In the eyes of the siblings, their Helian royal family was the most noble, while the royal family or clans of the Southern Dynasty were barely worthy of comparison.
The Turks and Rouran were nothing but barbarians and small states. Their princesses were only slightly better than ordinary young ladies, and could not be compared with true noblewomen at all!
Yongchang looked down on Empress Ashina, and naturally, he also looked down on Ashina's distant niece.
Hmph, instead of seeking to marry some Turkic princess, it would be better to have Ah Xi elevate the Queen Consort of Yue.
Princess Xie of Yue was a member of the Xie clan of Chen Commandery, a family with a thousand-year history and unparalleled nobility!
Yongchang projected his own feelings onto Helian Jue, putting himself in Helian Jue's shoes, and said to Empress Ashina, "You are the Empress, the Empress Dowager, and your orders cannot be disobeyed by Axi."
"But he didn't think much of the Turkic princess and had no intention of marrying into the Turkic tribe."
"Fortunately, besides you, his adoptive mother, he also has a birth mother! A mother's status rises with her son's, and our Xianbei people have a long-standing tradition of bestowing the title of Empress Dowager upon the emperor's birth mother!"
In fact, in the history of the Xianbei, there are precedents of even wet nurses being honored as empress dowagers, let alone birth mothers!
Therefore, Helian Jue's actions were not considered excessive.
Helian Jue was forced to create two empress dowagers by Empress Ashina.
Yongchang felt that Helian Jue was deliberately elevating Consort Xiao to compete with Empress Ashina.
"Haha, you! You're too hasty. You've made things worse and forced Ah Xi to become estranged from you!"
Yongchang laughed nonstop, almost laughing until tears streamed down his face.
Ha, ha! Ashina has shot herself in the foot!
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