Chapter 167 Punishment (2)
These people were given to him by Hong Jingtian, and he didn't know where they came from.
Now I know that these are thugs who looted and robbed people.
"Oh! That means he is impersonating an official, which is a more serious crime."
The bandits who followed Shopkeeper Mi were shocked when they saw him being beaten.
When he heard that he and others were going to be punished more severely, he immediately wailed loudly and excrement and urine flowed everywhere.
The timid people in Suijin Town all looked sideways, unable to bear to watch.
But they hated these bandits deeply. It was these people who broke into people's homes and killed people. At this moment, they wished that Captain Luo would kill them with a single blow.
These bandits are usually arrogant and domineering, but they become cowards when faced with life-threatening situations. Captain Luo didn't have the heart to say anything more.
If a robber can be forgiven by begging for mercy, then what is the point of the Zhenbei Army living in Yunzhou and living in the open for decades?
You can’t get something by begging for it on your knees that you can’t get with real swords and guns.
Captain Luo was just trying to let the Qili County Government understand that Suijin Town was a military town under the jurisdiction of the Suijin Guards, so he sent someone to sharpen the knives.
These bandits are in for a hard time.
In front of Sun Wuming, the eight people admitted that it was Tianxianglou who asked them to pretend to be yamen runners and come to Suijin Town to cause trouble, and they also intended to rob people.
Several people signed confessions and the punishment was carried out immediately.
Shopkeeper Mi, Yang Kaiquan and several others were dragged to the open space at the town entrance.
Yang Kaiquan was the first to be executed.
In addition to accepting ten taels of silver from the bandits to lure out Song Liyun and have Baolinju robbed and killed, he also committed an unforgivable crime.
Yang Kaiquan was planning to sell the technology for removing the bitterness from acorns to Tianxianglou, but the price had not yet been agreed upon.
Although Song Liyun made the Acorn technology public, she didn't think about how long the secret would be kept.
One year, half a year, or three to five months.
Once more than ten people know something in the world, it will no longer be a secret.
This is also the reason why Song Liyun made the technology public after expanding the scale of Acorn Vermicelli.
The long-term strategy for profitability is to create your own characteristics as quickly as possible and seize a large market share.
In this way, even if the technology gradually spreads, ordinary people can only make a small amount of it for their own consumption.
It can benefit the people and pose no threat to the industries in Suijin Town.
However, selling the technology directly to the enemy and letting the other party use it to threaten Suijin Town to lower the price is an unforgivable betrayal.
The ink on the confidentiality agreement of the Suijin Guild Hall has not yet dried, and the first person to make a mistake will definitely pay the price.
Yang Kaiquan is single.
Old Man Zhang is the village elder of Suijin Town. There is no village head or pavilion chief in Suijin Town. Although the village elders are not officials, they have a high level of management authority over the town's affairs. At this time, he had no concerns about changing the town rules.
It would be a direct death penalty if other people in the town knew how serious this was.
Xue Zhuang, Hu Qing and several others attacked, surrounding Yang Kaiquan and hacking him with sticks. He screamed and wailed, and his brain burst in the blink of an eye.
This is the fate of those who betray their own people.
Because Manager Mi and his men still needed to be sent back to the county government office for trial, they had to be kept alive for the time being.
In Suijin Town, you can escape the death penalty, but you cannot escape the punishment of life imprisonment.
The legs of several people were beaten into a pulp.
During the execution, the garrison arranged for medical soldiers to be present, and their techniques were efficient so that the men did not bleed much.
The wailing, screaming, and cursing mixed with the smell of feces and urine, and the sour smell of vomit, turned Suijin Town into a hell on earth.
Seeing this, Captain Luo didn't even blink, and said to the people of Suijin Town, whose faces were already pale from vomiting, "You are watching them suffer now, but you should know that those who were kidnapped by the bandits are even more miserable.
I once swore that I would show no mercy to any bandits I encountered.
If you want to lick blood on the blade, you must be prepared to play with your head. If I hadn't sent you back to the county government to surrender today, I would have chopped off your heads directly."
Captain Luo was filled with murderous intent, his face full of ruthlessness.
He is a soldier defending his country. He is not afraid of confronting the enemy head-on. What he hates most are traitors and spies who stab him in the back.
When Sun Wuming saw this scene of disregard for discipline and abuse of lynching, he was so frightened that his legs trembled and his crotch felt cold.
He was afraid that these reckless men would become so bloodthirsty that they would bury him alive as well.
The four yamen runners squatted on the ground and didn't even dare to raise their heads. They were even more afraid. If the garrison wanted to teach the county government a lesson, they would be the most suitable people to kill them.
Fortunately, Captain Luo still had some rationality. He only beat the people from Tianxiang Tower half to death and sent someone to escort Sun Wuming back to the county government office.
These people were already disabled and could not walk on their own, so Captain Luo found a large cart, threw the living and the dead, as well as the half-dead, into the cart, and rode back in a bumpy ride.
On the way back, Shopkeeper Mi and others were in excruciating pain, but Sun Wuming showed no mercy and instead cursed them all the way.
After he got the news about Tianxiang Tower, he was urged to go to Suijin Town.
Hong Jingtian did not show up, but only wrote in the letter that the people in Suijin Town were all troubled and mentally ill, and in order to ensure his safety, he was willing to send ten guards for him to use.
But what Sun Wuming didn't expect was that while he was haggling over a few hundred coins in taxes every month in the guild hall, Tianxianglou was already digging into his family's secrets and even disguising themselves as yamen runners to break into his private residence.
What kind of behavior is this? He is using himself, a county official, as a gun and taking the blame for any trouble.
Now, a huge mess has occurred.
The soldiers of the Broken Gold Guards killed two of them directly, and now there are still a lot of injured.
The incident has become so serious that the clerk in charge of criminal matters would certainly not dare to take responsibility and would report it to the government office immediately. He didn't know how the government office would handle it next.
I'm afraid Sun Wuming couldn't figure it out even if he racked his brains: why Captain Luo was so cruel to Manager Mi and his men, and even went so far as to cause a case to be filed in the government office.
Sun Wuming took a group of disabled people and followed the people from the garrison back to the county government office.
Song Liyun also returned to Baolinju.
Throughout the whole process, she, the victim, actually didn't say a word and felt that she had no more complaints.
She was very glad that she did not let Song Zhenping participate.
It's just too bloody and violent.
Others might think that Captain Luo was reckless and cruel, but she finally saw through it.
Today's commotion actually achieved several goals.
The garrison has shares in the Acorn Food Factory, and the people of Suijin Town are the first to be killed to scare them.
Wherever Yang Kaiquan's bloody body was, anyone in the town with a ulterior motive had to think carefully about their own lives.
The deeper meaning is to show the attitude of the Zhenbei Army to the government and county governments.
This is the time to show your sword and courage.
The Suijin Guards won military merit in the battle against the Dilu tribe before the New Year, and were soon rewarded by the Zhenbei Army.
However, the court's commendation was slow in coming, and was only delivered a few days ago.
Although it was already April and the winter uniforms that had been allocated were no longer suitable, they were still the emperor's reward as announced in the official gazette.
At this critical juncture, the news that the Suijin Guards had killed a few more bandits who pretended to be government officials and committed crimes spread.
The Zhenbei Army, which is loyal to its country, will only be praised by the people, unless Qili County wants to shelter those bandits who rob and loot.
(End of this chapter)
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