Chapter one hundred and eighty seventh account
Ning Nanyou looked at her silently, paused for a long time, nodded solemnly and said, "Faith."
She held his palm tightly and couldn't say a word for a long time. In such a moment of at a loss, she showed a look of grievance and pitiful expression on her face. The tears that had been spinning in her eyes finally couldn't hold it in and slipped down.
"Wow." She suddenly cried out, crying even harder than him, which made Ning Nanyou feel panicked.
"What's wrong? This is?" He hurriedly hugged her in his arms and coaxed her softly, "Why are you still crying?"
Jiang Chengjia cried a little louder, tightly twisted his chest and sobbed, "Do you know how hard I have been tolerating these two months... I'm afraid you don't believe me, so I would rather blame me than do the opposite... If I had known that I would open my heart to you and make it clear to you... You believed me... Why do we need all the misunderstandings later?"
Ning Nanyou was moved when he heard her enthusiastic words.
He gently patted her back and whispered: "Yes... If you were willing to confess your identity to me earlier and say these words to me earlier, maybe... we don't have to leave so carefully and guard against each other in the past two months."
"A Luo... I thought about returning to the mountain fields with you, cooking tea and dancing swords, a simple little life." Ning Nanyou sighed, "It's just... As you said, I have too much demonic thoughts in my heart. At least... at least... let me rehabilitate the two respected teachers... at least let me see that the Deng family received the due retribution... I will return to your hometown with you again."
"Okay. I am willing to accompany you on this road, but you need to promise me that in the future, do not hurt innocent people with a knife, and do not target civilians without a sword. I am willing to work with you to make suggestions and bring the behind-the-scenes hand-controlled counter-cases to justice. The sky has eyes, and it will definitely not let go of evil people. Zhaoyuan, no matter what kind of person you were in the past... I don't care. Now, I only care about what kind of person you are in the future."
Ning Nanyou felt very familiar when he listened to her words.
General Yue Qi once said similar things to him. The general once said: The knife I hold is for the enemy who invades the territory of the Great Wei rather than the people. The sword I dance is for shocking the enemy rather than scaring the civilians. You must always remember that swords and swords should not be for weak and innocent people.
Over the years, what has made him gradually forget his original intention and lose himself. If Jiang Chengjia had not awakened him today, he would have been afraid that he would still be in this curse and could not deal with it or break free.
Rather than waking up, it is better to say that she has regained her original intention that was forgotten in the corner for herself by him.
"If you don't dislike me, I'm willing to change," he whispered.
"I need to explain something to you." Ning Nanyou turned to her side and said seriously, "I... did not fight against Jiang and Gu An. They were sent to a safe place by me. Now they are raising their energy and are waiting to expel the Wuhu tribe and the Chinese and Koreans from Jingzhou in one fell swoop and force them to Guangzhou. At that time, if we can join forces with them to punish the governor of Guangzhou, Song Zong, then Guangzhou will be in chaos. At that time, it will be an opportunity for us to eliminate the opportunities established by the border officials of the Great Wei Dynasty in recent years. The arms and salt and iron were built."
Jiang Chengjia knew this and listened carefully.
Ning Nanyou stared at her calm expression and guessed that she had already understood all of these, so the light between her eyebrows and eyes couldn't help but fall, "Did you know these... have you known about them for a long time?"
"Don't think too much." His emotions were very easy to detect. Jiang Chengjia immediately clenched his hands and said softly: "I didn't know it long ago, but I only learned about it a few days ago. After learning about it, my only thought was regret and ashamed. I, as I said,... I lost a pair of eyes that had insight into the truth, and I just believed what I heard and saw, and I didn't want to believe the facts you hadn't done. But, like you, I didn't know how to apologize like you at that time."
"But, Zhaoyuan...This time... you have thought about what the people in the city will feel?" Jiang Chengjia asked the doubts in his heart frankly, thinking that there might be something inside that she didn't know, thinking that he was doing things carefully, and perhaps he would consider these things.
She knew that what he had done in the past half month was to convict Song Zong and get rid of Meng disaster. As for the news that Zhou Yuancheng was far away in Wuhu, she had guessed his purpose.
She knew that perhaps Ning Nanyou wanted to borrow the line of Meng Jian to make Song Zong inseparable from his crimes, and then consumed his confidant army through the congratulations, and finally slowly told him about Huang Man's rebellion. Meng Jian was anxious and would naturally send his troops back to Wu Hu. At this time, Ning Nanyou was urging Zhou Yuancheng to take Meng Jian down with Huang Man. This person could be eliminated and the support of Wu Hu's power was supported.
Once Huang Man ascended the throne, he would definitely obey and trust Ning Nanyou who helped him up. In this way, Ning Zheng would have the power of Wuhu that he dreamed of. Huang Man is considered loyal. Although he is not a loyal person, he is less conscience and more affectionate than Meng Cao.
This rebellion was the overall situation set by Ning Nanyou. It not only eliminated Meng Huai, but also convicted Song Zong and elected him as the governor. If she had a good guess, once Song Zong's crimes over the years were submitted to the capital by Gu An or Jiang Taigong, the Emperor of Wei would definitely deal with Song Zong without hesitation. Because this emperor needed evidence to deal with Song Zong, this person was spreading in Guangzhou for many years and had eaten countless silver in the border city. The spies of Emperor Wei also noticed it. However, Ning Zheng had powerful means and buried all the things that Song Zong did, and could not find any evidence or mistakes. Emperor Wei naturally could not do what Song Zong would do.
But Ning Nanyou is different. He has prepared these for many years. Even if Ning Zheng doesn't trust him and doesn't like him, he has to admit that Ning Nanyou is his parent-child. Two years ago, Ye Kongge was convinced by the Huai King lineage. Ning Nanyou made great contributions. Although she had guessed that Ning Jiu was Ning Nanyou, Ning Zheng didn't know, so he naturally looked at Ning Nanyou a little differently. Ye Kongge had a special way of transportation for vendors on the border of Guangzhou and in the state. If Ning Zheng wanted to take a safer smuggling and selling road, he would likely use Ye Kongge's commercial transportation by land and water. In this way, Ning Nanyou could secretly collect more evidence and overthrow Song Zong.
These are all her speculations, but perhaps Ning Nanyou is preparing more than these, or perhaps the crimes committed by Song Zong privately have more evidence in his hands, so Ning Nanyou has now set up such a chaos that traps Song Zong and Meng disaster.
But for these reasons, he did not like to use the people of Linhe County to sacrifice their safety and lives, which also made her very uneasy and scared.
He was afraid that he would add another sin and be recorded by the Book of Destiny, and instead gave him a more severe punishment.
At this moment, Jiang Chengjia had turned from the sadness, resentment and blame that arose in his heart when he first mentioned the innocent people in the Cao family's house to fear.
Ning Nanyou heard what she said, and said with a slightly stiff face: "I know... it is unfair to use the safety of the people in this city to exchange for the smuggling route in Guangzhou. However, if this law is not established, perhaps more households on the border between Guangzhou and Jingzhou will suffer from the family destruction. In recent years, Song Zong and Meng Jian not only sold arms, salt, iron and tea, but also sold boys, girls and children as servants. How many farmers' families suffer from the separation of mother, son, father and son?"
Jiang Chengjia remained silent.
She didn't know about this.
But the previous year, she and Jiang Chengyi had prepared this matter, collected a lot of evidence of Song Zong's trafficking, and had tried all the manpower and material resources of Qianji Office and Shangwuxing to help Gu An recover the victims of many cases of trafficking in children and women, so that their relatives could be reunited. However, Song Zong's personal network and business routes were complex and widely, and more or less were missed in the case file, and they could not be investigated. Therefore, Jiang Chengyi compiled the evidence and account books that Qianji Office had finally found in Song Zong's place, and planned to wait until the last population case recorded on the book was thoroughly investigated, and then reported to Emperor Wei with General Cheng to the Emperor.
Trafficking in women and children is a taboo in the Great Wei Dynasty. It has been explicitly prohibited since the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty, especially selling good people, which is even more serious.
In the Great Wei Dynasty, the founding emperor was Emperor Gaozu of the previous dynasty, Ning Yi. This man was a wise king who was never seen in the ages. Although he was a nobleman, he knew the suffering of common people since childhood. Sima Huifeng, the emperor of the fallen country in the Great Yan Dynasty, was in politics, and the world was suffering, and the people were living in poverty.
Ning Yi raised the flag of the clan, rebelled and led the peasants to destroy the Great Yan Dynasty and beheaded Sima Hui under his command.
When he changed his reign to become emperor, the first thing he did after ascending the throne was to prohibit torture and to bury the dead. Except for the extremely evil people, ordinary criminals should not be punished. They also made thirty-two teachings, clearly allowing future generations to not break this teaching, follow the rules of ancestors, and regard the people as the gods.
There are two admonitions worth talking about. The first is the name of the surname of the children of the Great Wei royal family. Common people do not need to avoid taboos, nor do they need to change their surnames and names, and avoid such admonitions. The source of this admonition is the shocking bloody case in the history of the Dayan period in the previous dynasty that sensationalized nine continents and shocked nine continents. The bloody case involved more than tens of thousands of innocent scholars and even civilians. The cause of the bloody case was the theory that the emperor's surname was taboos. The Sima tribe killed so many scholars and civilians just because it maintained the face of the royal family, the majesty of the emperor, and the saints of imperial power were inviolable, and it was cruel and injustice to the point of being crazy.
The second one is what is said above: aristocrats are prohibited from privately selling women and children, especially those who already have good household registration but are forcibly changed to low-class household registration. They are dismembered and punished with torture. In Ning Yi's heart, those who sell good people are extremely guilty and are difficult to vent their anger if they are not punished with bans.
Chapter completed!