Even in the last stage of his life, he paved the way for the rest of Da Lu's life.
Not only was she allowed to select her own illegitimate prince and have him registered under her name as the legitimate son to inherit the throne, but she also promoted her brother Lu Tong to be the Grand Tutor, one of the Three Dukes, and issued an edict appointing him as the regent.
Having Da Lu choose the prince for adoption herself is equivalent to letting Da Lu decide the future emperor. With such a great favor in front of her, the successor emperor would not dare to be unfilial to Da Lu after the death of the previous emperor, even if he was just concerned about public opinion.
In addition, Da Lu also has a brother who was appointed as the regent and can be said to hold great power. Da Lu's life for the rest of her life will definitely be more comfortable and fulfilling than when she was the queen.
His promiscuity was manifested in the fact that he favored countless beauties throughout his life. He was the only romantic emperor since the founding of the Great Qi Dynasty who never missed a chance and took new beauties into the palace every three years.
When he was still a young man, he fell in love at first sight with Da Lu, who was only thirteen at the time. Relying on the fact that he was the legitimate and only son of Emperor Yingzong, he insisted on marrying Da Lu as his crown princess.
After marrying Da Lu as he wished, he doted on her lavishly. However, before Emperor Yingzong could worry about his son being blinded by a woman, the late emperor, then still the crown prince, quickly took in a series of beautiful women of varying styles.
He still doted on Da Lu, and if any of the beauties he took into the Prince's Mansion showed any intention of competing with Da Lu, he would immediately turn against them.
However, there is always a lack of those who are ambitious, conceited, smart, or unique in this world. Even if there are other beauties as lessons, they will still be lucky and unable to control their greed.
Once these people enter the Prince's Mansion, most of them will secretly attack Da Lu.
Da Lu was ambushed several times during her pregnancy and delivery. Although she was lucky enough to give birth to a daughter safely, she never got pregnant again.
The late emperor, who was still the crown prince at that time, loved her but also felt guilty about her. When she wanted to deal with those suspicious concubines, he agreed without any objection, but in the blink of an eye, he filled the vacant positions with new beauties.
In short, for this couple, beauties are like leeks, constantly replaced one after another.
It was not until Da Lu gained enough experience in palace fighting and learned how to protect herself impenetrably, and because she was completely disheartened and no longer fought with those women out of jealousy, but only focused on maintaining her own status and the family interests of the Lu family, that the concubines and children of the late emperor lived a little longer.
The current emperor was born after Da Lu stopped being jealous out of love. His biological mother was just an ordinary palace maid who was favored by the late emperor once by chance. She was lucky enough to give birth to one of the late emperor's princes.
The former playboy emperor had no feelings for this palace maid who was just accidentally dragged to the dragon bed by him. Even when he knew that she was pregnant with his child, he only gave her the status of a beauty as a token of his appreciation.
As for the merit of giving birth to an heir for the royal family, the late emperor said that he had many children and did not need this one.
Naturally, there will be no additional seal.
Thanks to him, during the reign of the previous emperor, the current emperor was just a small and invisible prince like a weed.
Like many of his half-brothers, he was poorly fed and poorly clothed. Not only was he always bullied behind the scenes by the emperor's favored women and children, but no one taught them carefully after they were five or six years old.
Many of them were unlucky and died quietly in this cannibalistic palace, but there were also a very few who, like the current emperor of Da Qi, were lucky enough to live to see the old age of the previous emperor.
Taking advantage of the favored princes, little-known princes like the current emperor, who had reached the age of marriage but had no one to arrange a marriage for them, were also given a wife by the late emperor on a whim.
Many princes became depressed and even resentful because of this. In their view, they were also princes, but because of their father's favoritism, they lived worse than the sons of ordinary officials.
But the current emperor of Da Qi, who found it difficult to even "live" at that time, did not think so. His biological mother died when he was twelve years old. He went from being invisible with his biological mother to being invisible alone without his biological mother. He had always lived a hard life similar to that of the palace maids and eunuchs at the bottom of the palace.
After receiving the imperial decree granting him marriage and learning that he could finally leave the bloodless palace, he was so happy that he almost thought he was dreaming.
His brothers felt that it was a great shame that he was not granted a title of king or a fiefdom, but was only given a prince's mansion as a token of his gratitude. However, he was very excited because he finally had his own mansion and would receive rewards and salaries from the Ministry of Clan Affairs every year.
However, fate played a huge joke on this person who carried out the principle of "contentment is happiness" to the end.
In his opinion, his nominal mother, Queen Lu, had some kind of mental disorder that made her register him, a nobody, as her own son and make him the nominal legitimate prince.
At that time, his eldest son was already one year old. Although his wife, who came from a family of minor officials, could not bring him any help, she was extremely gentle, virtuous and good at managing the household. They were deeply in love and together gave their son a warm home.
The current emperor, who received the imperial edict to become the legitimate son and crown prince, once again felt like he was dreaming, but this time he felt that he was not having a sweet dream, but a nightmare.
Unlike his ambitious brothers, he has always been aware that he has no talent for governing a country.
Let him be the crown prince, and later become the emperor to take over the country... Has his good father finally lost his mind due to lust and started working towards becoming a tyrant?
Although he was secretly complaining in his heart, he did not dare to show even the slightest reaction other than "obedience" on his face.
He obeyed and cooperated just to satisfy his good father and new mother.
However, his obedience did not bring him the desired results. Not only were his first wife and son poisoned many times, but they were also assassinated at his father's funeral.
Because of his wife's caution, they and her son were able to avoid all those despicable tricks without any danger, but the gleaming swords and knives could not be guarded against by being cautious.
The Lu family wanted to kill them and their son, and wanted them to make room for the Lu daughter and her future offspring, but they could not reveal their true intentions openly. So they sneaked into the palace under the pretext of being a rebel, attempting to assassinate the future emperor, and released the assassins secretly trained by the Lu family.
The head of the Lu family and the Empress Dowager Da Lu originally thought that since they, mother and son, were closest to the future emperor, those assassins who rushed in under the banner of assassinating the future emperor only needed to pretend to attack the future emperor while taking advantage of the chaos to stab them, and the matter would end perfectly.
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