"Mother, please don't worry!"
"I have my own plans for this capital city and this Great Zhou Dynasty!"
So, forget about the Empress Dowager Regent and the marriage alliance with the Turks!
Helian Jue was no child; even after becoming emperor, he still needed the Empress Dowager to give him orders.
Empress Ashina saw that Helian Jue looked confident and composed, not like he was just spouting nonsense.
She couldn't help but mutter to herself: Could it be that Helian Jue has some other trump card up his sleeve?
Besides the 3,000 vanguard troops, did he bring other soldiers into the capital?
And that strange balloon, does it have other functions besides flying?
Helian Jue: ...You got it right! Too bad there's no reward!
Before leaving Yuezhou, Xie Yuan also prepared a box of "small porcelain bottles" for Helian Jue.
The lemon-sized porcelain bottle contained black powder, with a fuse attached. It would explode when lit, creating a large crater.
When defending the city, you can throw out small porcelain bottles as bombs.
If you want to launch a surprise attack, you can use a hot air balloon and a small porcelain bottle to send lightning crashing down from the sky.
Besides its explosive power, the small porcelain bottle's main advantage lay in the psychological intimidation it instilled in the ancients due to its "cutting-edge technology."
Especially when used in conjunction with hot air balloons, dropped from the sky!
Wow, this is no longer just a pure crushing force, but a true dimensional reduction attack!
In the era of cold weapons, Helian Jue, who possessed firearms, was a "god"!
Empress Ashina did not insist further, but simply smiled and said, "My Ashina has indeed improved, and is becoming more and more like an emperor who reigns over the world!"
He also became more domineering, and did not even know how to be filial or respectful to his adoptive mother who had been kind to him.
Helian Jue smiled faintly, his handsome face shining even brighter, "It's all thanks to Mother's excellent teaching!"
His biological father, biological mother, and adoptive mother all bear an undeniable responsibility for how he grew up to be who he is today.
Of course, Helian Jue's innate arrogance and stubbornness also had their reasons.
Soon, he showed Empress Ashina with his actions that he could be even more like a "domineering and autocratic" monarch.
"The Princess Consort of Yue, née Xie, is hereby conferred the title of Empress; Empress Ashina is hereby honored as Empress Dowager; and the birth mother, née Xiao, is hereby honored as Holy Mother Empress Dowager..."
Upon returning to the capital, the first thing Helian Jue did was to be honored as emperor by his ministers in the mourning hall of the main palace.
After sitting on the dragon throne, the court officials knelt and shouted "Long live the Emperor!" Helian Jue then issued his first imperial edict since taking the throne.
Conferring the title of Empress and honoring the title of Empress Dowager are all perfectly normal.
But how did two empress dowagers end up?
Helian Jue did indeed have two mothers, one biological mother and one adoptive mother.
Both mothers were also qualified to be honored as Empress Dowagers.
However, there has never been a case of simultaneously bestowing the title of two empress dowagers!
Helian Jue has set a precedent.
The court officials discussed the matter animatedly, and the nobles whispered amongst themselves, but they did not try to stop them too much.
The only person who felt angry and vehemently opposed it was Empress Ashina.
betray!
This is absolutely a betrayal by Helian Jue to his adoptive mother. (ъìＱυGΕtV.net)
Is the kindness of raising and nurturing someone for more than twenty years still not as great as the kindness of giving birth to her?
Teasing!
This is Xiao Shi and Helian Jue mocking me!
Empress Ashina nearly smashed her own palace to pieces.
Her heart was filled with rage, which almost consumed her.
In her anger, Empress Ashina began to have wild thoughts: Had Helian Jue and Empress Xiao truly become estranged? Or perhaps they had only been acting all along!
And that previous imperial edict!
Hmph, that couldn't possibly have been written by the late emperor.
It is highly likely that it was forged by the Xiao family!
I knew it!
So this mother and son have been in cahoots all along!
"Two palaces side by side, and that's your fault too!"
Upon hearing the news, Princess Yongchang, who had rushed to the Empress's palace to join in the fun, saw Empress Ashina's outburst and said with a hint of schadenfreude.
Empress Ashina suddenly raised her head and glared fiercely at Yongchang.
This sister-in-law is as unrestrained as ever.
Say whatever you think, without any regard for hierarchy.
She still thinks the late emperor is alive!
They still act so willfully and recklessly.
However, Empress Ashina only glared at her twice and cursed inwardly.
Although Helian Gui is dead, the Empress Dowager is still alive.
Helian Jue escorted Helian Gui's coffin back to the capital, and the news could no longer be kept secret.
The Empress Dowager fainted on the spot.
However, after being given a bowl of medicine by the imperial physician, the Empress Dowager still woke up.
She rolled over, got up on her own, pushed away the maids and eunuchs who were helping her, and staggered to the mourning hall.
Looking at her son in the coffin, the Empress Dowager burst into tears.
She pounded on the coffin and wailed, releasing all her emotions in the process.
She didn't collapse, she just looked a bit older than before, but she was still healthy.
As long as the Empress Dowager was still alive, Yongchang's patron had not completely fallen.
Therefore, Yongchang could still act arrogantly and domineeringly in the palace.
Yongchang could mock Ashina, the mistress of the harem, whenever he wanted.
Seeing that Empress Ashina's eyes were bloodshot and she was glaring at him fiercely, Yongchang was not afraid at all. Instead, he laughed even more unrestrainedly.
"You won't believe me even though I say it's your fault!"
"Look at you! Everything was fine, but you insisted on making Ah Xi marry some Turkic princess!"
When Yongchang mentioned the "Turkic princess," his tone carried a hint of disdain.
She and the late emperor were indeed siblings; they both looked down on the Turks, Rouran, and other foreign tribes from the bottom of their hearts.
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