Chapter 937 Backlash
Huoshui shook his fur.
Uh, His Majesty seems very angry.
only--
"You certainly didn't give him face, but you flattered him to death!"
Huoshui plucked up the courage to say something "fair".
"To kill with praise?"
Gu Qingcheng raised her eyebrows. Oh wow, this little idiot has become smart.
Huoshui: ...Of course.
It is no longer the idiot it once was, but the first intelligent assistant of His Majesty.
After following His Majesty for so many years, I have been influenced by him and have developed some intelligence.
"It's just flattery!"
Huoshui thought of his own majesty's actions and couldn't help but shed tears of sympathy for Chen Duan.
"You are so 'sensible', a model of a good wife."
"It's just an engagement. You haven't officially become the Princess of Liang yet, but you've already spent a lot of your family wealth to give King Liang food and money, and give him the sacred horse shoe for the army. You even concocted a miracle just for him!"
Huoshui pointed his fingers and listed all the things his majesty had done.
"You are 'infatuated' with Chen Duan without reservation, just like a love-minded person who is in love."
"Who are you? You are a daughter of the distinguished Wujun Gu family. You are intelligent and beautiful!"
Such a beautiful woman of noble birth, extremely intelligent, and stunningly beautiful, but she is like an infatuated little woman, giving her all, a model of "paying for her love", which man can bear it? "Chen Duan is just a second-married man from a commoner family, not even from a poor family, but he can make the girl of the Gu family so "admiring", after a long time, how can he not be lost?"
Chen Duan had long been flattered by His Majesty to the point of being complacent and carried away by his success, and had completely forgotten his own name.
"So, he believes that you love him deeply and are loyal to him!"
"Even if he lets you down, as long as there is a 'forced' reason, you will understand!"
"After all, you are his wise wife, who is the one who knows the big picture and takes the overall situation into consideration."
As he spoke, Huoshui began to feel some sympathy for Chen Duan.
"From the very beginning, Chen Duan fell into your gentle trap!"
Gu Qingcheng sneered, "Trap? What did I do to him? Am I wrong for being so sincere to him?"
Trouble: ...
Uh, I was talking so excitedly that I forgot about my Majesty's temper.
It quickly shut up and shook its head frantically: That's right! Your Majesty, how could you be wrong! However, being right is the most terrifying thing.
Your Majesty has calculated people's hearts to the extreme.
Her sincere devotion flattered Chen Duan so much that he was dizzy and lost his basic judgment.
Now, the "backlash" is coming.
Chen Duan actually regarded His Majesty as a love-minded person who would disregard dignity and give up everything for love.
"Let me voluntarily give up my position as queen so that he can marry Wang's daughter? So that he can consolidate his throne?"
Gu Qingcheng placed the letter on the table and said coldly, "I knew he would recruit concubines for the sake of profit, but I didn't expect that he would do it so ruthlessly."
Demote your wife to a concubine?
Haha, who does he think he is? Emperor Guangwu?
"Unfortunately, even if he is Emperor Guangwu, I am not Yin Lihua."
"What else do you say? In his heart, I will always be his wife—"
Pure bullshit! If you love her, you should marry her with three matchmakers and six betrothals, and let her stand by your side legitimately.
The wife in my heart? Who can see it?
Will the law and rituals acknowledge it?
When you need to prove something, how can you prove it? Dig out your heart? The most important thing is that she, Gu Qing, is not a poor woman with a declining family background. She still has the huge Gu family behind her.
She herself can provide Chen Duan with a steady supply of food, silver, and more assistance.
In short, she is still valuable enough! However, Chen Duan still had this idea - to make Wang's daughter the queen, just to win the support of the old families such as Wang and Xie.
Of course, the 30,000 troops under Wang's command also played a crucial role.
However, compared with Gu Qing, Wang’s advantage is not that great.
However, Chen Duan still promised the throne to Wang.
The reason is simple. He is too "confident" in Gu Qing, and believes that this silly woman will endure and give in for him! Huoshui: ...So, I said he was flattered to death.
They have all lost their basic judgment.
Her Majesty is not some infatuated woman at all, but a queen who treats men as tools!
The most amazing thing is that your Majesty’s plan can be described as an open conspiracy.
She really gave her heart to him. Not only Chen Duan, but also Zhou Shao and other confidants of Chen Duan knew it well.
Therefore, if His Majesty fell out with Chen Duan, everyone would understand.
The daughter of the Gu family is truly sincere and genuine. Even if you, Chen Duan, do not cherish her, you cannot trample on her like this.
Let the daughter of the distinguished Gu family be your concubine?
You are so shameless! Even if the daughter of the Gu family is crazy about love, her family, her relatives, and even her pride as a daughter of the Gu family cannot allow her to do such a shameful thing.
Even if you are an emperor, you can't humiliate people like this.
These days, aristocratic families are indeed gradually declining, but the Gu family is still one of the most prestigious first-class aristocratic families in Jiankang.
The daughter of the Gu family, even if she was born out of wedlock, could never be allowed to be someone's concubine.
Not to mention she is a legitimate daughter.
Moreover, everyone in the world knows that the reason Chen Duan and Gu got engaged was not because they were attracted by each other's beauty, but because of the alliance of the two families' interests.
The Gu family has the entire Lingnan as a "dowry", if they still can't get the position of queen -
Tsk tsk, the daughter of the Gu family and the entire Gu family will become a laughing stock in the world! Huoshui's guess was correct. Almost at the same time when Gu Qingcheng received the letter from Jiankang, Zhou Shao also saw the person sent by Chen Duan in a tent.
"What? You said that His Majesty wants to make General Wang's eldest daughter the queen?"
Zhou Shao couldn't believe his ears.
He stared with wide eyes, looked at the person who came, then looked down at the letter in his hand, and felt it was ridiculous.
How could he have a nightmare in broad daylight? Is the master stupid? His fiancée is the third daughter of the Gu family.
It cannot be said that everyone knows about this matter, but everyone who should know it knows it.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Especially in the past few months, when the lord is away, the female monarch has been in charge of the situation on the riverside.
On that day, they repelled Yuwen's troops and continued to advance, successively capturing three county towns including Heyang and Heyin.
The land that once belonged to the Southern Dynasty was regained.
The situation of confrontation between the North and the South was also reversed because of the female monarch.
Moreover, occupying cities such as Heyang and Heyin was like stabbing a sharp knife into the Northern Dynasty.
As long as we gain a foothold, we can continue to advance northward.
Perhaps, the great cause of unification can really be accomplished in the hands of a female monarch.
"My lady, you not only helped the lord defend Jiangling, but also contributed to the expansion of the territory!"
Such achievements are bound to leave a mark in the history books even if unification cannot be achieved in the future.
The lady has made such great contributions, but the lord did not express gratitude or reward her, but actually, even -
Zhou Shao really wanted to rush to Jiankang, grab Chen Duan's clothes and shake him hard.
He wants to shake all the water out of his lord's brain!
He wanted to ask his lord in person: Chen Duan, are you crazy? You want to win the hearts of the people by humiliating people who have made great contributions? Even if Gu Sanniang is a woman, even if she is your legitimate fiancée, you can't treat her like this.
This is an act of betrayal.
If even his first wife who devoted all her life to him could betray him, who would dare to seek refuge with him? The key point is that the daughter of the Gu family is not an ordinary "first wife", but a partner who "joined" with the huge Lingnan.
They haven't even unified the country yet, but they're already hiding their bows after all the birds have been killed? How cold-hearted, how treacherous...
Zhou Shao himself didn't even notice that his "butt" was crooked.
If he was still Chen Duan's adviser, he would devote himself to planning for Chen Duan.
Even if they disagree in their hearts and think that Chen Duan is not kind, they will find all kinds of excuses for him - people who achieve great things do not care about trivial matters.
The daughter of the Gu family has indeed given a lot, but she is still a woman after all.
Besides, the lord did not abandon her completely, he just did not give her the title of queen.
Apart from the position of queen, my lord can give her your true heart.
When the north and south are unified, perhaps you can follow the example of Emperor Guangwu and re-appoint Gu's daughter as the queen! In this way, it can also create a good story.
...This is what Chen Duan’s strategist should think.
However, Zhou Shao had no intention of helping Chen Duan to make excuses at this moment.
The reason is simple, his heart has already leaned towards Gu Qingcheng.
What a good lady! In addition to defending Jiangling and expanding the territory, she also performed very well in rectifying military affairs.
The less than two thousand defenders left behind by Chen Duan were quickly expanded to twenty thousand in just three months.
Although there were more men and horses, there was no shortage of food and fodder.
The queen paid out of her own pocket to ensure that every soldier had enough food and warm clothing.
After occupying Heyang, Heyin and other cities, we were able to stabilize the people's hearts in the first place and allow several cities to quickly settle down.
He can lead troops and is also good at governing the local area...
The key point is that the queen also recruited Jiang Chi, a famous scholar in the country, as her adviser.
That’s Jiang Chi.
One moment he was hired by Yuwen clan as Sima, and the next moment he became the queen's first useful person.
Seeing that Jiang Chi was willing to become a disciple of a woman, Zhou Shao and other counselors all lost the last bit of resentment in their hearts.
The famous scholar Jiang Chi could recognize a woman as his "lord", so what was there for these unknown little people to worry about? Besides, they were originally here to assist the female lord.
Now, at most, the "female monarch" has been transformed into the lord.
Perhaps because his butt was sitting crookedly, Zhou Shao subconsciously became "warned" against Chen Duan.
For example, three months had passed since the incident of the small porcelain bottle, but Zhou Shao and others had not reported a single word to Chen Duan.
Seeing Chen Duan's letter at this moment, Zhou Shao felt that it was absurd, but also secretly happy.
"If Chen Duan knew that the master still had such a 'divine weapon' in his hands, would he still do such a stupid thing as 'demoting his wife to a concubine'?"
General Wang's 30,000 troops were nothing compared to the earth-shattering little porcelain bottle.
You know, even the fierce cavalry of the Northern Dynasty, the Yuwen clan, were defeated and fled by the small porcelain bottle.
Wang's army, haha, is no match for Yuwen's! "Chen is short-sighted and treacherous, and is not worth considering!"
There was still a trace of hesitation in his heart, but at this moment, Zhou Shao had completely made up his mind...
(End of this chapter)
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