When talking about the content of the imperial edict, Zhu Yuanzhang was actually a little hesitant in his heart, because this deviated from his original intention.
He originally wanted to see what would happen in the end if his son rebelled against him, but now he no longer wants to see it. The problem before him is beyond his expectations.
Zhu Yuanzhang could not tolerate the fact that his son had a large number of people under his command, and no one knew about it, including his spies.
What Old Zhu is doing now is just to alert the enemy. He wants to force Zhu Chong to reveal his intentions and see how much power his son has accumulated in private.
"Your Majesty, do you want to take the people in Pingliang Hou's army..." After receiving the imperial decree, Mao Xiang began to ask about another matter that made him feel uneasy.
"Don't worry about those people for now. Just keep an eye on the second child. If he returns to Beijing obediently, everything will be fine. But if he doesn't obey, you can handle it yourself. I don't need to teach you what to do, right?"
"I understand." Mao Xiang immediately understood and continued, "Your Majesty, I just received the news. I have verified that Fei Ju delivered the message to Your Majesty and sent it to Yingtian Prefecture by fast horse. The person who finally delivered the message entered the Prime Minister's Mansion."
"Hmm?" Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned when he heard this, a cold gleam in his eyes, "Tell your people to continue monitoring, and don't take any action for the time being. Wait for my order."
"As you wish, I will take my leave now." Mao Xiang received Zhu's approval and immediately withdrew, rushing to Yunnan and Yunnan as quickly as possible.
At this moment, Zhu Chong had no idea what was happening in Yingtian Prefecture.
At this time, after a long journey, he finally arrived in Songming County.
Everything in Songming County is basically the same as what Zhu Chong saw on the map. It borders Qujing to the east, and is surrounded by mountains to the northwest and back. It directly borders the habitats of ethnic minorities and has abundant water resources.
However, what impressed Zhu Chong the most was the cultivated land and forest area in Songming. In his eyes, this was simply a treasure land.
As long as the abandoned city was rebuilt, Zhu Chong would be able to use this precious land to cultivate countless crops.
Zhu Chong then began to divide the work among his subordinates, assigning the young and strong to Yu Jin and the old and weak to Changsun Shunde, while he discussed with Lin Shu how to rebuild the city of Songming County.
After a long journey of several days, the number of people under Zhu Chong's command exceeded 60,000, and the points once again exceeded 100,000.
However, this time Zhu Chong no longer exchanged talents from the system, but invested all his points into the construction of Songming.
So the houses were renovated as quickly as possible and the urban planning was completed in the shortest time possible.
This process was certainly due to the fact that there is strength in numbers, but more importantly, it was because of the cement and bricks and stones that Zhu Chong exchanged from the system, which allowed Songming County to be renovated into a prototype in the shortest time possible.
A week passed, and to Zhu Chong's surprise, no bandits or people from the former Yuan Liang Wang's forces appeared here.
This allowed Zhu Chong to strengthen the city as quickly as possible and plan the residential and workshop areas within the city.
The potatoes in the farmland outside the city had a good harvest, and some people in the city had started raising livestock. With the help of systematic fertilizers and feed, the problem of food and meat for the people in the city was no longer a problem.
The problem now is Yu Jin’s military training.
After all, they are all a group of simple people. Even if they are 100% loyal to Zhu Chong, it is probably unrealistic to train them into a battle-hardened army.
No matter how good the training talents are, they cannot transform soldiers who have not experienced the baptism of blood and fire into steel warriors directly from flesh and blood.
But in general, everything in Songming County is developing in a good direction, at least in Zhu Chong's eyes.
As long as he had another month, he was confident that he could build Songming County into the largest, most solid, and richest city in Yunnan, without a doubt.
But things went against their wishes. Just as Zhu Chong was leading everyone to carry out construction in full swing, on a mountain ridge dozens of miles outside Songming County, a small cavalry team consisting of only ten people and ten horses were looking at the scene in the distance in amazement.
This was a scout team belonging to the former King Liang of Yuan. They were carrying out their routine patrol mission every ten days, but they did not expect to see a scene that should not have appeared in Songming County.
"Sir, something is wrong. Wherever they appear in Songming County, they are all from the Ming Dynasty. How could so many people from the Ming Dynasty suddenly appear?"
The cavalry centurion showed a look of shock. Ten days ago, it was their small team that patrolled Songming. At that time, Songming was still empty. How come in just a few days, Songming County has changed so much that they can hardly recognize it.
The most important thing was that they saw a large number of troops holding weapons and practicing battle formations in the wilderness outside Songming City.
The scouts were all veterans of the Yuan Dynasty. From their high vantage point, they could easily determine that the number of troops practicing battle formations was at least over 20,000.
Such an army appeared in Songming County, less than a hundred miles away from Kunming. Could it be that the Ming Dynasty people were already preparing to use military force against King Liang?
The centurion thought about it carefully. He had heard that the recent peace talks between King Liang and the envoys sent by the Ming Dynasty did not seem to be going well, so he couldn't help but imagine more.
He quickly made a decision, "Patrol mission canceled. Return immediately and report the situation to the king!"
No one in the scout team opposed the centurion's opinion, and they immediately turned their horses around and rode towards Kunming.
The royal court of the former Yuan Dynasty King Liang was in Kunming. At this time, King Liang had no idea what was happening in Songming County.
As His Royal Highness Prince Liang, who was personally pardoned and conferred the title by the Mongol Khan, Prince Liang's loyalty to the Mongol Khan is beyond doubt.
But King Liang was also very clear that Mongolia was no longer the Mongolia that once swept across the world. It was a fact that the proud Mongols were defeated by the peasants led by Zhu Yuanzhang.
King Liang is actually very confused and uneasy about his future.
Because he himself doesn't know where to go, and he doesn't even know if he will have a tomorrow.
The envoy sent by the Ming Dynasty emperor was too eloquent and offered too harsh conditions, especially the one asking King Liang to go to Yingtian Prefecture to meet Zhu Yuanzhang and disband all the former Yuan troops in Yunnan and Yunnan. King Liang would never agree to it under any circumstances.
Without an army, King Liang would be like meat to be slaughtered at will. How could King Liang, who had experienced countless bloody struggles, give up his martial arts? However, he had not yet made up his mind to turn against the Ming Dynasty.
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