A quick journey starting from Wu Dalang

Wu Da didn't quite understand his daughter's idea. He said that it would be better to kill the entire Zhao family and then have his own puppet support his daughter to ascend the throne. Although it was a bit bloody and not quite right, at least he would be comfortable. Moreover, as long as he was a good emperor, he would not have to be afraid of the criticism.

But Wu Sheng also had her own concerns. Ascending to the throne as a woman was easy to be criticized, not to mention that Wu Sheng did not want her family to be despised by future generations because of her.

As expected, Zhao Gou went to the palace to ask for a name for his poor child. The emperor thought for a moment and gave him a name - Zhao Yao.

Wu Da felt that this name was quite appropriate and could be used to commemorate Zhao Yao's mother who was murdered and had no news of her since. After all, although Concubine Li admitted that she had killed Zhao Yao's mother, she was nowhere to be found, neither alive nor dead.

Everyone knew that Zhao Yao's mother was the prince's concubine, but no one had ever seen her. Even the title of concubine was just a rumor, so that even the prince himself didn't remember this son.

But Wu Da was not among those who were unaware. According to the puppet's information, Zhao Yao's mother was the famous singing girl, Li Shishi.

This woman was originally the emperor's favorite concubine, and later got involved with the prince. The emperor wanted to kill her, but she turned out to be pregnant, so she escaped and became the prince's concubine.

However, due to the face of the royal family, Li Shishi never showed up again after she entered the Prince's Mansion. Later, after giving birth to a child, the Prince was disgusted with this child who he didn't know whether it was a younger brother or a son, so he ignored her and even acquiesced in Concubine Li's actions.

This is why Concubine Li is fearless, but this time Wu Sheng and the Crown Prince witnessed the incident together, and the Crown Prince could not continue to ignore it. Only after Wu Sheng’s plea did the Crown Prince severely punish Concubine Li and ask the Emperor to grant him a title.

Zhao Yao was eventually registered under Wu Sheng's name, but what Wu Sheng didn't expect was that the prince actually had someone prepare a drug that would make Zhao Yao exterminate his heirs.

"Doctor Zhang, you should understand what I mean. I don't want this child to be bedridden in the future and unable to have children."

"I obey your command." Doctor Zhang kowtowed while thinking about how to get his master to rescue him. Yes, Doctor Zhang was also a puppet of Wu Da.

After the prince had someone give Zhao Yao the medicine, he planned to get rid of Doctor Zhang. Fortunately, Doctor Zhang was lucky and ran away quickly, otherwise, he would have died.

Seeing such a speechless prince, Wu Sheng felt even more unhappy, and even felt that he was a little disgusting, which made him more determined to give the prince perfunctory medicine.

But the prince liked Wu Sheng very much. Wu Sheng was a woman of unparalleled beauty, gentle temperament, and superior family background. Her father was deeply trusted by the emperor, her uncle was a general with military power, and her aunt was a princess. There was no more prominent and reassuring background than this.

The prince at that time did not know that he had trusted this family too early, so he handed Zhao Yao over to Wu Da for teaching. What he did not know was that Wu Da would have ulterior motives when teaching the child.

As Zhao Yao grew older, his health deteriorated and he was often sick. What made the prince even more crazy was that he only had this one son.

No woman in the mansion had ever been pregnant before, and she was still not pregnant after marrying Wu Sheng. This made the prince even more certain that Zhao Yao was his younger brother rather than his son.

Of course the emperor didn't know that the crown prince had drugged Zhao Yao, but he vaguely guessed that Zhao Yao was his son. Since the throne was still in his family, there was no need to change the crown prince.

Wu Sheng suppressed her disgust for Zhao Gou and tried hard to show herself to be a good wife and mother. Soon, the emperor passed away and Zhao Gou became the new emperor.

When the emperor was dying, he met with the prince alone.

"Prince, I know Yao'er is your only child. I also know that his identity is questionable, but after all, his surname is Zhao, and the world still belongs to our Zhao family. This is enough."

"Your son understands." Zhao Gou knelt on the ground. At this moment, he didn't dare to tell the truth at all. He regretted secretly in his heart. If he had known this would happen, he would not have acted so early. If Zhao Yao died in the future, he didn't know what kind of turmoil it would cause. He didn't dare to think about it.

The emperor was pleased with Zhao Gou's understanding and died with a smile on his face, but Zhao Gou could not cry at all because the position finally belonged to him.

"Sheng'er, you will be my queen in the future." Zhao Gou was excited. He used to think that his brother would be the crown prince, but he ended up becoming the crown prince. Now that his father died, he would ascend the throne smoothly.

"Your Majesty, I congratulate you." Wu Sheng was genuinely happy. Becoming the queen would bring her one step closer to her goal.

Both the emperor and the empress were happy. Wu Da was waiting on the side holding the poor Zhao Yao's hand. When Zhao Yao looked at Zhao Gou, his eyes were full of hatred. He had already learned the "truth" from Wu Da.

The first thing Wu Sheng did after becoming the empress was to select concubines for the emperor to fill his harem. At the same time, the emperor also handed Zhao Yao over to Wu Da for instruction, which was exactly what Wu Da wanted.

"Your Highness, let's continue to study the Analects today."

"Grandfather, tell me, why did my father treat me like this?" Zhao Yao looked at Wu Da, who was someone he could trust.

"Your Highness, you must know that the Queen is your mother, and the Wu family has too much power in the court." Wu Da touched Zhao Yao's head and began his performance.

Under Wu Da's instigation, Zhao Yao believed that the emperor was afraid of the queen's mother's family, so they harmed him, and he also developed resentment towards the Wu family.

Wu Da again had people instigate Zhao Yao, talking about adoption and heir. Zhao Yao wanted to kill the royal family members, but there were too many royal family members to kill them all, and there was only one emperor.

"If my father dies, with the support of my grandfather's family, I will be the emperor in name only."

Zhao Yao's idea was not unreasonable, and he hated the emperor for hurting him. After consulting the imperial physician, he began his poisoning plan, and Wu Sheng made it easy for him.

Zhao Gou became weaker and weaker and had no energy to handle government affairs. Wu Sheng took over this matter, first hiding behind the emperor and then slowly revealing herself to the public.

"The emperor's health is getting worse and worse, and his only prince is also young. What should we do?" The friendly court officials discussed this.

"It's OK that he's young, but this prince looks sickly. If it weren't for the Queen, I'm afraid the court would have been in chaos by now."

"But it's against the rules for a woman to be in power, this..."

"It's already this late, why bother about rules? The war is more important." Whenever someone mentioned the rules, the puppet would start to change the subject.