Simulates history, but Chongzhen is the Divine Emperor at the beginning

Chapter 248 The Princess and Lust

Princess Shang?!

Upon hearing this, you were immediately taken aback...

The so-called "marrying a princess" actually means marrying a princess and becoming her husband.

Such matters are usually rewards or attempts by the imperial family to win over meritorious officials. After all, the princess is the emperor's daughter, and for the emperor to marry his beloved daughter to a meritorious official is clearly a political marriage!

[Famous historical examples include Emperor Wu of Han marrying his daughter to the alchemist Luan Da, hoping Luan Da could help him achieve immortality... Liu Shan, the last emperor of Shu Han, married his daughter to Zhuge Zhan, the son of Zhuge Liang, to strengthen ties with the Zhuge family... and Emperor Daizong of Tang married his daughter to Guo Ziyi's son, to win over Guo Ziyi, the great hero who saved the Tang Dynasty...]

In short, marrying the emperor's daughter is definitely not easy!

That's why you're surprised: how could you possibly be worthy of marrying a princess?!

At best, you merely wrote a piece of flattery to please Zhao Gou; how could that possibly qualify you for marrying a princess? At the very least, you should perform a significant service that influences the court's power structure before considering this.

However, this envoy of Zhao Gou easily told you about the important matter of marrying a princess, as if you could marry her as long as you were willing...

And what he meant was most likely Zhao Gou's intention! In other words, Zhao Gou was actually planning to offer his daughter in marriage to you...

[That's strange! Did Zhao Gou see your extraordinary talent and decide to tie you to his war machine beforehand? That's absurd!]

So, filled with suspicion, you cautiously asked him for the reason, and he, in turn, explained the situation to you in detail...

【…】

Why did Zhao Gou want to marry a princess to you?

The answer is simple: firstly, your articles and ideas are novel, which allows Him to see your potential, so He naturally wants to invest in and win you over!

Secondly, it was because Zhao Gou had many princesses...

[As a true god on earth wielding the power of lust, Zhao Gou, who had lost his fertility due to the Miao-Liu Rebellion, regained his ability two hundred years ago. He then indulged in various forms of lust, accumulating divine power and enjoying pleasure, while also fathering countless offspring!]

Because he had too many children, Zhao Gou gradually became indifferent to his descendants. Aside from his favorites, he barely interfered in the marriages of his other children, resulting in a large number of royal bloodlines flowing into the common people… After two hundred years of reproduction, many ordinary people were able to marry women with royal blood!

The best example of this is the story of Liu Dutou and Pan Niangzi. Liu Dutou married her because he was after her royal bloodline from the Song Dynasty, hoping to use it to make his family business prosperous...

Now, Zhao Gou merely wishes to choose one of his countless children to marry you. While this is a great honor for a subject, it is hardly a particularly valuable reward.

That's the reason...

Therefore, as long as you are determined to marry a princess, Zhao Gou would actually dare to marry one to you. It would only cost him one mass-produced political tool. To be able to recruit a promising minister like yourself is an incredibly worthwhile deal!

Therefore, after understanding the reasons behind it, you were actually quite tempted...

Who wouldn't want to marry a real princess? Even though the value of a princess in the Southern Song Dynasty has greatly diminished, marrying one would still be a great honor for one's family!

However, you ultimately chose to refuse...

The answer is simple: it's not that you're not interested in princesses, it's that your current status simply doesn't allow you to marry one!

[You're playing both the protagonist and antagonist, and although your true identity hasn't been revealed to Zhao Gou yet due to the protection of the Western Paradise's power, that doesn't mean you can use a fabricated identity to marry a princess...] [You've already been hiding it all along; if you marry a princess now, wouldn't you be essentially putting yourself under constant surveillance?!]

You can fool the emperor who is far away, but you can never fool the person next to you in bed. So, for the safety of your disguised identity, you have no choice but to refuse this favor from the emperor...

[So you regretfully apologized to the envoy, citing that you already had wives and concubines at home. The envoy, however, had anticipated this: "If you're strong enough to conceal your face with your spiritual power, how could you not have wives and concubines? The path to transcendence in our Great Song Dynasty has always been, and only has been, one path of indulgence!"]

Therefore, he simply regarded you as an old man who had achieved enlightenment through cultivation. Faced with your statement that you already had wives and concubines, the envoy did not say much, only shaking his head and sighing that you and the royal family were truly destined to be apart, and then left...

【…】

The messenger has left, and you've reverted to your true, positive persona.

Sitting in your own home, you can't help but recall the messenger's words...

Unlike your villainous persona, your positive persona doesn't require you to worry about so many strange and unusual things, so you actually really want to marry a princess.

[After all, you're already thirty-one years old this year, which is considered middle-aged in the Song Dynasty. It's only natural that you should get married sooner. Even your parents complain about why you're not married yet...]

Furthermore, you still lack a lot of understanding about the extraordinary powers here. To fill this gap, you should get married as soon as possible, and your spouse should ideally be of royal blood from the Song Dynasty!

[Because you heard from Liu Dutou a long time ago: if you want to gain extraordinary power in this world, you can only accumulate "divine power of lust" through indulgence in sex...]

However, the efficiency of acquiring this divine power of lust is affected by one's own bloodline. If you are just an ordinary person, you may not be able to accumulate much divine power even if you indulge in lust your whole life... To accumulate divine power efficiently, you must possess the bloodline of Zhao Gou!

If there is truly no bloodline, then the only option is to marry the daughters of impoverished Zhao families at exorbitant prices, hoping to improve the bloodline of their own descendants through the Zhao family's bloodline, and thus place all their hopes on the next generation...

[For example, Chief Liu did this. He had no hope of achieving anything extraordinary, yet he married Lady Pan at a high price! Then, because he was infertile, he came to you offering a large sum of money to have a child!]

The cost and the level of madness involved were beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and all these crazy actions were simply for the sake of having a son with extraordinary potential...

Therefore, if you also want your descendants to embark on an extraordinary path, then you can only do as Liu Dutou did: marry a woman with royal blood and have her bear you a son.

But... you're not willing to give up!

[Because what you want is not to place your hopes on future generations, but to personally experience the extraordinary, until you are filled with lust and divine power and can rival Zhao Gou!]

After much deliberation, you decided to find Liu the Chief again and ask him for more information about the power of lust.

Of course, this trip is partly to gather information, and partly to satisfy a small personal obsession of yours...

Is my son doing well?

With the trepidation of a father, you began to utilize the connections you had built up over the years to search for the Liu family, who had been missing for many years!

[Persistence pays off. Just a few days later, an old comrade-in-arms provided you with the information you needed: they were still in Xiangyang!]

[So you immediately got excited, and after preparing three carefully chosen gifts, you finally nervously went to the location...]

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(End of this chapter)