Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 492
Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng fought like a raging fire in the north, and the crossing people and ordinary people in Beihai Town all paid close attention.

For example, Cao Peng, who is the director of the Ningguta Military Control Committee, calls the North Navy Staff Headquarters every day to inquire about the progress of the battle.However, a recent criminal case that shocked the neighbors made Cao Peng furious.

On the evening of September 9, a young prisoner wearing a brand new blue cotton padded jacket walked into the courtyard of the Ningguta Public Security Police Station.

"Excuse me, who are you looking for?" Seeing the person with a shaved head and wearing two-piece overalls, the security police on duty thought they were from Beihai Town.

"I want to report that someone raped and murdered!"

Hearing this, the security policeman on duty suddenly changed his expression, and hurriedly brought this person into the room to talk.After sitting down and asking, I found out that this young man is called Nian Wang, and he came from Sanxing City.

"I'm also a Han. Speaking of which, my grandfather was persecuted to death by the Manchu emperor." Nian Wang continued with a look of regret and resentment on his face, "Oh! In fact, my ancestors also wanted to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. Who cares? It's better than God."

The public security policeman who was in charge of recording blinked, looked at this expressive performer, and asked calmly, "May I ask who is your grandfather?"

"Grandfather Shuangfeng."

"Ah?" The security policeman 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 heard of it?"

The security policeman thought this title sounded familiar. He was from Shandong. After thinking for a while, he 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, Nian Gengyao's incident happened, and his fourth son, Nianxing, was dismissed from the first-class guard and assistant leader. In the fifth year of Yongzheng, he was exiled to Wula, Jilin; He got married in private and was exiled with three surnames.This Nian Wang is the son of Nian Xing.

In fact, apart from Nian Gengyao's descendants under Cao Peng's rule, there are quite a few other celebrities related to major historical events!
It is said that since taking office, the first thing Cao Peng has done is to check the supplies and check the population and household registration in the area under his jurisdiction.

Although the official archives of Ningguta and Sanxing City are all in Manchu, Beihai Town has also trained a hundred or ten minority cadres over the years, including the Yiding before Fuerdan City and the Sa surname from Balke Village. Hezhe people.For example, Ba Mangong, who used to be a postman in Fuerdan City, and Qiji, a villager in Balke Village, are now assisting Cao Peng in Ninggu Tower.

Today, Cao Peng is responsible for the governance of the two towns of Ningguta City and Sanxing City, as well as 37 natural villages. There are more than 2 people in the area under his jurisdiction. city".

As a city outside the northern customs in the Qing Dynasty, the internal situation in the Ningguta area is extremely complicated, so even though it has been occupied for two years, military control is still implemented.Although the majority of the local residents are Manchurians, there are not many old Manchurians today.The local old Manchu surnames include Guerjia, Jueluo, Boheli, Dong'e, etc. These people either fled to Jilin Ula, or fled to Li Dynasty with Naqitai.Most of those who stayed in Ningguta were the "New Manchuria" composed of Hezhe, Feiyaka, Qileer, Chakra Jurchen, Oroqen, and Kuyeka.

It is said that in the ninth year of Tiancong (1635), Huang Taiji decreed that the name Zhushen was banned, and the family name was determined to be "Manchuria".After that, according to the chronological order of conquest and submission, the minorities under the rule, the rest of the Northeast Jurchen who were registered as bannermen, and other tribes were called "Iche Manchuria"; while the early Eight Banners were called "Buddha Manchuria". ", that is, Old Manchuria.

As for the Han people, it is more complicated, such as the criminals exiled in the Kangxi and Yongzhou eras, the literary prisons in the early years, the losers in the internal struggles of the officialdom, and so on.Fang Gongqian, an exile during the Shunzhi period, once said: "Ningguta, the Chinese have 13 provinces, no provinces and no one." It is Yili, after all, farming there requires a lot of labor.

To Cao Peng's surprise, during the population verification process, some people claimed to be descendants of Zheng Zhibao, and several Manchu families claimed to be descendants of the "Ming History Case".

In December of the seventh year of Yongli in the Southern Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhibao followed his elder brother Zheng Zhilong to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. He was dispatched to Ninggu Pagoda, where he was imprisoned until he died.During this period, Zheng Zhibao found a female prisoner in the local area to help him live, so he kept this one.

However, Zheng Zhibao's descendants are now Manchurian, and the only descendant is named Qi Bao, who is less than thirty this year.Ever since his grandfather got out of slavery and became naturalized, the living customs of his family have been no different from other Manchurians.Thanks to Qi Bao, his grandma is still alive. I remember that there was such a thing in my ancestors. If Beihai Haijun did not come to check the household registration, the old lady would never have said it.

The descendants of the "Ming History Case" are basically passed down from the matrilineal line.This is mainly because the men involved in the case were basically doomed, and those who survived were women who were exiled to Ninggu Tower as slaves and handmaids.As soon as the Northern Navy arrived, these descendants of Jiangnan women and Manchu armored soldiers immediately gave up their Manchu identities and declared themselves to be Han Chinese with authentic roots.

For these two groups of people, Cao Peng just responded with a sneer and ignored them at all.Why didn't Zhao Xin see you join him when he attacked Ninggu Pagoda for the first time?Now I think of my ancestors, it's too late!
Closer to home, according to Nian Wang, he came to report this time because a clerk of a Beihai trading company named Li Da intended to rape Xi Mu Tiqi, the daughter of the local widow Ang Dali, when he was purchasing velvet antlers in Qiji Township outside Sanxing City.The woman vowed to die, so Li Da, relying on her identity as a Han, beat her until her bones were broken. The pain was so great that the woman was wronged and hanged herself.

Afterwards, all the villagers gathered to make trouble with weapons. Zhou Tai, Qian Sen, and Zhang Qi, employees of the Beihai Trading Company, had no choice but to promise money to quell the incident, so they brought the two relatives of the deceased back to Sanxing and reported them to the public security police station. People asked for help, and after paying one hundred Beihai silver dollars to the two relatives of the deceased, they threatened and intimidated them and drove them away.

Cao Peng was startled when he heard it. If the matter is really as serious as what Nian Wang said, and the villagers are armed and rioting, and the suspect colludes with the security police, then this case must be no small matter, and it will seriously shake the reputation of Beihai Town in the outer northeast coastal border area. political stability.

It is said that Ninggu Pagoda under the rule of the Qing Dynasty has always been a distribution center for medicinal materials. Since the Northern Navy occupied Ninggu Pagoda, the number of Shanxi merchants who came to buy medicinal materials has decreased a lot.The role of border trade with Li Chao was completely replaced by Hunchun.

After Cao Peng took office, he handed over the procurement of medicinal materials to the "Beihai Trading Company" under the name of the Ministry of Trade.Whether it is mink fur, ginseng, deer antler or other medicinal materials, the clerks of the "Beihai Trading Company" are responsible for purchasing all of them from the countryside, and at the same time transporting a large number 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 heavy burden of tribute in the past in each township, and the other is to use door-to-door service to narrow the relationship between Beihai Town and the border residents of various townships.

So after some consideration, Cao Peng first sent a telegram to the Beihai Town Public Security Police Department to report the situation, and asked Pianbingwei to send someone, and at the same time ordered the Ningguta Public Security Police Department to investigate.

In early September, the Ningguta Public Security Police Department sent people to Qiji Township in disguise, and the police chief Ba Mangong was in charge of investigating the case.Since he joined Beihai Town five years ago, he has been working in civil affairs for the first two years. He was transferred from civil affairs the year before last and entered the public security police system after training.

After Bamangong arrived in Qiji, he quickly obtained statements from the victim's mother, elder brother, and the township chief, and thus learned the general history of the crime.

Xi Mu Tiqi, the alleged victim when Nian Wang reported the crime, was actually named Una; his widowed mother was not named Ang Dali, but Jiahan.

On August 1790, 8, Li Da and his party came to Qiji Township to buy velvet antlers. After lunch, they went for a stroll by the river, just as Una was picking firewood by the river.Li Da saw that Una was young and pretty, so he had evil thoughts in his heart.Xian Xu lured him with silk cloth, but seeing that Una refused, he was forced to take him under a willow tree by the river bank, tore his clothes, and wanted to commit misdeeds.Una screamed and struggled continuously, and then found a way to escape back home.On the way to escape, he was kicked by Li Da on the buttocks and fell down.

The next day, Una was overwhelmed with shame and anger, and hanged himself on a willow tree half a mile away from his home.After his mother Jiahan collected her daughter's body, she and her son Getule went to sue Li Da to Zhou Tai, the leader of the team.Li Da argued that he had an affair with Una, not rape.After discussions between Zhou Tai and Qiji Township Chief Jin Zhuke and others, it was decided that in accordance with the local customary law of Hezhe, Li Da should compensate the widow Jiahan with one bear skin, three iron pots, five fishing nets, two aluminum cans, and a steel axe. Three, one hacksaw, and Jiahan had to return five sable skins to Li Da as usual.In this way, the two sides settled the murder case in private.At that time, no relatives of the three surnames went to claim compensation and make trouble afterwards, and there was no act of threatening the Beihai Trading Company and the group with armed hands and crowds.

After Cao Peng heard Ba Mangong's report, his nose was almost crooked!
During the more than a year since he came to Ning Guta, he devoted most of his work energy to counting the population, measuring land, liberating slaves and maidservants, and handling civil disputes. Criminal cases were handled by the Public Security Police Department.However, because of the period of military control, the most criminal cases were border residents' commercial disputes and fights. This was the first time that Beihai Town's own people bullied the border residents.

"It seems that the coffin needs to be opened for an autopsy. Isn't the deceased injured?"

Faced with Cao Peng's question, Ba Mangong expressed embarrassment and said, "I said this too, but the family members disagree. The Hezhe people don't have this rule, so it's difficult to handle."

After reading Ba Mangong's investigation record, Cao Peng compared it with Nian Wang's inquiry record from the security alert before, and he couldn't laugh or cry.He has already concluded in his heart that Nian Wang is a speculator, and what this kid said before is wrong and has bad intentions.

The names of the victims and their family members were mispronounced. Although Una was kicked by Li Da, his body was not injured to the point of broken bones; Qiji Township did not send anyone to accompany Zhou Tai to Sanxing City to collect armor and pythons. Satin and other items were used as compensation; the villagers did not make trouble with weapons, and the public security police station in Sanxing City did not act in collusion.

Now that the matter is clear, don't wait for the people from the General Administration, and arrest them first.

That night, Li Da and his group of four employees of Beihai Trading Co., Ltd. were arrested by the Sanxing City Public Security Police Station, and interrogation began the next day.Although Li Da was a little scared because he forced someone to death, he didn't take it seriously when he was interrogated by the security police.

"Brother, we are all Han Chinese, our own people. Is it still a problem to kill a few Manchu bastards?"

Facing Li Da's shamelessness, the security policeman in charge of the interrogation said angrily: "Li Da! The victim Una is only 15 years old, thank you for being able to do it!"

"What's wrong with being 15 years old? In my hometown village in the south, 15 years old is a mother."

In short, facing interrogation, Li Da tried his best to quibble, completely denying that he had beaten the victim, and only said that when the victim saw him by the river, he made teasing words, and then he got the idea.As for the suicide by hanging, it has nothing to do with him; as for the compensation afterwards, it is also because he pity Una's widowed mother.

At the same time, after interrogating Zhou Tai, Qian Sen, and Zhang Qi, it was confirmed that the three did not report their knowledge, but they did not come forward to handle compensation for Li Da, which was completely a false accusation by Nian Wang.

When Cao Peng learned of the situation, Li Da's shameless Qiqiao smoked, he was furious, ran directly to the telecommunications room, and shouted at the Sanxing City security police on the other end of the intercom: "Give me an overnight interrogation, no He's sleeping! I don't believe he didn't recruit!"

A day later, after repeated rounds of interrogation, the dizzy Li Da finally confessed that he had indeed used cloth to seduce Una, but when he failed, he became angry and turned to coercion.

At this point, before the people from the Public Security Bureau arrived at Ningguta, the case had been found out, and after that it was time to sort out the confession and send someone to escort Li Da to the Ningguta Public Security Police Station for custody.Nian Wang, the speculator who wanted to attract the attention of Beihai Town with a big case, Cao Peng asked Ba Mangong to reprimand him and settle the matter.

The next step is how to judge.Since Ningguta is still under military control, Cao Peng, who is actually the director of the management committee, can make a decision with one word.

Cao Peng has always remembered what Zhao Xin told him, that the key to governing the border lies in whether the relationship between the border residents of various ethnic groups and the Han people in Beihai Town can be properly handled.They should not be treated differently just because they were obedient citizens under the Manchu Qing rule or "New Manchuria" banner citizens.

So he got in touch with Zhou Weiguo, who was in charge of the judicial system, and asked for advice on how to deal with the situation of "the rape failed, but there was molestation, and the victim committed suicide in shame."

Zhou Weiguo has been in charge of judicial and trial affairs for the past few years, so he has studied the "Laws of the Qing Dynasty" and legal provisions in another time and space.He said that we should not just think about how we dealt with it in that era, but also consider the customary law of this era.

Since the victim's death had a direct causal relationship with Li Da's behavior, he must be fully responsible.If it is on the other side, 15 years is the minimum; even in the Qing Dynasty, a decisive decision cannot escape.

(End of this chapter)