Gu Dingming stepped out tremblingly: "Your Majesty... calm down... calm down... The Tartars are barbaric and uncivilized... Now... now our dynasty is weak. If... if we anger the Left Wise King over this, I'm afraid... I'm afraid the country will be destroyed!"
Cui Kaiji also whispered, "Your Majesty, a little impatience can ruin a great plan... Perhaps... you can feign compliance first, delay for a few days... and then make a long-term plan..."
"We need to make a long-term plan? How should we make a plan? Do you really want me to send Concubine Xiao into danger?"
Yin Zhao roared in despair, but no one could give him an answer.
The huge sense of humiliation and the even greater fear intertwined and almost tore him apart.
"Your Majesty, please put the country first!" The ministers knelt down and shouted.
"You..." Yin Zhao pointed at the ministers in the hall, so angry that he couldn't speak.
In the glorious Dayin Dynasty, among all the civil and military officials in the court, there was not a single person with a strong backbone.
For a moment, Yin Zhao thought of Yang Dingguo, Li Chenghua, and even Zhao Muyun.
There were also the elite soldiers from the five battalions of the capital who were ambushed and unjustly killed.
Finally, under the deathly silence and overwhelming pressure, Yin Zhao seemed to have lost all his strength. He collapsed on the dragon throne and squeezed out a few words from his throat:
"Adjourn the court, and proceed... to... to Changchun Palace!"
Deep in the palace, the queen fainted on the spot when she heard the news brought by the emperor.
Concubine Xiao was struck by lightning, her body trembling violently. Her once gorgeous face instantly lost all color and turned as pale as paper. Her beautiful eyes were filled with unbelievable horror and despair deep in her bones.
She was originally the favorite concubine of Emperor Yongchang. In order to help Yin Zhao become emperor, she tormented the old emperor day and night.
At the same time, she was the distant cousin of General Xiao, who served under the Prince of Jin, and she acted as a double agent, passing on information.
Finally, when the prince forced her to abdicate, she made a choice: if she couldn't become the queen, she would continue to be a noble concubine.
After Yin Zhao placed the old emperor under house arrest and ascended the throne, he took Concubine Xiao in and made her a noble concubine.
Concubine Xiao achieved a smooth transition, and she was determined to be a concubine, no matter who the emperor was.
"His Majesty…"
Her voice was as soft as a whisper, yet it was filled with cold sarcasm. "Are you going to trade my innocence for a few days of peace? Do you know that if I go here, it will not only be me who will be humiliated, but also the entire imperial family, the entire Dayin!"
"Your Majesty, please don't forget, if I hadn't been here, would you have been able to ascend the throne so quickly?"
Hearing Concubine Xiao expose his scars, he became angry and said, "You are my father's concubine. After I ascend the throne, you will be sent to the cold palace. If it weren't for my favor, would you still be this concubine?"
"Don't talk to me about the royal family, Dayin! If it's really for me, for Dayin, you should share my worries."
When Concubine Xiao heard this, she seemed to have lost all her vitality and her eyes became empty.
She slowly stood up and said in an unusually calm yet heartbreaking tone, "Forget it... Your Majesty has made the decision, and I will obey your orders. I only hope that Your Majesty will remember this day..."
The next day, three hundred young palace maids, weeping as if they were going to die, and a gorgeous phoenix sedan that looked like a coffin, slowly drove out of the capital under the ashamed gazes of the officials of the Yin Dynasty and the arrogant escort of the Di envoy.
"Your Majesty, you will regret your decision!"
Looking at the gradually shrinking capital, a hint of ruthlessness flashed in Concubine Xiao's eyes.
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