Chapter 626: Generous Rewards

In early March of the seventh year of Yongle, after the palace was fully prepared, Zhu Gaoxu summoned a group of generals in Fengtian Hall. Today we will reward all the vassals for their merits and give banquets to them.

Seven dukes: Mu Sheng, duke of Guizhou, Qu Neng, duke of Ba, Sheng Yong, duke of Shao, Ping An, duke of E, Wang Bin, duke of Ding (it was decreed that Xu Jingchang, the son of Xu Zengshou, would succeed Xu Da as Duke of Wei), Wei Da, duke of Wei , Zheng Guogong Liu Ying.

There are more than ten marquises, including Chen Zhen, Chen Dachui, Zhao Ping, Yin Desheng, Du Erlang, Wang Yu, Zhang Sheng, Li Rang, Xu Hua, Wan Quan, Yao Fengji, Lu Bing, etc., all of whom have been granted the title of marquis; there are also several counts.

At the banquet, the newly composed dance music of the Jiaofang Bureau began to be performed one after another, including "The Song of Breaking the Battle at Taiping Field" and "The Song of Victory at Baoqing". After