The scheming empress starts by conquering men

Shaodian Sishui saw that he looked desperate and didn't care whether he understood or not, so he said nothing more.

Anyway, she had made it very clear that whether he understood it or not, she would never marry him.

Shaodian Sishui turned back to the table and took out pen and ink.

"Sister!"

Shaodian Ziqing came to his senses and called her.

Shaodian Sishui looked up at her; "What's wrong?"

"Have you ever told the Mother Empress what you just said?"

Shaodian Sishui shook his head; "No."

"Why don't you tell me?"

"Why do you say that?"

Shaodian Ziqing paused for a moment and explained, "What my sister just said makes a lot of sense. The Great Zhou has been at war with the Shanrong for years, and the treasury is empty. If the princes and other countries join forces to severely damage the Great Zhou, wouldn't the Great Zhou be in danger?"

The Queen Mother certainly had not thought of this, which is why the Great Zhou had been at war with the Shanrong for years.

If she could think of these things, the Queen Mother would definitely choose the marriage, even if Yue Chemu was a cripple.

Shaodian Ziqing took her words to heart, and Shaodian Sishui was very pleased and satisfied.

But the empress didn’t not understand, she understood too well.

She wanted to take advantage of the war between the Great Zhou and the Shanrong to kill the princess who wanted to compete for the throne.

He tried to win over Shaodian Ziqing and the other princes to serve Shaodian Haolan, and when Shaodian Haolan ascended the throne, he would take a two-pronged approach to subdue Qusou and Shanrong.

Afterwards, she followed the path paved by the empress, rehabilitated Zhong Bohou, whose family had been exterminated, and killed treacherous officials to gain fame.

All of this was within the empress's calculations, her goal being to gain power and prestige for Shaodian and Haolan to ascend to the throne.

From Marquis Zhong to Marquis Shao, every marriage was like this, but she got there first every time.

In the book, although she was half responsible for Shao Jincong's death, the empress also wanted Shao Jincong to die because Shaodian Haolan loved Shao Jincong too much.

The empress does not want to see her successor have weaknesses, so Shao Jincong must die.

Now the empress hates her so much that the war with Shanrong will never stop for long. Even if Yue Chemu marries her, the empress will never let her seventh sister return to the capital for a long time and will let her stay in Shanrong forever.

After all, this is what is written in the book. Not long after Shaodian Ziqing returned to the capital, the Guyang tribe joined forces with other small tribes to attack Yuyi.

It was the empress who contacted the Guyang tribe through the secret hands around Shaodian Ziqing, and asked the Guyang tribe and other small tribes to attack the Yuyi, making it impossible for Shaodian Ziqing to return to the capital.

At the same time, Zhong Wuyan was injured, and the secret letter of Zhong's collusion with Qu Suo to rebel will be "accidentally" discovered by the subordinates arranged by the empress and handed over to the empress in the near future.

The empress summoned Zhong Wuyan to Bian Jing on the pretext of recuperating from her injuries and conducting medical examinations.

Within half a month, Qu Shou will launch a direct attack on Da Zhou under the dual witness of Dayu and the Empress.

Once Qusou goes to war with the Great Zhou, the empress will find evidence of Zhong Wuyan's collusion with Qusou and accuse her of treason by colluding with Qusou, thereby putting pressure on Zhong Aoyi, causing Zhong Aoyi to be attacked from all sides on the front line and die in Buzhou Mountain.

Needless to say, as the adopted daughter of Zhong Aoyi and the sixth prince's daughter on the sixth lunar month, she had to be sent to the battlefield in order to protect her mother-in-law's innocence.

She would also be assassinated by the empress on the battlefield. In the book, she had to accept these shameful plots and conspiracies.

But now!

According to the plan she had prepared in advance, there would indeed be secret letters showing that Zhong Wuyan was colluding with Qu Shou, and she would definitely be brought to Beijing to be detained and secretly investigated by the empress.

However, the plot in which Zhong Aoyi is attacked from all sides and dies in battle at Mount Buzhou will not only not happen, but Qu Shou will also be injured as a result, allowing Zhong Aoyi to receive victory news one after another.

Not only that, she also wants everyone in the world to know Zhong Aoyi's loyalty.

This would make her achievements so great that the empress would not be able to use the nobles and villains to unjustly kill Zhong Aoyi.

She wanted to make the empress understand something.

Shaodian Sishui ground ink and wrote down a paragraph.

Shaodian Ziqing stood beside her, muttering in a low voice, "When a general has many soldiers, he cannot be defeated. He should be made to tire himself out and his momentum will be destroyed. It is auspicious to be in the army, and it is a blessing from heaven."

She read very slowly. She understood every word, but when they were put together it was a little difficult to understand.

Shaodian Ziqing's expression was slightly sluggish. He thought about it carefully but still didn't understand it. He was even a little confused about what his sister meant by suddenly writing this sentence.

She understood that the enemy's troops were too powerful to be fought head-on, and that she should try to make them constrain each other and weaken their momentum.

But what does this have to do with what my sister just said?

Weren't she and her elder sister discussing whether the two countries could not fight for a long time and whether to tell the empress dowager? How could such words suddenly appear out of nowhere?

And the last sentence, what does it mean that when a general is in danger, he must be firm and decisive, and command skillfully and properly, so that it will be as auspicious as if he were helped by God?

Shaodian Ziqing couldn't understand why a frown could kill a fly.

"Sister, what do these two sentences mean?"

Shaodian Sishui stopped writing, curled the corners of his mouth slightly and did not explain.

Of course, it was impossible to tell her that she wanted to use the popularity to blackmail the empress and to cut off all the secret agents behind the empress to plant her own behind the scenes.

First, he fabricated a story and had Zhong Wuyan pretend to be injured and go to Bian Jing as a hostage in order to relax the empress's vigilance.

He secretly replaced the hidden people that the empress had planted around Qu Suo and Zhong Bohou.

Secondly, he secretly let those secret agents continue to keep in touch with the empress, and use the well-trained secret guards to kill Qu Shou by surprise, so that Zhong Bohou would gain popularity among the people.

Finally, Qu Suo instigated discord between the nobles of Da Zhou and Dayu, and secretly created resentment among them.

Didn’t the empress want to help Shaodian and Haolan unify the world and win popularity and benefits?

Then she would kill his power, weaken his authority, and take away his reputation.

She has used all these tricks, and even if the empress is powerful, she can only suffer the consequences.

After writing this sentence, she took out the rice paper and began to write The Art of War according to what she had thought.

《1. Military affairs are a matter of great importance to a country. The principles of life and death, of survival and destruction, must be carefully considered.》

Shaodian Ziqing frowned slightly, and after thinking about it, his eyes suddenly brightened and he looked at his sister in surprise.

"Sister, does the 'bing' here refer to weapons?"

Shaodian Sishui raised his head and stared at her, then smiled and nodded; "Not bad."

She didn't even write any annotations, but she could actually understand the meaning. As expected of someone who had fought for three years, her thinking is indeed clearer than that of ordinary people.

However, she understood how to march and fight, but she could not understand people's hearts. She was still a little immature after all.

"Sister actually knows military affairs?"

Shaodian Ziqing was even more shocked. The more he thought about this sentence, the more unfathomable it seemed to him.

Weapons are a country’s most important and dangerous weapon, and therefore the key to life and death.

The road to survival is a matter of life and death. It is a shortcut to weighing the pros and cons, seizing opportunities and gaining victory.

Whoever can find these two paths first will win the right to exist, otherwise he will perish.

Therefore, we have to seriously consider and investigate, study military issues and take contingency measures.

But how could my sister know these two sentences? Such an extraordinary idea is simply better than General Wen Zhong of the Great Zhou!

Shaodian Sishui said nothing, just shook his head and continued writing.

She knows nothing about military affairs; she is just repeating what others have said.