Chapter 193: Meet the Seller
Qiyuan Town is a long canyon basin, narrow at both ends and wide in the middle, high in the northwest and low in the southeast. There is a small river ditch in the middle, on which there are many pontoon bridges, and there is a natural lake downstream. The whole canyon is fifty or sixty miles long, and you can get out of the canyon in one day.
It's densely populated, so to speak! In the Great Zhou Dynasty at that time, it was one of the most densely populated areas, with a population of about 30,000. For the Great Zhou Dynasty, which had only a population of 20 or 30 million in its heyday, a region with a population of 30,000 was naturally the most densely populated area.
It is precisely because of the refugees from the various vassal states of the Great Zhou Dynasty that the people are complex, the living customs and so on are different, and they are mixed together to cause problems that cannot be dealt with. When incompetent officials came, not only could they not govern here, but they were also killed if there was any injustice.
If you offend the wrong party by doing justice in your actions, you risk being assassinated. If you are biased and favor the other side, the wronged party may openly kill you! So! No one dared to come here to be an official.
But? There is a door here that is still commendable! That is the tax arranged by the Song State, and no one dares to disobey and not pay. What is the tax rate in the world outside Qiyuan Town, they will pay whatever tax rate. You want them to pay more, that's impossible! When there is no harvest in a famine year, and you force them to hand it over, they will not hand it over, and if they have no grain to hand it in, what will they hand it over?
Whenever the task of paying taxes is down, the mayor goes down to the leaders of the various gangs and apportions them to them. The leaders of each gang are then distributed to their own subordinates, so that everyone can pay their taxes in time and avoid trouble. If anyone doesn't pay their taxes, the leaders of these gangs will report you to the mayor, and the mayor will arrest you with the government. Input: Нёǐуапge.сОМ觀看姀動心寀
The management of Qiyuan Town is as simple as that!
As for the internal contradictions among the people, the leaders of Qiyuan Town could not manage them. The contradictions among the people are resolved by the people themselves and by their own methods. But! Here comes the problem again! The people here are all from the various vassal states of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the laws and customs they abide by are also different. So! There are also different ways and means of dealing with contradictions. At last! The contradictions between the various gangs are getting worse day by day.
Zhuangzi was led by the official and rode to the place of the accident.
"Zhuangzi is here!"
"Zhuangzi is here!"
"Let Zhuangzi give us a review!"
"That's right! It's not right for you to kill someone! If people don't steal from Dongdong, you will beat people to death, which is not right! As a thief, I didn't steal anything, I only had the pain of flesh and skin, and I didn't have to worry about my life......"
"Thieves are bad people! The bad guys have to be killed! Only when the bad guys are dead will this world be peaceful......"
The public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable, and both sides hold their own words.
In this place of Qiyuan, there is no law, and the laws of the Song Kingdom do not work here, and no one obeys them. This is truly self-governing for all, and the only role of the Song State is to come here to collect taxes.
As for military service, people here do not observe it. But? If you give the temptation of benefits, there are still people who go to military service. The Qiyuan people call it "selling", how much food or goods you give, or how much tax you exempt, they are willing to send their sons to military service. It is equivalent to selling his son to sell his life, so it is called "selling children".
Zhuangzi came to the scene, and on the ground of the scene, a young man in his twenties was lying down, and the blood on his face was wiped clean by a girl lying on top of him. When Zhuangzi saw it, he felt that the dead young thief was so familiar, but he just couldn't remember it for a while.
Maybe? The last time you experienced the lacquer garden, did you see him?
And the girl who was crying on the deceased's body, he also felt very familiar.
After understanding the situation, Zhuangzi spread his hands and said, "The man is dead!" What else can be done? People die and can't be resurrected! Since it's wrong for him to steal other people's things, but he can't help it, he steals it when he's hungry, isn't it? He was stealing some food for his sister. Or else! Whether he's right or wrong, we can't just watch his sister starve to death, can we? Isn't it? Give her a bite of food to eat, let her live, her brother is dead and blind. Isn't it? ”
Under the mediation of Zhuangzi, everyone agreed that for the time being, instead of arguing about who is right and who is wrong, we should first solve the practical problems. As for who is right and who is wrong, save it for later and discuss it slowly.
Set aside the dispute and settle the real problem first.
What's the use of arguing, arguing for a lifetime will not lead to results, it's better to put it aside for a while and talk about it later.
"Pick up? Selling? ”
After dealing with the killing incident, Zhuangzi suddenly remembered.
That's right! The thief who was killed was called Pickup, and the sister who was lying there crying was Pickup's sister Seller? Pick up? Selling? That's right! Pick-up is like the thief, and Sell'er is like her mother.
That's right! This pick-up is an orthodox "thief" as his father said. Although he is a "repeat offender", he does not steal from just everyone, he only steals from those who deserve it. And also! He didn't steal as a profession, he did it when he had no choice. That's right! It meets the standards of orthodox thieves.
Unfortunately! He was unlucky enough to be caught and killed.
Just as he was about to go back, Zhuangzi turned around and came back.
Originally! How to help sell the child, the people around him will discuss and solve it by themselves, and he doesn't have to interfere. Everyone can take as much as they want, no one forces them, they don't complain about others if they take more, and they don't want to go if they take less, it's their own business.
But after suddenly remembering that picking up and selling children might be the ones who stole the family, he had to care.
"You're a seller?"
Coming to Mai'er's side, Zhuangzi asked.
"Woo woo woo ......," the seller cried and nodded.
It's so similar! Mai'er is too much like her mother. Although she is dressed in tatters, she still has a very rich temperament all over her body.
"Your brother's name is Pickup?" Zhuangzi said nonsense again.
"Woo woo woo ......"
This! She didn't nod, just cried loudly.
"Isn't your home in the northeast near the Qi Kingdom? Are you from that place? There's also a small river there......"
That place was in the northeast of the lacquer garden, and the two places were far apart, and Zhuangzi couldn't believe it. But! In those war-torn times, anything was possible! The family moved from that side.
Selling Er stopped crying, her eyes widened, and she looked at Zhuangzi, who was sorting through the fragments of her memories in her brain. Finally! She remembered. Crying and shouting: "Are you Brother Zhuang?" Woooooo I'm a seller! Sell! Woowoo woo ......"
"Selling? Are you really a seller? You? Are you the little girl back then? A little girl who is so tall? You? Do you remember me? ”
"Woooooo Selling said, "I remember you brought a rabbit!" Woowoo woo ......"