Chapter 199: Founding of a Nation (Part 2)
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"Your Majesty, are you really unwilling to marry your eldest daughter?" Chen Yuxian asked Tang Tong softly. She was always the woman who was content with her own nature, and always the woman who looked very weak, but her concern for Tang Tong was the most sincere among all the women Tang Tong had met. Tang Tong originally wanted to make her the queen, but Chen Yuxian felt that she was not worthy. After being poisoned by Zhu Li during the Song and Ming dynasties, this woman was very proud of her background and believed that she was not worthy of being the head of this country.
"Don't call me emperor, Yuxian. We are husband and wife, there's no need for that. I am your husband, not your emperor, you know? I don't want to be a lonely emperor. From now on, even in front of outsiders, I will only be your husband, not your emperor. If anyone dares to say anything, I will chop off his head. As for the long-haired girl you mentioned, she hates me so much in her heart. Tell me, if I force her to be by my side, what's the fun in that? Let's forget it." Tang Tong sighed and hugged Chen Yuxian in his arms. No matter what, this woman was his first woman and the woman he truly had feelings for. In Tang Tong's heart, this was his wife. His feelings for other women were far less than this.
"Your Majesty... please, my husband, you are the head of a country after all. How can you not have rules? If I don't follow these rules, how will others look at you? Also, Changchun Yiwu is of noble birth. I feel that only she is worthy of you, my husband, and only she is most suitable to be a role model for a country. As long as you are willing, there is no problem with Changchun Yiwu. Although she is a concubine, the Ming Dynasty was destroyed after all. It is her good fortune that you can marry her." Chen Yuxian is a very traditional woman. In her opinion, a woman should always think about her man, which is what she should do.
"Now, let's not talk about this kind of thing. Now the country has been established, but the matter of establishing a queen is giving us a headache. Someone like me is still a founding monarch. The military power and political power are in my hands, but I still can't do it according to my own wishes. There are too many things involved. If you don't want to be the queen, then it's not so easy to establish someone else. No matter what, you are the legal wife of the Tang family. Although you didn't give birth to a boy or a girl for me, you can just adopt one from someone else. If you establish someone else as queen, each of them has their own power behind them, and each of them has their own children. "In terms of family status, they are all concubines of the Tang family. Whoever is appointed as the heir will cause dissatisfaction among the other forces. Now they are still saying that when I am old, I am afraid that the children they give birth to will fight to the death for the throne." Tang Tong said with some sighs. In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor had to obtain the consent of his ministers before he could appoint an empress or a crown prince. Tang Tong has always promoted capitalist socialism, and some so-called democracy has taken root in the hearts of the people. He has gone further on the road of imperial power than the Ming Dynasty's absolute power. Although Tang Tong is the founding emperor and his words are law, his ministers dare not oppose it now, but they will do something about it in the future.
"My dear husband, even if I become the queen now, what is going to happen in the future will still happen. That's why I hope you can make a suitable woman the queen of a country to prevent future things from happening." Tang Tong had actually thought about what Chen Yuxian said. He also knew that with his prestige, he could force Chen Yuxian to be the queen now, but Chen Yuxian was too gentle. Moreover, she had no descendants of her own, so she could not suppress the women in his future harem.
Tang Tong shook his head and stopped thinking about these things. These things were all caused by his lust for women. There were probably more than a dozen women with official status around him, including Liu Rushi, Dayu'er, Hong Niangzi, Hai Lanzhu, Li Xiangjun, Dong Xiaowan, several foreign concubines, princesses and so on. There were even more women without official status. There was also Yuan'er who always stayed by his side and didn't want to get married. Thinking of Yuan'er, Tang Tong felt a little distressed. Yuan'er was so... Yuan'er is not young anymore, and according to the standards of this era, she should have gotten married long ago, but Yuan'er refused to get married no matter what. Of course, Tang Tong was also reluctant to let Yuan'er marry another man. Yuan'er was born with a charming figure and a beautiful appearance, and I am afraid that any normal man would not be able to resist her charm. Tang Tong was also a normal man, and a powerful man at that. If Yuan'er's relative had not turned out to be the closest woman to Tang Tong, Tang Tong would have let Yuan'er go.
After Tang Tong left Chen Yuxian's residence, Chen Yuxian took action. She had been in charge of the Tang family caravan for so many years, and many of her subordinates had become important figures in the new country. Even if Chen Yuxian did not fight for power and profit, her subordinates would push her forward. When Chen Yuxian gave the order and asked her subordinates to act as a go-between for Tang Tong and Chang Lieqi, the people from the former huge Tang family caravan immediately began to work. With the help of Zhou Kui, Tian Hongyu and others, they easily got Chang Lieqi to agree to this matter.
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