Chapter 1135: Intent
"You should know that although aristocratic families and some well-established families will arrange for handmaids for their descendants, it’s usually after they turn 14. Also, marriage usually won’t happen until they turn 17. Moreover, even if they have handmaids, the elders in the family will restrain them. But why did the royal families typically arrange for a handmaid for the princes at the age of 12? Why did the royal male descendants take one or two secondary consorts at an early age?"
"In order to spread the branches of the royal family," Little Treasure lowered his voice and said, "It’s also to prevent what if..."
It was to prevent the Emperor from having no successor after his death. Only when the Emperor had children early could the people’s hearts be at ease, their subjects be at ease, and their own hearts be at ease.
After all, life was unpredictable. Who knew what would happen tomorrow?
One of the important reasons why the royal family arranged for palace maids to serve the princes after he ejaculated for the first time was to prevent such accidents. Moreover, people in the royal family didn’t typically live long. The sooner they had children, the sooner their children would be able to hold up the family when they died.
However, the earlier one had sex, the shorter one’s lifespan would be. The shorter one’s lifespan was, the more anxious one would be to have children, and the earlier one would have sex. This was an endless cycle.
It wasn’t that Qi Xiuyuan and Qi Wenchen didn’t know this, but they didn’t want to break the norm. If it weren’t for Little Bear and Little An, they probably wouldn’t have taken it to heart and would have followed the rules of the palace.
"It’s the same for the previous generations of the royal family. That’s because they never made any changes from generation to generation. But does that mean our Qi family have to follow their example in letting the male descendants start doing the deed at a tender age and give birth to children early? Children born from such fathers are either miscarried, died early, or were sickly. Because they start early, it tends to lead to an indulgence in sexual matters. Royal descendants clearly have access to the finest medical resources, yet their average lifespan is less than 50."