You Ran reasoned with it, saying that the dialysis machine was urgently needed, and that once Chu Heng's health problem was resolved, it could be upgraded without any worries.

Sure enough, by the end of October, good news kept coming from all over the country, and the luck value in the notebook had long since exceeded 300,000.

Through her advocacy and reasoned arguments, the court officials were finally persuaded to sell the surplus grain to neighboring countries.

The cabinet issued a border trade decree, and the relevant departments established a border trade office to coordinate border trade. From then on, in addition to the Northern Barbarians, the Western Barbarians and the Southern Yue Kingdom also officially cooperated with the Great Wall in border trade, making the border more stable.

Without hesitation, You Ran used 200,000 luck points to exchange for a dialysis machine, and another 100,000 luck points to exchange for a small solar power system.

Then, Yun Tiankuang was urgently summoned back from the northern border, and this power supply system was given to him to study carefully.

With the help of the special medicine, Chu Heng's body has remained in a relatively stable state, so she is not in a hurry.

By the end of the year, the national treasury's tax revenue had increased significantly. She guided the officials in the imperial court to formulate budgets for each department, focusing on improving people's clothing, food, housing, and transportation.

The following spring, she not only distributed high-quality grain seeds again, but also distributed crops suitable for large-scale planting, such as cotton, soybeans, oilseeds, corn, sorghum, and sugarcane, according to the region, and made it clear that planting was voluntary and that a special organization would collect and process the harvest.

With the excellent results of the previous year, people in many prefectures and counties were convinced and actively took the lead in planting. Some were reluctant to give up the visible grain harvest and insisted on growing grain.

At her further suggestion, the Ministry of Revenue expanded its staff rapidly, mainly because the Department of Agriculture and Industry suddenly recruited a large number of people. They not only had to send people to various places to teach planting techniques, but also to set up sugar factories, oil presses, wineries and other facilities in various prefectures and counties.

Su Youchen was extremely busy. His sister had given him the techniques for making sugar, pressing oil, and brewing wine without saying much, telling him to study them on his own.

The Ministry of Industry was also extremely busy, recruiting countless people to select sites for building textile factories.

Poor Yun Tiankuang, after finishing his research on solar power systems, now has to go on to research how to spin cotton, weave it into cloth, and make clothes and bedding...

With more money in the national treasury, roads and bridges were built, and the real estate market was opened up...

When people have more money and their basic needs are met, they naturally want to buy houses and better things to live a better life...

With the increasing number of medical professionals trained at the medical school, access to medical care and medicine is no longer a difficult matter for ordinary people...

In just a few years, the Great Zhou became the wealthiest of the four kingdoms.

Empress Su Youran only attended court once a year because she had other matters to attend to.

Later on, the officials hoped that she could attend court every day.

Later, all the officials collectively petitioned her to attend court.

She paid no attention to it; she really didn't care about ruling from behind the curtain.

Chu Heng could only pamper and protect his wife, while reprimanding his ministers, "You all expect the Empress to make all the decisions? What do you take me for?! Isn't it enough that I've devoted myself to the Great Zhou Dynasty? You want the Empress to work herself to the bone for you too?!"

The officials were both angry and frustrated.

They were the ones who opposed the Empress's regency back then, but now they've been proven wrong and rejected. Who can they blame?

But some officials are always unconvinced and stubborn, bringing up the issue of their offspring.

The implication is that since the emperor and empress have been married for so many years and the empress has yet to bear children, it is time to expand the harem and take in more concubines.

Chu Heng directly retorted, "It is because I am unwell. If you do not mind letting your daughter enter the palace to live a life of widowhood, then you are welcome to give it a try."

When You Ran heard about this, he sighed inwardly.

Despite the special medicine that had helped Chu Heng's health over the years, he still couldn't resist getting close to her.

Whenever she wanted to refuse because of his health, he would put on a pitiful expression and say that even now he still felt that being together was not real.

She softened her heart and truly stayed with him.

Fortunately, his condition progressed very slowly and he hadn't reached the point where he needed dialysis.

She felt somewhat regretful that she hadn't been able to conceive again.

Qianqian excelled academically and possessed extraordinary intelligence, earning him the title of Crown Prince at the age of eight.

Under her mother's influence, Wanwan also developed a strong interest in studying medicine and even learned poison techniques from her aunt Yueyue.

When You Ran turned thirty, she was finally diagnosed with pregnancy.

Once the pregnancy was stable, twins were diagnosed.

This time, there was no sound from the court.

Chu Heng was overjoyed and took meticulous care of her, feeling that the biggest regret of his two lifetimes could finally be made up for.

In October, the second and third princes were born one after another.

Chu Heng suddenly had three sons, which was still not enough for the royal family, but Chu Heng was already very satisfied.

Wanwan was a little unhappy, always hoping that her mother would give birth to a little sister, but unexpectedly she had two little brothers.

She was happy again when her two younger brothers grew a little older.

Because she became the only daughter in the family, her brothers would dote on her from then on.

Chu Heng's illness did not develop into uremia until he was fifty-three years old.

The dialysis machine that You Ran had been preparing for decades finally came in handy.

The notebook has been upgraded several times, each time more expensive than the last.

Finally, after the last upgrade, You Ran found a mountain range on the outskirts of Beijing, had someone dig an enormous pit, exchanged it for a small hospital, and then had Yun Tiankuang set up a solar energy system.

Considering that the glass jade bracelet was originally an heirloom of the Lin family, and that many of the Lin family's descendants were knowledgeable in medicine and pharmacy, she handed over the underground hospital to the Lin family.

Thirty-eight years after his ascension to the throne, the retired Emperor Chu Heng passed away peacefully at the age of eighty-nine. Empress Dowager Su then calmly abstained from food and drink for seven days before following him in death. (The End)