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 couldn't 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 accept selection.
Yuan Benxi looked at it and shook his head, but the old officials 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 barbarian invaded Jinque and stationed in Jinguancheng. The first emperor The two souls are gone, and the lonely minister is engaged in a hundred battles. The soldiers are mighty in the sky, and the magic power relies on Qu Tan. The day the mountains and rivers are restored, it will be happy to sacrifice their lives."
"Your Highness, the people of Shu still cherish their old master. We, Western Shu, are hopeful for the revival. Even if my old minister dies now, he can still go see the late emperor!" Other ministers also praised and congratulated him!
Su Mingzhe just smiled and said nothing. This kind of scene, in Na Yuan Benxi's eyes, was like "Yelang's arrogance", which seemed extremely ridiculous.
In terms of military system, the various states in the Spring and Autumn Period adopted the government army 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 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! And this system was not only implemented in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, but also in the Liyang Dynasty, Dafeng Dynasty, and Da Qin 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, war horses, and bows and crossbows will be provided by the government!
In Yuan Benxi's opinion, 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 at least 50,000 to 100,000 troops are needed 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 also exempted Shu from taxes for ten years!
"Hahaha...huh? Ten years of tax exemption in Shu?" 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 in Shu that Su Mingzhe had exempted, he couldn't help but feel Yihan: "What 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 beat the war drum himself, and the hundreds of city guards guarding the mountain road quickly let go of 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 of "A, B, C, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Rengui" they had received previously.
Su Mingzhe also expended a lot of effort for this Yulin Guard selection. 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 formations such as the 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 that many people fell in the first enchantment circle, and couldn't help but sneered: "I didn't expect that before the Shu Kingdom was officially established, there would be so many enemy spies!" The Shu Kingdom has been destroyed. long time!
It is true that some old people never forget their homeland. But most of the young people have begun to identify themselves as people 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.
In the past full hour, most of the young people were still wasting time on the three or four miles ahead.
At this time, the herald came on horseback and reported: "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 the order to send these people to the Yulinwei camp, and each of them will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver!" These more than 5,000 people were able to pass through the mountain roads filled with mind-confused arrays, illusory mind arrays, and heart-refining arrays within an hour. His qualifications far exceed those of his peers, and he is considered a first-class cultivation wizard!
Su Mingzhe believed that with his 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 forces from the Western Regions such as Mount Landuo, King Nanzhao, King Beiliang, and King Yanchi who sent people to congratulate and send congratulatory gifts.
In any case, the scene in Tai'an City where Su Mingzhe fought against more than a hundred first-level Vajra Realm, Zhixuan Realm, and Celestial Elephant Realm by himself 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 clothes and straw sandals ran in with a panic look on his face. He knelt on the ground with a plop and tremblingly reported: "Sir, they are all dead! They are all dead!" Although Yuan Benxi I had already made a guess, but when I saw that the undercover agent was giving an incoherent answer, I 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, the people from Beiliang, and the people from Nanzhao, King Jing'an, and King Yanchi All of them are dead, more than two thousand people, all of them are dead!"
"Impossible!" Yuan Benxi stood up and scolded the undercover for talking nonsense! The city guards that Su Mingzhe from Shu had temporarily summoned and recruited were only over 2,000 people.
How could it be possible to catch more than 2,000 undercover agents at once? However, when he stood up, he immediately remembered Su Mingzhe's surprise when he heard on the tower that only more than 5,000 people had passed the selection!
Now recall: 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, last time I said that there were immortals supporting the Liyang Dynasty, he had a wild smile on his face!"
"Could it be that this is the trick of an immortal?" Although Yuan Benxi didn't want to believe it, the facts were here.
More than 2,000 undercover agents were uncovered, and no mistakes were made. This speaks volumes! 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 people in Shu were selected, 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 to retreat, his eyes slowly filled with exhaustion! It was 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 god of war. 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 the results of today's selection. He suddenly became agitated: "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 what I have done before." I wrote a strategy, please check it for me to see if there is anything missing!" Yuan Benxi was confused by Su Mingzhe's actions, but he still took the memorial respectfully and looked at it carefully.
This policy has been set according to the year: a two-year 'cleaning' 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, industries and other aspects.
Su Mingzhe waited for Yuan Benxi to finish reading the strategy he specified, and did not wait for Yuan Benxi to evaluate it. Then he smiled and said: "Yuan Qing's family, when I was in Beimang, I heard a proverb: Plans can't change as quickly as they do!"
"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. "
"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 my country of Shu to serve as the left prime minister. What do you think?" The position of prime minister is divided into left and right, with the right being the left. respect.
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 as wise as a demon!
"Yuan Aiqing, it's cold here, please get 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!
