All of Yinzhen's living princes were born to women of the Han army banner. They all had similar backgrounds, and the only thing they compared was the official positions their mothers held in the previous dynasty, and whether the prince was smart and capable of taking on important responsibilities.

Now Shilan has passed away this year, the Queen has been deposed, and even the Queen Mother died last year. Yinzhen has a total of fifteen years to live, and it seems that only five years are left. (Fifteen years in the drama.)

Feng Ruozhao felt that now was the time for her Feng family to rise.

So a cement recipe was sent to the Feng family.

After receiving his daughter's letter, Feng Ruozhao's father Feng Lan immediately started experimenting.

Half a year later, Yinzhen came to Xianfu Palace excitedly and said bluntly, "Jing Guifei, your father is a good man!"

Feng Ruozhao pretended to be confused, "Ah? Why did the emperor mention my father?"

Seeing that she didn't look fake, Yinzhen smiled and explained to her, "Your father discovered something called cement, which can be used to pave roads and repair rivers in the future, which will be of great benefit to the country and the people. I have already ordered your father to be appointed as the Minister of Works. Are you happy, Concubine Jing?"

"Happy, of course I am happy."

Feng Ruozhao's eyes were red and his excitement was evident on his face.

In another five years, she will be the empress dowager.

Feng Ruozhao's family was powerful in the previous dynasty, and she also wanted to do her part to help herself ascend to the throne and consolidate Hongxu's position in the harem.

While Yinzhen was staying in Xianfu Palace, she took the Dragon and Phoenix Pill and gave birth to Yinzhen's youngest son and daughter.

Ten months later, relying on her fertile belly, Yinzhen issued an edict to confer Feng Ruozhao the title of Imperial Noble Consort.

From then on, Hongxu, the twins, and the boy-girl twins all became half-legitimate sons and daughters.

An Lingrong and Xinpin certainly wanted to fight for their own sons.

But they had no family background and their two children were too young, so they could not even compare to Hongxu.

Unless Yinzhen could live another ten or twenty years, and their children married a legitimate wife with a good family background, they might be able to compete.

But they watched Yinzhen getting older and older, and even began to smell like an old man.

I feel that he may have a problem living for three to five years, let alone ten or eight years.

Therefore, after thinking it through, they all raised their sons obediently, hoping that Hongxu would confer the title of prince on their sons in the future and let their sons take them out of the palace to live in their old age.

The reason why Feng Ruozhao gave them both the fertility elixir was because they were Han army bannermen and had humble family backgrounds, so they couldn't cause any trouble. Otherwise, if Zhen Huan and Shen Meiyu had a son, with Zhen Huan's intelligence and Shen Meiyu's family background, they would definitely fight for it.

However, Feng Ruozhao would never let this happen. Allowing them to have a daughter was already a kindness on her part.

After Feng Ruozhao gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, she was no longer willing to sleep with the emperor.

She simply pretended to be sick, and at the same time asked the imperial doctors who had taken her loyalty pills to tell Yinzhen that his body was not suitable for indulgence, and asked him to go to the harem less often and teach her son more.

The older a person gets, the more he cherishes his life.

When Feng Ruozhao heard that Yinzhen had started taking elixirs, he replaced those elixirs with chocolate beans bought from Taobao.

This life is not like the life of Fu Cha Yi Xin. Although Feng Ruozhao's father is a first-rank official and his brothers also hold official positions, they are no match for the Fu Cha family with its profound family background. Without the support of his family, Feng Ruozhao is afraid that after Hongxu takes the throne, he will be bullied by those old ministers who rely on their seniority and will not be able to establish himself.

Hongxu is not like her in Lu Yingfeng's life. She has grown up long ago, started a family and entered the court, and can stand firm on her own.

The Feng family's financial resources were too weak and Hongxu was too young. She wished Yinzhen could live a few more years, or at least wait until Hongxu got married and entered the court before dying.

So the only option was to let Yinzhen stop taking the elixir and live as many more years as possible.

Yinzhen had never eaten elixirs or chocolate beans, and the low-calorie chocolate beans that Feng Ruozhao bought were very bitter. Yinzhen did not doubt it and ate them three times a day.

Perhaps because Feng Ruozhao stopped Yinzhen from committing suicide, he successfully survived the 15th year of Yongzheng's reign. In that year, he arranged for Hongxu to have a woman from the Nianhulu clan as his principal wife, and selected several women from prominent families as concubines and princesses.

In the 16th year of Yongzheng's reign, Hongxu was conferred the title of Heshuo Rong Prince and got married in Chonghua Palace.

He became the only son of Yinzhen who got married and settled in the palace, and allowed Hongxu to enter the court and participate in politics after his marriage.

Yinzhen's meaning was obvious.

Originally, the Feng family attracted a lot of people's attention because they had a royal concubine and a smart sixth prince. Many people began to get close to the Feng family, trying to marry into the Feng family, make friends with the Feng family, and even give gifts to the Feng family, wanting to stand on Hongxu's side.

Fortunately, Feng Lan is a rational patriarch, and with Feng Ruozhao's advice, the Feng family refused all overtures. Even when it came to marriage, they chose to marry someone whose father had an idle position and whose character was noble.

Make sure those who want to curry favor with you have no chance at all.

Now that Hongxu has surpassed his brothers and been crowned king, the Feng family has gathered a lot of people again.

But they were all dismissed one by one by Feng Lan.

The Feng family's tactfulness made Yinzhen feel much more at ease.

In addition, he himself felt that his health was not very good, so he taught Hongxu even more attentively.

He originally played the role of a good son. In addition to caring about Yinzhen's health on a daily basis, he was also working hard to absorb knowledge.

In the autumn of the seventeenth year of Yongzheng's reign, Yinzhen felt that his end was near.

He summoned clan members and important officials to the Yangxin Palace and announced that the Feng family would be admitted to the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner and given the surname Fengjia. He also issued an edict to confer Hongxu the title of Crown Prince and ordered him to supervise the country from that day on.

Yinzhen ultimately did not survive New Year's Eve and died in the Yangxin Palace on December 26, the 17th year of Yongzheng's reign.

Crown Prince Hongxu placed Yinzhen's coffin in the Hall of Mental Cultivation and personally kept vigil for Yinzhen for 27 days.

27 days later, Hongxu ascended the throne and changed the reign title to Jingchang.

Feng Ruozhao became the first dual empress dowager in the Qing Dynasty. Hongxu also gave her a respectful title, calling her Empress Dowager Yi De, and ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to renovate the Cining Palace for Feng Ruozhao to live in alone.

Yinzhen's other concubines were also given the title of Tai and were placed in Shoukang Palace and Shouan Palace by Empress Niuhulu.

No matter how capable these imperial concubines, imperial concubines, and imperial noble ladies were in the past, they have become obedient now.

But one thing has not changed, that is, Ulanara Yixiu continues to be tortured.

Feng Ruozhao had not visited Ulanara Yixiu since she was deposed, but he had heard a lot about her deeds from Ruyi.

Over the years, she had been tortured in various ways by these concubines who had suffered miscarriages. When she heard Yinzhen's death knell, she started to feel palpitations and wanted to die with Yinzhen.

However, the nanny who was taking care of her discovered it in time and reported it to the concubines and imperial concubines. They immediately ordered the imperial doctors to go to the cold palace to treat Ulanara Yixiu. Thanks to the superb medical skills of these imperial doctors, they actually saved Ulanara Yixiu.

So she continued her previous troubled life.

Feng Ruozhao didn't care about these things. For the sake of Quan Hongxu's reputation, she stayed in the Cining Palace for three years. During this period, she gave various prescriptions to Hongxu. When the three years were up, she immediately took Ruyi and Hanzhu to travel around and practice the fertility-giving Guanyin.

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