noffsinger Chapter 118 Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace Su Luyun 45
Chapter 118 Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace Su Luyun 45
The next day, Qingying issued an edict punishing Su Luyun by confining her to her quarters for three months. Su Luyun did not argue with Qingying, thus barely managing to save face for the Empress.
The Emperor made Qingying his Empress, and it seemed as if overnight, the Emperor and Empress's relationship had returned to normal.
Taking the opportunity, Qingying complained about Su Luyun and Jin Yuyan. The Emperor did not want to punish Su Luyun, after all, in his view Su Luyun was the birth mother of the two princes, it was just a small matter, and Qingying had already punished Su Luyun, so he did not need to say anything more.
However, the Emperor offended Qingying, so he focused on punishing Jin Yuyan, making her kneel in the Fengxian Hall for an hour every day.
Jin Yuyan's hatred for Qingying now surpasses that for Su Luyun, and she is now single-mindedly focused on her fourth prince becoming the future emperor.
Recently, Consort Shu successfully became pregnant. The Emperor accidentally revealed something due to his loose tongue, but he still promoted Consort Shu to Imperial Concubine Shu.
Su Luyun didn't want to know about the deal between the Emperor and Physician Qi.
Days passed, and in the seventeenth year of Qianlong's reign, the Third Prince got married. His primary consort was from the Ayan Gioro clan, and her status was similar to that of the First Prince's primary consort. It seems that the Emperor was very wary of the young princes.
The main reason is that over the years, Consort Shu gave birth to the Thirteenth Princess, Wei Yanwan was promoted to Consort Ling and gave birth to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Princesses, followed by a Little Lady and a Little Attendant, who then gave birth to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Princesses in succession.
The Third Princess had already married, and Gao Xiyue passed away in October of the sixteenth year of Qianlong's reign. The Fourth and Fifth Princesses married in turn.
The scenario of Hengchu being married off again did not occur. Jingyan married in the capital. Jingyan and the Third Prince were twins, so Jingyan also got married on the same day.
Qingying wanted to become the sole ruler of the harem. The agreement Qingying made with the Empress Dowager meant that Qingying was inherently inferior to the Empress Dowager. On the surface, Qingying was in charge of the harem, but in reality, the Empress Dowager controlled at least half of the palace power.
In recent years, Su Luyun has spent her time either educating the Third Prince and the Fifth Prince or slacking off, and incidentally detonating the poison in the Emperor's body so that he can die quietly. The current Emperor can only live for three or four more years at most, if he doesn't do something reckless.
However, Su Luyun underestimated the emperor's lust. He indulged in beauty every day and tried to have a child. He felt that there was nothing wrong with his body, but few of the concubines in the harem were pregnant with princes, so it must be the concubines' problem.
Nowadays, the emperor doesn't favor the concubines who have given birth to princesses much, feeling that they are not fortunate enough to conceive princes.
Wei Yanwan was fortunate; the Emperor still favored her somewhat. She gave birth to two princesses in succession and was eager to have a prince.
Less than half a year later, the Emperor, due to the poison, has been feeling listless and blames Physician Jiang for his ineffective tonic.
How could Physician Jiang possibly diagnose the Emperor's poisoning? Physician Jiang even thought it was due to the Emperor's excessive sexual activity.
The Emperor still wanted to have a child, so how could he be so listless? He then inquired with Imperial Physician Jiang about the practice of mixing deer blood with wine.
Physician Jiang whispered to the Emperor that the medicinal effects of deer blood mixed with wine were too strong and would be detrimental to the Emperor's health.
Who is the emperor? Can he listen to the imperial physicians?
Wei Yanwan received the news from Jinzhong and sent someone to present the deer blood wine to the emperor.
From then on, the emperor began drinking deer blood wine to boost his energy, and he did so for a whole month. For that month, the emperor stayed at Wei Yanwan's Yongshou Palace. On this particular day, the emperor went to Wei Yanwan's Yongshou Palace again.
In the study of the main hall of Zhongcui Palace, a graceful woman dressed in Hanfu held a wolf-hair brush in her slender hand, and with a flick of her wrist, she wrote a character in one go, which appeared to be in motion.
Su Luyun raised her eyes, her lips slightly curved, a meaningful smile appearing on her face. She sighed and said, "It's time to make a move."
She originally planned to wait another three years, but the emperor brought this upon himself. Even while poisoned, he indulged in beautiful women and drank deer blood wine. If he didn't die, who would?
Su Luyun has already sent a message to her subordinates to take action tonight. Qingying also learned that the Emperor was drinking deer blood wine from her.
Su Luyun ordered Yongjiu to surround the Forbidden City and to put the inner palace on guard as well.
Ke Qing ran into the inner room and said, "Your Majesty, the Empress took him to persuade the Emperor, but they happened to find him summoning four concubines to his bedchamber. The Empress mocked him, and the Emperor immediately fainted from anger."
Su Luyun made a gesture, and Zhao Zhong, who was Su Luyun's man, stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the Third Prince has already led his men to surround the capital, and the Fifth Prince has also led his men to surround the Forbidden City. The harem is under Your Majesty's control."
Su Luyun laughed loudly: "Let's go, let's see this emperor off."
Su Luyun led Keqing and Zhao Zhong to the outside of the Hall of Mental Cultivation. All the concubines of the harem had come over. Qingying, as the empress, stood beside the emperor, while the imperial physician Jiang was taking her pulse.
Wei Yanwan knelt beside her, while the surrounding concubines all wore expressions of worry.
Su Luyun walked in and asked, "How is His Majesty's health?"
Hailan remarked sarcastically, "Consort Mu is late."
The more Physician Jiang examined the Emperor's pulse, the more he felt that something was wrong with it. His face was covered in sweat, and he kept wiping it away with a handkerchief.
Qingying asked, "Imperial Physician Jiang, how is the Emperor's health?"
Imperial Physician Jiang immediately knelt down, bowing his head and saying, "Your Majesty..."
In an instant, a commotion broke out, and then the Fifth Prince led his guards into the Hall of Mental Cultivation. All the concubines were frightened by the chaotic scene. The hall was filled with noise, screams, and cries.
Qingying was forced to kneel on the ground by the guards. Yongjiu, dressed in armor, strode in with swift steps, followed by generals. Yongjiu seemed to have drawn his weapon, as his armor was covered in bright red blood.
Yongjiu walked up to Su Luyun, bowed to her, and clasped his hands in greeting: "Your subject is late."
Seeing this, Qingying knew everything and shouted loudly, "How dare you, Su! You are rebelling! There are so many Eight Banner soldiers in the capital, they will definitely not let you go!"
Su Luyun looked down at Qingying and said, "Yes, it's a rebellion!"
Yongjiu raised an eyebrow, his eyes, as deep as a pool, narrowed slightly, and his gaze swept over Qingying with a sinister look, as if he were looking at a dead person.
"Mother, why bother talking to them? Just kill them."
Su Luyun said calmly, "Yongjiu, lock these people up first, and we'll talk about it after Yongjun arrives."
In less than a quarter of an hour, Yongjun arrived at the Hall of Mental Cultivation with his men and said, “Mother, Fifth Brother, don’t worry. Eldest Brother, Second Brother, and Fourth Brother are all imprisoned. The capital is under complete control. Those who resisted have been killed. I believe there are many people willing to become ministers of the new court.”
Seeing that the situation was under control, Su Luyun handed over the rest to Yongjiu.
In the middle of the night, the death knell tolled, announcing the Emperor's passing.
On the third day, the court session proceeded as normal, but many of the ministers were absent. For example, ministers from the Fuca and Niohuru clans were nowhere to be seen, and many Han Chinese officials were present instead.
Wang Qin, carrying three scrolls of imperial edicts, announced them in front of the ministers, decreeing that the Emperor had decreed that the Fifth Prince should ascend the throne.
Most of the people attending the court were Yongjiu's men; the rest were unimportant. Fifth Prince Yongjiu smoothly became emperor.
Next came the handling of the emperor's funeral. The concubines in the harem, seeing that everything was settled, were unwilling but what could they do? If they were dissatisfied, they would only be dealt with like Qingying and Hailan.
After getting through this busy period, Su Luyun couldn't wait to go to Yuanmingyuan to retire.
Su Luyun also handed over some policies to Yongjiu, who knew how to implement them.
To Su Luyun's surprise, the first policy Yongjiu issued at court was to restore the practice of growing hair and to restore Han Chinese clothing.
It can only be said that even Qin Shi Huang thought the Qing Dynasty's money rat tail whip was ugly.
Su Luyun watched with peace of mind as Yongjiu expanded its territory, opened up its seas, and actively learned advanced technologies.
Su Luyun stayed in this world until she died of old age and left peacefully.