Chapter 1076 - 244: I Love to Slap Faces_5
"Loving the empire even more than beauty, there is no fault in the Emperor taking a beauty for himself. Speaking of the imperial heir, the Emperor should marry concubines and establish a queen as soon as possible, to settle the hearts of the people of My Great Chu!" Pei Qin spoke up.
Shen Bi and a few others couldn’t help but frown as the conversation turned towards selecting consorts and marrying, prioritizing dealing with the Rong Clan as more important.
Pei Qin, against the opinions of others, supported Emperor Yongle in taking consorts and marrying, suggesting choosing several daughters from aristocratic families to enter the palace to also strengthen imperial power.
Emperor Yongle naturally understood, "And what about the negotiations with the Rong Clan?"
"If the princesses they send are too ugly, we’ll just fight them!" Pei Qin replied.
The muscles on the faces of several chancellors twitched. Indeed, General Pei’s way of thinking was different from that of ordinary people, and yet so many women were chasing after him in admiration, and now the Rong Clan was considering sending another princess to him...
Although Great Chu currently needed rest and recuperation, Liaodong had been occupied by the Rong Clan and not yet recovered, and this humiliation could not be tolerated!
According to Pei Qin, the answer, of course, was to fight! Enough talk! Xiao Guangzhao had just ascended the throne and would surely want to show achievements; only by recovering Liaodong could he firmly sit on the imperial throne.
However, he was also worried that Pei Qin and Mo Heng would lead a large army to wage war while Xiao Guangjing might use this as an opportunity to start a rebellion and force the palace, as his authority was not yet stable. But indeed, selecting consorts could be a method.
Nevertheless, the Liang family was a small aristocratic family with not much power, even the newly promoted Elder Liang was only elevated after Xiao Guangzhao took the throne. And the daughters of the real prestigious and powerful aristocratic families, how could they willingly enter the palace and submit to others? They mostly disdained the idea of becoming relatives by marriage to the emperor.