For five days in a row, probably because he was still full of energy, they put heavy medicine on the child's clothes. He was fine, but the eldest princess fell ill a few days later.
Concubine Shu covered it up and refused to let the imperial physician see it, fearing that it would be exposed. She only said that she wanted to make the eldest princess learn the rules.
I don't know if the child can survive.
In the deep palace, countless murders have been wasted.
"You all deserve to die!" Shangguan Haoze felt that his headache had come back again, and the only way to relieve it was to kill people.
The Queen Mother was too high a position to be killed with a single blow. But imprisoning her and depriving her of her power would be more painful to her than death.
All the minions around her must be eliminated. None of them are innocent, and among them is the person who killed Shangguan Haoze's mother. This can be considered as revenge for her mother.
The crime committed by Concubine Shu was unforgivable, punishable by death and the extermination of her entire clan. However, the eunuch Xiao Shengzi felt that this was too cruel, and the Emperor, in his favor, showed mercy and, for the benefit of the young princes, sentenced all adult males and the clan's matriarchs to death, while the rest were exiled, with no pardon granted.
Prince Fuhe also could not escape death.
But for the sake of His Majesty's reputation, he had no choice but to die of illness. Ministers in the court, you should know what you should know. You can't let His Majesty bear the infamy of killing his brother's orphan.
Any children in Prince Fuhe's family were taken back to be raised by their mother's family. The children took their mother's surname and had no connection with the royal family anymore.
This can be regarded as the Emperor's revenge for what I said about him being without an heir.
The eldest princess barely managed to save her life, but her body was seriously injured and she became a sickly woman from then on.
His Majesty the Emperor was not a kind person. He told the story of Concubine Shu's affair with Fuhe, and ordered the clan office to adopt the eldest princess to the former Prince Fuhe. The eldest princess was a product of the palace, and although she was young, she was not stupid at all. How could she not understand that she was a child born out of wedlock?
But her current uncle, her former father, was willing to spare her life, which was already a great favor. Moreover, there was no gossip in the capital about her background. If her life was not compared with her previous noble status, she could still live.
After all, she has now been granted the title of a princess and has a fiefdom, so even if she is out of favor, she can still survive.
At this point, the entire front dynasty and harem were relatively clear.
Also because of Shangguan Haoze's decisiveness, the important officials in the court who had ulterior motives quietly put away their own thoughts and had less contact with the women in the palace.
Many officials even directly begged His Majesty to release their daughters and marry them off elsewhere.
After all, this is nothing new.
The most important thing is that since His Majesty the Emperor had a child, he has no longer been interested in women.
When court officials petitioned His Majesty to have more children, he retorted with the words of the Imperial Hospital, saying that one should cultivate one's character.
Who dares to joke about the Emperor's health?
Which family can take the blame for this?
Whatever the Emperor says is final.
However, he did open up a new path for women to advance in their careers. Under the guise of a beauty pageant, he summoned women from all over the country who possessed both talent and virtue. After rigorous assessment and screening, the selected talents, while the ministers thought they would be sent to the harem, were unexpectedly placed in various departments and ministries.
Most of them are girls from prominent families, so how could they be excluded openly?
Your Majesty's fondness for beheading is as strong as it was yesterday. Few people who are not strong enough would be willing to encounter such bad luck.
They are all unimportant positions, so it’s not impossible to turn a blind eye.
From then on, women began to enter and leave the court.
In order to maintain their hard-earned status, women naturally use all their skills to make men in the world look at them differently, and also to wake up those who are still dreaming of being used as tools by men and families and pretending to be deaf and dumb.
Sometimes men only use their methods of making things difficult for others in the court, but when women in the harem suppress their same-sex partners, every move is deadly.
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When the Emperor was fifty years old, Xiao Shengzi finally retired.
Of course, I still have to report to my old boss every ten days or half a month and talk about the latest news outside.
Alas, it's so tragic. Over the years, he used his power in the palace to rescue so many beauties in distress, and settled them all in a large house he bought on the outskirts of the capital. But he is now in his early fifties, at the age of knowing the destiny. Apart from playing mahjong with his sisters and touching their hands, there is really nothing else he can do.
What a pity.
Having lived a servile life for half his life, Changsheng did not use his golden finger, which resulted in this body having many problems and he suffered a lot when he got old.
But before he could enjoy his carefree days for five years, the insane Shangguan Haoze abdicated and became the emperor emeritus, and was going to live in the temporary palace.
It specifically states that the father-in-law must accompany the young man!
grass!
Will this ever end? Capitalists will never exploit people like this.
The days in the palace were much more leisurely and comfortable than expected.
His Majesty the Emperor probably regarded him as a good friend, sharing the happiness and the beauty with him.
Ahahaha, that’s not impossible.
The young man's face wrinkled when he smiled, and after being a eunuch for many years, his face inevitably showed a feminine air. Facing these little beauties like flower buds, he grinned with his cheeks wide open, which was extremely obscene.
They were beauties selected by the new emperor and sent here to entertain the retired emperor, but they had no idea that they would have to serve such an old and dead eunuch.
If I had known this earlier, I would not have coveted this shortcut to wealth and fame. The world today is not as harsh on women as it used to be. As long as you are upright, you can always make a living.
Knowing it earlier is priceless.
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The new emperor encountered difficult problems in the first year of his reign.
First, the newly born prince in the palace contracted smallpox, and then the disease began to spread widely in the capital.
Smallpox is fatal, and the new emperor couldn't help but issue a self-blame edict.
However, the retired emperor sent a message to the Imperial Medical Bureau to try the cowpox vaccination.
When the cowpox vaccination method became popular throughout the dynasty, Changsheng was shocked.
Yes, this technology! Who came up with it?
The retired emperor looked at the unassuming young man next to him and thought to himself, what a strange man he is. He seems to be very particular about rules, but in fact, he has no fear of the imperial power at all.
When the emperor was dying, the only thing he held in his hand was the rough hand of his father-in-law, Xiao Shengzi.
The new emperor couldn't bear to watch, so he chimed in, "Father, I know you're reluctant to leave the eunuch who gave birth to a child. When you leave, I promise that the eunuch who gave birth to a child will follow immediately. Or you can send the eunuch who gave birth to a child to explore the way first?"
Shangguan Haoze couldn't breathe out his dying breath, and his eyes were round because of the breath he held.
The young man slapped him in the chest and said, "Don't die. I'll give you two more minutes to explain to me the whole story of burial alive. Who the hell is so unjust to bury a living person alive? Aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning and ruining the fortunes of future generations?"
Shangguan Haoze wanted to roll his eyes and said, "If I don't commit burial alive, I can go wherever I want and no one can stop me." This person must be an immortal or a demon. Who dares to take his life!
This was the last words of the retired emperor, about a eunuch.
This world is over.
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