In March, Princess Chaogui got married.

Not long after, Zhen Huan and Concubine Shun were hit by several wild cats in the imperial garden and both suffered miscarriages. On the day of the incident, Concubine Li from Changchun Palace left a suicide note admitting her crime and hanged herself.

Yinzhen lost two children at once, one of whom was his most anticipated child.

He became furious and, despite the Third Prince's pleas for mercy, demoted Concubine Li to a commoner and had her coffin buried at a random place near a mass grave.

In addition, the leader of the Sticking Rod Department, Xia Qian, was secretly asked to conduct a thorough investigation, and unsurprisingly, he discovered the Queen's handiwork, with An Lingrong from the Yanx Palace also involved.

The spices used on Zhen Huan and Concubine Shun were mixed by her, and it was she who was ordered by the Queen to use spices to train wild cats to pounce on people.

Yinzhen immediately ordered Su Peisheng to send all the palace servants around the queen to the Shenxingsi to investigate her actions over the years so that they could be made public as evidence when the previous dynasty deposed the queen.

Lu Yingfeng decisively got involved, so the confession obtained by Su Peisheng included the fact that the Queen murdered Queen Chunyuan and the Second Prince.

When Yinzhen read these confessions, he felt exhausted.

Although he knew that the queen was cruel, he never thought that every time the queen took action, his own mother would clean up the mess for her.

Is the glory of Ulanara and Uya more important than her own grandson?

Yinzhen couldn't help but wonder, if the queen married the fourteenth prince and harmed his offspring, would the empress dowager remain indifferent and even help clean up the mess?

Yinzhen sat alone in the Yangxin Palace for a long time before he ordered Su Peisheng outside to bring in the queen.

The queen guessed that if she took action this time, Yinzhen would doubt her or put her under house arrest. She didn't care about these things, because she had no power anyway. What she wanted was to get rid of those evil offspring and force Li to death.

In this way, the Third Prince would become her only son, and when the Third Prince ascended the throne in the future, she could also become the only empress dowager.

But she didn't expect that Yinzhen cared so much about the child in Zhen Huan's belly that he even sent everyone around her to the Shenxingsi for the sake of this child. Once they went to the Shenxingsi to tell her about her behavior, what other options would she have?

So when she knew that Yinzhen summoned her, she guessed her fate.

In the end, the two of them went from "I wish to be together day and night" to "I will never see you again, regardless of life or death".

Yinzhen issued an edict to abolish Ulanara Yixiu's position as queen and erase her trace from history.

At this point, Aisin-Gioro Yinzhen had only one queen, and that was Ulanara Rouze.

Ulanara Yixiu was demoted to a commoner, and from then on, Jingren Palace became her cold palace.

Yixiu valued her status as the principal wife the most. After being demoted to a commoner, she no longer had any hope, so she committed suicide by cutting her wrists that night.

When Yinzhen found out about this, he gave her a coffin and had her buried by the Ulanara clan, not even allowing her to be buried in the concubine's tomb.

The original owner's wish was fulfilled again, and Lu Yingfeng felt very happy.

At the beginning, many people in the court, especially officials who attached great importance to etiquette, believed that deposing the queen would bring shame to the royal family and would have a bad impact, and they were very upset about it.

No one in the former dynasty spoke up until Yinzhen announced Yixiu's crimes.

An Lingrong's end was very tragic. Yinzhen ordered her to commit suicide in the cold palace. When Zhen Huan found out, she went to the cold palace and strangled her to death.

In order to compensate Zhen Huan and Concubine Shun, and also because there was no Queen always mentioning the ancestral rules.

Zhen Huan became the fifth concubine besides the four concubines, Concubine Wan, and moved to Chengqian Palace.

Shun Guiren was promoted to Shunpin and became the head of Yanx Palace.

Borjigit, a noble lady in Jingyang Palace, was also promoted to Hepin.

Apart from Concubine Hua and Concubine Li who said a lot of sour words, most people in the palace just watched coldly and had no opinions.

Lu Yingfeng was too lazy to watch Prince Dun's ridiculous act of rebellion, and she didn't want to see the emperor ignore her and her sons' lives and just send Zhen Huan to Penglai Island to avoid disaster. So she sent a letter to Prince Dun's wife, explaining Prince Dun's thoughts and the consequences, and asked Prince Dun's wife to choose between her children and her husband.

Although Prince Dun and his wife are very loving, in the eyes of a mother, nothing is more important than her children.

Soon Prince Dun suffered a stroke and became unable to speak or move.

Yinzhen also sent several skilled doctors to treat Prince Dun in person, just to see if he was faking illness. After the doctors' diagnosis, it was confirmed that Prince Dun had indeed suffered a stroke and it was difficult for him to recover.

I have to say that Prince Dun’s wife was quite ruthless.

But in this way, the entire Prince Dun’s Mansion will no longer have to worry.

For the sake of his own reputation, Yinzhen would also have people take good care of the palace.

In the same year, Yinzhen had already laid out a plan, asking officials headed by Zhen Huan's father Zhen Yuandao to collect evidence to impeach Nian Gengyao.

In the end, Nian Gengyao completely fell in the autumn of the fourth year of Yongzheng's reign.

Zhen Huan and Nian Shilan have been competing for favor for many years and have always been at odds with each other, and there is also a life involved between them.

Poor Fang Jia Chunyi, had just served the emperor for a short time when she accidentally discovered that Nian Shilan was colluding with Nian Gengyao outside the palace to sell official positions and titles, and was drowned by Zhou Ninghai who was by her side.

In order to avenge Chun'er, Zhen Huan instigated Concubine Li to go to the Yangxin Palace to report Nian Shilan.

Lipin's father was an officer under Nian Gengyao. If Nian Gengyao fell from power, her father would not be in good shape if she did nothing.

For this reason, she believed Zhen Huan's words and reported Nian Shilan.

It was said that she caused Shen Meizhuang to fall into the water, drowned Fang Jiachunyi, and sold official positions and titles.

While Yinzhen was angry at Nian Shilan, he also disliked Lipin's betrayal of Nian Shilan.

After sending away Concubine Li, he issued an edict to strip Nian Shilan of her title, demoted her to a noble lady, and confined her to the Yiku Palace, where she was not allowed to leave until she was dead.

After learning that Nian Shilan had committed such a serious crime, Concubine Duan felt unfair that Yinzhen still spared her life and let her continue to be a noble lady. She felt that she had lost her fertility because of Nian Shilan, and only when Nian Shilan died could she relieve her hatred.

So she changed into a palace maid's clothes in the middle of the night, quietly went to Yiku Palace, and told her the origin of the bowl of pregnancy-preserving medicine and the secret of Huanyixiang.

Nian Shilan cried out, "Your Majesty, you have caused Shilan so much pain!"

Then he hit his head against the wall and committed suicide.

Yinzhen was very sad when he learned of Nian Shilan's death. In addition to being sad, he also felt something was wrong. He had not ordered Nian Shilan to be executed, and Nian Shilan was only temporarily confined to her house. How could he know that there would be no day when she would be restored to power? Why would she commit suicide?

So he asked Xia Qian to conduct a thorough investigation and found out that Concubine Duan of Yanqing Palace went to Yiku Palace on the night when Nian Shilan committed suicide.

Concubine Duan knew the darkest secret in Yinzhen's heart, so Yinzhen naturally guessed that she had told Nian Shilan about it, which was why Nian Shilan committed suicide.

So he immediately became furious and ordered that Concubine Duan die of illness, along with Concubine Li who betrayed Nian Shilan. Both of them were poisoned by the secret medicine of the previous dynasty, and they died within ten days.

After Nian Shilan's death, Yinzhen posthumously conferred the title of Imperial Noble Consort Dunsu on her.

However, Concubine Duan and Concubine Li were buried according to the rites for noble ladies and maids-in-waiting.

Everyone therefore understood that they must have done something to make Yinzhen dislike them, which was why they died so miserably. Maybe it was related to the death of Imperial Noble Consort Dunsu.

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