Dressed as the prince's substitute? I took the throne

Chapter 237 Lure the snake out of its hole

The Empress Dowager trembled as she recounted a past event: "Fifteen years ago, I discovered the terrifying nature of the Prince of Jin. No matter what I wanted to do, he knew it in advance and even prevented me from leaving the capital!"

"During that time, I fell into deep fear. I was afraid that he would send someone to take my life while I was sleeping! Therefore, I trained a large number of palace maids to protect myself."

"But it didn't seem to work. Overnight, most of my maids were killed or injured. Zhou Wanjiang was obsessed with the pursuit of immortality and didn't care about me at all. So, I had no choice but to build my own underground palace and hide in it, intending to escape the control of King Jin!"

"During this time, I didn't dare go out or contact the outside world, so that the outside world would think that I was dead! And I no longer needed to collect boys and girls from the people to send to the King of Jin! Just like this, I survived for fifteen years!"

The Empress Dowager's eyes looked even more cloudy. "But after I got out, I sent someone to inquire, and they found out that the lineage of Prince Jin is still there! They're still there! I can only retreat back into hiding. I originally wanted to organize the forces of the current Wu Dynasty and completely wipe out the lineage of Prince Jin, but you, you have taken control of the Wu Dynasty!"

Zhou Chuxuan scratched his head in confusion. Why did the King of Jin want young boys and girls?

Why does it sound like a monster in a myth?

Out of curiosity, Zhou Chuxuan asked, "Empress Dowager, do you know why the lineage of the Prince of Jin wants young boys and girls? Could he be a monster?"

The Queen Mother sighed, "I didn't understand it clearly at first, until Wuhen came back and told me everything. The Jin prince's lineage wanted to make their territory indestructible, so they needed some slaves. But these slaves had to be trained from a young age! Only in this way could they be loyal to the Jin prince's lineage!"

"slave!"

Zhou Chuxuan repeated the word: "Mr. Thousand Faces, Zhou Wuhen! Is he your son?"

"Correct!"

The Empress Dowager nodded. "However, Wuhen is different from Zhou Wanjiang. This child has had no interest in the throne since he was a child. He simply doesn't want to even have the reputation of a prince and has gone to travel around the world!"

"Zhou Wanjiang was ruthless and killed off several of his brothers, but he didn't attack Wuhen! Firstly, Wuhen really had no interest in the throne, and secondly, he didn't dare!"

Zhou Chuxuan nodded. Perhaps Zhou Wanjiang's ruthlessness had some effect in the court, but it was of no use to someone like Zhou Wuhen who traveled around the world and disappeared at any time.

After a long silence, the Queen Mother supported herself and slowly stood up from the chair, her eyes filled with hope: "Are you really sure you can help me escape from Prince Jin's control?"

Zhou Chuxuan smiled and said, "Everything depends on human effort. The reason why people like him are so powerful is because of their powerful divination skills! As long as we can decipher his divination, I believe it will not be difficult to wipe out the lineage of King Jin!"

"However, the difficulty lies in the fact that the King of Jin has not yet taken any open action against the Wu Dynasty. If our Wu Dynasty takes action against them first..."

In fact, Zhou Chuxuan was also a little wary of this kind of divination. After all, his own journey to this world was a very metaphysical issue.

The Queen Mother looked at Zhou Chuxuan doubtfully: "Then, what do you want to do?"

Zhou Chuxuan smiled without saying anything, just looking at the empress dowager quietly. His eyes contained many emotions, which made the empress dowager stunned for a moment.

By the time she reacted, Zhou Chuxuan had already turned around and left. Looking at Zhou Chuxuan's back, the empress dowager understood everything, that is, Zhou Chuxuan wanted her to be bait to lure the snake out of its hole.

However, she had managed to survive in this underground palace for more than ten years, and if she got out like this, what if she was really targeted by people from Prince Jin's lineage, wouldn't she be in danger?

You know, she had reached an agreement with the lineage of Prince Jin back then. The lineage of Prince Jin would provide her with a way to delay the aging of her body, and she would be responsible for collecting young boys and girls to present to the lineage of Prince Jin. Now she unilaterally broke the agreement.

She had heard that anyone who had made an agreement with the Jin Wang family and unilaterally broke the agreement would be hunted down endlessly by the Jin Wang family until their death.

However, she had also heard of Zhou Chuxuan's methods. He was able to overthrow the entire Wu Dynasty regime and take control of it in such a short period of time, and at the same time ensure that the economy of the entire Wu Dynasty would not be in chaos.

Defeating the Liao army of 600,000 is already a commendable achievement.

"I hope you won't let me down!"

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"What? Your Highness, you are actually going to take the initiative to contact Zhou Wuhen?"

Nangong Yanling looked at Zhou Chuxuan in shock, not knowing for a moment whether what she heard was true.

"Zhou Wuhen is incredibly cunning. He finally stopped stirring up trouble in the Wu Dynasty, and now you're actually going to cooperate with him?"

Zhou Chuxuan shook his head and said helplessly, "We know very little about King Jin right now. If we want to truly wipe out King Jin's lineage, we must rely on Zhou Wuhen's power!"

"But isn't he a friend of Prince Jin's lineage? How could he possibly help us?" Confusion was revealed in Nangong Yanling's beautiful eyes.

"Haha, in this world, there are no real friends or real enemies. Only eternal interests exist! As long as we give Zhou Wuhen enough conditions, I believe he will be tempted!"

Zhou Chuxuan waved his hand: "Let's do it!"

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Things have come to this point, Nangong Yanling naturally would not disobey Zhou Chuxuan's wishes. After bowing, he walked outside.

Zhou Chuxuan patted Xu Hanyan who was sleeping soundly, and as if he remembered something, he walked out the door and headed towards the backyard.

Opening the woodshed in the backyard, he saw Hongyue and Canxue chained together. He couldn't help but laugh, "Tell me, you two, why did you have to drug me for no reason? Now you've even lost your freedom! It's not a pleasant feeling to want to die but can't, right?"

"Uh, uh!"

Hongyue and Canxue's mouths were stuffed with cloth strips, and now they couldn't even bite their tongues to commit suicide. They could only desperately make bursts of whimpering sounds.

Zhou Chuxuan chuckled and walked forward to take the cloth out of Hongyue's mouth: "What? Do you have anything to say?"

Hong Yue spat: "Zhou Chuxuan, you are such a despicable bunch!"

"Despicable? Compared to your Young Master Yang Li, I think I'm still a pretty good person!"

Zhou Chuxuan laughed and said, "Don't you want to know what your life experiences are like?"

"life experience?"

Hongyue and Canxue looked at each other.