"After all, Chong'er is the offspring of my Zhu family. He has not brought shame to our Zhu family. We thought this kid was hopeless!"
"I didn't expect that exiling him to Yunnan was the right thing to do. This kid actually came to his senses and turned back. Haha..."
"I hope that guy isn't just pretending and doing this for us. Mao Xu, keep an eye on him!"
When he said this, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly thought of something and looked up at the captain of the Jinyiwei who was kneeling under the dragon table.
"Mao Xu, have you investigated whether those people who took refuge with Zhu Chong were refugees from Yunnan or Yunnan?"
"Your Majesty," Jinyiwei Captain Mao Xu immediately replied, "After much investigation, I have confirmed the identities of those civilians."
"Recently, disasters have struck Sichuan, Shaanxi, Guangdong, and Guangxi. Although all prefectures have done their utmost to provide relief to the affected people, natural disasters are ruthless and the affected areas are too vast, so a large number of people are still displaced."
"I have secretly investigated and found that those who came to His Majesty the Prince of Qin were the victims of the disaster from these places."
"These disaster victims heard from others that His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin would soon be enfeoffed in Yunnan, so they flocked there to seek refuge, hoping to beg for food."
"It seems that the people still trust our Zhu family." Zhu Yuanzhang felt a little emotional after hearing this.
"Xiao Er does things in an orderly manner. He leaves the young and strong men in Qujing as military households, but takes the old and young women to cultivate the land. This..."
When he said this, Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to be thinking of something that he didn't want to recall, and his brows were furrowed into a shape of a "川" (river).
"Mao Xu, please go to Qujing in person. We are still worried about that brat. If you don't keep an eye on him in person, we won't feel at ease."
"You need to pay special attention to how that brat arranges those women. If he dares to do anything reckless, just take our warrant and do what's best for him."
After hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's last words, Mao Xu's face became solemn, he bowed his head and agreed.
"Okay, you can go down." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and Mao Xu immediately retreated.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw Mao Xu leave, then he sighed and said: "Mao Xiang, you and your son are so busy that you don't even have the chance to meet. You won't blame me, right?"
At this time, in the darkness of the imperial study, a figure fell to his knees on the ground. It was an old man covered in a black cloak.
It was Mao Xiang, the first commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, who was beside Zhu Yuanzhang!
At this time, Mao Xiang knelt down in a panic, "Your Majesty, I am so happy that Xu'er can receive your personal instruction. How could I possibly harbor such treasonous intentions for the sake of my own personal feelings..."
"Alright, alright, get up." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand to interrupt Mao Xiang, his tone filled with impatience, "After following me for so many years, others don't understand me, don't you understand me?"
"Forget it, forget it. I won't ask you any nonsense. Do you have any clues about the matter we asked you to investigate?"
Mao Xiang, still kneeling on the ground, replied, "Your Majesty, I have already discovered some clues, but these clues all point to the Prime Minister. I was originally planning to consult Your Majesty..."
"Hu Weiyong?" Zhu Yuanzhang interrupted Mao Xiang again, a sneer on his face, "That's not unexpected."
"Hey, tell me, what was Hu Weiyong's attitude after we exiled Xiao Er to Yunnan?"
"Well..." Mao Xiang seemed a little hesitant this time, but after a moment he replied, "This old servant is still investigating, but according to what I have found out, on the day His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin left the capital, someone attempted to assassinate His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin on the way."
"This matter was handled personally by this old servant. We have now discovered that one of the assassins who tried to assassinate His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin had been in and out of the Pingliang Marquis's residence..."
"Fei Ju?" A fierce light flashed in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes. "Are you sure he's one of them?"
"This old slave deserves death a thousand times." Mao Xiang kowtowed heavily. "This matter has not yet been thoroughly investigated. It will take time to investigate in detail."
"If you can't find out, then there's no need to investigate. Just keep an eye on Hu Weiyong. As for Fei Ju, we'll make the decision ourselves."
Zhu Yuanzhang's tone was gloomy, but his face showed no emotion.
After listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's instructions, Mao Xiang immediately kowtowed again and said that he understood.
Seven days later in Jianshan Ao, Zhu Chong felt unwell when he heard the new prompt from the system.
[Ding, a new week, a new beginning. Congratulations to the host, you get +200 ordinary people and +200 points!]
What the hell, it’s a new week, a new beginning, how come my time has doubled for no apparent reason?
Zhu Chong looked at the two hundred common people who came to him on the first day of the new week, and he felt like crying.
He had already calculated that with his remaining points, he could buy food in the system mall and barely be able to feed the people the system rewarded him before the system upgrade was completed.
But after all his calculations, Zhu Chong didn't expect that the system would suddenly cause trouble for him. There was a new change every week, and in the second week, the number of people he received doubled.
If I have to give myself 400 people every day in the third week, 800 people every day in the fourth week, and so on, I will really be driven crazy!
At this incremental rate, if the system really wasn't upgraded within a year, Zhu Chong couldn't even imagine what a horrible situation that would be!
I originally thought that as long as I bought food from the system and planted potatoes in reality, I would be able to overcome the current difficulties.
But now it seems that he was too naive. According to the current situation, it won't be long before, not to mention him, even the Ming Dynasty will suffer an unprecedented catastrophe because of the inexplicable increase in population!
"We have to find a way to solve the problem fundamentally, otherwise we'll be in big trouble!"
Zhu Chong began to rack his brains, but the reality was that there were more and more stomachs waiting for him to fill.
Of course, Zhu Chong had thought about using the same trick again, sending the young and strong among them to Qujing Prefecture, as before, to make them military households and eat imperial food, and let the Ming Dynasty help him digest part of it.
But he quickly rejected this idea.
If this person sends it once or twice, perhaps it won't arouse suspicion.
But if it happens too many times, not only will the Qujing City Guardian be suspicious, but Old Zhu will definitely be suspicious as well, wondering if he has ulterior motives and is secretly planning to do something illegal!
Who the hell dares to rebel while Zhu Yuanzhang is still alive? Isn't that like a man hanging himself because he thinks his life is too long?
Even a brave general like Lan Yu died at Zhu's hands, so Zhu Chong had no chance of rebelling!
But neither this nor that works. What will make it work?
At this moment, unexpectedly, someone came to visit Zhu Chong with a business card.
"Pingliang Hou Fei Ju? Xiping Hou Mu Ying? Why are they in Yunnan?"
Zhu Chong looked at the name on the business card with confusion in his eyes.
Mu Ying was Zhu Yuanzhang's adopted son and had a good relationship with Crown Prince Zhu Biao, but seemed to have an average relationship with Zhu Chong.
Not to mention Pingliang Hou Fei Ju. Zhu Yuanzhang was most averse to the princes forming cliques with military generals, so Zhu Chong naturally would not run into such bad luck.
But the question is, why did these two people suddenly come to Yunnan to see me? Was it Lao Zhu's idea, or something else?
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