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Chapter 183 The New Khan Ascends the Throne
The crowd outside the hall stood frozen in shock, dumbfounded.

The Great Yehu was the first to react, and he knelt on the ground with a thud, bowing his head and weeping bitterly, "Your subject Ashide Muyang respectfully sends the Khan to his death!"

The others, regaining their senses, knelt on the ground, saying, "Your Majesty, we respectfully send the Khan off to heaven!"

"Impossible, impossible! The Khan was just speaking!" Consort Geshu shook her head repeatedly, pushed aside Geshu Han who was blocking her way, and ran into the palace. She saw the Turkic Khan lying on the bed, his chest not rising or falling at all.

"Great Khan!" Geshufei cried out. She couldn't accept it. Just a few days ago, when the Khan was still in good spirits, he held her hand and solemnly promised that their child would inherit the Khanate and that she would become the most honored woman in the entire Turkic Khaganate!
But now, the man who treated her like a precious jewel and gave her honor and glory has left her without a trace.

"It was you! You must have killed the Khan!" Consort Geshu staggered out of the hall, baring her teeth and claws as she lunged at Ashide, shouting hatefully, "I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"

Ashide raised her hand, grasped Consort Geshu's slender wrist, and easily threw her away. "Consort Geshu has gone mad from excessive grief. Someone, take Consort Geshu back to her palace."

"Yes!" Ashide Muyang waved his hand, and his soldiers immediately stepped forward.

"Who dares?" Geshuhan stood up angrily, blocking Geshufei's way. "Before the Khan passed away, he personally said that he would pass the Khanate to the second prince. Now that the Khan has passed away, the second prince is the rightful new Khan, and Geshufei is the Turkic Empress Dowager. Who dares to disrespect him?!"

"Nonsense!" Ashidemuyang angrily rebuked, "In our Turkic tradition, a son's status depends on his mother's. The Khatun has two sons. Although the eldest prince died in battle, the sixth prince is still alive. If the throne is to be passed on, it should be to the sixth prince. What does it have to do with the second prince, who is an illegitimate son!"

The ministers nodded, but considering the former Khan's tendency to favor his concubines over his wife, it was not impossible that the throne would be passed to the second prince.

"The special envoy said that the Khan passed the throne to the second prince. Is there any proof?"

“Of course!” Geshu Han took out a bright yellow silk gauze from his bosom. “The Khan’s edict is here.”

"You say the will is the will?" Ashide Muyang continued to question.

"Whether it is true or not, you ministers will know after you have read it."

Geshu Hanjiang handed the silk gauze to the minister closest to him, keeping an eye on Ashide's desperate actions.

The ministers gathered together to examine the document carefully and finally confirmed that it was indeed written by the late Khan.

After all, the handwriting of the First Khan is something that most people simply cannot imitate.

"Your subjects respectfully obey the late Khan's edict and honor the second prince as the new Khan."

As they spoke, all the ministers knelt down in the direction of Consort Geshu and her son, saying, "Your subjects pay homage to the Khan!"

Consort Geshu and her son were overjoyed. The second prince gave the order, "Get up, all of you! Men, seize the Ashide clan!"

The imperial guards outside the main hall rushed forward and surrounded Ashide and the others. Geshu Yong silently walked behind Consort Geshu and her son.

Consort Geshu felt the excruciating pain in her wrist. "Guards, cut off the hands of that wretched servant Ashide!"

No one in the Imperial Guards acted without authorization.

"How dare you!" Consort Geshu roared. "As Empress Dowager, I order you to immediately behead him, uh..."

A sharp pain shot through her lower back and abdomen. Geshufei looked down blankly and saw blood dripping from the tip of the knife like rain from the eaves.

"You lowly, bastard, how dare you!" Before Geshu Fei could finish her sentence, Geshu Yong suddenly drew his short sword.

Blood gushed from the wound, and Geshufei convulsed in pain, her beautiful face contorted in agony as she breathed her last breath in despair.

"Mother!" The second prince caught Consort Geshu's slumped body, his eyes bloodshot as he roared, "You dare kill my mother? I'll kill you!"

The second prince put down Consort Geshu's body, stood up, and threw a punch. Geshu Yong didn't move; his left hand caught the second prince's right fist with lightning speed, and his right hand, holding a short knife, slid upwards, severing the second prince's tendons.

"Ah!" the second prince screamed in agony.

Ge Shuyong raised his right leg and kicked the second prince hard in the knee, pinning the prince to the ground and rendering him unable to move.

Just as Geshu Han and his ministers were recovering from the shock of Geshu Fei's murder, they saw the second prince, the new Khan, being held hostage by the commander of the Imperial Guards, his own maternal uncle, with a dagger.

"Geshu Yong!" Geshu Han roared, "Have you lost your mind? How could you be so cruel to your own sister and nephew?!"

"My own sister? My own nephew?" Ge Shuyong's tone was full of sarcasm. "Does Ge Shuwan treat me like her own brother? Does the Second Prince treat me like his own uncle?"

Just as Geshu Han was about to argue, Geshu Yong said, "No, in their eyes, I'm not even as good as a dog in the Geshu family."

"Unfortunately, I'm not a dog, I'm a wolf!"

Ge Shuyong plunged a knife into the Second Prince's neck and then pulled it out sharply. "I've waited twenty years for this day."

The second prince, clutching his bleeding neck, slowly stopped breathing.

"The new Khan is dead. According to Turkic custom, the Khanate should be inherited by the son of the Qatun!" Geshu Yong, holding a bloodstained knife, walked step by step before Geshu Han and the ministers. "Do any of you have any objections?"

As soon as he finished speaking, hundreds of imperial guards drew their swords.

Ministers: There are none now.

"Where are the special agents?" Ge Shuyong stood on the steps looking down at him.

Geshu cursed, "You bastard, my Geshu family will be ruined by you today! Wait till you get back to the manor and see how the clan deals with you..."

Before Geshu Han could finish his rant, Geshu Yong plunged a knife into his heart, yelling, "Shut up!"

Ge Shuyong's ruthlessness even made Ashide Muyang secretly tremble.

Ashide laughed heartily. She first met Geshuyong on a secluded palace road. At that time, Geshuyong had just become a member of the Imperial Guard and was humiliated and punished by Consort Geshu for theft, leaving him on the verge of death. With the intention of opposing and making trouble for Consort Geshu, she ordered a witch doctor to treat him. From then on, Geshuyong secretly served her.

Ashide suspected that this was a ruse by the Geshu clan and tested them many times until Geshu Yong personally poisoned the Geshu clan chief before she was completely at ease.

After today, Ge Shuyong has no choice but to remain loyal to his mother and son.

"By imperial decree, Geshu Yong, commander of the Imperial Guards, has rendered meritorious service in supporting the new Khan's ascension to the throne. He is hereby appointed as a Special Envoy and concurrently the head of the Geshu clan."

Geshu Yong respectfully kowtowed, "Thank you, Your Highness!"

"Teqin, Da Yehu, I hereby order you two to lead the army. Anyone who is disloyal, disrespectful, or disobedient to the new Khan shall be executed without mercy!"

"The minister obeys the order!"

Geshu Yong and Ashide Muyang first escorted the new Khan and his mother back to the palace, sending trusted confidants to protect them. Then, they began to eliminate dissidents from inside the palace to outside.

This massive purge lasted a full month. Except for the Eighth Prince, all the princes from powerful maternal clans were executed. Tens of thousands of people in the Turkic capital were killed and imprisoned, and the entire Geshu clan was wiped out.

On February 2nd, the new Khan ascended the throne in the Turkic capital, honoring his birth mother as the Turkic Empress Dowager. All matters of state were decided by the Turkic Empress Dowager, the Great Yabghu, and the Tegin.