Seeing Zhu Biao speak up.
"What memorial?" Zhu Yuanzhang grew interested as well and looked at Zhu Biao.
"It concerns Zhu Ying of the Daning Border Army." Zhu Biao smiled, stepped forward, and directly handed the memorial in his hand to Zhu Yuanzhang.
The latter accepted it and looked it over.
His expression relaxed as well.
The tension from moments ago, the suffocating pressure that had blanketed the entire court, dissipated with it.
"Zhu Ying."
"Not bad."
"He led four thousand cavalrymen of our Ming Dynasty into the Northern Frontier on campaign for several months, earning many military merits and slaying tens of thousands of enemies. Now, he has even seized ten thousand warhorses from the Tatars and brought them back to the Ming Dynasty."
"Biao'er."
"This Zhu Ying may truly be worthy of the title Marquis of Victory you spoke of." Zhu Yuanzhang said with a hearty laugh.
Clearly.
Zhu Yuanzhang was greatly pleased that Zhu Ying had now returned with ten thousand captured warhorses.
"Zhu Ying is still very young. So long as he serves faithfully and dutifully in the future, the day will surely come when he becomes the Marquis of Victory of our Ming Dynasty." Zhu Biao said with a smile, his words revealing how highly he regarded Zhu Ying.
Above the imperial court.
The ministers were deeply shaken as well.
Zhu Biao's words undoubtedly showed an even firmer resolve to cultivate Zhu Ying.
Zhu Ying would truly have a place among the rising nobles of the court in the future.
"Father Emperor."
"Zhu Ying has now received the title bestowed by Father Emperor, and has also been promoted to Commander of the Thousand Households, commanding ten thousand troops."
"According to General Fu Youde's report."
"This Zhu Ying indeed has the heart of a general who