Daily life in Qin Dynasty

Chapter 93
Meat pool!

A popular 'title' among the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms.

In the past, King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty used wine as a pool and meat as a forest for long-night drinking, and called it "wine pool meat forest".

The name of the meat pool comes from this.

It's just that the "meat" in the meat pool does not describe the meat to eat, but the meaning of handsome men and beautiful women.

The original meat pond was just a kind of lustful and extravagant aristocratic activity created by some nobles to imitate the "Jiuchi Roulin" for the sake of being arty. A certain nobleman specially cultivated a group of handsome men and beautiful women, and then everyone had fun together.

For such a 'meat pool', Mo Jun can also understand, after all, it is not a mistake to be rich and love to enjoy, and he also likes to enjoy, even if the private lives of these nobles are a little bit lewd, it is actually not a big deal.

But I don't know when the nature of the 'meat pool' has quietly changed.

Some nobles began to be dissatisfied with spending money to buy slaves for training, but began to use some inferior means to rob civilian women and force them into prostitution.

Even today, the 'meat pool' has become another kind of activity...

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In a basement of the Rong family that was very similar to Feng's residence, dozens of children in ragged clothes and distorted figures huddled together, looking at the light that suddenly came in from outside the door, they suddenly showed terrified eyes.

In a dark corner of the basement, there were still three or four figures lying motionless. They were corpses that had already died.

Looking at the tragic scene in front of him, which was more shocking than hell, Mo Jun suddenly laughed, and laughed very loudly, his bloodshot red eyes couldn't help but shed tears.

"Hehe~~hahahaha~~~"

"I was wrong!"

Mo Jun suddenly spoke softly, as if he was deliberately speaking to the few people around him, or as if he was muttering to himself.

"I had tried my best to underestimate the bottom line of you people, but I found that I was still too naive."

"I can understand why you hoard grain. Although your behavior is bad, but in business, in order to make money, there is always a reasonable reason."

"I can understand your conspiracy to rebel. After all, as the former nobles of the Chu State, I can accept that you have dissent against the Qin State."

"But I really can't understand your current behavior!"

As he said that, Mo Jun suddenly turned his head, showed a ferocious ghostly smile towards Mrs. Rong, and said slowly: "Ah? Mrs. Rong, can you please tell me, are you nobles really so short of money?"

"You nobles are already so poor that you need to traffic people and children. Harvesting raw materials and cutting them off, let these children who are only in their teens, even less than ten years old, go out to beg for a living?"

"I remember that the value of a slave is not high now!"

"Why...you group of people don't even leave a way of life for these low-level refugees?"

In the end, Mo Jun's voice became softer and his expression became calmer.

However, the calmer the attitude, the more awe the people around felt, especially Mrs. Rong, who was standing beside Mo Jun, felt an unprecedented panic in her heart.

before today.

She thought she had seen through Mr. Mo.

Compared with the other three major clans, Madam Rong has never underestimated the new Nanjun Sheriff in front of her due to her cautiousness as a woman.

Especially after a period of secret investigation, Mrs. Rong discovered that Mo Jun, a young-looking boy, was far from being as simple as other people imagined.

He is so low key.

Since entering Nanjun, Mo Jun is like an invisible man in Nanjun.

But it was this invisible man who not only lived peacefully in Nanjun for so long, but even completed a deal with the four major clans.

No matter for the four major clans or Mo Jun himself, all these actions seemed to be going smoothly, even a little too smoothly.

Especially in the case of the assassination of the Sheriff's Mansion a year ago, not only was Mo Jun completely unscathed in the face of the assassins from the six countries, he even hung the heads of more than 100 assassins outside the Sheriff's Mansion, which made Mrs. Rong feel Mo Jun hides it very deeply.

So she investigated Mo Jun more deeply, and at the same time became more vigilant.

The black armored soldiers had just arrived outside the gate of the Rong family tonight, and Mrs. Rong immediately realized that something was wrong, because according to her understanding during this period of time, Mr. Mo is by no means the kind of person who would fight an 'unsure battle'.

Therefore, when the rest of the Rong family put on a posture of "I want to see what a mere county guard can do to me", Mrs. Rong obeyed on the surface, but secretly drugged all the members of the Rong family decisively.

After all, if she can hold the power of 'acting head of the family' in her hands, it is naturally impossible for Mrs. Rong to be just a simple woman.

Precisely.

Three years ago, the current Patriarch of the Rong clan was seriously ill, and it was she who did it.

And according to her understanding, although 'rebellion' and 'storage of grain and resources' are both major crimes, to Mo Jun, they are actually not much different from ordinary 'decapitation' major crimes.

On the contrary, the four major clans smuggled armor to help the state of Chu attack and kill Lord Mo, and the crime was even more serious.

But as an 'outsider' of the Rong family, as long as she keeps her relationship clean enough, she still has a great hope of saving her life and the lives of the Lu family.

Mrs. Rong had already calculated everything.

In the end, I didn't expect that there would be a mistake in the matter of 'meat pool'.

"Does the Lu family have a meat pool?"

Mo Jun's questioning voice was very soft, it sounded like an ordinary friend chatting, but Mrs. Rong's expression changed when she heard the questioning, she thought for a few seconds, and was about to explain.

However, before she could open her mouth, Mo Jun nodded: "I see, the answer seems to be obvious."

Madam Rong's face suddenly turned pale.

But Mo Jun slowly turned to Li Xin and asked: "General Li, according to the laws of Qin, if you conspire to rebel, privately manufacture armor, abduct and traffic people, harvest and cut off... How will you be sentenced if you count crimes and punish them together?" ?”

Li Xin said solemnly: "In the words of my lord, just making armor privately and plotting to rebel are enough to punish the three tribes of barbarians."

Mo Jun said slowly: "In that case, what are you still waiting here?"

Li Xin's face changed slightly, and he couldn't help persuading him in a low voice, saying: "My lord, is it better to wait for the king to issue an edict before doing it, this matter is too involved, if you arrest him overnight If so many old nobles are arrested, I am afraid that the entire South County will be plunged into turmoil."

Mo Jun gave him a cold look, and said, "I will bear all the consequences."

"Yes!"

Hearing the determination in Mo Jun's words, Li Xin's complexion changed, he no longer hesitated, he responded, and then led a group of black armored soldiers out.

The status of Mo Jun and Li Xin is not equal. Although the two have different official positions, civil and military, but other than that, Mo Jun is above Li Xin in terms of military rank, military connections, and military reputation.

In addition, to deal with the flood in Nanjun, Mo Jun was the commander-in-chief personally ordered by the king, so if Mo Jun forced the order, Li Xin would not refuse the power.

"Send people to take these children back to the county guard's mansion, and let the medicine ghosts try their best to treat them, and they can use any medicine."

"Then find someone to draw a portrait and see if their family members come to claim it. If someone claims it, ask them to take the child back. Remember, you must confirm the identity of the claimant."

"As for the unclaimed ones, I will adopt them first."

Mo Jun originally planned to go in to comfort the children inside, but he finally gave up the idea when he thought of the reaction he saw those children in the Feng family.

Many of these people's spirits have already collapsed in the endless torment, without several years of recuperation, it may be difficult to recover.

If I go in now, no matter what I say, it will only irritate them.

So Mo Jun simply arranged the next processing tasks, and was about to leave this place first, but before he left, he suddenly thought of something and said something else.

"In addition, the collateral blood of the Rong family can give them a good time. As for the direct blood, don't kill them yet, understand?"

"Yes, my subordinate understands."

Seeing Mo Jun's indifferent eyes, everyone present was startled.

Judging from Mo Jun's current actions, it is obvious that Mo Jun, who has already wiped out the three major clans, cannot be a soft-hearted person, so since the purpose of keeping those direct bloodlines is not to let them go, then it can only be to make them suffer even more. torture.

Although the criminal law of the Qin State may not be as good as the ten tortures of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties in later generations, there are still many types of criminal laws today.

After turning around.

Mo Jun shot out suddenly, his five fingers were like sharp eagle claws, piercing through Madam Rong's chest in an instant.

Mrs. Rong stared in astonishment, looked down at the arm piercing through her heart, and opened her mouth in disbelief, as if she didn't understand why.

"What a pity, Mrs. Rong."

"If you and the Lu family are only involved in 'storage of grain' and 'conspiracy', maybe I can let you go, after all, you are undoubtedly a talented person to be able to do this now as a daughter. And it happened to be a talent that I was in short supply."

"But unfortunately, there are some mistakes in this world. Even I can hardly find a reason to let you go."

puff~
Mo Jun withdrew his right hand, Madam Rong's eyes gradually lost their light, and she fell to the ground powerlessly.

For this Mrs. Rong, Mo Jun really feels a bit regretful, after all, his [Xiong Chumo Chamber of Commerce] still lacks a top business talent to sit in it.

But unfortunately, even with Mo Jun's character, not everyone is willing to use it.

As the eldest lady of the Lu family and the 'acting head' of the Rong family, if Mrs. Rong had no involvement in the matter of 'Rouchi', no one would believe it.

What's more, even if she didn't personally take over the 'meat pool', the food Mrs. Rong ate every day and every penny she spent was full of the ghosts of those dead children.

If she is let go, it will be difficult for Mo Jun to guarantee that he will sleep at night in the future and will not have nightmares because of it.

It was already midnight when they walked out of the basement.

above the treetops.

A cold crescent moon hangs on the branches.

The scenery tonight is beautiful, but it's a pity that Mo Jun doesn't have the mood to appreciate it.

"Inspect the granary first, wait...huh?"

Suddenly, Mo Jun, who was arranging the action of the black armored soldiers, paused slightly, and vaguely sensed that someone was watching him, but when he turned his head, he didn't see anyone.

in a trance.

Only a few strands of long purple hair flashed away under the waning moon.

"Sir, do you need me to check?"

Jian Jiuyuan, Zhuyeqing, and Jiu Jianchi had all followed the black armored soldiers to the "Three Yi Clans", and Hei Yu was the only one beside Mo Jun in this matter.

Hearing Hei Yu's opening, Mo Jun thought for a moment, then shook his head and said: "No need, let's settle the matter at hand first!"

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(End of this chapter)