Chapter 495 Ji Mingzhu Extra
Since Ji Mingzhu and Zhou Cungao got married, she has assumed that Zhou Cungao is hers and stands by her.
And in the northern border, the Zhou family army under Zhou Cungao naturally stood on her side.
But the reality is that when Ji Mingzhu wanted to use the Zhou family army to intimidate Ji Mingyuan, Zhou Cungao said that the Zhou family army was only loyal to the Great Zhou and only loyal to His Majesty.
The bright slap stunned Ji Mingzhu.
She became a laughing stock in the entire court.
"Are you deliberately trying to embarrass me? Are you deliberately trying to embarrass me in front of Ji Mingyuan and the civil and military ministers?"
After returning to the Zhenbei Palace, Ji Mingzhu changed from the dignified and calm demeanor she had outside and became hysterical towards Zhou Cungao.
Ji Mingzhu knew that someone would betray her. Many people had betrayed her over the years, but among them, her partner must not be included, not Zhou Cungao.
The current Princess Ningping is no longer the same Princess Ningping as before.
In the past, Princess Ningping was extremely powerful and had her own place in the court.
But now the Princess Ningping has long lost the qualification to attend court.
Ji Mingyuan colluded with those ministers who once wanted to support him to ascend the throne and pushed her to the edge of the center of power. She almost couldn't squeeze into that circle.
This time, she had been planning for a long time to compete with Ji Mingyuan, but ended up being defeated by Zhou Cungao.
"I told you that the Zhou family army has always supported the Great Zhou and His Majesty." Zhou Cungao was not surprised that Ji Mingzhu would get angry, but he still insisted on his own ideas.
"Stop arguing." Zhou Cungao sighed and said weakly to Ji Mingzhu.
Ji Mingzhu sneered at Zhou Cungao's voice and asked, "Stop arguing?"
"Am I fighting just for myself?"
Ji Mingzhu pointed at Zhou Cungao's nose and said, "Can't you see what Ji Mingyuan has been up to these past few years? He thinks he's the emperor and is forcing me to retreat step by step. Do you know what we'll face when we have nowhere to retreat?"
"It's imprisonment, it's death."
Zhou Cungao frowned, "No, the Northern Territory cannot do without the Zhou Family Army..."
"The Zhou family army can't do without you, right?" Ji Mingzhu sneered, "Zhou Cungao, how can you be so naive?"
"You're not holding me so that even if I fall down, I can still follow you to the northern border as your Zhenbei Princess and live a free and unrestrained life, right?"
Zhou Cungao looked at Ji Mingzhu without objection, because that was what he really thought.
Ji Mingyuan told him that as long as Ji Mingzhu gave up everything in the capital, he would be willing to give Ji Mingzhu a way out.
"Zhou Cungao, why are you so stupid?"
The two had been married for many years, and this was the first time Ji Mingzhu pointed at Zhou Cungao's nose and scolded him.
Ji Mingzhu looked at Zhou Cungao, whose eyes were cold and brows were furrowed, and sneered, "Don't you see that your good emperor has been coveting the Zhou family army for many years?"
"My reputation is great, but your reputation as King Zhenbei and the Zhou family army in the northern border is small? He wants to make me lose everything, do you think he will let you stay?"
“Those who rely on luck will inevitably fail.”
This was the last sentence Ji Mingzhu said to Zhou Cungao before he took Zhou Jianzhang, Zhou Jianwu and others to leave the capital.
Ji Mingzhu understood from a young age how much blood and gore there would be in the royal family, and she also knew that if she voluntarily surrendered, she would not be rewarded with a bright future, but only with destruction.
So on the surface, she seemed to be persuaded by Zhou Cungao and began to make concessions; but secretly she had been making plans.
Ji Mingzhu gave Zhou Cungao one last chance to choose. She wanted Zhou Cungao to see clearly what kind of bastard Ji Mingyuan was.
When the war broke out in the north and Zhou Cungao led his troops to fight the enemy isolated and without any help, Ji Mingyuan, as Ji Mingzhu had expected, had no plan to send reinforcements to the north at all.
Not only did they not receive any reinforcements, but they even used the repeated natural disasters in Qingzhou and Luzhou as an excuse to directly cut off military supplies to the northern border.
Ji Mingzhu thought that since Ji Mingyuan had gone to such an extent, Zhou Cungao should understand that Ji Mingyuan was just using him and just wanted to squeeze out his remaining value.
But Zhou Cungao was a loyal man. Even though Ji Mingyuan and the court had done so much, he still had no intention of turning against them or bowing to them.
At that time, Ji Mingzhu was in the capital to collect food and fodder for Zhou Cungao. When he heard that Zhou Cungao still ignored his request for help from the court, he withheld the food and fodder that he had prepared for two days.
She would then see whether His Majesty and the court, whom he cared deeply about, would save him.
In just two days, Zhou's army was defeated.
Not long after, news came that Zhou Cungao had committed treason and collaborated with the enemy.
It all seems like a huge joke.
Ji Mingzhu watched Zhou Cungao present his loyal heart to Ji Mingyuan, and then saw with his own eyes Ji Mingyuan throw Zhou Cungao's sincerity to the ground, stomped on it a few times, and poured a basin of manure on it, causing people who passed by and those who heard about it to spit at him.
But it is not too late to mend the situation. She cannot save Zhou Cungao, but she can still save the children.
It just so happened that she could take advantage of this crisis of the Zhou family to retreat bravely and make new plans.
Zhou Yunshu was an unexpected event that she had not planned for, but this event made her see another possibility.
The Zhou family needs a new head of the family, but none of the male members of the Zhou family are by her side, so Zhou Yunshu is the best candidate.
As it turns out, she was.
At the beginning, Ji Mingzhu wanted Zhou Yunshu to become the head of the Zhou family in public, while he would control them behind the scenes.
But man proposes, God disposes, and Ji Mingzhu had health problems.
When she learned that she might not live for a year, God played unfunny jokes on her again and again.
Her son and grandson died, and her daughter, whom she had entrusted with an important task, became blind and fell in love with a foreigner. All her plans were disrupted after Ji Mingyuan's two sons killed their father.
But what made things brighter was that the person who ascended the throne was his own granddaughter.
It seems that the things you want will always satisfy your original wishes in a way you could never have imagined after going through all kinds of setbacks.
When Xixi saluted her in a bright yellow dragon robe, Ji Mingzhu felt relieved all of a sudden.
In the end, it seems that what I wanted was just this.
If she were given another chance, she would never stand idly by when her father became suspicious of her brother, the Crown Prince. She would never sit idly by.
Unfortunately, there is no if.
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