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Chapter 1089 Chapter 1030

Chapter 1089 Chapter [-] The World of Collapse

Originally, I was prepared to witness the darkness of the world, but who knew that the first thing I encountered when I first arrived under Dai Mengwei’s rule was that the legal system here is clear and the illegal human traffickers are severely punished—although it may be an exception, but this kind of experience makes people Ning Ji was somewhat caught off guard.

The group of five rotten Confucians who were interviewed by the county magistrate were quite excited about this.

After they left the Southwest, their emotions have always been complicated. On the one hand, they are overwhelmed by the development of the Southwest, and on the other hand, they are entangled in the apostasy of the Huaxia Army. Scholars like themselves cannot blend in, especially after passing through Bazhong, seeing the order and ability of both sides. There is a huge difference, it is difficult to tell nonsense with your eyes open after a comparison.

Who knew that when he entered Dai Mengwei's side, he could see something different.

Although the supplies seem to be poor, the management of the people under the rule is well-regulated, and the order of the upper and lower levels is orderly. Even if it can't compare with the panic of the southwest expansion for a while, it has to be considered that Dai Mengwei has only taken over for a year, and the people under the rule are originally very poor. It is the fact of the mob.

Southwest is a "new method" that has not been verified and works for a while, but on Dai Mengwei's side, it can be regarded as an "ancient method" with a long history.This "ancient law" is not outdated, but it is an ideal state that has been considered by Confucianism for thousands of years. Monarchs, ministers, fathers and sons, scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen all belong to their respective positions. Cultivate the land, craftsmen make the necessary equipment, merchants carry out the proper circulation of goods, and scholars manage everything, so naturally there will be no major turbulence.

If it is used in practice, scholars manage large-scale national strategies, and the virtuous and virtuous people from all over the country cooperate with middle-level officials to educate the people, while the bottom-level people are content with their duties and obey the arrangements of the above.Then even if you encounter some bumps, as long as the people are united, you will naturally be able to get through it.

Of course, the principle of the ancient method is like this, and when it is really used, it is inevitable that there will be various deviations.For example, in the more than two hundred years of the Wu Dynasty, commerce developed, so that the lower class people became more greedy and selfish. , and finally gave birth to the heart demon, a monster who only cares about benefits, only recognizes documents, and has no morals.

Dai Mengwei is without a doubt the one who has used ancient concepts to the extreme.In a year's time, arranging the people under his command in an orderly manner is indeed the ultimate in governing a big country like cooking a small fish.What's more, his family members are all courteous corporals.

Even though Dai Zhen was the magistrate of a county, when he heard that there were innocent scholars who had traveled among the arrested people, he personally ushered them to the back hall, explained the case, and communicated with them one by one. knowledge.Any nephew in Dai Mengwei's family has such virtues. They finally understood more reasons for the evaluation of Dai Mengwei as a sage in the southwest, and they became more and more sympathetic.

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After going through all this and understanding Dai Mengwei's greatness a little bit, he still has to move on.

At this time, the leader of the caravan was beheaded, and the rest of the members were basically imprisoned.The Five Confucianism group inquired here, and learned that although Dai Mengwei's rule has many regulations on civilians, business travel is not allowed, but the regulations on the roads are stricter. As long as they report in advance and travel on the road, there will be no trouble many questions.At this time, everyone got to know Dai Zhen, the magistrate of the county, and they got a piece of paper from him, so they didn't have much to go to Ankang.

It’s just that Dai Zhen also reminded everyone of one thing: now both Dai and Liu are concentrating their forces, preparing to cross the river to the north and recover Bianliang. At this time, everyone is going to Ankang to take a boat. Those merchant ships going east may be dispatched by troops. Affected, the ticket is tight, so after going to Ankang, you may have to be prepared to stay for a few days.

Several Confucian scholars came here, adhering to the idea of ​​reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles. At this time, they heard that there was a large army mobilizing such excitement, so they no longer waited for the caravan that came along the way, and called the accompanying few The book boy, the servant, and the lovely Ning Ji had some discussions and then set off for the north.

Wang Xiuniang's father and daughter, who usually love to come to Lu Wenke and Ning Ji's side, also followed. The father and daughter have been performing arts for several years and have rich experience in traveling. The youthful Wang Xiuniang wants to settle down, and from time to time she shows off her youthful aura by fighting with Ning Ji.For more than a month, Lu Wenke and the other party have also had some flirtatious feelings, but he has traveled to the southwest and his knowledge has greatly increased. When he returns to his hometown, it is time to make a big splash. Tied up with an ignorant woman who is doing art in the rivers and lakes.This relationship will eventually be tangled for a while.

As for Ning Ji, he was a little annoyed by the rotten Confucian five-member group who started to praise Dai Mengwei, but at the age of 15, he didn't intend to go on the road alone and cause trouble.I had no choice but to endure the twittering of a few fools and the molesting of Sichun's silly woman, while turning my attention to the hero meeting that might happen in Jiangning.

On the way to Ankang along the rugged road, I saw many villages that were strictly controlled, and the people in the villages were blank-eyed... The checkpoints on the road and the soldiers also saw many people along the way. It's just that after checking the customs clearance documents with the seal of the county magistrate Dai Zhen, they didn't conduct too many cross-examinations of this team.

The day was sunny and the team passed through mountains and ridges. Several scholars were still discussing what they had seen and heard on Dai Mengwei's land while walking.They have used Dai Mengwei's "characteristics" to overwhelm the demons from the Southwest. At this time, they can talk about the world situation more "objectively". It's not useless, someone mentioned Dongnan Xinjun's perk.

Fan Heng, who is the oldest and admires Dai Mengwei the most, sighs from time to time: "In the reign of Jing Han, people like Duke Dai would have been able to come out to do things. Later, the Wu Dynasty was a great country, and there would be no disaster like today. such a pity……"

"There is a lot to do," Lu Wenke said: "Duke Dai's territory is not big now, and it is much easier to govern than it was in the Wu Dynasty. Duke Dai is indeed promising, but he will change places in the future, and how he will govern, we still need to see more .”

Fan Heng shook his head: "That's not the case. Back then, the Wu Dynasty was bloated, and the seven tigers occupied the court and formed their own forces. Therefore, a noble and promising man like Dai Gong was blocked at the bottom, and he did not make any achievements when he came out. Yang Wu Dynasty, if it wasn’t for Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Qin Yuyuan and a gang of treacherous people, and years of factional struggles, how could they have come to such a state of disintegration and loss of life...cough cough cough cough..."

In the past, people talked about the world, and from time to time, they would be unable to control themselves when they talked about someone or something, and they would yell at each other.But when Fan Heng talked about the past, his mood was obviously not high, but gradually low. His eyes were red and even weeping, and he muttered to himself.

At this time, everyone was only one day away from Ankang, and the sun was setting. They were sitting under the trees in the field, and they could see the mature rice fields in the mountain gaps from a distance.Fan Heng is already in his forties, with gray hair on his sideburns, but he is usually a Confucian scholar with the most makeup and appearance. He likes to talk to Ning Ji about the etiquette of worshiping gods and the rules of a gentleman. He has never told Ning Ji in front of everyone before. I lost my composure, and I don't know why at this time, I sat under the tree by the road and murmured for a while, holding my head and crying.

The crying of the middle-aged man was sometimes low and sometimes sharp, and he even had a runny nose, which was extremely unpleasant.

Lu Wenke and others stepped forward to comfort him, and heard Fan Heng say things like: "Dead, all dead..." and sometimes cried: "My poor daughter..." After he cried for a while, he spoke clearly I heard him say in a low voice: "... At the time of Jingping, when I came down from the Central Plains, all the sons and daughters of my family died on the way... My child is only a little younger than Xiaolong... I got separated... ..."

His vent came out of nowhere, and everyone was silent. Ning Ji, who was watching the scenery, thought for a while: "Then he should be about the same age as Lu Wenke now." reverberate.

In fact, in the past few years when rivers and mountains have fallen, which family has not experienced some tragic things, a group of scholars talked about the world with impassioned enthusiasm, and all kinds of tragedies are nothing more than pressure in the bottom of their hearts. Fan Heng suddenly collapsed while talking, and everyone couldn't help but feel sad There are relatives.

On Ning Ji's side, he grew up in the Huaxia Army, how many people who can survive in the Huaxia Army have not collapsed?Some people’s wives and daughters were raped, some people’s family members were massacred and starved to death, and even more tragic. Speaking of the children in the family, there may be some who were eaten during the famine... These tragedies come from He has seen many cries since he was a child.

It's just that he has never seen the prosperous and prosperous Wu Dynasty from the beginning to the end, he has never seen visitors from all directions in Bianliang, and he has never seen the old dream of Qinhuai River. When talking about these things, he doesn't have much feeling , I don’t feel the need to give too much sympathy to the elderly.If something like this happened in the Huaxia Army, whoever was in a bad mood, the companions around him would take turns to go to the ring and beat him until his nose was bruised, his face was swollen, and his head was bleeding. When the injury healed, he could endure it for a while.

There was a round of venting of such emotions at the end of the Southwest War, but more of them will not be calmed down until the Northland is flattened in the future.But according to what my father said, after experiencing some things, I am afraid that I will not be able to calm down for a lifetime, and the persuasion of others is not very meaningful.

The middle-aged scholar collapsed for a while, but finally regained his composure, and then continued on the road.The road is close to Ankang, and the number of mature rice fields with golden tassels has begun to increase, and some places are being harvested. The scene of villagers cutting rice is surrounded by military guards.Because of Fan Heng's emotional outburst before, everyone's mood is a little low at this time, and there is not much conversation. It's just that seeing this scene in the evening, Chen Junsheng, who has always spoken little but can hit the nail on the head, said: "You say, these rice crops have been cut , to the army, or to the villagers?"

His words made everyone silent again, and Chen Junsheng said: "After the golden dog left, both sides of the Han River were thrown to Duke Dai. There are many mountains and less farmland here, so it is not suitable to live for a long time. This time, the heel is not stable, and Dai Gong Bian and Liu Gong rushed back to Bianliang, they wanted to use the fertile fields of the Central Plains to get rid of this place... But the three armies have not moved food and grass first, and this autumn and winter, many people here may starve to death..."

Everyone bowed their heads and thought for a while, and someone said: "Duke Dai has no choice..."

Lu Wenke said: "Perhaps Mr. Dai... also has some calculations, and will always leave some rations for the local people..."

Fan Heng, who always spoke for Dai Mengwei, probably because of his emotional outbursts during the day, did not answer this time.

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Everyone rested at the post station on the roadside for one night, and entered Ankang, an ancient city beside the Hanshui River, at noon the next day.

This city experienced a military disaster when the Jurchen West Route Army came, and half of the city was burned. However, with the Jurchen's departure, a large number of people were resettled here after Dai Mengwei took power, and the crowds gathered here again. With a feeling of everything being done, when everyone entered the city, they could vaguely see the traces of the army stationed, and the chill atmosphere before the war had already infected the place.

As shown by the sights along the way: the army's actions are waiting for the rice harvesting in the rear.

There are some things that don’t need to be questioned too much. In order to support this battle going north, Dai Mengwei’s power, which already lacks food, must requisition a large number of rice planted by the people. The only question is how much he can leave for the people who stay in the place. up.Of course, it is difficult to find out such data without investigation, and even if they went to the southwest, the five Confucian scholars who had some courage, under such a background, would not dare to investigate such things rashly-they did not want to die.

Enter the city from the south gate of the city, and come to the north of the city under the guidance of the small officials at the gate. The whole Ankang City is half new and half old. But no matter where it is, there is a fishy smell, and there are fishy sewage flowing across many streets. This may be the follow-up effect of Dai Mengwei's encouragement to fish for a living.

Although the shadow of war permeated the city, business in Ankang City was not banned, and ships of one kind or another moved along the Han River all the time—many of which were merchant ships departing from Hanzhong.Due to the previous agreement between the Huaxia Army and Dai Mengwei and Liu Guangshi, the commercial roads from the Huaxia Army are not allowed to be blocked. In order to ensure the implementation of this matter, the Huaxia Army even sent representatives of the Huaxia Army to station in the business roads along the way. , So on the one hand, Dai Mengwei and Liu Guangshi were preparing to fight, on the other hand, merchant ships from Hanzhong to other places and from other places to Hanzhong were still running rampant on the Han River every day, and even Dai Mengwei did not dare to stop it.In this way, the two sides carried out their actions "as usual".

Of course, the atmosphere on Dai Mengwei's side is chilling, and no one knows when he will go crazy, so some merchant ships that might have docked in Ankang have canceled their plans to dock at this time, and the number of merchant ships and passenger ships going east has been greatly reduced.As the county magistrate Dai Zhen said, everyone needs to line up in Ankang for a few days before they can set off by boat. Now everyone is staying at an inn called Tong Wenxuan at the northeast end of the city.

Most of the people in this inn are stranded tourists traveling from south to north, and there are also many scholars who come to gain knowledge and discuss their future. Only people can stay for one night. During the noisy communication in the lobby of the inn, I heard a lot of interesting people. matter.

It is said that although the soldiers and horses on Dai and Liu's side have not yet completely crossed the river, the "battle" on the other side of the Yangtze River has already begun.The lobbyists sent by Dai and Liu have gone to Nanyang and other places to lobby vigorously, persuading members of the Zou Xu and Yinzong alliances who occupied Luoyang, Bianliang and other places to surrender here.Even many scholars and literati who felt that they had a relationship with the Central Plains and who claimed to be familiar with the vertical and horizontal ways, all ran to Dai and Liu this time to come forward and make a plan to help them regain Bianliang. Many of the scholars who gathered in the city for the first time were seeking fame.

The world is chaotic, and the most important thing in everyone's mind is of course all kinds of ideas of seeking fame.For literati, scholars, aristocratic families, and squires, Dai Mengwei and Liu Guangshi have already raised a flag, and at the same time, the flag that was suddenly erected in the eyes of the world is naturally the hero meeting that will be held in Jiangning .

This time, the Fair Party learned the ways of the Huaxia Army, followed the same pattern, and wanted to gather righteousness in Jiangning. It also spent a lot of money on the outside world. It sent hero posts to countless heroes in the world, and invited many long-established demons. out of the mountains.In the discussion among the crowd, it is said that even Lin Zongwu, who was number one in the world back then, may appear in Jiangning this time, sitting in the meeting and trying all the heroes in the world.

As night fell, the inn named Tong Wenxuan was old and old, and the candles flickered in the hall of the inn. None of the literati and business travelers gathered here missed such an opportunity to exchange ideas, and loudly poured out their own insights.In this chaotic scene, Ning Ji finally found something he was interested in. He stepped into the discussion circle of others and asked with a smile on his face: "Uncle, Uncle, will that Lin Zongwu really go to Jiangning? Will he really go to Jiangning?" Is he very powerful? Have you seen him?"

The uncle scholar who was spitting at the table saw him with handsome features and a smiling face, and immediately slapped the table: "After all, he is a hero of the rivers and lakes. I only saw him once from a distance, and most of them were told by others... I There is a friend, nicknamed He Shuo Tiandao, who has been in contact with him in the past. It is said that Lin Zongwu, who wears a hundred legs in the forest, is the most skilled in legs..."

Unexpectedly, after being so far away from the Huaxia Army, he could still hear such Southwest jokes. Ning Ji's face suddenly flattened...

"However, no matter what, this time Jiang Ning, I heard that the number one in the world may or may definitely arrive..."

"But Lin Zongwu is a big fat man..."

"Hey, Lin Zongwu's nickname is wearing Lin Bei's legs, how could he be a fat man! You young man, you still have too little knowledge!"

"That's right, there are only wrong names, there is no wrong nickname..."

A group of scholars talked about all kinds of knowledge from the southwest, and despised Long Aotian. Long Aotian sighed. At the beginning of this journey, he was even more confused.

And on the second night after arriving here, he saw an assassination...

(End of this chapter)