Emperor Mingde sighed, and his thoughts drifted back to his youth. Those had been years of war, when enemy planes appeared over Luodu every few days, sometimes even dropping bombs.
"We will never let enemy planes reach Luodu again..."
Through the haze of memory, Emperor Mingde could still hear the shout over the radio channel and see plane after plane ramming into the enemy aircraft.
The dead were gone, but the living remained!
New Luo, also known as Luodu, was the capital of Great Chu.
It had received that name because, when Great Chu Taizu rose to power in Chu and later chose a site for his capital, he had passed over Yanjing, Xijing, the Golden Mausoleum, and other cities.
Instead, he had built a new capital near the Nanyang Basin, not far from Luoyang, and named it New Luo.
No matter how the borders of the Central Land changed, this place had always lain at the heart of the realm. As the heartland of Great Chu, it had become known throughout the world.
Of course, by foreign standards, New Luo was merely a political capital, not an economic metropolis.
Unlike the capitals of past dynasties, it had not made the trunk stout and the branches hollow, gathering all wealth and resources beneath the Son of Heaven's feet.
Still, New Luo was the capital of Great Chu, the most powerful nation in the world. To its people, it was where the Son of Heaven dwelled and held a place like no other!
This was Tang Changsheng's first trip to New Luo. Arabella and the other women had never been there either, and they were visibly excited.
Ling Xiaoyu, on the other hand, had visited New Luo before. She came from the White Lake Ling Clan. Though she belonged to a