Zhang Yong took the initiative to visit, complain, express his loyalty, discuss cooperation, and accomplish it in one go. .

Chen Xi learned a lot of secrets from his words, such as the story of Concubine Li, which outsiders could not know at all. In addition, there was also the ambition of Zhang Yuan placing a woman for Zhu Houzhao to achieve his second Liu Jin.

Perhaps it was because Qian Ning was in power and Zhang Yuan’s series of small actions that made Zhang Yong feel that his future was bleak, so he came to discuss cooperation.

Chen Xi frowned and thought, Zhang Yong stared at him with eager eyes, hoping to know whether Chen Xi had a intention to cooperate from the slight emotional changes.

After a while, Chen Xidao said, "Eunuch Zhang came to our mansion and told me some things that were likely to cause disputes in the court. If outsiders know about it, I am afraid that you and I will have trouble."

Zhang Yong disagreed: "These words are known to heaven and earth, you and I know. Will Lord Shen tell others about the content of today's conversation? What we say is heartfelt words. Even if Lord Shen, you are willing to surrender to others, our family still feels worthless for you."

Chen Xi shook his head slightly and said, "Our master Zhang's words, I have recorded them... Please go back."

"Mr. Shen, what do you think? It's time to tell us!"

Zhang Yong was anxious. If Chen Xi refused immediately, he could still stop thinking about it or find the next person who could cooperate with him. However, Chen Xi was hanging him now, without a clear attitude, and was at a loss for a moment.

Chen Xidao: "There are some things that the official needs to think carefully before he can make a decision. As for the party disputes that Eunuch Zhang said, I think it is inappropriate. For the time being, I don't want to cause trouble, so it's best to live a stable life... But in order to prevent Zhang Yuan, Qian Ning and others from bewitching the holy listen in front of His Majesty, they will still be prepared. For specific matters, I have to wait until the official carefully considers before replying to Eunuch Zhang."

Zhang Yong breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself: "It is not appropriate to force Shen Zhihou to express his opinion like this. He doesn't believe me. He probably worried that I was sent by His Majesty to test him, so he delayed... But this is enough to show that he has the intention to cooperate, otherwise he can just reject me directly, and there is no need to be such trouble."

Zhang Yongxingli: "Then let's go back first, and I hope Lord Shen will make a decision as soon as possible... Zhang Yuan had just collected a group of women, and tried hard to make money for Your Majesty, and was determined to win Your Majesty's favor. If he succeeded, maybe there would be no Lord Shen in the court in the future."

Chen Xi nodded slightly: "Please go back with Eunuch Zhang."

Zhang Yong was very unwilling to accept it. He came with great sincerity, but he could only return without success. He almost turned around in three steps and left the gate of Chen Mansion.

Chen Xi did not go out to see the guests, after all, he is sick now and there is no need to feel wronged.

Zhang Yong left unhappily. He did not return to the palace, but took a car back to his private house in the east of the city. After entering, someone was waiting for him.

"Eunuch Zhang, what's the matter with Lord Shen? Lord Shen promised to fight with us that man Zhang Yuan?" The four of them were all eunuchs in the palace, and they all had a very high status, but they were eunuchs Dai Yi, Gao Feng, eunuchs of the Imperial Prison, Li Xing, eunuchs of the Imperial Prison, and eunuchs of the Imperial Prison, and eunuchs of the Imperial Prison.

These people can be said to be one of the few eunuchs in the palace except Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yong sighed: "Mr. Shen did not say whether to cooperate, but only said that he needed to think carefully before giving a reply. Perhaps Mr. Shen was worried that our family would be ordered by the emperor to test him, so he did not make a decision in person!"

Li Xing said annoyedly: "What should I do? After Zhang Yuan was in charge of the rank of the ranks and supervisors, he became more and more unscrupulous. How have we been exploited now? I thought that His Majesty would just use him to take down for a month, and the hard days would pass. Now he is becoming more and more arrogant, and now he is still in love with Xie Yuqiao, and he is almost in power."

Although everyone present thought that Li Xing's words were exaggerated, no one jumped out to refute it because this was a loose alliance that overthrew Zhang Yuan. Saying a few bad words about Zhang Yuan in public was as usual as shouting slogans, which was the best way for them to show their attitude.

Dai Yi said with a bitter face: "Forget it. If Lord Shen refuses to come forward, who else can come out to fight with Zhang Yuan? I am willing to accept the loss. Since they have the ability to take charge of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the

Although Dai Yi was brought to the alliance by several people, his will was obviously not so firm. After all, Dai Yi was old and his qualifications in the palace were the oldest. What he thought was how to enjoy his old age, and he was not as enthusiastic as the other people for fighting for power and profit.

Li Rong said angrily: "Eunuch Dai, we have agreed before. After the matter is completed, you will be held in the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of

Because Li Rong fought with Liu Jin and was burned to death, he was punished to guard the imperial tomb. However, after Liu Jin fell, Li Rong was restored to his post, and his prestige in the palace increased a lot because he was not afraid of power.

Dai Yi said: "This is not a retreat, it is just a judgement on the situation. All the elderly in the palace are old people, so why do you have to have this meaningless dispute?"

The person with the most say among the few is Zhang Yong. He is not only an old man from the Eastern Palace, but also has military achievements. He is also among the top in promoting Liu Jin's resignation. In the end, he is a good friend to Shen Xi and can attract foreign aid.

Zhang Yongdao: "Don't argue, who wants to join and who withdraw, everything is based on the principle of voluntary... The only thing we can do now is to contact more people, strengthen our momentum, and let Lord Shen know our strength. However, all this can only be done with caution, and you must not let Zhang Yuan know, otherwise he will retaliate against us..."

"The assessment period set by Your Majesty before has passed, and now Zhang Yuan has no worries. You can leave the matter of the Silijian to others and concentrate on dealing with the matter of belittling the superiors and bullying the subordinates... You must understand that without Lord Shen's help, it would be difficult to achieve something with our strength alone."

Li Xing said: "But Lord Shen doesn't agree now... Otherwise, let's send some gold, silver, jewelry and beauties to Lord Shen?"

"Are you Mr. Shen an ordinary minister?"

Li Rong was a little disdainful of Li Xing. Among the few people, Li Xing was the only one who was able to do things. Li Xing was very unprincipled. Anyone who was in power would go to join him. Only this time Zhang Yuan was in power did not take the initiative to rely on him, because in Li Xing's view, Zhang Yuan's ability and qualifications were not as good as him.

Li Rong said: "This Lord Shen is not easy to deal with... He was originally a businessman. The Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, which was very obvious in the past, was run by his family. Can he lack money? Not to mention the beauty, I don't know how many ministers and nobles in the court wanted to give him their daughters, but he ignored it, let alone those vulgar fans?"

"If Shen Zhihou agrees, we must give him generous conditions that are difficult to refuse... Eunuch Zhang's previous analysis makes sense. Only when Lord Shen replaces Liu Jin, we will not suffer with it."

Gao Feng, who had not spoken, shook his head: "Who knows whether he will bully us palace servants after he gained power."

Zhang Yong waved his hand: "Others dare not say that Shen Zhihou will definitely not. After all, he is not a deacon in the palace. If he gets power, he still has to rely on the people in our palace to support him. This is why I have wanted to cooperate with him from the beginning... If anyone in the palace, including the few people here, who will remember his colleagues after he gets power?"

After saying this, the people present showed shame.

Everyone understands that these eunuchs in the palace rely on mutual suppression to survive, and now they are united together, just because Zhang Yuan, who was despised by them before, was unwilling to give up the villain who was neither capable nor respected by the emperor.

Zhang Yongdao: "But if Lord Shen gains power and is in power, he must maintain the status quo with the palace servants. We have both the ability and no threat to him. Who should we use? It's only a matter of time before we get to power!"

Gao Feng muttered: "At that time, you still have to obey others..."

"It's better than following the orders of Zhang?"

Li Xing shouted, "Now he has already spoken big. He asked us to respect 500 taels of silver every month. Why didn't he rob it? When Liu Jin was in power, he didn't say that he was so harsh to us. He was good, and he wanted to squeeze us out when he came up... The most hateful thing is that he couldn't go to His Majesty to sue the emperor!"

Zhang Yong waved his hand: "Okay, there's no need to complain. Your Eunuch Li is worth a lot of money. Everyone here knows that Eunuch Li earned a lot of money when supervising work outside the palace?"

Li Xing blinked and evasively said: "When Liu Jin was in power, he had already plundered our family. If you don't say such words, otherwise you would think our family is rich?"

"I'm afraid it's more than ten thousand yuan?"

Gao Feng looked at Li Xing with a squinted look, as if he was a little unhappy.

Among the few people on the spot, Gao Feng was an old man from the Silijian and looked down on opportunists like Li Xing.

Zhang Yong said: "What are you fighting for? Shen Zhihou agreed to consider it, which means that things are almost done. Will he not be nervous when facing the threat? Whether it is Qian Ning or Zhang Yuan, as long as one of them is in power and makes trouble for the government, Shen Zhihou will not live a good life, especially now Xie Yuqiao has suppressed Shen Zhihou a lot and is in a turmoil with Zhang Yuan. Is Shen Zhihou not alert?"

Dai Yi sighed: "The truth is that, but Lord Shen can tolerate it, what can you do?"

Li Rong frowned: "It's boring to say these things now. What I'm worried about is that next year, Shen Zhihou has been gritting his teeth and persevering. His Majesty is also determined to calm the grassland, but he is afraid of repeating the mistakes of Emperor Yingzong back then..."

The few people present stopped talking.

In fact, they don’t want to fight, and everyone hopes to keep their duties and seek stability.

Zhang Yong said coldly: "You have never fought with Shen Zhihou, and I don't know his ability. At that time, he could only kill hundreds of thousands of grassland soldiers with only a few thousand troops. Now that the Tartars have been in civil wars on the grassland for years, their strength has been greatly reduced. Will Shen Zhihou take these defeated generals seriously?"

"Don't be despised, don't be despised." Li Rong said.

Zhang Yong said: "No matter whether you are despised or not, as long as this battle is done, it will be beneficial to us. Now that we have to deal with Zhang Yuan, we can only rely on Shen Zhihou... Shen Zhihou has both skills and favors, and without him, you are still being exploited by Liu Jin... I won't talk about that, who has the final say here?"

The few people looked at each other and finally nodded together. Dai Yi said, "Eunuch Zhang, since you want to make the decision, then come out and take charge of the overall situation. This matter... we can just wave the flag and shout."

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Zhang Yuan did start to do some small moves.

Feeling that he was intentionally or unintentionally distancing himself by Zhu Houzhao after becoming the boss, he was deliberately or unintentionally distant. Zhang Yuan thought that the power he had at hand now was like a castle in the air, and would collapse at any time without an emperor. When he saw Qian Ning and Sima Zhenren gaining power, he understood one truth, that is, to give everything to Zhu Houzhao's preferences.

Zhu Houzhao will give him whatever he needs, so that he can gain a foothold in the court and get everything he wants.

Zhang Yuan first thought about making money, not only for Zhu Houzhao, but also for himself. In his opinion, it was a very stupid behavior to not be monetized with power. But after all, he was not so familiar with the court officials, and no one was respectful to him. He could only extend his hand to the eunuchs in the palace first, which also laid the huge hidden dangers of the eunuchs forming an alliance against him.

"... Zhang Yuan does not have the authority of Liu Jin. No matter what he does, it is done on a wrong basis. No one will admire him. This person's ability is relatively average, and he does things completely with the mentality of a commoner. He does not have the vision of Liu Jin. It is simply a delusion to be the second Liu Jin..."

"... Zhang Yuan is in good terms with Xie Qian now, which means that he wants to use the power of the orthodox civil servants of the court to gain recognition. He and Xie Qian have a mutual use relationship. When they find that the other party is not of great value, they all want to kick the other party away. Now they are in the honeymoon period, so their cooperation is close, which will even allow Xie Qian to dominate some things. After all, Zhang Yuan does not have many opinions on big and small matters..."

"...As Zhang Yuan's power in the rank of the ranks and supervision became increasingly stable, and he was favored by Zhu Houzhao by giving away women and making money, Xie Qian seemed to be in the eyes of Zhang Yuan. At that time, Zhang Yuan would be stubborn and self-righteous in handling the court, and had conflicts with Xie Qian, and then attacked each other, and another internal fight would occur in the court..."

The court seems to be calm at the moment, but Shen Xi has made a general judgment on the future situation and believes that the cooperation between Zhang Yuan and Xie Qian will not last long.

Shen Xi carefully thought about whether to cooperate with Zhang Yong.

There are many people behind Zhang Yong, and they are connected into a huge force, but Zhang Yuan is kept in the dark and still does his own way, which is enough to prove that this person is not enough to succeed.

"I originally expected you and I to go out of the Shen family together and could have some cooperation with you in court affairs, but now it seems that you are not supported by the mud. Your greed and stinginess make you destined to be a person with as far-sighted and political ambition as Liu Jin. Perhaps only when you encounter difficulties will you know who will be useful to you."

Shen Xi recorded the sorted ideas with a pen and then burned them with fire, not wanting to let his true thoughts be noticed.

But he also needed to express things in words, as if he was finding recognition in this way. In such an era, Shen Xi found himself lonely and no one could understand his inner thoughts. The decisions he made were no longer limited to being a loyal minister or even a powerful minister.

"If I continue to choose to ignore it, then the court will be Xie Yuqiao and Zhang Yuan fight in the future, and I will not be able to watch the tiger fight, because before they fight, they will definitely try their best to suppress my power. The war next year that they think is very unreliable will become their best reason to attack me!"

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