"The sage has utterly defeated the Turkic cavalry and captured the Turkic prince alive!"
Xie Yuan did not hide anything and told Princess Xu about the message he had just received by carrier pigeon.
"Really? That's wonderful!"
Princess Xu was not pretending; she was genuinely happy.
She excitedly asked Xie Yuan, "Sister-in-law, are you and the children about to set off?"
With the crisis in the capital resolved, Helian Jue should be able to initially stabilize the court.
Now everything is ready, we are just waiting for Xie Yuan and his sons to arrive in the capital.
Next came the sage's coronation ceremony and the ceremony for bestowing the title of empress.
Oh dear, my sister-in-law can finally return to the palace legitimately and become the mistress of the harem!
"No rush! After all, the imperial edict hasn't arrived yet!"
Xie Yuan is really not in a hurry.
The situation is already set; whether you go back a day earlier or a day later makes little difference.
Further arrangements need to be made in Lingnan.
Ahem, Xie Yuan was prepared for the farce that occurred half a month ago involving the powerful Huang, Chen, and Xian families, and he came to trap them.
Those villains and noble retainers who stormed the palace were all executed on the spot.
Subsequently, Xie Yuan ordered his men to conduct trials on several powerful clans, using evidence submitted through various channels.
Those whose homes were confiscated were executed, while those whose crimes did not warrant death were sent to the Yuling Tunnel for hard labor.
Yes, the Yuling Tunnel is still under construction.
Since Xie Yuan intends to open up a passage between Lingnan and the inland areas, he will build it well.
It's not about building a temporary path, but a spacious and safe tunnel that can actually be used by vehicles.
In ancient times, without large equipment and modern technology, and without tools such as concrete and steel structures, it was really not easy to do this.
The most important thing is to have sufficient manpower!
If we lack technology, we'll make up for it with manpower.
In the past, we dared not make a big show of it because we wanted to use a "feigned attack on one side while secretly advancing another".
Now that Helian Jue has ascended the throne and the imperial edict has been issued to the world, Xie Yuan has nothing to worry about.
She simply mobilized all the refugees, military households, prisoners, and others in the Lingnan region and brought them all to work at the Yuling Tunnel.
It was only at this point that the governor of Guangcheng discovered that the Yue King's Palace had secretly undertaken such a large project.
He finally understood how Helian Jue's 3,000 vanguard troops bypassed Guangcheng and "silently" left Lingnan.
Coming from a family of officials who served as governors of Guangcheng, he naturally had his own channels of information.
However, due to the distance, his news was somewhat delayed.
Helian Jue in the capital had already captured the young prince alive and killed off some branches of aristocratic families and minor clans, thus stabilizing the court.
The news received by the governor of Guangcheng was that Helian Jue had led three thousand troops "descended from the sky" and ascended the throne in the mourning hall!
Even such delayed news gave the governor of Guangcheng a fright.
Helian Jue was no longer the exiled deposed crown prince, but the new emperor who rightfully ascended the throne with a will in one hand and the imperial seal in the other.
The current situation is not that the governor of Guangcheng is seeking retribution from the Prince of Yue's family, but rather that he is worried about whether Helian Jue and Empress Xie, the newly appointed emperor and empress, will cause him trouble.
"Actually, I've tacitly approved of the Yuling Tunnel project!"
The governor of Guangcheng consoled himself in this way.
That makes some sense—he didn't stop them!
The reason he didn't stop him was because he was unaware of the situation.
However, if there is no obstruction, then there is no obstruction, and the reasons can be interpreted as "tacit approval".
Even if it's not a merit, it's not a fault either.
While comforting himself in this way, the governor of Guangcheng tried hard to recall whether he had offended the Yue King's Mansion in the past three years.
"I'm not that fool Cui Boyong, and besides, Cui Boyong was killed by the King and Queen of Yue!"
"I... I only avoided seeing the King of Yue when he passed through Guangcheng three years ago."
"But I had a reason. It was hurricane season, and I went inland to avoid the storm as usual."
The governor of Guangcheng desperately tried to find excuses for himself.
But this time, he couldn't convince himself.
Judging others by one's own standards, if he were Helian Jue, exiled and traveling through Guangcheng to Yuezhou...
As a result, the governor of Guangcheng left himself an empty office.
If this isn't contempt or humiliation, then what is it?
"Even if I have been impolite, Helian Jue is a saint, and should be even more tolerant and magnanimous—"
The governor of Guangcheng was still trying to deceive himself, but even his wife couldn't stand it anymore.
"My lord, I'm going to Yuezhou to personally pay my respects to the Empress!"
"To be precise, I am related to the Empress. According to seniority, I am her cousin."
The governor's wife didn't just randomly claim kinship with anyone.
Her surname is Wang, and she comes from the Langya Wang clan.
Her mother's surname was Xie, and she was Xie Yuan's distant paternal aunt.
In this era, marriage was forbidden between the gentry and commoners.
Aristocratic families intermarried.
Therefore, those prominent families are related to various other families by marriage.
If you really think about it, even the Prefect of Guangcheng was a distant relative of Xie Yuan.
"That's right! The Xie family comes from a prestigious family; they're one of our own!"
A remark from the governor's wife reminded the governor.
yes!
Xie Yuan was a woman from a prominent family; she belonged to the aristocratic class.
The late emperor's drastic measures to weaken the aristocratic families have truly made them somewhat paranoid.
Their wariness of a new ruler like Helian Jue stemmed from their fear that he might "inherit his father's legacy."
If Helian Jue were to be as hostile to aristocratic families as the late emperor...
So sooner or later, Helian Jue will take action against the aristocratic families!
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