The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 185

After much deliberation, Zhao Dongting still could only talk about his age, saying: "I am still young, and I am not even old enough to get married in the civil society, so why worry?"

In the Song Dynasty, there was a clear rule that men should marry when they are fifteen, and women should marry when they are thirteen. Zhao Dongting is not yet that age.

But Lu Xiufu said: "The emperor is the son of a real dragon, so he is naturally different from the common people. Besides, there are many people who marry at a young age, and the emperor is a role model for the common people."

Men marry when they are fifteen, and women marry when they are thirteen. It means that men should marry when they are 15 years old, and women should marry when they are 13 years old.In this era, there are only regulations on the upper age limit for marriage. No matter how young you are, there is no problem in getting married.There are folk child brides-in-law everywhere, and there are little fathers and mothers everywhere.

In this way, the royal family is naturally even more exaggerated.

There are not a few men in the royal family who are less than ten years old and live in the concubine.

Some of them got married relatively late, but before they got married, they had spoiled their maids, or had special women who taught them how to have sex, and had mature sexual experience.Now that the Southern Song Dynasty is windy and windy, Zhao Dongting has encountered accidents several times. The situation is special. It is normal for Concubine Yang Shu and the others to want Zhao Dongting to accept the concubine and have a child sooner.

Zhao Bing, the younger King of Guang, has now obediently accepted and married the side princess.

Zhao Dongting was stunned by Lu Xiufu's words.

After a while, he couldn't think of any other reasons, and simply said: "It's not that I don't want to accept a concubine, but I already have a beautiful woman in my heart. I vowed to marry her. Before her, it's hard for me to put other things in my heart." woman."

He was speaking the truth.

Zhao Dongting grew up in a modern education with a relatively open mind. He traveled to the Southern Song Dynasty as an emperor and never thought that there would be only Le Chan in his harem.Take Yinger as an example, as a personal maid, she is bound to become Zhao Dongting's concubine in the future, and Zhao Dongting does not reject this.

However, he is willing to concubine, but definitely not now.

Now he has Le Chan in his heart, although the two love each other, but in the end, they have not achieved a positive result, and he really has no intention of being lingering with other women.

It's like modern boys, while pursuing a girl, it is difficult to have feelings for other girls.The so-called beauty is in the eye of the beholder, if he really likes it, the woman he is after will occupy all his mind and make him have no time to care about him.

This was the case for Zhao Dongting at this time.

When Lu Xiufu and the others heard this, their expressions became strange.

In their view, Zhao Dongting's thinking is very strange.If you have a woman you like in your heart, you can't accept your concubine and have children?

Mu Kangxun, magistrate of Leizhou, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the concubine is only for the birth of a dragon son, so what does it matter if you like it or not?"

Both Lu Xiufu and Chen Wenlong nodded.

In this day and age, concubines are all for beauty and childbirth, and there are very few true feelings.

Even if there is true love among the people, it is mostly between a man and his wife, and it is a relationship cultivated after marriage, just like Liu Hongyi and his wife.

Women have no status at all, not even regular wives, let alone concubines.

To put it bluntly, a concubine is just a tool for procreation and to meet physiological needs.

There was nothing wrong with Mu Kangxun's words, it was taken for granted in this age.As for concubines, they were married only because they were born beautiful. It doesn't matter if he likes it or not, as long as they can bear cubs.It doesn't matter if you can't have a baby, as long as you can feel good.

And a concubine in the palace, isn't it the same as the emperor's concubine?
In the era of parents' orders, men usually didn't even meet each other before they got married.Under such a background, who would care about feelings?
The background of the Southern Song Dynasty is destined to seldom talk about the word "feeling" between men and women in this era.

Between Le Wuhui and his wife, as well as between Zhao Dongting and Le Chan, these are all odd numbers, only a very small number.

"This……"

Zhao Dongting was slightly stunned again.

He knew about the relationship between men and women in this era, but he couldn't agree with it.

It's not that Zhao Dongting resisted having sex with strange women. In his previous life, he had messed around outside for entertainment.

However, he resisted having children with strange women.Just thinking about it made him feel ridiculous.

Two people who have never met face to face have sex and then give birth to a child.What should I do next?
ignore it?Or slowly develop feelings?
Zhao Dongting didn't want to be reduced to a stallion, so he would never marry a woman without feelings, let alone have children.

He said: "Let's talk about this matter in a few years. I don't want my pillow to be a strange woman whom I have never met before."

However, Lu Xiufu took advantage of his words and immediately said: "There are already several beauties in the emperor's palace, are they not strangers?"

Zhao Dongting was stunned and became very distressed.

He just forgot about this, yes, concubine Yang Shu and the others wanted to give him a concubine, and most of them would choose Ying Er, Yue Wu and other women.

Zhao Dongting's mind slowly came up with the looks of the girls, and then the scene when he married them and had children.

This made him shake his head again and again, "No, no!"

If they didn't know Yinger and the others in the past, Zhao Dongting would probably not refuse, but would secretly be happy if he could harm such a stunning beauty like them.However, now that he and the girls are familiar, he can't bear to trouble them.

The disaster without emotion is purely to vent animal desires. In this way, Zhao Dongting always feels guilty, as if he is sorry for his daughters.

If he was that kind of person, he would have brought trouble to Ying Er, Yun Jin and other girls long ago, so why wait until now?
He might marry them and have children, but that would definitely be when the relationship came to fruition, and right now, it's obviously not there yet.

Sometimes, it is really difficult to compare the ancient and modern sexual concepts which is more open.

Lu Xiufu and the others looked at Zhao Dongting shaking his head in "horrified" face, and couldn't help wondering, "Your Majesty, why not?"

Zhao Dongting reckoned that he couldn't persuade them, so he simply put on the emperor's airs and said, "Anyway, if I say no, I won't! I won't accept concubines now, so there is no need to discuss this matter."

He can have sex with strange women, but he will never have children.

And if he knew Ying Er and Le Wu like this, and had a good relationship, he would never want to have a relationship.

All in all, Zhao Dongting's idea is that it is fine to marry and have children, but it must be a woman I really like.Right now, that is Le Chan.

Lu Xiufu, Chen Wenlong and others looked at me and I looked at you, but they didn't know what to say.

Advise again?

What should the emperor do if he gets angry?
They are just courtiers, and they dare not show Zhao Dongting's face like Concubine Yang Shu and force him to accept concubines.

The courtyard suddenly fell silent.

After a while, Xiyi asked eagerly: "Your Majesty, the matter of Wanminshu..."

"You made it yourself, clean it up yourself, or I will clean you up." Zhao Dongting was very angry.

He can be sure that Concubine Yang Shu instructed Xi Yi to do the matter of Wanminshu.Now it's the end of the year, and the common people are too busy with their own affairs, how can they still have time to take care of Zhao Dongting's affairs?

Xiyi smiled awkwardly and didn't dare to say any more.

When Lu Xiufu and the others saw this, they all sighed slightly in their hearts.It seems that they can't persuade the emperor, and they can only report this matter to the queen mother.

The fact that Zhao Dongting likes Le Chan has not been spread, and they don't know who Zhao Dongting's favorite woman is, so they dare not ask.But this matter must also be reported to the Queen Mother.

Although Zhao Dongting is young now, in a few years, he will be a leftover man.

In this era, men over fifteen did not marry, and women over thirteen did not marry, that is, leftover men and women.

Even if you don't marry, you must at least have a marriage contract, unless you hide in the deep mountains and old forests, otherwise you will be criticized by others.If a man reaches the seventeenth or eighth and the woman is fifteen or sixteen and still unmarried, then she is already old and leftover.

Of course, those who have marriage contracts like Le Chan and Yue Wu can barely be considered marriages.

After all, wars have been going on for a long time nowadays, people have been displaced, and many marriage contracts have been delayed because of this.With a marriage contract in place, it is inconvenient to remarry, so she will naturally become a leftover woman.

It is understandable for someone like Yun Jin to be imprisoned.

The courtyard fell silent again.

And at this time, Liu Hongyi finally followed the eunuch to the outside of the bedroom.

On the way, he had already asked the eunuch what the emperor wanted from him.

The eunuch just replied: "I don't know the specific slaves, I only know that the emperor seems to have the intention to deal with those local nobles."

This made Liu Hongyi also surprised. On the way here, he was always thoughtful.

When he arrived in the courtyard, he knelt down on the ground, "The last general kowtowed to the emperor."

Zhao Dongting waved his hand, "General Liu, please stand up, come and sit down!"

A eunuch quickly moved a chair.

Liu Hongyi saluted with Lu Xiufu and the others before he sat down on the chair, but he didn't take the initiative to ask Zhao Dongting what he wanted to do.

Officialdom still pays attention to some taboos.For example, if he asked the eunuch for information, such a thing should not be revealed on the surface.

Zhao Dongting looked at him, smiled, and asked, "General Liu, how many troops does the Huanglong Imperial Army have now?"

Liu Hongyi was full of righteousness, and Zhao Dongting felt that he was relatively close to him.

Hearing this, Liu Hongyi replied: "Going back to the emperor, there are now [-] old soldiers in the Forbidden Army, and there are more than [-] new recruits recruited in the past few months."

"Ah."

Zhao Dongting nodded, "You will transfer two thousand veterans to accompany the officials of the Ministry of Finance to pay grain and taxes."

Liu Hongyi couldn't bear it anymore, and asked, "Is the emperor going to rely on force to collect taxes?"

Zhao Dongting said: "Those nobles don't cooperate with paying taxes. I don't use force to collect taxes. What can I do?"

Liu Hongyi frowned, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid this matter is inappropriate..."

(End of this chapter)