When Zhu Biao walked out of Fengtian Hall, he was still a little confused.
What have you come to do?
How come we finally got a guard staff and came back?
Speaking of which, Lao Zhu was really at ease with himself and had no suspicion at all. The establishment of five thousand men and one guard was given to him as promised.
Ever since he took over Jin Yiwei's job, Zhu Biao found that Lao Zhu seemed to be more and more relieved about him.
The Jinyi Guards are under my control, and the Dragon Guard Division is also planned to be handed over to me. Now I have a personal guard for myself, and I am really not afraid of rebelling against him!
Of course it is impossible to rebel.
It's good to be a prince, especially to be Lao Zhu's prince.
Rather than working early and late worrying about national affairs, he preferred to lie down and let the boss, Lao Zhu, take him flying.
Time passed very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, five months had passed in the third year of Hongwu.
After receiving the order from Lao Zhu to form a pro-military guard, Zhu Biao basically did not live in the Prince's Mansion.
He even left Nanjing and found a village outside Nanjing as his own training ground to personally train his first army.
Zhu Biao recruited a total of 800 people. The personnel structure was very complex, including descendants of veterans in the army, concubines of military generals, and some innocent peasants.
They are all teenagers between ten and fifteen years old.
Zhu Biao planned to use the military pay of these 5,000 men to fully support these 800 men, and at the same time provide them with the best martial arts skills to build them into a first-class elite force, even the first special forces unit of the Ming Empire.
When the time comes, Lao Zhu will also be shocked.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you must go back today." An old eunuch ran in panting and knelt in front of Zhu Biao.
"Did you tell me what happened?" Zhu Biao asked in surprise.
He has been here for more than two months. Except for going back to greet his mother, Queen Ma, every few days, he has always lived and ate with his soldiers. Lao Zhu has never cared about this. Why did he suddenly do it today?
Recruited myself to go back.
The old eunuch hesitated for a moment, and finally whispered: "It seems that the Northern Expeditionary Army is about to return to the court. Your Majesty asked you to follow them to greet them!"
"There are three other young highnesses who are also going back together!"
"okay, I get it!"
Zhu Biao waved to a soldier in the distance and said, "Go and call Zhu Er, Zhu San, and Zhu Si over."
Soon, three young men who were tanned and translucent by the sun were recruited.
"Brother, we are training. Why did you call us here? What if our identities are discovered?" Zhu Xi said reluctantly.
"My father asked us to go back, why are you unwilling?" Zhu Biao said with a smile.
"How dare I!" Zhu Xiang shrank his head in fear when he heard that it was Zhu Yuanzhang's order.
Zhu Biao looked at his three stupid brothers, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, and Zhu Di.
No, it’s just that the two of them are relatively stupid. Zhu Di looks stupid now just because he is still young and will transform into a ruthless person in a few years.
These three guys were obtained by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Moreover, Zhu Biao was not allowed to reveal the identities of the three men to his soldiers, allowing the three of them to share the joys and sorrows with ordinary soldiers.
Zhu Biao is certainly happy to see this happen.
In the original time and space, Zhu Yuanzhang was overly doting on his sons.
Especially Zhu Ping and Zhu Fan, who are both Empress Ma's parents and children.
As a result, these two guys developed arrogant and lawless characters. They killed people without calculation in the fiefdom, took corruption and bribes, and annexed civilian fields, causing widespread resentment among the people of Xi'an and Taiyuan.
If this was an official, Zhu Yuanzhang would have raised his sword a long time ago, but in the end, he continued to indulge the two of them just because they were his biological sons.
The most they can do is scold the two of them.
But in this time and space, it is obvious that Zhu Yuanzhang has realized his mistake.
Not only has he not crowned his sons kings yet, he even wants them to suffer.
This is undoubtedly a good phenomenon.
After Zhu Biao's observation these days, Zhu Xi and Zhu Fan did not bully the soldiers because they were princes. On the contrary, the three little guys, including Zhu Di, were very obedient and had been deliberately concealing their identities as princes.
Although for some descendants of military commanders who are well versed in information, this is of no use at all.
But the three of them practiced very hard indeed, and there was no cheating at all.
Obviously, they are still young now and have not yet contracted some bad habits, so they can still overcome them as long as they are willing to do so.
Zhu Biao is very willing to help them.
He didn't bother to bring guards, so the four of them left the manor and galloped towards Nanjing City.
"Ouch...!"
Zhu Xi and Zhu Fan were careless, shooting birds and chasing rabbits along the way, but Zhu Di was a little cautious and followed Zhu Biao silently.
"What's wrong, fourth brother?"
"You don't look very good-looking?" Zhu Biao asked with concern.
"Brother, I am a little afraid of my father."
Zhu Di hesitated for a moment, but chose to confide in this gentle-looking elder brother.
"My father has always disliked me, especially in the past year or so. Sometimes he would pull me over and beat me up for no reason, and he would talk about Yongle Emperor, Ming Chengzu, etc. I didn't know this was the case.
What's the meaning."
"Pfft...!" Zhu Biao couldn't help laughing.
This was obviously the love and affection Lao Zhu had for his son who later became the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty after reading the entire history of the Ming Dynasty.
There is no way, why in the history of the Ming Dynasty, those weird emperors who were hated by Zhu Yuanzhang were not even born yet!
Then they can only beat their ancestors and let their own sons vent their anger.
Seeing Zhu Di's anxious expression, Zhu Biao suppressed a smile and said seriously: "Fourth brother, my father loves and protects you. Haven't you heard a saying?"
"Hitting is intimacy, scolding is love!"
"Father has ardent hopes for you, so he wants to discipline you."
"Like the second and third children, my father is too lazy to even bother to beat them, and has basically given up on treatment."
"Really?" Zhu Di had a hopeful expression on his face.
"Of course!"
The expression on Zhu Biao's face became completely serious: "Big brother is very optimistic about you. Follow him well. In a few years, I will ask my father to give you a chance to lead troops to fight. Isn't this your dream all along?"
"Brother, thank you!" Zhu Di's eyes were slightly red.
He has been without his mother since he was a child. Although Queen Ma is very kind to him, she is not his biological mother after all.
He was frightened when he saw his father, Zhu Yuanzhang, especially after the way his father looked at him became more and more strange in the past two years.
Only after following Zhu Biao for more than a month did he feel the warmth of family affection again.
"What are you talking about? We are a family!" Zhu Biao smiled and patted Zhu Di on the shoulder.
Zhu Biao was telling the truth, not because Emperor Yongle was just a ten-year-old kid who came to buy people's hearts or something.
Besides, as the prince, he doesn't need to ask anyone to win people's hearts.
Zhu Biao has this self-confidence. As long as he does not die, Zhu Di will not be able to usurp his power.
And now that he has become a great master of energy, there is no problem for such a great master of the inner family to live over a hundred years old.
And he is only fifteen years old, so there is still huge room for improvement in the future.
To be honest, in this plane, it should be more difficult for my brothers to survive than to reach the sky.