"Why can't you kill it?" Zhang Beichen asked.

Liu Wen carried everyone behind his back and lowered his voice: "Have you seen those old people?" They are not ordinary old people, they are veterans! And they are all veterans of the Black Armor Army, and I did all the documents for them to be discharged from the army before. ”

Hearing Liu Wen's words, Zhang Beichen couldn't help frowning slightly. The Black Armor Army is the pro-army of King Qin, and these veterans are all soldiers who have served the King of Qin and the Qin State and shed blood!

If he killed them himself, he would first offend the King of Qin and many Qin soldiers. The old clans sued themselves for this reason, but they were afraid that even the Yingyi people would be difficult to deal with.

Moreover, they also have prestige among the people. Zhang Beichen looked at everyone and saw that the prisoners' faces were full of indignation, if he punished these veterans according to law today, the rest would definitely riot!

"It's insidious! Actually using the widowed Black Armor Army! Ying Yiren looked at it from afar, her hand was already holding the sword, she hated not to ride a horse forward, and directly killed Bai Liangpu, Yang Shan and others!

Jing Ping thought about it for a while, if he was Zhang Beichen at this time, it seemed that he had no choice. There may only be a path of felony and light punishment, and the end is to break your own law and eat yourself!

"It's so hard!" Jing Ping shook his head gently, in a place like Baiyang County, anyone who goes has a headache!

"Master Zhang, what's wrong with you? Punish the sin! Yang Shan looked at Zhang Beichen proudly and said, "Didn't the adults say that they should enforce the law impartially?" ”

"Yes, could it be that Lord Fei saw that the prisoners used to be the king's soldiers, so he wanted to bend the law for personal gain?" Bai Liangpu added fuel to the fire next to him.

Hu Cheng secretly said in his heart that it was not good, Zhang Beichen had already overdrawn his body just now, if he was broken at this time, I am afraid that he could only fall here today!

At this time, Hu Cheng heard a sound wrapped in spiritual power in his ears.

"Huber, do you remember the following words clearly......

"Your Majesty? Kikijo is nearby! Hu Cheng listened carefully, looked cautious, and replied: "I understand, Your Majesty." ”

……

Zhang Beichen walked in front of the felons and said: "The old Qin people dare to act, you used to be the Black Armor Army, I don't think I need to say more, name, what crime you have committed, report it yourself!" ”

"Lao Tzu dares to act!" Among the prisoners, an old man led by him immediately raised his head and shouted: "Lao Tzu's name is Yu Yong, and he has committed the crime of murder!" In the fight just now, I killed a person surnamed Yang! ”

After Yu Yong reported himself, the next few people also came with courage.

"Lao Tzu is all peace, but also the crime of murder!"

"Wuting, committed murder."

……

Serious offenders not only organized fights, but almost all of them had human lives on their hands.

"Presumptuous!" Zhang Beichen shouted, "You are quite proud of committing a serious crime, aren't you?" All you have committed are capital crimes! According to the law, it should be beheaded! ”

Hearing Zhang Beichen's words, the crowd was excited.

"Why kill them?"

"They have made great contributions to the Qin State, and this is how you did to them?"

"They're just manslaughter!"

"They are all sixty or seventy years old, and it is too much to punish them like this!" Before Zhang Beichen began to enforce the law, the people were already in chaos.

"Silence!" Che Yang stopped everyone, and then he walked up to Zhang Beichen and arched his hand: "Lord Zhang, Yu Yong and other veterans have indeed committed serious crimes. Thinking that they had also shed blood for the Qin State, and in the chaos just now, it was inevitable that they would be injured by mistake, can they consider it at their discretion? ”

Che Yang couldn't help but come out to intercede for Yu Yong and others, which made things more complicated.

Yu Yong snorted coldly: "Che Yang, you don't need to intercede. We have committed a capital crime, and the adults want to kill, and we will kill them. ”

"But even if you kill us today, we still won't accept it!"

Zhang Beichen asked, "Why don't you accept it?" ”

Yu Yong said: "Private fights, weapon fights, and we are not the only ones who participate. As for the killings, people are killed every year. The year before last, my youngest son was beaten to death by them, and the beaters were not punished! ”

"Now punish us, of course we don't accept it!"

"The law does not investigate the past! What happened before, the previous prefectural order has been dealt with. If there is something inappropriate, you can file a complaint, and the county will try it! Zhang Beichen said, "Since the "Grass Reclamation Order" was issued, the decree has been notified to the whole county, and you also know it. Why do you know the law and break the law, it is nothing more than a fluke, and you feel that the law does not hold the people accountable, so you flout the law! ”

"Yu Yong, Wan Ping'an, and you. You are all former soldiers, if you break the military rules, can you escape? ”

"Lao Tzu never deserted!" Several people still held their heads high.

"Qin Law is like a military order!" Zhang Beichen scolded, "If you break the law, you will be punished!" ”

Yu Yong and the others were a little weak, and he said strongly: "Then the adult killed me, why bother talking?" ”

"Legislating, not to kill, but to save people!" Zhang Beichen continued, "Wait, let me ask you, why did you become a soldier and why did you go into battle to kill the enemy? ”

"Of course, it is to protect the family and defend the country and make contributions!" Several people said.

"To protect the family and defend the country, right?" Zhang Beichen asked rhetorically, "You went to the battlefield to protect the Qin people." After getting off the battlefield, you are killing the Qin people instead, isn't it a contradiction? Could it be that defending your home and country is just an excuse for you? ”

Hearing Zhang Beichen say this, Yu Yong and the others immediately couldn't help it, they were not afraid of death, but they thought of their reputation and face.

Yu Yong blushed and shouted, "Of course it's not an excuse!" We had no intention of killing them, but they were so powerful that they wanted to occupy the Dragon's Eye Spring! We had to fight! ”

"My lord, you eat official food, and you can't go hungry in disaster and famine years. But we, the common people, if we don't have water to irrigate our fields, we will have to starve to death in the coming year! ”

"My lord, if it were you, would you fight?"

Yu Yong's words reached everyone's hearts, and the people shouted: "Yes, if we don't fight, we can only wait for death!" ”

"Longyan Spring should be our Bai family!"

"It was our Yang family who found out first!"

"If you two occupy it, can't our other surnames use water?"

Seeing that the scene was about to be chaotic again, Zhang Beichen stopped everyone again.

Yu Yong and the others still looked angry, and said, "My lord, you can kill us today." We are all old things, we don't live for a few years, and we are not afraid to die. But they, without water, they will still fight tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, next year, it will still be the same! ”

"As long as there is a fight, it will hurt people, kill people! If you want to kill, it is better to kill us all and save trouble! ”

"Yes, kill us all, come on!" The prisoners all shouted.

"Silence!" Zhang Beichen looked at them and said, "I know your difficulties, and if there is a problem, you must solve it!" But it is by no means solved by fighting, fighting! ”

"If you hurt each other and kill each other, will there be more water? Well? If there is less water, you will do it to your surname, and if there is less water, will you have to do it to your own surname, to your parents and children? Could it be that we Qin people are uncivilized savages? A bunch of man-eating beasts? ”

Zhang Beichen's words temporarily stopped everyone, and everyone fell silent.

"My lord, we are not savages, and we don't want to fight privately. But is it wrong that we want to live? Yu Yong asked.

"There's nothing wrong with wanting to live. But you're doing it the wrong way! Zhang Beichen said, "The root cause of solving the problem is not to grab water, but to find ways to repair water conservancy projects, drill wells, repair canals, and reservoirs, these are the right way!" ”

"Huh!" Several veterans sneered, "It's easy for you to say. We are not stupid, we don't know how to dig wells for water, don't we know how to draw water? ”

Someone said: "There is no big river in Baiyang County, if you want to divert water, you have to build a canal for dozens of miles, who will build it for us?" As for digging wells, except for Longyan Spring, there is no water at all. The ground is full of stones, and I haven't seen any water after hitting hundreds of feet deep, what else can I do? ”