Chapter 100 He is not a boar
The Queen Mother was furious, and Shoukang Palace was filled with dead silence.
Lu Haozhi's face was stern and he remained silent.
After a long pause, Empress Dowager Jiang finally spoke angrily, "You've been the emperor for five years, and you have no children! You like Meng, and I didn't say anything in the past. But you shouldn't forget your status! Without a crown prince, the imperial power is unstable. Who will inherit the throne? Do you take this important matter to heart? Whether you like it or not is of no concern. Producing children as soon as possible is the most important thing!"
These words again!
It seems that as long as he can give birth to a prince, he will do anything!
Whenever Lu Haozhi heard these words, whether they came from the Empress Dowager or the Imperial Censor's advice, he felt humiliated.
He seemed to be just a thing that could reproduce offspring, and no longer a human being.
"...Son, I only want Meng's blood..."
Suppressing the anger in his chest, Lu Haozhi finally spoke, "Mother, if the prince's mother is of humble origin, the prince will also be illegitimate, and his foundation will be difficult to establish, which will also lead to endless troubles. The only suitable candidate in the palace right now is Meng."
"...But, Miss Yan has been with you for seven years now, and there's been no news. If it weren't for the imperial physician reporting her pulse every month, I would have thought..."
Queen Mother Jiang looked gloomy as she stared at her son, whom she had raised and who was now the King of the Great Zhou.
"What if Miss Yan doesn't have any children after a long time? What will you do?"
Lu Haozhi's heart sank, and he suddenly remembered the dream in which Meng Yan cried and told him that her child was gone.
"She will, she will."
He almost uttered the words through gritted teeth.
Empress Dowager Jiang shook her head. "No, I can't let you do this. From now on, have the Imperial Household Department send a notice, and you can choose whoever you like to serve. It's no big deal."
Lu Haozhi clenched his fists tightly, the bulging veins showing his suppressed anger, "My son is not a boar waiting to be bred!"
After saying this, he suddenly stood up and strode away from Shoukang Palace.
"emperor!"
Empress Dowager Jiang looked at Lu Haozhi's tall back as he left, her face full of disbelief.
"This child is so ignorant."
She sighed and rubbed her throbbing temples.
Shoukang Palace's head maid, Zang Xiu, brought a bowl of tranquilizing soup and advised, "Empress Dowager, you've toiled for half your life. Now is the time to take care of yourself and enjoy a peaceful life. Your grandchildren will have their own blessings, and the Emperor must understand this. Why bother with so much?"
Empress Dowager Jiang took a look at the soup and shook her head, and Zang Xiu put the bowl on the table beside her.
"What kind of knowledge could he have? Even if he had, he wouldn't do such absurd things! He has been married and has no sons. How can I enjoy a peaceful and peaceful life?"
Empress Dowager Jiang shook her head, a trace of fatigue appearing on her face. "Besides, his nonsense isn't good for Yan'er. It's even harmful to her. As a result, he's childless for a long time. As he's the emperor, no one will say anything to him, but Yan'er has been subjected to so much criticism. In the past two years, the first accusation in the memorials criticizing Yan'er is that she has no children and is immoral!"
Zang Xiu looked at the old master she had served for most of her life and smiled slightly. "The Emperor is still young and passionate, and it's not surprising that he and the Imperial Concubine are in love. But the Empress Dowager is still so far-sighted, and it's all for their benefit."
Empress Dowager Jiang loved Meng Yan very much, and Zang Xiu knew it.
Previously, Meng Yan had intercepted the carriage of a concubine on her way to the emperor's bedchamber, an incident that caused a great uproar in the court. One official even submitted a memorial, arguing that a woman's jealousy was a violation of one of the seven grounds for divorce. The law was strict; how could a concubine, simply because of her noble status, escape punishment?
It was Empress Dowager Jiang who stepped in and confined Meng Yan to house arrest for a month, forcing her to copy "The Virtues of a Woman" and also to pay her several months' salary. It seemed harsh, but in fact it was a small punishment with a big warning, like picking up the punishment high and then putting it down lightly.
The three cups of wine as punishment were not painful, but they did shut the court officials up.
"Yan is a well-behaved child. Over the past two years, I've seen her temper grow increasingly irritable, and she needs some work to tame it. But this time, when I came back, I saw she was calm and composed, dignified, and well-mannered. She's truly a model mother to the six harems. The Emperor wants to make her empress, which is perfectly fine, but the timing is really bad. Furthermore, she's been childless for many years."
At this point, Empress Dowager Jiang sighed heavily again. She had finally raised him, married him off, and helped him ascend the throne, but in the end, he still couldn't make her worry free!
Zang Xiu saw this and whispered, "Empress Dowager, I heard that the Imperial Concubine and the Emperor have been having a huge fight lately."
Empress Dowager Jiang didn't take it to heart. She closed her eyes and rested, saying casually, "They quarrel every three days, and then have a big fight every five days. They'll be fine again in a few days. Don't pay any attention to them."
Zang Xiu said, "This time the situation is different. The Queen has repeatedly refused to sleep with me, and now she goes to Baohua Hall every day to chant scriptures and worship Buddha, saying that she is praying for the soldiers on the front line."
Empress Dowager Jiang immediately opened her eyes and stared at Zang Xiu, "Tell me about this situation in detail."
Lu Haozhi walked out of Shoukang Palace and strode forward along the long street with his fists clenched tightly.
Rong An trotted after him, wiping the sweat from his forehead. "Your Majesty, wait a minute, your servant. Where are you going?"
Lu Haozhi had no idea where he was going, so he just wandered around aimlessly, anger boiling in his chest. He even wanted to jump out of the red wall and get away from this palace.
Ordinary people in the common people can still marry the women they like. But as an emperor, he was forced by a group of people to have sex with women he didn't like for the sake of his offspring.
Whenever he thought of this, he felt like vomiting.
However, today, these words came from the mouth of his biological mother.
In the beginning, it was his mother who brought him and Meng Yan together. He originally thought that his mother would not force him!
He casually turned into a garden and stopped under a big poplar tree. Suddenly he raised his arm and punched the tree trunk.
The cypress trees rustled and dropped a few leaves.
Lu Haozhi did not stop and punched the tree trunk again.
Rong An, who was standing by, was almost scared silly. Why did the emperor start practicing with a tree?
He knelt hurriedly, saying, "Your Majesty, if you are angry, just scold me, hit me, but don't hurt the dragon's body!"
"Go away! Don't bother me!"
Lu Haozhi had no intention of stopping and punched the tree trunk again and again, as if to vent his endless anger.
Rong An was anxious and panicked, but suddenly he changed his mind and got up from the ground. After giving a few instructions to his disciple beside him, he ran towards Changchun Palace.
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