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Chapter 306: Benchu, You Don’t Even Want to Call Me Your Majesty

Two days later, at the palace.

Today is the day when the army swears to go to war. This news has already spread throughout Yecheng, and countless people are paying close attention to this matter.

Because this time the army is marching south, it is a battle for the emperor to recover the Central Plains, which is of great significance. Moreover, Yuan Shao, the leader of the rebel party, will also have his head chopped off as a sacrifice at this oath-taking ceremony.

All the people were waiting to see what would happen to the leader of the bandits.

In the bedroom.

The swearing-in ceremony for the battle was approaching, and Liu Xie was currently in the palace putting on his armor and helmet and making final preparations.

With the help of Zhen Mi and the two sisters Xiao Qiao and Da Qiao, he took off his majestic dragon robe and put on military uniform.

"Your Majesty is truly majestic."

Xiao Qiao tied Liu Xie's cloak and murmured, her beautiful eyes sparkling and full of tenderness.

Liu Xie was dressed in a black robe and black armor, with sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes. He was extraordinarily handsome, and his heroic spirit could not be concealed between his brows. Any woman who saw him would feel her heart beat faster.

Moreover, as an emperor, he seldom wore military uniform, and today was the first time that the two sisters, Xiao Qiao and Da Qiao, saw him.

"Yeah, it just looks impressive."

Liu Xie glanced at his own appearance in the bronze mirror and shook his head. He wore armor only to demonstrate the majesty of the emperor and did not need to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy.

But the soldiers have to fight in the battlefield and sacrifice their lives. This time, when the troops march south, it will be another big battle.

I don’t know how many soldiers were killed or injured.

Zhen Mi heard the deep meaning in Liu Xie's tone, so she comforted him, "I believe that Your Majesty will be able to wipe out all the rebels when he leads his troops south this time."

"Then the world will be at peace, and soldiers won't have to sacrifice any more."

Liu Xie reached out and rubbed Zhen Mi's face, and said with a smile: "Then I will borrow your good words, my beloved concubine. I also believe it will happen."

A sweet look appeared on Zhen Mi's face.

After getting dressed, Liu Xie went to Xuanshi.

Soon after he arrived, Gao Lan walked into the palace and said to him respectfully, "Your Majesty, the traitor Yuan Shao has been brought outside the palace."

Liu Xie stood with his hands behind his back in front of the wall, carefully looking at the Da Han Feng Shui map hanging on the wall. Hearing this, he said without turning his head, "Bring it in."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Gao Lan bowed his head and waved his hand.

Soon two guards dragged Yuan Shao in with heavy shackles on his hands and feet.

Gao Lan then retreated with the guards.

Only Yuan Shao and Liu Xie were left in the Xuanshi Hall.

Yuan Shao raised his head with some effort and looked up at Liu Xie who had his back to him. His bloodshot eyes were like a deep ancient well, filled with deep indifference.

He didn't say a word, let alone curse.

Like a corpse without any emotion.

Liu Xie didn't seem to notice Yuan Shao's arrival. He just focused on looking at the feng shui map in front of him without even turning around.

The atmosphere fell into an eerie silence.

After a long time, Liu Xie finally withdrew his gaze from the geomancy map, turned to look at Yuan Shao, and said with a faint smile: "It's been a long time since we last met, Benchu."

"How is life in prison?"

Yuan Shao twitched his lips slightly and sneered, "You should know better than me how I am in prison. Why do you have to put on such a hypocritical face and greet me in a fake way?"

"Don't you feel disgusted?"

He and Liu Xie had long been irreconcilable and feuding with each other. Before, Liu Xie killed his entire family, but now he is smiling and welcoming him. His hypocrisy is simply disgusting.

"There has to be an end to this, right?"

Liu Xie smiled, then said: "Today is the day when my army swears in to march south, and it is also the day you die, so I want to have a final word with you."

"After all, if you don't say something now, you may never have the chance to say it again."

Now the army has assembled outside the southern suburbs.

He just had to go over to inspect and kill Yuan Shao as a sacrifice, and then the army would set out and head straight for Xuzhou and Yanzhou.

Yuan Shao's life has entered the countdown.

"What are you talking about? Are you asking me if I regret it?"

Yuan Shao looked sarcastic and snorted, "Then I'll tell you, I regret it, but what I regret is not that I didn't surrender to you, but that I listened to Ju Su's words!"

"When Ju Shou brought you back that day, I should have said you were a fake and killed you!"

"You should let that fake emperor in Xu County become the emperor in your place!"

If he could do it again, Yuan Shao would definitely choose to kill Liu Xie in the name of pretending to be the emperor, and then everything that happened later would not have happened!
Unfortunately, there are no ifs in everything.

What happened happened.

Hearing Yuan Shao's words, Liu Xie couldn't help but shook his head and laughed: "Benchu, Benchu, you still don't realize the reason for your failure..."

"Forget it, forget it. You won't listen even if I tell you, so I won't waste my breath on you."

"Haven't you always been curious about whether my identity as the emperor is real or fake? The reason why I met you today is to answer your questions."

This one sentence made Yuan Shao frown.

I became even more alert in my heart.

The issue of the true and false emperor has been settled. All the evidence shows that Liu Xie is the real emperor. What else can we say now to clear up his confusion?
However, the next moment, what Liu Xie said made his face change, and he was also caught off guard.

"You have done me a favor, Benchu."

Liu Xie calmly spoke out the biggest secret hidden deep in his heart, which now no one knew except Emperor Xian of Han and Empress Fu.

He no longer called himself "Zhen", but "Me".

Then he turned his gaze to Yuan Shao, who looked shocked, and said leisurely: "Before I met Gong Yu, I was just a refugee who was about to starve to death."

"I agreed to pretend to be the emperor because I had no choice but to make a living. My biggest dream at that time was to live a good life."

"But it's not that easy to stay alive. When I realized that my life or death could be decided by your words, I had some other ideas."

"For example, becoming a true Son of Heaven."

Yuan Shao felt terrified. After he came to his senses, he stared at Liu Xie and gritted his teeth, "Impossible! How could you be fake? Do you still want to lie to me?"

"Is this your new method of torture?!"

How could Yuan Shao believe what Liu Xie said, because there was too much evidence to prove that Liu Xie was the real emperor. Even Fu Wan, Yang Biao and Empress Fu acknowledged it.

It is a foregone conclusion that Liu Xie is the real emperor, but now suddenly telling him that it is a fake is simply absurd!
"Who can tell the difference between true and false?"

Liu Xie looked at his hands and said with a complicated expression: "Sometimes in my dreams at midnight, I wonder whether I am Liu Xie, the refugee, or Liu Xie, the emperor."

"Because I deceived so many people and pretended for so long, I even deceived myself... But it is precisely because of this that everyone believes that I am the real thing."

"Now that I have occupied five states, I have a million soldiers under my command, and I have counselors as numerous as the rain and generals as numerous as the clouds. I no longer need people to believe whether it is true or not."

Liu Xie confessed everything to Yuan Shao today. He had no other intentions, but just wanted to speak his mind to this enemy who gave him endless pressure and motivation. He had kept these words in his heart for too long.

No one can say it, and no one can say it.

There was no problem in saying this to Yuan Shao who was about to die, and there was no need to worry, because even if Yuan Shao went out and yelled, no one would believe the words of a rebellious traitor.

That's why he dared to speak his mind without any worries.

"Don't even think about lying to me!"

But Yuan Shao still refused to believe it, and said with a ferocious look: "If you are not the real emperor, Dong Cheng and others will never support you!"

"You said with your own mouth that they helped you escape by switching the baggage. How could they possibly admit something that didn't happen?"

Yang Biao, Fu Wan, Dong Cheng, and Empress Fu are all people who often accompany the emperor. They know best whether the emperor is genuine or not.

If Liu Xie is fake and the one in Xu County is real, how could they possibly support Liu Xie?
"Because of human nature." Liu Xie's voice was calm, his eyes were extremely deep, "Just as you were willing to believe that I didn't betray you, did you really not realize that I might have betrayed you?"

"In fact, you have noticed it, but you just don't want to believe it. People always like to seek benefits and avoid harm, and believe in things that are beneficial to themselves."

"The same is true for Yang Biao and his men."

"Compared to the emperor in Xu County who was controlled by Cao Cao, they are more willing to believe that I, the emperor with great power, am the real emperor."

"And Xu You happened to go to Xu County, which fueled the situation and made them suspicious. They suspected each other of secretly replacing the emperor."

"As the saying goes, where suspicions arise, doubts abound."

"They all thought that each other was the one behind the substitution of the emperor. It happened that Dong Cheng died later, so I attributed all the credit to him. There is no evidence to prove it."

"Are there any flaws? Of course there are, but they won't think about it too deeply, and they won't delve into it too deeply."

“Because that’s the human heart.”

"The Queen knows that I am a fake, but she dares not say it, let alone say it. Because once she says it, it will only cause a little trouble for me, but it will be a disaster for the Fu family."

"After all, not everyone is like you who doesn't care about the lives of the entire clan. I admire you for that."

Liu Xie's last words deeply hurt Yuan Shao's heart.

It made him recall the scene where the entire Yuan family was beheaded.

But at this moment, what made him feel more unbearable than the pain was what Liu Xie had just said.

"How can this be……"

Yuan Shao said with trembling lips that he couldn't believe that the reason Yang Biao and others supported Liu Xie was just because they were suspicious of each other!
It sounded absurd that a group of old foxes would actually believe in a fabricated case of a substitution, but after hearing it, he strangely felt it was extremely normal.

Because what Liu Xie said was right, that's how people really feel.

It was because he was unwilling to believe that Liu Xie, a flattering refugee, would betray him that he gradually caused disaster.

Even when he was caught, he refused to believe it.

So put yourself in their shoes. If he were any one of Yang Biao and the other two, and saw that Liu Xie had the endorsement of the Yuan family, had strange phenomena from the sky, and was approved by Kong Rong, he would also have doubts in his heart.

What Liu Xie said is very likely the truth!

Yuan Shao's face turned pale, and he gritted his teeth and asked Liu Xie: "So... you were a fake from the beginning, and everything you said to me before was a lie?"

"Yes."

Liu Xie admitted it frankly and looked at Yuan Shao with a smile: "Your foundation is completely in my hands. Apart from your head, which can be used as a sacrifice to boost morale, there is nothing else I can use. There is no need for me to lie to you anymore."

"Originally, this is the truth of everything."

"I am Liu Xie, the fake emperor, and the true emperor."

After saying this, Liu Xie felt as if a heavy burden had been unloaded from his shoulders. He felt relieved and relaxed all over.

Hearing this, Yuan Shao was struck by lightning.

He looked at Liu Xie, who was smiling in front of him, and couldn't help feeling a deep fear in his heart, as if Liu Xie had turned into some terrible beast.

A refugee actually managed to turn the fake into the real and made everyone in the world believe that the legitimate emperor was the fake one. Even his close ministers were deceived.

What a method this is!
If Liu Xie didn't tell him these things today, he would be kept in the dark until his death, just like Ju Shou, who thought that Liu Xie was the real emperor!

Those who steal the hook will be punished, and those who steal the country will be martyred.

Inexplicably, a sentence popped up in Yuan Shao's mind: Liu Xie stole the Han Dynasty and became not just a marquis, but the emperor!

Liu Xie walked slowly to the big man's geomancy map, stretched out his hand, and clenched his fist, as if to include the whole world in it.

"Since I am the Son of Heaven, I shall unify the Han Dynasty!"

"End this chaotic world of strife among the princes!"

"I will shoulder the heavy responsibility of the two capitals and thirteen states of the Han Dynasty and create a peaceful and prosperous era, so as to live up to this hard-earned supreme position!"

Liu Xie's gaze was as sharp as a sword. He turned around and walked to the throne and sat down, overlooking Yuan Shao who was tied up with hemp ropes below.

"My life has been like walking on thin ice."

"Benchu, do you think I can reach the other side?"

Yuan Shao had recovered from his shock by then. Even though he admired Liu Xie's ambition, his proud character still prevented him from bowing his head.

Therefore, after hearing Liu Xie's question, he angrily cursed: "You treacherous villain, you have taken over my foundation and you will surely die a violent death!"

Liu Xie sighed, "Benchu, to this day, you are not even willing to call me Your Majesty?"

Yuan Shao gnashed his teeth and said, "You are only lucky to have everything you have now. I didn't lose to you!"

"I regret that I listened to Ju Shou's advice and let you pretend to be the emperor. You took away my foundation!"

Seeing that Yuan Shao was so stubborn, Liu Xie stopped talking to him and called Gao Lan, who was waiting far away outside the Xuanwai.

"Let's go to the southern suburbs."

After Liu Xie looked at Yuan Shao deeply, he strode out of the Xuanwu room.

It's time to send Yuan Shao to his death.

……

Today we set out on an expedition, and the streets of Ye City are deserted.

Countless people gathered in the streets, the scene was packed with people, all of them went to watch the army's oath-taking.

"I heard that Lord Wen will personally lead the troops to fight the bandits this time!"

"Lord Wen is leading the troops? Then we will definitely win this battle!"

"Alas, I also want to join the army to fight the bandits, but I am too old, so I can only let my two sons go."

"Your Majesty is wise and powerful. This time we will go south to fight the bandits and win a great victory! Let us show the might of the Han Dynasty!"

"Your Majesty is mighty! The Han will surely win!!"

The streets were crowded with people, making it extremely noisy and crowded.

But suddenly, the noise became louder and everyone looked in one direction.

At the end of the road, Liu Xie was seen wearing armor and riding a white horse, walking slowly with the Yulin Guards leading the way, and a prison cart following behind him!
The person inside was Yuan Shao!

(End of this chapter)