Eagle’s Glory

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

Looking at the maid Chanel with a sincere face and tears in her eyes, Egron was silent for a moment.

The sudden incident made it difficult for him to digest at once, and he had to think carefully.

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

It shouldn't be. Is there any point in this kind of temptation? It's strange that I don't have any ambitions, what kind of temptation is needed.

However, there are contingencies in everything, and it would be too naive to completely trust the other party just by relying on a few words and actions.

But he wants to try.

The depression and resentment in his heart have accumulated enough, even if there is only a glimmer of hope, he still has to try.

He is currently isolated and helpless, and urgently needs outside help, and even more urgently needs a channel for exchanging information with the outside world. If there is really someone close to him, and he can trust him, it will be earth-shaking help.

Perhaps this is a crucial step out of the predicament.

So, no matter what, he wanted to try it!

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 also served you loyally."

"That's not a solid reason." Aigron shook his head slightly, and then frowned because of the physical pain.

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

With her movements, the long hair under the scarf also swept over his arms, and the faint fragrance was passed to his nose.

But he was unmoved.

"However, 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 allegiance to me, but in reality this is completely impossible." Aigron said coldly Looking at Chanel's face, "What is the reason that drives you to be so loyal? What made you insist on running over from Bavaria, and insisting on waiting for so long before running to see me? Logically speaking, you should have never received wave The favor 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'm willing to believe you, but only if you convince me." Eggron replied, "Tell me, what do you want? Why are you loyal to me?"

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

"Do you want money and titles, or is it purely for the so-called glory? If it's the latter, I advise you not to take risks because of a moment of enthusiasm. This is meaningless to you and very dangerous." Aigron He continued, "If you want a title of money, then I have nothing to give you 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." The corners of Chanel's eyes glowed a little bit, but her tone was a little more bloody, "I need someone to pay for the life of my family."

Aegron stopped immediately.

"You 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 China, in his hometown... He was lynched, and so were my family members."

There was a sudden silence in the room.

"Please allow me to finish with you.

"A moment later, Chanel spoke again with tears, "I am from the south, and my father is a retired military officer. He did not join the army in 1815. He was tired of fighting and just wanted to live a peaceful life with his family. But... those bastards and executioners! They killed everywhere and didn't spare my father. They surrounded our house and burned it all... My parents, my brothers, my neighbors, my relatives were all dead... Only one aunt took me Lucky to escape. I was only a few years old at that time, God knows how much she had to suffer before she took me out of the country! Fortunately, His Royal Highness Ou Ren took us orphans, so we settled down by luck. My aunt passed away soon. Before she died, she told me that we must avenge our hatred and never forgive those sinners! "

Then she looked up at Aegron, eyes blazing with undisguised fire.

That is the light of revenge, that is infinite hatred.

"Your Majesty, we will take back the empire, we must kill them all, drive them all to extinction! Do you think so?"

Aegron didn't answer right away.

He believed that what the other party said was true.

After all, if anyone can show such real and terrible hatred in front of her purely by acting skills, then she must be one of the best actors in history. .

Therefore, according to her statement, her whole family died in the retaliatory massacre of the royalists against the Napoleonic elements in the south in 1815.

1815 was a disastrous year. The royalists ruled France. After Napoleon landed, he rebuilt the Hundred Days Dynasty, and then the royalists fought back... Political chaos will inevitably bring order chaos. Napoleon After the defeat of Waterloo and the end of the empire for the second time, revenge massacres took place in many places in France, some were bandits and some were royalists, but they were equally brutal and merciless.

[The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas has described this.

Chapter 44 of the original text: "Yes, my lord, please forgive me, but, as you will know in a moment, what I have said is all that can't be saved. At this time, the famous massacre in the south of France It happened. There are two or three bandits called De Tailong, Du Ximan and Grafan, who are openly assassinating people. Anyone they think is suspected of being a Napoleonic party is in danger of being killed. You must have heard Live through this massacre, my lord count?"

"I have vaguely heard that I was far away from France at that time. Let's go on."

"As soon as I entered Nimes, I really stepped into a pool of blood, because every step I took, I would encounter several dead bodies, and those murderous robbers were still killing, looting, and setting fire everywhere. When I saw this kind of killing everywhere and the sight of devastation, I panicked--not for myself (I'm just an honest Corsican fisherman and have nothing to fear, and on the contrary, that's the best time for us smugglers), but For my brother, who was a soldier in the Empire, just returned from the Loire army, and his uniform and his epaulets are enough to worry everyone. I hurried to the innkeeper. My guess is true. It’s accurate: my elder brother arrived in Nîmes the evening before, and was stabbed to death as soon as he reached the door of the house where he wanted to stay. I tried my best to find the murderer, but no one dared to Their names told me they were terrified.]

To be fair, the massacre did not last long. Although the Bourbon royal family hated the Revolutionary Party and Bonapartists, they did not 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, rebels, and later "counter-revolutionaries", they were merciless, and they often killed a lot of people.

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

Therefore, for most people, this is just an insignificant episode in history, a nightmare that has been forgotten and must be forgotten.

Yet for some, they lost everything.

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

She is full of hatred, she wants 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 has the most reason to kill, she just wants to pay for her family's blood.

From this point of view, she probably hopes for the restoration of the empire more than anyone else.

In other words... 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, trust me!"

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

Chanel opened her eyes wide, and for a moment, the intersection of grief and ecstasy made her pretty face unavoidably distorted.

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

"Keep your voice down." Aegron stopped her. "Now is not the time to be excited. Tell me, what's going on now, 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 one night now. The imperial doctor checked your injuries, and you were finally rescued after applying medicine." Chanel calmed down, and then replied in a low voice, "His Royal Highness is very sorry. Sad, she has been with you all the time during the day, and the tears have hardly stopped. At night, everyone finally persuaded her to go to rest. When she was leaving, she was worried that no one around you would take care of you, so she left me... ..."

It turns out that this is how it happened. Aegron finally understood.

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

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

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

Maybe even more than 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! You are not allowed to speak French to me here from now on, and you are not allowed to call me Your Majesty, even when the two of you are alone." Aigron ordered, "The more you form a habit, the easier it is for you to slip up."

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

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

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

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

I have to say that although she is young, she is indeed quite professional. Under her service, Aigron feels very comfortable.

"Thank you." He whispered thanks.

"You're welcome, Your Majesty...it's my honor to serve you." Chanel smiled, and then felt wrong again, "No, Your Highness! I'm sorry I made a mistake again."

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

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

Sometimes people need some obsession to survive. If she believes that the empire cannot be restored today, then I am afraid that she will have a nervous breakdown the next second.

So even if it was for self-deception, she would enthusiastically believe that the empire would be restored and the day of revenge would come. This was the motivation for her to live.

And that's a boost he can use.

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