His face twisted and flushed with excitement:
"Beauties, whoever of you can please me today, I shall gift her ten bolts of the finest silk newly traded from Great Yan!"
As the saying goes: Observe one's words and deeds, and therein good and evil are revealed.
This Yanshan Monarch clearly was not a wise ruler, not even the kind of self-proclaimed wise ruler like Emperor Jianming.
The man had an insatiable appetite for beauty. During his twelve years on the throne, he sent out his "Red Horse Collection Envoy" annually to select beautiful women from across the country to fill his harem.
His taste was so unique that he did not distinguish between women of good families and lowly women (including prostitutes).
After numerous rounds of selection, the number of women in the harem had exploded from a few hundred at the start to several thousand now.
