Tang Dynasty Mingyue Song Dynasty Pass

Chapter 688 Jinling Falls

Li Yu walked into the palace with heavy steps. He had just left the city and surrendered, as if he had exhausted his strength.

At this time, my heart was suffering, I was clear and depressed, and my eyes were empty. Walking on the streets of the palace, I felt that the road was unprecedentedly long.

I still remember that a few months ago, he said that he would never surrender: I will personally supervise the soldiers and fight against the city to preserve the country.

However, when things came to an end, Li Yu couldn't make up his mind to do so.

He also knows that the honor of the royal family is the honor of the country, which cannot be trampled on for a long time.He also knew that since the soldiers of the Song Army were under the city of Jinling, they had stepped on the bones of Tang soldiers and people all the way to the city, but he surrendered. How could he be worthy of those soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country and died in battle?
He felt that he should go to death, but he also felt that it was just an escape, impulsive, but not relief.

At the juncture of life and death, Li Yu chooses to live by idling, even though the days ahead as the king of subjugation are painful and humiliating, Li Yu does not want to end this life like this.

Li Yu passed through Chengxin Hall, Guangzheng Hall, etc., and they will no longer belong to him.

He first took the chief eunuch and the commander of the guards to worship at the ancestral temple.

Looking at the memorial tablets of the ancestors enshrined above, Li Yu knelt down and cried: "Li Yu, the unworthy descendant, today lost the country, broke the community, and is ashamed of the ancestors."

However, the Li family also stole Yang Wu. His father killed more than 300 royal descendants of the Yang family. These crimes need to be repaid, and the karma will eventually be rewarded. Now Li Tang's 40 years of national fortune have come to an end.

Leaving the ancestral temple and walking back to the harem, he faintly heard the sound of the piano, mourning and crying, it was the last song of departure, and everything had to be let go.

Li Yu returned to the harem Linyuan, in the Hall of Fengyi, Zhou Ehuang was waiting for Li Yu to come back with some concubines.

Seeing Li Yu's safe return, the girls finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Officials, you are finally back, General Song, did you not make things difficult for you?"

"No, General Cao is nice. He gave us one night to pack up some salutes, bring some jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, and keep them for the day in Bianjing. Da Song didn't intend to kill us, but asked me to Go to Bianjing alive, and do this for other princes to see. Therefore, we will not be in danger on this journey, but after entering Bianjing city, we will be trapped in the mansion for the rest of our lives, just like Adou, the subjugated king of Shu. It is estimated that we will never be able to leave Bianjing again."

At this time, Li Yu calmed down and could still think of some of the reasons.

After all, he has also been an emperor for several years. Although he does not have a long-term strategic vision, he knows some emperor skills after all. Li Yu has figured out how Song Dynasty treats him.

"That's okay, we can save our lives. If we can bring some jewelry to the Song Dynasty, we can use it for the rest of our lives. As long as we live frugally, a big family will be enough, even if the sons and daughters will not stand out in the future and become officials. If you become an official, you can also become a rich man, and it is enough to live a mediocre life."

Zhou Ehuang said it lightly, with a sincere tone, as if he had seen through the splendor, wealth, and resplendent court life, but it did not give her inner peace and satisfaction.

If you can live an ordinary life without worrying about food and clothing, play the piano and write essays and compose poems in the house, without court battles, intrigues, and national affairs, it is also a kind of ordinary happiness.

"That's right, we will stay with the official family, live a normal life in the mansion, live in peace and security, without fear, without gorgeous robes, as long as we are safe and sound, that's fine." Liu Zhu said.

Xue Jiudao: "Yes, even if we are no longer concubines, we are still the wives and concubines of the official family. We will go to Bianjing City together, live with the official family there, take care of our husband and teach our children, and we can live a good life."

The concubines comforted Li Yu so much, which made Li Yu's heavy and sad mood recover a lot.

"Okay!" Li Yu nodded, tears rolled in his eyes, and he felt better seeing Zhunv treat him so affectionately.

"However, we have to go there in batches, not all at once. If we arrive in the north, the court of the Song Dynasty suddenly changes its mind and wants to beheaded for public display, or go to prison. It is not impossible. This time, I will go with the queen and the two The concubine will go north, and after she settles down, she will send someone over to pick up the rest, and when the time comes, everyone can go if they want, and if they don’t want to, they will live in Jiangnan, and I won’t blame everyone for their choice.”

Zhou Ehuang nodded slightly after listening to Li Yu finished speaking, feeling that this method was safe.

"Well, this method is good. It's the first time to go north, and it won't be too ostentatious and offend the people of Song Dynasty. Let's go north in batches!"

Li Yu sighed: "In addition to me and the queen, the clan members of the royal family and my younger brothers will also go together. The Song army will not let some Li royal heirs stay in the south of the Yangtze River and become kings again!"

Therefore, when going north this time, members of the Li family's royal family will bring a lot and be escorted to Bianjing City to accept the new arrangement of the court.

Night fell quickly, and there were no bright lights in the palace tonight. Many maids and eunuchs were already being dismissed one after another, and some severance pay was being distributed.

In the entire palace, some elderly ladies and eunuchs were crying and crying, not knowing how to start their next life, because they lived in the palace for most of their lives and were isolated from the outside world. Once they left the palace, how would they make a living? at a loss.

There are even some eunuchs and palace maids who are reluctant to give up the living environment of the palace and cannot accept the fate of subjugation. Some commit suicide by hanging on the beam or throwing themselves into the lake.

Responded to the sentence: The emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuch is in a hurry.

Li Yu and the Queen of the Great Zhou and others stood in the attic, watching under the night, fires were being raised everywhere in Jinling City, and they were all paying homage to their homes, to the subjugated Southern Tang Dynasty, and even to the monarch Li Yu.

Because many people did not know the fate of the monarch, there were many rumors, or that he was captured, or beheaded, or fled abroad with a huge amount of treasure.

Seeing this scene, Li Yu had mixed feelings in his heart, guilt and relief. The people of Tang State were not numb, and they were still paying homage to the subjugated country.

After pondering for a while, Li Yu suddenly came up with inspiration, as if there were thousands of pens and inks in his chest, and he wanted to stretch them out. He suddenly had the urge to write words.

Since being compared with Su Chen's Ci, he has rarely written Ci in the past six months, because Li Yu, who has always been conceited and learned, suddenly felt that his Ci writing was just to express his worries for new Ci, and he did not write a kind of poetry at all. The profound artistic conception, without the deep emotional impact, cannot be compared with the words written by Su Chen.

However, tonight, at this moment, he suddenly had an inspiration, which was completely natural, without writing countless emotions.

"Bring a pen."

Li Yu ordered the concubine to prepare pen, ink and rice paper, and then wrote a poem:

"In the past 40 years, the country has been surrounded by mountains and rivers for three thousand miles. Fengge and Longlou are connected to the sky, and Yushu Qiongzhi is used as tobacco. How many levels know how to fight?"

"Once you become a subject, you will sink your waist and burn your temples. On the day when you leave the temple in panic, the church will still play a farewell song and weep to the maid."

This poem is written in one go, but it expresses the anguish, hatred, annoyance, depression, and helplessness in his heart.

He is not a qualified king, nor is he a hero. He is just a refined scholar who has read poetry and books, and his heart is full of tenderness and self-compassion.

This is Li Yu's true temperament!

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