Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable

Chapter 959: Chapter 870: Unwilling to Be a Slave

The harem now has more high-ranking concubines, all daughters of important officials. Such birth determines their destiny as high-ranking concubines.

Princess Consort Gao’s luck was excellent; this time she gave birth to rare twins, and on the day she delivered, the Northwest had a major victory, leading the Alien Clan to a complete defeat, bowing in submission, thoroughly crushed by the court.

This made the Emperor extremely excited. The year after the victory in the Northwest, the Emperor defied opposition and appointed Princess Consort Gao as Imperial Concubine, granting the title of Marquis to Princess Consort Gao’s father.

Gao Yan had already received instructions from Nangong Shuangshuang. Upon being titled Marquis by the Emperor, he immediately voluntarily resigned from office, giving up all real power, making it clear that he would not involve himself in court affairs, choosing to live as a carefree Marquis.

This way, the Emperor no longer had to worry about the Empress’s maternal clan being too powerful, nor the ministers worrying about the sudden rise of the Empress’s clan disputing for power. Both the Emperor and the ministers were satisfied, and Gao Yan’s noble title, along with Princess Consort Gao’s elevation to Empress, was successfully recognized by both the court and the populace.

Two months later, already an Imperial Concubine, Princess Consort Gao was further elevated to Empress. A grand enthronement ceremony was held, moving from Yingyue Palace to the newly refurbished Fengchen Palace, which the Emperor adorned with countless luxurious items and large groves of peach trees.

After becoming Empress, as the head of the Empress Party, Noble Lady Cheng received the most benefits. Under the Empress’s promotion, Noble Lady Cheng rapidly advanced.

Becoming Cheng Pin, she was able to reside in a palace’s main position, personally raising her daughter. Although even earlier, when she was Noble Lady as the Empress, she requested the Emperor to allow Cheng Pin, still a Noble, to personally raise her daughter, yet now as a concubine, raising a daughter became even more legitimate.

Two years after Princess Consort Gao became Empress, Nangong Shuangshuang felt the timing was ripe and advised the Emperor, asking him to permit palace maids and eunuchs in the harem to receive medical treatment.

For treating general illnesses, an Imperial Physician was not required; it was enough for the Imperial Hospital to assist the Imperial Physicians, having medical practitioners and women treat these servants. One reason being the medical healers need to continuously see patients and treat illnesses to advance their skills, another reason being it reflects the Royal Family’s benevolence and tolerance toward servants.

The Empress long knew this aspiration of Nangong Shuangshuang’s and accompanied its advocacy. The Emperor, already fond of the Empress, also remembered his confidant Xiao Chun, who almost crippled his legs due to the rule that servants couldn’t receive treatment.

Moreover, as long as it wasn’t a critical illness, the treatment of servants did not require an Imperial Physician, thus not occupying their time while honing the skills of medical practitioners and women, ultimately benefiting the masters. The Emperor agreed.

After accomplishing this, Nangong Shuangshuang put down one worry and began writing medical books, cultivating the skills of Imperial Physicians. Nangong Shuangshuang was willing to pass down her medical knowledge, which made the Emperor most pleased.

Nangong Shuangshuang taught medical skills without reserve, significantly improving the Imperial Physicians’ abilities. In March of that same year, a widespread epidemic broke out in the southern court. The common doctors were at a loss, prompting the government to petition the court for assistance from Imperial Physicians.

In ancient times, epidemics were unavoidable; even a modern-day influenza could become a major epidemic in ancient times. Slightly larger contagious diseases would result in widespread epidemics; no dynasty in history could evade an epidemic.

Not just in ancient times, even in modern times, epidemics still occur; it’s just that modern epidemics can’t spread as easily due to advanced medical practices.

Being the most skilled in medical arts, Nangong Shuangshuang petitioned personally to go to the epidemic site to treat it. Initially, the Emperor and Empress did not allow her, but Nangong Shuangshuang insisted. The Emperor, worried for his common people’s sake, coupled with his faith in Nangong Shuangshuang’s medical skills, reluctantly permitted her to go.

Nangong Shuangshuang, carrying a large supply of medicine and accompanied by volunteering Imperial Physicians, traveled day and night to the epidemic site, quickly verifying the treatment prescriptions for the epidemic.

She also coordinated medicinal herbs from surrounding cities, brewing medicine daily for the sick common people to line up and drink. Nangong Shuangshuang completely eradicated the epidemic within less than ten days, keeping the death toll to its minimum.

After returning to the capital, Nangong Shuangshuang deeply felt there were too few folk doctors, and each was selfishly guarded, although rewarding her was quite generous for the illnesses she treated, Nangong Shuangshuang took out ten thousand taels of Silver and directly opened a medical school, dedicated to teaching interested children in the medical arts.

Nangong Shuangshuang hired several old physicians responsible for introductory courses, while she personally handled advanced classes whenever she could leave the palace.

After the establishment of Nangong Shuangshuang’s medical school, many students were drawn in. Although there were dissatisfied practitioners who feared that training too many physicians would threaten their livelihoods, they couldn’t do anything about Nangong Shuangshuang, backed by both the Emperor and Empress as mighty supporters.

Especially knowing about the medical school, it received strong support from the Emperor and Empress, the Emperor personally inscribed a plaque for Nangong Shuangshuang, writing the four-character phrase ”Doctors’ Benevolent Hearts,” and specially allowed Nangong Shuangshuang to leave the palace for five days each month to lecture.

In her lifetime, Nangong Shuangshuang was regarded as having students everywhere under heaven, the excellent physicians she trained spread across the land, greatly reducing mortality rates among the common people, contributing toward increasing the national population.

When Nangong Shuangshuang left that world, aside from the radiant light of merit enveloping her, she received gratitude and faith from many, cherished and remembered by countless individuals, leaving a prominent mark in the record books, immortalized as the Ancestor of Medicine by future generations of medical practitioners.

Shuangshuang spent a few days resting in the Flower Sea Space but couldn’t sit still. Her parents were still in seclusion; being alone in the Flower Sea Space felt meaningless, so Shuangshuang selected another world and reincarnated there.

This time, the world was one rife with military warlords. Shuangshuang’s reincarnated identity was Kou Shuangshuang, a young lady from a prestigious family, in an era where old and new thoughts clashed, women were categorized into two kinds: traditional well-bred ladies and trendy Western-style girls.

Unfortunately, Kou Shuangshuang was a traditional well-bred lady. Even more unfortunately, the era’s young men in high society mostly proclaimed themselves as new-age individuals who, instead of traditional well-bred ladies, preferred trendy Western-style girls.

Yet ironically, many men’s spouses were traditional well-bred ladies, causing situations where many well-bred ladies were discarded because they couldn’t align with their husbands’ thoughts.

Kou Shuangshuang had a Young Marshal husband, Du Haokun. Du Haokun was handsome and capable, a dream figure for countless girls, and naturally, also the object of Kou Shuangshuang’s affection.

Sadly, Du Haokun favored Western-style girls who could keep up with his thoughts and engage in intellectual discourse, having no interest in his traditional well-bred lady-type wife, Kou Shuangshuang.

Since the day of their marriage, Du Haokun hadn’t consummated the marriage with Kou Shuangshuang, constantly cold and distant towards her afterward, shattering Kou Shuangshuang’s fantasies of a loving life with her beloved.