The former Yuan Mongolian troops in Yunnan and Dian were completely unable to resist Mu Ying's elite troops. Fei Ju's army soon followed closely and arrived at the city of Kunming. Seeing that the situation was not good, King Liang immediately led his army to flee deep into Yunnan and Dian.
It has to be said that the terrain in Yunnan and Dian is complex, with dense primeval forests and crisscrossing rivers, making it even less suitable for the Ming army's cavalry and firearms battalion to pursue.
After all, King Liang had been operating in Yunnan and Yunnan for decades, and his power was deeply entrenched. Mu Ying went deep into the enemy's territory several times but failed to find King Liang's main force. Instead, he suffered many casualties in the primitive jungle filled with miasma and snakes and insects.
Moreover, there were now problems with the supply of food and fodder to Mu Ying in Yunnan and Yunnan. Mu Ying had no choice but to ask for permission from Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang knew that the situation in Yunnan and Dian was complicated. Prince Liang fled at the sight of him and hid himself away without showing up. Mu Ying tried his best to pursue him but failed. Instead, he suffered heavy casualties in non-combat situations. So he quickly ordered Mu Ying to lead his troops back.
Old Zhu from Yingtian Prefecture learned about Songming City from Mu Ying, and remembered the news that Zhu Chong had previously submitted a memorial requesting the emperor to build a city in Yunnan and Dian, so he called Zhu Chong, who had just arrived in Yingtian Prefecture, to his side and interrogated him.
Zhu Chong, who was far away in Yunnan, remotely controlled his substitute puppet and remained silent in response to all of Old Zhu's questions.
Anyway, Zhu Chong was certain that Old Zhu would never murder his legitimate son. If he really wanted to murder him, he would have done it before with Old Xu. Why would he wait until now? Not to mention that Empress Ma and the Crown Prince were still alive.
With these two close relatives backing him up, it was even less likely that Old Zhu would attack Zhu Chong. However, he could escape the death penalty but could not escape the punishment of life. In anger, Old Zhu imprisoned Zhu Chong in the imperial mausoleum outside the palace, and even Guanyin Nu was not allowed to visit him.
Zhu Chong was very happy about Lao Zhu's decision. He was very happy that the substitute puppet would stay with Guanyin Nu, so that he would not find out anything wrong and ruin his good deeds.
But the substitute puppet was locked up by Zhu Yuanzhang for more than a month without any complaints, and didn't even say a bad word about Zhu Yuanzhang behind his back. Under the pleading of Empress Ma and the Crown Prince, Zhu Yuanzhang began to have doubts in his heart.
Was he too harsh on his son, and was there nothing wrong with him? Without a second thought, Old Zhu released Zhu Chong's puppet, but he didn't absolve him of his guilt. Instead, he imprisoned him in the palace, intending to keep an eye on him personally.
He had to witness with his own eyes that Zhu Chong had no second thoughts about him, otherwise there would be no way he would send him back to Yunnan.
Because at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang had already fully understood the scale and approximate population of Songming City through the Jinyiwei.
This scared Zhu Yuanzhang. A city that was larger than Yingtian Prefecture and had a population comparable to Yingtian Prefecture appeared in the barren land of Yunnan and Dian. Most of the people in it were refugees from all over the Ming Dynasty who had previously fled to Yunnan and Dian to seek refuge with Zhu Chong.
This made Zhu Yuanzhang a little crazy. His own people, because they did not receive any disaster relief, ran to places where the Ming Dynasty had no control, and relied on themselves to build their own cities, manage their own cities, and become self-sufficient.
When Lao Zhu heard the news, his face felt hot and he almost killed someone.
Zhu Yuanzhang claimed that he was a good emperor and loved his people like his own children, but the people under his rule had to fend for themselves when they suffered disasters. Now Mu Ying wanted to take them back, but they bluntly said they would not come back.
Of course, it's not impossible to come back. When Yunnan and Yunnan belong to the Ming Dynasty, they can submit to the people, but they want to govern themselves and not be controlled by the Ming Dynasty. How can Zhu Yuanzhang agree to this condition? If he really agrees, everyone in the world will follow suit. Will he still be able to be the emperor?
But Lao Zhu also knew that this was his fault from the beginning. If the people had received relief, how could they think about being self-sufficient?
So he thought about it and decided to send an envoy to Yunnan and Songming City, intending to negotiate terms with the people of Songming City and make Songming City accept the control of the court. If they really couldn't reach an agreement, they would make a deal later.
By the time these things happened, the Ming Dynasty's envoys set out on the official road, and three months had passed since Mu Ying saw Songming City.
During these three months, several major events happened to Zhu Chong in Yunnan.
First of all, the number of people rewarded to him by the system finally slowed down. Now the number of people per day is controlled at around 10,000 or so, which made Zhu Chong feel relieved.
Population control is crucial to Zhu Chong's future development. Otherwise, with so many mouths crying for milk, Zhu Chong will not be able to feed them in time even if he has a lot of milk!
The second is the expansion project of Songming City. The first phase has been completed. The height of all outer city walls is more than ten meters, and the average width is more than five meters. The entire inner city of Songming City covers an astonishing area of 100 square kilometers.
Such a large area has almost included the original Songming City and the large and small Yaoling Mountains.
There is no way. The population of Songming City is growing too fast. Even though the system has reduced the number of rewards, the total population of Songming City is still close to one million.
It is easy to say that there are a million people, but managing them is definitely a big problem. Zhu Chong himself would definitely not do it.
He traveled through time and space with a system, and if he still made himself exhausted, then he would be a real fool. He would just make trouble by getting points.
Anyway, the people's loyalty to him is full, so there is no need for good management talents. One hundred people of average and excellent quality are basically enough to manage all aspects of Songming City.
Zhu Chong wanted to save the remaining points to exchange for military talents. He selected the Ma Jun crossbow as the standard equipment of the future army. The system provided drawings and production talents, but Zhu Chong was not satisfied with this. He decided to exchange for professional military equipment talents to manage it.
Zhu Chong always adhered to the principle of letting professionals do professional things. The system was also powerful, allowing Zhu Chong to redeem Zhao Shizhen, a famous figure in history and the first person in ancient China to make machine guns.
After handing over the task of weapon production to Zhao Shizhen, Zhu Chong replaced him with an elite general, Yuan Chenghuan.
Now the army of Songming City has expanded to more than 200,000. Li Xiuning obviously feels overwhelmed when he is given the command of so many people alone. With Yuan Chenghuan's help, Li Xiuning's pressure is greatly reduced.
With the assistance of Yu Jin, Lin Shu and others, if Zhu Chong had not been interested in external expansion, it might not have been Zhu Yuanzhang's turn to unify Yunnan and Yunnan, but Zhu Chong could have accomplished it on his own.
However, Zhu Chong was not thinking about his father's property, but someone else was thinking about Zhu Chong.
When Mu Ying returned to Qujing, he did not receive Zhu Yuanzhang's order to march into Yunnan and Yunnan again. Bored, he set his sights on Songming City, which was not far from Qujing.
Mu Ying has always remembered the loss of face he suffered at the foot of Songming City last time.
Mu Ying was not a tolerant person. Of course he wanted to regain the face he had lost. Zhu Yuanzhang did not give him an imperial decree to deal with Songming City, but he also did not give him an imperial decree to let him turn a blind eye to Songming City.
So after thinking about it for a long time, Mu Ying decided to attack Songming City and get back the ground he had lost before.
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