Chapter 17, Regret Reporting to Official
Mohists love all. In the eyes of Mohist elders, all people in the world are equal, and there is essentially no difference between princes, generals, and ministers.
This is the root of Nanmo's chivalry and lack of respect for the king's laws.
Selling people like piglets has touched the bottom line of the Mohist.
Treating human life as a piece of grass, the Mohist will act on behalf of Heaven and take no shirking responsibility.
Xi Xingchen ignored the silent Mo family elder and continued: "After surviving the dark years on the ship, the miserable life of the piggies in Southeast Asia has truly begun."
"The buyers in Nanyang gave the 'piglets' a bone-breaking and marrow-sucking kind of exploitation and inhuman abuse. They made the 'piglets' do ultra-high-intensity and dangerous work every day, but they ate pig-like food and became sick. Even if they die, they won't spend money on treatment. So every day, 'piglets' starve to death, die of exhaustion, and die of illness."
"Because the living environment is so harsh, no matter how strong the piglets are, their average working life is only five years after arriving in Nanyang."
At this point, Xi Xingchen's eyes showed endless sadness, and he said sadly and hoarsely: "'One person's death is the most important, one and all', this does not exist for the 'pigboy' who was sold to Nanyang."
"Everyone is dead, what else can be done?" Wen Gaoming said angrily.
"When your destiny is in the hands of others, never underestimate the evil of human nature!"
Xi Xingchen shook his head and said slowly: "For example, if the 'piglets' working in the sugar cane fields die, the owner of the sugar cane field will bury them on the spot in the sugar cane field as fertilizer. When the corpses are finished rotting, the sugar cane The owner of the garden will dig out their bones and boil them into sugar.”
"Using human bones to make sugar?" Zhou Zhenhai looked pale and screamed in disbelief.
Xi Xingchen certainly knew why Zhou Zhenhai was so surprised. It was because due to technical reasons, all the sugar sold in Dayan market was brown sugar. As for the exquisite white sugar, Zhou Zhenhai had seen it before, but he definitely didn't know where it came from.
"Elder Zhou, do you know how the white sugar made by Nanyang people comes from?"
"I'll tell you, it's made from bones."
"In order to boil out white sugar, sugar factory owners will add some livestock bones to the sugar cane juice. Sometimes there are not so many livestock bones, so the sugar factory owners will throw in human bones and boil them together."
Xi Xingchen said that the method of boiling sugar with bones was unheard of by the elders of Dong and Nan Mo, so they all looked at Yuan Xingbang, the chief of Xi Mo, because in the eyes of Dong and Nan Mo, for those unbelievable and strange skills, the Xi Mo group The mysterious monster like a madman has the most say.
Yuan Xingbang nodded slowly with a livid face.
"What a sin! What these people did has made people and gods angry. Their crimes deserve to be punished. Even though they died nine times, they have not atoneed for their sins." Zhou Zhenhai stamped his feet and said heartbrokenly.
"I'm so angry, Old Wen!" Wen Gaoming also yelled angrily.
Seeing that the heat was almost over, Xi Xingchen immediately brought the topic back: "When I learned from Yao Daqiang and Yao Agou that Yao Wenbin was planning to transport a batch of 'piglets' to the piglet house along the coast, I immediately decided to send Yao Wenbin first. Wen Bin was captured and sent to the official together with him after obtaining a confession."
"What kind of official should I report to? The best way to catch such a beast that is worse than a pig or a dog is to kill him with a knife. It is simple and convenient and will never cause further trouble." Wen Gaoming said angrily.
"Absurd! The state has national laws, and families have family rules. Our Mo family is the authentic one in the world, how can we act recklessly?" Zhou Zhenhai seemed to be accusing Wen Gaoming, but his eyes were always looking at Xi Xingchen.
Regarding Zhou Zhenhai's criticism, Xi Xingchen could only smile bitterly in his heart.
What Wen Gaoming said is the standard style of conduct in South Mexico. They don't care about secular rules at all. When they encounter a conscientious trafficker like Yao Wenbin, as long as the evidence is solid, they will usually kill him with one knife.
Confucianism used literature to bring chaos to the country, while chivalrous people used force to break the ban.
The ways of life in Dongmo and Nanmo have always been diametrically opposed, and the conflicts are sharp and almost irreconcilable. This is why Zhou Zhenhai and Wen Gaoming are at each other's throats when they meet.
Because Xi Xingchen was very close to Ximen Zhaixing, and it was known that Xi Xingchen had killed Yao Wenbin's family, Zhou Zhenhai took the lead and naturally included Xi Xingchen in Nanmo's lineup. This was normal.
Xi Xingchen could not express his dissatisfaction with Zhou Zhenhai's subjective assumptions.
There is no way, his life is in the hands of others. If he agrees with Dong Mo, it will definitely make Nan Mo, who is on the same front as him, feel chilled.
If Zhou Zhenhai's perception is not changed, this interrogation may cause trouble again, because if Zhou Zhenhai is allowed to express his eloquence freely, the neutral West and Mexico are likely to be persuaded by East and West.
Xi Xingchen secretly considered the pros and cons in his mind, but he couldn't think of a way to have both sides. Thinking of the defense policy he had formulated before to unite with Southern Mo, win over Western Mo, and defeat Dong Mo, he thought for a moment and said: "The Wan County case Among all the things, the thing that makes me regret the most is reporting to the official."
Rather than just being passive and being beaten, it is better to take the initiative and never break or establish.
This is what Xi Xingchen came up with.
"Why is this?" Sure enough, Xi Xingchen's words not only made the three elders of Dongmo look very ugly, but also Yuan Xingbang was moved.
Human trafficking is related to the country. The laws of the Dayan Dynasty clearly stipulate that if human trafficking is induced through words, no matter whether it is successful or not, the principal offender will be hanged, and the accomplice will be punished with a hundred sticks and exiled for three thousand miles; If drugs and other drugs were used to force human trafficking, the principal offender would be hanged directly, while the accomplices would be punished with a hundred sticks and exiled four thousand miles to the army. In addition, if the principal culprit is a woman, her husband is guilty of the same crime as the principal culprit, whether she knows it or not.
As the chief of the Discipline Hall, Yuan Xingbang was naturally proficient in the laws of the Dayan Dynasty.
Although the Mohist precepts have been self-contained for thousands of years, if a Mohist disciple violates Mohist law and touches the Dayan criminal law, the precepts hall will generally hand over the offending Mohist disciple to the government for punishment after obtaining evidence and confession.
Therefore, in Yuan Xingbang's view, reporting Yao Wenbin's human trafficking case to the police was definitely the best choice in terms of emotion and law.
On this point, Yuan Xingbang and Zhou Zhenhai have the same views.
"That night, after I arranged for Yang Xuelian, Yao Daqiang, and Yao Agou, based on the clues provided by Yao Daqiang, I captured Yao Wenbin at one of his places. After meeting Yao Daqiang, Yao Wenbin was quite straightforward. , quickly admitted all crimes, including human trafficking, and signed the confession."
"In order to avoid a long night with many dreams, Dong Liangce and I hired a carriage that night to escort Yao Wenbin and the witness Yang Xuelian back to the county seat overnight."
"It was still dark when we arrived at the county seat. Seeing the solid evidence, the county magistrate Dai Andong ordered Yao Wenbin and the others to be imprisoned for a formal public trial at dawn. Since Yang Xuelian was a woman and a key witness, it was inconvenient to stay alone in the inn. Then he was taken to the inner hall by Dai Andong and placed in the care of the county government officials. I will stay at Dong Liangce's house and wait for news."
"I thought the matter would end here, but unexpectedly something happened that night." At this point, Xi Xingchen frowned slightly, as if he didn't want to mention it.
