Battle reports arrived, indicating that the King of Southern Qi and the King of Yanping had already declared war on the State of Yue. With the help of artillery, they recaptured Taiping City in three days.
The battle report cheered up the people in the court. No one did not want their country to win the war.
Xiao Li smiled symbolically, and after everyone left, she left Yang Jun alone and asked: "How many weapons and armors can this batch produce?"
Yang Jun: "I estimate 500, no more than 600."
Xiao Li didn't want to talk anymore after looking at the number.
Xiao Li had previously taken Longxigou, saying she wanted to build a villa, but in fact she turned it into a military factory.
She secretly gathered a dozen blacksmiths and a group of strong ordinary people, cast iron and refined steel, and made sabers and armor, which she originally prepared for the Silver Armor Guards.
But he never expected that the fight for the throne would begin before the place was even ready.
When she became the emperor, the scale of the military factory was too small, so she had to recruit more blacksmiths and add more manpower.
All the iron ore in the national treasury was used up, and the previous not-so-good iron knives were melted down and recast.
But the time is still too short. Due to the limitations of conditions in this world, everything is done manually. If quality is a requirement, the speed will inevitably not keep up.
Five hundred was enough to equip her silver-armored army, but too few for use on the battlefield.
Xiao Li rubbed her brows. In this world, she could forget about digging for oil. She couldn't even make a large machine. Could she possibly make a steam engine?
Thinking of this, her eyelids couldn't stop twitching. Is she really required to do infrastructure in this world?
She wanted to leave, not use technology to take the whole world away.
"How many people are there in the Silver Armor Army now?"
Yang Jun: "There are 3,000 men on the regular basis, but there are still 1,300 men who haven't been equipped with silver armor."
In other words, even if all the expected 600 were used, there would only be 2,300 silver-armored guards. These were the empress's personal guards and could not be dispatched casually.
Although Xiao Li sent the two brothers to lead the troops, they were just two mascots to mobilize the army. The one who actually commanded the battlefield was the hidden general arranged by Xiao Li.
But Xiao Li knew about this, but the rest of the world didn't. They would only think that the two princes were powerful and won the battle.
By then, the two will have more and more supporters.
When a woman becomes emperor, her enemy is never her competitors, but the entire world.
Xiao Li knocked on the table and said, "Send another two hundred silver armored soldiers to the border with five cannons."
Compared to armor, cannons are actually easier to manufacture, but because they are too easy to manufacture, Xiao Li can only send the Silver Armor Army to defend them to the death, and absolutely cannot let the enemy obtain them and then develop them.
Even if the other party cannot produce gunpowder more powerful than hers, even if it is ordinary gunpowder, its lethality cannot be underestimated.
"Take my order and immediately activate Plan II when they reach the border."
Yang Jun didn't know what the second plan was, so he just followed the order: "Yes, sir."
He took the warrant and left. When he went out, he saw Lou Yan kneeling upright on the side. He didn't know how this man had offended the emperor. He was kneeling here last night. There were six or seven envoys at once.
But looking at his expression, although there was no visible expression on his face, one could feel that he was quite happy to be punished, especially his back which was so straight that if you didn't know him, you would think he was showing off.
???
Are you out of your mind?
Yang Jun didn't understand Lou Yan's happiness.
Not long after Yang Jun left, Hong Yue came out and delivered the order: "Your Majesty's order: Get out."
Lou Yan turned his head and looked inside: "I obey your order."
After loosening his stiff legs, he stood up from the ground after a while. He wanted to go in, but he was covered in sweat and his feet were probably swollen, so it was not suitable for him to go in.
Finally limped away.
Mu Bai, who replaced Lou Yan and stood in front of the hall: Hey, the boss is so miserable!
But the boss is in such a miserable state because he peeked at His Majesty taking a bath, huh, he deserves it!
Lou Yan walked very slowly. Although he tried his best to control himself, he couldn't hide the unnaturalness of his legs.
But he had no resentment. He just wanted to apply the medicine quickly and go back to continue guarding the empress.
He was the only one in the palace who knew the truth that he had killed the previous emperor. It was not that no one else had discovered it, but that everyone who knew it was dead.
As long as he doesn't tell her, the empress will never know this secret.
But he said it because he wanted to see the Majesty's reaction. He knew that the Majesty was cold and didn't care about his relatives. Sure enough, she really didn't care, even if that person was her biological father.
Now, the Empress was the only one who shared this secret with him.
The empress's father killed his entire family, and he killed the previous emperor. Now his life is in the hands of the empress. The empress can take his life, but he is clinging to her desperately.
The people of the Lou family have been dead for many years, and he has avenged them. Family affection has become so weak in his life that it has no sense of existence.
Now, he wanted to use these causes and effects to entangle Her Majesty. He knew that Her Majesty was heartless and would not be moved by anyone, but he didn't want her to never see him again.
Whether they are lovers or enemies, their relationship should not be pure and innocent.
However, what made him sad was that His Majesty punished him not because of the late emperor, but because he kissed her.
The more Lou Yan thought about it, the gloomier his expression became. His whole face was as gloomy as water, and his limping posture made others think that he was being punished by the empress, and they felt resentful.
He had just returned to his residence and was applying medicine when there was a knock on the door.
"who?"
There was silence outside the door for a moment, and then a cautious female voice came: "Eunuch Lou, I am Princess Wenshan, and I am here to bring you medicine."
A hint of confusion and sinisterness flashed across Lou Yan's eyes: "?"
Princess Wenshan came to deliver medicine to him through a eunuch?
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