Raid

147 Lucky
"Stop!" Rong Zhi dissatisfied, he looked at Zhang Bingsheng: "Where can you judge the case like this? You didn't give him a chance to judge."

Zhang Bingsheng hurriedly laughed: "It's not that Xiaguan didn't give him a chance to distinguish. This person is also known to the lower officials. His name is Xu San, and he is a well-known assassin. He often made troubles when he was repairing the embankment. This is not once or twice. .”

Rong Zhi ignored him, he looked at Xu San, pointed at another young man and asked, "Is what he said true?"

Xu San was not afraid at all: "So what? Could it be that they are wrong? They are so cruel, and they want to exchange a living big girl for half a bucket of rice."

"This is the price that was agreed at the beginning. What are you dissatisfied with? You go to your parents. What do you come to me for? I gave all the rice to your family. Now I want to take people back. How can there be such a thing?" ?” The young man said angrily.

"Don't think I don't know, and you bought these little ladies and big girls so cheaply, just to send him to be a house prostitute, to please these officials. When you are doing these pickles, you are not afraid of making mistakes. Hell?" Xu San said angrily.

Zhang Bingsheng's face changed, and he immediately sternly said: "What are you still doing, I'll take this ignorant brat down."

The officers and soldiers didn't know well, so they quickly took Xu San down.Xu San cursed all over his mouth: "You shameless bastards, if you do such a thing, I will never let you go."

"Hurry up..." Before Zhang Bingsheng could finish his urging words, Li Shengxi rushed up, his long sword not drawn, but it was enough to deal with these officials.

"Who are you?" After Zhang Bingsheng asked, he looked at Rong Zhi sharply.

"I'm still here, is County Magistrate Zhang going to overstep like this again and again?" Rong Zhi looked unhappy.

"The subordinate dare not."

Rong Zhi looked cold, and asked Zhang Bingsheng: "What's going on? Is what he said true? What do you mean by using it to curry favor with officials? County magistrate Zhang didn't even mention it one by one. Is it possible that you don't want magistrate Hu?" Following?"

County magistrate Hu was the first county magistrate who was removed from his official hat because of the breach of the embankment.

Zhang Bingsheng looked embarrassed, and hurriedly said with a smile: "Xun Ya has been in Beijing for a long time, so he doesn't know what's going on here. In disaster years, people often sell their children. This is a common thing, why is it so strange? It's not just in the border areas. Looking around the world, it's not uncommon for parents to sell their children because they can't survive. As for what Xu San just said about trying to curry favor with officials, he was simply angry because Xu Xingniang was so cheap..."

"You fart—" Xu San cursed angrily.

Zhang Bingsheng ignored Xu San's cursing, and continued: "These boys and girls who are sold are not slaves, especially the girls. Some of the pretty girls are easily bought by wealthy people to be concubines or domestic prostitutes. Selling and buying, gifting concubines and maidservants are common things, how can we please talk about it?"

Li Shengxi's heart sank, and the gaze he looked at Zhang Bingsheng became colder and colder.Rong Zhi's complexion was also very ugly, but they couldn't say any rebuttal words for a while.

Everything Zhang Bingsheng said is recognized by the world, and people can't fault it.Selling children and daughters-in-law during times of famine is common, and giving concubines and maidservants is common even in times of peace and prosperity.

But just because it was a common thing, Rongzhi would make Li Shengxi feel even more uncomfortable.

Rongzhi was a child who was sold and almost became a slave.After his parents died, he himself became an orphan, and after defecting to his uncle, he was sold by his uncle.The only luck is that the person who bought him was Yuan Jing.Yuan Jing bought him, only interested in his talent, and wanted to train him to be a pillar who could support the Northern Qi.That's why he didn't become a slave.

He is lucky, compared with those children who were sold.

As for Li Shengxi, she was the concubine who was almost given away.When she was 13 years old, Xi Rong had peace talks with Nan Jin, and Xi Rong offered Nan Jin a condition that Nan Jin could not refuse, asking Nan Jin to marry the princess.At that time, her only niece was only three or four years old.She is the daughter of the first emperor, and her older sisters were either too old or died because they were involved in the Four Kings Rebellion.

She is the only princess of the right age in the Southern Jin Dynasty. The conditions offered by Xirong are very exciting, and asking for a princess is enough to show her sincerity.Even though King Xirong has a wife, and even though King Xirong is more than 40 years older than her, the envoy also promised that King Xirong will marry her as an equal wife.

The whole court is persuading.Even if he himself has a thousand reluctances in his heart, she can't deny that sending a concubine can indeed make the society safe.It was brother who withstood all the pressure that she couldn't get married.It was also because of that time that she accepted the olive branch of Mu Xu, who had pursued her for a long time.

Although she didn't sacrifice herself to get married, she still used her marriage to stabilize the court.

She didn't know if it was lucky or unlucky.Perhaps it is considered lucky, after all, it is indeed much better to marry the Mu family than to marry far away from Xirong.

But precisely because they are lucky, it is difficult for them to sit back and watch such misfortune happen.There is no way to keep silent about such misfortune, or even take such misfortune for granted.

"Shut up!" Rong Zhi scolded, his usually gentle face rarely showed a bit of ruthlessness, "What is the critical moment now? You still think about giving concubines and maidservants all day long, where do you put the people?"

"But……"

"It's an extraordinary time now, if you allow them to act like this, is County Magistrate Zhang trying to cause chaos at the border?" Rong Zhi asked in a "nonsensical" way, and he pointed to Xu Xingniang and said, "You said that selling children and daughters is common, but Why did his parents sell her for half a bucket of rice? It was because he lacked firewood, rice, money and food. Magistrate Zhang, how did you handle the disaster relief? Why did the people suffer so much that they wanted to sell their sons and daughters? , Isn’t this your dereliction of duty? You even said that this is a common thing, don’t you have any self-examination? "

"I don't dare to be an official. It's just..." Zhang Bingsheng didn't seem to have thought that Rong Zhi would be so picky. It's a matter of course for parents to sell their sons and daughters. The small patrol is so difficult.

"Just what is it? What is Zhang County magistrate trying to justify? You have already talked to this point, don't you know that you have to reflect on yourself?" Rong Zhi's face darkened, as if he no longer wanted to argue with him, and asked someone to let Xu go San and Xu Xingniang asked someone to give half a bucket of rice to another person, and the matter was settled.

It's just that even if the matter is calmed down, his face is still not very good-looking.

He wasn't the only one with a heavy heart.

As long as it is under control and the people are no longer hungry, cannibalism will not happen.But selling children and daughters, giving concubines and maidservants, how should such things be stopped?
As invincible as Li Shengxi, a deep powerlessness emerged in his heart at this moment.

What about luck?
Still unlucky.

　Li Sheng's sky is very vast, but she should have such a vast sky, she should have it by nature.But such a vast sky was not born to her, but given to her by others.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)