(Sorry for the late update, I'm really sorry.) The second chapter arrives today, and there is another chapter later. ）

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Time flies, and more than two months have passed in a blink of an eye.

In the golden autumn of September, Shandong Bu Political Envoy Division, Leling County.

Leling County, located in the northeast of the Shandong Buzheng Envoy, is only 20 miles to the north, is the Hejian Mansion of the North Zhili.

This place is a famous city in ancient times, Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty placed the plain county in five years, and led the county nineteen, among which there is Leling. At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, the county was named Leling County. And a little older, it can be traced back to the ancient pre-Qin, where the Yan general Le Yi built the city.

Leling County is located on the edge of the Great Plain of North China, blessed with fertile fields on all sides, and there is not even a single mound that is a little higher. The mouth of the Yellow River is only 200 miles here, and if you use the words of later generations, it happens to be located in the Yellow River Delta region. The Yellow River in the Ming Dynasty, the water volume is still extremely abundant, Haohao Tangtang is a big river more than ten miles wide, and there are countless tributaries in the boundary of Shandong, there are more than a dozen great direct flows such as the Tu River, the Shang River, and the Maji River.

At this time, Shandong, there is no such drought as in later generations, the whole Shandong Peninsula, there are countless large rivers and small rivers, the most important traffic is actually water transportation, take a boat from Jiaozhou Port to Jinan Mansion, the water veins extend in all directions, it can be seen.

Leling County is located in the western corner of this dense river network. With the nourishment of the Yellow River and several big rivers, from Leling County to the east to the seaside, it is a large meadow with abundant water and grass.

Originally, there were many places for the imperial court to raise horses, not to mention that Daning on the plug and Liaodong Zhuwei outside the gate were rich in good horses, even if it was Shaanxi and Gansu, it was the hometown of Western Xia, and it has always been a good place for raising horses. In the past, it was said that the Western Xia could arm 200,000 iron horsemen and 150,000 light horsemen with a territory that was only equivalent to a political envoy today.

However, the Ming Dynasty is not as good as in the past, first Daning was lost, Duoyan Sanwei occupied here, and later Xuanfu, Shaanxi and Gansu, but also Tatar Vara entered the Kou every year, Ma Zheng was abandoned for many years, and had no choice but to set up Ma Zheng in the hinterland.

From the seventeenth year of the reign of the first emperor, he began to set up a horse administration here, stipulating that every household raised horses to serve the imperial court. At the beginning, these errands were under the management of the 24th eunuch, and in the 20th year of Zhengde, the horse eunuchs in various places were abolished and civil officials were sent to manage them. From the east of Leling County, all the way to the Bohai Sea, Leling, Yangxin, Haifeng, Zhanhua four counties, set up a unified commander of the four counties of the military and horse Yamen, is the dignified five products, hanging under the name of the Ministry of War.

The horse administration system has existed since the pre-Qin period, and the local people have always been extremely difficult to manage the horse, as the so-called "easy to lead horses, difficult to raise horses". The wife is cold and hungry, if there are beans and self-eating, can An raise horses and hope for peace? The grass on the plains is cold, and the horses are hoarse. Suddenly fell to the ground and the whole family cried, so they planned to compensate for selling the house. Maowu has no more compensation and less compensation, and even more children are on the streets. There is no need to be sad when you are comforted, my family has two or three children.

Ma Zheng is very cool, fifteen dings raise a horse, after bringing back the foal from the government, he will serve his grandfather as a general, the horse is expensive, only eat hay, but also eat soybeans, how can ordinary people afford it? If a horse has a cold or even dies of illness, it is really like the sky is falling, and the corrupt officials are up and down, so that if something happens, a horse will have to pay more than 60 taels of silver. At that time, a high-grade Mongolian horse only cost eight taels of silver, seven taels of medium, and six taels of inferior, while a folk horse was discounted by twenty-four taels.

I had to sell my sons and daughters to make up for the money.

"The people are afraid that they will have a chance to breed, so they will starve and trample on the horses, and fall ill and die. When he saw that there was a fixed horse among the people, he sought to buy a group of doctors to conceal it, and if there was a prominent horse, he used cold water and swill, and washed it down, and he was always in debt, and he did not pay two taels of silver as usual. If you owe nothing, you will be born, although you will report to the official, you will be hungry and practiced, and you will die, but you will pay three taels of silver as usual. If you can't die, the horses will be thin and short. "The people would rather give money than keep horses." The people are trapped in the horses, they don't know what to flee, the foals are dying in order to fall, and the foals are happy to celebrate. Why? If there is a foal, the herding is heavy, almost frequent, and it is better to return to silver than to raise horses. ”

Ma Zheng has suffered the people, but he has fattened the officials.

The supreme governor of the military horse yamen of the four counties, Zhou Xingbo and the residence of the governor of Zhou, is located in Leling County.

His mansion stretches from West Street to the South River Bank, covering an area of 100 acres and more than 500 houses. The houses in the house are distinct layer by layer, scattered, the pavilions are magnificent, and the bearing is extraordinary. Entering the gate, the middle door, facing the living room of the stone foundation wooden pillar, the square flower window, the partition door is picked, and the inside and outside are decorated with large pieces of wood carvings and birds, which looks antique.

This kind of big mansion is much more magnificent than the mansion of Dai Zhangpu that Lian Zining saw.

If it is in Beijing, a mere five-grade official dares to build such a luxurious mansion, I am afraid that there will already be an official of the imperial history to excerpt the ginseng, but in Leling County, where the emperor is far away, he Zhou Governor Zhou is the sky, that is, the soil emperor of the four counties, who dares to participate in him?

At this time, it was late at night, and a wing room by the wall of the back garden of the Zhou Mansion was still brightly lit.

The pattern of the wing room is not small, wide and wide, there are five or six zhang square, and the roof is also high, there are always two zhang up and down. The room was paved with flat stone slabs, many of which were stained with purple-black stains, giving people a sense of evil and weirdness. And against the wall, there are all kinds of torture instruments, including tiger chairs, hanging rings, and so on, and the stove is burning vigorously, and the soldering iron in it is burned red. These torture instruments were also stained with a lot of purple-black stains, which were deeply soaked into the wooden texture. And on the wall, there are a lot of dried blood stains similar to this.

Where is this the wing room of a big family, it is clearly the prison of the execution ground!

There were a few people hanging on the wooden shelf, only wearing a thin little coat, the clothes were tattered and dripping with blood, but the people who were hung up did not know whether they were faint or numb, and they swayed and swayed, and they did not struggle and tremble, nor did they scream and scold.

A shirtless, thin middle-aged man shook it

He threw away the blood-stained whip, fished out a hand towel from the basin on the side, and wiped the sweat from his head.

In the autumn of September, the heat had receded, and the meadow area of the Northland should have been quite cool, but in order to prevent the wailing from spreading, the door of the house was closed, and a fire was built inside, and it was already unbearably hot.

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