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Chapter 595 Xu Shouhui: Summon the Imperial Advisor to Pay His Respects to Me

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

At this moment, a hundred miles away from Xiangyang Prefecture, a fast horse galloped over and knelt down in front of Xu Shouhui, calling out "Your Majesty".

Xu Shouhui had been running all the way, and now he looked at the soldier who brought the news and asked, "How is it? Is Xiangyang Prefecture alright?"

"Your Majesty, Xiangyang Prefecture is gone!"

"Ok!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Shouhui's eyes widened in disbelief as he stared at the messenger, saying, "What did you say? Say it again!"

"Your Majesty, Xiangyang Prefecture is gone!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Shouhui's face immediately turned extremely ugly. He looked at him and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? Even if Xiangyang Prefecture is gone, there's still Zhao Pusheng, isn't there?"

"Don't even mention it! Prime Minister Zhao also died in battle atop the walls of Xiangyang!"

"This……"

Xu Shouhui collapsed to the ground, his face filled with horror. "Zhao Pusheng was also killed by Chen Jiu Si?"

The man immediately said, "Yes, kill them, kill them!"

Xu Shouhui took a deep breath and said, "This is impossible, absolutely impossible! That's the Grand Preceptor's disciple. Even if Chen Jiu Si is ruthless, he couldn't possibly kill the Grand Preceptor's disciple. This is impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"Your Majesty, our men saw it with their own eyes; Prime Minister Zhao's body is still lying on the city wall of Xiangyang!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Shouhui looked at the messenger and said, "This Chen Jiu Si really doesn't show any mercy at all."

"Your Majesty, things have come to this point, what use is there for sentimentality?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Shouhui said, "Fine, fine, Chen Jiu Si, you're actually serious with me! You actually have the guts to rebel! Alright, tell the brothers not to rest anymore, get up, pack up, and let's hurry to Shiyan to find the Imperial Advisor to quell the rebellion. I refuse to believe that there are no loyal ministers left in this world!"

Thinking of this, Xu Shouhui immediately said, "Let's go, let's go, let's go right now."

Upon hearing this, Xu Shouhui's personal guard said, "Your Majesty, we've been running all night, and the brothers are exhausted. Why don't we take a rest?"

"rest?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Shouhui glanced at his personal guard, then grabbed him by the neck and said, "Rest, do you want them to catch up and kill me? What are you up to? Do you think I don't know? You traitor."

Click...

With a sharp crack, Xu Shouhui snapped the guard's neck. The guard stared intently at Xu Shouhui. He was a loyal and devoted servant, a good dog indeed. How could he be killed just because of a single sentence? This was too cruel!
Thinking this, Xu Shouhui threw the body on the ground and looked coldly at his guards, saying, "Who wants to rest?"

"No, I don't want to."

Upon seeing this scene, the guards thought, "Rest? They want to rest, but Xu Shouhui is telling them to rest completely? What kind of rest is this?"

Therefore, they all behaved themselves. Xu Shouhui said, "Mount up and let's go!"

Upon hearing this, the people in the crowd immediately mounted their horses and followed Xu Shouhui straight to Shiyan.

Shiyan is where Peng Yingyu and Li Siqi are facing off. Once they get to Shiyan, their safety will be guaranteed, especially Xu Shouhui's.

The group headed straight for Shiyan.

Meanwhile, in Xiangyang Prefecture, Chen Jie inquired about Peng Yingyu's direction.

"Shiyan?"

Chen Jie muttered something to himself, then immediately said, "The entire army is here. Follow me and capture Xu Shouhui alive."

"Capture Xu Shouhui alive!"

Chen Jie led Du Xiong and five hundred cavalrymen directly toward Shiyan, while Xiangyang City was left to be garrisoned by Zhang Dingbian, Jin Yanzi, and Shi Gengming. They were to wait for Hu Weiyong to lead the civil officials into Xiangyang City to register the city's population, land, grain, and other information, and then formulate a plan for the restoration of Xiangyang City.

Chen Jie will not need to be specifically involved in these statistical tasks. He will only need to submit a feasibility report. Of course, Chen Jie will send Wu Hong's supervisory team to oversee the statistical work process. The entire process must be fair and transparent, and there must be no attempt to conceal or report anything.

Of course, Huangzhou Prefecture already has a relatively detailed workflow for these specific tasks, so there is no need to make temporary arrangements.

Having made these arrangements, the next step was to carry out a full-scale operation to eliminate Xu Shouhui. Chen Jiejue would not allow such a false emperor to live. There were three reasons why Xu Shouhui had to be killed.

First: The attack on Huangzhou Prefecture caused enormous damage, resulting in the deaths of at least 10,000 of Huangzhou's best soldiers.

Second: his cruelty and rage, his disregard for human ethics, his pleasure in killing, and the horrifying underground torture chambers all fueled Chen Jie's murderous intent.

Third, and most importantly, he is the emperor of the Tianyuan Empire, while Chen Jie, strictly speaking, is a subject of the Tianyuan Empire. Now that the subject has taken over the country, if the emperor were to run away, it would be a huge blow to the future of the Tianyuan Empire.

Who knows when a few idiots might appear, using Xu Shouhui's name to attempt to restore the country?

Therefore, they must be killed; only a dead former emperor is a good emperor.

Chen Jie was even willing to repeat the mistakes of history, because according to history books, he should have replaced Chen Youliang, and he, Chen Jiu Si, was the historical Chen Youliang. Therefore, Xu Shouhui was the one who was killed by him in history.

He was burdened with the title of regicide, and today he was willing to bear this infamy. Regicide is never a pleasant term, and this had a huge impact on Chen Jie. But Chen Jie didn't care. He would rather bear the infamy for eternity than tolerate a damned traitor.

Xu Shouhui is a cancer and must be eradicated!

With this in mind, Chen Jie urged his horses onward. Five hundred cavalrymen swept across the plain, raising clouds of dust, and the group headed straight for Shiyan, covered in dust from the journey.

Shiyan is only 300 li away from Xiangyang Prefecture. After traveling for a day and a night, Xu Shouhui finally arrived at the Shiyan military camp on the second day.

Upon seeing the military camp in Shiyan, Xu Shouhui felt reassured. He then shouted to the guards, "Quickly inform the Imperial Advisor that I have arrived and have him come out to greet me."

Upon hearing this, the soldiers guarding the gate were taken aback. They glanced at Xu Shouhui, then immediately rushed into the military camp. Peng Yingyu was sitting quietly inside the camp, her eyes closed, her hands clasped together, and chanting Amitabha Buddha.

At this moment, he was in a state of great turmoil, struggling with his inner turmoil. After all, the spies had been reporting the events in Hubei one after another, and the news of Chen Jiu Si's counterattack and Xu Shou Hui's madness had all reached Peng Ying Yu's ears without missing a single detail.

Peng Yingyu was quite helpless about this. He now had to face not only Chen Jiu Si, but also Xu Shou Hui. One was his sworn brother, and the other was the wicked child he had personally chosen. How could he choose? How could he choose?

Choosing Chen Jiu Si is a denial of one's former Buddhist heart, a denial of one's past self.

How can he possibly cope with such a denial?

On the other hand, there's the option of choosing Xu Shouhui. However, he's not entirely unaware of Xu Shouhui's actions, and what is his relationship with Chen Jie? They're like brothers. Now that he's going to stab his brother in the back, how can he possibly make a decision?

You should know that Peng Yingyu has always had a very strong attachment to his friends.

So neither the left nor the right side worked, which directly plunged Monk Peng into self-doubt and even caused him to develop inner demons. With no other option, he could only retreat into seclusion and use Buddhist teachings to dispel them!
At this moment, Peng Yingyu clasped her hands together, her Buddhist heart wavering. Fortunately, Li Siqi did not intend to fight Peng Yingyu to the death, so he only sent troops to harass her symbolically, while the others had already prepared to retreat.

He wouldn't gain anything by fighting Peng Yingyu now.

Li Siqi was unwilling to do anything that wouldn't bring him any benefit, so these past few days, instead of attacking Peng Yingyu, he had been playing along with her. After all, Peng Yingyu had agreed to his condition, which was that she wouldn't go with him to Taibai Mountain to seize the dragon vein.

Having already secured the benefits, Li Siqi was quite pragmatic; he simply waited to watch the spectacle unfold. After all, such excitement was a rare treat. Seeing the entire Hubei Road now in complete chaos, Li Siqi was overjoyed. He simply loved watching dogs fight each other.

The more the Hubei Road area is depleted, the slower they will recover. Why not take advantage of such a benefit?

Having figured all this out, Li Siqi was very happy.

The more suffering Lao Peng endured, the happier he became.

At this moment, the appearance of a cavalry in front of Lao Peng's camp could not be kept from Li Siqi, and Li Siqi's intelligence team immediately passed the information to him.

"Hey~ that good-for-nothing actually came looking for Old Peng, hahaha, interesting, very interesting!"

Li Siqi laughed heartily, his face full of schadenfreude, and then looked at the intelligence captain and said, "Investigate again, report again."

The intelligence captain immediately agreed, and Li Siqi grinned and said, "Interesting, interesting. This time, Monk Peng will have a real headache."

"report!"

In front of Peng Yingyu's military tent, a soldier immediately shouted a report. Upon hearing the soldier's report, Ding Pulang, who was protecting his master, said, "What is it? Didn't you say that nothing can disturb the Grand Preceptor's seclusion lately?"

"General Ding, it's...it's His Majesty..."

"As I said, the military situation here is urgent, and we don't have the manpower to rescue His Majesty. Please let His Majesty handle this on his own."

Ding Pulang began.

The soldier said, "It's not intelligence, it's His Majesty himself. He's here, right outside the military camp. He said the Imperial Advisor will personally go to greet him!"

"What?! He's come to the military camp?!"

Upon hearing this, Ding Pulang's face was full of surprise, and his eyes revealed a deep sense of powerlessness. This damned emperor was like a leech, impossible to shake off!
"General Ding, what do we do now? The person is right outside. Should we let them in or not? The Imperial Advisor needs to give us an explanation!"

Upon hearing this, Ding Pulang looked at the soldiers and then at the tents, saying, "Master is in seclusion and cannot receive us."

"But General, we can't just leave him out there like this. If word gets out, it will be very bad for us. People who don't know the situation will think we've mistreated him!"

"This damned pest, alright, I got it. Go find a few people to prepare and come with me. I'll personally go to greet our Emperor!"

Upon hearing this, the soldier immediately replied, "Yes, sir."

A moment later, Ding Pulang immediately led a group of men to the gate of the military camp. At this time, Xu Shouhui was riding a tall horse and looking at the dejected guards behind him. He decided to cheer them up.

Then Xu Shouhui spoke up: "Don't be so downcast, everyone. It's nothing serious. It's just Xiangyang."

“We started from nothing and built our great Tianyuan Empire. Our empire is still strong. Don’t forget we still have the Grand Preceptor. As long as the Grand Preceptor is here, Chen Jiu Si and Huangzhou Prefecture are nothing to us.”

"In terms of strength, Chen Jiu Si is only at the second level of the Fusion God realm, while our Grand Preceptor is at the fourth level. If our Grand Preceptor is willing, he can easily crush Chen Jiu Si's head. So with the Grand Preceptor here, everything will be fine. We have nothing to fear. We just need to wait for the Grand Preceptor to lead us back."

"At that time, you will all be loyal subjects who have followed the emperor. Everyone can be ennobled and appointed as prime ministers, and wealth and honor will be within your grasp. If you follow me, there is only one thing you can do, and that is to enjoy life!"

Upon hearing Xu Shouhui's words, the guards forced smiles. Xu Shouhui, slightly displeased by their reactions, said, "What, you don't believe me?"

"No no!"

Everyone waved their hands repeatedly, and Xu Shouhui said, "Since it's not that you don't believe my words, then it's that you're questioning the Grand Preceptor's abilities?"

The soldier shook his head again. Xu Shouhui said, "If it's neither this nor that, what do you mean? Are you tired of living?"

The soldiers shuddered, and one of them cautiously said, "Your Majesty, we are not questioning the Imperial Advisor, nor are we questioning Your Majesty. We just feel that the Imperial Advisor and Chen Jiu Si are sworn brothers. Can he help us?"

"Hehe, what's so great about sworn brotherhood? If sworn brotherhood is so good, why didn't the Imperial Advisor make him emperor, but instead made me emperor?"

"Let me tell you, I am aligned with the Ziwei Star, which is the mandate of Heaven. My becoming emperor is approved by Heaven itself. The Imperial Advisor is a person who follows the mandate of Heaven, and he will definitely help me. So your thoughts are superfluous. The Imperial Advisor would never help him with any sworn brotherhood."

"Let me tell you, the Grand Preceptor has already gathered his troops and is preparing to give me a grand welcome. Just watch me, in the Grand Preceptor's eyes I am still the noble His Majesty."

"Just wait for me to regain the throne. When that happens, I will take not only Xiangyang, but also Huangzhou Prefecture. Those will all be my territory, and I will become the rightful king!"

Upon hearing this, the soldiers looked at each other but dared not reply. Just then, someone said, "Look, someone's coming out! Someone's coming out!"

Xu Shouhui chuckled upon hearing this and said, "Well, it's the Imperial Advisor himself who has come to welcome me. Let me tell you, I am the one destined by Heaven."

Just then, Ding Pulang led about twenty people toward them.

(End of this chapter)