Lin Ziran and Meng Yuling have been married for many years, and Meng Yuling has also given birth to a son and a daughter for him over the years, the eldest is the eldest daughter Lin Shu is six years old now, and his son Lin Yan is only three years old this year.

This three-year-old prince, Lin Yan, is also the only heir in the Lin dynasty of the current Aheng Empire!

At least in the absence of any surprises, only him.

In fact, in addition to Lin Yan's sister-in-law, Lin Ziran also had two illegitimate sons, but although these two illegitimate sons were known to the court and even many ministers, Lin Ziran even conferred the title of duke to these two illegitimate sons soon after they were born.

However, these two illegitimate sons are still only illegitimate children, and they are not officially princes, and they have no right to inherit the throne.

Daheng has an aristocratic system that has lasted for more than a thousand years, and it still exists until now, even if the current aristocracy has no actual fief and no actual power, but the aristocratic system has always existed.

And the Daheng royal family, except for Lin Ziran himself, who is more special, in fact, the royal families of the previous great unified dynasties are all from great nobles, and before the fifth dynasty, in fact, the emperor is actually just the biggest nobleman......

Therefore, the succession system of the royal family is the same as that of the nobility.

As early as the First Dynasty, the people of Daheng had a clear inheritance system, pursuing the inheritance system of centralized inheritance of the eldest son, with brothers and brothers, whether it was a royal family, a nobleman or a commoner!

At the same time, the Daheng people adopted a strict monogamous system, and the society traditionally did not recognize the concept of concubine, nor did it recognize the inheritance rights of sons born to 'concubines' or lovers.

Therefore, the sons born to these women have no right of inheritance.

Even if it is Emperor Lin Ziran, there is actually more than one woman in his court, there are more than a dozen women who live in the palace in the name of 'female officials in the palace, but the sons born to these women are not princes, but illegitimate children who are not recognized, and they have no inheritance rights.

Of course, there will still be workarounds, in fact, in the sixth dynasty in history, there have been many illegitimate children who finally inherited the throne, that is because the queen has no prince, after the queen died, the emperor set up the mother of the illegitimate child as the queen, some emperors simply in order to stabilize the inheritance, will take the initiative to choose to abolish the queen in advance, and then set up the mother of their illegitimate son as the new queen, so that the illegitimate son finally becomes a formal prince, and then has the right to inherit.

However, it is important to note that if the queen has a son, then in the end the queen dies or is deposed, but the prince born to her still has the right to inherit.

This tradition of the Daheng people also means that Lin Ziran does not have a harem......

At least there is no public harem!

And Lin Ziran had no intention of challenging the thousand-year-old tradition of the Daheng people, so he didn't engage in any concubine system, but in the early years, the queen Meng Yuling had nothing to do, and at that time, Lin Ziran didn't even need to toss anything, and a large number of courtiers actively sent women to the palace.

Even Empress Meng Yuling's maiden family, Duke Meng, has sent several daughters to the palace many times!

So in the early years, there were already more than a dozen young and beautiful women who entered the palace, saying that they were sent to the palace to learn etiquette as maids, but how to say it, they are not the same concept as ordinary maids at all.

These women are all from aristocratic families, and one of them is the sister of Empress Meng Yuling......

So after they entered the palace, if they had to say anything accusatory, then they would serve Lin Ziran in bed and give Lin Ziran an illegitimate child in case of emergency.

Other than that, they were all ordinary maids serving them......

If this is changed to the words of ordinary people, it is a mistress!

Of course, the court is face-saving, and there will be no such thing as a mistress, only a very awkward title of 'female official in the palace'.

However, in the past two years, with the queen Meng Yuling giving birth to the prince Lin Chuanyan, there are fewer cases of sending the daughters of powerful people into the palace, of course, there are other women.

However, it is basically impossible for these women to be called female officials in the palace, because most of them are ordinary young and beautiful women who are scavenged and sent in by Luo Mazi, and they basically act as ordinary maids, and some talented people can also enter the palace dance troupe.

In the early years, Lin Ziran was quite interested in these things, and even quietly ordered Luo Mazi to do these things, but after a long time, he felt like that, so he slowly became less enthusiastic.

After all, every day there is a group of stunning beauties around you, trying to pull you to the bed in every possible way, which may feel exciting and satisfying at first, but after a long time, you are used to it, so you feel like that.

After all, scarcity is expensive.

But when you don't have money or a woman, you dream of these things at night, and when you walk on the street, you see a little cooler aunt puffing up your pants to show respect.

But when you have countless stunning women and countless money, you will sigh: women, that's it! As for money, it's even more so that life doesn't bring it to death, what's the use!

The current Lin Ziran, after a few years of mixing, feels a little open, so in the last year or two, he actually attaches more importance to family relationships, and as for other women who come and go as soon as they are called, they naturally don't have to think about it.

It's a pity that the current pair of daughters are in a naughty and active time, especially Lin Chuanyan, a little fart who is only three years old, is stunned when he eats, and runs away in front, and an old mother in the back chases after him with a bowl......

This ran and threw a plop, and then the doll cried, but after crying, he still didn't eat, and continued to run, this time, Queen Dong, who had been trained by strict aristocratic etiquette since childhood, and had to maintain decency at all times, was angry.

Immediately threw the aristocratic etiquette to the back of his mind, picked up the feather duster on the side and rushed up, so that you don't eat......

Daughter Lin Shuru was sitting barefoot on a chair at the dining table, dangling with her little feet, holding chicken legs in one hand and juice in the other, eating and drinking while watching her mother beat her younger brother with a whip, and giggled!

As for Lin Ziran, he ignored the noise, finished his lunch, and said to Queen Dong, who was still educating her son to eat well: "You are busy, I will go to the front first, and there will be one waiting!" ”

Empress Dong didn't look back, just hummed, and then continued to educate her son to eat...... Don't be naughty.

According to Lin Ziran's experience, she has to talk about education for at least an hour!

Whenever she saw her educating this daughter, Lin Ziran deeply doubted that she was still married to a duke and a concubine, she used to look very good, almost a typical aristocratic lady that Lin Ziran knew, even if she was walking and talking, it was pleasing to the eye

But why is this happening......

Lin Ziran shook his head and went out of the door, and then went directly to the Mirror Palace in front, there is a naval meeting this morning, there is a meeting of the Guards in the afternoon, and there will be an army meeting tomorrow.

The content of the three meetings was very similar, that is, to discuss the future development of the army, navy, and the Guard, according to the current nature and future development.

And more strictly speaking, in fact, the tone has been set before, and the current kind of formal meeting is just a formal and public determination, forming a formal document and implementing it.

This is also a very special place in the politics of the Lin dynasty of the Great Heng Empire, that is, in fact, many major events are often agreed before the formal discussion meeting.

And the place for unanimity is not in these large-scale formal public meetings, but in the Senate.

In the Lin Dynasty, the real core authority was the Senate, and the Senate was composed of important ministers from different departments, and there were only seven people when the empire was first unified, and later Lin Ziran added six people, expanding the scale of the ministers on duty in the Senate to the scale of thirteen people.

There are generals in the military and civil servants in the cabinet, but all major matters are discussed in a small area in the Senate, and only after the opinions of the important ministers are unified will they enter these formal meetings for symbolic discussions.

Therefore, those who do not know the inside story of the imperial political system will find that every time the Daheng Empire publicly reports those very high-standard formal weirdness, they are very harmonious and have unified opinions, and there will be basically no large-scale disputes.

At the military affairs meeting of the Guards Army in the afternoon, there was no big controversy, and Lin Ziran had already exchanged views with the main generals of the Guards Army before, and unified the thoughts of the main generals in the Guards Army.

Finally, at the meeting, a number of key points for the future construction of the Guards were proposed, and Lin Ziran officially approved them.

The focus of the future construction of the Guards is to improve the combat strength of the system!

By expanding the Guards from a single army branch to a land and naval force, the Guards will formally establish the Guards Fleet, so that the Guards will have their own fleet for transportation and land support, making the Guards a comprehensive royal guard force with land and sea forces.

Of course, the fleet of the Guards is mainly based on inland river and coastal operations, and ocean-going operations are not the direction of development.

To this end, after the establishment of the Guards fleet, the Guards will prepare for the establishment of a river artillery fleet to operate in the Jinghe River Valley to support the Guards ground combat forces.

After the plan is approved, the follow-up Guards will have three infantry divisions, one cavalry division, one field artillery brigade, one palace garrison regiment, two fortress garrison regiments, and one inland river offshore fleet, with a total strength of about 70,000 troops.

The reform of the Guards is not independent, but part of the military reform of the Great Heng Empire in the last two years, the navy is also reforming, the army is also reforming, and even the command structure at the highest level has changed.

The War Department and the Navy Department in the Government Council were merged into the Ministry of Military Affairs in the sixth year of the Emperor's reign, and the establishment of the Ministry of Military Affairs was actually to pave the way for the final military reform.