After destroying this incoming fleet, the border has been quiet for a while. Princess Hongyu sent several engineering teams, under the cover of General Muka, to begin repairing the mining base on the border line.

Princess Hongyu didn't want to have casualties, and all the intelligent robots were used for mining on the border, and all those employees were transferred back to work in the empire.

Each mining base is equipped with a high-powered reconnaissance system that can detect everything within 100,000 light years.

In addition, Princess Hongyu has added a patrol team, and each base along the border has sent a team. As soon as someone enters the defensive circle, the patrol will be the first to spot them.

In the Hongyu Empire, Princess Hongyu issued another order to increase troops. Hearing this news, many aspiring young people were very excited and actively signed up for it.

The previously abandoned arsenals in the Hongyu Empire have all been renovated and opened by Princess Hongyu, which has also made many engineers and scientists useful.

Tice helped Princess Hongyu improve the Hongyu battleship, and now the various docks are running at full power, building new Hongyu battleships around the clock.

The massive build-up of military forces has given some people the feeling that there will be war in the future. They talk in private, and they make people panic.

Princess Hongyu didn't explain much to them, and then began to carry out comprehensive construction in various fields such as agriculture, medical care, electronic technology, education, construction, and machinery.

With the all-round development of these fields, the living standards of the people of the Hongyu Empire have been greatly improved, and now they really have the appearance of a high civilization.

In the course of a year, the Hongyu Empire flourished and flourished. The surrounding neighbors were very envious of the current Hongyu Empire, and they sent envoys to study in the Hongyu Empire.

Princess Hongyu is also happy to establish a good relationship with them, and the two sides have cooperated in various fields.

Under the leadership of the Hongyu Empire, the surrounding neighboring countries also began to move towards the path of rapid development. Because of this, the prestige of the Hongyu Empire in various countries has increased a lot.

Princess Hongyu became famous, and many countries sent important ministers to visit. This also makes certain countries very jealous and secretly destroys this atmosphere.

However, these countries did not dare to destroy in the open, and they secretly bought pirates, allowing them to rob the caravans that came and went between countries.

A year passed quickly, and instead of the imaginary main enemy army, a group of pirates came.

These pirates are unscrupulous, they hide around the shipping routes. As soon as they spotted a merchant ship, they rushed out in droves and looted all the cargo on board.

Some pirates simply looted property, and as long as the merchants did not resist, their lives were not in danger. This is not the case with some pirates, who not only seek wealth but also kill people.

The harassment of commercial routes by pirates has greatly reduced business between countries. At present, the trade is maintained by large merchants with their own armed convoys.

The small and medium-sized merchants banded together to ask the government for help, hoping that they would send a fleet to clear the commercial routes.

In order to allow trade between countries to flow, these countries also sent fleets to encircle and suppress. But every time I went, I found nothing, and I couldn't find a shadow of a pirate at all.

It's not that these pirates are smart, it's spies from certain countries who reveal the news. Governments really have no choice but to send convoys to escort them.

But a new problem arose, because there were too many caravans, and the government did not have so many convoys, and even if there were, the size of the convoys was not large.

Because of this, those pirates became even more rampant, and they joined forces to loot together with the escort.

The convoy was outnumbered and captured by the united pirates, who demanded ransom from their government.

As soon as this incident came out, the heads of state were very angry. For the first time since the founding of the country, the government of the country has been asked to ransom people from pirates.

For the sake of the country's face, the top government officials refused. And those pirates were also very decisive, directly throwing all the captured soldiers into space, and then recording the process into a video and sending it to various countries.

The videos caused a strong stir in various countries, especially the families of the officers and soldiers, who united to march in front of the government building.

The families of the officers and soldiers were very angry, they were very dissatisfied with the actions of the top of the state, saying that they were murderers.

For a time, countries were in an uproar because of this incident, and many people went on strike, which plunged the country into chaos.

Under pressure from all walks of life, the national government sent people to solve the matter. The families of the fallen officers and soldiers were generously compensated, and the government apologized to the people, which allowed the turmoil to subside.

And just then, another maddening thing happened. Since there were no caravans on the routes during this time, the pirates had no source of livelihood, so they banded together to attack bases along the borders of various countries.

Although a pirate force is not strong, these pirates are united, and their combat effectiveness is still quite terrifying.

Like hungry wolves, these pirates rushed into the border bases, burning and looting there, causing heavy losses to all countries.

This incident really angered the governments, and this time the pirates were moving the government's property. Countries sent large fleets to search the border for those pirates.

However, these countries have overlooked one point, the pirates have been robbing everywhere, they have been richly supplied, and with the support of certain countries, they are now much stronger than before.

While the patrol searched for pirates, the pirates also banded together to attack the patrol. A fierce battle was fought in space, and the end result was a crushing defeat on the patrol's side.

The news soon spread throughout the country, causing great concern to the merchants of various countries. Now that the pirates even dare to attack the patrols, what will they do in the future?

Commercial shipping routes are not functioning properly, which has caused the economies of countries to fall significantly. Having defeated the patrol, the pirates became even more rampant.

Now the pirates' appetites have grown, and they no longer look down on the small caravans. Coupled with the fact that the last looting of the base was very lucrative, they now specialize in attacking small supply bases.

No matter how big the caravan was, there were not as many materials as the material warehouse, and within a month, more than 100 transit stations were looted by all countries, and all the materials in the material warehouse were looted.

To this end, governments have once again come together to convene an emergency meeting to discuss how to eradicate these pirates.

This time, they dispatched their main fleet and frantically searched the interstellar space. But all of a sudden, the pirates were gone, and no matter how much they searched, they couldn't see any trace of the pirates.