Chapter 1074: Winner Takes All

Ku Yue blinked and looked straight at Su Changan, then looked down at herself, then looked up at Su Changan again. After wanting to say something several times, she finally couldn't help but said, "It's strange, why is your face so flat? You look like a man."

As she spoke, Ku Yue gestured at her chest, then with a frown on her face, she stared at Su Chang An and blinked, "Very strange!"

Looking at Ku Yue's puzzled but serious expression, Xia Fengxiang was slightly startled and turned his head away, covering his mouth with his hands to hold back his laughter, but his body twitched because he really couldn't help it.

Su Changan looked at Ku Yue with a complicated expression.

But before Su Changan could speak, Ku Yue walked forward and wanted to take a closer look.

But Su Changan put on his clothes and turned to look at his wife: "Still laughing!? She was teasing me, and you're still laughing!?"

Ku Yue was stunned and looked straight at Su Changan.

After being bullied by Su Changan so many times, Ku Yue went to find smart people like Zhuge Jia and Lin Huaimu to ask how to avoid being bullied by the Queen.

Zhuge Jia told Ku Yue that if you have something to say, don't say it out loud yet, think about it three times in your mind whether you should say it, what will happen if you say it, and how to say it.

Ku Yue remembered it clearly, so she raised her finger and thought it was okay to say it, because it was not her own words. She had to say it, because she had to explain it to herself. As for how to say it.

Is it difficult to get a batch of Crying Moon?

Ku Yue didn't talk to Su Changan, but looked at Xia Fengxiang: "I didn't tease her! I just told the truth!"

Ku Yue was very confident and looked at Xia Fengxiang with her big eyes.

It’s too tiring to tell the queen, it’s better not to tell her, so you won’t be bullied!

A clever bunch!

But he didn't want to see Yue crying, Xia Fengxiang couldn't help but chuckled anymore.

I can’t stand it anymore!

Su Changan stood up and looked at Ku Yue.

Unexpectedly, Xia Fengxiang smiled and pulled Ku Yue behind him, then said with a stern face: "What are you doing! If you don't listen to the truth, you have to hit someone. Try hitting someone first!"

While speaking, he protected Kuyue with one hand, but he couldn't help laughing when he saw Su Changan's expression.

Su Changan's eyebrows were raised: "Truth?"

Xia Fengxiang glanced at Su Changan's chest and asked, "Isn't it uneven?"

Ku Yue didn't understand what was going on, but from what she heard, she was telling the truth, the queen was angry, and the emperor was protecting her, so she nodded behind Xia Fengxiang: "That's right."

He nodded and looked at Su Changan's chest.

Su Changan glanced at the crying moon

People really laugh when they are most helpless.

Su Changan smiled for no reason, then looked at Xia Fengxiang: "If I'm not fair, that would be trouble!"

Xia Fengxiang suppressed his laughter: "What does it have to do with me?"

Su Changan raised his eyebrows and said, "Hey, this has nothing to do with you?"

So he said directly: "You usually touch. Um!"

Xia Fengxiang covered Su Changan's mouth with his hand, glared at him fiercely and cursed: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

After saying that, Xia Fengxiang looked at Kuyue beside him.

Ku Yue blinked, and suddenly an idea flashed in her mind. She closed her eyes and covered her ears at the same time: "I didn't hear anything! I didn't see anything either!"

Xia Fengxiang smiled and said, "Put your hands down and open your eyes. Did you just say Yelu Yueliduo is awake?"

Hearing this, Ku Yue opened her eyes and nodded: "Awake, Yan Yunxiao asked me to come and tell you and the queen, but the injury is quite serious, and now he is lying in bed."

As he said that, he was about to run to Su Changan.

But Xia Fengxiang stopped him: "Run to him, do you want to get beaten?"

Ku Yue was stunned for a moment, and immediately continued to hide, secretly glancing at Su Changan.

Su Changan looked at Xia Fengxiang

This daughter-in-law!

I can’t have it anymore.

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There was no heavy guarding. There were only Yan Yunxiao and five of the thirteen brave guards on the left and right.

Imprisoned in this small courtyard were the Empress Dowager of Mobei, Shulü Ping, and the Mobei Princess, the high shaman priest Yelü Yueliduo.

"You should run away." Yelu Yueliduo's hair was scattered on the pillow, her face was pale and bloodless, and she looked at Shulü Ping beside the bed and spoke softly.

Shulü Ping remained the same. Although she became a prisoner, the Queen Mother of Mobei still maintained her dignity.

But looking at her daughter at the moment, Shulü Ping held a spoon in one hand and gently brought warm water to Yelu Yuliduo's lips.

Because I have one less hand, the bowl of water is placed on the low table beside the bed.

Shulü Ping carefully fed her daughter some water. "After you saw Xiao Podi's camp at Yinshan Mountain being destroyed, you knew we would lose this battle and no one could escape."

Water flowed down the corners of Yelu Yuliduo's lips, and Shulü Ping immediately put down the spoon to wipe it clean.

Yelu Yueliduo wanted to raise her hand to touch her mother's cheek, but she couldn't muster the strength. "Deguang was let go, right?"

Shulü Ping nodded: "This time, Daxia wants to completely wipe out Mobei, so the Emperor of Daxia deliberately released Deguang to give his people hope, and then completely destroy them."

Yueliduo coughed and Shulü Ping quickly took the water away.

Yue Liduo spoke slowly: "Back then, my father trusted me and said yes. Although he valued me, he did not give me military power. But after he left, you valued me and said yes. You thought he was right, so you thought so."

Shulü Ping was silent for a moment: "Until now, I still think that Zhong Shuoxing is right. Only with an iron fist can we truly destroy Daxia."

But after saying this, Shulü Ping's eyes softened: "But I admit defeat even if we lose. Your father was preparing at that time, and I was also preparing after I succeeded him. When your father lost to Xia Huachang, he said that the winners are the kings and the losers are the bandits. There is nothing to say, just come again. I think he is right, so there is nothing to say."

Yueliduo saw the unwillingness in Shulü Ping's eyes.

However, Shulü Ping said: "I can't blame anyone, but at least you are still alive, Deguang."

Shulü Ping clenched her fists.

Yueliduo said: "He will surrender. As long as the child is not bewitched, he will know the importance of the matter. Besides, Gao Huan is also a smart man. He will not bewitch Deguang."

Shulü Ping was silent, but did not say anything more. Instead, she looked at Yueliduo and said, "Are you hungry? You must be hungry after being unconscious for a few days. I'll ask them to bring some food."

At this point, he smiled and said, "Thanks to your relationship with the Queen of Daxia, they are very nice to us. Except that we can't go out, everything else is available."

Yueliduo smiled gently and watched her mother open the door and ask for food from the people outside.

When Shulü Ping came back, Yueliduo said softly, "I'm sorry, mother, I disappoint you again."

Shulü Ping originally wanted to take a pillow and help Yue Liduo up.

But the action suddenly stopped for a moment, and then without saying anything, he continued with his actions.

After helping Yueliduo to recover and covering her daughter with a blanket, Shulü Ping said, "As the people of Daxia say, there is no medicine for regret in the world, and there is no reason to say anything when others win and we lose. My mother is not the kind of person who blames her daughter for a defeat. What's more, you were playing on the grassland, and I insisted on dragging you back to help me. You didn't agree to send troops this time in the first place."

At this point, Shulü Ping laughed at herself and reached out to touch Yueliduo's face. "There's no need to say whether it's right or wrong. You should take good care of your injuries. And if you're disappointed, it's your mother who disappointed you. Originally, your mother was going to hand over Daxia and Mobei to you. Even if you didn't want them, you had to give them to Deguang's child. But it turned out like this."

Shulü Ping smiled and said, "If your father saw me, he would be very angry. The king who lost the Mobei Kingdom in the history books was also me, Shulü Ping."

But after saying that, Shulü Ping immediately shook her head: "I just told you not to talk about this, but I ended up talking about it instead. Don't think about it anymore."

Yueliduo looked at her mother and said, "But you have always been shouldering these things for me and Deguang. Otherwise, after the king left, you should have gone to live in seclusion in Langshan. But you know that Deguang is weak and can't bear the heavy responsibility. He will be completely controlled by the people of the Shulu family, as well as Helian Bobo, Heba Tao, and Yuwen Tao, and become a puppet. I don't like this, so you didn't hesitate to launch a coup and cut your wrist to establish your authority to do these things."

When Shulü Ping heard this, she smiled softly: "Mother, you are also a person who is very greedy for power. You are not as great as you say."

Wow~~

Just as Shulü Ping finished speaking, the door opened.

Shulü Ping stood up and looked towards the door, protecting her daughter behind her.

The tall woman walked in first, followed by Xia Fengxiang and Su Changan.

Ku Yue sat on the doorstep, looking very well behaved.

Seeing Xia Fengxiang and Su Changan, Shulü Ping was stunned. Yan Yunxiao said, "Salute!"

Upon hearing this, Shulü Ping looked at Xia Fengxiang, but finally seemed to compromise.

Xia Fengxiang asked Su Changan to sit on the stool first, then he sat down himself and interrupted Shulü Ping directly: "No need to bow."

Shulü Ping looked at Xia Fengxiang.

Xia Fengxiang got straight to the point: "If you think I am here to show off to you, don't do that. I won't do those things. You are smart. I have someone tell you that my Great Xia army has already headed for the royal court and will flatten all the tribes in Mobei along the way. Zong Ze should have destroyed Jinbo Mountain by now. The army will disperse to destroy those evil cults in Mobei one by one, and you should know what will happen to Mobei. As for you, I give you two choices. The first is that you would rather die than surrender. I will kill you, of course, I will also kill Yelu Yueliduo, and I will completely massacre the entire Mobei. The second is to surrender with Mobei, and there will be no Mobei in the world from now on."

"You Mobei have been learning our Daxia culture, and as far as I know, your royal court was also built in imitation of our Luoan. In addition, in the gathering places where the big tribes are located, in addition to herding for a living, many people have also started farming and building villages. This is exactly what I want. Since you want to learn, I will send people to teach you, build private schools there, and build towns for my Daxia people, so that the Xia people who are willing to go there can live with you. From now on, you are all Daxia people. Twenty years later, the people of the grassland can also participate in the imperial examinations, just like my Daxia people. And you have been living in my capital. I can confer you a throne of a different surname, and provide you with enough monthly salary to ensure that you have no worries about food and clothing in the capital."

When Shulü Ping heard this, she looked straight at Xia Fengxiang and said, "You want my grassland to be completely naturalized into your Great Xia. Twenty years from now, will anyone still know that I am from the grassland?!"

Xia Fengxiang said, "I have said that you can still call yourselves grassland people, just like the people of Jiangnan in Daxia call themselves Jiangnan, and the people of Beijing call themselves Beijing people. Moreover, I will not prohibit the cattle, sheep and horses on the grassland. The people of Daxia will also go there to graze, and may also live there, marry your people and live there permanently, but all grasslands are Xia land, and there will be no Mobei in the world. Mobei will submit to Daxia, remove the country name, and recognize themselves as Xia people."

Shulü Ping looked at Xia Fengxiang and laughed: "From the moment I saw you that day, you looked just like Xia Huachang, and your work style has always been the same as his, but compared to him, you are more stable."

Xia Fengxiang looked at Shulü Ping and said, "I used to think that you sent your brother here in order to start a war with us, but later I realized that any reason is fine for starting a war. You sent him here because your Shulü family threatened the Yelu royal family and your son because of you. So, you have to kill him with my hand."

Shulü Ping did not say anything, but said: "If I don't agree, then we will all die."

The ruler of a country knows best what human life is.

For a life, one might think about whether the person should say it or not.

But one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand.

Just numbers.

So many people were killed in the Six Garrisons, and more than 100,000 died this time.

Does the Empress of Great Xia in front of you care more about this number?

Xia Fengxiang said, "Your son Yelu Deguang will surrender, and he will be labeled as the king of a fallen nation. He may choose to fight to the death, but the Mobei royal court will still be bombed flat by the artillery fire of our Great Xia! By then, the rest of the Yelu royal family will be regarded as puppets by the surviving Mobei generals who hold military power. Our Great Xia will still be Great Xia, and all nations will come to pay tribute! And in your Mobei, on the remaining grasslands, the tribes will continue to fight. The remnants of the Uighurs, the Tiele tribe, or the other tribes that you oppress will rise up. Twenty years later, there will be no one left in your Mobei."

At this point, Xia Fengxiang looked at Shulü Ping and said in a calmer tone: "But our Great Xia will return to its peak under the rule of me and the queen, and the tribes there will all pray for our recognition. Do you want to die countless people now and end up in the same situation, or surrender now, naturalize in our Great Xia, become a Xia person, and in 20 years, let your people and descendants share the prosperity, it's your decision."

Shulü Ping laughed at herself: "Are you so confident that we won't rebel against you? If we surrender, we will have plenty of time to get those weapons in ten or twenty years. It's not like this time, where we have to force a war with you, because if we don't come, you will come!"

Xia Fengxiang said, "People, whether you, the people of the Western Regions, or the people of Daxia, are more willing to pursue a stable life than us."

After that, Xia Fengxiang continued, "I will treat them well, because I will kill all those who have grudges against me, but what about those who have no grudges? There are many tribes on your grasslands who are even trying every means to avoid your conscription. They are innocent, they just want to live a peaceful life. I will let them survive, and they should be willing to be my people, because I can make sure that there is no more war and chaos, and I can make sure that they don't have to worry about their cattle and sheep pastures being taken away by more powerful tribes."

Hearing this, Shulü Ping sneered.

Xia Fengxiang said: "You are studying us, but you have to use the method that works in China. But my father has also been studying you, but he has always wanted to destroy you completely!"

"I have been thinking about how to make you submit to us without slaughtering you. Then the queen told me that there are many weak tribes on your grassland and many slaves who need to be liberated by Daxia. We can let them have their own homes and everything they deserve as human beings."

Hearing this, Shulü Ping looked at Xia Fengxiang.

But before Shulü Ping could say anything, Yueliduo said, "I promise you."

Yueliduo tried her best to lift the quilt, but just holding the quilt made her forehead covered with sweat.

Shulü Ping turned around quickly.

Yue Liduo shook her head slightly and looked at Xia Fengxiang: "You can kill all those who deserve to be killed, but on the grassland, as you and Su Changan said, there are many innocent people who should not be implicated."

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PS: I failed again this time, but I’m still fighting against my work and rest schedule!

(End of this chapter)