Getting Simulated By The Empress Is Not My Intention

  Chapter 18 Killing and Not Killing

   "Why can't it be killed?" Zhang Beichen asked.

Liu Wen turned his back on the crowd and lowered his voice: "Have you seen those old people? They are not ordinary old people, they are veterans! And they are all veterans of the Heijia Army. I gave them the paperwork for retiring from the army. of."

  Hearing Liu Wen's words, Zhang Beichen couldn't help but frown slightly. The Black Armored Army is the pro-army of the King of Qin, and these veterans are all soldiers who have served the King of Qin and the State of Qin and shed blood!

   If you kill them yourself, you will first offend King Qin and many Qin soldiers. The old clans sued themselves for this reason, I am afraid that even the Yingyi people would find it difficult to deal with it.

   Furthermore, they also have prestige among the people. Zhang Beichen looked at the crowd and saw that the faces of the prisoners were full of displeasure. If he punished these veterans according to law today, the rest of them would definitely riot!

   "It's really insidious! How dare you use the Black Armored Army!" Ying Yiren watched from afar, with her sword already in her hand, she hated not to ride forward, and behead Bai Liangpu, Yang Shan and others directly!

  Jing Ping changed his position and thought about it. If he were Zhang Beichen at this time, he seemed to have no choice. Maybe there is only the way of felony and light punishment, and the end is to break one's own law and bite oneself back!

   "It's too difficult!" Jing Ping shook his head lightly. Anyone who goes to a place like Baiyang County will have a headache!

   "Master Zhang, what's wrong with you? Punish the crime!" Yang Shan looked at Zhang Beichen proudly, and said, "Didn't your lord say that the law should be enforced impartially?"

   "That's right, could it be that your lord saw that the criminals were once soldiers of the emperor, so he wanted to bend the law for personal gain?" Bai Liangpu added fuel to the fire beside him.

  Hu Cheng thought in his heart that it was not good. Zhang Beichen had already overdrawn his body just now. If the law was broken at this time, I am afraid that he could only fall here today!

  At this time, Hu Cheng heard a voice wrapped in spiritual power in his ears.

   "Huber, remember the following clearly..."

   "Your Majesty? Your Majesty is nearby!" After listening carefully, Hu Cheng replied with a cautious expression, "I understand, Your Majesty."

  …

  Zhang Beichen walked up to the criminals and said, "Old Qin people dare to act bravely, and you used to be a black armor army. I don't think I need to say more, name, what crime you committed, report it yourself!"

   "I dare to act!" Among the prisoners, an old man who was the leader immediately raised his head and shouted: "My name is Yu Yong, and he committed the crime of murder! I killed a man surnamed Yang in the fight just now!"

  After Yu Yong reported himself, the next few people also became more courageous.

   "I am Wanping, and I am also guilty of murder!"

   "Wu Ting, committed murder."

  …

  The felons not only organized armed fights, but almost had their lives on their hands.

   "Presumptuous!" Zhang Beichen yelled, "Aren't you proud of committing a felony? What you committed is a capital crime! According to the law, you should be executed!"

  Hearing Zhang Beichen's words, the crowd was excited.

   "Why kill them?"

   "They have made great contributions to the state of Qin. Is this how you treat them?"

   "They were just manslaughter!"

   "They are all in their 60s and 70s, it's too much to punish them like this!" Before Zhang Beichen started to enforce the law, the people were already in chaos.

"Silence!" Che Yang stopped the crowd, and then he walked up to Zhang Beichen, cupped his hands and said, "Master Zhang, Yu Yong and other veterans have indeed committed serious crimes. It is because they have also shed blood for Qin, and In the chaos just now, accidental injury is inevitable, can you consider it as appropriate?"

  Che Yang couldn't help coming out to intercede for Yu Yong and others, which made things more complicated.

  Yu Yong snorted coldly: "Che Yang, you don't need to intercede. If I commit a capital crime, if the adults want to kill me, just kill me."

   "But even if you kill us today, we still refuse to accept it!"

  Zhang Beichen asked: "Why not accept it?"

Yu Yong said: "We are not the only ones who participate in private fights and weapon fights. As for beating people to death, people are beating people to death every year. The year before last, my youngest son was killed by them, and the perpetrators were not punished! "

   "Punish us now, of course we will not accept it!"

"The law does not look into the past! What happened in the past has been dealt with by the previous county magistrate. If there is any inappropriateness, you can file a complaint, and the county will try it!" Zhang Beichen said, "The "Grass Cultivation Order" has been issued, and the decree The whole county has been notified, and you all know it. Why did you know that you violated the law? It was nothing more than a fluke, and you felt that the law does not punish the public, so you despised the law!"

   "Yu Yong, Wan Ping'an, and you. You are all soldiers. If you violate military regulations, can you escape?"

   "I will never be a deserter!" Several people still held their heads up.

   ""Qin Law" is like a military order!" Zhang Beichen scolded, "If you break the law, you will be punished!"

  Yu Yong and the others were a bit vain, he insisted and said: "Then the lord will kill me, why bother?"

   "Legislation is not for killing people, but for saving people!" Zhang Beichen continued, "Wait, let me ask you, why did you become soldiers and why did you go to battle to kill the enemy?"

   "Of course it is to defend the family and the country and make contributions!" Several people said.

"To defend the country, right?" Zhang Beichen asked rhetorically, "You went to the battlefield to protect the people of Qin. When you got off the battlefield, you killed the people of Qin instead. Isn't that a contradiction? The country is just your excuse?"

  Hearing what Zhang Beichen said, Yu Yong and others couldn't help it immediately. They were not afraid of death, but they cared about their reputation and face.

  Yu Yong shouted with a red face and a thick neck: "Of course it's not an excuse! We didn't intend to kill them, but they won't let anyone take over this longan spring! We have to fight!"

   "My lord, you eat from the official family. You won't be able to go hungry even in times of calamity and famine. But we common people, if we don't have water to irrigate the fields, we will starve to death in the coming year!"

   "My lord, if it were you, would you fight or not?"

  Yu Yong's words reached everyone's heart, and the people shouted: "Yes, if we don't fight, we have to wait for death!"

   "Longyan spring should belong to our Bai family!"

   "Our Yang family discovered it first!"

   "If you two occupy it, can we people with other surnames not be able to use water?"

   Seeing that the scene was about to become chaotic again, Zhang Beichen stopped everyone again.

Yu Yong and the others still looked displeased, and said, "My lord, you can kill us today. We are all old things, we can't live for a few years, and we are not afraid of death. But they, without water, will still fight tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, next year, it will still be the same!"

   "As long as there is a fight, people will be injured and killed! If you want to kill, why not kill us all, to save trouble!"

   "Yes, kill us all, come on!" All the prisoners shouted.

   "Quiet!" Zhang Beichen looked at them and said, "I know your difficulties. If you have any problems, you must solve them! But it is definitely not by fighting or fighting with weapons!"

"Injure the other party, kill the other party, can more water come out? Hmm? If the water is less, you will do it to the foreign surname. If it is less, will you have to do it to your own surname, parents and children? Don't we Qin people, are they uncivilized savages? A group of cannibal beasts?"

   Zhang Beichen's words stopped everyone temporarily, and everyone fell silent.

   "My lord, we are not savages, and we don't want to fight privately. But we want to live, is this wrong?" Yu Yong asked.

"There is nothing wrong with wanting to live. But you are using the wrong method!" Zhang Beichen said, "The root of the problem is not to grab water, but to find ways to repair water conservancy projects, dig wells, repair canals, and reservoirs. These are the right ways !"

   "Heh!" Several veterans sneered, "It's easy for you to say. We are not fools. We don't know how to dig wells for water, don't we know how to divert water?"

Someone said: "There is no big river in Baiyang County. If we want to divert water, we have to build canals dozens of miles away. Who will repair them for us? As for digging wells, there is no water at all except Longyan Spring. The ground is full of stones. What else can I do if there is no water a hundred feet deep?"

  (end of this chapter)