Chapter 536 Treating Everyone Fairly

"Greetings, Your Majesty the Empress!"

"Greetings, Your Majesty the Empress!"

Consort Liu and Consort Han returned to the Great Xia Imperial Palace together. Despite their reluctance to return, as the widows of Emperor Zhaowu, and especially as widows who had children, they were required by custom to live out their lives in the palace.

"Please sit down. Are you comfortable staying at Lord Xiao's residence?"

"Your Majesty, it is certainly not as comfortable as living in the palace. Thank you for bringing us back. It is much more comfortable to live in this imperial palace!" Liu Ming'er had initially wanted to use some tricks on Wang Yushi, but now she had lost her former ambition and her reply was full of flattery.

Wang Yushi raised her eyelids slightly and said calmly, "Now that you're back, just stay here peacefully for a few years. When your children come of age, go with them to their fiefdoms... and live out the rest of your lives!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty!"

When the two imperial concubines were first brought to Xiao Xinyan's residence, they were filled with trepidation and anticipation. They were gambling on whether the child in their wombs was a boy or a girl. If they won, they would enjoy wealth and power for life.

Unfortunately, they both lost their gamble. When they entered the palace again, they were filled with fear. For the Empress, killing two concubines who had lost the Emperor's support was easier than eating or drinking. The story of a palace maid rising through the ranks to become second only to the Emperor was a rare occurrence, perhaps only once every few centuries.

But Wang Yushi's words made them kneel down and cry. Both of them were originally palace maids, and being made a Noble Consort was already an extraordinary honor. Now they had two children, one a disabled prince and the other a princess who was a financial loss. They never dared to dream of having a fiefdom, let alone going to a fiefdom to live with their children. That was one of the greatest favors the royal family could bestow.

"Get well soon! Let me see Xiaoyue'er!" Wang Yushi stopped the two women from crying without expression and gestured for Consort Han to bring her daughter over for a look.

The little girl was quite robust, with bright, alert eyes. She didn't cry when she saw Wang Yushi, but instead stared at her adorably.

"Hmm, judging from her eyebrows and eyes, she's destined to be a beauty. I'll encourage her to come visit me more often!"

"Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty!"

Consort Han knelt down and kowtowed again. Wang Yushi's words meant that she should raise her daughter herself. According to ancestral rules, the children of concubines were to be raised in the Empress's palace, and they could only see their biological mother occasionally.

"Alright, everyone go back now! Sister Han, your original place was too small, so I've moved you to Yingchun Palace!"

Consort Han was filled with gratitude once again. She had become pregnant late and had not received the same attention from Emperor Zhaowu as Liu Ming'er had. Her residence was very small. Now, Wang Yushi had moved her to a better place. The palace maids and eunuchs were all shrewd and discerning people, so they naturally dared not make things difficult for her in secret.

She wasn't as shrewd as Liu Ming'er, so she couldn't see through why Wang Yushi treated her so well, and she never imagined that giving birth to the healthy princess Xiaoyue'er would relieve Wang Yushi of a lot of trouble.

The two imperial concubines left with profuse thanks, and Fengning Palace fell into that cold silence once again.

Wang Yushi looked at the sky outside. It was still early before her afternoon nap. Besides, she had slept for four hours last night and really couldn't fall asleep.

Back in my study, I glanced at the "Workshop Renovation Plan" for a while, then listlessly tossed it into a corner; I simply had no interest in it.

The powerful Empress Regent of the Great Xia Dynasty began her daily routine of spacing out, resting her chin on her hands. Ever since a large number of technicians from the Dayuan arrived to install and debug the new "production line" in her Wang family workshop, she often found herself lost in thought.

Because Qin Mo's concubine, Narita Kai, and her son, "Six Little Boy," came along with the master craftsman, Qin Mo rarely attended court anymore, and Wang Yushi was too embarrassed to summon him to the palace, even though she had a lot of questions she wanted him to explain.

"Sixth boy, the Lin family's second son is Seventh, and my child is Eighth... You really are... exceptionally gifted..."

During her spare time while discussing court reform plans with Qin Mo, Wang Yushi subtly probed and even threatened him with force, finally uncovering the current status of Qin Mo's offspring. He now had seven sons, and apart from Lin Ruoxi's children, all of them were born to women of different ethnicities. This greatly displeased Wang Yushi. How could the royal family's bloodline be disrupted? She was also a believer in bloodlines.

"Aren't you a pure Han Chinese? If you think it's not right, then give me a few more babies!" This was Qin Mo's retort, which angered Wang Yushi so much that she beat Qin Mo up without even trying to comfort or massage her.

"Your Majesty, it's lunchtime!"

Wang Yushi's maidservant reminded her from afar outside the palace. Ever since Qin Mo told her that eating and sleeping on time was good for beauty, Wang Yushi's maidservant had an additional task of reminding her to eat and sleep.

"I'm not eating in the palace today, I'm going to... freeload!"

In the south of the capital, at the new site of the Wang family workshop, a steel monster stunned the master craftsmen transferred by the imperial court, and also surprised Wang Yushi, who came to "freeload a meal".

"Director Shi, the air pressure is sufficient!"

"Start the steam forging hammer and begin the first experimental forging. Record all data!"

Qin Mo sat in the makeshift shed, watching her student Shi Jing debug the first set of steam-powered equipment in the Great Xia territory, a hint of pride on her face.

The first batch of students he had nurtured in his early days were finally able to stand on their own. Shi Jing was now the director of a mechanical power research institute. He was the one who took care of everything when he was transforming the new artillery production line for Wang Yushi's Wang Family Workshop. Qin Mo was basically just keeping an eye on things and making sure things were in order.

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