Translator: NovelMultiverse | Editor: NovelMultiverse
Huo Wei almost had an accident, so the emperor and empress had to find out the truth.
They immediately realized that Lu Jingyun was under the command of Xie Xuan. However, when they arrived at Xie’s mansion, they found that Xie Xuan was dead during consensual sex, disgracefully.
The guard found the woman who had sex with Xie Xuan at that time. She was a woman from the brothel. She said that someone had sent her a message early that morning, asking her to sneak into the Xie’s mansion after Lu Jingyun left and gave her money in advance.
How could she not make money? So she dressed up and waited there. As soon as Lu Jingyun left, she immediately went in to look for Xie Xuan.
The woman said that as soon as he saw her, he rushed over and couldn’t wait to pull her to bed. Later, she found that there was something wrong and she couldn’t get rid of Xie Suan. Several parts of her body were pinched black and blue by him, and she cried and screamed in pain. She didn’t rush back until Xie Xuan died.
She was frightened. She was afraid that there would be something wrong, so she hid in the room and didn’t dare to see anyone. But the result was still found out. The emperor suspected that she had drugged Xie Xuan, but the woman hadn’t been exposed to any medicine, nor had she been exposed to him before, let alone harming him.
Besides, the imperial physician found that the medicine which Xie Xuan had was very similar to the one in the fruit wine.
Lu Jingyun was the most suspicious.
Lu Jingyun had planned to slip away as soon as she saw Huo Wei make a fool of herself. At that time, the emperor and the empress would be furious. With so many people present, it would take a long time to find out about her. When she returned from the banquet and found that Xie Xuan was dead, she could express her thanks to the eldest prince and change her name with a large sum of money, as far as she could go from the capital.
Then even if someone found she was the murder later, he would never have a chance to find her.
Lu Jingyun’s plan was perfect and the timing was just right. No one would think of Xie Xuan for a long time. After all, it was a scandal and it must have been buried. Everyone was paying attention to the princess’s scandal, and no one would pay attention to Xie Xuan?
But she didn’t expect that all this would fall short at the last moment. Why was there a gust of wind when she was about to drink the fruit wine? How could it be so coincident for a person who knew her to see her face? What a coincidence?
As soon as she was caught, his majesty immediately investigated Xie Xuan. The first thing he found was that there was something wrong with Xie Xuan’s death, and he also found that the medicine she had drugged Huo Wei was the same as that of Xie Xuan. How could she be innocent?
This time, Lu Jingyun had no chance to struggle, because as soon as the eldest prince knew that she had touched the emperor’s Pearl, he immediately killed her!
Lu Jingyun was strangled to death with a rope. Before she died, he couldn’t even say the last word. Her eyes were wide open and full of unwillingness. Before she died, scenes of her previous life flashed through her mind. Compared with this life, she was actually happy in her previous life.
Although her husband didn’t like her and her mother-in-law disliked her, they had never spared with her. Although her parents neglected her, they still gave her a generous dowry. She had those. As long as she was broad-minded, she could live an easy life all her life.
She had always hated that Lu Qiaoshan had taken away everything from her, but as soon as she came back in her life, she had snatched the engagement from the Fangs and ended up like this. She suddenly realized that she was wrong not because she married the wrong person, but because she was narrow-minded and shortsighted.
She remembered that in her previous life, Fang Qingze was not a good man. As soon as Qiaoshan got pregnant, Lv Rui climbed into the bed of him, who married her soon. If she were Lu Qiaoshan, she would definitely be pissed off and try to kill her, but she didn’t care at all. Instead, she smiled happily every day to nourish the fetus.
Lu Qiaoshan was lucky to have the eldest grandson of the Fangs in her first child, and Marquise treated her much better. But when she was pregnant with the second child, Marquise gave her eldest maid to Qingze as a concubine.
If she were Lu Qiaoshan, she would definitely hate Marquise and find an opportunity to revenge. She would suppress that concubine, make her detested by Fang Qingze, and then drive a wedge between him and Marquise. But Lu Qiaoshan still smiled and took care of the fetus.
She had two sons and Fang Qingze had four concubines. One of them was a maid who had served her for many years. They grew up together and had a very different relationship. But she didn’t care.
She could tell that Lu Qiaoshan was really happy. That kind of happiness hurt her heart, so as time went by, she only remembered that Lu Qiaoshan stole her happiness, but she forgot that the so-called “happiness” was just because of her good mindset.
If she could live a happy and relaxed life like Lu Qiaoshan? However, she couldn’t do it again. She had so many chances to come back to life before, but she had been enchanted and always wanted to harm others. Now that she had reached the end of her life, it was useless for her to regret it.
She felt ashamed in front of Lu Qiaoshan. She was extremely jealous of her. It was her obsession to defeat her, and all this had come to an end here. She once felt desperate, but now she realized that it was nothing at that time. Death was true despair.
Lu Jingyun died in prison quietly with regret.
The next day, Lou Ye found out the eldest prince by deeper investigation
In fact, the eldest prince just met Lu Jingyun on a whim and asked Lu Jingyun to kill Xie Xuan. What happened later was the contact between his subordinates and Lu Jingyun. Now that he had found out that Lu Jingyun’s medicine was from him, he couldn’t explain clearly that he didn’t deal with Huo Wei.
(Note: What the author wrote here is Lu Jingyun, but this is obviously wrong.)
And the emperor didn’t need him to make it clear. If he did it on purpose, then he was not only a bad guy but also not qualified to be a human!
If he didn’t want to deal with Huo Wei but was used by Lu Jingyun, such a person didn’t deserve to be an emperor.
The emperor gave up the eldest prince completely. He didn’t want to teach him anymore. Even if he was the emperor, he could do nothing about many things. The eldest prince and the third prince both had support from his mother’s family. He couldn’t change the fact that the whole family was interfering with them and affecting their temperament.
The emperor began to pay attention to the sons of the royal family, but he didn’t tell anyone. He planned to inspect for a while and talk about it later.
As a result, not long after the eldest prince was released and had a job, he was dismissed by the emperor and became an idle person. The eldest prince was a little annoyed, but he was not afraid at all, because he was the only prince living in the world now. In his opinion, he was sure to inherit the throne and there was no change.
He had nerves of steel. He was not as cautious as before. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been found out by Lou Ye so soon. Since the emperor didn’t allow him to do anything, he was just relaxed and didn’t worry about the emperor’s dissatisfaction with him at all.
All the people in the court didn’t know what the emperor was going to do. They only thought to themselves that the eldest prince was too disappointing and then planned to let the emperor marry more concubines.
Those who had the daughter of the right age found opportunity, and people’s hearts floated again. After all, no one would have thought that his majesty didn’t care whether the heir was his or not?
No matter what happened, Huo Wei didn’t change her mind. Instead, she was very busy and forth to help more women from the government to get their business done. She didn’t feel tired to help them because she was lucky. As long as she was willing to help, everything would be much easier for them. As for the money she earned, she always led the donations to Fushan Hall.
She not only donated money to the Fushan Hall but also sent people to inquire about the two villages which had many people. She built schools in the two villages and hired outstanding talents to teach. This was a test for her, a test for building a school. If she wanted to recruit girls in the future, she had to erode this step by step. She had to boil frogs with warm water and make people lower their defenses against her.
As she expected, she was a princess and harmless to everyone. And because she had always been doing charity, she pitied the children without being taught, and there was no difference from the previous charity, so she did not attract special attention. People just felt that she was doing charity again.
She had her own plan. The two villages were not far from the capital. Since the school had begun to close, she wanted to go there in person.
The empress said worriedly, “The road there is uneven and the food and drinks are not good. What are you going to do? Isn’t the capital enough for you to toss about? “
Huo Wei said, “After all, that’s the person I want to help. I don’t want to just say it casually and don’t know the actual situation. Or else, one day, I will be deceived by my subordinates without knowing it.”
This sentence touched the emperor. He sat in the court every day to listen to the world’s affairs, but sometimes he was worried that his subordinates would lie to him. And this was inevitable. All the officials couldn’t tell him the truth. Therefore, he had to spend a lot of effort to balance the court and make all the forces check and balance each other before he could be seated on the fishing platform. (Note: In Chinese means: No matter what happens in the, just do things the way they used to.)
Although what she had done was just a small thing, he was really gratified that she had the heart to do so. He smiled and sighed, “It’s a good thing that Wei has made it. Maybe she has been through too much outside before, so she is so considerate. You can go with your guards and protect yourself. “
“Thank you, father. I won’t let you down, my father.”
Huo Wei quickly packed her things and left. The princess’s carriage was protected by two squads of guards, and it was very eye-catching when she left the city.
The visit of the princess was a huge event for the two villages, and it was the biggest thing they could see in their lives. The guards went to inform the princess in advance. They had made every effort to clean up the village. Everyone was waiting for the princess excitedly.
Since Huo Wei wanted to fight for the throne, she was in a different mood from the ordinary people. Moreover, she was the daughter of the royal family and the princess. She treated them as her own people. Seeing that they were not living well, she felt pity for them. At the same time, she was more determined to make the state stronger. She wanted them to live and work peacefully and make the state prosperous and strong!
Huo Wei lived in the village head’s house. She ate the food cooked by the village head and the food sent by enthusiastic villagers. She didn’t mind the crude food at all. The guards had tested the poison, and she ate with them without any reluctance.
This made the agitated villagers even more fond of her. They thought that this princess was really kind. Although she was a lofty fairy, she was willing to go to the mortal world and live with them. It was really kind of her.
Huo Wei would personally check the construction of the school. The people who built houses were all from the capital, and they were skilled at building houses. While Huo Wei was watching them, they had to behave better and cover them up more vigorously.
Huo Wei didn’t know how to build a house, but she found that the house was really solid, many times stronger than that of the whole village. However, the materials used were also very expensive, and some of them were related to her research. She thought that she might be able to improve it so that the cost of building in the future would be lower, and then many people could live in beautiful and stable brick houses.
But it was difficult for her to do it now and she needed the opportunity. She didn’t want to expose her plan too early, so she let go of this idea first.
One day, when she was playing with a group of children, she suddenly heard a noise not far away. Then the guards around her became very nervous and began to protect her to leave.
Looking at the noisy place, Huo Wei saw village head and several men were afraid of retreating, while the dirty man in front of him was crying and begging. She asked in confusion, “What’s wrong? Who is that man? Why did the village head seem to be afraid of driving him away again? It doesn’t look like a thief. “
The guard hurriedly said, “Your Highness, the man is in a village far away. There is a pestilence in his village. I heard that the government has ordered to seal the village. He ran out for help before the village was sealed.”
“Pestilence?” Not only Huo Wei was shocked, but everyone else was shocked and scared. No wonder they were so indifferent.
The guard said anxiously, “Your Highness, we can’t stay here for too long. Please get on the carriage and go back to the palace immediately.”
Huo Wei quickly recalled the story in the book. It was not written in the book. Maybe it had nothing to do with the heroine, and it did not happen in the capital, so it was not written.
Huo Wei hesitated for a moment. When the man heard the noise, his eyes lit up with surprise and he immediately wanted to rush over.
The village head was frightened and stopped him with a stick in a hurry. The man knelt down on the ground with a flop, kowtowed, and shouted, “Your Highness, help! Your highness, help! Most people in our village have a relapse, but there are still some people who are completely fine. Those who are sick have been sent to the caves in the mountains. We really have someone to live with. Please help us, your highness! Please save those people! “
The guard urged her to leave. She raised her hand, motioning for him to keep quiet and think about it quickly. She would be fine if she went there, but what about others? Could she really do anything?
When she was thinking, the man had already kowtowed with blood all over his face, and his face gradually emerged despair.
This kind of despair was mournful and piercing. When she met his gaze, she made up her mind and walked towards him.
“Your Highness!”
Huo Wei waved her hand. “I have made up my mind. You don’t have to persuade me anymore. I’ll go with him to see what’s going on. You’d better go back to the capital as soon as possible and find a highly skilled doctor to study the method of curing the pestilence. Take this token and mobilize all my stores to raise food and send herbs to the village as soon as possible. “
She said something that convinced the ancestors, “I happened to encounter this today, so God let me deal with it. If I don’t care, how can I be the princess of Qin? “
“Your Highness, but you can’t take risks like this!”
“This is an order!” Huo Wei glanced at them one by one and told them her determination. Of course, she knew that she couldn’t take risks if she was not sure, but at least she was sure that she would be safe. And when she went to that village, those who had caught the pestilence still had a chance of survival.
For so long, she had been doing everything smoothly. She was betting that she could help them. Even if she couldn’t, she could still calm down and prevent the government from killing them all.
The man didn’t expect that the princess would be willing to go back to the village with him. Aftershock, he was overjoyed, and then cried bitterly. He kept kowtowing to thank the princess and shouted, “Long Life Your Highness!”
The guards, of course, had to follow her to protect her. No matter what she said, they couldn’t let her move alone. They only let two go back to the capital to do what she ordered. The two of them were the fastest. The rest of them were hoping that they could report to the emperor as soon as possible and stop the princess.
But whatever she wanted to do, she could always do it smoothly. When she arrived at the Liu Mansion, she saw the local county magistrate in charge. The county magistrate was frightened to see the princess in person and found that she was found by the villagers. He thought her little girl was thoughtless and asked him not to seal the village, which scared him into a cold sweat.
However, what Huo Wei said was not to ask him to remove his men, but to ask him to dispatch more people to surround Liu’s villa. No one was allowed to go in and out of the villa, including the mountain behind, and no animal was allowed to go out.
The villager who came for Huo Wei was called Liu Ergou. He was shocked to hear that. “Your Highness! Aren’t you here to help us? “
Huo Wei said seriously, “I’m going to help you, but I can’t hurt others. The plague wouldn’t be found immediately if it was infected. If someone brought it out and harmed innocent people, it would be a sin. As for those who are not infected with the plague in the village, I have my own plans. I will go with you. “
“Your Highness! Please! No! Your highness, please think twice! ” The county magistrate and guards knelt on the ground.
Huo Wei didn’t say anything more this time. She just ordered the guards to guard outside the village.
She was intimidating when she became dignified. No matter how the guards persuaded her, she finally rode into the village with Liu Ergou and blocked the entrance by herself.
The county magistrate and guards were all desperate. The plague in the Liu Mansion was serious. The princess would definitely die if she went in. They couldn’t think about it anymore.
Since they were all dead, they didn’t scramble to follow her in. Instead, they followed her orders and guarded her outside. At least, they could keep this place before death and prevent the plague from spreading out.
When the emperor and the empress knew that Huo Wei had entered the Liu Mansion, the empress immediately fainted! The emperor was anxious for both empress and Huo Wei. It was the first time that he had been so angry since he became emperor more than twenty years ago, and he was about to lose his temper on the spot.
When the empress woke up, she stopped him in time, waved away the crowd, and said with tears, “It’s me. It’s me who hurt my child. She did it on purpose. She left the city on purpose and didn’t want to see me. She went to that dangerous place on purpose. She was angry and didn’t want to live. “
The pestilence meant death. If Huo Wei came involuntarily, she just didn’t want to live anymore?
The emperor was confused. “Why did you hurt her? What are you talking about? “
The empress looked at him and said frankly, “The eldest prince doesn’t like Wei. I’m afraid… We can’t protect her in the future, and she will have a hard time. I told her that I wanted to have another child and be her reliance when I grew up. “
The emperor frowned and sighed, “What are you thinking about? I’ve said that the throne will be passed down to the child from the royal family, so I’ll naturally find a way to let the chosen person protect our daughter. How can you have another child?”
The empress shook her head and said, “So said Wei too. She also said that it would be better for me to teach her to be the emperor than to have a son who I don’t know if he is good or not and raise him up for more than ten years.”
The emperor was in a daze for a moment before she asked, “What did you say?”
The empress closed her eyes for a while and said, “There is a female emperor of the Zhou Dynasty in history. Wei… wants to do like her.”
The emperor was shocked. He thought of what Huo Wei had done in an instant. She tried to win over willfulness and build up prestige. It turned out that she was not killing time, but wanted to do something practical and rule the world!
The empress cried, “I thought it was inconceivable at that time. I told her not to think about it anymore. Later, I didn’t know how to persuade her, so I treated her less intimately than before. Wei is so smart that she must have seen it. She must have misunderstood me and thought I didn’t like her to have such an idea.
When she was about to leave the capital, I regretted not taking good care of her. As a result, as soon as she left the capital, she would never see us again… “
The empress cried so sadly that her heart ached as if it had been gouged out. That was her only child or a child that had been separated from her by accident for more than ten years. How could she accept the death of her child?
The emperor had no time to think about the fact that Huo Wei was going to be a female emperor. She was going to die. What was the point of thinking about that? After comforting the empress, he immediately sent the best imperial physician to the Liu Mansion with more than a dozen imperial physicians, and also sent people to deliver goods.
At the same time, Huo Wei’s guards also took her token to mobilize materials. Everyone knew about this!
All the people in the capital city were shocked. They still remembered the scene when the princess’s carriage left the capital not long ago. Why was the princess was going to die?!
It was good that the princess liked to do charity, but how could she risk her life to save others?
The commoners didn’t know whether they should call her a true Bodhisattva or she was too stupid. How dare she enter the Liu Mansion. But just because everyone thought that she was doomed to die, they were more tolerant of her. They were mostly praising her good heart, kindness, and responsibility, and that she had the people in her heart, and that she was the best princess they knew.
The dozens of women who were doing business with Huo Wei were shocked. Then they urgently raised materials and transported them to the Liu Mansion with the help of Huo Wei’s shop. They were used to doing charity with her, and they were sincerely convinced of her.
This time, no matter whether she was alive or dead, their admiration for her had risen to a new level. They all went all out to help her. This might be the last time. Since they had promised to follow the princess all their lives, they would try their best.
No one had paid much attention to what these women were doing before. They all thought that they were coaxing the princess to play. It was not until this time that the civil and military officials and the people of the capital saw the full of supplies that they realized how powerful their small group was.
The financial resources of those things were one thing. They could get all kinds of materials in a very short time, which represented their connections, and their real strength and credibility. Many men asked themselves if they could do this. The answer was maybe, maybe not. But now, these women had done it. How could it not be shocking?
The emperor also knew about it. He had mixed feelings. He sighed that Huo Wei was able to do this unconsciously. Presumably, those women were very loyal to her. Neither the eldest prince nor the third prince could respond in unison.
If it was a scheming woman, Huo Wei had achieved some achievements but concealed them from everyone. She could steadily climb up after falling into the abyss. Her success was definitely not inferior to anyone else.
His majesty felt very regretful. Why wasn’t she a man? If she was, she would be the crown prince.
He then thought that if the eldest prince let him down, then Huo Wei would stand out. Was this her plan? After all, in his heart, Huo Wei was going to fight for the throne. He couldn’t treat her as a simple little girl anymore.
He also wondered whether Huo Wei went to the Liu Mansion this time to make a fortune?
But these thoughts only flashed in his mind for a while and then disappeared. The plague was not something that would kill people if they were infected. No one who wanted to fight for the throne would take the risk himself. There was no need to risk their lives. She was not that stupid. She went to the Liu Mansion must because she really wanted to save someone.
As soon as Lou Ye heard the news, he immediately asked the emperor to look for Huo Wei. The emperor was about to lose a daughter. How could he lose a general again? He refused at all.
As a result, Lou Ye had a quarrel with the emperor. The emperor was both angry and gratified. At last, Lou Ye ran away regardless of the emperor’s obstruction. The emperor was so angry that he cursed. But in his heart, he recognized him as his son-in-law at this moment. A glimmer of hope rose in his heart, hoping that Lou Ye could bring Huo Wei back safely.
In Liu Maison, Huo Wei first divided everyone into three types. One was patients, they didn’t wait for death in the mountain, half of the village’s houses would be emptied and each of them would live in a room. They didn’t go out of the house and didn’t infect each other.
The second was suspected patients, they were separated and paid attention to whether they were sick or not. She tries her best to prevent the infected people from being infected.
The third was those who looked healthy. She asked these people to follow the doctor and cook, clean, deal with the dead, collect herbs and decoct herbs every day. There was no way to isolate all the villagers. Someone had to do something. The pestilence was too dangerous, so she didn’t let the people outside come in again. She could only try to select healthy people to do things in the village.
She was a princess, and her arrival brought endless hope to these desperate people. In such a state, the princess was a symbol of power for them. They instinctively obeyed and obeyed the orders of Huo Wei.
After the supplies were delivered and the imperial physicians arrived, Huo Wei could better manage the village and make all the defenses. But Lou Ye broke into the village to look for her, which really frightened her!
She was in a hurry to ask Lou Ye to go back, but Lou Ye said, “Wherever you are, I will be there. I won’t let you risk your life alone. “
She was so moved that she couldn’t do anything to him. All she could do was to tell him to be with her all the time and not to leave.
Lou Ye was eager to follow her and was afraid that she would sneak into danger. Of course, he agreed without hesitation.
With the princess and the general who was favored by the people, everyone felt much more relieved and had a stronger will to survive.
Every day, some people died, but the speed of their death slowed down. Every day, Huo Wei followed the imperial physician into the mountain to collect herbs. In half a month, she actually knew a lot of herbs, and even remembered the basic properties. If it weren’t for the depression caused by the pestilence, the imperial physician would have praised her for her intelligence.
After knowing a lot of medicinal materials, Huo Wei often went to collect them with Lou Ye. She believed that the plot armor in every world were not vassals, but could really help her, and could even make her learn something with the help of the plot armor.
Therefore, she also attached great importance to Luck. She had never thought of winning without effort. Every day, she followed the imperial physician to identify the medicinal properties of the herbs, hoping to find more herbs to treat the pestilence!
In fact, her Luck had always been reliable, and God had left the opportunity to those who were well prepared. When she went deep into the mountain to look for the herb, she accidentally fell down and found the herb in a remote place covered by vines! It was a herb that the imperial physician had not seen for many years!
It was incomparably precious. It was covered by vines here. No one would find it? If she hadn’t fallen and just dug open the vines, how could she find the herbs? If she didn’t learn the herbs with the imperial doctor every day and carefully remember every word of the doctor, how could she know that something like wild grass was the most important medicine?!
Huo Wei was overjoyed. After she was helped up by Lou Ye, she smiled and asked Lou Ye to dig out all the herbs together, even the roots.
With the imperial physicians and the herbs, the situation in the village was successfully stopped.
No one died in the village anymore. Those who were suspected to be ill were the first to recover and join others to help. And those who were sick gradually recovered one by one.
Every one of them would burst into tears and kowtow to thank her. There were more than 700 people in the village of the village. More than 100 of them had died before Huo Wei came, but after she came, only more than fifty people had died. Nearly six hundred people survived!
The village had been abandoned before! This place was not close to the capital, nor was it far away. It was impossible to take the risk to let them have the chance to spread the pestilence into the capital, and how could the pestilence be easily cured? The county magistrate had already asked for the superior’s approval. After sealing the village, the village would be burnt down in a few days.
It was Huo Wei who saved the village and nearly six hundred of them! The people feel grateful for Huo Wei. It was no exaggeration to say that no one would be more important than her in their hearts all their lives. One would never understand such grace of saving his life without experiencing it personally!
When Huo Wei came here, she took a carriage. When she left, she wore a riding suit and sat on a high horse. Looking at the people in the Liu Mansion shouting “Long Life Your Highness”, it seemed that something had changed.
She didn’t take the carriage anymore. Instead, she rode side by side with Lou Ye all the way to the capital.
The princess is back! The princess not only came back alive but also saved the whole village! The princess has defeated the plague!
This news made the whole capital boil!
On the day Huo Wei came back, the streets were crowded with people to welcome her. When they saw her riding a horse valiantly, many people shouted “Princess” excitedly, and some people shed tears because of gratitude and excitement.
Huo Wei rode on the horse and slowly walked forward. Many people clearly saw her face, and this time, she was like a hero in their hearts!
When Huo Wei heard someone call her “living Bodhisattva”, her action to save the village was too shocking. She had already had the name of a living Bodhisattva and was even more famous among the people. Everyone knew her. She was not only capable but also kind-hearted. Many people called her “Princess Bodhisattva” in private, which was enough to show that she had a lot of people.
The official was not on the alert. After all, she was just a princess. So what if she had a high reputation? It was a good thing that he could become the representative of the royal family and make the people love the royal family more. And she was still doing charity. People who didn’t know what she was thinking would only think that she was really kind and didn’t want people to suffer.
This time, for the emperor and the empress, she came back safe and sound. The empress didn’t want her to be the emperor nor not anymore, as long as she was happy in the city. The emperor didn’t want her to be a female emperor, nor did he want her to be a female emperor. He needed a long time to think about such a thing that he had never thought about before. On the surface, he treated her the same as before and even doted on her more than before.
Huo Wei was keenly aware of this. This meant that the emperor had softened his attitude towards her. Perhaps she should show herself more clearly. Huo Wei also knew what the officials thought of her, so she took this opportunity to apply to the emperor to help the people in Liu Mansion. Since they had been badly injured and their properties were all gone, it was not easy for them to recover a stable life. After all, it was not appropriate to keep donated materials to them, and they might be lazy to raise them.
It was not a big deal for the emperor to ask her to do something. He could also see her ability, so the emperor decided after careful consideration.
Huo Wei opened a school outside the village. This time, it was not the kind of school she used to teach, but a big and very complicated school. They could not only study here, but also learn how to cook, grow, raise animals and birds, learn embroidery, and many people could make a living.
And the tuition for the first year was completely free, and the for the second and the third years was very low. After that, the tuition would increase to the normal level year by year. This school was built outside the village. People from other villages and towns not far away could learn it. This was a really beneficial citizen that they couldn’t learn.
Huo Wei also suggested that if the people of the Liu Mansion went out to work, the employer would have priority to hire them within three months from now on. Three months later, they began to compete with others. Huo Wei took good care of the people in the Liu Mansion, which was good for them to quickly recover to their previous state before the pestilence.
The school Huo Wei built was never exit before and caused a lot of disputes. But in essence, she pitied the people, because she had lived with them during this period and found that they had a hard time. She helped them learn how to make a living. Why not?
The teachers, carpenters, and chefs in the school were all hired by Huo Wei. They were willing to teach, but why didn’t they allow ordinary people to learn? Even in the past, it would take a long time for the craftsmen like blacksmiths to accept an apprentice, and they would have to be a teacher for a day and a father for a lifetime, making people respect them for a lifetime. But no law forbade her to teach in public like this!
As time went by, many students and people began to think highly of her.
After changing the nature of the school, she boiled frogs with warm water, which made everyone reluctantly accept. They would get used to it in the future.
With a high reputation, the convenience was obvious. Many people appreciated her, supported her, were willing to cooperate with her, and were willing to work for her. Unconsciously, her social network spread out very wide. And the social network brought information networks, and those who followed her married to other places, so she also had connections in other places, and gradually connected with the capital.
Gradually, she expanded her power in various ways. Of course, Lou Ye would try his best to help her. Seeing this, the emperor began to think more carefully about the possibility of Huo Wei being a female emperor. Then he found that Huo Wei was really smart. He purposely gave her some advice, but she was able to understand everything. And she could always learn something new very quickly.
He invited the grand tutor to teach her personally, saying that he appreciated her kindness to the people and didn’t want her to be restricted by knowledge. So he asked the grand tutor to teach her to make up for the mistake she had made when she was abroad.
Everyone knew that the emperor doted on the princess, so they didn’t say anything. They only felt that the emperor really doted on the princess to the extreme. Only the grand tutor knew the bold ideas of the emperor and the princess, so he taught her in the way of the crown prince.
The emperor didn’t completely decide to train her. On the one hand, he trained her, and on the other hand, he paid attention to the descendants of royal families. At the same time, he didn’t do anything to the eldest prince. He would also assign some chores to the eldest prince from time to time.
Therefore, the ministers had always thought that the emperor would pass the throne to the eldest prince. After all, no one would have thought that he would pass the throne to his daughter, or to an outsider.
Huo Wei didn’t just learn. After she told what she wanted with the emperor, she could do a lot of things she wanted to do. If she really didn’t want others to know it too early, she could do it in the name of Lou Ye.
She had improved the materials needed for building houses and roads, including bricks, tiles, cement, and greatly reduced the cost. Some important cities of the Qin had begun to build roads and houses.
She put forward the idea of improving the soft armor, which made all the people in charge of design in the shop gather their thoughts. It took one year to design the soft armor that was not expensive but effective against knives and spears. They opened a branch factory in the border area and sent it to the army in bulk.
Two years later, she put forward the idea of the lab. she applied to the emperor to select some good hands in planting and gather together to study how to increase the yield of the crops; to select some clothing masters and gather together to study how to make warmer and more convenient clothes. She selected some scholars to gather together and study how to make up an enlightening textbook. She taught the common people some words and logic so that they could at least write their names, read the contract and understand the reason.
In many aspects, she wanted to improve, but she was not in a hurry to reach the top step by step. Instead, she only put forward a plan to let professional people study the major. Maybe they couldn’t get any result in one or two years, or even five or eight years, there wouldn’t be any big surprise. But this direction was good. It was good for the country and people. The emperor agreed.
In the past five years, Huo Wei had done a lot of things. Some smart ministers had already seen through something, and also found that she was much stronger than the eldest prince.
At this time, Huo Wei was twenty-two years old, but she still hadn’t married Lou Ye. Many people began to guess if the emperor had other intentions.
In the past five years, the emperor refused to marry others, so all the officials stopped persuading him. Some went to the eldest prince, some waited and saw, but gradually, a very small number of people began to appreciate and work for Huo Wei from the bottom of their hearts.
If a person wanted to be an emperor, he didn’t just need to know how to rule. He also needed to have a personal charm and make people willing to follow him. In the past, Huo Wei had been able to coordinate with all the ladies. Now, she had been taught by the emperor and the grand tutor for five years and had done a lot of work for the emperor in private. She had the personal charm to make the courtiers willingly surrender.
Everyone who could be a minister knew the history. The Zhou Dynasty could have a female emperor, but why couldn’t the Qin? When they had such an idea, they would be surprised when they observed the emperor’s attitude towards Huo Wei. Because if they thought in this direction, it was easy to see that the emperor valued her. This was not hopeless.
The court was not full of old-fashioned people, nor were they all stubborn. Before Huo Wei went to court, someone was willing to follow her. She finally passed the test with the emperor!
In the past five years, not only was Huo Wei working hard, but the emperor was also attentively observing, testing, and educating her. When he was sure that she had the potential, he began to pave the way for her step by step. Just as he had decided before, it didn’t matter who would inherit the throne? As long as that person could be a wise emperor for the country, he was willing to pass it on to others. How could he object to his daughter?
When Huo Wei was twenty-five years old, the emperor had taught her for seven years, and she could deal with the tasks assigned by him skillfully. The emperor finally made her the rightful heir.
A decree stunned many stubborn sects, but at the same time, it also lets those who gradually understood it feel relieved. The court dispute was inevitable, but the emperor had made public everything that Huo Wei had done for the country and the people in the past eight years. No matter how stubborn the people were, they couldn’t say anything against it. If the throne was not passed on to Huo Wei, would it be passed on to the eldest prince?
Huo Wei began to work in the court and became the next successor of the throne. The world was in an uproar, but they thought it was reasonable. The princess was the reincarnation of the fairy, and she was especially here to strengthen the Qin. It was a great thing that the princess took the throne!
The first thing that Huo Wei did after she became the successor of the emperor was to marry Lou Ye.
Lou Ye was happy and helpless. After waiting for so many years, he finally became her husband. Therefore, the people trusted her more. Her husband was the God of war, and he was King Qin. This was the best result. How could the great Qin State not be strong?!
After a period of turmoil in the court, Huo Wei gained her footing and made everyone accept her as the successor. From then on, she went on a business trip, went on an expedition, and went hunting. Her heroic figure was everywhere. The impression of her being the future female emperor was getting deeper and deeper in people’s hearts.
The eldest prince was so desperate that he wanted to rebel. He was sent to guard the imperial tomb.
Five years later, when Vivian was thirty years old, she had already given birth to two children. With her authority in the court becoming more and more dignified, the emperor abdicated to be emperor Taishang (Note: Taishang: The title of the emperor’s father)and handed over the state to her in the most stable way.
Huo Wei had become the second female emperor in history after the Zhou Dynasty!
On the day she ascended the throne, a hundred flowers bloomed and birds chirped!
Seeing that everyone thought she was the emperor at that moment, Huo Wei couldn’t help but smile. Her good luck would really appear most appropriately at any time.
She stood on the altar in a Dragon Robe, and all the civil and military officials knelt down. In this auspicious scene, he shouted excitedly, “Long Live my emperor!! “
The Lus, the Lis, the Fangs, and others who had hurt her, those who had missed her, and those who had been down and out all had pain and regret, and they would be soaked in the bitter water for the rest of their lives.
But their business had nothing to do with Huo Wei. She had even forgotten them and devoted herself to be her emperor. She would hold Lou Ye’s hand tightly and lead her husband steadily. They would share the stage and let the people live and work in peace. One day, she would make the Qin the strongest country in the world
Translator: NovelMultiverse | Editor: NovelMultiverse
Huo Wei almost had an accident, so the emperor and empress had to find out the truth.
They immediately realized that Lu Jingyun was under the command of Xie Xuan. However, when they arrived at Xie’s mansion, they found that Xie Xuan was dead during consensual sex, disgracefully.
The guard found the woman who had sex with Xie Xuan at that time. She was a woman from the brothel. She said that someone had sent her a message early that morning, asking her to sneak into the Xie’s mansion after Lu Jingyun left and gave her money in advance.
How could she not make money? So she dressed up and waited there. As soon as Lu Jingyun left, she immediately went in to look for Xie Xuan.
The woman said that as soon as he saw her, he rushed over and couldn’t wait to pull her to bed. Later, she found that there was something wrong and she couldn’t get rid of Xie Suan. Several parts of her body were pinched black and blue by him, and she cried and screamed in pain. She didn’t rush back until Xie Xuan died.
She was frightened. She was afraid that there would be something wrong, so she hid in the room and didn’t dare to see anyone. But the result was still found out. The emperor suspected that she had drugged Xie Xuan, but the woman hadn’t been exposed to any medicine, nor had she been exposed to him before, let alone harming him.
Besides, the imperial physician found that the medicine which Xie Xuan had was very similar to the one in the fruit wine.
Lu Jingyun was the most suspicious.
Lu Jingyun had planned to slip away as soon as she saw Huo Wei make a fool of herself. At that time, the emperor and the empress would be furious. With so many people present, it would take a long time to find out about her. When she returned from the banquet and found that Xie Xuan was dead, she could express her thanks to the eldest prince and change her name with a large sum of money, as far as she could go from the capital.
Then even if someone found she was the murder later, he would never have a chance to find her.
Lu Jingyun’s plan was perfect and the timing was just right. No one would think of Xie Xuan for a long time. After all, it was a scandal and it must have been buried. Everyone was paying attention to the princess’s scandal, and no one would pay attention to Xie Xuan?
But she didn’t expect that all this would fall short at the last moment. Why was there a gust of wind when she was about to drink the fruit wine? How could it be so coincident for a person who knew her to see her face? What a coincidence?
As soon as she was caught, his majesty immediately investigated Xie Xuan. The first thing he found was that there was something wrong with Xie Xuan’s death, and he also found that the medicine she had drugged Huo Wei was the same as that of Xie Xuan. How could she be innocent?
This time, Lu Jingyun had no chance to struggle, because as soon as the eldest prince knew that she had touched the emperor’s Pearl, he immediately killed her!
Lu Jingyun was strangled to death with a rope. Before she died, he couldn’t even say the last word. Her eyes were wide open and full of unwillingness. Before she died, scenes of her previous life flashed through her mind. Compared with this life, she was actually happy in her previous life.
Although her husband didn’t like her and her mother-in-law disliked her, they had never spared with her. Although her parents neglected her, they still gave her a generous dowry. She had those. As long as she was broad-minded, she could live an easy life all her life.
She had always hated that Lu Qiaoshan had taken away everything from her, but as soon as she came back in her life, she had snatched the engagement from the Fangs and ended up like this. She suddenly realized that she was wrong not because she married the wrong person, but because she was narrow-minded and shortsighted.
She remembered that in her previous life, Fang Qingze was not a good man. As soon as Qiaoshan got pregnant, Lv Rui climbed into the bed of him, who married her soon. If she were Lu Qiaoshan, she would definitely be pissed off and try to kill her, but she didn’t care at all. Instead, she smiled happily every day to nourish the fetus.
Lu Qiaoshan was lucky to have the eldest grandson of the Fangs in her first child, and Marquise treated her much better. But when she was pregnant with the second child, Marquise gave her eldest maid to Qingze as a concubine.
If she were Lu Qiaoshan, she would definitely hate Marquise and find an opportunity to revenge. She would suppress that concubine, make her detested by Fang Qingze, and then drive a wedge between him and Marquise. But Lu Qiaoshan still smiled and took care of the fetus.
She had two sons and Fang Qingze had four concubines. One of them was a maid who had served her for many years. They grew up together and had a very different relationship. But she didn’t care.
She could tell that Lu Qiaoshan was really happy. That kind of happiness hurt her heart, so as time went by, she only remembered that Lu Qiaoshan stole her happiness, but she forgot that the so-called “happiness” was just because of her good mindset.
If she could live a happy and relaxed life like Lu Qiaoshan? However, she couldn’t do it again. She had so many chances to come back to life before, but she had been enchanted and always wanted to harm others. Now that she had reached the end of her life, it was useless for her to regret it.
She felt ashamed in front of Lu Qiaoshan. She was extremely jealous of her. It was her obsession to defeat her, and all this had come to an end here. She once felt desperate, but now she realized that it was nothing at that time. Death was true despair.
Lu Jingyun died in prison quietly with regret.
The next day, Lou Ye found out the eldest prince by deeper investigation
In fact, the eldest prince just met Lu Jingyun on a whim and asked Lu Jingyun to kill Xie Xuan. What happened later was the contact between his subordinates and Lu Jingyun. Now that he had found out that Lu Jingyun’s medicine was from him, he couldn’t explain clearly that he didn’t deal with Huo Wei.
(Note: What the author wrote here is Lu Jingyun, but this is obviously wrong.)
And the emperor didn’t need him to make it clear. If he did it on purpose, then he was not only a bad guy but also not qualified to be a human!
If he didn’t want to deal with Huo Wei but was used by Lu Jingyun, such a person didn’t deserve to be an emperor.
The emperor gave up the eldest prince completely. He didn’t want to teach him anymore. Even if he was the emperor, he could do nothing about many things. The eldest prince and the third prince both had support from his mother’s family. He couldn’t change the fact that the whole family was interfering with them and affecting their temperament.
The emperor began to pay attention to the sons of the royal family, but he didn’t tell anyone. He planned to inspect for a while and talk about it later.
As a result, not long after the eldest prince was released and had a job, he was dismissed by the emperor and became an idle person. The eldest prince was a little annoyed, but he was not afraid at all, because he was the only prince living in the world now. In his opinion, he was sure to inherit the throne and there was no change.
He had nerves of steel. He was not as cautious as before. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been found out by Lou Ye so soon. Since the emperor didn’t allow him to do anything, he was just relaxed and didn’t worry about the emperor’s dissatisfaction with him at all.
All the people in the court didn’t know what the emperor was going to do. They only thought to themselves that the eldest prince was too disappointing and then planned to let the emperor marry more concubines.
Those who had the daughter of the right age found opportunity, and people’s hearts floated again. After all, no one would have thought that his majesty didn’t care whether the heir was his or not?
No matter what happened, Huo Wei didn’t change her mind. Instead, she was very busy and forth to help more women from the government to get their business done. She didn’t feel tired to help them because she was lucky. As long as she was willing to help, everything would be much easier for them. As for the money she earned, she always led the donations to Fushan Hall.
She not only donated money to the Fushan Hall but also sent people to inquire about the two villages which had many people. She built schools in the two villages and hired outstanding talents to teach. This was a test for her, a test for building a school. If she wanted to recruit girls in the future, she had to erode this step by step. She had to boil frogs with warm water and make people lower their defenses against her.
As she expected, she was a princess and harmless to everyone. And because she had always been doing charity, she pitied the children without being taught, and there was no difference from the previous charity, so she did not attract special attention. People just felt that she was doing charity again.
She had her own plan. The two villages were not far from the capital. Since the school had begun to close, she wanted to go there in person.
The empress said worriedly, “The road there is uneven and the food and drinks are not good. What are you going to do? Isn’t the capital enough for you to toss about? “
Huo Wei said, “After all, that’s the person I want to help. I don’t want to just say it casually and don’t know the actual situation. Or else, one day, I will be deceived by my subordinates without knowing it.”
This sentence touched the emperor. He sat in the court every day to listen to the world’s affairs, but sometimes he was worried that his subordinates would lie to him. And this was inevitable. All the officials couldn’t tell him the truth. Therefore, he had to spend a lot of effort to balance the court and make all the forces check and balance each other before he could be seated on the fishing platform. (Note: In Chinese means: No matter what happens in the, just do things the way they used to.)
Although what she had done was just a small thing, he was really gratified that she had the heart to do so. He smiled and sighed, “It’s a good thing that Wei has made it. Maybe she has been through too much outside before, so she is so considerate. You can go with your guards and protect yourself. “
“Thank you, father. I won’t let you down, my father.”
Huo Wei quickly packed her things and left. The princess’s carriage was protected by two squads of guards, and it was very eye-catching when she left the city.
The visit of the princess was a huge event for the two villages, and it was the biggest thing they could see in their lives. The guards went to inform the princess in advance. They had made every effort to clean up the village. Everyone was waiting for the princess excitedly.
Since Huo Wei wanted to fight for the throne, she was in a different mood from the ordinary people. Moreover, she was the daughter of the royal family and the princess. She treated them as her own people. Seeing that they were not living well, she felt pity for them. At the same time, she was more determined to make the state stronger. She wanted them to live and work peacefully and make the state prosperous and strong!
Huo Wei lived in the village head’s house. She ate the food cooked by the village head and the food sent by enthusiastic villagers. She didn’t mind the crude food at all. The guards had tested the poison, and she ate with them without any reluctance.
This made the agitated villagers even more fond of her. They thought that this princess was really kind. Although she was a lofty fairy, she was willing to go to the mortal world and live with them. It was really kind of her.
Huo Wei would personally check the construction of the school. The people who built houses were all from the capital, and they were skilled at building houses. While Huo Wei was watching them, they had to behave better and cover them up more vigorously.
Huo Wei didn’t know how to build a house, but she found that the house was really solid, many times stronger than that of the whole village. However, the materials used were also very expensive, and some of them were related to her research. She thought that she might be able to improve it so that the cost of building in the future would be lower, and then many people could live in beautiful and stable brick houses.
But it was difficult for her to do it now and she needed the opportunity. She didn’t want to expose her plan too early, so she let go of this idea first.
One day, when she was playing with a group of children, she suddenly heard a noise not far away. Then the guards around her became very nervous and began to protect her to leave.
Looking at the noisy place, Huo Wei saw village head and several men were afraid of retreating, while the dirty man in front of him was crying and begging. She asked in confusion, “What’s wrong? Who is that man? Why did the village head seem to be afraid of driving him away again? It doesn’t look like a thief. “
The guard hurriedly said, “Your Highness, the man is in a village far away. There is a pestilence in his village. I heard that the government has ordered to seal the village. He ran out for help before the village was sealed.”
“Pestilence?” Not only Huo Wei was shocked, but everyone else was shocked and scared. No wonder they were so indifferent.
The guard said anxiously, “Your Highness, we can’t stay here for too long. Please get on the carriage and go back to the palace immediately.”
Huo Wei quickly recalled the story in the book. It was not written in the book. Maybe it had nothing to do with the heroine, and it did not happen in the capital, so it was not written.
Huo Wei hesitated for a moment. When the man heard the noise, his eyes lit up with surprise and he immediately wanted to rush over.
The village head was frightened and stopped him with a stick in a hurry. The man knelt down on the ground with a flop, kowtowed, and shouted, “Your Highness, help! Your highness, help! Most people in our village have a relapse, but there are still some people who are completely fine. Those who are sick have been sent to the caves in the mountains. We really have someone to live with. Please help us, your highness! Please save those people! “
The guard urged her to leave. She raised her hand, motioning for him to keep quiet and think about it quickly. She would be fine if she went there, but what about others? Could she really do anything?
When she was thinking, the man had already kowtowed with blood all over his face, and his face gradually emerged despair.
This kind of despair was mournful and piercing. When she met his gaze, she made up her mind and walked towards him.
“Your Highness!”
Huo Wei waved her hand. “I have made up my mind. You don’t have to persuade me anymore. I’ll go with him to see what’s going on. You’d better go back to the capital as soon as possible and find a highly skilled doctor to study the method of curing the pestilence. Take this token and mobilize all my stores to raise food and send herbs to the village as soon as possible. “
She said something that convinced the ancestors, “I happened to encounter this today, so God let me deal with it. If I don’t care, how can I be the princess of Qin? “
“Your Highness, but you can’t take risks like this!”
“This is an order!” Huo Wei glanced at them one by one and told them her determination. Of course, she knew that she couldn’t take risks if she was not sure, but at least she was sure that she would be safe. And when she went to that village, those who had caught the pestilence still had a chance of survival.
For so long, she had been doing everything smoothly. She was betting that she could help them. Even if she couldn’t, she could still calm down and prevent the government from killing them all.
The man didn’t expect that the princess would be willing to go back to the village with him. Aftershock, he was overjoyed, and then cried bitterly. He kept kowtowing to thank the princess and shouted, “Long Life Your Highness!”
The guards, of course, had to follow her to protect her. No matter what she said, they couldn’t let her move alone. They only let two go back to the capital to do what she ordered. The two of them were the fastest. The rest of them were hoping that they could report to the emperor as soon as possible and stop the princess.
But whatever she wanted to do, she could always do it smoothly. When she arrived at the Liu Mansion, she saw the local county magistrate in charge. The county magistrate was frightened to see the princess in person and found that she was found by the villagers. He thought her little girl was thoughtless and asked him not to seal the village, which scared him into a cold sweat.
However, what Huo Wei said was not to ask him to remove his men, but to ask him to dispatch more people to surround Liu’s villa. No one was allowed to go in and out of the villa, including the mountain behind, and no animal was allowed to go out.
The villager who came for Huo Wei was called Liu Ergou. He was shocked to hear that. “Your Highness! Aren’t you here to help us? “
Huo Wei said seriously, “I’m going to help you, but I can’t hurt others. The plague wouldn’t be found immediately if it was infected. If someone brought it out and harmed innocent people, it would be a sin. As for those who are not infected with the plague in the village, I have my own plans. I will go with you. “
“Your Highness! Please! No! Your highness, please think twice! ” The county magistrate and guards knelt on the ground.
Huo Wei didn’t say anything more this time. She just ordered the guards to guard outside the village.
She was intimidating when she became dignified. No matter how the guards persuaded her, she finally rode into the village with Liu Ergou and blocked the entrance by herself.
The county magistrate and guards were all desperate. The plague in the Liu Mansion was serious. The princess would definitely die if she went in. They couldn’t think about it anymore.
Since they were all dead, they didn’t scramble to follow her in. Instead, they followed her orders and guarded her outside. At least, they could keep this place before death and prevent the plague from spreading out.
When the emperor and the empress knew that Huo Wei had entered the Liu Mansion, the empress immediately fainted! The emperor was anxious for both empress and Huo Wei. It was the first time that he had been so angry since he became emperor more than twenty years ago, and he was about to lose his temper on the spot.
When the empress woke up, she stopped him in time, waved away the crowd, and said with tears, “It’s me. It’s me who hurt my child. She did it on purpose. She left the city on purpose and didn’t want to see me. She went to that dangerous place on purpose. She was angry and didn’t want to live. “
The pestilence meant death. If Huo Wei came involuntarily, she just didn’t want to live anymore?
The emperor was confused. “Why did you hurt her? What are you talking about? “
The empress looked at him and said frankly, “The eldest prince doesn’t like Wei. I’m afraid… We can’t protect her in the future, and she will have a hard time. I told her that I wanted to have another child and be her reliance when I grew up. “
The emperor frowned and sighed, “What are you thinking about? I’ve said that the throne will be passed down to the child from the royal family, so I’ll naturally find a way to let the chosen person protect our daughter. How can you have another child?”
The empress shook her head and said, “So said Wei too. She also said that it would be better for me to teach her to be the emperor than to have a son who I don’t know if he is good or not and raise him up for more than ten years.”
The emperor was in a daze for a moment before she asked, “What did you say?”
The empress closed her eyes for a while and said, “There is a female emperor of the Zhou Dynasty in history. Wei… wants to do like her.”
The emperor was shocked. He thought of what Huo Wei had done in an instant. She tried to win over willfulness and build up prestige. It turned out that she was not killing time, but wanted to do something practical and rule the world!
The empress cried, “I thought it was inconceivable at that time. I told her not to think about it anymore. Later, I didn’t know how to persuade her, so I treated her less intimately than before. Wei is so smart that she must have seen it. She must have misunderstood me and thought I didn’t like her to have such an idea.
When she was about to leave the capital, I regretted not taking good care of her. As a result, as soon as she left the capital, she would never see us again… “
The empress cried so sadly that her heart ached as if it had been gouged out. That was her only child or a child that had been separated from her by accident for more than ten years. How could she accept the death of her child?
The emperor had no time to think about the fact that Huo Wei was going to be a female emperor. She was going to die. What was the point of thinking about that? After comforting the empress, he immediately sent the best imperial physician to the Liu Mansion with more than a dozen imperial physicians, and also sent people to deliver goods.
At the same time, Huo Wei’s guards also took her token to mobilize materials. Everyone knew about this!
All the people in the capital city were shocked. They still remembered the scene when the princess’s carriage left the capital not long ago. Why was the princess was going to die?!
It was good that the princess liked to do charity, but how could she risk her life to save others?
The commoners didn’t know whether they should call her a true Bodhisattva or she was too stupid. How dare she enter the Liu Mansion. But just because everyone thought that she was doomed to die, they were more tolerant of her. They were mostly praising her good heart, kindness, and responsibility, and that she had the people in her heart, and that she was the best princess they knew.
The dozens of women who were doing business with Huo Wei were shocked. Then they urgently raised materials and transported them to the Liu Mansion with the help of Huo Wei’s shop. They were used to doing charity with her, and they were sincerely convinced of her.
This time, no matter whether she was alive or dead, their admiration for her had risen to a new level. They all went all out to help her. This might be the last time. Since they had promised to follow the princess all their lives, they would try their best.
No one had paid much attention to what these women were doing before. They all thought that they were coaxing the princess to play. It was not until this time that the civil and military officials and the people of the capital saw the full of supplies that they realized how powerful their small group was.
The financial resources of those things were one thing. They could get all kinds of materials in a very short time, which represented their connections, and their real strength and credibility. Many men asked themselves if they could do this. The answer was maybe, maybe not. But now, these women had done it. How could it not be shocking?
The emperor also knew about it. He had mixed feelings. He sighed that Huo Wei was able to do this unconsciously. Presumably, those women were very loyal to her. Neither the eldest prince nor the third prince could respond in unison.
If it was a scheming woman, Huo Wei had achieved some achievements but concealed them from everyone. She could steadily climb up after falling into the abyss. Her success was definitely not inferior to anyone else.
His majesty felt very regretful. Why wasn’t she a man? If she was, she would be the crown prince.
He then thought that if the eldest prince let him down, then Huo Wei would stand out. Was this her plan? After all, in his heart, Huo Wei was going to fight for the throne. He couldn’t treat her as a simple little girl anymore.
He also wondered whether Huo Wei went to the Liu Mansion this time to make a fortune?
But these thoughts only flashed in his mind for a while and then disappeared. The plague was not something that would kill people if they were infected. No one who wanted to fight for the throne would take the risk himself. There was no need to risk their lives. She was not that stupid. She went to the Liu Mansion must because she really wanted to save someone.
As soon as Lou Ye heard the news, he immediately asked the emperor to look for Huo Wei. The emperor was about to lose a daughter. How could he lose a general again? He refused at all.
As a result, Lou Ye had a quarrel with the emperor. The emperor was both angry and gratified. At last, Lou Ye ran away regardless of the emperor’s obstruction. The emperor was so angry that he cursed. But in his heart, he recognized him as his son-in-law at this moment. A glimmer of hope rose in his heart, hoping that Lou Ye could bring Huo Wei back safely.
In Liu Maison, Huo Wei first divided everyone into three types. One was patients, they didn’t wait for death in the mountain, half of the village’s houses would be emptied and each of them would live in a room. They didn’t go out of the house and didn’t infect each other.
The second was suspected patients, they were separated and paid attention to whether they were sick or not. She tries her best to prevent the infected people from being infected.
The third was those who looked healthy. She asked these people to follow the doctor and cook, clean, deal with the dead, collect herbs and decoct herbs every day. There was no way to isolate all the villagers. Someone had to do something. The pestilence was too dangerous, so she didn’t let the people outside come in again. She could only try to select healthy people to do things in the village.
She was a princess, and her arrival brought endless hope to these desperate people. In such a state, the princess was a symbol of power for them. They instinctively obeyed and obeyed the orders of Huo Wei.
After the supplies were delivered and the imperial physicians arrived, Huo Wei could better manage the village and make all the defenses. But Lou Ye broke into the village to look for her, which really frightened her!
She was in a hurry to ask Lou Ye to go back, but Lou Ye said, “Wherever you are, I will be there. I won’t let you risk your life alone. “
She was so moved that she couldn’t do anything to him. All she could do was to tell him to be with her all the time and not to leave.
Lou Ye was eager to follow her and was afraid that she would sneak into danger. Of course, he agreed without hesitation.
With the princess and the general who was favored by the people, everyone felt much more relieved and had a stronger will to survive.
Every day, some people died, but the speed of their death slowed down. Every day, Huo Wei followed the imperial physician into the mountain to collect herbs. In half a month, she actually knew a lot of herbs, and even remembered the basic properties. If it weren’t for the depression caused by the pestilence, the imperial physician would have praised her for her intelligence.
After knowing a lot of medicinal materials, Huo Wei often went to collect them with Lou Ye. She believed that the plot armor in every world were not vassals, but could really help her, and could even make her learn something with the help of the plot armor.
Therefore, she also attached great importance to Luck. She had never thought of winning without effort. Every day, she followed the imperial physician to identify the medicinal properties of the herbs, hoping to find more herbs to treat the pestilence!
In fact, her Luck had always been reliable, and God had left the opportunity to those who were well prepared. When she went deep into the mountain to look for the herb, she accidentally fell down and found the herb in a remote place covered by vines! It was a herb that the imperial physician had not seen for many years!
It was incomparably precious. It was covered by vines here. No one would find it? If she hadn’t fallen and just dug open the vines, how could she find the herbs? If she didn’t learn the herbs with the imperial doctor every day and carefully remember every word of the doctor, how could she know that something like wild grass was the most important medicine?!
Huo Wei was overjoyed. After she was helped up by Lou Ye, she smiled and asked Lou Ye to dig out all the herbs together, even the roots.
With the imperial physicians and the herbs, the situation in the village was successfully stopped.
No one died in the village anymore. Those who were suspected to be ill were the first to recover and join others to help. And those who were sick gradually recovered one by one.
Every one of them would burst into tears and kowtow to thank her. There were more than 700 people in the village of the village. More than 100 of them had died before Huo Wei came, but after she came, only more than fifty people had died. Nearly six hundred people survived!
The village had been abandoned before! This place was not close to the capital, nor was it far away. It was impossible to take the risk to let them have the chance to spread the pestilence into the capital, and how could the pestilence be easily cured? The county magistrate had already asked for the superior’s approval. After sealing the village, the village would be burnt down in a few days.
It was Huo Wei who saved the village and nearly six hundred of them! The people feel grateful for Huo Wei. It was no exaggeration to say that no one would be more important than her in their hearts all their lives. One would never understand such grace of saving his life without experiencing it personally!
When Huo Wei came here, she took a carriage. When she left, she wore a riding suit and sat on a high horse. Looking at the people in the Liu Mansion shouting “Long Life Your Highness”, it seemed that something had changed.
She didn’t take the carriage anymore. Instead, she rode side by side with Lou Ye all the way to the capital.
The princess is back! The princess not only came back alive but also saved the whole village! The princess has defeated the plague!
This news made the whole capital boil!
On the day Huo Wei came back, the streets were crowded with people to welcome her. When they saw her riding a horse valiantly, many people shouted “Princess” excitedly, and some people shed tears because of gratitude and excitement.
Huo Wei rode on the horse and slowly walked forward. Many people clearly saw her face, and this time, she was like a hero in their hearts!
When Huo Wei heard someone call her “living Bodhisattva”, her action to save the village was too shocking. She had already had the name of a living Bodhisattva and was even more famous among the people. Everyone knew her. She was not only capable but also kind-hearted. Many people called her “Princess Bodhisattva” in private, which was enough to show that she had a lot of people.
The official was not on the alert. After all, she was just a princess. So what if she had a high reputation? It was a good thing that he could become the representative of the royal family and make the people love the royal family more. And she was still doing charity. People who didn’t know what she was thinking would only think that she was really kind and didn’t want people to suffer.
This time, for the emperor and the empress, she came back safe and sound. The empress didn’t want her to be the emperor nor not anymore, as long as she was happy in the city. The emperor didn’t want her to be a female emperor, nor did he want her to be a female emperor. He needed a long time to think about such a thing that he had never thought about before. On the surface, he treated her the same as before and even doted on her more than before.
Huo Wei was keenly aware of this. This meant that the emperor had softened his attitude towards her. Perhaps she should show herself more clearly. Huo Wei also knew what the officials thought of her, so she took this opportunity to apply to the emperor to help the people in Liu Mansion. Since they had been badly injured and their properties were all gone, it was not easy for them to recover a stable life. After all, it was not appropriate to keep donated materials to them, and they might be lazy to raise them.
It was not a big deal for the emperor to ask her to do something. He could also see her ability, so the emperor decided after careful consideration.
Huo Wei opened a school outside the village. This time, it was not the kind of school she used to teach, but a big and very complicated school. They could not only study here, but also learn how to cook, grow, raise animals and birds, learn embroidery, and many people could make a living.
And the tuition for the first year was completely free, and the for the second and the third years was very low. After that, the tuition would increase to the normal level year by year. This school was built outside the village. People from other villages and towns not far away could learn it. This was a really beneficial citizen that they couldn’t learn.
Huo Wei also suggested that if the people of the Liu Mansion went out to work, the employer would have priority to hire them within three months from now on. Three months later, they began to compete with others. Huo Wei took good care of the people in the Liu Mansion, which was good for them to quickly recover to their previous state before the pestilence.
The school Huo Wei built was never exit before and caused a lot of disputes. But in essence, she pitied the people, because she had lived with them during this period and found that they had a hard time. She helped them learn how to make a living. Why not?
The teachers, carpenters, and chefs in the school were all hired by Huo Wei. They were willing to teach, but why didn’t they allow ordinary people to learn? Even in the past, it would take a long time for the craftsmen like blacksmiths to accept an apprentice, and they would have to be a teacher for a day and a father for a lifetime, making people respect them for a lifetime. But no law forbade her to teach in public like this!
As time went by, many students and people began to think highly of her.
After changing the nature of the school, she boiled frogs with warm water, which made everyone reluctantly accept. They would get used to it in the future.
With a high reputation, the convenience was obvious. Many people appreciated her, supported her, were willing to cooperate with her, and were willing to work for her. Unconsciously, her social network spread out very wide. And the social network brought information networks, and those who followed her married to other places, so she also had connections in other places, and gradually connected with the capital.
Gradually, she expanded her power in various ways. Of course, Lou Ye would try his best to help her. Seeing this, the emperor began to think more carefully about the possibility of Huo Wei being a female emperor. Then he found that Huo Wei was really smart. He purposely gave her some advice, but she was able to understand everything. And she could always learn something new very quickly.
He invited the grand tutor to teach her personally, saying that he appreciated her kindness to the people and didn’t want her to be restricted by knowledge. So he asked the grand tutor to teach her to make up for the mistake she had made when she was abroad.
Everyone knew that the emperor doted on the princess, so they didn’t say anything. They only felt that the emperor really doted on the princess to the extreme. Only the grand tutor knew the bold ideas of the emperor and the princess, so he taught her in the way of the crown prince.
The emperor didn’t completely decide to train her. On the one hand, he trained her, and on the other hand, he paid attention to the descendants of royal families. At the same time, he didn’t do anything to the eldest prince. He would also assign some chores to the eldest prince from time to time.
Therefore, the ministers had always thought that the emperor would pass the throne to the eldest prince. After all, no one would have thought that he would pass the throne to his daughter, or to an outsider.
Huo Wei didn’t just learn. After she told what she wanted with the emperor, she could do a lot of things she wanted to do. If she really didn’t want others to know it too early, she could do it in the name of Lou Ye.
She had improved the materials needed for building houses and roads, including bricks, tiles, cement, and greatly reduced the cost. Some important cities of the Qin had begun to build roads and houses.
She put forward the idea of improving the soft armor, which made all the people in charge of design in the shop gather their thoughts. It took one year to design the soft armor that was not expensive but effective against knives and spears. They opened a branch factory in the border area and sent it to the army in bulk.
Two years later, she put forward the idea of the lab. she applied to the emperor to select some good hands in planting and gather together to study how to increase the yield of the crops; to select some clothing masters and gather together to study how to make warmer and more convenient clothes. She selected some scholars to gather together and study how to make up an enlightening textbook. She taught the common people some words and logic so that they could at least write their names, read the contract and understand the reason.
In many aspects, she wanted to improve, but she was not in a hurry to reach the top step by step. Instead, she only put forward a plan to let professional people study the major. Maybe they couldn’t get any result in one or two years, or even five or eight years, there wouldn’t be any big surprise. But this direction was good. It was good for the country and people. The emperor agreed.
In the past five years, Huo Wei had done a lot of things. Some smart ministers had already seen through something, and also found that she was much stronger than the eldest prince.
At this time, Huo Wei was twenty-two years old, but she still hadn’t married Lou Ye. Many people began to guess if the emperor had other intentions.
In the past five years, the emperor refused to marry others, so all the officials stopped persuading him. Some went to the eldest prince, some waited and saw, but gradually, a very small number of people began to appreciate and work for Huo Wei from the bottom of their hearts.
If a person wanted to be an emperor, he didn’t just need to know how to rule. He also needed to have a personal charm and make people willing to follow him. In the past, Huo Wei had been able to coordinate with all the ladies. Now, she had been taught by the emperor and the grand tutor for five years and had done a lot of work for the emperor in private. She had the personal charm to make the courtiers willingly surrender.
Everyone who could be a minister knew the history. The Zhou Dynasty could have a female emperor, but why couldn’t the Qin? When they had such an idea, they would be surprised when they observed the emperor’s attitude towards Huo Wei. Because if they thought in this direction, it was easy to see that the emperor valued her. This was not hopeless.
The court was not full of old-fashioned people, nor were they all stubborn. Before Huo Wei went to court, someone was willing to follow her. She finally passed the test with the emperor!
In the past five years, not only was Huo Wei working hard, but the emperor was also attentively observing, testing, and educating her. When he was sure that she had the potential, he began to pave the way for her step by step. Just as he had decided before, it didn’t matter who would inherit the throne? As long as that person could be a wise emperor for the country, he was willing to pass it on to others. How could he object to his daughter?
When Huo Wei was twenty-five years old, the emperor had taught her for seven years, and she could deal with the tasks assigned by him skillfully. The emperor finally made her the rightful heir.
A decree stunned many stubborn sects, but at the same time, it also lets those who gradually understood it feel relieved. The court dispute was inevitable, but the emperor had made public everything that Huo Wei had done for the country and the people in the past eight years. No matter how stubborn the people were, they couldn’t say anything against it. If the throne was not passed on to Huo Wei, would it be passed on to the eldest prince?
Huo Wei began to work in the court and became the next successor of the throne. The world was in an uproar, but they thought it was reasonable. The princess was the reincarnation of the fairy, and she was especially here to strengthen the Qin. It was a great thing that the princess took the throne!
The first thing that Huo Wei did after she became the successor of the emperor was to marry Lou Ye.
Lou Ye was happy and helpless. After waiting for so many years, he finally became her husband. Therefore, the people trusted her more. Her husband was the God of war, and he was King Qin. This was the best result. How could the great Qin State not be strong?!
After a period of turmoil in the court, Huo Wei gained her footing and made everyone accept her as the successor. From then on, she went on a business trip, went on an expedition, and went hunting. Her heroic figure was everywhere. The impression of her being the future female emperor was getting deeper and deeper in people’s hearts.
The eldest prince was so desperate that he wanted to rebel. He was sent to guard the imperial tomb.
Five years later, when Vivian was thirty years old, she had already given birth to two children. With her authority in the court becoming more and more dignified, the emperor abdicated to be emperor Taishang (Note: Taishang: The title of the emperor’s father)and handed over the state to her in the most stable way.
Huo Wei had become the second female emperor in history after the Zhou Dynasty!
On the day she ascended the throne, a hundred flowers bloomed and birds chirped!
Seeing that everyone thought she was the emperor at that moment, Huo Wei couldn’t help but smile. Her good luck would really appear most appropriately at any time.
She stood on the altar in a Dragon Robe, and all the civil and military officials knelt down. In this auspicious scene, he shouted excitedly, “Long Live my emperor!! “
The Lus, the Lis, the Fangs, and others who had hurt her, those who had missed her, and those who had been down and out all had pain and regret, and they would be soaked in the bitter water for the rest of their lives.
But their business had nothing to do with Huo Wei. She had even forgotten them and devoted herself to be her emperor. She would hold Lou Ye’s hand tightly and lead her husband steadily. They would share the stage and let the people live and work in peace. One day, she would make the Qin the strongest country in the world
