binnovel Chapter 1574 It’s Not Easy to Be an Emperor (2)
Chapter 1574 It’s Not Easy to Be an Emperor (2)
Seeing the light in Li Hong's eyes, Chen Zihao smiled with relief.
"What you have to decide now is the path you will take in the future."
"I will never let you down, big brother!"
Li Hong nodded.
Changing the subject, Li Hong looked at Chen Zihao.
"Is there any way for me to abdicate early?"
Chen Zihao was stunned and looked at Li Hong in surprise.
"You have just ascended the throne, and you are already thinking of abdicating?"
"If you want to abdicate early, then give birth to a prince and teach him everything in advance."
Chen Zihao also knew how hard it was for Li Hong. After all, he became a monk late in life, and everything depended on what he learned later.
Compared to the prince who had been taught since childhood, he was not even a little bit behind.
"That makes sense. I'll go find Jing'er Zao'er now!"
Li Hong's eyes lit up and he immediately left Chen Zihao and ran out of the study.
He didn't want to spend another night in the study.
Chen Zihao looked at Li Hong's departing back, then looked at the pile of memorials in the study, and decisively turned around and left the study.
He is not the emperor, so memorials have nothing to do with him.
He still wants to go home to hug his wife and son!
After Li Hong had the assistance of Chen Zihao, the first thing he did was to order that there would only be one queen in the Eastern Palace and there was no need to expand the harem.
The prince only recognizes the one born to the queen, and would rather have no one than have the wrong one.
Having had enough of the emperor's ruthlessness, Li Hong didn't want to have to worry about choosing which concubine to sleep with him tonight after reviewing the memorials.
Not only did he hurt Jing'er's heart, but he was also suddenly restrained by the minister.
He refused.
Although the ministers were shocked, Li Hong remained unmoved.
The ministers who followed Li Hong were shocked but they would not refute him. Instead, those who came to join Li Hong kept persuading him that for the sake of the unification, he should recruit many beauties and expand the royal family.
Li Hong, with a cold face, stripped those ministers who were said to be doing good for him from their official positions.
"For my own good, you should think of ways for me to bring peace to the world, make the country strong, and make the people prosperous."
"Why are you staring at my harem every day? Do you want to send your daughter to the palace? To become a royal relative?"
Li Hong sneered, and all the ministers below dared not speak anymore.
They did have this idea in mind, but they didn't dare to say it so blatantly.
"It's settled. I don't need any beauties from the palace. I only need the Queen. If anyone dares to break this rule in the future, and I find out that you dare to gossip in front of the Queen, you'll have to stop hanging your head on my neck!"
Li Hong's words established Si Jing's status and also made him the first emperor in history to favor the empress alone.
When Si Jing learned about this, her eyes turned red.
The maids around them praised Li Hong and Si Jing even more.
"The Queen and the Emperor are so enviable."
"Congratulations, Queen..."
"The Empress is the first Empress to be favored by the Emperor alone! And she doesn't have to share the Emperor with other concubines!"
"I wish the Queen and the Emperor a long and happy marriage, with everlasting love and affection."
Si Jing listened to their blessings, and the smile on her face never stopped.
Li Hong's second imperial decree was to set up Heyang City as an independent city, to be supervised by Fang Chen personally, and the court was not allowed to interfere.
This time all the ministers were shocked.
What virtue and ability does a Heyang city have?
But only Li Hong's confidants knew what this imperial edict meant.
Chen Zihao curled the corner of his mouth. Now, Fang Chen no longer needed to worry.
When Fang Chen received the imperial edict, he turned around and looked at Ji Xiaomu.