The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

After Princess Yuyi came to Beijing, the chaos in the capital city calmed down quickly at a speed unimaginable to ordinary people.

The dragon still hovers above everyone's head.

The Jinwu Guards were completely idle. While conducting screening, they were also distributing antidotes that the female doctors had hastily prepared based on the properties of the medicines. The guarding of the capital was temporarily taken over by the Yulin Guards.

As for the troops brought from the southern states, Lu Weiyuan asked them to continue to be stationed outside the city, and only transferred a part of them to the Yulin Guard, which was short of manpower.

Of course, she could directly send the army into the city to help restore order, but doing so would be very troublesome and would have consequences. Although no one in the world could hurt Lu Weiyuan, she was the only one who was indestructible after all, and her subjects still needed to be carefully protected.

The dragon no longer hovered over the imperial city.

After clarifying the various strongholds of the Red Yang Cult in the imperial city, taking all the cult members and officials in Beijing who were involved in the incident to the streets and executing them one by one, and completely eliminating this destabilizing factor, Lu Weiyuan began to arrange the funeral for his relatives.

Only one in ten Lu clan members who remained in the capital survived. Half of them died in the fight that day, half died in the homes of their leaders who were raided by the Hongyang Cult after they went out with their guards to cause trouble for Princess Rong Le, and a small number died because their wounds were too severely infected or they were born weak and could not survive the treatment phase.

Their bodies were placed in the square outside the Lu clan ancestral hall, which had been burned to ashes.

There were rows of coffins of various shapes, and at the front were the family of Prince Gong, Prince Yiyang, and the Princess.

"What's going on in the northern border? Have the replies arrived from His Majesty and the Empress?" Concubine Xu brought the concubines who had been trained for many years in the harem to replace the officials who had been punished, and took over the operation of the court very smoothly.

While flipping through the memorials, she asked the female official beside her: "Where is His Highness Yuyi? Where did she go?"

The young female official who was questioned lowered her head and said, "I don't know..."

"Your Majesty, when I went out this morning, I met Her Highness on the palace road. She said that she was going to visit Empress Shufei and the young county princess." A concubine who was also busy below raised her head and said something, then quickly lowered her head and gestured at the blueprint in her hand.

Concubine Xu touched her forehead helplessly - Lu Weiyuan was a man willing to delegate power, and she herself was indeed strong enough to ensure that she would not be deceived or betrayed by her subordinates, but this child... was too fond of distraction.

But that's not important either.

Even if Lu Weiyuan was not in the Lizheng Hall, but was running around everywhere and disappeared, no one in the world would probably have any objection to her rule, either now or in the future.

During the journey from the southern region to the capital, Lu Weiyuan openly displayed his magical powers and the huge mountain dragon, and also helped the locals get rid of a few pests. He flew and killed all the way, and after killing them, he gave the local fields and forests a few years of prosperity and growth...

The story of Princess Yuyi has not yet spread to the north, simply because she did it in such a short time. However, Concubine Xu believes that she does not need to wait much longer before she can witness with her own eyes the official arrival of Lu Weiyuan's era.

According to her idea, Lu Weiyuan should quickly send someone - or go there himself - to the border town to control the emperor in order to avoid unnecessary variables.

But Concubine Xu soon realized the limitations of her own thinking.

Lu Weiyuan is different from ordinary people, so it doesn't matter if she doesn't use these mortal methods. Even if Princess Shou'an, who is leading her troops, wants to do something... To put it bluntly, Princess Shou'an has been slightly superior to Lu Weiyuan in all aspects of her intelligence since she was a child. The two sisters have fought several times, and the younger sister has won easily.

Compared with marching and deploying troops, although Princess Shou'an successfully "suppressed the rebellion" the first time she led troops, this was the inevitable result of multiple calculations. Although this cannot deny her ability to lead troops, I am afraid she is still not as good as Lu Weiyuan, who was trained by the emperor and empress personally and led the army of the Southern Region all the way north.

In terms of personal strength, Princess Shouan might not even be able to beat Concubine Xu, let alone Lu Weiyuan.

Concubine Xu couldn't quite understand why Lu Weiyuan insisted on waiting for Princess Shou'an's arrival in the capital, and she was very active in arranging the venue for "entertaining her sister" for several days.

The venue was just outside the city gate.

Because Lu Weiyuan and his dragon suppressed the chaos in the capital city, the battle that Princess Rongyang and most people had expected did not happen, and there was no smoke or traces of fighting outside the city.

However, Lu Weiyuan asked everyone to use the corpses of the traitors to create a tragic battlefield...

At certain moments, Concubine Xu seemed to see the shadow of her biological father in her daughter, who did not treat others as human beings and did not really treat himself as a human being. She was a little worried, but more at ease, so she directly asked Lu Weiyuan about his intentions.

However, Lu Weiyuan said with confidence that he wanted to fulfill his fourth sister's wish. To do this, he had to ensure that his fourth sister still had the spirit of striving for progress before she met him.

After saying this, Lu Weiyuan used the koi and turtles that the emperor raised in the imperial garden to bribe Shanlong and asked her to disguise herself as a small hill outside the city for a few days.

My thoughts race through my mind.

Concubine Xu looked at the sky outside the window, stretched her wrists slightly, and then told everyone in the hall to take a rest and have lunch first.

In the early stages of pacification, there are the most things to do and they are the most tiring.

But the concubines who were finally able to take advantage of the power vacancy and sit in the Lizheng Hall to handle state affairs were more excited than each other. Someone directly proposed that the imperial kitchen send lunch to the side hall. After seeking Concubine Xu's approval, they happily stood up and moved their hands and feet with the concubines who had the same idea.

Concubine Xu turned around and went back to the inner palace, walking slowly towards Concubine Li Shufei's Dexin Palace.

Concubine Li was very frightened that day. When she woke up, she heard that the cold palace had been robbed. She was too worried about Ruyi, so she got up and rushed to the cold palace. As a result, she happened to see Concubine Xu leading the Yulin Guards to fight with the cultists who had sneaked in, and she was frightened to death and fainted.

I finally woke up completely today, but I still feel listless.

It was not until Lu Weiyuan sent the daughter left by Prince Yi Yang and his wife to Dexin Palace and asked her to take care of her that Concubine Li Shu regained some spirits.

"This child is blessed. I have also heard about her parents' affairs. Alas... things between adults are bound to hurt the child. She is lucky. The female doctor said that the poison only hurt the Princess' body. Not much remains in her body. If she takes good care of herself in the future, she will not be as weak as her father and uncle for life."

Concubine Li Shu sighed to Lu Weiyuan, then forced a smile and said, "Your Highness, have you ever thought of giving the little county lady a name?"

Lu Weiyuan stuffed a snack in his mouth and blinked: "Sister-in-law was still worried about her body before she passed away... Let's give her a nickname first, let's call her Wujiu."