"So? You came to see me?"
He Yue rubbed the center of her brows, looking distressed:
"Because if you find someone else to play this role, you're worried that Alayah won't believe it."
I sat opposite He Yue and replied:
"Rather than worrying that Alayya won't believe it, it's better to worry about other people mistaking it for the truth. After all, you think, two people pretending to be lovers have real feelings when they get along, and finally come together smoothly. Isn't the story pretty common?"
"That's true."
He Yue said, pinching my cheeks with both hands, showing a not-so-kind smile, and asked:
"So it's okay if it's me? It sounds inexplicably unpleasant."
I flattered and said without changing my face:
"Because I think He Yue is a mature adult, and you can definitely become a reliable teammate."
He Yue didn't like this at all, and took a small stack of materials from the desk, patted it in front of me, then sat down again, and said with a smile:
"Mature lord, it sounds really good. But the lord of the city is already an adult, shouldn't it be better to be more reliable? During this period of time, I have been doing love counseling with Liushi every day, and I have almost never touched official documents. .”
I bowed to him:
"So this period of time is thanks to you. He Yue has dedicated herself to being a role model for my generation. Later, I will put up a banner for you, hang it from the east of the city to the west of the city, and write a few big words [My family's chief minister of internal affairs, He Yue, is number one in the world] !"
He Yue looked at me suspiciously and asked:
"Do you have the money to customize banners?"
I shook my head:
"No. But I can give an order to the Home Office and let them do it."
He Yue said indifferently:
"As the chief minister of the interior, I rejected it on behalf of the Ministry of the Interior."
I patted my head, feigning grief and shouting:
"I've been emptied!!"
He Yue reached out and patted the document in front of her again, saying:
"Anyway, you can also issue a city lord's decree to force things to happen. I'm just representing the Ministry of the Interior to oppose wrong policies. Well, there is no need for any banners. The silk business in Yuxi City has just started, so you can't waste so much at once. You approve these official documents Yes, and then I will spend half a day with you."
"Not just approved last time..."
After I complained for a while, I suddenly realized that there should be some changes in the situation outside, and He Yue was waiting for me to make up my mind. She is a very smart person. This kind of smartness is not only a talent in internal affairs, but also an ability to behave in the world. In terms of key strategies, she has always waited for my ideas, and then designed countermeasures based on my ideas.
I took a sheet from the official document she gave me, glanced at it, and was surprised by the words on it.
Lord Lingwu fought back the wave of giants' attack and returned in triumph. According to the description, this time the wave of giants' attack was more ferocious than ever before, and Lingwu's army did not know how many casualties it was, so they barely withstood the giants going south. According to the news from over there, there are mainly four forces that have emerged in this battle. The first is the great swordsman from the Lingwu Territory, who killed two hundred and twenty giants by himself; the second is the Lingwu Lord. , the lone army went deep, and their robes were stained with blood. They walked back on the snow, and hung the head of the red copper giant, one of the seven commanders of the giant clan, on the city wall without a word; As the absolute main force, it involved the frontal attack of the giants.
Fourth, it is a weapon that no one has seen before. That kind of weapon is inlaid on a huge city wall that is hundreds of miles long. The scale, materials and style of that city wall alone are unheard of. And once the weapon on the wall is ignited, it can instantly launch a powerful projectile. The projectile is not gunpowder like fireworks, but highly concentrated magic power. The moment it hits the giants, it will explode into a flood of flames, which is almost equivalent to a round of salvo fired by an eighth or ninth-level magician. It can be called an absolute large-scale Lethal weapons. Moreover, the fortification of the city wall is not bad at all. It can eat the huge fist of the giants without collapsing. It is called "Iron Wall Covered in Ice".
Because of what happened in the king's capital, a gap was broken in the national defense formation, and this large-scale invasion of giants is also related to this. They don't have the wings of dragons, and they can't rush from high altitude to the hinterland of humans at high speed, they can only attack from the border.
Unexpectedly, the Lingwu lord blocked them all from the fortress, leaving more than 1,400 huge corpses behind.
What really surprises me is that this news can actually get out. In the past, the Lingwu Territory was a completely autistic territory, basically not interacting with any territories. The [Hidden Guards] under the Lord of Lingwu are all over Lingwu, and the dark parts outside can't penetrate at all. As long as the Lord of Lingwu wants to keep any news, it is absolutely impossible for outsiders to know.
In fact, this is what she did in previous years. She never talked about the fight against the giants, making it impossible for outsiders to guess Lingwu's true strength.
But this time such a big news came out, I can think of only one possibility.
She did it on purpose.
It's as if the lion sitting in the north is licking its bloody paws and looking behind him after hunting wildly.
She is warning everyone in the world, it's time to stand in line!
—The giant clan has been defeated, and the day when Lingwu goes south is not far away, it's time to make a break.
I frowned, feeling angry for a while. Although it is a good thing that she defeated the giants, it is definitely not good news for Yuxi City to go south so early. When I think of this, I get angry. If it weren't for the hundred-mile city wall and the compressed magic cannon, her current strength would not have expanded to this extent, but then I thought that I gave her these things, and I could only admit that I was unlucky.
I didn't expect that she could use the things that were used to exchange for Hilo so well. Although I gave her the design blueprint of the compressed magic cannon and the formula of cement, but it's only been a few months, and the city wall of a hundred miles can be built, and the heritage of the Lingwu family is too strong.
In contrast, the current strength of the capital is not enough. Although I gave Umi rice seeds of good varieties, but spring plowing and autumn harvesting, it will take a year and a half for the grain to be harvested in this period alone, let alone even if I have military rations to recruit troops, can I win the iron blood? Cavalry is still a problem.
Because Qingyun is gone.
Although I don't have a particularly clear estimate of the combat power of the two sides, Qingyun is a very important factor for the fact that Lingwu has not fought for so many years. That year, the lord of Cangzhou rebelled and was suppressed by the white clothes of the previous generation. Qing Yun, who went around the back and cut the back row, was also an absolute MVP.
Wangdu needs a new tenth level of swordsmanship to be able to break arms with Lingwu.
Umi must also be aware of this point. Among those people I saw in the capital last time, the cultivation level of Commander Jin Yiwei is unfathomable, and he is only one opportunity away from the tenth level. If he can go up to the tenth level of realm, Wangdu will be able to frighten Lingwu and make her give up the idea of going south in a short time.