On the first day of the fifth month, standing in front of the humble inner gate in the blind mountain again, Heifu was in a somewhat complicated mood.

Perhaps because he felt that this year's household registration would definitely not be able to meet the standard, after the trial results reached the township, the villagers of Zhuanshui Township broke the jar and broke it, and simply ordered that after letting people go and sweep away all the livestock and property that should be confiscated in the blind mountain, they would burn this Liju with a fire!

Anyway, that place has to go a long way to get there, and now that the establishment is gone, the house is kept, and it is also used as a nest for outlaw bandits.

This task, of course, fell to the local pavilion chief......

Revisiting the old place, the people of Huyang Pavilion also felt a little emotional, this is the most dangerous case they have encountered since they took office, if it wasn't for Xiao Tao shooting the person who instigated the murder of the official to death in time, I don't know what would have happened? Maybe it has been smashed into a pulp, and in hindsight, I have palpitations.

After going in and going around, they found that the inner gathering, which had once been a little inhabited, had become empty, the sparrows had fallen on the stoves, and the yellow dogs that could not find their owners were running around, and there was a mess everywhere.

Seeing this situation, Ji Ying was also a little confused, and when he passed by a family, he remembered that when he first came to deliver a letter, he had gone in to ask for a sip of water to drink, and the family was kind to him.

At that time, seeing the tragic situation of those plundered and sold women, Ji Ying just wanted to kill all the people in it. But after hearing the verdict, the more than 10 people who were sentenced to death were certainly not worthy of pity, but more than 100 people in the whole city were reduced to prisoners together, and it was shocking just to hear it.

Not to mention that there are one or twenty underage children, who will become orphans in the hidden officials because of this......

So Ji Ying suddenly turned around and asked Heifu:

"Brother Heifu, what we did this time was right or wrong?"

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"Is it worth it to send two hundred people to prison in order to save four people?"

Ji Ying asked like this, and several other people also looked up, and they could see that their hearts were also full of doubts.

After pondering for a long time, Heifu said: "The atrocities of one man against one man are crimes, and the atrocities of a hundred people against one person are also crimes. ”

Most Confucians believe that human nature is inherently good, like water flowing downward, and that it is something that is innate. Even if someone has evil thoughts in their hearts, they are forced by the situation, and they only need to be morally and edified to put people on the right path.

However, the fact is that even after more than 2,000 years of indoctrination, in remote places, things like baby drowning and trafficking have never stopped.

In order to solve the problem that cannot be solved by moral education, Legalists have taken the opposite path, believing that human nature is inherently evil, and everything is "good and evil" at work. This relationship exists between kings and ministers, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives.

For example, Han Feizi said bitterly, "Parents are also to their children, and when they give birth to a man, they congratulate each other, and if they give birth to a girl, they kill them." "This is a common phenomenon in this era, and this is how it is caused by the fact that there are more men and fewer women in the blind mountains.

When parents give birth to a child, they congratulate each other if they give birth to a boy, and if they give birth to a girl, they brutally kill her, why? Because of the interests, the boy can pass on the family lineage and work in the field, but the girl has to pay a dowry when she grows up, and the family does not have much food, and she can't raise a daughter-in-law for someone else's family.

In the eyes of the Legalists, even their biological parents and children are still so concerned about the interests and harms, let alone ordinary people? Therefore, likes and dislikes are buried deep in human nature, and they can never be changed through acquired efforts!

Therefore, the Fa family simply gritted their teeth and said that we simply don't talk about good and evil, but only look at right and wrong!

Within a nation, if you keep to yourself, you are a good people, but if you do harm to others, you are evil.

It is wrong for one person to do evil to one person, and it is also wrong for a hundred people to do evil to one, and such a wicked mob will be punished as many as there are.

After sending a large number of "evil criminals" to prison, the Legalists proudly said that the punishment is vigorous, the force is strong, the strength is strong, the strength is strong, the virtue is strong, and virtue is born in punishment, and as long as the strict punishment and strict law make people dare not violate the boundary, the world will be able to rule greatly.

But they see society and human nature too simply, those who have not committed a crime but have suffered have since regarded the law as an evil law, Qin as a violent Qin, and the world responds to it.

Pure moral education is naturally not advisable, but is simple legalist punishment sufficient?

Heifu fell into deep thought.

The original intention and general direction of the case they handled this time were right, and it was naturally a good thing that those plundered and sold women were able to return home. The perpetrators of their abuse have been punished as they deserve, and it is enough to be happy.

But all the people in the blind mountain, regardless of men and women, were punished as subordinate concubines according to the crime of joint sitting, and even Heifu couldn't help but feel a little uneasy, because he knew the fate of those people.

In the past month, whenever he went to the county seat to participate in the trial, he would go to the slave traders' market in Anlu County to take a look.

The two-legged goods filled the cattle and horse pens, and the air was filled with a peculiar smell, sweat and blood, mixed with the stench of the dung ditch of the concubines and concubines. Looking at the concubines who were imprisoned in cages, or wearing wooden shackles, or tied together by straw ropes, all of them were withered and unkempt, and had long lost their expectations for life, only a few small ministers with bright eyes stretched out their dirty hands to him, as if begging for salvation.

It is surprising to say that while cracking down on trafficking and strictly prohibiting soldiers from selling their wives and children, Qin Law allowed the slave trade. In addition to the foreign influx of captives and barbarians, every year there are many Qin people who are tortured and demoted to subordinate concubines. Their situation is worse than that of the women who have been plundered and sold. Do you have to say how much difference there is between the two? Not really.

If you think about it carefully, this contradiction is not actually a contradiction, the Qin State is a big government with a strong desire to control, and everything that is beyond the control of the government has been prohibited: commerce is strictly suppressed, and the flow of household registration between households is not allowed at will, so that people can have to seek to change their own class through the two paths of farming and warfare, so as to achieve the goal of strengthening the army and enriching the country.

In this way, the number of people who were punished as subordinate concubines for crimes and the length of their sentences were under the control of the government, and these people could also serve as the bottom of the pyramid of military merit, and continuously create labor value for the country.

But private plundering is different, on the one hand, people who have lost their children will feel uneasy, creating chaos and fear. On the other hand, this kind of movement of population classes outside the official control cannot bring any benefits to the government, so it is regarded as a cancer and must be eliminated!

After figuring this out, Heifu was even more confused.

"At first, I called myself a jealous and hateful 'tengu', and I felt that I was doing the right thing. But now it seems that I, the pavilion chief, am just a dog in the official mansion of the Qin State, just a tool to maintain the rule of the Qin law? ”

"Qin Law" is advanced, but there are also big problems, maybe this is the root of Qin's demise?

It's just that there is nothing to be done about those problems, with Heifu's current position. He knew that this was the limitation of the times, and as long as the productivity did not break through the critical point for a day, similar things would appear one after another.

Qin Law can save the chaotic times, but this kind of wartime regulations, if you use pure magic, you can't cover everything and achieve the great rule of the world.

Something is better than nothing.

In this era of comparison, where the "Qin Law" can still be enforced, although the slave trade has never stopped, the abduction and trafficking of commoners' children is still restricted. But in the Six Nations, even this is not guaranteed.

Heifu didn't know that when he was cracking down on the abduction and trafficking incident in the blind mountains, a poor young man named "Luan Bu" in Wei State, who was slightly younger than him, was accidentally stuffed into a sack by a group of traffickers when he was working as a restaurant helper in Qidi, and was slightly sold to Yan State thousands of miles away as a slave......

In another twenty years, when the chaos at the end of Qin and the Qin law became a dead letter, that would be the beginning of the nightmare. Dou Guangguo, the younger brother of Empress Dowager Dou, the mother of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty and the uncle of the dignified country, was also abducted, and he was abducted and trafficked more than a dozen times. In the end, Dou Guangguo was sold to the black charcoal kiln as a charcoal burner, during which he also encountered an accident, hundreds of workers died, only he survived, and almost acted in an ancient version of "Blind Well......

The royal relatives can't protect themselves, let alone the commoners? At that time, not only did human trafficking become more and more rampant, but the phenomenon of civilians selling their children into slavery also intensified, and it extended to after BC, and then became the most troublesome slave problem in the Han Dynasty.

The reality is so cruel, no matter how strict it is, okay?

Heifu doesn't know these things, and he only knows the general trend and doesn't know the details about the future.

But for now, he has his own plans.

Even if you have thoughts, you can't be kind to you, you can only do what you think is right within the scope of your authority, and slowly climb up until you have the ability to change.

The premise is that he will not forget his state of mind at this moment in the process of climbing.

"Don't seek to be satisfied, but to be worthy of your heart."

After answering Ji Ying like this, Heifu threw the torch into the blind mountain.

Tiny flames swayed on the thatched roof, like swift squirrels, devouring the hay and slowly growing in size into tail-wagging fire foxes, sliding over pillars and leaping onto beams, encircling the whole house.

Everyone lit fires in all directions, and gradually, the entire house in the blind mountain was burning, and there was a crackling sound everywhere, that is, the firewood was bursting. The flames swirled and writhed, eventually merging into one. In the deepening twilight, like a roaring beast, it spat out long tongues of fire that burned all that had happened in this remote settlement, and licked away the shocking evil and ugliness.

The smoke became thicker and thicker, and everyone in Huyang Pavilion retreated one after another while coughing, but Heifu stood in front of this fiery purgatory, and the wind of the flames blew him naked, but he himself did not move.

"I only hope that the tragedy in the blind mountain can warn the entire Anlu County, the South County, and even the whole country...... Kill one and make an example, punish a hundred and set an example for thousands or 10,000 people, if you can do this, it will be worth it! ”

With a fire in his eyes, Heifu prayed.

It's not just a vision.

This is also what Hefu has made up his mind to do in the future.

"I only hope that one day, there will never be a blind mountain in this world!"