Better to live forever [Rebirth]

Seeing Zhu Dingbei's temperament is not small, Ning Heng secretly laughed.

Changsheng's expression at this time was exactly the same as his grandfather's, but the hostility between his brows had another kind of heart-pounding courage in his eyes.

"... Ah Heng?"

Seeing that Ning Heng was a little distracted and didn't know if he heard what he said just now, Zhu Dingbei pressed his forehead with his fingers, stared and said, "What are you thinking?"

Ning Heng was embarrassed, not daring to say what he was obsessed with just now, he just coughed and asked what he just said.Zhu Dingbei repeated: "Where did the Huns use that batch of silver in the national inventory?"

"Some of them have been paid, but the rest should not be paid." Ning Heng said truthfully.

Zhu Dingbei snorted: "I think so too. But so what if the Huns paid their military salaries. In the past few years, the situation was so bad that they couldn't spend it even with silver in their hands. It's not so easy to use money to boost morale. .” He paused for a moment, then slowly frowned: “Is the cross-market at the border still circulating?”

"Ah."

Ning Heng gave an affirmative answer.

The so-called border market is not a serious market.

Dajing forbids trade with foreigners, but merchants value profits, especially the horses, cattle and sheepskins in the north are sold to the south and they can get a lot of profit from it, so many people risk their lives at the border to trade with the Xiongnu or Qiang .It is said to be a mutual market, but it is actually an illegal market, but because the life of the border people is miserable, this kind of thing is repeatedly prohibited.

Now, apart from Liangzhou in the northern border, the original border has moved northward to the boundary marker of Xianbei Prefecture. The lifestyle there is almost the same as that of the Xiongnu. The food planting situation is not good, and it can only supply the rations of the local people when it grows up. There is no surplus. Things that can be bought and sold, so traders in Xianbei Prefecture thought about smuggling grain, cloth and tea to the south to barter.

However, Zhu Dingbei remembered that the mutual market in Xianbei Prefecture is still a small business, and it will be a few years before it becomes rampant.Now that the famine has just passed, there are not many things to trade in the mutual market.

But looking at what Ning Heng meant, how could it seem that those Huns took military pay and were of great use in the exchange market?

Seeing that he was puzzled, Ning Heng explained in a low voice: "Women and slaves. These two are very popular in the mutual market between Liangzhou Prefecture and Xianbei Prefecture."

The border population trade has always existed, and the slave trade between each other is also very frequent, but this is the first time the woman Zhu Dingbei has heard of it.In Ning Heng's mind, it was decided that it was not the foreign women who entered Dajing, but the women of Dajing who were traded to the Xiongnu.

It’s actually not hard to think why. Many Huns have died in the past three years. Naturally, they have to have more children, and there are only so many Hun women, and many of them died in disaster years. It's not impossible.

"No one cares?"

Zhu Dingbei said gloomyly.

He didn't think too much about some young and strong men who couldn't make ends meet and sold themselves as slaves, but Zhu Dingbei couldn't tolerate letting an unarmed and weak woman become a trade item!

"It does, but it doesn't do much."

Ning Heng told the truth.

The past few years have been too hard, and there are frequent incidents of changing children and eating at the border.What he didn't tell Zhu Dingbei was that most of the women he was talking about were immature girls. Most of them were betrayed by their families to the dental shop, and then they were transferred from the dental shop to the exchange market.These women and girls have no ability to resist, and their relatives even regard their lives as ants, even if they want to stop them, they can't cut them off from the source.

"It doesn't matter much!" Zhu Dingbei sternly said: "Are you just sitting back and watching these innocent and helpless women let others bully you? The government doesn't like to eat soft food! A bunch of useless people, the men in the family are not dead yet, just What kind of woman is it to sell your own women to others, you are useless assholes! These women are not only the people of my Dajing, but selling them to the Huns is a disregard for human life. Even if they survive, they will be reduced to the Huns to vent their fertility It must be painful to live like this? The old and the weak, women and children, who are supposed to be protected by us, actually trade them for their own benefit, a bunch of beasts that are not as good as pigs and dogs!"

He is so angry, if he is still in Xianbei Mansion now, when it comes to getting on a horse, he will clean up these culprits first!

Thinking like this, he said gloomyly again: "Why is there no report to the court now, don't the government take this matter as a matter?"

Ning Heng squeezed his hand tightly to try to calm his emotions. Zhu Dingbei's background is absolutely intolerable to this kind of thing, which is why he reserved room for not telling about the girl, but seeing that he was still very annoyed, he had no choice but to say : "The state shepherds of Liangzhou Prefecture and Xianbei Prefecture are already dealing with this matter, and have not submitted the letter."

"They didn't use their troops to punish these people?"

"Not yet."

Zhu Dingbei snorted coldly when he heard the words, "They were not born by women, it's really hateful that they dare to ignore the plight of these women like this."

But he couldn't keep silent, he just didn't know, if he didn't do anything after hearing about it, even he couldn't get over this test in his heart.He thought about the solution in his mind, the trade of women in the population exchange market has not yet reached Tianting, so he knows that it should not have reached the point of rampant.However, if it is not stopped and taken seriously, it will definitely cause public indignation and riots.

It's just that it's not appropriate for the emperor or the military to intervene in this matter, but if you don't "make a big fuss", how can you kill this unhealthy trend!

Zhu Dingbei rubbed his finger bones, his face was serious, Ning Heng couldn't see him distressed and said: "This kind of thing can't be stopped, unless we kill a whole market, it won't be so easy to control."

Zhu Dingbei has always been iron-blooded, if he is still in Xianbei, he will definitely kill a bunch of unscrupulous traders first, and kill them before he will stop.But now it's beyond their reach, so they discussed whether to report this matter to Beijing through the government office in the northern border for Zhongshu to intervene directly. Lift it out!

——The female family members of the herdsman's family in Liangzhou Fuzhou were taken captive, sold to the Huns by force in the exchange market, and committed suicide under the humiliation!

When the news reached Luojing, Concubine Huang Gui in the palace immediately became seriously ill. The female family member was none other than the concubine's own aunt, the direct daughter of the Huang family in Liangzhou.One daughter encountered such a dangerous situation, but other people sympathized with it, but added embellishments to it. In a short time, the reputation of the Huang family girl in Liangzhou was ruined. How can people not be shocked and angry?

When Zhu Dingbei heard that Huang Guifei begged the emperor to make decisions, he couldn't help but sneered.

The life of his daughter from the Huang family is life, but the life of someone else's daughter is not life?He also sympathized with what happened to the Huang family girl, but he was dissatisfied in the bottom of his heart.But no matter what, the dirty business of buying and selling women in the cross-market on the border of Liangzhou Prefecture cannot be hidden anymore. Going to the stage, the government had to make great efforts to rectify it.

Afterwards, Zhu Dingbei heard from Uncle Ning that the daughter of the Huang family girl who was suffering died in her boudoir with her mother, but he sighed a lot.

Uncle Ning: "The Wang family's actions are not authentic. The family's wife did not suffer this disaster voluntarily, but they did not want to bury Huang's body in the ancestral grave in the name of being unclean. Huang's family and Wang's family They have become enemies. As soon as the Wang family propagates, how should the children left by the Huang family deal with themselves in the future is a difficult problem."

Dajing was much more tolerant of women than the previous dynasty, allowing widows to remarry and opening women's schools, but the world still attached great importance to women's innocence and reputation, which also caused women to be born with many restrictions.

Zhu Dingbei sighed: "The Wang family's ability to do this kind of thing is because they are seeking their own death. They just suffered for the innocent children."

In his view, Huang's daughter committed suicide because of her own weakness.Is reputation that important?Her biological mother suffered and died, could it be that she regards it as a lifelong shame and does not feel pity for her mother's suffering? Don't look like a person.

But in the end, there are still some regrets.

Uncle Ning couldn't help laughing when he saw that his tone was solemn, as if he was an elder.

His Lord Hou is more stable and mature than his peers, but that is very different from Zhu Dingbei.Zhu Dingbei has an innate tolerance and loyalty to the weak, as can be seen from his usual care for the young master of the Lou family.And their patriarch, because of indifference, has no feelings for those strangers, and doesn't care, so he looks down on others' sufferings.

This kind of ruthlessness is not only aimed at others, but also at himself.

When Uncle Ning thought of this, he couldn't help but hesitate when he looked at Zhu Dingbei. He was grateful for the existence of Little Marquis Zhu, which made the Patriarch feel affectionate and popular.

At that time, he was afraid that the Patriarch would turn into the cold and silent child he was when he was a child again.

Zhu Dingbei didn't know the depression in his heart. After investigating the matter of Huang's daughter in Liangzhou, the matter of buying and selling girls soon caused an uproar in the Dajing government and the public.Only then did Zhu Dingbei know that those people were even more hateful than he had imagined. Some girls were sold as young as six or seven years old. How innocent and unfortunate these children were.After the brothers of the Lou family learned about this incident, they couldn't help but share the same hatred with the people of Liangzhou.

They live well in Luojing, but because they are kind-hearted, they can suffer the suffering of others, and they sympathize with the weak, so they naturally hate when they learn that the border market has done such a thing.

Lou Ankang thought a little more, he knew that although the traders in the market were hateful and hateful, the saddest thing was those who personally sold their wives and daughters for others to buy and sell. If their lives had been like this If it is difficult, this kind of thing will happen again.He already understood that many people would not hesitate to sacrifice others, even his close relatives, for the sake of money and survival.

He couldn't bear to tell his younger brother and Chang Sheng his thoughts, he just sighed sincerely: "I hope this time I can kill this unhealthy trend, otherwise, how will these women and children deal with themselves."