Originally, I was mentally prepared to witness the darkness of the world, but who knew that when I first arrived under Dai Mengwei's rule, the first thing I encountered was that the legal system here was clear, and illegal legal traffickers were severely punished - although it may be an example, but this kind of seeing and hearing made Ning Ji a little unprepared.

The Rotten Five, who were received by the county order, was quite excited about this.

On the one hand, they are engulfed by the development of the southwest, and on the other hand, they are entangled in the deviance of the Huaxia Army, and they cannot integrate into the scholars, especially after walking through Bazhong, they see the huge difference in order and ability between the two sides, and it is difficult to talk nonsense with their eyes open.

Who knows, when you enter Dai Mengwei's side, you can see something different.

Although the materials seem to be poor, but the management of the people under his rule is moderate, and the upper and lower levels are in order, even if it can't compare to the panic of the southwest expansion for a while, but it also has to take into account the fact that Dai Mengwei has only been in charge for a year, and the people under his rule are originally a rabble.

The southwest is an unverified and temporarily effective "new law", but on Dai Mengwei's side, it can be regarded as an "ancient law" with a long history. This "ancient law" is not old, but it is the ideal state that Confucianism has thought about for thousands of years, as long as everyone follows the predetermined rules to live, the farmers farm at home, the craftsmen build the equipment they need, the merchants carry out the proper circulation of goods, and the scholars manage everything, naturally there will be no big bumps.

If it is applied to practice, the national strategy of scholars to manage the general aspect, the virtuous and virtuous people from all over the country and the middle-level officials cooperate with each other to educate the people, and the people at the bottom are content with their duties and obey the arrangements of the superiors. So even if there are some bumps, as long as all the people are united, they 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 200 years of the Wu Dynasty, commerce was developed, so that the lower-class people were greedy and selfish, and this atmosphere changed the governance of middle- and lower-level officials, so that when foreign insults came, the whole country could not work together, and finally due to the development of commerce, it finally gave birth to the demon of the heart, which only valued interests, only recognized documents, and did not pay attention to morality.

Dai Mengwei is undoubtedly a person who uses the concept of ancient law to the extreme. In a year's time, the people under his command were arranged in an orderly manner, and it can really be called the ultimate in governing a big country if cooking small and fresh. What's more, his family is also a corporal.

Although Dai Zhen was the head of a county, he heard that among the people who were arrested were innocent scholars who had traveled, so he personally welcomed several people to the back hall, and after explaining the case, he also communicated with several people one by one and learned from each other. Any nephew in Dai Mengwei's family has such virtue, and for the evaluation of Dai Mengwei who was previously circulated in the southwest and called Dai Mengwei a sage today, several people finally understood more reasons and became more and more empathetic.

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After experiencing this incident and understanding Dai Mengwei's greatness a little, the road has to continue to move forward.

At this time, the leader of the caravan was beheaded, and the rest of the members were basically imprisoned. The Rotten Confucian Five-member group inquired here and learned that although there were many regulations for civilians under Dai Mengwei's rule, they were not allowed to travel, but the regulations on the roads they traveled were relatively strict, as long as they reported in advance and traveled without leaving the avenue, there would not be too many problems. At this time, everyone got to know Dai Zhen, the county commander, and got a piece of paper from him, so he didn't have much to do when he went to Ankang.

It's just that Dai Zhen also reminded everyone of one thing: now that Dai and Liu are concentrating their forces, preparing to cross the river and go north to recover Bianliang, everyone went to Ankang to take a boat at this time, and those merchant ships heading east may be affected by the deployment of troops, and the ferry tickets are tight, so they may have to be prepared to stay for a few days after going to Ankang.

Several Confucian scholars came here, adhering to the idea of reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles, at this time, hearing that there was a large army to allocate this kind of excitement, and no longer waiting for the caravan along the way, summoned a few scholars, servants, and lovely Ning Ji to discuss, and set off for the north at the moment.

Wang Xiuniang's father and daughter, who usually love to go to Lu Wenke and Ning Ji, also followed, the father and daughter have been performing for several years and have rich experience in going out to walk, but this time they took a fancy to Lu Wenke's knowledgeable and good family background. For more than a month, Lu Wenke and the other party also have some eyebrows, but he has traveled to the southwest, his knowledge has increased greatly, and when he returns to his hometown, it is the time to make great progress. After all, this relationship is going to be tangled for a while.

As for Ning Ji, he was a little tired of the rotten Confucian five-person group who began to tout Dai Mengwei, but he was only fifteen years old, and he didn't plan to go on the road alone and make extraneous branches. I had to endure the twitter of a few fools and the teasing of Sichun silly women, while shifting my attention to the hero conference that might take place 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...... The checkpoints and soldiers on the road also saw a lot along the way, but after checking the customs clearance documents with the seal of the county order Dai Zhen, they did not interrogate this team too much.

On this sunny day, the team passed through the mountains and mountains, and several scholars were still discussing what they had seen and heard on the land under Dai Mengwei's jurisdiction while walking. They have already used Dai Mengwei's "characteristics" to overwhelm the demons from the southwest, and at this time, when it comes to the situation in the world, they can be more "objective", some people discuss that the "Fair Party" may sit big, some people say that Wu Qimei is not useless, and some people mention the cheer up of the new monarch in the southeast.

Fan Heng, who is the oldest and admires Dai Mengwei the most, sighs from time to time: "If it was during the Jinghan period, characters like Dai Gong would have been able to come out to do things, and later the great rivers and mountains of the Wu Dynasty would not have such a disaster as today." It's a pity......"

"There is a lot to do" Lu Wenke said: "Now Dai Gong's territory is not big, and it is much easier to govern than the Wu Dynasty back then." Dai Gong is indeed promising, but he still needs to see how he is governed in the future. ”

Fan Heng shook his head: "That's not the case, back then, the Wu Dynasty was bloated, and the Seven Tigers were entrenched in the court, and because of this, a noble and promising person like Dai Gong was blocked below, and there was no achievement when he came out." If it weren't for Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Qin Siyuan and a group of traitors who caused trouble, and the party fought for many years, how could it have reached such a situation of falling apart and ruining lives today...... cough cough cough cough ......"

Everyone used to talk about the world, and from time to time there would be situations where they couldn't help themselves when they talked about someone or something, and they scolded them. But at this time, when Fan Heng talked about the past, his mood was obviously not high, but gradually lowered, his eyes were red and even tearful, and he muttered to himself, Lu Wenke saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly called the others to rest on the side of the road.

At this time, everyone was only a day's journey away from Ankang, and when the sun was falling, they sat under the trees in the field, and they could see the ripe rice fields in the gaps in the mountains in the distance. Fan Heng is already forty years old, with some gray hair on his sideburns, but he is a Confucian with the heaviest makeup and form, and he likes to talk to Ning Ji about the etiquette of worshipping God and the rules of a gentleman, which has never been out of shape in front of everyone before, and at this time, I don't know why, he sat under the tree on the side of the road and muttered for a while, holding his head and crying.

The middle-aged man's cry was sometimes low and sometimes sharp, and even had a runny nose, which was extremely unpleasant.

Lu Wenke and others stepped forward to comfort him, and heard Fan Heng say something like "Dead, all dead...... and sometimes crying: "My poor girl......" When he cried for a while, he spoke more clearly, and he could hear him whisper: "...... When Jingping was in peace, I came down from the Central Plains, and all the children in my family died on the road...... My kid is only a little bit younger than Xiaolong...... Got separated......"

His venting was sudden, everyone was silent, and Ning Ji, who was watching the scenery on the side, thought for a while: "Then he should be about the same age as Lu Wenke now." The rest of the people couldn't make a sound, and the choked throat of the old Confucian echoed on the mountain road.

In fact, in recent years, the rivers and mountains have fallen, which family has not experienced some tragic things, a group of scholars are impassioned when they talk about the world, and all kinds of misery are nothing more than pressing in the bottom of their hearts, Fan Heng suddenly collapsed while talking, and everyone inevitably had relatives.

And on Ning Ji's side, he grew up in the Huaxia Army, and how many people who can survive in the Huaxia Army have not collapsed? Some people have their wives and daughters raped, some have their family members slaughtered, starved to death, or even more miserable...... He has seen a lot of these sorrowful cries since he was a child.

It's just that he has never seen the rich and prosperous Wu Dynasty from beginning to end, he has never seen visitors from all over Bianliang, and he has never seen the old dreams of the Qinhuai River. If this kind of thing happens in the Huaxia army, whoever is in a bad mood will take turns to go to the ring and beat him to the point that his nose is blue and his face is swollen and even his head is bleeding, and when the injury heals, he will be able to endure it for a while.

Such emotions were vented at the end of the Great War in the Southwest, but more often than not, they will not be able to calm down until the future when they set foot in the Northland. But according to my father's side, there are some things, after experiencing them, I am afraid that they will not be able to calm down for the rest of their lives, and the persuasion of others does not have much meaning.

The middle-aged scholar collapsed for a while, but finally regained his composure, and then continued on his way. As the road approached Ankang, the ripe rice fields with golden ears had begun to increase, harvesting was taking place in some places, and the sight of the villagers cutting rice was guarded by the army. Because of Fan Heng's previous emotional outburst, everyone's mood was a little low at this time, and there was not much conversation, but when such a scene saw the evening, Chen Junsheng, who had always talked little but could hit the nail on the head, said: "You say, these rice are cut, will they belong to the army or to the villagers?" ”

His words caused everyone to be silent for a while, and Chen Junsheng said: "After the golden dog went, both sides of the Han River were thrown to Dai Gong, there are many mountains and little farmland here, so it is not suitable for long-term residence. This time, when the heel was not stable, Dai Gong and Liu Gong hurriedly wanted to fight back to Bianliang, that is, to get rid of this place by taking advantage of the fertile wilderness of the Central Plains...... It's just that the three armies have not moved the grain and grass first, and this autumn and winter, many people may starve to death here......"

Everyone lowered their heads and thought for a while, and someone said: "Dai Gong has no way to ......"

Lu Wenke said: "Maybe Dai Gong...... There is also a plan, and there will always be some rations for the local people......"

Fan Heng, who has always spoken for Dai Mengwei, may have had an emotional outburst during the day, but this time he didn't answer.

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

This city experienced a military disaster when the Jurchen West Route Army came, and half of the city was burned, but with the departure of the Jurchens, a large number of people were placed here after Dai Mengwei took power, and the gathering of the crowd made this side have a feeling of being in ruins, and when everyone entered the city, they could faintly see the traces of the army stationed, and the atmosphere of slaughter before the war had infected here.

As the scenes seen along the way showed, the army's actions were waiting for the rice harvest to take place in the rear.

There are some things that don't need to be questioned too much, in order to support this northward battle, Dai Mengwei's forces, which are already short of food, will inevitably have to requisition a large number of rice planted by the people, the only question is how much he can leave for the people who remain in the place. Of course, it is difficult to figure out such data without investigation, and even if they go to the southwest and have some courage, the five Confucian scholars would not dare to rashly investigate this kind of thing in this context - they don't want to die.

Entering the city from the south gate of the city, under the guidance of the officials at the city gate, the whole Ankang City is half new and half old, there are a large number of shacks where people gather, and there are also streets that have been repaired well after the government has vigorously grasped them, but no matter where they are, there is a fishy smell, and many streets are filled with fishy sewage cross-flow, which may be the follow-up influence of Dai Mengwei's encouragement of fishing for a living.

Although the shadow of war was still in the air, commerce in Ankang was not banned, and there were always ships of one kind or another moving eastward along the Hanshui River, many of which were merchant ships from Hanzhong. Due to the previous agreement between the Huaxia Army and Dai Mengwei and Liu Guangshi, the trade routes from the Huaxia Army to the outside were not allowed to be blocked, and in order to ensure the implementation of this matter, the Huaxia Army even sent a large group of representatives of the Huaxia Army to be stationed in the trade routes along the way, so on the one hand, Dai Mengwei and Liu Guangshi were ready to fight, on the other hand, the merchant ships sent from Hanzhong to other places and sent from other places to Hanzhong were still rampant on the Han River every day, and even Dai Mengwei did not dare to block it. In this way, the two sides carried out their actions "as usual".

Of course, the atmosphere on Dai Mengwei's side was solemn, and no one knew when he would go crazy, so some of the merchant ships that might have docked in Ankang had canceled their docking plans at this time, and the number of merchant ships and passenger ships going east was greatly reduced. As the Dai Zhen County Decree said, everyone needed to line up for a few days in Ankang before they could take a boat, and they stayed at an inn called Tongwenxuan at the northeast end of the city.

This inn is noisy with most stranded travelers from the south to the north, and there are many scholars who come to see and ask for a future, and everyone stays for one night, and in the noisy exchange of people in the lobby of the inn, they have heard a lot of interesting things.

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 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 to persuade the members of the Zou Xu and Yin Zong alliances, who occupied Luoyang, Bianliang and other places, to surrender to this side. Even many scholars and scribes who felt that they were related in the Central Plains and boasted that they were familiar with the way of vertical and horizontal thought went to Dai and Liu's side this time to volunteer for their efforts to recover Bianliang.

In the chaos of the world, the most important thing in the mouths of all people is, of course, all kinds of ideas for fame. On the side of scribes, scholars, families, and squires, Dai Mengwei and Liu Guangshi have already raised a flag, and at the same time, a flag suddenly erected in the eyes of the world is naturally the hero conference that will be held in Jiangning.

This time, the Fairness Party learned from the path of the Huaxia Army, and drew a gourd to engage in a gathering of righteousness in Jiangning, and it also made a lot of money to the outside world, and sent heroic posts to a number of heroes in the world, inviting many demons who have been famous for a long time to come out of the mountain. In the discussion of everyone, it is said that even Lin Zongwu, the first in the world that year, may appear in Jiangning this time, sit in the conference, and try all the heroes in the world.

When night fell, the inn named Tongwenxuan was old and old, and the candles in the inn hall were shaking, and no one among the literati and merchants gathered here let go of such an opportunity to communicate, and loudly threw out their knowledge. In this chaotic scene, Ning Ji finally found something he was interested in, arched left and right into other people's discussion circles, and asked with a smile: "Uncle Uncle, will that Lin Zongwu really go to Jiangning?" Is he really good? Have you seen him? ”

The scholar uncle who was spitting at the table saw his clear eyebrows and smiling face, and he also slapped the table at the moment: "After all, he is a hero, I have only seen it once from afar, and I still listen to what others say...... I have a friend, nicknamed Heshuo Tiandao, and I have dealings with him, and it is said that Lin Zongwu, who 'wears Lin Hundred Legs', is the most ...... in leg kung fu."

Unexpectedly, he could hear such a southwest joke after leaving the Huaxia Army so far, and Ning Ji's face suddenly flattened......

"But, anyway, this time Jiang Ning, I heard that this number one in the world, it is possible, maybe it will definitely arrive......"

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

"Hey, then Lin Zongwu's nickname wears Lin Bei's legs, how can he be a fat man! You are so young, you still have too little knowledge! ”

"That's right, that's right, there are only the wrong names, how can there be the wrong nicknames......"

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 trip, he was even more confused.

And on the night after he arrived, he saw an assassination......