Chapter 60: The Road to Return
Empress Dowager Dugu looked at Xuanyuan Yi, who was about to come to her in the blink of an eye, and breathed a sigh of relief silently.
She knew that Mu Bingyue's plan was not small, but she also knew that if Mu Bingyue didn't let go, then what she would do would be in vain. Whether she compromised because of the hundreds of thousands of rebels, or planned for the unborn child in her womb, she agreed.
This is the best result, and her prince and her prince will be able to walk smoothly in the future.
"Then the emperor will have you to lobby." After the Empress Dowager Dugu finished speaking, she pulled her eldest grandson Jinglan and left before Xuanyuan Yi arrived.
The murderous aura that came all the way from Xuanyuan Yi could feel the mania of his almost desperate choice, no wonder even the Empress Dowager Dugu didn't dare to meet him head-on.
"Are you alright?" Xuanyuan Yi looked Mu Bingyue up and down, and then looked at the back of the Empress Dowager Dugu and the two leaving, "What did she ask you to do?" ”
Even the queen mother didn't scream anymore, so it can be seen that she was really angry.
Mu Bingyue thought about it, but decided to spread it out and say, this is not the time to talk about righteousness, the matter of hundreds of thousands of rebels needs to be solved urgently, the Queen Mother summoned her, she said one day earlier and one day later, he would suspect the Queen Mother.
But who knew that before she could analyze the pros and cons, he chased after the Queen Mother angrily, and she didn't look back no matter how she called.
"You go back and wait for me."
Mu Bingyue saw that she couldn't catch up, so she could only stomp her feet, "What a fool."
That Xuanyuan Yi didn't care about anything, and it was a question to catch up and split his head.
Empress Dowager Dugu really didn't expect Mu Bingyue to confess to them so easily, she made the panicked eldest grandson Jinglan retreat with a cold face, endured her dissatisfaction with Mu Bingyue, and said: "Because she can't take on the responsibility of the mother of Xuanyuan Country at all, and she can't completely integrate into Xuanyuan at all, she stands in the perspective of Xuanyuan Country wholeheartedly, for the sake of this country or you, the emperor, think about it, do your subjects need such a queen?" You have done this to her, how has she ever been moved? At this moment, Xuanyuan Yi has already lost his rules and has no reason at all, and the Empress Dowager Dugu wanted to avoid the edge for the time being and have fewer disputes, but she also knew that she couldn't hide from it.
Xuanyuan Yi's face was pale, and he couldn't say a word.
Everyone seems to know, but they still come to expose his scars, as if he is afraid that he will forget the pain.
Even if even men and women are not known at the moment, but they can get such a movement, how can they be mortals, no matter from which point of view, the future identity of this prince will be unspeakably expensive, if the prince wants to succeed to the throne justifiably, his mother will be promoted to the queen of the main palace even if her status is low, so even if the court and the central government have not mentioned anything about the queen's position, it has long been tacit. And Xuanyuan Yi also has this idea, but in order to let no one in this harem dare to move Mu Bingyue easily, let their mother and son gain a legitimate foothold in this harem.
Xuanyuan Yi knew that this stall was mentioning the queen's position, which was really a good idea, but how could he hold back, and was about to say a few words, but he saw Zizhu hurriedly come to report.
"Your Majesty, it's not good, my mother fainted."
When Xuanyuan Yi heard this, he didn't care about anything else, but when he hurried back all the way, he saw Mu Bingyue lying on the bed safely, and he was stunned for a moment.
Mu Bingyue rubbed her sore eyebrows and patted her side, and Ye Ling and the others retreated when they saw it.
Seeing the exhaustion in the thick clouds between Mu Bingyue's eyebrows, Xuanyuan Yi was like an eggplant beaten by frost, he sat on the edge of the bed weakly and swallowed all the words back into his stomach.
"Don't blame me for lying to you, what the Queen Mother mentioned is indeed the best solution at present." Seeing that Xuanyuan Yi's face was still full of black ice, Mu Bingyue sighed helplessly, she stroked her lower abdomen that she couldn't see yet, and said, "Moreover, don't you think that if there is one more person to protect him, his road will be smoother in the future." ”
Xuanyuan Yi listened, and his straight brain hurt, "Do you know that even if you can solve these things in front of you now, it is hard to guarantee that they will not think that you are blocking their way to dominate the harem in the future, and when the time comes, they will also find all kinds of reasons to get rid of you, so this is not a one-and-done method at all." ”
"You calm down first......"
"How do you tell me to calm down?" Xuanyuan Yi's emotions were on the verge of getting out of control.
Mu Bingyue didn't have the strength to argue with him at all, she could only grab his sleeve, quickly organizing words in her head, trying to calm his emotions, "Can you put these down first and wait until everything is settled?" Don't you think it's too early to say that? She had wanted to tell everything and everything, but there was an accident that she couldn't explain, and this accident would involve a lot of things that she couldn't explain, but now was never a good time to say this.
"You are really my nemesis", like a punch on cotton, Mu Bingyue's attitude made Xuanyuan Yi feel powerless, he slowly hugged Mu Bingyue and put his head on her slightly thin shoulder.
Mu Bingyue's heart shook suddenly, and some fragments were quickly connected in his mind.
She was born in response to the catastrophe, and this life was their last. So, this calamity hasn't happened yet, has it?
Could it be that this is the reason why she can't love them, because she's just a catastrophe for them.
As if seeing the clouds, Mu Bingyue found some answers in the fog, but she knew that this was not all, but there were still many things that she needed to solve at the moment, She didn't have time to think about these, "Things must be settled now, Situ can't wait too long, if something happens, many things will get out of control." ”
Xuanyuan Yi didn't know, even if he wanted to fight on the basis of reason, he also knew that things had been unsettled, which was not conducive to Mu Bingyue's pregnancy, and he could only compromise for the time being.
Xuanyuanyi's compromise undoubtedly opened a gap in the arguing court, and with the support of the prime minister and the queen mother's party, the situation quickly calmed down.
King Lang, Qi Shan, and the twelve generals were all released, and of course they were also punished.
It seems that everything is on the right track, and Mu Bingyue and Xuanyuan Yi have also reached a preliminary agreement on the issue of Red Flame and the Firmament.
All the people of the sky set off to return to the firmament, and everyone will be given land, and during this time, Xuanyuan will give some support, of course, the firmament will also need to pay for labor.
The same is true for Xijun, as for Chiyan, General Situ led an army of 300,000 to take it back. In the end, Xuanyuan Yi adopted Mu Bingyue's opinion.
Salute first, then soldier.
Countless flying baskets flew to Chiyan to drop several letters from the returning soldiers, which accelerated the internal division of Chiyan, in fact, when there was no food to plant, various uprisings began to be launched in various parts of Chiyan, and the news of the imminent return of 300,000 soldiers pushed the uprising to a peak.
When the Red Flame courtiers advised Nangong Rui to persuade him to allocate military rations as grain seeds first, he was still refused, apparently Nangong Rui thought that it was more important to leave military rations to protect the soldiers against Xuanyuan's invasion.
The soldiers are fast, not to mention that there are Heiyi on the sidelines, but it is too much, Mu Bingyue does not recommend Xuanyuan to send troops.
If Xuanyuan leads the troops forward, it will be a battle between the two countries, and if it is the Red Flame soldiers who will return and inform Nangong Chen of his original intention, it will be the side of the Qing monarch and the rebel thief.
Of course, all of this needs to be dealt with when Heiyi can't react. If Heiyi intervenes sideways, there will be too many variables.
At first, those Xuanyuan ministers did not agree to let Situ and his 300,000 troops go back like this, not to mention that the variables were too big, that is, to provide food and grass for the defected soldiers and civilians of these two sides, and almost emptied the Xuanyuan treasury.
But what Xuanyuan Yi wanted was the speed of the soldiers, so their protests were all suppressed by one force, and since the flying basket passed the book and the 300,000 army, the gate of Xuanyuan City was opened, and Situ and his party went all the way west without hindrance.
Another three days passed, and the 300,000 army had almost reached the border of Xuanyuan's old days, Weicheng.
Not to mention that the supply of food and grass for the army is in short supply from time to time, even this cold winter is not suitable for marching, but they are still marching at the fastest speed, which shows that they are like arrows.
Although Mu Bingyue was lying on the bed, she always paid attention to the retreat of the Red Flame General, in fact, many things were confirmed by her hands, such as the departure and stay of the palace dependents of the original Red Flame, of course, all of this was carried out in the dark, Xuanyuan Yi didn't want those ministers to know about it, to prevent the matter of going to the mother and leaving the child from being mentioned again.
"You can't save everyone", Ye Ling looked at Mu Bingyue's lack of appetite and didn't eat much, and said with worry: "You've done enough for them, let them choose for themselves."
Concubine Xue, Concubine Luo, and several other concubines of the Red Flame Palace have been accepted as concubines, and they are all pregnant. Mu Bingyue had asked Xuanyuan Yi to release everyone back to Chiyan, but the child's father, Gu, was Xuanyuanyi's general, and they asked their children's mother to stay, apparently they thought they were their property and refused to release them.
Originally, Mu Bingyue was able to argue with reason, but she herself was a sensitive example, if she asked the generals to release the palace concubine, if the generals also asked Xuanyuan Yi to do the same, then it would definitely become ***, you must know that the release of the Red Flame captives has annoyed many nobles.
Some of the palace concubines chose to return to Chiyan, some went to the sky, to places where no one knew them, and the rest were those who were as pregnant as her.
She knew what Ye Ling meant by letting them choose, if they wanted to go, they just had to find a way to get rid of the child.
It was difficult for Mu Bingyue to say what she felt, but she clearly felt Xuanyuan Yi's feelings, if she opened her mouth to let these people return to Chiyan, it would definitely cause an earthquake-level quarrel.
At this juncture, she didn't want to quarrel with him, and she couldn't explain to him what Concubine Xue was going through.
She didn't even know if she should continue to bother with these things, but she still felt a little uneasy, a little sad.
was violated by the rapist, and was forced to give birth to his bloodline, and she had to stay with this person for the rest of her life, she didn't know if they could bear it, but she definitely didn't dare to say this to Xuanyuan Yi.
It is true that she is not the most noble woman in Xuanyuan now, but she is not far away, but she knows that this can't make up for what happened to her at all.
No woman likes to be forced, no matter what the man's purpose is. But that's the sadness of this age, isn't it?
In wartime, women are the spoils of their struggles, and in peacetime, women are only their vassals, in short, women have no status.
"We need a force that can stir up the storm, but promise me to take care of myself first?" Ye Ling understood what Mu Bingyue was thinking, but she knew that it was a place that Xuanyuan Yi would never touch, and she didn't want them to have an argument because of this, because it would only hurt her.
"Forget about that for now, you need to eat something, not for the kids, but for yourself, okay?"