The fight between Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng in the north was in full swing, and the traveling members and ordinary people in various places under the jurisdiction of Beihai Town were also paying close attention.
For example, Cao Peng, who is the director of the Ningguta Military Control Commission, calls the Northern Navy Staff Headquarters every day to inquire about the progress of the battle. However, a recent criminal case that shocked neighboring villages made Cao Peng very angry.
On the evening of September 5, a young man wearing a brand new blue cotton jacket walked into the courtyard of the Ningguta Public Security Police Station.
"Excuse me, who are you looking for?" Seeing that the person had a shaved head and was wearing two-piece overalls, the security police on duty thought he was from Beihai Town.
"I want to report that someone raped and killed someone!"
After hearing this, the expression of the security policeman on duty suddenly changed, and he hurriedly brought the man into the house to talk. After sitting down and asking, he found out that this young man's name was Nian Wang, and he came from Sanxing City.
"I am also a Han Chinese. Speaking of which, my grandfather was persecuted to death by the Manchu emperor." Nian Wang showed a look of regret and dissatisfaction on his face, and continued: "Alas! In fact, our ancestors also wanted to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, but who can think of it?
It’s not as good as God’s will.”
The security policeman in charge of recording blinked his eyes, looked at this emotional performance, and asked calmly: "Who is your grandfather?"
"Ancestor Shuangfeng Gong."
"Ah?" The security guard looked at the other party blankly, which meant that he had never heard of it.
Nian Wang pursed his dry lips, rolled his eyes and said, "General Nian, have you always heard of him?"
The security policeman felt that this title sounded familiar. He was from Shandong. He thought for a moment and suddenly said: "Nian Gengyao? Are you a descendant of Nian Gengyao?"
A smile appeared on Nian Wang's face, and he hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Yes, yes."
In the third year of Yongzheng's reign, the Nian Gengyao incident occurred. The fourth son, Nian Xing, was dismissed from his position as the first-class bodyguard and assistant leader.
They got married privately and were exiled to the third surname. This Nian Wang was the son of Nian Xing.
In fact, under Cao Peng's rule, in addition to Nian Gengyao's descendants, there were also many other celebrities related to historical events!
It is said that since taking office, the first thing Cao Peng did was to inventory materials and verify the household registration of the people within his jurisdiction.
Although the official archives in Ningguta and Sanxing City are all in Manchu, Beihai Town has also trained hundreds of ethnic minority cadres over the years, including former Yiding from Fuldan City and people with the Sa surname from Balke Village.
People from Hezhe, such as Baman Gong, who once worked as a post boy in Fuldan City, and Qiji, a villager in Balke Village, are now assisting Cao Peng in Ninggu Tower.
Today, Cao Peng is responsible for the management of two towns, Ningguta City and Sanxing City, as well as thirty-seven natural villages. There are more than 20,000 people in the area, which is currently the third largest city after Fuldan City and Beihai Town.
Big "city".
As a capital city outside the Northern Pass in the Qing Dynasty, the internal situation in Ningguta's jurisdiction is extremely complicated, so although it has been occupied for two years, military control is still implemented. Although the main residents of the local area are Manchus, there are not many old Manchus now.
The old Manchu surnames include Guarjia, Jueluo, Boheli, Dong'e, etc. These people either fled to Jilin Wula or followed Na Qitai to the Li Dynasty. They stayed in Ninggu.
Most of them are "New Manchuria" composed of Hezhe, Feyaka, Qiler, Chakara Jurchen, Oroqen, and Kuhayaka.
It is said that in the ninth year of Tiancong (1635), Huang Taiji issued an edict, banning the name Zhushen and confirming the name of the clan as "Manchuria". After that, according to the chronological order of conquest and surrender, the ethnic minorities under the rule were registered as banners. The remaining Jurchen tribes in the outer Northeast and other tribes are called "Yiche Manchuria"; while the early Eight Banners Zhushen are called "Buddha Manchuria", that is, Old Manchuria.
As for the Han people, it is more complicated, including criminals who were exiled during the Kangyong and Kangyong eras, literary prisoners in the early years, losers in internal struggles in the officialdom, etc. Fang Gongqian, an exile during the Shunzhi period, once said: "Ning Guta, the Chinese are 13 Province, there is no province and no one." Since the 24th year of Qianlong's reign, exiles were almost no longer assigned to Ningguta and Heilongjiang, and were usually sent to Ili. After all, farming there required a lot of labor.
What surprised Cao Peng was that during the population verification process, someone actually claimed to be a descendant of Zheng Zhibao, and several Manchu families claimed that they were descendants of the "Ming History Case".
In December of the seventh year of Yongli in the Southern Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhibao followed his eldest brother Zheng Zhilong and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. The Qing government then recruited Zheng Chenggong. Unexpectedly, Zheng Chenggong was unmoved and resisted resolutely. So in anger, the Qing government imprisoned Zheng Zhilong while Zheng Zhibao was imprisoned. He was sent to Ninggu Pagoda and imprisoned until death. During this period, Zheng Zhibao found a local female prisoner to help him live, so he kept this one.
However, Zheng Zhibao's descendants have now become Manchu. The only descendant is named Qi Bao, who is less than thirty this year. Since his grandfather's generation was freed from slavery and naturalized, the family's living customs have become the same as those of other Manchus. I hope his grandma is still alive. I remember that such a thing happened to my ancestors. If the Beihai Navy hadn't come to check the household registration, the old lady would never have told her about it.
The descendants of the "Ming Dynasty Case" are basically passed down from the maternal line. This is mainly because the men involved in the case basically could not escape death, and those who survived were all exiled to Ninggu Pagoda as slaves. Women. As soon as the Northern Navy arrived, these Jiangnan women and the descendants of the Manchu armored soldiers immediately gave up their Manchu identity and claimed that they were Han Chinese with upright roots.
For these two groups of people, Cao Peng just sneered and ignored them at all. Why didn't Zhao Xin see you join him when he attacked Ninggu Pagoda for the first time? It's too late now that he remembered that his ancestors were here!
Closer to home, according to Nian Wang, he came to report the case this time because a Beihai trading company clerk named Li Da was purchasing deer antlers in Qiji Township outside Sanxing City with the intention of raping Ximutiqi, the daughter of the local widow Ondali. The woman refused to obey, so Li Da relied on her Han identity to beat her until her bones were broken. The pain was so painful that the woman hanged herself unjustly.
Afterwards, villagers gathered together to make trouble with weapons. Zhou Tai, Qian Sen, and Zhang Qi, employees of Beihai Trading Co., who were traveling with them, had no choice but to promise property to calm the trouble. So they took the two relatives of the deceased back to the three surnames and reported them to the Public Security Police Department. They asked for help, and after paying a compensation of one hundred Beihai silver dollars to the two relatives of the deceased, they also threatened and intimidated them and drove them away.
Cao Peng was shocked when he heard this. If the matter was as serious as what Nian Wang said, with the villagers armed and causing trouble and the suspects colluding with the security police, then the case must be extraordinary and would seriously shake up the situation in the northeastern coastal border area outside Beihai Town. political stability.
It is said that Ninggu Pagoda under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has always been a distribution center for medicinal materials. Since the Northern Navy occupied Ninggu Pagoda, the number of Shanxi merchants coming to purchase medicinal materials has suddenly decreased. The role of border trade with the Li Dynasty was completely left to Hunchun
replace.
Since Cao Peng took office, he has handed over the purchase of medicinal materials to the "Beihai Trading Company" under the name of the Ministry of Trade. Whether it is mink skin, ginseng, deer antlers or other medicinal materials, the clerks of the "Beihai Trading Company" will go to the countryside to purchase them.
, and at the same time transported a large amount of light industrial products, silk, and cotton cloth to meet the daily needs of the border residents.
In doing so, one is to cancel the previous heavy burden of tribute in each township, and the other is to use door-to-door services to bring closer the relationship between Beihai Town and the border residents of each township.
So after some consideration, Cao Peng first sent a telegram to the Beihai Town Public Security Police Department to inform him of the situation, and asked Katabei to send someone there. At the same time, he ordered the Ninguguta Public Security Police Department to launch an investigation.
In early September, the Ningguta Public Security Police Station sent people in disguise to Qiji Township. The person responsible for investigating the case was Chief Ba Mangon. Since he took refuge in Beihai Town five years ago, he has been working in civil affairs for the first two years.
He was transferred from the civil affairs department and entered the public security police system after training.
After Baman Gong arrived at the gathering, he quickly obtained the confessions from the victim's mother, brother, and the township head, and thus learned the general story of the crime.
The real name of the victim named Ximutiqi when Nianwang reported the crime was Una; his widowed mother was not named Ondali, but Jiahan.
On August 12, 1790, Li Da and his party came to Qiji Township to buy deer antlers. After lunch, they went to the river for a stroll. They happened to have Una collecting firewood by the river. Li Da saw that Una was young and pretty, so he
He had evil thoughts in his heart. He first promised to lure him with silk cloth, but when Una refused, he took him to the willow tree by the river bank, tore his clothes to pieces, and tried to do something evil. Una screamed and struggled constantly.
Looking for an opportunity to escape home, he was kicked on the buttocks by Li Da and fell down while escaping.
The next day, Una was so ashamed and angry that she hanged herself on a willow tree half a mile away from her home. After her mother Jiahan collected her daughter's body, she and her son Getul went to sue Li Da to the team leader Zhou Tai.
Li Da argued that his affair with Una was actually an affair and not rape. After discussion between Zhou Tai and Qiji Township Chief Jin Zhuke and others, it was decided that Li Da should compensate the widow Jiahan Bear Skin in accordance with Hezhe local customary law.
One piece, three iron pots, five fishing nets, two aluminum cans, three steel axes, and one hacksaw. Jiahan had to return five pieces of mink skins to Li Da in accordance with the regulations. In this way, the two parties settled the murder case privately. At that time
Afterwards, no relatives went to the three surnames to claim compensation and cause trouble, and they did not use weapons to gather a crowd to threaten Beihai Trading Company and others.
When Cao Peng heard Baman Gong's report, his nose almost became angry!
In the more than a year since he came to Ninggu Pagoda, he has devoted most of his work energy to censusing the population, measuring land, emancipating slaves, and handling civil disputes. Criminal cases are all handled by the Public Security Police Department. However, because it is under military control
During this period, the most criminal cases were commercial disputes and fights between border residents. This was the first time that Beihai Town’s own people oppressed border residents.
"It seems that the coffin needs to be opened for autopsy. Wasn't the deceased injured?"
Facing Cao Peng's question, Baman Gong looked embarrassed and said: "I have said this too, but my family members disagree. The Hezhe people do not have this rule, so it is difficult to handle it."
Cao Peng read Baman Gong's investigation record and compared it with Nian Wang's inquiry record from the previous public security alarm. He suddenly couldn't laugh or cry. He had already concluded in his heart that Nian Wang was a speculator, and what this guy said before was completely wrong.
, with bad intentions.
The names of the victims and their family members were wrong. Although Una was kicked by Li Da, his body bones were not broken. Qiji Township did not send anyone to accompany Zhou Tai to Sanxing City to collect the armor and pythons.
satin and other items as compensation; the villagers did not use weapons to cause trouble, and the Public Security Police Department of Sanxing City did not collude.
Now that the matter is clear, don't wait for the people from the General Administration and arrest people quickly.
That night, Li Da and his four employees from Beihai Trading Company were arrested by people from the Sanxing City Public Security Police Station and interrogated the next day. Although Li Da was a little scared because he had forced people to death, he faced the interrogation of the security police.
, he didn’t take it seriously.
"Brother, we are all Han people, our own people. If a few Manchu scoundrels die, is this a big deal?"
Faced with Li Da's shamelessness, the security police officer in charge of the interrogation said angrily: "Li Da! The victim Una is only fifteen years old, you are lucky to kill him!"
"What's wrong with being fifteen? In my hometown village in the south, a fifteen-year-old is just like a child."
In short, when faced with the interrogation, Li Da tried his best to quibble. He did not admit that he had beaten the victim at all. He only said that when the other party saw him by the river, he made teasing words and that's when he came up with the idea. As for hanging himself, it had nothing to do with him;
The reason for the compensation afterwards was because he felt sorry for Una's widowed mother.
At the same time, after interrogation of Zhou Tai, Qian Sen, and Zhang Qi, it was confirmed that it was true that the three knew and failed to report, but they did not come forward to compensate Li Da. This was completely a false accusation made by Nian Wang.
When Cao Peng learned about the situation, he was furious at Li Da's shamelessness. He was so angry that he ran directly to the telecommunications room and shouted to the security policeman named Sanshi on the other end of the intercom: "Give me an overnight interrogation. No way."
He's sleeping! I don't believe he doesn't do anything!"
One day later, after a round of interrogation like a round of battle, Li Da, who was dizzy from being tortured, finally confessed that he had indeed used a piece of cloth to seduce Una, but when he failed, he became angry and turned to compulsion to commit evil acts.
At this point, the case has been ascertained before the people from the Public Security Bureau arrived at Ningguta. After that, they compiled the confessions and sent people to escort Li Da to the Ningguta Public Security Police Station for custody. The man who wanted to use a splash
The Tianda case attracted the attention of the speculator Nian Wang in Beihai Town, and Cao Peng asked Baman Gong to reprimand him.
The next step is how to decide. Since Ning Guta is still under military control, Cao Peng, who is actually the director of the administrative committee, can make the decision with just one word.
Cao Peng always remembered what Zhao Xin told him. The key to managing the border lies in the ability to properly handle the relationship between the border residents of all ethnic groups and the Han people in Beihai Town. It cannot be because they were once obedient people under the Qing Dynasty or the "New Manchuria"
Banner people must be treated differently.
So he contacted Zhou Weiguo, who was in charge of the judicial system, and asked for advice on how to handle the situation where "the rape was not completed, but there was molestation, and the victim committed suicide out of shame."
Zhou Weiguo has been in charge of judicial and trial affairs in the past few years, so he has done a lot of research on the "Laws of the Qing Dynasty" and legal provisions of another time and space. He said that this matter should not just be dealt with in our time, but should also consider the habits of this era.
Law.
Since there is a direct causal relationship between the victim's death and Li Da's behavior, he must bear full responsibility. If it were on the other side, fifteen years would be a minimum; even in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a cut-and-dry decision would not allow him to escape.