Chapter 332 Is it murder?

Empress Lu’s voice was grave. She also didn’t need to say much, Zhao Su surprisingly already felt this pain of life and death.

“All in all, her death changed a lot of things.” After taking a quiet breath, Empress Dowager Lu added, “In addition to the psychological pain brought to their siblings and the old Marquis of Weiyuan, there is also the Flower Moon Society, as well as the dynastic situation.”

“Dynasty Bureau?”

“That’s right.” Empress Dowager Lu stretched straight and set up a conversation, “Since you’ve read that part of the historical facts up until the late Emperor’s ascension to the throne, then you should also know that the Lu family’s ancestors were originally from the royal family as well, it’s just that their bloodline with the current royal family faded, and the previous dynasty’s kings were dim and tyrannical, which is why the late Emperor rose up to rebel against them.”

Zhao Su nodded, “I know. Although the book only gave a brief explanation of this background, and the eldest princess was also still young when the late emperor rose up against the army, and there was not much ink, the author still gave her an intelligent persona.”

“What you saw was only the part of the plot that featured me and the late emperor as the protagonists, and in this real world, Zhaoyang can also be called the protagonist in her world, even if it’s not a strong female text. She shared a lot with men in general for the late emperor’s business ventures, and also looked after children for me when she was not in the sand. At that time I took her as my own sister, and I took her as an ally in the idea of aspiring to change the situation of women and girls.”

Here she paused to look at Zhao Su, “There’s no mistaking that I was always looking for allies before you came, and I was in particular need of such a group of allies. At that time, there was no more suitable candidate than Zhaoyang, she has the status of the eldest princess, and a broad and benevolent heart, with me and her combined efforts, we will be able to create an excellent picture.

“For this reason, when I knew she had the idea of building a career, I strongly supported her, in addition to her being the person we are most at ease with, I also hope that she can set an example for the women of the world, I hope to start with her, so that the Great Liang dynasty can allow women to serve as officials.

“Even if you can’t enter the imperial examinations, then from now on it’s good to let women also have the opportunity to enter the military camp. Both she and I are convinced that the Flower Moon Society will have a role model in the form of the Eldest Princess, who is clad in a long line of accomplishments, and that this will definitely bring about excellent results.

“To be honest, that last battle in Guangxi, in our words, I actually let her go to gild the lily. Let her draw a perfect conclusion to her campaigning career, receive a scenic title when she returns to the court, and then also come up with a good start for our next plan. However, her sacrifice cut all that short.”

“Such a coincidence?”

Who could say that Empress Lu’s plan wasn’t sensible and reasonable, but that made it all the more obvious that the death of the eldest princess wasn’t deserved.

“Who says otherwise?” Empress Dowager Lu looked at her, “With her gone, the only princess in Da Liang is gone, and so is the only female general, not to mention the title that has already been drafted. This is a loss for the country, and for me, all my visions have been interrupted.”

This situation is not difficult to imagine, the loss of the Princess as the benchmark of women’s rights, where will the courtesy of the scholar tribe will still give way to the Empress Dowager Lu?

Zhao Su suddenly thought, why these more than 20 years, Flower Moon Society is still in the cracks of survival, but also more understand why Empress Dowager Lu will be so eager to ask her to participate in the Flower Moon Society.

If the Princess was still alive, where would this situation be?

She suddenly thought: “This point in time is too coincidental, the Empress Dowager later did not go to check?”

This is beyond the scope of the original plot, but according to the law of fiction, things out of the ordinary must be evil, the existence of the Princess is so critical, due to the loss caused by her death, directly affecting the dynasty, it is difficult to let a person do not think more.

“I simply can not accept this result, how will not check?” Empress Lu’s eyebrows deep condensation, “but she really is dead, died under the knife and gun. I and the late emperor sent to the heart – that is, Han Jun’s father, very carefully put her wounds recorded down, that really is the enemy’s weapon injury, I finally can only accept this result.”

Zhao Su, however, still couldn’t understand why the timing of the death was just so coincidental.

If the Rapunzel had died of murder, then things had become serious. The murderer must have attempted to sabotage something to come up with this ploy.

“After telling you so much, it is because this matter has always been a lump in my heart.” Empress Lu’s eyes gleamed, “Originally, after so many years, when the incident happened, the old Marquis of Wei Yuan was present, so there is no doubt about this matter. But recently, Zhaoyun’s armor was stolen, and the other party has never followed up on the action, so it stirred up this pile of heart disease in me again.”

Zhao Su reacted: “So the Empress Dowager wants to re-investigate this case?”

“At present I do not have any certainty, once the investigation is launched, it will certainly cause a storm. Saying that we want to investigate is also our unilateral idea, so at the moment we can only look for opportunities, and it is not appropriate to disclose it to the outside.”

Zhao Su nodded: “Then do we need to tell Marquis Wei Yuan and the county princess?”

Empress Lu panted and stood up, “There is no benefit in telling them for the time being. If they have suspicions, they should have already started investigating. Without suspicion, then mentioning it to them without evidence is nothing more than cutting their wounds open once more.”

Zhao Su heard this and thought to himself. “Maybe Marquis Weiyuan will take advantage of the case of the remnant armor to discover something as well, and it won’t be too late to join up with him then.”

Empress Dowager Lu had no comment.

Zhao Su sat for a while and then excused himself.

He walked to the door and then remembered, “According to what the Empress Dowager just said, since the Princess sacrificed herself, the voices in favor of equalization have weakened, then there is one thing that shouldn’t be.”

“What is it?”

“Today in the theater club, the spectators argued over whether the eldest princess should be knighted or not, and among them, someone spoke up for the eldest princess, and that speech was completely from the eldest princess’s point of view, or the woman’s point of view.”

Zhao Su said the things that Yun Xiangyi and the girls came back to relay once again.

“There is such a person?”

Empress Dowager Lu frowned. “This shouldn’t be, even back then when things went wrong, no one argued about it.”

“Did the Empress Dowager indeed think of knighting the Eldest Princess back then?”

Zhao Su walked back.

“Of course. If she was knighted and set a precedent, then it wouldn’t be a problem to have a woman as an official or a general in the dynasty later on!”

“Then why didn’t she get this hereditary title after her sacrifice?”

“Because dead people don’t talk anymore!” A trace of excitement welled up between Empress Lu’s brows, “If she was alive, I would have gotten him the same treatment as the other lords anyhow! But she is dead, she can no longer speak for herself, and is no longer valuable to certain people! And since the prince-in-waiting has already been conferred a marquis, a marquis that is hereditary, and the clans of the scholars use this as a reason to oppose the posthumous conferral, we will, in the end, only be able to pluck a posthumous title of loyalty and valor out of the mouths of the clans to give it to her!”

Anger erupted in her eyes, and even though most of the anger was due to the obstruction of implementing the policy, the focus of the anger over it was the eldest princess.

Zhao Su could fully sympathize with her feelings.

However, under the circumstances of the world that even she, the Founding Empress, was powerless to change, wouldn’t it be even more strange to have the man in the theater today make that statement?

Why would that man empathize so much with the Princess?

If the cause of the Eldest Princess’s death was different, then was this man somehow related to this matter?

Thinking of this she could no longer hold her tongue and said as she headed out, “I’ll go out of the palace first to do some errands!”