The scheming empress starts by conquering men

Shaodian Sishui always had a gentle, harmless smile on her face.

Until this moment, Zhong Wuyan didn't know. She was not sure where this secret guard came from.

Although she is the author, she is very vague about some dispensable characters and background settings.

So, she didn't know where the secret guards around her came from. She just tentatively said that they were given by Zhong Bohou.

Unexpectedly, she found out by accident that it was given by Zhong Moyao.

Zhong Moyao, ah Zhong Moyao, his feelings for her are indeed special.

Even the secret guards were at her disposal, but she had no feelings for him, whether it was her in the book or her now.

In the novel's plot, it is not written that the Deadpool beside her was given by Zhong Moyao.

But she only knew that the Deadpool beside the heroine was secretly given by the Empress.

A biased mother, a timid father, and a man who loves the heroine and hates her as a rebel.

As a female villain, if she doesn’t turn evil, who will?

Shaodian Sishui collected his thoughts and opened the territory map. The locations marked on it were very clear, and one could see the connection between the entire Da Zhou and Qusou.

The Great Zhou is like a sheep, and the place on the sheep's back is Qu Shou.

Above Qusou was the Kingdom of Dayu.

Dayu was like a crescent moon pointing inwards, surrounding Qusou on the back of Dazhou.

If you want to go to the heartland of Dayu Kingdom, you must pass through Qusou and the no-man's land 'Sheep' Mountains.

At the two ends of the Dayu Kingdom connecting to the Great Zhou, one is the sheep's tail and the other is the sheep's head.

Yangwei is blocked by the high mountains of Tianhu Lake, and the army cannot cross it normally.

There is a large grassland at Yangtou, which is connected to Dayu, and that is the Shanrong.

In front of Yangtou is where the Shanrong are located.

There is a pass between Qusou and Dayu, which looks like a sheep's horn sticking up backwards. This is the Beifa place guarded by Shao Bohou.

Its purpose was also to intimidate Qu Suo and Dayu and prevent them from joining forces.

Sheep Mountains

Beifa has a higher terrain. Once occupied, it is equivalent to guarding the lifeline.

Once Dayu and Qu Suo jointly attack Da Zhou, Beifadi will be the first to discover it.

Shanrong was some distance away from Beifa. If they wanted to attack Da Zhou, they had to pass through Yuyi City in the Yuyi Mountains, which was the place guarded by Shaodian Ziqing.

It is also the only mountain range in the grassland.

Shaodian Sishui thought about the plot of the novel and directly pointed to a high mountain range on the border between Qusou and Dazhou.

"After I leave for the north, you will secretly send 5,000 pheasants to garrison here. Train them secretly and turn them into deadly servants who can fight one against a hundred. No matter what happens next, you must not retreat without my order."

Zhong Wuyan was a little surprised and didn't understand why.

The mountains here are indeed high, but no one dares to occupy them.

Because there are often big insects and wolves appearing there, if you train the pheasants there to become deadpools, you might end up annihilating the entire army.

Before she could refute, Shaodian Sishui said again.

"Don't worry about the big bug and the wolves. I have my own way to deal with them. You just need to listen to my instructions."

She knew that tigers and wolves often appeared in this mountain range.

The book explains that when Zhong Bohou fled, he fled to that mountain.

Qu Shou's troops chased all the way there, but encountered a pack of wolves, and Zhong Bohou escaped.

However, Zhong Bohou luckily escaped from the wolves, but eventually became a meal for the tiger.

She had to arrange a retreat in advance. No matter whether the next plan was successful or not, there would always be a retreat under her design.

Zhong Bohou can be defeated but cannot die.

She wants more Deadpools to be loyal to her, and this is undoubtedly the best place for training and ambush.

She had a lot of thoughts in her mind, but she couldn't tell Zhong Wuyan.

Firstly, she in the book was not familiar with this place, but now, the more she talked, the more she would expose her ambitions.

No matter how stupid Zhong Wuyan is, she will still have doubts in her heart, which will cause her to be wary of herself.

It might even arouse the empress's vigilance. The empress knew that she had planted spies in the Zhong family, but Zhong Wuyan did not know.

It was one thing for the empress to assassinate her, but it was another to execute her for treason.

She didn't want to draw her sword against the empress until the last moment.

Secondly, Zhong Wuyan was too straightforward. Once she made up her mind, she would not change her mind no matter how much anyone tried to persuade her. Even Zhong Moyao could not persuade her, let alone her as a princess.

As long as she tells her to do things and confuses her, she won't be shaken in her heart, and she won't have her own thoughts and cognition.

Shaodian Sishui raised his head and looked at Zhong Wuyan; "Do you have any secret guards?"

Zhong Wuyan pursed her lips and didn't respond, looking absent-minded.

Her Highness is totally unpredictable, what on earth she is trying to do.

Why would she be asked to send troops there to train secret guards? Five thousand people. Who would provide the funds for so many people to be trained as secret guards?

"Zhong Wuyan!"

Shaodian Sishui rebuked her sternly to prevent her from having any wild thoughts.

Zhong Wuyan suddenly came back to her senses and subconsciously lied and shook her head.

"Ah, no no..."

Shaodian Sishui's face darkened; "Hmm?"

This expression seems to be saying, just try to tell a lie.

Zhong Wuyan was so frightened that she opened her mouth hurriedly and suddenly knelt on the ground.

"Your Highness, please forgive me. I deserve to die."

She shouldn't have secret guards. From ancient times to the present, ministers are not allowed to have their own secret guards or dead servants. This is the law.

If the empress knew that she kept secret guards, then the good days of her Zhong family would be over.

"Get up. I have no objection to you having secret guards."

Shaodian Sishui didn't care about these things at all. What was wrong with having secret guards? As long as the imperial power was in his hands, the secret guards of his ministers could be used as sharp swords.

It just depends on whether the person wielding the sword will be hurt by the sharp sword.

Although the empress was in power, she was still a little cautious and was afraid of being hurt by the swords in the hands of her subjects.

"Thank you, Your Highness."

Zhong Wuyan stood up in fear and nodded with hesitation.

"I have secret guards."

"how many?"

"Not much, one...one hundred?" Zhong Wuyan asked tentatively.

Shaodian Sishui was slightly stunned and narrowed his eyes, seemingly testing whether she was lying.

In fact, she knew that this was not the number she wanted to hear.

Zhong Wuyan gritted her teeth and explained.

"Don't misunderstand me, Your Highness. I have never used these 100 secret guards. They are just hiding in the dark to protect my safety."

Shaodian Sishui was speechless, his eyes deep as he continued to stare at her.

The book describes that when Zhong Wuyan was brought to the capital as a hostage, there were two thousand secret guards following her.

Half of these people were given to the empress by this idiot, and the empress gave them to the heroine.

The other half was given to Zhong Moyao. Because Zhong Moyao was not favored, he did not transfer these secret guards to her, but ordered them to protect her secretly.

So later, when Zhong Moyao died, there was no one around him to use.

And she didn't know any of this until she died.

Seeing that she was still not telling the truth, Shaodian Si Shui's voice was cold.

"Are there really only a hundred people?"

Zhong Wuyan shuddered and shrank her neck.

"Your Highness, please forgive me. Yes, yes... it is two thousand secret guards."

It’s not that she doesn’t want to say it, she just doesn’t dare to say it.

Two thousand secret guards are a hundred times more than the secret guards that Mother gave to the Empress. If the Empress hears about this, it will be a capital crime.

Shaodian Si Shui secretly breathed a sigh of relief and nodded slightly. Fortunately, the plot made sense.

"Two thousand people, not bad. You are a minister, but you dare to raise two thousand secret guards. I really admire you."

Shaodian Sishui had no intention of intimidating her or taking away the secret guard from her.

Instead, she felt that the secret guards were better in Zhong Wuyan's hands than in hers.

Although Zhong Wuyan has spies working for the empress, it is likely that the empress is still unaware of these two thousand secret guards.

Regardless of whether the empress knows it or not, she cannot touch this secret guard.

If the empress didn't know, then these two thousand secret guards would just be enough to protect the young and foolish Zhong Wuyan.

If the empress knew that she had touched this secret guard, it would definitely arouse the empress's vigilance, and the loss would outweigh the gain.