Lin Yuan's birth made Emperor Liu Shi seem like a changed man.
He even became much more diligent about attending court.
After all, before Lin Yuan was born,
Emperor Liu Shi had once suspected that he might never be able to father a son.
In the future, no matter how unwilling he was, the imperial seat would still end up in someone else's hands.
Although that person would certainly be adopted under his name, would also be his junior, and would support him as if he were his own father,
if he was not his own biological son, it still felt somewhat strange.
As a result, Liu Shi had little motivation when handling state affairs.
What was the point of working so hard now?
In the future, would this realm not still fall into someone else's hands?
But now,
everything had changed.
He, Liu Shi, had fathered a son.
He had fathered a son who could inherit everything that belonged to him.
And this son's physique and innate foundation were so powerful that even when Liu Shi examined him afterward, he found it unbelievable.
With such an innate foundation and physique, he could probably tear tigers and leopards apart with his bare hands at the age of two or three.
Of course.
Although Liu Shi was delighted by this, he also knew very well that to be a good emperor, relying on martial strength alone was useless.
What mattered more were political methods and the ability to handle affairs.
The world today was divided into the Central Plains Thirty-Six Kingdoms.
And Great Yan was merely a dynasty located in the south of the Central Plains.
It was one of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms.
It could not be called the weakest, but it had nothing to do with being the strongest either.