The Fall of the Golden Empire (Novel) (Volume 1) "Bloody Sunset" by Zhang Baotong
Listening to Charkuchma's plan, Princess Palia was so happy that she almost danced and said repeatedly, "By then, my son will be the King of the North."
But Prince Atahualpa frowned. Seeing his mother so excited and happy, he asked his mother, "Why is mother so happy?"
Mother said, "Didn't your uncle say that after the death of Prince Ninan, your father will definitely let you guard Quito? You have the military power. Not to mention that Cusco is thousands of miles away from Quito. It is just outside Quito." Skar also has nothing to do with you."
Prince Atahualpa smiled coldly and said, "Mother is overjoyed too early. After Ninan, who can guarantee that the power of Quito will definitely fall into the hands of me, Prince Atahualpa?"
His mother, Princess Palia, said, "But your father likes you the most and trusts you the most. He definitely wants you to be the King of the North."
The prince waved his hand disapprovingly and said, "Father's wish is that he even wants me to inherit the throne. However, can he violate the succession rules that have been followed for hundreds of years in the Inca Empire? You should know that the Inca Empire has always The order of succession is based on the purity of the bloodline. If the prince Ninan dies of illness, those who are directly related to him will definitely try their best to ask the father to arrange other princes to guard the capital of Quito and the northern provinces."
Princess Paria frowned and said, "Didn't your uncle say that as long as you marry Princess Anna Yama to you and win over the assistant minister Kiskis, wouldn't everything be fine?"
Prince Atahualpa said to his mother in a solemn tone, "Don't forget, Princess Ana Yama and Assistant Minister Kiskis are the leaders of the direct relatives. They will let their father hand over the power of Quito in the north." give to me?"
After hearing what her son said, Princess Palia immediately ran out of ideas and said to her brother Chalkuchma, "What should we do?"
Charkuchma stroked his long goat's beard with his hand, then pulled Prince Atahualpa into Princess Palia's living room next door, closed the door, and whispered to him in a low voice. session. After that, he asked Prince Atahualpa to leave the princess's room, and asked his sister, Princess Palia, to enter the living room and talk quietly with her.
Listening to her brother Chalkuchma's words, Princess Palia frowned tightly and waved her hands and shook her head, indicating that she could not accept or agree with what he said. Because Chalkuchma wants to let her sister, who is the princess, to seduce Prince Kiskis secretly, because there is almost no other way to bring Prince Kiskis to her side except this way. Prince Quischis is the younger brother of the Inca King. Apart from the King, he is the boss in the city of Quito. It can be said that he is inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people. He lacks nothing, not even women, but He was obsessed with Palia's noble temperament and seductive coquettishness. Every time he met Princess Palia, he always stared at her secretly.
However, the princess felt that this plan was very despicable and even very dangerous. Although according to the past folk customs and customs of the Kingdom of Quito, women are coquettish and wild, and like to seduce the men they like. They are not ashamed, but proud. However, betraying the Inca King was a very serious crime. Inca law stipulated that if the princess slept with other men, the princess would be buried alive. Not only would the lover be burned alive, but all the people in the same village with him would also be executed. The village would be razed to the ground and sprinkled with stones to make it worse. The entire village was abandoned and deserted.
As Princess Palia, who had been favored by the king all her life, not to mention she was unwilling to take this risk, she did not even take Prince Kiskis seriously. Prince Quiskis is the younger brother of the Inca King Huayna Capac, who is three or four years younger. He is at least forty-seven or eighteen years old this year. He is not tall, but he is very strong. He is wearing a fluffy red top. He wears a high-end commander's cap on his head and has two huge gold earrings hanging from his ears. He speaks in a rough voice, eats like a wolf, and is very addicted to alcohol. He can drink a large can of corn at a time. liquor. Therefore, in Palia's eyes, there was almost nothing about Kiskis that she liked. Therefore, Chalkuchma's words not only made her feel very disgusted and disdainful, but also very difficult to accept.
Seeing the princess waving her hands and shaking her head, Chalkuchma let out a long sigh and said, "If you don't want to, consider my words in vain. Because other than that, I really have no other choice. You should Knowing that Quiskis is not actually close to me or the prince, if the king dies, he may immediately seek refuge with Huascar, because Huascar is the legal heir of the Inca King. At that time, it depends on Huascar How will I treat you and the prince?"
Pariya said, "I heard from Wang'er that even if Huascar will not treat our mother and son lightly, his ministers will provoke us and they will definitely not let us be peaceful."
Chalkuchma patiently tried his best to show his strength to the princess and said in a dangerous way, "One mountain cannot accommodate two lions. Think carefully about whether Huascar can accommodate you? If the prince cannot occupy Quito, not only you There is no place for mother and son, and even those of us in the maternal family will not have a good life. So, at this moment, you must step forward and change the situation. As long as we bring Princess Anna Yama and If the Prince of Quisquiz comes over, we can occupy the north of the Inca Empire and Quito, and we can confront Huascar north and south and remain independent. Otherwise, once the king dies, the prince will be alone and helpless, and there will be no one Come and provide protection for you, mother and son.”
The princess cried awkwardly, but after crying for a while, she wiped her tears and asked her brother, "Does the prince know about this?"
Chalkuchma nodded silently and said, "He asked me to persuade you carefully, and you must agree."
These words surprised Palia. Originally, she was worried that if Wang Er knew about this, she would be embarrassed to face her son again. However, she didn't expect that her son would ask her to agree. Although these words were like a dagger piercing her heart, in her mind, her son was the pride of her life and her only support in the future. For the sake of her son, she could destroy everything about herself. She said in a very firm tone, "Since the prince has agreed, I can only agree." However, she still hesitated and said, "But, I am afraid that this matter will be known to the king, and the king will become furious. Can you still kill Wang Er and me?"
Chalkuchma said in a very sure tone, "You and Wang'er are the king's darlings, how could he kill you? How could he still be alive after killing you?" But he thought for a moment and asked the princess Said, "However, this kind of thing must not be known to the king. You must come forward to arrange a concubine you trust next to the king, and you cannot let anyone outside the palace get close to the king."
Princess Palia shook her head and said, "Recently, the two sisters named Yina and Uga have been staying with the king. The king loves the two sisters very much and cannot leave them day and night. We need to adjust the sisters. The king will never agree to leave the king."
Chalkuchma said, "If we can't transfer them, we have to bring them over and let them become our eyes and ears."
Princess Palia nodded and said, "This is the only way."
After Chalkuchma left, Princess Palia had been sitting there in a daze, feeling sad and secretly feeling sad. His mind was full of thoughts about what he and Wang Er would do once the king died? Her random thoughts reminded her of the scene when the Kingdom of Quito was defeated and the Palace of Quito was breached. That should be the darkest and most helpless moment in her life. My father had died of depression a few days ago, and almost all the generals and soldiers guarding the city died in battle. The palace was captured desperately by the Inca army. Sixteen-year-old Parlia and many of the palace ladies were detained in the palace hall by the Inca army, not knowing how their fate would be dealt with by the occupiers. The Inca King showed off his power and walked up to the women and glanced at them one by one. Suddenly, he stopped his eyes on Palia's face, and then walked straight in front of her without saying a word, He took her hand and took her to a large tent in the Inca military camp.
She hated the devil who killed her father, killed countless officers and soldiers in Quito, and occupied their home. However, she could only hate him in her heart and gnashed her teeth, but she could not help but obey his will. From then on, she began to understand that a person's destiny cannot be controlled by himself. Many loves and hates do not come from one's own intentions, but are determined by some events. Especially a woman's feelings are not determined by herself, but by her father. When a young girl falls in love with a young man, her father insists on marrying her off to an old village chief. The old village chief had seven wives, one of whom died of illness, so he wanted this girl to fill the gap for him. How can there be love for a girl or woman who cannot control herself? Including her, the beloved concubine of the Inca King, all her emotions and thoughts were not just to please the King, to gain his favor and improve her own status. So, thinking about it this way, she felt that it was not very difficult to commit herself to Prince Kiskis again. As long as Kiskis can be treated like a great king. This is the case with many things. As long as you think about it, you will understand that letting nature take its course is the only way out of the predicament.
After thinking for a while, she thought about it and made up her mind to continue on the path her brother pointed out for her. It was as if that road was already paved for her in this life. She walked to the dressing table and sat down in front of a glass mirror, looking at herself carefully. There was no glass in South America at that time. This palm-sized glass mirror was brought over from Europe by the Spaniards and is many times more valuable than gems. This was a gift from the leader of the local ethnic group when Emperor Huayna Kapac conquered the northern tribes.
Standing in front of the mirror, Princess Paria couldn't help but be filled with emotion: More than 20 years ago, when she was a sixteen-year-old girl, she became the concubine of this noble Inca king. At that time, she was naturally beautiful, as beautiful as a flower, as gentle as water, and extremely noble. She fascinated King Wayna Capac, who had fifteen hundred princesses, so drunk that he could not wake up for many days. However, at present, although her beauty is still there and the lingering charm remains, she is no longer young, and her youthful and bright atmosphere has disappeared without a trace. At this moment, looking at herself in the mirror and reminiscing about the past, how could this keep her from being emotionally moved?
However, she still mustered up her energy, changed into a thin silk embroidered dress, combed her hair carefully and meticulously, and then put one of the most exquisite gemstone necklaces in the Inca Kingdom around her neck. Then, when I stood in front of the mirror, I felt that the whole mirror suddenly glowed. She couldn't help but be surprised, but no, even though she was a woman of nearly forty years old, once she dressed up, she did not lose the dignity and beauty of the imperial concubine at all.
So, she called her maid Xiu'er over and showed her how she was dressed. Xiuwei praised her with surprise and admiration. After listening to Xiuwei's words, Princess Paria felt that she had returned to the same young girlhood as Xiuwei, and said to Xiuwei, "Xiuwei, do you know that when I first married the Inca King, the whole The most beautiful princess in the Kingdom of Quito."
Xiuwei said, "No, I heard that when King Inca saw you, he would have fainted if there wasn't someone supporting you."
Princess Palia said with great pride, "Isn't it true? When the king saw me, he kissed me for three days and three nights. If there was no urgent military information, he would not be willing to let me go."
Xiuwei said repeatedly, "The king's love for you has been a good story among the people for many years. Even now, the king's love for you is unparalleled."
Princess Palia twisted her graceful waist, patted the maid's cheek with her hand charmingly and delicately, and said, "What a clever little girl with a sharp tongue, she has also learned to use sweet words to deceive me. If you are the king, He still favors me, Princess Palia, so why doesn’t he want me to stay by his side all day long? No, he’s getting old and can’t compare to what he used to do.”
She smiled charmingly and said, "But in my eyes, Princess Palia will always be a young and beautiful princess."
