After writing the first letter in his life, the next day happened to be the day when the letter was received by the thousand households, so Yu Min got up early in the morning and sent the letters from all the hundred households to Yanglin Town.

There are three official post systems in the Ming Dynasty.

Post stations and express delivery shops have been introduced, and there is also a delivery station called a delivery station.

The first two are used to transport people and official documents, while the latter are mainly used to transport materials. The year before last, when the army conquered Yunnan, the sergeants of the delivery station were responsible for transporting the grain and grass of the army.

In order to facilitate the soldiers to contact their families in the mainland, the prince decided to use the official post transmission system to send letters to the officers and soldiers.

The first two are efficient and cannot be delayed in the slightest, so this task falls on the delivery station.

The delivery station would collect the letters of the soldiers when they passed through the residence of the thousand households, and then send the letters to the guards in their hometowns through layers of transfer.

With the boldness of the prince, this service is of course free. But if you want to make sure that the letter is delivered, and not lost or damaged on the way, you still have to give some benefit to the soldiers of the delivery station.

Yu Min gave an extra half of the money, and asked the delivery office to give the money he had saved for half a year to the old lady.

In the thirteenth year of Hongwu, with the improvement of the Ming Dynasty's finances, and in order to appease the people's hearts after the abolition of the prime minister, Boss Zhu raised the official salary, and gave 75 stone of rice and 45 yuan in the eighth year; Zheng Qipin year to give rice 100 stones, banknotes 60 times. For Yu Min, who was still a big-headed soldier before, it is definitely rich.

Moreover, the prince will never be in arrears with the salaries of the officers and soldiers, and the salaries of civil and military officials must also be paid in time, so Yu Min's economic situation has greatly improved. It's just that he followed the example of Qi Qianhu and Niu Baihu, and sent money to the families of his fallen brothers, and those who returned home with disabilities would also give a copy.

Qi Qianhu told him at the beginning that only in this way would the soldiers be willing to die for them.

However, Yu Min is still too young to think about it so much, he simply wants to make himself feel better. So he didn't save any money last year. It wasn't until this year, when I settled down in Dashao Township, that I saved ten treasure money. He also used the uneaten Lu rice to exchange twenty yuan with the brothers, and made up thirty yuan of banknotes, plus another five copper coins issued by the prince. They were all sent to the old lady.

Originally, he planned to let his mother and younger brother come to Yunnan, but after talking to Niu Baihu yesterday, he temporarily dispelled this idea. The Li family is reluctant to come to Yunnan, so he is willing to let the old lady wade through mountains and rivers to suffer?

Let's see in two years.

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When handing over the money to Ji Zhenfu, who collected it, Yu Min also specially told him that he must tell the people at the delivery station that he had written the amount in the letter.

It's not that he doesn't trust the people at the delivery office. Well, just don't trust them......

After finishing the work, Yu Min was relieved and rushed back to Dashao Township, without delaying the day's farm work.

After that day, he continued to lead his brothers to clear the wasteland while waiting for the letter.

However, before he could reply, Niu Baihu had already found a good partner for him......

One day in July, Niu Baihu called him away from the field and dragged him to the river to wash him from head to toe. Yu Min's greatest advantage is that he absolutely obeys orders, and after he cleaned himself up according to his words, he saw the sergeant take two blue official robes from the cage on horseback and send them to them.

"What are you doing in a daze, putting it on?" Niu Baihu said to him while wearing his official robes.

"What are you wearing here on this hot day?" Yu Min looked stunned.

"What? Go on a blind date! Niu Baihu glanced at him angrily, and said excitedly:

"I'm cheap...... Oh no, brother-in-law, I helped you find a good woman, a girl who is close to the fire in the village. Father and daughter should be almost there, let's go to my brother-in-law's house as well. ”

"I don't want to go, I haven't waited for a reply." Yu Min refused at first.

"I don't care if you want to go or not, it's an order!" But as soon as Niu Baihu stared at him, he could only obey his orders honestly.

After a while, with the help of the sergeant, the two put on their respective official robes. There is still a clear difference between the military attaché's official robe and that of a civilian official, first of all, the two wings of the black gauze hat are shorter and rounder. Then there is the wide robe and big sleeves of the civil official, but the military attache is a close-fitting narrow sleeve, which is more convenient to wear.

Of course, the most obvious difference is the complement on the chest, the civil official has all kinds of birds on the chest, and the military attache has all kinds of beasts, so it is no wonder that it will be arranged as 'well-dressed beasts' by later generations.

The two of them don't have to be afraid of mixing up, because the official robes of the sixth-rank and seventh-rank military attachés are exactly the same, they are all cyan, with a plain silver belt, and a biao on the chest.

Sure enough, the Buddha relies on gold, and people rely on clothes. Dressed neatly and hanging the saber on his waist, the two of them immediately changed completely, from two tanned farmers to mighty Ming officers in an instant.

In order to strengthen his momentum, Niu Baihu also pulled out all the only eight war horses in the guard. They each rode one horse, and the remaining six horses were also ridden by their brothers as their own soldiers......

The group rode horses for more than 20 miles, entered the mountains in the west of Songmeng, and walked more than 10 miles in the mountains, and came to a cottage called 'Fakehead'.

It is said to be a cottage, but in fact, it is a mountain village enclosed on the mountainside with a wooden fence. The owner of the village here, Ache, is the uncle of Bai Yi of Niu Baihu. And the object of this blind date is from the nearby village of Zhina, which is also a Baiyi person.

The Baiyi people mainly live in Dali, and the Duan family is Baiyi. At the beginning, the Dali State ruled the whole of Yunnan, and the Duan clan naturally wanted to send people to guard such a strategic place as Songmengzhou. However, after the Yuan Dynasty destroyed Dali and entered Yunnan, the Duan clan and most of the Baiyi people were forced to retreat to Dali, but there were also a few ethnic groups who stayed and retreated to the mountains to settle down.

This is the case in the village of Faketou and Zhena......

Until this time, Yu Min was still full of reluctance.

But when he followed Niu Baihu into Ache's thatched hut and saw the blind date, he was reluctant at that time.

It was a sunny summer afternoon, and the golden sunlight shone through the humble wooden window on the white girl named 'Nuo'. also shined into Yu Min's heart, and he will never forget this beautiful picture of the 'Sunshine Girl'.

Even after many years, my colleague still remembers clearly that four words popped out of his mouth at that time: 'It's so white, it's really ......big'

However, Yu Min later repeatedly emphasized that what he said was 'eyes are so big', don't think crookedly.

In short, this nineteen-year-old virgin is on the top at once. Then my brain was buzzing all the time, and my mind was completely stagnant. The little remaining will was also used by him to remind himself not to giggle.

In this case, it is naturally up to the hundred households to decide......

The other party can't speak Chinese, and they can't speak Baiyi, so the two sides are naturally at the mercy of the uncle who knows a little Chinese.

Ache said to Niu Baihu: "Dowry." ”

Niu Baihu hurriedly asked the sergeant to bring in the dowry that Ache had ordered. There was a rooster, two bottles of wine, two pieces of cloth, and a jar of salt......

The other party accepted it and gave back a box of poop, and Ache told Niu Baihu that it meant that they agreed.

(End of chapter)

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