I just want to live a happy life

In the cold palace, Ruyi lay on the cold ground, constantly moving forward. After great effort, she finally reached the door, but when she looked, Gao Xiyue had disappeared.

That’s right, Gao Xiyue just came to laugh at her, how could she possibly help her?

Ruyi looked at the setting sun in the sky and felt increasingly weaker, but she was really unwilling to give in. She didn't want to know the truth at the last moment as to why Gao Xiyue had come. She would rather believe that it was her own physical problem that prevented her from having a child.

She really didn't want to die like this. She wanted revenge, but she had no chance.

Ruyi watched the setting sun disappear, gradually closed her eyes, and stopped breathing.

Ruyi died in the cold palace. No one knew about it at first. It was not until the guards in the cold palace saw that she had not come to the door to get food for two days that they realized something was wrong and reported it to the emperor.

When the emperor found out, he was stunned for a moment, and it took him a long time to remember who Ruyi was. It’s no wonder that he took so long to think about it. After all, more than ten years have passed, so it’s normal not to remember.

But even if he remembered, what could he do? He no longer had any feelings for her, and Ruyi was just a deposed concubine. But she was still his servant, so he should just have Ruyi buried. He couldn't just leave her body in the wilderness.

With Ruyi's death, Gao Xiyue's enemies were almost all dead, with only two left, one was the empress dowager and the other was the emperor.

Although she and the Queen Mother reached a temporary peace that year, everyone knew that neither would let the other go.

Gao Xiyue has been giving the empress dowager drugs over the years, slowly draining her vitality. Now, she doesn't have much time left to live.

In the end, Gao Xiyue dealt the Queen Mother a fatal blow.

The empress dowager's youngest son accidentally encountered a villain during an outing. The people around him failed to protect him, and the carriage Hongzhou was riding in overturned. Hongzhou was thrown out of the carriage. His head accidentally hit a sharp stone, and he fell unconscious on the spot, with blood all over the ground.

In fact, Hongzhou was not dead, he just lay down for some time. When he woke up again, his body would not be as good as before. The imperial physician also said that his life would not be too long.

But this matter reached the ears of the empress dowager and after being processed by Gao Xiyue, the news that the empress dowager received was that Hongzhou had hit his head against a rock and was bleeding profusely on the spot, and was in critical condition.

The Queen Mother was extremely worried. Her body could not stand the stimulation to begin with, and under such emotional excitement, she died on the spot with a bang.

The death was extremely quick and perfunctory.

She died before she even said her last wish.

In the original plot, the original owner had been in poor health due to the Queen Mother's anger. When the news of the original owner's death came, she couldn't imagine how painful the Gao family's parents who loved the original owner must be.

Of course Gao Xiyue also wanted the Queen Mother to hear how much pain she felt when her child was in trouble.

She felt that she had been merciful enough. She had not been able to harm her two daughters, only marrying far away because of their respective status. As for Hongzhou, she only made him sterile, shortening his life, but did not take his life.

The Empress Dowager died too suddenly, and the Emperor's health was not very good. He did not have much so-called mother-son affection for the Empress Dowager, so he left her funeral ceremonies to his subordinates and did not pay much attention to it.

In this way, the Queen Mother's funeral ended simply and hastily.

The concubines were vying for favor, some were raising children, who would really be sad about the death of the empress dowager? Besides, the empress dowager was also a restless person and would often cause trouble.

After the Queen Mother's funeral, the harem returned to peace.

Until one thing happened, breaking the peace again.

I heard that the emperor had sex with several concubines in one night and now he can't get out of bed and is still in a coma.

The emperor is really courting death. His health has been depleted for a long time, yet he is still so presumptuous. It would be strange if nothing happens to him.

When something happens to the emperor, of course the highest-ranking concubines in the harem, Concubine Hui and Concubine Zhe, will make the decision.

The eldest son of Concubine Zhe, Prince Yonghuang, was the oldest. Seeing that the emperor was in trouble, he took active actions. Concubine Zhe also had the same idea. She hoped that her son could ascend the throne.

So, taking advantage of the time when the emperor was unconscious, she frantically eliminated dissidents in the harem, wanting to take all the power in the harem into her own hands.

Gao Xiyue watched what the mother and son did. During this process, Gao Xiyue quickly found out who were the people in the harem and the previous dynasty.

Gao Xiyue was not in a hurry. She knew the emperor's health condition well. After all, it was she who did it. Moreover, she had already hinted to the emperor to make her son the crown prince early on and put him behind the plaque of "Zhengdaguangming".

She probably knew what Concubine Zhe was thinking. She wanted to keep power in her hands while the emperor was in a coma. Even if the emperor woke up, his health would not be much better, so she could force the emperor to change the candidate for the crown prince.

But how could Gao Xiyue give her this opportunity? After quickly figuring out who were Concubine Zhe's men, she woke the emperor up.

The emperor also knew that he was at the end of his strength, and he regretted it in his heart. If he had listened to the imperial physician and not been so reckless, it would have been better. Because of his momentary willfulness, he cost himself his life in vain.

The emperor immediately asked his trusted courtiers and relatives to come over, as he wanted to talk about something.

Concubine Zhe naturally wanted to stop it, but at this time, she realized that Gao Xiyue and Yongyu, mother and son, who had been silent all this time, were so powerful that they were far beyond what she and Yonghuang could compare to.

Concubine Zhe was heartbroken for a moment. She was careless. She originally thought that Gao Xiyue did not have such a mind and ability.

She could only watch as the emperor announced Yongyu as the next heir to the throne and Gao Xiyue was about to become the empress dowager. She was powerless and could not change anything.

After that, the emperor passed away, Yongyu inherited the throne, and Gao Xiyue became the empress dowager again.

The life of being an empress dowager is actually not much different from when she was a noble concubine, but there are some differences. That is, she can choose first what is sent to the palace by various places, foreign envoys, and vassal states.

It’s not like when she was a royal concubine, she had to be chosen by the emperor first.

In the second half of her life, she had a filial son who was the emperor. Moreover, as the country became stronger, the emperor recovered lost territories one after another and intimidated neighboring countries. More things were sent to the Qing Dynasty, and many of them were rare things.

During this process, Gao Xiyue also reminded Yongyu what things could be used in the Qing Dynasty, so as to develop the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, Yongyu was also reminded that there are a large number of gold mines and silver mines on the Japanese island, which are all good things.

The ambitious Yong Yu naturally did not want to let it go. This vassal state only knew how to show small courtesy but not great righteousness. Moreover, according to reports from spies who had visited the Japanese islands, they seemed to have the idea of ​​coveting the Celestial Empire. This was simply unreasonable and their ambitions were so evil that they could not be let go.

The Qing Dynasty developed rapidly under Yongyu's rule, especially the army which should not be underestimated. Without even formulating any strategy, they quickly surrounded the Japanese islands.

There is no need to imagine the result. Of course, Japan was destroyed and the roots of the problem were wiped out.

The gold and silver mines discovered on the Japanese islands were transported to the Qing Dynasty and contributed to its development.

After this incident, other vassal states no longer dared to have any offensive intentions. After all, the Qing Dynasty did not show any signs of decline. Instead, it was thriving and they could not defeat it at all.

Therefore, they are more submissive.

Even though the emperor withdrew from the stage of history as time went on, with the development of industry, although there were some minor twists and turns, they were all overcome smoothly and quickly. After that, China became even stronger and has always been the strongest country in the world, without a doubt.