"The first emperor was all over the world. The three generations of the ancestors of the Langya Wang family, Wang Jian, Wang Ben, and Wang Li, were all enshrined as princes, and they were prominent in history. In the Qing Dynasty, because of the merits of the dragon, they enjoyed the reputation of the descendants, and they have flourished to this day. Huang The counties and counties respect Wang Yi, and they come from this gate."

"Hedong Huo clan originated from Huo State in the former Qin Dynasty, and flourished in the famous general of the former dynasty - Champion Hou. Now my lineage is passed down to Bo Luhou, the younger brother of Champion Hou. Also because of Conglong's merits, today there is a family of three phases, It has been prosperous for more than three hundred years... However, 29 years ago, a shocking murder caused my Huo family to fall apart..."

The former champion Hou Chuning still knew about it. After all, there were only a few famous generals surnamed Huo in the Han Dynasty—champion Hou Huo Qubing, Bolu Hou Huo Guang.

However, Chu Ning never expected that his Uncle Huo had such a background.

"The Shangguyan clan originated from the Yan State before the Qin Dynasty. Although its ancestors were among the senior disciples of the Spring and Autumn Sect, they were different from the Wang and Huo clans. Their clan was more prosperous in our dynasty. It is the one with the weakest foundation among the three top clans. Since Yan Bufan, this family has declined."

"The Yuan family of Chenjun originated from the state of Chen before the Qin Dynasty. After Chu destroyed Chen, the Yuan family moved away from the world, and then revived their family in the early years of the previous dynasty and returned to their ancestral home - Yuan Shangzhi, the current prime minister, came from the Yuan family of Chen County. .”

"The Xie clan in Chen Jun is a new family in this dynasty. Although they have many disciples and a large family area, their power in the court is smaller than that of the Yuan family."

"The Gu family of Wu County is the descendant of the seventh grandson Yaohan of Goujian, king of Yue. General Gu Wenxiong came from this family."

"The Xiao family of Lanling started from Marquis Wenzhong in the previous dynasty, and flourished in Xiao Wangzhi, the seventh grandson of Marquis Wenzhong..."

……

Wen Zhonghou?

Chu Ning felt a little familiar, and quickly asked, "Huo Shu, what is the origin of this article?"

"It's the former Prime Minister Xiao Heye!"

Speaking of Wen Zhonghou, Chu Ning couldn't think of it for a while, but Chu Ning knew about the famous Han Prime Minister Xiao He, and couldn't help being surprised: "It turns out that General Xiao Hongfei also has such a background!"

"General Xiao Hongfei may be a descendant of Marquis Wen Zhong." Huo Yunshu thought for a while, and then said: "But it may not be in the same vein as the Lanling Xiao family..."

These aristocratic families are prosperous and populous, and Chu Ning couldn't figure it out for a while, so he could only listen to Huo Yunshu's detailed explanation for her, and finally asked: "Who does I come from in the Chu family?"

"..."

Huo Yunshu fell silent for a moment, thinking to himself, your father is just a libertine, illiterate and has no genealogy, who knows who your ancestors are descended from?

"Okay! I understand! Not everyone has a great ancestor." Chu Ning spread his hands and comforted himself: "Fortunately, the Bai family is similar to me..."

"If Uncle Huo's guess is correct, the lineage of the Bai family should be inherited from the Shang ancestor Bai Gui..."

……

Uncle, you are so heartbroken!Believe it or not, this envoy will go on strike for you to see?

The two chatted for a while about the family of the dynasty, and when they returned to the county guard's mansion, Chu Ning called Qi and the chiefs to hold a meeting: "This envoy wants to send a troop to escort Dongyi to Zhangye County, who would like to invite you?" make?"

Seeing that the expansion of the Liaodong County Mansion is imminent, but leaving at this critical juncture, it is either someone who has won the trust of the county guard, or someone who has other ideas... Besides, it is a long way to go to Zhangye, and it will take two or three months. How can I come back?Even if they hurry back, I'm afraid that the expansion of the county government will be completed by then, and all the important vacancies will fall into the hands of others...

The generals were full of scruples, but Yan Lingge asked for orders: "The last general is willing to go!"

As for her own Fengming iron cavalry, Yan Lingge is quite sure, her strength is obvious, she is not afraid of Chu Ning dismantling it, even if it is dismantling, she is already prepared in her heart—three thousand Fengming iron cavalry, how about Bide's mother will continue to hold the authority of the Operations Research Department in the future?

Seeing Yan Lingge's voice, Liu Changgui suddenly came to his senses: "Wei Jiang is willing to share your worries for the envoy!"

In terms of trust, although he, Liu Changgui, is not like Sun Xinghe Wu, who has been a playmate with the envoy since he was a child, but he has been with the envoy for a long time. No matter how the Liaodong County will be expanded and rectified in the future, as long as he does not commit unforgivable If he made a big mistake, then Liu Changgui should have a place in this county.That being the case, why stay here and wading through this muddy water?

Sun Xing has always been ignorant of the twists and turns behind these things, but he knows the momentum. When Liu Changgui opened his mouth, he immediately followed him: "I will ask for orders even if I am not a general!"

If someone takes the lead, others will naturally follow. After a while, most of the people have expressed their views.The rest of the people, some said that they would like to stay in Shepherd to share your worries, and some said that they had important matters at hand and couldn’t get away...

Chu Ning took all the reactions in his eyes, kept them in his heart, and refused to comment. He just told Liu Changgui: "After the meeting is over, President Liu will go back to the camp to pick a team and set off in three days."

Chuning could somewhat guess what these people were thinking, but after all, it was not the first time for her to take power. Although she used few tricks, it didn't mean she didn't know how to use them, it just depended on whether she wanted to use them or not.

After dispatching the task, Chuning announced the adjournment of the meeting, and took Huo Yunshu straight to the county school.

Ever since the incident with Erniang Lu, Feng Jiuqing had been depressed, until Chu Ning invited people to watch the play with great fanfare, and she realized some solutions from it.

When Feng Jiuqing went to find Chu Ning, Chu Ning was giving a speech on the stage, and only Jia Pei was waiting behind the stage.

The two are also old acquaintances who met in Donglai. After chatting for a while, Feng Jiuqing revealed her thoughts a little bit. It's not the law of the country, but it's not difficult to solve this matter."

The two talked for a long time, and they didn't feel satisfied until Chu Ning finished his speech and announced the end of the meeting. Today, they talked for a long time, and finally came up with a safe way to ask someone to invite Chu Ning to the county school to explain in detail.

When I rushed to the county school, I saw Feng Jiuqing writing in a hurry, and Jia Pei said with joy: "Let's say that Mrs. Zhao is also a smart person. The linen she wove is well received by all villages in ten miles and eight villages. It's a pity that my parents don't see people well." Sure, she was tricked into coming to Jizhou and married this Hu San who killed a thousand swords. Hu San neither grows crops nor does business, and fools around with the blood-clothed cultists all day long..."

Sure enough, Jia Pei is well known as the true biography of the envoy of Chu, and he is a good material for a screenwriter. He blurted out a human tragedy about who was cheated. From Aunt Zhao to Kong Jiulang, he wrote it one by one along the names of hundreds of families.

Huo Yunshu listened to him for a while, and then he heard Jia Pei's history of picking up gangsters from Jizhou to county by county. no clothes...

All in all, after hearing Jia Pei's story, even Mr. Huo, who is both civil and military, feels that there is no place for safety in the world except this Shepherd City.

"The men were tricked into selling people as slaves, or being tricked into becoming poor and naked frontier soldiers; the women were tricked into being sold into flower houses... These stories may be possible, but they are not enough." Chu Ning said Qi Feng Jiuqing copied the story, and said: "If it was just sold to the strong and powerful Sili as a slave, maybe there will be a lot of rewards after the victory of the fighting weapon... This needs to be changed. Also, although the woman was sold After entering the flower building, the life after the flower building is blank, and this place has to be changed."

"This..." Jia Pei thought to himself, the envoy is really an envoy, and his ability to compose plays is absolutely amazing, he immediately admired him so much that he immediately asked for advice: "Master envoy, please give me some pointers."

"Besides fighting weapons, a powerful man must have some other hobbies. For example, I once heard people say that during the period of Emperor Wu of the previous dynasty, there were many strong men who kept cruel officials who killed people and bled for thousands of miles, and some people kept good people who were good at being human." The chef of the banquet..." Chu Ning paused, glanced at Huo Yunshu, and continued: "There is also this flower house, why should there be a person in charge? For example, the madam, right? The madam opened Why Hualou? Isn’t it just to make money? After buying girls, they will definitely let them eat less, spend less money, and work more..."

Looking at the envoy of Chu who was directing his subordinates in a serious manner, Mr. Huo's heart fluctuated like waves - since when did the little niece who was pure white like paper start to be dyed black?It seems that ever since you met Master Bai, you've become so dark that you can't wash it off?

"Also, in so many stories, the most important point has been overlooked." Feng Jiuqing took Chu Ning's words and added: "I didn't show the evil of a liar. Aunt Zhao is smart and good at weaving linen, but her parents In exchange for some money to buy food, she was sold to a liar. One is willing to buy and the other is willing to sell, so the liar is not called a liar, but a hostage..."

The hostage is the introducer of the buyer and the seller, also called the toothman, which is completely different from the liar.

Jia Pei suddenly realized: "Yes, yes! It should be that the liar took a fancy to Aunt Zhao's hemp weaving skills and thought that he could sell it for a good price, so he looked for an opportunity to approach Aunt Zhao's parents, deliberately deceiving Aunt Zhao's parents out of food, and tricked them into selling it. Aunt Zhao..."

"My lord Shijun is far-sighted, Mr. Feng is far-sighted, and my subordinates are a little shallow at the moment." Jia Pei recalled the story in his heart, and suddenly became more transparent: "Under Hu San's bullying in every possible way, Aunt Zhao wanted to escape back to her mother's house, but Her natal family refused to recognize her because of their poverty, which is even more pity. After losing her natal family and her husband’s family, Aunt Zhao, who had nowhere to go, was devastated, but when she heard people talking about Muyang City, she hoped again and left. Going to Shepherd City for thousands of miles... This makes my Shepherd City even more beautiful."

Feng Jiuqing nodded repeatedly when she heard this, and Chu Ning was also very surprised, thinking that her position as the discipline department was indeed correct, Jia Pei not only knows how to tell stories, write scripts, rehearse plays, and even guide public opinion smoothly, she couldn't help but He praised: "Mr. Jia is indeed a great talent. Such a wonderful story will be recited by everyone and become a household name!"

Jia Pei repeatedly clasped his fists and said with a smile: "The envoy's praise! It all depends on the envoy's praise!"

Feng Jiuqing couldn't be bothered to watch the two compliment each other, so she said with a straight face: "Among the common people, there are very few literate people, no matter how wonderful these stories are written, they may not be able to understand them..."

"It's easy!" Jia Pei said, "It happens that the two boys in my family have nothing to do, so Director Feng sorted out these stories and asked them to take them to read to the common people."

"That's great!" Feng Jiuqing said: "It's just that there are too many stories, and more will be added in the future. Why don't Mr. Jia invite a few more people to tell the common people a few paragraphs every evening after work and before sunset."

"That's not bad." Jia Pei's eyes lit up, and he suggested: "You don't need to tell all the stories. If you tell a lot, the people will not believe it. Occasionally, you can tell about the tragedies that happened in other counties. For example, a few days ago God, isn’t there another hero from the green forest in Jingzhou who robbed the house? You can also talk about this.”

"You can also invite the disaster-stricken people from other counties and talk about it in person..."

The two talked to each other, and the more they talked, the more excited they became. Huo Yunshu shook his head repeatedly while listening to it, but Chuning's eyes lit up when he heard it—it is true that private law is greater than national law, but law is only the bottom line of morality.

When the law cannot be defined, there is still morality that can be used as a judgment standard, but human morality can be changed and shaped through guidance—that is, when everyone outside Shepherd City is spurning liars or despising goods When selling their wives and children, He Xiu and others will be restrained because of this.

Although, this is not a method that can see the effect immediately, but in a certain respect, it is indeed safer and more feasible than Chuning's previous plan.

The reason why Chu Ning did not dare to deal with He Xiu and others rashly was not only because of the contradiction between national law and private law, but also because there was something deeper behind it—imperial power and patriarchal power.

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the lower imperial powers in this land all like to hold high the banner of 'ruling the world with filial piety'.

Are these people from the royal family really filial?

No, they just use the name of filial piety to emphasize patriarchy and use this to strengthen imperial power.

According to the Qin system, the functional organizations of the imperial court were divided into counties, counties, townships, villages, etc. from large to small. The Ming law stipulated that when each farmer came of age, the imperial court would grant land to encourage the people to live in small families.

However, after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism alone, "filial piety" began to be vigorously promoted. In order to ensure the order of superiority and inferiority between the monarch and ministers, father and son, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty even personally issued an edict saying that as long as the son-in-law and wife support the separated parents or Grandparents are exempt from corvee.

Therefore, the small families that had been dispersed by the Qin Dynasty began to gather together, forming clans of all sizes, and began to have patriarchal clans. The father, who held the right to manage the family and distribute property, thus magnified paternal power, and the children gradually lost Independent power and independent personality have become the attachments of 'filial piety' or patriarchy.

Husband's power also came into being, and gradually evolved to the status quo in the Qing Dynasty - due to the strong existence of patriarchal and husband's power, wives and children became the property of the father. As long as the father needed it, they could give it away, sell it, or abandon it... And free from legal and moral constraints.

For this reason, when Chu Ning drafted the Shepherd City decree, he could only emphasize that the sale of slaves was not allowed, but he did not make a strong provision that the sale of wives and children was not allowed.

It's not that Chu Ning didn't want to, but she couldn't. Once she clearly violated the patriarchal authority, it may cause a strong backlash—even people including Huo Yunshu who were originally tied to Liaodong may have different opinions.

It is said that the laws of Qin are strict, and the emperor of Qin is tyrannical. There is no such thing as tyranny/government of the emperor of Qin, or as strict as the laws of Qin. How dare the current Chu Ning show it to others?

Tai Shigong commented that Shang Jun was mean and ungrateful, did he just say that he should not punish Gong Ziqian?Obviously it was mainly aimed at the decrees made by him, and among the decrees made by Lord Shang, there is a "separation order", which is to force the people to separate their families-if there are two males in the family who do not differentiate, they will be paid twice as much.

This is just a separation of the family, and it only violated part of the patriarchal rights. Once Chuning forbids buying and selling wives and children, it will completely violate the rights of the father and husband, and make it a matter of course that buying and selling wives and children when encountering difficulties becomes an explicit prohibition. , and was punished for it, how many people in Liaodong County would rely on her, Chu Ning?

Chuning is very clear that most of the people under him have the purpose of getting promoted and getting rich, and passing on the family line.

To put it more clearly, it is for more rights, more interests, more women...

Looking at it now, although it cannot be expressly prohibited, intangible things such as morality and public opinion are very useful. At least like now, Jia Pei, who is talking eloquently, is listening to Huo Yun's book seriously, without realizing the stories After this series of arrangements, what kind of impact will it bring to the people of Shepherd City, including themselves.

"The two directors' proposals are very good, and I decided to accept them." After solving a difficult problem, Chu Ning was obviously very happy, but Chuning said: "From now on, Director Jia will be responsible for writing the story." , Director Feng is responsible for compiling stories and disasters in various places into a book, organizing people together, and making these things known to the people. It's just this title..."

The first thing Chuning thought of was 'Liaodong News Network', but she quickly changed her name and named it 'Liaodong Daily'.

Newspapers began in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and Chuning didn't bother to explain too much, so Feng Jiuqing and others accepted the name.

The author has something to say: from now on, the people of Liaodong who will live in the news network will be very happy just thinking about it!

Liar: Oops!Miss, do you want to go to Youzhou and marry a good man?My wonderful family...

Girl: Bah!News broadcast... Oh no, Liaodong Daily said that girls who go to Youzhou will be sold into flower houses, have nothing to eat, have nothing to wear, will be beaten, and will be bullied...

Liar: Brother, I see that you are strong and strong, and you are a good farmer. I heard that there are rich people in Jingzhou who pay high prices to hire people to farm...

Little Brother: Are you a liar, do you think I am stupid?There are bandits in Jingzhou who are robbing houses, and I will not go anywhere except Muyang City!

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