Red Mansion, Second Master Lian is too despicable

Chapter 54 54 Power
And what Sun Huanzhen and Jia Lian's good uncle Zhang Erhe are doing now is to serve as the emperor's sycophant.

He exchanged his reputation and ability for the support of the imperial power to gain the opportunity for the Zhang family to rise.

Once this is done, a descendant of a Qingliu leader becomes the emperor's lackey, which is equivalent to stripping away his previous identity, breaking away from the family, and putting himself on the opposite side of the clan, the clan, and the aristocratic family.

This situation is not dangerous.

If it succeeds, it's okay. If it fails, not only will the reputation be lost after death, but the Zhang family may not even recognize this child.I will never be able to enter the Zhang family's ancestral graves until I die.

You must know that being born in such a family and in such a position, the pursuit of life is not simply eating, drinking and having fun, but being famous before and after life.

This sacrifice was not a big one for a member of a noble family like them, but the personal rewards were not much. In the end, it was the Zhang family that benefited the most.

When the imperial power prevails, the Zhang family may become a model for ministers, but Zhang Erhe may have to answer for betraying the gentry.

Of course, the struggle for power is a naked and bloodless gunpowder, compared with brains, and it is unlikely that there will be such an unspeakable thing as the destruction of the body.

Anyone who crosses this bottom line is a bit too unpopular and will have to face everyone's blow.Using others as guns and implying that others are stupid does not count.

But no matter what kind of situation is foreseeable, Zhang Erhe has already booked a future with a bleak evening scene.This uncle worked hard for his family.

The reason why Zhang Erhe cares so much about Master Xu's situation involves the emperor's thoughts.

There is still a chance for the emperor to take back some power from his ministers, because he takes advantage of his status, but he must have someone who can guard his rights to do this.

Because human energy is limited after all, and the emperor is also a human being; if there is no reliable person to help guard the rights, then these rights are not the emperor's after all.

But the current situation is that what the emperor lacks is these people of his own.

You must know that human nature is complicated. You may be someone else's person at this moment, but you may be someone else's person at the next moment.

The emperor wanted to use the imperial examination to promote a group of students loyal to the royal family last time, but unfortunately this plan has failed;

Those students who shouted to be loyal to the emperor and the court when they were still at the bottom were no longer like this once they became officials.

Power, money, and sex are three things that corrode human nature. What the emperor can give them, courtiers can give more; because now is an era when the power of courtiers has the upper hand in the center of power.

So, it didn't take long for these students who were praised by the emperor to be completely divided by various forces of the courtiers.

Those students who were loyal to the emperor and the court at the beginning have completely become officials who only regard the original as a slogan.In the name of loyalty to the royal family, he began to do things for the ministers.

Only when this incident happened did the emperor understand that no matter what he did, even if it was the most moral and most in line with the propaganda slogan, he had to have a group of his own people to guard him so that the results would not be misappropriated.

So the emperor made the second step, which was to put the few people he had in key positions.I don't even care about the abilities of these people.

Zhang Erhe is the leader and operator among these people.Mr. Xu was the No. 1 he was running at the time. He exchanged the terms of being a feudal official in exchange for the political exchange of Mr. Zhang, the former minister of Honglu Temple, and obtained Honglu Temple for Mr. Xu, which would become a real power yamen in the future.

What a price this is. It is impossible for the courtiers to not know about such a big move. As for how to interpret it, it is not certain.

What Zhang Erhe was betting on was the over-interpretation of the courtiers. People like Sun Huanzhen, who thought they were smart, thought too much and turned the matter around, thinking that the Qingliu Zhang family intended to let Mr. Zhang of Honglu Temple do this. The Yan clan's Yan sect is close to the Sun family.

The uncle originally thought that through this kind of blinding method, he would support Jia Lian to enter Honglu Temple and escort Mr. Xu.

One is high and the other is low. Mr. Xu can just take a good seat at the top. Leave one person, Jia Lian, who knows the general affairs, to help Mr. Xu wave the flag and shout at the bottom.

However, as the executor of the plan, Zhang Erhe knew very well what kind of virtue these pieces of materials in the emperor's hands were. If it weren't for his own special situation, the emperor's items would have been thrown to the emperor by the courtiers who were afraid of being held back.

Loyalty to the emperor was not even their own choice, but no one wanted them.

My uncle was afraid that if they really reached a critical position and became useful people, they would not become those students with blank eyes again.

After all, these people are not only incompetent, they have not even passed the loyalty test.

However, the emperor really had no one in his hands, so he could only gamble like this.The human resources that Zhang Erhe can mobilize are really limited.

And Sun Huan was really smiling, just like a banker looking at desperate gamblers, which made Zhang Erhe, who was pretending to be serious, feel scared in his heart.

With his heart pounding and his teeth gritted, Zhang Erhe pretended that he didn't see Sun Huanzhen's eyes, and was ready to listen patiently to what Jia Lian had to say about what happened to Mr. Xu of Honglu Temple.

"Is there so much chaos in the Qingshui Yamen of Honglu Temple?"

Zhang Erhe's words were intended to take back his previous gaffe.However, the gaffe just now was too obvious, and taking it back now makes it even more obvious that there is something fishy in this matter.

Jia Lian's mind raced and he decided to answer truthfully.

In the past, Jia Lian was also keen on discussing the existence of politics like a keyboard warrior, but later he discovered that singing and singing in which position were some things that he should not think about and worry about. Thinking so much about them was pure nonsense.

To understand this, Jia Lian did not hide it at all.

"Uncle, I don't know. As soon as Mr. Xu took office, he stopped the entire Honglu Temple. This made everyone in Honglu Temple dissatisfied. He only listened to the words of those below. This Mr. Xu is not a person who leads by example. It’s even hard to convince the public!”

Jia Lian, who said this, didn't take the corruption of everyone in Honglu Temple seriously at all. He just said whatever he wanted. His uncle's thoughts, actions, and plans had nothing to do with him.

As long as he is not delayed in becoming an official, he will be my good uncle. If he is delayed, then, dear cousin of the Sun family, I heard that Comrade Zhang Erhe's recent thoughts are very dangerous, and we need to get up to speed!
In short, no matter who influences me, Jia Lian, to become an official, I must defeat him, even if he promotes his own uncle.

Of course, this is if you have this ability. If you don't, can your uncle forgive you for your ignorance?I am your favorite nephew!
(End of this chapter)