Chapter 258. Deep Reflection and Hesitation [First Update].

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"Young master, can this palace banquet be smooth? And those three girls, can the young master be eye-catching? ”

Seeing Zhao Junchen leaving the palace, Xu Qingyan greeted him and asked.

He and Zhao Junchen are friends of the general horn, they grew up together since childhood, they are called master servants and are actually brothers, and now this palace banquet is related to Zhao Junchen's marriage, Xu Qingyan is naturally very concerned.

However, Zhao Junchen looked thoughtful, and did not give a clear answer, just shook his head lightly and said slowly: "This matter...... It seemed a little more complicated than I imagined, and it was difficult for me to decide for a while. ”

"Complicated?" Xu Qingyan was slightly stunned.

Zhao Junchen nodded and said softly: "Today's palace banquet, their minds are a little different from what I imagined, especially the daughter of the Jingguo family, who seems to have other plans...... And His Majesty's attitude is also a little unexpected......"

While speaking, Zhao Junchen fell into deep thought again.

These words, without beginning or end, seem to be explaining to Xu Qingyan, and they seem to be talking to themselves, which makes people confused.

Seeing Zhao Junchen like this, knowing that Zhao Junchen was thinking about things, although he became more and more curious, Xu Qingyan no longer asked, but just waited for Zhao Junchen to get into the sedan chair, and then ordered the sedan chair drivers to carry the sedan chair back to the house.

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Between the sedan chair swaying, Zhao Junchen sat in the sedan chair, thinking carefully about what happened at today's palace banquet.

Today's palace banquet seems ordinary, but it is just a process routine. But Zhao Junchen's careful thinking is enough to obtain a lot of useful information.

First of all, the most explicit thing. is the old Cui Mian of the former cabinet who does not want to see Zhao Junchen very much, although because of a coincidence, Cui Qianxue seems to have some curiosity and ignorance of Zhao Junchen, as long as Zhao Junchen uses a little means, it is not difficult to marry the Cui family, but under Cui Mian's attitude, even if the two families get married in the future. It was also difficult for Zhao Junchen to get any help from the Cui family, and even in the worst case, although Zhao Junchen married the Cui family. But Cui Mian will do everything possible to hinder Zhao Junchen in the temple - so that Cui Mian can recover the loss of his reputation and make a stand to the Qingliu - with Cui Mian's good reputation, this is very possible.

So, for the future candidate of his wife. Zhao Junchen first ruled out Cui Qianxue - what he needed was a political marriage that could help him. And marrying the Cui family will obviously only have disadvantages and disadvantages in this regard, and the marriage between Zhao Junchen and Cui Qianxue is difficult to be happy and harmonious under such circumstances.

Thinking of Cui Qianxue's big eyes that are clear and bright, without the slightest impurity, Zhao Junchen can't help but feel a little regretful, in fact, if you put aside the consideration of political interests, Zhao Junchen is the most popular among the three daughters Cui Qianxue, although Cui Qianxue always speaks and acts without consideration. But because of this, Zhao Junchen got along with her the most easily.

Pity. The so-called "political interests" is the most unavoidable thing for Zhao Junchen at present.

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Secondly, it is Su Changyi's attitude, which is unexpectedly enthusiastic and active, in order to promote his daughter Su Xiuning to Zhao Junchen at the palace banquet, he is almost shameless, not only seizing the opportunity to show Zhao Junchen all the benefits of Su Xiuning, but also repeatedly hinting to Zhao Junchen about the benefits that can be brought after marrying the Su family, the attitude is almost flattering, so that Zhao Junchen can't help but feel ashamed of him.

It can be said that Su Changyi's attitude is completely different from Cui Mian's.

At the same time, Su Xiuning is also a very good woman, not only talented and beautiful, but also rare in that she has a gentle and supple temperament and no bad intentions, so it can be said that she is destined to be a good wife in the future.

However, the more enthusiastic and active Su Changyi was, the more hesitant Zhao Junchen became.

Without him, Su Changyi has been up and down in the officialdom for many years, without a strong backer, nor from a famous family, and his hands are not clean, but over the years, he has not only not fallen, but has climbed step by step to the high position of the governor of Nanzhili, which shows that his means are subtle and old-fashioned, there is no doubt that he is an old fox in the political arena, and it is impossible for him to fail to see the hidden dangers of Zhao Junchen's future, but he is still eager to marry his daughter to Zhao Junchen, his attitude is almost impatient, and he is not even worried that this will cause the hostility of the prince Zhu and Yu, It's a little weird.

Such an expression made Zhao Junchen can't help but think of the words "drinking to quench thirst".

Unless Su Changzhen was facing a greater threat, how could he be so eager to drink Zhao Junchen's cup of "poisonous wine"?

However, after all, Su Changyi is a second-class member of the imperial court and a high-ranking and powerful feudal official, who can force Su Changzhen to such a point? So that Su Changzhen must marry Zhao Junchen to alleviate the dilemma?

Thinking of this, Zhao Junchen sighed secretly - except for Emperor Deqing, no one else needs to do this, let alone anyone else with such ability!

Thinking of the palace banquet again, Emperor Deqing was between the three daughters, and his attitude was almost naked in favor of Su Xiuning, obviously although Emperor Deqing chose three girls to go on a blind date with Zhao Junchen, he hoped that Zhao Junchen and Su Changzhen would marry, as for Cui Qianxue, the youngest granddaughter of the old Cui Mian in the former cabinet, and Chen Zhirong, the daughter of Chen You, the Duke of Jingguo, they were just foils in the eyes of Emperor Deqing.

Emperor Deqing's attitude, at first glance, there is nothing, after all, everyone has preferences and preferences, Emperor Deqing is biased towards Su Xiuning, maybe it's just that Emperor Deqing is more optimistic about Su Xiuning, but the emperor's mind is unfathomable, and every move has a deep meaning, however, for the deep meaning of Emperor Deqing, the more Zhao Junchen thinks deeply, the more cold he is.

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Originally, Zhao Junchen thought that Emperor Deqing's blind date for himself this time was just a simple test to test Zhao Junchen's future ambitions and paths.

After all, the three marriage partners arranged by Emperor Deqing for Zhao Junchen are really very representative!

Among them, the former cabinet old Cui Mian has a good reputation, but the power and influence are insufficient, and the Cui family is beneficial to Zhao Junchen to improve his reputation, but it is not conducive to Zhao Junchen's expansion of power, if Zhao Junchen finally chooses to marry the Cui family, it proves that Zhao Junchen's future choice and path are biased towards self-preservation and conservatism. And there is no big ambition.

As the governor of Nanzhili, Su Changzhen has been a local official for many years, with deep connections and powerful influence, but he is a big corrupt official. has a bad reputation among the government and the opposition, if he marries him, although Zhao Junchen can expand his power and influence, but his reputation will be worse, and the officials under him will become more and more uneven, and it will be very easy to be caught in the future, if Zhao Junchen chooses to marry Su Changji. It proves that although Zhao Junchen has certain ambitions, he does not have a long-term vision, nor does he have any intention of breaking away from the control of Emperor Deqing.

As for the Chen family of Jing Guogong. is closely related to the seventh prince Zhu Hejian, and Zhu Hejian has not been crowned king for a long time due to physical reasons, and is now the only adult prince living in the capital, although the seventh prince Zhu Hejian and the crown prince Zhu Heyu seem to be brothers and brothers, and the relationship is quite good. But in fact, Zhu Hejian is also the only prince who can threaten Zhu Heyu's status as the prince! If Zhao Junchen is quite ambitious. If you want to bring down the prince Zhu Heyu who is hostile to you, I am afraid that you will choose to marry Chen Zhirong, the daughter of Chen You, the Duke of Jingguo, so as to establish contact with Zhu Hejian, the seventh prince!

It can be said that through Zhao Junchen's choice of marriage, Emperor Deqing can clearly understand Zhao Junchen's true aspirations, so as to determine his attitude towards Zhao Junchen in the future.

Originally, Zhao Junchen thought that this was the true purpose of Emperor Deqing.

However, this palace feast of Tong Guò today. Zhao Junchen realized that he had misestimated Emperor Deqing's mentality after all!

In a way. Emperor Deqing still "trusted" Zhao Junchen, so he didn't test Zhao Junchen's thoughts, but in the same way, he didn't plan to give Zhao Junchen a chance to choose!

Some time ago, Zhao Junchen and Huang Yourong were in the party dispute, Huang Yourong wanted to give Zhao Junchen a fatal blow by checking the account department, but he didn't expect Zhao Junchen to take precautions and be prepared, and adopted the bookkeeping methods and accounting techniques of later generations.

In addition, in addition to the household department, even the Ministry of Industry is the only one who is Zhao Junchen's leader, one of the two major yamen is responsible for the management of the world's money and grain, and the other is responsible for the expenditure of most of the money and grain.

Obviously, Emperor Deqing also understood this, but he may not be happy to see it!

After all, in the eyes of Emperor Deqing, Zhao Junchen was used to be blackened, to be slaughtered as a fat pig in the future, and to be used to question the guilt and establish authority when the new emperor ascended the throne! Zhao Junchen has no handle to grasp now, and it is naturally extremely inconvenient to let Zhao Junchen "retire" in the future.

However, Emperor Deqing was well aware of the emperor's intentions, and in the face of such a situation, he naturally had a way.

That is to promote the marriage of Zhao Junchen and Su Changyi!

Although it is difficult for Zhao Junchen to grasp the handle now, the handle of Su Changyi's faction is very easy to grasp. And once Zhao Junchen marries the Su family, the two factions will inevitably gradually merge, so the crimes of Su Changyi's faction over the years of corruption and perversion of the law will inevitably implicate Zhao Junchen in the future! In this way, no matter how airtight the household and work departments controlled by Zhao Junchen are, Zhao Junchen will never be able to get out of the control of Emperor Deqing, and can only let it be manipulated.

In fact, in Zhao Junchen's mind, the handles and incriminating evidence of Su Changchen's faction must have been controlled by Emperor Deqing now, and Emperor Deqing is also threatening with these handles and incriminating evidence, so Su Changchen will "drink to quench his thirst", knowing that after marrying Zhao Junchen, there will be great hidden dangers in the future, but he still shows favor to Zhao Junchen everywhere, and can't wait to marry Zhao Junchen.

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Thinking of this, Zhao Junchen's eyes narrowed slightly, and a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, it seems that no matter how much I flatter and please you, no matter how much I show my determination to change my past wrongs, and how much I show my value in the court, you still haven't changed your attitude towards me and killing donkeys......

However, I should probably be more glad that in a way, unlike what I imagined, you still 'trusted' me, and you didn't intend to test my true intentions at all, but just wanted to control me more firmly, and in some ways, I should also be grateful......

However, since I have already guessed your true intentions, how can I remain loyal to you and not use any means of counterattack? Majesty, you're too confident......"

Between muttering to himself, Zhao Junchen frowned slightly, and he also denied Su Xiuning among the candidates for his future wife.

Marrying Su Xiuning and marrying Su Changzhen can certainly expand power in the short term, but the hidden dangers in the future are too big - although Zhao Junchen has a lot of "near worries" now, they are not fatal, although there are not many "distant dangers", but each of them is a big trouble that makes Zhao Junchen sleepless, and Zhao Junchen really doesn't want to increase his long-term crisis.

However, since Emperor Deqing has made up his mind, he will inevitably vow not to give up until he achieves his goal, and will try his best to match Zhao Junchen and Su Xiuning, how to deal with it, Zhao Junchen still has not made up his mind.

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It's just that after successively rejecting Cui Qianxue and Su Changyi, the three wife candidates provided by Emperor Deqing for Zhao Junchen were only Chen Zhirong, the daughter of Chen You, the Duke of Jingguo.

However, among the three daughters, although Chen Zhirong has the best appearance and is the most intelligent and shrewd, Zhao Junchen dislikes her the most.

Without him, Zhao Junchen couldn't guess Chen Zhirong's true thoughts, and saw too much ambition in Chen Zhirong's eyes!

Zhao Junchen thinks that he still has some tolerance for people, but this amount of tolerance is based on the scope that Zhao Junchen can control.

However, a woman like Chen Zhirong, who is unpredictable, intelligent and shrewd, and unwilling to be ordinary, is the most difficult to control.

Not to mention that after the marriage of the Chen family of Jingguo Gong, the subordinate forces that Zhao Junchen has worked hard to manage these days are likely to be secretly eroded by the seventh prince Zhu Hejian.

In fact, in a way, compared with the crown prince Zhu Heyu, Zhao Junchen is more afraid of the seventh prince Zhu Hejian.

Although Zhu Heyu is the prince and is very hostile to Zhao Junchen, Zhao Junchen knows everything about his thoughts, style, and power, and can also use these to arrange. However, for the seventh prince Zhu Hejian, Zhao Junchen has always been in the fog, and can only guess that he is coveting the throne, and is good at forbearance, and has some influence in the inner court, as for the rest, he doesn't know anything.

Zhao Junchen is naturally very jealous of such a character, and he is not willing to establish too much contact with him before he is sure.

In addition, there is another important reason, that is, Zhao Junchen now has a shrewd and powerful Fang Ru in the mansion, if he marries the equally shrewd and powerful Chen Zhirong, I am afraid that there will be a conflict between the two daughters, and Chen Zhirong is the identity of the main room after all, in the conflict, Fang Ru is afraid that he will suffer.

Zhao Junchen treated Fang Ru with some feelings after all, but he didn't want Fang Ru to be wronged.

In this way, all things considered, Chen Zhirong is also not a good candidate for Zhao Junchen's future wife.

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Thinking of this, Zhao Junchen sighed softly again.

Tong Guò Today's palace banquet, between considerations, he actually vetoed all three daughters.

"Since the three daughters are not suitable, it really can't work, I can only start from scratch, put aside the three daughters, and choose a suitable wife candidate by myself, but how to find such a candidate? Otherwise, how could I be single so far? What's more, these three women were all selected by Emperor Deqing, if she is chosen separately, I am afraid it will cause Emperor Deqing's displeasure, according to Emperor Deqing's temperament, what will inevitably be followed is a beating, and another trouble......"

"Also, that Chen Zhirong, at the palace banquet, hinted a lot, vaguely had different thoughts from Chen You, the Duke of Jingguo, and met tomorrow, but he also had to find out her thoughts and purposes, and then make a decision......"

Between thoughts, time passed extremely quickly, and when Zhao Junchen thought of this, the sedan chair had already landed, and at the same time, Xu Qingyan's voice came from outside the sedan chair.

"Young master, we're in the house."

Zhao Junchen nodded, lifted the curtain and walked out of the sedan chair, walking towards the mansion, and at the same time instructed Xu Qingyan: "Tomorrow, you book a private room in Youfeng Pavilion, and I will ...... tomorrow Shen will meet with the three girls there at three o'clock, and you can send someone to arrange it in advance. ”

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PS: Happy New Year everyone!! (To be continued......)