Chapter 113: Ningzhou, Deaf-mute

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When the people heard about it, they wanted to send Master Di off as a gift, but they couldn't even find him.

I could only look in the direction of Ningzhou spontaneously, silently, and with tears in my eyes.

Let’s all pray together: Mr. Di is well.

Cui'er, who has been reunited with her family, quietly carves an immortality tablet for Master Di together with her family.

There are also many people who solemnly burn incense in front of the immortality throne that has been carved for Master Di in their own homes.

After receiving the news, Song Wen hurriedly chased him for twenty miles, but even the dust raised by Di Ying and others as they ran past was not caught.

Song Wen was so angry that he went to Dijiazhuang, picked up farm tools and dug three acres of land.



Worried that His Majesty would regret killing him at any time and thinking of Song Wen's reaction, Di Ying rushed to Ningzhou in a good mood and rushed to Ningzhou.

Ningzhou is not far from the capital city. There is only one city separated by Pizhou. The top is Yuanzhou, the bottom left is Longzhou, and the top right is Yanzhou.

In other words: Ningzhou was quite panicked due to being crowded.

It is located in the southeast of Guanshan-Liupan Mountain.

Bordered by Ziwu Ridge to the east, Shaanxi to the south, and Ningxia to the north, the prefecture is crisscrossed by Liangmao ravines, with many rivers, valleys, and plateaus alternating between the central and western sides. The terrain is high in the northeast, low in the southwest, long from east to west and narrow from north to south.

Although the place is not very big, there are sixteen ethnic minorities living in it.

Ningzhou was formerly called Yiqu. To the west is the kingdom of the ancient Xirong, or the Rong of Yiqu.

The Yiqu people are strong and brave. They regard death in battle as auspicious and death as ill as unlucky. Therefore, they fought very bravely and would rather die than surrender. This is one of the important reasons why Yiqu Country can last for hundreds of years. In Yiqu State, all the people are soldiers. When there is a war, young and strong men have to go to the battlefield, resulting in more women than men. Yiqu stipulates that after the twelfth generation of the same clan, they can intermarry with each other. After the death of the elder brother, the younger brother can marry his sister-in-law. After Yiqu settled in the Longdong Plateau, he began to engage in farming and gradually developed into a semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral nation. The Qin Dynasty was destroyed, and the survivors were already the same as the Tang people and could not be distinguished. ——From Baidu.

His Majesty transferred Di Ying to Ningzhou, which was actually a great humiliation.

This was the old emperor's private revenge on Di Ying.

Di Ying did not pursue the matter.

When he took office, he devoted all his efforts to reading the local chronicles of Ningzhou and actively learned the languages ​​​​of various ethnic minorities.

He had a photographic memory and a strong talent for language. He asked Peng Liang to invite people of different nationalities to learn from him every day.

Peng Liang felt extremely depressed as he watched his magical master chatting happily with the people in different costumes.

He, Peng Liang, is two years younger than the adults, and he has always prided himself on being smarter. When he was in primary school martial arts, his master also praised him for being extremely spiritual and understanding.

As a result, he felt that he learned the language quickly enough, but in front of adults, he was compared to nothing.

Peng Liang could also grab Zhao San's ten guards and feel superior.

Zhao San and the others were having a hard time, learning too hard.

In fact, the guards themselves also have some talent for languages, but Master Di is so demanding and assigns heavy tasks for this every day, they are a little overwhelmed.

But compared to Huan Fan, both Peng Liang and the guards had it much easier.

Huan Fan is the director of the state government.

Ningzhou has jurisdiction over six counties: Anding, Zhenning, Xiangle, Pengyuan, Dingping and Fengyi.

The main responsibilities of the governor are supervision, supervision, layout, distribution, coordination, etc.

Any affairs in the county are handled by the county magistrate.

What about the ones in Zhoucheng? Let the director of Guizhou Yamen handle it.

Huan Fan is fair and elegant, neither fat nor thin. He has been in the position of director for three years.

Able to master the languages ​​of the state and ethnic minorities flexibly and proficiently.

After knowing this, Di Ying not only learned from the local aboriginals, but also caught Huan Fan every night and repeated the learning.

At the same time, Huan Fan was also put in charge of teaching Peng Liang and the guards.

This night, Huan Fan didn't come.

Di Ying thought about the things going on among the Rong people and guessed: It was early October and it was time to plant winter wheat.

I'm afraid there's another fight in the fields over water, right?

Ningzhou has developed water systems and fertile land, so fields have been reclaimed everywhere.

Including the mountains, terraced fields have been formed at random heights and circles.

Diversion of water for irrigation is not so convenient.

Some people dig canals to divert mountain water from above, and then pour it down layer by layer.

But the fields above should be filled before going down.

Sometimes the people below just can't wait. After all, the sowing period is relatively intensive.

And what about the owner of the field above?

Fertilizer is required during irrigation.

If the fields are filled and cannot be blocked in time, the water in the fields will overflow and flow to the lower fields.

The fat man ran into other people's fields.

In short, for the sake of that three-quarter acre of land, many people would come and go every day during the sowing or harvesting seasons.

Di Ying checked the local chronicles and knew that no county magistrate or director could completely and properly solve this problem.

Only Huan Fan was better.

Although Huan Fan is gentle, he is extremely generous and forthright. He entered the official position in Menyin and became Zuo Lingwei, then became chief bookkeeper and then director.

Because of his personality, he can easily get along with others. On the issue of mediation, it is easier.

Di Ying was not prepared to get involved in such specific local affairs.

He is overturning the case.

It starts from February of the first year of the Great Summer Calendar and ends on the third day of October of the current seventh year of the Great Summer Calendar.

In Ningzhou: A total of 368 incidents involving deaf-mute people committing crimes occurred.

Either looting, kidnapping, climbing over walls to break into houses, or attacking and killing people at night...the number of methods is staggering.

Some acted alone, some acted in groups, and some acted in groups, which was blatant and extremely arrogant.

Some confessed as soon as they were arrested, some refused to admit it even after being beaten to death, and some procrastinated before being remanded.

Di Ying felt very strange.

The world is tough and survival is not easy. What about those with disabilities?

But they actually got together to commit crimes repeatedly, and all the criminals were deaf-mute.

Is there anything fishy in it?

But Di Ying didn't understand the way of communication between deaf and mute people: it was gestures.

Even if he wanted to interrogate the prisoners who were still in custody, the other party would not understand what he wanted to ask.

Because those people: are still illiterate.

Want to communicate with them: only through translation by someone who understands gestures.

Guochao: There are many foreigners. When they first came to Daxia Dynasty, they would hire translators.

The word translation also comes from this.

Some foreigners could be appointed as court officials after staying in the Xia Dynasty for a long time.

For example, Qin Tianjian has it.

For example... Anding County and the county magistrate under the jurisdiction of Ningzhou are.

The county magistrate's original name was: Tojiri Saburo, and he came from the small country affiliated to the Great Xia Dynasty - Japan.

After he came to study in Daxia Dynasty, he changed his name to Xu Lang.

Because there are historical records: the population of the Japanese country originated from the three thousand boys and girls brought by Xu Fu.