A gang of more than a dozen bandits was easily taken down by the villagers, which made these villagers happy.

In particular, the owners of those plots of land were even more happy.

Although some rice was inevitably trampled on when catching the thieves, the loss was not large, much smaller than the loss of letting the robbers harvest overnight.

Moreover, the bandits also helped them harvest rice and save some work.

And what made them happiest was that these dozen bandits brought horses over, caught these dozen bandits, and the horses were theirs.

These dozen horses, for them, that is a great fortune.

Although they are not allowed to own war horses, they can be handed over to the government, and a horse can be exchanged for a ploughing ox, and there is also a reward of ten times.

Generally speaking, there are many people and little land, most of the land is used for arable land, there are few grasslands, war horses are rare, and the value of each war horse is very high.

Moreover, more than ten days ago, Gumu County also promulgated a policy - anyone who catches bandits and sends them to the government will be rewarded with five yuan per person.

But there is a premise, to live, not to die, there is no reward for dead thieves.

The premise of setting such a premise is not that the government wants to give those bandits a chance to be reborn, but to interrogate and confirm the identity of the other party.

If you don't set such a premise, there is no doubt that there will definitely be some people who kill the good and take the risk, kill the lonely people, and then say that he is a bandit.

That's why the villagers came and broke the bandits' legs, not their heads.

A living bandit, worth five dollars, is reluctant to be killed.

Calculated that this time the arrest of the bandits not only eliminated a scourge, but also brought them a few hundred yuan of income to their village, and what they paid was only for a while, and there were no casualties.

That's how you make a lot of money.

And they led the robbers and their horses to the settlement overnight, and tied them up, and when the robbers brought them back, they beat them again, and broke their arms and legs, and they did not untie them, but they were tied up and thrown there.

Anyway, you won't die in one night, so that's fine.

On the way back, they started talking, and they were all grateful to Liu Qing, an ancient wooden city god, for protecting them.

It has been more than ten years since they were migrated here, and during these ten years, the northern barbarians slaughtered them, robbers plundered their things, and killed their people, and the government only collected their food, but did not provide them with protection.

On the contrary, only Liu Qing, a god who had never heard of before, took the initiative to protect them and help them catch the bandits when they had not worshipped.

For them, it is a ray of light in the darkness, a touch of warm sun in winter, which makes them very grateful.

Just such a thing has already made them feel that the ancient wood city god is the best existence for them in this world.

Liu Qing only listened all the way, and when he saw that they were escorting the bandits back to the village, he left here and went to another place to continue his patrol.

On this day, he found three gangs of robbers stealing peasants' rice in the Gumu County area, and he used the same method to encourage the villagers to arrest those bandits.

There is a village that uses dream-making to broadcast live broadcast robbers stealing rice to them, and asks them to catch bandits as Gumu Chenghuang.

But when the villagers woke up, they found that they were dreaming, and they cursed and went back to sleep.

made Liu Qing quite depressed.

Helplessly, after those people fell asleep, they continued to use dream-making techniques to give them collective dreams.

In the dream, he also scolded them as a god, saying that they couldn't support the wall in the mud, helping them, and saving them from losses, but they didn't cherish it.

Woke them up again.

This is repeated four or five times before someone gets up and calls someone to compare their dreams with others.

Only then will he be suspicious and arrest the bandits.

After arresting the three bandit gangs, it was not yet dawn.

Liu Qing inspected the entire Gumu County again, and made sure that no one stole the grain, so he returned to the city with confidence.

At this time, Xu Qingfeng was still sleeping and did not wake up.

He used dream-making techniques to support Xu Qingfeng's dream, and copied the pictures of the villagers catching the robbers three times that night to Xu Qingfeng, and then told him:

"The villagers are not living well, they have to send the bandits over, and they have to pay them. In this way, more villagers can be motivated to deal with bandits. ”

"If you want political performance, you need a safe and stable environment. I want incense, but I also need a safe and stable environment. If you don't mobilize the villagers, you can't have that kind of environment. If you continue to treat them as sinners and slaves, there will be no safe and stable environment for those who are angry in their hearts. ”

"You are a scholar, you pay attention to the benevolent and love others, they are also people, you should be kind to them, this is the demeanor of a famous minister."

The magistrates on the border are governing a group of criminals, and they also have to face the threat of barbarian invasion, which is a very dangerous position, so the imperial court also gave them relatively large autonomy, and many things can be done at their own discretion and cheaply.

There are some things that Xu Qingfeng can decide by himself.

Hearing Liu Qing say that, Xu Qingfeng was very frightened in his heart, thinking that this god was disappointed in him, so he promised to promise that he would not treat those people harshly.

Early the next morning, he asked the county lieutenant Luo to come over and told him that the city god had entrusted him with a dream, and that there would be villagers who would send the bandits into the city today, and he would personally try it, and let the county lieutenant Luo tell his subordinates that they were waiting for those people at the gate of the city, and not to neglect them.

The City God's Temple was not built, and Xu Zhixian said such things, which made the county lieutenant Luo look down on this second-class jinshi a little, and felt that this person had read all the books in the stomach of a dog, and he was even more ignorant than a foolish woman in the countryside, and he actually took the things in his dream as real to give orders, which was unheard of.

However, Xu Qingfeng was his boss, and he had no other way but to follow such an order.

In the morning, dozens of villagers led their horses and tied up more than a dozen bandits into the city, saying that they had captured the bandits.

And he also said that he was a bandit who was captured with the help of the city god.

When County Lieutenant Luo heard the news, his eyes were about to pop out.

- Is the city god in Gumu County really so spiritual?

- But the City God's Temple hasn't been built yet!

Although the statue of the god has been carved, the ritual of inviting the god has not yet been completed, and the statue is only a piece of wood.

How can you manifest now?

He was a little skeptical that it was Xu Qingfeng who had set up a bureau and found some villagers to perform this play, pretending to show his majesty in the name of Shinto.

However, the dozen or so bandits who were caught were going to be beheaded, and no amount of money could buy someone to play this murderous scene, right?

- Is there really a god?