Is there really a Lin Yi in history?

There is this person, not only an immigration officer but also Zhu Yuanzhang's son-in-law ~

Malin Village, Yushan Town, Dong 'e County is an ancient village with a history of more than 600 years. What is puzzling is that the village can't even find a Lin or Ma. In order to solve this mystery that has puzzled people for many years, the author made a field trip to Malin Village on 201016.

According to Liu Yandong, an old man over 60 years old, during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Lin Yi, the son-in-law of Zhu Yuanzhang, was appointed as an imperial envoy to escort a large number of Shanxi immigrants to Shandong, among which two families, Lin and Ma, settled here and got Linmazhuang Village. Later, Lin and Ma broke the law and were hacked, so Lin and Ma lost their surnames. In the wheat field north of Sanhuali Road in the east of Malin Village, Lin Yi's tombstone is still preserved. In order to confirm Liu Laohan's statement, the author came to the wheat field one mile east of Malin Village. The original majestic Xu Malin has long since disappeared, and the students of Wang Tianhou, Linmen and Stone Statue in front of the tomb have already settled underground. Above the surface, there is only a tablet with a height of 1.20m, a width of 0.75m and a thickness of 0.40m The whole tombstone is buried underground, and its contents are unknown.

According to relevant historical records, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the decadent society was dark, class contradictions and ethnic contradictions intensified day by day, and floods, droughts, locusts and epidemics continued, which made large areas of land in Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Anhui and other places barren and the people miserable. "The road blocked the people" (Record of Ming Taizu, Volume 29), so that a large-scale peasant uprising broke out. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, officials from all over the country reported the barren situation to the Ming government in succession, and the Central Plains region was full of "shortage of manpower, which led to long-term desolation" (Record of Ming Taizu 148). The serious shortage of labor force, barren land and sharp decline in fiscal revenue directly threatened the rule of the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there was famine and chaos in the Central Plains, but Shanxi was a different scene. The chaos in the Central Plains and various disasters rarely spread to Shanxi, with good weather and good harvest every year. Compared with neighboring provinces, Shanxi has a stable society, a prosperous economy and a rich population. Lin Bu invited Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, as an imperial envoy for immigration, and put forward a series of immigration policies, such as donating money to immigrants, resettling land, and exempting taxes for three years, which were recognized by the emperor. Ming Taizu appointed Lin Bu as an imperial envoy to preside over immigration matters, and betrothed Ma Yuan, the daughter of his wife and niece General Ma Rong, to him, so a large-scale immigration climax began.