Eagle’s Glory

"Your Majesty, please let me do my best for you!"

Looking at the sincere and tearful maid Chanel, Aegron was silent for a moment.

The sudden incident made him a little difficult to digest, and he had to think about it carefully.

Could this be a test by the Austrians to see if there is any ambition in their minds? He thought first.

It shouldn't be, what's the point of this kind of temptation? It's strange that you don't have ambitions, you need some temptation.

However, everything has a contingency, and it is too naive to completely trust the other party with only a few words and a few actions.

But he wanted to try.

The depression and resentment in his heart had accumulated enough, even if there was only a glimmer of hope, he had to try.

His current situation is isolated and helpless, and he urgently needs outside help, and even more urgently needs a channel to exchange information. If there is someone who can rely on him and can be trusted, it will be an earth-shaking help.

Maybe this is the key step out of the woods.

So, he wants to try it no matter what!

After making up his mind, he no longer hesitated.

"Why are you so loyal to me?" he asked.

The maid was slightly surprised.

"It is my duty to be loyal to you, after all... my father was also loyal to you."

"This is not a very solid reason." Aegron shook his head slightly, and then frowned because of the pain in his body.

"Your Majesty!" Seeing his pained appearance, the maid hurriedly bowed down and supported his shoulders.

With her movement, the long hair under the hood also swept to his arm, and the faint fragrance was transmitted to his nose.

But he was unmoved.

"But more than ten years ago, almost everyone in France swore allegiance to the Bonaparte family. According to your logic, the new generation of French people will immediately swear allegiance to me, but in reality this is completely impossible." Aigron indifferently said. Looking at Chanel's face, "What is the reason that drives you to be so loyal? What makes you insist on running over from Bavaria, and insist on waiting for so long before running to see me? It stands to reason that you should not have received a wave. The grace of the Nabal family is right."

Under Aigron's questioning, Chanel was obviously embarrassed.

"You...you...don't you believe me?" she asked cautiously.

"I'd love to believe you, but only if you convince me," Aegron replied. "Tell me, what do you want? What's your allegiance to me?"

The maid didn't answer. Under the cold light, her fair face was almost transparent, glowing white, and she looked a little pitiful.

"Do you want the title of money, or is it purely for the so-called glory? If it is the latter, I advise you not to take risks because of a momentary overheating, which is meaningless to you and very dangerous." Aegron He continued, "If you want a title of money, then I have nothing to give you right now, and I can't promise you anything."

"I don't want any of these things, I only have one purpose, Your Majesty." Chanel replied in a low voice.

"what?"

"For revenge, Your Majesty." Chanel's eyes flashed a little bit of starlight, but there was a little blood in her tone, "I need some people to pay for my family's life and blood."

Agron stopped suddenly.

"You just said your father died in 1815. Did he die at Waterloo?" he asked after a moment.

"No, Your Majesty." Chanel shook his head, "He didn't die in Waterloo, he died in the country, he died in his hometown... He was lynched, and so did my family."

The room was suddenly silent.

"Please allow me to finish with you." After a while, Chanel spoke again with tears in his eyes, "I am a southerner, my father is a retired officer, he did not join the army in 1815, he was tired of fighting, just I just wanted to live a peaceful life with my family. But... those bastards, those executioners! They murdered everywhere, and they didn't spare my father, they surrounded our house and burned it down... my parents, my brothers, mine Neighbors, my relatives are all dead... Only one aunt took me away by chance. How old was I at that time, God knows how much she suffered to take me out of the country! Fortunately, His Royal Highness Ou Ren took us in These orphans, we were lucky enough to settle down, and my aunt passed away soon. Before she died, she told me that we must take revenge and never forgive those sinners!"

Then, she raised her head and looked at Aegron, her eyes blazing with undisguised fire.

That is the light of vengeance, that is endless hatred.

"Your Majesty, we will take back the empire. We must kill them all and kill them all! Do you think so?"

Aigron did not answer immediately.

He believed that what the other party said was true.

After all, if anyone can show such real and terrifying hatred in front of her simply by her acting skills, then she must be one of the best actors in history, and such a powerful person is really a condescending talent to be a maid in the palace. .

So, according to her, her whole family died in the royalist revenge massacre of Napoleonics in the South in 1815.

1815 was a disastrous year. The royalists ruled France. After Napoleon's landing, the Hundred Days Dynasty was created, and then the royalists fought back... Political chaos will inevitably bring order chaos. In Napoleon Waterloo After the defeat and the second end of the empire, there were retaliatory massacres in several places in France, some bandits and some royalists, but they were just as brutal, just as merciless.

[This is described in Alexandre Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo".

Chapter 44 of the original text: "Yes, my lord, please forgive me, but, as you will know in a moment, what I have said has been spared no more. At this time, the famous massacre in southern France It happened. There are two or three rogues, called De Tailong, Du Ximan and Grafan, who are openly assassinating, and whoever they think is suspected of being a Napoleonic party is in danger of being killed. You must have heard that Let's go through this massacre, Your Excellency Count?"

"I vaguely heard that I was far from France at the time. Let's talk about it."

"As soon as I entered Nimes, I literally stepped into a pool of blood, because every step I took I encountered several dead bodies, and the murderous robbers were still killing, looting, and setting fires everywhere. When I saw this kind of killing everywhere And the sight of destruction, I panicked - not for myself (I'm just an honest Corsican fisherman, nothing to be afraid of, just the opposite, it's the best time for us smugglers), but For the sake of my brother, a soldier of the Empire, who has just returned from the Loire army, his uniform and his epaulettes are enough to worry about. I hurried to the innkeeper. My guess is too much That's right: my brother arrived in Nimes the night before. He was stabbed to death as soon as he walked to the door of the house where he wanted to stay. I tried my best to find the murderer, but no one dared to kill them. The name told me they were terrified.]

To be fair, the massacre didn't last long. Although the Bourbon royal family hated the Revolutionaries and Bonapartists, they didn't want to see chaos in France, so they quickly stopped the massacre and restored order.

Furthermore, when the special commissioners of the revolutionary party killed nobles and rebels, and later "counter-revolutionaries", they were merciless, and they were also often murdered.

In a sense, the 30 years of the Great Revolution were like this. They did not forgive each other, killed each other, and counterattacked again and again, and finally created a whole era of bloodshed.

So, to most people this is just a trivial episode in history, a nightmare that has been forgotten and must be forgotten.

But for some people, they lost everything.

Chanel's family is one of the victims in this little episode.

She is full of hatred, and she wants to take revenge, but as a weak woman, she is absolutely powerless, so she wants to restore the empire, use the power of the empire to counterattack again, and send all those enemies to hell.

She doesn't care who is right and who is wrong, whoever starts first and who has the most reason to kill, she just wants to pay for her family's blood debt.

At this point, she hoped that the empire would be restored more than anyone else.

That is to say... She is someone who can be trusted, and she is her hope.

"So, Your Majesty, you are my only hope..." Chanel's words also pulled him out of his thoughts. "You can restore the empire, I firmly believe. So I beg you, believe me!"

"Okay, I believe you." Aigron finally nodded slightly, "I hope to get your help, Chanel."

Chanel's eyes widened, and for a moment, the confluence of grief and ecstasy made her beautiful face distorted.

"Your Majesty!" She knelt on the ground almost desperately, "Thank you!"

"Be quiet." Agron stopped her. "This is not the time to be excited. Tell me what's going on, how long have I been in a coma? What happened in the coma."

"You were sent back to the palace in the morning, and you have been in a coma for the whole night. The imperial doctor checked your injuries and applied medicine to treat you. Finally, you have been rescued." Sad, she was always with you during the day, and the tears hardly stopped. At night, everyone finally persuaded her to go to rest. When she left, she worried that no one around you would take care of you, so she left me... "

That's how it happened. Aigron finally understood.

He didn't expect that he would actually do such a heroic thing.

Perhaps, what he told the princess at that time was not a complete lie.

In this place, he lacks friends and really doesn't want to see his only friend leave.

Maybe not even just as friends...

The endless sleepiness and hunger suddenly made him uncomfortable.

"I'm hungry, find me something to eat."

"Okay, Your Majesty." Chanel stood up.

"Wait! In the future, you are not allowed to speak French to me here, and you are not allowed to call me Your Majesty, not even when the two are alone." Aigron ordered, "The more you form a habit, the easier it is to leak things."

"I understand, Your Majesty." Chanel smiled, the original pain and sadness swept away, "I just said that tonight."

After speaking, she walked out of the room and returned with another bowl of broth.

"Please open your mouth." She pulled up a chair and sat beside Aegron.

Then, she carefully fed the broth into Aegron's mouth.

I have to say that although she is not young, she is indeed quite professional. Under her service, Aegron feels very comfortable.

"Thank you." He whispered thanks.

"No thanks, Your Majesty... It's my honor to serve you." Chanel smiled, then felt wrong, "No, Your Majesty! I'm sorry I said it wrong again."

Do you think I can truly become His Majesty the Emperor?

This question flashed through Aegron's mind, but he didn't ask it.

Sometimes people need some obsessions to survive. If she believes that the restoration of the empire is impossible today, I am afraid that she will directly collapse in the second second.

So even for the sake of self-deception, she will be extremely enthusiastic to believe that the empire will be restored, and the day of revenge will definitely come, which is the driving force for her to live.

And that's what he can use to help.

Because he knows that hatred is more durable, more solid and more worthy of life than love.