Zhu Gui spent an afternoon preparing the supplies.
This time, Princess Yan was accompanying her, so it was obviously impossible to gallop forward like before.
So he simply prepared a caravan full of goods to accompany him. The caravan was accompanied by twenty carriages and more than fifty people as guards.
Such a large caravan is rare within the Datong Chamber of Commerce, and in addition, there is a carriage of the King of Dai inside.
So when the caravan left Datong Mansion, half of the people in the city came out of the city to see them off, and the scene was very spectacular.
These were all organized voluntarily by the people of Datong Prefecture.
This surprised Princess Yan Xu Miaoyun in the carriage.
"I didn't expect that King Dai would be so loved by the people. If this news reaches Nanjing, probably no one will believe it."
Xu Miaoqing said disapprovingly: "Sister, it takes time to see people's hearts, and people's hearts cannot be accumulated overnight, but I believe that as long as Zhu Gui is given time, he will definitely change the emperor's view of him."
When Xu Miaoyun heard what she said, she took her hand and said, "Sister, I forgot to remind you that King Dai is the vassal king after all. You can't call him by his first name, especially in front of others. If this spreads,
People will laugh at you."
"If I don't call him by his name, how should I call him?" Xu Miaoqing asked in surprise. After all, she was used to calling him, and Zhu Gui had never had any objection to this.
"You are already married, so naturally you should call me husband. If you are more polite, you can also call me prince." Xu Miaoyun said.
"Husband, but we..." Halfway through her words, Xu Miaoqing suddenly blushed and lowered her head.
"You haven't had sex yet?" Xu Miaoyun immediately guessed what her sister was thinking.
"You silly girl, do you have other ideas?" Xu Miaoyun asked doubtfully.
"No, no, this is a marriage granted by the emperor, how dare I have other ideas." Xu Miaoqing said quickly.
Before and after they got married, she did have thoughts about admiring King Yan very much, and Zhu Gui even heard about it.
But now, that childish thought at the time has long gone. If her sister knew what she thought before, she would probably beat her to death.
But Xu Miaoqing is also a little strange. Does Zhu Gui still care about his original thoughts? Otherwise, why has he not been willing to touch him for so long?
Xu Miaoyun didn't know Xu Miaoqing's thoughts. She held her sister's hand and said: "The palace is not as good as home. You must not get into trouble with the king. Try to give birth to a son and a half for him as soon as possible. In this way, your status will be the same."
Make it stable, otherwise if he takes a concubine in the future, you will suffer the consequences."
Xu Miaoyun's sincere words finally moved Xu Miaoqing. She was wondering if she should find time to have a good talk with Zhu Gui?
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It took the caravan a whole week to finally reach the vicinity of Nanjing City. Local officials had been waiting for it for a long time on the road.
The convoy repaired locally for two hours before continuing to set off, and finally entered Nanjing as it was getting dark.
Officials of Honglu Temple have prepared accommodation for Zhu Gui and his party, but this time they were not allowed to live in Dai Wang's Mansion.
Zhu Gui ordered people to buy a house nearby and then settled the fleet.
By sending someone to escort Princess Yan Xu Miaoyun to Prince Yan's Mansion.
He and Xu Miaoqing rested in the place arranged by the court until midnight, and then were summoned into the palace by the eunuchs from the palace.
Zhu Gui woke up Xu Miaoqing, who had just slept for an hour. The two got acquainted with each other, put on formal clothes, and then entered the palace together.
Compared with the last time he came, Zhu Gui obviously found that there were many more patrolling guards in the palace.
There were more than ten guards escorting Zhu Gui.
This gave Zhu Gui a vague premonition.
The two of them were sent to Fengtian Hall.
Zhu Yuanzhang was taking a nap on the dragon throne.
The chief eunuch woke him up softly. Zhu Yuanzhang glanced down and then said, "Is Zhu Gui here?"
Zhu Gui quickly knelt down and said, "My son, I would like to express my regards to my father."
Xu Miaoqing also knelt down and saluted.
Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, and then seemed to think of something. He took the pistol that killed four vassal kings from the case box held by the little eunuch next to him, and then threw it in front of Zhu Gui.
"Do you recognize this thing?"
Zhu Yuanzhang's voice suddenly doubled in volume, echoing repeatedly in the silent Fengtian Hall.
There was no greeting, and all he did was question, which shows Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude towards Zhu Gui.
Zhu Gui only felt his scalp numb. He just glanced at it and said, "Back to my father, this is a firearm developed by my son when I was bored in Yunzhou. It is to deal with the Mongols."
"Hmph, it's great to deal with the Mongols. Is Yunzhou so dangerous that you, the vassal king, need to personally go into battle?"
Zhu Yuanzhang said sharply.
"Returning to my father, when I first arrived in Yunzhou, there were less than a thousand troops stationed in the garrison. Moreover, the armaments were depleted and the people's morale was unstable. The Mongols would often break through the border towns and plunder. As a last resort, I
I thought of developing firearms."
Zhu Gui fell to the ground and said.
Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows, and then asked the eunuch in charge to read through the memorials from Yunzhou that the prince had reviewed.
Although he had seen these before, he only glanced at them briefly because Zhu Yuanzhang had great trust in Zhu Biao's abilities.
But when he read it again, he finally understood that what Zhu Gui said was indeed the truth.
Among them are not only memorials from the Dai Wangfu, but also detailed introductions by local officials about several battles with the Mongols.
However, none of these memorials asked for credit for Dai Wang. Even the memorials from Dai Wang's palace attributed all the credit to Xu Yingxu.
After Zhu Yuanzhang finished reading, he took a deep look at Zhu Gui who was still lying on the ground and said, "Get up and talk."
"I don't dare," Zhu Gui said.
"Get up when I tell you to get up. Why don't you dare? Do you want to resist the decree?" Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily.
Zhu Gui then stood up and helped Xu Miaoqing next to him.
This scene fell in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, and he was a little surprised.
Once upon a time, the father and son had not seen each other for half a year, but he could feel that Zhu Gui's temperament and the look on his face seemed to have changed a lot from the past, both inside and outside.
"Did you know that this thing killed four vassal kings? Almost destroyed the Ming Dynasty?"
After a while, Zhu Yuanzhang remembered the purpose of calling Zhu Guilai this time.
Zhu Guidao: "I have heard a little about it, but I have a different view on this matter."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his expression became extremely cold: "Let's just say it, if it's still the same nonsense as before, you, the vassal king, don't need to keep doing it."
This sentence made Zhu Guiru fall into the ice cave, and a bitter look appeared on his face.