Chapter 5: The Road Ahead (Part II).

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In fact, after Zhao Junchen's careful analysis, it was found that there are really many unfavorable factors for him today. (The fastest update speed is on the Aishang Novel Network biquge.info)

There are so many that Zhao Junchen can even break out in a cold sweat just thinking about it.

Although Zhao Junchen is now beautiful on the surface, he has too many political enemies and a bad reputation, and even the future emperor of the Ming Dynasty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, is quite dissatisfied with him.

Among these problems, some can be solved lightly, some can be tried to solve, and some are impossible to solve.

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The problem that can be solved lightly is the problem of too many political enemies in the court.

Zhao Junchen is young and belongs to the category of talentless and virtuous, but with the help of the Holy Family, he can rise to the top in a short period of time, and now he is a member of the third rank of the imperial court, how can he not make people jealous?

In fact, there are many people who are red-eyed, and there are many people who hate because of jealousy, and Zhao Junchen was young and frivolous in the past, and he offended many people, so he made more enemies.

In addition, Zhao Junchen in the past thought that as long as he had a holy family, it would be completely enough, so he had always been dismissive of those who befriended him, and he didn't have any hardcore party allies.

Too many enemies are always a good thing, they are always watching you secretly, waiting for the moment when you show your flaws, or push you off the cliff with their own hands, or happily fall into the well, so that you have no power to turn over.

However, this problem may seem troublesome, but it is actually easy to solve.

Putting aside those so-called clear streams, among Zhao Junchen's political enemies, the reason why the vast majority of people are hostile to Zhao Junchen is only because of jealousy, and only because Zhao Junchen enjoyed too many benefits in the past -- the so-called political enemies are essentially because of the uneven distribution of interests -- as long as Zhao Junchen takes out some of the benefits he has obtained and distributes them to them, then the original opponents and enemies will immediately become his most hardcore party allies.

Therefore, for this, Zhao Junchen is not worried.

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What can be tried to solve is the problem that Zhao Junchen's reputation is too bad between the government and the opposition.

In all dynasties, there will be clear streams of existence, they have no power, but they have the right to speak for even the emperor has a headache, they can guide public opinion, but also can get the trust of the people.

And the corrupt officials of all dynasties and dynasties, in terms of public opinion and the right to speak, either do not pay attention to it, or have some broken jars and broken ideas, I don't know how many corrupt officials in history have been scolded to death and written to death by the Qinglius.

Like now, the reason why Zhao Junchen is notorious among the government and the opposition is that these clear streams have to take most of the credit.

In fact, this is the usual trick of the Qingliu people since the dynasties - first to make the reputation of political opponents stink among the people, so that the political enemies have become infamous all over the world unconsciously, and slowly accumulate public grievances, but also slowly increase their own fame and prestige, and in the end, relying on the anger of the people and their own fame, from the bottom up, forced the emperor to act.

In the final analysis, it is to coerce the will of the people to order the Son of Heaven.

When encountering the Son of Heaven, or the Son of Heaven who pays attention to public opinion, this trick is very useful, although it is simple, but it has been tried and tested.

However, for these people, although Zhao Junchen is jealous, he is not afraid, public opinion can be guided, the right to speak can be contested, and even in the clear stream, there will always be some "smart people" who are willing to use it for me, so although Zhao Junchen is a step slower in terms of public opinion guidance, and he does not have the reputation of Qingliu, he may not have the opportunity to turn defeat into victory.

As mentioned above, even if you are a corrupt official, as long as you hide it well, are good at guiding public opinion, and do more window dressing, then no matter how many silver taels you are greedy for ink and what bad things you do, you will still be a big man in the eyes of the world -- especially in this world where information is not smooth.

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And the trouble that cannot be solved at all is the prince's dissatisfaction with him.

It is also the deadliest trouble.

Emperor Deqing is now more than fifty years old, and naturally he has already canonized the crown prince, and the prince's name is Zhu Lang. According to the words of the Qinglius, this Zhu Lang is destined to become a generation of saints in the future - from this, we can roughly see what kind of character this Prince Zhu Lang is - he is not a saint like Li Shimin and Kangxi, who is based on generosity and knows how to make good use of people, but a "saint" like Zhu Yuanzhang and Yongzheng who does not rub sand in their eyes!!

What kind of people are Zhu Yuanzhang and Yongzheng? During the reign of these two men, the ministers would prepare their coffins before going to court, because they did not know if anyone would impeach them today, if there would be anything that did not satisfy the emperor - and if that happened, the guillotine would be their place.

Who would like this kind of emperor? A clear stream that only blames others but never does practical things!!

This prince has never seen Zhao Junchen's contribution to the financial aspects of the Ming Dynasty, he only knows that Zhao Junchen is a corrupt official, and corrupt officials should be killed!!

And the rumor that "Zhao Junchen is the illegitimate son of Emperor Deqing" and Emperor Deqing's favor to Zhao Junchen deepened Prince Zhu Lang's dissatisfaction with Zhao Junchen.

Among the memory fragments inherited by Zhao Junchen, every time the prince appears, what he leaves behind will not be any good memories. This prince even once counted Zhao Junchen's sins in front of Emperor Deqing, saying that "not killing Zhao Junchen is not enough to settle the world", although he was finally suppressed by Emperor Deqing, but still scared Zhao Junchen out of a cold sweat.

Once Emperor Deqing has an accident and the crown prince succeeds to the throne, then the fate of Zhao Junchen can be expected.

This is the biggest and most unsolvable crisis that Zhao Junchen is facing today!!

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Thinking of this, Zhao Junchen couldn't help frowning.

"This Zhao Junchen, who was unscrupulous before, didn't he think that he looked beautiful on the surface, but in fact he was in danger?"

Faced with such a mess, Zhao Junchen only felt a headache.

After a long time, Zhao Junchen shook his head, didn't think about it anymore, and sighed: "Forget it, let's make three strategies for the time being-first to stabilize my position by Emperor Deqing's side, so that he can't do without me; and then co-opt political opponents and turn them into henchmen; In the end, I will compete with the Qingliu for the right to speak, and change the impression of myself between the government and the opposition - in order to slowly change my current disadvantage, as for the prince who can't rub sand in his eyes...... Let's take one step at a time, the prince is just a prince after all, and the prince is just likely to become the emperor......"

At this moment, Zhao Junchen has completely taken on the role.

"However, after the crossing, I didn't think about revitalizing China, saving the people from fire and water, nor did I think about being a good official who does practical things for the people, I just thought about how to please the emperor, how to network friends, how to manipulate public opinion, these things are not like what a good person should do, the standard path of a corrupt official and traitor...... Before the crossing, I have always been dismissive when I meet such an official, and it seems that under the crisis, my hypocritical nature has also been exposed, but Yiqiē is just so that I can live well, and I am already difficult to protect, so where can I take care of other ......"

Yes, for the sake of his future, Zhao Junchen has considered all aspects, but he just didn't think about changing his identity and becoming a real Qing official.

This is because, before the crossing, Zhao Junchen served in the government, and although he was not very good, he also learned a lot of things.

One of them is "Origin determines the faction", a phrase that describes factional struggles, and the same applies here.

You have to change your status, and if you are not a corrupt official, you can be a clean official, but the other corrupt officials who were with you will feel that you have betrayed them, they will be afraid that you have divulged their secrets, and they will try to deal with you in any way. At the same time, no matter how you prove that you have changed your past wrongs, abandon evil and follow good, the Qing officials and the Qing Liu will still not trust you, the ancients are often stubborn, and those Qing officials and Qing Liu are one of the representatives, in their opinion, corrupt officials are corrupt officials, there is no possibility of abandoning evil and following good, seeing you all day long, they will even think that this is a conspiracy......

Therefore, if you change your identity rashly, the end will only be betrayal and separation.

What's more, Zhao Junchen had embezzled too many taels of silver before—a full 2.3 million taels of silver—even if he was not greedy for anything in the next ten years, what he had done in the past would be enough for those imperial historians to impeach him countless times.

And the main reason is that Zhao Junchen judged from the fragments of memory that he inherited from Guò, although the current Ming Dynasty still exists, its official rule still seems to be very bad, that is, the corrupt officials are more powerful than the Qing officials - and these powerful corrupt officials are the best allies in Zhao Junchen's mind, they are powerful and have the same goals as themselves, for example, they do not want the crown prince who is destined to be the holy monarch to ascend the throne......

Therefore, Zhao Junchen, a corrupt official, will continue to be a corrupt official in the future.

"If God can help you achieve your goals, then the devil is your enemy; If the devil can satisfy your needs, then you can also declare war on God...... Although I haven't been so unscrupulous, if I can create a favorable shape for myself, then even if I put on the skin of a 'corrupt official', use the power of a corrupt official, and take advantage of the power of a corrupt official, what can I do? As long as you have a clear conscience, you can ......"

Just when Zhao Junchen finally decided the path he should take in the future, there was a sudden commotion outside the bedroom.

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