During Lingjue's reign, there were no major events in the world.
In the tenth year of Lingjue's reign, a decree spread throughout the four counties.
Huo Guang, the great general of Sima, ordered all the princes, princes, governors, and high-ranking officials worth two thousand dan and above to present to Chang'an beautiful women who had given birth to boys.
It is best to have a beautiful woman who gets pregnant within ten months of getting married. In other words, she wants a woman who is extremely easy to get pregnant.
The decree also stated that in addition to the two thousand stone high-ranking officials, if any common people thought that their daughters or wives were beautiful and could easily give birth to boys, they could report it to the local county magistrate.
Huo Guang made it clear in his edict that the direct bloodline between Emperor Xiaoxuan and the Empress Dowager was too weak. After the death of Prince Li, only His Majesty was left with a single seedling.
This donation is for the purpose of multiplying the heirs of the Heavenly Family, so we choose beautiful women who have given birth to male babies.
If the beautiful woman presented is really pregnant with the precious seed of the heavenly family, the officials will calculate the political achievements, and the father or husband who contributes will be greatly rewarded. Like the relatives, they will enjoy endless glory and wealth, and they can also bless their descendants.
The emperor of Chang'an has a long history of ordering the counties to present beauties. Emperor Xiaowu, in particular, loved beauties and asked the counties many times to select beauties to donate.
A big man doesn't care much about whether he has been married before. As long as the beauty is really beautiful, it doesn't matter even if it is a second marriage.
But it is unheard of and unheard of for a beautiful woman like Huo Guang to directly ask for a gift of a child.
Although it sounds strange, and even a bit contrary to conventional etiquette.
Everyone in the world, whether they were scholars, scholars, or kings, all praised Huo Guang's move.
Because it is the greatest disrespect for an emperor to have no heirs!
The Empress Dowager even directly issued an order to provide Huo Guang with an additional three thousand households. She was very fond of Huo Guang's move.
In the past ten years, what she was most worried about was that Liu She had an accident, which directly cut off her bloodline.
Now Liu She is sixteen years old. From the age of fifteen, under the arrangements of Huo Guang and the Empress Dowager, she gradually had several maids, but none of them gave birth to a prince.
As the emperor grows older and reaches the age of getting married, what if the queen also finds it difficult to give birth to a prince for the emperor?
Empress Dowager Xu Pingjun was very worried.
Unexpectedly, Huo Guang was more capable than her. He waved his hand and said, "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, please wait a little bit about the marriage. Give birth to your son first to ensure that Your Majesty will not have an heir. Then we can slowly choose the queen."
After a year of screening, some less beautiful women were eliminated, and nearly a hundred women were carefully selected from the counties and the people. All of them had suitable figures and thousands of styles between their eyebrows. They were all double ten. The youth around you is the time of beauty and beauty.
It takes money to cultivate beauties. Naturally, these beauties did not come from farmers' families. At worst, they came from small landowners and small merchants.
In the tenth year of Lingjue's reign, as soon as these people were sent to Chang'an, they were all so charming and charming that Liu She was stunned.
There used to be a lot of beauties in the palace, but after the twenty years of Emperor Xiaoxuan Liu Xun and the ten years of Liu She, the young and beautiful ones have long since disappeared.
The few who were lucky enough before were specially found by Huo Guang and the Empress Dowager. Now that they saw beautiful women carefully selected from all over the Han Dynasty, it was strange that they were able to control them.
But Huo Guang understands sustainable development very well. He knows that sex is like a bone scraper. The emperor's body has not reached its peak development. If he is addicted to women, his body may be worn down.
So he ordered the palace ladies to record the menstrual events of these beautiful women, and then arranged a timetable for these beautiful women to be blessed. Only one beautiful woman would be blessed by Liu She every three days, and the imperial doctor also ordered Liu She to be blessed. Replenish essence and blood.
In this way, one year is enough to visit these hundreds of beautiful women. These beautiful women are all easy to get pregnant and can give birth smoothly.
As long as everything goes well, a few princes will be born smoothly.
Only when the emperor has an heir, Huo Guang and others can rest assured, can the empress dowager rest assured, and only then can the sword that has always been hanging over everyone's heads be dissipated.
Throughout the ten years of Lingjue, Liu She was either learning how to govern the country from the Empress Dowager and Huo Guang, or visiting those beautiful women.
The reason why they had to stay with different people every night was because Huo Guang was worried that Liu She had a rebellious mentality. After all, there was psychological pressure in carrying out the task of reproducing heirs.
This way, there is a sense of freshness every night, even if it is a bit rebellious, but you have to take two bites before talking. This is enough for Huo Guang.
Of course, if Liu She likes someone, Huo Guang wouldn't mind giving her more roles and serving Liu She more times. As long as she can have children, everything will be easy.
Liu She might have had some difficulty getting a woman pregnant, but under Huo Guang's careful and bold operation, he found the woman who was easiest to conceive in the entire Han Dynasty.
Finally, in the third month, good news came from the palace that a beautiful woman was pregnant successfully.
At that time, Huo Guang was explaining to Liu She how to handle political affairs in Changle Palace. The chamberlain ran in excitedly and said: "Your Majesty, I am so happy!"
When Liu She asked, the chamberlain said excitedly: "Your Majesty, Mrs. Cao of Pei County is happy."
pregnant!
This news directly shocked the emperor and his ministers so much that they were speechless for a moment.
Huo Guang was the first to react. He bowed down to Liu She in excitement, and immediately said with tears streaming down his face: "Your Majesty, you have an heir, and you have a successor.
You have a successor! "
Liu She came to his senses and helped Huo Guang up. The young emperor's rather heroic face also shone with excitement. He sighed seriously: "This is all the credit of the general. If you hadn't found it for me, I don’t know when these women will have children.
Mrs. Cao of Peijun, I remember her. Her original husband’s family name was Cao. He died in banditry only three years after their marriage. She had a son in Qiao County of Peijun.
According to the decree, if Mrs. Cao can give birth to a prince, I will designate the prince as King of Pei and her son in Qiao County as Marquis of Qiao. Although they have different surnames and are not related by blood to me, they are of the same flesh and blood as my prince. I will never treat my dear brother unfairly. "
The reason why Liu She and Huo Guang were so excited was naturally not just because of a baby whose gender was unknown. Moreover, even if it was born, it might still die.
The most important thing is that Mrs. Cao became pregnant, which proved that Liu She was able to give birth!
As long as this is confirmed, the nearly one hundred beautiful women in the palace who are prone to pregnancy will sooner or later be able to give birth to ten, eight, or even twenty or thirty sons for him. No matter how high the mortality rate is, Some always survive!
As soon as Liu She's imperial edict was announced in the palace, all the women were instantly excited. Is this the glory and wealth that the emperor and the general mentioned before?
The title of a prince was immediately thrown away!
Liu She created a beauty position for Mrs. Cao, and then continued to diligently and step by step fight for the continuation of the throne.
Huo Guang then communicated with the Empress Dowager and protected all pregnant women to prevent some people from causing trouble.
The Queen Mother was stern when she heard this and stepped up her protection of the pregnant woman.
At the end of Lingjue's eleventh year.
A decree was issued from Chang'an. The emperor asked all the princes, princes, princes, county governors and other high-ranking officials from all over the world to come to Beijing to celebrate the eldest son, second son, third son, eldest daughter and second daughter of the Han Dynasty.
The Emperor of the Han Dynasty got five children in one year, and more than a dozen beauties were pregnant. The Han Dynasty had a complete successor. This is a matter of celebration for the whole world, and all families should come here.
After the emperor issued the imperial edict, the empress dowager also issued an edict, asking all families to bring their noble daughters to Chang'an to see the world.
Who doesn’t know the meaning behind this?
The emperor has enough bastards, so he doesn't have to worry about having no successor to the throne. Now he wants to marry the queen and have his eldest son!
Although the inheritance law of the Han Dynasty had long been messed up, Emperor Lingjue was special. If he had a legitimate son, he would definitely inherit the throne.
In fact, the Queen Mother was most interested in Huo Guang's young daughter, who was about the same age as Liu She, but Huo Guang was unwilling.
Because Liu She had difficulty in giving birth, and his daughter and Liu She were close relatives, cousins.
Luo Qing had warned him that unless there was the consent and blessing of King Su, the marriage between close relatives would definitely have difficult consequences for the offspring and would lead to early death.
He didn't want his daughter to be unable to have children after marrying into the palace, and end up depressed for the rest of her life.
Especially since his status has almost reached the peak of human ministers, and the next higher level is the Prime Minister and Regent. This is the realm that King Luo Wen only has. When he has no pursuit, he is even less willing to use his daughter in exchange for political capital.
Only then did the Empress Dowager summon all the noble ladies to Beijing.
However, although Huo Guang was unwilling to let his daughter marry, Huo was not the only one. His elder brother inherited the title of Champion Marquis, and he had several direct granddaughters, not to mention his daughters.
Naturally, Huo Guang would not let go of the opportunity to be close to the water, so he recommended a few people to the Empress Dowager. Xu Pingjun was somewhat satisfied, but he still wanted to see the noble daughters of other families, especially the women from Guandong.
The land of Kanto has always produced beauties.
During Lingjue's ten years, all the families from Guandong came to Chang'an to meet the emperor, and they basically traveled lightly. After all, the emperor had not yet taken charge of the government. Should they meet with the emperor or Huo Guang?
If he came too grandly, people in the world would think he was flattering Huo Guang. Although many people were indeed very flattering towards the powerful Huo Guang.
But nobles and officials, they all understand it, just like some special professions.
I can’t say what I can do!
It’s time to stand up!
This time, the princes from all over the world were summoned to the capital in the name of the emperor. All the pomp and circumstance that had not been shown for so many years was suddenly prepared.
Especially those who guarded the feudal lords. After the Battle of Jingnan, they stayed quietly in Kanto for thirty years!
Now they directly decorate the private army and lead the huge envoys from the princely states to Chang'an, Guanzhong.
No one knew that Huo Guang wanted to do something big.
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In the Han Dynasty, there were beautiful women and happy wives. There were hundreds of beauties in the palace, all of whom were remarried women. This was unheard of in ancient and modern times, but people at that time actually praised it. The difference in customs in the Han Dynasty can be seen. ——"Collection of Ancient Anecdotes"
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