bayedsolid Chapter 164 Female General (20)
Chapter 164 Female General (20)
"grand occasion?"
Shi Yue didn't quite understand. "What's going on now? Dongyuan has already declared war on us, and the border..."
Yes, the war in Dongyuan has begun.
He is such a lunatic.
"You actually want to go to war with Dongyuan!"
A temporary friendly alliance was not what he wanted.
What he wants is all of Dongyuan.
It is complete surrender.
"what--"
How could she be so stupid that she only just realized what he wanted.
"Your Majesty," he said, wiping away the tears of laughter from the corners of his eyes, "what do you think a battlefield is?"
She stood up straight and moved away from him.
"A martial arts arena, just some fighting and noisy, stop when you're done?"
"No, it's a mass grave, with broken limbs and corpses everywhere. Every time a war ends, before we have time to collect the bodies of our brothers, the vultures in the sky will circle in and come down to eat."
"For those who are lucky enough to be alive, not only are they constantly surrounded by the threat of impending death, they also have to endure the pain of losing their loved ones."
"How can you feel that kind of experience when you are at the top of the political ladder?"
"And what do you know? Win or lose, how many achievements you made, how many casualties you suffered... Rewards for meritorious service, punishments for mistakes. Besides that, if you feel like it, send an imperial decree to the soldiers at the border to show your constant concern."
“How much of what you say actually comes from your heart?”
"But our soldiers are not like that."
"They are the Shang Dynasty and their relatives behind them, so they would rather die than give up an inch of land."
"They were delighted by the care from high-ranking officials in the capital. Sometimes a line or two of poetry would make them willing to die for a good cause and defend the border for them."
"You are so ruthless in using these soldiers who simply charge into battle for you."
"While they are looking forward to peace and returning to their hometowns, you are calculating how to provoke a war between the two countries."
"Yin Hao, you are an ungrateful person. You are equally cruel to me and others."
If she wasn't there, she believed that with someone like him who was born with the ability to give up everything and risk everything, how could he not succeed? "
Yin Hao listened to her complaints quietly without making any excuses.
He was sitting and Shi Yue was standing.
The small window of the cell let in the morning light from outside, which fell on her body, just like it did in the mountains that year.
Like a female knight who hates evil, she cannot tolerate any indecision.
He waited until she finished her last sentence before he spoke again.
His tone was calm, giving her the illusion that they were not confronting or arguing but were just old friends getting together and chatting.
"That year, I was chosen as the crown prince, but my mother was sentenced to death. I didn't even have the chance to wear mourning clothes for her before I was dragged to Kunning Palace and recognized the queen as my mother."
It is so sad to think about it. My mother survived the night of the palace coup but eventually died on a cool night a few days later.
"Within half a year, my father passed away, the crown prince succeeded to the throne, and the queen mother ruled the country from behind the curtain."
"At that time, you also went to the border."
He no longer has a close friend around him.
Although he was the emperor, he was actually restrained in every way.
The Queen Mother held power in her own hands, and the ministers pretended to obey her but secretly disobeyed her.
Apart from the monthly correspondence with her, he could not find any time to relax.
"The palace is prestigious and powerful, and holding power is the way of survival for all who live in it."
"I grew up in the cold palace, and I have known the fickleness of human nature since I was a child. No matter how kind they appear on the surface, they may be forced by those in power to do harm to others in a blink of an eye."
"The first lesson I learned after entering the palace was from my mother's death."
"A person of low status is not worthy of being the mother of a noble person. Without her, I will not be criticized."
"Similarly, the Queen Mother can feel more at ease and enjoy the taste of being in power in the future."
"After six years of seizing power, I have a deeper understanding of the benefits of power. With power in your hands, you can decide life and death, and do whatever you want. No one will ever tell you what to do, and no one will ever stop you from doing what you want."
He said "everything I want" very slowly, and it was unclear whether this included the person in front of him.
"I have obtained power within the Great Shang Dynasty, so how can I not desire power outside of the Great Shang Dynasty?"
"A Wuqi is just a subordinate, but he dares to harass my Shang Dynasty for hundreds of years," he said with disdain in his eyes.
"And Dongyuan, a tiny place, there is not a single person with integrity in the whole country, yet you still dare to hope to form an alliance with me."
He was not afraid of Wuqi, let alone Dongyuan, whom he never took seriously.
He lowered his head and sneered, then set his eyes on her again, "No princess can enter my harem."
"There lies its real mistress."
He stood up and walked towards her step by step.
She extended her hand, "Shi Yue, please be my queen. I want to share with you the grand view of the Shang Dynasty dominating the four continents."
So unfamiliar.
Shi Yue looked at the hand suspended in mid-air. It was a little different from when he was a child.
The palms became much bigger.
His stature was much larger than hers, and she used to be taller than him.
He looked strange, and the words he spoke were even stranger. Even the heart beating in his chest seemed to be covered by thousands of layers of gauze, so it was blurry.
She also stretched out her hand, and under his expectant eyes, she slowly placed her hand over him.
There wasn't much flesh on his hands, just hard bones.
Her hands were covered with calluses even on her fingertips, which were the marks left by years of accumulation.
Such a strong-versus-hard, head-on contact is destined not to have a soft ending.
He flipped his wrist, changing from touching to grabbing, and pulled him and locked him in front of him.
One arm was restrained across his chest, the other hand gripping his throat mercilessly.
A person who is good at martial arts can break his neck with just a little force here, killing him with one blow.
"Shi Yue is just a warrior, and I don't deserve the honor of being the mother of a country," she led him out of the dungeon step by step, "so let me go to the border to eat wind and snow."
The person guarding outside the door obviously didn't expect to see such a scene.
General Shi, who has been stationed at the border for many years, openly held Your Majesty hostage.
Is she going to rebel?
"Back off."
The guards could not make a decision, nor could they rush forward and provoke her. They could only stare blankly at their majesty.
"Listen to her and step back."
Compared to the panic of the people below, Yin Hao didn't react much from just now.
"Shi Yue, will you kill me?"
"If you let me go, I will never hurt you."
She avoided his question and said something she liked.
"But you can't get far."
With a determined smile on his face, he tolerated her antics with good temper.
"How can you, alone, defeat the thousands of guards in the Forbidden Palace?"
"Let it go, okay? Let's just pretend this never happened."
He would still want her to be his queen, a position that had always belonged to her.
"In my life, there is no word like giving up."
They both had retreated to the palace gate, and she would be able to get out in a few more steps.
"Even if I lose today, I still want to try."
Try wrestling with imperial power.
"Open the palace gate."
she ordered.
Yin Hao gestured and listened to her.
"boom--"
The door opened.