The search and rescue team's order was quickly responded, and soon the more than 30 soldiers, who had eaten and had not had time to eat, were all standing in front of Wu Xiaoqing.

The soldiers used here to maintain order are not actually soldiers, and according to the Chancellor's criteria for dividing "soldiers", that is, for those who can eat meat, these people are actually counted as groups other than soldiers.

Strictly speaking, they are more like a complex of urban management and tax personnel. Focusing on tax collection, depending on the mood to maintain order - by the way, beat up a few guys who don't like it.

In the defense system of Elis, the role of these soldiers under the city gate was never considered, and the soldiers who were really responsible for the defense of the city only patrolled and moved on the city walls.

Wu Xiaoqing noticed that among these people, several of them were standing in particularly strange postures, bending over and covering their stomachs all the time. He asked the clerk what was the matter, and the clerk was surprised and said, "It's just that he eats five loaves of bread at once...... It's okay, just wait a while. ”

Wu Xiaoqing looked at the size of the cake, five sheets...... If you give it to him, you won't be able to eat half of it.

"Can't eat five loaves of bread?" Even if Wu Xiaoqing's voice was heard by Wu Xiaoqing, the voice of the search and rescue team carried obvious malice, "I am afraid that the task I want to give you will far exceed this number." ”

Then, before the clerk could understand, the search and rescue team raised their voices and said to everyone present: "From today onwards, the task I give you here is to make five hundred loaves of bread a day, five hundred loaves of bread a day!" Chef, do you understand! You need to make 500 loaves of bread every day! Each of these five hundred loaves of bread must be eaten in the stomach according to the regulations! I don't care whose stomach I eat, but I want to see that these breads are indeed eaten, and that they are not allowed to be wasted or taken out of the shed, as the rules say. ”

Then he asked the chef, "How many cakes have you made today?" ”

"A hundred."

"Keep doing it!" The search and rescue team said loudly, "Do you think it is enough to make a hundred cakes of such a large oven specially brought to you from the palace?" ”

Wu Xiaoqing watched from the spot to the cook's transition from mixing the noodles to feeding them into the oven and finally stacking the freshly baked cakes on a small table in the shed. Because there were too many cakes baked at one time this time, the table was almost unable to fit down, Wu Xiaoqing turned around, and the search and rescue team shouted to everyone: "Look at what you are doing, come and divide the cakes!" ”

Each soldier was quickly given a few thick pieces of bread, and this was only this batch, and the next batch would appear. Some of the soldiers who had not been given the bread had already begun to eat it, but they also gradually realized that the bread they were about to face would be a difficult task for their appetite.

Those who had already eaten the bread seemed reluctant to receive it again, but Wu Xiaoqing stared at the clerk, and the clerk naturally had to assign the task. After they got the bread, everyone would only stare at the thick stack of bread in their hands, as if they didn't know what to do except use their mouths to solve these things!

"Everybody, dispose of the bread in their hands, if there is still someone who has bread in their hands after sunset," the search and rescue team paused coldly and asked the clerk, "Remember the gallows that were erected here?" ”

"God has made your lord spare your life!" The clerk was so frightened that he lay on the ground and cried, "Even a cow can't eat so much bread in a day!" "Five hundred loaves of bread, divided among thirty-two people, is really unacceptable to the clerk.

The others also quickly realized that maybe they had done something wrong before, which made the gods angry with the adults, and they quickly prostrated themselves in front of Wu Xiaoqing, begging Wu Xiaoqing to give them a way to live. By Wu Xiaoqing's side, the dozen or so guards who accompanied him to protect him looked at these people coldly, and the leading guard chief looked at Wu Xiaoqing, just waiting for him to nod, he was ready to use his sword to force these people to eat bread.

However, Wu Xiaoqing is obviously not so terrible.

"Not a single cow can be eaten, and that's an excellent reason to refute," the search and rescue team asked the clerk, "but did I say that these loaves were just for you?" ”

The clerk looked at Wu Xiaoqing with wide eyes, and did not react for a while.

"The paperwork doesn't say who the bread was for, but the shed was originally set up for every pedestrian who came and went," said the search and rescue team, "but since you all think that these breads were made for you, then you should bear the responsibility." Passers-by, I don't care if you invite people in to eat or force people to eat, in short, when the sun sets today, let these cakes enter people's stomachs. Today it is five hundred loaves, tomorrow it is a thousand...... Every day after that, there will be more loaves, and for this reason you will have to gather more people to help you finish the loaves. Finally, I warn you, if you don't finish it by then, remember the gallows that were erected here! ”

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When Wu Xiaoqing left, this cake shed was already overcrowded, at least in Wu Xiaoqing's opinion, it was not difficult to dispose of 500 cakes in one afternoon, in this era. It is even conceivable that after the news spreads, I am afraid that there will only be more people waiting for the bread and fewer people eating the bread.

It's just that for the time being, the way this cake shed is handled is still a little different from what Wu Xiaoqing imagined. Those soldiers are very good at using the power in their hands to solve problems. For example, eating bread is obviously a good thing, but these soldiers do it as a bad thing. In order to digest the bread as quickly as possible, the soldiers, with the help of the power to inspect and collect taxes, forced everyone who entered the city to come to the bread hut and eat the bread before letting them go. At this time, the bread shed was no longer a hand-out cake, but a forced distribution of bread - but for the people of this age, this should be regarded as a happy annoyance.

Wu Xiaoqing originally wanted to stop this "unreasonable" state, but the search and rescue team felt that it was acceptable. In fact, the method is not important in the eyes of the search and rescue team, what matters is the result, so many people have eaten the bread and tasted the sweetness, and they will become free propagandists when they turn back. In a few days, it will not be the soldiers who will be worried, but the supply of the Chancellor, and as you can imagine, the bread shed will surely be the most densely populated area of the city.

There are three gates in the royal city of Elis, two of which are side gates. After Wu Xiaoqing left the south gate, he had to go to the north gate to repeat the action just now. There were more people at the north gate than at the south gate, and there were more breads there, and the clerks there were obviously smarter than those at the south gate, and when Wu Xiaoqing went, they were already distributing the cakes—but by the way, they also collected a reasonable fee for the Kingdom of Elis.

The clerk at the south gate used the cake shed as a public canteen for the city management, while the clerk at the north gate used the cake shed as a state-run hotel. Both sides sent the same documents, and the same messenger was responsible for the explanation, but the results were always very different from the imagination.

The problem of the cake sheds at the north and south gates was solved, as well as the city square, the churches of the Great Yang Sect and the Little Yang Sect, and the residents' vegetable markets...... In the main crowded areas of the city, search and rescue teams have planned cake sheds. He inspected one by one, and some of the sheds had not yet had time to make them, but they had only made cakes, some of which they were not even willing to make, and the most serious thing was that an official directly put all the flour and sugar that should have been distributed back to his home.

The unlucky guy was directly arrested and put in prison, and then the prison director asked Wu Xiaoqing to be the judge to judge, Wu Xiaoqing hesitated for a long time, and said: "If he is a first offender, the sentence will be lighter." ”

"God is merciful," said the warden, "and the sentence is light." ”

Wu Xiaoqing wanted to see how the prison warden was given a light sentence, and in his mind it might be a sentence of months of hard labor, or dozens of beatings—the punishment on TV and movies seems to be just that.

I have to say that life can sometimes transcend art.

The laws of the Elise Kingdom seem to be a little different from what Wu Xiaoqing thought.

According to the precedent of King Elis, all those who engage in corruption and fraud should have their hands cut off, and since Wu Xiaoqing said that the crime should be reduced by one degree, it is natural to cut off his fingers. In the text of the law on the chopping of hands, there is an explanation that the prisoner needs to roll the dice to decide whether to chop off the left hand or the right hand. And when it comes to the fingers, it's the same dice.

The prisoner received his dice, a four-sided pyramid representing four fingers in turn except the thumb. According to the law, after the prisoner threw the sieve, the side of the pyramid facing downwards could be saved, and the other three ...... Wu Xiaoqing didn't dare to look at it, but he could hear that the prisoner was screaming very badly.

Because of this incident, Wu Xiaoqing later went to see Xu Yan and Wang Youquan, and they both seemed a little absent-minded. However, the two of them didn't notice it, and when they saw Wu Xiaoqing, they just talked about how proud they were now.

It is natural to be proud, and both of them now have official positions, of which Wang Youquan is responsible for controlling the army of the whole city, and Xu Yan is responsible for controlling the king's guards. Of course, nominally they were in control, but in fact, they were just following the instructions of the search and rescue team, and they were in contact with every officer, chatting with a few of them, and when necessary, with a few of them. In the afternoon, when the search and rescue team helped Wu Xiaoqing deal with the problem of the cake shed, they also helped them separately, and roughly understood the psychological state of the most important and specific force masters in the entire Elise King City.

It can be said that the final conclusion is not bad, the king's prestige is very sufficient, after all, these soldiers, their fathers are almost all people who fight with the king, and their loyalty to the king is from the bones. As the chief of the guard, Tallinn, said, the throne watered with blood sits most steadily.

All of these conversations were recorded, and of course, the soldiers themselves were unaware of the fact that they had no idea of the recording technology. Wu Xiaoqing would take these recordings back to the king and play them to the king himself. The search and rescue team believes that when the king really hears these voices, his trust in Wu Xiaoqing will truly reach a new height—a higher height that this rescue needs.