The motorcade entered the city with the last light of dusk, and in the dim light of night, drove to a courtyard with green walls and gray tiles on the east side of the city.
There were a total of fourteen people in the first batch of people brought from Lao Niutou. Most of them were core department staff who had followed Chen Shanjun and others during the turmoil and thus survived. Eight of them were originally members of the Huaxia Army, and the remaining six were
They were the staff who were promoted after the land was equalized. There were guards who seemed to have a reckless temperament, and there were also young orderlies who were serving tea and water beside Chen Shanjun and others. Their positions were not necessarily big, but they just happened to be the right ones, and they were rescued together.
bring.
These fourteen people were arranged in this two-entry courtyard, and the soldiers in charge of the garrison announced the discipline to them: each person had a room, and they were not allowed to move around at will for the time being, and were not allowed to talk at will for the time being... It was basically a form similar to imprisonment.
However, the people who had just escaped from the turbulent Lao Niutou didn't have much to criticize for a while.
Shortly after everyone entered the room, a simple meal was delivered. After dinner, the night in Chengdu was quiet. Some of the people locked in the room were confused, some were anxious, and they did not know how the Chinese army was going to deal with them.**
Ming checked the layout of the room over and over again, listened carefully to the outside world, and made himself a pot of tea while sighing. Chen Shanjun next door just sat quietly.
Around 11:00, I heard footsteps coming in from outside. There were about seven or eight people. I was led to Chen Shanjun's room door and knocked on the door. Chen Shanjun opened the door and saw Ning Yi wearing a black military coat standing outside.
, whispered something to the people next to him, and then waved them away.
"Mr. Ning..." Chen Shanjun looked at him and saluted slowly, and Ning Yi returned the military salute: "You look much older." His eyes were calm, without accusation or judgment, nor "I
I told you so" proudly, looking solemn in his calmness. Chen Shanjun opened his mouth, but could not speak.
"Shall we go in and talk?" Ning Yi said.
Chen Shanjun moved away: "Please come in, please come in..."
The room was simply furnished, but there were tables and chairs, hot water, teacups, tea leaves and other items. Ning Yi walked to the room and sat down, turned over the teacup and started making tea. With the sound of clinking porcelain, he spoke.
"Your isolation will not last long. I have arranged for Chen Zhusheng and the others to come over and make the first round of transcripts for you. This is mainly to prevent today's people from being bullies and criminals who have committed murders. Moreover,
I hope to be as objective as possible regarding my views on this first time of the Lao Niutou incident. You all came from the center of turmoil and may have different views on things. But if there is a conscious discussion, this concept will converge...
"
Ning Yi said, placing the big porcelain cup in front of Chen Shanjun. Chen Shanjun was still a little confused: "Transcript..."
"There must be a review after success, and a lesson after failure, so that we don't gain anything."
"Old Niutou..." Chen Shanjun said in a nagging tone, then slowly pushed away the stool beside him and knelt down, "I, I am the biggest criminal..."
Ning Yi crossed his fingers on the table, sighed, and did not help the loser in front of him who was almost white-haired: "But Old Chen...what's the use of kneeling to me..."
This sigh floated in the air, and the room was quiet. Tears flowed from Chen Shanjun's eyes and fell to the ground.
Ning Yi was silent for a long time, then looked out the window and spoke: "Two circuit court teams received the order today and have already gone to Lao Niutou. They will also arrest the guilty perpetrators next.
It will be recorded as soon as possible. During this period, what they think of Lao Niutou and what they think of you will also be recorded. If you do do something sinister and unreasonable for your own selfish desires, we will treat you
They will be dealt with together and will not be tolerated, so you can think clearly about what to say next..."
He paused: "But apart from that, regarding your adventure in Lao Niutou... I don't know how to evaluate it for the time being."
"Of course he is guilty." Chen Shanjun stood up slowly while holding on to the stool. When he said this, his tone was firm, "I was the one who encouraged them to go to Lao Niutou together. It was me who used the wrong method. It was me who killed him."
There are so many people. Since it was me who made the decision, of course I am guilty——"
"You used the wrong method..." Ning Yi looked at him, "Where did you go wrong?"
"Old Niu Tou... made too many mistakes. I... what if..." Speaking of this matter, Chen Shanjun shook his head in pain, as if he wanted to express it simply and clearly, but he was unable to make an accurate summary for a while.
of.
"Old Chen, you don't need to tell me today." Ning Yi said, "I will send Chen Zhusheng and the others to record your testimony as soon as possible and record what happened to Lao Niutou. In addition to the fourteen of you, there will be
A large number of testimonies have been recorded. Whether it is a guilty person or an innocent person, I hope that in the future someone can summarize what happened to Lao Niutou and what you did wrong. And on your side, Lao Chen, your
Opinions will also take a long time, waiting for you to slowly think about it and summarize it..."
"I shouldn't be alive..."
"You may not survive! Chen Shanjun, do you think I care about your life or death!?" Ning Yi stared at him.
Chen Shanjun was stunned.
Ning Yi said: "If you really did something damnable for your own selfish desires in Lao Niutou, you should be shot and I will shoot you immediately! But at the same time, Chen Shanjun, is it wrong for the world to be unified? Is it wrong for everyone to be equal? You
After you fail once, do you think these ideas are all wrong?"
"..." Chen Shanjun shook his head, "No, these ideas are not wrong."
"Yes, these ideas are not wrong. What is Lao Niutou wrong? He failed to get things done, and the method is naturally wrong." Ning Yi said, "Before you do something, I warned you that long-term
The issue of interests and short-term interests. The driving force for all human actions in this world is demand. Demand generates interests. A person wants to eat today and go out to play tomorrow. Within a year, he wants to meet staged needs.
In the biggest concept, everyone wants the world to be unified..."
"But long-term interests and short-term interests cannot be completely unified. A person who lives by the water wants to eat and play today. In half a year, floods will destroy his home, so he spends today's time to repair the river.
Di, if the world is not peaceful and there are problems with the administration of officials, their daily lives will also be affected. Some people will go to school and become officials. If you want to do something with long-term interests, it will inevitably damage your short-term interests, so every day
Everyone balances their spending on something..."
"Lao Niutou has been trying to equalize landownership with landowners from the very beginning. You said that the means of production should be fair, but everyone in the middle has been greatly satisfied in the short-term interests. After a few months, they can't get that much no matter what they do.
Great satisfaction, this huge gap will make people become bad, or they start to become lazy, or they rack their brains to find ways to get themselves the same huge short-term benefits, such as using power for personal gain. The gain of short-term benefits cannot be sustained for a long time
, the mid-term benefits were blank, and then he promised a long-term benefit that would take more than a hundred years to be realized, so he collapsed..."
Ning Yi looked at him: "I thought of this truth, and I also saw that everyone is driven by their own needs, so I want to develop the study of things first, and try to expand productivity first, so that one person can be worth several people or even several people.
Ten people use it, and try to make the products as abundant as possible. After people have enough food and clothing, they will know the honor and disgrace... Just like some landlords we have seen, the proverb of poor people planning wealth and growing conscience allows everyone to get a little more after they are satisfied.
conscience……"
Chen Shanjun shook his head: "But, such a person..."
"You want to say that they are not really kind." Ning Yi sneered, "But where are the truly kind people? Chen Shanjun, humans are just a kind of animal! People have their own habits, and they develop different behaviors under different environments and rules.
It seems that maybe under certain circumstances it can become better, and this is what we pursue. Under some rules and conditions, people can be more equal, and we will pursue more equality. All things have animism, but
Heaven and earth are unkind, Lao Chen, no one can truly get rid of their own temperament. The reason why you choose to pursue the greater self and give up the small self is just because you regard the greater self as a higher need."
The room became quiet, and Ning Yi tapped his fingers on the table a few times: "So, Chen Shanjun, is my idea right? Can my path... be clear?"
Chen Shanjun raised his head: "You..." What he saw was a calm face with no answer.
Ning Yi stood up and covered the teacup: "Your idea took away more than a thousand people from the Chinese Army. Jiangnan Hewen, under the banner of equalizing the wealth and the poor, has already raised an army of hundreds of thousands of people.
Team, going forward from here, the Fang La Uprising is about the equality of the law and no superiority. Going forward, there are countless uprisings, all shouting this slogan... If we don't summarize and summarize each time,
The word equality will always be an invisible and intangible castle in the air. Chen Shanjun, I don't care about your life..."
Ning Yi looked at him, as if there were blazing flames and cold ice at the same time.
"I don't care about your life." He repeated, "For the sake of the fire you lit in Lao Niutou, the Chinese army gave you a way to survive and resources when it was stretched. More than a thousand people said it was too much.
To say nothing more, if there were more than a thousand people, many of the heroes who died in the Southwest War would still be alive... I have sacrificed so much to explore the road for you, and I want to summarize it.
The principles will be used by future generations of pathfinders."
He paused and said, "Old Chen, every change in this world will bleed. From today to the world of Datong, it will never be achieved overnight. From today on, blood will be shed countless times. Failed changes will make the blood shed in vain.
Because it will bleed, will it not change? Because it will change, so we don’t care about bleeding? We must cherish every bloodshed, let it teach lessons, and generate experience. If you want to atone for your sins, if you are lucky enough to survive this time, then give it to me
Leave the real introspection and lessons behind."
"Think about it these days." After Ning Yi finished speaking, he turned and walked out the door.
…
The autumn wind blew through the courtyard in the dark night.
After coming out of Chen Shanjun's room, Ning Yi went to ** Ming's room next door. Ning Yi didn't need to lay too much groundwork for the young man who had been captured. He gave a rough outline of the entire arrangement and asked **
In the following time, Ming tried his best to recall and explain in detail what he saw and heard in Lao Niutou in the past two years, including the reasons for problems in Lao Niutou, the reasons for failure, etc., because this was originally a promising project.
I am a scholar with learned ideas, so it is not difficult to summarize these.
It was only after the matter was said that ** Ming unexpectedly spoke. He was a little timid at first, but then he mustered up the courage to make a decision: "Ning, Mr. Ning, I have an idea and I'm bold... I want to invite Mr. Ning.
promise."
"Huh?" Ning Yi looked at him.
Now that he started talking, ** Ming's expression gradually became calmer: "The student... came to the Huaxia Army originally because of a conversation with Li Dexin. Originally he just wanted to be an internal agent and go to the Huaxia Army to do something.
There was some damage, but in the past two years, under the influence of Mr. Chen in Lao Niutou, I slowly figured out some things... Mr. Ning separated Lao Niutou, and now he sent someone to record it, seeking experience from scratch, and he was not open-minded.
It’s not that big…”
"If you have something to say, don't flatter me."
"... I will record everything about Lao Niutou. After recording, I want to go to Fuzhou to find Li Dexin and tell him everything about the southwest. I heard that the new king has succeeded to the throne in Fuzhou
, He Wen and others founded the Fairness Party in Jiangnan, and what we saw and heard in Lao Niutou may be helpful to them..."
**Ming was not young at first. Because he had been threatened to be an undercover agent for a long time, it was difficult to straighten his waist at first. After finishing these thoughts, his eyes became firm. Ning Yi looked at him coldly, and so on
After a while, the gaze went away. Ning Yi pressed the table and stood up.
"I'll give you two months to leave all the things you need to leave behind, and then go back to Fuzhou and tell Li Pin everything... If you don't play any tricks during this period, the people and dogs in your family will be safe.
"
Ning Yi's words were indifferent and he left the room. Behind him, Ming Ming, who had slightly white hair on his temples, raised his hands and bowed deeply towards Ning Yi's back.
Ning Yi left this ordinary courtyard. A group of exhausted people in the courtyard were waiting for the next review. Soon, the things they brought would go to different directions in the world. Under the dark sky, a dream staggered and fell.
Falling to the ground. Ning Yi knows that countless people will grow old in this dream, people will suffer, bleed, and give their lives in it, and people will be tired, confused, and speechless in it.
But other than moving forward, what other way is there?
…
Under the illumination of lights, the carriage passed through the streets of the city and headed into the blurry distance, where the Milky Way flowed in the sky.
For the small things under the sky, the pace of the galaxy never lingered. In the blink of an eye, the night passed. In the early morning of July 24th, in a corner of the vast land, Wanyan Qingjue heard the order to assemble.
He and a famous Jurchen general and elite came out of the barracks and were driven by the Chinese army. They gathered in the square, and then the Chinese army put shackles on them.
"It's time to hit the road."
The officer of the Chinese Army said this.
Wanyan Qingjue knew that they would become part of the Chinese army's prisoners of war in Chengdu...