Chapter 805: Shocking Yuan Benxi

Su Mingzhe finally met the old man Yuan Benxi.

The old man had an unremarkable appearance and his smile was kind and amiable. He did not have the sinister aura of someone who had been in charge of a secret agency for a long time.

"Foreign minister Yuan Benxi greets Your Highness!"

As soon as they met, Yuan Benxi bowed to Su Mingzhe according to etiquette!
He spoke with a lisp!
Su Mingzhe knew that Yuan Benxi's tongue was cut in half by the Spring and Autumn Three-Rank Yellow Dragon Warrior, so he was not surprised. He just followed the etiquette and shouted:
"Mr. Yuan, please stand up and take a seat!"

Su Mingzhe held Chen Yu with one hand and Murong Wuzhu with the other, his face showing three parts of indifference, three parts of teasing, and the last few parts were all cold and gloomy.

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

As the imperial tutor of two generations, Yuan Benxi's ability to read people's expressions and words is naturally unmatched.

He could now clearly realize that the Third Prince in front of him wanted to kill him.

Is it because of Chen Yu?
Or is it because I am the emperor's teacher?
Just as Yuan Benxi's mind began to spin frantically, looking for a way to crack the problem, he heard Su Mingzhe suddenly shout:
"Yuan Benxi, you are so bold that you dare to plant a spy undercover next to me!"

"Foreign ministers acknowledge their guilt!"

Yuan Benxi had just sat down when he knelt down again with a plop!
He confessed his guilt directly without making any excuses!

"Since you know your sin, then die!"

Su Mingzhe waved his hand and shot out a black and white sword energy, which penetrated into Yuan Benxi's body.

"This is a Yin-Yang sword energy. With my vitality suppressing it, the sword energy will only shrink in your Dantian. After three months, the vitality will dissipate, and the Yin-Yang sword energy will break out of your body!"

"You now have three months to deal with your own affairs!"

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

After Yuan Benxi arrived in Shu, he was always worried about his life, so he was more cautious in his words and actions than ever before.

As a result, Su Mingzhe now directly sentenced him to only three months to live.

As the deadlock was already decided, Yuan Benxi was no longer panicked and regained his usual detached and calm state of mind!
According to etiquette, Yuan Benxi presented the gift to Su Mingzhe first.

In addition to various gold, silver, jewelry, and tributes from the Liyang Dynasty, the most "valuable" items should be more than 50 former officials of Western Shu.

Calculating the time, Western Shu has been destroyed for twenty years.

At that time, a group of old officials of Western Shu died for their country, another group was captured, and the last group basically followed the two princes and participated in the "Hongjia Beiben"!
Hongjia fled northward, referring to the survivors of the Eight Kingdoms of the Spring and Autumn Period, who were unwilling to accept the management of the Liyang Dynasty and, under the planning of several advisers of the Spring and Autumn Period, collectively fled to Beimang.

At the beginning, the brothers Su Su and Su Mingzhe escaped to Beimang during this plan!
Now, Liyang Emperor Zhao Dun actually sent people to send back all the old ministers of Western Shu who had fled to Beimang!

"This move by the Liyang Dynasty is really brilliant!"

"Most of these old ministers are already old. Now that they have returned, they must be full of thoughts of 'restoration' and 'orthodoxy'!"

"As the future new emperor of Shu, I cannot beat or scold these old ministers. I can only treat them as 'old treasures' and worship them!"

"The most important point is that these old ministers have been wandering in a foreign land for twenty years. They still retain some loyalty to their home country of West Shu. I cannot be sure whether they are still loyal to West Shu or not!"

Su Mingzhe guessed the Li Yang Dynasty's treacherous intentions clearly. He sneered slightly, but his eyes were filled with disdain!

Conspiracy and trickery will only be useful when the strength is equal.

When the strength of both sides is so different, all conspiracies and tricks will be in vain!
Su Mingzhe first received these old ministers politely, and then asked Wang Chengen to arrange for these old ministers to go down to bathe, change clothes and rest, and come back to see the emperor tomorrow!
At this point, Su Mingzhe was ready to let Yuan Benxi go.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Benxi bowed and shouted:

"Your Highness, I have something important to tell you. Please ask your attendants to leave!"

"it is good!"

Su Mingzhe did not refuse Yuan Benxi's request.

He waved his hand to send away the palace maids, eunuchs and guards, leaving only the two beauties Murong Wuzhu and Chen Yu to serve.

Yuan Benxi saw that there were only four people left in the hall, so he straightened his back, and his cloudy old eyes showed a rare sharpness:
"Your Highness, do you know what the foundation of the Liyang Dynasty is?"

Yuan Benxi didn't wait for Su Mingzhe to answer, he pointed his hand towards the top of his head, his face showing satisfaction, and shouted sternly:
"It's a fairy!"

"The foundation of the Liyang Dynasty is the immortals above the nine heavens!"

"The last time you went to Tai'an City, you should have wiped out the Liyang Imperial Family in one go. Only in this way could you have avenged your great hatred!"

"In the end, you were stopped by Wang Xianzhi and Li Chungang, giving the Liyang royal family a chance to catch their breath!"

"Now the Liyang Dynasty has ordered the Imperial Observatory and the Heavenly Master's Mansion to offer sacrifices to the heavens, inviting the immortals to descend to earth and station in Tai'an City!"

"If you dare to go to Tai'an City again, Tai'an City will be your burial place!" Su Mingzhe was amused by Yuan Benxi's arrogant words:
"Yuan Qingjia, do you know what the immortals above the Ninth Heaven look like?"

"Do you know how the human world communicates with the fairy world?"

"Do you know what an immortal has to go through when he descends to earth?"

"Yuan Qingjia, do you know that you look like a clown when you are serious and talking nonsense?"

Su Mingzhe burst into laughter, but Yuan Benxi was so angry at his attitude that he wished he could turn into an immortal, jump onto Su Mingzhe and slap him hard!

"That's all!"

"Yuan Qingjia, I know what you mean. You want to make me angry, run to Tai'an City, and massacre the Liyang royal family in Tai'an City, right?"

Su Mingzhe finally stopped laughing, his sharp eyebrows and bright eyes revealed a bit of playfulness:
"What a shame! I won't fall for your trick!"

"Last time in Tai'an City, Li Chungang and Wang Xianzhi appeared together! Li Chungang was invited by Beiliang King Xu Xiao!"

"And Wang Xianzhi was invited here by you!"

"You spent a lot of effort to invite Wang Xianzhi to protect the Liyang Dynasty and Zhao Dun, but Zhao Dun went back on his word and planned to choose a prince who hated you as the future crown prince!"

"You know that you will end up in a miserable situation, so you want to kill someone with someone else's knife!"

"right?"

As Su Mingzhe revealed Yuan Benxi's conspiracy word by word, Yuan Benxi and the two women, Murong Wuzhu and Chen Yu, were all dumbfounded and stunned, with expressions of disbelief.

"This is the benefit of reading novels, it can predict the future!"

Seeing that Yuan Benxi was intimidated by him, Su Mingzhe waved his hand and asked him to leave:
"Yuanqing family, in a few days, it will be a good day for our Great Shu Kingdom to select Yulin Guards. I hope Yuanqing family can come to participate in the selection ceremony!"

Yuan Benxi left the palace in a daze, and became more and more frightened the more he thought about it.

He also didn't expect that the plan he had worked so hard to plan would be easily revealed by Su Mingzhe!
"Could this Third Prince be an immortal who has descended to earth, or the reincarnation of an old monster from before the Spring and Autumn Period?"

After Yuan Benxi imagined it on his own, he felt awe for Su Mingzhe in his heart!

In the Liyang Dynasty, he was the imperial tutor of two generations.

When the previous emperor was still alive, eight dragons were competing for the throne.

Originally, the Sixth Prince Zhao Heng had won over most of the court officials and was favored by the Queen Mother, so he had already secured victory.

Unexpectedly, the second prince Zhao Dun did not follow the usual path. He gave up the support of court officials and asked his younger brother Zhao Yi to kneel down and beg for support from several military generals, while he himself knelt down and begged for support from Yuan Benxi, who was in charge of Zhao Gou.

At that time, Zhao Dun directly promised Yuan Benxi:

"I wish to be your puppet!"

This was indeed the case after Zhao Dun ascended the throne and became emperor. He continued to obey Yuan Benxi's orders and acted as his puppet!

In the Liyang Dynasty, Yuan Benxi controlled the overall situation of the court with his superb strategies and was extremely powerful.

Now that he had come to Shu, he was captured by Su Mingzhe with just a few words and sentenced to death!

For a moment, Yuan Benxi was nervous and frightened.

A few days passed in the blink of an eye.

The day of selecting the Imperial Guards has arrived!

Yuan Benxi came to Longmen Mountain outside Jinguan City with swollen dark circles under his eyes.

Twenty years ago, the army led by Xu Xiao and Zhao Yi massacred one million people in Shu, leaving only two million people scattered in more than thirty counties.

Now, the news that Western Shu is going to restore its country has spread throughout the Shu area.

Su Mingzhe also issued an imperial edict, stating that after the restoration of Western Shu, taxes would be reduced or exempted for ten years, and then there would be no additional taxes forever, and the population tax would also be abolished.

When the people of Shu heard the news, they were immediately overjoyed and wished that Western Shu could be restored immediately!
Later, Su Mingzhe issued an imperial decree to select Yulin Guards from the entire Shu, and the selection conditions were particularly relaxed.

In addition to certain age and household registration requirements, in terms of physical fitness, as long as one can cross a "mountain road" he personally dug and reach the end, they will be successfully admitted!
Once the news spread, the people in Shu went crazy.

In just over ten days, more than 300,000 young and strong men from Shu signed up to participate in the selection of Yulin Guards!

Yuan Benxi looked at the young men from Shu who came to participate in the selection. Most of them were wearing linen clothes and straw sandals, with nothing to cover their bodies. For a moment, he actually found it extremely funny:

"Could it be that the Third Prince has been in Northern Mang for too long and wants the people of Shu to learn Northern Mang's Hu clothing, horse riding and archery, so that everyone can become a soldier?"

(End of this chapter)