Weird Three Kingdoms

Dali Temple in Chang'an has always been a relatively clean place.

Of course, it should be clean here, just like if the courts of later generations are as lively as the vegetable market, it may not be a good thing.

Twenty or thirty civilians dressed as refugees suddenly gathered outside the Yamen of Dali Temple, knelt down in unison, and loudly voiced their grievances.

This strange scene naturally attracted everyone's attention.

Ragged and dusty, the refugees kneel down in front of the Yamen of Dali Temple, while the common people in the city gather around to watch the excitement. After all, this is really a rare sight.

Seeing such a situation, Sima Yi, as the chief official of Dali Temple, of course could not be negligent, so he came out from the inside, came to the refugees, and shouted loudly: "What is wronged, please tell me quickly!"
Seeing Sima Yi appearing, those refugees looked a little timid, but as someone in the crowd shouted "I'm wronged", others also shouted, and the voice was noisy for a while.

Sima Yi's eyes were slightly cold.

Some people can't move an inch without cheats, and some people are cheaters themselves.

For example, people like Sima Yi realized that something was wrong almost instantly.Although these refugees seem miserable, they are full of spirit when they shout.

Another point that is more critical is that there are refugee camps at the Sanfu Pass of Chang'an, and the surrounding counties are responsible for the early resettlement work, just like the Wuguan Pass corresponds to the Lantian Refugee Camp.After the refugee camp, relevant diversions will be carried out, either to Hedong, or to Longyou, etc.

So where did these 30 people refugees come from?

Sima Yi hadn't heard of anything happening in the surrounding refugee camps recently.

Sima Yi didn't yell loudly, trying to overwhelm the refugees amidst the noise, but just stood quietly and watched until the voices of the refugees fell down again.

The refugee shouted for a while, but seeing that Sima Yi didn't answer, he gradually quieted down.

Sima Yi said again: Where are you from?What is it for?

Sima Yi deliberately did not speak official language, but tried to use colloquialism.Not only for the refugees to understand, but also for the rest of the surrounding people to understand.

Among the refugees, an elderly man stepped forward and said in a trembling voice: Caomin, Caomin is from Chuanzhong... He came to Chang'an to sue Chuanzhong Qiao!People from the Qiao clan do all kinds of things that hurt nature and reason, and collect money in various names. If they don't pay, they will be forcibly expropriated. If we are a little bit dissatisfied, we will be beaten severely!Many people's fields and houses were taken away!We wanted to go to Chengdu to sue, but Qiao Shi sent people halfway to break us up...

The elder spoke with a sad voice.

Logically speaking, it seems to make sense.The road to Chengdu to file a complaint was blocked, so I came to Chang'an to file a complaint.

When Sima Yi heard this, he sneered in his heart.

If it were real ordinary people, how many would choose to go to Beijing to sue?After all, it’s not a day or two to go away. The labor of the family has been away for such a long time, and the wives and children are gone?Or is it that these people are the only ones left after the wives and children are all dead?

Even in later generations, why do many people arrogantly say that they have the ability to sue? Isn't it because ordinary people have to worry about eating and drinking every day, and they can really be as idle as some brick houses, saying that litigation is very simple, and it takes only one trip at fifty ?So in fact, most of the common people don’t understand the law as some experts say, but they also understand it. It’s not that everyone is willing to swallow their anger, but it’s just because they know that they are at a disadvantage, but they still don’t want to go to court. The cost is too high, and finally gave up.

Dali Temple is the final review institution for the trial of relevant laws in various counties and counties. Its most important duty is to review the criminal cases of various criminal and prison cases, and it does not directly accept complaints submitted by ordinary people.This is somewhat similar to the Supreme Court of later generations, which generally does not accept direct lawsuits, but Sima Yi took it.

Not only did they receive the complaint, but they also asked the clerks of Dali Temple to register the refugees one by one. At the same time, they also publicly declared that they would help these refugees find a place to live...

Logically speaking, when these refugees arrived in Chang'an, they ate and slept in the open. It would be better if there was free accommodation, and as Sima Yi said, there may be some things that need to be supplemented later. If they really want to file a complaint, of course not. It may be said that it is as if the complaint is handed in and the matter is over.

It turned out that these refugees really seemed to come here just to deliver the pleadings...

Sima Yi didn't let anyone stop them.

Because there are not only these refugees at the scene, but also the crowd watching.

The refugees all expressed that they didn't need Sima Yi's help, and said that it was good enough to receive the complaint, and they didn't expect anything else, and then they dispersed amidst the constant praise of Sima Yi.

There was something strange about the whole thing.

But apart from the strangeness of the incident itself, what made Sima Yi most uncomfortable was that these people actually took him for a fool.

So Sima Yi decided that he had to figure this out clearly...

...(〃'dish`)q...

What happened next, as Sima Yi had guessed, immediately became complicated.

Chang'an City is huge.

A big city means a lot of people.

When there are more people, there will naturally be more idlers or happy souls.

Moreover, these matters involving public power have always been the focus of people's gossip, so the news spread quickly.

But within half a day, the rumors in Chang'an City seemed to be raging.

However, all the rumors in the world always have a characteristic, that is, they will become more and more exaggerated.

In the beginning, it was just about twenty or so refugees. Later, when it spread, it gradually became outrageous. Anything that doubled was almost impossible to get on the stage. Some said a few hundred people, and some said nearly a thousand people. Yes, just like what later generations claim to be a century-old store, but it turns out that it is still 99 years away.

Not only was the number exaggerated, but some people said that people were beaten, injured, bleeding, and dead...

There are all kinds of rumors, there are countless, but what they say is so eloquent that people have to believe it.

There are inextricable conflicts between the gentry and the common people. After the governance of Fei Qian in Chang'an Sanfu these years, the children of the gentry have somewhat restrained themselves, and the conflict has eased slightly. However, in the rumors this time, Suddenly, the contradictions accumulated in the early years surged again.

This kind of rumor is even more convincing than the theory of ghosts and gods.

The ghosts and gods are too far away, but the gentry children in reality are very close.

Those things that bully the people and bully the weak in daily life, did not disappear in memory because of the silence of the people, or because they swallowed their anger, but settled down, like mud and dust settled in the river of heart. At any time, as long as it is stirred, it will surge again!

At this time, the evil deeds of the Qiao family that those refugees said were mixed with the hardships these ordinary people had endured before. As these ordinary people in Chang'an Sanfu, who had suffered from the rich noble families, they were naturally more willing to believe in refugees. In other words, I am more willing to believe rumors that sound a little outrageous.

Even if they have doubts intellectually, they choose to believe emotionally.

Because they feel that the gentry is like this.

This is how the big local households oppress them.

As rumors spread more and more widely and their influence grew, many people who spread rumors swear as if they had seen it with their own eyes. Feeling shaken, the thoughts that I thought were unlikely before began to change, could it be true?Otherwise, why are so many people talking about it?
Once such an idea arises, it is like a seed that germinates in the hearts of the people, and then grows rapidly.At the end, many people even mixed the suffering they had endured into it, joined the rumors, and angrily accused the brutality of those big noble families, and laid out their guilt...

So Qiao did more and more evil things.

Some of the evil things in these rumors have nothing to do with Qiao Shi, but now they are placed on Qiao Shi's head, because the people think that those damn big families are like this, and Qiao Shi is naturally like this.

This kind of natural contradiction cannot be completely eliminated by Fei Qian's governance or actions...

It's like that later generations are very disgusted with bricks. Not all experts are bricks, and not all caring people are black-hearted, but there are some strange things that leave a deep impression on the minds of the people. , Even if you adjust and modify it later, the original anchoring effect is not so easy to pull up.

Especially once it is anchored, and then after one, two, three, and more reinforcements, it becomes an inherent impression.For example, when you talk about Fu, you think of Pengci, when you talk about 腚, you think of Sister Qing, and when you talk about Shandong, you think of schoolmates. These perpetrators may think that they just did something wrong. Why is there such a thing? big reaction?
Even if the common people don't talk about it, it doesn't mean that this matter can be completely ignored, and there will be no follow-up impact.

The speed at which Dali Temple's lawsuit against Qiao's family was fermented was beyond imagination.

It also exceeded Sima Yi's imagination.

Sima Yi found Kan Ze.

Of course, Kan Ze had heard about what happened in Dali Temple.

Because Kan Ze was not there at the time, and the people from the Wensi were not near the Dali Temple, the whole incident was actually very fast from the beginning to the end, so when the people from the Wensi arrived at the Dali Temple, they did not see him. to those refugees.

Kan Ze is also skeptical about these refugees, because these people seem to have popped up out of nowhere.But Kan Ze can't say that these refugees must have problems. After all, ordinary people in Chang'an may prefer to believe that seeing is believing. If there is news that these refugees have problems, those onlookers may think that they are protected by officials.

This may be because these refugees know that there may be flaws, but they still make such a move, because they don't need to deceive everyone, they only need to deceive some ordinary people.

Therefore, when Sima Yi found Kan Ze, Kan Ze pretended that he didn't know anything.

Why should De Lan do this?Sima Yi frowned slightly, don't tell me you don't know why someone came here?

Kan Ze still had that simple and honest expression on his face, and asked Brother Zhong Da for advice.

Check people!Sima Yi said in a deep voice.

Kan Ze was silent for a while. There was no official document on this matter.

Kan Ze did not say no, nor did he say that this matter was out of his control, or that it was a matter of Dali Temple, etc., but said that there was no official document.

Youwen Division has two parts, bright and dark. I won’t talk about the dark part, but the bright part also has rumors and the duty of collecting information, so Sima Yi came to Kan Ze to ask the Youwen Division to investigate. It’s not completely against the rules, it’s just There is no official document.

Because the Youwen Division is not private, it cannot be used for private use.

Sima Yi nodded, and didn't express any dissatisfaction because of this, but cupped his hands and said: "It's Meng Lang, so I'm going to ask Hushi for official documents."

Afterwards, Sima Yi left.

Kan Ze looked at Sima Yi's figure, thought for a while, then shook his head and smiled, and called the old follower Cao at the file office to register the matter.

Did Sima Yi really not know that he wanted official documents?

Obviously not.

It was just Sima Yi's temptation.On the one hand, it is to test whether this matter is caused by Youwensi, and on the other hand, it is to test whether Youwensi, who is under the water, can be used by him.

In addition, there may be a third aspect of temptation...

Of course, Kan Ze's answer is just right.

The most interesting point is that through this incident, Sima Yi showed that the Youwen Division is no longer an insignificant organization in Chang'an Sanfu.This organization created by the Hussar General is showing younger and stronger strength.In comparison, the ability of Dali Temple to investigate is actually very weak.

After a while, a messenger suddenly came outside the door, indicating that the Hussar General had been summoned.

Kan Ze reached out and took a small volume of papers from the table, followed the hussar guards, and arrived at the General's Mansion.

In the General's Mansion, Sima Yi sat on one side, and when he saw Kan Ze, he nodded slightly.

Greet my lord.Kan Ze stepped forward and saluted Fei Qian.

Fei Qian stretched out his hand to signal Kan Ze to sit down, and then asked: Zhong Da just said that some people pretending to be refugees sued before Dali Temple, does De Lan know about this?
Kan Ze lowered his head slightly, took out the small volume of papers he brought from his sleeve, and asked the hussar guards to deliver it, while saying: The Dali Temple incident happened suddenly. ...This is the summary of the follow-up investigation, please take a look at it.

Fei Qian took the book, opened it, and found that Kan Ze investigated more matters than Fei Qian imagined.In addition to what Sima Yi said earlier about what happened at the Yamen Gate of Dali Temple, Kan Ze also added some other information...

First of all, there are no records of these refugees in various passes.

It didn't come from Sichuan and Shu, and it didn't come from Shandong either.

In the early days of the turmoil, especially during Cao Cao's conquest, there were many refugees from Shandong, including Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou and Xuzhou, and later there were also many refugees from Jingzhou, but as the war gradually After Pingding, the two parties, um, the three parties entered a relatively stable period, the number of refugees decreased a lot.

In particular, after Cao Cao realized the danger of population loss, he also vigorously promoted the strategy of recuperation and comforted the local people, so that the number of people who originally fled to Guanzhong began to slow down and gradually decreased, and the number and scale of Guanzhong refugee camps were also reduced. .

After learning that these refugees were said to have come from Sichuan and Shu, Kan Ze sent people to Baoxie Road and Tangluo Road to inquire.

The praise ramp is relatively gentle, and it is the first choice for many material exchanges and caravans to pass through. Therefore, if these refugees follow the merchants all the way, then they are likely to take the praise ramp.The front battalion of the checkpoint at Baoxie said that during this period of time, there were caravans, and basically no refugees were seen. Although it is not ruled out that there may be a small number of refugees among the caravans, this possibility is relatively small .

In addition, although the Tangluo Road passes through a series of mountains and bridges, it is much easier to walk than before, but it is still relatively steep, and it is only suitable for small caravans. If there are a large number of carriages and horses, it is better to take Baoxi Road, or the Chencang Road that detours in Longxi is more appropriate.

As for the Meridian Road, it is basically impossible for refugees to pass through.Because there are no sufficient supply points in the Meridian Road, unless these refugees can be like mountain soldiers, not only can bring their own dry food, but also know how to survive in the wild...

As for the direction of Chencang Road and Longxi, there is no information yet, so Kan Ze can't say that these refugees are fake, but can only temporarily say that these refugees are slightly suspicious.

In addition, it was also mentioned in Kan Ze's report that these refugees who appeared in Dali Temple did not appear outside Chang'an City.

Because the time is short, the whole investigation will come to an end here.

Fei Qian read it again, and then gave the book to Sima Yi.

Sima Yi first bowed his hands to thank him, and then took the book. After reading it, he said ヽ(｀Д′)? His brows were slightly wrinkled, my lord, do you want Taoist Master Qiao to come?I'm afraid that the accusation against Qiao's family is false, and that it is true to disturb the scriptures.

Fei Qian thought for a moment, glanced at Sima Yi, and said with a smile: No need to pass it on.Since it was presented to the public before Dali Temple, it must be a very big picture.The five-direction ashram is nearby, so it must be known.Might as well just wait.

This matter is such a big commotion, if Qiao still pretends not to know, and delays trying not to come, then he won't have to come again...