At the Marquis Zhenguo Mansion, Su Xiaofei also received a message from Zhao Chunhua, asking her to return to the Su family the next day.

Upon hearing the news, the Marquis Zhenguo's Mansion became even more chaotic.

This time, the Marquis of Zhenguo was really panicked.

Who knew that Zhao Chunhua would open a shop in Huzhou?

The Su family of Huzhou didn't send the gifts earlier or later, but just when Zhao Chunhua was almost humiliated, they gave Zhao Chunhua a bracelet and a thousand-year-old Jianlan.

Just a bracelet.

It's just a delicate piece of jewelry.

But this thousand-year-old Jianlan is a spiritual plant that the ten great families are willing to pay huge sums of money to buy!

Isn't this clearly supporting Zhao Chunhua?

The Marquis of Zhenguo was frightened, for he really didn't know whether Zhao Chunhua had brought a doctor from the Su family in Huzhou.

At this moment, the Marquis of Zhenguo was really panicked.

The Prince and his wife were also panicked.

After all, the Marquis of Zhenguo did all this so that his son could smoothly inherit the title.

What to do now?

The Marquis of Zhenguo thought about it for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and asked the court physician to prescribe an identical sterilizing medicine, which he took without hesitation.

The move of the Marquis of Zhenguo to survive from a desperate situation was indeed a brilliant one.

Firstly, it could conceal the fact that Su Xiaofei was given a drug that would make her childless;

Secondly, even if Su Xiaofei was found to have taken the drug that would make her infertile, the Marquis of Zhenguo could still say that someone was targeting him, but Su Xiaofei just happened to be implicated.

Ah!

perfect!

The Prince of Zhenguohou looked at his father with complicated eyes. His father really tried his best for him.

The wife of the Marquis of Zhenguo heaved a long sigh of relief. This was good. She no longer had to worry about Su Xiaofei being given a drug that would make her childless.

As for the two concubines, let them be concubines. We can talk about everything after they get pregnant.

It’s too early to say anything now.

When it is time to be compliant, be compliant.

The wife of the Crown Prince of Zhenguo thought about it and decided to go see her two concubine daughters, Zhu Miaomiao and Zhu Linlin, after leaving the study of the Marquis of Zhenguo.

"what?"

"Being a concubine?"

Zhu Miaomiao and Zhu Linlin exclaimed almost at the same time.

Why?

What about being a co-wife?

Although the wife of the Marquis of Zhenguo was dissatisfied with the exclamations of Zhu Miaomiao and Zhu Linlin, she could not help but frown. However, after all, it was still a matter of great importance, so she tried to suppress her displeasure in her heart and began to teach:

"Openly repairing the plank road, secretly attacking Chencang, my two sisters should understand this."

When Zhu Miaomiao heard this, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and refuted without hesitation:

"Isn't it the same as what is recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian: Annals of Emperor Gaozu: After Xiang Yu proclaimed himself the Overlord of Western Chu, he granted fiefs to various princes, among which he gave the three counties of Bashu and Hanzhong to Liu Bang, who was made the King of Han."

Zhu Linlin naturally did not want to be left behind, and immediately responded. Who hasn't learned the Historical Records yet?

"Liu Bang ordered his men to burn the plank road on his way to his territory. This was to show Xiang Yu that he had no intention of expanding eastward. After Liu Bang had acquired a certain level of strength, he seized the opportunity to quickly march eastward. His ambition was to compete with Xiang Yu. Han Xin came up with the strategy of "openly repairing the plank road and secretly crossing Chencang."

The wife of the Marquis of Zhenguo nodded and listened to her two concubines telling the story in full.

Learn the new by reviewing the past, you can be a teacher.

Therefore, there is nothing wrong in reviewing it together.

"Chencang is the only way for Liu Bang to enter Guanzhong. There are dangerous mountains and steep ridges between the two places, and it is heavily guarded by Zhang Han, the Prince of Yong."

"According to Han Xin's plan, Liu Bang sent his most trusted general, Fan Kuai, to lead 10,000 men to build a 500-li plank road, and ordered the army to complete it within one month. Of course, such a huge project could not be completed even in three years."

"It was this point that confused and paralyzed the defenders of Chencang. Zhang Han, the Prince of Yong in Chencang, never expected that Liu Bang's elite troops would sneak attack Chencang by crossing the mountains and ridges through unknown paths."

"Liu Bang successfully advanced to Guanzhong by 'openly repairing the plank road and secretly crossing Chencang' and gained a firm foothold. From then on, he opened the curtain on his career of founding the Han Dynasty."

At this point, Zhu Miaomiao couldn't help but look at the wife of the Marquis of Zhenguo with doubt, and whispered:

"So, sister-in-law means that we should be humble and paralyze Madam Su first?"

"Yes!"

The wife of the Marquis of Zhenguo immediately nodded in affirmation, with a smile on her face.

"My two sisters should know very well that we women rely on our sons to gain a foothold in the harem."

The idiom "openly repair the plank road, secretly pass Chencang" has the military meaning of confusing the enemy from the front to cover up one's own attack route, while launching a surprise attack from the flank.

This is a strategy of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west to achieve victory by surprise.

By extension, it refers to a strategy of using obvious actions to confuse the other party and catch them off guard, and it is also a metaphor for carrying out activities in secret.

What the wife of the Crown Prince of Zhenguo had to do was to let Zhu Miaomiao and the other man lie dormant in Su's house.

The Su family is different after all.

What the wife of the Marquis of Zhenguo didn't know was that Zhu Yinyin heard the conversation between the three aunts and sisters-in-law at the door and couldn't help but shake her head slightly.

If she hadn't told her aunt everything, and her aunt had asked her to copy the Analects a hundred times, she would have been fooled by the wife of the Marquis of Zhenguo just like her two sisters.

Zhu Yinyin couldn't help but silently said:

Learning without thinking means nothing, thinking without learning means nothing.

You, teach me to know! To know what you know and to know what you do not know is true knowledge.

Seeing the virtuous, think about the Qi Yan, see the bad and self-examine.

Three people, there must be my teacher Yan.

Choose what is good and follow it, and change what is bad.

A scholar must be broad-minded and resolute, for the responsibility is heavy and the road is long. Is it not a heavy responsibility to take benevolence as one's own responsibility?

To wait till death is too far, isn’t that too far?

Only when winter comes do we realize that pine and cypress are the last to wither.

Is there a saying that can be practiced for a lifetime? It is forgiveness! Do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you.

After a long time, Zhu Yinyin let out a long sigh and turned to go to the study.

Her aunt asked her to find the book "Sleeping on Hard Beds and Tasting Gall".

Zhu Yinyin knew that her aunt wanted her to protect herself.

King Helü of Wu defeated the State of Chu and became the overlord of the south. King Gou Jian of Yue ascended the throne. King Wu took the opportunity to send troops to attack Yue, and a great war broke out between the two countries. King Helü of Wu was full of confidence, but he did not expect to be defeated in the end. He also died of his injuries. Before he died, he told his son Fuchai: "Don't forget to avenge Yue."

Later, Fuchai ascended the throne and vowed to destroy the Kingdom of Yue. He asked Wu Zixu and another minister Bo Pi (pronounced pi) to train the troops every day in preparation for attacking the Kingdom of Yue.

Three years later, King Fuchai of Wu personally led a large army to attack the Kingdom of Yue.

Gou Jian of Yue State did not listen to the advice of his minister Fan Li (pronounced li) and insisted on sending troops to fight against the King of Wu. As a result, he was defeated. King Gou Jian of Yue State fled to the Yue capital Kuaiji with 5,000 defeated soldiers and was besieged by the Wu army.

Gou Jian was very regretful at this time, and he said to Fan Li:

"I regret not listening to you and ending up in this situation. What should I do now?"

Fan Li said: "Let's go and ask for peace as soon as possible."

So Gou Jian sent his minister Wen Zhong to the King of Wu's camp to seek peace, and bribed Bo Pi of Wu to ask Bo Pi to speak well of him in front of Fu Chai.

In the end, King Fuchai of Wu agreed to Yue's request for peace despite Wu Zixu's opposition, but required Gou Jian to become a slave of Wu.

Wen Zhong went back and reported to Gou Jian. Gou Jian entrusted the state affairs to Wen Zhong and went to the State of Wu with his wife and Fan Li.

When Gou Jian arrived in Wu, Fu Chai made the couple live in a stone house, and asked Gou Jian to feed horses and pull horses for him, while Fan Li worked as a slave.

Two years passed like this, and Fuchai believed that Gou Jian had truly surrendered to him, so he let Gou Jian return to his country.

After returning to Yue, Gou Jian was determined to take revenge. Fearing that the comfortable life ahead would wear away his ambition, he moved into a dilapidated stable, removed the mats, used firewood as a mattress, and hung a bitter gallbladder over the dining area. Every time he ate, he would first taste the bitterness and ask himself, "Have you forgotten the humiliation of Kuaiji?"

This has been maintained for twenty years without fail.

Later, Gou Jian went north to the Central Plains to form an alliance with the princes and became the last overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period.

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