Can I get to the other side?

Two days later, the palace.

Today is the day when the army swears to go out for battle. This news has already spread throughout Yecheng, and countless people are extremely concerned about this matter.

Because this time the troops are marching south, it is the emperor's battle to regain the Central Plains, which is of great significance. Moreover, as the rebel leader, Yuan Shao will also be beheaded at this swearing-in ceremony to sacrifice the flag.

All the people are waiting to see the fate of the thief leader.

In the bedroom.

The oath-taking ceremony was approaching, and Liu Xie was putting on his armor and making final arrangements in the palace.

Under the service of the two sisters Zhen Mi and Xiao Qiao, he took off his majestic dragon robe and put on a military uniform.

"Your Majesty is truly majestic."

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

Liu Xie is dressed in a black robe and armor, with sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes. He is extremely handsome, and his brows can't hide his heroic spirit. Any woman who looks at him will feel her heart beat faster.

Moreover, as an emperor, he rarely wears military uniform. Today is the first time for the two sisters, Qiao and Qiao, to see him.

"Yeah, it just looks majestic."

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

But the soldiers actually have to fight in battle and pay their lives. This time when the troops are sent 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 sends his troops south this time."

"The world will then be at peace, and soldiers will no longer have to sacrifice."

Hearing this, Liu Xie stretched out his hand to rub Zhen Mi's face and said with a smile: "Then I can borrow my concubine's good words. I also believe it will happen."

Zhen Mi had a sweet look on her face.

Dressed neatly, Liu Xie went to the propaganda room.

Not long after he arrived, Gao Lan walked into the palace and said respectfully to him: "Your Majesty, the traitor Yuan Shao has been brought outside the palace."

Liu Xie stood in front of the wall with his hands clasped behind his hands. He looked carefully at the map of the Han Dynasty hanging on the wall. Hearing this, he said without looking back: "Bring it in."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Gao Lan bowed to accept the order and waved.

Soon two guards dragged Yuan Shao in, whose hands and feet were heavily shackled.

Then Gao Lan retreated with the guards.

Only Yuan Shao and Liu Xie were left in the propaganda room.

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

He didn't speak, let alone curse.

Like an emotionless corpse.

Liu Xie didn't seem to notice Yuan Shao's arrival. He just looked at the Kanyu map in front of him intently, without even turning around.

The atmosphere fell into an eerie silence.

After a long time like this, Liu Xie looked away from the Kanyu map, turned to look at Yuan Shao, and said with a faint smile: "I haven't seen him for many days, Benchu."

"What's life like in prison?"

Yuan Shao twitched the corner of his mouth slightly and sneered: "You should know better than me how I am in prison, why bother putting on such a hypocritical face and giving false greetings!"

"Don't you feel sick?"

He and Liu Xie have been at odds with each other for a long time and have been fighting to the death. Liu Xie killed his entire family before, but now he greets him with a smile. His hypocrisy is simply disgusting.

"Words have to have a beginning, right?"

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

"After all, if you don't say some things, I'm afraid you won't have the chance to say them in the future."

Now the army has been assembled in the southern suburbs.

Just wait for him to review and kill Yuan Shao's sacrificial flag, and then the army will move forward and head straight to Xuzhou and Yanzhou.

Yuan Shao's life has entered a countdown.

"What do you mean, you don't regret asking me?"

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 Shou's words!"

"When Jushu brought you back that day, I should have said that you were a lie and killed you!"

"You should let that fake emperor from Xu County become the emperor for you!"

If he could do it over again, Yuan Shao would definitely choose to kill Liu Xie in the name of pretending to be the emperor, so that nothing would happen again!

It's a pity that there is no if in everything.

What happens is what happens.

Hearing Yuan Shao's words, Liu Xie couldn't help shaking his head and laughing: "Benchu, Benchu, you still haven't realized the reason for your failure..."

"That's all, you won't listen even if I say it, so I won't waste my time with you."

"Aren't you always curious about whether the identity of my emperor is true or false? The reason why I see you today is to clear up your doubts."

One sentence made Yuan Shao frown.

There was even more vigilance in his heart.

The issue of the true and false emperor has been concluded. All kinds of evidence show that Liu Xie is the real emperor. What else can be said to clear up his doubts now?

However, the next moment, what Liu Xie said made his expression change, and it also made him feel unexpected.

"You were kind to me from the beginning."

Liu Xie calmly revealed the biggest secret hidden deep in his heart that no one except Emperor Xian of Han and Empress Fu knew anymore.

He no longer called me, but called me.

Then he looked at Yuan Shao, who was 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 with Gong Yu. First, I had no choice, and second, I wanted to make a living. My biggest dream at that time was to live well."

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

"For example, becoming a real emperor."

Yuan Shao felt creepy all over his body. After reacting, he stared at Liu Xie and gritted his teeth and said: "Impossible, how could you be fake! Do you still want to lie to me?"

"Is this your new torture method!"

How could Yuan Shao believe Liu Xie's words, because there was too much evidence to prove that Liu Xie was the real emperor. Even Fu Wan, Yang Biao, and Empress Fu admitted this.

It was a foregone conclusion that Liu Xie was the real emperor, but now suddenly telling him that it was fake was simply absurd!

"Who can tell the difference between the real and the fake?"

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

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

"Now I occupy the land of five states, with a million soldiers, and my counselors are like rain and generals like clouds. There is no need for people to believe whether it is true or not."

Liu Xie confessed everything to Yuan Shao today. There was no other meaning. He just wanted to tell the enemy who gave him endless pressure and motivation.

He has kept these words in his heart for too long.

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

There is no problem in telling Yuan Shao, who is about to die, and there is no need to worry, because even if Yuan Shao goes out and yells, no one will believe the words of a rebellious traitor.

So he dared to speak his mind at ease.

"Don't try to fool me!"

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

"You said with your own mouth that they helped you escape, how could they admit something that didn't happen!"

Yang Biao, Fu Wan, Dong Cheng, and Empress Fu, these are the people who often accompany the emperor, and they know best whether the emperor is real or not.

If Liu Xie is fake, and Xu County is the real one, how could they support Liu Xie?

"Because of human nature." Liu Xie's voice was flat, 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 noticed it, but you just didn't want to believe it. People always like to seek benefits and avoid harm, and believe in things that are beneficial to themselves."

"It's the same with Yang Biao and others."

"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 one."

"And it just so happened that Xu You went to Xu County again, adding fuel to the fire, making them suspicious, and they suspected each other whether the other party had secretly replaced the emperor."

"As the saying goes, suspicion arose, and doubts arose. "

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

"Are there any flaws? Of course there are, but they will not think deeply about it, nor will they explore it deeply."

"Because this is the human heart."

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

"After all, not everyone can be like you and not care about the lives of the whole family. I admire you for this."

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

It made him recall the scene of the whole Yuan family being beheaded again.

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

"How could this be possible..."

Yuan Shao said with trembling lips. He couldn't believe that the reason why Yang Biao and others supported Liu Xie was just because they were suspicious of each other!

It sounds absurd that a group of old foxes would actually believe in the unfounded substitution, but after listening to it, he strangely felt that it was normal.

Because Liu Xie was right, people's hearts were like this.

He had caused a disaster step by step because he was unwilling to believe that Liu Xie, a flattering refugee, would betray him.

He was unwilling to believe it even when he was caught.

So think about it from another perspective. If he was any one of the three Yang Biao, he would have doubts in his heart when he saw that Liu Xie had the endorsement of the Yuan family, the strange phenomenon from the sky, and the approval of Kong Rong.

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?"

"That's right."

Liu Xie admitted it frankly, and looked at Yuan Shao with a smile: "Your foundation is all in my hands. Except for your head, which can be used to sacrifice and boost morale, there is nothing I can use. I don't need to lie to you anymore."

"Benchu, this is the truth of everything."

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

After saying this, Liu Xie seemed to have unloaded a heavy burden from his shoulders. He felt relieved and relaxed all over.

Hearing this, Yuan Shao felt like he was struck by lightning.

He looked at the smiling Liu Xie in front of him, and a deep fear could not be suppressed in his heart, as if Liu Xie had turned into some terrible beast.

A refugee actually managed to turn the fake into the real, making everyone in the world think that the real emperor was the fake, and even a group of close officials were deceived.

What a means!

If Liu Xie hadn't told him this today, he would have been kept in the dark until his death. Just like Ju Shou, he would have thought Liu Xie was the real emperor!

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

Yuan Shao inexplicably came up with this sentence in his mind, Liu Xie stole the country of the Han Dynasty, not just as a simple Hou, but also became the Nine-Five Supreme!

Liu Xie walked slowly to the map of the Han Dynasty, stretched out his hand, and clenched his palm into a fist, as if he wanted to encompass the entire world.

"Since I am the emperor, I should unify the country of Han Dynasty!"

"End this chaotic world of feuding princes fighting for hegemony!"

"I will shoulder the heavy burden of the two capitals and thirteen states of the Han Dynasty on one person's shoulders, and create a peaceful and prosperous era, so that I can live up to this hard-won supreme position!"

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

"My whole life I have been walking on thin ice."

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

Yuan Shao had already recovered from the shock. 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 opened his mouth and cursed angrily: "You are a treacherous villain, occupying the magpie's nest and taking away my inheritance, you will die violently!"

Liu Xie sighed: "At first, to this day, you don't even want to call me Your Majesty?"

Yuan Shao gritted his teeth and said: "What you have now is just good luck. I didn't lose to you!"

"I regret that I listened to Jushu's words and made you pretend to be the emperor, and your inheritance was taken away from you!"

Seeing Yuan Shao being so stubborn, Liu Xie stopped talking to him and called Gao Lan, who was far away outside the announcement room.

"Let's drive to the southern suburbs."

After Liu Xie took a deep look at Yuan Shao, he strode towards the announcement room.

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

…

We set out for the expedition today, and the streets in Yecheng were deserted by thousands of people.

Countless people gathered on the street, and the scene was a sea of ​​people, all of whom came to watch the army swear the oath.

"I heard that Duke Wen will personally lead the troops to fight against the thieves this time!"

"Mr. Wen leads the troops? Then this battle will be won without a doubt!"

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

"Your Majesty is wise and powerful. This time you go south to fight against thieves, you will definitely win a great victory! Make my great man proud of God!"

"Your Majesty is mighty! The big man will win!!"

People gathered on both sides of the street, making it extremely noisy and crowded.

However, suddenly, the noise became louder, and everyone looked in one place.

At the end of the road, Liu Xie, dressed in armor and riding a white horse, was walking slowly under the guidance of the Yulin Guards, with a prison car following behind him!

The person inside is none other than Yuan Shao!