Reborn Totalitarian Queen

Chapter 860 The shame of subjugation, deliberate deliberation (2)
Her attitude is really a bit abnormal.

Nanny Zhuang felt a little uneasy, so she stood by the door without moving.

Song Chuxi walked over quickly, and sat down on the chairs with the Queen Mother Song one after another.

"Auntie, are you okay?" Song Chuxi asked.

She knew very well in her heart that it was actually a very risky decision for her to enter the palace at this time, no matter whether it was public or private, the Queen Mother Song would not approve of it, but she didn't say anything.

"It's nothing." The Empress Dowager Song said lightly: "Since you are here, you just happened to have a chat with Ai's family. In the future——you will never have such an opportunity again."

Song Chuxi frowned, "Auntie..."

"Don't interrupt!" The Empress Dowager Song raised her hand to interrupt her, her face still indifferent, "The Ai family has lived for so many years, and they should see what they should see and what they shouldn't. You have seen everything, and you don't need to Let me know what to do. The roads are all made by yourself, and the endings are just their own fates. You don’t have to feel wronged for me, and I have nothing to be wronged. This matter was planned decades ago. It’s just that I didn’t expect the final result to be uglier than expected.”

As the Empress Dowager Song spoke, she laughed bitterly at herself.

She had long been prepared to use her body as bait, but she never expected that the Yue family would appear before this, and she would reveal that unknown old story.

Song Chuxi also knew that it was not good to expose her scars in front of an elder, but this was the last time she had a chance to figure out the cause and effect of everything.

"Yue Shi's words..." She hesitated, but in the end she couldn't bear to ask about the Empress Dowager Song's personal relationship, so she just changed the subject tactfully and said, "Is this the agreement reached between my grandfather and the old Patriarch Duanmu?"

Empress Dowager Song curled her lips into a smile, as a tacit consent.

She has a calm expression on her face, but in the depths of her eyes there is a helpless and bitter emotion that cannot be concealed, "48 years ago, the guards of the royal family in Xijiang were broken by Beidi's army. No, our Nantang regime is in a corner, and the country is small and weak. The Beidi Yin family took advantage of the victory and pursued it, and sent troops directly to the southern border. Because the morale of the Beidi court was just captured, the morale of the Beidi court was like a broken bamboo. With the Nantang at that time A mere national foundation is not enough to compete with it, but after two games, the decline is quite obvious. If you want to fight head-on, the final result will be no suspense, and you will definitely be defeated. The commander-in-chief is Duan Muying, that is... his father, and your grandfather is also serving in the army. Although our country in Nantang is small and weak, we are courageous from the emperor and courtiers down to the common people. People, at that time, the whole country was ready to fight, and His Majesty even prepared to go to the battlefield to supervise the battle. The whole Nantang lineage was ready to coexist and die. But Chuxi, you know that the cruelty of war is far from yours and me. As far as one can imagine, when Xijiang was defeated, the entire imperial city was slaughtered, the fire burned, and a piece of scorched earth. No matter whether it was the royal family or ordinary people, they all became the souls of the king's army. It was clear that the defeat was already determined. , even if the whole clan fights bloody, the whole clan can only end up being wiped out, so on the first night of His Majesty's personal conquest, he secretly summoned... Duanmuxiang and your grandfather into the palace, and then At dawn that day, the heads of the major families headed by the Song family and the Duanmu family jointly signed a letter requesting to enter the palace to discuss matters, and put His Majesty under house arrest in the Chaoqing Palace. agreement..."

According to historical records and folk rumors, during the war, the heads of the major families in Nantang worked together to kill the emperor of Nantang at that time, and jointly delivered a letter of surrender to discuss peace, and sent Nantang out.

Song Chuxi didn't know that there was such an inside story.

She was stunned for a moment, but she immediately realized something, "Could it be His Majesty at that time..."

The Empress Dowager Song nodded in pain, and continued with bitterness on her face: "Your Majesty was a very kind person who had read a lot of poetry and books. It was difficult for him to bear the humiliation of subjugation, but instead of hitting a stone with an egg, waiting for the whole family to be killed in the end." Tu, it is really better to preemptively use the blood of the entire royal family of Nantang in exchange for the well-being of the people in the city and the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers on the battlefield, so that at least it can preserve its blood inheritance for the old country of Nantang."

It is difficult for ordinary emperors to bear such humiliation, but most of them are very concerned about the eyes of future generations and the evaluation of themselves in history books.

The emperor came in person, and the whole country fought against the enemy. The emperor who died on the battlefield, and the weak and incompetent emperor who was forced to death by his courtiers——

Although they are both kings of subjugation, the reputations and meanings left behind are completely different.

The same is death, but the original Nantang Emperor, he chose to use his humiliation in exchange for the blood inheritance and continuation of the people in the country.

Such a person is truly unprecedented and unprecedented.

Song Chuxi has never been good at judging the right and wrong gains and losses of others, but at this moment her heart was greatly shaken.

She managed to regain her composure, "So, from the moment the people surrendered to the imperial court, grandmother and the Duanmu clan began secretly planning to restore the country?"

"I'm not very clear about the specifics." The Empress Dowager Song looked solemn, and no one would feel relaxed when mentioning this past event, "I heard my father occasionally mentioning it back then, and His Majesty has always known that our Nantang strength is not He may have competed with Beidi's imperial court, so his purpose at the time was very simple, to avoid the genocide of the entire Nantang. But the Duanmu family and our Song family were the direct executors of that matter, probably because they felt ashamed For Your Majesty, the two families have been planning and looking for opportunities in private."

The shame of subjugation is a huge pressure, not to mention that they are all traitors who have gone out of Nantang. It is understandable that they want to come back with a comeback.

"It's because of this that you agreed to be their internal response, aunt?" Song Chuxi confirmed.

"That's a matter for one country and one family, and I can't control it alone." The Empress Dowager Song said, but there was no reluctance in her expression.

"But Auntie, you know that this is a dead end with no way out, can I ask, the reason why you were willing to enter the game at the beginning was really because of the hatred of the country or the family..." Just for that man?

"Xi'er." The Empress Dowager Song knew what she was asking, but she didn't answer directly. She just took her hand and held it in her palm, looked into her eyes, and said very worriedly: "I have been selfish all my life, Don't blame me for hiding a lot of things from you, so that you have fallen into such a dilemma today."

She doesn't justify herself, selfishness is selfishness, and there is nothing to clarify.

And Song Chuxi looked at Queen Mother Song, and the answer she wanted was already very obvious.

(End of this chapter)