"Lord Hui, there is indeed a tunnel underneath, the preliminary estimate of the direction and length, this tunnel has been dug under the town wall!" One of the trappers who entered the tunnel to investigate quickly came to the head of the trapper to report the situation.

"Leave two people here to guard, you go to the town lord's mansion and report the situation" The head catcher immediately ordered his subordinates to catch quickly.

Digging tunnels is a big crime, and who knows if the traffickers have colluded with hostile forces in a vain attempt to invade Houqi Town.

The head catcher then arranged loudly: "Except for those who stayed at the scene, everyone else will bring back all these people present!"

And lock up all these villains for me, numb, eat the bear's heart and leopard's guts, dare to do this! ”

The head catcher treats his subordinates and those traffickers very harshly, but he treats the shopkeeper of Tianxiang Restaurant politely.

After the head catcher finished arranging the manpower, he turned to the shopkeeper and said, "Shopkeeper, please go back with us first, if this happens, you have to hand it over to the town lord to decide!" Since those two guys in your family helped us catch this gang of gangsters, the murder should not be a big crime, let's go back first! ”

The first few words of the arrest finished the matter at the scene, and the large group of people returned to the yamen in a mighty way.

On the way, a catcher whispered something to the catcher.

Among the two people who died at the scene, one of them had an unusually broken arm, the normal broken arm is generally the wrist, elbow, shoulder, these joints are easy to be cut off, and the one at the scene is the wrist is on the upper side, and the hand bone is cut off, which is unusual.

When the head catcher heard this, he glanced at Li Tian, but he still didn't pay too much attention to it, and told the catcher not to worry about it anymore.

After all, Li Tian did him a great favor today and cracked such a relatively large case.

The head catcher was originally very reluctant to be arranged to find someone, but now that such a big case has been solved, the head catcher is very happy.

There are two other head catchers in the yamen, and if this case is handled, he will be able to take a step ahead of the other two head catchers on the way to the top of the chief catcher.

In this way, with the grace of the head catcher, Li Tian kept his precious dagger of unknown origin.

There are fast catchers, ragged women and children, as well as traffickers and Li Tian, and along the way, they have attracted the attention of many pedestrians.

Since the women had been imprisoned for too long and needed to rest after walking for a while, the group walked for a while and finally arrived at the official yamen.

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The town lord of the town is appointed by the imperial court, and there is the city lord above the town lord, and the emperor is above the city lord.

The emperor set up a court to rule a country, and subordinated ten cities and thousands of towns. Each town is of different sizes, and the population of the town plus the surrounding villages still has more than 100,000 people, that is to say, the population of a country is at least more than 100 million.

In this region, there are a total of nine emperors, that is, nine countries, with a total population of more than one billion.

The billions of people in these nine countries belong to different sects of cultivating immortals, some of which occupy the land of several countries, and some of which can only occupy one country.

If there is a contradiction between the sects of cultivating immortals, there will be wars between the subordinate countries!

On the bright side, for the mortal world, the emperor of a country is the greatest, and the city lords of the various towns under him are all ordered by the emperor and must obey his command.

However, in fact, the emperor is only a mortal after all, since there is a sect of immortal cultivators behind him, which of the immortals in the sect is not more respected than him?

So many times, even if the emperor is the king of a country, he can't be the master.

Immortal cultivators are not fresh and desireless and only seek to break through and advance, the territory under their hands is larger, and they can naturally produce more cultivation resources, only when the resources are sufficient, the road of cultivating immortals can be easier to walk.

Immortal cultivation resources are limited, so there are also fights among immortal cultivators in the same sect of immortal cultivation.

There are different factions among these immortal cultivators, some of them are closely connected, some of them are not in contact with each other, and some of them are even hostile.

Some immortal cultivators are successful in promotion, and their skills have increased greatly, often expanding their sphere of influence, and the immortal cultivators of other hostile forces will either give up their subordinate towns or start a war.

Of course, the immortal cultivators behind them rarely make a move, and it was those mortal towns that started the war.

Therefore, although these towns are under the jurisdiction of a single emperor, there are many factions between the towns, and conflicts may occur at any time. Generally, there is no particularly large-scale war with tens of millions of people killed and injured, and the elders of the Immortal Cultivation Sect will not participate, leaving the people below to compete for resources.

If you want to stand out in the limited resources of cultivating immortals, you have to go through these.

In addition, there are those horse bandits, behind these horse bandits, most of them also have immortal cultivators, these immortal cultivators are either scattered cultivators, or defected from the immortal cultivation sect, or arranged by the hostile immortal cultivation sect to make trouble.

Against the backdrop of this chaos between towns and towns, these bandits wandered from faction to faction like fish in water, robbing some towns from time to time, and they were much richer than the inhabitants of those towns.

And these are the reasons for the increasing number of horse bandit gangs, even if the imperial court clears a group of horse bandits, another group of horse bandits will soon appear.

Many refugees or fugitives who can't survive will eventually choose to join the bandits.

Behind these complex relationships, it means that mortal towns are not having a good time, and from time to time they will face horse bandit infestation and even wars, so at the beginning of the construction of each town, high walls will be built.

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Compared with other towns that are prone to conflict and disputes, the geographical location of Houqi Town is quite good, and if it is divided according to forces, Houqi Town is far away from the towns of hostile forces.

Therefore, Houqi Town did not have much garrison at first, just to prevent horse bandits from attacking and harassing, and left some regular troops.

The owner of a small town is the center of power in a small town, with administrative and judicial powers, and completely governs the daily life of the town.

Normally, the owner of a small town does not have military rights. The dispatch of troops was always ordered by the lord of the city or the imperial court.

This will also prevent the towns from being infiltrated by hostile forces and then rebelling.

But unlike other towns that are relatively peaceful and have no wars, Houqi Town has official mines!

In the past, a lot of prisoners were transferred for mining, and the number of prisoners increased, and the garrison had to increase accordingly. In addition, in the later period, it was rumored that there was a treasure out of the mine, and in order to prevent bandits from causing chaos, the imperial court transferred a lot of soldiers.

These troops were also temporarily under the jurisdiction of the town lord of Houqi Town.

Now the town lord of Houqi Town has gathered administrative, judicial, and military powers, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the emperor of Houqi Town.

The town lord of Houqi Town has been in this position for many years, and now even if he has such a big power, he doesn't have any other ideas, he just wants Houqi Town to develop steadily and steadily.

It's not that he has no ambition, it's that he has seen the truth of this world, and even becoming the emperor has to be controlled by others, so why did he bother to build so much territory?

Moreover, he is just a mortal, and in front of the immortals, he may be no different from ants, and if he says that he will be trampled to death, he will be trampled to death.

Before the messenger came to the town lord's mansion, the town lord also received an edict from the immortal cultivator, ordering him to mobilize more people to mine the mines in the west.

Since treasures have appeared more than once, it means that there are very likely to be good things in the mine, and those immortal cultivators are very concerned about these immortal cultivation resources.

So far, several immortal cultivators have issued decrees to him, asking him to speed up the progress of mining.

The town lord couldn't help but sigh, the people below didn't know too many things, but it didn't mean that he didn't know.

At the beginning, the mine dug out good things, it attracted immortal cultivators from other forces, and in the end, there was a big war and several immortal cultivators died, if any good things were dug up, would the town attract more forces to fight?

A sense of crisis enveloped the town owner.

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When the town owner heard the report and said that the traffickers in the north of the town had dug a tunnel leading to the outside of the town, it really startled the town owner.

If these traffickers only dug this tunnel to escape from Houqi Town with the abducted women and children, then it would be okay to say.

If the hostile forces had ordered the tunnels to be dug, the town would be in danger.

Imagine that one night, while still sleeping, the enemy's army used this tunnel to enter the city directly and destroy the town's defenses directly from the inside.

It's horrible.

The town owner who got the news did not delay, and rushed to the official yamen with his manpower, and immediately prepared to interrogate these traffickers.

On the head-catching side, because of the women, children and wounded, the group walked slowly.

Uncle Wang was injured and in a coma and urgently needed treatment, and time was urgent. The shopkeeper communicated with the head catcher several times and wanted to take Uncle Wang to the hospital for treatment.

But according to the rules, everyone present must first go to the yamen and obey the orders of the town lord.

After discussing it for a while, we came up with a solution.

Or split into two ways.

The head catcher agreed to let a catcher take the shopkeeper to the infirmary and ask the doctor to go to the yamen to wait first.

Then Li Tian carried Uncle Wang on his back and took Xiao En to the yamen quickly. Of course, this also requires a catcher to watch.

Everyone present could not leave the side of these fast catchers.

The shopkeeper took the doctor to the yamen first, and then Li Tian arrived with Uncle Wang and Xiao En.

The doctor hurriedly treated Uncle Wang's injuries, and Li Tian could finally rest for a while.

After the initial period of scare when Li Tian and Uncle Wang fought with traffickers, Xiao En's mood has stabilized.

But then when Uncle Wang fainted, she panicked for a while.

On the way to the Yamen, Xiao En's girl had stabilized, and when she saw Uncle Wang, who was unconscious on Li Tianhou's back, she also begged the shopkeeper several times, and the shopkeeper went to communicate with the head catcher.

After experiencing this incident, Li Tian felt that Xiao Enya had grown a lot.

When the doctor treated Uncle Wang, Xiao En girl watched nervously as the doctor gave medicine to his father and bandaged his wounds, and when the doctor needed help, she would also give the doctor a hand and help him get something.

Uncle Wang's back was slashed a few times by traffickers, but fortunately, they were all skin injuries, the most serious was a stab wound, but it didn't pierce it deeply, and it didn't hurt the vital parts.

The doctor quickly dealt with Uncle Wang, and told everyone to rest assured that Uncle Wang's fainting was not due to excessive blood loss, but probably due to detachment, and he could wake up after a good rest.

After the doctor treated Uncle Wang's wounds, he didn't let him go, but said that there were some women and children behind, and he would wait for those people to come over and let the doctor take a look.

As for the injured traffickers, the catchers didn't care about them, and they were eager to pull them out and cut them down after interrogation.

The large army led by the head catcher was really walking a little slowly, and the town lord had already rushed to the yamen and asked Li Tian and Xiao Enya about it, and the large army led by the head catcher came slowly.

The public court, which was still deserted, was like a vegetable market in an instant after the large army arrived.

There are headhunters who report on the scene, abducted women crying about the crimes of the traffickers, and children who are scared to cry out loud because they see so many people.

Only the traffickers who were squatting in the corner were shivering, not daring to let out a fart, not knowing what fate awaited them.

After listening to the complaints of the abducted women one by one, the town owner asked the arresters to take them and the children down for treatment first, and to register where they had been abducted.

When the abducted women and children were taken down, the atmosphere in the court immediately became serious.

The silence is silent, and the pins can be heard......