On the way back to Shangjing, Cheng Xiuyi controlled the Feihong Sword without saying a word, and the whole team looked very dull, because the scale of this battle was very small and the speed was also very fast, plus Xia Yuan's side was a rapid reaction force, so when they returned to Shangjing, less than half an hour had just passed.

After returning to Shangjing, Cheng Xiuyi said to Helan Mingxiu: Helan Aiqing has worked hard all day, I don't think I should attend today's dinner, go back and rest early, and don't participate in tomorrow's court meeting.

After talking to Helan Mingxiu, Cheng Xiuyi turned her head and said to the people around her: Come on, you compensate Lord Helan for returning home, and take care of it, if Lord Helan has any mistakes, only you ask, do you understand?

The two junior colonels next to him followed Helan Mingxiu after giving a Xia Yuan military salute, but everyone knew that what Cheng Xiuyi said was actually house arrest, but it was a special period, and Cheng Xiuyi didn't think about how to deal with him.

Helan Mingxiu nodded awkwardly, and under the supervision of the two junior colonels, he turned around and walked in the direction of his mansion.

Cheng Xiuyi looked at the sky, the time for the dinner was about to arrive, but she had already instructed her subordinates to tell Cheng Mingci about her rescue of Helan Mingxiu, so Cheng Xiuyi believed that the time of the dinner would still be delayed.

So Cheng Xiuyi went back to her palace directly, changed her clothes and prepared to attend the dinner, while Fang Yunming and the others were even simpler, returned to the state guesthouse to wash their faces, and restored the shape of the exoskeleton armor to the appearance of a military dress.

As soon as they were ready, the official in charge of the state guesthouse came to Fang Yunming's room and told them that the carriage that greeted them in the palace was already waiting outside the door of the state guesthouse.

So Fang Yunming and other twenty officers hurriedly lined up and came to the door of the State Guesthouse, and when they came to the door, they saw a total of ten very luxurious carriages parked in front of the gate.

The carriages were very luxuriously decorated, drawn by two very tall horses, and as a senior botanist and botanist, our Baron William, could tell by sight that these horses were taller and more robust than any other horse on earth.

Even the tallest horses on earth are fifty centimeters shorter than this one, and the most valuable thing is that these twenty horses are all snow-white, and there is not even a single stray hair on their bodies.

As a professional zoologist, William sighed and said: Almighty God, why do you favor life on this planet so much?

After he finished speaking, he turned to everyone and said: Have you noticed that any clan on this planet is very tall except for humans.

But fortunately, their human body is about the same size as us, if their body is the same as these animals and plants, then we have come to a planet where giants live, then we will be very inferior.

Fang Yunming and the others glanced at him, but no one spoke, because everyone knew that the reason why he cared so much about height was because he couldn't soak to mm like he did on the earth.

You must know that our lord of the baron is a self-proclaimed saint of the world's first love, and while everyone was laughing with each other, an official wearing a star-crowned sand came to them.

The style of this star-crowned Wusha is similar to the Wusha of the Ming Dynasty officials in China, except that the cap wings protruding from both sides of this Wusha are composed of two things that resemble the stars in the sky, so it is called the star-crowned Wusha.

This is when Fang Yunming and the others first came into contact with Xia Yuan officials, Cheng Xiuyi told them, not only that, but Fang Yunming also knew that the officials here were of the same grade as the officials in ancient China, and they were also divided into nine grades and eighteen grades.

The difference is that when distinguishing their grades, you can tell from their hats that the highest Dazai Zhi and the two Zaizhi on the left and right are wearing the sun crown Wusha, and the ministers below them are wearing the moon crown Wusha, and the officials below the phase are wearing the star crown Wusha worn by the official in front of them.

The officer was dressed in a blue robe embroidered with a strange bird, above which was a full moon, surrounded by stars, and at the hem of the robe was a pattern of waves crashing against the shore.

Fang Yunming knew that the color of the official uniforms they were wearing and the embroidered patterns on them were all related to their grades, and if there was any mistake in the official uniforms worn by low-grade officials, they would be punished very severely.

This middle-aged official was the official sent by the emperor to take them to the palace for a dinner, and there were nine other officials besides him, and it seems that each car was equipped with an official.

They rode in a carriage for every two people, a carriage for three people, including the officer who led them.

The carriage was very spacious, not to mention two people, even seven or eight people would not seem crowded, Fang Yunming and Moon shared a car, so everyone got into the carriage from the palace to pick them up and entered the inner city of the imperial city.

Fang Yunming's state guesthouse is very close to the inner city of the imperial city, and the distance is probably less than a quarter of an hour, Fang Yunming and the others sat in the car, opened the curtain, and planned to watch the night view along the way, but what made them very disappointed was that many mansions along the seemingly magnificent capital were rarely lit.

So Fang Yunming asked the accompanying officials in confusion: Is there still a curfew at night in the capital of your country?

After hearing this, the official was stunned for a moment, and then immediately reacted, and he said in a calm tone: "Oh, I did have a curfew law at the beginning of the founding of Xia Yuan, but from the fifty years after the founding of my Xia Yuan to the present, there has been no curfew law for nearly 10,000 years.

Although now those barbarian soldiers outside the gate are coming to the city, but I, Xia Yuan, a big country, how can I be afraid of those shameless barbarians, Gongzi saw that the reason why those mansions were not lit was because the people in the mansions had moved away, so naturally no one was in charge of the lights.

Moon next to him asked suspiciously: Why did they move away, is there any other place in your country that is better than your country?

The official smiled reservedly and said: My Xia Yuan has been restored for thousands of miles, and the rivers and mountains are full of beautiful scenery, and places that are better than the capital naturally abound.

As for why they moved away, this is not known to the lower officials, after all, my Xia Yuan is a free country, and anyone who wants to go wherever they want as long as he does not violate my Xia Yuan's laws, can naturally go there.

As soon as Fang Yunming heard this, he knew that it was inconvenient for others to say something to him, so he and Moon did not get entangled in this matter, after all, this was an internal matter of their own country, and it was inconvenient for him as an outsider to ask too much.

However, the official who accompanied them was very talkative, and told Fang Yunming a lot about Xia Yuan's customs and strange things, which made Fang Yunming and Moon not lonely.

While listening to the story told by the official, the two of them lifted the curtain of the car to watch the scenery outside the car, because the imperial city was inhabited by the imperial family, so on both sides of the inner city of the imperial city and around the state guesthouse were the palaces of various royal families.

In particular, there is a huge square in front of the inner city of the imperial city, the scale of this square is the size of two Tiananmen Square, and on both sides of this square there are six palaces that cover a huge area and are actually magnificent.

These twelve palaces are like guards guarding the inner city of the imperial city, and the official introduced that these twelve palaces are the palaces of the twelve golden-crowned princes of the empire, and the first one on the right is the residence of the emperor's uncle Cheng Zuting, the palace of King Lu.

After that, there is the Xu Palace, the Hong Palace, the Jin Palace, the Hui Palace, and the Xuan Palace, these six princes are all important tasks in the Xia Yuan Empire, among which the prestige of Cheng Zuting, the king of Lu, is the highest, and his personal cultivation is also the highest, it is said that he is the most likely to break through the grandmaster level and become a sword saint in one fell swoop.

And this prince is also the commander of the entire inner city of the imperial city, which shows his status in the emperor's mind, of course, this is also related to the pessimistic throne, if this prince was not dedicated to the pursuit of a breakthrough in personal strength, the person who is sitting on the emperor's seat now may be this King Lu Chitose.

Moreover, in this battle to defend Beijing, this prince led his subordinates to rush into the enemy's encirclement, rescued Her Royal Highness the princess and the Pegasus knight from the enemy's encirclement, and once again won a good reputation for himself.

And he is also one of the oldest royal families in all the royal families now, even Emperor Cheng Mingci has to respect and call him an imperial uncle when he sees him, and the remaining five princes are also respected in the royal family.

The six palaces on the left are Xi Wangfu, Anwangfu, Yuwangfu, Hunwangfu, Weiwangfu and Yuewangfu, these six princes are all the same generation as the emperor to share the royal family.

Among them, King Xi is also a strong man at the level of a grandmaster, but he cultivates Xia Yuan martial arts, so he is a martial sect, so King Lu and King Xi are known as the second sect of the royal family.

His status is second only to King Lu in the royal family, but the five princes behind him are not as good as the five princes behind King Lu, but their status in the Xia Yuan royal family is still not to be underestimated, and these twelve princes are all members of the Royal Elders' House.

Fang Yunming and the others looked at these twelve magnificent palaces, and felt like twelve guards guarding the inner city of the imperial city where the emperor lived.

In this way, they talked and chatted for a while, and after a while, they came to the inner city of the imperial city, and when they got out of the car, they were shocked by the magnificent and tall inner city.

Neither Fang Yunming, nor Moon or other people from Earth had ever seen such a huge city, yes, they could only describe the complex they had seen in terms of a city.

Today's Chenghua Gate, the main gate of the inner city of the Imperial City, is the middle gate is wide open, behind the door into Fang Yunming's eyes is a huge square, Fang Yunming once went to the Palace Museum in Beijing after joining the army, in his impression that the square in front of the three major halls is already very huge, but the huge square in front of them is really small compared to that.

The huge square in front of them can be about ten times the square of the Forbidden City, and a high platform of nearly ten meters high is set up in the center of the square, and on the high platform is a huge palace, which is very magnificent and exquisite.

Fang Yunming estimated by visual inspection that the palace is 380 meters high, 560 meters long from north to south, and 300 meters wide from east to west.

From the point of view of architectural style, it is very similar to the ancient Chinese Han and Tang architectural styles, and the overall atmosphere is magnificent. Fang Yunming and the others looked up at this huge palace, their hearts were amazed in addition to amazement, and it was difficult for them to express this emotion in their hearts in words.

It is even more difficult for them to express their deep admiration for the civilization in which they live in their mere words, and they have begun to be drawn to it.