Royal palace, main hall.
Yan Li was sitting on the golden dragon chair, and his whole body exuded a surge of royal dignity.
He has been on the throne for more than six years. Six years is neither long nor short. Under his rule and the promotion of a series of new policies, the empire's national power has doubled every year.
Three years ago, he established a huge military academy on the outskirts of the imperial capital, recruiting students from all over the country. He himself served as the dean, and retired veteran generals from the four major legions served as instructors.
This year, the first batch of students from the Military Academy officially graduated, totaling 8,000 people.
"Your Majesty, a memorial has been sent from Taihao County asking for help. The Iron-Blooded Army has been attacking the city for ten consecutive days, and Taihao County can no longer hold on."
In the main hall, Jiang Longxiang, the Minister of War, reported loudly and worriedly.
Hearing this, Yan Li did not show the slightest expression. During his six years as emperor, he had already developed a calm expression. He looked around with long eyes and said lightly, "What suggestions do you have?"
"Your Majesty, I have something to tell you!" A young man stood up and said loudly. This man's name was Fang Zhongshu, and he was the first number one scholar in the world's great examination.
Because of his outstanding performance, he was promoted several levels in six years and is now the Minister of War.
"Accurate!"
Yan Li still said two words calmly. He was quite satisfied with the other party's Zhongshu. In his mind, he regarded him as the next Minister of War.
After pondering for a moment, Fang Zhongshu wrote confidently: "Your Majesty, the purpose of Great Qin's sending troops this time is to prevent the empire from completely occupying Great Zhou, thus posing a huge threat to Qin."
Hearing this, everyone including Yan Li nodded secretly.
"So Fang Aiqing, is there any way to solve this problem?" Yan Li asked.
"I have a plan in mind and come boldly. First, the empire needs to send people to the Qin State to talk to them about retreating, promising huge profits. Second, to step up the attack on the Great Zhou Kingdom, as long as the Great Zhou Kingdom is completely defeated If we take it, Qin will have to retreat even if it doesn’t.”
Yan Li nodded appreciatively. If Fang Zhongshu's strategy could be summed up, it could be summarized in eight words: "Build the plank road in the open and visit Chen Cang secretly." Although the strategy worked, the people of Qin were not fools, and it was not easy to deceive them.
Besides, most of the territory of the Great Zhou Kingdom was captured in just one year. The five legions have already tried their best. If they want to increase the speed of the attack, it will probably be very difficult.
After retreating from the court, Yan Li called Jiang Longxiang and Fang Zhongshu to the imperial study alone, along with Fan Dongliu, the commander of the Jinyi Guards.
"Fang Qing's family, I asked you to go to Qin as an envoy to prevent Qin from sending troops. Are you willing?" Yan Li asked with a smile.
Hearing this, Fang Zhongshu bent down and bowed, "It is my duty to share your Majesty's worries. I am willing, but...!"
"If Fang Aiqing has any requests, just come!"
"Your Majesty, I want someone to accompany me on my mission to Qin!" Fang Zhongshu said loudly, and while speaking, he deliberately glanced at Fan Dongliu who was standing aside.
"Ha ha!"
Yan Li laughed loudly, and then his eyes fell on Fan Dongliu. In six years, Fan Dongliu's cultivation has also made great progress. Now, he has reached the King Realm.
"Dongliu, are you willing to go to Qin with Fang Aiqing?"
"I am willing to go!" Fan Dongliu said solemnly. With the support of Yan Li, the current Jin Yiwei has already developed spies into every corner of the Great Wilderness Continent, and Fan Dongliu has become a task that the entire empire talks about, even if it is like the six ministers The top ministers should be polite when meeting him.
He, Fan Dongliu, was just a surrendered minister, but he had achieved a position where one person was inferior to ten thousand people. Therefore, he was full of gratitude to Yan Li.
"Okay! You two go down and get ready!"
"yes!"
The two retreated, and Yan Li's eyes fell on Jiang Longxiang again. "Father-in-law, how many divine machine cannons are there in the divine machine camp?"
Since creating gunpowder, Yan Li secretly formed a department specializing in thermal weapons. With his strong support and some modern knowledge he instilled, he finally created the divine machine cannon in the fourth year.
Yan Li once personally visited the test run and found that the power of the divine machine cannon was very good, even if a strong man in the secret realm was hit, he would be injured.
Therefore, he ordered the massive construction of divine machine cannons and equipped them to the troops the next year. They played a powerful role that cannot be ignored in the battles of the Zhou Dynasty.
Otherwise, although the five armies are strong, they will not be able to conquer most of the Zhou Kingdom within one year.
Because the Shenji Battalion was under the Ministry of War, Yan Li asked Jiang Longxiang.
Jiang Longxiang said quickly, "Back to Your Majesty! Thanks to the workers' efforts overnight, there are 30,000 CNOOC divine machine guns in the warehouse! Two million rounds of artillery shells!"
"Um!"
Yan Li nodded and muttered slightly, "Send people to send five thousand divine machine cannons and five hundred thousand cannons to each of the five legions, and ask them to increase their attack power on me!"
"yes!"
Jiang Longxiang accepted the order and retired.
"Four Elders, come in!" Yan Li said to the air.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Four streaks of green smoke flashed past, and the four worshipers of Wind, Rain, Thunder and Lightning came to the study. After the battle at the Holy Demon Mountain six years ago, Yan Li gave them some crystal stones. In the third year, they successively broke through to the imperial realm.
In order to speed up the attack, Yan Li decided to send the four elders to the battlefield to assassinate the local generals. Using one emperor-level warrior was completely stronger than an army of 100,000.
"Your Majesty, we still need to protect you!"
When the four elders heard that Yan Li actually wanted to send them to the battlefield, they couldn't help but object, because their responsibility was to protect him.
"Four Elders, do you think anyone else can hurt me?" Yan Li smiled, with a confident light shining in his eyes.
When they heard this, they all fell silent. In the past six years, Yan Li has made great progress. His cultivation has already been promoted to half-step of the emperor, and he is only a little short of stepping into the imperial realm.
Therefore, even if the four of them join forces to form a combined attack formation, they will not be able to perform fifty moves in Yan Li's hands, and their combat effectiveness has completely reached the terrifying level of half-step emperor level.
Because Jinyiwei was spread all over the Tianhuang Continent, two more fragments of the Blood Demon Sword were found in the past six years, which made Wufengjian promoted to the Emperor's Divine Weapon.
For a period of time, he asked his spirit fetus clone to help him become the emperor for a period of time, and then he rushed into the depths of the Great Wilderness Forest, and killed millions of high-level monsters in his hands, almost killing all the high-level monsters in the Great Wilderness Forest.
Of the eight years, there were only two years left, because in another two years, the sleeping world spirit would wake up, and he had a hunch that after six years of silence, the people in the big world should send someone to arrive soon.
The three Yinglongs are already strong in the Imperial Realm. Will the people coming this time be strong in the Imperial Realm? Therefore, he has an urgent sense of oppression in his heart. He must unify the Great Wilderness Continent, integrate all the masters, and then use Come and deal with the masters from the outer world.
He has always believed in the saying that there is strength in numbers. As long as there are enough people, it may not be impossible to kill the emperor.
After a long silence, the four elders finally agreed to go to the army.
After taking care of business, Yan Li walked to the harem.
In the imperial garden, two delicate children of about three years old, a boy and a girl, were chasing a butterfly together. Next to them, two young women in Chinese robes were looking at the two children with infinite doting eyes.
"Father!"
The child who was chasing butterflies suddenly noticed Yan Li's arrival, so he opened his young feet and ran towards him.
"Gui'er, Meng'er, slow down, don't fall!"
When Yan Li saw this, he couldn't help but have a happy smile on his face. He rushed forward and picked up the two little guys one on the left and one on the right.
The son's name is Li Gui and the daughter's name is Li Meng.
Return and the dream represent two meanings. Return means that Yanli hopes to return to the earth one day, and the dream means that his arrival in the Tianhuang Continent is like a dream.
On earth, he was not married, so he would not have any children. Therefore, he doted on these children, but he doted on them, but he did not pamper them.
"I have met His Majesty!"
Seeing his arrival, Yu Xiaoxiao and Man Xin came together and stepped forward to salute.
"Xiaoxiao, there's no need to be polite, get up quickly!" Because his hands were not empty, he could only use two strengths to lift the two women up. "How many times have I told you, there is no need to be so polite between husband and wife!"
Both women smiled and said nothing. As the emperor, Yan Li could treat them like this, and they were very satisfied.
After staying here for a while, Yan Li went to visit Wenren Xiaoxian, Su Lingqi and other girls. It is worth mentioning that Jiang Xianer and Shang Xiuyun also gave birth to two sons for him two years ago, so he will They were also named concubines.
Although Shang Xiuyun was a disciple of Luo Shuilian, the leader of the Holy Sect Charming Sect, after the battle in the Holy Demon Mountain, all the remaining sect leaders who survived the war joined the empire and joined the Jin Yiwei.
Therefore, he no longer cared about Shang Xiuyun's identity.
Fang Zhongshu lived up to Yan Li's expectations of him and successfully persuaded Qin to withdraw its troops.
At the same time, the fighting in the Great Zhou Empire became more and more intense. With the arrival of more than 20,000 divine machine cannons and the assistance and assassination of the four emperor-level masters, almost no city could resist the pace of the army.
On the 25th, five armies surrounded the imperial city of the Great Zhou Kingdom. As long as the imperial city was captured, it meant that the Great Zhou Kingdom was about to be destroyed.
The next day, Yan Li arrived at the Imperial City of Great Zhou, accompanied by eleven imperial masters, namely, Li Chengyun, Li Wuming, Xia Houzun, Lin Jingyun, Xu Guoshi, Yinglong, Si Lao, and Wei Zhongxian.
In terms of combat effectiveness, Yan Li is also an emperor-level master.
The ones worth mentioning are Lin Jingyun, Yinglong and Wei Zhongxian. Let’s talk about Lin Jingyun first. He can be regarded as a reincarnated person. After Yanli sent a hundred cloud crystals, his cultivation also improved rapidly and he was promoted two years ago. Imperial realm.
As for Yinglong, although he was only half-way to the imperial realm, he was extremely afraid of death. After being imprisoned for two years, he finally surrendered to Yan Li and became the deputy commander of the Jinyi Guards. During that mission to Qin, he was extremely powerful. The force of arms also played a big role.
Let's talk about Wei Zhongxian. Although this man is an eunuch, he is extremely loyal. Therefore, Yan Li also gave him a part of the crystal stone, which enabled him to successfully break through and be promoted to the imperial realm.
The twelve people simply ignored the tall city wall, flew over, and headed straight for the palace.
Inside the palace.
The Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty was wearing a dragon robe and stood proudly. Behind him stood four imperial masters, namely Yu Wentian, the previous emperor of the Great Zhou Kingdom, and Yu Wenmo, a master of the royal family.
The other two people were Xu Tianyi, the master of Ziyun Pavilion, and Long Zhan, the current national master.
Yan Li led people to the palace as if he were entering a deserted place. His eyes fell on the Emperor Yuwenba of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the hall, and he smiled and said, "Yuwenba, if you are willing to surrender, how about I make you a Happy King?"