After praying this time, the queen wanted to arrange the matter of choosing a consort for Leyi. However, before she could report the matter to the emperor, the queen was rushed to the border eight hundred miles away.
When Ye Sheng'an learned that his father and brother were all killed in the battle, he didn't respond for a long time. He stood there blankly, with a buzzing sound in his ears.
Everyone in the Ye family burst into tears, and Mrs. Ye fainted from crying. She had a dull face, as if she had suddenly lost all senses.
Ye Xingchuan touched her face with trembling hands, and her face turned cold.
"Sheng'an." He lowered his voice.
Ye Sheng'an seemed to have finally received the signal that his father and brother were killed in battle, and his tears fell silently, as if he could not control himself as if a dam had burst.
Ye Xingchuan held her in his arms distressedly.
"How could it be possible? How could my father die? How could my brothers die? They are so powerful. The news is false, isn't it true? They must still be alive..." Ye Sheng'an choked up and gradually became speechless. There were only a few bursts of words.
Heartbreaking crying.
Ye Xingchuan's eyes were red, he gritted his teeth tightly, and hugged the person in his arms tightly.
No one is willing to accept this bad news, especially the emperor. The entire Ye family has been killed in the battle, there are no generals to guard the border, and Daxia's cavalry has entered the territory of Dachu.
The emperor urgently summoned the cabinet ministers to the imperial study for discussion. Some ministers insisted on fighting and must defeat Daxia. Some people supported the marriage because all the Ye family members died in the battle and Daxia had no generals to fight anymore.
The two sides engaged in rounds of verbal wars, which made the emperor have a headache. Just when he was about to scold him, the young eunuch came in to report that Ye Xingchuan wanted to see him.
The emperor immediately asked the young eunuch to bring the people in.
Ye Xingchuan walked into the imperial study. He was dressed in pure white. When he came in, he knelt down and kowtowed: "The seventh son of the Ye family bows to your majesty."
"Get up." The emperor no longer cared about this: "Why did you come to see me?"
Ye Xingchuan stood up and stood straight: "Your Majesty, although I am the adopted son of the Ye family, I have been educated by my father since I was a child. My father has taught me his lifelong skills in the hope that one day, when he can no longer protect Dachu, I can take his place.
, to guard the border. So I came to ask the emperor to issue an order to send me to lead troops to support the border."
The emperor's spirit was shaken. He looked at Ye Xingchuan's young face, as if he had seen General Ye like this when he was young. He was rich and handsome, and had a strong body.
"Ye Xingchuan, don't talk nonsense. Even your father and brother were killed in the battle. How can you, a young boy, withstand Daxia's cavalry?" A minister immediately jumped out to object.
"I am not alone." Ye Xingchuan said in a neither humble nor arrogant tone: "There are also 100,000 border officers and soldiers."
"Where can there be another hundred thousand?" The minister said sadly: "This battle with Chu has suffered heavy casualties. More than half of the one hundred thousand soldiers have been lost. If the battle continues, I am afraid that even the remaining ones will not be saved. When the time comes, Daxia will march straight in.
If we take Shangjing, our country will perish."
"That's true. Your Majesty, we can no longer fight this war. We have been fighting Daxia for three years. We need to recuperate and get married."
"We can't get married." Ye Xingchuan said resolutely: "Da Xia is ambitious, and getting married can only buy a few years of stability. Only by knocking them down, defeating them, and fighting fear can Da Chu's border be completely stable."
"You say it's simple, but can you do what your father and brother can't do?"
"I am willing to issue a military order." Ye Xingchuan suddenly knelt down and said word by word: "If I cannot drive Daxia out of Dachu, it will be at the discretion of the emperor."
"Your Majesty, think twice." A group of ministers followed and knelt down.