After Ren Baqian left the palace, another person came in the palace.

He is about forty or fifty years old, and his appearance is very ordinary, and he belongs to the kind that he can't find when he throws it into the pile. Wearing ordinary clothes of coarse cloth, his height is only ordinary among the ancient people, about one meter seven. However, he stood there like a towering mountain, giving people a feeling that could not be shaken.

"Your Majesty!" the big man clenched his fists, and his voice was loud.

"Someone, take a seat for the general of the auxiliary country. There was a rare gentle smile on the empress's face.

Over the years, this has only been the case when I saw the auxiliary general Hongwu.

The empress was only sixteen years old when she succeeded to the throne, and it was difficult for a sixteen-year-old girl to sit in this position. Facing inside and out, even Da Yao Daxia and Yun Guo Chen Guo had countless people staring at her.

At that time, her strength was far from reaching the level of arrogance in the world today.

It was all thanks to Hongwu, the general of the auxiliary country, that she was able to sit in this position.

The general of the auxiliary state was sealed by the first emperor, from which it can be seen that the first emperor's expectations for Hongwu.

Hongwu also lived up to this expectation.

So for the empress, Hongwu was like her uncle and uncle at that time, the only person she could rely on.

Seven years have passed, and this feeling has been retained to this day.

Every year when the empress celebrates her birthday and Hongwu comes back from the north, she will go to the palace to chat, just like chatting about family life.

For the empress, this is a rare time of warmth.

"Your Majesty is getting more and more powerful, and the ministers are getting older and older. Hongwu said with a smile after sitting down, looking at the empress's gaze was also gentle, such a gaze was difficult to see even a red line.

"The Great General is not much different now than he was ten years ago. The empress sat on the couch and said with a smile. "Qingluan, fill the general with wine. ”

Hongwu said: "Although his face has not changed, the years are not forgiving, and he is indeed old." ”

Then he took the wine glass, laughed very heroically, and drank it all. "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"It's full again. This cup respects the general, and with General Lao stationed in the north, he can deter Daxia from daring to act rashly, and the general has worked hard and made great achievements. ”

The empress drank it all after speaking.

After a glass of wine, the two began to talk about other things.

"The minister feels that Daxia may not be at peace in the future. The Great Xia Emperor was ambitious, and he worked hard for so many years after taking the throne, and now the strength of Great Xia is far better than at the beginning, I am afraid that he has some ideas. Hongwu said.

Then there were some regrets: "When he was at the border before he succeeded to the throne, the minister wanted to kill him, but unfortunately he ran away." ”

The empress nodded slightly: "I'm afraid they're preparing, I'm afraid there will be General Lao next." ”

If Ren Baqian heard the words of the two of them here, he would know why Great Xia would send that white bear.

"Although the Great Xia soldiers are widespread, the warriors of my ancient clan are not afraid of them. If they come, let them see and learn. Hongwu then said arrogantly.

"I will send an order to the mountains these days to recruit 20,000 soldiers. The empress nodded.

You must know that the strength of the ancient warriors is not weak even if they are ordinary people, and after training, their strength is far superior to that of the elite soldiers of Great Xia.

If you talk about personal strength alone, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is one pair of twenty.

This is still Da Yao's lack of armor and equipment.

But the battle between the military formations is not a one-plus-one-maintenance calculation.

Now there are a total of 90,000 soldiers in Da Yao, including 15,000 elite soldiers in the southern capital to guard the remnants of the Hao Kingdom, 20,000 elite soldiers in the northeast to guard the border of Yunguo in the northeast, 15,000 elite soldiers in the southeast to guard the junction between the southeast and Chen State, and 30,000 elite soldiers in the north to guard the border between the north and Daxia.

The rest of the Zhongdu Protectorate is 20,000 elite soldiers, guarding the entire Dayao.

However, these 100,000 elite soldiers are also Da Yao's family background over the years, and it can be said that all of Da Yao's taxes in the south are used to support these 100,000 elite soldiers.

And the most elite of them is the 30,000 elite soldiers of the Northern Capital Protectorate, but the equipment of these 30,000 elites is much worse than that of Great Xia.

It was completely relied on strong personal strength to firmly suppress the 200,000 army on the opposite side. But if Da Xia really wants to use troops against Da Yao, he can at least pull out an army of 500,000.

30,000 against 500,000, in the case that the equipment is completely inferior to the opponent's, and it is defensive, even the red force is difficult to use.

After all, the other party can choose to break through in any direction, but Hongwu can't just defend one place.

Now that the empress has recruited 20,000 troops again, she can make Hongwu have more cards in her hand, at least she can maintain a considerable number of troops at each pass.

This was already the best she could do, and it was difficult for the weapons of the 20,000 soldiers to be equipped in a short period of time.

The treasury of Great Xia can be said to be poor and white.

But she immediately remembered that Ren Baqian was here, this guy has a lot of tricks, and he knows a lot of things, so I don't know if he can play a role in this.

In fact, Ren Baqian had mentioned smelting several times before, but it was generally said that casting was generally mentioned here, and the empress didn't understand what it meant, so she didn't take it to heart.

If Ren Baqian had said at the beginning that he could refine more iron and build more weapons, he would not have almost been cut down.

And now the empress thinks that Ren Baqian can be of some help in this regard, and if not, she can get something else out and exchange some weapons in Yunchen and Chen through channels. It should be possible to get some in the two countries of Yun and Chen now, if there is really any action on the side of Great Xia, I am afraid it will be really difficult to get it from the outside world.

Not only weapons, but also salt, grain, and the like.

Fortunately, Daxia should still be in the preparation stage now, and there is still some time.

"Your Majesty should keep an eye on the Kingdom of Yun and the Kingdom of Chen. Hongwu said again.

The empress nodded, she knew in her heart that Da Yao was different from the other three countries, because the ancient people were different from them, and the countries they established were naturally different.

It's like a wolf in a flock.

Yun and Chen were not worried about Da Yao lying on their sides for a day or two, and Da Yao even almost hit the capital of Yun Kingdom. If Great Xia wanted to send troops, it was impossible not to send someone to contact them first.

If Yun Guo and Chen Guo invaded the border together, it would indeed be a bit dangerous.

After talking about state affairs, Hongwu and the empress chatted about some other things, mostly talking about the past and recalling the past, both of them chatted quite happily, and they laughed from time to time.

Just when the empress was talking about it, Hongwu looked at the empress and sighed slightly.

"Is there something wrong with the general?" asked the empress, Hongwu has always been like a mountain, making everyone look up, and sighing like this has never been seen before.

"Your Majesty succeeded to the throne at the age of sixteen, and now it has been seven years, and Your Majesty has only changed from a somewhat thin girl at that time to a king who is praised by all the people today. It's just that Your Majesty is now twenty-three years old, and he must leave a descendant. When Hongwu said this, he immediately turned into an old man who was worried about the leftover women.

Even his old qualifications have been put out.

The empress's face suddenly looked ugly, the year before last, when Hongwu celebrated her birthday last year, she used all kinds of methods, and this year she changed to playing the emotional card.

He shouldn't have asked that sentence and let him sing a one-man show by himself.

"Your Majesty, the minister can't stay for a few years, and I still want to see Your Majesty get married before leaving. What's more, not only the ministers are in a hurry, but the whole court is in a hurry. Hongwu continued to sigh. While sighing, he looked at the empress's face, he had never been so worried about his granddaughter.

But he didn't have to worry about the one in front of him. At the beginning, the emperor entrusted himself alone. Now His Majesty is good in other aspects, his strength is better than himself, and he has done other things well, but he has never been able to put his mind at ease in this matter.

Outsiders would never have thought that the ninth and seventh in the world would sit together and discuss such a thing.

The empress's eyebrows were screwed straight together.

Originally, he was in a good mood when he saw Hongwu, and it was very warm to talk to him about the past, but he was immediately in a bad mood when he mentioned it.

If it weren't for the fact that it was Hongwu in front of her, she would have thrown people out directly.

Two days ago in the court, everyone in the court said this, and today Hongwu mentioned it again, which really annoyed her.

However, the empress also knows that Hongwu may not be able to stay for a few years, and he has been delayed too much in Dayao over the years. If it weren't for the sake of assisting her, I'm afraid Hongwu would have left by now.