A few days later, Jinling.
Old Zhu held Zhu Rong's memorial and read its contents.
"This kid actually threw all 50,000 refugees to Song Sheng. Adding on the 30,000 or so people he threw to Song Sheng previously, he gave away 80,000 people in one go.”
"This kid, what's his motive for doing this? Now, there were tens of thousands of women in his fief.”
Old Zhu didn't quite understand what Zhu Xiong was doing.
That was because there was a memorial from Song Sheng on Old Zhu's table.
It was clearly written on the memorial that his Thirteenth Brother wanted to build a city on his own.
When he first found out about this, Old Zhu was naturally extremely angry.
She didn't expect that her son, whom she had taken a liking to, would have such deep thoughts.
At that time, Old Zhu wanted to get someone to capture Zhu Xi and interrogate him.
However, after thinking about it, Old Zhu suppressed his thoughts and decided to see what his son was going to do, how he was going to do it, and to what extent.
He even wrote an imperial edict to Song Sheng, telling him to take his son down if he found anything wrong.
But he didn't expect that in just three days, Zhu Xiong's memorial would be delivered to his hands.
Old Zhu was even more confused by Zhu Xiong's actions.
A total of 80,000 young men were given to Song Sheng.
They even provided wives for at least 50,000 border guards.
Was he trying to buy the hearts of the Northwest Border Army?
Or was he preparing to join the Northwest Border Army?
Didn't he say that he wanted to build a city privately?
He had already given her away, so how could he build it?
Just by relying on the remaining tens of thousands of women?
Even if Thirteenth was stupid, he couldn't be that stupid, right?
In his confusion, Old Zhu looked at Eunuch Wang.
"How is the investigation of the refugees around King Su going?”
Hearing this, Eunuch Wang's face was filled with fear as he said,"
"I haven't found anything yet. This old servant started from Pingliang and interrogated some of the people who were sent to Pingliang by Prince Su on the spot. However, I found that these people didn't know anything about their origins.”
"Even if this old servant used torture, they wouldn't be able to explain anything.”
"After that, this old servant sent people to capture a few more people from Gan Province for interrogation. However, the results were the same. These people could not explain their origins even until they died.”
"Originally, this old servant wanted to start with those female refugees. However, something went wrong when I was capturing them and was discovered by the border guards.”
"However, don't worry, Your Majesty. This old servant has already thought of a way to find the women who are married to the border soldiers.”
"We will definitely be able to find the answer Your Majesty wants from them.”
Old Zhu frowned, and a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes.
"In your opinion, where are these people from?”
Eunuch Wang hesitated and didn't dare to speak.
Old Zhu said impatiently,"
"Just say it!"
Eunuch Wang did not hesitate and said,"
"This old official suspects that these people are all fools raised by His Highness King Su from who knows where. They only have King Su in their hearts and not the Imperial Court.”
"Moreover, there are so many of them. What Your Majesty and this old servant saw might only be the tip of the iceberg.”
Old Zhu's heart twitched."
"The tip of the iceberg? There were about 200,000 people in total, and this was just the tip of the iceberg?”
Eunuch Wang bowed and said,
"The person I sent to monitor King Su's fief told me that in the past half a month, at least five thousand refugees have been pouring into the fief every day.”
"Your Majesty, from a few hundred people at the beginning to a few thousand now, how huge is this?”
"Moreover, judging from the looks of it, the number of refugees is still increasing.”
"This means that there are definitely more than 200,000 refugees. According to this old servant's estimation, there are at least 500,000 to 1 million people.”
"Of course, this is just this old servant's guess. After all, before we figure out the origins of these people, everything is hard to say.”
"However, if these people are all raised by His Highness King Su, then things will be a little terrifying.”
When Old Zhu heard this, his face turned ashen.
Not only was it terrifying, it was simply unimaginable.
If these 200,000 people were all King Su's men, then the seriousness of the problem would be too terrifying.
However, there was a problem.
When did Thirteenth start rearing so many people?
One had to know that Thirteenth had been living in the palace since he was born and rarely left the palace.
This was recorded in the palace.
As for Thirteenth Brother's mother, the Gao Clan, she had never stepped out of the palace ever since she stepped into it.
Moreover, the Gao Clan was just an ordinary woman. Firstly, she had no background, and secondly, she had no family affairs. She was just an ordinary woman.
Under such circumstances, how did Thirteenth manage to keep so many people in captivity without anyone noticing?
Could it be that training?
That was even more impossible. There were people monitoring the entire training. The princes 'every move was under Old Zhu's surveillance.
Old Zhu was puzzled by this matter.
Also, there were hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in captivity!
How did these people manage to avoid being discovered by the Imperial Court?
Could it be that all the officials were just for show?
In any case, Old Zhu couldn't figure it out.
However, the problem now was not to think about these things.
It was because Thirteenth Brother had sent nearly 200,000 people to the entire northwest!
It didn't matter if these 200,000 people were really like what Eunuch Wang said, all of them serving Thirteenth Brother.
Old Zhu had decided to make a move.
"Order King Su to return to the capital immediately. There must be no mistakes!”
"At the same time, pass down an edict to Song Sheng to split up all the young men sent by Prince Su into groups of 100 and send them to the various guard stations across the country.”
" Border soldiers who have married women from King Su's fief..."
At this point, Old Zhu paused slightly.
He hesitated.
Old Zhu naturally knew that it was difficult for border troops to get married.
It was just that he had not thought of a good solution to this problem.
At least tens of thousands of border soldiers had married women from King Su's fief.
Could it be that Old Zhu could issue an edict for these border soldiers to divorce their wives?
Moreover, they were just women. What could they do?
After thinking for a while, Old Zhu said,
"There's no need to move for now. As for the women in King Su's fief, keep a close watch on them.”
Eunuch Wang bowed and said,
"Yes, sir!"
"However, Your Majesty, there are still quite a number of border soldiers in King Su's fief waiting to get married. Should we order them to leave?”
When Old Zhu heard this, he thought for a moment and shook his head.
"There's no need for that for now. Wait until Prince Su returns to the capital and give us an explanation!”
"This old servant understands."
Eunuch Wang seemed to have thought of something and asked,"
"Your Majesty, the Hu Weiyong case is progressing very smoothly and is about to end. At this time, recalling King Su is probably not good for the stability of the border.”
Old Zhu was stunned and immediately said,
"We'll suppress Hu Weiyong's case for now until we're done with King Su's matter.”
"Yes, sir!"
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