Inside the camp outside Yumen Pass, Shen Jinchen had just met Feng Qin and hadn't even finished processing Cen Xi's escape when an urgent report came from Haicheng.

After reading the military report, Shen Jinchen's eyebrows twitched, and he smiled.

He went to great lengths to prepare a generous gift for Di Long's army outside Yumen Pass, but before he could even begin the battle, the situation took a complete 180-degree turn.

Moreover, this decision angered his wife, and he then had to go to great lengths to find her.

He always liked to scheme and plot, but one unexpected event after another allowed him to turn the tide of the battle in an instant. Moreover, Di Rong's most powerful strategist is now his prisoner.

What kind of nonsense is this?

He slumped into his chair, chuckled for a long time, and finally narrowed his eyes, summoning the generals in the military camp to his tent.

Regardless, the battle outside Yumen Pass cannot be fought. Let's take advantage of the favorable situation and press our advantage!

He had to give himself a satisfactory answer to his initial decision, otherwise Cen Xi would have made a wasted trip.

So he quickly ordered his troops to split into three groups and pursue the fleeing Di Rong forces. This time, he was determined to beat them badly and make them afraid to invade the border for at least twenty years.

After splitting up, Shen Jinchen glanced at Feng Qin with a complicated expression, then said to him:

"Take me to see that wise man!"

"yes!"

Feng Qin is now extremely well-behaved and dares not make a single joke. He has already done something, and he really doesn't dare to say anything more about it.

Although the young master did not punish him, he knew very well that the young master had already made a fuss about this.

Inside a tent, Shen Jinchen finally met with the descendants of the Yan Tuo family and the wise men of Di Rong.

"Fengqin, administer the antidote to this elder!"

"yes!"

After responding, Feng Qin took out a colorful bottle, poured out a few pills, and put them into the wise man's mouth.

In a short while, the old man's poison had been neutralized. He coughed several times before asking in a deep voice:

"You went to such lengths to kidnap me and bring me here, isn't that a bit despicable?"

"Warfare is based on the ways of the devil! Sir, binding you is also a form of warfare, isn't it?"

"However, I would like to have a fair fight with you, but unfortunately my wife thinks it would be better to tie you up. I am afraid of my wife, so I went along with her idea. Therefore, I can only ask you to do this."

Shen Jinchen chuckled and generously took all the blame for what Cen Xi had done.

The Yan family's past is worthy of respect, and Yan Tuojue is also a gentleman. He originally wanted to confront such a powerful person head-on, but unfortunately, plans can't keep up with changes.

He misjudged his wife's temperament.

"Ha! It seems that the Beiming royal family really does produce lovelorn individuals. If the last emperor hadn't missed the missing crown prince and cared too much about the empress, such a powerful country as Beiming wouldn't have been overthrown by a scoundrel."

"What's going on now? The King of Da Yan has already issued an edict of self-reproach, yet the Prime Minister still wants to submit to him and make that cowardly emperor in the palace the new emperor?"

Yan Tuojue shook his beard with a smile, his expression full of sarcasm.

“Master Daoyan once predicted my fate: the empire would be within my grasp, but unfortunately, my life would not be long. The only exception is women. So it’s not that I don’t want to; people cherish their lives and want to live well to see the future, right? Wise people don’t need to use such words to shut me up.”

"Now that you are a prisoner of war, have you thought about your future plans? The Northern Ming royal family treated the Yan Tuo family quite well back then. Are you willing to abandon the darkness and embrace the light?"

Shen Jinchen recounted what the monk Daoyan had told him, half true and half false, and then asked Yan Tuojue about his future plans.

This person has some ability; if he abandons the darkness and embraces the light, he will surely be of use to the country and its people in the future.

"People live to fight for their pride. A hundred years ago, the Yan Tuo family ceased to exist in the Central Plains. Most of the Yan Tuo family's wealth was squandered by that scoundrel Yan Shengxiao, so there's nothing left to return to. Besides, I have no heir. If the Prime Minister wants to release me, he can; if he doesn't, he can execute me at any time. That's enough! There's no need to say any more."

After being kidnapped this time, Yan Tuojue thought a lot. Fame and power seemed to have no meaning for him anymore, so why bother?

"Sir, it seems you truly wish to exile yourself. Unfortunately, I am destined to disappoint you. Do you know why I have set up over a hundred camps outside Yumen Pass?"

Shen Jinchen was not surprised at all by Yan Tuojue's answer, because he had already prepared a generous gift and could not refuse.

"Why? Besides wanting to defeat us, is there some other deeper meaning?"

Yan Tuojue narrowed his eyes, looking at Shen Jinchen with a complicated expression.

"Because I cherish your talent! Actually, winning this battle is quite simple. Just like now, if I tie you up, everything will be solved. But I still want to face you and test your true strength."

"Unfortunately, my wife, in a fit of pique, tied you up, so I have no choice but to change my strategy and fight again."

"I also have two pieces of information, both about the Yan Tuo family. Would you be interested in hearing about them, sir?"

Shen Jinchen answered frankly and naturally, never considering how much his words would provoke the person in front of him.

"What is it? Feel free to tell me. I, Yan Tuojue, have lived enough in this life. I've experienced all kinds of storms and waves, so there's nothing I can't hear."

Yan Tuojue answered frankly. He was already old and half of his body was about to be buried, so what did he care about?

"First, Pu Yusai, who recently defected to Di Rong, was someone cultivated by Yan Shengxiao."

"Secondly, the Yan Tuo family is not without descendants. Before heading north, I sent someone to investigate Yan Tuo. You have a nephew who has descendants and is living in seclusion in a village in the south. They are currently having a very difficult time."

"If you remain unmoved after hearing all this, then pretend I never came today, and you will spend the rest of your life in prison!"

Shen Jinchen gave the old man opposite him a meaningful look, and then cruelly told him what he knew.

He cannot interfere with the other party's choice.

If the other party neither seeks revenge nor wants to revitalize the family, then so be it. Lock this person up for another month. The day he goes to find Cen Xi after a month will be the day he is beheaded.

He always does things this way; he won't let people go. Since they can't be used for his own purposes, eliminating future troubles is the only true course of action.

"What did you say? That Park Yu-se is an accomplice of that scoundrel Yan Sheng-xiao?"

As soon as Shen Jinchen finished speaking, the old man, who had been calm and collected, suddenly had tears welling up in his eyes, which also held a certain resentment.

"Of course, my men never give false information, sir, you can trust me on that."

Judging from his face, Shen Jinchen was certain that the old man hated Yan Shengxiao to the core. If the other party hadn't died long ago, he was afraid that he would skin him alive and tear him apart if he had the chance.