The people of Xiao Xiao did things very neatly, and sent Qin Huaiyuan back to the city safely in the early hours of the morning.

Qin Huai stepped on the morning light and went to see Yu Chiyan without hesitation.

He is not a person who drills the horns of the bull, knowing that the general trend is gone, and he still has to learn what loyal ministers to die and make his will clear.

After surviving under the Emperor Taishang for so many years, several ups and downs have made Qin Huaiyuan change from a simple person full of ideals to a person who knows how to think about his family now.

Since he knows that he can't fight the Great Zhou, it is better to think about how to get the greatest benefit for the emperor.

Wei Chiyan is in a good mood today, perhaps because he saw Qin Yining yesterday, and now when he closes his eyes, he can still remember Qin Yining's docile appearance when he lowered his eyebrows when he sent him down the mountain.

More perhaps, after meeting Qin Yining, some of the inherent attachments in his mind were finally shattered. Yu Chiyan felt as if she had been stripped of her heavy shackles, and her whole person was lightened from her heart.

"Your Majesty, Master Qin asks to see you. ”

"Please." Wei Chiyan was about to say something to Qin Huaiyuan, and his voice was a little eager to answer.

After a while, Qin Huaiyuan quickly stepped into the imperial study and saluted: "The ministers see the emperor, long live the emperor's health." ”

"Flat, sit." Yu Chiyan smiled.

Qin Huaiyuan thanked him, sat down in the official hat chair brought by the small chamberlain, and said with a smile: "Looking at the emperor's expression, there seems to be something happy today?" ”

Wei Chi Yan said: "It's not that there is anything to be happy about, but I really figured out some things, and I feel a lot lighter." You have come just in time today, and even if you don't come, I will announce that you have come. ”

Qin Huai saw that Yu Chiyan seemed to be very interested, so he asked cooperatively, "What did the emperor figure out?" ”

Yu Chiyan stood up and said, "Yesterday, I went out on patrol in Weifu, walked in the city for a long time, and saw the tragic situation in the city. ”

Qin Huai saw that the emperor's brows were tightly locked, and he couldn't hide his sad look, so he knelt down and said, "Weichen is incompetent, and he can't share his worries for the emperor." ”

"No, you've done a good job." Wei Chiyan helped Qin Huaiyuan to stand up and said, "Master Qin has done a lot for the people of Dayan. It's only strange that the sky doesn't bless it, the time and place are favorable, and we don't occupy any of them. ”

Yu Chiyan smiled bitterly: "When my father handed over the throne to me, he didn't actually value my talent, but because he didn't have any other successors to help him carry the black cauldron." He hid a large sum of money and threw an empty shell to me, just to leave capital for the future comeback, once the Great Yan Dynasty was defeated, he would not be the disgraceful king of the country, and when the time came, the history books would only record that I was the last emperor of the Great Yan. ”

Speaking of this, Yu Chiyan closed her eyes, clenched her fists and said, "I can't hide it, my heart is full of resentment. I have never received a little love from my father, and as I grew up, when my father looked at me, what he saw in his eyes was not a father's liking for his son, but a deep jealousy.

"I know that he is afraid that I will take his place. He doesn't care as much about me as he does for Uncle Huang. Sometimes I wish that Dayan's country was the emperor's uncle, and maybe it wouldn't come to an end so soon. But it was too late. ”

Yu Chiyan turned her back to Qin Huaiyuan, not wanting Qin Huai to see her cowardly tears. But his thick nasal voice had already betrayed the fact that he was crying as an emperor, as a man.

Qin Huaiyuan knelt on the ground again, quietly listening to Yu Chiyan's confession, and his heart was also sour.

When the Emperor Taishang was in power, he was not only afraid of Yu Chiyan, he was afraid of everyone! Not only Yu Chiyan felt pain? As a courtier, he dedicated most of his life to the court, and was he not played by the Emperor Taishang between applause, killing if he wanted to, and praising if he wanted to?

He could understand Yu Chiyan's pain. Because he has the same pain, the pain of not being able to carry out his ambitions, maybe not much worse than the pain of not getting his father's attention, right?

"I went out yesterday and saw the scene of Yi Zi eating." Yu Chiyan's voice trembled, "I watched with my own eyes an old woman in ragged clothes, gnawing on the hand of a roasted half-baked child...... I really hated to kill myself at that time!

I don't want to be the king of the country, so I have always refused to admit my failure, gritted my teeth and persevered until now, but for the sake of my ridiculous self-esteem, it was innocent people who caught up. Master Qin, I was wrong. From the beginning, I was wrong. ”

Yu Chiyan turned around, tears on her face, but her eyes were unprecedentedly firm: "From the beginning, I shouldn't have put the people in dire straits just for my own selfishness. As an emperor, I can't seek happiness for the people, but I want to use the people as a tool for me to build my position, what is the difference between me and my father? The same selfishness, the same mediocrity. ”

"Your Majesty, you have done a good job." Qin Huaiyuan persuaded him: "If you had ascended the throne ten years earlier, Dayan would never have died. When you take over, some things are irreparable, and no wonder you. ”

Qin Huaiyuan's persuasion was actually exaggerated, because Wei Chiyan's talent was really limited.

But this sentence was the most timely affirmation for Yu Chiyan when he was most self-denying.

Wei Chiyan felt that as long as there was one person who could understand him, then he would be the king of the fallen country and save the lives of the remaining people in the city, and he would not be so aggrieved.

"Master Qin, thank you." Yu Chiyan laughed, tears welling up, and he said in a thick nasal voice, "I can't be selfish anymore, I can't let everyone be buried with me on the throne, I have decided to surrender to Da Zhou." ”

"Your Majesty......" Qin Huaiyuan's voice choked.

Although he knew that there would be this result, once this decision was made, the country that Qin Huaiyuan had defended with most of his life would be equivalent to extinction. At the same time, there are also the hard work and youth he has invested in, as well as many young and high-spirited things and great dreams.

He was sad and helpless.

But he is not an emotional person. The general trend has gone is the general trend has gone, and there is no way back to the sky, so you have to think of another way out.

"Your Majesty." Qin Huaiyuan wiped a handful of tears, took out the envelope from his arms with trembling hands, and said, "When I got up early this morning, I found that there was more of this thing on the pillow, and when I opened it, it was really ...... Your Majesty, the ministers dare not speak falsely, please ask the emperor to take a look. ”

Yu Chiyan was stunned when she heard this, hesitantly took the letter, and after unfolding it and reading it carefully, her thin and pale face was already colorless.

Although he had already decided to surrender, deciding to surrender on his own was really different from the feeling of surrendering after being betrayed.

"These people are really, well, well, my good courtiers, and my good father-in-law." The emperor looked up to the sky and roared, howling and crying, "The generals are all reversed, the civil ministers are half reversed, and even my father-in-law has betrayed me!" My country has fallen, what are you going to fight? What else can I do but be caught? ”

Qin Huaiyuan was sad, and he also closed his eyes and shed tears.

The two monarchs and ministers hugged their heads and cried like this.

At this time, they didn't notice that outside the imperial study, Empress Li Yanyan quietly retreated, gave the emperor a look to Duke Lu, and left quickly.

Gonggong Lu lowered his eyebrows, as if he didn't see the queen at all.