In three months, under the strategic planning of Gu Qingcheng, Huo Wuniang led the soldiers and horses to wipe out all the horse bandits and bandits within a radius of 100 miles.

Gu Qingcheng's men and horses have also expanded from the initial 500 to 1,000.

The castle in the north city has been completely renovated.

The walls were raised, the moats were deepened, and the surrounding wasteland was reclaimed.

With a relatively stable rear, Huo Wuniang, Li Shilang and other generals began to lead their troops to attack.

In accordance with the strategy formulated by Gu Qingcheng, they specially besieged a small group of Xirong cavalry.

If you can beat it, you will fight, and if you can't beat it, you will run in the direction of Xizhou and border cities.

The "guerrilla cavalry" of the Nine Emperor Princes, like sparrows and kites, is not very powerful, but it is developing little by little on the border line.

In Beijing, Dong Guifei has been sick in bed.

Queen Yuan didn't want to find bad luck before, but then she didn't care about it.

Under the "persuasion" of the Empress Dowager Yuan, Emperor Qing finally relented and agreed to let Empress Yuan raise a young prince.

Emperor Qing has a total of more than 20 princes, and according to their age, they can be divided into two echelons:

The Nine Emperors and the princes before him have all grown up and are considered to be the eldest princes;

The Ten Princes and the later ones are still very young and belong to the Little Princes.

Emperor Qing suggested that Empress Yuan could take the youngest nineteen princes over to raise him, and the nineteen princes were three years old this year and had just recognized people.

However, if you are young and raise it for a few years, you will be able to raise it maturely.

Empress Dowager Yuan thinks it's also good.

Empress Yuan was a little unwilling: "Although Nineteen Lang's biological mother is a concubine and her position is not high, that person's surname is Yang, and she was born in the Hongnong Yang family."

is a daughter of a family, not a lowly palace person or an ordinary person.

It is impossible for Empress Yuan to "go to the mother and keep the son".

But if Concubine Yang stays in the palace all the time, even if she raises Shijiu Lang, Shijiu Lang will know who her biological mother is!

Empress Yuan didn't want to make wedding dresses for others.

To raise a son, you must raise someone who has no hidden dangers.

Coincidentally, Emperor Qing ate wine and was fortunate to have a palace maid.

The palace maid was a blessed one, and she became pregnant only once.

Empress Yuan suddenly had an idea: if this palace girl has a son, then bring it over and raise it.

As for the palace maid, hey, this year, the woman's birth is to break through the ghost gate.

Dystocia, or postpartum blood collapse or something, it's normal.

Without the so-called biological mother, Queen Yuan is the only mother, and this son is really mature.

If you give birth to a daughter—

Empress Yuan glanced at the palace maids in her palace, in fact, it was not impossible to get them pregnant.

On the fifteenth day of the new year, Emperor Qing will go to the queen.

Empress Yuan endured her jealousy and chose one or two outstanding ones to serve Emperor Qing.

Three months later, three or four palace maids in the palace suddenly became pregnant.

Dong Guifei: ......

She coughed and vomited blood as she walked the procedure, and sighed secretly.

She didn't know whether to disgust someone's actions, or to pity those palace maids or children!

"Well, I don't know what's going on with Donglang!"

Dong Guifei thought of her son who was far away in Xizhou, and a bright light finally flashed in her eyes.

She thought of a few months ago, when her son was leaving the capital.

On the night of parting, her son held her hand and said goodbye to her.

Although Donglang has amnesia, he doesn't remember the past.

But bloodline is a wonderful thing.

Donglang instinctively was very close to himself, looking at his gaze with admiration.

Every time Dong Guifei sees her son's trusting and dependent eyes, she can't help but think: For the sake of my son, I am willing to do anything!

Even to die!

Yes, there was a time when Dong Guifei was thinking, should I die?

She is alive and is a target of Emperor Qing.

Emperor Qing is more of a use of her and Donglang.

But if she dies, no matter how ruthless Emperor Qing is, she will have some true feelings.

For his son, Emperor Qing always has a little bit of calf licking.

In addition, it is human nature to pity the weak.

Emperor Qing took great pity on the princes and princesses in the palace who lost their mothers.

"I'm dead, whether it's the love of the past, or in order to continue acting, the emperor will love Jiuro even more!"

With such thoughts, Dong Guifei gave birth to a will to die.

It was still Gu Qingcheng, who was keenly aware of Dong Guifei's abnormality, knelt in front of her, and said word by word, "A-Niang, when I was living among the people, I heard a country slang——"

"A child with a mother is like a treasure, and a child without a mother is like a grass!"

"It's only you, don't give up on it!"

Gu Tingcheng's words completely woke up Dong Guifei.

Relying only on the "pity" of others is too passive.

If people are willing to have mercy, they can give a few points.

But if people don't want to, what if her Donglang has no mother again?

No way!

She has to live!

Although she has no prominent status, she does not have any helpers.

But, as long as she is still a concubine, as long as she is standing in the palace, she can help Donglang!

It's just her body—

Gu Qingcheng did not hesitate, and exchanged his blessing for a myelin-washing pill in the mall.

Although Dong Guifei didn't know where her son got the pill, she didn't hesitate to take the pill without the slightest hesitation.

This myelin-washing pill may just be a simple version.

did not cut the hair and wash the marrow in the immortal text, but only eradicated Dong Guifei's chronic disease.

Even though the efficacy of the medicine was discounted, Dong Guifei was still shocked.

However, she still didn't ask much, and only accepted it silently.

The body is better, but the illness has to continue to pretend.

Since Dong Guifei doesn't want to die and wants to live to help her son, she must always be good.

Moreover, after Donglang fell off the cliff, Dong Guifei completely understood one thing-

She and Donglang are just pawns of Emperor Qing.

"I don't want to be a pawn! I'm a favorite concubine!"

Since she is a favorite concubine, she must get the treatment that a favorite concubine deserves.

Instead of just carrying an infamy.

Of course, for now, Dong Guifei doesn't dare to be too public.

She could only pretend to be sick to avoid Empress Yuan's targeting, and caused Emperor Qing's distress.

Alas, a seriously ill person doesn't know when she will choke, so why bother with her?

Dong Guifei's illness is half a year young.

The form in the palace has changed.

Dong Guifei is still favored, but Emperor Qing always has times when he is drunk or recognizes the wrong person.

The number of pregnancies among low-ranking court maids has increased.

Empress Yuan and Empress Dowager Yuan diverted their attention, not staring at Concubine Dong and the other three concubines, but looking at those pregnant palace maids every day.

Dong Guifei: ......

Donglang, grow up quickly.

A-Niang is waiting for you to take the men and horses back to the capital!

Bite! While!

In the blacksmith shop in Beicheng, Gu Qingcheng stood on the periphery, watching several blacksmiths bare-chested and beating hard.

"Your Highness, look, this piece of iron is okay?"

After a beating, an older blacksmith came to Gu Qingcheng with an iron piece between them.

If it had been a few months ago, this blacksmith would not have dared to be so presumptuous in front of the nobles.

In ancient times, the status of craftsmen was very low.

Some professions that need to be kept secret, such as iron smelting, casting, etc., can even cripple craftsmen.

The saddest example is the craftsman who built the imperial tomb.

Many people are directly pitted

Killed or buried.

Gu Tingcheng is an ancient native, and he has a strict concept of class in his bones.

However, after binding to the system, I entered a different world.

She herself used to be a "craftsman".

She has a new understanding of this class.

Perhaps, she did not yet reach the level of treating craftsmen as equals, but she realized the importance of craftsmen.

Great country craftsmen!

Craftsmen are beings who can promote the development of society!

And for a superior person, a valuable person should be valued!

This time, he was dressed as the Nine Emperor Princes, and he needed to win that highest position, and Gu Qingcheng needed all kinds of talents.

Among the many talents, craftsmen are indispensable and very important.

Not to mention anything else, just the armor, ordnance, etc., needed in the army, craftsmen needed to forge and even "invent" better and more sophisticated good things.

"Not bad!"

Gu Qingcheng looked at it carefully and nodded with satisfaction, "Study the formula again and see if you can improve the strength."

It's not that Gu Tingcheng doesn't know how to pretend to understand, as a person with ninth-level skills, maybe she can't do it yet, but it's still no problem to improve the formula of fine iron, improve the bow and crossbow or something.

It's just that Gu Qingcheng can't behave too demonically.

After all, here, she is the Nine Emperor Princes of Gold and Jade, not a craftsman.

Being able to come up with an idea is also smart enough.

Specific R&D and experiments require repeated attempts by craftsmen.

For example, black powder, Gu Tingcheng also found a warlock note as an excuse and had a rough formula.

The specific ratio needs to be studied by the craftsman himself......

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