When Zhu Chong's substitute puppet followed the angel who came to convey the order and obediently set foot on the official road back to Yingtian Prefecture.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was far away in the imperial palace in Yingtianfu, had already received the news passed back by the Jinyiwei.
"What? After receiving the order, that brat, the second brother, just followed our people obediently and returned directly?"
Old Zhu looked at Mao Xiang with disbelief on his face. Mao Xiang also had a hint of doubt in his eyes at this moment, but he immediately began to explain.
"Your Majesty, I have confirmed time and again that His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin is indeed on his way back to Yingtian Prefecture. He must have arrived in Qujing Prefecture by now. The Marquis of Pingliang will also be submitting a memorial soon."
As he was speaking, as Mao Xiang had said, an eunuch presented memorials that had just been sent back from Yunnan and Yunnan, including three memorials from Qujing City Guardian Fei Ju, Pingliang Marquis, and Xiping Marquis Mu Ying.
Old Zhu opened the three memorials and quickly scanned them, with a look of surprise and doubt in his eyes.
Without exception, the contents of the three memorials were similar to the information he had just received from the Jinyiwei.
Zhu Chong actually followed the angel back to the capital obediently, even taking Guanyin Nu with him, without any other unusual movements. In fact, apart from Guanyin Nu, he didn't even bring any servants with him. He looked like he was ready to be manipulated by the people sent by Zhu.
But Old Zhu still didn't give up. He raised his brows and looked at Mao Xiang, "What's the situation in Yunnan and Dian now?"
"Your Majesty, the information I've received is that everything is normal. This is basically consistent with the information relayed back by the Qujing garrison. I believe that Xiping Hou's memorial has clearly stated that all the people under Pingliang Hou's command, who were gifted by the King of Qin, have been sent away."
Old Zhu's expression did not soften at all because of Mao Xiang's words. In fact, he became even more confused.
Zhu Chong did not resist, and neither did Fei Ju's men. They allowed the people brought by Mu Ying to be dispersed and sent to various garrisons. The remaining married women were not a concern.
In Yunnan and Yunnan, there has been no recent news of large numbers of refugees.
But the problem lies here. If everything is true, then why did Zhu Yuanzhang recall Zhu Chong to the capital?
Did he miss his son and come back to visit him? Or did he just frame him with a trumped-up crime and send him back to Yunnan?
Old Zhu got a headache just thinking about this, and felt that he had made a very wrong decision before.
After all, Zhu Chong was his second legitimate son, and the most beloved son of him and Empress Ma, except for Crown Prince Zhu Biao, no doubt about it!
It was also because of this that Zhu Yuanzhang could not bear Empress Ma's pleading and insisted on keeping Zhu Chong, who should have been sent to a fiefdom long ago, until this year.
Zhu Chong, who stayed in Yingtian Prefecture, was not a man who kept to himself. He always caused trouble for Zhu and caused trouble for him every other day, while the Queen and the Prince actually spoiled him.
If it weren't for the matter between the Xu family and the fourth brother, which was ruined by Zhu Chong, and the matter was really outrageous, I'm afraid Zhu Chong would still be in Yingtian Prefecture making trouble for Old Zhu!
When he thought that Zhu Chong's return might cause trouble for him, or even make him stay in Yingtian Prefecture for a long time, Old Zhu felt an immense headache and wished he could issue an edict right away, telling Zhu Chong not to come back.
However, at this time, an urgent report from eight hundred miles away attracted all of Zhu Yuanzhang's attention.
An urgent report came from the border, saying that the remaining Yuan forces were unwilling to accept defeat and brazenly invaded the border. After reading the report, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and immediately ordered Xu Da, Lan Yu and others to come to the palace for discussion.
Without the troubles from Zhu Yuanzhang, the harassment from the Mongols, and the interference from the Guanyin slaves, Zhu Chong was finally able to build Songming City with confidence.
Due to the limited system's daily "rewards", Zhu Chong had to prepare for the future and expand the original Songming City outward.
The original maximum population capacity of Songming City was between 300,000 and 400,000. After Zhu Chong arrived in Songming City and the first expansion, this number increased to 500,000.
However, as the system continues to increase the number of "rewards", Zhu Chong believes that this number will have to double, which means that Songming City must be expanded into a large city that can accommodate a population of one million.
It was definitely a huge project that was unprecedented and will never be repeated. After all, there were not many large cities in history that could accommodate a population of one million, and the most famous one was Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty.
But the population of one million in Chang'an includes the population in the surrounding area. It is definitely not like Zhu Chong's, where a city simply accommodates a population density of one million.
This means that Zhu Chong wants to expand Songming to an area of at least more than 90 square kilometers. It is probably impossible to complete such a large city with only the existing ten outstanding construction talents.
So Zhu Chong decided to exchange for higher-level construction talents. Now that the population has increased, his points have also increased a lot, so it should not be a problem to exchange for an elite-level construction talent.
However, Zhu Chong was not interested in architecture. It was too boring, time-consuming and labor-intensive. As long as there were enough people and the production process went smoothly, there would be no trouble.
So after exchanging for construction talents, Zhu Chong quickly turned his attention to military affairs.
With Lin Shu assisting Yu Jin in training troops, after a period of streamlining the military, the military strength of Songming City has now been controlled within 100,000 people, including auxiliary troops of various branches.
After more than half a month of training, the newly trained 100,000 people have acquired initial combat capabilities, but new problems have also emerged.
After observing Yu Jin for a period of time, Zhu Chong found that Yu Jin was only suitable to be a general or a military trainer. It would be a bit difficult for him to actually command the army or make some important decisions.
Yu Jin's abilities are still a bit ordinary. Even though he is an elite military talent, his abilities are too balanced, so he is not as good as Lin Shu, who is just an outstanding talent.
However, Zhu Chong is of great use to Lin Shu, so he is determined to exchange the remaining 100,000 points for a general who can truly command troops.
Otherwise, the same embarrassing situation as before in the battle with Darima will probably be experienced again in future wars.
Zhu Chong knew that if you walk by the river often, you will get your feet wet, so without thinking too much, he decisively used his points to exchange for new elite talents.
Unexpectedly, the elite military talents exchanged by the system were somewhat beyond Zhu Chong's expectations.
Because that was a woman, a woman wearing tight clothes, who looked to be in her early twenties at most, with a good figure, and in Zhu Chong's opinion, her appearance was definitely over 90 points!
How could this be? This woman was actually an elite military talent? She was so beautiful, yet her military abilities were even greater than Yu Jin's?
Who could she be? Zhu Chong suddenly became curious.
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