Fearing that it might be individuals from the Holy Kingdom causing trouble, they rushed over with a troop as soon as they received the news!

When Shui Xiang and the others received the news, they quickly packed some valuables and found Lin Ru!

"Miss Lin, have you heard? The magistrate from the neighboring county has led a regular troop over."

"Those people are different from those in Xiqing County! They have more and better weapons than people here, both in terms of numbers!"

"We killed an official of the imperial court. If we don't run away now, those people will arrest us, and we'll have to pay with our lives!"

"These people are all officials protecting each other."

"Although we know that Magistrate Liu has betrayed the country, we don't have any evidence."

"Let's hurry up and run!"

The girls next to them kept agreeing!

"Yes, yes! We all know you're a good person, Miss Lin! But those other people don't know that!"

"All these officials are the same; they can't distinguish right from wrong. Let's hurry to Shanping County!"

"If we could find Her Majesty the Queen to personally apologize, perhaps she could forgive our helpless act!"

Lin Ru found their nervous expressions somewhat amusing. Starting yesterday, she stopped saying that she really was the empress!

But the girls just wouldn't believe it!

If the Queen has nothing to do, what is she doing in this remote area?

Moreover, the Empress always travels with a large entourage! Even if she didn't have a group of people with her, she wouldn't be captured and taken to the mountain, because they had all heard that the Empress possessed a divine artifact, and that one person could be worth tens of thousands of troops!

When the Empress was still a goddess, she used this divine artifact to wipe out the army of Prince Shun and save Shanping County!

If she really was an empress, and possessed such a divine artifact, she wouldn't have ended up in such a sorry state on the mountain!

Lin Ru was at her wit's end!

I wasn't going to waste any more words with them!

Or should we go out and see who this person from the next county is?

If they're really in cahoots with this Magistrate Liu, then it's a good opportunity to get rid of them together!

Ignoring Shui Xiang and the others' attempts to stop her, she walked out!

As soon as she went outside, she saw a group of people kneeling there!

In unison, they shouted: "Greetings, Your Majesty the Empress! Long live the Empress!"

When Lin Ru declared herself empress, she received the worship of so many people. She has never held such a large-scale kneeling ceremony since!

This sudden turn of events gave me quite a fright!

She looked at Wu Ling, who was in the lead, and asked with her eyes: What exactly is going on?

Wu Ling quickly explained, "The magistrate next door is one of our men! He received the news and thought it was people from the Holy Kingdom coming to cause trouble, so he rushed over to check!"

Lin Ru nodded to the people behind him and quickly invited everyone inside!

After entering, the man knelt down and kowtowed again. It turned out that this man's name was Wu He!

Lin Ru discovered that many county magistrates had fled during the chaos, and that many were unfit for their positions. Therefore, she dispatched many officials, and Wu He was sent to the neighboring county. Upon arrival, he noticed something amiss with the people there; they were acting strangely, and many were mysteriously disappearing. After several days of investigation, he finally uncovered the truth: it was connected to the neighboring Holy Kingdom. Taking advantage of the internal strife in Jing, the Holy Kingdom had bribed border magistrates and transported many officials from the Holy Kingdom to Jing to capture refugees and ordinary citizens for research on poisonous insects!

It took him a long time to completely subdue his own internal thread. Afterwards, he also noticed something amiss in Xiqing County.

However, this county was even more difficult to deal with than the county he was in, and he couldn't make a move for the time being!

They were afraid that alerting the enemy would cause the Empress further trouble!

Unexpectedly, he suddenly heard that the county magistrate had been murdered by someone who claimed to be the empress. He was afraid that this was a tactic used by the Sheng Kingdom to further control Xiqing County, so he had no choice but to bring his troops over to investigate!

Lin Ru's expression grew increasingly grim as she heard the details. It seemed the Holy Kingdom had come with overwhelming force and was well-prepared!

She had to prepare early, first going to Luzhou to confirm Hai Jingming's safety, and then figuring out how to deal with this awful neighbor!

So she quickly gave some instructions, letting Wu He take over Xiqing County, and Wu Juan and Wu Fei led people to transport the gold and silver treasures back!

Shui Xiang and the others were also kept behind!

I also bought a lot of insecticides and crossbows from Taobao's trading platform!

Teach them carefully how to use it!

Then he deliberately left the spirit energy cannon in his hand to Wu He!

They then removed the spirit stones from the spirit-gathering array and installed them back on!

"Wu He! This is the divine weapon. I'm telling you, never point it at your own people! And don't try it lightly!"

"When you have nothing else to do, just pry that rock off the top!"

"If the people of the Holy Kingdom dare to act recklessly, just use this divine weapon to blast them!"

"They've been planning this for a long time. Don't be afraid, or they'll cause me trouble!"

"If they dare to cross the line, give them a good beating. Make sure they're terrified and subdued the first time, so they won't be so arrogant towards you next time!"

"This is the source of our Fengtian Kingdom's confidence!"

Wu He knelt down excitedly and accepted the divine weapon with both hands. Although the weapon was very light compared to the knife he usually carried, it still felt heavy. This was a divine weapon that those kings and nobles would fight tooth and nail for. Moreover, he had personally witnessed Her Majesty the Empress directly using this weapon to fight against the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Prince of Shun, and those soldiers were turned to ashes in an instant!

Its power goes without saying, and with this thing, he felt much more confident!

He knelt down excitedly and kowtowed, "Your subject will certainly not fail Your Majesty's expectations!"

"If they dare to cross the line, I'll definitely teach them a lesson they won't forget!"

Lin Ru nodded and said, "Those who offend Fengtian will be punished, no matter how far away they are!"

"Wuhe! I'm leaving it to you!"

"Wait for me to come back!"

"I'll definitely settle the score with this bastard!"

"We are subjects of the Emperor! We are not so easily killed!"

Lin Ru was genuinely angry; otherwise, she wouldn't have handed over the spirit cannon. The people of the Holy Kingdom were worse than animals, actually using people from other countries for human experiments. Those refugees were already in dire straits; how were they any different from the Japanese devils?

She even had some doubts that this sacred fruit was actually from the Japanese devils!

As a child who grew up under the red flag, her hatred and loathing for the Japanese invaders were deeply ingrained in her bones!

This group of people really crossed his line!

Then they'll see what it means to trample Tokyo with golden spears and iron horses!