The caravan marched through the mountains, and on the second day it had reached the vicinity of the mountain town called Zhenba, and had indeed entered Dai Mengwei's territory.

For the future world's No. 1 Ning Ji children, this is the first time in their lives to leave the territory of the Huaxia Army, and there have been many fantasy encounters during the journey, such as the rivers and lakes described in the script, fighting, bandits, being identified identified, bloody death, etc., as well as all kinds of amazing splendid rivers and mountains...... But at least for the first few days of the journey, everything was out of place.

The rivers and mountains are not beautiful, and the difficult places are no different from Liangshan and Jianshan in the southwest, desolate mountain villages, dirty markets, inns full of the smell of horse manure, and unpalatable food, which are sparsely distributed on the way after leaving the Huaxia Army - and there are no horse bandits or bandits, even if it is the previous rugged and difficult mountain road, there are no bandits to guard, and they stage a scene of killing people or buying road money, but on the road to the town, there are soldiers under Dai Mengwei who set up cards to charge fees and inspect documents, but for Ning Ji and Lu Wenke, Fan Heng and other people from the southwest did not open their mouths to make things difficult.

is too different from the rivers and lakes he imagined.

“…… Cao Silong deliberately rebelled, and then came over as a material for the Chinese to transfer to the southwest, so the trail from Cao to Dai was protected by two families, and there were bandits who set up a village on the way, and they had already been defeated. In this world, big fish eat small fish, small fish eat dried shrimp, how can there be any way for heaven......"

Lu Wenke and others answered Ning Ji's doubts.

There is no romance of smiling and proud of the rivers and lakes, and what surrounds you is mostly realistic. For example, the adjustment of the original amount of food is a long-term problem that has plagued the little brother of the Long family all the way - it's not that he can't bear it, and the things he eats every day ensure that there is no problem when he acts, but the change of habits is to make people greedy for a long time, such a Jianghu experience can only be stuffy in the stomach in the future, and no one can tell it, even if someone writes it in the future, I'm afraid no one likes to watch it.

In addition to being greedy, he has actually always maintained mental vigilance against the fact that he has entered the enemy's territory, and is ready to fight and flee bloody at any time. Of course, it was also this kind of preparation that made him feel more and more bored, especially the guards under Dai Mengwei who didn't find fault and provoke and bully themselves, which made him feel a kind of resentment full of skills and nowhere to vent.

The imagination of the rivers and lakes has initially failed, but in terms of reality, it is not without gain. For example, in the daily chatter of the "Rotten Five", Ning Ji roughly figured out the "bottom line" of Dai Mengwei's territory. According to the speculation of these people, Dai Laogou is sanctimonious on the surface, secretly trafficking the population under his rule to the southwest, and uniting his village sages and troops to make the difference together, which is really hateful and hateful.

But such a reality is much more complicated than the happiness and enmity between the "rivers and lakes". According to the rules of the "rivers and lakes" in the story, human traffickers are naturally bad people, and of course the innocents are trafficked, and the good people who do chivalry and righteousness kill the bad guys who traffick human beings, and then they will be grateful to the innocents. But in fact, according to Fan Heng and others, these innocent people were actually sold voluntarily, they couldn't eat, and they voluntarily signed a contract for twenty or thirty years.

The traffickers are voluntary, the traffickers are doing good deeds, and even the southwest, which claims to be China, is still buying people on a large scale - it is also a good deed. As for the possible big bad guy Dai Gong here......

"It is said that Dai Gong's subordinates have issued a proclamation that no one is allowed to sell his people to the southwest as slaves, and those who violate the order will be punished......"

In this way, in the first month after leaving the territory of the Huaxia Army, Ning Ji deeply felt the truth that "it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read ten thousand books".

The world in the storybook is not right at all, and you still have to go out and walk around to be able to see these things clearly.

The team moves forward, each with its own purpose. At this time, Ning Ji was already clear that if Dai Mengwei's Confucian students were identified at the beginning, after coming out of the southwest, most of them would take the most convenient road in Hanzhong, and go to Ankang and other big cities along the Han River to seek officials.

As for Fan Heng, Lu Wenke, Chen Junsheng and other "rotten Confucian five", although they respect Dai Mengwei, they still have doubts in their hearts, and after discussions in the southwest, they decided to go to the rear of Dai Mengwei's territory to find out. The caravan may have come to Dai Duke's territory to buy people, and they didn't say much on the surface, but in fact they were secretly concerned about this matter.

Zhenba County is still a mountain town, and there are not many people living here, but compared to the mountain roads that have been passed before, you can already see a few newly built villages, which are located between mountain gaps, and many of them are surrounded by newly built walls and fences, and some people with dull eyes cast their gaze at the pedestrians on the road from the villages on that side.

"Look at the new fences." Lu Wenke pointed to the scene over there, and said the truth to Ning Ji, "This shows that although there was a famine, the officials and elders assigned here still did things under the command of the villagers, in fact, it was not easy." This proves that even if the supplies are insufficient, this area is still in order. ”

"What about order?" Ning Ji asked.

"This is the essence of governance." Fan Heng leaned over from the side, "After the Jurchens came, all the order in this area was disrupted. Zhenba was originally inhabited by many mountain people, with a fierce personality, and the Western Route Army killed it, commanded those Han troops to come and fight for a round, many people died, and the city was burned. After Dai Gong took over, he redistributed the population, divided the regions one by one, and selected officials and respected veterans to serve as officials. Xiaolong, at this time, what is the biggest problem in front of them? In fact, if you don't eat enough, and you don't eat enough, what will happen? ”

Fan Heng looked at Ning Ji, and Ning Ji thought for a while: "Rebellion? ”

"That's right, everyone knows that not eating enough will force people to rebel." Fan Heng smiled, "But how did this rebellion appear?" Think about it, if too many people starve to death in a place, if there is no way for the officials to have no authority, the village will collapse, and the remaining people will become hungry and wander around, and if more and more villages will appear like this, then a large number of refugees will appear, and there will be no order at all. But looking back, if only a few people died in each village, would it still be out of control? ”

"......" Ning Ji glared.

"Dai Gong rescued millions of people from the hands of the Jurchens, and there was still majesty in the early days, and he used this majesty to divide the people under his rule layer by layer, dividing hundreds of thousands of areas, after these village areas were demarcated, the people inside were not allowed to move at will, and in each village, there must be a village sage and an old man in charge, and there were officials and troops on several villages, and the responsibilities were distributed layer by layer, in an orderly manner. It is also for this reason that from last year to this year, although there is famine here, there is no great chaos. ”

Fan Heng was quite intoxicated when he talked about this. On the side, Lu Wenke added:

"Little Brother Long, this kind of layer-by-layer distribution is easy to say, it seems that the government in the past did the same, but often officials at all levels are uneven, and when something happens, it will be out of control. But this time, the layers of distribution under the rule of Dai Gong are quite like the meaning of governing a big country if cooking a small fresh, everything is orderly, each in its own place, each performing its own duties, and it is also interesting that the southwest scholars have said recently that Dai Gong has the image of an ancient sage, and he used the 'ancient law' to fight against the deviant 'present law' in the southwest, which is also somewhat interesting. ”

Ning Ji frowned: "Each has its own position and performs its own duties, so the position of those ordinary people is to die quietly without causing trouble?" "The human rights thinking within the Southwest Huaxia Army has had a preliminary awakening, and although Ning Ji is a bit scummy in his studies, he can finally find some key points for these things.

Lu Wenke waved his hand: "Little Brother Long, don't be so extreme, just say that there is such a reason in it." When Dai Gong took over these people, it was already quite difficult, and it was also his ability to stabilize the situation in such a way, and it was difficult for another person to achieve this level. If Dai Gong hadn't used such a method well and rioted, there would only be more people dead here, just like the Hungry Ghost Rebellion back then, which was out of control. ”

"But people are still starving."

"In troubled times, people will naturally die, and Dai Gong decided who to let die, which is cruel to say, but even in the southwest at the beginning, didn't he also experience such a famine. Since he has the ability to make the troubled times less dead, when it comes to governing the world, he can naturally make everyone live a better life...... This is where the philosophy of the ancient sages lies......"

"The Huaxia army fought with golden dogs in the northwest and migrated to the southwest before starving. Has the surname Dai ever fought with the golden dog? How can you say the same? The golden dog died more than us in the Northwest back then! ”

Ning Ji retorted unhappily, and Fan Heng next to him smiled and waved his hand.

"Hey, hey, okay, okay, Xiaolong is from the southwest after all, seeing the situation on Dai Mengwei's side, it's normal to look down on it, it's nothing to argue about. Xiaolong just needs to remember this matter, although Dai Mengwei has problems, but when he does things, he also has his own skills, his skills, many people see it this way, some people agree, and many people don't. Let's all come here to see what is going on, we don't have to make much noise, come, eat candy and eat candy......"

Fan Heng and the mud, Lu Wenke also smiled and didn't say more. As a traveling companion of the same company, Ning Ji is not very old after all, coupled with his pleasant face, and he can read and write, most of the Rotten Confucian Five treat him as a nephew, so naturally they will not be angry because of this.

Ning Ji took the sugar, considering that he was behind enemy lines, and he couldn't excessively show the tendency of being "pro-Huaxia", so he suppressed his temper. Anyway, as long as Dai Mengwei is not regarded as a good person and he is interpreted as a "capable villain", everything is still extremely smooth.

On this day, the team entered the town bus, only to find that the originally remote mountain city is now gathering a lot of merchants, and there are several inns in the county town that are newly repaired. It was already evening when they stayed in an inn, and everyone in the team had their own thoughts at this time, for example, the members of the caravan might contact the connector of the "big business" here, and several Confucian students wanted to find out about the situation of human trafficking here, and the members of the caravan also quietly inquired, and when they were eating in the inn at night, Fan Heng and the others talked with the members of the other team of travelers, but because of this, they heard a lot of news from the outside world, one of which made Ning Ji, who had been bored for more than a month, suddenly energetic.

“…… It is said that in September this year, the Fairness Party will invite the world's heroes in Jiangning to hold a hero conference to elect the leader of the martial arts league. ”

During the inn's inquiry, one of the travelers talked about it, which immediately caused the noise and shock of the surrounding people. Lu Wenke, Fan Heng and others from Chengdu looked at each other, chewing on the meaning of this news. Ning Ji opened his mouth wide, and after a moment of excitement, he heard someone say, "Isn't that together with the Southwest Martial Arts Conference?" ”

Someone hesitated to reply, "...... The Fair Party and the Huaxia Army are one. ”

Only two words flashed in Ning Ji's mind at this time: despicable.

Last year, with the defeat of the Jurchens by the Huaxia Army in the southwest, in the east of the world, the Fairness Party has expanded its influence at an indescribable speed, and has now overwhelmed the territory of Tie Yan and Wu Qimei in Lin'an. In the midst of such expansion, neither of the two parties has publicly explained or stated the relationship between the Huaxia Army and the Fairness Party, but for the "corrupt Confucians" who have been to the southwest, they naturally have a certain understanding because they have read a large number of newspapers.

As far as Ning Ji, who is in the core family circle of the Huaxia Army, of course, understands better that He Wen and the Huaxia Army may not be able to become good friends in the future, and there is no collusion between the two sides at present.

"Last year, the Huaxia Army held the world's first martial arts competition, attracted everyone to come over, and then paraded and killed people, and held the inaugural meeting of the people's government, which gathered the popularity of the world." Chen Junsheng, who had a calm face, was talking while picking up vegetables.

"This time, it seems that the Fairness Party wants to draw a gourd in the same way, and then the popularity of the Huaxia Army has soared. Moreover, the Huaxia Army's martial arts competition is scheduled for August and September, and it is obvious that it will still be held this year, and the Fairness Party has also deliberately set the time for September, and has allowed all parties to think that the two are one and the same, so that they want to dismantle the Huaxia Army while taking advantage of the fame of the Huaxia Army to achieve things. When the time comes, the people from the west will go to the southwest, and the heroes and heroes from the east will go to Jiangning, He Wen is so bold, and he is not afraid of really offending Mr. Ning in the southwest. ”

Fan Heng was eating, and he also calmly pointed to the country and said: "After all, the world is big, why don't heroes stop in the southwest." If you are swaying today, this person of the year is going to emerge in endlessly. ”

Lu Wenke said: "Speaking of which, the little brother of the Long family is going to Jiangning this time, and it is a coincidence, but he can encounter this grand event." ”

"Well, I'm going." Ning Ji replied angrily, and then his face was full of unhappiness, and he buried himself in eating desperately.

A kind of Confucian scholar talked about the topic of "heroes of the world", and then began to talk about other things, such as the upcoming war between Dai Mengwei, Liu Guangshi, and Zou Xu, such as the possible actions of the little emperor on the farthest southeast coast. Some are new, and many are clichés.

Ning Ji listened quietly, but this night, it was a little sleepless.

After listening to the stories of the rivers and lakes for so many years in the Huaxia Army, and watching a lot of episodes such as the Hero Conference, after leaving the southwest, I originally had some expectations for these things. Who knew that the sudden appearance of this news contained such a disgusting mind in the middle, He Wen's traitor, while learning experience from his father's side, even deliberately demolished the Huaxia Army and grabbed popularity!

If the previous Fairness Party was just his self-reliance under the helplessness of the situation, and he didn't listen to the orders of the southwest side and didn't come here to make trouble, it can be regarded as you taking your Yangguan Road and I crossing my single-plank bridge. But at this time, it would be disgusting to deliberately hold this heroic conference in September. He Wen has been in the southwest for so long, and he has also fallen in love with Sister Jingmei, and even let him go after that, this backhand knife is even more hateful than Zou Xu!

It's infuriating!

And this so-called hero conference is still held in Jiangning! It is clear that he knows that Jiang Ning is his father's hometown, and he wants to imply to others that he has a relationship with the Huaxia Army, and he has more benefits. Shameful!

After going to Jiangning, he didn't have to care about Sister Jingmei's face, and killed him with one sword!

He was thinking about He Wen's affairs that night, and his face became a bun with anger, but he didn't care so much about Dai Mengwei's sale of a few people. He went to bed in the early hours of the morning, and after sleeping for a long time, he heard a movement outside the inn, and then went back to the inn, and when he got up, it was dark, and he pushed open the window and saw that the army was surrounding the inn from all sides.

After more than a month away from home, the danger finally came. Although he didn't know what was going on, Ning Ji still picked up the baggage, took advantage of the cover of the night to run onto the roof, and then jumped into another nearby roof before the army could complete the encirclement.

The army entered the inn, and then knocked on the door one by one, arrested people, no one resisted at all in such a situation, Ning Ji watched as the fellow caravan members were taken out of the inn, including the leader of the caravan Lu, followed by Lu Wenke, Fan Heng and other "rotten Confucian five", there are Wang Jiang, Wang Xiuniang's father and daughter, it seems that the heads of the people who were counted according to the check-in list were arrested, and it was really the group of caravans that they followed all the way.

Ning Ji looked confused from the roof of a nearby building. Why? Exposed yourself? But after they caught the others, they didn't seem to over-investigate the fact that there was one less young man. But what are you doing with this caravan you're in? The "Rotten Five" have all been arrested, and they haven't done anything bad......

When the sun rose that day, he stood in the morning light, puzzled.

The fellow caravan members were arrested, the reason is unknown, their identity is important, they must be cautious, theoretically speaking, now find a way to disguise themselves out of the city, and leave far away is the safest way to deal with it. But after thinking about it, Dai Mengwei's atmosphere is serious, and he is probably more eye-catching when a fifteen-year-old young man walks on the road, and he has to admit that after walking along the way, he finally has some feelings for Lu Wenke and other fools in the Corrupt Confucian Five, and it is really a little unbearable to think of the torture they will suffer after they are imprisoned.

The defensive sentry of this mountain city doesn't seem to be very tight, so think of a way to sneak into the prison at night and take a sneak peek? He had done a lot of training in the Huaxia Army for things like espionage and infiltration, and it would not be too difficult to deal with these dirt buns in theory.

After thinking about it for a long time, after making sure that there was no special large-scale search in the city, he bought a bag of cakes and steamed buns, and explored the way near the yamen in the city while eating. In the afternoon of this day, when he was sitting on the side of the road eating steamed buns carefree, a group of people suddenly came out of the county gate not far from the road.

These people were the ones who were arrested in the morning, including Wang Jiang, Wang Xiuniang, the "Rotten Confucian Five", and some other travelers who followed the caravan, but at this time it seemed that they were released by the people in the yamen, and a young official who shook his head followed out from behind, and after talking to them, he said goodbye, and it seemed that the atmosphere was quite kind.

Ning Ji ran all the way and waited at the corner of the street for a while, and only when this group of people approached did he lean over from the side, and heard Fan Heng and the others sighing to themselves: "The true blue sky is also ......."

"The Origin of Dai Gong's Family Learning......"

He ran a few steps: "What's wrong, what's wrong?" Why were you caught? What's wrong? ”

When Fan Heng and the others saw him, they were also very surprised for a while: "Little Dragon! You're alright! ”

"Great, we thought something had happened to you......"

Everyone chattered around, they were the whole caravan was arrested together, seeing that Ning Ji was not there, he thought that something special had happened to one of his children, and when he came out, he specially asked the county order. Ning Ji explained to them that he went out to the toilet in the middle of the night, and then there was a commotion, and after he hid, he saw that everyone was arrested, and everyone was okay at this time, so everyone was happy.

“…… What the hell is going on, why are you arresting us? ”

Ning Ji asked, Fan Heng and the others looked at each other, then sighed and shook their heads: "Leader Lu and the rest of the caravan are going to be miserable this time." ”

Lu Wenke said: "Chief Lu is obsessed with money, and secretly agreed with someone to come here to buy and sell a large number of people, thinking that these things are all acquiesced by Dai Gong, and he has a relationship, and he will be able to succeed." Behold...... This Xiao Dai County Order is really Qingtian, after the matter is found out, all the people are taken, Leader Lu was betrayed and beheaded, and the rest of the people are punished. ”

"Huh? Really catch it......" Ning Ji was a little surprised.

"Look at this battle, it's naturally true, recently Dai Gong's side has been cracking down on the evil act of selling people, and Leader Lu is strict in his crimes, saying that he will be executed in public tomorrow, let's stay here for one more day, and we will know...... Alas, at this time, I realized that Dai Gong's theory of selling people was really framed by others, nonsense, even if there were illegal traders who really committed this evil, it had nothing to do with Dai Gong. ”

"Alas, it is true that we are arbitrary, and the casual words in our mouths have tarnished the name of the sages, and we should take it as a warning......"

Everyone stayed in the county town for another night, the next day the weather was hazy, it seemed to rain, everyone gathered at the entrance of the vegetable market in the county seat, and saw that yesterday's young Dai County Commander escorted Lu Leader and others out, Lu Leader knelt in front of the stone platform, and the Dai County Commander was loudly criticizing these people for the evil of human trafficking, as well as Dai Gong's determination and will to fight it.

This little Dai county magistrate's name is Dai Zhen, and he is a nephew of Dai Mengwei. When Fan Heng and others talked about it, they praised Dai Mengwei for his good governance and teaching.

Under the hazy sky, in the midst of everyone's onlookers, the executioner raised his big knife and cut off the head of the weeping leader Lu. The rescued people were also watching, they had received the promise of "proper placement" from Dai County's order, and at this time they knelt on the ground, shouting to the sky, and constantly kowtowing.

Ning Ji looked at this scene, stretched out his fingers and scratched his head in confusion.

After leaving home for more than a month, he suddenly felt that he couldn't understand anything.

This Dai Mengwei ...... Could it be that he is really a good person?