Chapter 14

"Does Your Majesty mean to summon them all into the palace?"

The Empress Dowager was slightly surprised, and with the sway of her figure, she allowed one to see different charms and scenery.

"I mean one by one."

Li Chen truly had no intention of pretending to be pure.

First of all, he was a physically healthy transmigrator; his body had no diseases, no strange hobbies, and his orientation was quite normal.

Furthermore, regarding his own conditions, his appearance was worth at least 2.5 Pan Ans.

His physical fitness was at least equal to 5 Lao Ais.

Having cultivated to the full-level Sage Realm and then becoming Emperor, why shouldn't he enjoy himself?

Any excuse was superfluous; as long as he was happy within a reasonable range, that was enough.

There were many factional disputes within the imperial court, and Li Chen certainly could see them.

But he was too lazy to move against any of them, not because he couldn't control them, but because he felt there was no need to.

In Li Chen's view, these civil and military officials were all working for him.

As long as there were no errors in principle, and they could indeed complete their work, that was enough.

After all, this set of staff had been left behind by the late Emperor, and it could be considered to have reached a certain balance to a certain degree.

There was no need for him to support other forces to engage in infighting with these people, making things very troublesome.

As long as he sat on the throne for one day, these people would always be his subjects.

If one were to say that there were undercurrents surging within the Tian Ce Dynasty, hiding many dangers.

Li Chen did not deny this, because up to now, the cause of the Crown Prince's death had not been investigated.

But the problem was, so what if the undercurrents were surging? Li Chen was in the Sage Realm; whoever dared to show their head, he dared to kill them in seconds.

Yesterday, the Second Imperial Prince was a good example; after Li Chen revealed his strength, his voice was trembling as he spoke.

As a transmigrator, Li Chen had his own way of playing the game, and he wasn't worried that the system hadn't been activated at the time.

As long as one has sufficient strength, that is the best guarantee in this world.

The biggest factor in so-called fear is insufficient firepower.

Furthermore, regarding the status of Emperor, Li Chen felt that since the Tian Ce Dynasty had already existed for thousands of years, and the rules and regulations of successive emperors were relatively perfect, there was no need for him to waste that effort.

As long as you don't cause trouble for me, that's fine; if you provoke me, I won't be lenient with you.

Of course, if he saw something unjust, he would still intervene.

Because he was a strong person, he could use his own consciousness to decide right from wrong; this was the right of the strong.

This was also the reason why the Chancellor Zhao Zhao Wenyuan and the Grand General Guo Guo Po Yun wanted to protect Li Chen no matter what.

In other words, if it were another Imperial Prince who had ascended the throne this time, these princes would not have the absolute strength to make the subjects obey.

Therefore, in order to sit firmly in the position of Emperor, they would certainly find ways to centralize power.

Then the conflict between the Emperor and the subjects would be obvious.

Li Chen, however, felt that the subjects were quite obedient; even if it were the Minister of Rites Yan Hai, who was under the Second Prince, to put it bluntly, if Li Chen and the Second Prince issued an order at the same time, Yan Hai would certainly prioritize completing Li Chen's order, and would even have to consider whether the Second Prince's order would offend Li Chen before daring to complete it.

Because Yan Hai knew that offending the Second Prince might result in being deposed by him, but that was only a possibility.

But offending Li Chen meant dying on the spot.

He still knew which was more important.

Taking the Empress Dowager as another example, if the person who was Emperor were a puppet without strength, then when seeing the Empress Dowager, he would have to stand up and call her "Mother Empress."

This way of speaking could bring his relationship with the Empress Dowager closer; it could be said to be a verbal flattery, and also a form of bowing one's head.

But Li Chen was too lazy to even welcome the Empress Dowager's arrival, and even addressed her according to her "official position."

The Empress Dowager didn't feel there was anything wrong with it, simply because she also didn't dare to offend this Sage Realm Emperor too much.

Judging from the experience of being Emperor for these two days, Li Chen was relatively satisfied. Now, he had to consider problems in other aspects.

That is, the problem of the Empress Dowager introducing concubines to him.

Previously, he was quite the homebody and hadn't come into contact with many women other than the concubines in the palace.

Frequently accepting these relatively large tests, his standards would naturally improve.

Therefore, he did not refuse the women the Empress Dowager introduced to him.

After all, sometimes the palace is quite hot, and one still needs to cool off.

Besides, the ones selected by the Empress Dowager were certainly not mediocre.

Li Chen didn't feel for the time being that the Empress Dowager had any intention of harming him; this was something he should enjoy as Emperor!

If the Empress Dowager were harming him by introducing these women, then he hoped the Empress Dowager would harm him more, and could even come to harm him personally.

In the palace, after hearing Li Chen's reply, the Empress Dowager began to introduce the origins and identities of these women to him.

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"Your Majesty, this one is named Chu Chu Ruoyan, the eldest daughter of the Chu family, a famous family in the Imperial Capital. She is one of the 'Two Peerless Beauties of the Imperial Capital,' and her talent and strength are also quite good."

Actually, the Empress Dowager wanted to say that this Chu Chu Ruoyan's talent and strength were very strong.

But remembering Li Chen's strength, she changed her words.

Chu Chu Ruoyan was in the Imperial Capital, and if summoned now, she would probably be able to arrive at the palace in a while.

Actually, there were many beauties in the Imperial Capital, but the Empress Dowager only selected those from her own forces who met the requirements.

"Fine, then let it be her. I'll go to the Imperial Study to review the memorials first; let me know when she arrives."

Whenever he thought about having work to do, Li Chen felt a massive headache.

An Emperor doesn't need to hold court every day; sometimes it's only once every week or two.

It was just that there had been many accumulated matters recently, all waiting for Li Chen to handle.

On the other side, the mansion of the Chu family, a famous family in the Imperial Capital.

For these famous noble families to gain a firm foothold in the surging undercurrents of the Tian Ce Dynasty's Imperial Capital, they must have a backer.

Otherwise, they would soon be replaced by newly rising families.

The Chu family's backer was naturally the nephew of the current Empress Dowager; they weren't qualified to contact the Empress Dowager yet, but could be said to be under her command.

The Chu family was only considered a second-rate noble family in the Imperial Capital; the family's ancestor had the cultivation of the Observing Heaven Realm.

But the ancestor was advanced in years, and if one day he were to pass away, their Chu family would lose its utility value, would naturally be abandoned by the Empress Dowager's faction, their status would plummet, and they would disappear from the Imperial Capital.

Fortunately, their family produced a peerless genius, Chu Chu Ruoyan.

Chu Chu Ruoyan not only had extremely high talent but was also as beautiful as a celestial being.

Just after coming of age, she was elected as one of the "Two Peerless Beauties of the Imperial Capital."

Now in her twenties, her fully developed figure was exquisite and curvaceous, with alluring curves.

Various young noble sons, geniuses from famous families in the Imperial Capital, and even monsters from other regions, as long as they caught a glimpse of Chu Chu Ruoyan, would be completely captivated, swearing to stay with her and never change in this lifetime.

It could be said that the people pursuing Chu Chu Ruoyan could line up from her front door to the East Gate of the Imperial Capital.

The reason it was only to the East Gate was because the East Gate was very close; lining up to other gates would be too far.

The Chu family was also somewhat famous in the Imperial Capital because of Chu Chu Ruoyan.

Chu Chu Ruoyan had shown very high talent since she was a child and had also been well protected by people in the family, so naturally, she was a bit arrogant and cold.

She had never given anyone a good look, including her own family.

Because she felt that her family always wanted to use her as a marriage tool to stabilize the family's development, without truly seeing the merits she possessed.

As someone with extremely high talent, this thought of hers was also very normal; after all, she felt that for a family to develop, it still had to rely on its own solid strength.

(End of chapter)