"Xie Ling ran away," King Jin said quietly.

When Concubine Tao heard this, her face darkened: "How could that be?"

Without warning, King Jin roared in a suppressed voice: "Did you let him go?"

There was regret and hatred in his eyes, and they were sharper than the last time he saw the deputy general being injured.

When she met Concubine Tao's gaze, she felt only anger and disappointment.

"So, you think I let Xie Ling go?" Concubine Tao looked at Ye Shang in disbelief.

Yeshang clenched his fists tightly, but there was a look of hatred on his face.

"Mother, I have been in the army for six years. Do you know what my life has been like during these six years?"

"From the first day I entered the military camp, the lieutenants and officers respected me on the surface, but they also used dirty tricks behind my back. They beat me secretly and scolded me behind my back. In the first year when I entered the military camp, the deputy generals and I stood on the same front. I and I He killed three thousand enemy soldiers before he was promoted to captain. We both had neither enough food nor clothing to keep warm, so we suffered from hunger in the army."

"But even in such an environment, I never thought of giving up on you."

"The first time I returned to the city, you and my father engaged me. I thought my father finally recognized my ability.

After that, I went to the border town again. I made meritorious service again and was promoted to a general. When I came back, my engagement was annulled. You and my father arranged another marriage for me."

"The third time I came back, I was promoted again and became a general in charge of six cities. After I came back, I broke off the engagement again, and then got engaged."

"Do you know that people outside say that I am a wife-killer?"

Ye Shangjun swallowed, his nose was filled with tears and his eyes were filled with sadness.

Too excited to control myself

Concubine Tao looked at Ye Shang with emotion. She had seen him no less than ten times in the past six years, and every time he came back, he would be completely different.

Every time he comes back, he will become more mature and will take better care of him.

Every time she met Yeshang, she always felt that she was incompetent as a mother. His Majesty sent him out back then because he was afraid that he would compete with his three legitimate sons for the throne in the future. One of the purposes was to let him fend for himself.

His Majesty and Emperor Wei separated from the Wei Dynasty because of their legitimate concubines. When His Majesty sent Yeshang away, she had no choice but to send him out of the palace.

She knew that if Yeshang still stayed in the palace, he would fall into the hands of the queen sooner or later, and His Majesty would sacrifice Yeshang for the sake of the queen and the Xie family, and in order to have a good relationship with them.

At that time, she didn't think about what would happen after Ye Shang went to the military camp?

But later on, she gradually began to understand that the situation in the army was worse than she imagined. However, every time she saw Ye Shang coming back safely, she let go of her worries.

Later, as Ye Shang gained more and more military exploits in the army, His Majesty became suspicious and began to fear him.

In order to restrain Yeshang, His Majesty used her as a threat to make Yeshang take risks to fight. However, after every battle, Yeshang was always safe and sound.

Later, she confirmed and affirmed Yeshang's ability. She saw all this, and she felt that she had support.

But she didn't expect that Ye Shang looked like a child today.

This was the first time she saw Yeshang cry since he entered the military camp.

She said: "Those people are talking nonsense, don't listen to them." She looked at Yeshang with a distressed look.

Ye Shang had already burst into tears. Seeing this, Concubine Tao stepped forward, hugged him, and patted him gently on the back.

A warmth surged into Ye Shang's heart, and the pain that had accumulated in Ye Shang's heart for many years suddenly dissipated a lot.

After he sobbed a few times, his mood had stabilized a lot, and the mother and son separated.

Yeshang found that his mother's eyes were wet as well.

He said: "Concubine, is it really not you who let Xie Ling go?" He stared at Concubine Tao, trying to find the answer in her eyes.

After Ye Shang's repeated questioning, Concubine Tao's determined face relaxed, and she lowered her head and remained silent. Ye Shang was heartbroken.

He said: "Do you know how many people died in the army because of the Xie family?"

"Do you know how much the military generals hate Xie's family?"

"Do you know how many people are living on the verge of death because of hard labor along the way?"

He asked three questions in a row, and Concubine Tao's face was dazed. She opened and closed her mouth to say something, but she couldn't.

As if his mouth was silenced and unable to make a sound, he stepped forward and tried to hold Ye Shang's hands to get Ye Shang's approval, but Ye Shang took a step back.

"You don't know, let alone what life is like in the 100,000 refugee camp outside Gyeonggi City?" Yeshang's mood seemed to suddenly collapse.

"You don't even know that in order to win the battle, some of the soldiers did not even have a full meal. They froze to death, starved to death, and some died of illness."

Concubine Tao looked panicked. She looked at the emotional Ye Shang and felt that at this moment her son was no longer her son, but more like a stranger.

She said: "I, I know, I have understood it all."

"No, you don't know, you don't understand" Yeshang interrupted her urgently.

"If you knew, you wouldn't go to see Xie Ling." He sneered. In vain did he still believe that his mother, like him, understood the sufferings of the people.

"Do you know who caused all this?" Ye Shang's eyes were sharp.

He added: "Your Majesty, the Xie family and the Xu family"

Concubine Tao trembled twice when she heard these three groups of forces.

"This"

"Your Majesty ascended the throne and asked the Xie family and the Xu family to support him, overthrow the system established by the first emperor of the Wei Dynasty, and use the hierarchical system to seek huge profits for the royal family and amass wealth for the gentry.

In these years, ordinary people and ordinary nobles had no chance to obtain official positions. More than half of the official positions in the entire Jin Dynasty were occupied by the Xie family and the Xu family.

And these people, for their own selfish interests, used women as reproductive tools, forcing them to have children with slaves and civilians, and forcing them into prostitution.

"The men, on the other hand, forced them to work. In addition to the work, they were not given food. They were forced to stand barefoot in the ground digging ditches in the ice and snow."

The corners of Ye Shang's mouth trembled. He felt speechless for a moment. When he saw those people, he remembered that he was made things difficult like this when he first entered the military camp.

When Concubine Tao heard this, she felt like she was falling into ice.

"No matter how unkind your Majesty is, no one among the officials came forward to intercede for these people until I met Miss Xu."

Ye Shang's eyes lit up when he said Xu Yihuan's words.

He said: "She will fight for the soldiers not having enough to eat, she will come forward to seek justice for the maid who was insulted by the prince, and she will personally plan for the soldiers to sacrifice less.

She cherished everyone's life, treated the people in the refugee camp as human beings, fed them well, housed them well, and comforted them emotionally."

"For these people, I fought against the Blue City Army alone in the ice and snow."

Concubine Tao was moved when she heard Yeshang's words.

She said: "I really didn't let him go. Xie Ling sent someone to send me a message asking me to meet him in prison. He didn't say anything when we met. I don't know why, but you suspected me." Tao The concubine felt aggrieved.

Tears streamed down.

Listening to Yeshang's words, she felt confused in her mind.

Yeshang was so excited that he asked, "Did you really not use your ability to save Xie Ling?"

When Concubine Tao heard this, she was so frightened that she opened her mouth.


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