I'm sorry, I, Lin Linyou, am going to embarrass all the senior time travellers!
You have all kinds of systems, golden fingers, white-bearded grandpas and so on!
What does Lin Linyou have? Apart from an embroidered spring sword, martial arts skills, and handsomeness, what else is there to say?
It is not easy to live in Ming Dynasty for so many episodes.
However, under the current situation, it is unwise to use force against Wang Qian. Lin Linyou has seen Ji Gang's martial arts, and even Xue Lu, Marquis of Yangwu, is no match for him! He dared to touch Li Chun before because he had not alerted Ji Gang. Lin Linyou was also confident that Li Chun did not dare to alert Ji Gang because of the memorial.
Now that he has been transferred to the Zhonghou Office, it is obvious that Ji Gang is already taking care of this matter, and Lin Linyou does not dare to be arrogant anymore.
Therefore, when Wang Qian asked him to go to the pasture to be a butcher, he could only do it obediently.
When Zhang Bi found out, he sighed: "Now it's better. One of them is raising horses, and the other is feeding elephants. They are both breeders! I told you to keep a low profile!"
Yang Fang is not at home. He seems to be living in Ren Ran. I wonder if his small body can handle it?
After hearing this, Lin Linyou felt that Zhang Bi was a bit gloating about his misfortune. It seemed that his golden finger was not easy to use either!
During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, horses were raised by officials and jointly raised by the people. Horses were graded according to their age, their money and food were reduced, and they were exempted from corvee service.
The pastures in the south of the Yangtze River are very different from the grasslands in the north. But people in the south of the Yangtze River are used to seeing gentle bridges and flowing water. When they see the vast grassland for the first time, they will also feel that the scenery is infinite and has a unique charm. When they see a large green grassland, they will want to rush in and roll around and gallop their horses. impulse.
However, this is mostly just the wishful thinking and romantic reverie of literati.
The grassland by the Yangtze River is not vast. There is a small hill in the middle. At the foot of the hill is the grassland. Half a circle outside is the inlet of the Yangtze River. There are swamps and ponds scattered in the middle. In the late summer and early autumn, the water grass has turned yellow. Signs of mosquito infestation. Not to mention rolling around and acting bad, those who can step in are heroes.
It has been raining for days, the ponds are overflowing, and the low-lying grasslands are also filled with deep water. When you step on it, it feels like stepping on water-saturated cotton cloth. With a "chirp" sound, the water reaches your calves, and your ankles are deep in the wet mud. What is even more annoying is that a large black mass of flying mosquitoes buzzes up from the weeds and flies all over the head and face. After a while, the head and face are covered with red dots and red envelopes.
Wang Qian said: "Recently, many military households in Jiangnan Ranch have fled. Lin Baihu came from a frontier army and has more experience with people and horses than we do. Lin Baihu has worked hard and went to discipline them."
Jiangnan here refers to a small grassland in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, south of the capital.
There are a few stilt wooden houses scattered on the pasture, which should be used by shepherds to live in when they are grazing. Watch the cattle, sheep and horses, don't lose them, and watch the grass, don't get burned by someone. At the foot of the small hills in the distance are stables, stables, cattle and sheep pens, and warehouses; further up, on the flat part of the mountainside, there is a circle of stone walls, with several rows of yellow-walled and black-tiled huts inside. This is the residence of the shepherd who is in charge of the pasture here and his subordinates.
Although this pasture is also in the capital, it is not very big. Compared with the Beijing pasture, the standard is much lower. The Beijing pasture is guarded by troops.
Lin Linyou rode a horse, carrying some simple luggage, and circled the pasture before heading towards the mountain.
There was no one guarding the entrance to the stone wall. Lin Lin dismounted his horse and went straight in. He saw more than a dozen big men inside, all naked and muscular, sitting in twos and threes around a few square tables under the eaves corridor, playing cards and gambling, shouting and drinking. When they saw strangers entering, they all raised their eyes and stared, and the courtyard suddenly became quiet.
Lin Lin walked to the middle of the yard and glanced at everyone, but everyone lowered their heads and returned to the gambling table, no longer looking at him.
"Who's in charge here?" Lin Linyou asked.
No one cares about him.
Depend on! Lin Linyou cursed secretly, not bothering to ask any further questions and humiliating himself. He wandered around the yard and walked into a room from time to time to look around, planning to find a quiet place for himself.
I looked at a few of them, and I saw that they were all big shops in a row. They were smelly and were no better than stables.
The innermost room, with its door closed, looked much nicer than the other rooms, and there were flower pots at the door. Lin Linyou walked forward and pushed open the door. As expected, there was only a big bed inside, with a mosquito net hanging on it. A person was sleeping soundly in the net, with his chest and abdomen exposed, even though he was separated by the mosquito net. It can still be seen that his chest hair is very lush.
There was so much noise outside that it didn't even wake him up.
Looking at him like this, he must be the steward of the pasture here.
Lin Linyou walked in, closed the door, sat at the table, picked up the teapot on the table, poured a cup, and deliberately slammed the teapot on the table with a bang.
Sure enough, the man on the bed shuddered, and Youyou woke up and turned around, looking at the source of the sound with sleepy eyes.
Lin Linyou drank a glass of water, raised his left hand and wiped the water stains from the corner of his mouth with his thumb.
The man sat on the bed and sucked the "yellow" like a chicken out of its shell for a long time. Then he seemed to wake up completely. He opened the mosquito net and strode towards Lin Lin with bare feet and no shoes on, with a smile on his face. He said, "Is he the new Mr. Baihu? It's hard to welcome him from afar!"
His Chinese is very blunt, and looking at his appearance, he has a broad, dark face, a full beard, and a long and thick beard on his chin. He seems not to be a Han, but rather a Tatar.
I didn't look carefully just now, but now that I think about it, many of the people outside just now looked like him.
When Lin Lin was traveling in the frontier army, he often had dealings with Tatars.
"This is Du Lifu!" The man introduced himself in blunt Chinese.
"I'm Lin Linyou." Lin Linyou stood up and returned the salute.
"I know, I know." Du Lifu chuckled, "Wang Qianhu has already told me."
"Are you the one in charge here?" Lin Linyou asked.
"I'm not," Du Lifu said, "The boss has run away. I'm currently only acting as temporary agent."
"Run away? Why did you run away?"
"I don't know, I'm still investigating, and I've sent people to look for it."
Lin Linyou still thought that since he came over, he was in charge.
"Now that Wang Qianhu has explained it, you should know what I am here to do?"
"I know." Du Lifu said, "Wang Qianhu sent you, Lin Baihu, to cooperate with me."
"Cooperate with you?"
"My Majesty, my official position is from the fifth rank to the rank of Thousand Households." Du Lifu still had a smile on his face, but this time, there seemed to be a little pride in his smile.
After listening to him saying "I'm here" before, Lin Linyou said that he was just an ordinary pastor, but he didn't expect that he was senior to him!
The first level of officialdom can crush people to death!
There is a precedent for foreigners to serve as imperial guards as early as the Hongwu period.
In the 21st year of Hongwu, Taizu appointed a Tatar named "Da'er Masli" as the commander of the Jinyi Guards. He was ordered to usher in the surrender of the late Yuan Youcheng Huo'er Hui, the Vice-President Yi Laha, and Shangshu Bubu. Bad and others.
The position of commander of the Jinyiwei in Tarmasli may have been given to them when they surrendered. The reason why foreigners were appointed as Jinyiwei may be to facilitate communication with foreigners and their surrenderers, and to express the Ming Dynasty's enlightened ethnic policy. In addition, it is more convenient to carry out tasks such as hunting down treason, evil talk, and serious evil in areas inhabited by foreigners.
In November of the 35th year of Hongwu (the fourth year of Jianwen), Wu Choulu, a leader of a Tatar tribe, returned from Liangzhou (now northwest Gansu) and surrendered. He was appointed by Zhu Di to command the Jinyi Guards.
In the third year of Yongle, the leaders of the Tatar tribe, Saohu'er and Chasijiduoluochi, came to surrender and were appointed by Zhu Di as Jinyiwei Qianhu. In the later Jin Dynasty, they were Jinyiwei and commanded Qianshi.
Zhu Di seemed to have a fixed method for the surrendered Tatar tribe leaders, that is, appointing them as commanders, but some served as governors, some as captains, and some as guards. (all are deputy positions), probably based on the size of the tribe, the number of surrenders, and the amount of property.
For example, in the same year, the Tatar tribe leaders Batu Timur and Lundu Erhui returned with their families, more than 5,000 tribesmen, and more than 16,000 horses and camels, and were awarded the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Right Army respectively. As well as the official positions of Qianshi, the governor of the rear army, they are all deputy positions of the second rank.
Since this Du Lifu in Caochang is just a deputy Qianhu, he is not a tribal leader, but one of the people who surrendered with the tribal leader.
However, letting people from the grassland herd horses and sheep is not a professional counterpart.
"Which room should I live in?" Lin Lin was tired from traveling and didn't want to talk nonsense. He just wanted to sleep.
"Lin Baihu can choose whichever room he likes among the outer rooms." Du Lifu said.
"Outside? The outside is all Datongpu!" Lin Lin said.
"The conditions of the pasture are like this!" Du Lifu said, "Lin Baihu will just make do with it."
Lin Linyou couldn't help but said, "You want me to sleep with them in Datongbu? I am a member of the Jinyiwei Hundred Household, and you want me to sleep in Datongbu!" Not to mention you are a member of a thousand households, I am not used to Qianhu!
Du Lifu was still not upset: "It's all the same outside."
"They're all...hundred households?" Lin Lin was shocked.
"They are all Jin Yiwei." Du Lifu smiled.
Second Austrian! Since there are royal guards, why would you send me here? I still tell you that I was really sent to take care of things! Only then did Lin Linyou feel that he was too young and too naive to play tricks, and he was no match for these old foxes! I dare you to let me feed the mosquitoes and shovel horse manure!
Du Lifu said: "It must be Lin Baihu who offended Wang Qianhu! You Han people love this trick the most."
"Is it possible? You too?" Lin Linyou had the illusion that this person was one of his own.
Du Lifu was honest and shook his head: "I'm not, but there are a few people outside who are."
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