The inner imperial city of the imperial city covers an area of more than three square kilometers, which is built on the basis of the earliest upper capital, equipped with four city gates, respectively, the east gate Chenghua gate, the west gate Qiyue gate, the south gate Fengli gate, the north gate Yutai gate, the east gate is generally not opened, only the emperor is married and the large court meeting is opened, the remaining three gates are generally opened in the morning when the city is closed, the city wall is equipped with more than 60 crossbows of air defense spells, these crossbows need twenty strong soldiers and a junior magician to operate can be used both high and flat, can be loaded with twelve powerful arrows at a time, these arrows and crossbows even such a strong creature as the two major dragons in the East and the West did not dare to face the attack of this kind of crossbow.

There are 99,999 and a half rooms in the pavilions and pavilions in the imperial city in the imperial city, including the inner court where the emperor and empress, the concubines and the underage princes and princesses live, as well as the nine halls where the emperor summons the ministers to work and discuss matters, these nine halls are Tianyuan, Tianxia, Tianshu, Taiji, Diheng, Wenyin, Wuxiao, Juyi, and Fayi.

There are three of the most important of these nine halls, the Emperor Heng Hall is the place where the emperor holds various large-scale celebrations and banquets in the imperial court every day, Wenyin is the place where the rulers work, the tiger is the military center of the empire, and the other halls also have their own uses, the names of the nine halls are named according to the names of the nine stars, and there is a number of about 30,000 dragon and tiger guards stationed in the imperial city all the year round, there are five hundred and sixty warlocks in it, all of them are wearing crown warlock levels, their chief is three magicians, these three are royal worship, and there are more than 2,000 senior warriors here, there are two direct commanders of more than 30,000 people, and a master of the sword, a martial arts master, both of them are from the imperial family, this army is well-equipped, well-trained, and most importantly loyal, the supreme commander of this army is the emperor, and they are directly responsible to the emperor.

And the outer imperial city of the imperial city lives in the Xia Yuan royal family, a huge royal group, just imagine a country that has lasted for 10,000 years, how many of his royal family will be, so the outer city of the imperial city has reached more than ten square kilometers, there are five city gates, and the shape of the outer city, if you fly into the sky, you will find that the whole city has five sides of the shape, the five city gates are the north gate for the black water gate, the south gate for the red fire gate, the east gate for the raw wood gate, the northwest gate for the golden light gate, the southwest gate for the solid soil gate, these five city gates represent the five directions, but also represent the five elements, which means that the royal family will continue to reproduce forever, in order to protect these princes, the emperor and the emperor Tianhuang, the city wall of the outer city is also 400 meters high, The thickness is also more than 50 meters, and there are more than 130 air defense spells on the city wall, and the crossbow is also high-level dual-purpose, but the power of these crossbows cannot catch up with those in the inner city of the imperial city, because the arrows required for magic crossbows are very laborious to make, first of all, the material, secondly, on the arrows, a powerful spell-breaking array should be carved, and then the warlock is also needed to infuse the power of magic on the arrow, so it takes a whole day for a crowned warlock to make such an arrow, so although the empire is strong, the entire empire is more than 5,000 sets, In addition to the inner city of the imperial city, there are more than 60 sets in the arsenal for many years, and all the others are used as preparations at important border passes, for example, there are more than 40 in the Yingchou Pass, and there are also 15,000 tiger tooth guards stationed in the outer city of the imperial city, and this army also has a long-range force composed of crowned warlocks, and their direct commanders are also three royal worshippers, all of whom are master-level sorcerers, and all the soldiers of this army are also high-level warriors, their commanders are five master-level warriors, and the supreme commander of this force of 15,000 people is also the emperor of the empire, and there are two arch cities outside the imperial city, and it is better to say that it is two cities than two barracks, Because there are 20,000 troops stationed here, these two armies are not the showmans in the imperial city, they are all rotated by the imperial border guards, the strength of these people may not be as high as the strength of the people in the imperial city, but these people have all been on the battlefield, and they have several lives in their hands, it can be said that all of them are elite soldiers in a hundred battles, although they do not have a long-range force such as a magician, but they have a crossbow soldier composed of three thousand people, these crossbowmen each have a magic crossbow in their hands, and these hand-held crossbows weigh three kilograms and the whole body is composed of various magic alloys, This magic crossbow can be loaded with a total of twelve magic metal alloy arrows with a length of fifty centimeters, and the range of these magic crossbows can reach an astonishing more than four hundred and fifty meters, because human beings are difficult to compete with the elves in the attainment of bows and arrows, and in terms of strength, they cannot catch up with the centaur heavy archers in the beast demon clan, so the Xia Yuan Empire developed this killing weapon with the help of the mountain dwarves, although this weapon is powerful but the cost is too high, the cost of such a crossbow requires one hundred and fifty taels of blue silver, and these three thousand need more than 400,000 taels of blue silver, and the empire currently only has such a continuous army into the formation of equipment This kind of crossbow, Although the rest of the army also has repeater equipment, but it is far from being able to compare with this kind of repeater in terms of power and range, not counting the fact that this army also has a team of up to two thousand Warcraft cavalry and five hundred people of aerial horse cavalry, you must know that the cost of Warcraft cavalry, especially the five hundred Tianma cavalry, is more expensive than the cost of the magic crossbow soldiers, so this force is the core of the entire Shangjing City.

The direct commander of this army is only a high-level martial artist, but their strength is not to be underestimated, and in the inner city, outer city, and arch city of the imperial city, there are huge space arrays placed between the three places, once any of the three need support, as long as the magician activates the circle, then at most a team of more than 1,000 people can be teleported.

In this way, these two arches divide the imperial city from the inner city, and the inner city of the upper capital is huge, with an area of more than 80 square kilometers, there are eight city gates, the two city gates in the east are Hanguang Gate, Bemu Gate, the two in the west are Yongning Gate, Yongshou Gate, the south is Baoguo Gate, Huguo Gate, and the north is Anqing Gate and Anhui Gate.

There are all the officials of the empire and their families living here, there are many big businessmen and other people with status, all kinds of public facilities are complete, there are markets, taverns, song and dance workshops, and even a polo hall and two Keju halls, polo is a noble sport, because a good horse suitable for participating in polo matches is worth five thousand taels of blue silver, and Keju is a commoner's sport, but because many nobles now also like Keju, so there are also two Keju halls in the city for the nobles to play.

The height of the inner city wall is about 400 meters, and the city wall is made of two meters square blue striped stone, which is more than 60 meters thick, and ten carriages can run side by side on the city wall.

And the outer city area of Shangjing City is larger and reaches more than 200 square kilometers, the city wall is as high as more than 500 meters, the thickness reaches an astonishing thickness of more than 80 meters, because there are a large number of ordinary people living here, the population can reach nearly 20 million, in order to facilitate the entry and exit of the population, coupled with the unreasonable urban planning and the protection of the personal interests of ordinary people, so the city wall of Shangjing City is an irregular hexagonal shape, so that there are as many as 16 city gates in addition to due east, due west, due south, due north, Dayuan Gate, Daxia Gate, Hongchang Gate, Jingwu Gate, respectively, there are Xiao Yuan Gate, Xiao Xia Gate, Wenchang Gate, Wuchang Gate, Shangde Gate, Wusheng Gate, Andong Gate, Anxi Gate, Annan Gate, Anbei Gate, Wuding Gate, Desheng Gate because there are too many city gates, the officials who built the city gate have no way to take the name according to the four main gates, the streets here are vertical and horizontal, and the various water systems shuttle through the city, that is, there are wide streets in the north, and there are also small bridges and flowing water in the south of the Yangtze RiverIn their eyes, the people living in the outer city are no different from ants, and this army of 400,000 people is also stationed in the outer city of Shangjing, but this army is difficult to compare with the above three armies in terms of training and weaponry and personnel quality, and their role is equivalent to a local security force, which can be seen that the Xia Yuan Empire implemented a policy of strong cadres and weak branches in the military.

Cheng Xiuyi, who was standing outside the Dayuan Gate City, looked up at the tall walls of the empire and felt infinite emotion in her heart, just as she was recalling all kinds of past events, two soldiers came to meet her, as the soldiers in the outer city to defend the safety of the imperial capital are still vigilant, they have been paying attention to Cheng Xiuyi for a long time, because every half-elf is a powerful existence, and their strength is beyond the reach of ordinary humans, because in the history of the empire, there have been many half-elf powerhouses, and these half-elves alone can defeat a hundred to hundreds of well-equipped and well-trained imperial soldiers head-on, Therefore, when they saw Cheng Xiuyi staring at the city wall of Shangjing for a long time, they hurriedly informed their commander, so they specially transferred a hundred Warcraft cavalry and three hundred and fifty magic crossbowmen from the inner city, this is because they saw that Cheng Xiuyi's hands were empty and did not carry any weapons, if Cheng Xiuyi had any weapons in his hands, then the armed forces would be stronger, so at first the two soldiers who noticed Cheng Xiuyi approached Cheng Xiuyi with uneasiness at the behest of their commander, And Cheng Xiuyi had actually noticed the two soldiers a long time ago, but she didn't do anything, because the ants couldn't pose any threat to the elephant even if they were close to her, when the two soldiers were still two or three meters away from her, Cheng Xiuyi shifted her attention to the two soldiers, and the two soldiers looked at her, and the two of them clenched their hands holding the halberd, and the two of them came to Cheng Xiuyi, bowed down, and then asked: I don't know what this half-elf lord did when he came to Shangjing, I don't know which adult's family worship or...

Cheng Xiuyi smiled slightly, took off a piece of jade pendant from her waist, and then handed it to one of the soldiers and said: You give this jade pendant to your commander, and then ask him to find a way to hand it over to Your Majesty, and you don't have to worry about the rest, understand?

After listening to this, the two soldiers were stunned for a while, and the two exchanged glances, and then the soldier who took the jade pendant quickly turned around and returned to the city gate, and then handed over the jade pendant to his direct commander, the officer took the jade pendant, only to see that this jade pendant was white and white, and the front was carved with a longbow in hand, jumping up to the sky, looking up to the sky, and the bow and arrow pointed upwards at a 45-degree angle. Do you know the servility, the heart is long.

The Xia Yuan Empire was culturally prosperous, even an ordinary woodcutter could also read some words, which was unimaginable in the past, literacy was the privilege of nobles and religious people, ordinary people could not even see books, let alone literacy, but because the Xia Yuan Empire was culturally prosperous, the country had public schools in many towns and villages, so ordinary people knew some common words.

Therefore, although the rank of this officer is not high, but in his early years he still studied in private school for two years, because the scientific examination is hopeless, so he entered the army and became a low-level officer through the relationship of his family, although he is a low-level officer, but after all, he is serving in the capital, so he took the jade pendant and looked at this small order, and it was seen that this was a love poem about a woman who was alone at home and missed her husband from afar, the texture of the jade pendant was excellent, and the carving process was also very good. However, the officer did not underestimate this jade pendant, because the person who held this jade pendant was a half-elf, so he did not dare to slack off and quickly took this jade pendant and found his commander again, and repeated what the soldier said.

The chief also felt inexplicable when he took this jade pendant, but he didn't dare to slack off, and found his chief again, so this jade pendant was transferred more than ten times, and finally sent to the Juyi Palace.

(Disclaimer: The small orders in this chapter are the author's own original, and the poems that appear in future chapters will also be the author's own original)