to make money, but also restricted their embezzlement and bribery, and the officials of the "Zhao Party" will inevitably be dissatisfied after discovering that their own interests have been damaged!

However, in recent times, the influence of the power of the "Zhao Party" has developed extremely rapidly, and the victory of party battles one after another has covered up all the contradictions, and most of the officials of the "Zhao Party" have indulged in the expansion of the power of the "Zhao Party" and believe that their status in the temple has been improved, so they have not shown an obvious backlash.

However, sooner or later, the development of the "Zhao Party" will enter a real bottleneck, and the greedy nature of the corrupt officials cannot be suppressed for too long.

Although Zhao Junchen is the sole leader of the "Zhao Party," in essence he is only the spokesman for the interests of the "Zhao Party" officials, and it is Zhao Junchen's natural obligation to strive for the interests of the "Zhao Party" officials.

As the saying goes, "people who have no long-term concerns must have near-term worries", although Zhao Junchen is saying the same thing within the "Zhao Party" at present, and the backlash of the "Zhao Party" officials is not obvious, Zhao Junchen is still keenly aware of the hidden dangers in the future.

Under such circumstances, Zhao Junchen wants to gradually erase the corrupt official nature of the "Zhao Party" group and restrict the corruption and bribery of the "Zhao Party" officials, but he also does not want to suppress the "Zhao Party" officials too harshly and force them to betray him, but there is only one solution -- that is, to continue to divert the attention of the "Zhao Party" officials and create a new way for the "Zhao Party" officials to make money!

And the existence of "United Ship Company" is undoubtedly the best choice!

Once the "United Shipping Company" is put into operation, it will monopolize the shipping business of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and the Yangtze River waterway, which is enough to create astronomical wealth! It is also enough to fill the greed of most of the "Zhao Party" officials!

If the officials of the "Zhao Party" were still insatiable after receiving the dividends of the "United Boat Company", they continued to embezzle and accept bribes and use their power to seek profit from Zhao Junchen, then Zhao Junchen would not dare to disagree with them if they punished them again!

In this world, this is called "grace and power"; According to later generations, this is called "one hand radish and one hand stick", but it is also a tried and tested method!

In fact, before this, Zhao Junchen had asked the officials of the "Zhao Party" to invest in "Yuerong Fang", and it was precisely because of this consideration! It's just that with the increasing power and more and more members of the "Zhao Party", the business profits of "Yuerong Fang" are not enough, and it is not enough to appease the greed in the hearts of the "Zhao Party" officials, so Zhao Junchen also threw out the larger "United Boat Line" in a timely manner!

In addition, after Sichuan Salt enters the profit stage in the future, Zhao Junchen will still distribute a part of the benefits of Sichuan Salt to the "Zhao Party"!

As a result, the benefits obtained by the "Zhao Party" officials through the channels of "Yuerong Fang", "United Boat Company", Sichuan Salt, etc., will inevitably exceed the profits from their daily corruption and bribery, and the "Zhao Party" officials will be tightly tied to Zhao Junchen's ship, and even if Zhao Junchen temporarily loses power one day in the future, they will not dare to betray Zhao Junchen easily!

The most important thing is that after the officials of the "Zhao Party" gradually get used to the benefits of these channels, they will also have common interests and goals, and even have common political tendencies!

After all, whether it is the monopoly system of "Yuerong Fang", or the commercial tax rectification experiment of "United Shipping Company", or the development of Sichuan salt, they are all closely related to the words "reform" and "innovation", and once the officials of the "Zhao Party" taste the sweetness in this, they will quietly become "reformists" and "enterprising" in the temple in the future!

In fact, the "reformers" and "enterprising factions" in all political occasions, whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, are only because the so-called reform and enterprising can create benefits for them!

At that time, the "Zhao Party" will first have common political interests and common political tendencies, and it will not be far from a mature political bureaucracy!

Therefore, Zhao Junchen's actions today are not just a simple way to win people's hearts!

But these days, no one has been able to see through this.

When the officials of the "Zhao Party" realized Zhao Junchen's true intentions, they were like frogs in warm water, and they would find that they could not get rid of Zhao Junchen completely!

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Secretly thinking about his transformation plan for the "Zhao Party", Zhao Junchen's eyes couldn't help but fluctuate.

But on the surface, Zhao Junchen is still a kind appearance of a wealthy boy, constantly raising his glasses, laughing with the guests, and drinking and talking.

Seeing that the atmosphere gradually reached a climax, bursts of firecrackers and music suddenly came from outside the gate of Zhao's mansion, but it was today's other protagonist Fang Ru who finally arrived.

After all, it was just a concubine, and many ritual links were omitted, for example, Zhao Junchen did not personally go to the other courtyard where Fang Ru lived to greet his relatives.

However, when Fang Ru came to Zhao's mansion in a red sedan chair, Zhao Junchen still stood up and took the initiative to greet him outside the door.

Ordinary people take concubines to fill the house, and they are just a small sedan chair entering through the side door, which can be described as extremely low-key, but Zhao Junchen now deliberately wants to raise Fang Ru's identity, but he deliberately arranges for the sedan chair man to carry the sedan chair to enter through the main entrance.

Although there were some irregularities, most of the guests present were their own people, and no one would point it out without interest.

In fact, after seeing Zhao Junchen take the initiative to greet him, all the guests also followed behind Zhao Junchen and greeted him together.

When Zhao Junchen walked to the gate of Zhao's mansion, the sedan chair drivers had already carried the red sedan chair carried by eight people into the courtyard and landed at the door.

Zhao Junchen did not hesitate, walked to the sedan chair amid the sound of firecrackers, gongs and drums, and congratulations, and lifted the sedan curtain with his own hands.

In the sedan chair, Fang Ru'an, who was dressed in red makeup, sat in it, although through the veil, Zhao Junchen could still see her bright and moving, apricot eyes with tears, obviously Fang Ru, who has always been capable and decisive and not inferior to her eyebrows, was also extremely excited at this moment!

After all, Fang Ru had waited for this moment for too long!

Zhao Junchen bent down, stretched out his hand to help Fang Ru out of the sedan chair, and said softly at the same time: "Ru'er, I'm sorry, this day has made you wait so long!" ”

Fang Ru, who couldn't stop crying, was even more excited after hearing Zhao Junchen's words, and her pearl-like tears kept dripping, but she shook her head again and again, and said: "Ru'er doesn't blame the master, it's Ru'er's bad background, and the old man has been burdened, and today the master is doing this for Ru'er, Ru'er only feels like in a dream, and she is already very satisfied!" ”

"Call me Xianggong from now on." Zhao Junchen said with a smile: "Between husband and wife, there is nothing involved, your good days are still ahead!" ”

While speaking, Zhao Junchen was already leading Fang Ru and turned around and walked towards the main hall.

At the same time, under the leadership of Zuo Lanshan, Huo Zhengyuan and others, the guests also called in unison: "Congratulations to Lord Zhao for entering the mansion like a lady!" ”

At this time, the Zhao Mansion was decorated with lights, the guests were noble, and everyone sent blessings to Zhao Junchen and Fang Ru.

And Fang Ru looked at everything in front of her, and only felt that this was the best memory of her life!

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This night, Zhao Junchen did not deal with official business, nor did he consider the scheme, and came to Fang Ru's room early.

And Fang Ru has been waiting for Zhao Junchen for a long time, and he did his best to cooperate with Zhao Junchen this night, and the two lingered for a long time.

After the passion subsided slightly, Fang Ru was like an octopus, holding Zhao Junchen's body with his limbs stupidly, refusing to let go.

Then, Fang Ru's beautiful eyes stared at Zhao Junchen's face for a long time, and then suddenly spoke: "Xianggong, Ru'er is too greedy and selfish!" I'm really sorry for the husband! In the past few days, Ru'er has actually wanted to open her mouth many times to stop Xianggong from doing a big deal about today's affairs, but in the end, because of her own selfishness and greed, she still didn't open her mouth in the end......"

Zhao Junchen was experiencing Fang Ru's softness, and when he heard Fang Ru's sudden apology, he smiled and said, "It's okay, for you, everything is worth it!" What's more, there won't be any big trouble. ”

Zhao Junchen naturally knew what Fang Ru was worried about.

Fang Ru's background is not good, although he was still innocent when he entered the Zhao Mansion, but after all, he was born in a Qinglou, and the Ming Dynasty clearly stipulated that officials could not accept a woman from a Qinglou as a concubine! This is also the reason why Fang Ru did not get his official name until today!

And Zhao Junchen not only accepted Fangru as the side room, but also organized a wedding with great fanfare!

In this way, impeachment is inevitable.

Fang Ru knew this very well, but she was a woman after all, and she had all the careful thoughts of women, so after she hesitated for a long time, she didn't stop Zhao Junchen after all, and she didn't confess her thoughts to Zhao Junchen until this moment.

In fact, as soon as the court meeting began the next day, Zhao Junchen was impeached by countless Qingliu because of today's fanfare of concubine behavior!

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