Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2136 Flower War (forty-four)

According to the system of negotiating the crime and the silver set by Heshen and Zhongtang, in addition to the unforgivable crimes appointed by the emperor, some crimes can be replaced by fines, including the death penalty. According to the family circumstances of the sentenced to death, 1,200 to 12,000 taels of silver can be used to pay for their lives. , sentenced to three years of exile can offset the sentence with 480 to 4800 taels of silver.

   However, in the 33rd year of Qianlong’s reign, Heshen had just had a wedding ceremony, and he was still preparing for the imperial examination in the coming year, so there was no such system at that time.

   If they were exiled for a few years, the authorities would send them to work in mines and saltworks, but if they were exiled for life, they would be sent to the frontiers, usually the northeast and northwest, where they were enslaved by garrison soldiers.

Slavery was legal in the Qing Dynasty. A man in northeast China could have 10-12 slaves. These soldiers could rent them out like livestock to landlords who lacked manpower. Often these people who could not bear enslaved would suddenly rise up to rebel and kill the oppressors. By.

To the northwest is to build fortifications and dig ditches. The deserted Gobi Desert is the best cage. Unless the escapee has a strong ability to survive in the wild, they will rush into the vast sea without knowing the way. He died in the sand due to lack of water, and turned to bones like those camels, horses, and people.

Since the diversion of the Peacock River, many ancient cities along the route have been abandoned and abandoned one after another, becoming the so-called "ghost towns". However, the absence of water on the ground does not mean that the groundwater is also depleted. Well water can still be found in some abandoned ruins. Just look for trees that are still growing green leaves. They can live to prove that there is water in the ground, and you can often find them after digging deep.

  The solitary smoke in the desert is straight, and the long river sets the yen. When there is no sandstorm, there is no wind. If you have to work under the hot sun, people will soon suffer from heat stroke. In that case, the contradiction between people is not as intense as the conflict between people and nature. , but when Lin Yuhua first arrived at XJ, someone did explain that he should "take good care" of him.

   A scholar, how could he be able to do those physical tasks?

   It is relatively rare for a scholar to be assigned to XJ. Ji Xiaolan was demoted to XJ. He is still an official of the imperial court and usually works in the court.

The road to the "Western Heaven" was also not very smooth. Monk Tang was accompanied by Sun Xingzhe, Marshal Tianpeng, and General Rolling Shutter. Lin Yuhua did not have any of these "apprentices", but he did not encounter any monsters infrequently. After getting Zhengguo, Lin Yuhua had to repair the city defense. At this time, Ji Xiaolan's original pen-style WLMQ found him.

Who wants to stay in a place like    for a lifetime. WLMQ is not from the Western Regions either. Since he arrived at WLMQ with the army, he has a feeling of "resigning his fate". He estimates that he will die in that place. The position was vacant, so he took Lin Yuhua out of the hard labor camp.

   In the forty-fourth year of Qianlong's reign, Ji Yun had already become a servant of the Ministry of Rites, and he had accompanied him during his southern tour in the forty-fifth year of Qianlong's reign. At this time, he still had the strength to save a former student.

  Some people will say something cruel, "I won't let you go even if I become a ghost." This is the relationship between Lin Yuhua and those who harmed him. Although Lin Yuhua didn't really turn into a ghost after he died, those who harmed him thought he was dead. Lin Yuhua was imprisoned for seven months before he set off. He had already died for half his life. In the environment, it is not normal for a weak scholar to live and die.

   Lin Yuhua not only did not die, but also wrote a poem on the way back to Fuzhou:

   Five hundred lines of silver are also few, forbearance will sweep away the dust.

   It’s still good, do you know? I came back when I came back.

  Those people thought that with 500 grains of silver, they could return to a clean life, and after many years, they suddenly heard that a person who should have died a long time ago actually came back, and they were so frightened that they couldn't sleep at night. But they didn't ask the Taoist priest to exorcise the ghost either. The Taoist priest had nothing to do at this time.

  Changji is the transliteration of "Yangji", which means "field garden" in Mongolian. It already existed in the Western Han Dynasty and was the only way for the ancient Silk Road.

  The lake area is rich in water and grass, suitable for grazing, so there were only so many horses in the city during the Changji rebellion.

Changji did not have a city wall at first, but in the twenty-seventh year of Qianlong, the city began to be built. The cities of small cities in the Western Regions are generally built with rammed earth, which requires excavation. Weird embroidered shoes.

At that time, the tribes stationed in western Mongolia were collectively called Erut. They did not have the habit of binding their feet. The red embroidered shoe that was dug up was only three inches, and the arch of the foot was curved. It was obviously worn by a Chinese woman. How could there be one like this? The embroidered shoes are buried more than five feet underground in Changji?

  If it's a cemetery, there should be skeletons too. If the skeletons are all rotten, how come this embroidered shoe is still like new, and there is only one, what about the other?

  The workers did not dare to continue digging. Di Renjie, no, it was Ji Xiaolan who felt more and more suspicious of the Taoist priest, so he and his colleague Chen Tiqiao arraigned the person who reported the reporter.

That man was a clerk from a hotel in the city. The Taoist priest usually lived in the hostel where he worked. Every night before going to bed, the Taoist priest would take out the gourd and pour out two black pills. One night the man saw that There were three people lying on the Taoist priest's bed, two of them were women.

   At first, he scoffed at the Taoist priest, even though the Taoist priest was not like a monk who could get married, but he brought two of them and slept like this outside. However, at dawn, he was the only one who came out of the Taoist priest's house, and the other two girls were gone.

   The guy thought the two girls had gone back, but another night, the Taoist priest poured out the pills, and the two girls appeared on the Taoist priest's bed again, and the Taoist priest was alone the next day.

   The guy asked him where the girl was, the Taoist priest said no, then the guy told the boss.

  Human trafficking was common in the Qing Dynasty, but not everyone acquiesced in the existence of this phenomenon, especially since WLMQ is located in the frontier, do Taoists want to sell girls abroad?

   So the guy and the boss sued the demon, but they couldn't produce any evidence that the Taoist was trafficking in people, so they sued him for using sorcery.

  At that time, people in the northwest believed that eating horse meat could solve the magic trick. It happened that there was a dead horse in the military camp.

   Not to mention the truth and falsehood of the horse meat-breaking magic and the confession of the friend, Ji Xiaolan directly found Wen Fu, and the two discussed the matter together.

   In the case of calling the soul, the arrested suspects would make confessions to others in order to avoid the suffering of flesh and blood. "Zhang Siru" and "Zhu Shijiang" did not find this person in the end, and the suspect fabricated it. General Wen believed that a poor trial would lead to a catastrophe, but he also opposed the deportation measures proposed by Ji Xiaolan and Chen Tiqiao.

If the Taoist priest goes to another place, it may cause trouble. According to the customs practice, suspicious people should be questioned and searched, and if there is evidence, they should hand it over to the competent department. , if he was arrested elsewhere, he confessed to being in WLMQ, but WLMQ officials just expelled him, who would take the responsibility?

   Ji Xiaolan and Chen Tiqiao both felt that this method was feasible, so they found the Taoist priest and drove him back to the mainland.

   As for the embroidered shoe, it was thought that someone had buried it as a prank, and the rest continued to build.

   "What's the matter?" asked Bonaparte suddenly.

  Georgianna did not answer.

   She remembered the pair of sandals belonging to Nefertari in the Louvre, which had led her for a while, as if someone were wearing them.

   "Two shoes, two girls," she whispered.

   Bonaparte thought for a moment, then scoffed.

  Georgianna did not try to convince him to continue reading this untrue travelogue.

   (end of this chapter)