"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?
