jdhmnovel Chapter 289: Using Magic to Defeat Magic
Chapter 289: Using Magic to Defeat Magic
Now the Queen Mother and the Empress are quarreling with each other. It is said that the Queen Mother is so angry with him that she often cancels court sessions, but... who can forget it?
At that time, among the censors who were doing a lot of rebuttals and debates with scholars, there was the figure of the old Shangshu Han.
Now is he going to use opposing rhetoric to refute the emperor's wishes?
Then how should he deal with his firm support for the Queen Mother in supporting Cao's father and brother a few days ago?
There was silence in the court again.
Zhao Ceying was very satisfied with this.
As expected, Molan was right, we must use magic to defeat magic.
Today, let Zhao Ceying experience how proud, sarcastic, and what kind of expression the Empress Dowager Cao showed that day.
The art of argumentative language, breaking a sentence into different paragraphs for definition, quoting classics and then distorting them, or finding some biased words and meanings from Confucian classics or great scholars' comments all take time.
Zhao Ceying didn't even think about fighting for his parents' status in the Taimiao. He just forced Cao's party to make concessions.
As long as you take the first step back, there will be countless steps to follow.
Everything is difficult at the beginning.
So he had a heart-to-heart talk with Zhao Zongquan and Shen Congying for half an hour, analyzed the situation for half an hour, explained the plan for an incense stick of time, and reminded them to control their minds and their in-laws for an incense stick of time. Only after the two elders fully understood the embarrassment and crisis of the current situation, and that the positions of emperor and empress dowager would never belong to them while they were alive, did Zhao Ceying let the two leave with peace of mind.
His father, Yonghe, and his mother, Chunshan, had never experienced the bloody storms in the court of Bianjing, so they were not very knowledgeable and had an unusually simple expectation of human character.
To be honest, they don't fit in here.
So in order to avoid a fire in his own backyard, just like Molan's mother taught Molan how to manage the household and how to be a good housewife since she was a child, Zhao Ceying understood that she should not hide things from others, but should teach and feed them clearly and thoroughly.
Even after giving such instructions, if his parents still make mistakes, he can only feel regretful.
Since even his own parents could feel regretful, he would show no mercy to the Shen family who had been making small moves recently.
"Dad, Mom... God bless you."
As an emperor, he rarely knelt before the statue and prayed devoutly.
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Shen family.
As expected, something unexpected happened to Shen Congxing.
Empress Dowager Cao had already arranged for someone to contact him, and the messenger's promise seemed ridiculous compared to his sister's long-standing policy of keeping peace.
Why not turn fake into real?
Why can't the Shen family enjoy this tremendous wealth?
It is certainly comfortable to enjoy the treatment of a prince and be the wife of a duke, but doesn’t my sister consider the family at all?
What does the Shen family have?
Does Zhao Ceying still have his maternal grandparents in his heart?
No.
There is nothing when it is granted, there is nothing when it should be granted, there is nothing at all.
Shen Congxing believed that the strong role of Queen Sheng played an indispensable role in this.
"The Sheng family can be the queen, so why can't my closer Shen family be the queen?"
He has two daughters!
The legitimate daughter Shen Zhenzhu and the second legitimate daughter Shen Yuzhu, which one is not worthy of being the queen?
(How can this name be so random, hahahaha. The key is that both of them married well. One is the prince of Wei, and the other is the grandson of the British prince.)
Isn’t the story of cousins also a beautiful story?
As long as Empress Sheng died, the Emperor would certainly marry another one. He must have known whether to marry from a family in the capital whose background he had no idea of, or to choose his maternal family, which was more trustworthy.
You have to fight for everything yourself to have a chance.
Queen Sheng did something drastic, so he shouldn't blame others for giving her a ride.
So what if she’s pregnant with the emperor’s heir?
Getting pregnant is one thing, giving birth is another.
Why did the previous emperor have no descendants? Wasn’t it because he had repeated premature births when he was young?
Besides, why wouldn’t the emperor allow his concubines to have sex with him when the queen was pregnant?
Thinking of this, Shen Congxing couldn't help but think of Sheng, who had just married into the Zhao Mansion in Yuzhou and dared to step on everyone's faces, forcing them to learn some etiquette and rules, slapping people in the face and making outrageous remarks.
It’s really... hateful.
Moreover, Empress Dowager Cao has now confessed everything. It was the Sheng Mansion that forced the family to do evil under her name and it had nothing to do with her at all. What hatred could her empress and her relatives from the royal family of Yuzhou who were far away in the palace have that would justify slapping them in the face like this?
With new hatred and old grudges added to the mix, Shen Congxing even believed that Zhao Ceying's complete lack of care for his maternal family must have been caused by Sheng Molan.
Can all the benefits be enjoyed by the Sheng family alone?
Not afraid of dying of stuffiness!
Thinking so, Shen Congxing followed the instructions of the Empress Dowager and handled the matters at hand step by step.
The real money he received time and time again made him more convinced that he had chosen the right side.
Empress Dowager Cao is the legitimate heir of the royal family, and Zhao Ceying is just the son of a military commander. How can he sit firmly on the throne if he doesn't please the Empress Dowager? Following the Sheng family will only lead him down a dead end.
Sheng was just from a merchant family, how could he compare to Empress Dowager Cao?
Look at the present day, Empress Dowager Cao's father and brother are both dukes, and all her in-laws are marquises and earls. At the very least, she can be a third-rank civil official.
And what did Zhao Ceying give?
If you fail to judge people and understand the situation well when you are young, you will have to pay the price.
After losing his queen and a child, the young and energetic new emperor would probably remember his maternal family and understand the need to be obedient.
The Zou family and the Shen family are tied together. Even though Mrs. Zou is a kind person and has a close sisterly relationship with Shen Congying, what does she, a "country woman" who has always lived in Yuzhou, know except following her husband's lead?
If the Zou family were good people, they would not have made Little Zou a concubine after the death of Big Zou, in order to tie Shen, who had become the king's brother-in-law and a royal relative, to their family.
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In Molan's opinion, Empress Dowager Cao's tricks were full of loopholes.
This reminded her of an old friend she hadn't seen for a long time, Guarjia Gefuhe.
He only chooses insidious tactics, and although it is a court dispute, it is also aimed at the underworld and female relatives.
Poisoning, abortion, looking at the Empress Dowager's resume, Molan knew what she was going to do without having to think about it.
Moreover, compared with Empress Yixiu back then, she didn't even give a reason for her behavior.
It was just that she unilaterally believed that Zhao Ceying and the Sheng family owed her, and that everything they had done was unworthy, unmatched, and unfair to the late Emperor Renzong.
Divine gold.
But Molan would not underestimate this divine gold.
The story copies are forward-looking exercises for the promotion copies. They are all like going through the textbooks of the flower-growing family and the college entrance examination where thousands of troops cross a single-plank bridge.
Who doesn't know that the characteristics of learning to grow flowers are:
Textbook: 1+1=2
Simulation exercise: 11+11=22
Practical exam: Given the function f(x)=|2x+2|-|ax-2|
(1) When a = 1, find the solution set of the inequality f(x) ≥ 2; (2) If there exists x∈（1，3）such that the inequality f(x)＞2x holds, find the range of values of a.
Therefore, Empress Dowager Cao must read and study this simulation exercise carefully.
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