Chapter 337: Sadomasochism (Part 42)
In three months, under Gu Qingcheng's planning, Huo Wuniang led the troops to eliminate all the horse bandits and mountain bandits within a radius of 100 miles.
Gu Qingcheng's troops also expanded from the initial 500 people to 1,000 people.
The city of North City was completely renovated.
The city walls were raised, the moat was deepened, and the surrounding wasteland was reclaimed.
With a relatively stable rear base, generals such as Huo Wuniang and Li Silang began to lead their troops to attack.
They followed the strategy formulated by Gu Qingcheng and specifically besieged a small group of Western Rong cavalry.
If you can win, fight. If you can’t, run towards Xizhou or the border town.
The Ninth Prince's "Guerrilla Cavalry" was like a sparrow or a kite. It did not have much power, but it was developing little by little along the border.
In the capital, Concubine Dong has been bedridden.
Empress Yuan didn't want to bring bad luck at first, but then she couldn't care less.
Under the "persuasion" of Empress Dowager Yuan, Emperor Qing finally gave in and agreed to let Empress Yuan adopt a young prince.
Emperor Qing has a total of more than twenty princes, who can be divided into two echelons according to their age:
The Ninth Prince and the princes before him have all grown up and are considered older princes; the Tenth Prince and those after him are still very young and are considered younger princes.
Emperor Qing suggested to Empress Yuan that she could take the youngest prince, the Nineteenth Prince, to be raised. The Nineteenth Prince was three years old and had just begun to recognize people.
But, since they are young, they can be tamed after a few years of raising them.
Empress Dowager Yuan thought it was good too.
Empress Yuan was a little unwilling to accept the fact: "Although Shijiulang's biological mother was a concubine and her position was not high, her surname was Yang and she was from the Hongnong Yang family."
She was a girl from an aristocratic family, not a lowly palace maid or an ordinary citizen.
It was impossible for Empress Yuan to "kill the mother and keep the son."
But if Yangpin stayed in the palace, even if she raised Shijiulang, Shijiulang would know who his biological mother was! Empress Yuan didn't want to make wedding clothes for others.
When raising a son, you must raise one without hidden dangers.
It just so happened that Emperor Qing had drunk some wine and had sex with a palace maid.
The palace maid was a lucky one. She became pregnant after just one try.
Empress Yuan immediately had an idea: if this palace maid gave birth to a son, she would take him in to raise.
As for that palace maid, well, giving birth these days is like going through the gates of hell.
Dystocia or postpartum hemorrhage are all normal.
Without his so-called biological mother, Empress Yuan was his only mother, and this son was truly raised well.
If you give birth to a daughter -
Empress Yuan glanced at the palace maids in her palace. In fact, it was not impossible to make them pregnant.
On the first and fifteenth day of every lunar month, Emperor Qing would go to see the Queen.
Empress Yuan suppressed her jealousy and selected one or two women with outstanding appearance to serve Emperor Qing.
Three months later, three or four palace maids suddenly became pregnant.
Concubine Dong: ...
She coughed and vomited blood while going through the procedure, and sighed secretly.
She didn't know whether to be disgusted by someone's behavior, or to pity those palace maids or children! "Alas, I don't know what's going on with Dong Lang!"
When Concubine Dong thought of her son who was far away in Xizhou, a light finally flashed in her eyes.
She thought of her son leaving the capital a few months ago.
On the evening of their departure, her son held her hand and said goodbye to her.
Although Donglang has lost his memory and doesn't remember anything about the past.
But blood ties are a strange thing.
Dong Lang was instinctively very close to me, and his eyes were full of admiration when he looked at me.
Whenever Concubine Dong saw her son's eyes of trust and dependence, she couldn't help but think: I am willing to do anything for my son!
Even if I die! Yes, there was a time when Concubine Dong was thinking, should I die? As long as she was alive, she would be a target for Emperor Qing.
Emperor Qing used her and Dong Lang more as a tool.
But what if she died? No matter how cruel Emperor Qing was, he still had some true feelings.
Emperor Qing always has some affection for his son.
In addition, it is human nature to sympathize with the weak.
Emperor Qing was particularly sympathetic to the princes and princesses in the palace who had lost their mothers.
“After I die, no matter for the sake of past affection or for the sake of continuing the show, the emperor must love Jiulang even more!”
With this thought in mind, Concubine Dong decided to die.
It was Gu Qingcheng who was the one who keenly noticed Concubine Dong's abnormality. She knelt in front of her and said word by word, "Mother, when I was living among the people, I heard a country slang -"
"A child with a mother is like a treasure, a child without a mother is like a weed!"
"You are my only child, please don't abandon me!"
Gu Qingcheng's words completely awakened Concubine Dong.
Relying solely on others' "pity" is too passive.
If people are willing to show mercy, they will give some alms.
But if she doesn't want to, and her Donglang has lost his mother, what should she do? No!
She has to live!
Although she had no prominent status and no help.
But, as long as she is still a royal concubine, as long as she remains in the palace, she can help Dong Lang!
It's just her body—
Gu Qingcheng did not hesitate and used her blessing to exchange for a marrow cleansing pill in the mall.
Although Concubine Dong didn't know where her son got the elixir, she took the medicine without hesitation out of trust in her son.
This marrow cleansing pill might just be a simplified version.
There was no hair removal and marrow cleansing as described in the immortal cultivation literature, it just cured Concubine Dong's chronic illness.
Even though the effectiveness of the medicine was reduced, Concubine Dong was still frightened.
However, she still didn't ask any more questions and just accepted it silently.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Even when you are well, you still have to pretend to be sick.
Since Concubine Dong doesn't want to die and wants to live to help her son, she must be well.
Moreover, after Dong Lang fell off the cliff, Concubine Dong finally understood one thing -
She and Dong Lang are just pawns of Emperor Qing.
"I don't want to be a pawn! I'm a favorite concubine!"
Since she is a favorite concubine, she should be treated as a favorite concubine should be.
Instead of just bearing a stigma.
Of course, for now, Concubine Dong doesn't dare to be too ostentatious.
She could only pretend to be sick to avoid Empress Yuan's targeting and cause Emperor Qing's sympathy.
Alas, a seriously ill person may die at any time, so why bother with her? Concubine Dong Guifei was ill for half a year.
The situation in the palace changed.
Concubine Dong is still favored, but Emperor Qing always gets drunk or mistakes people for others.
The number of low-ranking palace maids becoming pregnant increased.
Empress Yuan and Empress Dowager Yuan shifted their attention and stopped staring at Concubine Dong and the other three concubines. Instead, they watched the pregnant palace maids every day.
Concubine Dong: ...
Donglang, grow up quickly.
A Niang is waiting for you to return to the capital with your troops! ...
Ding! Dang! In the blacksmith shop in North City, Gu Qingcheng stood outside, watching several blacksmiths with bare chests, hammering hard.
"Your Highness, look, is this piece of iron in good condition?"
After hammering for a while, an older blacksmith came up to Gu Qingcheng holding a piece of iron with pliers.
If it were a few months ago, the blacksmith would not have dared to be so presumptuous in front of the noble.
In ancient times, the status of craftsmen was very low.
Some trades that need to be kept secret, such as iron smelting and casting, may even leave craftsmen disabled.
The most tragic example is the craftsmen who built the imperial tomb.
Many people were directly killed or buried alive.
Gu Qingcheng is an ancient native with strict class concepts in his bones.
However, after binding with the system, I entered a different novel world.
She herself used to be a "craftsman".
She has a completely new understanding of this class.
Perhaps, she was not yet able to treat craftsmen as people of equal class, but she recognized the importance of craftsmen.
Great craftsman!
Craftsmen can promote social development!
And for a person in a higher position, people who are valuable should be valued!
This time, he has transformed into the Ninth Prince and needs to seize the highest position, so Gu Qingcheng needs all kinds of talents.
Among many talents, craftsmen are indispensable and very important.
Not to mention anything else, the armor, weapons, etc. needed by the army alone require craftsmen to forge them, or even "invent" better and more sophisticated things.
"not bad!"
Gu Qingcheng took a closer look and nodded with satisfaction, "Let's study the formula again to see if we can improve the strength."
Gu Qingcheng is not pretending to know something. As someone with level nine skills, she may not be able to make a nuclear bomb by hand, but improving the formula of fine iron, improving bows and crossbows, etc. should not be a problem.
However, Gu Qingcheng cannot act too evil.
After all, here, she is the noble Ninth Prince, not a craftsman.
Being able to come up with an idea shows that she is smart enough.
Specific research and development and experiments require craftsmen to try repeatedly.
For example, for black gunpowder, Gu Qingcheng also found a sorcerer's note as an excuse and came up with a rough formula.
The specific ratio needs to be studied by the craftsman himself...
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(End of this chapter)
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