Chapter 494 Ji Mingzhu Extra 1
Ji Mingzhu knew from a young age that she was a favored child of heaven.
Her father is the emperor, her mother is the empress, her brother is the crown prince, and she is the only legitimate princess of the Great Zhou.
On the day Ji Mingzhu was born, her father succeeded in winning the throne, and she was regarded as his lucky star.
When Ji Mingzhu was one year old, her father successfully ascended the throne, and in the same year, there were successive victories in the northern war.
It can be said that for a long time, Princess Ji Mingzhu of Ningping was a symbol of good luck.
When Ji Mingzhu was one year old, he had his own title. When he was five years old, he had his own fiefdom and his own palace.
Everyone dotes on her, and the one who dotes on her the most is her father, the emperor.
Ji Mingzhu has had a shadow guard since she was six years old, which was originally only possessed by the emperor and the crown prince.
The six shadow guards were all carefully selected by her father and given to her. Each of them is a skilled fighter who can fight ten enemies at once.
She changed the names of these six shadow guards on the first day they came to her side, from the first to the sixth day, which sounded easy and simple.
Even so, they only used this name for half a year.
Half a year later, Ji Mingzhu met a beggar when she ran out of the palace to play.
The beggar was clearly starving and cold, yet he was writing in the snow with a dry branch.
When Ji Mingzhu went over, the beggar had already fainted from cold and hunger.
Ji Mingzhu rescued the beggar and named him Chuyi because the day she met him happened to be the first day of the new year.
The second day of the junior high school, a candidate was chosen.
He was a slave who was almost beaten to death by his master. If Ji Mingzhu had not appeared and saved him, he would have died in a pool of blood.
The reason why Ji Mingzhu saved him was very simple, because he asked her to save him.
Saving him was purely unintentional. Even after the second year of junior high school, when he said he would repay her with his whole life, Ji Mingzhu did not take it seriously.
There were too many people around her who were willing to devote their entire lives to her, so Ji Mingzhu thought Chu Er's oath was natural, until someone betrayed her later.
Before the age of fifteen, Ji Mingzhu was a smart, willful and free princess.
After he turned fifteen, Ji Mingzhu released a group of people who were kept around him after careful consideration because Ruizong was suspicious of the crown prince making friends with powerful officials.
This group of people are like seeds in Ji Mingzhu's hands. She chooses the soil suitable for them to cultivate deeply based on their talents, ambitions, and personalities, and gives them full help in secret.
Some of them died in the soil, while others broke through the soil and thrived.
However, their thriving growth cannot be openly linked to Ji Mingzhu.
Ji Mingzhu never denied her father's love for her, but as her father grew older, she could not deny that, besides herself, her brothers were also severely tortured by her father.
Sometimes, she was glad that she was a daughter so that she would not be suspected by her father.
Later, she felt sad that she was a daughter, so even when she was at her wit's end, her father never considered her.
Ji Mingzhu knew that his father was able to stand out from more than a dozen princes and sit on the throne because he had truly fought his way through bloody battles.
He used the same method on his sons, but none of his sons survived to the end.
It was at this time that Zhou Ruizong realized that compared with his father, it was difficult for him to have children, and that his efforts almost wiped out his own lineage.
Emperor Ruizong of Zhou died in regret.
Before his death, he looked at Ji Mingzhu several times, seeming to want to say something but stopping himself.
Ji Mingzhu knew what her father wanted to say, and she hoped he would say it out loud, saying that he hoped she could succeed him and inherit the throne.
But no, in the end his father just held his and his younger brother's hands, hoping that his younger brother could do better.
Perhaps she hoped that her younger brother would be in better health and not come to see her so soon; perhaps she hoped that his body would be in better health and that he could give birth to a new heir to the Ji royal family as soon as possible.
Ji Mingzhu respected and loved her father, the emperor, but the fact that he had never thought of letting her inherit the throne was a knot in her heart.
She refused to accept.
Ji Mingzhu felt that she was no worse than her brothers, and that the Great Zhou had had empresses before, but why did her father never consider her from beginning to end!
At that time, Ji Mingzhu already had his own power.
Her subordinates all persuaded her to ascend the throne and become emperor.
Because the late emperor's will had not been issued at that time, even Ji Mingzhu's younger brother wanted her to ascend the throne.
But at that time, Ji Mingzhu recalled the look her father gave her when he passed away, and she shuddered.
She did not want to go against her father's last wishes, nor did she want to kick her brother out of the throne when her father clearly did not choose her.
Lin Chongyi, who was not yet Prime Minister Lin at the time, was almost pissed off by Ji Mingzhu's little girlish awkwardness.
The previous emperor is dead, the throne is right in front of you, and even the legitimate new emperor is willing to protect you. He really doesn't know what Ji Mingzhu is hesitating about.
When Lin Chongyi heard that Ji Mingzhu refused this opportunity, he almost spit out blood in front of Ji Mingzhu.
This kind of thing that made him vomit blood happened twice.
Before his death, Emperor Guang still persuaded Ji Mingzhu to ascend the throne, but Ji Mingzhu at that time did not want to be the emperor, but insisted on picking a relative from the clan and making herself the regent princess.
Can the Regent Princess be compared with the Emperor?
Ji Mingzhu was aware of the disappointment of the people around her, but she was still holding a grudge in her heart.
At that time, she felt that she was powerful and had Zhou Cungao's military power in her hands. Even if Ji Mingyuan became emperor, he would have to be under her control. So why should she go to the trouble of becoming the emperor?
Ji Mingzhu thought she would not regret it.
But in fact, it took less than ten years. Five years later, Ji Mingzhu wanted to travel back to that time and take over the throne by pressing his own neck.
But, a miss is a miss, not to mention that she missed it twice.
It was also because she missed it twice and she didn't want to miss it a third time.
After Ji Mingyuan began to indulge in pleasure, his health deteriorated year by year.
In order to make him die soon, Ji Mingzhu made many plans behind the scenes.
He wanted a beautiful woman, so Ji Mingzhu used the seeds he had sown in previous years to give a beautiful woman to Ji Mingyuan.
He wanted to live forever, so Ji Mingzhu personally selected a Taoist priest with "advanced Taoism" to come to the palace to refine elixirs for him, hoping that he could ascend to heaven as soon as possible.
She gave Ji Mingyuan whatever he wanted.
Seeing that Ji Mingyuan's health was getting worse, Ji Mingzhu felt that the time was about to come, but her partner slapped her hard.
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