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Chapter 279: Legend of Zhen Huan - Yun Li 25

The deaths of Prince Guo and his wife dealt a heavy blow to the Empress Dowager and the Emperor, and both of them became weak to varying degrees.

Before they could get over their grief, the elixir that Yunli had sent people to find arrived in the Forbidden City and into the hands of the emperor.

Only then did the emperor realize that in addition to guarding the peace in the western part of the Qing Dynasty in the northwest, Yunli also did not forget to find elixirs that could strengthen his body and prolong his life for him and the empress dowager.

As expected, when the emperor saw the elixir and knew who got it, he spat out blood again.

Seeing this, Su Peisheng hurried forward to support the shaky emperor and said, "Your Majesty, you must take care of your body. The prince's spirit in heaven doesn't want you to be sad."

The emperor stood firm with the help of Su Peisheng's hand and looked at the things Yunli brought back with sad eyes.

"Yunli is my good brother, but it's a pity that I can't protect him!"

Su Peisheng was anxious and didn't dare to say anything, for fear that his words would touch the emperor's fragile nerves and cause him to faint again.

The emperor did not want Su Peisheng to reply. He stepped forward and touched the herbs that still had some mud stains. He sighed and muttered to himself, "Yunli was worried about me. It was my fault that I did not trust him and did not let him touch the real power. I harmed him."

Su Peisheng lowered his head even lower, trying to make himself look like a transparent person.

Su Peisheng knew all of the emperor's suspicions about Prince Guo, but it was too late to worry about anything now.

Prince Guo is no longer here.

The emperor summoned the chief judge of the Imperial Hospital and asked him to make pills from the two herbs.

When the chief judge of the Imperial Medical Bureau saw the two excellent medicinal herbs, his eyes lit up. This is really a good thing!

After learning who found this thing, he became silent like Su Peisheng.

A few days later, the imperial physician handed the newly prepared pills to the emperor.

Not long after the emperor had eaten it, he felt a warm current surging in his body, and his body and mind felt relaxed.

At this moment, he felt the changes in his body with satisfaction.

There is no emperor who does not want to be healthy and live longer.

The gift Yunli brought him at the end was very good.

The Queen Mother had been ill for a long time, and the Emperor asked the imperial physician to give the Queen Mother the last pill.

However, the emperor has ordered everyone to keep silent about the origin of this medicine.

Therefore, the empress dowager did not know where the pill that cured her body came from, and she thought it was the emperor's filial piety, and she developed a sincere mother-son relationship with the emperor.

Not long after the Empress Dowager and the Emperor took the pills, Yunli, who was accompanying his mother in Jiangnan, found out.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the news, and the burden in his heart was reduced a little.

Although the Emperor had many suspicions about him, he still had some brotherly affection for him. And the Queen Mother had raised him, so naturally she had feelings for him as well.

He was really afraid that after his death, the Empress Dowager and the Emperor's health would be affected because they knew of his death.

Chen looked at Wen Yunli, whose worries disappeared from his eyes, and asked with a smile, "What's wrong? Did you receive any good news?"

Chen was very happy that her son could continue to live with her, and Su Qingqing, who was serving her, also had a smile on her face.

Su Qingqing arrived in Jiangnan two days earlier than Yunli, and knew very well that Chen missed her son.

Although Su Qingqing "died" after Yun Li, Yun Li still had some things to deal with after his fake death and did not come to Jiangnan to reunite with his mother immediately.

Su Qingqing looked at the warm scene of mother and son getting along in front of her and said with a smile: "Your Highness should be relieved now that he knows that the Queen Mother and the Emperor are safe in the capital."

Chen seemed to have thought of something, and the smile on her face faded a little. She said, "That's right. When the Emperor and the Queen Mother learned of your death, they must have been feeling unwell."

Chen said, looking at the envelope in Yunli's hand, and asked, "Does the envelope say anything about the health of the emperor and the empress dowager?"

Yunli nodded, "Yes, the emperor and the queen mother are in good health."

"That's good."

Chen and Yunli chatted for a few more sentences, and finally Yunli told Chen about his future plans.

He is going to go out to sea.

The world outside the Qing Dynasty had developed to a point where even the Qing Dynasty felt ashamed of itself. It was necessary for the Qing Dynasty to go out to sea and bring back some things. Even if the Qing Dynasty did not show up, it was necessary to let the Emperor know the situation overseas and not to close the country to the outside world.

Today's Qing Dynasty is in a semi-closed state to the outside world. Except for the coastal areas that still have commercial exchanges with the West, foreign trade is no longer allowed in other places.

During Hongli's reign, he completely pursued a policy of seclusion from the outside world, which laid the groundwork for the future decline of the Qing Dynasty.

Chen was just a woman who lived in seclusion. She was not as politically sensitive as Yunli. When she heard that Yunli was going to sea, her eyes were full of worry.

Seeing that Yunli had made up his mind, Chen didn't know what to say and reminded Yunli to be careful.

After staying in Jiangnan for more than three months, Yunli assembled the ships and prepared for sailing. Yunli bid farewell to Chen and went out to sea with the fleet.

Time has passed, three years later.

The emperor was in good health. As he watched the number of his children in his harem steadily increase to ten, he nodded with satisfaction, feeling that God was still treating him well.

Of the two sons born first, the son born to Li of the Han Army Banner was smarter. The emperor had not yet decided whether to make him the crown prince. When he thought of the fate of his second brother, he gave up the idea of ​​making him the crown prince.

I plan to teach both sons without favoring one over the other.

During these three years, many things from the West appeared among the people. At the beginning, when those Western gadgets were popular among the people, the emperor did not care much. Until he saw that some people were selling Western farm tools that were more efficient than those of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor began to pay attention.

Emperor Yongzheng cared most about the agricultural development of the Qing Dynasty. When he saw those highly efficient farm tools, his eyes lit up. What finally made Yongzheng abandon their policy of seclusion was that someone brought back extremely lethal artillery shells and pistols from the West.

Although the Qing Dynasty also had gunpowder cannons and gunpowder rifles at this time, they were still too weak compared to Western cannons and rifles. There was no comparison between the two.

Yongzheng immediately summoned his ministers to discuss the matter and then sent an army to the West to inquire about the military strength of the countries there.

Half a year later, people who returned from the West told Emperor Yongzheng with serious expressions that the military development in the West was no longer comparable to that of the Qing Dynasty.

Not only that, the people who returned from the West also told Yongzheng a piece of news.

There are many skyscrapers in the West, and the construction technology is also incomparable to that of the Qing Dynasty.

When the emperor found out, he could no longer sit still.

He also quickly sent some talented people who were interested in architecture to study in the West.

Finally, the emperor sorted out the things he had sent people to collect and distributed copies to all the ministers. When everyone finished reading the information, their hearts were stirred. They did not expect that the Qing Dynasty, which thought of itself as a great country, has now fallen so far behind the Western countries.

Seeing that everyone was devastated, Yongzheng nodded and announced the lifting of the maritime ban and the development of foreign trade.

When the news spread among the people, Yunli had already returned to Jiangnan to serve Chen.

Yunli brought back three elixirs from the northwest. Two were sent to the emperor and the empress dowager, and the remaining one was left to Chen.

Unfortunately, it is not known whether Chen had a chronic illness from previous years. Even though Yunli used medicine to maintain Chen's life, Chen's body began to have many problems this summer.

On her deathbed, Chen was lying on the bed, looking at Yunli with a sad face, and comforted him: "Birth, aging, illness and death are normal. You don't have to be sad for your mother. You must take good care of yourself in the future and find someone you like to be with you as soon as possible. Don't be a lonely person for the rest of your life."

Yunli agreed with tears in his eyes.

The next day, Chen passed away in her sleep. Yunli held a grand funeral for her and found a Feng Shui-good location for burial.

In the end, Yunli found the right person to spend the rest of his life with.