However, Zhu Gui faced this situation, and the expression on his face was still calm.

"Father, the son has asked General Xu Yingxu to lead 10,000 elite cavalry to be stationed on the grassland, just to prevent the Mongols from causing trouble again."

"Xu Yingxu? You're doing a good job, but how about 10,000 people? Come on, immediately go to the military department to transfer 30,000 Ming troops to join General Xu. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and immediately issued a military order.

When the civil and military officials heard this, they immediately began to pat their ass, only Lan Yu was silent with a gloomy face.

"Forget about this time, you must not be so careless when facing the Mongols in the future, you know?" Zhu Yuanzhang has been dealing with the Mongols for half his life, so he is very cautious.

"Son, remember." Zhu Gui said.

In this way, the celebration lasted all day before it dispersed.

Zhu Gui had time to take a look at the prince, but the other party's face was even more ugly than before he left, so Zhu Gui had to take out a few pills again and hand them to Zhu Yunwen, and instructed: "It was the emperor's uncle who was negligent, and these pills were given to the prince one a day." ”

"Thank you Uncle Huang, Uncle Huang has made a great contribution this time, Grandpa Huang must be very happy, right?" Zhu Yunwen's expression was a little complicated, and his attitude was not as cordial as before.

Zhu Gui secretly complained in his heart, it seems that Zhu Yunwen, this kid, has begun to be wary of him in his heart, but he has no intention of competing for the throne with the other party, not to mention that this matter is already a certainty, depending on Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude.

Even if he wins a few more battles and exterminates the entire Mongols, I am afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang will not pass the throne to him, and Zhu Gui already knows this.

What's more, Zhu Gui knows that his biggest opponent is not Zhu Yunwen, who is two years younger than him, but Zhu Di, the king of Yan.

"Don't think too much about the emperor's nephew, this king is just worrying about the court, and has no other ideas, the throne is yours, this is well known, don't believe the words of others to sow discord."

After Zhu Gui finished speaking, he glanced at a thin young man standing not far from him.

If what he expected was right, this person should be Zhu Yunwen's famous Fang Xiaoru when he was outside.

Although this person is upright, it is his strong advocacy of cutting the feudal domain that led to the outbreak of the Battle of Jingyan, although he finally fulfilled the name of loyalty, but it also led to Zhu Yunwen's throne being taken away by Zhu Di, and Zhu Gui did not want to evaluate the merits and demerits.

Zhu Yunwen's body trembled when he heard Zhu Gui's words, and then he lowered his head and said, "Uncle Huang's lesson is that Yunwen remembers. ”

Zhu Gui patted Zhu Yunwen on the shoulder and left.

Half an hour later, he finally returned to the Acting King's Mansion again.

Princess Xu Miaoqing has been waiting in the hall for a long time.

Seeing Zhu Gui coming in, he immediately stood up and came to Zhu Gui's side and said, "Wang Yan, when will we go back to Datong Mansion, it's been more than two months." ”

Zhu Gui touched Xu Miaoqing's hair and said with a smile: "Soon, we will go back to Yunzhou after this matter is rested." ”

"Okay." Xu Miaoqing smiled and snuggled in Zhu Gui's arms.

……

Early the next morning, Zhu Gui received a holy decree announcing that he would enter the palace.

Zhu Gui didn't dare to delay, and immediately followed the eunuch to the Fengtian Palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang was already sitting on the dragon chair, "Zhu Gui, tell me everything about this expedition, I have never fought such a beautiful battle in my life." ”

It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to hear the details of this war, and Zhu Gui breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Zhu Gui told Zhu Yuanzhang the beginning and end of this war as it was, but he gave Xu Yingxu the main credit.

This was done to avoid arousing Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicion and classifying him as an obstacle to Zhu Yunwen's ascension to the throne, and Zhu Gui was already a vassal king, and no amount of credit could make him go further.

But how could Zhu Yuanzhang not hear his little thoughts? Zhu Yuanzhang squinted his eyes and listened to all this that Zhu Gui said, without any interjection during the period.

"Yes, you did fight this battle beautifully, but I don't have anything to reward you anymore, tell me, what do you want?" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said.

"What the sons are doing is just for the court to serve my Ming dynasty, and they don't want any rewards, but if the father really insists on rewarding the sons, he only needs to make the sons a normal vassal king."

Zhu Gui said unusually calmly.

The so-called 'normal vassal king' is the king of Sai who can have three guards, and now although Zhu Yuanzhang has partially lifted Zhu Gui's power to form guards, there are only 1,000 people, which is really insignificant compared to the 30,000 guards of the other three kings.

This time, taking advantage of Zhu Yuanzhang's happiness, Zhu Gui put forward such a condition.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while and nodded and said: "Yes, this is originally your right as a vassal king, I was just worried that you were too young to command the personal guards, but now that you have shown me your strength, then I will naturally not hinder you anymore." ”

Zhu Gui was silent on the surface, but he was already very excited in his heart, as long as he could form the three guards normally, then he would have the capital to play a role in the Battle of Jingjing, which was also the biggest idea he had always wanted to complete, and now it has finally been achieved after so many twists and turns.

"Tell me, what more do you want, these are not enough to reward you for your work this time." Zhu Yuanzhang continued.

"Erchen hopes that General Xu Yingxu can continue to stay in the Datong Mansion Guardhouse and ask his father to fulfill it." Zhu Gui lowered his head and said.

After all, based on Xu Yingxu's military exploits during this time, he was enough to ascend to the palace and become one of the generals in the court.

Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a moment, with a thoughtful look on his face, although he knew that Zhu Gui played the most important role in this war, it was indeed not appropriate to keep Xu Yingxu in Datong Mansion.

But after all, Zhu Gui has made such a great achievement, if his only request is to be rejected, it will inevitably seem unkind.

"Okay, I can promise you that General Xu will continue to be stationed in Datong Mansion, but only for three years, and after three years, he will definitely return to Nanjing to take up his post." Zhu Yuanzhang said after thinking twice.

"Thank you, Father." Zhu Gui was overjoyed in his heart, after all, now that the crown prince is seriously ill, Zhu Yunwen's accession to the throne has not been long ago, so the so-called three-year period is equivalent to no time limit.

Zhu Yuanzhang continued to talk to Zhu Gui about some things and then let him leave.

Before leaving, Zhu Gui put forward the idea of wanting to return to Datong Mansion, but Zhu Yuanzhang just waved his hand and left.

"Is this agreed? Let's just agree. Zhu Gui immediately hurried back to the Daiwang Mansion and began to call people to prepare.