“It is only natural for me to worry about you. Your Majesty does not need to hide your worries from me. If Your Majesty is unhappy, you may tell me. I am willing to share your burden.”
As Gu Jiangli said this, she actually had some guesses in her heart.
During the eight years that the emperor reigned, there were no foreign invasions or natural disasters, and the lives of the people were quite colorful.
As an emperor, he certainly had a knack for governing the country.
The only thing that bothered him was the issue of having offspring.
Sure enough, the emperor touched her earlobe and said:
"It's not a big deal. Several elderly ministers in the court have repeatedly advised me to establish a crown prince."
Gu Jiangli was taken aback. "His Majesty has no heir yet, so how can he establish a crown prince?"
Who should be chosen as the crown prince? Someone who doesn't even exist?
The emperor said, "Those ministers don't care about these things. They only know that if the royal family has no heir, the royal position will be unstable. I have no children, so you can adopt my sister's child, or just find any child with Xiao family blood."
"That day, Shu Qingyu, along with several ministers, came to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to see me late at night. Their reasons were twofold: first, to urge me to establish a crown prince as soon as possible, and second, to urge me to kill that wandering Taoist priest, Liu Bufan, as soon as possible."
"They're driving me crazy. What does it matter to them whether Liu Bufan is killed or not? Besides, I'm only thirty this year, not about to die anytime soon. They're more anxious about me establishing a crown prince than they are about visiting graves during Qingming Festival."
Gu Jiangli pursed her lips, naturally sensing the pressure from the emperor.
"Your Majesty, are you planning to listen to those ministers?"
"How could that be?" the emperor exclaimed. "My crown prince must naturally be my child."
Gu Jiangli thought to herself, "Yes, who would want to make someone else's child the crown prince?"
"Your Majesty, please rest assured, we will definitely have children."
Gu Jiangli's words of comfort put the emperor at ease.
"I also believe that such a day will come."
She needed to make her pregnancy public as soon as possible. If the emperor couldn't withstand the pressure and actually named someone else's child as the crown prince, it would be a huge loss.
That very night, she summoned the considerate system.
"Zizai, I need a pregnancy-preserving pill."
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