Chapter 196 Aggressive

Longtai was silent for a while before he said, “Mother, Father hasn’t long passed away. Isn’t it too hasty to establish the empress at this time?”

He spoke in a rather respectful tone, but Yang Ning felt that every word spoken by this young emperor seemed to have been well thought out and answered appropriately.

Although it wasn’t something harsh, there was his insistence within his words.

Longtai’s question seemed to get the Empress Dowager. Yang Ning thought he once had heard that the ancients followed filial piety and should observe mourning for their deceased parent for three years. He wondered if the rule also applied to this era. If there really was such a rule, he wondered if the emperor should obey it too.

It didn’t take long before the Empress Dowager said, “The late emperor passed away. Your stabilizing the country and society is the greatest filial piety to the late emperor. If the establishment of the empress i