Regarding the impeachment of Su Changzhen by the censors, Zhao Junchen smelled the smell of conspiracy, and his first reaction was to think of Chen Zhirong, the daughter of Chen You, the Duke of Jing, and believed that this woman was probably the person behind the scenes.
Speaking of which, before the southern tour, there was no friendship or connection between Zhao Junchen and Su Changzhen. To Zhao Junchen, Su Changzhen was just an ordinary feudal official. Although he needed to win over, it was not necessarily the case.
To have a deep friendship.
However, before the southern tour, perhaps for the purpose of wining over, Emperor Deqing saw that Zhao Junchen was still unmarried despite his age, so he took the initiative to act as a matchmaker and arranged for Cui Qianxue, the granddaughter of Cui Mian, the former cabinet minister, and Su Xiuning, the daughter of Su Changjin, the governor of Southern Zhili.
, and Chen Zhirong, the daughter of Chen You, Duke of Jing, were introduced to Zhao Junchen.
Emperor Deqing took the initiative to act as a matchmaker, which was condescending and gave Zhao Junchen a great favor. However, because of this, out of respect for Emperor Deqing, Zhao Junchen also lost the room for independent choice.
He could choose one of these three women to marry as his head wife. Otherwise, if Zhao Junchen chose another woman to become his wife, it would be a disgrace to Emperor Deqing, which would be disrespectful and would attract the anger of Emperor Deqing.
Among the three women, Zhao Junchen has always been non-committal about the choice of his future wife and has not shown any inclination.
This is because Zhao Junchen has no special feelings for these three women. Although the three of them are all ladies from famous families, with both talent and beauty, and each has their own merits. Cui Qianxue is naive and willful, but she and Zhao Junchen are not from the same place and have completely different values.
Different; Su Xiuning is a talented woman, she can be said to be dignified and virtuous. Unfortunately, Zhao Junchen does not like her; Chen Zhirong is scheming, capable, and even has some ambitions that women should not have. It can be said that she and Zhao Junchen have the same chemistry. But
Zhao Junchen didn't trust her at all.
Of course, the main reason is the consideration of interests. The backgrounds of these three women each have advantages and disadvantages for Zhao Junchen, but it also makes it difficult for Zhao Junchen to make a decision for a while. Cui Qianxue's grandfather Cui Miannai is the leader of Qingliu, and Zhao
If Junchen marries Cui Qianxue, he may be able to improve his reputation, but other than that, it will not be able to bring any substantial help to Zhao Junchen. Su Xiuning's father, Su Changzhen, is a feudal official of the imperial court, and he can be said to have a high position.
But he is also a notorious corrupt official. If Zhao Junchen marries Su Xiuning, it will certainly strengthen his network and power, but he may be implicated by Su Changzhen in the future; as for Chen Zhirong, she is the youngest daughter of Chen You, the Duke of Jing, and
The eldest daughter of Chen You, Duke of Jing, is the fiancée of the seventh prince Zhu Hejian. If Zhao Junchen marries Chen Zhirong, the advantage is that he can deepen his relationship with the seventh prince Zhu Hejian, and even take the opportunity to spy on Zhu Hejian's background. But the disadvantage is that Zhao Junchen will never be the same again.
If you are tied to Zhu Hejian, your own power will be easily penetrated by Zhu Hejian.
As a result, with the pros and cons unpredictable, Zhao Junchen kept delaying the matchmaking with Emperor Deqing and made no decision.
At the same time, the three women had different feelings towards Zhao Junchen. Cui Qianxue was probably just curious about Zhao Junchen, while Su Xiuning had to get close to Zhao Junchen due to the pressure from her father Su Changjin. But she could only
Chen Zhirong, a woman with an unusual temperament, really hopes that she can marry Zhao Junchen out of various considerations, and she has been working hard for this.
In fact, Chen Zhirong is a man of action and took action quickly.
Chen Zhirong knew very well that when Zhao Junchen chose his first wife, he mainly considered profit factors, so she also started from this aspect and tried every means to weaken the advantages of Cui Qianxue and Su Xiuning. According to Chen Zhirong, as long as Cui Qianxue and Su Xiuning could not bring Zhao Junchen
If there are clear benefits, then Zhao Junchen will not marry them. At that time, Chen Zhirong will become the only candidate for Zhao Junchen's wife. She can marry Zhao Junchen as a matter of course and become the mistress of the Zhao Mansion in a certain way.
From a personal perspective, Zhao Junchen is indeed a person who puts interests first, so Chen Zhirong's idea is not wrong.
Therefore, before the start of the southern tour, Chen Zhirong first used rumors to frame Cui Qianxue and ruined Cui Qianxue's reputation. Finally, under the pressure of public opinion, Cui Qianxue and Cui Qianxue's father Cui Yu were driven out of Cui Qianxue.
Every family has cut off the Cui family's contact with them. In this way, even if Zhao Junchen marries Cui Qianxue, it is impossible to improve his reputation, so the possibility of Zhao Junchen marrying Cui Qianxue is extremely small.
It was precisely because of this criminal record that when Zhao Junchen saw someone deliberately collecting evidence and secretly inciting the censors to impeach Su Changjin, he immediately thought of Chen Zhirong and subconsciously thought that Chen Zhirong was the person behind the scenes.
This approach is in line with Chen Zhirong's interests and Chen Zhirong's thinking. As long as Su Changzhen falls, then even if Zhao Junchen marries Su Xiuning, he will not be able to increase his own power. Instead, he will be implicated by Su Changzhen. In this way, Zhao Junchen will
How could Junchen still marry Su Xiuning when his interests are paramount?
At that time, out of various pros and cons, Zhao Junchen was left with the only option of marrying Chen Zhirong. This was probably Chen Zhirong's wishful thinking.
"No wonder, when the Southern Patrol Fleet arrived in Southern Zhili, Chen Zhirong was uncharacteristically uncharacteristic and stopped pestering me. At that time, I thought she understood that I had too many things to deal with during that period, so she knew enough not to bother me.
I, but if she was really behind the impeachment of Su Changzhen by the imperial censors, then she was probably not idle during that time, but was collecting evidence of Su Changzhen's crimes from all over the place, maybe even more so than me.
You are so busy that you naturally don’t have time to look for me.”
While thinking secretly, Zhao Junchen frowned slightly.
To be honest, Zhao Junchen could understand Chen Zhirong's various little moves, but he didn't like them.
Zhao Junchen is also an unscrupulous person, but after all he still has some bottom line. When doing things, he will always try to avoid involving innocent people, but Chen Zhirong is different. In order to achieve her goal, she has destroyed Cui Qianxue's family before, and now she still
Although Su Changzhen was indeed a corrupt official and deserved to be destroyed, Su Xiuning was always innocent.
Thinking of this, Zhao Junchen shook his head slightly and sighed softly.
Zhao Junchen knew very well that with Chen Zhirong's scheming methods, as long as she wanted to destroy Su Changzhen and his daughter, then today's impeachment of the censor was just the beginning. There would be other actions in the future. If Chen Zhirong's series of plans went smoothly
If it continues, Su Changzhen will definitely be in big trouble.
Therefore, Zhao Junchen was a little hesitant, not knowing whether he should take action to help Su Changjin.
The relationship between Su Changzhen and Zhao Junchen was just average. Under normal circumstances, Zhao Junchen would not deliberately help him, but now that it was related to the choice of Zhao Junchen's future wife, Zhao Junchen was not willing to let Chen Zhirong get too happy.
Nowadays, Zhao Junchen's prestige within the "Zhao Party" is getting deeper and deeper. When Zhao Junchen left the Huangji Palace, although there were Zuo Lanshan, Tong Huan, Qin Huaiyuan and other "Zhao Party" officials accompanying him, they saw Zhao Junchen
When Junchen was frowning and thinking, he didn't dare to make a sound at all, for fear of disturbing Zhao Junchen's thoughts, so he just followed him quietly step by step.
At this moment, someone suddenly called out from behind Zhao Junchen, interrupting the quiet atmosphere around Zhao Junchen.
"Master Zhao, please stay."
After hearing the call, Zhao Junchen turned around and saw that Huo Zhengyuan and Chen Dongxiang were leading several "yellow party" officials towards him quickly.
Seeing Huo Zhengyuan contacting him so blatantly without worrying about arousing suspicion, Zhao Junchen knew that his plan to annex the "Yellow Party" was about to begin the next stage.
Sure enough, after arriving in front of Zhao Junchen, Huo Zhengyuan said: "Sir Zhao, some close colleagues in the imperial court and the imperial court will have a banquet tonight in the Fushou Pavilion in the south of the city. Those colleagues have always admired Mr. Zhao and hope to be able to communicate with him.
Mr. Zhao has deepened our friendship, so he entrusted his subordinates to invite Mr. Zhao to the banquet, but I don’t know if Mr. Zhao is willing to show his favor."
Obviously, this gathering was not simple, but an opportunity deliberately created by Huo Zhengyuan for Zhao Junchen to meet privately with those "Yellow Party" officials. Through this gathering, Zhao Junchen could take the opportunity to win over the "Yellow Party" officials, and "Yellow Party" officials
Party officials can also express their feelings to Zhao Junchen, who takes advantage of the opportunity.
It can be said that how many "yellow party" officials will defect to Zhao Junchen in the future depends largely on the outcome of this banquet.
After understanding this, Zhao Junchen naturally would not refuse Huo Zhengyuan's invitation, but smiled and said: "So, since all my colleagues think so highly of me, I will definitely go to Fushou Pavilion on time tonight, and I will also take the opportunity to meet with you.
Colleagues, get close to me."
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