Chapter 685: The Shen family splits up!
"I'm sorry to disappoint you. I am Shen Lanxi. Who are you?" Shen Lanxi asked deliberately.
Shen Yuantang looked in disbelief at the woman in front of him who seemed to be in her early thirties. It was Shen Lanxi's face and the tone of her voice.
She is Shen Lanxi, she is really Shen Lanxi.
"Big sister, I'm Yuantang, Shen Yuantang. I'm your biological sister!"
Shen Lanxi said coldly: "How dare you pretend to be my biological sister."
Shen Yuantang trembled all over when he was scolded. What did she mean by that?
Doesn't she intend to acknowledge her?
"I am Shen Yuantang. If my brothers knew that you killed me, they would never let you go!"
Wei Dongzhu: "How dare you speak nonsense when you are about to die. You are a Xiongnu, and you dare to pretend to be the emperor's sister in order to save your life. You deserve to die."
"Yes, Your Majesty, kill her."
"The Xiongnu are treacherous and cunning, and must not be allowed to stay."
"Your Majesty, I have found out that this person is the Queen Mother of the Xiongnu. It was she who instigated the Xiongnu to betray our Aolai Kingdom."
Shen Yuantang panicked when he heard so many people wanted to kill him.
"I am Shen Yuantang, a member of the Shen family. Don't dare to touch me. I am a princess who married into the Turkic Empire. I am a hero for the sake of the Great Zhou's marriage to the Turks!"
“Shen Lanxi, if you dare to kill me, the Shen family will never let you go.”
Wei Dongzhu: "Take them away and deal with them together with the rebellious foreign tribes."
Seeing that His Majesty did not stop him, the soldiers immediately obeyed the order.
After a while, Shen Lanxi spoke: "If I encounter a traitor who dares to pretend to be my family in the future, just like today, I will kill him without mercy!"
"yes!"
Ten days later, all the remaining Turks were destroyed.
"Your Majesty, how should we deal with the Turkic people who did not participate in the rebellion?"
Shen Lanxi glanced at the person who was speaking: "Are there any Turkic people? There are only people from my Aolai country."
The person who spoke understood that if it were another emperor, he would definitely take this opportunity to exterminate the Turks.
Your Majesty may seem tough, but in fact he is a wise and benevolent ruler.
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The news of His Majesty's victory in the expedition was quickly transmitted back to the capital, along with His Majesty's heroic deeds and battle reports.
"If Your Majesty had not already ascended to a high position, the world would definitely have conferred upon Your Majesty the title of a God of War."
"Your Majesty, this is the God of War. The one before was a fake God of War."
It has been a long time since anyone remembered Zhou Ruyuan. The title of God of War reminded people of the man who mistook fish eyes for pearls.
In the end, everyone would sigh that Zhou Ruyuan was blind and confused.
A general was sent to garrison the northwest again, and Wei Dongzhu and his son followed the expeditionary team back to the capital.
However, when they were about to reach the capital, Wei Dongzhu and his son went to the imperial mausoleum, while the expeditionary force headed straight for the imperial city.
There was no change in the capital. When Shen Lanxi left, she appointed a regent minister just like everything else. The regent minister handled state affairs on behalf of the government, and each of the subordinates performed their duties and no one slacked off.
On the day of welcoming the emperor, all members of the Shen family came, including the married daughter, the engaged daughter-in-law, and the children who were a few years old.
Not long after Shen Lanxi returned to Beijing, Shen Congli passed away.
Not long after, Shen Conglian and Miao also died one after another.
A few days later, Shen Lanxi officially abolished the mourning system in the court. In response, all the officials just casually dissuaded her and were very happy in private.
When an elder dies, one has to stay in mourning at home for a year. Officials in the court change so quickly, will there still be a place for them when they return?
As soon as this system came out, the Shen family was secretly complacent.
If the elders in the family died one after another, they would have to stay at home for three years if they had to mourn one by one. Even if they didn't have to stay together, they would still have to stay at home for one year.
Although they have already established a firm foothold in the capital, they cannot withstand the efforts of their subordinates.
Just two days ago, a talented criminal-solving man in his early twenties was promoted to the position of Chief of the Dali Temple.
Going back further, after His Majesty personally led the expedition, he returned and appointed many young generals to go to the northwest with him. The ministers of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Personnel were getting younger and younger.
If they don't work hard now, they will definitely be replaced when they get older.
The sense of crisis makes them dare not rest every day.
The sons of the Shen family gradually emerged. Among them, the most outstanding was Shen Yuanjun's son Shen Qingshan, followed by Shen Yuankun's son Shen Chenshan.
Shen Chengfeng, who had always been at the top of the brothers' list, fell behind. His marriage had been bumpy several times, and although he later joined the army, to put it nicely, he made steady progress, but to put it bluntly, he did not make any achievements and has been sitting at the position of a fourth-rank lieutenant general.
In a few years, when the young men below him grow up and some of them become promising, he is afraid that he will even be squeezed out of the top three.
As for the girl, Shen Emei had sought an official position since she gave birth to a child, but unfortunately she had another child. Not long after giving birth, she had been working in the court for only half a year when she became pregnant again.
From then on, she drifted further and further away from the court, taking care of the children and managing the inner house at home every day. Until now, she has not been able to withdraw from the affairs of the inner house.
Shen Yuanjing was very disappointed with his daughter and began to focus his energy on his son at home.
His eldest son was mediocre, his second son was dull, his third son was sickly, and his fourth son was clever, but he did not use his cleverness to study or practice martial arts. He only thought about playing every day. He did not intend to support the girls anymore, as he could see that girls like His Majesty were rare in the world, so he focused his energy on the younger children.
Also, his second wife suffered from hemorrhage when giving birth, so he married the daughter of a sixth-rank official.
Although the family background of the little official's daughter is not as good as that of the Shen family, she is well-educated and young. I believe that such a wife will be able to teach the children at home well, and the children born will be much smarter.
Shen Yuanxu also remarried the daughter of a minor official in the capital, who was even much younger than Shen Chengfeng. Not long after Shen Yuanxu remarried, the Shen family began to discuss the division of the family.
The Shen family has more and more children, and even the old house plus Shen Lanxi's palace, which is now the Shen family, can no longer accommodate them.
Also, because the new wives of the elders in the family were younger than their children, there were many frictions over some issues, and after a long time, they started quarreling.
If Shen Yuanxu and Shen Yuanjing had not sternly warned their family that if the matter was brought to His Majesty and they were beaten to death, they would only sacrifice their relatives for the sake of justice and would not plead for mercy, they would have already brought the matter to Shen Lanxi.
Shen Yuanjing and Shen Yuanxu were fed up with it, so they finally discussed it and sent a letter to other people in the family.
The elders above are no longer around, and they are getting older, so it's time to split up.
A month later, after the court session in the Golden Palace was dismissed, the two brothers Shen Yuanjing and Shen Yuanxu went to find Shen Lanxi.
"Your Majesty, the Shen family is now flourishing, and your previous palace can no longer accommodate us. After discussing it, we plan to split up the family."
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