"Whew... ......"

In the early morning, when the fog cleared, a donkey cart drove out of the Great Church, and on the cart were Zhu Gaoxu and Yang Zhan, who had changed into black short brown.

Yang Zhan was driving in front, and Zhu Gaoxu was sitting on the donkey cart, looking at the regressing Dajiao Field, and he was a little more curious about the town more than ten miles away.

The stupid Wang Xuan was left in the courtyard, because today the Wei Mansion wants to send things, and someone has to take care of the house.

Sitting on the rickety donkey cart, Zhu Gaoxu glanced at the thin donkey and couldn't help asking:

"Since the price of folk beef is so cheap, is the price of cattle cheap?"

"It's up to the cow." Yang Zhan replied while driving skillfully:

"Wang Xuan and I didn't go to see it yesterday, but when I was in Songjiang Mansion before, I remember that a yellow cow was only seven taels, and the plough ox was more expensive, and it took ten taels to buy it."

"What about the horses?" Zhu Gaoxu was a little curious, but Yang Zhan was guilty:

"I don't know about this, Your Highness, you will see for yourself, and there may not be, if there is a shortage of horses today, the price is difficult to determine."

"Lack of horses? Are we short of horses? Zhu Gaoxu asked suspiciously, but Yang Zhan turned around like a ghost:

"No, I haven't seen a few people who can ride horses when I was in Songjiang Mansion, and when I arrived in Nanjing, I also rode a lot of donkeys, and only when I entered the big teaching field did I see so many horses."

"I remember that in the twenty-first year of Hongwu, His Royal Highness the King of Chu conquered Alu, Yunnan, and His Majesty gave thirty Qin horses, and the kings of the vassal kingdoms were envious."

Yang Zhan's words gave Zhu Gaoxu an idea of the situation of Daming's horses, but he asked suspiciously:

"What does the king of Chu want so many horses to do, his fief is in Wuchang, and there should be no foreign enemies, right?"

"Naturally, there is no near Wuchang, but south of the Yangtze River and west of the Xiangjiang River are all barbarians and mountain bandits." Yang Zhan explained, and at the same time put forward several deeds of the vassal king's banditry that he remembered:

"I remember that the year before last, His Royal Highnesses Chu and Xiang all led troops to the barbarians in the southeast of Pinghu and Guangxi, and killed many barbarians."

"But it's normal, at present, the south of the Yangtze River, the west of the Xiangjiang River, and the west of Guangzhou are mostly barbarians, although the imperial court has moved a lot of people, but I heard that the local ten barbarians and two Hans, poor and tight."

Yang Zhan told Zhu Gaoxu about the situation of the Ming Dynasty in the southwest, and in general, since the Han Dynasty, the Han people have few gathering places in the southwest.

In the late Tang Dynasty, the Han people in the southwest experienced large-scale wars.

In the Song Dynasty, although the number of Han people in the local area increased slightly, after the entry of the Meng Yuan, a large number of Han people died in the war.

When Zhu Yuanzhang recovered the world and Yunnan and other places, the number of Han people in the southwest was pitiful, so he moved a large number of people to the southwest.

But even so, for example, in later generations, Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, and south of Chengdu, Sichuan, and west of Guangzhou, Guangdong, were mostly populated by fewer people.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Yuanzhang will set up vassal kings in Wuchang, Jingzhou, Kunming, Chengdu and other places.

During the Hongwu period, except for Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, the rest of the vassal kings had objects to guard against, even the king of Qi and the king of Lu in Shandong also needed to guard against the Japanese and protect the canal connecting the north and the south.

In Yang Zhankou, except for Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Nanzhili, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, and Beiping, the rest of the provinces of the Ming Dynasty were basically turbulent provinces inhabited by Hu and Han, and there were a large number of Hu people.

There are Mongols who migrated inward in the north of Shaanxi, Tubo and Qiang people in the west, and the Hexi Corridor is basically full of Semu and green Mongols.

The south of Chengdu in Sichuan is basically full of Yi people, while the situation in Yunnan, Huguang, Guangxi, and Guangdong is more complicated.

As for Liaodong, there were no Han Chinese except for the military households, all of whom were Goryeo, Mongol and Jurchen.

The six provinces of Nanjing, Beiping, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Shandong, and Shanxi can be regarded as the basic plate by the Ming Dynasty, and even the naturalized Mongols in Henan are also very restless.

From this point of view, Zhu Yuanzhang does need a lot of energy and courage to govern such an empire.

Zhu Gaoxu, who was sitting in the car, couldn't help but admire Lao Zhu, but at the same time he thought of Zhu Yunwen again.

As far as his good big brother's method of cutting the feudal domain, if there is no strongman who stands up, it is really difficult to say the future of Daming.

Thinking like this, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but feel a little more urgent in his heart, and his thoughts about studying military books and learning the art of war became even stronger.

"Your Highness, you have a rest meeting, there are still seven or eight miles of land, and it is estimated that it will take half an hour."

Yang Zhan explained, and at the same time, he skillfully drove the donkey cart to avoid those potholes on the dirt road.

Following his words, Zhu Gaoxu also spent half an hour of boredom.

It wasn't until midnight that the two saw a little building popping out of the field, and then the building continued to enlarge, and a market town appeared in front of them.

This town is called Dashuying, and it is the only market town in a radius of more than 20 miles in the south of the outer city.

Zhu Gaoxu and Yang Zhan arrived at the entrance of the town, showed their military cards to the military households guarding here, and then led the donkey cart into the town.

Most of the Jiangnan market towns in the Ming Dynasty were attached to rivers, and there is no doubt about the big tree camp.

In fact, Zhu Gaoxu was very interested in the name of the town of Dashuying, because he had traveled to Yunnan in later generations, but these three characters were a place name worth looking for in the local area.

He never thought that when he came to Nanjing City in the Ming Dynasty, he could actually see a place where these three words were used as the name of the town.

He walked around the town, where the land was mostly made of tamped dirt roads, flanked by rows of shingled houses and thatched foot merchants.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court stipulated that the people could only wear variegated collared clothes, and were not allowed to use yellow, while men's and women's clothes were not allowed to be embroidered with gold, nor could they be made of brocade, silk, silk and other materials, and only silk, silk, plain yarn, and cloth were allowed.

In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that the common people were not allowed to wear boots, but only shoes.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang is more tolerant of the marriage of the common people, and stipulates that when the common people get married, they can wear the crown clothes of the nine grades.

In addition, the common people are not allowed to use crowns in ordinary times, and can only wear the Sifang Pingding scarves, women or net scarves stipulated by the government.

As for the merchants, Zhu Yuanzhang regarded the merchants as inferior, which was also reflected in the clothing system.

For example, peasant families are still allowed to wear silk, yarn, silk, and cloth, but merchants are only allowed to wear silk and cloth, but not silk and yarn.

In addition, he also made it clear that if there was a person in the peasant family, the family was not allowed to wear clothes made of silk and yarn.

This knowledge is not unfamiliar to Zhu Gaoxu, who lives in the Internet era, so he also feels that Zhu Yuanzhang manages too much and too much.

However, when he came to this era, he found that Zhu Yuanzhang's regulations had no place to restrict real ordinary people.

For example, in the current big tree camp, most of the people who come and go to sell materials wear soap cloth towels on their heads, green cotton jackets, cloth pants, white cloth socks, and green cloth shoes.

Clothing and boots made of materials such as brocade, silk, and silk are not at all something that ordinary people can afford to wear.

Even the silk, yarn, silk, Quartet scarves, women's or net scarves that can be worn by Zhu Yuanzhang are not something that the people of this era can wear.

"Hearing is better than seeing ......"

Zhu Gaoxu sighed, but at the same time sighed: "I'm afraid I can see this scene." ”