After burning down the houses in the blind mountains, the Heifu and the others went to the county seat the next day to resume their lives and accept the reward at the same time.

When entering the official temple, everyone's hands were empty, and when they came out, they were full of familiar pots, and everyone was still smiling and congratulating Xiao Tao.

"Xiao Tao's arrow is really life-saving, if it is a moment late, we will not be standing here at this moment." This is Dongmen Leopard boasting.

"Don't look at the silence on weekdays, it's really reliable at critical moments." This is Ji Ying boasting.

"Xiao Tao's duke title is deserved." These are Lixian's words, but in his eyes, there is some loneliness and envy.

Xiao Tao is a young man who usually doesn't talk much, and is always very inconspicuous, but now he has suddenly become the focus, and he can't help but blush. He touched the "Gongshi" scarf on his head, only feeling that it was not true, and after leaving the official temple, he immediately bowed down to Heifu and said:

"I can have ...... Today, today, and more...... Thanks to the pavilion chief. ”

Heifu hurriedly helped him up: "Xiao Tao, this time the merit is all based on your own ability, if you don't shoot the prison gate, and blappe with the copper whistle, to scare the people, I'm afraid that there will be more and less luck, and we should thank you." ”

As the leader of the pavilion, Heifu was very fair when reporting the case, and everyone performed truthfully for them without the slightest concealment. Especially Xiao Tao, perhaps he doesn't have high expectations for this young man, so his bravery and intelligence can always surprise people.

In the end, the government concluded that Xiao Tao was the number one hero, so he regarded the prison gate that incited the people to kill the officials as the first level of beheading, and made Xiao Tao a duke.

Because although there are many people in the blind mountain, they are only a group of people, neither a group of thieves, nor fugitives, and it is more difficult to judge the reward. In the end, except for Xiao Tao Shenggongshi, only 30 gold was collectively rewarded, which is equivalent to 15,000 yuan. Heifu had more than 5,000 yuan, and the rest of the money was divided according to the merits of each person.

In this way, Ji Ying and Li Xian, who are still soldiers, couldn't help but be full of envy for Xiao Tao, Li Xian didn't say anything, but Ji Ying sighed for a long time, saying that he didn't know when he would get the knighthood.

Still begging the thief Dongmen Leopard to think about it, he patted the two of them on the shoulder, and laughed: "With the black man with him, are you afraid that the opportunity to make meritorious service will not be successful?" Second and third sons, don't you look at the reward of how many gold and dollars you have waited for in the past six months? ”

Not to mention that it's okay, when it comes to it, everyone thinks about it carefully, and it's true, since Heifu Xuetian took office, although they have only cracked two cases, they are all big cases that have caused a sensation in the county.

The title of Qin State is not so easy to earn, but the money is really a lot. Before, everyone's family background was not wealthy: Dongmen Leopard was a person who carried bags and worked hard, Xiao Tao's family was even more mediocre and poor, and Ji Ying and Lixian's family were slightly better, but they were only food and clothing.

With those bounties for emergency relief, these four people now have the level of a Chinese family, their clothes are not shabby, and they can even think about getting a sword for themselves. In this way, there is only one horse left, and the indispensable things for men in this era are complete.

All of this is due to Heifu, there are many pavilions in Anlu County, there are one or twenty, but not every pavilion has such good luck. You have to be able to lead your subordinates to earn credit......

"It's not my own work, it's the cooperation of everyone." Hefu is full of modesty.

Of course, it is a good thing to have such trust from his subordinates, but Heifu also understands through this incident that his future promotion to the knighthood may not be as smooth as before.

Why? It's not that someone in the county deliberately suppressed him, but because ...... The upgrade experience bar has become longer.

When he first came to this era, Heifu also pondered: "Since the soldier has slain an enemy's head, he can obtain a first-class knighthood; In this way, as long as you kill twenty enemies, you can get a twenty-level knighthood? ”

He quickly rejected this stupid idea, how could there be such a good title to earn, if it was really like that, the Qin State would definitely be "marquis walking all over the ground, and there are as many concubines as dogs".

The official government of the Qin State is not a fool, and the Shang Ying, who formulated this set of meritorious system, is shrewd!

Slowly, Heifu learned that the calculation methods of officers and soldiers were very different. For example, he is now a top builder, and if he is put in the army, he will be the lowest chief, and he can even be the commander of the tun.

In the war, he had to take fifty men into battle, and first of all, he had to ensure that the number of dead in this camp was less than the number of beheadings, so that he would not be punished. Tun Chang had to take the lead and lead the soldiers to kill the enemy and behead him, if he himself was cowardly and did not behead, then he himself would have to be executed!

But even if a few heads are cut off, the tun commander still can't be promoted, because military law stipulates that only after this "100-person team" wins 33 heads, can the 100 generals and tun commanders be knighted for meritorious service.

In short, soldiers are promoted according to individual merit, and officers are counted according to collective merit.

And in order to prevent high-ranking officers from doing their jobs properly, they compete with ordinary soldiers for credit. Qin Law even clearly stipulates that those who have the title of doctor or above must command the soldiers to assault well, and must not suddenly stop to cut off the head, if there is such an act, exile!

So it's not surprising that every time Wu Anjun Bai Qi fights with the enemy, he desperately pursues the number of beheadings. As far as Changping is concerned, if Wu Anjun does not intend to cut off the heads of 400,000 Zhao people, I am afraid that the officers and soldiers at all levels below will end up in vain because the number of beheadings is insufficient......

Although the ostensible reason is "fear of chaos", in fact, the real goal is still beheading. Therefore, the life and death of those Zhao pawns were not decided by Bai Qi alone, not even in the thoughts of King Qin, but by the military merit system of the Qin State and the desire of hundreds of thousands of Qin soldiers for promotion and meritorious service, they were forced to be pushed under the butcher's knife......

This is true in wartime, and it is also true in peacetime when officials talk about merit.

When Heifu was still a soldier and a public soldier, he was basically promoted to a level at one time, but when he reached the top, it had to be a different matter.

The county magistrate told him that the merit had been recorded in the performance slip this time, and he had to make another great contribution before he could be promoted to the third level of "hairpin".

"It's just a small pavilion, and if two major cases are cracked in half a year, even if the incense is burned, and I don't want there to be any more chaos in the jurisdiction, if it goes on like this, the road to promotion is simply far away......"

Thinking like this, Heifu took the people of Huyang Pavilion to the gate of Anlu County, the embers in the blind mountain were not cold, and here, the cruel death penalty was about to begin......

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The Qin State did not pay attention to the "autumn and winter executions" in later generations, and generally completed the trial, judgment, and punishment of cases within two months, and the death penalty was no exception. Even if they care about the food provided to officials, how can they allow death row prisoners to eat and drink for nothing in prison?

The 13 main culprits in the case of Blind Mountain will be executed outside the market today, and the people of Anlu County are full of spectators.

The punishment of those ten men was better, but they were beheaded and the bodies were divided, and although the corpses were humiliated, they did not suffer too much.

The cracks of the carts were different, as the horses began to move slowly, the screams of the criminals for mercy, and the cracking of bones resounded through the Anlu market. Because the scene was so bloody and cruel, even several officials who watched the execution spit out bitter gall.

Xiao Tao and Ji Ying were also full of iron, and Li Xian turned his head away, and couldn't bear to look at it again.

On the contrary, the Dongmen leopard was very excited, and this guy was born with a different taste for blood.

Heifu also looked a little pale, and after a while, he withdrew from the execution scene. Although there is some physical discomfort, for some reason, compared to the little pity for the executed thief "Pan" when he first came to this era, his sympathy is not so overflowing.

Maybe it's because, both ancient and modern, all police experiences have something in common, from the freshness of the newcomer to the habitual numbness, the ears and eyes have been exposed to it in the past six months, and Heifu's heart has hardened a lot......

In this situation, he suddenly remembered a sentence that the senior in the police circle who told them about the experience of abduction in his previous life warned them:

"Ci is not in charge of the army, and good is not in the police!"

Although he had some complaints about Qin Lu's dozens of hundreds of people sitting in a row, for the people in front of him, Heifu knew what they had done, and they were innocent. Is there any other way to deal with the most heinous criminals except to stop evil with more ruthlessness?

If you want to slay demons and eliminate demons, you must first become a blood-stained Wei Tuo!

Heifu had such an awakening.

When the execution was over and everyone was walking on the way to the south gate, Heifu found that the eyes of the people around him were a little unusual.

If it is said that the first time he captured the three thieves and made a small reputation, the people of Anlu County simply praised him, and the praise did not last, and he forgot it in a month.

Then the second time, Heifu sent 4,000 yuan to the public to get sick, and his "righteousness" spread all over the county, and the people of Anlu County became respectful to him, and the respect lasted longer, but only for a few years.

And this time, Heifu led the people of the pavilion to arrest more than 100 people, almost exterminated a li, plus today's public execution by the government, with the cruel death of 13 people, warned the people of the county, "Don't follow suit!" ”

So the people of Anlu County looked at the eyes of the black man, and they became awe-struck and fearful, and when they saw it from a distance, they inevitably cautiously waved at them, and then stepped aside.

Although he felt the change in the gaze of others, Heifu still smiled and bowed to everyone who saluted him.

Dongmen Leopard is different, what he pursues is this feeling of being looked down upon and awe-inspired, his heart is happy, his stomach is shy, and he even walks with his toes high......

But not all of them were in awe, for at the crossroads to the south gate there was a rider who rode a galloping horse, and without losing the slightest speed, passed in front of them in a daze. Not only did Ji Ying sit on the ground in fright, but the Dongmen leopard was almost hit!

"You don't have eyes, don't you have eyes?"

Dongmen Leopard pointed to the horse's ass and cursed, but the rider on the horse just glanced back and even smiled.

Dongmen Leopard was angry, gritted his teeth and said: "Heifu, do you want to catch up and see who is so bold?" Convict him of galloping through the streets! ”

Before Heifu could speak, Ji Ying hurriedly got up and said: "Ah Bao Hugh wants to cause trouble, looking at the rider's dress, he should be the heir sent by Nanjun." ”

He himself is a member of the postal system, so he is naturally no stranger to that person's identity.

"When the heir delivers the urgent letter, even if he is on the street, no one will say that he is not, and besides, he is carrying a bamboo tube dyed yellow, can you see it?"

Heifu also asked curiously, "What is the meaning of the yellow bamboo tube?" ”

Ji Ying said: "That color is specially used by the government to report success!" Presumably, it must have been passed down from Xianyang to Nanjun first, and then from county to county......"

"Victory?" Everyone looked at each other, and for a while they didn't understand where Jie came from.

Or Heifu's face changed: "Could it be ......?"

He turned and looked to the north, and in the north, thick stratus clouds were shattered by a gust of wind......

Heifu guessed correctly, and sure enough, the next day, the Anlu County Commander sent a postman to announce a great news to the townships and pavilions!

"Good news from the north, on the orders of the king, the general has taken Yan Ji City, and has to assassinate the head of the king's mastermind, Prince Dan! The army has returned in triumph! Congratulations to the king, Qin Wansheng! ”