In the court.

"I want to make the imperial concubine the queen. She gave birth to two sons and a daughter for me. She is virtuous and worthy of being the queen." Qin Mu said.

"Your Majesty, this is not possible. Liu is vulgar and cannot be the empress." The Minister of Rites stood up again to object.

"Your Majesty, no. Liu is too gorgeous and not dignified enough to be the empress." Another minister, the Minister of Personnel, also stood up to object.

Yes, Wushuang did give birth to the emperor’s eldest son.

But these ministers knew that the eldest prince born to Wushuang was weak, and the imperial physicians had said with their own mouths that the eldest prince was in poor health.

How can he be made the crown prince with such qualifications?

Good news, Your Majesty has a successor.

Bad news, your Majesty's son is weak.

But this is also another good news for the ministers.

That is, their daughter can enter the palace, become a new concubine, and give birth to a healthy child for His Majesty.

"Your Majesty, please expand your harem and expand the royal family."

"Your Majesty, please expand your harem!"

Qin Mu couldn't help laughing when he saw the ministers who all asked him to expand his harem.

"My dear ministers, you seem to be very interested in my harem." Qin Mu said sarcastically, "Then how about I take care of your harem as well?"

"Minister of Rites," Qin Mu said, looking at the man who had first jumped out to oppose him. "As far as I know, your wife is very strict with illegitimate children. Not only have your concubines suffered multiple miscarriages, but even the illegitimate children who were born have died of illness or accidents."

"My dear, haven't you taken care of your wife causing trouble in your backyard? You have expanded your family, but every time you have illegitimate sons, they die. Why didn't you say anything?"

"My dear minister, you want to send your legitimate daughter to my harem, right? You also proposed that your legitimate daughter become the queen."

"My dear, how do you know that your legitimate daughter won't be like her mother, completely disgusted with the children born out of wedlock? By then, as many of my illegitimate sons and daughters as there are will die?"

"Why? My dear, do you think that I am like you and enjoy experiencing the pain of losing a son countless times?" Qin Mu stared at the Minister of Rites expressionlessly and questioned.

"I am terrified." The Minister of Rites was sweating profusely. When Qin Mu questioned him, he quickly apologized. "I never meant that. My daughter is definitely not such a cruel person. Your Majesty, please understand."

The Minister of Rites really felt a little regretful.

If His Majesty's words today were to get out, not only would his wife's reputation be ruined, but his daughter's reputation would also be ruined.

There is a mother who kills illegitimate sons and daughters. Who knows if she has the same temperament as her mother and will also kill illegitimate sons and daughters?

His legitimate daughter must become the mistress of the house. If the legal wife cannot tolerate her illegitimate children and kills them, who would dare to marry such a legal wife?

The Minister of Rites was extremely regretful.

Qin Mu stopped looking at the Minister of Rites and turned to look at the others, "Grand Master..."

The Grand Tutor who was named trembled in his heart. His hair was already gray, and he insisted on appearing in the court just to keep an eye on Qin Mu and prevent him from doing anything wrong and ruining the Qin Dynasty.

"The Grand Tutor's backyard isn't so peaceful either." Qin Mu said slowly.

The Grand Tutor racked his brains but couldn't figure out what was wrong with his backyard. What did His Majesty want to say?

"I heard that the Grand Tutor's eldest grandson was taken away by mistake and ended up as an ordinary farmer's son. He was only recently found?"

"As a result, this eldest grandson had lived in a peasant family for many years, and his behavior was somewhat unrefined. Everyone in the Grand Tutor's Mansion looked down on him and bullied him everywhere."

"I heard that you kept that farmer's son in your mansion, letting him continue to be the eldest grandson?"

"Grand Master is truly a man of high character. He values the knowledge of a certain person, rather than his own bloodline descendants. I admire him a lot."

"I just can't do that. I don't want my child to be hurt."

Listening to the emperor's words, the Grand Tutor felt like he was being mocked.

He really didn't know the situation of his eldest grandson. He was old and only cared about the affairs of the court and didn't care about the affairs in the backyard at all.

Moreover, he has never cared about what happened in the backyard since he was a child. When he was a child, his mother did not let him care about it, saying that it was her business, a woman's business, and that as a man, he did not need to care about the fighting in the backyard.

Later, when he grew up and got married, his wife took care of the backyard. He only needed to study and take care of his own affairs outside, and the backyard came second to his wife.

Now he doesn't care about things in the backyard. He is old, and his wives and concubines don't fight with each other much anymore. It is his descendants who are fighting in the backyard.

As an old man, it is even more impossible for him to care about how his descendants are competing for favor in the backyard.

Therefore, he had no idea that after his eldest grandson was found, he was looked down upon behind the back of the entire family.

Of course, the Grand Tutor himself was not very satisfied with this eldest grandson. He had been wasting his time in a farmhouse for so many years and his behavior was extremely rude. Of course, he was more satisfied with the fake eldest grandson whom he had raised.

Unfortunately, fake is fake, there is no blood relationship, and the Grand Tutor is really not satisfied.

As a result, the secret of their family was revealed by His Majesty in front of all the civil and military officials, and the Grand Tutor felt that he could not hold up his face any longer.

"Who else?" Qin Mu ignored the Grand Tutor and looked at the others who opposed him making Wushuang the queen and wanted to put his daughter into his harem.

All civil and military officials remained silent.

If I jump out at this time, what if there are some secrets in the family that I don't want others to know, and His Majesty reveals them?

…

Qin Mu of the former dynasty was battling wits and courage with the civil and military officials, while Wushuang in the harem looked at the three children lying in a row without losing the smile on his face.

"Oh? Is this what His Majesty and the ministers said? Did the illegitimate sons of the Minister of Rites really die so many times?" Wushuang asked curiously.

"It's true. The Minister of Rites' family had a few illegitimate sons, but most of them died young."

"The only illegitimate son of the Shangshu who has survived to adulthood is a frail and sickly man who has to take medicine all year round," said Cuizhu.

"Tsk tsk tsk... This Minister of Rites is so cruel that he actually allows his wife to treat his own children like this." Wushuang couldn't help but shake his head.

The wife of the minister who attacked the concubine and illegitimate sons and daughters was indeed hateful, but the minister of rites who watched his wife do it and stood by and watched was cruel.

He is the truly cruel person.

After all, the illegitimate sons who were killed had no blood relationship with the Shangshu's wife, nor were they born from her pregnancy, so she didn't feel any remorse at all when she did it.

But what about the Minister of Rites?

Those were his blood-related children, yet he could watch his wife kill them.

The most cruel one is the Minister of Rites.

Cuizhu and Linxu nodded to indicate that their master was right.

They had not had such an idea before, but after their master's analysis, they felt that the Minister of Rites was not a good person either.

Birds of a feather flock together. The Minister of Rites and his wife are a perfect match made in heaven.

Just as cruel and ruthless.