Cining Palace.
"Che'er, are you serious?" Empress Dowager Yu looked at her son in surprise.
"There are so many concubines in the harem, are you going to let them all out?"
Although Dongfang Che's harem did not have as many women as other emperors, with three palaces, six courtyards, and seventy-two concubines, there were still more than twenty of them.
Are all these concubines going to be released from the palace?
You have to know that these twenty or so people are the ones left after the last cleanup of the harem. Originally there were more than thirty people.
"Mother, it's true that Dongfang Luo gave me a sterilizing drug back then." Dongfang Che said with a serious face.
"Dongfang Luo?" Empress Dowager Yu exclaimed angrily, "The son of that bitch Liang?"
Liang was the one who competed with Empress Dowager Yu for the position of empress, and it was also her son who competed with Dongfang Che for the position of crown prince.
She really didn't expect that Liang and Dongfang Luo would actually give her son a sterilizing drug.
"They gave you this kind of medicine, how come..." Empress Dowager Yu was a little surprised.
If an emperor has no heirs, his throne will be unstable.
If the abortion drug Dongfang Luo had given had worked, why didn't they expose it and cut off Dongfang Che's chance of ascending the throne?
"Dongfang Luo died before he could reveal the fact that he drugged me." Dongfang Che said with a sullen face.
Empress Dowager Yu frowned and asked, "Does this medicine really work?"
"How come Gu gave birth to three children? Now she is pregnant again." Empress Dowager Yu said worriedly.
"Mother," Dongfang Che comforted her, "Gu's child is indeed mine. She is the only one who can give birth to my child."
"Look at Yu'er's appearance. He looks so much like me. Do you think he might not be my child?"
Empress Dowager Yu thought about the eldest prince's appearance and personality, which was similar to her own son, and said that it was indeed unlikely that he was not Dongfang Che's child.
"Mother, since the other women cannot give birth to my children, let them go."
"Maybe if they marry someone else, they can still have their own children?" Dongfang Che said.
As an emperor, he still paid great attention to population.
If the concubines in his harem could give birth to children for him, he would be unlikely to let them leave the palace.
But now that they can't give birth to children for him, they can go out and have children with others, and then add to the population of Dasheng.
Empress Dowager Yu looked at her son's serious expression and nodded, "Okay then, I'll do as you wish."
The Queen Mother wanted to tell her son that he should not favor only one person. What if he ended up like a tyrant emperor and ruined the country by favoring only one person?
But think about her son's situation. Now only Gu can give birth to a child for her son. If her son doesn't favor her alone and sleeps with other women, he won't have children. What's the difference?
Support other women to compete with Gu?
The emperor's descendants were all born to the Gu family, so what competition could they have?
No matter how much favor you receive, it is not as important as offspring in the harem.
For example, King Sejong had a concubine in his harem whom he loved very much, but that concubine had no children.
Later, after the death of Emperor Sejong, the concubine was liquidated by the Queen Mother who came to power.
Therefore, favor is really an illusory thing, and only offspring are the foundation of the harem.
Dongfang Che and Empress Dowager Yu both agreed to let the concubines leave the palace, and soon all the concubines in the harem knew about it.
"What? Let us leave the palace? Is this Gu's idea? It's not enough that she has monopolized the favor of His Majesty, and now she can't accommodate us?" A concubine with the rank of Jieyushi said angrily after hearing the news.
This concubine's idea was simple. Since Dongfang Che could make Wushuang pregnant and give birth to a child, she still had a chance.
If she could give birth to a son or daughter for His Majesty, her position would be secure, and her wealth and glory for the rest of her life, as well as the wealth and glory of her mother's family, would be assured.
But now Dongfang Che wants to send her out of the palace, how can this be possible?
She couldn't accept that the wealth and glory that was within her reach had vanished into thin air.
"Are you really going to let us out of the palace?" A beauty was in disbelief for a moment when she heard the news, but she was mostly happy.
This beauty was very clear about the current status of the queen in the palace. They had been in the palace for so many years without having any children, but the queen had given birth to three children in just three years and was pregnant again.
The queen's family home is still the prime minister's residence.
Under such circumstances, the beauty knew very well that she had absolutely no chance of getting promoted. Even if she became one of the nine concubines, or even the position of a concubine, she might not be able to continue to be promoted.
So when the beauties learned that Dongfang Che intended to release them from the palace and marry them off elsewhere, they were very excited.
She didn't want to spend the rest of her life in the palace in despair. She was less than thirty years old and could still have children.
If she left the palace and remarried, and had her own children with her new husband, that would definitely be a good thing.
She pulled the sister beside her and lowered her voice and said, "Don't you have a cousin who shares your feelings? You should be able to be together this time when you leave the palace."
The sister next to this beauty was also a beauty. She smiled bitterly and said, "My cousin got married less than three months after I entered the palace."
She opened her mouth and said, "What?"
Isn’t it said that love is as deep as the sea?
How come it’s only been less than three months...
The beauty who once had a lover and cousin smiled bitterly and said, "It's actually quite good. Now that I'm in the palace, what's the point of him waiting for me any longer?"
"No one knows. We can leave the palace and marry someone else now."
"So what are you going to do now? What are you going to do after you leave the palace?"
"I don't have any plans. I'll follow the arrangements of His Majesty and the Queen." Beauty B smiled. "It's better than the life we have now, isn't it?"
Although the palace seemed wealthy and prosperous, these unfavored beauties received very little, and were flattered and bullied by the palace maids and eunuchs.
After Your Majesty got the Queen, he left the harem empty, and their lives became even worse.
If I could leave the palace and marry someone else, it would at least be better than the current situation, right?
Beauty A thought for a moment and said, "You make sense."
However, Meirenjia's parents' home is okay. She can go back to her parents' home and ask her parents, brothers and sisters-in-law to find a new husband for her.
Because of the incident of letting the concubines out of the palace, the harem was in turmoil, and the front court was also in turmoil.
There has never been a precedent of an emperor dismissing his harem, and Dongfang Che's actions made the court officials very dissatisfied.
It is more because the concubines in the harem are the daughters and nieces of most court officials. What use would they be if they no longer have the title of the emperor's concubines?
"I have made up my mind. No matter what you say, it will be useless." Dongfang Che said firmly.
"Except for the real Zi Tong, none of the concubines in the harem have ever been pregnant. What are they for? Are they for me to support in vain?"
"The Queen Mother and I take pity on them for not having children. We will let them leave the palace and marry other women. Wouldn't it be wonderful if they could have their own children?"
"Pass on my decree, and let the childless concubines in the harem leave the palace." Dongfang Che said in a resounding voice.
Civil and military officials: It’s over.
He became even more envious, jealous, and resentful of Prime Minister Gu Qianlei.
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