"My lord, five people ran away." The two teams joined together, and after counting, they found that five people still ran away.
Bai Shan: "Where did you go?"
The soldiers pointed to the village, where a bunch of people with hoes and sticks were gathering, but seeing that there were many soldiers here, all of them with knives and bows, they didn't dare to go forward.
Of course, it's not easy for the soldiers to rush in and take people. What if the villagers have something wrong
Bai Shan then turned his head to look at Lichang Sun.
Li Chang Sun came out tremblingly, so he could only lead the way and go forward to persuade the villagers, "Folks, this is the county magistrate. They are here to arrest bandits. You, you must not resist arrest."
The crowd became restless, and many people looked suspiciously at the neighboring village, "Has your son gone to steal something?"
The other party turned pale, and immediately denied, "No!"
Bai Shan said in a deep voice: "The bandit leader has confessed, many of them belong to your village."
"That's slander."
Bai Shan nodded: "That's why the county has to ask them to go back to the county government to investigate. If they are fake, I will release them naturally."
"Can the county government release people after arresting them?"
Zhou Man couldn't help muttering, "How bad is the prestige of the county government? You need money to live in a cell, okay? Why don't you support a group of innocent people when you're full?"
Bai Shan glanced at her, and said to the villagers: "If they are innocent, why is the county arresting them? Isn't the county government paying for daily food and drink?"
Someone whispered: "To ask us for money?"
Bai Shan heard it, and said unceremoniously: "This county comes from a family with a lot of wealth, let alone you are just a family, even your entire village in this county doesn't like it."
The villagers seemed to have been shot in the chest. Although they relaxed a little after hearing this, they still felt very uncomfortable.
Bai Shan said: "Hand over you, otherwise the county will investigate your resistance to arrest."
The villagers were so numerous that although they hesitated for a moment, they did not leave.
Could he still catch them all
Seeing this, Bai Shan's face darkened, and he turned to Sun Lichang who was beside him and said, "Write down the names of those who don't want to retreat, and when they turn back, all the grain seeds, farm tools, cattle, and relief for future disasters given by the county government will be deducted." .”
Sun Lichang's eyes widened, "This, this, this..."
"Confronting the county government and covering up bandits has added burdens and disasters to the country and the surrounding people. The county's failure to prosecute the crime is already a lenient, but there is always a price to pay for doing things." Bai Shan squinted his eyes and threatened the already somewhat confused The villagers said in a deep voice: "If anyone dares to hurt an official, he will be taken down, convicted and demoted."
Some people in the crowd retreated one after another, and some went home directly with hoes on their shoulders.
Dongyu Village is different from Dajing Village and Xiaojing Village. There are too many bandits in those two villages, and there are also many people who know the truth, so they all have a bandit spirit.
However, Dongyuzhuang is a large village, and there are fewer people involved, and even fewer people know the truth.
They are willing to help because of the same village and various relatives, but they can't put themselves in the cell.
In the end, Bai Shan still caught the five people hiding in the village.
Then they went to another village non-stop to arrest people.
There were even fewer suspects in that village, so Bai Shan didn't even need to lure the enemy. He directly asked the soldiers to surround the village, and then calmly went in to arrest people.
Unfortunately, some people were not in the village when they were arrested, so no one was caught. Including the two who escaped last night, a total of eight people were not caught.
Bai Shan asked County Captain Dong to bring 20 people to stay to search and arrest people, and he led the army to escort the captured people back to the county seat first.
He said to Dong Xianwei: "We arrested so many people with great fanfare, and now the relationship between the government and the people in this area is probably very tense, so you have to be careful not to disturb the people."
He said: "Just search for three days. If they haven't come back after three days and you haven't found anyone, then there's no need to keep guard."
Dong Xianwei should go down.
Bai Shan and his party returned to the county government office, because too many people were arrested, and the prison couldn't accommodate so many people for a while, so he vacated two rooms in the front yard of the county government office to lock up the rest of the people, and made people Went to clean the Town God's Temple outside the city, and locked the rest of the people in the Town God's Temple.
The number of arrests was the largest in Beihai County in recent years. Therefore, when people were escorted into the city, many people stood curiously on the side of the road to watch.
Hearing that it was a bandit, the common people were still in disbelief, "There are bandits in our Beihai County?"
"Never heard of it."
"I think they are similar to us. Could it be a mistake?"
"Don't you just say that the county magistrate has wronged people for his political and military achievements?"
"I didn't say that, you said that."
"I said that's what I said, and I also said that this is impossible. If you pretend to be a leader, why bother to escort him back alive? Wouldn't it be better to just kill him and put his head on it?"
"Can it still be like this? What does the gentleman do, to have such insight?"
"No, it's just a storyteller in a restaurant."
Just as there was a lot of discussion, a yamen servant came out with a gong and drum and knocked on it, loudly saying: "Your Excellency said that tomorrow there will be a trial in the county yamen. You can go and watch it when you have time. In your spare time, you should think about what is the principle of being a human being." point… "
The yamen servant paused for a moment, and really couldn't remember what the county magistrate said, so he didn't bother at all, anyway, everyone will know when they go tomorrow.
When Bai Shan returned to the county government office, he found Zhao Wu and said, "Look at the cell and the Temple of the City God outside the city to see their reactions. Not all of them are criminals, we have to screen them out."
Zhao Wu was entrusted with an important task for the first time, and he was very pleasantly surprised, "Sir, shall I go alone?"
Bai Shan: "Call your brother, and you'll just be in charge of talking."
Zhao Wu's chatter was well-known in the county government, and Bai Shan felt that he could compete with Man Bao, so it was better to send him than the other government servants.
Zhao Wu: ...
He looked at the adults, and finally went to his brother after accepting the task silently.
The arrested people behaved differently, some were calm, some were full of resentment, and some were crying bitterly.
Zhao Wu turned around, couldn't hold back, and went to talk to those who were crying bitterly, "Why are you crying? Why didn't you cry when you robbed people? You even killed people."
Seeing Zhao Wu squatting in front of the cell and talking to him, the other party burst into tears for some reason, "I didn't rob, I was wronged, the most I could do was steal a chicken from a nearby village, how dare I rob?"
Zhao Wu asked him, "Whose chickens have you ever stolen?"
Zhao Wen couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth when he saw that he had opened the topic just like that, but his eyes were fixed on the expression of the speaker.
The other party obviously choked, and the tears stopped, "Should I go to jail for stealing a chicken?"
"Go ahead," Zhao Wudao: "Your Excellency just said it a while ago, why can't you do it just because the evil is too small..."
Zhao Wen: "Don't do evil because it is small."
"Yes, yes, this is it, brother, you still have a better memory."
Zhao Wen ignored him.