Heng Ross Min King Palace.

It is said that it is a palace, in fact, the furnishings here are far from the palace, not to mention the pavilions and pavilions in the Tang Palace, the splendid garden, there is not even a decent hall here, and it can not even accommodate hundreds of officials when it is in the court, and the officials below the fourth grade still need to wait under the sun outside the palace, and they can only be recruited once they need to arrive.

Li Jie's office and residence are also far from the Jingshi and Bosis Palaces, and they are not even comparable to the new Jinyang, a room is low and dim, and the lit ambergris can't even hide the unpleasant smell of the candle, and a large piece of the desk above the desk of King Min's office is also blackened by candles.

However, this humble place is now the thriving heart of Fujian.

As far away as Southeast Asia, Lingnan, Central and South China, North and South India, and even the newly discovered big island in the south, the Min colony named Australia by the King of Min has all traveled thousands of miles to the small cities in this corner of the world, and it can be said that the breath here determines the life dynamics of 50 million people in a radius of tens of millions of square kilometers.

This era, an incredible empire.

At this time, the master of this empire was holding a bunch of pieces of music and looking at the sun distractedly.

Although commerce has flourished in this place, the medical conditions are not very good, and the climate is far less pleasant than in the south, which is close to the ocean, so although Anna is unwilling, Li Jie still sent her to the Persian Gulf coast south of the Hindu Kush Mountains to have a baby and vacation, and let Li'an, Changsun Zhi and Hu Qian'er also accompany her.

So now Li Jie is alone in Hengros, his own woman's family, half in the south, half in Beijing, and a perennial activity in Southeast Asia to provide gold and silver power for his hegemony, gathering less and leaving more, maybe it is the sadness of the hegemon.

It is precisely because of being so busy that there are a bunch of other princes, Li Jie only has three sons, two daughters, and two illegitimate children until now, and now the kings of Taizong, at least one Cao Wangming have seventeen or eighteen babies, so that Li Jie has to borrow a daughter from a relative's house, which is pitiful enough.

And that's not all he worries.

"Shangzhu Country has arrived!"

A respectful voice came from outside, followed by Sphatita, a large, sturdy pentenal general with a slight frost on his head, wearing black armor, respectfully clenched his fists, and fell to the ground on one knee.

"The ministers and gentlemen buy to see Your Majesty, please forgive the ministers for being in armor and not being able to pay full salutes."

Although the voice is still as loud as a bell, Xi Junmai is obviously still a little old, and there are a lot of wrinkles on his face, which makes people not believe that this is a hero who has broken through thousands of enemies in a hundred horses and has almost single-handedly defeated a country in Tuguhun.

Seeing Xi Jun buy it, Li Jie didn't ask Da to continue to sit, but greeted him warmly and helped Xi Jun buy it with his own hands.

When he was poor and white, that is, the generous old general in front of him did not wash his face, risked the danger of raiding his family and exterminating the clan, robbed the team of relatives, and took the first step in hegemony, and he has been following him for so many years, and the most difficult and dangerous tasks are completed by him.

Holding Xi Jun's hand, Li Jie couldn't help but sigh a few words of time.

After talking to Xi Junmai about the old queen for a few words, after all, he is still the king, Li Jie quickly explained the purpose of this time.

"Old Taibao, when you enter the city, you should see the army of the Protectorate of the River Protectorate driving out of the city."

"Yes, the minister saw the heroic posture of the king of Hezhong County leading the army, time flies, and His Majesty's children can be on their own, maybe it won't be long before the old minister can return to his hometown."

Xi Junmai's emotion is indeed from the heart, once upon a time Li Jie was still a child who needed support, but now, his son has become the protector of the whole house, which really makes this veteran have an old man mentality.

But when it came to this, Li Jie suddenly took a step back, and immediately hugged each other with both hands in fists, and bowed down gently.

"Let this child be weak and gentle, he still has a long way to go, Gu begged the old lady to help him with a ride, I don't know if it's possible?"

After being stunned for a moment, Xi Jun's buyer quickly knelt on one knee again, and solemnly kowtowed: "Your Majesty has an order, and the minister's bones are broken, and he will not give up!" ”

At the gate of Hengros City, the iron army in the river that had just caused a sensation the day before yesterday has become the center of attention today, except for the two thousand soldiers and horses who stayed in the south of the city, the remaining 10,000 soldiers, almost all of them were brought out by Li Rang, and the soldiers rode war horses, all of them were fully dressed through the market, and slowly drove out of the city under the awe-inspiring gaze of the merchants, and rushed to the battlefield to quell the chaos.

Although there are at least 100,000 Min troops in Hengros City, this army is particularly eye-catching, and the merchants are all shrewd people, and the army in the Fujian army will retreat sooner or later, and it will be this teenager who will maintain the operation of the entire river at that time.

This is also the first time that Li Rang has decided such a big thing by himself, without Li Jie, without Anna, and without Taifu Yang Yi.

Of course, after all, parents have always been uneasy about their children, after the Hezhong Army left, the Chengnan Church Field was a cavalry galloping out in a hurry, compared to the Hezhong Army, this small cavalry personnel is extremely complex, from the Jurchens in Haidong to the Romans in the extreme west, and than the Yue cavalry of the Hezhong Army, this cavalry is a little more cold Xiao Kill is very spicy.

This is Xi Junmai from following him to break the earth valley Hun hundred people to break the formation of warriors to expand to Hexi thousand horses, follow Xi Junmai all the way from the Central Plains to Armenia, and from the layers of Arabs to kill a bloody way back, the battlefield fighting strength is amazing.

Therefore, Li Jie entrusted Li Rang to Xi Jun to buy.

Unaware that there was such a bodyguard behind him, Li Rang still led the Hezhong Army to the capital of Cao Guo, and along the way, he also issued orders to cooperate with the Shi Kingdom, Mi Kingdom, and Kang Kingdom near Cao State.

On the first day, he couldn't even figure out how to set up camp, how to arrange patrol tasks, and how to distribute grain and grass, but Guo Zhifeng did all this for him, and guided him in every detail.

Like the Anxi Protectorate, the rule of the Hezhong Protectorate is also by virtue of its prestige, under the urging of the deputy protectorate of various countries, several tribes around the Cao State have successively launched armies and people to follow the expedition, about the fourth day, Li Rang's initial 10,000 people swelled to 60,000, and the coalition forces of various countries and ethnic groups waved all kinds of totem banners, the momentum was extraordinary, and they were divided into six armies to defend the capital of Cao State.

In just four days, Li Rang also thoroughly learned how to settle and camp, and he personally arranged all the military camps, and reasonably arranged the supply lines, which not only ensured the safety of the barracks themselves, but also ensured the sufficiency of water sources, and distributed the heavy tasks of various countries evenly, so that the generals from several countries were also quite convinced, admired, and unconsciously, the first coordinated battle between the Hezhong Protectorate and the indigenous peoples was quite harmonious.

However, no matter how harmonious it is, the war is still the first, the whole river is watching this war, if it is won, the river will continue to exist, the countries will continue to obey the rule of the Min State, and the merchants will continue to bring wealth here with full confidence, and if they lose, although they do not say that the rule of the Min State has collapsed, there will still be a lot of waves after all.

Under this pressure, in the evening, Li Rang carried several staff members and lieutenants of the Imperial Protectorate to the front line to personally investigate the enemy's situation, and held the binoculars made by the Min State to carefully look at the city in front of him that dared to challenge the majesty of the Min State.

Just as Li Rang was walking around the city, he didn't know that the people inside were also watching him.

Although it is the capital of a country, the scale of the city of Chaldi is still far from being comparable with the giant city of the Central Plains, even some state cities can not be compared, it is a little larger than the city of Hengros, the circumference is about six miles, along a prominent hilly hill construction, one side is a cliff of seven or eight meters, plus the city wall is eighteen meters high, only the east city can be attacked, this section is still on the hillside, it needs to be attacked from the back, the whole city is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

It's funny to say, this is the second time that Cao Guo's traitor Grusse has been besieged, the last time was in Hengros City, and he was besieged by the Alans at the instigation of the lord Cao Grechun, this time it was because of Cao Grechun, but this old fox has turned into a handful of loess.

It is really impermanent, using the Min State, even if it pays the price of one-third of the territory, Cao Grechun will get rid of Grusser's forces, and encircle him in the city of Gadizhen, seeing that victory is in sight, but the old fox who is one step away from victory will let Grusse fight back and kill him.

At this time, Grousset was about sixty years old, and he had this unique Sogdian face, his face was full of wrinkles from the wind and frost of Central Asia, his face was neatly left to his chest, his leopard head was ringed with eyes, his face was quite exaggerated, and he always had a sense of the insidiousness of a lynx when he smiled.

Although surrounded by layers of the city, this old guy didn't seem to be in a hurry at all, but was full of smiles at a large number of ** teams under the city, especially the main force of the Hezhong Army whose eyes fell heavily on the east, majestically floating the Xuanxi True Dragon Banner of the Fujian Kingdom and the banner of the Hezhong Metropolitan Protectorate.

It's just that from time to time, his attention turns to the north, looking at the Tianshan Mountains that are almost faintly visible