The young king had never been despised before. Ji Fu's words were like a hard slap in the face, making his face flush red and his brain buzzing.
"Are you planning a rebellion?"
Ji Fu held the sword in silence.
She admitted that at that moment, she really had the idea of rebelling.
But her loyalty to the emperor did not allow her to turn her sword against her own monarch. This was a belief engraved in her bones as a soldier.
If she could even kill her own emperor, how could she have the compassion to protect the people of another place?
As a regicide, even if she really took over the throne in the future, she would not forgive her crime today.
"I will not rebel."
She looked at the young monarch with a cold expression as if only she could rule this country.
Ji Fu said, "I just hope that the emperor understands that I have no intention of seizing Daye's territory. I only care about the people of Daye."
The young king looked at her sternly: "Only the Son of Heaven has the right to care about the great cause and the people. Hand over the tiger talisman."
And the monarch of Daye can only be him.
Ji Fu stood there without moving, nor did she take out what the king wanted.
As long as she doesn't want to, no one can take away what belongs to her from the general.
The king stepped down from the stage and said, "You should have received the letter sent by Song Ke today. Is he safe in the Northern Alliance?"
Ji Fu's brows suddenly furrowed, as she felt that there was something else behind the king's words.
The king walked up to her.
He looked at Ji Fu's scarred face and said, "In two days, Song Ke will lead his troops deep into the Northern Alliance and capture the capital. I am well aware of his plans."
The king asked her, "Do you think the Northern Alliance would also want to know Song Ke's method of deploying troops?"
Ji Fu's pupils shrank. There were also the king's men in the army brought by Song Ke.
Is he going to hand over our military deployment to the Northern Alliance when Song Ke mobilizes his troops?
If this happens, our army will inevitably be defeated. It would be like catching a turtle in a jar for the Northern Alliance to capture Song Ke's army. There's a high probability that Song Ke will die in that battle.
The king wanted to threaten her with Song Ke's life.
Ji Fu angrily said, "He's fighting for Daye! He's fighting for you!"
Her eyes were bloodshot. A soldier was fighting on the battlefield for the stability of his country. How could a monarch send his own soldier to die?
"He went to war for you!" the king told Ji Fu coldly.
Song Ke will never come back from this trip. Who did he die for? Doesn’t Ji Fu have any idea?
"Victory and defeat are unpredictable on the battlefield. He was just a soldier, and his death is nothing short of tragic." The king declared loudly in front of everyone, "Even without Song Ke, our Daye will still have another heroic general to lead the troops into battle!"
Similarly, even without Ji Fu, Daye will still have another capable person to defend this territory.
It is impossible for the great cause to be maintained stable by just one woman like her.
Since she was unwilling to hand over her military power, she could only watch Song Ke die.
He died in the Northern Alliance and no one came to collect his body.
After all, he is the king of Daye, and the power of the world can only be controlled by him until his death.
Ji Fu asked, "What about the 30,000 soldiers who traveled with us? Aren't they innocent? Aren't they citizens of Daye?"
He didn't care about the suffering of the people at all.
The king laughed: "In the struggle for power, someone is bound to be sacrificed."
The whole world is his chessboard, so why would he care about the lives of the common people?
The king said, "If you care about those soldiers, and Song Ke, who has fought alongside you countless times, then use the tiger talisman to save them. If you hand over the tiger talisman now, an urgent oral order will be delivered to Song Ke before he raises his army. The formation for the attack on the Northern Alliance will not be leaked, and they will return victorious. Song Ke and his 30,000 soldiers will live. But you will be imprisoned as a criminal."
This time, he wanted to completely destroy Ji Fu's belief in the people as a great general. He wanted to make the greatest hero of the great cause live with the guilt.
The king looked at her and said, "Will you change?"
On one hand, she held the military power that could allow her to rebel at any time, and on the other hand, there was Song Ke and 30,000 innocent soldiers. Sacrificing her life could have allowed tens of thousands of soldiers to return victoriously, and she had no choice.
If she raised an army now, all the soldiers would follow her. She could still conquer this land and establish herself as king.
But she couldn't save Song Ke.
That innocent boy, who had enlisted in the army because of her, would die in an enemy country.
Once the war here is delayed, even if she breaks out of the siege and sends someone to deliver a letter to Song Ke, it will be too late.
An emperor is still an emperor after all. Even if he is young, he knows how to manipulate people's hearts.
The king finally took advantage of Ji Fu's soft heart as a woman and exchanged Song Ke's life for the military power in her hands.
If she didn't have that young man in her heart, if she didn't consider him as a part of her life, no one would be able to control her.
But she is human.
The bloodbath by the enemy did not turn her into a cold-blooded killing weapon.
She is still a living person, and deep down in her heart, there is still some tenderness that she dare not easily reveal.
Ji Fu ultimately failed to hold on to her military power.
She handed over the tiger talisman and allowed the king's guards to put swords to her neck.
The imperial guards took away her Wanfu sword, which she had never unsheathed, and handed it to the king. The sword that Song Ke had personally handed to her eventually left her to protect Song Ke.
The king looked at the sword in front of him with contempt and threw it into the dusty ground. In the end, he, the emperor, won this round.
"Take him away and await your punishment."
As the imperial guards led Ji Fu toward the iron prison, she looked at the young king and suddenly said, "It's easy for the world to be without me, Ji Fu, but if the king acts like this, can the great cause truly be at peace?"
The king looked at her and said, "You are the biggest worry for Daye right now."
As long as Ji Fu is around, his authority as the emperor will never be respected by people.
One of the people who people revere is Ji Fu.
Ji Fu smiled, glanced at him as if he were a clown, and walked into the cage.
The king could not lock her up, and she was willing to be captured only because she had killed too many people, and she did not want to see more people die in a foreign country.
She didn't want to see her young man die in the Northern Alliance.
After Ji Fu was imprisoned, all military power in Daye fell into the hands of the king.
Eunuch Jia Shi'an looked at the young king and asked, "Your Majesty, should we send troops immediately to deliver a message, telling them not to reveal General Song's military intelligence?"
The king glanced at him and said coldly, "Why do you want to send a message?"
He walked out arrogantly with the military token in hand, sneering, "Song Ke is Ji Fu's biggest supporter. Only when he dies can Ji Fu be considered truly defeated."
Jia Shian looked at him in surprise.
After following the king for so long, he suddenly realized at this moment that he seemed to have never understood his king.
Wang not only wants to destroy Ji Fu, he also wants to get rid of Song Ke as well.
Regardless of whether Ji Fu handed over the military power today, he was not going to let Song Ke go. This was just a trick he used to deceive Ji Fu.
From the moment Song Ke led his troops to the Northern Alliance, he never planned to let Song Ke come back alive.
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