At Miyun Station, Gao Bin watched people carrying fodder and soybeans.
Gao Bin looked at the remaining reserves and said: "Accounting, we misappropriated eighty kilograms of soybeans and five bundles of fodder..."
The Yi Cheng bowed in response and brought the account book over.
There is no basis for what I say, these are all public property.
Gao Bin signed and stamped his name and looked at the account book in front of him. It was still the end of September. According to the account books, there was no one here these days, so there was no entry.
He looked toward the stable behind him.
There are six official horses at the back, and the horses' buttocks are branded. They belong to the Ministry of War and are listed under the name of the inn for the use of the Ministry of War.
If there is news of an eight-hundred-mile emergency, we have to change horses but not people along the way.
The remaining horse pens were empty, with no horses outside.
Gao Bin put down his pen and said casually: "You guys have a lot of time here. Is this empty?"
The Yi Cheng said: "It's winter, and there are fewer officials going north. In summer, there are more officials leaving customs."
In various Mongolian tribes, officials from the imperial court were stationed in shifts.
Gao Bin pointed to the uncollected horse dung in the empty horse pen next to him and said, "Which master is coming out of the capital with a lot of followers?"
Look at that, there are ten or twenty horses.
The Yi Cheng didn't respond. Gao Bin stuffed a small ingot and said, "What's going on? Is there anything you can't say?"
Yi Cheng said "hehe" twice: "Some people took a break a few days ago, but they were not officials out of the capital, so it was not in compliance with the rules. However, the relatives of the emperor are all noble people, and they also paid for food and fodder. Xiao
I didn't dare to chase people away. Fortunately, I left yesterday afternoon, otherwise, it would have made people feel uneasy."
Gao Bin was surprised and said: "Relatives of the emperor? Someone went to the palace to find a doctor two days ago. Is it them? How is the illness? Did you ask a doctor? Are you back to Beijing to find a doctor? I didn't meet him..."
The postmaster curled his lips and said: "I didn't ask for a doctor, but I found myself picky and ate up the two cages of chickens and two cages of geese behind the post station. I have to send people to the village to collect them..."
This is an official post, where officials travel and stay, and also provide meals.
Gao Bin asked almost all the questions, so he didn't say any more and took the people away.
In the Miyun Palace, Shu Shu and Jiu Age took a stroll in the palace after briefly washing up.
"This place is bigger than other places..."
Shu Shu said.
With three spans and five courtyards, it is equivalent to one and a half times the size of Dutong Mansion.
Brother Jiu pointed to the north direction and said: "This is next to the checkpoint. Khan Ama asked people to repair it in the early years. It seems that he came here to escape the summer heat and train troops."
This place is already surrounded by mountains, and the temperature is much lower than that of the capital.
Shu Shu raised her head and looked at the Great Wall in the distance.
The weather was clear, and I could see it clearly even from several miles away.
Hundreds of years later, the Great Wall here was sorted out and became a scenic spot on the edge of Gubei Water Town. She once walked around in it, climbed a few meters and came down. The 60-degree slope, even if she is not afraid of heights,
It's also frightening.
She remembered seeing in the introduction to the scenic spot that the Great Wall here was built in the Northern Qi Dynasty and rebuilt in the early Ming Dynasty. It served as a barrier between Zhili and Mongolia.
In later generations, there will always be heads. Now, if I go back and forth, it should be like a reserved place.
"Sir, is it necessary to go through the checkpoint when exiting the customs? Can I climb over the Great Wall in the middle?"
Shu Shu asked.
Brother Jiu glanced at her and said in surprise: "It's rare that there are things you don't know about..."
Shu Shu said calmly: "I can't read all the books in the world!"
Brother Jiu shook his head and said: "It's not your fault. There are very few books on war and defense in the world, and they can't be read through. So even if there are ruthless bandits running north, they can't reach Mongolia, just wandering around in the mountains."
The same goes for people over there going south..."
Shu Shu looked at the Great Wall and felt a sense of security in her heart.
Although building such a project in barren mountains and ridges consumes manpower and material resources, it directly curbs the nomads' southward movement and has a great effect.
When the couple walked around for a while, Gao Bin was already waiting and reported the situation at the inn truthfully.
"Huh?"
Brother Jiu was surprised and raised his eyebrows: "The previous posture was to stay in seclusion. Why did you leave? Did you find out that it was me who came? Are you afraid of confronting me?"
As he spoke, he looked at Shu Shu.
Shu Shu blinked, and it still sounded like someone close to her.
If Longkodo was the one calling the shots in the team, he wouldn't avoid it like this.
Longko is very stubborn, and even if he is punished, his temper will not change immediately.
But if the person who calls the shots is the steward or the third wife of the Tong family, then "running away after hearing the news" is really possible.
After all, everyone outside knew that Brother Jiu had a quarrel with the Tong family, and he deliberately made things difficult for the Tong family and intercepted the Tong family's property.
Shu Shu said: "Isn't this better? It saves trouble."
Brother Nine bared his teeth and said, "That's right."
But when they returned to the house, Brother Jiu was talking to Shu Shu, saying, "If I had known that the Tong family was so cowardly, I wouldn't have sent Fu Qing back to Beijing the day before yesterday."
He sent Fu Qing back to the capital to make arrangements in front of the emperor, and then arranged for people to return to the capital to be judged if they were interested in "big things but small things".
Who knows that he is here at this age, and it is his first time to go out alone, but he is still a filial and well-behaved good son.
It turned out to be useless.
Shu Shu said: "That's good. Then sending someone back to Beijing is just to show my filial piety. It's not in vain that the emperor thinks about me."
Brother Jiu also remembered the bear paw in early September and said: "When we arrive in Rehe, we will look for tigers nearby, and then offer a tiger skin or tiger bone to Khan Amma..."
Shu Shu listened and was very moved.
The main reason is that Qi Xi is getting older and has reached the age to drink tiger bone wine.
In addition to the one for the emperor, you can also prepare one for your family.
Around the palace, Xiaosong followed Chunlin and led a team of guards to check.
Although there is a general military office and garrison at the nearby checkpoint, it is still seven or eight miles away from the palace.
There are mountains in front and behind here. In addition to guarding against people, we must also guard against wild animals coming down the mountain.
When they reached the north wall of the palace, they both stopped.
Chunlin lowered his head, knelt down, and looked at the footprints next to him.
There are few people here, it is all mountain mud piled with fallen leaves. There are a few fresh footprints, two complete and a few half-stretched.
"This is a bear paw print..." Chun Lin stretched out his hand to show that the bear paw was two circles larger than his palm.
Xiaosong touched the bow on his body, looked at the top of the mountain, eager to try, and said: "Then let's go bear hunting?"
Chunlin said: "Master Jiu has a business trip, maybe it will be more convenient to hunt when he comes back..."
Xiao Song said: "Fu Jin said that the black blind man is going to hibernate. If he waits until the end of the month, who knows if he will come out..."
The two brothers and sisters returned to the palace while talking, and came to Shu Shu and Brother Jiu to report the matter.
Brother Jiu immediately became excited and said: "I'm so lucky. I didn't expect to encounter a bear at this time? Cat winter has not yet begun, so the bear's paws are designated to be the fattest?"
Shu Shu was by the side, and I was a little hopeful, but after listening to Brother Jiu's words, I couldn't help but worry, saying: "That should be the time when the fur is thickest and the fat is thickest. I'm afraid it's not easy to hunt. Don't hurt anyone anymore."
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Brother Jiu said: "I was thinking about hunting before, so I asked someone to bring a spear and a Manchu bow. What is a black bear?"
Seeing Brother Jiu's eyes shining brightly and Xiao Song beside him eager to give it a try, Shu Shu smiled and said: "Then ask people to prepare well. When the time comes, we will directly ask people to send bear paws back. "Yours sincerely."
Brother Jiu clapped his fingers and said: "Khan Ama hunted bears. He gave one bear paw to the imperial grandmother, one to the prince, and one to us. We hunt bears. How do we divide the bear paws?"
Don’t worry about scarcity, but worry about inequality.
Brother Ninth also began to understand the way of carrying water.
Shu Shu looked at Brother Jiu and smiled.
Brother Jiu sighed and said, "It would be nice if a bear had eight bear paws."
Hee hee, except for the one from the elders, there is only one left that he can treat to the Prince's Mansion when the time comes.
Then it will be the Eight Treasures Banquet.
After three days in Beijing, apart from the initial novelty, everyone was also a little bored.
We planned to stay here for a day, and once the bear hunting was explained, everyone became a little more happy.
Erhe looked at the top of the mountain, excited and worried.
It's not that he's afraid of the black bear, but that he's afraid of showing his cowardice in front of everyone.
Among the guards accompanying me on this trip, he has the highest rank among the guards, and is a second-class guard.
It would be embarrassing if his hunting performance was behind everyone else's.
Fu Qing hooked up with Gao Bin and said, "Don't be in front tomorrow. Blind Bear is no joke..."
This is a good intention. After all, whether Gao Bin was with the ninth elder brother before or this year with the fourth elder brother, the errands he did had nothing to do with force.
Gao Bin was unconvinced and said: "Brother Rich, who are you looking down on? I can also pull the seven-power bow, and I won't lose my status in the army!"
Fu Qing thought of walnuts, looked at Gao Bin Zhile, and said: "Okay, I won't stop you, just behave well in front of your brothers and sisters!"
Gao Bin blushed and said, "It's not for this..."
The accompanying team were all young people, and when the atmosphere became tense, everyone had smiles on their faces.
Even the young imperial physician began to prepare the medicine for the wound with some anticipation.
Well, it's not that he is evil and wants everyone to get hurt, but it's because he received a business trip allowance of sixty taels from the Prince's Mansion.
This was equivalent to more than a year's salary. He was uneasy and wanted to contribute more.
But except for the two Hanlins, the rest were all young people, and they were not acclimated to the local environment, and they were unable to contribute.
Good hunting, good hunting, multiple opportunities.
Zhang Tingzhan and Cao Yueying were together. They were looking at the Gubeikou Great Wall and each had their own thoughts.
I always feel that I should recite a poem and make a record of my trip to the north, but I feel weird at the same time.
Hearing that the team would stay in Miyun for one more day to hunt black bears, Zhang Tingzhan was also looking forward to it, but he also hesitated in his heart.
If it is a nursing female bear, if it is shot, will the cub survive the winter?
He felt a bit of compassion.
Cao Yueying was also a scholar, so she understood Zhang Tingzhan's concerns, and said: "The bear that comes down the mountain should be killed. It has probably tasted human flesh and regards humans as hunting targets. If it is released into the mountains, I'm afraid there will be more mountains."
People were killed..."
Zhang Tingzhan's family is from the south, and there are no bears in the area, so I have never heard of this knowledge.
He asked very studiously: "Then how can you tell whether a bear has eaten a person? Could it be a manslaughter?"
Cao Yueying said: "If such a beast hurts people, it will usually be reported to the local government, and the government will arrange for people to hunt it. However, this place is remote and most of the people are mountain people. They may not report it. They are not afraid of people and will not hide from people when they see them.
, most of them have eaten people; black bears that have never eaten people avoid people. If they are accidentally killed, there is nothing you can do. It is better than releasing the man-eating bears..."
Zhang Tingzhan nodded, looking forward to tomorrow's hunt.
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In the mountains, on the black bear's den.
The black bear sat next to him and took turns licking the two cubs.
Two little black bears were nibbling food.
The black bear drooled and took the bones that the cubs couldn't chew in its mouth, "kacha kacha", crushed them, and swallowed.
This is delicious as I have never tasted before, and the bone marrow is also smooth and tender.
The black bear slobbered, sniffed and looked at the building at the foot of the mountain...