Liu's own son has become a cowardly playboy, very useless, but not the kind of person who is completely wicked. Liu is very disappointed in him.
Liu's daughter, the third sister who spoke rudely to Ji Huan, was married off by Liu to her family. She was the same person the original owner of this body married in her previous life. The couple tormented each other, and one died while the other became crippled.
Of course, Aunt Wang deserves much credit for this.
Time flies, and ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.
A lot happened in those ten years. Qianlong's sons grew up, and the struggles between them gradually increased.
When Emperor Qianlong was exhausted by women, he belatedly realized that few of his sons were successful. Many of his older sons had either died, become useless, or been adopted out by him.
His most favored son, the Fifth Prince, died of illness in the thirty-first year.
After excluding the princes born to concubines, he realized that he didn't have many sons to inherit the throne. Compared to the tenth prince born to Consort Shu, the twelfth prince born to Ji Huan was clearly more in line with his requirements for a successor.
As he noticed his health deteriorating, he began to test his son.
In the winter of the forty-second year of the Qianlong Emperor's reign, mournful cries echoed from the Yuanmingyuan Garden, for the Qianlong Emperor had passed away.
The imperial edict behind the plaque at Mingda Guangming bears the name of the twelfth prince, Yonglin.
Despite her "weak" health, Ji Huan presided over Qianlong's funeral, and the transfer of imperial power went smoothly, clearly demonstrating Qianlong's high regard for Yonglin during his lifetime.
After her son ascended the throne, Ji Huan began her life of "recuperation" in the imperial palace. In fact, she was constantly on the move, having spent most of her life confined to the capital. Now that she had become the Empress Dowager, she naturally wanted to travel around.
As for the remaining children, she entrusted them all to Yong-rin, her older brother, to raise.
She did not concern herself with the future development of the Qing Dynasty.
Yonglin knew a lot about the child-rearing system derived from the birth system. The Qing Dynasty was destined to perish, and feudalism was destined to die out. What Yonglin could do was decide how it would perish.
Ji Huan served as Empress Dowager for over fifty years. During this time, she witnessed the changes Yonglin brought to the Qing Dynasty and was quite satisfied with them.
By the time she passed away, Yonglin was already frail and had a full head of white hair; he had been the retired emperor for many years.
The gene serum gave her offspring genes that promote longevity.
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