According to Fei Ju's suggestion to Zhu Chong, in order to do this well, Zhu Chong must train an army before building the city to resist the forces of the former Yuan Liang Wang and possible military actions against him.
For Zhu Chong, he was not worried about the source of troops. There were now tens of thousands of young and strong civilians under his command, and this number would become larger and larger as time went by.
It is not a problem at all to draw personnel from the young and strong to form an army.
However, the problem now is that Zhu Chong cannot train the army himself, and he cannot prepare weapons and armor for the army to be trained in a short period of time. In addition, he has to give these people a name so that people cannot find any excuse to target them.
Zhu Chong also has his own way to deal with this.
As the Prince of Qin of the Ming Dynasty, he had the standard configuration of a prince's palace, which was a huge official organization. It could even be called a small court, and this was not an exaggeration.
Old Zhu did not take back Zhu Chong's right to build a palace, so he could legitimately build a palace in Yunnan.
The royal palace is under the jurisdiction of the Bookkeeping Office, the Trial Office, the Food Office, the Shrine Office, the Ceremonial Office and other related departments. These departments and facilities are managed by 800 officials, and they are also registered in the court and are paid salaries by Zhu Chong.
In addition, the royal palace set up five major guard posts on the left, right, front, back and center, including two thousand-household officers, ten hundred-household officers, and two other guard posts, each with one thousand-household officer. These guard posts were actually armies, with a total number of more than 5,000. It can be said that they were all Zhu Chong's private soldiers.
In this way, Zhu Chong could easily build a private army of more than 10,000 people for himself in a very short time in Yunnan and Dian under the name of the Prince of Qin's Palace.
Thinking of this, Zhu Chong roughly estimated in his mind what he should do next, so he asked Fei Ju the most critical question of this trip.
"Thank you for your guidance, Marquis Pingliang. I have one last question. Does Marquis Pingliang have any suggestions for a suitable location for building the city?" Zhu Chong's hands-off approach completely confused Fei Ju.
"Damn, you really trust me? You're planning to build a city right now?" Fei Ju felt a little panicked and couldn't help but persuade him.
"Your Highness, Prince Qin, given the current situation, there's no need for you to take such a huge risk. This is no small matter!"
"I know what's going on. Just tell me, Marquis Pingliang." As soon as Zhu Chong heard Fei Ju's tone, he knew he already had the answer.
"This... well, never mind. This minister is merely making a suggestion. Your Highness, the Prince of Qin, please consider it carefully."
Fei Ju made up his mind and said directly, "Your Highness Prince Qin, please look over here. I wonder if Your Highness knows where this is?"
Fei Ju led Zhu Chong to the marching map in his tent, pointed to a location on the map, and asked Zhu Chong.
Zhu Chong looked carefully at the location marked on the map and his current location, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
The place Fei Ju refers to is located south of Jianshanao, in Songming County in central Yunnan.
Songming is a large dam in Yunnan and Dian, with a large area of arable land and a forest coverage rate of over half. It is the source of Panlong River and Niulan River, so it has abundant water resources.
It used to be known as the granary of central Yunnan, but due to constant wars in recent years, Songming County is located in the golden area of the Kunming and Qujing corridor. After experiencing several massacres by the Yuan people, Songming has now become a dead city.
Because Songming is less than a hundred miles away from Kunming and the Ming Dynasty has never actually occupied it, it has always been a place that neither the former Yuan Dynasty nor the Ming Dynasty had time to take care of.
Strictly speaking, Songming County that Fei Ju pointed out to Zhu Chong was not a good place, but to the greatest extent, it satisfied Zhu Chong's ideas, and compared with the other places that Fei Ju pointed out to Zhu Chong, it had many more obvious advantages.
"Okay, thank you very much for your guidance, Marquis Pingliang. After the matter is accomplished, I will definitely reward you generously." Zhu Chong bowed and prepared to leave.
Of course, Zhu Chong couldn't tell Fei Ju all his thoughts, but he already had an idea in his heart, and some things had to be done immediately.
Zhu Chong was no fool. He had gained such a great reputation in such a short time after being exiled to Yunnan and Dian, and he had more and more subjects under his command. It was impossible for Zhu's Jinyiwei to not react.
As the number of his subordinates increases, if Zhu Chong cannot properly place these people, something big might happen in the future!
When Fei Ju saw Zhu Chong preparing to leave, he felt relieved. He didn't even bother to ask for dinner as a courtesy. He personally escorted Zhu Chong out of the military camp. Only after he saw Zhu Chong's carriage completely disappear at the end of the road did he quickly walk back to the general's tent.
After a brief thought, Fei Ju came to the commander's desk, picked up his pen and quickly wrote two letters, and then asked someone to send them to Yingtian Prefecture at an express rate of 600 miles and 800 miles respectively.
After the messenger left, Fei Ju breathed a sigh of relief. He then called his trusted guard and gave him a few instructions. The guard immediately left the camp and flew away into the distance.
Zhu Chong returned to Jianshanao from Fei Ju's military camp. Along the way, he had basically figured out where to build the city next and how to start building the army and building the city at the same time, and had a preliminary plan.
In order to avoid any abnormal situations, Zhu Chong did a lot of preparatory work.
After all, the whole thing is interconnected. As long as he makes a move, all parties involved will immediately notice it.
In order to prepare for emergencies, Zhu Chong even planned to spend some money to buy a substitute puppet from the system, just in case.
Zhu Chong’s accumulated points have now reached nearly 180,000.
This excludes the points accumulated after exchanging for food seeds, fertilizers, and food.
With nearly 180,000 points, Zhu Chong was finally able to become wealthy. However, after looking at the talent column in the system mall that could be exchanged for points, Zhu Chong was dazzled for a moment.
In the system talent pool, different types of talents require different values of points to redeem. The higher the level, the more points are required.
For example, there are nine talent levels: ordinary, excellent, elite, outstanding, master, grandmaster, epic, legendary, and legendary. Each level corresponds to different price points.
For example, the points required for ordinary people are only 100 points, while the points required for outstanding talents are ten times that of ordinary people, which is directly 1,000 points, and so on.
Zhu Chong only saw the master level and had no desire to continue watching. Now looking at the hundreds of thousands of points in his hand, he no longer felt rich, but instead had a bitter taste.
With his current points, he could at best only look at elite talents, but deep down Zhu Chong knew that he could only afford ordinary and excellent levels, so he had better give up on elite or outstanding talents.
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