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Chapter 763 I have one thing for you to do.

Upon seeing Yang Shaofeng, Master Shihang immediately began wailing, "Your Highness, have mercy! Your Highness!"

Yang Shaofeng lowered his body slightly, looked at Master Shihang who was sprawled on the ground like a lump of mud, and laughed: "It hasn't been that long since I last saw you, Master Shihang, and you've already turned into such a wretched state?"

Master Shihang, enduring the pain, replied with a forced smile, "Your Highness is right. This humble monk is indeed in this sorry state. If I can make Your Highness smile, then my life has not been in vain."

Yang Shaofeng chuckled.

"Bald donkey, you are now nothing more than the butcher and the fish on the chopping block. So just say whatever sounds nice to you."

"If we were to switch places, you would be the butcher and I the fish on the chopping block. I'm afraid you would tear me to pieces alive."

“We’re all seasoned foxes, you don’t need to cry and beg for mercy in front of me.”

Master Shih Hang's fawning smile froze instantly.

Yang Shaofeng suddenly sneered and said seriously, "Bald monk, I have something for you to do. If you do it well, you will live; if you do it poorly, it won't just be you who dies."

"Of course, you shouldn't even think about deliberately messing things up and dragging me down with you."

"Because I will definitely be fine, but the monks of the Dharma Temple on Qingyuan Mountain will definitely be in trouble."

Master Shihang immediately broke out in a cold sweat and said in a trembling voice, "Please give your orders, Your Highness."

Yang Shaofeng chuckled and said, "My request is very simple: you and Gu Chengzhi will go to Japan."

What?

Should we send a monk to Japan?

Wasn't he afraid that the monk might never return?

Amitabha Buddha, what on earth is Yang the madman doing?

Master Shihang looked bewildered, and Yang Shaofeng continued, "Once you get to Japan, you can be a monk or an ascetic if you want, just figure out how to become a guest of honor for those daimyo and feudal lords as soon as possible."

"Then, I don't care what reasons you give or what you do, as long as you can incite those daimyo and feudal lords to fight each other, the more brutal the fight, the better."

"As for Gu Chengzhi, he continued his old business, except that he sold short and ugly people from Japan to Dengzhou Prefecture."

Yang Shaofeng glanced at Master Shihang and said, "Now that the job is done, you two can move on."

“If you two fail in your mission, you will die. All thirty-seven monks and novices in Damo Temple, and Gu Chengzhi’s entire family of over a hundred people, will die with you.”

Master Shihang's face turned pale and then red. Yang Shaofeng then instructed Chang Xiaojiu, "Have someone bring Gu Chengzhi up."

Gu Chengzhi's backbone is indeed tougher than Master Shihang's.

However, faced with the threat of life and death of over a hundred relatives from the entire nine clans on the other side, and the possibility of the ancestral graves remaining secure, Gu Chengzhi's resolve was not a few seconds stronger than Master Shihang's.

"I've got it."

"Go to Japan, first cooperate with that bald monk Shihang to create the identity of a master, then cooperate with him to incite the daimyo and feudal lords of Japan to fight, and then transport Japanese slaves from Japan to Dengzhou Prefecture."

"Men should be young, strong, and capable of working; women should be young, beautiful, and have a good figure."

"Incidentally, we should also find out the spheres of influence of the various feudal lords and daimyo of Japan, as well as the geographical situation and mineral resources of the entire country."

"Don't worry, Your Highness. I may not be good at other things, but I can definitely handle these unorthodox methods for you perfectly."

Yang Shaofeng nodded in satisfaction, glanced at Master Shihang and Gu Chengzhi again, stood up, and said as he walked out, "If you two are confident enough, you can try to escape and see if the Embroidered Uniform Guard can catch you."

……

Even after standing outside Jinling City, Master Shihang still couldn't believe that he had actually left the Jinyiwei prison alive.

"Snapped!"

Master Shihang slapped himself hard.

"Still alive!"

We're really still alive!

"Woooo..."

Master Shihang was both crying and laughing, but Gu Chengzhi's face looked as ugly as if he had eaten three pounds of excrement.

"Now that we've been thrown into that godforsaken place in Japan, what's the point of living?"

Gu Chengzhi spat angrily and cursed, "Using threats against people with your entire family and ancestral graves at the drop of a hat, is that how a gentleman behaves?"

Master Shihang rolled his eyes and said in a low voice, "As the saying goes, the sea is wide enough for fish to leap, and the sky is high enough for birds to fly."

"Once we reach the sea, or even Japan, we will be like fish returning to the ocean, or birds returning to the mountains and forests."

"At worst, we can just discard these burdens and start all over again?"

Gu Chengzhi glanced at Master Shihang and sneered, "You don't need to test me."

"Now that you don't trust Gu, Gu doesn't trust you either."

"The only solution now is to honestly and diligently complete the tasks assigned to us by Yang the Madman."

"As for whether we live or die in the future, we can only leave it to fate."

Master Shihang seemed unwilling and said in a deep voice, "Are you so afraid of Yang the Madman? Or are you so reluctant to part with those ancestral graves and your family?"

Gu Chengzhi sneered and said, "Bald monk, don't try to get information out of me, and don't even think about reporting me."

"As for whether I, Gu, am truly so afraid of Yang the Madman and the Embroidered Uniform Guard... I'll tell you the truth directly: yes, I am."

"Back then, Gu used the power of the sect to pin everything on Yang Zhongyuan and his son, and even Hu Weiyong's adopted son Tu Jie was dragged into it."

"But what became of the Empress?"

"No matter how well Gu hides himself, all the officials, gentry, wealthy merchants, and tycoons who stand in his way will be uprooted by Dagen."

"Therefore, I don't think I can escape the pursuit of those henchmen of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, nor do I intend to experience their pursuit firsthand."

"If you bald thief have the guts, run away yourself. I, Gu, certainly don't have that kind of courage."

As Gu Chengzhi finished speaking, Master Shihang fell silent once again.

Was it because I acted too hastily that I aroused Gu Chengzhi's suspicion?

Or is it that he doesn't have any real skills and is just trying to scam this humble monk?

Pity.

Originally, I was thinking of selling Gu Chengzhi, which would at least be considered as making amends for my crimes.

But given the current situation, it's already a stroke of luck that I'm alive enough to cause trouble in Japan, let alone framing Gu Chengzhi.

While Monk Shihang was lost in thought, Yang Shaofeng, standing on the city wall of Jinling, was observing the two from afar.

"Has the telescope's accuracy been improved again?"

"Not only is it clearer than before, but it can also see farther."

"No, not really, it's really good."

While examining the binoculars in his hand, Yang Shaofeng smiled and said to Zhou Jingxin, "Have someone inform the students from Ningyang County to come to the Prince Consort's residence tonight to find me."