The realm was now divided into four regions, led respectively by the four marquises of east, south, west, and north. Each region was to present one hundred beauties, meaning Di Xin's harem would gain four hundred...
Four hundred!
It was not that Di Xin was unmoved.
It was just that...
In the original course of events, Fei Zhong had still been the one to make this suggestion. After Di Xin gladly accepted it and issued an edict during morning court, Shang Rong, Bi Gan, and the others had immediately rejected it!
Di Xin might have received four hundred beauties, but how many women would the regional lords have had to select before finding those four hundred? Such a draining burden upon the people was naturally unacceptable to upright ministers like them.
Not only had Di Xin failed to get the beauties.
He had also ended up utterly embarrassed and earned himself countless curses...
"Forget it, forget it..."
Thinking of this, Di Xin waved his hand.
"There are already countless beauties in My harem. There is no need to do something so wasteful and burdensome to the people!"
Fei Zhong was instantly stunned.
The reason he had eagerly rushed over to offer this advice was because he had wondered whether the Great King, after seeing Goddess Nüwa's peerless beauty at Nüwa Palace... had had his desires stirred?
There was nothing they could do about Goddess Nüwa.
But there were plenty of beauties in the world!
So he had immediately rushed to the Royal Palace to offer his counsel, yet he had never expected... the Great King to react like this. Fei Zhong could not help wondering whether he had guessed wrong.
"No!"
Fei Zhong immediately came to his senses.
When he had offered his advice just now, the Great King had