Coming out of the palace, Chu Nanyue returned to the general's mansion.

I didn't want Zhang Song's servants to run into the house in a panic.

"General Chu! The villagers of Gangbuk Village and Gangnam Village outside the south of the city are fighting! Lord Zhang has now rushed over and asked his subordinates to inform the general. ”

"How many people are involved?" Chu Nanyue hurriedly asked.

"The subordinates can't see it, but there are at least dozens of them." The official replied.

Chu Nanyue was shocked when he heard this, the capital has always been stable, and a large-scale brawl like this is almost unheard of.

There was no time to ask more questions, Chu Nanyue took his own soldiers and went to Pingjiang with Qingshuang.

Pingjiang is in the south of the capital, and Jiangbei Village and Jiangnan Village are named because they are in the upper and lower reaches of Pingjiang respectively.

When Chu Nanyue led people over, Zhang Song's officials had temporarily controlled the scene, and the villagers were divided into two sides, all holding hoes and other farm tools, and the two waves of people were still full of anger.

As soon as Chu Nanyue's personal soldiers came, they immediately surrounded the villagers.

In the end, the soldiers on the battlefield are more frightening than the officials who can often be seen on weekdays. It didn't take long for the villagers to fall silent.

"Master Zhang, what's going on?" In the crowd, Chu Nanyue found Zhang Song, who was anxious.

"General Chu, it's a water conservancy dispute." Zhang Song replied.

It turned out that the villagers present, although they were not from the same village, had been harmonious for many years.

But there was not much rain this year, and the garrison under Chu Nanyue's rule also needed to divert water from the Pingjiang River when they were tuntian, and the total amount of river water was small.

The amount of water between the upper and lower reaches of the Pingjiang River is different, and the villagers living in the upper and lower reaches of the river gradually become dissatisfied with each other, and the conflict escalates day by day, so that today, they tear their faces and gather people to fight.

"It's useless for everyone to gather here, let's disperse first, if you have something, you can come to the yamen and discuss with each other, and the yamen will make decisions for you." Zhang Song said to the villagers.

Who knew that Zhang Song's appeasement was useless, but made the originally quiet crowd make a fuss again, and no one was willing to leave.

"Everyone, be quiet, listen to me first." Chu Nanyue stood on a slightly higher place on the ground and said loudly to everyone.

"Who are you? Why should we listen to you?! ”

The people saw her as a woman in a skirt and did not recognize her.

The dress Chu Nanyue wore when she entered the palace had not been changed, and it was very different from what she usually worn, so it was no wonder that they couldn't see it.

"I am Chu Nanyue, the general of Xuanwei who was personally appointed by the emperor, and the garrison on the outskirts of Beijing is under my jurisdiction." Chu Nanyue's face was not angry, and he said calmly.

Hearing this, the villagers present were silent, and only then did someone recognize Chu Nanyue one after another.

"It's General Chu!"

"I heard that she has helped Master Zhang try many cases......

Chu Nanyue heard them talking in a whisper, and couldn't help but raise her voice: "Who do you two villagers listen to?" Is there a leader? ”

There were about 100 people gathered, and if there was no one to lead it, it would probably not be where it is now.

As soon as the words fell, the crowd was bustling, and soon, two villagers were pushed out, who turned out to be the gentry of the two villages.

The man from Jiangnan Village opened his mouth first: "General Chu, we live downstream, the amount of water is originally small, a few families went to Jiangbei Village to receive water, who knew that the people of Jiangbei Village drove us out, and later even deliberately soiled the water, so that the water downstream became muddy." ”

"We have been using water like this for many years, so why do you use our water? As for the dirty water, we don't have anyone to do it! This is a frame-up! Jiangbei Village immediately retorted.

"You don't admit it! This time it was dirty, and next time it might be poisoned? The gentry of Jiangnan Village said angrily.

Chu Nanyue probably understood the meaning, motioned for them to calm down first, and said, "So you gathered to fight, one is to fight for water, and the other is for this dirty water." "Even, it's not about water, it's about fighting for a breath.

Seeing the people on both sides nodding, Chu Nanyue first made a serious face, and asked in a solemn voice: "You gather to fight, do you know what the consequences will be?" ”

"In the Tanglin law, there is no provision for a fight to be a crime." In the crowd, one person whispered back.

"What if someone died?" Chu Nanyue sneered, "Those who kill will die, and those who injure will be punished." Did you know that if the scene gets out of hand, some of you are likely to die in a fight? ”

Chu Nanyue could see clearly that most of the villagers' hands were hoes and other farm tools, which had a certain weight, and if they really hit people's heads, it was very likely to cause death.

The villagers were all startled when they heard Chu Nanyue's words, although they were fighting, it was just a moment of anger, and no one thought about anyone's life.

Not to mention, once someone dies, some of them must pay for it with their lives.

Chu Nanyue glanced at the villagers in front of him, and said softly: "Your two villages are so close to each other, many of them are married, right?" ”

She saw that the villagers were looking at each other, and they were all embarrassed at the moment, probably they had a lot of contacts on weekdays, but now they had made a fuss because of the water incident, and they had no face for each other.

Chu Nanyue knew that their contradictions were not really difficult to adjust, and they could develop to this point step by step, most of them were the frizzy and impulsive people who intensified the contradictions.

So Chu Nanyue softened her tone and said, "Between the two villages, there are contradictions and disputes because of life, which is normal. But if there is a contradiction, they will face each other with swords, and if they want to fight to the death, it will be too much. ”

Chu Nanyue couldn't help but think of how unbearable he was to see the soldiers in the army die one by one when there was a war, and end up with a horse leather shroud.

But every time she thought that it was her bloody battle with the soldiers that it was possible to exchange for the peace of the people of Tanglin, Chu Nanyue took the brothers in the army to kill more fiercely.

And in the era of peace, because of the dispute over the river, the two villages did not cherish each other's lives like this, which made Chu Nanyue feel cold.

The people of the two villages also seemed to realize something, and said to Chu Nanyue: "General Chu, we don't mean that, if we can solve the problem of falling into the water well, we don't even want to fight." ”

Whether it is with in-laws or brothers in the family, the two villages have close interactions, and who is it good for the conflict to be great?