25th Chapter

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"ATTENTION! HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY SULTAN MURAD KHAN HAZERTLERI AND VALIDE MAHNAZ SULTAN"

I walked together with my seventeen years old son Murad in front of the janissaries on the main square.

Osman's coffin was standing on our left side and I had no emotions or even guilt about my order to kill him.

All the soldiers bowed down to my son new Sultan, Murad, and to me, Valide Sultan and regent of the empire, as Murad was minor.

"LONG LIVE SULTAN MURAD! LONG LIVE MAHNAZ SULTANA!"

Soldiers yelled all in the same voice and I couldn't explain how proud I felt when finally my son got the throne he deserved.

" ATTENTION! VALIDE MAHNAZ SULTANA!" Haci Aga, now Chief Ennuch of the Harem yelled and all the girls in the Harem bowed down to me.

At the end of the Harem Mahfiruz stood dressed all in black without even bowing to me.

" This is the first day of my rule and I already want to do some changes here." I said and girls looked at each other afraid what my decision would be.

" Cennet Kalfa, you worked in Palace for many years. It's your time to retire. We will find suitable husband to you." I said and Cennet wanted to beg me to stay, but I signalised her with my hand to shut up.

Cennet behaved bad towards me since the first day I came to this Palace and she was the one of the first people I promised myself to get rid of.

" At your place as Chief of Harem Treasury I will name Kalika." I said and Kalika kissed my hand. She was my best friend here together with Aybige and she was the person I trusted the most. She was suitable for this position as no one else would do it better than her.

" Mahfiruz, you will be banished to Old Palace as the tradition says." I said and she didn't even want to look at me.

" Oh, and return me the ring that is mine." I said and fake smiled as Mahfiruz looked at emerald ring on her right hand. She didn't want it to do, but she must have done it. She took it and gave it to me.

I finally putted back on my hand the ring that belongs to me. Our era has started now.


" Sultana, is there anything else you want?" Kalika asked me with a smile when she looked at me proud sitting at my Valide Sultan's chambers.

" You will find a perfect concubine and send her to my lion Murad on havlet. Find beautiful and intelligent one." I said to her as I wanted my Murad to find happiness.

" What will we do with Nilufer Hatun?" Haci Aga asked me.

" She will stay here in Palace. I promised to protect her and I won't cross my promise." I answered.

My sons Kasim, Bayezid and Ibrahim, together with my daughters Sirin, Saliha, Ismihan and Handan came inside my chambers. They all bowed to me and kissed my hand.

" My children, you are finally all together. Now my sons you can live here in freedom. You won't be locked anymore, but one thing I want from you is to be loyal to your brother Sultan." I said to them and they all nodded to me with a smile.

" Sirin, my love. Your time for marriage will also come soon. We will make sure to find you a perfect husband." I said and saw her smiling.

" I already have someone on my mind." Sirin said and blushed.

" Sultana, Kemankes Kara Mustafa Paşa wants to meet you." Haci said and I went into meeting room. I was able to meet legally with men now as I was Valide Sultan and regent of the Empire.

I came inside and saw a janissary man who bowed to me when he saw me. He was the one who took a huge part in revolution against Osman and I knew I will have to reward him for that.

"Sultana, it is my pleasure to finally see you at the throne as the regent. We were waiting for this day so long." Kemankes said as he bowed in front of me.

" I also wanted to talk with you Kemankes, you will be rewarded for what you have done." I said to him as he seemed really proud on himself because of my words.

" I don't need any reward, Sultana. My only wish is that we have Sultan Murad on the throne now and our Empire can be in peace now." Kemankes said and tried to look me for a second, even though he knew this was forbidden.

" I will need you to notice me about everything. I want to know what is happening in our state and to know all the problems. We don’t want people to be angry at us, we need to solve their problems." I said to Kemankes as I was afraid if people wouldn't be happy with our regime after what happened with Osman.

" Sultana, we have problems with rebels. At their head is Yusuf Paşa who was very close with late Sultan Osman. He gathered his people around and he wants to revenge Sultan Osman. Their target is you, because they think you are involved in this." Kemankes said and I knew the time to start facing the enemies has just began.

" They want to remove me from the regency and to manipulate Murad by their own?" I asked him but also answered myself on what my biggest fears were. Murad didn't know yet a lot about politics and I had no idea how he would react if he would know there are rebels.

" Excatly that, Sultana, also the poverty is problem in Istanbul. Sultan Osman spent a lot of money from Imperial Funds, all the roads were blocked and there was no way for food to go to city. State didn't have enough money to help them." Kemankes said to me.

" I give you permission to take money from my funds and make sure everyone has enough food in our city. I don't want peoole to stay without food as they did during Osman's regin. Make sure children go to school and their parents find jobs." I said as I knew we have to fix things quickly.

" People will celebrate you, Sultana. God bless you." Kemankes said as he left.

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