"I am not angry with the Empress Dowager."
Emperor Daoyuan had an indifferent expression, even when facing the Empress Dowager.
"The imperial concubine is pregnant, do you know?"
"It has nothing to do with me."
"How can it have nothing to do with you? That's your child."
The Empress Dowager knocked harder and harder with the dragon-headed cane in her hand.
"No, I was given a sterilization drug and will not have children."
When Emperor Daoyuan said this, he was delighted to see the Empress Dowager's expression suddenly change.
This Empress Dowager was indeed an extraordinary woman. After the death of her grandfather, Emperor Taizu, she supported her father in ascending the throne and stabilizing the government.
But she was too strong and had the emperor under her control, and she had to control which concubine he slept with and how many times he slept with her in one night.
Emperor Daoyuan was brought back to the palace to become emperor at the age of fifteen, and the daughter of the Tang family, who was also the cousin of Concubine Tang, was chosen as the empress.
However, many people were eyeing the position of Empress Daoyuan, and the royal family and court officials did not want the Tang family to produce another empress.
So Concubine Tang's cousin was plotted to fall into the water, and was rescued but lost her reputation.
Naturally, she could no longer marry into the palace.
The Tang family wanted Concubine Tang to be the empress, but Emperor Daoyuan and the court officials were against it. The Empress Dowager had to compromise and let Concubine Tang enter the palace as a concubine.
However, the Empress Dowager would not allow daughters of other families to become queens, so the daughters of other families who entered the palace were only concubines.
The position of queen is vacant, and everyone can decide based on their own abilities.
But I didn't expect that Emperor Daoyuan would not touch anyone.
I just won’t sleep, I just won’t give birth.
The Empress Dowager tried every possible means but failed to do anything to her grandson.
Even though he tried to not relax on purpose, Emperor Daoyuan didn't care and focused on practicing every day.
But Emperor Daoyuan was not anxious, but the Empress Dowager was.
In the past, she had many sons and grandchildren, so she didn't care whether there was one more or one less.
Now that the Empress Dowager's sons and grandsons are all dead, Emperor Daoyuan is the only descendant left.
As the Empress of Taizu, the Regent Emperor, and the Regent Empress Dowager, she naturally wanted to leave a mark in history.
But it must be a good name.
But Emperor Taizu's bloodline was almost destroyed by these aunts and nieces. If Emperor Daoyuan had no son, Taizu's bloodline would be broken.
As the Empress Dowager, she will never have a good reputation.
Now the royal family and court officials are very dissatisfied with her.
"I don't believe it"
How could the Empress Dowager possibly believe that Emperor Daoyuan had been given a sterilizing drug?
Emperor Daoyuan was well versed in medicine and poisons. If the poison had worked, the princes and princesses in the harem would have been running all over the place by now.
"If the royal bloodline is confused, how will the Empress Dowager face the Emperor Grandfather a hundred years from now?"
Emperor Daoyuan’s words made the Empress Dowager very angry.
"That's because you, the unfilial grandson, have cut off the royal bloodline."
"I was given a sterilizing drug when I was sent to the temple. It was all thanks to the Empress Dowager."
Emperor Daoyuan spoke sarcastically, but his face remained expressionless.
The Empress Dowager was greatly shocked and said in a trembling voice, "Quickly call Doctor Sun."
Emperor Daoyuan did not stop him and sat calmly.
The Empress Dowager was so angry when she saw that he didn't care about anything.
"Come here, Queen Dowager Xuan."
"I obey your command."
After a while, Doctor Sun arrived. He was the Empress Dowager's full-time doctor.
A skinny, short old man.
He stepped forward tremblingly to feel Emperor Daoyuan's pulse.
After a while, he knelt down with a thud.
The Empress Dowager's heart sank to the bottom.
"Doctor Sun, can the emperor's condition be cured?"
"Well, to answer the Empress Dowager, I am not an expert in medicine."
"Doctor Sun, tell me the truth. I know your medical skills best."
The Empress Dowager glared at Imperial Physician Sun with dignity.
Doctor Sun hurriedly said, "It can be cured, but it's difficult to treat."
"Even if it's not curable, you have to treat me."
After the Empress Dowager had Imperial Physician Sun come down to prescribe medicine, she glared at Emperor Daoyuan and asked, "Can you cure it yourself?"
“A doctor doesn’t heal himself.”
Emperor Daoyuan was a little impatient, "Grandmother, is there anything else I need?"
"The Queen Mother has arrived!"
Bang!
As soon as the Queen Mother came in, she was slapped hard by the Grand Empress Dowager, "My whole life has been ruined by a jealous woman like you."
"aunt"
The Queen Mother covered her face with her hands and looked at the Grand Empress Dowager in disbelief.
She is in her early forties and looks well-maintained, but having experienced the pain of losing her son, her hair has turned gray early and she looks a little sad.
"Did you put the sterilizing drug into the emperor's body?"
The Empress Dowager was very disappointed with her niece.
If this niece had not brought disaster to all the princes of the previous emperor, Emperor Daoyuan would not be the only one left.
She originally thought that Emperor Daoyuan had been unwilling to favor his concubines for the past eight years because he was angry with her, the Imperial Grandmother.
But he didn't expect that he had been plotted against long ago.
"I don't have any."
The Queen Mother's expression changed slightly, but she would never admit it.
The Grand Empress Dowager knew her niece very well. She closed her eyes and said, "From now on, you will confine me to Ci'an Palace. You are not allowed to leave the palace without my permission."
"Come here, send the Queen Mother back to the palace."
The empress dowager was helped away by the nanny beside her with red eyes.
Inside the palace, the Grand Empress Dowager looked at Emperor Daoyuan and said seriously, "Whether you believe it or not, your mother died in childbirth and you were sent to the Taoist temple as an unlucky omen. It was not me who did that.
I admit that I do not like your mother, but after all, you are the firstborn son of the late emperor, and I will not harm your mother or you."
Emperor Daoyuan remained silent. The Empress Dowager said, "The royal bloodline cannot be cut off. Cooperate with Imperial Physician Sun. I am your royal grandmother and will not harm you."
Emperor Daoyuan remained silent.
The Empress Dowager added, "If you have a son, I will give you power."
Emperor Daoyuan sneered, "I have no desire for the throne, Grandmother, please do as you please."
If he had children, the Empress Dowager would not have tolerated him like this and would have rejected him long ago.
The Empress Dowager looked at her unyielding grandson with a frown on her face, not knowing what to do with him.
She really had no other options.
He could only sigh, turn around, and leave with his crutches, staggering along with a hunched back, feeling lonely and desolate.
Bei Lingyao watched a good show and felt that the tasks in this world were even more difficult.
Emperor Daoyuan is simply a wolf destroyer.
You can get yourself sterilized.
Even if she were to get close to him, it would be difficult for her to complete the task of having a child.
It is even more difficult to have more children.
But Bei Lingyao couldn't give up either.
As soon as the Empress Dowager returned to Shoukang Palace, her body, which had been holding on tightly, suddenly shook and she was about to fall down.
The trusted nanny exclaimed, "Quickly call the imperial physician."
"No need, let the Goddess of Childbirth come and show me."
The Empress Dowager was helped to lie down on the couch.
When Bei Lingyao came over, she saw the Empress Dowager with a dazed look in her eyes and a frustrated expression.
Obviously, the fact that Emperor Daoyuan had been given a sterilizing drug dealt a great blow to the Empress Dowager.
Bei Lingyao felt the Grand Empress Dowager's pulse and said, "Grand Empress Dowager, please stop worrying and rest."
"I know"
The Empress Dowager is old. She has several personal doctors who know her physical condition, but she has been working so hard for so many years, how can she stop?
She couldn't let go of the power in her hands.
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