A month ago, the Liyang Dynasty promised to 'return' the entire Shuzhong area to Su Mingzhe and let him resume his kingdom!
However, to this day, the army guarding the central area of Shu is still the army of the Liyang Dynasty!
No, Su Mingzhe was unwilling to accept these places, but in a hurry, he could not recruit so many soldiers to help him guard them.
You know, before Liyang destroyed Xishu, there were 60,000 regular troops in Xishu!
Seeing more than 300,000 young men gathered together, ready to be selected.
Yuan Benxi looked at it and shook his head, but the old ministers of Xishu were extremely excited.
The leader of them, Zhao Dingxiu, was originally a bachelor of Xishu University. Now he was appointed as the prime minister of Xishu by Su Mingzhe. He couldn't help but recite a poem to express his excitement:
"The strong barbarians invaded Jinque and stationed themselves in Jinguan City.
One emperor has two souls, and his lonely ministers are engaged in hundreds of battles.
The military power is in the sky and the desert is empty, and the magic power is in Qu Tan.
When the mountains and rivers are restored, it will be a happy sacrifice to sacrifice one's life."
"Your Highness, the people of Shu still cherish their old master. There is hope for the revival of Western Shu. Even if the old minister dies now, he can still go see the late emperor!"
Other ministers also praised and congratulated him one after another!
Su Mingzhe just smiled and said nothing.
In Na Yuan Benxi's eyes, this kind of scene was like "Yelang's arrogance", which seemed extremely ridiculous.
In terms of military system, the states in the Spring and Autumn Period adopted the military system and the recruitment system.
Regardless of whether it is the government army system or the recruitment system, soldiers need to carry their own armor, horses, bows and crossbows.
It can be said that the poor people at the bottom have no family fortune and are not even qualified to serve as soldiers!
This system was not only practiced during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but also during the Liyang Dynasty, the Dafeng Dynasty, and the Daqin Dynasty.
But today, the selection conditions for the Yulin Guards that Su Mingzhe worked out were quite simple.
He even said that as long as he is selected into the Yulin Guards, all armor, horses, and crossbows will be provided by the government!
To Yuan Benxi, this is simply ridiculous!
You know, a soldier's armor, horse, crossbow, etc. cost at least one hundred taels of silver.
For example, Xi Shu has more than 30 cities, so it would take at least 50,000 to 100,000 troops to guard them.
This requires at least five million taels of silver.
This kind of money is not a one-time expenditure, but an ongoing expenditure!
Xi Shu's annual tax revenue alone cannot afford such a large expenditure.
What's more, Su Mingzhe exempted Shu from taxes for ten years!
"Hahaha...huh? The Shu region has been exempted from taxes for ten years?"
Yuan Benxi looked at the more than 300,000 young people who had gathered under the city wall, and then thought about the ten years of taxes Su Mingzhe had been exempted from in Shu, and couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart:
"What exactly does this third prince want to do?"
Not long after, the herald came and reminded:
"Your Highness, the auspicious time has come!"
"start!"
Su Mingzhe personally beat the war drum, and the hundreds of city guards guarding the mountain road quickly released the 'horse-rejecting stakes' blocking the road after hearing the movement.
More than 300,000 young people ran towards their respective mountain roads according to the serial numbers such as 'A, B, C, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Rengui' that they had received previously.
For this Yulin Guard selection, Su Mingzhe also spent a lot of effort.
Just digging nine mountain roads about ten feet wide and ten miles long kept Su Mingzhe and his clone busy for ten days.
In addition, Su Mingzhe's clone had almost no rest in the past month, as he had to carve magic circles such as the Heart Confusion Formation, the Illusion Heart Formation, and the Heart Refining Formation on every mountain road.
Today, more than 300,000 young people are walking through the nine mountain roads one after another!
Su Mingzhe saw many people falling in the first enchantment circle, and couldn't help but sneer at the corner of his mouth:
"I didn't expect that before the Shu Kingdom was officially established, there would be so many enemy spies!"
Shu has been destroyed for too long!
It is true that some old people never forget their homeland.
But most of the young people have begun to identify themselves as subjects of the Liyang Dynasty.
Su Mingzhe personally dug nine mountain roads, not to test the Yulin Guards' physical ability, but to test their loyalty!
And this scene fell in the eyes of everyone watching the ceremony at the top of the city.
After these young men entered the mountain road, their bodies seemed to be in "slow motion" and they were struggling to move.
For a full hour in the past, most of the young people were still wasting time on the three or four miles ahead.
At this time, the herald came on horseback to report:
"Reporting to Your Highness, an hour has passed and only more than 5,000 people have reached the destination!"
When everyone present heard the news, they all looked at each other and couldn't believe their ears!
An hour passed, and out of more than 300,000 young men, only 5,000 reached the finish line ten miles away?
What do other people do for food?
Zhao Dingxiu was about to scold the herald and ask him to go back and measure the numbers again.
Su Mingzhe applauded in surprise and said with a smile:
"Not bad! Not bad! I thought it would be good to have a thousand people! I didn't expect there to be so many people!"
"Send an order to send these people to the Yulin Guard camp and reward each of them with a hundred taels of silver!"
These more than 5,000 people were able to pass through the mountain roads filled with mind-confusing arrays, illusory mind arrays, and mind-refining arrays within an hour. Their mental aptitudes far exceeded those of their peers, and they were all regarded as first-class cultivation wizards!
Su Mingzhe believed that with his own training later, he would be able to make them all like dragons!
The selection is over.
Su Mingzhe was so happy that he took his ministers back to the palace and began to entertain them with a banquet and entertain foreign guests like Yuan Benxi.
Because Western Shu was about to regain its kingdom, in addition to Yuan Benxi who came to congratulate on behalf of the Liyang Dynasty, there were also people from Landuo Mountain in the Western Region, King Nanzhao, King Beiliang, King Yanchi and other forces who came to congratulate and send congratulatory gifts.
In any case, in Tai'an City, the scene where Su Mingzhe fought alone against more than a hundred first-level Vajra Realm, Zhixuan Realm, and Celestial Elephant Realm was really scary.
It is very necessary to maintain a good relationship nowadays!
The banquet is over.
After these envoys left the palace, they discussed today's events with each other in twos and threes.
Yuan Benxi did not chat with other envoys, but immediately returned to the Sifang Pavilion and summoned the undercover Zhao Gou he sent out.
After a while, a middle-aged man wearing linen and straw sandals ran in with a panic look on his face, knelt down on the ground with a splash, and tremblingly reported:
"Sir, they are all dead! They are all dead!"
Although Yuan Benxi had already made a guess, seeing that the undercover agent gave a confused answer, he still had a glimmer of hope and asked:
"Everything is dead?"
"Everyone is dead!"
The undercover agent didn't know when, because he was frightened, tears were streaming down his face and he said:
"Our people, those from Beiliang, and those from Nanzhao, King Jing'an, and King Yanchi are all dead. More than two thousand people are all dead!"
"impossible!"
Yuan Benxi stood up and scolded the undercover for talking nonsense!
Su Mingzhe from Shu made a temporary call and recruited only more than 2,000 city guards.
How is it possible to catch more than 2,000 undercover agents at once?
However, when he stood up, he immediately remembered that on the tower, Su Mingzhe was surprised when he heard that only more than 5,000 people had passed the selection!
Now think back on it: It’s really scary to think about it!
"Those nine mountain roads... there must be something fishy about them that can help Xi Shu pick out people with double-minded intentions!"
"By the way, when I said last time that the Liyang Dynasty was supported by immortals, he laughed wildly!"
"Could it be that this is the method of immortals?"
Although Yuan Benxi doesn't want to believe it, the facts are here.
More than 2,000 undercover agents were identified, and no mistakes were made.
This explains the problem very much!
Yuan Benxi suppressed the panic in his heart and asked the undercover agent to drink water to calm down the panic and tell all the information he had found out.
That undercover agent is capable of being led by Yuan Benxi.
After he calmed down a bit, he told all the information he had found out.
In this selection, more than 300,000 young men and women were selected in Shu, except for more than 2,000 undercover agents who were brought to justice.
Among the remaining 320,000 people, the number of people who cleared the level within one hour was about 5,500, and all of them were selected into the Habayashi Guards.
Within two hours, more than 20,000 people passed the customs and were selected into the Xuanjia Army!
There were more than 20,000 people who barely passed in the remaining half day and were selected into the infantry battalion.
There were still more than 260,000 people who were not selected, but the government divided them into three, six, and nine grades and selected more than 60,000 people to serve as city defense troops for more than 30 cities.
The number of people who actually failed was only 200,000!
"Stay back!"
Yuan Benxi waited for the undercover agent to retreat, his eyes gradually becoming tired!
So unexpected!
Su Mingzhe's methods are endless and his wisdom is far-reaching, which has exceeded Yuan Benxi's thinking ability!
This is like an ancient warrior sage or military god. No matter how fantastic his ideas are, no matter how well he understands the art of war and military formations, he still can’t guess how digitalized troops fight!
After the undercover agent left, Yuan Benxi called in other spies to verify today's selection results, and his mood suddenly became irritable:
"This third prince of Xishu... I'm afraid he really has unpredictable abilities!"
the next day.
Su Mingzhe received another message from Yuan Benxi asking for a meeting.
Not long after, Su Mingzhe took Chen Yu to meet Yuan Benxi again.
This time, Su Mingzhe waited for the ceremony to end and handed him a memorial with a smile:
"Yuanqing family, I plan to use twenty years to unify the Central Plains and replace the Liyang Dynasty. This is a strategy I wrote before. Please check it for me to see if there is anything missing!"
Yuan Benxi was confused by Su Mingzhe's actions, but he still respectfully took the memorial and looked at it carefully.
This policy is set out according to the year:
Two-year ‘clean-up’ plan!
Five-year ‘preparation’ plan!
Ten-year ‘expansion’ plan!
Three-year ‘encirclement and suppression’ plan!
Each plan contains detailed plans for national policies, people's livelihood, armaments, various industries and other aspects.
Su Mingzhe waited for Yuan Benxi to finish reading the strategies he specified, and did not wait for Yuan Benxi to comment, and then smiled and said:
"Yuanqing's family, when I was in Beimang, I heard a proverb: Plans can't change quickly!"
"I have made this strategy a long time ago, but things change at any time. Many times, what happens one year later is completely different from what it is now. Let alone five, ten, or even twenty years later.
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"So, in order to ensure that the strategies I have set can be implemented smoothly, I would like to invite Yuan Qing's family to come to our country of Shu to serve as the prime minister of Zuo. What do you think?"
The post of prime minister is divided into left and right, with the right being the most respected.
The future Right Prime Minister of Shu has been given to Zhao Dingxiu.
Now, if Su Mingzhe wants to arrange for Yuan Benxi, he can only give him the position of Prime Minister Zuo.
"Thank you for your kindness, Your Highness. I am willing to do my best!"
Yuan Benxi smiled bitterly and knelt down again, expressing his willingness to surrender!
He came here today actually because he wanted to express his surrender!
Unexpectedly, before he could say his words of surrender, Su Mingzhe took the initiative to invite him.
Yuan Benxi now has a deep and deep fear of Su Mingzhe!
He even thought that Su Mingzhe was already as ‘wisdom as a demon’!
"Yuan Aiqing, it's cool down here, please wake up quickly!"
Su Mingzhe smiled and stretched out his hand to help this second-generation imperial master of the Liyang Dynasty!
Yuan Benxi thanked him again and then carefully sat down again. He had lost all the arrogance and arrogance he had on the first day he came to Shu!