[I wonder if that minister would regret it if he knew that the king of this country had become even more outrageous because of him.]
[Why should I regret it? Following a king like that will only lead to destruction.]
[King You of Zhou must have died in this campaign. Would Bao Si have died with him?]
Bao Si was also quite pitiful. She had a good life, but she was forced into the palace and had to bear the stigma. Life was really hard for girls at that time.
[I also discovered that in Kuri's anime, women's lives are not easy.]
[You just realized that I had already discovered this problem back in the Tang Dynasty series, which is why I'm really looking forward to Li Zi's creation of Wu Zetian. I believe it will be a completely different story.]
[Now that you bring it up, I'm surprised to realize that this is the case. Why did people back then treat women as subordinates?]
[Yes, like Daji before, because her country was attacked, she was offered to an old man she didn't like. The same thing happened to Baosi this time. Why do these men like to offer their women to others?]
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Seeing everyone discussing the status of women at that time, he couldn't help but say, "In the past, women were men's vassals. Women could be bought and sold at will by the men in their families. That's why Daji and Baosi were both presented to the emperor, because they were women, and beautiful women at that. Speaking of which, since the story we're telling today is about the emperor, let's talk about what you would do if you traveled back to ancient times and became an emperor."
"After traveling through time, you became an emperor. Unfortunately, the emperor you traveled to was an eight-year-old child. When you were six, your father died of illness. Before his death, he asked the prime minister, the general, and the queen mother to assist you, and to hand over power to you when you came of age.
After becoming the young emperor, you had to wake up early every day to attend the morning court, a meeting with your ministers before dawn. However, despite being the emperor, you couldn't speak. A minister reported a drought in a certain area and asked you to allocate funds. You wanted to agree, but the empress dowager sitting behind you coughed and reminded you not to speak. You could only obediently say that you would discuss it later. Until the morning court ended, you had no chance to speak.
After the morning court session, you could have breakfast, and after breakfast, you had to study. After lunch, when you wanted to attend to government affairs, you found that the memorials had already been processed by the Empress Dowager. In the afternoon, you had to continue studying with the teacher, leaving you with no free time.
You'd just become close with a young eunuch, and then he'd die. You'd just befriended the son of a high official, and within a few days, you'd hear he'd fallen off his horse and broken his leg. Fearing the death of everyone you'd befriended, you'd finally become afraid of getting close to anyone. And so, you lived a numb life, day after day, until you reached adulthood.
You asked the Queen Mother for power, but she said, "You're still young, let me handle it for you!" She also found a few women for you to play with, saying you're grown up and it's time to have children. You could only complain in your heart, "Didn't you just say I was still young? How come you're asking me to find women in the blink of an eye?"
You went to the general to ask for military power, but the general said, "Your Majesty, do you not trust me?" He was ferocious and ruthless, as if he could kill himself if you said you didn't trust him. Then, he sent his daughter to the palace and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry. This is my youngest daughter. The most important thing for you now is to give birth to more offspring for the royal family." This chapter has been read (please click on the next chapter to continue reading!)
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