"This is an anonymous letter, you still open it!"

Heifu pressed Ji Ying's hand stretched out to the straw rope and scolded him sharply, and at the same time noticed that Lixian had done the same thing as himself, but seeing that Heifu had stopped Ji Ying, he silently retreated.

"I ......" Ji Ying was taken aback by the reaction of the two, and was stunned for a while, and finally remembered the instructions of the previous old postman to herself, and suddenly sweated profusely.

It turned out that the decree of the Qin State specifically stipulated: If you receive an anonymous letter, you must not open it! If it is dismantled, it is a violation of the law and a fine will be imposed......

If Ji Ying's hand opened the letter, then he would have to pay a fine of more than 4,000 yuan, and like the pavilion chief, as a grassroots civil servant, the postman also has a basic salary, but he only has an ration of fifty stones a year. According to the grain price of "40 rice stones" that has dropped after this autumn, it will take two years to pay off without eating or drinking.

"It's okay, it's okay, otherwise it would have been miserable."

Ji Ying wiped his sweat there and was glad, while Heifu took the wooden letter in his hand and frowned and looked at it.

Because of the relay postal system of the Qin State, the inspection is very strict, and it is basically impossible to let an anonymous letter be transmitted between multiple locations. So there is only one possibility for this letter, that is, Ji Ying was secretly thrown in halfway through the delivery of the letter.

Although Heifu doesn't know the content of it, it is mostly a report letter! I want to borrow the hand of the postman and hand it over to the government.

Don't look at the strict laws of the Qin State, encouraging the people to sue for adultery, but at the same time, they also made strict regulations on complaints, once the accusations are untrue and exaggerated, they will face "false accusations and reverse".

Therefore, the attitude of the Qin government towards the anonymous report letter is clear: if you follow the report in the letter and arrest and execute people, I am afraid that everyone in the entire Qin State will be in danger, so this kind of attack without paying any price cannot be encouraged, and anonymous report letters will not be accepted! Not even a glance......

Unless, you have already captured the person who submitted the letter, then you can open the letter, compare the testimony, and ask for clarification.

"Ji Ying, do you know who threw this in?" Heifu asked.

"How do I know...... Ji Ying was very wronged, "I didn't know that there was such a letter in the basket until I was just now." ”

"Pavilion chief, since you haven't caught the person who submitted the book, let's burn it."

Like Heifu, Leham knew this edict, and the way it suggested was to "burn it", and it was a hot potato to keep it, and whatever was written in it, it burned it and ended clean.

Heifu seemed to have his own plans, he asked everyone to calm down for a while, and asked Dongmen Leopard to call Puzhang, Xiaotao, and Yuliang to the hall, and he, as the pavilion chief, wanted to hold a small plenary meeting......

……

A moment later, in the small hall, a few straw mats were filled with all the members of the Huyang Police Station.

Seeking to steal the Dongmen leopard, the pavilion's father Puzhang, the postman Ji Ying, the pavilion Lixian, Yuliang, Xiaotao, plus Heifu's words, a total of seven people.

And on the desk in front of them, there was the anonymous slip.

"That's the way it is."

Hefu briefly recounted the incident, and his gaze swept over to the six.

"As Lyham said, the law stipulates that if you encounter an anonymous submission and fail to capture the submitter, do not open it, and it is better to burn it."

Everyone nodded, thinking that this was the proper way to deal with it.

Heifu paused for a moment, and then said: "But you also need to know, and the decree also says that if you can capture the submitter, you will be rewarded with two concubines!" ”

"Reward two concubines?"

When everyone heard this, their faces changed except for Lixian, who had already known about this regulation.

The so-called concubines are male and female slaves, male slaves are ministers, and female slaves are concubines.

The Qin State was not an "advanced feudal state that abolished slavery" as advertised in later history textbooks, on the contrary! The laws of this country are very advanced, but in some aspects, they are also quite backward, and Qin's slaves and prisoners account for the largest proportion of the population, which is the largest among the seven kingdoms!

For example, in Anlu County, there are hundreds of male and female prisoners and concubines who work for the government as chengdan, ghost salary, and rice. In addition, almost every household has one or two slaves, and many families, such as the Lixian family and the Hongxiang Luyouli family, have dozens of slaves......

A large part of these slaves were surrounding barbarians, or captives captured in the war, and the Qin law had a rule that "Kou surrendered, thinking that he was a subordinate." "Qin fought with the Six Kingdoms, the dead were beheaded, the living were captured, and a large part of them became vassals and flowed into Qin. Of course, there are also Qin people who have committed crimes and are reduced to slaves, and in the military merit system, some people rise, and some people fall, maintaining the balance of this hierarchy pyramid.

The children of the subordinate concubines are also slaves, which leads to the increasing number of slaves in the Qin State, and the slaves can only redeem their free bodies for themselves and their families unless they make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, which is the only way out.

The status of slaves in the Qin state was extremely low, and although Qin law stipulated that slaves could not be killed or abused at will, they could be regarded as property and allowed to be bought and sold. In the city of Anlu County, adult subordinates and concubines, one is worth 4,300 yuan, which is equivalent to a piece of armor or 100 stone rice, and as for the underage concubine, the price is even cheaper, only worth 2,500 yuan.

In other words, two adult concubines, plus a child, can be exchanged for a ploughing cow or a good horse, and it is really a human being that is inferior to an animal......

Hefu naturally rejects this kind of system, but now he is just a small pavilion chief, and under the tide of the times, it is still difficult to protect himself, and he is powerless to change the system.

He could only sigh silently and said, "Of course, two concubines, even two female slaves, are not enough for us to divide up." ”

As soon as these words came out, except for the unsmiling Lixian, and the old Puzhang, the other four people all laughed, especially Ji Ying laughed the most. Everyone is a man with strong blood, and they all understand, but Xiao Tao is still a little ignorant.

"But it's different when it comes to money, two concubines, equivalent to 8,600 rewards, when the time comes, we can choose not to have concubines, but to reward money!"

Hearing such a large amount of money, the reaction of the crowd was mixed.

Dongmen Leopard, Ji Ying, and Xiao Tao were no strangers to this scene, and looked at each other and smiled.

Pu Zhang's squinting eyes widened, Yuliang clenched his fists even more, licking his lips with his tongue, a little moved.

Only Riham was expressionless, and he didn't seem to take the money in his eyes.

Heifu looked at the expressions of the six people one by one, and said with a smile: "So, I want to give it a try to see if I can catch the anonymous bookkeeper, if I can catch it, I will get a reward, and I should share it with everyone in the pavilion!" ”

"Good! Listen to the pavilion chief! "Dongmen Leopard, Ji Ying, and Xiao Tao are Heifu's best friends, and they have no objections, Yuliang's family is poor and needs money, so they also coaxed and seconded it.

Puzhang is the father of the pavilion, and he does not participate in the arrest, although he is a little tempted, he finally shook his head, saying that he is old and young, and he will not participate in the affairs of young people.

Only Liham arched his hand at Heifu and said: "Pavilion Chief, the reason why the reward for capturing the anonymous bookkeeper is so high, far more than ordinary murderers and thieves, is because it is difficult for the bookmaker to determine his whereabouts, as long as he is not seen by witnesses, he can pretend to be nothing." It's not like murder, there is a corpse as a clue, it is not like a theft, but we can find the whereabouts of our possessions, how should we find it? ”

In Liham's opinion, this matter is very troublesome, and if you can open the letter and look at the contents, you may be able to roughly guess the identity of the person who submitted the letter. But now that the letter can't be opened, they can only blindly guess, and how difficult it is to catch someone.

However, this problem did not seem to frighten Heifu, but he saw that he said in his chest: "Otherwise, this matter is difficult to say, easy to say, but also easy!" ”