Duan Ying's strategy Ma Qiang adopted it all, and immediately asked people to invite Zhang Zang and Zhang Sheng and Lu Ning, who were arranged in the Red Star Camp, to come to Zhang Zang together, so that they could use the plan, and asked Yan Rou to find the Wuhuan people who were kind and wrote a letter asking him to go back to the Red Star Camp and take Gan Shi to find the difficult building together, fooling people with such a thing, Ma Qiang felt that Gan Shi was really good.

The next day, the people of Changping County heard about two new things, the first is that Ma Mao wants to pay pension money and food, as long as someone in the family is killed by the thief army, they can receive a copy, although they have to be guaranteed by the neighbors, and the people are drawn on the book, and the procedures are cumbersome, but they also understand. In addition, if there is jewelry and property in the house is robbed, you can say the specific shape regulations, and there are neighbors painting as a guarantee, you can find it from the thief's warehouse, if you find it, you will return it, you can't find it... That is, you can't find it, so please turn left and go to the public trial to find the thief who robbed you of your property.

Yes, the second thing is the public trial conference, that is, to try the Yellow Turban thieves, all those who are identified as slaughtering the people, raping and looting Yellow Turban thieves will be executed, and invite the three elders of each township in Changping County to preside, these three elders are actually the local Xiaohaoqiang in each township, all of them have relatives and friends killed by the Yellow Turban Army in the county, naturally they hate the Yellow Turban Army to the bone, and immediately ask to see Ma Qiang, hoping to kill all the Yellow Turban Army.

This time, Ma Qiang was embarrassed.

"That's what they really say?" Ma Qiang looked at the few who came to report to him.

"Camp master, these three elders have family members killed, so it is natural to be so angry." Xian Yufu understands them, in the eyes of the scholars, these yellow turban thieves are simply rebellious to the extreme, if they don't kill a fine light, will they still stay for the New Year.

"There is a wrong, there is a debtor, next door... I mean, haven't I promised to put to death the indiscriminate killing of innocent people? Ma Qiang suddenly thought of the fate of the Jizhou Yellow Turban Army later, and couldn't help but feel a little upset.

"But they don't think it's enough, they say that if they don't kill the thieves, they can't shock the world. If the deterrence is insufficient, the world will follow suit. When the time comes, the world will be in chaos, and the country will not be a country! ”

"Is the chaos in the world due to insufficient deterrence? Qin Shi Huang's deterrence is quite sufficient, is it useful? Ma Qiang put his hands behind his back and began to spin in circles, he was not very good at dealing with such things, but he also understood that he had to learn to deal with them.

"The camp owner still met with them in person, and if he could get their support, a lot of things would be easier to do." Duan Ying opened his mouth to persuade, Ma Qiang listened and thought about it, nodded and said, "Let them all come in, I'll tell them!" ”

After a while, a group of gray-bearded old men came in, and when they saw Ma Qiang, they bowed and said, "We have seen Ma Maocai!" ”

Where did Ma Qiang dare to accept the worship of this group of masters, and hurriedly bowed back.

The three elders of the Han Dynasty were selected from each township to be over 50 years old, virtuous, and able to lead the crowd, and the three elders were responsible for local education, and were the people who influenced public opinion in the township, and were more responsible for the inspection of local talents, so their status was extremely lofty and special.

Moreover, the three elders are organized, the township has the three elders of the township, the county has the three elders of the county, the county has the three elders of the county, and the three elders of the state and the state, even if the emperor faces the three elders, he must be respectful.

Since the ancient countryside was generally in a semi-autonomous state, and the channels of public opinion were narrow, these three elders can be said to be an important channel for the rural people to understand current affairs.

"Thanks to Ma Mao's raising of volunteers and driving away the thief army, we can return to peace, but I don't know why Ma Mao didn't kill all the thieves, but wanted to appease the traitor?" A bearded third elder asked

When he said this, Ma Qiang was suddenly furious in his heart, and tolerated the adulterer, why don't you say that I am ready to raise my own respect?

That's what we were going to do in the first place, though.

"Where are the thieves in Changping?" Ma Qiang looked at the person who was questioning.

"Why do Maocai knowingly ask, these thieves are thieves for one day, or a thief for a thousand days, we also know that Maocai is so for benevolence and righteousness, but this is false benevolence and false righteousness, such as one person kills a whole family, and the neighbors around him are afraid to come out, and they don't know this person, so who can testify against this thief? Therefore, you can only kill a thousand by mistake, and you can't let one person go, and please ask Mao Cai to learn clearly! ”

"Please also ask Maocai Mingjian!"

"A few gentlemen, sit down, please listen to a strong word, as you said, a thief for a day is a thief for a thousand days, and it must be strangled, so in the future, the Yellow Turban Army will come back and coerce the people in the township, what can I do?"

"Coercion is naturally different!"

"Can you know that there are no people who are being held hostage among the current captives?" Ma Qiang shouted: "Are you waiting for an affair with the thief army? Know who is a thief and who is a citizen? ”

"It's... We don't know! Several people looked at each other and shook their heads.

Ma Qiang continued, "Do you know that I am doing this not for the sake of these thieves, but for the sake of the people who can live in the future? ”

"Don't kill thieves for the sake of the people, please solve your doubts!"

"If I kill all the captured Yellow Turban thieves, then in the future, these thieves will understand that as long as they follow the thieves, whether they are coerced or voluntary, they will not be able to turn back, so if they either win the battle against the officers and soldiers and survive, or if they lose the battle and die, even if they are not beheaded, they will be captured and killed, will these thieves still surrender? That must be a fight to the death on the battlefield, and it will be difficult to break the thief army in the future.

And those obedient people who were originally coerced, they didn't want to do bad things, and they would be persuaded by the thieves on the side, you were all coerced, and sooner or later you would die, so it was better to die again.

Think about it, what kind of thief army will we face when the time comes? You must understand that the thief army is not only the thousands of people I have defeated, but also Jixian County! There are still in Zhuojun! There are still in Jizhou! There are still in the world!!

Not to kill them indiscriminately, not to give them a chance to live, but to give the people a chance to live! ”

Ma Qiang's words made these three elders sweat all at once, in fact, this is the same as the debate on whether to sentence all traffickers to death in later generations, and the light punishment given to traffickers with less serious circumstances does not mean that they do not want to punish them, but to give the trafficked a chance to live and not be harmed.

"This... We really don't know what Mao Cai means..."

"You now know that when you tell the villagers, even if there is no evidence from the villagers, they will testify against each other internally, and if there is really a fish that slips through the net, this person will be at ease for the people in the future, and if he commits it again, he will definitely be arrested and punished! It is necessary to know that Skynet is magnificent, negligent but not leaky! Ma Qiang appeased again and let these three elders leave.