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 has been 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 had little 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 all the princes before him had grown up and were considered the elder princes;
The tenth prince and those after him were still very young and were considered little princes.
Emperor Qing suggested that Empress Yuan 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.
However, since they are young, they can be tamed after a few years of raising.
Empress Dowager Yuan thought it was good too.
Empress Yuan was somewhat 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 clan."
She was a girl from a noble 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 Concubine Yang stayed in the palace, even if she raised Shijiulang, he would know who his biological mother was!
Empress Yuan didn't want to make wedding dresses for others.
If you want to raise a son, you must raise one without hidden dangers.
It just so happened that Emperor Qing had a drink and had sex with a palace maid.
The palace maid was lucky. 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 and raise him.
As for the palace maid, well, giving birth these days is like going through the gates of hell.
It's normal to have a difficult labor or postpartum hemorrhage.
Without his so-called biological mother, Empress Yuan was his only mother, and this son was truly raised.
If you give birth to a daughter——
Empress Yuan glanced at the palace maids in her palace. Actually, it was not impossible to make them pregnant.
On the first and fifteenth day of every lunar month, Emperor Qing would visit the Queen.
Empress Yuan suppressed her jealousy and selected one or two women with outstanding looks 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 she should be disgusted by someone's behavior, or feel sorry for the palace maids or children!
"Alas, I don't know what's going on with Donglang!"
When Concubine Dong thought of her son who was far away in Xizhou, a glimmer of light finally appeared in her eyes.
She thought of her son leaving the capital a few months ago.
On the night 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 instinctively felt close to me, and his eyes were filled with 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 wondered, is it time for me to die?
As long as she is alive, she will 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 out 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 keenly noticed Concubine Dong's abnormality. She knelt before 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 the "pity" of others is too passive.
If people are willing to show mercy, they will give some alms.
But what if she doesn't want to, and her Donglang has lost his mother, what should she do?
no!
She has to live!
Although she has no prominent status and no helpers.
But, as long as she is still the imperial concubine, as long as she stands 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, based on her trust in her son, she took the medicine without hesitation.
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.
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