Looking at the figure in front of him, Yang Shaofeng rubbed his eyes in disbelief, but after confirming it several times, he found that he was not wrong.

Hurriedly rolled the saddle and dismounted, Yang Shaofeng bowed to the visitor: "Grandson to meet grandfather!" ”

Zhu Laosi, who was riding on the horse, snorted coldly and ordered: "Get on the horse and talk as you go." ”

After Yang Shaofeng turned over and got on his horse, and unintentionally separated the two of them from the entourage with a few guards, Zhu Laosi said helplessly: "Guess, how many households do I have in Daming?" How many dings are there? ”

Without waiting for Yang Shaofeng to answer, Zhu Laosi sneered and said, "Fortunately, this time the Yellow Book was recreated, and Jinyiwei and the internal officials and supervisors sent people to keep an eye on it."

Compared with the 56 million Dingkou in the first year of Yongle, to 50 million in the second year of Yongle, and then to 51 million in the third year of Yongle, in the next ten years, the population of my Ming Dynasty has hardly grown again!

It wasn't until this recreation of the Yellow Book that I suddenly discovered that my Ming Dingkou had already exceeded 60 million, but these Dingkou were hidden! ”

Haha laughed loudly, but Zhu Laosi's voice was full of chill to the bone: "Almost everyone in the world knows it, but I don't know this emperor!" ”

Yang Shaofeng was silent for a long time before he spoke: "Grandfather, Grandfather, is angry. ”

Zhu Laosi sighed and said, "Anger? How do you calm my anger? One by one, they are all lying on my Da Ming's body to suck blood! I wish I could kill them all now! ”

With a hateful snort, Zhu Laosi continued: "But I found out for the first time that I am not the emperor of all, and if I kill them all, who will take care of this country for me?" Is it up to you? You're just one person after all, and I can't let you carry everything. ”

It seems that it was just to vent the dissatisfaction in his heart, Zhu Laosi didn't give Yang Shaofeng a chance to speak at all, but patted Yang Shaofeng on the shoulder hard, and then said: "This time I went to Wanquan Right Guard, I gave you Shang Fangjian, and the king order banner will be sent to you when you turn around."

This time, those people in the court wanted you to go to Wanquan Right Guard to preside over the border city, but I didn't object, because I wanted to see if you could kick out a new situation there, and I also wanted to see the problems you wrote during the exam, and the problems you found later, try them in that border city new city to see if you can find a solution.

In addition, it is to protect yourself, the tiger talisman is already in your hands, and the guards around the right guard are called by you, once you find something wrong, come back immediately, and save your life. It doesn't matter if you're wronged, as long as you come back, I can be angry for you. Remember? ”

Yang Shaofeng sniffed, nodded vigorously and said, "Don't worry, grandfather, just rely on those Tatars and those moths, and you can't help your grandson."

As for the border city and the new city, the grandson will also be attentive, and when the time comes, I must ask you to take a look at what it looks like to plug in the south of the Yangtze River. ”

Zhu Laosi snorted, smiled, and said to Yang Shaofeng: "Okay, this time more convergence, restrain your temperament, don't always think about fighting and killing, when you come back, I will give you a promotion, and let you go to propose marriage in a beautiful manner!" ”

After finishing speaking, Zhu Laosi slammed the horse's belly and galloped away in the direction of Shuntianfu, leaving only his back farther and farther away in the wind and snow.

Zhu Laosi ran away, but he waved his hand to the group of eunuchs behind him, and then said to Yang Shaofeng: "Your Majesty has ordered someone to prepare fifty sets of battle armor, and your fifty Zhuang households will be regarded as your personal guards from now on, and they will be paid by the Zongren Mansion." ”

After Yang Shaofeng responded, he unintentionally led a group of entourages to run away in the direction where Zhu Laosi left, leaving Yang Shaofeng standing in place.

knew that this was Zhu Laosi buying people's hearts, but Yang Shaofeng still felt that the wind and sand were quite big.

Lin Yu quietly followed Yang Shaofeng and said in a low voice: "Brother-in-law, Your Majesty has come to see you off in person, your face is big enough." ”

Yang Shaofeng glanced at Lin Yu and snorted coldly: "Tell me to go down, Your Majesty has not been here at all today, let them not be nonsense." ”

……

Unlike other cities, the border city is neither under the jurisdiction of the political envoy nor the capital department, and its direct jurisdiction is the household department, and the top boss is Xia Yuanji—and it is not even under the jurisdiction of the household department.

This unusual jurisdictional structure has also led to an unusual city in the management of border cities.

The largest organization here is the Border City Lifting Division, and the largest prefect is from the Nine Grades of Waiting for the Edict Hanlin, but the two deputy promotions are from the Sixth Grade, and even the lowest one is from the Nine Grades, and this Border City Lifting Division is different from the Salt Section Lifting Division and the City Bo Lifting Division.

What is even more confusing is that the main promotion has not yet arrived, but the two deputy promotions and officials have been arranged in advance, and even the thousand households and the officials have also been in place.

To put it simply, these three staffed officials, plus a thousand or so staffed soldiers, plus one hundred and ten unstaffed officials, managed an empty city, and then quietly waited for the promotion to take office.

Cheng Han, the official of the border city, looked up at the sky, and saw that the snowflakes sprinkled had no intention of stopping at all, so he couldn't help but stomp his feet, and said to Liang Jinglun and Qi Mutang, the two deputy lifters: "Lord Tiju has not yet arrived, Liang Tiju and Qi Tiju might as well go to the sedan chair to rest for a while, and the lower officials will send someone to stare at the road. ”

Liang Jinglun shook his head and said, "No need, I'll wait here, presumably Lord Tiju is almost here." ”

Qi Mutang nodded and said, "What Deputy Liang said is very true, those Tatars are waiting in this wind and snow, how can we rest?" ”

Glancing in the direction of Timur and the others, Liang Jinglun's expression inevitably had a trace of disdain, and he couldn't help but whisper: "The other generation is a barbarian, and now he is learning my Chinese etiquette, phew!" ”

Qi Mutang frowned and said: "Liang Tiju shut up, what's going on with our border city lifting division, you should know in your heart that you don't dare to spoil Yang Tiju's big thing." ”

Liang Jinglun nodded, and stomped his feet back and forth on the ground several times before saying, "In such a snowy weather, if there is something that can warm your feet, it must be excellent." ”

As he was talking, Liang Jinglun suddenly sighed, pointed to a few black dots in the distance and said, "Presumably it was Yang Ti and his party." ”

The sound of horses' hooves accompanied by the whistling wind is getting closer and closer, and several black spots in the distance are becoming more and more obvious.

Just stopped stepping on the snow, and after a while, Yang Shaofeng and the snow soon fell a thick layer of snow on their bodies, if it weren't for the continuous exhalation of hot air from the mouth and nose of a person and a ride, the feeling of being like an ice and snow sculpture was more like a living person.

Saying that if you are well, it will be a sunny day, this kind of will not work here - if you look at the wind and snow in the border city, most of them will have to hang up.

Shaking his body, making the whole person look a little more energetic, Yang Shaofeng simply bypassed Liang Jinglun, Qi Mutang and Cheng Han who came up, and turned to Timur who rushed over.

Timur, who had just been excluded by Liang Jinglun and the three of them, intentionally or unintentionally, felt warm in his heart, and then greeted him with a smile, and said with open arms: "Welcome, my brother, you can be regarded as coming." I don't know if you are satisfied with the two mastiffs that gave you last time? ”

Yang Shaofeng greeted him, hugged Timur fiercely, and then said: "Of course, I was just robbed of one by the robber of the imperial grandson of the Ming Dynasty, but I feel sorry for me!" ”

The two looked at each other and laughed again, and Yang Shaofeng waited for Liang Jinglun, Qi Mutang and Cheng Han to come over to meet before he said to Timur: "Since the first snow, I have been worried about you, I don't know if this snow will affect the survival of your tribe?" ”

Seeing that Yang Shaofeng was talking about business in the wind and snow, Timur's face became a little bitter, and he said in a low voice: "It's always better than in previous years, after all, I know that the border market is going to be opened, and many merchants have already gone out of the city, and there are many fewer dead people than in previous years." ”

Yang Shaofeng snorted, and while leading the snow forward, he spoke: "Extra nonsense, I won't say anything more, I want to know what you need most now?" If it's food, no problem, I'll let people figure out how much you want.

As for forage, to be honest, this thing is not too much, and it is very troublesome to mobilize, so this may not help you much. ”

Timur nodded seriously and said, "No, we don't need any of these, or rather, we need these, but we can't ask for your things for nothing, even the Taishi ordered us so." ”

After some consideration, Timur continued: "We are willing to exchange cattle and sheep for grain, and we are willing to exchange cattle and sheep for charcoal, in short, we are very satisfied if we can trade fairly." ”

Yang Shaofeng nodded, and said to Timur: "You can rest assured, we buy cattle and sheep according to the usual market price, and we will never lower the price because of wind and snow."

In the same way, we provide you with food, and I can assure you that it will be absolutely the usual market price, and will not be increased because of the wind and snow.

As for charcoal, I personally think that this thing is just ordinary, and it must be no problem for high-ranking people like Taishi to use it, but how can those ordinary herdsmen afford to use it? ”

Timur reluctantly smiled: "Isn't there cow dung or something, in short, you can keep warm and not freeze to death, so it's good." ”

Yang Shaofeng pointed to the west outside the border city and smiled, and said, "Don't worry." When I came, His Majesty had made an explanation that he would treat the Tatar brothers as if they were my Ming people, so I was also prepared to ensure that all the herdsmen could spend the winter warmly this year! ”

Seeing that Yang Shaofeng said so surely, although Timur was a little skeptical, he was still grateful: "I first thanked Brother Yang for the herdsmen, you are the Bilge sent by the Immortal Heaven to save them!" ”

PS: Today, take the day Marvin "The Lord of Malaysia" to worship the sky!