Jiang Yue couldn't help but feel a little sorry after hearing this. In fact, Queen Duan also came from a famous family.

Although she is the second legitimate daughter, she is of noble status, looks pretty, and has a bright future.

But after her elder sister became the Crown Princess, the burning fire of jealousy took control of her mind.

She tried to seduce Emperor Mingde, who was then the crown prince, many times, but unfortunately he was not interested in her.

However, she was treated as a sister-in-law, and after he ascended the throne, Empress Duan had no chance to get close to Emperor Mingde.

She took the blame on her elder sister, the late queen, because they were born of the same mother and the late queen loved her very much.

He vaguely felt that his biological sister wanted to enter the palace, so he tactfully suggested to her that he make her a concubine.

Empress Duan has been spoiled at home since she was a child and has become lawless. It is impossible for her to be willing to be a concubine, so she must be a concubine!

She rejected her elder sister's plan for her, and pretended to respect her on the surface, but in fact, she would drug her every time she went to the palace to visit the late queen.

Two medicines are taken together, one is a sterilizing medicine and the other is a chronic poison.

She waited and waited for three whole years, but as she wished, the late queen was still not pregnant.

But he was still struggling to survive, dragging his sick body through the days.

She couldn't wait any longer, as her family urged her to get married every day because she was getting older every year.

Finally, when Emperor Mingde went out on a tour and left the late empress in the palace, she administered the final drastic measure.

Before the late queen died, he deliberately showed weakness and made the late queen leave behind an imperial edict.

The content is that after her death, the successor must be her sister.

Emperor Mingde thought it didn't matter who he married, so he respected the late empress's wishes and married Empress Duan.

After becoming the queen, she could still pretend to be virtuous at first.

After a long time, he started to act up and got irritable at home.

Especially after giving birth to the second princess, she has not been able to get pregnant. Watching others giving birth to sons one after another, she felt dark and jealous inside.

Over the years, many methods have been used to kill many dragon fetuses. If it weren't for Emperor Mingde's excessive protection of Concubine Liang.

It is possible that none of Concubine Liang's three children could be born. Since Princess Yaochi was born, Emperor Mingde was forced to make other concubines pregnant.

She was sternly warned that the two concubines would not be able to give birth to a prince.

It can only be said that Queen Duan's fate was entirely her own fault.

Emperor Mingde and his harem were settled in an inn in Chao County, and Jiang Yue was naturally among them.

Outside Chao County, people traveling by land gathered here, and officers and soldiers were distributing rice porridge and steamed buns.

People are coming and going in the county town, and since it has not been damaged by natural disasters, smiles can still be seen on the faces of the people.

Jiang Yue changed her clothes and put on a hat, happily walking through the streets. She did not go to the grocery store.

Instead, she went straight into some deserted shops.

For example, clothing shops, cloth shops, blacksmith shops, wine shops, rouge shops, in short, as long as they were not shops selling goods for the people's livelihood, she would go in and make a big purchase.

It's no secret that gods like to shop in bulk, and these merchants are happy to do business with them.

When I heard that the other party wanted all the goods in my shop, I suddenly realized that it must be a god visiting my shop, so I must obey!

Jiang Yue also found it very convenient. These non-daily supplies were already available at home, so people didn't need them and couldn't take them away.

It would be better to let her collect it and then find an opportunity to return it to the people later. A batch of grain collected in Kyoto and several towns has already been given to the people.

Then let her keep it for now.

Jiang Yue looked happily at the piles of various supplies behind the space community, her heart beaming with joy.

When I returned to the inn, the news that the gods were collecting supplies had indeed spread. As a god himself, I was still a little proud.

The happier Jiang Yue was, the worse Emperor Mingde and Prince Rong were.

Just received intelligence that the Jin army has crossed the capital and is heading straight for Lai County!

Why did Daikin change its course?

Did something strange happen in the east of Kyoto?

Since Emperor Mingde moved the capital, he has not sent anyone to explore the east except for a few border lines in the northwest, so there is no way to know what is happening there now.

Dajin is still a month's journey away from Lai County, and after passing Lai County, it is only a week's journey to Chao County.

It seems that the original plan to camp in Chao County and return home after the natural disaster is over is no longer feasible.

It's not that we are afraid of the Jin Dynasty, so we go to war with it.

Instead, they have now retreated to a small coastal city, and once a war breaks out, there will be nowhere to retreat.

Emperor Mingde arranged for Prince Rong to bring Prince An to inspect the ships built in Chao County and notified the people to set off in three days, following the coastline around the big rift and heading south.

Now the big crack is connected to the sea water, and a large amount of sea water has not filled the big crack. Unfortunately, its depth is unfathomable.

If there were no big cracks, they could migrate south by carriage. After all, land is much safer than the sea.

Prince Rong and Prince An accepted the order. Now, except for the three princes, all other officials and leaders who committed crimes in the prince's party have been beheaded.

All the family members were driven off the royal ship and moved to the back behind the people.

Being behind the people is not a good place for these pampered young men and women.

They are the family members of criminals, which is equivalent to exile. The people have been notified, but they will not give them any face.

If they lose their temper with these people, given their current status, they will not get any good results. Whether they live or die depends on themselves.

Such punishment served as a good warning to other officials. In the past few days, everyone saw how the wives and sons of officials, who were once high and mighty, were bullied by the common people.

The officers and soldiers would not accept their complaints, and no one would seek justice for them.

The other family members all started to pull in their own officials, urging them not to offend the emperor and bring harm to the whole family.

The next day, Jiang Yue dressed up and went alone to the place where she had agreed to meet with the peasant woman to collect medicinal herbs.

She asked everyone to line up and weigh their own goods. She only took a glance to check the quality and paid directly.

And she was quite generous. She gave a hundred taels of silver note instead of ninety taels and didn't ask for change.

In this way, they collected medicinal herbs in Chao County for three days. Every time Yao Chi came to find her, Xiao Zhu said that she was out collecting medicinal herbs, so she had to give up and go back.

Many people rushed in from other places outside the city, including some from the direction of Tan County.

The city gates were set up so that according to household registration, only one person from a family could enter to purchase supplies.

Although there were many people outside the city, there was no looting or rioting. Emperor Mingde was very satisfied with this and praised Prince Rong and Prince An highly.

The ministers in the court were all very shrewd and could see that Emperor Mingde valued Prince Rong. In the past, there was a crown prince, but Prince Rong was asked to do the job.

Now that the Crown Prince has fallen, Prince Rong is obviously going to take the throne!

But now is a sensitive period, and they dare not go to visit Prince Rong. They can only secretly send gifts and write letters to Prince Rong.

Little did they know that Prince Rong had registered all the gifts and letters and handed them over to Emperor Mingde, who simply glanced at them and told Eunuch Huang to keep them.

The father and son smiled at each other and continued to play the pig and eat the tiger.

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