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... ave the palace, yet the Emperor still disagreed. After all, his elderly mother was now in her seventies, not seventeen!
In Xuanyuan Country, the common folk consider sixty a ripe old age.
"Mother, the frontier is bitterly remote. You are advanced in years and can’t endure the hardships of travel by cart and boat. I truly can’t rest easy and I won’t agree to it," he said.
The Empress Dowager replied, "It’s precisely because I’m advanced in years that I want to leave the pa ...
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