The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2548 The Lord of ZTE

In the Cining Palace, the Queen Mother slowly opened her eyes. Her vision was blurry. After a long time, it gradually became clear.

The bed is decorated with brocade quilts and red curtains.

The imperial physician and the eunuch were all outside, and Zhao Hongzhuang was sitting beside the bed.

Zhao Hongzhuang was like a sleepy person, occasionally tapping her chin and then raising it quickly. She was obviously asleep, but her instinct told her to force herself to sit up.

The Queen Mother raised her head slightly and looked at the sky outside the window. It was almost dawn.

The Queen Mother looked at Zhao Hongzhuang's beautiful profile, with a complicated look in her eyes.

She didn't expect that there was a mole in the royal family.

In her original plan, she would slowly train Jingjun Zhao Yuan and let Zhao Yuan become a true imperial king, and at the same time let him learn to respect Fang Yun and beware of Fang Yun.

Originally, everything was going very smoothly. Not long ago, Zhao Yuan had already begun to guard against Fang Luck.

After all, although Fang Yun is the emperor's teacher, he may not teach Zhao Yuan once a month. It won't take many years for the Queen Mother to alienate Zhao Yuan from Fang Yun.

It was not until yesterday that the Queen Mother discovered that something was wrong. She instantly realized that someone was secretly influencing Zhao Yuan. When she asked, she found out that it was her sister-in-law and Zhao Yuan's biological aunt, Zhao Hongzhuang.

Years of hard work were in vain, and the Queen Mother was so angry that she was so angry that she was already suffering from an old illness, which caused her to vomit blood and fall into a coma.

Looking at Zhao Hongzhuang, a flash of hatred flashed in the Queen Mother's eyes, but then, the hatred turned into helplessness.

When the late emperor passed away, if Zhao Hongzhuang had not tried her best to deal with it and relied on her connections in the royal family to help her, the Queen Mother would have been deposed by Prince Kang and others.

However, when it comes to educating Zhao Yuan, Zhao Hongzhuang is an enemy of the entire royal family.

There is nothing wrong in letting Zhao Yuan admire Fang Yun, but Zhao Yuan is the future king and must master the imperial art. He can never consciously bow his head in front of Fang Yun, and he can never stand with Fang Yun.

The emperor is not the same as the people.

If Zhao Yuan admires Fang Yun since he was a child, then when he grows up, he will go to extremes, either obeying Fang Yun in everything, or resolutely standing against Fang Yun out of rebellion, which is both a disaster and not a blessing.

The Queen Mother sighed lightly.

Zhao Hongzhuang opened her eyes suddenly, breathing rapidly, and then looked at the Queen Mother, with the same complicated look on her face.

"Queen Mother, you are awake."

After a brief moment of panic flashed in Zhao Hongzhuang's eyes, she returned to normal.

The Queen Mother nodded slightly, and then said in a slightly majestic voice: "Hongzhuang stays, you all can go down."

The others all left, leaving only two people in the room.

After being silent for a long time, perhaps even more than a quarter of an hour, the Queen Mother closed her eyes and asked slowly: "Why did you teach Yuan'er like that?"

Zhao Hongzhuang remained silent for dozens of breaths and said, "I'm just telling the truth, and it's up to Yuan'er to make his own judgment. As an aunt, I won't harm him."

"You didn't want to harm him, but you ended up harming him anyway. Before the Ai family fell into coma, they actually had... bad thoughts."

After all, the Queen Mother did not say anything about abolishing the establishment.

Zhao Hongzhuang said: "I know what you are thinking, but you may teach Yuan'er to be a wise king in your mind, but you may also harm him."

"As long as he knows how to protect himself and keep a low profile, he will be fine."

"Not everything in the world is as you expect."

"So even if Yuan'er was killed, it wasn't Fang Yun's fault?" The Queen Mother opened her eyes and stared at Zhao Hongzhuang, her eyes shining brightly in the night.

"We... can't do anything about Fang Yun." Zhao Hongzhuang lowered her head slightly.

The Queen Mother sneered: "Do you think the Ai family doesn't know what you are doing? For the sake of the Women's Society, you can even abandon the royal family and Jingguo, not to mention our mother and son! In your eyes, Fang Yun is the hope for the revival of your Women's Society, and Fang Yuncai It’s your only help, Zhao Hongzhuang!”

Zhao Hongzhuang trembled, took a deep breath, raised her head and looked at the Queen Mother, and said, "You don't know what I want to do!"

The Queen Mother looked at Zhao Hongzhuang's fearless eyes and thought of herself back then. Her heart softened and she sighed and said: "How come I don't know that you just want women in the world to be like men, able to read, read, and master talents?" , can you obtain a literary degree and become a saint?”

Zhao Hongzhuang turned her head slightly and looked out the window. She could vaguely see that the sky had turned into light blue.

"What you have to do is too difficult, even harder than Jingguo's effort to produce a Half-Saint within five years!" said the Queen Mother.

"If it wasn't difficult, everyone would do it. It's precisely because it's too difficult that someone will always start it."

“But you’re probably just starting out and getting nothing in the end.”

Zhao Hongzhuang raised her head slightly and said firmly: "I will only stay a foot high when I die, but ten inches closer to the sky!"

A flash of shock flashed in the Queen Mother's eyes. Unexpectedly, Zhao Hongzhuang's realm has reached such a high level that she no longer cares about life and death, because even death will become a ladder for future generations of women. If future generations of women step on her, they will inevitably be closer to realizing their ideals. One step closer.

The Queen Mother was silent for a long time, and a look of madness flashed in her eyes. She asked sternly: "You don't have this kind of awareness. Who taught you? Is it Fang Yun?"

Zhao Hongzhuang did not look at the Queen Mother and said, "He taught me a lot, but it was me who really decided to take this path."

"So in order to repay Fang Yun and get future help, you are going to destroy Yuan'er and the future master of ZTE in Jingguo?" the Queen Mother asked again.

"Jing Guo already has the master of ZTE." Zhao Hongzhuang turned to look at the Queen Mother, with a trace of surprise in her eyes, surprised by the Queen Mother's ignorance, and something inexplicable.

The Queen Mother clearly felt that Zhao Hongzhuang's tone and eyes were filled with contempt that she tried hard to hide.

"He is just a capable minister, just a famous scholar. Only the emperor's family can produce a leader of the revival!" The Queen Mother raised her voice and refuted involuntarily.

"And then he was killed?" Zhao Hongzhuang's tone was full of resentment and pain.

"You..." The Queen Mother also showed pain, closed her eyes, and her eyes gradually became wet.

Zhao Hongzhuang gritted her teeth and said slowly: "Destroy the Qing Kingdom, kill Liushan Qing Jun, and avenge my brother. I can't do it, you can't do it, Yuan'er can't do it, and the Zhao family can't do it for generations."

After a while, Zhao Hongzhuang continued to speak.

"But Fang Yun can!"

The Queen Mother seemed to be defending, "I just want the Zhao family to last for thousands of years, and I don't want to disappoint the late emperor."

"Besides Fang Yun, is there anyone else in the world who can ensure that my Zhao family will last for a hundred generations? Isn't it the best way to protect yourself to let Yuan'er be a law-abiding monarch instead of fighting for the title of a revival leader who is doomed to fail? What you are doing is actually accelerating the demise of the Zhao family!" Zhao Hongzhuang retorted.

"You... don't say it!"

Tears flowed down the corners of her eyes and wet the pillow.

Zhao Hongzhuang reached out and gently wiped away the tears of the Queen Mother, saying softly: "Sister-in-law, you are trapped in the deep palace, and what you see and know has limited your horizons. I went to Kongcheng to communicate with women all over the world, traveled to various countries to build women's academies, followed Fang Yun to the north to serve as a medical officer in the army, and even worked in government offices. I am no longer the princess who hated all men in the world and hated that I was not a man."