Can I get to the other side?

The whole hall fell silent because of Dong Zhong's words, but the silence did not last long before it was broken by a curse.

"What bullshit are you talking about!"

Lu Bu stared at Dong Zhong and cursed him directly: "What if the dragon body is ill, are you cursing His Majesty to get into trouble!"

He would not give Dong Zhong any face.

He started to curse.

However, he did not have any other thoughts, but simply felt that Dong Zhong's words were unlucky and were cursing Liu Xie to get into trouble.

At this time, Yang Biao said, "Don't misunderstand, Lord Wen. Lord Dong is not cursing Your Majesty, he is just stating the facts."

"We are all ministers of the emperor. Of course, we hope that Your Majesty will prosper for thousands of years, and we also hope that the country of Han will be stable."

"But if the emperor has no heir, the state will be unstable, and if the state is unstable, the country will be in turmoil. How can we, the ministers, not worry about it?"

Yang Biao knelt down to Liu Xie and said solemnly, "I beg Your Majesty to expand the harem to stabilize the state!"

With Dong Zhong and Yang Biao taking the lead, the other ministers seemed to have received some signal and knelt down to Liu Xie to ask for his orders.

"Your Majesty, the emperor cannot live without a queen!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, you have too few concubines in your harem. You must expand your harem to give birth to a prince as soon as possible!"

"This matter cannot be delayed!"

"If Your Majesty does not agree, you will be ashamed of the previous emperors of the Han Dynasty and the people of the world!"

"Your Majesty, please recruit more concubines and expand your harem!"

The whole hall was kneeling.

Even Fu Wan said with a sad face: "Your Majesty, when Huo Guang was regent, he did not allow other concubines to enter the emperor's palace in order to let Emperor Xiao Zhao favor his granddaughter, Empress Shangguan."

"It is because of this that Emperor Xiao Zhao failed to give birth to an heir, so that no one could inherit his throne after his death, which eventually led to turmoil in the country."

"It can be seen that filling the harem is the top priority!"

"Although I am the queen, I have not been able to give birth to a dragon heir for your majesty for so many years, and I feel deeply guilty."

"So for the sake of the Han Dynasty, I beg your majesty to expand the harem!"

Fu Wan's words were very high-sounding, and even he, whose daughter was the queen, begged the emperor to expand the harem, which made people speechless.

At this moment, Liu Xie's sleepiness and fatigue had all disappeared. He looked at the kneeling ministers in front of him with an ugly face.

"These old foxes..."

Liu Xie frowned tightly.

How could he not know what these ministers were thinking? They just wanted to use his lack of an heir as an excuse to expand his harem.

But their ultimate goal was not just to worry that he would have no offspring and that the country would be in turmoil after his sudden death.

They were aiming for the position of empress!

Because as long as he expanded his harem, these ministers could send their children to the palace and compete for the position of empress.

And he couldn't refuse.

Because the emperor's lack of an heir was indeed a top-notch event, and the ministers used this point to ask him to expand his harem, and he couldn't refute it at all.

"Are you forcing the emperor to abdicate?!"

Just as Liu Xie was thinking about how to answer, Zhen Yi scolded the ministers: "Your Majesty is just busy with state affairs day and night, so he has no time to take care of the harem."

"Now that Yan and Yu provinces are pacified and the war has stopped, Your Majesty will naturally visit the harem more often. It is only a matter of time before there is a dragon heir!"

"You accuse Your Majesty of having no heir. Do you think Your Majesty is in trouble? You are so bold!"

Zhen Yi is different from Lu Bu. He saw the intentions of these ministers, and his speaking level is much higher than Lu Bu.

Avoid the important and change the subject.

Although the emperor has promised to make Zhen Mi the queen after unifying the world, he still does not want the children of major families to be stuffed into the emperor's harem.

That would add competitors to Zhen Mi out of thin air.

Cui Yan glanced at Zhen Yi and said slowly: "Your Majesty is young and strong, so the dragon body will not be in trouble, but the concubines in the harem are uncertain."

"We ask Your Majesty to expand the harem, but we hope that Your Majesty will give birth to a dragon heir as soon as possible to ensure the safety of the country. But Minister Zhen is so opposed to Your Majesty expanding the harem. Is it because he is worried that other women will compete with Concubine Zhen for favor after entering the palace?"

He easily refuted Zhen Yi's words and put a hat on him - or said what Zhen Yi was thinking.

Zhen Yi looked ugly and was speechless.

Cui Yan occupied the moral high ground. If he opposed it, it would be equivalent to preventing the emperor from giving birth to a dragon heir, which was no different from Huo Guang prohibiting concubines from entering the palace of Emperor Xiaozhao.

Thinking of this, Zhen Yi kept winking at Lu Bu, hoping that this rough-tempered Wen Gong would stand up and say a few words.

The emperor secretly promised them the position of empress of Zhen family. Lü Bu didn't know about this and must have thought that Lü Lingqi was also qualified to compete for the position of empress, so it was time for him to stand up with him to oppose the emperor's expansion of the harem!

But Lü Bu touched his chin and fell into deep thought.

Before, he just thought that Dong Zhong and Yang Biao were cursing the emperor, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that what these ministers said was not unreasonable.

It is indeed inappropriate for a king of a country to have no descendants.

Anyway, the position of empress will eventually belong to his daughter, so what's wrong with letting the emperor take concubines? Even if other concubines give birth to children for the emperor first, their sons will not become princes.

In this case, why should he oppose it?

Thinking of this, Lü Bu said to Liu Xie: "Your Majesty's harem concubines are a little small, and I also think it should be expanded."

"Your Majesty is the emperor. You must have at least 1,800 concubines in your harem. Otherwise, it is not in line with the emperor's status."

When these words came out, Zhen Yi was stunned.

All the ministers in the hall, including Jia Xu, Guo Jia, Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi, all looked at Lu Bu.

Lu Bu asked in confusion: "Why are you all looking at me? Is there anything wrong with what I said?"

Everyone was silent.

Fu Wan was the first to react from his astonishment. He suppressed his ecstasy and said to Lu Bu with great admiration: "Mr. Wen is very righteous. I admire him very much!"

Then he said to Liu Xie: "Your Majesty, even Mr. Wen thinks so, which shows that this is what people want!"

"I beg your majesty to accept more concubines to fill the harem!"

The ministers also said in unison: "I beg your majesty to accept more concubines to fill the harem--"

There was a lot of shouting in the hall.

Liu Xie couldn't help but have a headache when he saw this.

Although it is the dream of most men to have three thousand beauties in the harem, he realized that this is not a good thing after he became the emperor.

If you want to be a tyrant or a mediocre emperor, it doesn't matter. The more women in the harem, the better. It's just for fun.

But if you want to be a capable emperor, having too many concubines is a headache, because most of the concubines represent aristocratic families and a force behind them.

The harem is a microcosm of court politics.

He finally managed to balance the harem through Empress Fu. Once the concubines are expanded, this balance will inevitably be broken.

But the reasons found by the ministers are too good, and he has no reason or position to refuse.

"I will ask someone to do this."

Liu Xie rubbed his eyebrows tiredly, waved his sleeves and stood up and said: "Let's leave the court. I'm tired."

...

The court meeting ended and the ministers dispersed.

Everyone had an unconcealable joy on their faces, and many ministers greeted Lu Bu enthusiastically when they passed by him.

This puzzled Lu Bu, and he couldn't help asking Zhang Liao, "What's wrong with them today?"

In the past, all the officials would avoid him as if he were the god of plague, but today, they all took the initiative to greet him.

Everyone seemed to have changed their temperament.

Although Zhang Liao and Lu Bu would quarrel on weekdays, they still had a deep friendship, so he explained to him in a low voice:

"The reason why they asked your majesty to expand the harem today is that they hope to take this opportunity to send their own daughters to the palace to compete for the position of queen."

"The two most favored concubines in the palace now are your daughter Fengxian and Zhen Guiren of the Zhen family, so they all thought that you Fengxian would oppose your majesty's expansion of the harem."

"But no one expected that you Fengxian would support your majesty's expansion of the harem in the court today, which is why their attitude towards you changed."

"But I'm also curious, why do you support this?"

Zhang Liao's mind is much more delicate than Lu Bu's. He sees through the thoughts of all the officials, so he doesn't understand Lu Bu's behavior.

Even if the emperor promised to make Lü Lingqi the queen, everything has not been finalized yet. Wouldn't it increase the number of competitors for the queen position if the emperor expanded his harem?

"What's the matter?"

Lu Bu waved his hand and said nonchalantly: "Since ancient times, the emperor has had three palaces and six courtyards, and three thousand beauties in the harem. Your Majesty really has too few concubines."

"My daughter failed to conceive a dragon heir for your majesty, so can't other concubines be allowed to conceive? The emperor can't always be childless."

"Besides, your majesty promised to make my daughter the queen. Can your majesty lie to me? It doesn't matter if there are more concubines in the harem."

Hearing what Lu Bu said, Zhang Liao's eyes flashed with a trace of deep worry. After looking around, he lowered his voice a little.

"What if... your majesty finally makes other women the queen?"

"After all, no one can say for sure about this kind of thing."

It's not that he doesn't trust the emperor's promise, but he understands that there are some things that even the emperor is helpless about.

"Let's make her the queen."

To Zhang Liao's surprise, Lv Bu's reaction was very calm. He looked at the distant sky and said, "I know how your majesty treats me. Even if you make another woman the queen, I have no complaints."

"I, Lv Bu, am a rough man. I only know how to fight and kill, but I know the principle of repaying kindness."

"What's more, you are just irrationally doubting your majesty. Since your majesty has promised me, how could he go back on his word?"

"In that case, why should I think so much?"

Zhang Liao stared at Lv Bu for a long time, and finally said with a complicated expression: "I didn't expect... you are the real wise fool."

The reason why he said this was actually to persuade Lv Bu to let go of his obsession with the position of queen and crown prince.

Because he knew that there were countless people watching these two positions, and those aristocratic families would fight for these two positions.

This is not just about fighting and killing.

Lv Bu will definitely not be able to beat those people.

But what he didn't expect was that Lu Bu was more open-minded than him, which made him look too narrow-minded.

"Let's go, let's go drink!"

Lu Bu didn't want to continue talking about these roundabout things with Zhang Liao, so the two of them walked out of the palace with their arms around each other's shoulders.

But he didn't say one thing, if anyone else dared to compete with his daughter for the position of queen...

Humph!