The scheming empress starts by conquering men

"Sister, don't you always want to know the current situation of the Zhong family?"

Shaodian Sishui lowered his voice and looked at Zhong Wuyan.

Zhong Wuyan nodded blankly. She really wanted to know.

But the problem is that His Highness is not doing it right now.

Sometimes he was looking at the territorial map, sometimes at the situation of the Zhong family. I had no idea what His Highness was doing.

Shaodian Sishui waved to her, and when she came closer, he whispered in her ear what to do next.

Zhong Wuyan's face had rich and colorful expressions, sometimes she was surprised, sometimes shocked, and sometimes she was trembling with fear.

Until finally, Shaodian Sishui raised the corners of his mouth and looked at her.

"Do you understand?"

Zhong Wuyan frowned, shook her head and asked back.

"Your Highness, why did you send secret guards to investigate those nobles? If they really are traitors, just kill them."

"Why do you want to alienate those nobles? Not only that, but you also want to recruit one of them to serve you. This is totally unnecessary."

"If you ask me, once you are disloyal, you will never be used again. Those people dared to secretly collude with Qu Suo and Dayu, which is to betray our Great Zhou."

"This kind of nobles should be exterminated. What's the point of keeping them around?"

As she finished talking about exterminating the clan, a layer of bloodthirsty murderous intent appeared on her face.

Shaodian Si Shui's expression froze slightly, and the corners of her mouth that had just been raised suddenly froze. She unconsciously cupped her hands and rubbed her face up and down until her face became hot, then she let out a long sigh.

“People go to higher places, water flows to lower places, and human hearts are often the most complicated and the most greedy.”

"If you kill them, the other nobles will be wary of you. In order to destroy your Zhong family, they will definitely join forces to plot against you."

"Instead of being passive, it is better to be proactive. All you need to do is to recruit one person to work for you..."

Shaodian Sishui paused and didn't want to talk about those plans anymore. Zhong Wuyan couldn't understand at all.

She has already entered the game first, and given the current situation, she has no choice but to move forward.

Others have a way out, but she doesn't.

The purpose of all the arrangements I just made is to tell Zhong Wuyan that the nobles should take their time and let them kill each other. It is impossible to kill them all by hand.

The more they kill, the more rebellious those aristocratic families will become, and they will be united into a powerful force.

The only thing to do is to break away from it.

But Zhong Wuyan has her own ideas and is stupid as hell.

But it doesn’t matter, she wasn’t saying these words to Zhong Wuyan, but to Zhong Bohou.

What she wanted was for Zhong Bohou to be truly loyal to her.

"Just remember what I told you before, and you must complete it. This is an order!"

Zhong Wuyan put her thoughts aside, knelt on one knee and bowed.

"Wei Chen takes orders."

His Highness should have given the order long ago, which made her think so much and worry about His Highness.

But I still have to go back and discuss this matter with my mother.

Shaodian Sishui was silent for a moment, then asked, "This matter can only be handled behind the scenes, not in a big way, remember?"

"I remember." Zhong Wuyan said.

Shaodian Sishui nodded.

"I will leave early tomorrow morning."

"Please remember every word I say to you, and don't question what I say."

"Also, go back and tell your mother that I don't blame her for not coming to see me. I am one with A Yao, and A Yao and your Zhong family are inseparable. Since the day A Yao was arranged to marry me by the empress a year ago, you, the Zhong family, have been tied to me."

Zhong Wuyan was slightly stunned. "I will tell my mother every word of what Your Highness has told me. I will take my leave now."

Even if His Highness didn't tell her these words, she would still say them.

Now that His Highness agreed with her, she no longer had to carry His Highness on her back.

But she didn't understand. His Highness said that he didn't blame his mother for not coming to see her. Now that he had said it, did His Highness blame her in his heart or not?

Zhong Wuyan felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't tell what it was.

Looking at Zhong Wuyan's departing back, Shaodian Sishui's eyes were deep and her face expressionless.

She just wanted to tell Zhong Bohou that no matter how much she wanted to stay out of the matter, the moment Zhong Moyao was betrothed to her by the empress, the empress had already conceived the idea of ​​eradicating the Zhong family.

The book mentioned that the empress wanted to marry Zhong Moyao to the heroine, but Zhong Moyao did not love the heroine and preferred her.

It was because of the constant pleading by Marquis Zhong and the pressure exerted by the secret guards that the empress was forced to issue an order to marry Zhong Moyao to her.

Can the empress issue an edict just because she is forced? Of course not.

The moment Marquis Zhong asked for permission to marry her for the sake of his son's happiness, the empress wanted to kill her to pave the way for the female ruler to concentrate power.

The nobles in the main city of Zhong Bohou colluded with Qu Suo and Dayu. Although the empress did not know the whole story, she could roughly guess some of it and even acquiesced.

Her purpose was to watch the nobles frame Zhong Bohou so that she would have the opportunity to kill Zhong Bohou and eliminate the forces behind her.

As for why those nobles betrayed Zhong Bohou and chose to collude with Qu Suo and Dayu.

All I can say is that there are many smart people among the nobles.

They did not really want to collude with Qu Suo and Dayu, but did it for profit and power.

Ever since she came to the main city to marry Zhong Moyao, many nobles knew that she, the sixth princess, was not favored by the emperor.

According to the wedding rules of the Great Zhou Dynasty, unmarried women cannot personally welcome their brides, as this is against etiquette.

Only when a married sister goes to welcome the bride can the woman's sincerity be shown.

When Shaodian Sishui married Zhong Moyao, the second princess was unmarried and it was not appropriate to welcome the bride.

The fourth princess had just gotten married, and Shaodian Sheyu was supposed to come, but he suddenly fell ill on the eve of the wedding and was unable to attend the wedding.

She knew that it was not that Shaodian Sheyu suddenly became seriously ill, but that the empress was interfering.

In the royal family, if an elder sister marries her younger sister, no one will say anything, and no minister will think it is an act of slapping oneself in the face and lowering one's status.

But if on the contrary, the younger sister goes to marry the elder sister, it means that the younger sister is not favored and the elder sister is more favored.

This is bound to shake the ministers' hearts, and she will not be valued by the empress.

Regardless of whether the elder sister is married or not, there is no reason for the married younger sister to go and marry her.

Just like when Shaodian Sheyu got married, none of the other princesses had married yet, so it was not appropriate to welcome the bride. It was her married cousin from her father's family, the Jian family, who went to welcome the bride.

This is the wedding custom of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

She came in person to welcome the bride. The nobles saw that the empress disliked her, so they naturally tried to plot against Zhong Bohou in secret, hoping to share the spoils and take the throne themselves.

This is the human nature, everyone wants to climb up.

Since the empress was not optimistic about the Zhong family, they naturally did the empress a favor and secretly accused the Zhong family of colluding with Qu Suo and Dayu.

Not only can they earn profits for their family, but they can also gain the power after devouring the Zhong family.

She didn't believe that Zhong Bohou didn't understand all this, he was just deceiving himself and didn't want to believe it.

Shaodian Sishui did not rest immediately after the meal, but waited for someone.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, footsteps and voices were heard outside.

"Your Highness, Marquis Zhong Bo requests an audience."

Shao Dian Si Shui raised the corner of his mouth and said in a gloomy tone, "Tell her that I'm resting. If there's anything, we can talk tomorrow."