Zhou Qingyun's dream came true, and with the help of Yu Xiuming, he deposed Duke Anguo. However, even though the centipede was still alive, Zhou Qingyun knew that even if Duke Anguo didn't have the military seal, he didn't punish him directly. First, he was still the Queen's father. If he was punished, the Queen would probably abdicate.

Now the queen is still fine. Not only does she manage the harem with trepidation, allowing him to have no worries, but their marriage is now a transaction. But now she is sick in bed, and there is no way to save her. The main reason is that there is no antidote, and he has no way to ask Yu Xiuming for the antidote. If this matter is not made public, he will not go to Yu Xiuming.

Fortunately, this is most fatal to pregnant women who are giving birth. For someone like the queen, she will only gradually become weaker and then bedridden, but it will not take her life. Queen An also knew that the emperor would not ask for an antidote for her, so she didn't say anything and just closed the palace gates to recuperate.

After hearing about Queen An's fate, Wang Shiyu put down the rice seeds in her hand. She had been so busy in the past three years that she had hardly any time to rest. When Mo heard about Queen An's affairs, she felt as if she were in another world. Some of the things happening in Jinling had also reached her in recent days, but they were all harmless things.

Although Duke Anguo had lost his military command, he still had a special force given to him by the previous emperor. Even Zhou Qingyun didn't know much about it. He only knew that this was an invincible special force that had directly carried out assassination missions many times and completed the task perfectly every time.

This is also the person Zhou Qingyun fears the most, but he has not found any clues after searching for traces. He is more powerful than the secret guards. Yu Xiuming did find out a little, but he unilaterally cut off the contact. He needs the Duke of Anguo to be his target in the court, because he will have to deal with the Prime Minister and the old man of three dynasties, His Royal Highness the Regent, later.

The Regent had asked his grandson to divorce his wife a long time ago, and even wrote to Yu Xiuming early on, saying that he knew nothing about this matter, and even put all the blame on his grandson's wife. Yu Xiuming did not reply to the letter at the time, nor did he take any harsh measures against him. Now that he has dealt with the father and daughter of Duke Anguo, it is time for these people to take their turn.

In fact, the people under the command of Duke Anguo are a bit like modern special forces. They start training from a young age, just like making Gu. They deceive and abduct hundreds of children, gather them together and teach them calligraphy, martial arts and strategies. In the end, they will let them start killing each other like making Gu, and then the remaining child will be directly brainwashed.

In the end, they will be sent directly to the enemy country to carry out assassination missions. The training methods are extremely cruel, so Yu Xiuming directly cut off the contact. People trained in this way can no longer be called human beings, but can only be said to be machines. Even if those who complete the mission can survive and return to the place where he trained, they will be directly dealt with.

Various training and fighting activities are carried out every year, and the money used is the military expenditure given by the emperor, which makes Yu Xiuming feel sick. This is not because he unilaterally cuts off the money to be handed over to the national treasury. Although this money has nothing to do with him after being given to Zhou Qingyun, he feels sick when he thinks that the money he earns will be used for this. So even if Zhou Qingyun asked him several times, he never said it.

Now he has almost dealt with all the noble families involved with the court, and the schools in Jizhou City are also on the right track. Even the girls in Jizhou City are proud to have attended school, and girls who graduate from school are looked up to when they get married. Even poor families are willing to grit their teeth and send their children to school.

The first batch of students have graduated in the past three years, and most of them have directly entered the physics or chemistry factories opened by Yu Xiuming. They are already able to produce steel, so the research on machines has been put on the agenda. They have even developed pedal-operated canning equipment and large-scale mixers that do not require too much manpower to mix well. These were all developed by Yu Xiuming and his team.

Wang Shiyu had only heard some of what he said, but she felt that it was already very impressive. As long as the younger generations were given time, they would probably be able to enter the legendary steam age soon. The electrical age would be impossible, after all, they would not be willing to rub satellites with their bare hands.

It is impossible to make sophisticated equipment without a lathe made with precision equipment. It is already very good if you can only make equipment that can save effort.

Even when she was researching rice seeds, she was not idle. A Keats Home had been built outside Jizhou City because the beggar children in the city would always disappear inexplicably, so she opened the Keats Home and arranged a lot of odd jobs in it, such as making small handicrafts, which could all earn pocket money. This way, the money earned could be used to buy food directly. Moreover, if the children in the Keats Home still wanted to continue studying, they could enjoy free education. However, after graduation, they had to work in the factory to pay off their debts for 20 years before they could resign and leave the factory.

No one wanted to challenge the Yu family's evil power, so it was mainly an agreement, and basically no one would resist. This was not like a child in a Keats home. If they went out and didn't come back, someone would report it to the police. It wouldn't be like in the past where a child would be missing for a long time without being discovered.

After three years of transformation, Zhou Qingyun seemed to understand something and began to arrange people from various prefectures to learn from Jizhou City's practices and start opening schools and Keats Homes. People who liked strange skills from all over the country began to come to Jizhou City's schools to find new jobs.

Because Mr. Liu knew that these abilities might be useless in the eyes of those who only read books, and they could not even be used for imperial examinations or to seek a livelihood. But only after he had more contact with them, he would find that these abilities may seem insignificant, but they are indispensable in life. Even those people with superb craftsmanship can directly improve existing tools, improve the range of weapons, or develop new weapons. Everything is very powerful.