After giving birth to a child, Zhao Zhen actually continued to abstain from sex and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

One reason is that except for Empress Cao and Concubine Zhang, everyone else in the harem is under the age of eighteen.

Even if they want to do something, the purpose is basically to prevent children from having children and just to meet the needs.

Second, Zhao Zhen was still not satisfied with having only one son.

His father had six children, and although the first few died young, he wanted to surpass his father and have more healthy babies.

Therefore, he is usually quite restrained, which is a rare thing for a pervert like him.

If it weren't for the great task of continuing the family line, he would have already let himself go and participated in auditions everywhere.

But now the inventory in Zhao Jun's computer has obviously opened the door to a new world for him, and he is deeply attracted to it.

Although being an emperor was a happy thing in ancient times, it depended on who was the emperor.

If he were someone like Emperor Xian of Han or Emperor Yuan of Wei, he would be suppressed and unable to breathe, no different from a bullied young wife.

Although Zhao Zhen did not reach that point, he was actually not much better.

Most of his wives were arranged for him during the reign of Empress Dowager Liu, and he had no way of choosing them.

After taking power, he thought he could do whatever he wanted, but the ministers came again.

When others presented him with a few beautiful women, various ministers of remonstration wrote to him one after another, criticizing Zhao Zhen harshly and forcing him to send the beauties back.

So in fact, Zhao Zhen was also helpless. Although he was an old pervert, he was always unhappy and couldn't do what he wanted.

As for aesthetics.

Some people say that the aesthetic taste of the ancients was very perverted, but in fact, Zhao Zhen had only one aesthetic taste from beginning to end - he liked people who looked good.

The ones collected by Zhao Jun are all carefully selected by him. Not only are they high-quality beauties from various production areas, but they are also all beautifully made up. This magic can turn even an ordinary girl into a peerless beauty instantly.

Of course, there were makeup techniques in ancient times, but they were definitely not comparable to those of modern times. Therefore, in Zhao Zhen's eyes, the beauties in the computer were much more beautiful than the beauties in the harem.

Moreover, each of their figures was more stunning than the other, which stunned Zhao Zhen and shattered his three views. Then he quickly became addicted to them and couldn't extricate himself.

After a while, Zhao Zhen went to the harem to visit his concubines.

And he returned to his old ways, summoning his favorite other Concubine Zhang, Master Yu, and Master Miao, and slept with them and did whatever they wanted.

While Zhao Zhen was indulging in women, in the northwest, Fan Zhongyan was engaged in a tug-of-war with Li Yuanhao.

Lao Fan began to prepare troops, food and fodder, planning to go out of the border to attack Xingqing Prefecture of Western Xia.

On the one hand, he remained calm and seemed to be planning to negotiate with Li Yuanhao and accepted Li Yuanhao's proposal to surrender, but at the same time he accused Yuanhao of not being sincere enough in his surrender.

There is no such thing in this world as surrendering, refusing to pay tribute, and abdicating the throne.

After receiving Fan Zhongyan's reply, Li Yuanhao was naturally willing to drag out the war with the Song Dynasty to delay time. So the two sides kept writing letters and engaged in fierce negotiations on issues such as abdicating the throne, paying tribute, and the future status of Song and Xia.

From the initial request that the Song Dynasty recognize his status as emperor, to the later resolute refusal of the Song Dynasty, he demanded that Yuan Hao restore his grandfather's positions as the governor of Xiazhou and the governor of Dingnan Army, and then pay compensation to the Song Dynasty with 30,000 horses, 10,000 camels, 5,000 cattle, 40,000 sheep, and some gold, silver and Western Xia specialties.

After making certain concessions to the Song State, he was allowed to retain his title of King of Western Xia, and demanded 10,000 horses, 5,000 camels, 3,000 cattle, 20,000 sheep, a certain amount of gold, silver, and local specialties, etc.

Of course Li Yuanhao refused to do that.

He could accept temporarily deposing himself as a king. After all, he thought that as long as he could drag the Liao Kingdom into the water, even if he failed to break through the Shaanxi Road of the Song Dynasty, he could at least force the Song Dynasty to negotiate and restore his status as emperor.

But now, since the cessation of trade, the Xixia economy is close to collapse and people's livelihood is declining. Although Li Yuanhao won three battles in a row in history, in fact, the internal situation is almost unsustainable.

What's more, we haven't won the battle yet, but have suffered a miserable defeat.

In this situation, if they continue to offer so many gifts, I am afraid that there will be no need to fight next. The domestic economy will collapse and Xixia will fall into civil strife.

Therefore, Li Yuanhao resolutely refused to agree and demanded to restore the situation during his father's time, paying tribute of only 500 horses and 300 camels.

The Song Dynasty may not give him rewards, but it hopes that the Song Dynasty will not exploit him too much.

Fan Zhongyan refused to do it either.

If it were during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song, he might have agreed.

After all, that lord won the battle and signed a humiliating treaty that required him to pay tribute to the enemy country every year.

But now is the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song. Oh, this lord might also agree.

But it doesn’t matter. He may not be able to make the decision in the country now. The one who makes the decision is the hard-line governor.

Therefore, with the support of Zhao Jun, Fan Zhongyan boldly made a huge request and learned the Liao Kingdom's military intimidation, threatening that if he did not agree, he would continue to fight until he was left with nothing.

It sounds like their strategic intentions have been exposed, but in fact, Lao Fan also knows that if he doesn't say so, Li Yuanhao is not a fool.

Since you have won, the correct reaction is to start showing off your strength. If you hide it, it will only make the other party suspicious.

So just be more open and generous.

Li Yuanhao's tone softened a lot, but he still disagreed. The two sides kept arguing over the issue of compensation.

By the end of May in the second year of Baoyuan, the Liao delegation had already appeared in Bianliang.

The delegation was composed of Xiao Ying, the Southern Court Xuanhui Envoy, Liu Liufu, a Hanlin scholar, and others. Ostensibly, they came to congratulate Zhao Zhen on his birthday, but in fact they came to gather information.

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