With a puppet emperor in power, the next step is to gradually win over the regional officials in the surrounding areas.
Sending troops directly? That would be without justification and would be too costly and exhausting for the people.
After discussing it, Lin Mo and Yao Guangxiao came up with a solution: a grand wedding!
Do local officials need to travel to the capital for the Regent's wedding? No.
But Lin Mo's purpose was not that; what he needed to see was the attitude of all the regional officials.
Send them wedding invitations in the name of the Regent and see if they will send a gift. If they do, it means they accept nominal obedience; if not, that's fine, just deal with them.
Simply put, it's a probing attack to gauge these people's attitudes.
At the same time, Lin Mo also wanted to marry Sun Ruoxi as soon as possible.
Since it was a wedding, the mother, Jiang Wan'er, had to be present.
Su Qing'er, who also has a marital relationship with her husband, must also be brought to the capital.
We should at least give Su a wedding ceremony, shouldn't we?
Once the plan was finalized, Lin Mo dispatched his men to Xichuan City to bring the people over.
Besides his biological mother and Su Qing'er, Lin Mo also plans to bring Xu Chu, who has already attained immortality, along with him.
No matter what the people in Xuanhua Palace are like, they can't compare to the simple-minded "realistic" characters created by the system.
Everyone can betray, but Xu Chu would never!
Just when things were proceeding smoothly.
The Imperial Palace.
In Zhao Zhilan's room.
The late emperor's princess was in very poor spirits. She stood by the window, letting the cold wind beat against her thin body.
As she had done for the previous days, she would stand there until nightfall.
When she turned around, the bedroom was pitch black and silent.
The evening breeze sighed softly against the narrow window. From a distance, in some corner, she heard a cat's excited meows.
She stepped away from the window and went back to bed.
"Mother," she sobbed softly, wondering if she would be able to reunite with Wei Maozhen after death.
"Sleep, Zhao Zhilan, there's nothing you can do!" she told herself. "You can't avenge your mother, you can't escape this cage, and you don't even have your own life."
Suddenly, she noticed something moving behind her, and a hand shot out from the darkness and grabbed her wrist.
Zhao Zhilan opened her mouth to shout, but was covered by another hand, causing her to suffocate.
"Your Highness, please don't panic, I've come to rescue you!"
The voice was soft and didn't sound like a Daxia accent, but rather...
Zhao Zhilan nodded, and the latter released her hand.
"Save me?" she asked.
"Yes!" The speaker was a short man with a smile on his face. "Your Highness, do you wish for revenge?"
"Revenge? What kind of revenge?"
“Kill Lin Mo and overthrow his rule!” the man told him.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Zhilan trembled. "Kill Lin Mo?"
"What, Your Highness, don't you want to?"
"Yes, of course I want to!" Zhao Zhilan's eyes were firm. "He deceived me, deceived my mother... and even killed her in front of me!"
What hurt her the most was that she had once had such good feelings for him.
This feeling is exactly the same as being betrayed by a loved one.
"Then please come with me, and I will help you fulfill your wish for revenge!"
Zhao Zhilan hesitated for a few seconds, then nodded, "Please take me with you!"
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