The scheming empress starts by conquering men

Zhong Wuyan thought about it and said casually, "How can we admit defeat when the outcome is not yet determined?"

Shaodian Sishui shook his head, "The last sentence."

The last sentence, did she say anything in the last sentence?

Zhong Wuyan frowned and thought secretly.

As she thought about it, she suddenly realized, "Ah, His Highness said that if you underestimate others, you will suffer a loss. Is that right?"

"Sister, you still remember what I said. It's rare."

This shows that she is not stupid and can still be trained.

Zhong Wuyan frowned slightly. What does this sentence have to do with playing chess?

She said that His Highness was good at playing chess, and His Highness asked her if she remembered what she had said.

Is there any connection between the two?

Zhong Wuyan was completely confused and looked at Shaodian Sishui with bewilderment.

"Forgive me for my stupidity. I failed to understand the meaning of your words."

Shaodian Sishuidao; "The cargo robbery incident at Qusou and Dazhouguan is just like the trap I set before. It seems that they are right, but in fact, they are the thief crying "stop thief" and deliberately luring you in."

Zhong Wuyan paused.

"Your Highness said that Qu Suo's goods were robbed and who did he resemble?"

Like the trap she made before?

How is this possible?

"Why didn't I find that the chess pieces Your Highness made looked like traps? Oh, that's not right. It is indeed a trap, but is this the right way to say 'the thief cries thief'? When did Your Highness ever cry thief?"

Shaodian Sishui: "..."

Finally one day, she realized what it meant to play the lute to a cow.

No one is so stupid!

She suppressed the discomfort in her heart and tried to explain it clearly.

"Sister, I am just using a metaphor to compare the chess game we just played to a fight between two countries."

"You played white just now, and I played black, and you rushed forward every time."

"I set a trap for you, and after you jumped into it, you found yourself being attacked from both sides with no way to escape. Instead of trying to escape and fight back, you thought about giving up. This is not the style of a great general guarding a city."

Zhong Wuyan was stunned for a moment, then began to understand a little.

It was false that the Sixth Princess was afraid that Qu Su's goods would be stolen, but it was true that she deliberately wanted to start a war with the Great Zhou.

But whether it is true or false, it doesn’t matter to her, Qusou is just a small country.

She laughed loudly and said proudly: "How can Qu Shou be a chess piece? Even if they set a trap, I am not afraid. The whole Great Zhou is standing behind me."

"Besides, how can Qu Shou be as smart as Your Highness in chess? They are just a group of savages who are rebelling against Tiangang and want men to be the boss."

"From ancient times to the present, women have always been kings. How can a man be king? Sooner or later, Qu Shou will be unified by my Great Zhou."

He is arrogant and doesn't know his own limitations.

This is the new label that Shaodian Sishui gave to Zhong Wuyan.

Even so, she lowered her voice and persuaded Zhong Wuyan.

"If there really comes a day when Qusou and the Great Zhou go to war, it would be only natural for you, as a general of the Great Zhou, to fight against Qusou."

"But if the people around you betray you, collude with the enemy, and defeat you like a lost dog, and even accuse you of treason, and the empress punishes you, how will you turn the tide?"

Her meaning is clear enough, right? It's just short of telling her openly that there are traitors from the Great Zhou around you who are working together with Qu Shou to get you.

Zhong Wuyan was stunned, unable to understand why His Highness suddenly asked her this.

Are the people around her colluding with Qu Shou?

Zhong Wuyan sneered. She couldn't imagine the person next to her standing with Qu Shouren.

"Your Highness's hypothetical question is wrong. Why should I change the situation?"

"There will be no traitors among the people around me, and no one in my Great Zhou will collude with Qu Suo from inside or outside, so your highness can rest assured."

Therefore, there is no way to turn the tide without internal and external collaboration.

Shaodian Sishui looked at her in disbelief, stunned.

What she said was straightforward enough. Someone betrayed her and was secretly colluding with Qu Shou.

But even after saying this, she was still so arrogant that I couldn't even understand the implicit meaning of her words.

Shaodian Sishui closed her eyes and her teeth made some noises.

"If I say that the people around you colluded with Qu Shou and Qu Shou's goods were lost, it would be like the thief crying thief. Can you believe me?"

When you meet someone like this who can't understand what people say, it really makes you hate him so much that you want to kick him out of the earth. This is simply not a creature that should exist on earth.

As the two played chess and talked, they soon arrived at the post station.

Shaodian Sishui stopped talking and looked at the dazed Zhong Wuyan. She took a deep breath, gritted her teeth and got off the carriage.

Zhong Wuyan finally reacted and looked at her in astonishment.

He quickly got off the carriage and took out a letter from his chest.

"Your Highness, I came to see you for another matter. A few days ago, I received two letters from A Yao. One was from A Yao to me, saying that he hoped I could come to greet Your Highness, and the other was for Your Highness."

"As for what Your Highness just said...I understand." She hesitated slightly and asked back; "But I don't know how Your Highness knew it?"

Knowing that someone around her was in collusion with Qu Shou.

If it is true, then if the charge of treason comes down, not only the people around her, but even she, the Zhong family, will not be able to bear it.

The empress will surely be furious. Not only will she confiscate the property and exterminate the clan, but she will also implicate too many innocent people.

Shaodian Sishui saw that she looked serious and thought that she realized the seriousness of the matter, so she thought about how to prepare first.

She reached out and patted Zhong Wuyan's shoulder. Instead of answering her question, she lowered her voice and spoke.

"Don't worry. I am here. I will not let the people from the Great Zhou and Qu Suo succeed in their attempt to collude with each other."

She thought of a counter-espionage plan. Although it was not perfect, it could at least disrupt the secret collusion between Shanrong and Qusou, and seriously injure those treacherous nobles of the Great Zhou.

Zhong Wuyan uttered an "ah" and said in a cold and frank tone, "Your Highness, you are worrying too much. The best way to solve their collusion is to kill all the people around me who are collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country. Only by killing them, they will not be able to collude with me."

In this way, the empress would not know that there were traitors around her.

Shaodian Sishui coughed suddenly a few times and looked at her speechlessly for a while.

Hahaha, she wanted to laugh.

She gave Zhong Wuyan a thumbs up; "No problem, your temper is just like your chess skills."

This method is simple and crude, but the problem is that it will eventually alert the enemy, fail to completely dismantle the secret collusion among the other three countries, and will also offend some nobles.

The people around her who were able to collude with Dayu, Shanrong, and Qusou must have the support of a powerful aristocratic family.

She had the audacity to say something like, kill them all?

Okay, very good.

This was because she was afraid that the group of nobles would not punish her, but instead gave the nobles an excuse to work together to punish her.

Shaodian Sishui rubbed his temples, snatched the letter from her hand, and said three words through gritted teeth.

"follow me."

Zhong Wuyan was the only one who almost made her have a heart attack, there was no other one.

If she wasn't Zhong Moyao's sister, she really wanted to let her fend for herself. Her Great Zhou did not need such a stupid general.