In the middle of the night, Ma Whistle singled out a part of the report: "These dozen people have been severely punished, and if they have a good enough attitude, they will be sent to a labor camp and reformed according to the strictest standards, and if they are not good enough, they will be shot." ”

These dozen or so people were originally old shamans who were vegetarian in the corpse position, and they were the first group he wanted to eradicate, so naturally there was no reason to let them go.

And the so-called strictest standard of labor reform is almost the standard of exhausting people. Ma Whistle hoped that these people would make up for their labor before they were too old to walk.

"For the rest, check the severity of their circumstances. If you do participate in the rebellion plan of the deerhand, or spread rumors in this epidemic, you will be guilty of the same crime as the dozen or so people just now. He flipped through the review report again, "If the problem is not serious, it can be given a warning, review, demotion, and time punishment." ”

Time punishment is also about imprisonment, but unlike labor camp, time punishment can be spent to buy freedom, and prisoners can pay money to deduct the time of imprisonment.

The exact amount is mainly determined by the income of the prisoner, and those who value time are punished more, and those who are not worth time are punished less - time is money.

For prisoners who are punished by time, the horse whistle not only allows money to buy freedom, but even encourages it through some detailed design.

Because one of the most basic rules of his tribe is that the fewer idlers the better.

Isn't locking up a prisoner and giving him food and clothing, but not making him work?

Therefore, except for death row prisoners, for the punishment of any prisoner, the horse whistle starts with the acquisition of labor as much as possible.

Serious offenders are subject to forced labor, and minor offenders are also subject to fines.

Of course, Ma Whistle has also gradually realized the drawback of this method - it is easy to get addicted.

In the past six months, he has rapidly expanded the tribe's cultivated land by tens of thousands of acres by squeezing the labor force of the captives, and has built many houses, toilets, and a complete ring of low walls, at a cost of less than 20,000 US dollars.

This near-white prostitution experience is addictive.

So much so that Ma Whistle had such an idea: Do you want to stop arresting more people to reform labor?

It is probably not a good thing for a government to become dependent on the profits of the labor camp and turn the punishment into a business, which is probably an important reason why the labor reform system has been gradually abolished in later countries.

......

The deer hand was very stubborn and did not admit his guilt, even in the face of his son's persuasion.

So naturally, only death awaited him.

A few days later, Ma Sentry held a public trial in the square, just like the first trial judged the bow, square face and others, and dozens of criminals were successively announced by him with different punishment results.

"Lushou, spreading rumors in the epidemic and hindering prevention and control; trying to take advantage of the opportunity to provoke a rebellion and divide the tribe; Attempted murder in parliament...... The evidence of the above crimes is conclusive, but the offender refuses to admit his guilt and has no intention of repenting, so he is sentenced to execution by shooting according to the law and executed immediately! Standing in the middle of the square, the horse sentry announced, wearing a mask.

Since the epidemic has not completely ended, the density of the audience has been limited, so there are not many onlookers on site. In the past, almost the entire city would come to watch the public trial, but only a few hundred people were present at this time.

Despite this, as soon as Ma Whistle's voice fell, there was still a noisy denunciation from the crowd: "Actually obstructing epidemic prevention and control, this bastard should be taken to feed the wolf!" ”

"If it weren't for these people, there would have been fewer people dying of illness!"

"Divide the tribe, and die innocently!"

"Shameful traitor!"

"Deerhand, you traitor!"

People cursed, and some even picked up stones, clods of earth, and even took off their shoes and threw them at the deer hand and others.

Listening to the crowd's curses, especially the "traitor" sentence after sentence, the deer's breath couldn't help but become short, and his face turned red as if dripping blood. He wanted to argue something more, but he didn't have a chance.

In a public trial, when dealing with a prisoner like him, Ma Whistle will only give a symbolic chance to plead his case, and the rest of the whole process is tied up and gagged.

"Traitor!" The curses continued.

The deer hand could only listen to the curses of the clansmen, unable to speak, and the blood kept pouring into his brain.

Am I really a traitor? He thought with trepidation.

No way, I didn't do anything wrong, I'm not a traitor! He quickly put an end to his self-doubt.

Even at this moment, Shirkade didn't think he had done anything wrong.

Even as he continued to strengthen his own understanding, he eventually went straight to the self-perception of a martyr - the people were ignorant, they couldn't understand me.

He thought that what he was suffering now was not shame, but tragedy, and that what he was about to experience was not a crime, but a sacrifice.

With this self-hypnotic mentality, Deerhand managed to forget the fear of death and became the only prisoner without incontinence.

In total, six people were sentenced to death, including the deerhand, the vulture, and the black horn. The executions were still shot in random order from behind, and the death, shame, and unknown brought unprecedented fear to several of the condemned prisoners, who were incontinent on the spot and ended their lives in this extremely undignified way.

In addition to them, dozens of prisoners present were sentenced to re-education through labor. As for those who appear in the review report but do not appear in the square, most of them are given lighter punishments.

Others have gone unpunished or have only been given verbal warnings.

For example, the stone crow, Ma Whistle thought about it, but in the end he still didn't mention it to him.

Ma Whistle can probably guess the true situation of the stone jay.

The beliefs and opinions of the crow belong to the more fragmented kind, believing in both the traditional shaman and the spiritual teaching, supporting the change of the tribe, and calling the old shaman a brother, both superstitious and scientific......

It is not outrageous for such a person to appear at the gathering of the deer hand and the old shaman, and it is likely that you can call him over by finding an acquaintance to connect him in the name of exchanging the skills of the great god of dancing.

In fact, this is not unusual, and may even be closer to normal.

Just as Ma Shou saw in his previous life, some people not only admired the red path, but also gave way to the monks, one minute they were still discussing the ancient ape descending from the tree, and the next minute they began to ponder the creation of man......

Logical self-consistency is never a necessity, and patchwork and self-contradiction are common.

This is also the reason why Ma Whistle did not continue to expand the review.

The three views of the vast majority of the people are not a self-consistent system, and it can even be said that it is a bunch of bugs, full of a large number of irrelevant and even contradictory views, and unlimited and strict scrutiny will only make everyone a criminal.

Not only the clansmen, but even Ma Whistle's own three views have bugs, although he doesn't know where the bug is, he knows that there must be.

So, Ma Whistle eventually understands that his goal should only be to eliminate the biggest moths and the most radical opponents.

He also successfully achieved his goal.

The successful prevention and control of the epidemic has brought him ample legitimacy, and his trial is as unquestionable as the sun, and the insects that get in the way have vanished.

The ashes of the insects also further fertilized the authority of the horse, allowing it to continue to be elevated.

With the continuous rise of this authority, when the epidemic in Sleeping Bear City is completely over, people are more and more talking about the "holy light" instead of the "great spirit".

The so-called holy light is, of course, a figurative name for the horse whistle. It's like in many times and countries, the word sun is used as a synonym for leaders.

According to the teachings of the Spiritual Oracle, this also makes perfect sense. After all, as the supreme god who created the singularity, the Great Spirit is a being beyond the universe, the sun, moon and stars are no different from dust to him, he has no human feelings at all, and he does not care about the prayers of mortals at all.

There is no point in praising such a transcendent being, and it is impossible to get any response.

The big chief, on the other hand, has the identity of a real person, which is naturally different.

The Apache are increasingly referring to the "Holy Light," and at the same time, Americans are increasingly calling it "Destiny."

As the situation between the United States and Mexico heats up, "manifest destiny" has sprung up all over the United States and has become the most deeply rooted word in the hearts of the people, and it can be seen in almost every newspaper.

Americans are convinced that America is destiny and that now is the time for God to give them land.