The emperor was very wary of the Chu family from the beginning. He was most afraid of the influence of his relatives. Marrying the queen was also to increase the bargaining chip in the fight for the throne. He actually had someone he liked in his heart.
When they got married, they made up their minds not to let the queen conceive any children. As long as the next prince did not have the blood of the Chu family, he would not be afraid of the Chu family becoming powerful.
At that time, the queen was still a crown princess and had no children in the first year, so she asked her family to see a female doctor for a physical examination, only to find out that she had been prescribed contraceptive pills. The female doctor helped her get her body in order, and she became pregnant soon after.
However, the child was aborted within two months.
At first, the queen thought that the birth control pill and the loss of the child were all the fault of the concubines, so she gave all the concubines the birth control pill.
She had no time to recuperate her body, so she became pregnant with her second child, and she lost her child again in the third month. This time, she wondered if someone from other princes' palaces had intervened. She never thought it was the emperor. After all, it was a troubled time at that time.
At this point, she was relieved of her worries for the time being.
After the emperor ascended the throne, she became pregnant twice in succession, but she couldn't keep it alive. Even if the female doctor examined her, nothing could be found.
The queen wondered if her body was not suitable for pregnancy. She did not dare to think that the emperor himself had done this. It was only when she was dining with the emperor that she did not ask anyone to check carefully.
Of course, she still had doubts in the end, but what could she do?
The emperor just didn't want a woman named Chu to have children.
Thinking that she still had love for the emperor in the past, even though she loved power, she was still somewhat sincere. Unexpectedly, the other party had already plotted against her, and she felt indescribably sad.
Now that the source was discovered, the queen thought of how to save the child.
The Chu family spent a lot of money to find a female doctor's master to prepare a long-lost forbidden medicine.
After she became pregnant, she directly gave the emperor medicine. This medicine could not completely sterilize the emperor, but only caused him to gradually weaken, making it difficult to detect it.
After taking that medicine, not only will it be difficult to conceive children, but I will sometimes be able and sometimes unable to do so, as if I really have a certain disease.
The emperor killed so many of her children, and the queen felt that this was an advantage to the other party. However, she could not kill the emperor because the children had not grown up. If the emperor died, she would not know whose own the kingdom was, which would be even more detrimental to her.
Later, the emperor realized that he was not very good and the queen was pregnant. He was afraid that he would really die, so he did not take action again.
Of course, he had doubted whether the queen had done something. Later, the imperial doctor checked her body and found nothing wrong.
Later, Concubine Ye became pregnant.
Concubine Ye gave birth outside the palace. She felt that the child would not grow up in the palace, so she came up with the idea of letting the child grow up outside the palace.
In order to prevent the queen from worrying about the children living outside the palace, she arranged for someone to stage a play in which people took her children and jumped off a cliff to death while being hunted.
In this way, people can still speculate whether the queen did it.
Apparently her child was dead, so the queen would not pursue the matter any further.
After more than ten years, when her child grew up, she was no longer afraid of being taken back to the palace. Of course, she couldn't raise her child from just any family, so she chose Shangshu's family.
The Minister of Finance and the Prime Minister of Chu had always been at loggerheads. He also felt that the Chu family was powerful and the son of the Prime Minister of Chu also controlled the military power.
He believed that Concubine Ye never told lies, and that the queen would definitely harm other princes for the sake of the prince.
Otherwise, why has the emperor only had one heir, the prince, for so many years? No one else did it except the queen.
However, the emperor did not delve into this matter at all, and even indulged the queen and spoke for her.
Little did they know that the emperor kept silent because he was afraid that his physical condition would be known and everyone in the world would laugh at him.