Hey! Host! I asked you to have a child, not to have a strategy.

Gao Yang sat at the desk reviewing memorials. His face, which usually showed no emotion, now and then revealed a faint smile, which made the ministers who came over to answer him shudder.

Gao Yang still couldn't believe that Zhu Baishao became pregnant that night. He felt unusually happy.

He remembered the last time he felt this way was when he was young.

Even on the day he ascended the throne, he was not as happy as he is now.

Because before he ascended the throne, he was 100% sure that the throne would be his, but children were different, they were very naughty and would never inform others when they arrived.

Zhu Baishao was his first woman and she was pregnant with his first child.

Gao Yang must give Zhu Baishao a status.

He put down the red brush he used for reviewing, asked the eunuch to bring him a blank imperial edict, picked up the pen to write on it, and then stamped it with the seal without any hesitation.

"This imperial edict will be announced directly."

The young eunuch accepted the order respectfully, took the imperial edict with both hands and went out to announce it.

Gao Yang stood up and paced in the hall. After walking around twice, he noticed that the minister who had replied to him was still there, so he asked, "My dear minister, what kind of toys do you think would be better for the children?"

The minister was stunned and replied timidly: "Your Majesty, what do you think of rattles? They make sounds when the handle is turned, and are very popular among children."

Gao Yang nodded, and seeing that he looked satisfied, the minister asked carefully, "Your Majesty, whose child are you preparing a gift for?"

Under normal circumstances, if the minister dared to spy on Gao Yang's affairs and thoughts like this, he would have been dragged down long ago.

But who made Gao Yang happy today? The corners of his mouth slightly raised, "It's not someone else's child, it's the imperial concubine who is pregnant."

Royal Concubine? ?

For a moment, the minister thought there was something wrong with his brain. He had never heard that there was a concubine in the emperor's harem.

"Okay, please step back."

Gao Yang looked at the minister's dazed look, shook his head, and asked him to leave.

Until the minister returned home, he was still confused, because no matter how many times he thought about it, there was indeed no imperial concubine in the harem. Could it be that the emperor was crazy about having children? Did he imagine a pregnant imperial concubine?

However, Gao Yang's decree to appoint Zhu Baishao as the imperial concubine was never successfully issued.

When he arrived at the Queen Mother's residence, she was looking at the imperial edict of enthronement written by him personally on the table with an angry look on her face.

"Mother."

Seeing that he was polite when he came over, and didn't seem to be bewitched, the Queen Mother shook the imperial edict and said in disbelief: "Emperor, is this your personal order? I don't agree!"

"The Zhu family's daughter has such a lowly origin, she is just a member of the lowest class of merchants and low-class people. How can she be the head of the harem?!"

If there is no queen in the emperor's harem, the only two concubines who are noble, virtuous, virtuous and wise are the four most important.

Now the emperor actually wants to make that woman from a merchant family a royal concubine. She doesn't agree, and she will never agree!

"Just because she is the only person I want to be close to, and just because of the dragon seed in her belly, she deserves the position of imperial concubine." Gao Yang looked at the queen mother and said seriously.

The Queen Mother realized that what Gao Yang had just said was "the only person I want to be close to" rather than "the only person who can be close to me."

After going over the words in her mind, she stood up suddenly, surprised and said, "Dragon seed?!"

Gao Yang nodded, indicating that she had heard correctly.

The Queen Mother was first overjoyed that there was someone to carry on her throne, but then she frowned and said angrily, "Absurd! Emperor, have you been deceived by that vixen Zhu Baishao? Just that one night...she got pregnant?? And no one knows what she's been doing outside the palace for the past two months, whether she's had secret meetings with others! The child in her belly may not be yours, Emperor!"

Gao Yang's sword-like eyebrows slightly raised, and he spoke in a calm tone, "Since the day when my mother sent people to kill her, I have arranged secret guards to guard near her home, so I am sure that the child in her belly must be a dragon seed."

From that day on, Zhu Baishao locked herself in the room and became listless.

The secret guards sent her daily records of her life, as well as the documents they investigated about her past, which had already piled up next to his desk.

Fortunately, Zhu Baishao played the role of the Emperor Beast in a semi-immersive way. No matter how much she communicated and complained to the system in her heart, she never showed it on her face, otherwise her character would have collapsed long ago.

Who knows what terrible thing Gao Yang, who already hates women, will do when he sees her two faces.

"Emperor, have you been bewitched by that vixen? Since you can touch women now, there are so many beautiful women in the harem who are gentle and kind, waiting for your favor. Why do you have to be obsessed with Zhu Baishao?"

The Queen Mother still refused to give up, thinking that a merchant's daughter could just be a beauty at best and there was no need to confer the title of Imperial Concubine.

"Gentle and kind? Are you talking about Concubine Song who turned a blind eye when her younger brother fell into the water? Or Concubine Li who killed her half-brother and framed her?"

Gao Yang's silent eyes made the empress dowager pause, and then she said, "Even if they are two-faced, what about Concubine De? Concubine De was born in a military family, she is carefree and straightforward, and she is also very pretty. Your Majesty..."

Gao Yang sneered, his eyes were extremely cold, "De Fei? She is a ruthless character who enjoys watching wild beasts hunting, and her prey are ordinary people! If it weren't for her father and brother fighting outside, working hard and making great contributions, and having an army of 200,000, she would have been executed by me long ago."

The Queen Mother moved her lips for a moment, but was interrupted by Gao Yang, "Mother, I know you want to talk about Concubine Shu. Ha, that is not an innocent woman."

The Queen Mother was shocked: "What? How dare Concubine Shu deceive the emperor?! Wasn't she still a virgin when she entered the palace?"

Gao Yang's eyes were like the abyss, and his tone was stern, "Deceiving the emperor? This palace is not an iron bucket, and virginity does not mean innocence."

"Looking at my harem, Zhu Baishao is the only woman who is consistent inside and out, simple and kind."

The Queen Mother's chest rose and fell violently. She felt it was ridiculous. "Emperor! You are really crazy! Zhu Baishao has someone in her heart. How can she be worthy of him..."

"Mother! This decree from me is for notification, not discussion."

Gao Yang slightly opened his thin lips, with a hint of warning deep in his eyes.

He was the emperor, the ruler of the world. Even his mother, the empress dowager, could not intercept his imperial edict without authorization and try to change his mind by force.

The Queen Mother was stunned. She finally realized that Gao Yang treated Zhu Baishao differently.

She held the Buddhist beads bracelet tighter and understood what the emperor meant.

"Mother, you should rest early."

Gao Yang walked over, picked up the imperial edict on the table and handed it to the eunuch beside him.

The eunuch understood and immediately went to announce the imperial edict with both hands.