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In the imperial study on this day, Emperor Deqing not only summoned Wang Youlun alone to talk, but also deliberately drove away all the eunuchs in the imperial study during the period.

Therefore, Li Ru'an, as the eunuch in charge of the imperial study, did not fully hear the conversation between Emperor Deqing and Wang Youlun.

Obviously, the part of the conversation that Emperor Deqing deliberately concealed was what was really important.

In normal times, although Li Ruan is calm on the surface at this time, he must be extremely curious in his heart, and he will even try to overhear a few words.

For Li Ru'an, if he masters more secrets of the imperial study, he will have more hole cards, and he may be able to change his life against the sky and reap huge profits in the future.

But at this time today, Li Ruan is still quite calm on the surface, but he has no curiosity in his heart, he just feels restless and distracting thoughts.

Not long ago, he successfully spied on the secret box of Emperor Deqing's imperial study, and peeked at the secret box in several secret boxes.

Therefore, Li Ru'an's mood at this time was quite chaotic, not only a little surprised, but also secretly in awe, and even a little regretful and eager.

The surprise was that he had harvested several hole cards that were enough to shake the government and the opposition in one go, and after having these hole cards, Li Ruan even had some kind of illusion for a while, thinking that if he operated properly, he could leverage the situation of the government and the opposition with his own strength, and he was also full of optimism about his future development.

The awe is because of the terrible Emperor Deqing!

Li Ru'an once thought that Emperor Deqing's scheming was slightly inferior to Zhou Shangjing, Zhao Junchen and others, and it was only because he sat on the dragon chair that he could have an advantage, if he was not the emperor, he would definitely not be the opponent of several powerful ministers in the court.

But after seeing the secrets in the secret box, Li Ruan suddenly discovered that Emperor Deqing was far more terrible than he imagined, and his forbearance character was beyond the reach of ordinary people - even under the premise of completely not using the army and factory guards, Emperor Deqing had already had the certainty of victory, but because the time had not come, or because of overall consideration, he had been unable to trigger and sit still.

In a way, Emperor Deqing was occasionally calculated by Zhou Shangjing, Zhao Junchen and others a few times, but it was only because of Emperor Deqing's negligence in holding the victory ticket and holding it without fear.

As for regret and eagerness, it was because of the secret letter he left to Zhao Junchen earlier today.

In this secret letter, Li Ruan confessed to Zhao Junchen that he was instructed by Zhu Hejian and forced to peep at the secret box in the imperial study, and the reason why he wrote this secret letter at that time was very simple, that is, he was hung by Zhao Junchen for too long, so he was suspicious and frightened, and he was eager to win back Zhao Junchen's trust again.

But now, after Li Ruan successfully spied on a few secret letters in the secret box, he felt that he had more hole cards in his hand, and he couldn't help but be bold, and he would no longer suffer from gains and losses just because of Zhao Junchen's deliberate neglect, so he began to regret and think that he should not confess the truth to Zhao Junchen.

If Zhao Junchen didn't know about it, he would be able to use these hole cards to fight for his best interests without scruples in the future, but if Zhao Junchen already knew about it, he would inevitably ask him for the contents of those secret boxes, and Li Ru'an's interests would inevitably be greatly damaged at that time.

Therefore, during Li Ru'an's rotation in the imperial study today, he has been secretly praying in his heart, hoping that Zhao Junchen's messenger has not taken the secret letter from his room, so that there is still room for redemption, and he is also eagerly looking forward to Emperor Deqing leaving the imperial study as soon as possible, and then he can rush back to the room to check the situation.

It's a pity that the conversation between Emperor Deqing and Wang Youlun lasted for most of the hour, and when Emperor Deqing finally left the imperial study and returned to the harem, it was already noon.

After finishing the rotation of the imperial study, Li Ru'an couldn't even catch up with lunch, so he rushed back to his room, quickly opened the secret compartment to check, and then saw that there was indeed a secret letter in the secret compartment, but this secret letter was not the one he left before, it was obviously Zhao Junchen's reply.

Once Zhao Junchen made a decision, his efficiency was still resolute, so that Li Ruan had no chance to regret it.

"At least...... Zhao Junchen is finally willing to respond to me, and I don't have to worry about him using drastic means and completely abandoning me...... Because of the urgency of time, I only roughly read the five secret boxes in the secret box today, and I still have the secret box key in my hand, so I will be able to read all the secret boxes in the future sooner or later...... Even if Zhao Junchen asks me for these secret contents, I can hide some of them in private, and there is no need to reveal all of them to him, otherwise I am afraid that I will not even be able to drink the soup. ”

Secretly muttering to herself, Li Ruan comforted herself.

Then, Li Ruan quickly opened Zhao Junchen's secret letter and checked it.

In this secret letter, Zhao Junchen's reaction did not surprise Li Ru'an, on the one hand, it was to show that his trust in Li Ru'an had never changed, and he had always regarded Li Ru'an as a confidant, and he did not pursue Li Ru'an's original concealment and coercion, and expressed his satisfaction to Li Ru'an's confession of the truth......

But on the other hand, Zhao Junchen didn't have any concealment, and directly asked Li Ruan if he had seen more secret contents, and asked Li Ruan to tell him all the contents he saw.

Li Ruan had already guessed the contents of the secret letter, and although he regretted it in his heart, he was not surprised.

It's just that in the last part of this secret letter, Zhao Junchen deliberately praised Li Ru'an, praised Li Ru'an for being "loyal and flawless", and said that he wanted to "be only salty and plum" with Li Ru'an - these two words immediately attracted Li Ru'an's attention.

Since Li Ru'an entered the palace, he has always regarded Feng Bao, the powerful eunuch who was the world's most powerful eunuch, as his life model, and has always hoped that the relationship between him and Zhao Junchen can be like Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng back then to become political allies, one inside and one outside, and they will be in charge of the court together!

Therefore, Li Ru'an also paid a lot of attention to Feng Bao's deeds back then, and immediately thought of many after seeing these two words.

"Flawless loyalty" comes from an article - "The Eunuch Feng Gong Pre-made Shouzang Ji", which is a eulogy written by Zhang Juzheng to Feng Bao in the year, and the content is quite deliberately flattering, and the word "loyal and flawless" is also quoted from this article!

As for "Erwei Yanmei", it is the text engraved on an ivory stamp given to Feng Bao by Mingshenzong that year.

Therefore, the deep meaning of Zhao Junchen's sentence is worth pondering, and it seems to imply something.

Thinking of this, Li Ru'an's expression couldn't help but move: "Could it be that Zhao Junchen finally figured it out?" Do you think that he and I can build a temple together like Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao back then? Or is he just paying lip service to me and trying to stabilize me temporarily? ”

Out of reason in his heart and his understanding of Zhao Junchen, Li Ruan thought that the latter was more likely, but he still couldn't help but be a little excited, and even faintly flattered!

In Li Ru'an's view, if Zhao Junchen is willing to abandon the prejudice that eunuchs cannot interfere in politics and give himself a hint, then he will have the opportunity to let Zhao Junchen make an actual commitment in the future, and it is not impossible to finally make this matter a reality.

Thinking of this, Li Ru'an pondered for a while, and hurriedly found a pen and paper and began to write a reply to Zhao Junchen.

Before putting pen to paper, Li Ruan pondered for a while, and finally decided to reveal some dense content to Zhao Junchen.

Li Ru'an secretly saw a total of five secret letters today, in addition to the prince's secret letter, there are four other completely irrelevant secret letters, the content of these four secret letters involves a lot of aspects, and there is also a secret letter related to Zhao Junchen, which is a minister named Li Chunchen impeached Zhao Junchen for being greedy and fraudulent when Emperor Deqing supervised the construction of the palace.

In the end, Li Ru'an decided to inform Zhao Junchen of this secret letter and the prince's secret letter.

According to Li Ru'an's speculation, Zhao Junchen should have known the contents of the secret letter from the crown prince Zhu Heyu, and informed Yu that Zhao Junchen had no effect, and he could still win Zhao Junchen's trust, which was the proper meaning of the question.

As for informing Zhao Junchen of Li Chunchen's impeachment of Zhao Junchen's secret message, it was because after Li Ruan saw Zhao Junchen's secret letter, he couldn't help but have more expectations for Zhao Junchen in his heart, and he didn't want Zhao Junchen to fall because of this, and he could sell Zhao Junchen a favor to further prove his worth.

As for the other three secret letters, Li Ruan naturally wanted to hide them in his heart and wanted to use these contents for his own benefit.

After making a plan, Li Ruan quickly wrote a secret letter, and in the secret letter, he once again assured Zhao Junchen of his "loyalty".

After all this was done, Li Ruan had just finished packing up his pen and ink when he heard a knock on the door in the room.

Li Ru'an's expression moved, and he quickly cleaned up all traces and pushed the door to check, but saw that it was Jia Lun standing outside the door.

Just like last time, Jia Lun still walked into the room without any politeness, and waited until Li Ruan closed the door and asked directly, "Did you succeed?" ”

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There was something unexpected and the time was delayed, so there is only half a chapter today, forgive me! But the relevant plot will be made up tomorrow, and it should be a big chapter.

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