My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 448 Jia Xu has done his best in the overall situation, and Qin Hui is the traitor.

The light flickered, and the figure it reflected leaned forward slightly, and his voice was gloomy.

"My emperor said: Abdicate."

Meng Tong, who was lost in thought at the table, shook slightly. His eyes that had lost focus gradually returned and regained some expression. He looked sideways at the figure standing in the shadows and squeezed out a cry with difficulty.

"You...can't get out of here!"

Qin Hui has been prime minister for many years and is still known to the world as a treacherous prime minister. I don't know how many times I have heard such words. Unless he is facing a real death situation, I am afraid he will feel timid.

But right now, it's obvious that he won't.

"Haha... I am just a small official under the Emperor of Xia Kingdom. If I die, I will die. However, Your Majesty will be the king of the country's subjugation, and his children will also become the slaves of the country's subjugation."

Meng Tong took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and slowly tightened his hands on the table into fists.

"When did your Majesty start the layout?"

"It is said that it was two years ago." Qin Hui replied with a smile.

Two years ago? !

Meng Tong opened his eyes suddenly, with a look of shock in his eyes, and his clenched fists were tremblingly unclenched. Does this mean that he was planning on me to cross the country two years ago?

Probably seeing what he was thinking, Qin Hui dusted his right wide sleeve, stopped talking about etiquette, sat down opposite the emperor, picked up the porcelain pot on the table and poured himself a glass of warm water.

"My emperor has the overall goal of unification in his heart, and no one can stop it. When he attacked Xirong and Qiliang, he had already started to arrange the arrangements for Wu and Yue. Your Majesty should understand that those who achieve great things cannot take one step at a time."

"The dispute between Wu and Yue?"

Qin Hui nodded with a smile and took a sip of warm water into his throat.

"I heard my Taiwei say that the fight between Wu and Yue can only be achieved by one move first. And if the crown prince of Yue dies, the opportunity will come when the fifth son takes over."

In fact, when Meng Jintai committed suicide on the imperial steps and shouted: "The Emperor of Xia supports him to become emperor," Meng Tong had already guessed that Su Chen was behind it all.

But he didn't expect that the plan had been laid out two years ago, and the seemingly ordinary dispute between Wu and people in Vietnam was also his handiwork.

"Did you kill my son Zhuo Wen?"

"Indeed."

At this moment, there was no need to hide anything. Qin Hui smiled and put the cup back on the table: "Since Your Majesty wants to hear it, then Hui Hui will tell you directly. The dispute between Wu and Yue is just to consume the national strength of the two countries. After all, the Yue State It was mountainous, food was scarce, and the dispute lasted for two years. The people were bound to bear various miscellaneous taxes. Once they came and went, the people were miserable, and they lost the opportunity to sneak attack on the Central Plains, and they also lost the confidence to resist Xia Guo's army.

The death of Prince Meng Zhuowen was another trigger. It was logical that Wang Situ and I came back with Zhaoyi to express our condolences. As the envoy, he attracted attention in the front, and as the deputy envoy below, he met with five people through Zhaoyi's relationship. The prince... brought out the desires hidden in their hearts.

As expected, as soon as we left, the five princes began to compete with each other. Since ancient times, the eldest brother of the ruthless emperor's family couldn't wait to win the heir even before his body was cold.

It's a pity that all this was planned by my Taiwei, including the rebellion, King Chong's attack on the palace, and finally the army encircling Lening. "

Qin Hui narrowed his eyes, tapped his fingertips on the table several times, and said in a louder voice: "Does your Majesty understand now?"

"You are not afraid that if I don't abdicate, I will quarrel with your Majesty and use your sacrificial flag!"

Hearing this, anyone would be furious, but Meng Tong had no confidence in saying this. It was just his last stubbornness as an emperor.

"The Qingzhou Army is stationed in Huizhou, and its commander is Xia Houyuan. His Majesty should know him, right? When he rescued Fenzhou, he crossed thousands of miles from Yanjing in the north to attack Fenzhou in half a month. At such a speed, it would be impossible to fight from Huizhou to Lening. It won’t take more than half a month.”

Qin Hui's smile became even brighter, "How was Qi State destroyed? Your Majesty should also know, right? The Queen Mother of Qi State killed an envoy from Xia State named Wang Huaiyi, and then disappeared. Liang State was also destroyed along the way. I'm here, He happens to be an envoy, would you like to give it a try, Your Majesty?"

As he spoke, he leaned forward, stretched his neck and patted it twice, signaling Meng Tong to draw his sword and strike at it.

"You..." Meng Tong stood up, pulled out the sword from his waist, and tried to slash, but the half-raised sword edge could not fall down.

"Haha..." Qin Hui retracted his neck, stood up straight, and faced the opponent's sword edge. He gently pushed away the opponent's long sword with his index finger and said with a smile: "The general trend of the world must be divided for a long time. The Six Kingdoms have existed for hundreds of years. It’s time to unify, look at Yan, Wei, Qi, Liang, Wu, and one Xirong, they have all been destroyed, and now there is only one country of Yue left, it is difficult to support it alone, and it cannot stop Daxia’s army no matter what.”

He pressed the edge of the sword and looked into the other person's eyes gloomily.

"Wouldn't it be better to learn from Qi Baoguo and Kang Chengqian, to be a rich man and enjoy a peaceful and prosperous age with his wife and children, and to be the people of Daxia together? Besides, Your Majesty is different from those two. Your daughter is my Daxia Zhaoyi, step down. Afterwards, you are still a relative of the emperor and the head of the country, so how can you be treated as well as others?"

Meng Tong held the hilt of the sword, his arms were trembling, his shoulders were trembling, and his whole body was trembling slightly. He looked at the flickering candlelight on the table. For a long time, he let out a sad roar of "Ah——" and waved away the sword in his hand. , with a 'bang' sound, the round table in front of him was split into two halves, and flew out to the left and right.

The candlestick fell to the ground with a few bangs, the candle flame was extinguished instantly, and the room suddenly became dark.

The lanterns under the eaves outside shone in through the window lattice. Meng Tong stood in the darkness with his long sword hanging down. He lowered his eyes and whispered: "Envoy of Qin, can the people of Yue be called people of China?"

"nature!"

"Then the people of the Yue Kingdom may be like the people of the Central Plains and the Northland, who have no worries about food and clothing?"

"Since we are Chinese citizens, Your Majesty will treat everyone equally!"

Meng Tong threw the sword in his hand to the ground, "Envoy of Qin, I am willing to abdicate and merge Yue State into the territory of Xia State. My Meng family has limited talents and has done a disservice to the people under my rule. Now that my country is gone, I just want to treat them better." ."

Hearing these words from the other party, Qin Hui's hanging heart finally dropped. In fact, he was just pretending. After all, he can be more loyal than a loyal minister and more evil than a treacherous minister through acting.

"Your Majesty is well aware of the righteousness, so I am relieved! It is not early, Your Majesty should rest early and we will discuss the matter of abdication tomorrow."

After saying that, Qin Hui said goodbye and left. He opened the door and saw that the corridor under the eaves outside was full of people. The Queen and the four princes also heard the conversation inside. They watched Qin Hui leave angrily and walked into the room one after another.

"Father! How can this happen?!"

"Yes, our Yue country has been inherited for two hundred years, and the enemy has not even reached our doorstep, so we are in a hurry to surrender?"

"Stop talking, let your father speak!" the queen scolded her four sons.

Meng Tong took two steps slowly, sat down on the stool, closed his eyes and whispered softly: "You can't even defeat the Wu State, and you still expect to fight with the Xia State's troops? You heard it outside just now. In the past two years, , they are all led by the emperor of Xia Kingdom and his advisers, everything is expected by others, so why fight?"

He took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

"As an emperor, I have made the people of the Yue Kingdom miserable for the past two years. As a father, I have lost two sons in a row. I don't want anyone in my family to die again. I can keep the spiritual throne of my ancestors and you, so that you can live the rest of your life in peace. , I am satisfied as a father."

"Can……"

"enough!"

Meng Tong directly interrupted Meng Youyuan, the fifth child. He originally wanted to get angry, but when the words came to his lips, he just sighed: "That's it, don't think about it anymore."

He patted his sons on the shoulders, took his old wife's hand, and left the room together.

The four princes also let out a long sigh. Although they were unwilling to give up, their father's words were not unreasonable. They couldn't even defeat the Wu Kingdom. How could they have the ability to compete with the Xia Kingdom's army!

On October 28, the aftermath of King Chong's rebellion had not yet passed, and a notice was issued to the world, shocking the whole country of Yue.

Emperor Meng Tong announced his abdication, and the place was temporarily managed by the rebel commanders Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang. He would take his family and follow the Xia envoys to Luyang in the Central Plains to meet the emperor.

As soon as the news came out, not only the people were shocked and speechless, but the military generals outside were even more shocked. They all wanted to go to the palace to see the emperor and advised the emperor to think twice.

In the past, Qin Hui would definitely have prepared a one-stop service for traitors, looking for opportunities to be demoted, then investigated and imprisoned, and then poisoned and killed in prison.

But thinking that the matter could not be done, it was left to Meng Tong to handle it. The other party brought these generals to the palace, told them everything, and assured them that as long as there was no chaos, their current official positions could still be kept.

Soon after, the convoy drove out of Lening and headed north. Two days later, it reunited with the Qingzhou Army who took over the ferry, and returned to Huizhou together, and finally headed to Luyang.

(End of this chapter)