Li Xian looked at the tied-up, pale-faced people and sneered, "Everyone, is what Xie Jun said right?"
"Sir, please spare our lives. We don't want the silver." All nine of them knelt down at once. They were really scared. Although kneeling was not allowed in the fairyland, they really had to kneel this time.
If you escape for one month, you will be exiled. If you escape for ten years, you will still be beheaded!
"Sir, sir, it's not us who want to escape, but it was Captain Guo Hong who dismissed us so that he could just sit there and collect salaries for nothing."
"Yeah yeah… "
At once everyone started to cry out for injustice.
"I know!" Li Xian was intimidating without getting angry. "So, I won't pursue it too much. But you still have to be punished for escaping without permission for ten years. Each person will be punished with fifty strokes of the cane. I'll beat you here."
Song Xing and the other five took the wooden sticks and did not dare to hold back, and started beating them. After fifty beatings, even if they had some skills, they could not withstand it. Everyone's skin was torn and they could not walk for three to five days.
But even though they were beaten, the nine people were grateful to Li Xian. Being beaten with a stick meant that their past crimes had been written off and they no longer had to worry about others pursuing them. Li Xian used this carrot and stick strategy perfectly.
"Song Xing, go notify their families and ask them to come pick them up. Report back in three days."
Finally, the next morning, Song Xing and his five companions began to get busy, posting the law on the newly repaired walls of the government office - this was copied and proofread by Song Xing and his five companions overnight. There were also copper sticks tied with silk standing next to the law, which looked quite strict.
Song Xing took the lead, and seeing many people watching, he immediately shouted, "Listen up, fellow villagers. The Lord has issued an order. From today, the public security in the North District will be restored. The specific laws and regulations have been posted publicly. In order to prevent everyone from not knowing, I will read them out. First, there will be a curfew in the inner city from the end of the Xu hour (21:00) to the end of the Yin hour (5:00 in the morning). Second, you are not allowed to ride horses on the streets to injure people. Third, you are not allowed to gather in groups to fight. Fourth..."
They were read out one by one, there were more than thirty items in total, almost covering all daily regulations.
Finally, Song Xing said a piece of news that shocked everyone: "The previous captain Guo Hong was greedy for money and fled for fear of crime. Now we have officially issued a wanted order. Anyone who captures Guo Hong alive will be rewarded with 100 taels of gold!"
Guo Hong, where is Guo Hong? Guo Hong did not flee from his crime. He was receiving all the salary of a lieutenant officer, and he had already entered the Wang family as a guard and became the captain. But Li Xian did not play by the rules; to be more precise, it was Xu Ren, the strategist, who did not play by the rules.
To establish authority, of course everyone must know about it! Therefore, a wanted order and reward were issued directly for Guo Hong, pointing the finger directly at the Wang family!
If you release Guo Hong to the Wang family, it will make people feel disappointed. If you don't release him, you are harboring a wanted criminal - this crime is punishable by beheading! A wanted criminal is not an ordinary criminal! And what Guo Hong did is indeed enough to issue a wanted order.
As soon as the wanted order was issued, the whole Wuyang became excited. There was going to be something good to watch!
But the Wang family didn't care. When the head of the family, Wang Chuan, heard about this, he didn't even raise his head and said, "Let Guo Hong change his name."
It turns out that the older you are, the wiser you are. Wang Chuan's casual words not only saved Guo Hong, but also mocked Li Xian - Li Xian, others are afraid of you, but my Wang family doesn't even look at you.