Rumble~

Thunder exploded, resounding through the sky.

Dark gray clouds rolled in, obscuring the sky and darkening the sky.

Fu Min walked out of the side hall of the Military Martial Palace, stood on the steps, and looked up at the cloudy ghost weather.

"Look like this, it's about to rain!"

The adjutant, who had been waiting outside, opened the umbrella and handed it to Fu Min.

"Lord Hui, the weather forecast shows that there is a thunderstorm in the Imperial City today, and an orange alert for heavy rain was issued again an hour ago!" the adjutant bowed and replied, speaking in no hurry or slow.

Fu Min hummed and held the umbrella, and was about to walk away, but suddenly thought of something.

"By the way, are those civil and military officials still in the palace?" Fu Min asked.

The adjutant smiled and shook his head: "No, as soon as the bell of the falling dynasty rang, they went back one after another, but ......"

"But what?" Fu Min frowned slightly.

The adjutant looked around and laughed in a low voice: "But Yu Ya and Yu Hua fought again, if it weren't for the chief of the main hall guard warning the two not to learn from Duke Kanan, maybe the two would still be inseparable!"

Fu Min was stunned, and then laughed. "They don't even want to learn from Duke Kanan? Hehe, this is really a big joke!"

With that, Fu Min flicked his sleeves, held an umbrella and walked down the stairs, gradually moving away.

Rumble!

Brilliant white lightning flashed, and thunder roared.

The light of lightning instantly illuminated the entire imperial city, and also shone on the white face of the emperor's black pupils by the windowsill of the attic.

The raindrops crackled and fell, like big beads and small beads falling on a jade plate, gradually becoming more dense, and soon turned into a rain curtain.

Looking at it from a distance, everything the black pupils saw seemed to be shrouded in mist.

The water falling from the eaves began to pour down like a waterfall, and a stream of damp water vapor came to the face.

The black pupil took a deep breath, straightened his chest and stomach, and seemed to want to see the entire imperial city, but the pouring rain made him unable to do so.

This sudden rainstorm made Black Hitomi feel extremely melancholy and loss, just like the battle of the planet that had just been lost, making him feel deep disappointment and incomparably unwilling.

At this moment, Black Hitomi is like a veteran gambler, betting all his bets on the game he thought he would win, but he lost a clean game.

From full of hope to disappointment, the ups and downs of life are too fast and exciting, so that Black Hitomi can't accept it for a while, so there is an embarrassment of fainting and falling in public.

A broken nose can be healed.

A throbbing mood can be calm.

But the interstellar combat force, which no longer exists, has spent many years, a lot of money and manpower to grow and grow little by little.

As the saying goes, ten years of the army, a hundred years of the navy.

The creation, cultivation, and growth of any branch of the armed forces is a slow process, and the higher the scientific and technological content and the more advanced and complex the technical equipment, the slower it will be, and this is a process of accumulation in which quantitative changes cause qualitative changes.

Combat effectiveness cannot be bought.

It is not just a matter of casually finding tens of thousands of people, and then equipping them with some weapons, equipment, and ammunition, to have combat effectiveness.

Composition, staffing, management system, equipment procurement, run-in training......

The cultivation of combat effectiveness is an extremely long process, so the interstellar combat forces are destroyed, and the loss of hundreds of expensive interstellar warships is really distressing, but in comparison, the most painful thing for the black pupil is the loss of personnel.

Before Fu Min left, he discussed and studied with Hei Hitomi for a long time.

With the strong economic strength and strong industrial capacity of the Garan Empire, if you want to build a warship urgently, from an attack cruiser to a star destroyer, as long as you are willing to spend money on it, it is not a problem at all.

However, the interstellar combat unit is a typical high-tech branch of the military, which uses reserve recruitment, recruits retired veterans, recruits civilian technicians, and military academies and colleges serve in advance......

There are a lot of various methods, but it is absolutely impossible to make the interstellar combat force that has been urgently prepared have the same level of combat effectiveness as before the war.

Among the eight previous fleets, even if the Eighth Fleet is garbage, the other seven fleets are still very good, especially the Fourth Fleet that attacked the planet Harlack, and the First and Second Fleet, which are entangled with the enemy fleet, all of which make Black Hitomi remember deeply, their combat effectiveness is not a hasty training of three or five days, but a long period of hard training.

But......

Before Fu Min left, there was a good saying, something is better than nothing, no matter how bad the combat effectiveness is, it can make the enemy jealous and dare not act too recklessly.

Therefore, Hei Hitomi issued an imperial order, giving Fu Min, as the Minister of War, full responsibility for the emergency rebuilding of the interstellar combat force, and at the same time preparing for the battle against the enemy's very likely counterattack.

However, Hei Tong rejected Fu Min's suggestion of 'war mobilization', believing that the dignified Garan Empire, with tens of thousands of years of accumulation, would not enter the state of 'war mobilization' because of a war of this scale.

War mobilization must reach a specific state that can only be entered in a period of all-out war with the enemy when life and death are at stake

Once it enters the state of war mobilization, then the entire empire will serve the war, all the enterprise factory workers, all the resources and minerals of the means of production will be distributed, and most of them will be used for war in addition to ensuring the basic livelihood of the people.

War mobilization is to mobilize the national strength of the entire empire to participate in the war, and to serve the war at any cost and regardless of the cost.

Although it will help to improve combat effectiveness, it will have an incomparably huge impact on the national economy and the production and life of the people.

Because of this, Kurotomi would rather let the annual budget deficit, let the imperial government run a deficit, or even allocate special funds for the royal family, rather than mobilize for war.

Looking at this downpour, the dark pupil's gloomy heart only hoped that the enemy's counterattack would come a little slower, a little slower.

Wow~Wow~Wow......

The pure wood floor staircase in the attic emits a rhythmic stampede.

With the crisp sound of a silver bell, Black Hitomi didn't have to look back to know who was coming.

As the queen, An Xiya did not bring any maids with her, and went upstairs alone to find the black pupil.

"Your Majesty, it's not long overdue for dinner!"

An Xiya was behind the black pupil and gave a standard salute.

The black pupil didn't look back, raised his hand and waved it in the void, and said, "I'm in a bad mood, I don't have an appetite to eat!"

An Xiya sighed secretly, but did not give up, and said softly: "Princess Xinyu is back, I don't mean I must have dinner with you tonight!"

Princess Xinyu?

As soon as he heard that his youngest baby princess was back, the melancholy mood of the black pupil suddenly brightened up a lot.

"Let's go, I haven't seen her in a while!"

The black pupil turned around and took a step, An Xiya smiled and took half a step back, and then followed the black pupil downstairs without hurrying.

Chang Palace.

An Xiya's palace has not been so lively for a long time.

Princess Xinyu is the youngest daughter of the emperor's black pupil, who is only 19 years old this year and is studying at the Imperial Royal Women's Academy.

Like most people in adolescence, Princess Xinyu is favored by the emperor and empress, she grew up pampered and pampered, she is very arrogant and rebellious, and is known as the 'little devil' in the academy, and is the eldest of many royal and aristocratic women.

However, today, Princess Xinyu is very unhappy, she is back to ask for guilt.

In the palatial dining room, Xin Yu was playing with her virtual smartphone alone, her white and delicate fingers tapping the virtual display of the mapping screen from time to time, and she was paying attention to all kinds of news and comments on the Internet after the defeat of the empire.

"Your Majesty has arrived!!"

A slender voice came, and Princess Xinyu immediately stood up, trotted quickly to the side of the porch, and grimaced at the palace maid standing beside her, making a silent gesture.

Hei Hitomi and An Xiya chatted while walking, and when they arrived at the door of the dining room, Black Hitomi glanced at the empty dining table and stopped at the door.

"Xin Yu, come out! I'm not in the mood to play hide and seek with you today!"

Hearing his father's shout, Xin Yu walked out with a depressed face, gave a vague and quick simple salute, put on a straight face, and asked: "My father is not in a good mood, and my daughter is not the same!"

"Oh, you're in a bad mood, who in the academy is upsetting you? Oh no, no one in the Royal Women's College should dare to provoke you, why are you in a bad mood?"

As she spoke, the black pupil beckoned, but Princess Xinyu didn't appreciate it, snorted coquettishly, and went straight to the table.

Dare to be so rude to the emperor, looking at the entire Garan Empire, Princess Xinyu is the only one.

"Your Majesty, don't be angry, Xin Yu is just playing petty!" An Xiya said with a smile on the side.

"It's okay!"

Hei Tong waved his hand, strode to the dining table, and sat next to Xinyu.

Xin Yu lay on the table, Yu Nen's hands supported her cheeks, and she looked at the exquisite dishes on the table with a depressed face, and almost wrote 'anger' on her face.

Black Hitomi was depressed in his heart.

Obviously, he is the one who should be the most angry and depressed, and he is right, a huge number of interstellar combat troops have been wiped out, so that the Garan Empire is always facing the danger of invasion by strong enemies, but what is the result?

This daughter was coquettish in front of her, but he didn't have any anger at all, but felt very curious.

"Let's all go out first!"

As soon as the black pupil spoke, An Xiya immediately signaled to many palace maids and guards to retreat, and there was only a family of three sitting at the same table in the hall.

Without anyone else, Hei Tong immediately put down the emperor's shelf and became a loving father.

"Come on, baby girl, tell your dad well, who made you unhappy!?"

Hei Hitomi leaned over to her daughter, gently put her hand on her shoulder, and asked with a doting face: "Are you dissatisfied with the college? Or did you not do well in the exam? What the hell is the situation, you say!"

"Xinyu, don't have a cold face, hurry up and talk about it!"

An Xiya was kind and kind, and persuaded softly.

Xin Yu's delicate face, like white jade, changed into the appearance of a ferocious creditor, and turned his head to look at the black pupil with cold eyes.

"I'm in a bad mood, and I don't blame you, father!"

"Ahh......h Where can I provoke you? I haven't seen you for a long time, you are wandering around the academy, how can I make you angry, I have wronged me!"

The black pupil looked strange and was extremely stunned.

"Still say wronged?"

Princess Xinyu stood up suddenly, and asked condescendingly: "Say, who bragged to me that our Garan Empire is invincible in the world? And who said that the interstellar combat force will form an expeditionary fleet, and will be able to avenge the Sixth Fleet, defeat the enemy like chopping melons and vegetables, and defeat the enemy to the ground?"

Black Hitomi was stunned.

Princess Xinyu's rhetorical question was indeed what Hei Hitomi had said, where did he know at that time that the enemy would be so strong, and as the emperor, it was impossible for him to say that the enemy was invincible and invincible, it was too undignified and self-confident.

Therefore, in order to show the strength of the empire, in order to express the determination to win, in order to show the domineering and strong that an emperor should have in front of his daughter...... Anyway, Black Hitomi said a lot of big things, but who would have thought that he would lose the battle?

Princess Xinyu's rhetorical question made the black pupil very embarrassed, and her face was blue for a while and white for a while.

"What? Father's stop talking, right? What about my father's domineering attitude when he looked down on the world? What about the pride that swallowed thousands of miles like a tiger when he spoke? What about your belief in victory?"

Princess Xinyu's words were convincing, and her lips were sharp, which really made the black pupil speechless, and An Xiya on the side was so anxious that she was about to cry......

(End of chapter)